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 Michael
Reagan: The
High Price of Freedom - I got a letter the other day criticizing
me for praising President Bush for trying to spread Democracy
around the world. Why, the writer asked, are we spreading democracy
around the world when we haven't yet got it right here? - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
 Howard
Dean: On
Borrowed Time - All Americans understand that there need
to be some changes to our Social Security system because 40 years
from now, Social Security will go into deficit if we do nothing.
And it is always better to correct problems early than wait until
they get worse. - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
 Dick
Morris: Finessing
Social Security - Tread softly. Step lightly. Glance over
options. Don't get stuck. That's how President Bush needs to
handle Social Security reform, and it is exactly how he managed
it in his State of the Union speech. - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
 Jason
Love: Spanglish -
Two years ago I moved to a farming town, and though I love the
people, there is something I have come to miss: English. Where
I live, even the billboards are in Spanish. - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
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National: Education
takes hits in Bush budget - President Bush's proposed budget
would eliminate or consolidate funding for 48 education programs,
including ones to teach about the Underground Railroad and promote
school safety.
Fifteen of the 48 programs
cost $5 million or less, and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings
said, "It's hard to get critical mass for a national program
in 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories with
small amounts." - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
National: Bush:
Cut programs, increase defense spending (News Analysis) -
The $2.57 trillion budget that President Bush sent Congress Monday
would hike defense and homeland security spending and make deep
cuts in popular domestic programs from veterans' care and farm
aid to education and environmental protection.
The proposal also recommends
new tax cuts for health care, savings and charitable giving on
top of permanent passage of previous Bush tax cuts. - More...
Monday - February 07, 2005
Alaska: Education
Commissioner Presents Proposed Standards Based Certification
System Statewide - Alaska Education & Early Development
Commissioner Roger Sampson has been touring the state to bring
greater understanding of a new standards-based certification
proposal to key education stakeholders. Sampson has been in Kenai,
Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Mat-Su, in addition to meeting
with legislators and leaders of education organizations explaining
the new system.
The system would replace Alaska's
current method of certification with a three-tiered standards-based
system. In 1994 and 1997, the State Board of Education &
Early Development adopted and amended in regulation professional
teacher content and performance standards. The new system would
require new teachers to pass a content knowledge exam and demonstrate
their ability to deliver instruction as measured against those
standards. A panel will measure whether new teachers proficiently
meet those standards. - More...
Monday - January 07, 2005
Alaska: GOP
takes another stab at drilling in Alaska refuge - For more
than a decade, Republicans in Congress have been frustrated as
first President Bill Clinton and then Senate Democrats blocked
their efforts to allow oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.- More...
Monday - January 07, 2005
National: Roots
of Social Security found in Great Depression - As he barnstormed
the nation last week aiming to sell Americans on the idea of
private Social Security accounts, President Bush was rejoining
a philosophical debate that was present at the system's founding
70 years ago.
The United States was one of
the last developed countries to establish a government-run retirement
program, in part because of a strong national political bias
against collective action and in favor of individual responsibility,
historians say.
By most accounts, it took the
massive losses of the 1929 stock market crash and the ravages
of the subsequent Great Depression to overcome those biases and
produce the Social Security Act of 1935. Even then, intense debates
continued over the wisdom of operating a massive government support
system for the aged. - More...
Monday - January 07, 2005
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