Is Common Core Leaving Students Unprepared in Math and Science?
Newscom A leading education reform scholar argues that Common Core national standards are leaving students unprepared for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Sandra Stotsky, who served as a senior associate commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education and worked on the National Validation Committee for the Common Core State Systemic Initiative, writes in the Wall […]
US going after Benghazi terrorist affiliated with group that didn’t carry out attack
It’s an admittedly awkward way of saying that the New York Times better check it’s sources in government who told them al-Qaeda was not involved in the Benghazi attack. New York Times has been recently falsely reporting that al-Qaeda had nothing do with the Benghazi terrorist attacks on September 11th. Oddly the U.S. government is […]
Palestinian Ambassador in Prague Had Secret Illegal Arms Cache
An illegal arms cache was found Thursday in the home of the Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Prague, Jamal al-Jamal, who was killed there in an explosion the day before. Initially the PA claimed his death was a “work accident,” that occurred when he opened an old safe that had been untouched for 20 years. […]
Obama should go to the Sochi Olympics
By Patrick J. Buchanan With twin suicide bombings in Volgograd, at a train station and on a trolley, 34 Russians are dead and scores are injured and hospitalized. Moscow and the world have been put on notice by Doku Umarov, the Chechen Islamic terrorist, that the winter Olympics in Sochi, six weeks away, may not […]
New Poll: Health Care Reform Is America’s Top Concern for 2014
AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIERKAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Obamacare has not quelled the public’s desire for health care reform, according to a new poll released this week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey, which revealed the public’s list of issues they believe should be Washington’s focus in 2014, found 52 percent […]
Supreme Court Stays Obamacare Mandate for Little Sisters of the Poor
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor really knows how to ring in the New Year. Just hours before the countdown to 2014 in Times Square, she granted the Little Sisters of the Poor an eleventh-hour temporary halt to a coercive Obamacare mandate. The Obama Administration has until 10 a.m. Friday to respond to the stay. Without […]
Anti-Gun Bloomberg leaves office protected by firearms
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg leaves office today he will enter civilian life protected by firearms. The same man who has spent much of his career and personal fortune trying to render good, law-abiding men and women defenseless, will now surround himself with a team of armed bodyguards. Bloomberg’s security detail will be […]
Threats to America in 2014
Americans will die on American soil in large numbers. So predicted the Hart-Rudman Commission seven months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. No commissioner felt good about it getting it right. But the purpose of identifying “black swan” events before they happen is to give our leaders a chance to prevent them. Here are some […]
Five Signs of Hope (Maybe) for Europe
By Bruce Bower: Every now and then readers of this site, while thanking us for the coverage of the Islamization of Europe, have kindly asked if it’s possible for me to provide an occasional break from the endlessly depressing accounts of jihad and appeasement and dhimmitude and, quite simply, report on some good news for […]
Guess How Many New Laws Take Effect in 2014
Welcome to the year 2014 and the nearly 40,000 new laws written by state legislatures set to take effect in the United States this year, eroding on more and more freedoms. From regulations involving “lemon pets” to take-home placentas, 2014 looks like it will be an interesting year for new laws, several of which are […]
NYT’s Now Claims of Al Qaeda Involvement in Benghazi ‘Strictly Political’
Smarting from the number of witnesses who came out to challenge The New York Times’ weekend article downplaying terrorist involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack, NYT editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal “argued that those trying to claim Al Qaeda was involved” do so “for strictly political reasons.” According to Fox News, Rosenthal said: For anyone […]
