Sure, not politically correct, but perhaps correct, nonetheless. ======== By Michael J. Petrilli And Aaron Churchill April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a new study being released Tuesday by the Fordham Institute indicates that the students usually benefit. When we looked at the impact of closures on their achievement, we found that, on average,... Read more
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Shutting Bad Schools, Helping Students
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Party Politics, The LeftWhen America Loses a War – WSJ
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftWere you alive? I couldn’t express my feelings at the time, but these were days when I was in turmoil inside. I hope I do not live to see it repeated. ============== By William McGurn April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET 108 COMMENTS Even from a remove of 40 years, those last, tragic images from outside the U.S. embassy in Saigon remain a... Read more
Labor’s Dirty Tricks
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | Labor, Law, Party Politics, The LeftReal fair, yes? ====== April 21, 2015 7:43 p.m. ET Lawyers for the Labor Department on Wednesday will appear in federal court in Florida to answer to Judge M. Casey Rodgers, who sounds increasingly skeptical about the department’s honesty. The case is part of an attempt to regulate to death a legal guest-worker program. It’s called H-2B, and many businesses rely on these visas... Read more
Ambushing Employers’ Speech Rights
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Labor, Law, The LeftThe Left at it . . . ====== By Thomas M. Johnson Jr. April 16, 2015 7:07 p.m. ET A popular narrative since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 posits that corporations have displaced political and religious minorities as the principal beneficiaries of First Amendment rights. There supposedly has been a “corporate takeover” of the First Amendment, as Harvard Law School’s... Read more
Obama’s Mideast Vacuum
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationAnother “total disaster” if you want my opinion. =========== March 26, 2015 7:21 p.m. An abiding goal of President Obama’s foreign policy has been to reduce America’s role in the Middle East, in the belief that it would lead to greater stability and serve U.S. interests. Has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time? Mr. Obama has succeeded... Read more
