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gothamschools.org - 5/12/2009

Just How Gullible Is David Brooks?

— gothamschools.org — Now that I have your attention … Today’s New York Times column by David Brooks touts a... new study by Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academy charter schools, two celebrated schools in Harlem. Fryer and Dobbie’s ... (more) Just How Gullible Is David Brooks?

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librarygrape.com - 5/15/2009

Thoughts on the State of Play of the Torture Debate

— librarygrape.com — DougJ perfectly sums up where my head is at right now on the whole torture debate: At... this point, it’s worth considering what the claims about her being briefed mean and where this is all going. My view is that the story that Pelosi was briefed on waterboarding is subterfuge , like the quilts ... (more) Thoughts on the State of Play of the Torture Debate

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Power Line — Last week New York Times columnist David Brooks invoked the Westerns of director John Ford to criticize putative Republican orthodoxy. The column understandably had to simplify both sides of the equation, but Brooks didn't get near the heart of either one. I particularly appreciate his advice that, before they can begin to rebound, Republicans "will have to to find a leader who is calm, prudent, reassuring and reasonable." No scary people need apply. At the September 2007 annual convention of the American Polical Science Association, the Claremont Institute devoted a panel to John Ford. Included among the ...