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FOXNews.com - Report: White House wants to give law enforcers easier access to Internet, e-mail wiretaps: "Software developers of peer-to-peer communications services would be required to redesign their products to allow interception."
Criminals would simply use other software that doesn't provide a back door (and security hole). This won't help catch criminals much but will reduce liberty, freedom, and privacy.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Voters approve $14.1 million levy for NR district | New Richmond News | New Richmond, Wisconsin
Voters approve $14.1 million levy for NR district | New Richmond News | New Richmond, Wisconsin: "Statewide, the average spending per student is $10,549"
Can it really cost $210,980 to educate a class of 20 students?!?
Can it really cost $210,980 to educate a class of 20 students?!?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
FOXNews.com - NJ 5th-grader suspended from school after he found lighter; administators consider it a weapon
FOXNews.com - NJ 5th-grader suspended from school after he found lighter; administators consider it a weapon: "Officials suspended a fifth-grader in New Jersey who found a lighter on his way to school."
"there were weapons on school property because teachers at the Grace Breckwedel Middle School had lighters in the building"
"The superintendent says a weapon is anything that 'has the potential to cause harm.'"
Then the following would be considered weapons: pens, pencils, chairs, tables, people, eating utensils, and many other things including school policies!
"there were weapons on school property because teachers at the Grace Breckwedel Middle School had lighters in the building"
"The superintendent says a weapon is anything that 'has the potential to cause harm.'"
Then the following would be considered weapons: pens, pencils, chairs, tables, people, eating utensils, and many other things including school policies!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
FOXNews.com - The Fed worries about something unusual: Inflation may actually be too low
FOXNews.com - The Fed worries about something unusual: Inflation may actually be too low: "Once deflation takes hold, it can wreck an economy. Workers suffer pay cuts. Corporate profits shrivel. Stock values fall. People, businesses and the government find it costlier to pare debt. Foreclosures and bankruptcies rise.
And people spend less, convinced that prices will fall even further if they just wait. That trend has already emerged in the housing market. Many would-be buyers are standing on the sidelines, waiting for home prices to fall further."
The electronics industry has constant deflation, everyone knows that, and it works just fine. Deflation isn't the problem that it is made out to be but the government benefits from inflation, so they paint deflation as evil.
And people spend less, convinced that prices will fall even further if they just wait. That trend has already emerged in the housing market. Many would-be buyers are standing on the sidelines, waiting for home prices to fall further."
The electronics industry has constant deflation, everyone knows that, and it works just fine. Deflation isn't the problem that it is made out to be but the government benefits from inflation, so they paint deflation as evil.
FOXNews.com - Panel: School Discriminated Against Transgender 6th Grader by Not Letting Student Use Girls' Room
FOXNews.com - Panel: School Discriminated Against Transgender 6th Grader by Not Letting Student Use Girls' Room: "The Maine Human Rights Commission has ruled that a middle school discriminated against a sixth grader by not letting the male-to-female transgender student use the girls' bathroom.
The parents of the child, who no longer attends school in the district, wrote to the commission that she experienced anxiety and depression during the 2008-2009 year after Orono Middle School officials forced her to use a gender-neutral bathroom and her peers picked on her.
The school stated the district trained the staff, educated students, gave the transgender student her own bathroom and locker, and met with her parents."
A separate bathroom seems like a very good solution.
The parents of the child, who no longer attends school in the district, wrote to the commission that she experienced anxiety and depression during the 2008-2009 year after Orono Middle School officials forced her to use a gender-neutral bathroom and her peers picked on her.
The school stated the district trained the staff, educated students, gave the transgender student her own bathroom and locker, and met with her parents."
A separate bathroom seems like a very good solution.
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Cost of Progressivist Worship | Jim Powell | Cato Institute: Commentary
The Cost of Progressivist Worship | Jim Powell | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Why is it that one government report after another 'unexpectedly' bears more bad news about jobs? Last week, according to Bloomberg, 'The number of unemployment claims unexpectedly shot up.' Before that, Reuters reported, 'Employers unexpectedly cut jobs.' This 'unexpectedly' bit has been going on for quite a while, suggesting that journalists continue to be surprised that President Obama's progressive agenda has failed to revive private-sector job creation. One might as well say, 'Monday unexpectedly will come next week.'"
What Obama Could Learn from Paterson | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary
What Obama Could Learn from Paterson | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "'In a democracy,' Governor Paterson said, 'there are times when safety and liberty find themselves in conflict. From the Alien and Sedition Acts [opposition to which gave Thomas Jefferson the presidency] to the Patriot Act, we have experienced moments where liberty took a back seat.'"
The Deficit Is a Symptom, Spending Is the Disease | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary
The Deficit Is a Symptom, Spending Is the Disease | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: "the real issue is not how you pay for government spending — debt or taxes — but the spending itself. In other words: Don't just look at the deficit, look at why we have a deficit. And the reason we have a deficit is pretty simple: Government spends too much."
Campaign For Liberty — Liberty and Prosperity
Campaign For Liberty — Liberty and Prosperity: "This November's choice between capitalism and socialism is not about whether you are rich or poor right now; it is about which of those two you wish to be tomorrow.
The inescapable lesson of economic history is that free market economies make everyone unequally richer, while state-controlled economies make everyone equally poorer. Which do you prefer - rich or equal? Free people overwhelmingly choose rich, which is why socialism can only be imposed by force or fraud."
"You and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve understand that people will not risk their life savings and work like a dog to bequeath their rewards to the IRS."
"Confiscating earnings from high earners does not make the poor richer anymore than cutting the heads off of tall people makes short people taller. All it does is increase government power and control over rich and poor alike, which is what the upcoming tax debate is really all about."
The inescapable lesson of economic history is that free market economies make everyone unequally richer, while state-controlled economies make everyone equally poorer. Which do you prefer - rich or equal? Free people overwhelmingly choose rich, which is why socialism can only be imposed by force or fraud."
"You and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve understand that people will not risk their life savings and work like a dog to bequeath their rewards to the IRS."
"Confiscating earnings from high earners does not make the poor richer anymore than cutting the heads off of tall people makes short people taller. All it does is increase government power and control over rich and poor alike, which is what the upcoming tax debate is really all about."
Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary
Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "It's the much-maligned Glenn Beck who called this one correctly. On a recent show, the excitable Tea Party guru had 'no problem' with killing American terrorist suspects on the battlefield: 'But away from the battlefield? ... Call me a little nostalgic for the Constitution.'"
"But as Kevin Williamson writes at NRO, it's not so much 'what this administration might do with such power, but what an administration 50 years down the road might do with it.' In a seemingly endless war, the powers we cede now could be available to future presidents in perpetuity."
"But as Kevin Williamson writes at NRO, it's not so much 'what this administration might do with such power, but what an administration 50 years down the road might do with it.' In a seemingly endless war, the powers we cede now could be available to future presidents in perpetuity."
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