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The witch trials were really not funny

Tourism in Salem is wild with 100,000 visitors descending on this historic Massachusetts town on any given day. Traffic is gridlocked, and there are virtually no parking spaces left. The mayor told visitors to go to satellite parking lots and take shuttle buses downtown. Then the satellite lots ...

Betting on 2022

Some pundits say that Democrats will win the midterms.MSNBC tells us, “Democrats are seeing momentum headed into midterms.” Nancy Pelosi claimed, “We will hold the House by winning more seats!”Really? Want to bet?This fall, CNNĢƵ Douglas Brinkley said, “There is a blue wave going on ...

Mike Tyson sure was right!

Now that I have your attention – this isn’t really about Mike Tyson.ItĢƵ about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponentĢƵ plan to beat him.Tyson responded, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched ...

OP-ED: COVID Devastated education; this Is a chance for renewal

The numbers are rolling in now about how much ground our kids have lost academically due to COVID-19, and they are very bad. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known informally as “the nationĢƵ report card,” has released the results of its latest large survey of fourth and ...

Is Fetterman well enough to serve?

John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...

Cheating the children

While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP).In what is called the nationĢƵ report card, NAEP has released its latest ...