Tag: Commentary

Only three-quarters of opt-out parents actually opted their child out of standardized testing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

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Many in opt-out movement don’t opt out of standardized tests

Jason Russell · August 12, 2016 7:23 pm

Newt Gingrich suggested that Donald Trump and the news media have created a "baloney machine" that distracts the public from important issues. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Byron York: Gingrich says Trump, media running a ‘baloney machine’

Byron York · August 12, 2016 5:29 pm

No other nation is going to disrupt the world or American economy as China did from 2000 to 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump platform addresses yesterday’s problems

Michael Barone · August 12, 2016 4:52 pm

A knee-jerk reaction to prevent future cases from turning out the same way may not be a good idea. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

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Let’s not add any more mandatory minimums

Ashe Schow · August 12, 2016 3:13 pm

The real Fishtown and the good old days

Timothy P. Carney · August 12, 2016 4:31 am

An FCC proposal to open the set-top box market to third-party developers would be a disaster for consumers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Advertising sucks, but TV would be worse without it

Mike Montgomery · August 12, 2016 4:03 am

USAspending.gov was created by Coburn and then-Sen. Barrack Obama, with broad bi-partisan support, to create greater transparency within the federal government. (Image courtesy of usaspending.gov)

Finding optimism in one small corner of the Internet

adam-kazda · August 12, 2016 4:03 am

"The next year-and-a-half must be founded upon building our capacity to strike, and our capacity to create a state crisis, in early 2018," said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Phuong Le)

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California teachers’ unions ready to create chaos

Jason Russell · August 11, 2016 6:33 pm

Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Hillary Clinton of being a "bigot" who has no intention of helping minority communities. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Rights group calls on presidential candidates to denounce ‘victim-centered investigations’

Ashe Schow · August 11, 2016 6:17 pm

Migrants wait in the registration room at an initial reception center for asylum seekers in Gera, central Germany. A senior German security official told the BBC Thursday that Islamic State "sleeper cells" have infiltrated the country. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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Islamic State does have sleeper cells disguised as refugees

Ashe Schow · August 11, 2016 3:42 pm

As pundits debate Donald Trump's true meaning, they're missing something important about his remark. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

What everyone’s missing about Trump’s Second Amendment comment

Daniel Allott · August 11, 2016 4:05 am

Kitchen knives and even screwdrivers are the tools of freelance jihad in Israel. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

National Security

Freelance jihad

A.J. Caschetta · August 11, 2016 4:03 am