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White House may back armed guards in schools after all

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

January 11, 2013

Interesting, if only because of the near-unanimous derision that resulted when the NRA's Wayne LaPierre proposed the idea a week after the Newtown shooting.

Critics hooted at LaPierre's detachment from reality before they realized that Bill Clinton had demanded and received the same funding - through the COPS program. We'll get back to Clinton in a moment, but first let's take a look at Barbara Boxer's sudden adoption of the NRA proposal: The Obama administration is considering funding many more police officers in public schools to secure campuses, a leading Democratic senator said, part of a broad gun violence agenda that is likely to include a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks.

White House proposes pay increase for federal workers

Hot Air

by Tina Korbe

January 6, 2012

The "pay freeze" on federal workers has always been a bit of a misnomer; throughout the freeze, workers have still been eligible for step increases and (rightly) increased pay for promotions.

But, today, the White House officially ended the freeze with the announcement of a slight pay increased for federal government employees.

White House Rules by Fiat with No Child Left Behind Waivers

blog.heritage.org

by Mike Brownfield

August 9, 2011

The Obama Administration is circumventing Congress by granting states conditional waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

It's a story we've heard before. Where President Obama can't legislate, he will use executive branch action to accomplish his agenda. In the past, he has applied that tactic in the auto bailout, EPA regulations, and Obamacare. Now he's using this approach to remake No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-the most significant K-12 education law-by granting states conditional waivers from the onerous provisions of NCLB in exchange for adopting a yet-to-be-specified set of executive branch education policy priorities.

White House threatens to veto student loan bill

CNS News

by Alan Fram

April 27, 2012

The White House threatened a veto Friday of a Republican bill keeping the interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer, objecting that the measure would finance its $5.9 billion cost by abolishing a health care program.

The veto threat came as GOP leaders began pushing the legislation toward passage Friday in the House. The warning escalated the election-year clash over a measure that has evolved from a dispute over helping millions of students into a broader proxy battle between the two parties over how to best help families cope with the weak job market and ailing economy. The GOP bill would repeal a preventive care program created under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law of 2010. Picking up on a theme that House Democrats have been sounding this week, the White House said that "women in particular" benefit from the program - a message that reflects the Democratic effort to woo women voters by accusing Republicans of waging a war on them.

White House Underestimated 2012 Deficit by $769.5B--or 138 Percent

CNS News

by Terence P. Jeffrey

February 13, 2012

In February 2009, Obama submitted his first budget to Congress. It boldly predicted that the federal deficit would decrease dramatically during Obama's term, dropping from an estimated $1.841 trillion in fiscal 2009 to $557.4 billion in fiscal 2012.

However, in the fiscal 2013 budget that Obama submitted to Congress today, the White House is predicting that the federal deficit for fiscal 2012 will not be $557.4 billion after all. Instead, the White House says, it will be $1.3269 trillion. That means Obama's fiscal 2010 budget proposal missed on its fiscal 2012 deficit prediction by $769.5 billion--an error of 138 percent.

White House: When Congress Won't Cooperate, Obama Will Take 'Small, Medium and Large' Executive Actions

CNS News

by Fred Lucas

January 3, 2012

President Barack Obama is ready to take "small, medium and large" actions without the consent of Congress, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.

White Student Returns Black Scholarship

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 12, 2012

A white high school senior in California says he returned a private scholarship he received after realizing it was intended for a black student.

Jeffrey Warren, 17, was awarded a $1,000 college scholarship by the Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club at ceremonies in the gym of Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise reported Monday, but after talking with his father, chose to return the money, noting "They announced it was for an African-American."

Who Bought Your Politician? Check With Our Embeddable Widget

Wired.com

by David Kravets

October 15, 2012

Ask politicians whether campaign contributions influence their decisions, and they'll tell you certainly not. Ask any citizen, and they'll likely give the opposite answer.

With that in mind, we're re-introducing a web-based embeddable widget - for anybody to use - that lists the top 10 donors and their contributions to any member of the House and Senate, their opponents, and the presidential candidates. Wired updated the widget in conjunction with Maplight, the Berkeley, California-based nonprofit dedicated to following money and politics. "Corporate influence in politics has gone off the charts, and it's more important than ever for voters to understand who is financing candidates," said Evan Hansen, editor in chief of Wired.com. "Maplight has done the hard work of compiling the data. At Wired, we're happy to help get that information out to the wider public, and share it as broadly as possible with this web-based embeddable widget."

Who owns your kids? Parents ask full 9th Circuit Court to rehear school sex-survey case

World Net Daily

November 30, 2005

Seven California parents filed a petition with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside its controversial decision declaring they had no right to be "exclusive providers of information about sexual matters."

Ruling on a complaint against a sexually charged student survey, the three-judge panel concluded Nov. 2 parents "have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."

Who Pays for Special Ed

Time

by Julie Rawe and Rita Healy

September 17, 2007

Luke Perkins has been living "two disparate lives," court documents say: one at school in Berthoud, Colo., where the autistic boy was making some progress, and the other outside school.

At home the 9-year-old was so unruly he could not take part in such basic activities as going to church or eating in a restaurant. He became so destructive at night that his family resorted to locking him in his bedroom, which had been stripped of furniture because he kept smearing feces all over everything.

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