I went to University of Detroit’s Jesuit High School in Northwest Detroit.

Out of all my educational experiences, those formative four years were the best and the most enduring. Matched up against four years of the Ivy League at Dartmouth College and a year abroad in England on a Fulbright Scholarship, the Catholic experience was the deepest, the longest lasting and, in my opinion, the greatest contributor to a long – 70 years so far – and wonderfully rewarding life.

Here is an undeniably clear revelation of the growing divide between traditional America as seen in this Catholic Preparatory School, and the Obama Nation’s radically Leftist virulence poring out of union bullies and SEIU troublemaking.

Not only will the Progressive values of an Obama Nation leave our children and grandchildren holding a massive debt, those generations of Americans, increasingly influenced by The Obama Nation Value System, will be crippled and live a life of total dependence upon government and unions and eventually the devouring greed for power in a Progressive New World Order.

The Children of Obama will find no other recourse in life but increasing dependence upon the political and governing likes of Barack Hussein Obama, the SEIU and this cabal’s inner circle of CEO’s that are, like George Soros, “too big to fail”.

No one and nothing, from Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler to the Roman Empire, the Third Reich and World Communism have ever proven to be “too big to fail”.

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Good for Bill Cosby and his righteous apostasy. Follow the legendary sitcom star and stand-up comedian on Twitter @BillCosby

The Left’s insistence on condemning impoverished kids to failing schools is one of the great under-reported crimes of our time. While his own children benefit from a private education, President Obama condemned 1300 school children to the hell-hole of the DC public school system by killing the DC voucher program. Good thing Cosby’s already a legend or this public display of daylight between his beliefs and those of the unions could cost him.

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My girlfriend and I drove the hour down to Beverly Hills to catch the education documentary, The Lottery. It ran for just seven days in the Los Angeles area, which boasts one of the least performing school districts in the country, with a fifty percent dropout rate in some parts of the district.

It was a bit ironic that the theatre would be in Beverly Hills, where the choices for parents seem to be what Lexus or BMW to buy their children for their first car. Beverly Hills High is among the best public schools in the country because it is effectively private, thanks to stratospheric the real estate prices. You can imagine their thinking: Lotteries are for poor people, thank you very much. 

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Beverly Hills High was the scene of a recent school reform battle, where Beverly Hills decided that those living adjacent to the town can’t attend the school system anymore.  A friend, former Sen. Feinstein intern, and editor of the far-left magazine on my campus found a way around it – her parents rented an apartment in Beverly Hills so that her younger brother could attend illegally. To her credit, she changed her position so that she could square being a Democrat and in favor of school choice.

I don’t blame her, but does indicate the kind of contorting that progressives do to escape the school system that their union allies run. It’s a contortion that some black Democrat politicians – notably Mayor Cory Booker of Newark – are making with increased regularity. In a shocker of shockers, Booker says that more money won’t solve the problem of failing schools. Good for him. (more…)

What’s most amazing to me, is that even among liberals there are very few people who can justify an anti-school choice stance. If it seems as though this video contains some “straw man” arguments… Believe me, it’s just THAT hard to find a logical case against school choice. If anyone can think of a more valid reason that hasn’t been included in the video, be sure to comment it below.

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Last week I took actor Steven Weber to task for his desire to condemn those of us who aren’t millionaires to a government run health-care plan. Today, however, in the spirit of that awkward beer summit, Mr. Weber and I might have found some points of agreement. 

Weber’s written a Declaration of sorts, and if I’m interpreting him correctly (my notes are in bold), this is a true bi-partisan moment:

The division is clear. It is, finally, right versus wrong. And on this side of the division we declare:

[I]t is wrong to [sic] for a modern, wealthy country to not provide all its citizens with health care.

Agreed. This is why we oppose ObamaCare and the rationing sure to follow. (more…)

This week I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion on Civil Rights in the Age of Obama sponsored by the Milken Institute. Appearing with me on the panel were Ben Jealous, current President of the NAACP, Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Myrlie Evers-Williams, Civil Rights Icon and former President of the NAACP. The panel was moderated by Dr. Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College. I was, as my father used to say, “Steppin’ in some pretty high cotton.”

I can think of no better proof of the victory of the traditional civil rights movement than that these distinguished individuals (and myself) were gathered together under the auspices of the Milken Institute to ponder what to do next. The battles of the civil rights movement so hard fought have been won. To those heroes, on whose shoulders my generation stands I say, “job well-done.” That is not to say that we need not be jealous of our civil rights. It is to say that it is time to shift our focus toward those things that will best guard our victories and secure those blessings for future generations. (more…)