Remember PAYGO? Congress promised not to add to the deficit with any new spending. This article gives us an idea of just what politicians promises are worth.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
FOXNews.com - Illinois School Nixes Basketball Team's Trip to Arizona Over Immigration Law
What is truly hysterical is that the school claims that the decision is not a political statement but rather a question of safety. How many people actually believe that? Um, that would be ZERO. The truth is that some educational bureaucrat had a political ax to grind and if he had to grind it on the dreams and aspirations of students he feigns such concern for, no matter how hard they worked to achieve them, so be it.
FOXNews.com - Illinois School Nixes Basketball Team's Trip to Arizona Over Immigration Law
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FOXNews.com - Illinois School Nixes Basketball Team's Trip to Arizona Over Immigration Law
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Detention for Candy
The story below makes me think of what would have happened in my house when I was growing up if a similar situation were to arise. I too would have come home afraid to tell my mom that I was getting a weeks detention for breaking a rule except in my case, and in many of my contemporaries, I suspect, it wouldn't have mattered what the rule was, breaking it was grounds for a concurrent sentence at home. If she felt that the punishment was a little harsh or did not fit the crime, she would not tell me. She would take it up, if at all neccesary, with the teacher privately. However the incident described in this story was no where near the point that would raise my mothers ire at the teacher or the school but even if it was I would never have known it, not even today. Parents and teachers are too often adversaries rather than teamates these days, often in a competition to see who can be more popular with the kids, who can be the better buddy. Was one week detention too harsh? I don't think so, assuming the rule and the consequences for breaking it were known by the students. Consequences mean nothing if not applied and they only become unfair when not applied eqauly to all.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Congress shall make no law...
It seems that in one particular senior center in Georgia, senior citizens are being told that because a large portion of the cost of their meals is being covered by federal money they are no longer allowed to pray out loud before their meal. Now this did not come about as the result of a complaint by any of the senior citizens that use the center, nor by any of the employees or volunteers that work there but by an executive of the food vendor that supplies the food, one Mr. Tim Rutherford. He claims that he his only obeying federal guidelines that he must observe as a federal contractor. The only problem is that the US Constitution expressly forbids such regulations in the clearest possible language. The founders considered it such an important principle to establish at a time when state sponsored religious persecution was quite common that it gave these words pride of place as the very first words of the Bill of Rights, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." There are no exceptions to this law. None. But then, perhaps its the unambiguous clarity of this legal document that so confounds lawyers and befuddles jurists. For more on this story please click here.
Monday, May 3, 2010
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