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  • Families Sue to Stop Science Standards, $1 Billion on iPads, and More: Friday’s Ed News

    Published September 25, 2013
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    Friday's ed newsKANSAS: Several families file suit against the state's adoption of national science standards, arguing these amount to government establishing atheism as a religion.
  • There They Go Again

    Published September 25, 2013
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    So in the end President Obama did not let the Navy Yard tragedy go to “waste.
  • Pachauri Denies Global Warming Pause as IPCC Spirals into Disarray

    Published September 24, 2013
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    Struggling to keep a discredited global warming crisis afloat, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chair Raj Pachauri yesterday denied the well-documented pause in global warming during the past 15-plus years.
  • Kentucky Governor Overrides Legislature on National Science Standards

    Published September 24, 2013
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    Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has overruled the state legislature’s rejection of national science standards.
  • Under Obamacare, Collecting Insurance Premiums Could Pose Challenges

    Published September 24, 2013
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    One of the biggest difficulties facing the implementation of President Obama’s health care law will be the practical business of collecting insurance premiums in the individual market under the system of insurance exchanges the law creates.
  • Republicans Now Leading the Push to Tax the Internet

    Published September 24, 2013
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    The national Republican Party has a serious brand problem. Too many Establishment Elephants are too often Diet Democrats - taking positions just slightly less Large Government than the Donkey Party.
  • Turning Smokers Into Criminals

    Published September 23, 2013
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    America is filled with groups of people clamoring for their “rights” or claiming they are being discriminated against. One group, however, has been successfully silenced and, broadly speaking, turned into criminals.
  • Illinois Court Upholds Woman’s Right to Earn a Living, Ending Two-Year Struggle

    Published September 23, 2013
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    More than two years after she applied to the city government in Bloomington, Illinois for a license to operate a late-night van service, Julie Crowe finally will be allowed to start her business, thanks to a court decision upholding her right to earn a
  • Expanding What We Know About Climate Change

    Published September 23, 2013
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    Expanding What We Know About Climate ChangeA critique of Kerry Emanuel’s “What We Know About Climate Change”By James M.
  • Fukushima and the Misunderstood Effects of Radiation

    Published September 23, 2013
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    More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred as a result.
  • Obamacare’s Moment of Truth

    Published September 23, 2013
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    For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation, of President Barack Obama’s health care law.
  • Parents Want Different Styles of Schools, Survey Finds

    Published September 23, 2013
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    Most K-12 parents want a solid core curriculum in reading, math, and science, but they have different preferences for school culture and emphasis, a new survey finds.
  • Obamacare’s Moment of Truth

    Published September 23, 2013
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    Consumer Power Report #389For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care law.
  • Your Move, Global Warming Alarmists. Science Has Exposed Your Unwarranted Hysteria

    Published September 22, 2013
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    Who will decide American public policy on the issue of potentially catastrophic man caused global warming? The answer is you and me, through the democratic process that governs our country.
  • Secure Kids’ Right to Instruction

    Published September 21, 2013
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    A 150-year-old profession with millions of practitioners should show considerable progress by now. Unfortunately the K-12 government teaching profession is lagging substantially.
  • Global Warming: The BIGGEST LIE Exposed

    Published September 21, 2013
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    I will never understand the kind of thinking behind a lie so big that it became an international fraud and swindle.
  • CMIP5 Modeling of Extreme Precipitation in Europe

    Published September 20, 2013
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    Van Haren et al.
  • Parents Unbundle Education in Arizona

    Published September 20, 2013
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    One-third of parents allowed to “unbundle” their children’s education using a novel form of vouchers split the money into a variety of education opportunities, while the other two-thirds use their education savings accounts more like a voucher, a study
  • Liquor, Lodging Lobbies Oppose Proposed PA Drink Tax

    Published September 20, 2013
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    A proposal to add an extra tax on alcoholic beverages in financially distressed municipalities has drawn the ire of the liquor industry.
  • NIPCC Releases Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science

    Published September 20, 2013
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    Climate Change Weekly #104The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released on September 17 Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science.
  • New Mexico’s Physician Shortage Could be Exacerbated by Obamacare

    Published September 20, 2013
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    For years, New Mexico has suffered from a chronic shortage of doctors, especially in the rural communities of the state. Now, with the rollout of President Obama’s health care law, plus the decisions by Republican Gov.
  • What Economic Recovery?

    Published September 20, 2013
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    Due to bad government policies, we are not fully out of the recession yet. Four years ago, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that the U.S. recession of 2007-2009 ended.
  • Nationwide Education Spending Increases, Figures Show

    Published September 19, 2013
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    State public school funding has declined in 34 states, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes in its recent analysis of public school funding since the start of the Great Recession.
  • Report: Right-to-Work States Have More Income Growth and Employment

    Published September 19, 2013
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    Over the past six decades, states with right-to-work laws experienced greater improvements in average annual employment, real personal income, and population growth than those states would have experienced without right-to-work, a new study by the

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