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'Fresh Prince' Voice Mail Alarms Schools

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

March 5, 2013

A voice mail tune on a phone in Beaver County, Pa., was mistaken as a threat, and officials closed down schools for 20 minutes.

The voice mail actually played the theme from the 1990s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which contains a line, "And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school," the Beaver County Times reported. Officials thought the line was about "shooting people outside of the school," the newspaper said.

'First Amendment Cop' Stands Up for Protesters

FindLaw

by Andrew Lu

November 30, 2012

In a video that's gone viral, so-called "First Amendment cop" Stan Lenic lays down the (constitutional) law as protesters and airport officials argue over the right to hand out fliers.

The video shows a protester handing out fliers to passengers at the Albany International Airport in New York. She warns them of the health risks of going through full-body scanners and reminds them of their right to opt out, reports Albany's WNYT-TV. Then the airport's public relations guru Doug Myers approaches. He tells the young woman to turn off the camera and leave the area. Enter the "First Amendment cop" (actually, Sheriff's Deputy Lenic), who looks like he's going to back up Myers' cause. But what Lenic does next has made him a hero for free-speech advocates around the Internet.

'Exhausted' honour student shown no mercy and jailed for truancy... Works two jobs to support family

dailymail.co.uk

by Hannah Rand

May 25, 2012

Since the parents of Diane Tran, 17, divorced out of the blue and left Texas, the honour student has worked two jobs as well as studying to support the family.

An eleventh grader in Texas was thrown in jail - just for missing school. However, honour student Diane Tran, 17, is no lazy truant. In fact, she's quite the opposite. Since her parents divorced and left her and her two siblings, she has been the sole breadwinner and works two jobs to keep the family afloat.

'Corporate Welfare' Costs Taxpayers Almost $100 Billion in FY 2012, Cato Report Finds

CNS News

by Sabrina Gladstone

August 3, 2012

Subsidies to businesses in the federal budget in Fiscal Year 2012 cost taxpayers almost $100 billion, according to a new report from the Cato Institute.

"That includes direct and indirect subsidies to small businesses, large corporations, and industry organizations," the libertarian think-tank said in its latest policy analysis. The subsidies are handed out from programs in many federal departments, including the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development, the report noted. At the same time, the federal government will run its fourth consecutive deficit in excess of $1 trillion this year.

'Class Warfare' by Steven Brill - Book Review

nytimes.com

by Sara Mosle

August 21, 2011

In "Class Warfare," Steven Brill brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform and mounts a zealous case against America's teachers' unions.

Like a dogged prosecutor, he mounts a zealous case against America's teachers' unions. From more than 200 interviews, he collects the testimony of idealistic educators, charter school founders, policy gurus, crusading school superintendents and billionaire philanthropists.

'Campus Climate' Committees Preach Tolerance While Attacking Free Speech By Conservatives

CNS News

by Ron Meyer

February 28, 2012

The tolerance and inclusiveness college campuses brag so much about aren't being extended to conservative students, former Young America's Foundation intern, and current UCLA student, Samantha Schutte explains.

Administrators and student leaders love to throw around buzzwords like 'diversity', 'unity', and 'inclusivity'. Many college campuses have entire advisory committees, or even chancellors, whose sole purpose is to promote a positive "campus climate." The stated goal is to maintain civility and mutual respect. But these committees have the unrealistic notion that every group on a campus can get along and never fight.

'Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness'

BMJ Publishing Group

by Jeanne Lenzer

July 16, 2011

Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 to conduct a "comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system."

The president's commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children. According to the commission, "Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviours and emotional disorders." Schools, are in a "key position" to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools.

'Bully' makes case for homeschooling

wnd.com

April 12, 2012

Documentary explores systemic violence children endure on campus.

You can laugh at nutty right-wingers who home-school their kids because they don't want them to learn about evolution; you can sneer at dirty hippies who unschool their kids at home because they can't be tied to the Man's curriculum, man. Laugh and sneer all you want, but those home-schooled and unschooled kids are not being hounded to death - literally, in a case documented on-screen in "Bully" - by their peers.

$99 Fee Spells the End of Three School Districts' Participation in Spelling Bee

Kitsap Sun

by Chris Henry

December 12, 2007

The Scripps National Spelling Bee program, citing financial pressures, has instituted a $99 per school participation fee, leading the Bremerton, Central Kitsap and South Kitsap school districts to opt out of the annual bee.

Students in those districts can sign up in the home school category; the deadline is Friday. For individual families who are not members of bee-enrolled home school associations, there is a $10 fee per family for materials and enrollment.

$7,060,259,674,497.51--Federal Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Obama

CNS News

by Terry Jeffrey

August 6, 2014

The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during the slightly more than five and a half years Barack Obama has been president.

That is more than the debt increased under all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined, and it is more debt than was accumulated in the first 227 years of this nation's existence--from 1776 through 2003. The total federal debt first passed the $7-trillion mark on Jan. 15, 2004, after President George W. Bush had been in office almost three years.

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