How Unlimited Student Loans Drive Up Tuition

How Unlimited Student Loans Drive Up Tuition:
"Among the many sayings dubiously attributed to Albert Einstein is that the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 
Lack of limits and stupidity have another overlap in the Parent PLUS loan program, which allows parents of undergraduate college students to borrow unlimited sums from the federal government for their children’s education. 
While observers of higher education (myself included) have long suspected that this open-ended subsidy enables colleges to hike tuition, new evidence lends more credence to this theory.
Several recent studies have found evidence that other federal student aid programs drive of tuition increases. 
A 2015 study found that a dollar of subsidized (non-PLUS) student loans increases published tuition by 58 cents at a typical college, with larger effects once reductions in institutional financial aid are taken into account..."
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History for February 23

History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Pepys 1633 - English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, known for his diary of events and quotes, George Frederic Handel 1685 - Composer, Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1734 
   

W.E.B. DuBois 1868, William Shirer 1904 - Journalist, author ("The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "Gandhi: A Memoir"), Peter Fonda 1940 - Director, actor ("Easy Rider"), Jane Fonda's brother, Henry Fonda's son, Bridget Fonda's dad 


1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.


1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.


1896 - The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.


1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.


1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.


1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.


1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.


1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/02/february-22-2017-fictional-rights-by.html

Fictional Rights

By Tammy Derouin

Not that long ago, most Americans understood that in order to secure the blessings of our liberty and to be able to pass it on to our posterity, we had to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. These were all necessary orders to forming a more perfect union.

The words, “a more perfect union” not perfect union, were used in the Preamble of the Constitution. The founders knew that a perfect world did not exist. Attempting to create one would be futile but there was always room for improvement. Besides, by whose standards would perfection be determined?

The founders understood that happiness and prosperity could only be obtained by the individual. It was not the job of the government to determine the definition of happiness or success. It was, however, the job of the government to protect the rights of the people as set forth in the U.S. Constitution.

There was a time when our freedoms and liberties were highly valued and therefore, the story of our country and our system of government were actually taught to the next generation. Without the knowledge of our past and an understanding of what led to our founding, it would become too easy to take such basic freedoms for granted.

If you do not understand the value of something you hold, it becomes something which can be easily traded. In the quest for power, government is all too willing to take advantage of ignorance. It preys upon the uninformed and dangles promises, which no government can truly keep.

We are an exceptional nation because we are free. We are free because we stood up to tyranny and tied it down with the U.S. Constitution. Without the Constitution, we loose our exceptionalism, our freedom. We become just another nation of men;

Fat-shaming columnist gets booted from Fergus Falls newspaper

Fat-shaming columnist gets booted from Fergus Falls newspaper - StarTribune.com:
"...Alan Linda's column about his experience sitting next to an overweight airplane passenger will be the last one he writes for the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
The newspaper last week expressed regret for printing the column and said it had parted ways with Linda, an unpaid community columnist who has written the paper's "Prairie Spy" column for 30 years.
"I've gotten an overwhelmingly positive response over the decision," Tim Engstrom, the Daily Journal's editor and publisher, said Monday.
"People say it's the right thing to do."
In an editorial last week, the newspaper's editorial board explained the decision to cut ties with Linda, an Otter Tail County resident whose humorous columns have run in several other Minnesota newspapers over the years.
"Last Friday, his column was about sitting next to a larger person on an airplane," the board wrote. "In the column, he called the person 'fat' and went on to describe a lack of sympathy for the man's weight issue.
"Not only did this offend many of our readers, it offended us," the editorial said.
"Bullying others is not OK.
Body shaming is not OK. … The list goes on, but you get the picture. Let's debate the issues, not make personal attacks on people."
The staff made a bad decision in publishing Linda's column, the editorial said..."

Should we treat obesity like a contagious disease?

Should we treat obesity like a contagious disease? | Science | AAAS:
"BOSTON--Becoming obese isn’t like catching a cold, but a handful of research groups are now trying to model obesity in a population by treating it like a “social contagion” that spreads among people through their interactions...

Q: How did this idea of modeling obesity as a contagion come about?

K. E.: The first paper was published in 2007 by [Nicholas] Christakis and [James] Fowler. … They found that the obesity can be transmissible through social networks. During my Ph.D. course, I was working on mathematical modeling of infectious disease. When I read their paper, I thought, “I can apply my mathematical techniques to describe the obesity epidemic model.”

Q: In what way is obesity a “social contagion”?

D. T.: If you’re somebody who loves to go to the gym and loves to eat healthy, it’s unlikely that you’re going to draw in a circle of friends that love to smoke cigarettes and love to eat at fast food restaurants. You’re going to kind of surround yourself and emulate the behavior of a cluster around you. There is some experimental evidence for that. 

D. A.: I want to just be clear that actually there is a hypothesis out there, supported by some data, that certain microbes—particularly adenoviruses—do contribute to obesity, and in that sense, it would be contagious in the more literal sense of spreading viruses from one person to another. So we don’t want to dismiss that..."

Nigel Farage backs Trump on refugee crime in Sweden, says media is lying – TheBlaze

Nigel Farage backs Trump on refugee crime in Sweden, says media is lying – TheBlaze:

"Former UKIP leader and Brexit hero Nigel Farage is backing up President Trump on his comments about refugee crime in Sweden that were mocked by the left and many in the media. Farage vociferously accused the media of covering up the crimes while speaking on LBC, a digital radio station in Britain.

“Pro-rata Sweden has taken more young male migrants than any other country in the Europe,” Farage exclaimed.

And there has been a dramatic rise in sexual crime in Sweden – so much so that Malmo is now the rape capital of Europe, and some argue, perhaps the rape capital of the world. And there is a Swedish media that frankly just doesn’t report it."

Lawmakers to Request Probe of $418M Arms Sale to Kenya on Obama's Last Day

EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers to Request Probe of $418M Arms Sale to Kenya on Obama's Last Day
"A group of lawmakers is planning to request a congressional investigation of a $418 million U.S. weapons sale to Kenya approved by the Obama administration on its last day in office.

The sale, approved by the State Department and privately notified to Congress on January 19, would allow Kenya to buy 14 weaponized crop-duster-like planes — including two trainer planes and services, for missions against terrorist group al-Shabaab. 

The deal was publicly announced the Monday after Trump’s inauguration. 

A handful of lawmakers, led by Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), are questioning why the contract to produce the planes was awarded to major defense firm L3 Technologies — which has never produced such a plane — while a smaller, disabled veteran-owned company in North Carolina that already make those planes at a lower cost was not considered. 

The Mooresville, N.C. company, IOMAX USA Inc., costed out 14 planes at $237 million dollars, according to a Budd aide. 

“It looks like politics,” Budd said in a phone interview with Breitbart News on Monday. “Why are they sending it to someone that’s produced zero, for twice the price? 

This is inappropriate.”..."

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Filmmaker Beaten in Sweden Reveals Why the European Rape Crisis Is Being Ignored – Glenn Beck

Filmmaker Beaten in Sweden Reveals Why the European Rape Crisis Is Being Ignored – Glenn Beck:

"So in 2001, the last year, Sweden kept stats on the demographic of perpetrators. And lo and behold, 70 percent of all perpetrators were immigrants into Sweden.

So they said, that’s a stat we don’t like. So they scrubbed the stat so now you can’t find the demographic because they scrubbed it away. Now, what we do know is this, that the rise in rape and the rise in murder dovetails almost exactly with the extreme rise in Islamic immigration. We know that. We know that two-thirds of the people that are raped do not know their perpetrator in Sweden, which is the exact opposite of the United States."

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REPORT: Trump Draft Executive Order on Welfare Has Liberals FURIOUS

REPORT: Trump Draft Executive Order on Welfare Has Liberals FURIOUS:

"Ever see a dead cat in a tree? Me neither. When the cat gets hungry enough, it comes down on its own and finds a meal. Unless it’s in a Democrat tree. Then the food is sent up at each mealtime, permanently, until the fat kitty forgets what living on the ground and catching its own mice is like.

This analogy to our current liberal cradle-to-grave welfare mentality has not escaped President Donald Trump’s attention. Strict welfare limits are moving up the president’s priority list and not surprisingly, welfare to immigrants is a critical item on the agenda,"

'Spy Games' continuing to bedevil Trump

'Spy Games' continuing to bedevil Trump:
"If you're following Twitter, you've noticed a great deal of Democrat/Deep State chatter hinting darkly at Russian involvement in the election of Donald Trump, his business dealings with Putin's regime, and the alleged penetration of the administration by Russian agents or agents-of-influence. 
Now, one former spy has had enough:

According to former Vice President Biden, there’s been an on-going investigation into the alleged connections between Trump and Russia. All of us should take heart in knowing that the system is functioning exactly as designed.

However, some of America’s spies are deciding that that’s not enough. For reasons of misguided righteousness or partisan hatred, they’ve taken it upon themselves to be judge, jury, and executioner. They have prosecuted their case in the court of public opinion, with likeminded media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, and the Washington Post serving as court stenographers.

Elected by no one, responsible only to each other, these spies have determined that Trump is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Days ago, they delivered their verdict. According to one intelligence official, the president “will die in jail.”

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As I wrote the other day, the Deep State empire of former Obama administration officials, former members of the intelligence community, and gullible reporters is trying to overturn the election and overthrow the government by peaceful means, via a whispering campaign, with sinister mutterings about "rumored Kremlin ties." 
That there's so far absolutely nothing to back it up hasn't seemed to dissuade them. 
But maybe it should:..."
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Wasserman Schultz's IT Staffers Took $100,000 From Iraqi Politician, 'Impossible' To Trace Transactions

Wasserman Schultz's IT Staffers Took $100,000 From Iraqi Politician, 'Impossible' To Trace Transactions:
"On February 4, The Daily Caller reported that three rogue IT Staffers who managed office IT for government officials had been relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, aka hacking.
The three IT staffers also happen to be brothers: Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan.

Late on Monday night The Daily Caller reported that those same staffers had taken $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator level access over a significant number of computers.

From The Daily Caller:

Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.

This means that the staffers had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s computer files while she was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. 
Wasserman Schultz’s computer was hacked and thousands of emails were released showing the corruption of the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign..."
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Police Dept. Cancels 'High-Five Friday' at Schools

Police Dept. Cancels 'High-Five Friday' at Schools:
"A police department in Northampton, Massachusetts is ending its "High-Five Friday" program at local elementary schools due to concerns that "undocumented children" and others may feel "uncomfortable" seeing an officer at school.
The program, started by the Northampton Police Department in December, had officers stand outside of a school each Friday morning to high-five students as they walked in to begin the day.
Now, the program has been canceled due to concerns that it may make minority students and illegal immigrants feel uncomfortable..."

Fake News Rap Sheet: Last Week the MSM Was Caught Telling FORTY Lies | Daily Wire

Fake News Rap Sheet: Last Week the MSM Was Caught Telling FORTY Lies | Daily Wire:

"You will see one change in this week's list, with respect to the count. Rather than start the count over every week, this ongoing diary of Fake News will now use a cumulative number, an ongoing count. Put simply, last week's list contained 24 pieces of Fake News. The week prior was 12. That is a total of 36, so this week we will start with number 37."

Rioting erupts in immigrant-dominated Swedish suburb

Rioting erupts in immigrant-dominated Swedish suburb | Fox News
"Riots erupted in a heavily immigrant Stockholm suburb Monday night, as masked looters set cars ablaze and threw rocks at cops, injuring one police officer, Swedish officials said.


...Police in Sweden said Tuesday they were investigating riots that broke out overnight in a predominantly immigrant Stockholm suburb after officers arrested a suspect on drug charges.
Spokesman Lars Bystrom said unidentified people, including some wearing masks, threw rocks at police, set cars on fire and looted shops in Rinkeby, north of Stockholm. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)Expand / Contract
The violence in Rinkeby began around 8 p.m., when officers arrested a suspect at an underground station on drug charges, The Local reported.
A group soon gathered, hurling rocks and other objects at officers and prompting one cop to fire his gun “in a situation that demanded he use his firearm,” police spokesman Lars Bystrom said..."

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History for February 22

History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com
George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States., Robert Baden-Powell 1857, Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892


Robert Young 1907, Edward M. Kennedy 1932, Drew Barrymore 1975 - Actress

1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.


1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."


1860 - Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, CA.


1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.


1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.


1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.


1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.


1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.