For an increasing number of British school kids English is no longer their first language, with children in 1,700 schools across the country speaking another tongue at home. The UK’s Department for Education figures indicate that English is no longer…
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The crimes of the Obama administration have been well-enumerated; the evidence is available for all Americans to see, assuming they possess the energy and inclination to look. It is likely that many of our lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, are…
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department hired dozens of officers despite the fact that background checks turned up instances of serious misconduct on and off duty. The news surfaced after an investigation of sheriff’s files by the Los Angeles Times….
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NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has joined the US in urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security agreement with Washington by year’s end. Karzai has so far been reluctant to sign the deal, which would grant US troops…
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It’s been a fairly long day and just got to my hotel room near the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky airport. I spoke this evening at Miami (Ohio) University as invited by the Campus Republicans, part of the Young America’s Foundation speaker series….
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A longtime Washington reporter and White House correspondent has accused the current administration of being “the most hostile” to journalists in the history of the United States. Former CNN correspondent Bob Franken was sitting down over the weekend with reporters…
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"We shall come for you…you are polluting our religion." — Note apparently from al-Shabaab, Somalia "It seems great crackdowns on churches and extraordinary waves of arrest of Iranian pastors and Christian converts have not been effective." — Mohabat News, Iran…
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US security officials warn of the threat coming from American citizens fighting alongside anti-Assad jihadist rebels in Syria – and might return to the US radicalized, experienced and ready to attack. The latest estimates by the British defense consultant, IHS…
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Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out “whatever we once were”? Originally, laws that governed personal behavior were under states’ jurisdiction, not federal. People today are aware that some states allow minors to consume alcohol, and others do not; some…
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A Metro-North passenger train has derailed in the Bronx area of New York City, with reports of at least 4 deaths and 48 injured, according to reports from NBC. Rebecca Schwartz, a witness at the scene, told the AP news…
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