Head Start: Reporters Need to Ask the White House the Obvious Question

A rigorous and large-scale experimental evaluation, conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), finds that the federal Head Start program has essentially no lasting cognitive or behavioral benefits. The results clearly call into question the federal government’s $8 billion per year commitment to the program. Far from growing skeptical about Head Start, […]

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Lack of Support for Hagel Hardly “Unconscionable”

Fang Zhe/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom The United States Senate declined to support Secretary of Defense nominee and former Senator Chuck Hagel today, after failing to reach consensus to clear a Senate procedural hurdle. Even before the vote, the White House was quick to label requests for further information on Hagel’s finances “unconscionable” and urge confirmation without delay. Apparently […]

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We Already Have an Election Commission—And Obama Has Ignored It

President Obama talked about voting rights in the State of the Union address, claiming we are “betraying our ideals” when any American has to “wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot.” He announced a “nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in America.” While there may have been some Americans who […]

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Spy vs. Spy, America vs. Israel

[NRO title: “No Surprises: Israel, America, and Spying”] Israelis spying on Americans is in the news again: leaders of the Jewish state just petitioned for Jonathan Pollard’s release and the Associated Press reported with alarm that U.S. national security officials at times consider Israel to be “a genuine counterintelligence threat.” Its tone of breathless outrage […]

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CAIR Can Expel You “For Any Reason”

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com October 1, 2012 This past Saturday, folks, was a big day for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Its “Leadership Conference 18th Annual Banquet” at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va. lasted from 9 am until past 10 pm. Sadly, I missed the event. Not that I wouldn’t eagerly have […]

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Ankara at War

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 16, 2012 NRO title: “Erdogan and Assad at War” Why does the Turkish government act so aggressively against the Assad regime of Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes that lobbing artillery shells into Syria will help bring a satellite government to power in Damascus. Maybe he […]

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Rep. Tom Price: Obama Needs to “Press the Reset Button”

President Obama’s refusal to balance the budget will soon leave Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security bankrupt. That’s according to Representative Tom Price (R-GA), who spoke at The Bloggers Briefing yesterday and sat down for an interview with Heritage’s Jackie Anderson. Price and other congressional leaders have been advocating a strategy to balance the budget and save […]

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