By Stanley Kurtz
When Common Core supporter Jeb Bush and Common Core opponent Marco Rubio faced off during last month’s Republican presidential debate, they barely seemed to disagree. After moderator Bret Baier posed a question on the clash between Common Core advocates, on the one hand, and opponents of federal involvement in education, on the other, Bush denied the contrast: “I don’t believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards, directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum content.… Continue Reading
Tags: Arne Duncan, Bret Baier, Common Core, Daniel Pfeiffer, Emmett McGroarty, George Will, Jeb Bush, Joel Klein, Lyndsey Layton, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Race to the Top
Education, Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | 
September 2, 2015 4:00 AM | 
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Written by Jeffrey Lord
In every town large enough to house a college there is a faculty lounge at the back of which sits the local George Will, nursing his ever-present pipe and innumerable elitist delusions.
Because the actual George Will is a syndicated columnist, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly sniffy public preacher. It is his right to use his considerable intelligence as he pleases. His supercilious performance and its haughty disdain of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.
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Tags: Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, George Will, Gerald Ford, Howard Baker, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, William F. Buckley
Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | August 17, 2015 6:37 AM | Comments Off on George Will and the GOP Divide
Written by Pastor John Kirkwood
While Sandra Fluke and the “Abortion Barbie” – Wendy Davis were soundly defeated on Tuesday night and all over the country thrilling Pro-Life victories were taking place, Mammon and Moloch stole the show in Illinois. With Bruce Rauner’s victory in the gubernatorial election, there’s a new sheriff in town and he’s not partial to the unborn or to Biblical marriage.
Illinois was the cesspool that polluted the nation with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod, all graduates of the Paul Alinsky School of Soft Insurrection.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bruce Rauner, Charles Krauthammer, David Axelrod, Democrat Party, Doug Truax, George Will, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Illinois GOP, Jeanne Ives, Jim Oberweis, Judy Baar Topinka, Mark Kirk, Paul Alinsky, Republican Party, Sandra Fluke, Tom Cross, Tom Morrison, Valerie Jarrett, Wendy Davis, William Kristol
Illinois Politics, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | November 6, 2014 5:54 AM | Comments Off on Illinois’ GOP(P): Pro-Abort, Pro-Gay Marriage
