Homosexuality and Marriage

 It's all about taxes and benefits because no one stops you from living together

  by Carolyn Moynihan
If two lesbians can marry why not two susters?

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Obama Proposes Taxpayer-Funded Pre-School Ed

The Aministration seeks to Educate Your Toddler no Matter the Evidence

President Obama and his technocrats like to claim they're guided by "the science," but then what to make of his State of the Union call for taxpayer-funded preschool for "every child in America"?

A threshold cost-benefit question: if the regular public schools aren't working - the President also proposed a new program "to redesign America's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy" - does it make sense to layer on another defective education level, except earlier in life?  But never mind.

Mr. Obama claimed that "study after study" showed every dollar of pre-Kindergarten "investment" saves seven dollars later on, through better student performance, graduation rates and the like.  Keep this man away from a stock portfolio, let alone the social sciences.          

In December, Mr. Obama's own Health and Human Services Department released an evaluation of Head Start, the 47-year-old program for low-income toddlers, and concluded that any cognitive gains disappeared by the third grade.  HHS had sat on the legally mandated study for more than a year.

Most other academic studies have also found early educational intervention "fade out" and that these programs rarely achieve what they promise.  Russ Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution wrote Wednesday that the available studies supporting universal pre-K were "thin empirical gruel."  Researches at the Heritage Foundation and the conservative sociologist Charles Murray have come to similiar conclusions.  This is about as close to an intellectual policy consensus as Washington gers.

Through Mr. Obama's universal pre-K agenda seemed to emerge from nowhere, it goes back to his 2008 campaign platform that included a "zero-to-five" education plan that "begins at birth."   It's further proof that liberals measure government success not by results, but by good intentions and how much government spends.

 

Student-loan Delinquencies Soar

"We are not a deadbeat nation, " President Obama famously said during the debt-ceiling fight.  We'll see how long the Treasury can sustain gargantuan deficits.  But at the level of individual borrowers,  and specifically young people with student loans, defaults are spiking at historical levels.    On February 28th the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that a staggering 35% of student-loan borrowers under 30 were at least 90 days late on their payments at the end of 2012, up from 26% in 2008 and 21% in 2004.

These figures exclude kids who aren't yet required to make payments, often because they are still in school.  As they mature and enter the labor market, they are learning how difficult it is to find a job that allows them to repay those loans.

And for those who can't the tab is likely to be pushed onto taxpayers.  The Department of Education became the originator of roughly 90% of U.S. student loans thanks to a provision passed along with the Affordable Care Act in 2010.  With accounting that even the Congressional Budget Office admits is fraudulent because it minimizes the cost of defaults, that the federal takeover was presented as a big cost-saver.

As a Senator and then President, Mr. Obama has also worked to enact a series of laws that expand the options to delay or avoid honoring these debts.  "Income based repayment" plans and eventual debt forgiveness for people who take jobs in government and the nonprofit sector have enablrd more youngsters to avoid paying on time.

 The federal student-loan explosion means that this is the one giant exception to the needed consumer deleveraging that has occurred since the financial crisis.  Americans have reduced their borrowing in most consumer markets.  But U.S. student-loan debt increased 11% last year to $966 billion and has skyrocketed 51% since 2008, according to the New York Fed report.  According to the Wall Street Journal, 43% of the 25-year-olds had student debt in the fourth quarter of 2012, up from about 33% in the same period of 2008.

Talk about creating systemic risk.  The New York Fed also finds that borrowers who are behind on their student loan payments are much more likely to also be delinquent on auto-loan, credit-card and mortgage payments.

All of this was predicted by those who opposed the federal takeover of student loans.  But as with so many promises that government makes, the fun comes early and the bill arrives later and is paid by someone else.

  

US Senate - Special Election...Wording Sounds Familiar

"Sure, I am a Republican, but I am the new kind of Republican," Gomez said.   Obviously as a Republican I hold some conservative views, but I am an independent thinker, and I have no interest in going to Washington to engage in partisian trench warfare."

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Carl Sciortino:Marxist Plays Musical Chairs in Massachusetts

Leftest Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey is standing for Kerry's old job, while the Democratic Socialists Society of America supported Massachusetts State Representative Carl Sciortino has put his hand up for Markey's Congressional seat.

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Medford Residents file Suit over Green Line Extension

Medford Residents Bill Wood and Carolyn Rosen have sued the state and the Federal Transit Administration claiming the environmental and social impacts of the Green Line Extension Project were not studied closely enough.

The lawsuit also claims the state failed to study potential social impacts in reviewing the project.

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Columbine Student's Father 12 Years Later

On Thursday January 10th, Darrell Scott the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton Colorado twelve years ago was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee.  What he said to our national leaders was painfully truthful.

They we not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well.  It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert!  These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal.  There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.

The following is a portion of the transcript:  "Since the dawn of creation there has been both good and evil  in the hearts of man and woman.  We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence.  The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain.  Their blood cries out for answers.

The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field.  The villian was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association.  The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only befound in Cain's heart."

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA.  I am not a member of the NRA.  I am not a hunter.  I do not even own a gun. 

I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended.  If I believed that they had anything to do with Rachael's murder I would be their strongest opponent.

I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy - - it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies!  Much of the blame lies here in this room. 
much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves.  I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.

Your words ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed,
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!

"Men and woman are three-part beings.  We all consist of body,mind and spirit.  When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and create havoc.  Spiritual presences were present  within our educational systems for most of our nations history.  Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries.  This is a historical fact.  What has happened to us as a nation?  We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence.  And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs - - politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA.  They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties.  We do not need more restrictive laws.  Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors.  No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre.  The real villian lies within our hearts."

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school.  I defy any law or politician to deny him that right!  I challenge every young person in America, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools.  Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain.  Dare to move into the new millenniun with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him.  To those of you who would point the finger at the NRA - - I give you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your heart before casting the first stone!  My daughter's death will not be in vain!  The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"