SOCHI, Russia (AP) — An international journalism watchdog on Tuesday criticized Russian authorities for restricting news coverage of preparations for the Sochi Olympics. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists detailed in a report how Russian and international journalists have
From state academic standards and tests to charter and virtual schools, the K-12 education world has changed in the 30 years since President Ronald Reagan’s landmark “A Nation at Risk” commission diagnosed the myriad problems with public schooling in America.
Nigel Farage’s right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP) has once again rocked the British political establishment by coming first in a recent poll which quizzed Brits on their feelings towards the four main political parties. While UKIP hasn’t yet mustered up
WAMU 88.5 NEWS: Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) “I’m afraid that the millennials, if you will, are less likely to sign up. I think they feel more independent, I think they feel a little more invulnerable than prior generations, But I
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hungary’s ‘fascist’ Jobbik party leader Gabor Vona speaks in London Hussman’s analysis of market instability China banks halt domestic cash transfers as fund bankruptcy looms Hungary’s ‘fascist’ Jobbik party leader Gabor Vona speaks in
BANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government demonstrators trying to derail a contentious general election scheduled next week in Thailand swarmed dozens of polling stations Sunday, chaining doors and gates shut and blocking hundreds of thousands of voters from casting advance ballots in
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich reached out and offered Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leader of the biggest opposition group, the post of prime minister as well as the deputy prime minister job and head of humanitarian affairs to boxer-turned-politician Vitali Klitschko. Protesters have occupied Ukraine’s capitol
Judicial Watch recently announced that it reached a settlement in an August 30, 2012 lawsuit against the state of Ohio, which resulted in an agreement with Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to take or continue to take a series of actions to further
On January 23rd, Breitbart News reported Smith & Wesson’s plans to end most California gun sales due to the state’s microstamping regulation. In so doing, we mentioned that Sturm, Ruger, & Co. had also announced that their guns would likely
Ukrainian authorities have reportedly offered professional boxer Vitali Klitschko, who also leads the opposition UDAR (Punch) Party, $1 billion to not fun for president in 2015. And Klitschko reportedly turned them down. The Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reported that Klitschko, who is
WASHINGTON (AP)–Citing a string of setbacks in the nuclear missile force, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel summoned senior military leaders to discuss serious personnel problems and other missteps that “threaten to jeopardize” public trust. In a memo Thursday to top Pentagon
Mark Duplass may not be a household name, but in indie film circles he’s practically a legend. The prolific actor/director/screenwriter is connected to some of the buzzier films in independent cinema, including The Puffy Chair, Humpday and Baghead, and he
Sherlock, the BBC’s update on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed sleuth, can be seen across media platforms in the U.S. thanks to cable providers and services like Amazon Prime. Turns out Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and The Hobbit’s Martin Freeman, also
The emperor has no clothes. Now that the President has been exposed by the likes of concerned patriots like Edward Snowden, he is running around trying to rescue his legacy and save face to the staunch leftists who once supported
An image touted as that of an orphaned Syrian boy sleeping between the graves of his murdered parents has been sweeping through social media and is being used to decry the deteriorating situation in Bashar al-Asaad’s country. But it turns
(AP) S Sudan: ‘Horrifying human rights disaster’By ILYA GRIDNEFFAssociated PressJUBA, South SudanThe United Nations has evidence of the use of child soldiers and mass atrocities committed by both sides warring in South Sudan, a “horrifying human rights disaster” that has
Miley Cyrus’ 2013 antics may have launched a thousand tabloid stories, but they hardly mattered to the folks behind the annual Forbes Influential list. Steven Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director behind Jaws and Schindler’s List, topped Forbes’ just-released 2014 list. Oprah
If you accept the premise that our country was founded on liberty, then what’s been happening at the National Security Agency is a challenge to that core principle. I say this because as conservatives we fight taxes or spending because
ATLANTA, GA–The Tea Party Patriots announced today the addition of Michael Flynn to serve as Political Director of a newly formed Super PAC – Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund. With years of campaign and political experience, Flynn will lead the Tea
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart said New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez’s PED regimen was “probably the most potent and sophisticated drug program developed for an athlete that we’ve ever seen.” “At the end of the day,” Tygart told
Veteran Republican political mastermind Karl Rove writes in his Wall Street Journal column Thursday that the key to victory in the 2014 midterms is to win independent voters not aligned with either party: “This could be a Republican year if the
(AP) Lieberman: Obama lacks coherent anti-terror planBy LAURIE KELLMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONFormer Sen. Joe Lieberman told a House panel Wednesday that President Barack Obama has “no coherent” anti-terrorism strategy in embattled countries where al-Qaida is gaining new influence, and that’s endangering the
The Producers Guild of America has admitted they are “shocked” by newly released statistics on women directors. The results show that women represent only 4.4% of the directors of the 100 biggest box office films of each year between 2002
(Bagram, Afghanistan) On a grey-brown December morning, an Afghan Air Force C-208 taxis and holds short of runway two-nine at Kabul International Airport. Its mission isn’t glamorous: a liaison flight from the capital to the NATO Base at Bagram, up
It could be days until residents in Charleston, WV, receive safe tap water after a chemical spill in the Elk River. Jeff McIntyre, president of West Virginia American Water, said that officials had set up four labs to test the amount
