Test-taking frauds. Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Dishonest Educators
Test-taking frauds. Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the ... MOREObama The Unanimous Choice In 59 Philadelphia Districts
Officially wins the vote 19,605 to 0. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney got no votes in 59
voting districts in the city of Philadelphia last week on Election Day. None. And the unofficial vote tallies have President Barack Obama beating
the former Massachusetts governor by a combined vote of 19,605 to 0, The
Philadelphia Inquirer reports. ... MORERobert Moffit & Alyene Senger: MediCare's 'Efficiency'
Private insurance has lower administrative costs. Everybody “knows” that government agencies are more efficient than private health insurance at delivering medical benefits and services. After all, Medicare’s administrative costs, at roughly 2 percent of the cost of benefits, are lower than those of private insurance. In the first presidential ... MOREJohn Fund: When Political Speech Comes Under Fire
What if the truth is politically incorrect? This month an unnamed private family foundation, apparently concerned with the integrity of elections, paid for 145 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin. The boards featured a picture of a judge’s gavel and a simple message: “Voter Fraud Is a Felony — up to 3½ years and a $10,000 fine.” That’s it. ... MORE
Baylen Linnekin: Is Organic Food A Waste Of Money?
New study challenges conventional wisdom. Everyone knows by now that organic foods are aren’t objectively superior to their conventional counterparts. Right? Exactly. Many of us have been told for years that organic food was healthier (for people, streams, bees, cows, Gaia, etc.) than conventional alternatives. But others have disagreed. ... MOREBarry Farber: The 'Polls' That Tell The Real Story
Why Obama loses handily. A few weeks ago, I predicted an Obama defeat by a wide margin. Many of you responded with typical scorn and rage. Not all of you. Some of you reacted with pity – and one or two of you, devoid of political passion, even offered to give me the medication such a dire condition obviously required. Now that my out-on-a-limb lunge ... MORE
Jon N. Hall: What 'Every Economist' Says
Except for the ones that disagree. The expression "every economist" is one of the most widely abused in politics. In various formulations, one hears a lot of this rhetoric. You see, there's no disagreement among economists. Keynesians, Austrians, Marxists, classical economists, Rastafarians, you name it...they all say the same thing. Here are ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Real 'War On Women'
Slight of hand under the guise of fairness. Among the people who are disappointed with President Obama, none has more reason to be disappointed than those who thought he was going to be "a uniter, rather than a divider" and that he would "bring us all together." It was a noble hope, but one with no factual foundation. Barack Obama had been a ... MORER B Parrish: Supremes Uphold Your Right To Be Framed
"A prosecutor ... may receive absolute immunity from suit for acts violating the Constitution in order to advance important societal values." -Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, 2009 After the Civil War, Congress passed several civil rights laws, including one allowing anyone whose said rights had been violated to sue those ... MOREPeter Ferrara: Stealing Our Elections
Why AG Holder and ACORN Obama hate Voter ID. Columnist David Limbaugh, brother of Rush, asks in a recent column, "Can anyone think of an innocuous reason that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder oppose state voter ID laws?" The correct answer is definitely "No!" But even Limbaugh dances around the full answer to the ... MORENational Review: Free John Edwards
The questionable prosecution of John Edwards. John Edwards, the Dorian Gray of the Democratic party, is one of the most loathsome characters in American politics, corrupt himself and a source of corruption in others, a preening, moralizing fraud who went so far as to have a staffer claim paternity of the illegitimate child he fathered with a campaign contractor. ... MOREJeffrey Folks: Is EPA Just Sloppy Or Cooking The Books?
Perverting science to attain a "higher" political end. After issuing a hastily compiled report last year claiming a direct link between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing at Pavillion, Wyoming, the EPA now admits that it may be wrong. Or, it may be, it was intentionally cooking the books. The only question now is whether the findings ... MOREVIDEO: Top Cop Chooses Not To See Voter Fraud
Even after stranger given Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot.
John Fund: Why We Need Voter-ID Laws Now
The attorney general can't look away anymore. Attorney General Eric Holder is a staunch opponent of laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls to improve ballot security. He calls them “unnecessary” and has blocked their implementation in Texas and South Carolina, citing the fear they would discriminate against minorities. I wonder what ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Big Hoax
What political spin and pious euphemisms don't tell us. There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called it Social Security. In our own times, Bernie Madoff's hoax has made ... MOREHerbert London: The Fraud In Our Entitlement System
Government "soft" money has plenty of takers. Though some might still deny it, there is growing bipartisan belief that our nation's level of indebtedness is unsustainable. How we reduce the debt burden is another matter; this is where political knives are sharpened. Yet there is one uncontroversial issue that could result in dramatic savings and ... MORE
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