Harry Mathews's Blog – May 2012 Archive (16)

It’s None of The Government’s Business

What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information.

The use of nosy…

May 30, 2012

ALERT: CRC End-Around Now in the Senate!

We have sounded the alarm about the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, which would take away parental rights if it were ratified. With your support we have secured 37 cosponsors on SR99 to make sure that ratification never takes place.

       But the current administration has introduced an end-around called the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). President Obama sent…

 NOT TRUE! He did NOT address the Texas A & M commencement. Neal Boortz has written several versions of this speech over a period of several years. Harry, be careful and PLEASE FACT CHECK before you print. I came very close to printing it myself….

Please refer to my post titled “The Best…

Essay - May 31, 2011by Ted Williams

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Car campers and drivers headed to hiking and biking trails will have new rules restricting where they can drive and camp in Coconino National Forest starting May 1.

Posted on May 21, 2012 | Type: Policy Report | Author: Jonathan Butcher

Around the country, school finance formulas and accounting systems are notoriously complex. Arizona’s system is no exception. For many years, Arizona’s program was considered one of the nation’s most difficult to understand.

The complexities often hide inefficiencies. A particularly vexing inefficiency is the practice of paying for “ghost” students. In theory, schools would receive funding on a…

A recent report on MSNBC suggested that parents’ pre-occupation with their kids’ self-esteem may have produced “rude” children who lack compassion for others.

According to MSNBC, “many experts say today’s kids are ruder than ever.” The word “rude” encompasses a variety of behaviors, from selfishness to…

FROM THE UN WEBSITE:

Agenda21

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.

Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the…

Clue: It didn't start as celebration of butterflies, recycling and solar energy

Published: 2 days ago

By Kevin DeAnna

School children, businesses, clergy, politicians and even the United States military soon will honor the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union.

Of course, they will call it Earth Day.

Brian Sussman points out in his explosive new book,…

by Mary Beth Faller - May. 7, 2012 08:24 AM The Republic | azcentral.com



Charter education in Arizona is a model for the nation but is difficult to export because of laws in other states, charter-school leaders say.

U.S. Rep. Ben Quayle held a roundtable discussion on charter education last week at Scottsdale Preparatory Academy, where leaders of top charters in the Northeast Valley complained of being bound by regulations. The forum…

Arne Duncan: Gay marriage should be legal

Yahoo News 5-7-12

A day after Vice President Joe Biden said he was "absolutely comfortable" with gay marriage, signaling the Obama…

AP 5-3-12

CHESTER BASIN, N.S. - A Grade 12 student in Nova Scotia has been suspended for wearing a T-shirt publicizing his religious beliefs.

The South Shore Regional School Board suspended…

By MATT KIBBE

Posted 5-1-12 06:28 PM ET

After the Tea Party's meteoric rise to prominence in 2009 and 2010, some political observers are asking, "Where did the Tea Party go?"

 

What they don't realize is that while they weren't looking, the Tea Party changed. It is no longer the highly visible protest movement that took America by storm. Instead, the Tea Party has been using the political clout gained in the 2010 midterm elections to achieve its objectives of free…

MAKE NO MISTAKE, THERE IS NO SEPARATING "BLACK BLOC" FROM O.W.S. WHICH HAS NOW BECOME O.A.S. (OCCUPY ALL STREETS). THEIR SLOGAN IS "RECREATE 68" AS IN RECREATE THE DAYS (SUMMER) OF RAGE. THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ARE LARGELY DUPES TO A LARGER AND EXTREMELY, DANGEROUS MOVEMENT. THE GOAL OF ALL OF THIS IS GLOBAL CIVIL WAR.

WHEN WILL…