Climate Change! Really?

Climate Change! Really?

by James Delingpole- Via Breitbart- Over the next 10 days, 140 world leaders – including Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and David Cameron – will descend on Paris to join 40,000 delegates at the UN’s COP21 climate conference. Here is why they might just as well not have bothered. 1. There has been no ‘global warming’ since 1997 monckton1 So, of all the children round the world currently being taught in schools about the perils of man-made global warming, not a single one has lived through a period in which the planet was actually warming. 2. The polar bears are doing … [Read more...]

“NO” on No Child Left Behind Reauthorization (S. 1177)

“NO” on No Child Left Behind Reauthorization (S. 1177)

“NO” on No Child Left Behind Reauthorization (S. 1177) Via Heritage - This week, the House will vote on the conference report for S. 1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This long sought-after revision of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) falls well short in rolling back federal intervention in education, and in many ways represents a step backwards for conservative education policy. Last December, The Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey Burke put forward four crucial benchmarks for any overhaul of No Child Left Behind. ESSA falls well short on each and every requirement. Importantly for … [Read more...]