All Posts Tagged With: "education"
“Never Brag On Your Children”
Parenting can sometimes feel like a complex endeavor – especially when the child is not cooperating. When the child is failing to meet expectations, to make the grade in school, to make the basketball team, to identify future aspirations – whatever – parents can become frustrated. And that frustration is often directed at the child.
I [...]
Is Ten Percent Too Much For Health Care?
President Obama is having his fourth news conference as I type. He is suggesting health care will cost us ten percent of our national budget if we do not gain control over costs. Is that a bad thing? How do we measure the health of our population against other priorities?
When President Eisenhower left office in [...]
McCain’s Opinion of the GOP Base
What does John McCain think of the radical right wing base of the Republican Party? That is an easy one. When running for President, John McCain felt a need to appeal to the ‘base’ of his party. So where did he go, what were his impressions of the ‘base?’ Answer: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and [...]
5May2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 8 comments | Continued
The Prophecy of Ohg Rea Tone – 2009
Prophecy is only valuable if it presents opportunity for change. Absolutes are for the cynical, for those who presume their destiny is predetermined. Free will suggests we have something to say about our life. In the tradition of ancient Bible Prophets we will offer some conditional prophecy for 2009:
If we reward failure, failure will be [...]
16Dec2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Obama and Sustainable Solutions
President Elect Obama must govern from the center if he is to have a lasting legacy. What does this mean? Simply put, solutions to problems must be sustainable over time. Solutions which are overturned with changes of political party are not useful or productive. Legacies are built on centrist resolutions to problems.
Let’s look at a [...]
Obama Will Govern From The Center
Take a look at Barack Obama’s life. His whole life is about hard work, education, empathy for others, and compromise. Check that last word, compromise. Whatever Obama believes about particular issues, he is all about compromise. Combine compromise with intellect and integrity – and you have a powerful leader.
Barack Obama was born to a white [...]
Republicans, Intellectual or Joe Six-Pack
Is there something wrong with being intellectual? There was a time when Republicans were proud of their position on advancing education, proud of elite education, proud that America offered educational opportunities to all. But something has gone wrong. The Republicans of the past thirty years have discredited thier greatest strength – the opportunity of America.
The [...]
Lincoln’s Rhetorical Flourishes, Shame on McCain/Palin
The idea of responding to Sarh Palin is contemptible. Responding to McCain is bad enough. But McCain has put the country in this position – and respond we must. The latest attack by Palin is to suggest in a demeaning manner that Barack Obama “… knows something about rhetorical flourishes.”
Be whatever you want, Sarah Palin [...]
Education and the Presidential Election of 2008
Education, experience, life – what is really important when choosing a President. Morality, integrity, honesty, compassion, empathy – we could go on with our hopes for the next President – but for now, let’s look at education.
John McCain “…graduated, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. 1958, and the National War College, Washington, D.C. [...]
Greatest Generation – And Neocons.
Our father was a veteran of World War II. He came home with four Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, never to speak of his experience. He kept his silence until his death at age eighty-five. He did not talk about the atrocities of war because the memories were too painful. As America entered other [...]
10Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 3 comments | Continued
Respecting Joe Six-Pack
Governor Sarah Palin has resurrected an old term – Joe Six Pack. Her notion is that she represents that demographic – folksy, hard working, beer drinking, regular American people. Her position is not so much that she can represent Joe – it is more that she is Joe. This is troubling.
The Founding Fathers wrote the [...]
Anarchy – The Slippery Slope of Deregulation
The failure of Wall Street this past few weeks is the result of John McCain abdicating his responsibilities as a United States Senator. A stable society rests on the rule of law. The Government of the United States of America was founded on the premise that the government would represent the common welfare of all [...]
2Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Learning by example – the example of Jesus
Son,
Your entry into the Christian Ministry has been a source of great pride and joy for me. Even given that you choose a wacky upstart like the United Methodist, or whatever you call it. There is a mild attempt at humor in the last sentence – but as with other effective editorial humor we witness [...]
Obama on Hardball, 4-2-2008
Barack Obama is the guest on Hardball’s College tour. I’ll give some summary comments.
Matthews: “How do we know you are tough enough?”
Omaba: “…I am leading in a contest with a very powerful political Clinton machine – I think I have proved I am tough…”
Matthews, “Can you ignore public opinion to do the right thing, are [...]
A Personal Experience with Prejudice
The winter of 1963-64 was a rough one. I was in the eighth grade. John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. My school was becoming integrated (the authorities sent one African American boy to our school and called it good enough). It was code (sic) outside. And my teachers did not like me. (At least, [...]
20Mar2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
vouchers and the public school dilemma
Dad,
The debate about public school systems and what to do with them is complicated and seeped in emotion and personal experience. The program of offering vouchers has as broad a mix of public opinion as any of the publicly debated issues today. I have my own thoughts and feelings, and they are conflicting and always [...]
Republican Debate, 1-29-08
Son,
The Republican debate is on CNN tonight. It is being hosted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee are participating. I missed a few minutes because of a black tie affair that I could not get out of.
The question is what about 100 year involvement in Iraq.
Ron [...]
Dump Joe Cannon as editor of the Deseret News over Pedophile Cover Up! 
I can't believe McDonald's is trying to sell "gourmet" coffee. Who the hell is going to go to a cheap ...
Why don't they do an All Star season with all the past winners. 
James Spader would be great!! I LOVE him. ANd Tim McGraw. MMMMMMMMMMMMM 
White is 'almost' the best because one cannot be the best until the sport is more than four Olympics old. 
Interesting post.
My experience with 12-step programs is that it's been more about finding the ways that you are already motivating ...
I'm moving from Central Texas back to my family homestead in southeastern Oklahoma.
The very least you could have ...