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Teen birth rates rise 3% overall, adult liberal reading comprehension rates continue to decline

As you can expect, the news the CDC reported Wednesday about the teen birth rate rising 3% in 2006, the first time the number has risen since 1991, the usual suspects were all aflutter about how this new information is just “more proof” that “abstinence-only” programs don’t work, while comprehensive sex edcuation programs “do.”.....   [Read More]

Jason Whitlock on the murder of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor

Awesome-as-always sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who was a lion amongst sheep with his outspoken and candid commentary on phoney race hustlers and the real problems facing the black community during the Don Imus controversy has penned another great column on race in response to what he sees as misplaced blame being thrown about by the “black media” and prominent sports figures regarding the murder of Redskins safety Sean Taylor:.....   [Read More]

In which we go from “good news is bad news” to “bad news is good news”

Last August, I wrote a post about the left’s negative attitudes as they relate to good news, especially when it’s good news related to the war on terror. More recently, we’ve seen this attitude when it was noted by several mainstream media outlets that prominent war critics were changing their tunes on Iraq, thanks to the success of the surge. The Usual Suspects didn’t and don’t want to hear anything that might contradict that their day in and day out bashing of the administration’s change in strategy in Iraq as a “failure.” And just yesterday, the Daily Kos blog couldn’t even bring themselves to admit that the surge had anything to do with the dramatic fall in casualty figures – both civilian and troop – in Iraq. They gave credit to …Muqtada al-Sadr. .....   [Read More]