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After Beslan, the Media in Shackles

The Washington Post (USSR)

by Masha Lipman

September 4, 2006

MOSCOW -- Two years ago the new school term began in horror for the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. Chechen terrorists seized School Number One, and in the tragic events that followed, more than 330 civilians were killed, including 186 children.

Today the organized relatives of Beslan victims claim that the officials have done nothing to establish the real picture of the tragedy. If there is one lesson the Kremlin has learned -- or had confirmed for itself -- since Beslan, it is that by maintaining tight control over political life and major media coverage, it can efficiently minimize the political fallout from just about any event, even a tragedy as huge as Beslan.

After setback, what's next for vouchers?

The Christian Science Monitor (FL)

by Jacqui Goddard

January 13, 2006

A Florida court ruling that a statewide voucher system be dismantled dealt a blow to advocates nationwide.

The judges' order that the Opportunity Scholarship Program - a cornerstone of Gov. Jeb Bush's education reforms and the first statewide voucher system in the nation - must be dismantled this fall has dealt a bitter blow to families like the Macks and to school voucher advocates nationwide.

AG: Pa. man's Facebook 'surfer' page lured teens

CNS News

by Joe Mandak

February 10, 2012

A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in western Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers' middle-aged "friend" - yet another fake persona he used, the state attorney general said Friday.

Air Marshals, Armed Teachers, and Gun-Free Zones: Are You Consistent?

PJ Media

by David Steinberg

December 19, 2012

Most of the U.S. supports the air marshal program, fewer support "school marshals." Is this rational?

If you are instinctively uncomfortable with the thought of concealed-carry teachers - personally, I have difficulties imagining Ms. Fitzpatrick from my kindergarten reading Good Night Moon, packing under her green cardigan - I would first suggest you attempt to reconcile your objection to trained, armed teachers with your (statistically likely) support for air marshals.

Al and the Education Factory

Cato Institute

by Darcy Olsen

July 16, 2011

About Gore's backing of universal pre-school

Al Gore's College Days

The American Spectator

by Seth Lipsky

November 12, 2012

George Mason likened a popular vote to referring "a trial of colors to a blind man."

THE FIRST THING I DID when word came over the wires that Vice President Emeritus Albert Gore is calling for an end to the Electoral College was send a cable to Hendrik Hertzberg. He is the former chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and now writes the political comments for the New Yorker. He makes Barack Obama look like Calvin Coolidge, but he's one of the most enjoyable liberals doing newspaper work and is a leading advocate of electing our presidents by popular vote. I'm against it, myself, but it's easy to see why Gore is so enthusiastic. If the popular vote had been the deciding factor, the Tennessean would have been the 43rd president. At least that's Gore's theory, since more people voted for him than voted for the real winner, George W. Bush.

Al Sharpton Does a Pretty Bad Job Proving Herman Cain Wrong

Michelle Malkin

by Doug Powers

October 8, 2011

Two things really surprised me about this.

1) Sharpton's show is still on the air. And 2) The "Lean Forward" network hasn't leaned forward far enough to offer Al access to even a makeshift fact-check team. Or maybe this is the MSNBC fact-checked version.

Alabama House resolution jokes money to grow on trees

CNS News

March 5, 2012

A Democrat has introduced a resolution in Alabama's House that apparently mocks Republican job-creation efforts by joking that scientists will soon grow money on trees.

Alabama to require middle school students to have pertussis vaccine shots; not everyone agrees

blog.al.com

July 5, 2012

Students ages 11 and older entering the sixth grade in Alabama schools this fall will be required to have a vaccine to prevent pertussis, a sometimes fatal bacterial infection of the lungs that spreads through coughing and sneezing.

The Alabama Department of Public Health said the need for the tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine, Tdap, is prompted by an alarming increase in pertussis, or whooping cough, which is highly contagious. In the online community, there was a fierce debate between members of the anti-vaccine camp and those who are comfortable with balance of benefits and dangers in modern medicine...

Albright campaigns for Obama: We're going to keep blaming Bush "forever"

Hot Air

by Erika Johnsen

August 21, 2012

How nice.

Here's former Clinton-appointed U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaking at an Obama campaign rally in Colorado and assuring supporters that Democrats will quit blaming 'the previous administration' for all of the country's problems on approximately the twelfth of never.

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