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Indiana high school student faces expulsion over bringing stun gun to school to ward off bullies | Fox News: "Young says he's been bullied for a while at the school. He says he's been called gay slurs and has been the target of thrown bottles and rocks. The bullying has gotten so bad, Young says he considered killing himself.
Young's mother, Chelisa Grimes, told the station that she armed her son with a stun gun after complaining to school administrators several times about the bullying."
Zero-tolerance weapons polices are simplistic, don't address the problem (violence), and punish behaviour that is ok.
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Christie the Prophet | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary
Christie the Prophet | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: "In 1965, just 22 percent of all federal spending was transfer payments. Today it has doubled to 44 percent. That means that nearly half of all federal spending is simply government taking money from one person and giving it to another.
Or look at it another way: In 1965, transfer payments from the federal government made up less than 10 percent of wages and salaries. As recently as 2000, that percentage was just 21 percent. Today, transfer payments are more than a third of salary and wages. Worse, if one includes salaries from government employment, more than half of Americans receive a substantial portion of their income from the government."
" The welfare state started with small programs targeted toward a small number of genuinely needy people. But as politicians figured out the electoral benefits of expanding programs and people realized they could let others work on their behalf, those programs grew until the point at which, today, every problem in society prompts calls for government action, response, or funding.
At the same time, as Governor Christie also noted, this implicitly tells people, “stop dreaming, stop striving.” We demonize those who do succeed, damning them as part of the evil “1 percent.”
This is the real danger of the welfare state. It’s not that it will bankrupt us — though it will. It is that it slowly and insidiously destroys our national character, saps our will to be great, and makes us content with the way things are rather than how they could be."
Or look at it another way: In 1965, transfer payments from the federal government made up less than 10 percent of wages and salaries. As recently as 2000, that percentage was just 21 percent. Today, transfer payments are more than a third of salary and wages. Worse, if one includes salaries from government employment, more than half of Americans receive a substantial portion of their income from the government."
" The welfare state started with small programs targeted toward a small number of genuinely needy people. But as politicians figured out the electoral benefits of expanding programs and people realized they could let others work on their behalf, those programs grew until the point at which, today, every problem in society prompts calls for government action, response, or funding.
At the same time, as Governor Christie also noted, this implicitly tells people, “stop dreaming, stop striving.” We demonize those who do succeed, damning them as part of the evil “1 percent.”
This is the real danger of the welfare state. It’s not that it will bankrupt us — though it will. It is that it slowly and insidiously destroys our national character, saps our will to be great, and makes us content with the way things are rather than how they could be."
Marching toward Taxmageddon | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary
Marching toward Taxmageddon | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary: "It is hard for most Americans to imagine, but government in America once was small. In 1900 [Tax Freedom Day] fell on January 22. Americans paid just 5.9 percent of their incomes to government at all levels."
CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb | Fox News
CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb | Fox News: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said: "The device did not appear to pose a threat to the public air service"
If it wasn't a threat then why the big announcements?!?
If it wasn't a threat then why the big announcements?!?
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