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'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.

'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.

'Castle Doctrine' Law Already Altering Justice Proceedings

Flathead Beacon

by Dan Testa

September 27, 2009

Kerns' House Bill 228, passed this year, states that Montanans have no obligation to retreat or seek law enforcement assistance, in their home or anywhere else, before using deadly force if threatened.

The law also prevents landlords or hotel owners from curbing their tenants] gun rights, and places the burden of proof in self-defense shootings on the state, instead of the shooter. That last item is what has had repercussions throughout Montana in recent months.

'Certified organic' farming: How federal regulations help Big Agriculture

mercedsunstar.com

by John E. Sununu

July 14, 2012

Once upon a time, all you needed to be an organic farmer in America was a pair of Birkenstocks and a commitment to keep your products chemical-free. Those idealistic days of the 1990s are long gone.

Today, organic farming is a $30 billion industry dominated by Big Agriculture, backed up by Uncle Sam and a federal rulebook that gets longer every day. Today, the National Organic Standards Board keeps a list of 250 nonorganic food additives that can be used under the "certified organic" label. That's three times the number listed just 10 years ago. As the Soviets proved time and again, a good central committee can kill just about anything. Only a few farmers saw this coming.

'Conservative Message Deficiency' Syndrome (CMD)

CNS News

by Elaine Donnelly

November 7, 2012

The first step in solving a problem is to first recognize that it exists.

An article in the Washington Post titled The Strategy That Paved a Winning Path provides insider information and insights that might help conservatives to address problems in the next presidential race. Mitt Romney is a good man who ran a vigorous campaign, but like Senators Bob Dole and John McCain before him, Romney seemed reluctant to express a clear conservative message, and to confront the liberal record of Barack Obama. In 2012 the campaign's "conservative message deficiency" (CMD) syndrome played out in several ways.

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

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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.

'Cyber Pearl Harbor'

F-Secure Weblog

by Mikko

October 18, 2012

US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has warned that the United States faces a possible 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' attack by foreign computer hackers.

Is the risk level really so high? In order to estimate the risk of an attack, you have to understand your enemy. There are various players behind the online attacks, with completely different motives and with different techniques. If you want to effectively defend against attacks, you have to be able to estimate who is most likely going to attack you, and why.

'Dark ages of spying': Kim Dotcom lashes out at NZealand surveillance bill - RT News

rt.com

July 3, 2013

Tensions between Kim Dotcom and Prime Minister John Key were raised as the pair sparred at a parliamentary committee hearing on the government's proposed surveillance law, with Dotcom voicing his opposition to the controversial legislation.

The New Zealand government has proposed a change in the law to allow the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCJB) to provide support to the New Zealand Police, Defense Force and the Security Intelligence Service. Dotcom was voicing his opposition to the law and was the star of the show on the second day of hearings of the secretive Security and Intelligence Committee. "We should avoid blindly following the US into the dark ages of spying. In the end, the GCSB is just a subsidiary of the (US) National Security Agency and the US government calls all the shots," he told the committee.

'Day of Rage:' Alinskyites call for pointless mass sleepover on Wall Street

Michelle Malkin

by Michelle Malkin

September 17, 2011

What do they want? They're not really sure. When do they want it? For a couple of months, or until the weather gets too cold, anyway.

A bunch of adrift Alinskyites and disorganized organizers from a group called "Adbusters" are converging in New York City for some reason or other. They're bringing tents, sleeping bags, yoga instructors, face paint - and at some point, they'll get around to deciding what their "one demand" is...

'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' - Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career

businessinsider.com

by Robert Johnson

December 17, 2012

A troubling look into drone warfare.

The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator for the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year long. Sixty-three finger numbing degrees and Bryant describes sitting with a group of other pilots looking at more than a dozen computer monitors. The crew are directing drones over Afghanistan 6,250 miles away and the screens jump with a two to five second delay, as infrared video sent from the UAVs whips through the air to New Mexico. When the order to fire on a target arrives, Bryant paints the roof of a hut with the laser that will guide in a Hellfire missile fired by the pilot beside him. "These moments are like in slow motion," he says to Abé.

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