Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Are they now the natural governing party of Canada? Fred Barnes May 16, 2011, Who’s the most powerful conservative leader in the Americas, north and south? That may sound like a trick question, but it’s not. The answer is Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister who triumphed last week […]
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Friday, May 20, 2011 By Gary L. Bauer BREAKING NEWS! After a White House meeting that ran nearly two hours longer than planned, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made joint statements just a few hours ago from the Oval Office. Obama went first, looking uncomfortable and sounding as if he was in “damage
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May 19, 2011 by Frank Roche OBAMA’S OFFERS THE MIDDLE EAST UTOPIA A Liberal Utopia: President Obama’s vision of North Africa and the Middle East. The President gave his highly anticipated “Middle East” speech today at the US State Department in Washington, DC. It described a world that can most easily be seen through rose
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ACORN’s back: Front-group games Thursday, May 19, 2011 Voters beware: Under new names’ guise, the extreme-left Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is gearing up to help re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012. Congress defunded national ACORN last year over its solicitous attitude toward purported prostitution operations, forcing it and state- and local-level affiliates
Romney: Obama ‘threw Israel under the bus’ By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press HANOVER, N.H. – Republicans looking to unseat President Barack Obama charged Thursday that he undermined the sensitive and delicate negotiations for Middle East peace with his outline for resumed talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Obama, whom he
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The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop May 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm – by Victor Davis Hanson 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level
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June 2011 THE ATLANTIC Who better to lead an educational revolution than Joel Klein, the prosecutor who took on the software giant Microsoft? But in his eight years as chancellor of New York City’s school system, the nation’s largest, Klein learned a few painful lessons of his own—about feckless politicians, recalcitrant unions, mediocre teachers, and
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MAY 14, 2011 Education spending and student-teacher ratio are about where they were in 2004. The real problem is that tax dollars are being diverted for teacher benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Fullerton, Calif. Thousands of California teachers turned out this week to protest potential budget cuts to education and to urge lawmakers to raise taxes.
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MAY 13, 2011 Between 2000 and 2008, 4.8 million Americans moved from forced union states to right-to-work states—that’s one person every minute of every day. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE The Obama administration’s National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint last month against Boeing to block production of the company’s 787 Dreamliner at
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