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BIDLACK: The media as public enemy — and other dangerous notions
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When a president, or anyone for that matter, does something that no president has ever done before, there are usually two possibilities: First, that the individual in question has come up with a brilliant idea never before considered by his predecessors, or two, that he has come up with a bad idea, never adopted by…
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Attorney General Coffman, Democratic challengers sound alarm over Comey memo
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into allegations that President Donald Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down a federal probe into Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor, according to accounts of a memo Comey wrote after a meeting with the president. Coffman, a Republican…
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Noonan: US results flat on international PISA tests while Singapore brings home the gold
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The tower in Pisa leans over in a predictable manner due to a 3-meter foundation set in weak, unstable subsoil, according to authorities. The PISA tests, aka the Program for International Student Assessment, also produce predictable results across 72 countries with 500,000 tested students representing 28 million 15-year-olds. PISA is not an achievement test. It…


