Year: 2014

South Carolina’s Superintendent of Education announced on Monday that the state is pulling out of Common Core standardized testing. This Common Core deal is turning out to be a real dud, isn’t it? Superintendent of Education Mick Zais sent a letter to state Board of Education members informing them of the move — after he […]

Florida resident Toni Phelps will spend a year behind bars for allowing her pets, three dogs and three cats, to starve inside her foreclosed home. While Phelps claimed she left them in her boyfriend’s care, the court determined Phelps was the only person with access to the house and knew the animals were suffering. Authorities […]

Can Michigan judge John McBain get his own show, a la Judge Judy? This guy is awesome! After convicted killer Camia Gamet snickered in court, McBain tore into her, saying “I hope you die” and threatening to duct-tape her mouth shut. It was more than deserved, inasmuch as the killer interrupted emotional testimony from the […]

Again, when it comes to the Clinton I have yp question if this was a staged question. The so-called coming out of this woman in the audience as a undocumented immigrant or what I like to call illegal alien, didn’t come across as genuine. I’m pretty sure she was a plant. Observer reports Hillary Clinton […]

Wait? You mean they’re not union already? Incredible: On April 10th, the SEIU filed an election with the Baltimore region of the National Labor Relations Board to have an election for 50 employees working for the George Soros-funded media “monitor.” According to the National Labor Relations Board’s: website, Media Matters has hired the high-priced, management-side law […]

Behold, government: The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind. Fox News toured the damage – allegedly caused by the Bureau of Land Management – which included holes in water tanks and destroyed water lines and […]

Not to sound old, but when I was a kid, my dad had one rule for dealing with bullies. : If someone hits you, hit them back twice as hard. : That rule didn’t make this list: Click to enlarge. From The Blaze: Post by Lincoln Public Schools. As noted in the embedded Facebook post above, the […]

In my life, I have driven 3 women to women’s shelters or to be picked up by a women’s shelter worker. The stories are sad but I’m always relieved when they finally make the decision to leave a violent partner. On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or partners in this […]

It looks like the First Amendment is not available to teenagers in the Public School System. A teacher at Potosi High School in Missouri screamed at a female student for carrying a Bible in the hallway. The student is planning a Bible protest today at the school. KMOV reported: The mother of a Potosi High […]

I am often amazed that Joe Biden became the Vice President of the United States. You have to hear the empty rhetoric he spews to the survivors of the Boston bombing for yourself.   Jumping Joe Biden was in Boston today on the anniversary of the Marathon bombings. Biden told the survivors of last year’s […]

The Common Core standards were written in 2009 under the aegis of several D.C.-based organizations with few educators present, marked by the absence of public participation, transparency, or educator participation. For some strange reason this untested mysterious system was adopted by most stated soon after. This school year is the year that legislators and parents […]