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Saturday, July 16, 2005
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Fewer Children Left Behind. The Democrats attack President Bush as a loser, but if he's a loser we could use more like him. First the economy improves and now it's education. President Bush's fiscal policies have included enough of the right kind of tax cuts to trigger a strong economic expansion, complete with job growth, export growth, GDP growth and tax receipt growth. Now, wouldn't you know it, education seems to be improving so much that even The New York Times has to notice: America's elementary school students made solid gains in both reading and math in the first years of this decade, while middle school students made less progress and older teenagers hardly any, according to test results issued today that are considered the best measure of the nation's long-term education trends.
Nine-year-old minority students made the most gains on the test, administered by the United States Department of Education. In particular, young black students significantly narrowed the historic gap between their math and reading scores and those of higher-achieving whites, who also made significant gains. Note that part about middle school kids making less progress than elementary school kids, and high school kids making none at all. Isn't it interesting that the No Child Left Behind Act is aimed primarily at the elementary school level. Three months ago, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings called for NCLB to be expanded to high schools and the data appear to support her. [GOP Bloggers]
12:19:38 AM 
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If Charles Krauthammer is not a regular part of your Friday routine, he should be.
The fact that native-born Muslim Europeans are committing terrorist acts in their own countries shows that this Islamist malignancy long predates Iraq, long predates Afghanistan and long predates Sept. 11, 2001. What Europe had incubated is an enemy within, a threat that for decades Europe simply refused to face...
But the problem is far deeper. It is essentially a civil war within a rival civilization in which the most primitive elements are seeking to gain the upper hand. Sept. 11 forced us to intervene massively in this civil war, which is why we are in Iraq. There, as in Afghanistan, we have enlisted millions of Muslims on the anti-Islamist side.
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12:18:16 AM
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Also needs no explaination. Thanks to GOP bloggers.Rumsfeld Victory in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
A federal district court ruling, widely touted by liberals, that found fault with the government's military tribunals has been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit, which is the penultimate court in America. This decision is a victory in the war on terror.
Check out Powerline for analysis by the legal minds there.
UPDATE:
A federal appeals court put the Bush administration's military commissions for terrorist suspects back on track Friday, saying a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison who once was Osama bin Laden's driver can stand trial.
A three-judge panel ruled 3-0 against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose case was halted by a federal judge on grounds that commission procedures were unlawful.
"Congress authorized the military commission that will try Hamdan," said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The protections of the 1949 Geneva Convention do not apply to al Qaeda and its members, so Hamdan does not have a right to enforce its provisions in court, the appeals judges said. Now that the top federal appeals court has confirmed that the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists, as we have already stated, can the media drop the whole debate about it?
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12:13:15 AM
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Needs no explaination. From PowerLine.com That Was Then, This Is Now.
This ABC News video from five years ago, courtesy of Media Research Center, is a classic. Before Democrats had a partisan motive to claim, contrary to all the evidence, that there was no relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and bin Laden's al Qaeda, their close and dangerous relationship was common knowledge. That common knowledge is reflected in this ABC news report, as it was in the Clinton administration's indictment of bin Laden in 1998 for, among other things, collaborating with Saddam on weapons of mass destruction.
It really is a fascinating question: in this era of digital media, can the news media and the Democrats get away with trying to flush what they said as recently as 1998 and 2000 down the memory hole?
Let's hope not.
Thanks to reader Adam Smith. [Power Line]
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