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Why is it that a country that has produced some of the most beloved authors, prolific inventors, and has advanced the fields of science, medicine, and technology, recently found itself at the epicenter of moral and financial decline? Our current president has become the butt of Marxism jokes in the same week that he is appeasing Islam– how sad for America and its people. Yet, I fear it is our people that have become complicit in this deterioration, for more often than naught, we take for granted our freedoms and the responsibilities tied in to those freedoms. One of our...

High school dropouts, who are more likely to commit crimes than their peers with diplomas, cost the state $1.1 billion annually in law enforcement and victim costs while still minors, according to a study being released today. The California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara found that cutting the dropout rate in half would prevent 30,000 juvenile crimes and save $550 million every year. "This study demonstrates the immediate impact dropouts have on both public safety and the economy," said project Director Russell W. Rumberger. "If California could reduce the dropout rate, it could subsequently reduce the juvenile crime...

A BRISBANE woman was jailed for eight months in the United Arab Emirates for claiming she was raped by three men after her drink was spiked in a hotel bar. The woman, identified only as Amanda, said she ordered one drink from the bar in the United Arab Emirates hotel she was staying, but then remembered nothing until waking up the next afternoon. Amanda...was arrested after reporting her rape to police and later sentenced to 11 months' jail for having illicit sexual relations and one month for consumption of alcohol. Amanda said she had extensively researched the customs of the...

( After the Bush hatred and disrespect that became actually "trendy" in all quarters, with the establishment turning the other way...NOW they want to put a gag on this stuff?) Superintendent warns against 'inappropriate comments' Bright sends out e-mail to Mason parents in advance of Inauguration Day. By Eric Schwartzberg and Marie Rossiter Staff writers Thursday, January 15, 2009 Mason school officials said they are taking a proactive educational approach in advance of next week's planned Inauguration Day activities. "Inappropriate comments that may make other students, staff or families feel unwelcome or uncomfortable in school or on the bus will...

DENVER — The president of the University of Colorado has recommended that a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi should be fired, according to the professor and the school. Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied the allegations and threatened a lawsuit if he is dismissed

In state after state, all across the county, we hear the same, tired refrain from apologists for the government-run education bureaucracy: "Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!" Indeed in Nevada, where education already eats up more than half of the state's annual $3 billion budget, the State Board of Education recently asked the Legislature for an extra $1 billion for next year. At about the same time, a liberal Denver consulting firm, with a history of "discovering" that states aren't spending enough on education, has also concluded that Nevada taxpayers need to cough up an additional billion to reach their...

First Muslim Chaplain At Brown University 02-20-2006 7:37 AM (Providence, RI) -- A Muslim chaplain has joined the staff of the Office of Chaplains and Religious Life at Brown University. Rumee Ahmed is one of a handful of Muslim chaplains on university and college campuses across the country. The chaplain of the University, Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, says hiring a Muslim chaplain brings "greater wholeness" to religious life at Brown. Copyright 2006 Metro Networks Communications Inc., A Westwood One Company

Darryl Ankarlo of Ankarlo Mornings Klif 570 in the DFW area of Texas has a spy at Camp Casey. He's pretending to be one of them although he says it is a very hard thing to do.Darryl had him on the radio this morning describing some of the things he's seen and heard while there. You can hear the podcast here. http://www.klif.com/podcast.asp It was the 4th one down on the list the last time I looked. He is talking to "Michael". It's something everyone needs to hear as some at Camp Casey are telling him their real agenda. And, it's...

Debate begins over book assignmentHere we go again For the third straight year, UNC-Chapel Hill's freshman reading assignment is igniting hot debate. But this time, it is happening even before the book is picked. related  How should UNC make its decision on a freshman reading selection? the search for balance This year the reading committee started with 500 suggestions, from the Bible to Nabokov's "Lolita." to "Dude, Where's My Country," by Michael Moore. PREVIOUS PICKS Freshman summer reading list selections at UNC-CH for the past five years: 1999: "There Are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz 2000: "Confederates in the...

According to a recent article in the Washington Times, a high school student in California who recently founded the 50-member "Conservative Club" at his school, is under attack by the school's liberal faculty and administration, as well as student body members. The student, Tim Bueler, "said he had received threats from other students after writing an article for the club newsletter calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration." What was the school administration's response? "His principal and a campus police officer suggested that he stay home from his California high school for a few days." Bueler says his club's staunch...

COMMENTARY from The Commonwealth Foundation (February 21, 2003) Parent Reform: The Next Movement In Public Education?Greg Moo, Ph.D. Lebanon sure isn't Lake Wobegon where, as Garrison Keillor tells it, all the children are above average. Heck, this Lebanon, Pennsylvania school district is apparently so troubled by children, it's decided to evaluate parents. Or at least that could be the way of things come next fall.Seems that at a mid-January meeting, Lebanon's Superintendent of Schools proposed the district evaluate parents based on the level of involvement in their children's education. Seems, too, the district has had a "Parental Relations Policy" since...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Community colleges across California are receiving millions of dollars in extra state funds by boosting enrollment figures with high school students who get college credit for athletic programs, a newspaper reported. The students, sometimes pressured by their coaches, sign up for college physical education classes that are nothing more than regular practices or off-season workouts at high school campuses, according to an investigative series by The Orange County Register that concluded Saturday.