Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) responded to allegations that he flip-flopped on Common Core, and described the federal government’s handling of Common Core as a “hijacking” of what was supposed to be a “bottom-up approach” on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.”
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” BBC’s Katty Kay said the radicalization of British muslims is a “big problem” adding there could be as many as 3,000 jihadist with British passports currently fighting in Syria and Iraq with ISIS. Kay
Carole Segal, the co-founder of Crate & Barrel, and a co-chairman of the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition Steering Committee, urged President Barack Obama to use an executive order to extend DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] protection to 5 million
On August 26 the California Assembly passed SB199, requiring fake guns to be brightly painted so police know they are not real if a kid or a criminal points one at them. SB199 was born in the wake of the
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) reported that the Obama administration dumped over a thousand illegal immigrants on his state without notifying him. “In my state, the Obama administration sent over a thousand children without telling us, without telling social services, without
HOUSTON, Texas — A member of the “Surenos 13” criminal street gang was recently apprehended by Border Patrol agents in Calexico, California. On August 22 the gang member, 28-year-old Oswaldo Medina-Cisneros, entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico. Border Patrol agents arrested Medina-Cisneros;
In a sign that the terrorist organization Hamas believes its own propaganda about a recent “victory” in Gaza, its Bethlehem wing has announced that it will be holding a car rally after Friday evening prayers on August 29 proceeding through
I recently found myself at an upstate New York dinner table with a bunch of independent voters–a mom, a dad, an aunt, a grandpa, two college students, and two twenty-something cousins. The topic of conversation turned to politics and I
WNCT, the CBS affiliate in Greenville, N.C., reports that healthcare provider Vidant will undergo “big cuts” that they blame on the Affordable Care Act. According to the WNCT, Vidant says the “operational margin [on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements] is less
Vienna, Austria has been named as a hub for jihadists travelling to Syria, second only to London as “jihadists playground”. Der Standard reports that Austria is being used as a hub for the recruitment and organisation of European jihadists, who
When CNN first broadcast the unverified audio of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, it was with all the sturm and drang of breathless breaking news. The audio led almost every hour and was the biggest story of
On CNN’s Wednesday broadcast of “New Day,” host Michaela Pereira interview two so-called experts, former Los Angeles Police Officer David Klinger and former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes, on the potential authenticity audio the cable news outlet had been airing
Freedom of Information requests have revealed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has spent £92,000 on training to help diplomats and staff to use intuitive social media platforms such as Twitter in the course of their work. As a recent
Following accusations that Europe’s new executive commission is “mostly being men from right-wing parties”, the new President of Europe has warned member nations to reconsider their commissioner nominations. Female commissioners would take top priority for the more prestigious jobs such
On Tuesday, Burger King announced that it would spend some $11 billion to buy Tim Hortons Inc., a Canadian breakfast food chain, then merge Burger King into it, thereby turning what was once a major American company into a major
DALLAS, Texas — Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) is grasping at any opportunity to attack Greg Abbott, her GOP gubernatorial opponent, these days. She even used the first day of school at a Houston elementary to do it by staging an
HOUSTON, Texas — State Senator and gubernatorial candidate, Wendy Davis, recently released a new ad attacking her opponent, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott. The ad suggested that Abbott was is more interested in giving kickback payments to his supporters than
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DALLAS, Texas — Every kid imagines a school without test scores, grades, or even deadlines. Now, the Denton Independent School District (ISD) located north of Dallas is bringing that dream to life through a new grading policy that’s guaranteed to
On August 23, an 89-year-old World War II veteran grabbed an armed robber’s gun, then pulled out his own gun and wrestled with the suspect before shooting him six times. The veteran, Arthur M. Lewis, was working at his Lake
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group of them hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, pictures posted on the Internet and on Twitter by supporters
Approximately 2,000 people attended a community prayer service for critically wounded San Bernardino police officer Gabriel Garcia on August 25. Garcia was shot “once in the head and twice in the torso” in “an ambush” on August 22. He is
On Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson discussed his debate with Jesse Jackson that had occurred over on last weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday.” Host Bill O’Reilly suggested Carson had been “generous” in his debate
A lawyer that works in the IRS ethics office faces charges that she lied to a court-appointed board looking into whether she embezzled several thousand dollars of her client’s money in a case she worked as a personal injury attorney
A white, former Marine was badly beaten and possibly left with brain damage by a crowd of racial epithet-yelling African Americans at an all night restaurant near West Point, Mississippi apparently in retaliation for the shooting of Missouri teen Michael
Mark Steyn, columnist and author of “Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight of the West,” blasted President Barack Obama’s foreign policy on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Steyn characterized Obama’s beliefs on the war on terror
