Just like the office created to close Gitmo, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness slowly faded away.  The Council, with a two-year mandate in which only four face-to-face meetings were held, officially ceased to exist yesterday. Unfortunately for Obama, ...
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The USA ranked Number 10 in the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom prepared by the conservative Heritage Foundation and the financially astute Wall Street Journal. Designed for the computer age, the Index features interactive graphs and charts.  Seriously, your kids ...
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There is merely lip service being paid by some politicians about how movies, television and video games might contribute to the culture of violence that has lead to so many shootings these days.  And that’s considered bad enough.  The pushback ...
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Project 21 member Stacy Swimp has a new essay on the teaching and commemoration of black history as it was intended by its creators.  This essay is set to become an upcoming New Visions Commentary that will be distributed to ...
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History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have ...
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It's cold and flu season again, and people desperately want to remain healthy, avoiding bugs that can linger and keep them down for two or three weeks. For example, there are regularly six daily absences in my daughter's class — ...
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A pawn, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is "one that can be used to further the purposes of another." It implies the desires of the used are not being addressed, or are at least secondary to the desires of ...
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The USA ranked Number 10 in the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom prepared by the conservative Heritage Foundation and the financially astute Wall Street Journal. Designed for the computer age, the Index features interactive graphs and charts.  Seriously, your kids ...
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Drudge links today to Al Gore's response to Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who was wondering what all this snow teaches us about global warming. Gore writes, "As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some ...
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Rosa Parks — the woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and thus became a catalyst for powerful social change in America — is being honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s National ...
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