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Cardinal O’Malley: A man to honor on Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 12th, 2013

A righteous man stands tall for life

Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, has issued this statement announcing his intention to boycott Boston College’s upcoming commencement ceremony. Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister of Ireland, will be the commencement speaker and is slated to receive an honorary degree at Boston College’s graduation.

Cardinal O’Malley has publicly opposed Ireland’s proposed abortion law, which Kenny has resolutely promoted.

The Cardinal Newman Society re...

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Common Core: Rotten to it’s leftist core

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Graphic sex and praising Castro

We urge you to read the this FrontPage magazine article exposing the squalid leftist core of Common Core. Mary Grabar’s report underscores the myriad examples of radical ideology masquerading as education.

This exposé of the outrageous federalized curriculum shows yet another load heaped on the pile of garbage being promoted by the Obama administration and public school establishment, as they attempt to undermine our nation’s students by imposing dumbed-down,...

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Flores v. AZ: Tim Hogan’s never ending case

Friday, April 26th, 2013

Back in 2009, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending what was then a 17-year legal battle in the Flores v. Arizona case. In their opinion, the justices wrote that lower courts erred by placing extraordinary focus on forcing Arizona to spend more money to assist English Language-Learner (ELL) students.

At the time, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote, the Court of Appeals “improperly substituted its own policy judgments for those of the state and loc...

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Arizona Republic exposes its foul, radical core

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Fishy_Arizona_Republic

In a single issue — Sunday’s edition — The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), bawdily bared itself in a fashion befitting a porn star. 

The Viewpoints section opened with illegal immigration hustler, Linda Valdez, spewing seemingly endless bile at recently deceased British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she links her to conservative icon Ronald Reagan, hurling insults at both. Her abhorrence of the pair is palpable from the headline “Maggie, Ro...

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Leftist school assignments: Think like a Nazi; doses of political bias

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Ed Supe blames Common Core for “Jews are evil” assignment

The Times Union reports on a “sophisticated” assignment given to Albany High School students. They were to watch and read Nazi propaganda and then write an argument that Jews are evil and the source of Germany’s problems, using a Nazi perspective. “You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!,” their teacher instructed.  In a...

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