Straight-A business student funded college with coke sales

May 02, 2008 - I saw this one in the Press of Atlantic City. My personal (tongue-in-cheek) comment: What an "entrepreneur"! http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/190/story/148081.html Straight-A business student funded college with coke sales Information from: Altoona Mirror, http://www.altoonamirror.com Published: Friday, May 02, 2008 Police say a straight-A business student at Penn State-Altoona told them he has been selling cocaine to finance his college education. - 5 Comments

Taoni Sanchez, another example of selective human rights

Nov 11, 2009 - The Cold War Ended For Some Michael C. Moynihan But not for Cubans. The Miami Herald reports that Cuban blogger Yaoni Sanchez, one of Time's "heroes and pioneers" of 2008, was beaten and detained by the secret police, though fails to mention that her free health care will cover all injures sustained. - 0 Comments

States letting inmates cut even more prison time

Oct 16, 2009 - PAWTUCKET, R.I. – If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military. - 4 Comments

Keep it Up Young People: Over 1,000 Students Lined Up To Vote At Penn State (VIDEO)

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We've Long Had a Public Option

Aug 19, 2009 - We've Long Had a Public Option By Andrew Cline (American Spectator) President Obama and the far-left in Congress say that a "public option" health insurance plan is necessary because the profit motive results in too much coverage denial, therefore America needs a non-profit option to "keep the insurance companies honest." In Colorado, Obama explained it this way: The argument around public option is, should one of the choices -- not the only choice -- but one of the choices on that exchange be a public option? And the idea here would be that a government-run non-for-profit would have its own option that people could sign up for -- they wouldn't have to, but they could sign up for it -- and if it could keep its costs lower and provide a good-quality service and good benefits, then that would help keep the insurance companies honest because the idea being -- the idea being that as a non-for-profit, potentially with lower administrative costs, they could do a good job. - 24 Comments

Obama keeps Bush nominees in top posts

Aug 31, 2009 - WASHINGTON (AP) - For all the GOP howling about Barack Obama radically steering the government to the left and leading the nation toward socialism, some of his major appointments are Republican men and women of the middle. In what may be the top two national posts in light of today's crises at home and abroad, Obama stuck with the picks of former President George W. Bush in reappointing Fed chief Ben Bernanke and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. - 7 Comments

Town Fights Big Coal Over Community Control

Jun 15, 2009 - TAYLORSTOWN, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses. Blaine Township, a community of 600 about 40 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, hopes to trigger a legal battle that could determine the rights of municipalities throughout the United States to control corporate activity . Some legal experts say the township is highly unlikely to win that fight. - 3 Comments