Pennsylvania, like 26 other states, is now requiring "exit exams" in order for students to receive an high school diploma. However, because it's government, many of the original proposed standards have been watered down to ensure passage.
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To Grant Government More Power in the Hopes that it Will Defend Human Life is Foolish.
Health care? Abortion? War? The State, as an institution, is not pro-life in any way. It's a mistake to allow it more power in the hopes that it will defend life. A look at a few points within the U.S. Federal State will help bring this fact more clearly to home.
This article looks at 2 things:
1 - the government itself has stated that it has no responsibility to defend you
2 - politicians (even "pro-life" ones) do not have convictions, they only have platforms.
Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
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John Stossel on FOX Business does a show on Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, which was written over 50 years ago, and is a best seller today.
Read more »AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane - for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.
Read more »William Williams, 76, of Cecil, vows to continue removing the guy wire and its anchor in his yard each time the power company replaces them. For Mr. Williams, it’s all a matter of civil disobedience. He said he refuses to surrender his property rights to the utilities.
Read more »Web designer is attacked & arrested after asking a police officer for payment owed to him.
'Commander Ali Dizaei, 47, bullied web designer Waad Al-Baghdadi when he asked for £600 for work on alidizaei.com [the commander's website], Southwark crown Court heard. '
The officer challenged the designer to a fight, and then proceeded to arrest him after he refused and attempted to call 999 (English equivalent of 911).
Police are out to protect us all? Obviously.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger's bag tested positive for explosives -- only to ultimately determine that the substance was honey.
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Uncle Sam Wants To Steal Your 401K
According to Business Week, the US govt. wants your 401K. It seems the govt. doesn’t have enough of YOUR money. They want more. The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments may begin next week asking Americans how the U.S. govt. should take control of 401k’s.
The neighborhood barbershop is a good example of voluntaryism in action.
Read more »A Los Angeles judge has ordered that 60 pounds of pot confiscated by the California Highway Patrol during an arrest be returned to the defendant.
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By Associated Press
January 09, 2010 6:49 AM
CONCORD, N.H. - A federal judge will decide whether a man convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons at his Plainfield, N.H., home suffers from a delusional disorder that could affect his sentence.
Ed Brown's competency and sentencing hearing is set for Monday in U.S. District Court.
Read more »If you carry 3 or more condoms and you're a woman in dc, it means you are a prostitute according to police.
Read more »A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty.
Anna filed for Sal’s disqualification of service. However, the jury commissioner was unmoved and denied the request.
The Drudge Report has an image of a woman from an airport scanner up right now. It's scandalous enough as is, but it's shockingly easy to make it look even more like a normal nude photograph.
Reader Sigfried discovered that by simply inverting the image in Photoshop, you restore the photo to a more realistic tint. Of course, we're not sure where this image came from or if it's an accurate example of what these machines produce. But if so, let me just deliver a message to all you airport security workers out there: I just got out of a cold pool, I swear.
Read more »The company behind the magicJack, has made a new version that allows free calls in the home, in a fashion that's sure to draw protest from cellular carriers and the FCC.
Read more »Fed judges: Wash. felony inmates should get vote
By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Writer
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
An Orlando cop is accused of groping a 20-year-old nursing mother outside a club after he arrested her for dancing "too close" to the stage inside the establishment. He allegedly fondled her right breast and squeezed milk out of it into his latex glove, and then told the young gal that he wanted to "suck on them."
Read more »A BRITISH woman on a break in Dubai went to police after being raped - but SHE was arrested for having illegal sex and drinking.
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