PHILADELPHIA — President Barack Obama, in a message Tuesday to America's students, urged them to ignore bullies and treat each other with kindne...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011
New Rule: Don't engage in the outrageous, unethical practice of inviting your friends and donors to use the bowling alley at the White House. Instead give them no-bid contracts like we did for Halliburton.
Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservatives might want to think twice before anointing Joe Wilson, the "You Lie" guy, as their new alpha immigration dog.
Susan Kane | Posted 05.25.2011
As millions of kids headed back to school this month, many parents, teachers, and administrators had a lot to think about. Things like, will there actually be enough seats in the ballooning classes?
Fort Worth Star Telegram | Melody McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011
Six days after drawing fire for not showing President Barack Obama's speech to schoolchildren, Arlington Superintendent Jerry McCullough announced Mon...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
As the Republican base dwindles to Southern white males and various credulous hangers on, the whole party is set to topple just as inevitably.
Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011
The Child Nutrition Act, which expires Sept. 30, determines what more than 30 million children eat at school five days a week, 180 days a year, making school meals a critical entry point for improving children's health.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
Vigilance: Without it, who knows what sorts of insidious messages could slip into the curriculum of public schools throughout the country?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
Shouldn't we also be living in a country that can come together right now and bail out schoolchildren who, unlike Wall Street, are too small to be allowed to fail before they have been allowed to succeed?
David Kronke | Posted 05.25.2011
Michelle Malkin: Why didn't Obama save every child from drowning? Why just one? This myopia stems from his old, outdated liberal-elitist sensibility.
Roy Rivenburg | Posted 05.25.2011
Using mass hypnosis during a televised speech to students, President Obama turned millions of schoolchildren into robotic socialist zombies, authorities said.
Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama offered a heartfelt pep talk to the nation's students today and HuffPost wants to hear reactions from students and teachers alike. Pr...
James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011
The myth of bipartisanship comes down to today in my mind and let it die forever on this first day of school and let us not forget the lesson.
Bill Jackson | Posted 11.17.2011
Thanks, President Obama, for carrying this message to America's schoolchildren. We parents are listening, too.
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke out Tuesday in support of President Obama's "back-to-school speech" delivered to school children ...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011
In his address to school children, Barack Obama has revealed himself as an educationist, deeply discriminating against dropouts like, well, me.
Mario Almonte | Posted 05.25.2011
Within the immense pool of 60 million who voted Republican thrives a disturbing core of religious fundamentalists, ultra conservatives, and all-purpose extremists who hates everyone and everything different from them.
August J. Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011
Calmer voices have called the assault on Obama's speech "silly." That is terribly wrong: the attacks are not silly, they are dangerous. The attacks further split the party of opposition from a position of reason.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
With Obama's school address now behind us, the claims made by opponents of the address look more absurd than ever. And yet it should have never come to this point.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
(AP) ARLINGTON, Va. — In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation's students to take prid...
Posted 05.25.2011
Cartoonist and illustrator, Sean Kelly, has once again graced us with his work, this time taking on Obama's school-speech foes. He's in good company t...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.
Kristina Brittenham | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama is the President already. Even if you disagree with what he says, it matters. Instead of refusing to allow your children to be up to date on current affairs, it's possible to tell them why you disagree with the President.
ABC News | Steven Portnoy | Posted 05.25.2011
The Florida Republican party chairman who last week accused the president of trying to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda" now s...
AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011