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A second look at Washington school rankings finds signs of statewide decay
February 11, 2011 – 8:38 am | No Comment

Last April, the Washington State Board of Education published its Public School Accountability Index, a measure of how the state’s 2,000-plus public K-12 schools are educating more than half a million children. Earlier this week, …

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Obama continues misguided drone war in Afghanistan
August 11, 2009 – 11:44 pm | One Comment
Obama continues misguided drone war in Afghanistan

Will Obama avoid Johnson’s mistake in Vietnam, his confusion of the ability to achieve tactical victories through superior force with the more subtle requirements of accomplishing the broader and more subtle objectives on the way to the ultimate goal—American security?

Afghanistan: It’s your ‘dumb war’ now, President Obama
July 23, 2009 – 6:01 am | 2 Comments
Afghanistan: It’s your ‘dumb war’ now, President Obama

 
There was only a twinkle of presidential ambition in the eye of then-Senator Barack Obama when in the fall of 2002 the young Illinois politico stood before a large crowd in Chicago to speak his …

U.S. intelligence now says NoKo launch toward Hawaii is unlikely
June 24, 2009 – 7:28 pm | No Comment
U.S. intelligence now says NoKo launch toward Hawaii is unlikely

Did President Obama and Secretary Gates activate missile defense last week based on faulty intelligence or no intelligence?
So after nearly a full week listening to a tantalizing parade of defense experts discuss the ifs …

Good thing we haven’t scrapped all the missile defense stuff yet
June 19, 2009 – 6:40 pm | No Comment
Good thing we haven’t scrapped all the missile defense stuff yet

Yesterday’s headline in The Daily Telegraph – “North Korea ‘preparing to launch missile towards Hawaii’” – reinvigorated fears many have had about the Obama administration’s rush to abandon the path of progress defense contractors …

Japanese scientists may be able to “sponge” nuclear fuel from seawater
June 16, 2009 – 7:06 am | No Comment
Japanese scientists may be able to “sponge” nuclear fuel from seawater

In one of the stranger stories to come across the newsreader in recent weeks, The Telegraph of London reported Tuesday that government-funded scientists in Japan are working on a proposal to extract uranium from …

Russian defense ministry claims Poland was to blame for WWII, not Germany
June 4, 2009 – 3:34 pm | No Comment
Russian defense ministry claims Poland was to blame for WWII, not Germany

Germany’s surrender on May 8, 1945, eight days after the suicide of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, ended the war in Europe over 64 years ago.  But although the Allies – led by the United …