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Articles by Victor Morton

D.C. OKs charter, adult-ed funding

The D.C. Council unanimously proposed Tuesday to bolster funds for charter schools, restore cuts to adult-education programs and leave several aspects of the mayor's education spending plans unchanged.

May 12, 2010

Pope’s childhood home vandalized

The childhood home of the future Pope Benedict XVI was paint-vandalized Tuesday evening with obscene writings, according to German police.

April 14, 2010

School denies canceling Coulter speech

The University of Ottawa denied responsibility Wednesday for the cancellation of Ann Coulter's speech there, a claim ridiculed by the conservative commentator's team.

March 25, 2010

Canadian protest shuts down Coulter

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, on a speaking tour of Canada this week addressing political correctness and freedom of speech, found herself silenced Tuesday when organizers canceled a speech at the University of Ottawa after deciding it was too risky to stage the event.

March 23, 2010

Airliner suicide mission blessed by imam

The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect.

December 30, 2009

Obama hits ‘systemic failure’ over terror tip

President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies suffered an unacceptable "systemic failure" in their handling of information from the father of a Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up an airliner over Detroit.

December 30, 2009

Awlaki personally blessed Detroit attack

The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.

December 29, 2009

Inside Blogotics

At his popular Red State site, Erick Erickson quoted extensively from a Sept. 19, 2001, column by Barack Obama, in which the future president blamed the previous week's terrorist attacks on "a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

December 29, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, said on Sunday's political talk shows that he could not vote for a bill that includes either a "public option" government-run insurance program or the substitute proposal to let people between ages 55 and 64 "buy into" Medicare.

December 15, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Jill Stanek wasn't shedding any tears; Sunsara Taylor was. They agreed on one thing: Last week's Stop Stupak rally was a bust.

December 8, 2009

Inside Blogotics

A chart making the rounds at conservative blogs compares by presidential administration the private-sector experience of Cabinet-level officers. Guess who finished last ...

December 1, 2009

Inside Blogotics

MSNBC's Chris Matthews was one of the first of the punditocracy to go head over heels for Barack Obama — the notorious quote was "I felt this thrill going up my leg." However, several bloggers noted the first signs of a cramp last week.

November 24, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Wait a minute. … Isn't the script supposed to be, "Republican accuses Democrats of being un-American; Democrats express outrage at McCarthyism"?

November 17, 2009