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Kennedy highlights Dems’ questionable spending priorities
Mariane Angela writes for the Daily Caller about one Republican senator’s attempt to shine light on his Democratic colleagues’ misguided priorities.
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Defunding USAID to Shut Down Left-Wing Propaganda
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist considers the campaign to defang a controversial government agency. The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International…
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European lawmaker adds to Trump’s Nobel nominations
Adam Shaw writes at FoxNews.com about an interesting Nobel Peace Prize development. President Trump has picked up another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, after a Finnish member of the…
Health Care
Putin a potential casualty (metaphorically) of COVID-19
Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the pandemic could prove dangerous to Russia’s strongman. The path of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia has been similar to that…
Liberty
Technocrats, populists, and the electoral future
Michael Brendan Dougherty writes at National Review Online that anti-populists have yet to develop an effective strategy to regain power. Shouldn’t the anti-populists have started to rally by now? If…
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Guilty Verdict for the “Butcher of Bosnia”
CNN reports that: Radovan Karadzic … was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity during his war crimes trial at a…
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There’s an App for That, cont.
Writing from Serbia, New York Times reporter Matthew Brunwasser, describes the surprizing role that technology is playing in the current European refugee crisis: The tens of thousands of migrants who have…
Education
Are U.S. students good problem solvers?
View in your browser. Welcome Earlier this week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report, "PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students’ Skills in Tackling…
Education
NC vs. the world: Results from TIMSS
View in your browser. Welcome TIMSS are not people, they are tests! Results from the 2011 TIMSS (Trends In International Mathematics and Science Study) have been released. Last year, North…
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Hanson probes the historical record for clues about potential U.S. action against Syria, Iran
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest National Review Online column examines post-World War II history to calculate the likelihood of U.S. military action against either Syria or Iran. Hanson offers 15 points.…
Education
The dumbest generation?
Those who read Mark Bauerlein’s book with that title might appreciate historian Niall Ferguson’s latest Newsweek column, in which he laments the fact that teens tend to read only tweets…
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Peter Schramm Reminds Us of the Meaning of America
Peter Schramm is an interesting fellow. He is the president of the Ashbrook Center in Ohio. He came to America as a child in 1956 with his Hungarian family after…