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Heartwarming Letter From Teacher To Students Before They Take A State Standardized Test

Published March 4, 2016

Standardized tests are the soul-sucking leeches of our public education system. There. I said it. And that was the nice version .Seriously, I hated standardized testing when I was in school and I hate it even more now (I’m dreading the day I have my own children in school and I have to send them […]

Salford City Council outlaws swearing in public

Published March 3, 2016

Human rights group Liberty has challenged a local council over its moves to criminalise the use of “foul and abusive language” on public streets. Salford City Council introduced a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in August making it against the law to swear in an area of Salford Quays – location of the BBC’s Media […]

USDA Spends $642K to Make Students Internationally Minded

Published March 3, 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending more than $600,000 to teach college students how to be “internationally minded citizens” when learning about climate change, through a new curriculum called the “Global Thinking Academy.” The University of Florida received funding to take 18 college professors on a trip to Belize and provide training to change […]

Brazil on course for worst recession in century

Published March 3, 2016

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazil’s economy shrank by 3.8 percent in 2015, the government said Thursday, with the biggest contraction in 25 years set to push the Latin American giant into its worst recession for more than a century. The latest gloomy news from Brazil was no surprise, but the severity underlined the depth […]

Dazed And Confused, The Republican Establishment Has Had It Coming

Published March 3, 2016

Election 2016: Donald Trump’s string of victories on Super Tuesday has left the Republican establishment dazed and confused. The GOP’s political brain trust (and we use that term ironically) seems to be asking: Where did all these angry voters come from? The revolt of the working class is dismissed as a movement of political philistines. […]

Swiss Parliament Withdraws Bid to Join EU

Published March 3, 2016

The Swiss parliament has voted to withdraw the country’s long-standing application to join the European Union (EU) amid a row on immigration. The National Council, the lower house of the Swiss parliament, voted by 126 to 46 to formally withdraw the application, 24 years after the country first applied for membership of what was then […]

Texas Police Officer Killed in Ambush

Published March 3, 2016

A police officer from Euless, Texas, was shot and killed on Tuesday while responding to a shot-fired call. He and another officer were ambushed by the suspect. The second officer was able to return fire, striking the suspect. Police Officer David Hofer, 29, was killed by a man who had just burglarized a home and […]

Trump unveils seven-point healthcare reform plan

Published March 3, 2016

After months of promising to repeal ObamaCare, but failing to spell out how — and what would replace it — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally revealed some specifics Wednesday night, including doing away with the individual mandate that requires everyone to have health insurance, an apparent reversal of his previous support for the provision. […]

CPAC 2016 Event on Immigration Rhetoric

Published March 3, 2016

By Jon Feere, March 3, 2016 The Conservative Political Action Conference is back and, like last year, it has little to offer people in favor of immigration enforcement and reduced immigration. Two immigration-related events are listed on the official schedule — one Wednesday, which I attended and discuss below, and one on Friday. The third […]

Romney eviscerates Trump as ‘absurd’

Published March 3, 2016

Romney eviscerates Trump as ‘absurd’ Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who lost two bids for the White House, in the 2008 primary and the 2012 face-off against President Obama, tore into Donald Trump in a widely anticipated broadcast presser aimed basically at doing the bidding of establishment-type Republicans to take down […]

Fox News: “We’re finished with Rubio.” Ailes searching for candidate to rally behind. Fair & Balanced?

Published March 3, 2016

New York Times – 3/2/2016 In his role as the donor class’s darling, Marco Rubio has enjoyed support from the Republicans’ media arm, Fox News. Throughout the primary, Fox provided Rubio with friendly interviews and key bookings, including the first prime-time response to Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on ISIS. Many of the network’s top […]

Six N.J. newspapers call on Christie to resign

Published March 3, 2016

Six New Jersey newspapers issued a joint editorial Tuesday calling on Gov. Chris Christie to resign in the wake of his failed presidential campaign and his subsequent endorsement of rival Donald Trump. The six newspapers including the Asbury Park Press, the Cherry Hill Courier-Post and the Morristown Daily Record — all Gannett-owned papers that are […]

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