Margaret Thatcher Being A Bigot

In addition to busting unions and inflicting decades of suffering on Britons, the Iron Lady was a menace to a generation of homosexuals by saying that children being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay is akin to “cheating them” of a sound start to life. Actually, Thatch, that would be your anti-gay laws that followed next year–the first anti-gay laws to enter the UK in over 100 years. Her grand funeral is being arranged this week (with public funds, no less!) and soon she will be no more than a fairly painful memory. Good riddance.

Willie Nelson On Weed Equality

Leave it to Willie Nelson to turn a gay marriage meme into something about pot. If there’s any reason why weed should be legal, it’s that at nearly 80 years old, Willie Nelson is still making better music than most.

Republican Governor Does Education His Own Way

The Article: Iowa GOP Governor Charts Different Course by Catherine Lucey in the Associated Press.

The Text: As his Republican peers in other states search for ways to cut public school funding, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is charting a different course. He’s doubling down on education.

Branstad, who was elected in 2010 as part of a resurgent GOP, has made proposals many Republicans would sneer at: raising minimum teacher salaries and offering incentive pay for teachers who take on more responsibilities — all by tapping $187 million in new school funding.

It’s an approach that reflects the lives of Iowa families, who send nearly all of their children to public schools and have felt deeply connected to local districts for generations.

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Ecuador’s Correa On The Indiscernable Differences Between Republicans And Democrats

Julian Assange interviews contentious Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa on American politics. Correa’s finest moment? “There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties”.

Meet Norman Borlaug, A Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

Crafting high-yield and disease-resistant wheat varieties, Borlaug ushered in the “Green Revolution” in impoverished countries like Mexico, Pakistan and India in the 1960s, saving around a billion people around the world from starvation. As much as predatory corporations like Monsanto might lead you to believe, genetically-modified organisms can do good for more than just their makers.