by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski. Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards. The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.” They ... MORECommon Core: Who's Watching the Kids?
by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski. Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards. The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.” They ... MORESheldon Richman: Trumps Trade Snake Oil
High import taxes won't "make America great" again. Donald Trump may think the media stenographers are out to get him, but
if they were really doing their job, his head would be spinning. He
doesn't know how good he has it. Or maybe he does. One need only think about the questions Trump is not asked to see what I mean. Take Trump's ... MORE
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AP: Federal Court To Hear Challenge To Jury Nullification
Free speech under assault. A federal judge is scheduled to hear evidence in a lawsuit arguing that a Denver judge cannot bar people from telling potential jurors outside a courthouse that they have a right to ignore laws they believe are wrong. Attorney David Lane filed a lawsuit against the city and Denver police, asking a federal judge to ... MORE
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Between Eye Surgeries In Haiti, Rand Paul Talks Politics
by Steve Peoples and Chery Dieu Nalio. Mathieux Saint Fleur has been virtually blind for two decades. In less than 24 hours, he will see again. As the 75-year-old Haitian patient lies on an operating table, a U.S. eye surgeon turned politician reassures him in broken Creole that the surgery is almost over. “People need to be encouraged it’s ... MORE
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Prostitution Stings Now Suspended In Minneapolis Because The Cops Keep Having Sex With Their Arrest Targets
None of the officers will be investigated. The Minneapolis PD has suspended all sting operations against street prostitution after courts dismissed three cases within one month due to undercover officers having sex with female suspects. Police said they are conducting a full review of their undercover investigation policies, but said none of the ... MOREWe Are The Government: The Power Of Jury Nullification
by John W. Whitehead. Saddled with a corporate media that marches in lockstep with the government, elected officials who dance to the tune of their corporate benefactors, and a court system that serves to maintain order rather than mete out justice, Americans often feel as if they have no voice and no recourse when it comes to holding government ... MOREDenver Post Editorial: Jury Nullification Is Not A Crime
City violates First Amendment rights. More force, threats and intimidation from government. It is astonishing that Denver police would arrest someone for handing out political literature outside a courthouse. It's even more astonishing that prosecutors would charge that person with seven felony counts of jury tampering. Yet that is what happened ... MOREUnited States Drops In Overall Freedom Ranking -- Again
by Casey Harper. Freedom in US is headed toward the sunset. A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Last year, the U.S. was ranked 17th, but a steady decline of economic freedom and “rule of law” has dropped the level ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Deceptions Of Hillary Clinton
She might find her candidacy deleted. While the scandal surrounding the emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton during her time as U.S. secretary of state continues to grow, Clinton has resorted to laughing it off. This past weekend she told an audience of Iowa Democrats that she loves her Snapchat account because the messages ... MORE
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Police State Update: 61-Year-Old Man Violently Attacked By Police And Arrested For Singing A 'Beach Boys' Song
by Matt Agorist. A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly VIDEO INCLUDED ... MORERobert P. Murphy: Capitalists Have A Better Plan
Listening to the feedback of profit and loss. To early 20th-century intellectuals, capitalism looked like anarchy.
Why, they wondered, would we trust deliberative, conscious guidance when
building a house but not when building an economy? It was fashionable among these socialist intellectuals to espouse
“planning” as a much more ... MOREPresident Obama’s Department Of Injustice
by Alec Karakatsanis. The policy should be considered a crime. Last month, President Obama
used his clemency power to reduce the sentences of 46 federal prisoners
locked up on drug-related charges. But for the last six years, his
administration has worked repeatedly behind the scenes to ensure that
tens of thousands of poor people — disproportionately ... MORE
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