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Amarillo school liaison officer fired, arrested on child sex charges

amarillo.com

by Mollie Bryant

September 20, 2013

Amarillo Police Department has fired a school liaison officer, subsequently arrested on child sex charges. Donald Ray Sanders Jr., was arrested Tuesday on a warrant of sexual assault of a child, a Randall County news release said.

A complaint said Sanders sexually assaulted a female minor in July 2004 and admitted committing the offense to a Randall County officer during the investigation. On Sept. 14, APD Chief Robert Taylor received word Sanders was the subject of a criminal investigation conducted by the Randall County Sheriff's Office, police said, and Sanders was immediately placed on administrative leave. An internal APD investigation resulted in Sanders' termination on Monday, police said.

Amazon unveils $199 Kindle Fire tablet

CNS News

by Peter Svensson

September 28, 2011

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday showed off the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color, multipurpose devices.

Bezos also took the opportunity at a New York press event to introduce a new line of Kindle e-readers with black-and-white screens and lower prices, further pressuring competitors like Barnes & Noble Inc. that are trying to break Amazon.com Inc.'s dominance in electronic book sales. The Kindle Fire will go on sale Nov. 15. It's about half the size of the iPad, making it a close match with Barnes & Noble's Nook Color tablet, which came out last year. But while Barnes & Noble sees the Nook Color as jazzed-up e-reader, Amazon has broader goals for the Fire, as a platform for games, movies, music and other applications.

AMD to cut nearly 1,800 jobs or 15 pct of workers

CNS News

October 18, 2012

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says it will cut nearly 1,800 jobs, about 15 percent of its workforce, by the end of the year in order to reduce spending in the face of dwindling sales.

AMD is the world's second-biggest maker of microprocessors for personal computers and PC sales are falling. That's partly due to more consumers shifting away from PCs and doing their computing on tablets and smartphones. CEO Rory Read says AMD needs to quickly restructure its business because trends that are reshaping the PC industry are happening faster than the company expected.

America's Choice: Ron Paul or Unlimited Government

tommullen.net

by Tom Mullen

January 22, 2012

No matter how acrimonious the Republican primaries get, all of the candidates agree on one thing: Barack Obama must be defeated in November 2012.

For 3 of the 4 remaining candidates, that is virtually the only important issue in the Republican primary race. Obama must be defeated and the only issue to resolve in the primaries is who has the best chance of doing so. Only Ron Paul asks the questions that should follow logically: Why is it so important to defeat Obama and what will you do differently from him? In response, most of the Republicans offer only platitudes. "Obama believes in taking from one person and giving to another. He wants to turn the United States into a European social democracy with a massive welfare state, etc." I happen to agree on these points with one caveat - the United States already is a European-style social democracy. That boat sailed many decades ago. With a welfare state measured in trillions that dwarfs the entire economies of most nations of the world, the United States is a poster child for social democracy and is now listed 10th on the Index of Economic Freedom.

America's Education Dilemma: Numbers vs. Children

The Huffington Post

by Dan Brown

April 2, 2007

Classrooms are places of hope and discovery. I envision them as magic carpets that come unattached from stony roots to zip across time and the universe while an endlessly replenished all-you-can-eat buffet of knowledge and insight.

Classrooms are sacred spaces where young people grow up. This is not how the United States Department of Education views classrooms, evidenced by its policy. There are many problems with mandating standardized test proficiency beyond its inherent impossibility of being achieved.

American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments

Wired.com

by Kim Zetter

June 4, 2013

The email appeared to come from a trusted colleague at a renowned academic institution and referenced a subject that was a hot-button issue for the recipient, including a link to a website where she could obtain more information about it.

But when the recipient looked closely at the sender's email address, a tell-tale misspelling gave the phishing attempt away - the email purported to come from a professor at Harvard University, but instead of harvard.edu, the email address read "hardward.edu". Not exactly a professional con-job from nation-state hackers, but that's exactly who may have sent the email to an American woman, who believes she was targeted by forces in Turkey connected to or sympathetic to the powerful Gülen Movement, which has infiltrated parts of the Turkish government.

Americans Aren't Bound To Pay the Government's Debts

reason.com

by Sheldon Richman

September 29, 2013

If the "consent of the governed" is a sacred American principle, how does the government borrow money in our names and compel us to repay the debt?

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling-or, as I call it, the debt sky, because apparently the sky is the limit-the government won't be able to pay all its bills starting October 17. The Congressional Budget Office says that dire condition won't set in until sometime between October 22 and 31. As he has each time this issue has come up, President Obama emphasizes that increasing the debt would only permit the government to pay expenses already incurred and would not finance new spending. To which I again reply, rhetorically: Why is Congress allowed to spend money that it knows it won't possess unless the debt limit is raised? Not only does that violate good sense, it also rigs the debate over the debt limit by threatening default as the price of voting no.

An A for Home Schooling

City Journal

by Brian C. Anderson

July 16, 2011

It's giving 2 million kids a good education, sound values, and a rich family life. If unaccredited parents can do it, why can't the public schools-

An Argument for Privatizing Public Schools

thenewamerican.com

by Bruce Waker

July 29, 2012

Lew Rockwell has suggested a major change in how we educate our young: end public education, at least as an experiment in a few communities, and see real education take place.

Do we need public schools? Lew Rockwell writing for the Ludwig von Mises Institute raises a serious policy question. Some public schools are good, Rockwell notes, and some are bad. (It should be noted that Rockwell's assessment considers academic achievement alone and ignores the further problem of what sort of values are inculcated in the various educational systems.) There is a common element to all public school systems, however: taxpayers support these systems. A predictable corollary to this fact is that the average cost per school, Rockwell writes, is twice that of private schools. This runs counter to conventional popular opinion, which believes that private schools are for the rich and famous while public schools are the only resort of the poor and middle class.

An educational exercise in intellectual honesty

The Real Revo

by MadBrad

April 21, 2011

"...it's not the same thing because I worked for my grades..."

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