The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin says it has decided to back away from the Common Core standards but is struggling with the cost of replacing Common Core-aligned textbooks. According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, Catholic school administrator
Everyday working class folks are taking it in the neck while the companies that lay them off are reaping huge profits and winning hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. Is that the logline for Oliver Stone’s latest sequel,
LEITH, United Kingdom – When Caroline McMaster from Leith noticed her ‘Vote Yes’ posters being attacked every night she rightly suspected that slimy no campaigners may have been involved. But she admits she had not realised how right her theory
(AFP) France on Wednesday prepared to receive its first Ebola patient, as the World Bank warned the spiralling epidemic is threatening economic catastrophe in west Africa. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said a female volunteer had
In response to Muslims Will Support Muslims Over Infidel-Led Mission Against ISIS: As it happens, this morning the new Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, just made a big show of announcing that Iraq doesn’t want or need foreign troops to
A leftist group funded by top gay activist bundlers for Obama’s 2012 campaign coordinated both a “well planned and financed” attack against San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his decision to speak during the March for Marriage in Washington,
Nicolle Wallace admitted she was a Republican on her first day on The View Monday. She didn’t need to make that declaration. A host of media outlets rushed to tell us just that, even if they forgot to label everyone
There may be a new gravitational center for Catholic thought on the very land tread by 1700s Spanish Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra, and a lawyer is at the heart of much of it. It’s indicative of the move in
The Satanic Temple says it will open 15 new chapters nationwide, as well as several internationally. In an interview with Aleteia, Jex Blackmore, a leader of the Satanic Temple’s new Detroit chapter and a member of the group’s executive ministry
One month prior to the midterm elections, Gwyneth Paltrow will host a fundraiser for President Obama at her Los Angeles home to benefit the Democratic National Committee. The actress, who is a longtime supporter of President Obama, held a fundraiser
When you combine Variety‘s story about a 19% drop in entertainment industry jobs, and The Hollywood Reporter‘s story about the 2014 box office already being written off as a “disaster,” things look pretty glum in the business of show. And
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — From afar, it looks and sounds like a regular recreational baseball game: the crack of the bat, the cheering from the bench, the sliding into home. But a closer glance at this field in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park
The British government is to offer Sharia-compliant loans to Muslim students in an attempt to get more of them to go to university. The new system will allow students to pay a donation into a pool system instead of paying
Some 130 Canadian nationals have gone overseas to fight in Syria and Iraq on behalf of radical Islamist groups, according to a recent report by Public Safety Canada. The report added that, specifically, the conflict in Syria–with Sunni Islamist forces fighting against
Yale University’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) along with other groups on campus signed a letter to the Buckley Foundation asking to dis-invite Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali born American political women’s right activist who speaks out against radical Islam, from
A gang of Muslim men in Britain has been accused of abusing a 13-year-old girl they found wandering the streets on her own. The men, who are on trial at Sheffield Crown Court, are accused of abusing vulnerable child in
NEW YORK, New York – The South African hip-hop shock rave duo known as Die Antwoord (“The Answer,” pronounced DEE AHNT-vuhr’d) has kicked off its U.S. tour, and played to a packed, sold-out Terminal 5 on Tuesday evening in Manhattan.
DALLAS, Texas — Splashed onto the cover of September 6, 2014 Outlook section of the Houston Chronicle was an opinion piece penned by Kathy Miller, Texas Freedom Network (TFN) president, in which she slammed the state’s textbook adoption policy, namely the
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Proponents of the Common Core standards are hailing educational theorist E.D. “Don” Hirsch as a founding father of the education initiative and one who laid the intellectual groundwork for the controversial reform. The problem is that Hirsch himself says, “I
They stick out like a sore thumb in the steamy bustle of Guatemala’s capital: 230 ultra-Orthodox Jews, some speaking broken Spanish and eking out a makeshift living in a decrepit office building. They had been residing in a Mayan Indian
Chinese state media outlet Xinhua estimates that the government will organize trips for 14,000 Chinese citizens to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to conduct the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city. The news follows months of crackdowns on ethnic Uighur Muslims
SACRAMENTO, California — High-speed rail has become one of the most contentious issues in the contest between Governor Jerry Brown and Republican challenger Neel Kashkari. In the one (and only) gubernatorial debate, Kashkari attacked the Democrat incumbent’s high-speed rail policy
AUSTIN, Texas — At the Defending the American Dream Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity last Friday in Dallas, Bob Hall, the Republican nominee for Texas State Senate District 2, gave an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas to share the
DALLAS, Texas — It is like a Texas sampler platter of the 2014-15 Common Core offerings served up around the state — Sadlier “Common CoreEnriched Edition” Vocabulary, Springboard and Carnegie Math. There is even a kindergarten handout that defines the importance
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The world’s leading public health voices are all in agreement that West Africa is losing precious time in the fight against its ongoing Ebola outbreak, and the window is closing on containing the virus in the region. “The level of
Questions have been raised across the political spectrum about whether it would be legal under European Law to stop British jihadis returning to the UK. Both Labour and UKIP questioned whether such a move would breach the human rights of
Prosecutors have gone to the High Court to withdraw the arrest warrant that enabled Spanish police to hold Brett and Naghemeh King in custody. I am very pleased that this family, at a time of great distress has been reunited.
Here’s a little high-tech ghost story to give you chills, just in case you weren’t already freaked out enough by the Nude Celebrity Hack, or the possible theft of a large trove of credit card numbers from Home Depot: Typical
(AFP) — A worsening outbreak of dengue fever in Japan has claimed its first celebrities — two young models sent on assignment to the Tokyo park believed to be its source. The details emerged as the government said Tuesday that
HOUSTON, Texas — A new study by OnlineColleges.com shows that Texas is the best state for students to receive an online college education. Texas ranked number one due to a variety of factors, including the state’s earning potential, low unemployment rate, and
Despite evidence that Islamist terrorism is the root cause of some of the deadliest attacks on American soil–including the Boston Marathon bombing that killed or wounded hundreds–the FBI has not included it on the list of potential domestic terror threats
One explanation for Hollywood’s skittishness about doing films and TV shows that take Christianity seriously or, heaven forbid, show it in a positive light, is that it’s afraid of offending people. Of course, that fear doesn’t stop Hollywood from regularly
The Summer of 2014 is over. Finally. All the talk about how it all is going will finally stop, as thoughts of entertainment writers move to foo foo festivals and dozens of Oscar contenders that no one but other entertainment
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest argued Friday that the Obama administration has made great strides to confront the crisis of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States. “For now,” Earnest told reporters when asked if the crisis of unaccompanied
California is not represented in the top 100 “most American” cities, as determined by a new study that utilized a variety of metrics. WalletHub, a personal finance website, determined that Nashville is the “most American” of the largest 366 metropolitan
The rich and predominantly white elites of Hollywood will soon be swimming in $330 million in tax credits paid for by the hard working citizens of California. This more than triples the amount of corporate welfare the failed state was
Aficionados of horror fiction must occasionally deal with the inherent flaw of the genre: a horror film or book can succeed so well at being frightening, disturbing, or repulsive that it fails as entertainment. The audience response is, “Wow, that
A petition has been launched calling on Shaun Wright to resign as South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner in the light of allegations that he failed to stop paedophile gangs raping children in Rotherham. Wright was Cabinet Member for Children’s
Sarah Silverman, who once admitted that smoking marijuana was becoming more of a career than a hobby, brought liquid THC with her to the Emmys Monday. Although Silverman took home the “Outstanding Writer for a Variety Special” award, that’s not
Nearly 200 of the entertainment industry’s biggest names have signed on to a statement that unequivocally condemns the U.S. government-designated terrorist group Hamas and “ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in [their] charter,” while advocating a “commitment to peace and
