Students Stage Walkout In Support Of Deputy Fired Over Viral Video

Hundreds of students at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. staged a brief walkout on Friday in support of the school resource officer and football coach who was fired earlier this week after video emerged of him dragging a female student out of her desk and slamming her onto the ground.

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Indiana Ends Common Core Education Standards

Indiana’s experiment with Common Core is over. ✧ Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation Monday requiring the state to come up with its own academic standards, making Indiana the latest state to pull its support for the national education standards known as Common Core.

“I believe our students are best served when decisions about education are made at the state and local level. By signing this legislation, Indiana has taken an important step forward in developing academic standards that are written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, and are uncommonly high.”

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Some Republicans Say Open to US Climate Change Bill

CNBC (Reuters), 4/13/2010 - Some prominent Republican senators expressed openness Tuesday to a U.S. climate change bill that might be introduced next week and that would need bipartisan support to have any chance of advancing. Read more at CNBC...

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Joe Lieberman: I'll block vote on Harry Reid's plan

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. ∴ Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid has said the Senate bill will. More at Politico... Read More......

Health Care: Clear Majority Now Backs Plan

WASHINGTON POST, 10/20/2009 by Dan Balz and Jon Cohen (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - Americans still divided on overall packages. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public. Read more at the Washington Post... Read More......

Appeal for Courage Update

Graham Accepts Petition Signed by Service Members Urging Congress to Support Iraq Mission
Victory Caucus, May 10, 2007, Dave Thul wrote,

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) led U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives in accepting a petition - the Appeal for Courage -- signed by more than 2,800 U.S. service members urging Congress to support the mission in Iraq and end calls for retreat. A full 60 percent of the petition signers have previously served or are now serving in Iraq ."The men and women who are doing the fighting and dying -- the ultimate stakeholders -- want to send a different message than Congress is sending," said Graham. "They want people to know they are committed to Victory in Iraq and they don't want Congress to undercut them. They know victory is possible. I hear them and I wish others would too."

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Way to go Jon Voight!

Patriot Jon Voight surprised many on the O'Reilly Factor on Wednesday, April 26. Watch the video segment at Hot Air. Read More......