Archive for May 9th, 2008

Rogue Agency plagues the good guys…

May 9, 2008

A rogue agency, whose very mission was to interfere with the rights of American citizens was, during the Clinton Days given a legitimate mission, later was merged with the good guys. You know, the F.B.I. Well, it appears that they still find it impossible to play well with others. From the folks that brought you Ruby Ridge and the holocaust at Waco we have them acting like cocaine gang bangers involved in a turf war.

Here’s what I think. Get rid of everyone of them, and turn over any duties that they are rightfully performing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24549241

In the five years since the FBI and ATF were merged under the Justice Department to coordinate the fight against terrorism, the rival law enforcement agencies have fought each other for control, wasting time and money and causing duplication of effort, according to law enforcement sources and internal documents.

Their new boss, the attorney general, ordered them to merge their national bomb databases, but the FBI has refused. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long trained bomb-sniffing dogs; the FBI started a competing program.

At crime scenes, FBI and ATF agents have threatened to arrest one another and battled over jurisdiction and key evidence. The ATF inadvertently bought counterfeit cigarettes from the FBI — the government selling to the government — because the agencies are running parallel investigations of tobacco smuggling between Virginia and other states.

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American Sovernty

May 9, 2008

Sometimes we, as Americans need to stand up, and tell the rest of the whining world to just plain go to hell. Name any other country that has done more to feed people from other countries than the United States. Name any country that has done more humanitarian work after disasters than the United States.

The following was stolen from my friend texas Fred, click the link to see the full commentary that this story generated.

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School Choice, a matter of life and death?

May 9, 2008

“This year, American taxpayers will spend more than $9,200 on the average public-school student. That’s a real increase of 69 percent over the per pupil expenditure in 1980. The total bill for a student who remains through high school will be almost $100,000. This spending would be worthwhile if it gave us the results we need to compete globally. But it hasn’t been doing so. American students still score poorly compared to students from other countries, especially in math and science. The National Assessment of Educational Progress shows 18 percent of fourth-graders and 29 percent of eighth-graders scored ‘below basic’ in mathematics last year. And far too many students drop out. At least 1 in 4 quits high school. Among minority children, the picture is even bleaker. In 2002, only 56 percent of black and 52 percent of Hispanic students graduated, compared to 78 percent of white students. The Census Bureau has found that a full-time employee with a college degree will earn more than $2 million over a lifetime. One with only a high-school diploma will earn half as much, while a dropout, obviously, will earn even less. More ominously, an independent study found dropouts die an average of nine years sooner than graduates. Our educational system is a national problem—but one that calls for local solutions. One approach is to provide school choice.” —Ed Feulner

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