Federal Reserve Achievement: Rich Getting Richer, Poor Getting Poorer, Middle...
Media coverage of Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen’s speech ignores the continuing predicament of the middle income American. Sure, those with highly leveraged portfolios or a large pile of...
View ArticleUSA Today: AP Exam Erases U.S. Exceptionalism
Jane Robbins Defenses of the College Board’s revised Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) Curriculum Framework have ranged from “it’s a balanced document” to “teachers will have flexibility” to...
View ArticleJane Robbins OpEd: College Board Attacks Local School Boards
High-school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, are outraged about censorship of their history curriculum. In a recent protest, one student carried asign reading, “Teaching Partial History is a...
View ArticleGold Standard Insures the Dollar has More Buying Power – Steve Lonegan,...
Gov. Jim Florio’s “A Proposed Return to the Gold Standard is Cause for Concern” contains a certain irony: Mr. Florio’s embrace of the most important decision made about our money in our lifetime made...
View ArticleUS News and World Report: US History Courses Should be More Patriotic – Jane...
American cynics, such as those who developed the controversial new Advanced Placement U.S. history course, are aghast at the idea of “teaching patriotism.” But what does it really mean to promote...
View ArticleAlfonso Aguilar: How Republicans Should Handle Obama Immigration Action –...
Republicans are angry with the president over his unilateral executive action to defer the deportation of more than 5 million undocumented immigrants. Rightly so, as immigration is a complex issue that...
View ArticleNORTH DAKOTA CAN DO BETTER THAN COMMON CORE – JANE ROBBINS, GRAND FORKS HERALD
By Jane Robbins (read the original here) Creators and proponents of the Common Core national K-12 standards have found themselves unexpectedly having to defend the standards against a nationwide...
View ArticlePearson Using Personal Data to Spy on Students Online – Jane Robbins OpEd
The student-privacy blogosphere has been atwitter (so to speak) over recent revelations that students’ social media posts have been monitored in connection with the Common Core-aligned PARCC test....
View ArticleOpEd: The Fix Is In For AP Courses
When controversy erupted a year ago about the lack of balance in the College Board’s new AP U.S. History (APUSH) Framework, the College Board initially dug in its heels and stubbornly defended the new...
View ArticleWhat Republicans Should Learn From the Transgender Moment
In less than two years, transgender rights have gone from a non-issue to non-negotiable in the Democratic Party. Rather than dismiss this change as a politically irrelevant story that belongs in the...
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Why Is Everyone Upset About Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Parts? It’s Part...
Originally published in the Independent Journal Review, read the original here An undercover video released this week by Center for Medical Progress blew the lid off of abortion-giant Planned...
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The Hill: Ted Cruz’s Moment to Shine
Via The Hill: Ted Cruz is having a moment to shine. The Texas senator has become the favorite to win Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, which would be huge for his presidential campaign. He’s seen a GOP...
View ArticleChristian Science Monitor: North Carolina shows GOP split extends to states, too
Via Christian Science Monitor: In North Carolina, a bakery, a Christian bookstore, and a packaging company have put their names on a letter of support for a new law that bars transgender people from...
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George Gilder Writes A Savagely Brilliant Book: The Scandal Of Money
Via Forbes: Tired of struggling economically? Me too. George Gilder offers an explanation and a solution: restoring monetary integrity. It’s radical and goes far beyond primitive “supply side...
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George Gilder: The Fed ‘is a god that has failed’
Via CNBC: The reason, as I document in my book, “The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does” is that Washington and the Federal Reserve together have created a closed...
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Jane Robbins: Georgia deserves a better ‘Deal’
Via The Citizen: Why is Gov. Deal siding with corporate bullies over Georgians of faith? Governor Nathan Deal drew national attention [last] week when he vetoed HB 757, a bill that would have protected...
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Daily Caller: The War on Student Privacy
By Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins At first few people noticed and even fewer understood. In 2002, the Bush administration started incentivizing states to create massive databases of personal student...
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New York Times: Taking the Politics Out of American History
Via NYT: On May 6, more than 470,000 students will sit for the Advanced Placement test in United States history. The exam distills 525 years of American history into 55 multiple-choice questions and...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Is the GOP Going for Gold?
Is the GOP Going for Gold? Trump and Cruz Both Praise Gold-Based Monetary Policy Donald Trump tells GQ: “Bringing back the gold standard would be very hard to do, but, boy, would it be wonderful. We’d...
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McGroarty and Robbins: Why Does Your Congressman Want to Psychologically...
Via TownHall: By: Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins If the GOP-led Congress had not done enough damage to public education by passing the statist Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), it’s poised to make...
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