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Common Core — Why Do They Lie? And Why Do Others Believe Them?
by Sandra Stotsky) | Pioneer Institute. . One of the most puzzling phenomena in recent years is the unquestioned acceptance by seemingly rational people of the many claims made by the proponents of Common Core’s standards. The claims have been made repeatedly despite the fact that they have been shown to be either lies [...]
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How Democracies Perish, Deathbed Edition
By Daren Jonescu American Thinker This is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of How Democracies Perish, an analysis of the spread of world communism by Jean-François Revel, one of freedom’s most serious French defenders since Tocqueville. At the heart of this work, Revel details “The Tools of Communist Expansion,” among which the most relevant for understanding [...]
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HuffPo High-Schooler with Lesbian Moms Feels Left Out of Father’s Day..
By Lauren Enk NewsBusters Abby Bergman has an ax to grind. An LGBT activist “all her life,” according to her bio, the high school junior is also the daughter of a lesbian couple, and as a result … thinks we should chuck Father’s Day out the window. Bergman just wrote a Father’s Day piece (read, an anti-Father’s Day piece) for the [...]
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Snap Challenge is Not So Challenging – Unless You’re an Out of Touch Congressman
, Kristina Ribali | Freedom Works . This past week more than two dozen Democratic members of congress decided to compete in theSNAP Challenge and in their words “call attention to the necessity of the program” while also showing how difficult it is to eat on the average of $31.50 per person, per week allocated [...]
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Conservative Lawmakers Planning Lincoln-Douglas Style Immigration Debate in Front of the Capitol
The Blaze Conservative lawmakers are planning a day-long Lincoln-Douglas-style debate on immigration in front of the U.S. Capitol building next Wednesday to counter what they say has been a lack of legitimate debate inside the halls of Congress. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said the open-forum debate will feature “border security, anti-amnesty members of Congress.” [...]
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Common Core Deceive-and-Denigrate Campaign Continues
Neil McClusky Cato I’ve written a lot recently about the untoward tactics being employed by supporters of the Common Core national curriculum standards. I’m afraid little seems to be changing, as illustrated by two new bits of evidence. The first is a survey in Tennessee by the Core-supporting State Collaborative on Reforming Education. The survey – which [...]
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Colorado Teachers Now Paid for Performance, Not Years of Service
Brittany Corona The Foundry- Heritage Douglas County, Colorado is once again leading the state in education reform by adopting a teacher compensation plan that has school districts across the nation talking. Teachers in Douglas County are finally getting a pay system that could reflect their value: one that rewards hard work based on merit, not seniority. A Pay [...]
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Adolf Hitler – Progressive Pioneer
. http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com President Obama’s second inaugural was a speech that the Obama Media literally drooled over as a straight forward and forceful expression of progressivism unmatched in American history. I agree, it was, but there was one thing that bothered me…the tendency of these media personalities to ignore the sources of many of the ideas [...]
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Glenn Beck Radio Program 06042013
https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/the-glenn-beck-program-06-04 Source: https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck The Blaze Radio
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Fired up, Fox News Megyn Kelly Blasts Jim McDermott re Remarks to IRS Witnesses 06052013
When Kelly announced moments before her fiery exchange that she would be speaking with Baghdad Jim McDermott, I immediately thought to myself, “uh-oh he’s going to get it and this is going to be good.” Kelly gave it to McDermott good so much so that McDermott was trying to shut her down. Of course, [...]
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Senator Lamar Alexander – Neo-Con Trotskyite & His Common Core Connections
Kelleigh Nelson Freedom’s Outpost We’ve always been suspicious of Lamar. To hear him running around calling himself an “activist conservative” and mentioning Ronald Reagan’s name every 30 seconds is just amazing! He never did anything for Reagan; in fact, those of us with Reagan were just about written out of the [Tennessee Republican] party. [...]
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Jeb Bush, Bill Ayers, Barack Obama lose Michigan Common Core Fight
Common Core standards funding officially blocked in new Michigan budget after Senate vote By Brian Smith MLive LANSING — Michigan is poised to became the second state to “pause” implementation of the Common Core State Standards for math and language arts education Tuesday after the state Senate approved a budget barring funding for the guidelines. [...]
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Common Core – Bad for Teachers, and Students
By Henry Graebe, Grassroots Manager, FreedomWorks Red State Beyond the major scandals currently plaguing Washington, D.C., grassroots conservatives have been mobilizing on an equally important, yet underreported, controversial issue: Common Core. When Race to the Top was introduced as part of the 2009 stimulus, states were bribed with billions of dollars by President Obama and [...]
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The zero-tolerance war on kindergarteners
William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection Even talking about Bubble and Nerf guns gets punished. We’ve previously covered the gun-shaped breakfast pastry, a pencil pointed like a gun, and a Quarter-size Lego piece. Hot Air also has the story of the 5-year old who brought a cap gun to school. The zero-tolerance war on young children who innocently bring something that [...]