Common Core Conundrum: So Toxic, Even Arne Duncan Refuses To Say It

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Photo Credit: YouTube The best way to promote a highly sensitive and controversial curriculum is by not actually mentioning it at all.

And that’s exactly what U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did. At the 2014 annual National PTA convention in Austin, Texas, on June 20, he gave an entire speech about Common Core without ever actually saying “Common Core.”

Instead, Duncan referred to Common Core as “standards,” a word he used nine times. He talked about how people “came together to develop these college- and career-ready standards” and how ”43 states will be moving forward this fall with new, higher, better academic standards that they chose.”

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SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Obama’s Executive Overreach for the 11th Time

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Photo Credit: APU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement lauding the Supreme Court for protecting privacy rights in the decision Riley v. California.

“I applaud the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to protect the rights of all Americans to be free from warrantless searches of their cell phones,” said Sen. Cruz. “This is the eleventh time since January 2012 that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Obama Administration’s arguments for greater governmental power…”

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Rush Limbaugh Explodes on ‘Corrupt’ GOP for Employing ‘Reprehensible’ Tactic Against Tea Party (+video)

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Photo Credit: BreitbartConservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was fired up on Wednesday following Sen. Thad Cochran’s controversial victory over tea party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel in Mississippi on Thursday. Cochran reached out to traditionally Democratic voters – blacks and union members – in a last-ditch effort to beat McDaniel.

“The Republican establishment sought victory via Democrat voters in the runoff, and they got them. Without the African-American vote from Democrat-leaning counties, Thad Cochrane would have lost by eight or nine percent last night,” Limbaugh said, calling the tactic “reprehensible.”

Limbaugh cited a flyer, posted by journalist Charles Johnson that suggested McDaniel and the tea party wanted to prevent blacks from voting in the Mississippi runoff election on Tuesday. Cochran’s critics allege the longtime senator’s campaign was behind the flyers.

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Bill Maher: ‘Obama is Always Spouting Spiritual Bullish*t and I Don’t Believe It For a Second’

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Photo Credit: IJ Review Bill Maher was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and made a surprising assertion: Barack Obama is an atheist, but for political purposes he can’t just come out and say it.

You know who’s a liar about this is Obama.

Obama is always spouting spiritual bullish*t and I don’t believe it for a second.

He’s a drop-dead atheist, absolutely.

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Six Cities in Iraq Where U.S. Victories Turned into Defeat

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Photo Credit: Larry Downing / ReutersCity names that were frequently in newspapers years ago have returned to the headlines. One by one, towns in Iraq are falling to either Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda splinter group, to Kurdish militants or to other tribal forces. The cities where soldiers fought and overthrew violent insurgencies are now the scenes of bloodshed once again. Here is a look back at Washington Post stories that described these regions after U.S. victories, and the bleak conditions in those cities today.

FALLUJAH

2004: “The city has been seized,” said Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. “We have liberated the city of Fallujah.” “Fighting in Fallujah nears end” by Jackie Spinner, Nov. 15, 2004.

2014: Fallujah was the first major city in Iraq that fell to ISIS earlier this year. “At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah… The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings,” said a local journalist who asked not to be named because he fears for his safety. “Al-Qaeda force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq” by Liz Sly, Jan. 3, 2014

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WATCH: What Might Happen If A Football Coach Coached Soccer

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Photo Credit: YouTube This skit features Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage Tottenham Hotspur in England. Look at all the differences!

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‘Duck Dynasty’ Star: Time To ‘Vote This Ungodly Bunch Out Of Washington’

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Photo Credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson is looking for new leadership in Washington.

During his appearance at the “Rock the South” music festival in Cullman, the reality television star stated it’s time to vote those “ungodly” politicians out of Congress.

“Whatever you do, go register to vote, especially on this next presidential election. Register to vote and you ought to register for the House and the Senate, too. Get your tail down there and vote this ungodly bunch out of Washington, D.C.,” Robertson told the crowd while getting a raucous ovation.

Robertson also delved into his controversial comments he made about homosexuality in a GQ interview last December.

“I’m actually a nice man,” Robertson told the crowd. “I’m trying to help those poor souls and turn them to Jesus.

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Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets

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Photo Credit: TownHall Imagine how much better off America’s veterans would be if the federal government spent more time delivering actual care and less time compiling tyrannical lists. The death-inducing secret waiting lists for patients are just the tip of the iceberg.

Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets that results in arbitrarily restricted care?

Disabled Air Force veteran and veterans advocate/attorney Benjamin Krause has been raising questions about the system for months and warning his peers. Under the VA policy on “patient record flags” (PRFs), federal bureaucrats can classify vets as “threats” based on assessments of their “difficult,” “annoying” and “non-compliant” behavior.

The VA manual says the flags “are used to alert Veterans Health Administration medical staff and employees of patients whose behavior and characteristics may pose a threat either to their safety, the safety of other patients, or compromise the delivery of quality health care.”

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Cheney: ‘I Think There Will Be Another Attack’ Worse Than 9/11 In the Next Decade (+video)

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Photo Credit: APFormer Vice President Dick Cheney told radio host Hugh Hewitt he believes there were an attack even worse than 9/11 on the U.S. homeland within the next decade Tuesday.

“I think there will be another attack,” he said. “And next time, I think it’s likely to be far deadlier than the last one. You can just imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container, and drive it down the Beltway outside of Washington, D.C.”

Full exchange:

HUGH HEWITT: Do you think we get through this decade without a massive attack on the homeland?

DICK CHENEY: I doubt it. I doubt it. I think there will be another attack. And next time, I think it’s likely to be far deadlier than the last one. You can just imagine what would happen…

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Cheney: Obama Hasn’t Decimated al Qaeda, He’s Decimated U.S. Defense

Former Vice President Dick Cheney continued his criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy Tuesday on Hannity, disagreeing with the idea that Obama had no responsibility for Iraq’s current crisis.

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5 Reasons Why Abortion Never Empowers Women (+video)

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Photo Credit: Matt Walsh BlogThe official Obvious Child Tumblr page calls it a movie about ‘self discovery and empowerment.’ Many folks in media and the blogosphere have said similar things, including Sarah Seltzer from RH Reality Check. She attempts to explain it this way:

“[Abortion is] empowering in the sense that the very act of making a decision about our future, even if in desperation, gives us control”.

Wait. Isn’t EVERY decision a decision about the future? You can’t make a decision about the past, can you? I’m so confused.

Here now is the next stage in the abortion movement. It’s not enough to win in the courts and the Congress, they want to win in American’s heart and soul. It’s not enough for abortion to be legal, it needs to be loved. That’s why these kinds of movies exist, to promote abortion as something positive, affirming, constructive, empowering.

The empowering abortion. A work of fiction, indeed, but one marketed cleverly enough to dupe millions of people.

I thought about this empowerment notion for a while, and I think I identified a flaw in it. Actually, I identified five…

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