Jun 8, 2011 – The Los Angeles Unified School District squanders more than $500 million a year on an academic-improvement strategy that has consistently proven to be ineffective, researchers concluded in a report released Tuesday. The nation's second-largest school system spends 25% of its teacher payroll ($519 million a year) to compensate teachers...

Jun 8, 2011 – Are the deficit and national debt America’s biggest economic problem? Or are its 13.9 million people seeking jobs the biggest issue? President Obama has decided to favor Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who believes the deficit and debt are more important. But if the U.S. decided that jobs mattered more, would...

Jun 8, 2011 – Coulter was on The View to promote her new book, Demonic, which you can get free with a subscription to Townhall Magazine, which has…

Jun 8, 2011 – SINGAPORE (AP) -- Eye scanners and futuristic security tunnels may be standard in airports soon as the airline industry seeks to maintain safety while reducing the hassles of boarding a plane that deter some people from flying. The International Air Transport Association unveiled a mock-up Tuesday in Singapore of what...

Jun 8, 2011 – WASHINGTON — The leaders of the Federal Reserve are talking like people ready to sit down and let others take the lead in addressing the nation’s economic problems. “Monetary policy cannot be a panacea,” the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, told an audience of bankers Tuesday in Atlanta....

Jun 8, 2011 – ATLANTA — The latest round in the ongoing fight over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is being heard Wednesday in the federal appeals court in Atlanta. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments on whether to reverse a Florida judge’s...

Jun 8, 2011 – Democrats and allied groups including Emily’s List are framing Republican moves to cut federal spending as a war on women, an effort aimed at influencing the 2012 elections. Support from women voters helped propel Republican gains in the 2010 elections. Democrats are hoping to reverse that next year by...

Jun 8, 2011 – Raymond Carnevale, former finance chief in Hackensack, New Jersey, didn’t wait for Governor Chris Christie to end payouts for unused sick time and vacation. He cashed in 402 accrued days for $267,573 and retired last May with an annual pension of $39,868. “To say it’s getting out while the...

Jun 8, 2011 – Soon after the Arab revolts began, thousands of West Bankers and Gazans took to the streets. Unlike their fellow Arabs, however, the Palestinians clamored for new unity efforts rather than new leaders. For their parts, both the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas’ de facto government...

Jun 8, 2011 – Reporting from Sacramento -- Republican lawmakers are prepared to let voters decide whether to close California's stubborn budget deficit with higher taxes in exchange for major changes in state spending, public pensions and regulatory policies. But a week before the legal deadline for a spending plan, and with lawmakers' pay...

Jun 8, 2011 – On April 1, 2011, the South African judge Richard Goldstone published an op-ed in The Washington Post qualifying some claims he had made in a controversial UN report on Israel’s conduct during its 2008 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. His apparent retraction of an important claim in the report --...

Jun 8, 2011 – Tim Pawlenty’s economic policy speech on Tuesday took direct aim at President Obama. But the intended target may have been someone else entirely. By offering a dramatic tax-cut proposal, the former Republican governor of Minnesota was sending a message to the party’s front-runner, Mitt Romney, that he does not intend...

Jun 8, 2011 – Long-shot GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Tuesday lashed out at CNN as "elitist" for not allowing him to participate in the network's primary debate. Johnson, the libertarian-leaning former New Mexico governor, participated in the Fox News-sponsored first primary debate in South Carolina last month. But he was excluded...

Jun 8, 2011 – Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said Tuesday that if he were president, he would not nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a third term. The GOP presidential candidate has been critical of the Fed's efforts to pump money into the economy and said that Bernanke has...

Jun 8, 2011 – Former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman is making a "mistake" to skip the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday. Grassley, the dean of Iowa's congressional delegation, called into question Huntsman's assumption that because he opposes subsidies for ethanol, he couldn't compete in the caucuses, the first nominating...

Jun 8, 2011 – Ron Paul said Tuesday he is the only Republican presidential candidate in the field with "credibility" on economic issues. Even though Republicans have moved in his direction on issues such as skepticism of the Federal Reserve and drastically reducing the size of government, other candidates are still "part of the...

Jun 8, 2011 – West Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)- Former Pennsylvania senator and –since Monday– Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is standing by comments he made regarding "enhanced interrogation" and Sen. John McCain's position on the technique. Santorum caught flack just over two weeks ago when he said McCain, a former prisoner of war,...

Jun 8, 2011 – Home prices around the country have fallen into a double dip. After declining around 30 percent from their peak, they started to rise a bit last summer with the help of a federal tax credit. But with that stimulus gone, prices are now sliding again to new lows. And while...

Jun 8, 2011 – Last week, rumors swirled that Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina could be a potential presidential candidate, and while that may no longer be the case, the conservative undoubtedly will play a leading role in the 2012 election cycle. But ask the senator what his playbook will be for getting...

Jun 8, 2011 – (Newser) – A unit of soldiers on their way home had to shell out nearly $3000 of their own money in excess baggage fees to Delta Airlines. The troops, whose orders stated that they could check in up to four bags free of charge, had to pay $200 for every...

Jun 8, 2011 – In January, the United States and much of the international community celebrated as the people of south Sudan voted in a long-awaited referendum on whether to secede from Sudan and form a new country. Ninety-eight percent voted yes. The balloting was considered free and fair; U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated...

Jun 8, 2011 – As stimuli wane and the economy flags, disappointment or danger could loom. "All in." That's when poker players have all their chips in the pot, betting all they have left on this one hand, which they hope won't be their last. "All in" pretty well describes the state of U.S....

Jun 8, 2011 – Rep. Michele Bachmann’s prospective 2012 campaign appears increasingly set on a collision course with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The coming confrontation is being driven by a belief in Bachmann’s camp that the same grassroots, conservative primary voters and caucus-goers may have to choose between the two women—and that they...

Jun 8, 2011 – President Obama on Wednesday will outline the expansion of a worker-training program intended to boost the manufacturing sector. The Skills for America’s Future program is an industry-led initiative intended to improve partnerships with community colleges and create easier-to-understand, uniform job-training requirement standards for prospective manufacturing employees. Obama will speak...

Jun 8, 2011 – Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide. Over the past 60 years, it has accelerated steadily as new technologies and management expertise have reduced transportation and transaction costs and as tariffs and other man-made barriers to international trade have been lowered. The impact has been stunning. More and...