Glenn Foden, Townhall

Time to Stand Up to the National Standards Agenda

Heritage "Proponents tout national standards and tests as a way to improve academic achievement. For half a century, the federal government's role in education has continued to increase significantly with no positive impact on student learning. Yet, national standards proponents see this new federal role in standards and testing as the answer. But proponents are wrong to conclude national standards would improve American education. Here's why: "...

An NCO recognizes a flawed Afghanistan strategy

George Will "Returning from a mission, his unit took casualties from an improvised explosive device that the unit knew had been placed no more than an hour earlier. "There were villagers laughing at the U.S. casualties" and "two suspicious individuals were seen fleeing the scene and entering a home." U.S. forces "are no longer allowed to search homes without Afghan National Security Forces personnel present." But when his unit asked Afghan police to search the house, the police refused on the grounds that the people in the house "are good people." "

Neal Boortz: Democrats will kill school reform

Atlanta Journal-Constitution "May I offer two scenarios for your consideration? See which one fits you best:

1. The government seizes your money and sends it to a specific school to be spent educating your child. You are then commanded to send your child to that very school. That assignment is made on only two factors: The age of your child and your ZIP code.
2. You choose a school you wish to educate your child. You base that choice on any set of criteria you wish, including test scores, the competence of the faculty, reputation for excellence — or your ZIP code. You then send your child to that school, notify the government, and the government sends the check.
If you chose No. 1, you need to check your mail. Your subscriptions to People and US Weekly are about to run out."

World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur

US News  "The reviews of Obama's performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America's role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world's leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America's foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one's own tribe while in the lands of others."   Mortimer B. Zuckerman

OBAMA AND LEADERSHIP .. OR LACK THEREOF  "Obama is all style and no substance. This is actually pretty fitting for our American Idol generation, which ultimately tipped the scales in favor of Obama. They wanted the hot bod and cool campaign slogans, but couldn't tell you the first thing about his policies or his qualifications to be president." Neal Boortz.

But, but, hundreds of rock musicians, movie stars and TV talk show hosts can't ALL be wrong.

Point/ Counterpoint: the Criminalization of Politics

Darrell Issa and the Criminalization of Politics " I’m not naïve enough to believe that if Republicans were to act responsibly, Democrats would necessarily follow suit. They might. It depends on who is in charge of which committees. A vindictive man like Waxman is not likely to change his ways. Regardless, Republicans should act in a way that is in the public interest. They can only control what they can do, not what others do. "Peter Wehner

RE: Darrell Issa And the Criminalization of Politics  "I would suggest that the proper balance in this is ample congressional oversight, but selective (very selective) use of criminal proceedings. The punishment for unwise, ethically repugnant, and incompetent office holders should come from the ballot box. But to do that we first have to figure out what they are up to. In the Obama era, I think we could use plenty more of that." Jennifer Rubin

More Doctors Are Refusing Medicare Patients Because of Low Government Payments

Gateway Pundit "The AARP, the nation’s largest consumer group representing seniors, is taking notice. Some U.S. areas already face a shortage of primary care physicians. Policy director John Rother says the trend away from Medicare threatens to make it worse. States are starting to see a flight from Medicare…"

Obama’s Windmill Solution to Gulf Crisis

Human Events "Andrew Malcolm hit the nail on the head in the Los Angeles Times with this summary of Obama’s message: “There’s a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let’s build more windmills.”  Brian Darling
Please refer to this post  from the June 19th Tunnel Wall.

I know you’re busy fighting a war, General Petraeus, but what are you doing to ‘green’ our bases in Afghanistan?

Washington Examiner Who votes for these people?

Dems ready for big push on global warming

Washington Examiner "Democrats will need at least one Republican to come up with the 60 votes necessary to pass an energy and climate change bill. Obama last week invited Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., to the White House to talk energy policy. Brown said he told Obama he does not support any kind of national energy tax or cap and trade bill."

Presbyterian Church in the US might side with Islam against Israel

NewsThatMatters "By Aaron in Jerusalem: Below is a link to a story about an upcoming meeting of the Presbyterian Church USA, where they will be voting on endorsement for a document condemning Israel for a wide variety of crimes and misdemeanors."
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=178658

http://www.pcusa.org/middleeastpeace/  Speaking nonsense to power.

Socialism and Christianity

Point of View  "I am not exactly sure why, but lately I have been getting calls from listeners arguing that Christians should embrace socialism. These calls come on different radio programs (sometimes when I am the host and other times when I am a guest). I don't know if this is part of an organized campaign or just an alignment of the stars. In any case, the comments deserve an answer."  Kerby Anderson