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November 2, 2018
Jonathan Decker

Why Democrats Should Be Terrified of #WalkAway Rally’s Success
Last week, I joined thousands of Americans in attending the #WalkAway march in Washington, D.C. Unless you caught President Trump's tweet in support of the event, you might be unaware of its enormous success due to the virtual news blackout it received from the mainstream media. Fortunately, after attending the rally, it is abundantly clear to me that the drive-by media will be unable to ignore #WalkAway for long -- this movement is definitely "high energy."[...]
November 1, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

Progressives Continue to Push Government Preschool Despite Poor Results
Despite evidence that preschool is at best ineffective and at worst harmful, two more signs have appeared showing that progressives from both parties are not giving up on expanding these worthless, dangerous, and expensive programs. One is an announcement by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that he is going to fund “a network of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities.” Bezos wants his Day 1 Academies Fund to support Montessori-style preschool programs where “the child will be the customer,” and according to Chalkbeat, these schools “will be free for students and inspired by the Montessori approach, in which children direct their own learning in an environment that is prepared for them to explore.”[...]
October 26, 2018
Thomas Valentine

Who Will Win the Midterms? Here’s 4 Possible Outcomes
With less than two weeks before Election Day, races all around the country are tightening. The fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh provided the boost Republicans needed to close the intensity gap. What once seemed like a certainty -- a blue wave -- is now up in the air. There are several possible outcomes and exponential ramifications. What's going to happen in two weeks? Here's my somewhat useful list of possible outcomes and complete guesses at their odds.[...]
October 24, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

Falling ACT Scores Are Latest Evidence of Common Core’s Failure
ACT, the publisher of one of the two most often used college entrance exams in the nation, recently released a major report, "The Condition of College and Career Readiness – National 2018," that is another stunning indictment of the Common Core standards. Proponents of Common Core -- the ones that forced acceptance of the standards in nearly all fifty states via federal economic coercion and bribes -- claimed that college and career readiness would be the key metric improved by Common Core, and yet the ACT scores show readiness declining.[...]
October 19, 2018
Thomas Valentine

Taylor Swift Turns Political — And Loses Her Novelty
I remember the good old days -- and by that, I mean less than 10 years ago -- when Taylor Swift burst onto the scene. She was a breath of fresh air -- a wholesome star with compelling, honest lyrics who took the country and pop scenes by storm at the same time. She avoided going down the rabbit holes of destruction that had taken other stars like Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. It was very hard to dislike Taylor Swift.[...]
October 17, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

Flawed Report Uses Pseudoscience to Promote “Social Emotional Learning”
The latest report of the National Commission on Social Emotional and Academic Learning continues to promote questionable brain science in the service of having government schools, corporations, or their foundations set norms for and assess the values, attitudes, beliefs, and emotions of students from cradle to career. Here are some of the many reasons this report is so debatable:[...]