The Huffington Post. Louisiana Makes Bold Bid To Privatize Public Education. By Stephanie Simon June 1 (Reuters) - Louisiana is embarking on the nation's boldest experiment in privatizing public education, with the state preparing to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to pay private industry, businesses owners and church pastors to educate children. Starting this fall, thousands of poor and middle-class kids will get vouchers covering the full cost of tuition at more than 120 private schools across Louisiana, including small, Bible-based church schools. The following year, students of any income will be eligible for mini-vouchers that they can use to pay a range of private-sector vendors for classes and apprenticeships not offered in traditional public schools. The money can go to industry trade groups, businesses, online schools and tutors, among others.
Every time a student receives a voucher of either type, his local public school will lose a chunk of state funding. The U.S. Whether those savings will materialize is unclear. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat. Intro: "For the second year in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). 'If you... know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,' General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, 'because we don't know.' Suicide is a tragic but predictable human reaction to being asked to kill - and watch your friends be killed - particularly when it's for a war based on lies.
Perhaps being required to bag the mangled flesh of fellow soldiers could be another reason that some are committing suicide. " By Project Censored 01 March 12 or the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). “If you… know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,” General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, “because we don’t know.” Body Bagging… ever heard the term? Sources: “More US Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2010,” Cord Jefferson, Good, January 27, 2011.?
San Antonio News, Weather, Sports, Spurs, Breaking | Express-News | mySA.com - San Antonio Express-News. Techcitement* | get excited. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis. The individual mandate: What happened? I've got an article in this week's New Yorker that tries to answer two questions. 1) How did the individual mandate go from being a policy Republicans supported and Democrats resisted in 1993 to a policy Democrats support and Republicans loathe in 2012? 2) How did we go from having “a less than one-per-cent chance that the courts will invalidate the individual mandate" -- that was the estimation of Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who had clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy -- to, as he puts it now, "a 50-50 chance"?
Charles Dharapak / AP And it's not just the individual mandate. The point here isn't to cry "hypocrisy" and let slip the dogs of Nexis. Coming to any conclusion about that requires disentangling the mechanisms by which these shifts are happening. After Supreme Court term, line between ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ is blurrier. But it does point to another fact about the Supreme Court term that ended last week: In cases that divided the court into its usual ideological camps, liberals were in the majority as often as conservatives.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who normally provides the decisive vote when liberals and conservatives disagree, sides about two-thirds of the time with conservatives. This term, according to statistics at SCOTUSblog, he split the difference evenly. And on the two issues most likely to define the court’s term — health care and Arizona’s get-tough law on illegal immigration — liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were in the majority. The limit of federal power was the overarching theme of the court’s deliberations this term, and it delivered a mixed verdict. Kennedy and Roberts parted ways with conservatives Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Ginsburg said the Commerce Clause finding was disturbing. Air Force investigates growing sex-abuse scandal. The Air Force investigation centers on a unit of boot-camp instructors at Lackland, near San Antonio, where 36,000 recruits undergo basic training each year.
About one-quarter of the instructors in the 331st Training Squadron have either been charged with crimes or are under investigation for sexual misconduct. One trainer has been charged with raping or sexually assaulting 10 recruits. Senior Air Force officials said they have found problems in other units as well, prompting them to open multiple investigations to determine the extent to which female recruits face harassment and whether the Air Force’s selection process for male instructors is fundamentally flawed. “We are leaving no stone unturned,” Gen. Edward A. Rice was in Washington to brief lawmakers and senior Pentagon leaders on the status of the investigations. Even as more women fill its ranks, the U.S. military has struggled to cope with the issue of sexual harassment and assaults.
Rep. New home construction is promising sign. “When you create jobs again in the housing market, you create some multiple of those jobs elsewhere,” said Brad Hunter, chief economist at Metrostudy, a national research firm that tracks new-home construction. “To build a house, you’re causing more demand for lumber, furniture, drapes, carpets, cement, steel, appliances . . . These are all industries that get stimulated by housing.” That virtuous cycle is playing out in an increasing number of communities, helping to offset the vicious cycle of foreclosures and falling prices that have dragged down the market in recent years. New-home starts are up nearly 30 percent over a year ago to an annual rate of more than 700,000, according to the most recent report from the Commerce Department. But the recovery is in its infancy with new-home construction still running at less than half of what it averaged in the decade leading up to the housing crash.
How does that growth look on the ground? Harvard International Review | Harvard's Premier Journal of International Affairs. NYTimes. Luke Sharrett for The New York Times President Obama delivered remarks in the rain at a campaign event at Walkerton Tavern & Gardens in Glen Allen, Va., on Saturday. Mr. Obama, speaking first to a drenched crowd during a downpour in the Richmond suburb of Glen Allen, and then at Centreville High School in Fairfax County, accused Mr. Romney of investing in “companies that have been called pioneers in outsourcing.” He ignored Mr.
Romney’s demands for an apology about the campaign’s tone, which the Republican candidate had called for in interviews on Friday. “My opponent and his allies in Congress, they believe in top-down economics,” Mr. The president’s campaign has spent more than a week harping on Mr. The new ad reminds viewers of those issues as it shows a clip of Mr. It says Mr. “Mitt Romney’s not the solution,” the ad states. On Saturday, the Republican campaign repeated Mr.
Mr. He characterized the Obama campaign’s allegations as “reckless” and “absurd.” But if Mr. NPR.