by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
ProPublica, Jan. 3, 2012, 

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Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion\”. ~ Jack Welch

We are about to begin refighting old fights within the Republican Party. In large part we can blame George W. Bush for this. Seriously.

The Philadelphia archdiocese plans to close 48 Catholic schools, as part of a sweeping program designed to restore economic stability to an endangered parochial-school system.

by Phyllis Schlafly January 4, 2012

Phyllis Schlafly

Just before sneaking off to Hawaii where he barred news photos on the golf course, President Obama overturned longstanding U.S. policy that prohibited internet gambling. In yet another presidential shenanigan that bypasses U.S. law, Obama used the device of a secret Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion, dated in September and quietly released to the public on Christmas Eve.

The Justice Department opinion opens the door for all U.S. states to sell lottery tickets over the internet, and to encourage varieties of online web-based gambling such as poker.