Each April, we pay tribute to those afflicted with autism, through Autism Awareness Month.
Autism is a neurological developmental disorder resulting in varied impaired social communications and other restrictive behavior. Some who suffer from autism also have a developmental disability. Though the symptoms of those on the "spectrum" of autism vary, those afflicted with autism often lack the ability...
Just recently, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made headlines when he proposed loosening his state’s restrictions on late-term abortions in cases where the mother’s health is in danger. This was odd given how the bipartisan trend has been to further regulate late-term abortions.
For many, this was part of Gov. Cuomo’s move to appeal to more Democratic primary voters for a 2016 presidential run. The...
The downfall of Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is tragic but may cast a better light on the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal. By relieving Mahony of all church duties following revelations that he hid details of priests’ sexual abuse of children, the church begins to acknowledge the seriousness of his apparent deeds of omission.
But Mahony’s role in this scandal also shows that one popular...
The usual soul searching that comes with an election loss has the Republican Party contemplating, yet again, how to reach out to minorities.
Here’s a suggestion: Stop with the insults that form a structural part of the Statement of Faith for today’s GOP.
A recent Washington Post poll...
January 22, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the most under-appreciated presidents of modern times: Lyndon Baines Johnson. Other than Lincoln, no president did more for racial justice, and with such courage than Lyndon Johnson.
Today, as politicians on both left and right manufacture ideas that fit cynically into 30-second attack ads, we can see that Johnson was the last president...
The great U.S. Supreme Court Justice and American civil rights hero Thurgood Marshall once wrote that the plight of persons with developmental disabilities was not unlike a “regime of state-mandated segregation…that in its virulence and bigotry rivaled, and indeed paralleled, the worst excesses of Jim Crow.”
Despite progress, though, it is undeniable that Americans with developmental disabilities still...
One famous Abraham Lincoln story holds that, upon being questioned by his advisers on Gen. Ulysses Grant’s alleged alcoholism, Lincoln responded, “find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results.”
To me, the value behind this story that is applicable to our education system is this – that results matter, regardless of process.
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