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Guess Who’s Right About Charter Schools?

Lost earlier this month amid gripping stories of plunging temperatures and plundering wire taps was the news that Boston charter schools received a record number of applications. This welcome development should prompt Governor Charlie Baker, who rightly and robustly supports charter schools, to renew efforts to reconsider expansion of these

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Lies They Told You About Common Core

Amazingly, the Common Core project was sold to state boards and school administrators as "state-led." (See, for example, here.) Even so, it was never designed to be accountable to the states that presumably promoted it despite the well-known fact that the federal government pays for only about 8

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Aborting Jesus

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Earlier this month several women in Argentina, caught up in the festivities of International Women's Day, staged an abortion on the steps of a Catholic cathedral in the region of Tucuman. The woman having the faux-abortion was dressed as the Virgin Mary,

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Help, Government! Stop Me Before I Teach My Children Again

My poor children. We home-school them. Oh, how we trample on their rights. They are obviously ignorant of the world; brainwashed – or using today's buzzword, indoctrinated – to parrot their parents' intolerant belief system. They possess neither the ability to socialize, nor think for themselves.

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Help! The Internet Just Lied To Me

Are you a victim of Fake News? Are you in recovery?

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And If St. Patrick Doesn’t Agree With It, He Has To Go, Too

On Friday, the organizers of the St. Patrick's Day Parade here in Boston announced that an advocacy group for LGBTQ veterans, OutVets, will be marching in the parade to commemorate the Irish saint on Sunday, March 19. For those who have not been following this issue over the

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Is American Liberalism Exhausted?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal carried a superb column by Shelby Steele, author and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. The piece was essentially a summary of his brilliant book, Shame, which is a must-read for conservatives. In Shame, Steele, who is an African-American, explains how

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What’s A Fired Prosecutor To Do?

What should Preet Bharara do next? Life, especially public life, is full of second acts. A previous U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who was unpopular in certain circles for overreaching in white-collar criminal cases against Wall Street, Rudolph Giuliani, turned out to be a pretty