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Student: Teachers Bully Me Because I’m Conservative
A Wisconsin school district has launched an investigation into accusations that teachers have bullied and harassed a politically active student. Benji Backer, a 15-year-old student at Appleton North High School in Appleton, told me that he’s been subjected to name-calling, foul-language and classroom lectures that bashed Gov. Scott Walker and labeled Republicans as racist: “They… Read more »
Urban Problem Bigger Than Detroit
We are now hearing the usual voices of protest in Detroit in the wake of Michigan governor Rick Snyder appointing an outside expert to take over financial management of the near-bankrupt city. Detroit is the largest city in American history to be seized in this fashion and turned over to an outside manager. Reported deficit… Read more »
Obama’s Nominee for Secretary of (Illegal Alien) Labor
The Beltway is buzzing over Obama’s likely nomination of Thomas E. Perez as the next head of the U.S. Department of Labor. But when Americans find out whom Perez has lobbied for most aggressively over the course of his extremist leftwing social justice career, they’ll be wondering which country Obama’s pick really plans to serve…. Read more »
Dissecting Health Care’s Unhealthy Work Environment
At some point, you have to ask yourself: Why can’t health care providers get it right? In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a scathing report, called To Err Is Human, which said almost 100,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors. Ten years later, a follow-up report found little progress had been… Read more »
Does It Never End?
We’re all for people paying their debt to society and getting on with their lives. People make mistakes. We fine them, send them to jail or prison, they serve their time and their debt is paid. We hope they are able to get their lives back together. We hope people will give them a chance…. Read more »
Another Bump-in-the-Road for High-Speed Rail?
High-speed rail has had more bumps and grinds than a North Beach pole dancer. Never mind that rider estimates are too high, cost estimates too low, that it does nothing to solve traffic problems where they need to be solved…within the greater L.A. and S.F. areas, not the space between them, that there isn’t any… Read more »
Liberal groups lay out blueprint for attack on state leaders
A strategy memo circulated recently among liberal-leaning groups prescribes “crippling” legislative leaders and Gov. Pat McCrory with bad press and pressure tactics. The memo, which was first reported by The Charlotte Observer, details communications strategy, political tactics and polling data that progressive groups can use to push the policy agenda in Raleigh, where Republicans control… Read more »
Green groups rally on climate, urge Obama to reject Keystone project
Environmental groups gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Sunday and marched on the White House for a climate change rally largely aimed at pressuring Obama to reject the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. Organizers said 35,000 activists attended the rally, where speakers portrayed the battle over the pipeline as a struggle between grassroots… Read more »
Obama recess appointments unconstitutional
In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess. The three-judge panel’s ruling is a major blow to Obama. The judges ruled that the appointments… Read more »
HSR: How Much Per Mile?
We have not been big fans of high-speed rail in California, just in case you haven’t noticed. We have nothing against the concept. It sounds great to sit on a train, working on our computers instead of driving. It’s all great as long as you keep your thoughts up in the clouds where little details… Read more »
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