OK, everybody tell me how heartless I am, but I don't get the "anger" this is supposedly generating:
As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
Despite the savings realized by the changes the East Allen County Schools board recently approved, the district says it needs $8 million a year more to meet all its financial needs, so it's seeking that it a referendum. What are the chances it will pass? Just going by the statistics, slightly less than 50 percent:
Guess even the Nobel Peace Prize committee can get one right once in a while:
I hope to be the last victim of China's endless literary inquisition, and that after this no one else will ever be jailed for their speech.
Freedom of expression is the basis of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. To block freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, to strangle humanity and to suppress the truth.
Add Andrew J. Miller to the list of politicians caught in high-risk sexual encounters.
A middle school principal sneaks up on the truth about "No Child Left Behind":
These social issues do not stop at the school doors, so we must ask: Are we expecting our schools to educate? Or are we expecting them to educate after fixing the social ills that contribute directly to our education ills?
Don't mess with the hillbillies:
Republican campaign operatives are taking down an ad against West Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Joe Manchin following a report that the ad's casting call asked for actors who could look "hicky."
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If you want to know how the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission is spending your money, here's one way: It's going to send 19 fifth-graders to a re-education multicultural human rights camp:
Don't know what this means, but it's intriguing:
Mitch Daniels remains a popular governor according to the WISH-TV Indiana 2010 Election Poll. The Republican's approval rating is 62 percent.
But while Republican Party leaders and pundits continue to encourage Daniels to run for President in 2012, most Indiana voters don't like that idea.
MSNBC is running a poll at the bottom of this story, asking whether respondents think the fire department was right or wrong:
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.
So we spend uncountable hundreds of billions to bus American school kids all over creation so we can create a magical "racial balance" that will elevate all achivement scores and create a future of peace and harmony, in the process all but destroying the concept of neighborhood schools, which pushed many at-risk neighborhoods right into the abyss. Naturally, we now have this to make it all better:
There's a special safety effort happening in local school zones Wednesday morning.
