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Instead of De-Funding The Police … Why Don’t We Fund Parents?

So now, "defund the police" is trending. Take money from the cops and give it to … Watch the scramble for the dough, as progressive leaders blather on about their need for funds.

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Fact Checking Father Daniel Moloney’s Email Message To M.I.T. Catholics

[Editor's Note: Below is the body of the email message of Sunday, June 7, 2020 that got Father Daniel Moloney fired as Catholic chaplain of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, interrupted by analysis. Father Moloney's text is in this font. The analysis is in this font.

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Here’s What the M.I.T. Catholic Chaplain Got Fired Over

[Editor's Note: Below is the text of an email message that Father Daniel Moloney, the Catholic chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sent to Catholics at the university (a group known as the Tech Catholic Community, or TCC) on Sunday, June 7, 2020. Two days later, the

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Saint Jerome Elementary Schoool’s Closure Draws Opposition From Former Principal

Although Saint Jerome School in Weymouth is scheduled to close for good at the end of this school year, some still hope that the Archdiocese of Boston reverses that decision — including the school's former principal. Kathy Puleo, who worked at the elementary school for 41 years and served

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The Latest Strategy To Deceive Parents

Supporters who want to keep Common Core's failed standards in place have come up with a new twist for deceiving unhappy parents. First, they point explicitly to Common Core as a failed strategy to increase the academic achievement of low achievers in order to alert parents to what

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An Open Letter To The Harvard Professor Trying To ‘Presumptively Ban’ Homeschooling

[Editor's Note: Elizabeth Bartholet is a professor at Harvard Law School organizing a summit in June 2020 dedicated to discussing problems in homeschooling and ways to restrict it legally. She has called for homeschooling to be "presumptively banned," arguing that many homeschoolers are "religious ideologues&

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Want More Doctors? Shorten Process To Become One, Some Experts Say

Becoming a medical doctor is a long process anywhere — especially in the United States. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, business in the United States is being restricted to flatten the curve of the virus spreading. This is being done so that the health care system is not overburdened.

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Young People Far Less Patriotic Than They Used To Be, Poll Finds

Young Americans are dramatically less patriotic than they were 18 years ago in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attack, a newly released poll found. Some 63 percent of people ages 18 to 29 surveyed in the poll identified as "very patriotic" or "somewhat patriotic"