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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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EXAMINER.COM: Recent extremist shootings raise questions about responsible speech
June 2, 2009 – 1:11 am | No Comment
EXAMINER.COM: Recent extremist shootings raise questions about responsible speech

At Examiner.com Tuesday, I wrote a very challenging article dealing with the contribution that extreme groups may have played in the shootings in Wichita and Little Rock on Sunday and Monday that claimes two lives.  …

One soldier dead, one wounded after shooting at Little Rock military recruiting center
June 1, 2009 – 12:43 pm | One Comment
One soldier dead, one wounded after shooting at Little Rock military recruiting center

The details are still filtering in, but what is known is that shots were fired from a passing SUV on a military recruitment office in Little Rock, Arkansas Monday fatally wounding a soldier and …

WaPo: Obama admin wants federal power to seize large national firms by year’s end
May 27, 2009 – 8:24 pm | No Comment
WaPo: Obama admin wants federal power to seize large national firms by year’s end

Under a lede that could not have been more in aid of President Obama’s program of de-capitalization, The Washington Post broke the news Wednesday night that plans are afoot to create a new monolithic …

Bar the door, the permanent campaign is coming to your neighborhood… again
May 22, 2009 – 6:11 pm | No Comment
Bar the door, the permanent campaign is coming to your neighborhood… again

 
Some of you will recall May 11th, the kick-off of President Obama’s “listening tour,” which was not so much of a tour and claimed to listen on the technical grounds that participants were asked to …

Obama’s corporate raiders lower the gangway at GM
May 21, 2009 – 7:21 pm | One Comment
Obama’s corporate raiders lower the gangway at GM

It was a strategy that worked well for both corporate raiders and organized crime.

Target a company in a state of financial distress.
Inject the capital needed for the company’s temporary survival. In the case of …

President Obama: White House is “my house”
May 21, 2009 – 1:11 pm | 6 Comments
President Obama: White House is “my house”

Amid a host of interesting tidbits, President Obama revealed to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham in an interview aboard Air Force One last week a little gem of authentic narcissism buried right toward the end of …