Econ 101, Hey! High Schoolers Do Pretty Well on Biz-Econ Assessment
August 10th, 2007 4:50 PM
Headline and sub-headline in today's OpinionJournal.com: The Kids Are All Right Economic literacy test: High school seniors beat Congress. Excerpts (bold is mine): Since its founding in 1969, the NAEP has become something of an annual exercise in American educational masochism. Last year, only 54% of students met NAEP's "basic" standard--the equivalent of a passing grade--on the science test.…
Planned Parenthood Question at CNN/YouTube.com Debate Part of Organize
July 25th, 2007 4:48 PM
Newsbusters revealed the overwhelming left-wing bias of the YouTube video question clips at the CNN Democrat presidential debate on Monday night. One of the most outrageous questions of the night came from Anne Laird of Pennsylvania (pictured at right), who identified herself as an employee of Planned Parenthood. Laird asked, “My question is, we here at Planned Parenthood support comprehensive…
ABC Turns Obama Gaffe into Slam on Romney
July 20th, 2007 4:16 PM
On Friday’s Good Morning America, reporter David Wright (pictured at right) turned a story about Senator Barack Obama’s far-left views on sex education for kindergartners into an attack piece on Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Rather than focus on the Democrat’s controversial stance, ABC cast Romney as the villain, painting the Republican as an opportunist and a flip-flopper for daring to…
Politics Imitates South Park. Will Media Cover Obama's Sex Ed for Tots
July 19th, 2007 2:12 PM
A Democratic presidential contender has hinted that he thinks some form of sex ed is appropriate for the nation's five-year olds.I'm not exactly holding my breath for media outrage or at least interest in the topic, but I though Good Lt. at the "Jawa Report" has some good observations about how yet again, life seems to be imitating South Park:Amazing. Simply amazing. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,…
A Troubling Undercurrent in George Will's Deathbed Obit for Antioch Co
July 15th, 2007 10:36 PM
The Pulitzer Prize winner's latest syndicated column is an offbeat gem about the "suspension of operations" that appears to presage the death of Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio:
There is, however, a minuscule market for what Antioch sells for a tuition, room and board of $35,221 -- repressive liberalism unleavened by learning.
Founded in 1852 -- its first president was Horace Mann…
The Media's Distortion of the Supreme Court Racial Diversity Ruling
July 3rd, 2007 1:08 PM
The following was submitted by Jason Aslinger, a private practice attorney in Greenville, Ohio. Portions in bold below are the added emphasized of NB managing editor Ken Shepherd. It's a long post but it's worth the read:In the wake of last week’s Supreme Court decision regarding racial
integration in public schools, the media have gone out of their way to
obscure the facts for the purpose of…
Olbermann Blog Falsely Asserts Supreme Court Overturned Brown v. Board
June 30th, 2007 3:45 AM
The following was written for NewsBusters by Jason Aslinger, a private practice attorney from Greenville, Ohio. Portions in bold below reflect the editor's emphasis.The media’s contempt for the conservative U.S. Supreme Court reached new lows this week when it used a dishonest play on words to imply that the Court was against racial diversity in public schools.That distortion, however, paled in…
USA Today: Ruling Threatens School 'Integration'; Biskupic Buries Rob
June 28th, 2007 3:14 PM
I could not leave this untouched. Joan Biskupic, the same Supreme Court reporter I accused of sounding like a John McCain press flack, has given us a gem of a skewed report on a 5-4 decision today about the use of race as a factor in managing public school registration.Let's walk through it shall we? When reporting on a key Supreme Court ruling, it's kind of nice to give readers a glance of the…
