Category: Intel

Paul Fishbein’s conviction on rent fraud charges in New York City last year was a feast for the tabloids.  The story was crazy enough to get readers to click. Prosecutors said that Fishbein, 51, somehow convinced local housing agencies that he owned dilapidated apartment buildings that he didn’t, enabling him to move in tenants and skim government rent subsidies… Continue reading The Federal Housing Agency Hasn’t Gotten Its Economic House in Order, Under Both Parties

Above, the four-day school week embraced by the 27J district outside Denver. Despite the shorter week’s popularity, researchers warn, it undermines learning when instructional time is reduced. By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsJuly 17, 2024 Next month, the Huntsville School District in Arkansas will join the wave of public schools switching to a four-day week.  The shorter… Continue reading The 4-Day School Week: It’s a Trend Across America … Despite Questionable Results

Etched onto the side of the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin is a verse taken from John’s Gospel: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Justin Dyer says that this represents UT’s Austin’s North Star: “The university is a truth-seeking institution.” A faculty partner of the… Continue reading The School of Civic Leadership Looks to Protect the American Experiment

Does President Biden have any ability to resist his dark money allies?  That question was teed up when the U.S. Supreme Court recently asked for the Biden Department of Justice, through the Solicitor General, to state its views on whether the Supreme Court should take up a dark-money-funded public nuisance lawsuit out of Hawaii.  The… Continue reading Can President Biden Resist His Dark Money Allies?

By James Varney, RealClearInvestigationsJuly 10, 2024 Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history. Given the roughly 50 million… Continue reading Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and Abraham Verghese urge universities to “speak out publicly” and issue official institutional opinions about public controversies involving its professors “when it concludes that a faculty member’s opinion could cause… Continue reading Universities Should Promote Rigorous Discourse, Not Stifle It

Not long after Jeremy Gober started running a sleep center, he quit treating patients for narcolepsy and sleep apnea and went full-time submitting bogus insurance claims. According to Gober’s 2022 indictment, he committed at least one especially sloppy error: One of his make-believe billings included a Medicare claim for treatment in March 2018 for a… Continue reading How the Federal Government Loses More Money Than Its Bean-Counters Can Count

History, as the familiar saying goes, does not repeat, but often rhymes. Do the crises in Gaza and Ukraine impose a “Suez Moment” on the United States – the events of 2022-24, a refrain to 1956-57? October 1956 featured two major international crises. In that month, Israel launched an assault on Egypt to reopen the… Continue reading America’s Suez Moment | RealClearWorld

The following excerpt is adapted from The Politics of Life: My Road to the Middle of a Hostile and Adversarial World (Regan Arts.) by Douglas E. Schoen Penn, Schoen & Berland had been a successful consulting firm for almost 20 years, but we were still waiting for the ultimate invitation – to work on a… Continue reading The Politics of Life | RealClearBooks

SAN FRANCISCO—Vice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice. “When I was elected DA of San Francisco,” Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, “I started the first environmental justice unit of any DA’s office… Continue reading Greenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader