The Boston-based organization FairTest, which is dedicated to destroying standardized testing, has more than a few questionable things in its background, as I’ve noted in the past. As purveyors of junk science regarding education, they have deliberately distorted the degree
Despite the abject failure of leadership at the top, the Navy and Marines still know how to fight and win. From the U.S. Naval Institute blog, here’s an eyewitness account of the takedown of some Somali pirates by Capt. Alexander
The MSM’s persisent inability to add two and two is on display today as the Associated Press reports on President Obama’s visit to the Pentagon: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Saturday recalled “that awful morning” nine years ago
Amazingly, he did it all without a TelePrompter: [youtube x7OCgMPX2mE&feature nolink] Do you think they’re still listening?
As usual, Andrew McCarthy offers a bracing dose of reality over at NRO as he coolly assesses where we are today, nine year after Sept. 11, in the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West. Read and don’t weep —
Fidel Castro recently bestowed the Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg with an exclusive interview. More than a mere exclusive, this is the first interview granted by the Stalinist dictator to an American reporter in four years. The MSM is absolutely agog with
There’s new meaning to the word “viral.” Normally the word is used in a positive sense when something is so popular on the web that it is shared with as many people as possible and “hits” go through the roof.
The Culture of Green and the Culture of Death converge in James Jay Lee, the Discovery Channel eco-terrorist J.J. Lee was an Earther … a True Believer that humanity comprises a nefarious conspiracy to destroy Gaia, our Mother Earth. By
The oldest gay-rights organization in Latin America is taking Fidel Castro to the International Court of justice in The Hague for “crimes against humanity.” “What?!” snort the “enlightened.” You rubes got the news exactly bass-ackwards! In fact, last week Fidel
If, in a county where President Obama won 69% of the vote less than two years ago, the President cannot fill a Community College Recreational Center with a scheduled event, you might consider that to be newsworthy. Apparently the Mainstream
The Chicago Tribune, a publication normally as dedicated to championing women’s issues as anyone in the MSM, tossed Muslim women under the bus in the other day. A feature story by Patty Pensa, running under the headline “Many faces under
Michael Joseph Gross, the author of the recent Vanity Fair hit piece on Sarah Palin, does not seem to be able to tell the truth. In a new attempt to “shoot the messenger” (me) rather than admit that his story
Writing in Forbes Magazine, Dinesh D’Souza takes a long hard look at the enigma in the White House: Theories abound to explain the President’s goals and actions. Critics in the business community–including some Obama voters who now have buyer’s remorse–tend
REP. CHARLES RANGEL: Good morning, kids. I’m your Uncle Chollie in Washington. I help your Uncle Sam take care of you and your family. Today, I’m here to introduce a very special person. He’ll explain how you–our youngest citizens–can partner
Let me say up front that I think Koran burning is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. In fact, I think what this little church in Florida is doing is actually harmful to the nation, their own safety
President Obama’s disdain for that class of nations and leaders traditionally referred to as “allies” has become apparent even to the more obtuse among us. I refer to the New York Times‘ s featured op-ed, by the noted op-ed-er Roger
… you know you’re really in trouble: [youtube aHV6lrIdVqk&feature nolink] The sad part is that many on the left still don’t understand why this is happening to them. Do they, Mr. President?
Progressives are up in arms after Google appears to have caved on Net Neutrality by partnering with Verizon to abandon their core aims. Writing at Huffington Post, Josh Silver of the ironically named Free Press laments: For years, Internet advocates
Quote unquote: The truth? In the week that three Presidents, a King and their own Prime Minister gather at the White House to begin a fresh round of talks on peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the truth is, Israelis
Michael Joseph Gross has now admitted that he made an “error” in regard to his slimy hit piece in Vanity Fair that he wrote about Sarah Palin. He falsely reported that Sarah somehow disregarded her child at an event, when
Well, the bad news is that we’re a bunch of racists. The good news, though, is that our liberal overlords are understanding. Due to their boundless capacity for empathy, they understand that we just can’t help the inherent bigotry that
This is one of the ways you can tell when news organizations get lazy and simply regurgitates a press release. Recently, the Daily Caller ran a story Labor and liberal groups to hold Oct. 2 rally on Mall to counter
For those that thought faded journo Jimmy Breslin had passed on to his great reward, fear not for ol’ Jimmy is back and this time he wants you all to know that you Tea Partiers are wild-eyed racists filled with
In prepping a children’s program where I’d be recording all the Duggars from TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, I read a lot about this family on the Internet. Boy was that unhelpful. I wanted to make sure I got their
Many have pointed out the ways in which Michael Joseph Grosss’ piece on Palin seems both unfair and under sourced. I won’t rehash all of that. I’ll just comment on the one section that stood out to me: The term
