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The
Daily Signal… A
Way For Lawmakers to Show They Believe Black Lives Matter,
by Stephen Moore
January 15, 2016 -- The great Jack Kemp used to say about politicians
that “voters don’t care what you know until they know that you
care.” Congressional conservatives say they care
about the
poor and minorities, but do they really? We have a test case in front
of us right now over whether congressional leadership will reauthorize
and then hopefully expand the Washington, D.C., school voucher program.
Obama is against the program...
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The
Daily Signal… Martin
Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for
Integration, by Peter C. Myers
January 17, 2016 -- The third Monday of each January, we commemorate
Martin Luther King Jr. by a national holiday. Mindful of his concrete
actions and accomplishments and, still more, of his sublime words, his
high hopes, and his ultimate martyrdom, we have come not only to
admire, but even to revere King. In the pantheon of American heroes,
King, the “Great Integrator,” now stands alongside Abraham Lincoln, the
“Great Emancipator...
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Federal
News Radio… Ghosts
of former bosses, By
Mike Causey
January 15, 2016 - During the 8 years of a two-term presidency, most
career federal workers have the joy/slash heartache of serving under a
number of political bosses. Cabinet heads come and go. And the typical
political appointee, according to some estimates, lasts about 18
months. Some are great, some are awful. Sometimes the relatively
short-time politicos...
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Doctor
Dementia tests your skills... From a CNO reader
Can you meet this challenge? We've seen this with the letters out of
order, but this is the first time we've seen it with numbers.
Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a
strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long
long,
way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you...
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The
Daily Signal… Why
Soldiers Miss War, by
Nolan Peterson
January 06, 2016 -- Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Martin parked the truck
outside the concrete slabs arranged in a defensive perimeter around the
tactical operations center at Forward Operating Base Shank,
Afghanistan. A layer of fine brown dust hung in the air. Out in the
distance, high, snow-capped mountains ringed the combined U.S.-Afghan
base. C-130 transport planes and Apache helicopter gunships roared
overhead at regular intervals...
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The
Daily Signal… What
Rising Murder Rates in US Cities Mean
for 2016, Josh Siegel
January 04, 2016 - The 2015 year in crime was marked by a sharp rise in
murder rates in many U.S. cities, including those touched by
high-profile incidents between police and citizens, such as Baltimore
and Chicago. But the rate of crime overall in America’s largest cities
declined in 2015 (as of Dec. 23) compared to the year before, to a
level half of what it was in 1990. This contrast, while not abnormal,
has criminologists split...
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Federal
News Radio… Feds
underpaid says New York Times (sort
of) … By Mike Causey
January 6, 2016 - Sick of reading front page stories about bloated
federal salaries? Tired of hearing you’ve got it made compared to folks
in the private sector? Relief may be on the way. Maybe. For the last
five or six years, the federal workforce has been the target of various
newspapers. First was a page-one report in a national newspaper that
said federal...
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An
amazing 2 letter English word, From a CNO
reader
A reminder that one word in the English language that can be a noun,
verb, adjective, adverb and preposition. UP Read until the end… this
one is fun. This two-letter word in English has more meanings
than any other two-letter word, and that word is
'UP.' It
is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj],
[n]
or [v]. It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the
sky
or at the top of the list, but when...
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Education Week… Will
States Swap Standards-Based Tests for
SAT, ACT?
By Catherine Gewertz - High school testing is on the brink of a
profound shift, as states increasingly choose college-entrance exams to
measure achievement. The new federal education law invites that change,
but it comes with some big caution signs and unanswered questions. The
questions are hanging over a provision of the Every Student Succeeds
Act that...
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