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SAT Scores Decline in NYC Schools
SAT scores continue to decline in New York City schools. As NBCNewYork.com reports: "It's a sad state for standardized tests. City and state...
Bernanke Renominated as Fed Chairman
President Barack Obama on August 25 renominated current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to another four-year term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve...
Read moreLieberman Sees Recession Delaying Reform
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) thinks there is no reason to push healthcare reform through Congress in the midst of a recession, Fox News...
Read moreVA Wrongly Says Vets Have Fatal Disease
The Veterans Affairs Department has mistakenly told some veterans that they have ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, the Associated Press reported...
Read moreTed Kennedy Dies at 77
Succumbing to an inoperable brain tumor discovered 15 months ago, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy passed away at his home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, on...
Read moreShould Republicans Save Medicare?
People used to say politics makes strange bedfellows. These days, calling any kind of bedfellows strange might qualify as a hate crime. It...
Read moreHolder Appoints Torture Prosecutor, Rejects Nuremberg Principle
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham to investigate torture by U.S. officials since President Bush commenced the...
Read moreCash-for-clunkers Sputters to a Close
Like one of the old jalopies it is supposed to remove from the road, the $3-billion cash-for-clunkers program sputtered to a close on...
Read moreObama’s Wars Trigger New Activists
The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency has highlighted the foreign policy double standard that the activists on the left end of...
Read moreSouth Korea Launches First Rocket
After a six-day delay caused by a faulty valve, South Korea has launched its first rocket, the Naro-1, from the Naro Space Center...
Read moreSomali Terrorists Recruiting in Minnesota
Details are emerging in a plot to recruit jihad terrorists from within the United States. According to the Associated Press, al-Shabab terrorists “have...
Read moreDire Swine Flu Warnings from White House
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a dire warning Monday about the spread of the swine flu virus later...
Read moreSAF Charges MSNBC with Playing “Racial Politics”
As media outlets were filled with hysteria in the wake of several demonstrators carrying firearms to an anti-Obama rally in Phoenix last week,...
Read moreCIA Inspector General to Confirm Clear-Cut Case of Torture
The CIA is scheduled today to declassify a 2004 report that details at least one clear-cut case of felony torture, according to an...
Read moreMicrosoft, Yahoo Oppose Google Books
Microsoft and Yahoo are joining a coalition to oppose Google’s creation of what could become the largest virtual library the world has ever...
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