Good reading????????

I was just browsing Amazon's Kindle books under the topic Political Ideology.  I must admit I was looking for some interesting books to read on liberalism and liberal politics.  How many did I find?  Not many at all.  Just a few books that might be of interest.  However,  I must report that for every book that may in fact be pro liberal, there are at least 15 anti liberal right wing books.  What does this tell me????  It tells me that liberalism is hard to defeat.   It tells me that right wing ideologists are busy creating work after work to convince the public that liberal political theory and liberal philosophy are "evil, wrong and backwards".  Does this convince anyone?  Give me a break.  It seems that if you want to be a good right wing conservative, you better invest in a lot of reading.... you're going to need it!!!!!!!  
On the flip side, political cartoons are 80% liberal.  A simple message.  A drawing and a little bit of commentary.  Simple.  Easy to get the liberal philosophy.... A Ph.D. like project to try to fight liberalism.
Ok, I have not yet found the great liberal thinkers book.  But I do have 4 of Anne Coulters books that I plan to visit to discover the great conservative arguments.   Where do I lie?  I must admit that my thoughts are that liberalism is the way our society progresses and that our future is based. 

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MSNBC

Often, I hear people complain about the MSNBC news service... Too liberal they say...
I say that MSNBC hits the animal in the pulp.
They do a great job exposing indignities of the modern era.  Keep up the good work!

Revising the American Educational Scoring System

Increasingly, we are aware of the pathological anxiety which permeates our younger generations as they traverse their years of schooling in our school systems.   Competition for post secondary education as well as perceived threats to future employment opportunities starve our children as they concern themselves with their place in their future during a period of time when their focus would better be spend on completing a necessary educational process.   News stories of children who have committed suicide, succumed to depression, lost necessary sleep and broken down their emotional, social, professional, orderly and useful aptitudes mark our news these days.
I would suggest that the idea that we "grade" our children during their educational experience needs to be revamped as to provide a healthier and more constructive educational enviornment and lead to healthier more productive and wiser future citizens.
The idea that one receives an A, B, C, D and F rating in their schooling creates an atmosphere where by certain grades are "not good enough".  Pressures mount to earn the highest marks.  Futures are considered to be at stake.
When I went to medical school, we were given a pass fail system.  In a few highly remarkable situations, a student could acheive a rating of Honors.  The atmosphere was challenging but there was no segregation of students based on minor acheivement differences.
Secondary education and college education should be no different.
Our children deserve a system by which they can take pride in their accomplishments, ratify their success and proove to the world  that they are competant.  
Take away the A,B,C,D,F rating system and replace it with an "excellent, diligent, near poverty and poverty" system.  The rating of diligent should be an indicator that the student is capable and should replace B and C ratings.   Students who had received a D rating would be considered "near poverty". An F rating rather than denoting failure would be described as poverty.
Students would be rewarded for superior acheivement with an "excellent rating".  Students would feel their deficiencies with the idea of poverty rather than failure. 

On the passing of Elizabeth Edwards......

Elizabeth Edwards reminds us that propriety is relevant and that honor is glorious.  May she be remembered.