California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife? Nov. 15 2010 – By JOEL KOTKIN Image via Wikipedia In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide,
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 1, 2010 Reviewed by Wes Vernon DUPES: HOW AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES HAVE MANIPULATED PROGRESSIVES FOR A CENTURY By Paul Kengor ISI Books, $29.95, 497 pages “I think we’re going to hell in a handbasket.” That comment was uttered at a recent public gathering here in Washington by Paul Kengor, political science
NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a
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OCTOBER 28, 2010 The Rage Against Citizens United Why Barack Obama gave the Supreme Court a public tongue-lashing. By DANIEL HENNINGER Taking office in January 2009 as president, Barack Obama’s achievement was everywhere called historic. He was at the pinnacle of American life. Two years later, he may be on the cliff’s edge of another
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KNIGHT: More than a litter bit of difference Trashy liberal ways result in trashy liberal rally By Robert Knight -The Washington Times Tuesday, October 5, 2010 When you’ve got some dirt to deal with, you can do one of two things: You can take out the trash or sweep it under the rug. Most of
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OCTOBER 23, 2010 The Race to Save California Would Brown the insider or Whitman the outsider be better able to rescue a Golden State in decline? By PETER ROBINSON Palo Alto, Calif. To inspect one possible future of the Golden State, head to the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Middlefield Road in Redwood City, a
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THE INDEPENDENT NEWS Sarkozy stands firm as pension protests escalate By John Lichfield in Paris Wednesday, 13 October 2010 President Nicolas Sarkozy could face the greatest challenge of his presidency in the next few days as a month-old protest against pension reform swells towards outright confrontation. More than 3 million demonstrators – one in 20
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Review: David Limbaugh’s Crimes Against Liberty by Ben Shapiro Every president has his bête noire. For Reagan, it was Sam Donaldson. For Clinton, it was Ann Coulter. For President Obama, it’s David Limbaugh. No better book has been written compiling the evidence against a president that Limbaugh’s Crimes Against Liberty. “This book is about a
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OCTOBER 5, 2010 Hating ‘Superman’ Teachers unions are on the moral defensive. The new film “Waiting for ‘Superman’” is getting good reviews for its portrayal of children seeking alternatives to dreadful public schools, and to judge by the film’s opponents it is having an impact. Witness the scene on a recent Friday night in front
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Politics At ‘One Nation’ rally, a unionized show of unity By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent October 3, 2010 Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital to participate in the “One Nation Working Together” rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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