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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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Russia: Medvedev and Putin propose formal erosion of checks and balances
May 14, 2009 – 7:39 am | No Comment
Russia: Medvedev and Putin propose formal erosion of checks and balances

When the laws don’t favor you, change the laws. At least that’s apparently the way Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is approaching a possible bid to regain the presidency that had transferred to Dmitry …

London mayor Johnson lashes at Savage decision
May 11, 2009 – 9:14 am | 2 Comments
London mayor Johnson lashes at Savage decision

 Boris Johnson – London’s mayor, popular Conservative Party political star, and potential inheritor to the heritage of the conservative mantle worn by Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher – weighed in Monday on the controversy around …

UK ‘goes Napolitano’ on US radio host Michael Savage
May 5, 2009 – 5:01 pm | 2 Comments
UK ‘goes Napolitano’ on US radio host Michael Savage

There’s something the Brits may not be revealing about why Michael Savage won’t be summering in Derbyshire.

I’ll give you a hint: you’re getting warmer.

Italian PM backs bevy of babes for European Parliament
April 22, 2009 – 9:50 am | One Comment
Italian PM backs bevy of babes for European Parliament

Amid our hand-wringing and hair-pulling over President Obama, his Keystone Cabinet, and the entropic ballet in the Democrat-controlled Congress, we should remember that things could be worse. 
The London Telegraph reported Wednesday that Italian prime minister …

U.S. military begins tests of baguette-size missile
April 21, 2009 – 7:55 am | No Comment
U.S. military begins tests of baguette-size missile

UPI reported Monday that tests are moving forward at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California on a 5-pound guided missile that is roughly the size of a loaf of bread.
The missile …

Delegates of Western nations walk out of Ahmadinejad speech to UN conference
April 20, 2009 – 8:32 am | No Comment
Delegates of Western nations walk out of Ahmadinejad speech to UN conference

As reported Monday in the online edition of the London Times, twenty delegates to the United Nations walked out of a major conference held in Geneva, Switzerland when Iranian President Ahmadinejad told those in …