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So, it's come to this:

The author-publisher of "The Tea Party Coloring Book…

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This is a media advisory The Heartland Institute sent out to education reporters earlier Thursday:

The highly touted education reform documentary Waiting for ‘Superman’ opens Friday at theaters in Los Angeles and New York, with a wider release scheduled for later in the fall. With the film receiving support from Paramount Pictures and Walden Media, and with attention from Oprah Winfrey, school reform has finally “gone…

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A small but tenacious group of parents in the Los Angeles suburb of Tujunga is hoping a new California law will be able to accomplish what years of frustrating pleas and appeals to the bureaucracy has not: Transform a failing, chronically unsafe middle school into a place where kids can learn without fear of random violence.



These parents are using California's parent empowerment law -- aka "the parent trigger" -- to petition the Los Angeles… Continue

As government programs go, "Cars for Clunkers" was a lemon. Unless, of course, you judge a program's success by Congress rushing to shift additional billions in "stimulus" funds to meet supposedly unexpected demand -- in that case it was a monster hit for the ages.



The program, which offered up to $4,500 toward purchasing a new car, was supposed to last a few months. Its funding was exhausted after just four days. That spurred Congress to appropriate another $2 billion from the $814… Continue