Saturday, January 24, 2015
Cost Vs. Results In Public Schools
Public schools do not work.
They exist only as a political and enrichment tool for the left.
Uneducated children are a guaranteed voting block for the left.
It is time to allow competition and choice in our education system.
Sandy Hook Commission Gun Ban Ignores Constitution
Second Amendment: The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, formed in the wake of the school shooting tragedy in the Connecticut town, wants restrictive gun laws that do nothing and are in fact unconstitutional.
At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto bravely hid students in a restroom or closet, then died trying to protect them from shooter Adam Lanza. If she, the principal or any of the other adults in the school had access to a firearm, things might have turned out differently. As it was, 20 students and six teachers were killed that day.
The lesson of the folly of gun-free zones, where only predators are armed as they hunt down their victims, is one that repeatedly is lost on gun-control advocates. They simply ignore the lives saved when armed citizens can fire back in self-defense. From Virginia Tech to a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., to the school in Newtown, mass shootings are often in venues declaring themselves gun-free zones.
Before the Newtown shooting, a gunman walked into a shopping mall on Dec. 11, 2012, in Clackamas, Ore., with the intention of killing as many as possible. He managed to kill two before being confronted by Nick Meli, an armed citizen with a concealed-carry permit who refused to be a victim. Meli prevented another mass tragedy and saved countless lives.
Gun-control advocates conveniently forget that the Aurora shooter had a choice of seven movie theaters within a 20-mile drive of his home that were showing the "Batman" movie he was obsessed with. The Cinemark Theater he chose wasn't the closest, but it was the only one that banned customers from carrying their guns inside, otherwise allowed under Colorado law.
Undaunted by such evidence that guns save lives, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy's Sandy Hook Advisory Commission agreed Friday to include in its final report a....
Global warming believers are like a hysterical ‘cult’: MIT scientist compares 'climate alarmists' to religious fanatics
- Comments were made by professor of meteorology, Richard Lindzen
- 'Instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more fanatical,' he said
- He says 70% of the Earth is ocean, and measuring its temperature tricky
- He has previously blasted the IPCC for blaming humans for a global warming trend - and then glossing over the warming slowdown
Climate change alarmists have been likened to a fanatical 'cult' by an MIT professor of meteorology.
Dr Richard Lindzen told a Massachusetts-based radio station that people who believe in global warming are becoming more hysterical in their arguments.
'As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical,' he said.
Friday, January 23, 2015
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New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered and colonized America
New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.
A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast. Three of the sites are on the Delmarva Peninsular in Maryland, discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware. One is in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia. A sixth was discovered by scallop-dredging fishermen on the seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast on what, in prehistoric times, would have been dry land.
The similarity between other later east coast US and European Stone Age stone tool technologies has been noted before. But all the US European-style tools, unearthed before the discovery or dating of the recently found or dated US east coast sites, were from around 15,000 years ago - long after Stone Age Europeans (the Solutrean cultures of France and Iberia) had ceased making such artefacts. Most archaeologists had therefore rejected any possibility of a connection. But the newly-discovered and recently-dated early Maryland and other US east coast Stone Age tools are from between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago - and are therefore contemporary with the virtually identical western European material.
What’s more, chemical analysis carried out last year...
Iran Very Happy With Obama Administration Willingness To Comply With Iranian Nuclear Demands...
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| John Kerry shakes hands with Mohammad Javad Zarif before a meeting in Geneva. Photograph: Rick Wilking/REUTERS |
It comes after Barack Obama threatened to veto any new sanctions bill that the congress may impose on Tehran, and as Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was strongly criticised at home for taking a stroll with his American counterpart.
“We are seeking the Iranian people’s rights in the nuclear negotiations and our assessment show that they, especially the Americans, have the will to reach an agreement with Iran,” he said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Nobakht’s comments were rare remarks reflecting Tehran’s view of where the other side stands in the nuclear talks.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Obama said new sanctions by the US congress will only jeopardise the chance to peacefully end the nuclear stalemate with Tehran through diplomacy.
“Between now and this spring, we have a chance to negotiate a comprehensive agreement that...
Thursday, January 22, 2015
U.S. to Award Iran $11.9 Billion Through End of Nuke Talks
The Obama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department.
Today’s $490 million release, the third such payment of this amount since Dec. 10, was agreed to by the Obama administration under the parameters of another extension in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program that was inked in November.
Iran will receive a total of $4.9 billion in unfrozen cash assets via 10 separate payments by the United States through June 22, when talks with Iran are scheduled to end with a final agreement aimed at curbing the country’s nuclear work, according to a State Department official.
Iran received $4.2 billion in similar payments under the 2013 interim agreement with the United States and was then given another $2.8 billion by the Obama administration last year in a bid to keep Iran committed to the talks through November, when negotiators parted ways without reaching an agreement.
Iran will have received a total of $11.9 billion in cash assets by the end of June if current releases continue on pace as scheduled.The release of this money has drawn outrage from some Republican lawmakers who filed legislation last year to prevent the release of cash due to a lack of restrictions on how Iran can spend the money.
These cash payments by the United States have been made with no strings attached, prompting concerns that ...
DEMOCRAT MENENDEZ: OBAMA IRAN RHETORIC SOUNDS ‘STRAIGHT OUT OF TEHRAN’
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) criticized the Obama administration’s Iran rhetoric for sounding “like talking points that come straight out of Tehran” and supporting “the Iranian narrative of victimization” before a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
“The more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sin, an illicit nuclear weapons program going back over the course of 20 years that they are unwilling to come clean on. So I don’t know why we feel compelled to make their case” he stated.
“The more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sin, an illicit nuclear weapons program going back over the course of 20 years that they are unwilling to come clean on. So I don’t know why we feel compelled to make their case” he stated.
