News that’s two days old but worth a second mention: District of Columbia Public Schools is instituting a standardized test that will gauge students’ health and sex education aptitude.
The youth-focused anti-abortion rights group Students for Life of America (SFLA) recently announced its upcoming annual national conference with a theme of “Envision,” as in “Envision … a World Without Abortion.”
An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s controversial New York City billboard has been taken down, according to reports from various media outlets. Heroic Media founder Brian Follett is also behind the new Life Always group that put up the billboard targeting African Americans, as the Texas Independent previously reported.
Rep. John Kline, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, is one of five sponsors of a bill that would continue a controversial religious school voucher program in Washington, D.C.. The program, which was launched for a five-year trial in 2003, was found to have failed to improve student More…
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed today that Secure Communities, a program that provides federal immigration officials with fingerprint data from local police, is mandatory for local jurisdictions. “We don’t consider Secure Communities an opt in/opt out program,” Napolitano said, according to an Immigration and Customs More…
Today, the Census Bureau released a trove of data from the 2009 American Community Survey showing, among other things, that income inequality has reached a new peak and a sharp decline in marriages. One other interesting find in the survey is state-by-state poverty levels.
Cause where I live, it’s … terrible!
The American Lung Association just released its 2009 State of the Air report, which assesses the air quality across the country in terms of ozone, short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution. Fargo, N.D. comes out on top — it’s the only More…
Seriously, how can this go wrong? The Ohio Militia, which has maintained a YouTube account since October, is up with a video asking “a million armed militia members” to march on Washington on July 4. (Watch after the jump.)
Following up on my photos earlier, here’s some video from today’s tea party in our nation’s capital. It was a patriotic ceremony all around, and it kicked off with the Pledge of Allegiance (a bunch of videos after the jump):
The Washington, D.C. tea party is underway! Several hundred intrepid protesters turned out in the rain to voice their opposition to taxes, bailouts, the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve and a slew of other political issues. TWI’s Dave Weigel will have full coverage of the event later this afternoon, More…
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