Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Objection Sustained The trouble with lawyers begins in the law schools. George Leef March 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 27 Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95 Following Judge Roger Vinson’s decision that Obamacare exceeded the powers granted to Congress […]
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MARCH 29, 2011 Norway to Jews: You’re Not Welcome Here Anti-Semitism doesn’t even mask itself as anti-Zionism. By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened. Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to
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MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen March 8, 2011 12:00 A.M. Impervious to Evidence Supporting failed programs is moral vanity.My friend E. J. Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, is a fine man with, I feel safe in asserting, a warm heart. But he betrays in a recent column a persistent failing
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MARCH 26, 2011 Teachers Union Chief Randi Weingarten on charter schools, reformers Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein, and her star turn in ‘Waiting for Superman.’ By JASON L. RILEY New York Teachers unions are on the defensive these days. The Obama administration is pushing various measures long opposed by the unions: charter school expansion, pay-for-performance,
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by Bob Holland and Don Soifer The Washington Times Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Europe’s leaders seemingly have awakened from a long slumber to discover that state-sponsored multiculturalism threatens the fabric of their societies. Their somber conclusions should cause reflection by Americans about the potential threats to national identity here and how educational institutions could play
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Abdul Rauf tackles debate over Park51 By Amanda Young March 18, 2011 Caroline Rodriguez/The Chronicle Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who spearheaded a proposal to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, discusses the controversy surrounding the project at Duke Chapel Thursday. COMMENT FROM ONE OF THE ATTENDEES: 11:20 AM – /comment March 19, 2011
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Leading Union Political Campaign Contributors 1990-2010 Democrats Republicans American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees $40,281,900 $547,700 Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 29,705,600 679,000 National Education Association 27,679,300 2,005,200 Service Employees International Union 26,368,470 98,700 Communication Workers of America 26,305,500 125,300 Service Employees International Union 26,252,000 1,086,200 Laborers Union 25,734,000 2,138,000 American Federation of
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