The only reason that 30th percentile students go to high school is because we feel bad flunking them out.
There is absolutely no societal advantage in teaching a 10th grader who reads at a 5th grade level how to read at a 6th grade level.
Bat Masterson 1853 - U.S. Army scout, lawman, gambler, journalist
1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
Denouncing mass migration as “an existential threat to Western civilization,” the State Department on Friday said it will be blowing the whistle on nations that make catering to migrants more important than the welfare of their own citizens.
The State Department will look into diversity, equity, and inclusion policies of other nations as possible human rights violations, according to the BBC. Nations that fund abortions or assist in mass migration could find themselves labeled as violators of human rights.
Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?
The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?
Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.
Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.
Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.
Over a decade ago, some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared that they were immune from the full enforcement of federal law.
They further boasted that they would not hand over illegal aliens, detained by state or local authorities, to federal agents...
The Christmas season officially opened in Chicago on Friday night with gunfire and death.
One person was killed and eight others were wounded in two shootings that followed the official lighting of the city’s Christmas tree, according to WMAQ-TV.
Seven teenagers were shot in a 9:50 p.m. incident. Police said they saw a group of teens walking, heard gunshots, and then saw people running away.
Mady also extolled sharia law in his comments, advocating that the “tips of the hands of a thief’s hands” be cut off to reduce crime.
He then stressed that he was only talking about mutilating the wealthy:“I’m talking about the elite, the filthy rich, the ones that continue to steal from people as we speak today. Those are the ones that deserve their tips to be cut off.”...
On June 2, 2025, representatives from Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS), the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group signed on to a letter sent to President Donald Trump.
The letter accurately stated that "mandatory COVID shots from 2021 to 2023, as well as the earlier anthrax vaccinations from 1997 to 2003, were formally declared by federal officials to be 'unlawful as implemented' and 'illegal,' respectively."
With recent attention focused on the budget drama in Chicago, you’re forgiven if you missed what could end up being a yet-bigger story with perilous long-term consequences for this city.
The city floated $454 million in bonds on Nov. 19, and $75 million of those went unsold.
More precisely, Goldman Sachs, which underwrote the deal, was left holding the $75 million after the bank couldn’t find buyers for that amount, according to Bloomberg News.
And, making matters worse, the bonds that were sold moved only after Goldman boosted interest rates beyond what the city forecast in order to entice the buyers... Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration surely isn’t helping to reassure investors by proposing the City Council approve a record-setting $3.8 billion bond authorization...
Capturing him alive for intelligence and legal purposes - the mission ordered by U.S. military leaders - meant the navy seal team had to use the utmost restraint as he tortured one of their team members...
However, instead of praise, the warriors were chastised by the Obama administration who charged them, then threatened to have them prosecuted in Iraqi courts where execution would be the outcome... Despite this, three SEALs – Petty Officer Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, and Lt. Cmdr. Julio Huertas – were charged under the Obama administration - with assault and dereliction of duty, placed under house arrest, and pressured to plead to lesser offenses...
On Friday’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on FNC, former CIA operations officer and host of the “The Wright Report” podcast, Bryan Dean Wright, argued that Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) intentionally sparked a firestorm with what he deemed a “propaganda video” urging military members to defy so-called “illegal orders.”
The social-media company recently unveiled a feature that publicly displays key background information about an account, including the location on where it’s based.
The feature has already unmasked a sprawling ecosystem of accounts taking advantage of disasters and political unrest across the world, including inside the war-torn Gaza Strip...
