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DOJ Report Reveals How Immigration Officials Cooked the Books for Years and Deceived Congress 0
- Politics
- June 21, 2018
A recent Justice Department report on U.S. immigration courts provides a rare glimpse into the difficulties faced by the Trump administration as it repairs the damages inflicted on these tribunals over the last 20 years. But give credit to the courts’ new executive, James McHenry. Early on, he identified the need for transparency and has
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Illegal Immigrant Families: The Questions to REALLY Ask 0
- Culture
- June 21, 2018
As is the pattern lately, the country is worked up into a froth about an issue that’s been going on for years. In a week or two, it will likely be forgotten. Honestly, can you remember what the two-minutes-of-hate was about a few weeks ago? What about a month or two ago? The unfortunate
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University Coughs Up in Legal Settlement that Alleged Discrimination Against Republicans 0
- Education
- June 21, 2018
A Washington university is shelling out big bucks to settle a dispute with a Republican student group that filed a lawsuit alleging the school discriminated against it by charging exorbitant security fees for speaker events. The University of Washington settled with the university’s College Republicans Monday, agreeing to pay $122,500 to make the lawsuit go away.
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Social Security Has Not Been “Looted”0
- Economics
- June 20, 2018
The newly released Social Security Trustees Report describes serious fiscal issues with the program and stresses that it should be reformed soon, or the situation will become much worse. However, public support for reform is impeded by a common fiction that inflames debate and distracts from the roots of the problem. What the Report Says
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Are Elite Charter Schools Excluding Minorities?0
- Economics
- June 20, 2018
Earlier this week, NBC News ran an article entitled “It’s like a black and white thing: How some elite charter schools exclude minorities.” The article focuses on Lake Oconee Academy (LOA), a charter school in Greensboro, Georgia. It makes the case that the school has intentionally excluded minority students while favoring wealthy, white families. The nation’s first charter
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How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?8
- Culture
- June 20, 2018
One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.” It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly
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