As Andrew Leonard at Salon and Patrick Goldstein of The Los Angeles Times note, there is a growing conservative backlash against Avatar and Swier's column is one of the crazier we've seen. (treehugger.com)
The ruling by O'Connor, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, gives an initial victory to the states, which filed their lawsuit amid building national conservative backlash to the Obama administration's stance on transgender rights. (businessinsider.com)
The only possible outcome of Secretary Duncan putting more federal pressure on the states to adopt the Common Core is stoke the fires of conservative backlash — and to lose many of the states that have already signed on. (educationnext.org)