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Hiding Your Report Card is So Old School
If you goof up at school, don't count on being able to hide your report card. Now teachers are emailing grades and updates straight to a parent's inbox. Writing in the Washington Examiner , Meghan Cox Gurdon looks at the newest school trend: online grading: When I was growing up in rural …Help! A Friend Overheard Me Dissing His Parenting
David Eddie hears from a reader who was ripping a co-worker's parenting skills and fears they may have overheard her. Writing in the Globe and Mail , David Eddie hears from a reader who was ripping a co-worker's parenting skills and fears they may have overheard her. The reader writes: One …How Qaddafi Punked Italy
How Qaddafi Punked Italy Maurizio Molinari writes at ForeignPolicy.com: In each of my three conversations with Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi throughout the 1990s, one theme prevailed: the Libyan leader's contempt for my country. Listening to his verbose condemnation of Italian colonialism …
Palin Backs Westboro Ruling
Palin Backs Westboro Ruling Huffington Post reports: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin clarified a response she offered to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold an appeals court ruling that protesting outside military funerals is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. …
Beck: Hillary's Comments on Al Jazeera 'Insanity'
Beck: Hillary's Remarks on Al Jazeera 'Insanity' Huffington Post reports: On his Friday radio show, Glenn Beck called Hillary Clinton's comments about Al Jazeera and U.S. media "insanity," and said she was "promoting" a channel he called "the propaganda arm of the Middle East and …
Boehner Moves to Defend DOMA
Boehner Moves to Defend DOMA The Hill reports: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a step Friday toward formally defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. Boehner took the action a week after President Obama instructed the Department of Justice to cease its …
Loughner Indicted on 49 Counts
Loughner Indicted on 49 Counts Washington Post reports: A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted accused Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner on 49 counts in the January rampage that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others and left six dead, including a chief federal …
Poll: GOP Voters Back Social 'Truce'
Poll: GOP Voters Back Social 'Truce' Wall Street Journal reports: The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll appears to vindicate Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's repeated insistence that the country needs a “truce” on fights over social issues while it grapples with its mounting …
For the Young: It's Still a Jobless Recovery
With the release of new economic data Friday, there's hope the jobless rate is finally falling. But for recent grads: there's been little progress. Today’s big news is that the unemployment rate is trending in a positive direction with the average rate having fallen below 9%. For recent …GOP Budget Cuts Won't Kill This Recovery
Today’s positive jobs report is good news for Obama, but the numbers also debunk his claim that cutting government jobs could harm the recovery. Today’s positive jobs report -- an 8.9 percent unemployment rate (lowest in 18 months) -- is good news for President Obama however one happens to look …The Wrong CEO for Medicare
Obama's nominee to head Medicare, Dr. Donald Berwick, is a respected academic physician. But can he turn around an agency with a $500 billion budget? This week, forty-two Senate Republicans signed a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to head …Obama Hits Up Big Dem Donors
Obama Hits Up Big Dem Donors Politico reports: President Barack Obama’s 2012 fundraising team has begun nailing down major cash commitments from top donors during a coast-to-coast “listening” tour — the surest sign to date that the vaunted Obama money machine is back in business. …
Boehner: I Can Sell Voters on Benefit Cuts
Boehner: I Can Sell Entitlement Cuts to Voters Wall Street Journal reports: House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade …
Police Fire on Protesters in Tripoli
Tripoli Rocked by Protests BBC reports: Libyan security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters after Friday prayers in Col Gaddafi's stronghold of Tripoli. A BBC reporter in the flashpoint eastern suburb of Tajoura said demonstrators had burnt the official …
Employers Wonder: "Is Something Wrong With You?"
Being one of the longer-term unemployed is especially dangerous: the longer one is without a job, the harder it is to get one. With the release of new employment numbers on Friday March 4th, we at Frum Forum decided that it was time to listen to the voices of the young as they face the …
To Save a Generation
Today's job report brings good-ish news, but it will still be months before we hit full employment. For young people that could mean a lost half-decade of life. Bruce Bartlett's excellent column today offers another glimpse of the economic path not taken by the GOP: instead of pressing for …Can Rahm Tame Chicago's Unions?
As he enters office, new Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel faces a $1 billion budget deficit, a gap he won't be able to cover without public union concessions. Rahm Emanuel's victory in Chicago's mayoral election marked a number of firsts. He is Chicago's first Jewish mayor, some would argue the first …Jobless Rate Drops to 8.9%
Jobless Rate Drops to 8.9% CNN reports: The U.S. jobs market rebounded in February, and unemployment fell below 9% for the first time in nearly two years, the latest signs of an improving economy. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 192,000 last month as private-sector employers added …