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Common Core: Beyond Rote
10.01.14
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents.
Un-Common, Not Core
10.01.14
I became a math teacher by a circuitous route. My degree is in engineering. I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children.
Is Marriage Declining Despite Same-Sex Unions or Because of Them?
By   |   09.29.14
An article in the Washington Examiner on September 18 carried the headline: “Census: Marriage rate at 93-year low, even including same-sex couples.“ The article states: “The Census Bureau reported Thursday that the nation’s marriage rate is the lowest since 1920,...
Federal Judge Envisions ‘Rape License’ for ‘Right to Rape’
By   |   09.29.14
Judge Richard Posner, a federal judge with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, recently become a hero to the pro-”gay marriage” left when, by way of a “legal analysis” free from the troublesome constraints of logic, case precedent, biology, tradition...
The Perversity of Righteousness—A 180-Degree Moral Shift
By   |   09.27.14
It is downright difficult to shock or awe anyone anymore. The convergence of instant-media platforms and invisible data networks, which connect these platforms to millions of eyeballs, means that anything which happens in the world is eligible for prime time....
The Potheads in Our Dopey Media
By   |   09.27.14
Reporter Charlo Greene of the CBS television affiliate in Alaska used an obscenity on the air, announcing she was quitting her job, and revealed that she had been president of the Alaska Cannabis Club even while reporting on it for...
Fear of Man vs. Fear of God
By David E. Smith   |   09.25.14
For many years now, America has experienced a marked moral decline and in the last two or three decades, the decline has been especially steep.  Within the last six years we have witnessed this decline advancing at an accelerated rate...
VIDEO:  Eric Metaxas on the Church and Religious Freedom
By Monte Larrick   |   09.24.14
Best-selling author Eric Metaxas says the Christian Church in America must boldly defend the religious freedom that allows it to proclaim the Gospel. Mr. Metaxas spoke with IFI before giving the keynote speech at our annual Faith, Family and Freedom...
‘Not Islamic’?
09.23.14
President Barack Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that “ISIL is not Islamic.” But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare that a group of Muslims that calls itself the “Islamic State” is “not Islamic?”
Limbaugh’s ‘Jesus on Trial:’ The Verdict is In
By   |   09.22.14
Attorney, author and columnist David Limbaugh is a man after my own heart. He’s also a man after my own mind. That is to say, as both a fellow member of the bar and follower of Christ, I tremendously appreciate...
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