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Monthly Archives: August 2013
GOP Of Two Minds, At Least, On Immigration
BY FROMA HARROP On immigration, the Republican Party is trapped in two trains of thought, each speeding along the wrong track. At the Tea Party end, there’s absolute resistance to normalizing the status of illegal immigrants. On the cheap-labor side, there’s this big push to admit as many unskilled immigrants as possible. The first view, […]
Why We Need Full-Service Community Middle Schools
Editor’s Note: The Observer’s August edition represents our Annual Education Issue. This is one of two cover essays written by outstanding Oklahoma educators exploring...
Forget Student Loans – Make Higher Ed Free
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Well, finally! Hard-right congressional leaders and the Obama White House have agreed that interest rates on student loans should not double to nearly 7%, as they let happen early in July. Instead, college students will be billed at a rate that will steadily rise higher than 8%. This is progress? Temporarily, yes, […]
What We [Don’t] Need To Know
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The leaders of al-Qaida in Pakistan and Yemen now know that it was the conversation last week between Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s successor in Pakistan, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, Yemen-based head of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, in which the former instructed the latter to attack American targets on Sunday, that led […]
Stop The Hysteria Over NSA Surveillance
BY FROMA HARROP During the 2001 assault on the World Trade Center, I was trapped in a train under Manhattan for hours. As news of the collapsing towers, the attack on the Pentagon and the crash in Pennsylvania filtered down to the passengers, the conductor kept telling us this tunnel was the safest place we […]
