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Front-page headline in my New York Post this morning: 2 + 2 = 5 NY passes students who get wrong answers on tests The accompanying story describes a further dumbing-down of state math tests for kids in grades 3 to 8. Half marks are given for fragments of work; also for wrong answers arrived at via correct methods: “A kid who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half-credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12 . . . ” For us New York parents the only surprise here is that any...

I decided recently to stop or cut way back on my posting because of a peculiar combination of feelings of unease and incredible anger about the steps being taken by the thugs now running our government. This morning I saw an article that brought me back to 1988, when I first heard Rush Limbaugh, and realized that here was someone who articulated perfectly what I thought and felt about my beloved America. Robert Weissberg has emulated Rush in this article below: A Stranger in Our Midst April 29, 2010 American Thinker (Excerpt) By Robert Weissberg "As the Obama administration enters...