1. Joseph Klein: The United Nations'
Year-End Message to Israel
2. Ryan Mauro: Assad: 'If I Go, None
of Syria Remains'
3. Kyle Olson: R.I. District Gives Teachers
Annual 11.2% Raise, with No Demand for Improved Performance
The United Nations'
Year-End Message to Israel
By
Joseph
Klein
United
Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon devoted part of his year-end press
conference on December 19th to bashing Israel for its announcement of plans to
build new housing in and around Jerusalem. He claimed that the Israeli
announcement was a "near fatal blow to a very fragile Middle East peace
process."
"I
am deeply concerned by heightened settlement activity in the West Bank, in
particular around Jerusalem," the Secretary General complained. "This
gravely threatens efforts to establish a viable Palestinian state." [more...]
Assad: 'If I Go, None
of Syria Remains'
By Ryan Mauro
Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to "fight to his last bullet"
in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, "If I go, none of Syria
remains." The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to
be warmed by signs of Assad's impending fall, but one Syrian Christian
opposition activist is loudly warning that light is not waiting at the end of
the tunnel. Islamist hordes are. [more...]
R.I. District Gives Teachers
Annual 11.2% Raise, with No Demand for Improved Performance
By
Kyle Olson
It
pays to work for the government. Just ask the teachers in the Westerly, Rhode
Island school district. The school committee just agreed to a new union
collective bargaining agreement that doubles teachers’ pay in nine years. Perhaps
all the news we’ve been hearing about public schools lacking funds has been
exaggerated. The pay raises will come through adjustments to the annual teacher
“step salary” schedule. There will now be nine steps up the salary ladder
instead of 11, and each step will pay teachers more money than in the past... a
lot more, in fact. [more...]
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