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An end run to establish a national school curriculum moves forward

Local control of school curriculum may soon be a thing of the past.

Artificial Stupidity

Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and urine and tears.
She collected hundreds of signatures to ban dihydroxymonoxide [...]

50% rate will make London the tax capital of the world

By Lucy Farndon
Last updated at 11:11 AM on 09th March 2010 
London will become the most highly taxed financial centre in the world when the new 50 per cent income tax rate for those earning £150,000 or more comes into force next month.
Taxes will be higher than for financial workers living in the other key centres [...]

Silver bullet from U.S. states kills ‘mandatory’ Obamacare

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
At least 36 state legislatures are considering legislation that would allow citizens to opt out of a key component of President Obama’s health-care “reform” – an “individual mandate” requiring that all Americans have health insurance.

Giving Iran a Seat on U.N. Rights Council Would Legitimize Its Brutality and Encourage Other Violators, Iranian Says
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor

Caspian Makan addresses the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (Image: Geneva Summit video)
(CNSNews.com) – An Iranian whose fiancée’s death by gunfire became a [...]

ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan

by Laura Meckler | The Wall St. Journal
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

FBI broke law for years in phone record searches

By John Solomon and Carrie Johnson
Special to The Washington Post and Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 19, 2010; A01

The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and [...]

Obama’s EEOC Nominee: Society Should ‘Not Tolerate Private Beliefs’ That ‘Adversely Affect’ Homosexuals

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – Chai Feldblum, the Georgetown University law professor nominated by President Obama to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has written that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, that may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”