Crowdsourcing works. For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to carefully fact-check and edit every encyclopedia ... MORE
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John Stossel - No Gatekeepers
Crowdsourcing works. For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to carefully fact-check and edit every encyclopedia ... MOREIs Ted Cruz A Loose Cannon Or Libertarian Reformer?
by Glenn Garvin. As they used to say in the old westerns, it was quiet out there-too quiet. So no one was really surprised when Ted Cruz announced to The Washington Post the weekend before the November election that his brief flirtation with civilized behavior was nearing its end. For months, the Texas senator had abandoned his guy ... MOREFemale Marines Now 0-26 On Officer Infantry Course
by Douglas Ernst. Obviously, a sexist test.The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26. One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June. ... MORERobert D'Onofrio: Protecting Individual Liberty From Evil
Evil persists when good men do nothing. Aside from the stunning brutality of the tragedy in France, the most
striking thing about the cowardly murders is how unambiguous the enemy
is in both intent and action. It’s uncensored, chilling and very real. This isn’t just a U.S. problem or a gun problem. It’s
also not a group problem, ... MORE
The Average College Freshman Reads At 7th Grade Level
by Maggie Lit. Dumb down accomplished. The average U.S. college freshman reads at a seventh grade level, according to an educational assessment report. “We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance ... MOREDemocrats Turn On The REAL Enemy: Each Other
by J.D. Tuccille. Even before the Democratic
Party's...drubbing
(that seems to be the favored term this time around) in yesterday's
elections, the White House was already blaming its supposed allies
for the defeats that were (correctly) anticipated once voters
trooped to the polls. "Ultimately, you know, it's the quality of these candidates ... MOREIncumbents Should Be Tossed To The Curb, But Won't Be
by David Harsanyi. 90% will be re-elected. Even in the most catastrophic year for congressional incumbents, 90 percent of them will win re-election—and most of them will do so rather easily. Many of them, in fact, won't even have to run a campaign. This fact might be somewhat obscured lately, what with all the talk of the impending ... MORECalifornia Identifies Unconstitutionality Of Teacher Tenure
by Howard Blume, Stephen Ceasar. Unions squeal like stuck hogs. The ruling Tuesday by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge that struck down job protections for teachers in California as unconstitutional will undoubtedly spawn a series of appeals that could last years before a final outcome is reached. But some contend that is too long of a ... MORENick Gillespie: 10 Really Successful Potheads
Marijuana users are lazy, unmotivated slackers? A few weeks ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said that there is no "responsible way to recreationally use marijuana." Rubio's statement isn't wrong because it's unpopular. Plenty of people on every part of the political spectrum believe what he believes. It's wrong because it is flatly ... MORE
Edward Morrissey: Americans Are Giving Up on Obama
Relentless incompetence too glaring to ignore. Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Finding The Truth At Benghazi
Only the deception is transparent. When the White House, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the fearless private watchdog group Judicial Watch, turned over an email about constructing the appropriate narrative response to the tragedy at Benghazi written by Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security ... MOREGallup Poll Predicts Democrat Midterm Wipeout
by Chriss Street. The prospects of hope and change. According to the Washington Post, President Obama has been hammering at Democratic fundraisers for the past few months that his party always gets “clobbered in midterm elections.” Although the midterm elections are usually regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's ... MOREThousands Stuck In Obamacare Appeals Limbo
by Peter Suderman. System not yet built. You may have heard that HealthCare.gov, which powers the federally run health insurance exchange for 36 states, is, after its disastrous rollout last year, all fixed up and working basically fine. Obamacare is on track. But that’s not true, it seems, for anyone who wants to file an appeal regarding ... MOREOh-Oh, Even California's Turning On Obama
by Andrew Malcolm. As everyone knows, California is the la-de-dah, laid-back land of liberalism that's been Barack Obama's political ATM for six years. Hollywood stars have loved him, fronted multi-multi-million-dollar fundraisers for him. The most populous state (home to 12 of every 100 Americans) has a Democrat governor again, two female ... MOREWalter E Williams: Blacks And Obama
The shadow cast by the president's failure. In a March 2008 column, I criticized pundits' concerns about whether America was ready for Barack Obama, suggesting that the more important issue was whether black people could afford Obama. I proposed that we look at it in the context of a historical tidbit. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, after ... MOREEducation Spending Soars As Test Scores Stagnate
by Deroy Murdock. “If you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs in the 21st century,” Obama declared
July 24 at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. “If we don’t make this
investment, we’ll put our kids, our workers, and our country at a
competitive disadvantage for decades.” Obama’s latest demand ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: In Defense Of Alex Rodriguez
At least, spare us the outrage. Alex Rodriguez’s career—and Hall of Fame hopes—died for somebody’s sins, but not his. No, the Yankee slugger is simply the latest fall guy for our society’s infantile belief in sports as an imaginary zone somehow separate and apart from the real world, a sort of grown-ups’ version of Chuck E. Cheese’s ... MOREIs Obama A Victim Of Self-Esteem Education?
by Jonathon Moseley. I never understood Barack Obama -- or even some of my friends -- until I read The Amateur by Edward Klein (Regnery Publishing 2012 -- paperback June 13, 2013). But first you also need to remember the plague of "self-esteem" based education. And finally it all makes sense. The self-esteem movement hurt our public ... MORE
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