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University of Washington students pushing for the removal of the campus' George Washington statue is one of many instances of college students targeting the United States' founding father, Campus Reform correspondent Justin Brascher said on Tuesday. "This is just another further example of how we as a society cannot seem to separate the good that somebody has done from the evil. This particular petition was brought forth by one of the student unions on campus and has actually been adopted by the school newspaper," Brascher told "Fox & Friends." Brascher said that the school newspaper "is calling for the removal...

"The consensus forming in anticipation of Barack Obama’s ascendancy is that, with apologies to Code Pink, pragmatism is the new black. The president-elect himself has encouraged this vogue, both explicitly in his rhetoric and implicitly in his recent cabinet appointments. It remains to be seen whether a substantive departure from doctrinaire liberalism will follow, but in the meantime we suffer from an annoying side effect: Suddenly every third person is walking around pronouncing himself a pragmatist and sneering smugly at “ideology,” as if the distinction were something more than empty rhetoric...."

A violent criminal who gunned down a Dedham painter after winning a pardon from former Gov. Michael Dukakis is up for parole again, reopening old wounds for the man’s grief-stricken widow. “It still hurts,” said Nadine Efstathiou, whose 29-year-old husband, Kostas, was murdered in 1983 by Thomas Childs. “My kids are upset about it too. They grew up with no father and it was a tough road for me to bring up three kids by myself. Thank God my family was there to help.” Childs, who was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting Efstathiou in a Roslindale Dunkin’ Donuts...