Scalia on Restoring Constitution: ‘I Don’t Know That I’m Optimistic’

(CNSNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said recently that–“especially after last term”–he does not know if he is confident the Constitution can be restored to its original meaning. He likened his own efforts to do so to the character “Frodo” in the Lord of the Rings, who fights the good fight not certain he […]

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Indiana’s Bittersweet Education Election

Indiana Superintendent of Schools Tony Bennett is one of the country’s great education reformers. As superintendent, he worked to create one of the most expansive voucher programs in the country, implemented merit pay for teachers, and increased transparency of outcomes in Indiana schools. Bennett lost his re-election bid last night and will no longer be […]

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The Downfall of Russia’s Defense Minister

On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked Defense Minister Anatoly E. Serdyukov, who has held the post since 2007. Serdyukov had overseen the largest and most radical military reform of the Russian armed forces since the creation of the Red Army in 1918. Under Serdyukov, a former furniture businessman and senior tax collection official, […]

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Superficiality Reigns Before the Election

by Daniel Pipes November 3, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That’s because news reports blare out what’s not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical […]

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State Spent $100K to ‘Green Up’ Vienna Embassy 4 Days After Denying Libya Embassy Access to Plane

(CNSNews.com) – Four days after the security team at the U.S. embassy in Libya was denied further use of a DC-3 plane, the State Department approved $100,000 to “green up” the U.S. embassy in Vienna, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” on Sunday. “What I’ve been pounding home is four days after that […]

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Armed Services Chairman Denounces White House Benghazi Cover-Up and Muzzling of Military Leaders

President Obama should come clean with the American people about what exactly happened in Benghazi, according to the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Buck McKeon (R-CA). In fact, the President is the only one who has all those answers, McKeon says. “The whole thing smacks of a cover-up,” he says. According to […]

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