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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Senate gives initial approval to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants - Baltimore Sun

How does one reconcile the need for documentation for one class who is in legal compliance with the law, when it is not needed for another who is breaking the law? Will MD citizens lose their place in MD-supported colleges if they don't have the proper documentation - such as a birth certificate? You bet they will. This is not fair, and places undue burdens on legal citizens.

It creates an unlevel playing field for college entry, with legal citizens at a disadvantage.

The MD legislature is requiring Maryland citizens to pay for things they do not support. And I can't for the life of me understand why politicians go down this road, especially at time of such bad financial crisis.

It's just not fair.

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Idaho Votes to Phase Out Teacher Tenure, Restrict Collective Bargaining

This wasn't in the news, but seems more than reasonable to me. The education and its product should be the issue, not whether or not public teachers have "rights" - not enumerated anywhere in the law, btw.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

What to do when the law fails?

We Americans hold the Constitution's first amendment as if it came down from the mount... but I assure you, had this happened in the day of our founding fathers, it would not stand.

I'm shocked that somehow the Supreme Court has correlated freedom of speech with freedom of action. This will later come home to roost as we deal with many other problems, including that of Islamic terrorism. In the short term, the ruling will lead to violence. With people on both side now knowing that they can no longer depend on the law to stop these vile protests, they'll take matters into their own hands. Just as the founding fathers would have.

Justices rule anti-gay church can protest at military funerals - Baltimore Sun: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"