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Rewriting History Texas-Style

Mar 13, 2010 3:28pm

Texas’ Board of Education has approved a new social studies curriculum with a conservative seal of approval. After three days of debate the board voted to change the curriculum to explicitly present Republican philosophies and conservative leaders in a more positive light. The new curriculum was voted in 10 to five,...

Changing No Child Left Behind

Mar 13, 2010 2:13pm

President Barack Obama’s administration has called for an overhaul of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law, mitigating the ridiculous focus on standardized tests with an approach that takes into consideration student attendance and classrooms’ learning climates. —JCL The New York Times: The Obama administration on Saturday called for a...

Internet Fraud Losses Doubled in 2009

Mar 13, 2010 1:36pm

From Nigerian “millionaire” plans to “FBI agent” schemes, millions of dollars have been lost to scams on the Internet. Last year saw reported losses from Internet fraud more than double, rising from $264.6 million in 2008 to $559.7 million in 2009. —JCL Reuters: Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in...

Google May Close Virtual Doors in China

Mar 13, 2010 9:47am

Google is “99.9 percent” certain it will shut down its search engine operation in China after the government in Beijing warned the company that it was flouting the country’s censorship laws, which require limited access to content like “Tiananmen Square” and “democracy.” Google’s decision would close a chapter in a...

France’s ‘Pink Tide’

Mar 13, 2010 9:10am

French voters are turning against the right-wing policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy in what many are calling the “pink tide,” a leftward shift in French politics that is putting Socialists and Greens in many legislative seats around the country. The term pink tide was initially used to describe the increasing power...

Getting a Read on the Middle East

Mar 12, 2010 5:33pm

The greatest problem of writing historically about the Middle East is that the story has not ended. The war goes on. And both “sides”—actually, there are rather a lot of sides—produce conflicting narratives....

Church Sex Abuse Scandal Reaches Pope’s Circles

Mar 12, 2010 4:22pm

One of Pope Benedict XVI’s past decisions as head of an archdiocese in Germany has come back around in relation to a priest accused of molesting boys three decades ago, according to The New York Times. The New York Times: The archdiocese said that a priest accused of molesting boys was...

Inc. Stain

Mar 12, 2010 4:16pm

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‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Big Push; Is Financial Reform Next?

Mar 12, 2010 4:06pm

President Barack Obama postponed his Asia trip to make a final push on health care. Will it really come to a vote within 10 days? Will the shocking report on Lehman Brothers’ financial manipulations hasten financial regulation reform? “Left, Right & Center” mainstays Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley and Matt Miller...

Civil Rights Activist Found Dead

Mar 12, 2010 1:48pm

Juanita Goggins, a trailblazing civil rights activist and the first black woman elected to South Carolina’s state Legislature, was found dead in her Columbia, S.C., home last week after dying there sometime last month. Goggins died from hypothermia after the energy company cut off her service because of unpaid bills. Her...