Undernews: April 1, 2013

Easter madness on the White House lawn

Just the facts

Last year, the federal government deported roughly 400,000 people, the highest number of deportations in U.S. history.

Furthermore. . .

Pot decriminalized in RI

David Simon Of 'The Wire' On The U.S. War On Drugs

50 ways adults in schools ‘cheat’ on standardized tests

Excerpts from Atlanta indictment in test cheating scandal

Restorative justice: One high school's path to reducing suspensions by half

Study Predicts 30% Premium Increase For Some Californians Who Buy Their Own Insurance

The science of de-extinction

Why are there no peace correspondents?

Police using social media to bust punk rock parties

Police using social media to bust punk rock parties

50 ways adults in schools ‘cheat’ on standardized tests

Tweets

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson - Does it disturb anyone else that "The Los Angeles Angels" baseball team translates directly to "The The Angels Angels"?

@Harpers - % change since 1969 in the portion of U.S. schoolchildren who walk or bike to school: –76

Pocket paradigm

Whether you call it God or Nature, argued Thor Heyerdahl, "the disagreement is about the spelling of a word." Unfortunately, a great many people have died in the name of correct orthography.- Sam Smith

We have always had Christian fundamentalists in this country. We just used to call them New Deal Democrats..- Sam Smith

Quotes

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has - Alphonse Kan

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right . . and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams

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