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http://d-umn.campusreform.org/group/blog/university-sponsors-campaign-to-undermine-white-privilege
The University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD) is now sponsoring an ad-campaign designed to achieve "racial justice" by raising awareness of "white privilege."
The project disseminates its message, that "society was setup for us [whites]" and as such is "unfair," through an aggressive campaign of online videos, billboards, and lectures.
The ads feature a number of Caucasians confessing their guilt for the supposed "privilege" that comes along with their fair features.
* JEEZUS...
* FOLKS... PLEASE... READ THIS ARTICLE.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/public_educa_shun_on_teacher_grades_4SuNK6ZEpaWHlspJmdA8DN
The public be damned!
The New York state Legislature is likely to pass a last ditch bill that would prevent the release of teacher evaluations, while letting parents see the ratings only of their kids’ instructors.
The measure, introduced by Gov. Cuomo just before midnight Monday, could pass before lawmakers head home for the year tomorrow, sources said yesterday.
* NICE, HUH? WHAT'S THAT OLD SAYING... "A LEAPARD DOESN'T LOSE HIS SPOTS... A TIGER DOESN'T LOSE HIS STRIPES..."
The Democratic-controlled Assembly says it will pass it tomorrow.
* OF COURSE THEY WILL...
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-LI) said his conference is "reviewing" the measure.
* LET'S SEE WHAT THESE PRICKS DO...
Mayor Bloomberg, who favors full disclosure of teacher evaluations and has blasted any limitations, declined to comment.
* OF COURSE HE DID! (*SNORT*)
In February, The NY Post published the ratings of thousands of teachers after winning a legal battle against the teachers union, which unsuccessfully sought to block the release.
Cuomo is siding with the unions and taking away that right.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/holders-contempt-and-obamas-privilege/
President Obama’s attempt to invoke executive privilege to forestall contempt-of-Congress proceedings against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. failed.
Instead, the claim elevates the dispute between the administration and Capitol Hill to a new and troubling level. The operative question now is, what did the president know and when did he know it?
Mr. Obama’s last-minute move to extend the umbrella of executive privilege raises the question of whether the president or his staff had extensive prior knowledge of the operation, because this privilege can only be invoked when the chief executive’s office is involved.
“Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. “The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed.”
* UNLESS OF COURSE OUR PRESIDENT - THE FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LECTURER... FORMER EDITOR OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW - SIMPLY HAS NO IDEA OF WHAT "EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE" IS? (*SHRUG*)
Mr. Obama has an affinity for exerting unilateral power, so the attempt to extend executive privilege ought not to come as a surprise. Former President Bill Clinton made no such effort when his attorney general, Janet Reno, faced a contempt charge from the same committee in 1998. That dispute was resolved eventually without any broad claims of authority even though Mr. Clinton did exercise the privilege on 14 other occasions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/new-farm-bill-offers-up-some-old-failings/2012/06/20/gJQAgquJrV_story.html
The federal direct-payment program for farmers has little to recommend it — almost nothing, actually. Each year, in the name of securing a stable food supply, it distributes roughly $5 billion to commodity producers who are, by and large, better off than the average American, whose tax dollars underwrite the aid.
The new five-yearfarm bill being debated in the Senate does away with direct payments, and we say good riddance.
* AH... BUT HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE, FOLKS! ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS! (READ ON...)
[T]he direct-payment program did have one redeeming feature. Under current law, the Agriculture Department has to make public the names of all the program’s beneficiaries, and the amount of federal largess each receives. At least the taxpayers could know exactly where their money was going.
* THIS TRANSPARENCY IS BEING TAKEN AWAY UNDER TERMS OF THE NEW... er... "REFORMS."
* OH... BUT THERE'S MORE! (READ ON...)
The proposed farm bill before the Senate replaces direct payments with an "enhanced" system of subsidized crop insurance.
* BY "ENHANCED" THEY MEAN MORE EXPENSIVE!
The system would cost a projected $3 billion in addition to the federal crop insurance subsidy under existing law, which costs $9 billion per year.
* OH...! BUT THERE'S MORE! (READ ON...)
The $3 billion figure could rise significantly if commodity prices go down in the next couple of years.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/06/20/mr-executive-power/
Today's Democratic logic goes like this: If Congress is unable to pass progressive agenda items with a simple majority of legislators...the vote of a single person will do just fine.
* AND THAT SINGLE INDIVIDUAL IS...
President Obama is, after all, on his "We Can't Wait" tour. "We can't wait for Congress to do its job," Obama told supporters on a recent campaign stop. "So where they won't act, I will. We're going to look every single day to figure out what we can do without Congress."
That's the spirit!
One might forgive a little autocratic hyperbole in the heat of a campaign season, but Obama isn't joking.
He can't wait.
Only recently, he circumvented Congress on college loans and mortgages; he directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act; through rulemaking, he empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to effectively institute legislation that Democrats could not pass; he involved the United States in military action in Libya...without congressional consent; he installed four recess appointments without a recess; and that's just for starters.
* ON THAT LAST... CONGRESS WAS EFFECTIVELY IN RECESS AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED SO OBAMA GETS A PASS ON THAT ONE.
This week he couldn't wait again.
Even if you agree substantively with Obama's decision to grant 800,000 young illegal immigrants a reprieve from deportation...having a president undo a perfectly legitimate legislative deadlock by simply ignoring the law is a precedent that should alarm everyone.
So should Obama's invocation of executive privilege in the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation regarding a document that he supposedly knew nothing about.
A few months back, The New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal rationalized Obama's abuse of executive power by deploying an age-old excuse for abuse: "Context and intent make all the difference."
No, they make no difference. That's why we have embedded constitutional safeguards, safeguards that should be in place even if abuses are sanctioned by New York Times editorial board members.
(*STANDING OVATION*)
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