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Hillary Clinton, former presidential candidate and secretary of state, met with a delegation of 16 children and siblings of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas terrorists. She shared advice to the families in New York on Wednesday, urging them to continue to put pressure on the Israeli government to help get the hostages. The former first lady reportedly took the opportunity to make a slight dig at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that he would not be making the hostages his priority but instead would be focused on "politics and his personal survival." “As long as the hostages are...

In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids would wear so their engagement levels could be measured. If this tells us anything, it is that the obsession with measurement and data in school reform has reached new nutty heights. Here’s the description of the $498,055 grant to Clemson University that was awarded in November (but that just recently became widely known by Susan Ohanian and Diane Ravitch): Purpose: to work...

PHOENIX — The Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday called for opponents of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration, to videotape alleged racial profiling by the sheriff’s office. The civil rights leader said the videos will help the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation of alleged civil rights abuses by Arpaio’s office. “We’re gonna start some freedom rides around this county, to show how people of a certain skin color are treated different than other people,” Sharpton told a crowd of several hundred people at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix. Sharpton...

Surely the Mullahs acknowledge, are fully aware who the true architect of their illegitimate revolution really is, to who they owe tribute to as the father of their criminal rule. It is the egregiously narcissistic presidential failure, Jimmy Carter they desperately want returned as their prodigal son. What better way to pay homage to whom they owe so much, by requesting his involvement as mediator, visionary, man of peace, meddler,interloper, America-Hater, vainglorious, ignominious impersonator of a man.

Of Muddlers and Meddlers, What can be told about rumors that grow, Of truths now sold and bushes that rove, Time is best spent justifying means, For this is the game or so it seems, Of muddlers and meddlers for truths obscured, Oft-times require the lines to be blurred, For shadows of doubt to thrive and exist, Hidden are rules given a tweak or a twist… By majority proxy power resides, Through obfuscation voting decides, Who shall wear the temporary crown, When careful rumors and confusion abound? Oh perpetrators of treachery, tricks and deceit, Your lies add doubt and insult...

Judge Greer has accomplished a coup: He commandeered local cops to repel a state agency (Family and Children Services) and Jeb's state police. And what happens to him for usurping extra-judicial authority? nothing. He's allowed to continue the killing process, with a bizarre zeal to see Terri Schiavo die. Michael will be rid of her, and recipient, likely of book and TV movie deals, from a Hollywood that is pushing assisted suicide as the cause du jour. Greer thumbs nose at Congress; what happens? Nothing. The man shows signs of lunacy - - - is he fiddling with metal balls,...