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Teachers Union Rides First Class on Philadelphia Schools’ Gravy Train

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
PHILADELPHIA – Every pay period, the Philadelphia school district puts $155 per union member into a special fund that helps educators pay their personal legal bills, which includes everything from routine legal advice to estate planning.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZKyle Olson
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The Designated Leaker

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
Everyone in the Washington-New York Axis of Evil knows that's why there has been a string of White House national security leaks.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZMichael Reagan
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Obama's Frugality, and Other Myths

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
When White House press secretary Jay Carney stood up in front of reporters and said, "Do not buy into the B.S. that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration," I naturally assumed someone would come out with a hook and drag him away before sending him on a long vacation to recover from whatever was addling his mind.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZSteve Chapman
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My Children's Father

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
In January 1995, I made a list of 18 attributes that described the type of man I wanted to marry. The list included "wants children," "high family ties -- loves his mother," "secure in themselves" and "social."2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZJackie Gingrich Cushman
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Economy: Obama Brags About Treading Water

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
After President Barack Obama said, "The private sector is doing fine," he later quickly regrouped. "The economy is not doing fine (emphasis added). That's the reason I had the press conference." But Obama said he was particularly concerned about losses in the public sector.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T12:40:03ZLarry Elder
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Feinstein Takes On Culture of Leaks

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
It was gutsy for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein to come out against Washington's recent rash of dangerous intelligence leaks last week; she made criticism of the leaks bipartisan.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T12:40:03ZDebra J. Saunders
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Debating Keynesian Economics with Robert Reich on CNN

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
So when Robert Reich and I went on Erin Burnett’s CNN show to discuss Obama’s stumbling economic performance, much of our discussion focused on whether to further expand the burden of the public sector. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T12:40:03ZDaniel J. Mitchell
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US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

'Goodfellas' mobster Henry Hill dies

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
The man immortalized by Martin Scorsese's film "Goodfellas" has died.
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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds....
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Falklands mark end of 1982 war

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
The Falkland Islands are marking 30 years since the end of the war with Argentina with a service at Liberation Monument, Port Stanley.
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Serial rapist on the loose in Cleveland

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
Federal investigators say they have joined Cleveland Police in their search for a serial rapist, thought to be linked to four rapes and a homicide dating back to 1996.
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Qatar: Electrical fire started blaze killing 19

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Investigators in Qatar say faulty wiring on a fluorescent light sparked a fire last month that killed 19 people, including 13 children, in the Gulf nation's biggest mall....

Italy's Reform Stall

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
Monti wants growth but can't pass policies to spur it.


Syria's Cease-Fire of the Grave

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
Assad, Russia and Iran are rolling over a timid West.


NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....
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NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....
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Police looking for NY surgeon in woman's death

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police were searching for a trauma surgeon Wednesday as a "person of interest" in a fatal shooting at a Buffalo hospital, and warned the public that the former Army Special Forces weapons expert may be armed and dangerous....
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Calls for Obama to free famous spy

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
Jonathan J. Pollard gave some of the United States' top secrets to Israel more than a quarter century ago.
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Texas jury convicts man in stand-your-ground case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 03:47
HOUSTON (AP) -- A retired Houston-area firefighter was convicted of murder Wednesday for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party, with jurors rejecting his argument that he was within his rights under Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law....
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