The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch (Basic, 296 pp., $26.95) http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ZDBjNTYzNTY0YTZlMGIzZTEwY2IzZTQ4NGZjOTU2YjU= books arts & manners Teach for America ROBERT VERBRUGGEN In recent years, two conservative ideas about education have gone mainstream, capturing the imaginations of reformers across the political spectrum. The […]
WHY DO CASTRO’S ATROCITIES GO UNNOTICED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPIES AND THE UN AND THE “LIBERALS”?….CASTRO JUST GOES ON KILLING ALONG AND “CHE” REMAINS A CULT FIGURE….. CHECK OUT HUMBERTO FONTOVA’S SITE ……. http://www.hfontova.com/ Death by Hunger Strike A Cuban prisoner of conscience and an extreme method JAY NORDLINGER http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NWVhOGM1ZjA1ZDhkZjJjNmU4NmY4ZGY5ZWQwMWYwNjc= Many go on hunger […]
http://www.jstreetjive.com/2010/03/revelation-at-harvard-who-wrote-obamas.html Friday, March 5, 2010 Revelation at Harvard: Who Wrote Obama’s Cairo Speech? Â “I Cannot Tell a Lie – I Wrote it.” For nearly ten months questions have swirled around the country about the identity of the speechwriter responsible for Obama’s controversial address to the Muslim and Arab world delivered at Cairo University on […]
NRO — The Corner Friday, March 05, 2010 Sen. Graham on War and Gitmo — the Bad Undoing the Good [Andy McCarthy] As Dan notes, Senator Lindsey Graham gave an interview to Fox News’s Martha MacCallum this morning. As is often the case with Sen. Graham, is it a mixed bag of the very good […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor March 5, 2010 7:00 A.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/426964/the-gitmo-volunteers/andrew-c-mccarthy The Gitmo Volunteers Detained terrorists received more legal help than American prisoners do. Why? This is not that hard. The salient issue in the controversy over Justice Department attorneys who formerly represented our terrorist enemies detained at Guantanamo Bay is […]
Speech House of Lords, London, Friday the 5th of March 2010 Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport. Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, […]
http://politicalmavens.com/ THE SHAME OF SHARPTON MARILYN PENN Who could invent a scenario as improbable as a lying, fraudulent, mob-inciting, unelected, race-baiting, black hack sitting in judgment on a blind, black, lying governor who’s pinch-hitting for a whoring white hypocrite who had to resign? New Yorkers will all have vertigo before Albany gets sorted out but […]
Belmont Club March 5th, 2010 4:35 am Blue Plate Special Congressman Paul Ryan has had considerable success lately explaining the main problem with health care — and with “social democracy†— in general: it’s unsustainable. It’s an old message which has until recently taken a back seat to the idea that the welfare state was […]
How the West Will Be Won Mar 5 Written by: Diana West Friday, March 05, 2010 5:34 AM Author’s photo: Antwerp, Belgium 2008 This week’s syndicated column further unwraps the hijab and finds totalitarian ideology underneath: When the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders recently addressed voters in Almere, a Dutch city of 200,000 […]
