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Remains of the Day, 9-19-07


1. Tony Blankley is leaving his job as editorial page editor of the Washington Times to join the Edelman public relations firm (no relation to Peter and Marian Wright Edelman for those who follow children and family issues) and the Heritage Foundation. He’s been a regular on Diane Rehm’s Friday political news roundups.

2. If you’re looking for a regular source of information about education at all grade levels and across the country, don’t forget the Institute for Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics. This “mini-digest” of stats for 2006 is just one of a few emails I get from them each week. You can sign up here.

3. I agree with most of what Americans United for Separation of Church and State does but I confess to feeling a little squeamish when it comes to actually turning my child on to becoming an activist. That’s probably one reason why I don’t and others don’t consider me to be a progressive, on the left of center end of the spectrum. For some issues, sure. For some, maybe. But I am not into telling people what to promote and not promote, for themselves, on most occasions. I don’t want to be intimidated or dictated to, and I don’t feel comfortable doing that to others.

4. Given that I’ve been writing about how wrong it is that Tim Brown should feel forced to withdraw from a congressional race because he doesn’t think a gay Republican in his neck of Ohio could raise enough money to be competitive, I’m going to put in another plug for Just $6 Dollars, this time for their program to have volunteers ask the presidential candidates to support public funding of elections.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:53 pm September 19th, 2007 in Remains of the Day 

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