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Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard

(March 12) -- Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Education. The board voted to enact new teaching standards for history and social studies that will alter which material gets...

Forget Ryan Grant, Who Is Next Year's McLovin?

While most fantasy experts love opining about the potential bust out performances for the upcoming season, typically the true sleepers stem from injuries and unexpected depth chart reshuffling. So, while it may seem prudent to focus your attention on uncovering these hidden gems at this point in the preseason amidst the...

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Battling Beavers On 'Duck Dynasty'

Beavers can be pesky critters, and on Wednesday night's episode of " Duck Dynasty " (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on A&E) the elder Robertsons showed just how they deal with them.

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05/24/12 The Learning Network Blog: What's on Your Summer... Source: The New York Times - New York NY If you're in school, no doubt you have some assigned reading this summer â but we hope you also have some books you want to read (and, of course, we hope you'll participate in at least a few weeks of our summer reading contest ).
05/22/12 THE BEAR'S LAIR : The looting of savers Source: Asia Times The French and Greek elections have made the "austerity" programs favored by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other sensible policymakers seem politically highly unattractive (never mind that the spending cuts proposed by the austere have almost universally not happened, while tax increases have been onerous).
05/21/12 Waldron on Natural Law Source: Legal Theory Jeremy Waldron (New York University (NYU) - School of Law) has posted What is Natural Law Like?
05/19/12 Chronicles of human progress Source: Times-News of Burlington - Burlington NC Something we haven't heard many university commencement speakers discuss this year is our Western heritage _ or the related topics of "Western civilization,""Great Books" or "the classics."
05/18/12 Densic: Render onto whom? Source: Toledo Free Press - Toledo OH In the late 1800s, Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper of the Netherlands posited an organizational hierarchy now known as "Sphere Sovereignty."

Background on John Locke

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

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