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Across the country. >> reporter: their mom is opting out of the tests. it a law aimed at making sure schools measure up. this is forcing teachers spending too much time teaching to the test. >> we lead to the data point. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, students must take it every year in grades three through eight. >> that is insane. >> reporter: in 2014, if 100% of students dont pass, the schools funding could be slashed. for this year, this parent is opting in. >> it a moral dilemma. >> reporter...

So that is sort of one data point. another data point is that the libyan islamic fighting group has done a zeal with the gadhafi government where a, theyve laid down their arms and renounced al qaedas ideology. which i think also suggests that the notion that al qaeda has any big role to play in all this doesnt make a great deal of sense. its not to say that islamists are not part of this, but islamist radicals and militants, even if you take the largest assessment of the size, youre looking at ...

Two numbers in the economy today havent been seen in more than 2 1/2 years. first, the good news. initial jobless claims are down. many while, oil prices hover near $100. here to help us break this down are resident economics professor in the arena, ben stein. you may remember him as someone elses professor. >> buhler? bueller? bueller? >> you know every time youre here i love to play that bit. welcome back. >> i love to see it. thank you. honor to be here. >> makes us all happy. ben, before we ...

President obama came in prop issing to turn the economy around. i gave you three data point house president obama has turns the economy around. you didnt respond. republicans came into office promising to cut the debt and the deficit. yet i gave you a specific example of how the republicans are running away from the big decisions, namely, going after medicare and medicaid and you did not respond to. >> guys, ive been off for a couple of days but i had a severe case of deja vu during this intervi...

Theyre the ones who have been in control of those regimes. on the one hand, if youre interested in the -- if you like the well-being of the muslims, you do not have propped up mubarak for so many years. on the other hand, we can find these regimes that have prospered when the sharia was implemented. and thirdly, i live in britain because i was born here, grew up here. but i dont believe that britain belongs to david cameron or tony blair or to barack obama. britain belongs to allah. there are mo...

Pressure, it looks like it has been pretty level at 6,700, which means, based on their criteria, that they probably got some leak off down below. >> let me ask you about this statement that bp made. there had been a report in "the christian science monitor" that they got the idea for the new cap from an anonymous plumber that one of the suggestions that came in was something incorporate under to this. when bp was asked about it, they said, we dont know. and, i mean, you have members of the bp ex...

Its common sense what you do in business. vince flynn the author of "term limits," and we were when we went into the break here a second ago about the way we treat our military and everything else. i want to stay kind of in that. as data point guy -- id like to hear historical where ayn would stand on this if you can piece anything together -- historical when you look at data point board with the men in corruption the marxists, no expectation privacy in e-mails or location. pushing away israel a...

His hearing that hed reconsider at least some of the applications of the rules. and, you know, my gut feeling is theyll change a little bit. you can, were not going to go all of a sudden to all-out crazy world war ii style conflict in afghanistan. thats not going to happen. but there could be a little bit more flexibility, im guessing, in the number of air strikes that are allowed to be brought in. just take this data point, for example. in iraq once petraeus took over, sorties with munitions dr...

That they are not able to finish firefights or keep themselves safe once firefights start. do you think that those rules are likely to change, and how important will that be? >> well, petraeus said today in his hearing that hed reconsider at least some of the applications of the rules. and, you know, my gut feeling is theyll change a little bit. you can, were not going to go all of a sudden to all-out crazy world war ii style conflict in afghanistan. thats not going to happen. but there could be...

Went into the break here a second ago about the way we treat our military and everything else. i want to stay kind of in that. as data point guy -- id like to hear historical where ayn would stand on this if you can piece anything together -- historical when you look at data point board with the men in corruption the marxists, no expectation privacy in e-mails or location. pushing away israel and britain, two biggest allies, as a fiction writer, where are we headed? >> thats not good. >> glenn: ...