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Key Democrats go medieval on teachers’ unions. How can we know when the tide of respectable opinion has decisively turned against the teachers’ unions? When a panel that includes Father Hesburgh, Birch Bayh. Bill Bradley, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Roger Wilkins goes medieval on them, saying their resistance to reforms designed to hold schools accountable [...]

Rex Murphy: We’ve seen him in action for a bit more than six months. What we can say with confidence, now that we have the evidence of his actions, is that had he run on (a) transforming the U.S. economy by massive federal government intervention, (b) taking an owner’s stake in the automobile industry, (c) [...]

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. [P]articularly growth in populations that we don’t want to [...]

Back to civics class indeed: “I don’t think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can sit in his bedroom and be mean. I don’t think that’s what freedom of speech is,” he continued. “Freedom of speech is really about assembly — for us to collectively have an idea. We want to [...]

Are we headed for a depression? The realization that the economy is in far worse shape than previously assumed is finally starting to come to the attention of the US leadership. Vice President Joseph Biden admitted last week that President Barack Obama’s administration had “misread the economy” and didn’t fully understand how deep the crisis [...]

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Steve McIntyre remains on the case. Discussing a new report regarding Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland, McIntyre notes the secrecy and data manipulations: These seemingly high 12th century values do not enter into the sea ice reconstruction of Macias Fauria et al 2009, because it begins in 1200. I’m sure [...]

This is not good: Fortune magazine recently reported that the number of U.S. companies in the world’s top 500 fell to the lowest level ever, while more Chinese firms than ever before made the list. Thirty-seven Chinese companies now rank in the top 500, including nine new entries. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. firms has [...]

Another master of song. And one of the best versions of Annie’s Song.