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We’ll start rolling out our Ohio poll results tomorrow but there’s one finding on the poll that pretty much sums it up: by a 50-42 margin voters there say they’d rather have George W. Bush in the White House right now than Barack Obama.
Bad news for Democrats: Ohio voters long for Bush | Washington Examiner.
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President Obama’s administration recently submitted a report to the United Nations on human rights in America. The 29-page report shows the nation badly flawed but fortunate to have a Nobel Prize winner as its leader. The report is billed as “a partial snapshot of the current human rights situation in the United States, including some of the areas where problems persist in our society.”
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The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) over the state’s new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.
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Gen David Petraeus, senior US and Nato commander in the country, warned last week fighting would “get harder before it gets easier”.
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It’s finally here, the race to determine which SEC team will become the fifth consecutive national champion to emerge from the conference.
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At 14, Rubio became the youngest player in Spain’s prestigious ACB League. At 17, he started for Spain against the United States in the Olympic gold medal game. In 2009, he became the first player born in the 1990s selected in the N.B.A. draft.
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The indictment of Roger Clemens last week returned to the foreground a flurry of images that baseball has spent the past half-decade trying to forget:
• Bud Selig sitting next to Stan Musial the night of Mark McGwire’s 62nd home run in 1998, whispering to Musial that the legend was witnessing “a renaissance.”
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When translated into tennis language, it goes something like this: “The greatest trick tennis fans ever pulled was convincing themselves that women’s tennis is as compelling as men’s.”
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-A principal at Karns Elementary School is on shaky constitutional ground after telling a group of young students that they cannot bring their Bibles to school or study them during recess, according to a letter written to Knox County School District officials by an ADF-allied attorney.
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In his most recent State of the Union address, President Obama pointed to four areas of reform: Health care, energy, finance, and… education. As far as education goes, Obama has said that his goal is for 60% of Americans to hold a college degree by 2020. That’s very ambitious, considering the fact that right now the high school graduate rate is hovering around only 70%. Is it even possible to enroll enough students between 2010 and 2020 to reach a nationwide goal of a 60% college-educated citizenry?
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JournoList founder Ezra Klein characterized the members of his listserv as merely “center to left of center.” While plenty of reports have highlighted what working journalists and others said on the listserv itself, further review of the reported membership suggests a farther-left ideology than Klein initially acknowledged.
One member boasts on his website of having been president of the socialist activist organization Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s.
Another called for a “climate Nuremberg” trial for global warming skeptics.
Others promoted the vulgar slang “teabaggers” as a label for Tea Party protesters, railing against “right-wing trolls” and “low-lifes” and comparing conservative leaders to racists and dictators.
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For far too long our colleges and universities have been allowed to ignore their chartered responsibilities to educate rather than indoctrinate. Instead of providing a forum for the free exchange of ideas, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz argues that they intimidate students into ideological submission to leftist professors rather than pursuing meaningful research and that they proselytize for radical causes.
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