Setting the stage for a debate likely to define the fall election, President Obama on Tuesday plans to accuse Republicans of trying to impose a “radical vision” on the nation through a budget plan that would create a form of “social Darwinism” by pitting the poor against the wealthy. Read full article > >

Read more from the original source:
Obama to assail Republican budget plan as ‘social Darwinism’

Academies, soon to be a majority of secondary schools in England, are showing more signs of continuity than radical upheaval, suggests a survey.

Here is the original post:
Academies ‘reluctant to change’

Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks.

See the original post here:
French Open Probe Into Gunman’s Brother

FOR MORE THAN a decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, France avoided the spectacular plots, attributed to al-Qaeda or its sympathizers, that shocked Britain, Spain and Germany. But the string of killings that led to a police standoff Wednesday with a suspect in Toulouse seems to have much in common with those episodes: an alleged assailant born into an immigrant community, who was radicalized during travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan; a local group of like-minded extremists; and a failure by security forces to head off a threat despite their knowledge of the suspect. Read full article > >

Here is the original post:
Editorial Board: French attacks highlight the country’s immigrant challenge

Here’s a radical proposal for Mitt Romney : If he wants to pick up the much-coveted support of Ron Paul ’s energized and organized “army,” the best way to their hearts might be through their lungs. We don’t expect the teetotaling former Massachusetts governor, who has said he supports the federal ban on marijuana, to take the leafy bait — but there are a few reasons it might not be such a wacky idea, once the GOP field has shaken out and he’s the last man standing. Read full article > >

Excerpt from:
In the Loop: How can Romney make Ron Paul fans his buds? Back pot legalization.

The national battle over the best way to fix failing schools is ripping through this desert town like a sandstorm, tearing apart a community that is testing a radical new approach: the parent takeover. Read full article > >

View original post here:
Parent trigger: School tests California law that allows takeover via petition

Zachary Adam Chesser, the 22-year-old Oakton High School graduate who converted to Islam as a teen and pleaded guilty last year to terrorism-related charges, represents the future of online Islamist radicalization, according to a report to be released Monday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Read full article > >

Read the original:
Oakton High grad guilty in terror case is cited in report on future of Islamist extremism

David Cameron says radical cleric Abu Qatada should have been deported to Jordan “years ago” and he still wants to see this happen.

View post:
PM: Qatada outcome ‘unacceptable’

Radical cleric Abu Qatada is granted bail following a hearing at the UK’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission.

Originally posted here:
Radical cleric Qatada given bail

War, said James Madison, is “the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, “War is the health of the state.” Hence Barack Obama’s State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war. Read full article > >

Continued here:
Obama to the nation: Onward civilian soldiers

Radical plans to reduce the number of parliamentary seats by a quarter in Wales are unveiled by the Boundary Commission.

Original post:
MPs’ seats ‘to be cut by quarter’

The chair of the Welsh Language Society – Cymdeithas yr Iaith – says the group will have to change “radically” in its 50th year.

More here:
Language body’s ‘radical’ change

Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect waging an increasingly sophisticated sectarian fight, claimed the attack on the church near Abuja that killed at least 25 as well as a second bombing in Jos.

Here is the original post:
Explosion Rips Through Catholic Church in Nigeria

JERUSALEM — Defying a crackdown on Jewish extremists ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, vandals set fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti after Israeli forces tore down structures in an unauthorized settlement outpost. The arson attack in the Palestinian village of Burqa, near Ramallah, was the latest in a string of similar attacks on mosques in the West Bank. It came a day after an unused mosque was vandalized in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. Read full article > >

See the original post here:
Vandals torch West Bank mosque, Jewish extremists suspected

BERLIN — Amid crushing unemployment, slashed benefits and deep pessimism about Europe’s future stands one beacon of cheer this holiday season: Germany, where shoppers are spending more than they have in years. The country whose leaders have the most power to address the euro crisis is also the one that has been most insulated from its effects, resulting in an unhurried pace to address the continent’s problems as others gnash their teeth. While Germany preaches the virtues of governments not spending more than they have, its own means have proved expansive, with unemployment the lowest in decades and government benefits largely untouched. Read full article > >

More here:
Germany’s shoppers are still spending