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In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a nine-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to… Continue reading Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again.

Imagine these words as the first speech delivered by the incoming Secretary of Education. Today, I am here to deliver bitter medicine: American education has failed. Teachers and parents, administrators and government—and even students—all bear some responsibility. The most common explanations for our educational crisis are inadequate funding, overuse of standardized testing, and systemic prejudice.… Continue reading Make Education Great Again! | RealClearEducation

This viral photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a mid-flight McDonald’s meal with President-elect Donald Trump and company this past weekend clashes with RFK Jr.’s anti-obesity “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. The food lobby is already gearing up to fight it. By Lee Fang, RealClearInvestigations and LeeFang.comNovember 20, 2024 America’s most famous fast-food fan… Continue reading Food Lobbyists Plot to Have It Their Way With RFK Jr.

When Kamala Harris finally conceded after Donald Trump’s decisive victory, she defiantly proclaimed “While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign…That is a fight I will never give up.” What is she talking about? Harris’ campaign focused on only two topics: Donald Trump is an unhinged, unstable dangerous… Continue reading Democrats Still Don’t Get It

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas – “Some bad news,” “More bad news,” “To avoid catastrophe” – while his campaign has embraced an unlikely role: election truther. The three-term senator now spams supporters daily,… Continue reading Casey Won’t Admit Defeat, But Here’s Why He Lost

It wasn’t as if the Tar Heel state didn’t see Hurricane Helene coming. On Sept. 25, one day before Helene stormed ashore, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency as the storm’s path showed it churning northward toward Appalachia after making landfall in Florida. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, right, and Deanne… Continue reading How Helene Gave Way to ‘Hurricane Snafu’ in the Carolinas

Maryland’s new education chief, Carey Wright, an old-school champion of rigorous standards, is pushing back against efforts in other states to boost test scores by essentially lowering their expectations of students. States, including Oklahoma and Wisconsin, are making it easier for students to demonstrate on annual assessments that they are proficient in math and English… Continue reading Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go to ‘Better’ Grades?

In the United States, November 11th has been known as Veterans Day since 1954 (before that, it was known as Armistice Day). Originally, Veterans Day commemorated the Allies’ victory in World War I. However, after the Second World War, veterans of that conflict including Dwight Eisenhower pushed to expand the holiday to honor all veterans.… Continue reading The Two Thanksgivings Between Halloween and Christmas

Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong. Pennsylvania’s 2024 results offer a master class in Democratic collapse: while Trump edged out Kamala Harris by 2 points in the presidential race, Republicans romped to victory in… Continue reading Even Shapiro Couldn’t Have Saved PA for the Democrats

“Get out of the car! Get the f**k out of my car.” That’s a paraphrase of the words of the recently passed, and incomparably GREAT Bernie Marcus. Marcus, along with Arthur Blank and Ken Langone, co-founded The Home Depot. The individual Marcus ordered out of his car was a venture capitalist, and more crucially for… Continue reading Bernie Marcus Was One of the All-Time GREATS