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Federal Stimulus Almost Gone: Education Budget Woes
Sam Dillon of the New York Times reports that the depletion of federal stimulus money will result in schools approaching "a funding cliff."...
Animal Tracking: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The Obama administration is shifting some responsibility for its animal disease tracking system to the states. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom...
Read more“Tobin Tax” and UN Global Taxman Making A Comeback
For decades, the "Tobin Tax" — a proposed global tax on currency transactions — has remained far from economic mainstream thought, being primarily...
Read moreYemen: Intervention, Nation-building, and the Constitution
When Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) vented his frustration at further involvement by the United States in foreign countries despite constitutional limitations against such...
Read moreLight-hearted Tebow Super Bowl Ad Disarms Critics
A 30-second Super Bowl ad, which pro-abortion and feminist groups had feared would offer a strong pro-life, anti-abortion message, instead did what the...
Read moreWhere Is Global Warming?
As the United Nations weathers a media beating over its falsified exaggeration of Himalayan glacier melt, new reports are adding fuel to the...
Read moreWill Politically Incorrect Opinion Become a Hate Crime?
Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It’s shocking to...
Read moreAutism Findings Retracted
Twelve years ago, the British medical journal The Lancet linked the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination to autism. Now the journal says that the study was compromised...
Read moreObama Misses Point on Prayer Breakfast
It is hard to imagine how a National Prayer Breakfast could be controversial, but it has become that. This tradition stretching back through...
Read moreThe Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and...
Read moreAbstinence Education Effective, Study Finds
A study released February 1 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is giving proponents of abstinence-only sex education programs reason to...
Read moreCopenhagen Accord Still Threatens U.S. Economy
As was observed at the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the internationalists and radical environmentalists suffered a critical defeat...
Read moreInsecure Americans, Abdulmutallab, & Terrorism
On January 9, 2010, an apparently fit, though slightly limping Umar Abdulmutallab entered the courtroom wearing the familiar khaki trousers, plain white t-shirt,...
Read moreFishy Facts About Flight 253
There is a long slate of oddities still inexplicable over a month after the timely thwarting of a potentially catastrophic terrorist attack over...
Read moreObama: Expand NASA’s Budget; Change Its Mission
The Obama administration’s proposed budget will radically change the agenda for NASA, while increasing the agency’s budget. ...
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