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From the "when all else fails, lower your standards" department: Average reading and writing SAT scores for high school students declined to their lowest levels (dropping 1 point to 496, while math remained the same at 514). The article does note that more lower-income students with less access to high-quality education are taking the test, possibly providing an explanation for the lower test scores.

"We hear it day in and day out: the government sucks, federal employees are lazy and their positions are redundant," said march organizer Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop, a social networking Web site for public servants.

I like to take a slightly skewed bent on this time honored tradition. I like to look back on everything I found most revolting in the last year and brainstorm little everyday revolutionary acts that can help me keep my sanity in the year to come. Here are 10 New Year’s Revolutions for your everyday anti-Fed activist. Some of these I’ve done myself, and others I have set as goals, but they are all within reach for most people

Do you feel like you have little time for hikes, family time, or other fun activities? Are American marriages falling apart because there is little time to spend nurturing them, since so many Americans spend so much time working? Do Americans have time to grow/cook organic foods to eat healthier? Maybe it is because Americans work the most. At what age are some Europeans retiring? Is there any hope of retirement at all for some Americans?

It is very important when running a business to manage your time and your work well. Time management will allow you to maximize your time and take on more freelance writing assignments. Get a calendar and write down what writing assignments you have to do and when they are due. Give yourself plenty of time to work on each assignment so that you can make sure they are the absolute best that you can do.

Slavery existed for thousands of years, in all sorts of societies and all parts of the world. To imagine human social life without it required an extraordinary effort. Yet, from time to time, eccentrics emerged to oppose it, most of them arguing that slavery is a moral monstrosity and therefore people should get rid of it. Such advocates generally elicited reactions ranging from gentle amusement to harsh scorn and even violent assault.

Will ObamaCare turn us into a nation of part-time employees?

As the Supreme Court ponders whether the Obama administration can constitutionally take over the private sector when it comes to health care – and then order all Americans to buy health insurance—an unintended consequence is lurking in the government’s unemployment figures. Plagued by fears of explosive costs from mandated healthcare, companies are quietly transitioning much of the American workforce into a nation of part-time employees.

"In a time of rigged voting machines and rule by decree, a time of military tribunals and tortured defendants, the concept of evidence and accountability is a joke. Consider the current bin Laden farce what it was intended to be, the American government reminding its people and the people of the world how little respect it has for them."