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- Free speech rights, anti-bullying fight collide
- Itchy Investors Ramp Up the Risk
- Senate To Vote On Bill That Could Kick TSA Out Of Airports
- Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password
- Will Ron Paul be last rival standing to Mitt Romney?
- No sweets with food stamps
- “Hidden” mortgage fee paying for payroll tax cut
- Tea Party ‘Is Dead’: How the Movement Fizzled in 2012′s GOP Primaries
| Free speech rights, anti-bullying fight collide Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:43 PM PST By Bob Smietana, The Tennessean The First Amendment guarantees that public school students have the right to free speech. It also gives them the right to practice their religion. But when does a student's right to express his personal religious beliefs go too far and cross the line into bullying? That's the issue in the debate over attempts to change the state's anti-bullying law. State Sen. Jim Summerville, R-Dickson, filed legislation in January that would require schools to write bullying policies that protect the First Amendment rights of students to express their beliefs. That bill replaces a previous one from Republican State Sen. Jim Tracy from Shelbyville, which specifically mentioned religion. Supporters say they want to protect students who express religious views about homosexuality. Critics fear the bill amounts to a license to bully. It's an issue that has generated discussion in recent weeks after the suicides of two gay students whose families say they were bullied. Through his assistant, Summerville declined to be interviewed about his bill and the changes he wants to make. Chris Sanders, chairman of the Nashville committee of the Tennessee Equality Project, said students have the right to express their opinions, but he says opinions are different from insults. To read more, visit: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120206/NEWS/302060017/Free-speech-rights-anti-bullying-fight-collide |
| Itchy Investors Ramp Up the Risk Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:13 PM PST By RUTH SIMON and BEN LEVISOHN, The Wall Street Journal Robert Marcotte can’t afford to play it safe anymore. With interest rates likely stuck near zero for nearly three more years, the 61-year-old retired telephone-company manager is about to ramp up his holdings of stocks and municipal bonds, using money now at the bank in certificates of deposit. “It gets me a little uneasy,” says Mr. Marcotte. “Since I’m not working, I am very risk-averse, but still need to generate income.” The central bank has held short-term interest rates near zero since late 2008 to spur the economy and help the housing market. One side effect of that policy is lower returns on savings accounts and other low-risk investments. When the Fed announced last week that it likely will keep rates at rock-bottom levels through 2014—almost three full years from now—some risk-averse investors began to abandon hopes that rates would rise soon. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204662204577201751197496914.html#articleTabs%3Darticle |
| Senate To Vote On Bill That Could Kick TSA Out Of Airports Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:04 PM PST By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com Following House approval of the measure on Friday, the Senate is set to vote today on legislation that would allow U.S. airports to replace TSA workers with screeners from private companies, a move that could spell the beginning of the end for the highly unpopular federal agency's role in airport security. "The U.S. agency must allow airports to switch to private companies for screeners unless it can show the move wouldn't be cost-effective and would be detrimental to security, according to the legislation, which if passed will go to President Barack Obama for his signature," reports Businessweek. "They've been trying to force the door open for several years," Jeff Price, a Denver-based consultant who has written a textbook on aviation security, said of U.S. lawmakers. "It reverses the burden of proof. It is definitely trying to checkmate the TSA." At the height of the anti-TSA drive in late 2010, which coincided with a national full body scanner opt out day, a growing number of airports such as Orlando Sanford International began to exercise their right to replace TSA workers with private screeners. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/senate-to-vote-on-bill-that-could-kick-tsa-out-of-airports/ |
| Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:56 PM PST By David Kravets, Wired.com A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant's attorney said Monday. The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman's Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop. "It's very possible to forget passwords," the woman's attorney, Philip Dubois, said in a telephone interview. "It's not clear to me she was the one who set up the encryption on this drive. I don't know if she will be able to decrypt it." The decryption case is a complicated one, even if solely analyzed on the underlying Fifth Amendment issue. Such decryption orders are rare, and they have never squarely been addressed by the Supreme Court. One case involved a child pornography prosecution that ended with a Vermont federal judge ordering the defendant to decrypt the hard drive of his laptop. While that case never reached the Supreme Court, it differed from the Fricosu matter because U.S. border agents already knew there was child porn on the computer because they saw it while the computer was running during a 2006 routine stop along the Canadian border. The authorities' belief that Fricosu's hard drive might contain evidence against her was the result of a recorded jailhouse conversation between her and a co-defendant. to read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/forgotten-password/ |
| Will Ron Paul be last rival standing to Mitt Romney? Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:49 PM PST By Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor Will Ron Paul be Mitt Romney's last rival standing? We ask that question because if you sort through the Nevada caucus results, look at this week's GOP events, add in a few financial disclosure forms, and shake, you can produce a scenario where Representative Paul outlasts Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. That would make the Texas libertarian the only non-Romney to run all the way to the Tampa Republican convention in August. Yes, we know Paul actually placed third in Nevada's Saturday vote. He'd hoped to do better, placement-wise. He ended up with 19 percent of the vote. Ex-Speaker Gingrich got 21 percent. Mr. Romney reached the 50 percent threshold. But look at it this way: That 18 percent is four percentage points higher than Paul's 2008 Nevada vote. It's also higher than prevote polls had predicted: A Las Vegas Review-Journal survey in late January had him at only 9.2 percent of the vote, for example. To read more, visit: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0206/Will-Ron-Paul-be-last-rival-standing-to-Mitt-Romney |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:11 PM PST
Republican State Sen. Ronda Storms, of Valrico, says her goal is to stop a small percentage of recipients who misuse food stamps. Her bill would also require food stamp recipients to take state-run classes on healthy eating and how making your own baked goods is cheaper than store-made sweets. Critics say the government shouldn’t be telling people what to eat. To read more, visit: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Bill-No-sweets-with-food-stamps/-/1637132/8601358/-/fpgcmq/-/index.html |
| “Hidden” mortgage fee paying for payroll tax cut Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:59 PM PST
Just before Christmas, American workers got a rare gift from Washington politicians – the current payroll tax cut would be extended for two more months. At the time, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner lauded the move to avoid a tax increase for millions of working Americans. But there’s something the politicians weren’t bragging about – the fact that they’re paying for the two-month tax cut with what has turned into a brand new fee on home buyers. The new fee is a minimum of one-tenth of 1 percent on Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-backed loans, and is likely to go much higher. It will be imposed for the next 10 years on most mortgages and refinancings and it lasts for the life of the loan. To read more, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57371781/home-buyers-left-holding-bag-for-payroll-tax-cut/ |
| Tea Party ‘Is Dead’: How the Movement Fizzled in 2012′s GOP Primaries Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:38 PM PST By Patricia Murphy, Daily Beast It was the great wildcard going into the 2012 election cycle. Republican Party insiders openly worried the Tea Party might knock off the establishment presidential candidate, just as it knocked out establishment picks in the chaotic 2010 congressional races. Party heavyweights wondered whom the upstart movement would get behind and whether Mitt Romney could even get through the early states, given the once-raging Tea Party elements in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. But after months of wondering how the Tea Party would change the primary game, leaders inside the movement admit they never came in off the sidelines. For the Tea Party movement, the 2012 presidential primaries have been a bust. "The Tea Party movement is dead. It's gone," says Chris Littleton, the cofounder of the Ohio Liberty Council, a statewide coalition of Tea Party groups in Ohio. "I think largely the Tea Party is irrelevant in the primaries. They aren't passionate about any of the candidates, and if they are passionate, they're for Ron Paul." Littleton is one of the many who have endorsed the Texas congressman; he blames the other GOP candidates for the lackluster energy they have generated in the grassroots that hosted a revolution two years ago. To read more, visit: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/06/tea-party-is-dead-how-the-movement-fizzled-in-2012-s-gop-primaries.html |
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