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Armed with George Polya's 1945 classic "How to Solve It--A New Aspect of Mathematical Method", it should be possible to prove that the elite educationists who foisted the nuclear hot-potato of Common Core Math into the laps of the American public did it with full, willful malice, and ram it back up their ying-yang. You know its true, you knew it before the kids were at home all day on Chromebooks and you could hear the teacher, even good ones, insisting that if students had thrown off the Common-Core Math stupidity and solved their problems the straightforward way, they were...

'Unfortunately, partisan politics has immobilized Washington," Mayor Bloomberg told Time magazine in 2007. Bloomberg, according to Michael Grunwald's cover story, was half of a dynamic duo revolutionizing American politics. The other partner: California's then still-shiny governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Together, they were "The New Action Heroes" who, Grunwald said, were "doing big things that Washington has failed to do." Today, the Big Apple remains immobilized not from partisan politics but by Bloomberg's arrogance. Hizzoner was more concerned with getting salt off New Yorkers' plates than he was with getting it on the snow crippling their streets. "The Governator," meanwhile, leaves California...

Researchers found that people were able to think more laterally and quickly after a snooze and that if they dreamed the ability was even more enhanced. The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM). They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects. REM sleep they concluded was "important for assimilating new information into past experience" to come up with solutions to creative problems. The...

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging, violent river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed: "God, please give me the strength to cross the river." Poof! ... God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about 2 hours, having almost drowned twice. After witnessing that, the second man prayed: "God, please give me strength and the tools to cross the river" Poof! ... God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row...

President Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Kentucky The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Louisville, Kentucky In Focus: Social Security 12:07 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. It's great to be back in Louisville, thank you all. (Applause.) Thanks for being here today. I think you're going to find this to be an interesting dialogue about an important subject. But before we get to Social Security, I've got some other things I want to say. First, I'm really proud of the job Anne Northup is doing as the Congresswoman from this state. (Applause.) She is smart, she is capable,...

Investor's Business Daily A True Master Of Invention Tuesday September 21, 7:00 pm ET Brian Deagon Ray Kurzweil believes that to be successful, he has to look far into the future. And the only way to do that well is to try to understand the past. "At the age of 5, I decided I would be an inventor and by age 12 I was heavily involved with computers," Kurzweil recalled recently. "I quickly realized that timing was the most important thing to invention. Most inventions fail because the timing is wrong." In order to get the timing right, Kurzweil became...