So often do avid boosters such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core State Standards.
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Suburban Voters Support Market-Friendly Education
The Douglas County election results can and should sow similar efforts around the country to reclaim local institutions to protect freedom and demonstrate effective self-government.
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Ferrara at TAS: How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now
[First posted at The American Spectator.] Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine is going[...]
Karnick at TAC: Confiscatory Democracy Confirmed Again in Court’s Obamacare Decision
[First posted at The American Culture.] Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic cultural division in the contemporary United States. One might well call it[...]
Jonathan Turley on Roberts’ Obamacare Decision: No ‘Limiting Principle’
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley noted today that Chief Justice John Roberts’ tax idea in the Obamacare decision contains no “limiting principle.” He gave as an example that the Supreme Court now[...]
FIRE · Health Care · Legal Affairs
Heartland’s Sam Karnick on the Clarifying Moment of SCOTUS Obamacare Decision
Heartland’s Director of Research Sam Karnick, the proprietor of the excellent The American Culture blog, expands there on the public comment he offered on our behalf. Sam offered today at[...]
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