June 21, 2011 By Pat Buchanan “Is our children learning?” as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America’s young perform at their worst. On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the [...]

By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 The Unconscious Prejudice Industry — the boo-hoo-we’re-all-guilty-stop-us-before-we-discriminate-again lobby — took it deservedly on the chin Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court. Genial enough was the court’s unanimous decision not to allow advancement of a sexual discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, inasmuch as the plaintiffs were using the [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 It isn’t quite panic yet, but the sounds emanating from Obamaland are certainly nervous. If you are David Axelrod, chief strategist for President Obama’s re-election campaign, you are well aware of your idol’s fall and doubtless less than thrilled to get this question from CNN’s Candy [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 The left’s assault on liberty never rests, so don’t ever be sucked into supporting the dangerous idea of a new constitutional convention, even if its stated purposes purport to be limited. Recently, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke admiringly of how “Iceland is actually junking its own constitution [...]

By Dennis Prager (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Anthony Weiner, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger — these are just the most recent examples of powerful men who have ruined their lives because of some inappropriate (or, in the case of Strauss-Kahn, allegedly much worse than inappropriate) sexual conduct. Can you name a single woman politician [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 In the aftermath of the exposure and resignation of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) from Congress, his colleagues, some journalists, ethicists and pundits are trying to sort out what it means. Has a new standard been created in Washington? How can Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) remain in [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, June 21, 2011 One of my earliest memories of revulsion against war came from seeing a photograph from the First World War when I was a teenager. It was nothing gory. Just a picture of a military officer, in an impressive uniform, talking to a puzzled and forlorn-looking old [...]

By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 06/20/2011 05:54 PM ET  View Enlarged Image It has become a common refrain at the White House and among administration supporters that President Obama’s aggressive efforts to stimulate growth prevented an economic catastrophe. “We had to hit the ground running and do everything we could to prevent a second Great Depression,” [...]

June 20, 2011 IBD Homeland Security: An alarming new study shows homegrown terrorists are not just radicalized in prisons or chat rooms but in mainstream U.S. mosques. Now if someone would just tell the White House. A survey of 100 randomly selected mosques in America finds 81% of them feature Islamic literature — not including [...]

June 20, 2011 IBD Media: ABC’s Brian Ross has won an award for his coverage of the runaway Toyota scare. Journalism has reached a sorry state when needlessly alarming the public and harming a company are honored while facts are ignored. For their work on the Toyota unintended-acceleration story, Ross, ABC News’ chief investigative correspondent, [...]