Many Missteps in Assessment of ISIS Threat

PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT,  The New York Times

By late last year, classified American intelligence reports painted an increasingly ominous picture of a growing threat from Sunni extremists in Syria, according to senior intelligence and military officials.

What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs

by Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones,  ProPublica

This story was co-published with The New York Times.

On Tuesday, the federal government is expected to release details of payments to doctors by every pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in the country.

Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash

by Jake Bernstein,  ProPublica

Barely a year removed from the devastation of the 2008 financial crisis, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York faced a crossroads. Congress had set its sights on reform.

Watch Bill Gates Confirm Everybody’s Worst Fears About Common Core

by Robby Soave,  Reason

Common Core critics contend that national education standards will erode local decision-making on school issues while promoting a national curriculum of sorts.

The Inconvenient Truths of Evil and ISIS

by Bill S(Diary),  Red State

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that we must eradicate the evil of ISIS by killing them. 

Boy killed because he might grow up Christian [VIDEO]

Alana Cook,  WND

A Christian girl who fled Nigeria after Islamic terrorists killed her family on Tuesday relayed to journalists in Washington the macabre conversation Boko Haram members had just before they shot and killed her brother.