SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 By STEPHANIE BANCHERO SAT scores for the high-school graduating class of 2011 fell in all three subject areas, and the average reading and writing scores were the lowest ever recorded, according to data released on Wednesday. The results from the college-entrance exam, taken by about 1.6 million students, also revealed that only […]
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AUGUST 20, 2011 By VANESSA FUHRMANS BERLIN—German authorities are scrambling to contain and make sense of a surge in car torchings in the nation’s capital that have raised fears that the vandalism spree could escalate into the broader, more dangerous forms of street crime that have recently hit other pockets of Europe. Cars go up
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In-state tuition for illegal immigrants could prove a tough issue for Perry By Wayne Slater / The Dallas Morning News | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | U.S. Politics Photo by AP AUSTIN, Texas — With Rick Perry’s record getting presidential-level scrutiny, one crack in his conservative credentials could pose a serious problem — signing a bill giving
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The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: What Is Poverty in America? Posted By Mike Brownfield On July 18, 2011 @ 9:52 am In Family and Religion | 134 Comments As Congress struggles to find a way to cut spending as part of raising the $14 trillion
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WASHINGTON POST Posted at 11:45 AM ET, 07/17/2011 Interview: Margaret Hoover, the GOP’s and the millennials By Jennifer Rubin Margaret Hoover, a great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, is a regular figure on cable news and a veteran of the George W. Bush campaign. Her new book, American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can
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JULY 16, 2011 The Founding Fathers knew that ending this evil was their great unfinished business. By THOMAS FLEMING EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: At the same time, the Founding Fathers well recognized the serious problem of slavery. George Washington ignored protests from some Southerners and accepted both free and enslaved blacks in his army. In
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The following comments were sent to us from one of our members, Bonnie Clarke Sagan, who lives in Bakersville, North Carolina which is in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Bonnie is very concerned about the White House’s Executive Order for a Rural Council that was signed last month in June 2011. To refresh our memories, I have included
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Policy, Politics & Culture Via Meadia Walter Russell Mead’s Blog July 12, 2011 Walter Russell Mead The election of the first African-American president was widely hailed as a giant step forward for American racial politics. The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening
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