Take My Word

* Still no decision on the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

* A report on charter schools has some interesting findings.
Star Tribune:

.....The report, from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, examines the performance of 70 percent of the nation's charter school students in 15 states.

Nationwide, the report found, 17 percent of charter schools provide "superior education opportunities" for their students, half have results that are "no different" than the public school option, and 37 percent deliver results that are worse than their students would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools....

Personally, I think that most charter schools are a waste of tax payer money.

>>>> It looks like there are some racists in the Tennessee GOP. Check out this report from the Tennessean:

...Sherri Goforth, an aide to Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, was issued a verbal and written rebuke for forwarding a picture that made light of Obama's race to other staffers.

Goforth had made "a bad decision" but would not be disciplined further because she understands the gravity of sending insensitive e-mails, Black said.....
....A note on the flier said it was paid for by the Tennessee Republican Party, but GOP officials have denied that they produced it....

I want to know why Miss Sherri Goforth wasn't fired. This shows she misused state owned computers, wasted work time, and forwarded racist materials. The fact that Tennessee Sen. Diane Black has let her go with "....a verbal and written rebuke...." is unacceptable.

Why are there still so many racists in the Republican Party???

**** The ABA Journal has a story about Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and his stated opposition to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
ABA Journal:

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was denied a seat on the federal bench in 1986 when Democratic critics accused him of racial insensitivity--charges he denied, CNNPolitics.com reported late last month. Now he is the top Republican senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee helping decide the fate of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Sessions said on Monday he is concerned that President Obama is choosing “activist” judicial nominees who would push federal courts "far to the left," USA Today reports....

I hate when Republicans say they are "concerned" about someone or something. It is just a code word for their lack of support for a vote.

CNN:

In 1986, Sessions was a 39-year-old U.S. attorney in Alabama. His nomination to be a U.S. District Court judge was troubled from the start because of controversy surrounding his prosecution of civil rights activists for voting fraud.
Sessions' fate was sealed after Democrats called several witnesses who accused him of a pattern of racial insensitivity -- including calling a black lawyer "boy" and civil rights groups such as the NAACP "un-American."
...Democrats pounded him during his marathon confirmation hearings. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, was quoted at the time as saying he was "concerned about the racist remarks that Mr. Sessions has acknowledged that he made."

Does Sessions still hold racist views? Should anyone believe anything he says? Does he still refer to minorities in racially insensitive ways?? Does Sessions believe that a person of Latino ancestry could be a good judge? Just asking.