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The Texas State Board of Education is studying how textbook publishers responded to the state’s ideologically driven guidelines for teaching history. The results, say historians, are dire. Four years ago, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) adopted new standards, known as TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills), for social studies textbooks in the state’s…
Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits. The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS. The documents were written by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency…
The revelations contradict the official line of Western government on their policies in Syria, and raise disturbing questions about secret Western support for violent extremists abroad, while using the burgeoning threat of terror to justify excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home. Among the batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch through…
This is Yuka Kinoshita. And today, we are going watch her eat so much fucking food. In Japanese, Kinoshita is called a “gluttonous beautiful woman” (大食い美女 or “oogui bijyo). Her YouTube channel is popular, and features videos of her doing things like eating one hundred Chicken McNuggets: Which is a snap for her. For her,…
Ellie Evangelista loves dressing up as her favorite superhero, Spider-Man. View Full Caption Courtesy of Margaret Ryan HUDSON HEIGHTS — She’s just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Like many 4-year-olds, Hudson Heights resident Ellie Evangelista loves to dress up like her favorite superhero and act out scenes of Spider-Man’s death-defying bravery. Then some boys…
SACRAMENTO — California would increase the minimum smoking age to 21 years old under a bill approved by the state Senate on Tuesday. Raising the age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 would go a long way in helping discourage youth from smoking, said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina (Los Angeles County), who authored…
It was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy! Are you Muslim? What do you…
(Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) In Sunday’s New York Times, Wednesday Martin claims to blow the lid off a certain set of fashionable, hedge-fund dependent Upper East Side wives with children. It’s a group with whom she spent six years socializing at the playground and in other casual settings—an experience Martin, who holds a BA in anthropology,…
Photo Going to school on the Upper East Side. Credit Erin Baiano for The New York Times A few weeks ago, a woman named Wednesday Martin, a hobby anthropologist whose graduate degree is in comparative literature, published an op-ed article in The New York Times outlining some of the observations she makes in her forthcoming…
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