The Enemies of our Constitutional Republic are on the Move!
An email sent out by the Arizona office of the ACLU:
From: Alessandra Soler Meetze <grassroots@acluaz.org>
To:
Sent: Mon, February 22, 2010 3:51:10 PM
Subject: HB 2382 and SB 1097 (Student Data Collection)
Arizona Legislators will meet during two separate committee meetings this week to vote on bills mandating that all school districts gather information on the citizenship status of students, including the number of students who cannot prove lawful status. This information will then be given to the Department of Education. Any school district that fails to comply may have their state funding withheld.
Paton (PAY-ton) announced during a floor speech Monday that it is his last day in the Legislature.
The Tucson Republican’s resignation had been expected, as Paton has said running for Congress while serving in the Legislature amounts to two full-time jobs. Read the rest here | here
Businessman Eric Wnuck (R) has dropped out of the primary to face Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.).
Wnuck made news in the third quarter when he announced a strong $160,000 raised. He saw his fundraising fall off significantly in the fourth quarter, though, and he said he needs to focus on his business.
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It’s still difficult to believe that last week President Obama actually celebrated Feb. 17 as the first anniversary of his stimulus plan (a.k.a. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), in which Washington borrowed $862 billion on American taxpayers’ credit. Celebrate the piling of $1 trillion on the backs of our posterity? Call me clueless, but I’ve never considered easing present circumstances by going into massive amounts of debt as an answer to anyone’s economic recovery and longevity.
But I bet there’s one date the president definitely won’t be celebrating: this Saturday, Feb. 27, which marks the first anniversary (or first birthday) of the tea-party movement.
To think, last year at this time, the mainstream media and Washington politicians were either completely overlooking them or labeling those patriot gatherings as extreme and wacky fringe resistances. WorldNetDaily was virtually alone in reporting the tea parties as a legitimate patriotic movement, like the original 1773 protest in Boston Harbor.
A legal victory has ignited a backlash against Gilbert Public Schools.
The district sued the state in 2007, alleging that the state-funded, teacher performance pay program at 28 school districts was unfair for districts excluded from the program, particularly as they compete for top-notch teachers.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink has now agreed with the district’s complaint, ruling that the Career Ladder program unconstitutional unless it is expanded statewide.
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In July of this year, the American people were mostly undecided about Obamacare: equal numbers opposed and supported the health care bills that the White House was shepherding through Congress. But then August happened and informed Americans turned out at townhalls across the country to express their strong disapproval of Obamacare. The larger American public noticed and pluralities of the American people began to oppose Obamacare. The White House concluded they had a “communications problem” so they scheduled a prime time speech in front of a rare Joint Session of Congress. But the President’s speech arrogantly dismissed the concerns of the American people and after a brief uptick in support (from the low 40s to the mid 40s), opposition to the President’s plan grew.
