Monday, August 26, 2013

Pocket : Morning Bell: 4 Problems with Federal College Scorecards

Pocket : Morning Bell: 4 Problems with Federal College Scorecards: "Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan to make “college more affordable, tackle rising costs, and improve value for students and their families.”

But a big part of the President’s plan includes creating a college rating system—a federal scorecard—to evaluate colleges on measures such as graduation rates, the number of low-income students served (i.e., the percentage of Pell Grant recipients), graduate earnings, and affordability."

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Pocket : Should We Delay or Defund Obamacare?

Pocket : Should We Delay or Defund Obamacare?: "Conservatives are united in one idea: Obamacare is devastating policy for America. To halt its destructive effects, some are saying Congress should merely delay the law. But to truly stop it, Obamacare must be defunded."

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Pocket : Sign Outside Christian School: “Staff Is Armed And Trained”

Pocket : Sign Outside Christian School: “Staff Is Armed And Trained”: "A Christian school in Arkansas has the right idea and most common sense plan to combat school gun violence. The “common sense” ideas of the left have been to display “gun-free zone” signs on campus to somehow discourage murderers with nothing to lose from shooting up a bunch of people. It’s worked so well in the past. And, if it’s ever failed, it just means the “gun-free zone” campaign needs more money."

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Pocket : Homeland Security Employee Readies for Race War

Pocket : Homeland Security Employee Readies for Race War: "The insanity that is racism continues to rear its ugly head in the Obama administration.

It’s recently been revealed that an employee at Homeland Security is actually a “black supremacist” who has been preparing himself (and his loyal readers) for a race war.

Ayo Kimathi is a blogger for a site called “War is on the Horizon” and he writes under the pen name “Irritated Genie”."

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Pocket : ‘Earpiece envy’: Why Does Valerie Jarrett Have Secret Service Protection?

Pocket : ‘Earpiece envy’: Why Does Valerie Jarrett Have Secret Service Protection?: "Why does President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett have Secret Service protection?

It turns out that some of her colleagues inside the White House are skeptical that actual, specific threats resulted in Jarrett’s protection."

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Pocket : College Professor Forces Students to Support Gay Rights

Pocket : College Professor Forces Students to Support Gay Rights: "At one time, community colleges were seen not only as an inexpensive way of starting one’s college career or getting a two year technical training in a specific field.  It was also thought to be a safer environment from some of the more acidic views of some professors that strut through the halls of the major universities and colleges."

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Pocket : Peace Talks With Taliban While They Murder Foreign Tourists

Pocket : Peace Talks With Taliban While They Murder Foreign Tourists: "There has been talk lately that the White House wants to hold peace talks with Taliban leaders in hopes of ending the 12 year war the US has been fighting in Afghanistan.  The talks were to be held in Qatar where the Taliban has an official office."

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Pocket : MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: Detroit Is A “Conservative Utopia”

Pocket : MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: Detroit Is A “Conservative Utopia”: "Just when you thought you had heard it all when MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry claimed that the source of all of Detroit’s woes was that their government was “too small,” her co-worker Ed Schultz claims that Detroit is a “conservative utopia”:"

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