Education experts, counselors and parents often debate the question, "How do we persuade students to start thinking about college?" The answer, according to D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, is simple and innovative: Require all students in District schools to ...
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The Reverend Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state's voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry ...
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It is often said that people truly cannot understand the United States of America until they have thoroughly traveled the nation. I'd like to challenge that reasoning somewhat — expanding it to argue that one really cannot understand our nation ...
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Attorney General is Wrong to Call Voter ID Unconstitutional, Says Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Responding to a tsunami of evidence that opportunities for fraudulent voting have reached crisis levels, National Center ...
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In Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling used his tie-breaking vote in the commonwealth’s Senate for the first time on January 31 to pass legislation prohibiting state funds from being used in “Project Labor Agreements” that favor unionized contractors.  The House ...
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UPDATE: Komen reversed its decision on Friday February 3, 2012.  Read my response to the reversal. Yesterday brought the stunning and delightful news that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s most prominent breast cancer charity, cut off funding ...
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Introduction The American public is witnessing a fascinating, even historic, event: the Obama Administration's attempt to suppress basic expressions of religious faith. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s recent rulemaking mandating that church-sponsored and affiliated enterprises that provide ...
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Fearing a political backlash over his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Barack Obama tried to use his State of the Union address to appease critics of his war on fossil fuels. By stealing conservatives' "all of the above" ...
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Introduction Defenders of Wildlife (DOW) is an American non-profit organization that advocates for wildlife preservation. Defenders of Wildlife staffs over 150 scientists, policy experts and attorneys who work through the media, government, localities and the courts to advance its wildlife ...
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this week proposed further increasing taxes on a range of products to pay for an expansion of government funded health insurance. But, ironically, says the Washington-based National Center for Public Policy Research, the taxes could have ...
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