We learn in elementary school that the American federal system is divided into three equal branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. But is that still the case? Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman from Oklahoma who spent 13 years teaching government at Harvard and Princeton, says no. Here is what he wrote in a recent
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The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;
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Earlier this month, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that former Vice President Joe Biden had officially been named a professor at Penn under the title of “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.” There was talk that Biden would lead “the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” from Washington, D.C. The Penn Biden Center doesn’t exist
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Front page pictures of protests, horror stories about innocent victims, editorials denouncing the whole idea — are we getting the whole story about President Trump’s immigration crackdown? Where’s the discussion about necessary immigration reform? MercatorNet asked Christopher Harper, Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University what he thinks. * *
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Last night Carryn Owens became, in the words of the New York Times, the face of bravery and perseverance in America. The widow of Navy SEAL William (Ryan) Owens was invited to attend President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday, less than one month after her husband was slain in the in the Yakla
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Back in college, I worked the snack bar for a few years. As it was a very small, liberal arts college, there was only one. You met a lot of people, saw your friends, and served your professors. Aside from making milk shakes, I enjoyed the work. I’ll never forget one Wednesday when my literature
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