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Here’s a tip for Democrats going forward: Don’t poke mama and papa bears — especially when it comes to involvement in their kids’ education. If you provoke them, they’ll bite back. All in the name of protecting their cubs. After being gaslighted by bureaucrats this past year and deemed domestic terrorists by the Department of Justice, these folks have had enough. On Election Day, they—along with their allies — sent a powerful message to the nation: unaccountable politicians are being put on notice. Move over, teachers unions: parents are the new special interest group in town. Funding Students Instead of...

Inspired by a legendary senior operator, our 58-year-old author signed up for an intense, three-and-a-half-week-long course with students half his age. Here's what he experienced. Recently while doing research on paramilitary operators, I came across a book written by Annie Jacobsen titled Surprise, Kill, Vanish – The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. I was delighted to discover that more than half the book was about the exploits of one of my long-time mentors, Sergeant Major Billy Waugh (retired). Now 90, Waugh had 25 years in Special Forces as a leader of the elite Military Assistance Command-Vietnam...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to send 'millions' of Syrians to EuropeCredit: EPA Speaking to his party, Erdogan warned he would "open the gates" to spark a new refugee crisis if the EU dared to call 'Operation Peace Spring' an "invasion." "Hey EU, wake up. I say it again: if you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: we will open the gates and send 3.6m migrants to you," he said. He added that ISIS prisoners held by Kurdish forces would be kept in jail or returned to home countries willing to take them....

Family members of Dr. Walter Martin, founder of the Christian Research Institute, are calling on current CRI president Hank Hanegraaff to step down due to his conversion from evangelicalism to Eastern Orthodoxy. A majority of the family members have signed a statement asking the "Bible Answer Man" to leave his leadership post. Jill Martin Rische, the eldest daughter of Dr. Martin and who leads Walter Martin Ministries alongside her husband, Kevin Rische, told The Christian Post in a phone interview on Thursday that she and many other evangelical Christians were "shocked an surprised" when Hanegraaff was formally received into the...

"A powerful United States Senator’s husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise."

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has achieved fame and notoriety in America based on his effort to build a mosque at a Ground Zero site that sustained damage from the attack. If we take him at his word, that his intention is build bridges not to aggravate tensions, then his rise illustrates the Peter Principle. The 1969 bestselling book The Peter Principle contends that people get promoted at work until they finally are assigned a job they cannot grow into, resulting in competent people eventually becoming incompetent as they rise, ironically, to a position of failure. Readily available data suggests this...

Snatching a page from ACORN, scientists at the CRU have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. That means the basic calculations used to create the man-made global warming hysteria cannot be checked by neutral observers....

FBI Investigating Multi-Billion-Dollar Defense Contractor With Tax-Exempt Status In Congressman's HometownCBS News has learned the FBI is investigating a little-known not-for-profit organization called Commonwealth Research Institute. It's located, like a lot of Rep. John Murtha's, D-Penn., pet projects, in his hometown, Johnstown, Penn. Commonwealth gets the same benefits as the Salvation Army or any other charity: It doesn't have to pay taxes. But its line of work may be surprising. It's a defense contractor. "It certainly raises a question," says Dean Zerbe, a former top Senate investigator. He questions Commonwealth's tax exempt status, saying it seems to do business just...

A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization. "Just when we thought the indoctrination in California's public schools couldn't get any worse, state lawmakers introduce bills that will further brainwash innocent children," said a statement from Capitol Resource Institute, a traditional values and family advocacy organization based in California. "We're in California. Of course it has a chance of succeeding," CRI spokeswoman...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force's No. 2 acquisition official, facing scrutiny for a temporary job arranged by the service while he awaited Senate confirmation, was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide, according to an internal Air Force memo obtained by Reuters on Monday. "Mr. Riechers was found deceased in his home, cause of death appears to be suicide, time of death is unknown," said the memo, which was issued late Sunday. Charles Riechers became the principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition at the Air Force in January 2007 after working two months for defense contractor...

There’s an interesting article in the current issue of the Christian Research Journal (v29, #2) on how Darwin’s atheism/materialism influenced his writing more than actual science did. Also revealing is how his ambiguous God references in his books - often pointed to as ‘proof’ he never abandoned theism - were simply there so he wouldn’t insult friends and his wife. The article won’t be on their website for awhile, but its worth getting a copy if you don’t subscribe. Darwin’s own writings admit that he lied in early works about a belief in God. So from the very beginning it...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 06, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi: ‘This Economy Is Not Delivering for Middle-Class Families’ Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s speech in Chicago this afternoon on the economy: “The President claims he has created a strong economy, but working Americans are telling a different story. They feel the American dream slipping further from their grasp and they know the reality is that this economy is not delivering for middle-class families. The Bush Administration's call for another round of tax cuts for the...

Race Preferences Thrive On California Campuses - Voters wrongly believe they voted race-basing away in '96... [Bruce S. Thornton] 11/17/03 In November of 1996, the voters of California passed the Civil Rights Initiative, which amended the state constitution to forbid the state from "discriminat[ing] against or grant[ing] preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." Yet despite this clear-cut legal prohibition, seven years later race-based preferences and policies live on in California higher education. The recent Supreme Court decision...

Capitol Resource Institute Monday Morning Update – Early Edition Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Action is needed on the following bills: The following bills have been passed by the Legislature and are now sitting on Governor Gray Davis' desk awaiting his signature or veto. Action is expected to be taken on these bills within the next several days. The deadline for Governor Davis to sign or veto the bills is October 12. If the bills are not signed or vetoed at that time, they will automatically become law. AB 17 - Kehoe: Special Rights for Homosexuals - AB 17 would prohibit...