This from Instapundit (the rest is behind the Wall Street Journal paywall) (emphasis mine):

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Number of College Students Taking Remedial Courses Explodes. “The number of college students taking at least one remedial course rose to 2.7 million in the 2011-2012 academic year from 1.04 million in 1999-2000, federal data show. During the same span, the amount of federal grants spent by undergraduates enrolled in at least one remedial course rose 380%, after inflation, Education Department figures show. There was also a drastic rise in remedial students taking on student debt. . . . Now, the high dropout rate among remedial-education students—along with a sharp rise in student debt—is fueling debate about whether the government should be more stringent in awarding student aid. Critics—ranging from some think-tank academics and conservatives to a trustee of a community-college system in Texas—say aid should be targeted toward students who are better-prepared.” These are students who shouldn’t be in college. Colleges are letting them in because they want their money.

The above is about student debt – my emphasis is on asking the question “What about the student education? WHY are so many students leaving mostly government high schools SO unprepared for college level work?”  It can’t be that Gruber word: stupidity, right?

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These are part of our highest level of lawmakers – the Congressional Black Caucus.  One would expect that they would take the time to do what we pay them for – read the bills before voting on them.  Fat chance of that happening if you have EVER read their remarks concerning one bill or another – some are simply clueless about them or on other things (like Congressman Hank “we’ll tip over Guam if we put more troops there” Johnson) like this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Congressional Black Caucus denounces Ferguson grand jury

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday called the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson a “slap in the face” for those seeking justice for the death of Michael Brown.  “The Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice,” CBC Chair Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said in a statement released after the decision was announced late Monday evening in Missouri. “It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.”

The evidence given to the grand jury in Ferguson was just released today and somewhere I have bookmarked a post that says 60 witnesses and 4,900+ pages of testimony.  To my knowledge, there is no mechanism that automatically sends such evidence to black CongressCritters in cases where other blacks die in confrontations with whites (regardless of the circumstances) ahead of decisions.

Thus, when did CongressCritter Fudge have the time to read (or

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A report released on Friday got Democrats doing a happy dance over Benghazi.  (For Ann Kuster supporters, that’s a city in Libya).  The report has been spun to clear the CIA and White House of deliberately misleading the public.  So it looks like four Americans were murdered by terrorists because the White House, State, and the CIA, were incompetent.  Winning?

Now, as Jazz Shaw noted, this report leads the readers to believe that “mistakes were made” in the creation of those [Benghazi] talking points, but those mistakes were not the result of an “intelligence failure.” This, despite the fact that an intelligence failure quite clearly led Rice – and White House advisor Ben Rhodes and the State Department’s Victoria Nuland, et al — to believe this attack was something it was not.

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Democrats have more to answer for with regards to DNC Committee member Terry Bean, one-percenter, Democrat-fundraiser, and accused pedophile.

Bean got his 24 year old partner access to the President of the United States, event, handshake, photo-op, even though his boyfriend Kiah Lawson (Love the matching scarves or is that one scarf) had a criminal record and history of violence.  The Obama Secret Service (see also Prostitute scandal, White House Home Invaders) didn’t appear to bat an eye-lash over it.

Restraining orders, forcible entry (eewww), stealing a PlayStation 3 from a local Best Buy, misdemeanor assault, drug abuse, driving on a suspended license, all before Bean started dating him.  And yes, it appears that one-percenter Bean knew about the criminal history.

Lawson told WW the two met through Jack’d, and that Bean offered to help him with court fines stemming from his criminal convictions, and encouraged him to stay off drugs and stop smoking.

So “you can’t help who you fall in love with” but you can help them with their violent criminal history, and then get them an audience with the President, and…get them to do some other stuff you really can’t do without them because of your high-profile…

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The NH State Supreme Court caught an interstate voter for us!!

Well, thank you Supremes for at least this bit of sunshine.

Cited is a State Supreme Court appeal regarding what looks like a dog bite case (that’s not slang, a dog bit someone) and who, from where, insured by what coverage, of what residence, is going to pay.

Our anti-hero in this case is a guy who uses several residences for his own advantage (except this time) for car registration and of course VOTING.  He is, in fact, a Massachusetts resident domiciled in that state in Somerville , where we have caught other low life vote thieves by the way; enter naughty dog owner Charles Matthews who votes from his mommy’s house in Moultonborough, NH.

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For Immediate Release

New Hampshire Right to Life
(603) 626-7950

New Hampshire Right to Life Announces New President

Merrimack, N.H. — The Board of Trustees of New Hampshire Right to Life is happy to announce the election of a new President for the organization. During its November board meeting, NHRTL trustees unanimously voted for Jane Cormier to serve as incoming President of the organization. While serving as a former representative in the NH State House for Belknap District 8, Ms. Cormier actively stood for life and small government issues. Ms. Cormier was the prime sponsor on HB483, a bill supporting informed consent requirements for abortions performed in New Hampshire. She also vigorously supported other life-affirming legislative bills and is well-known throughout the state as a dynamic and passionate speaker.

Ms. Cormier also has experience with non-profit sector management and will stand unflinchingly for the right to life from conception through natural death. In addition to writing a popular weekly column for the Weirs Times, Jane has a large network of supporters throughout the Granite State. “We look forward to having Jane become part of NHRTL. We know she will bring a new and fresh perspective to engage in robust dialogue regarding life issues here in NH”, says the NHRTL Political PAC Chair, Darlene Pawlik.

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Sounding more like the Ferguson grand jury may be ready to reveal its decision.  While many are thinking that all hell is going to break loose if Officer Wilson is cleared of wrong doing, I think that with all of the professional grievance mongers have descended up Ferguson for what ever reason (e.g., race relations, pro-Commies, “guess what I did during my Thanksgiving break!”), they are going to riot no matter what – innocent, guilty – it will make no difference.

“A St. Louis area gun shop refused a sale to an African-American woman because, according to the clerk, St. Louis police informed gun stores that Darren Wilson will not be charged,” addictinginfo.com reports. And told them to remove their firearms from the premises in case “protestors” choose to do a little affirmative shopping. “To be clear, this was not an instance of racism (not in the traditional sense, anyway) — the shop was just in the process of removing all guns and ammunition from the premises, allegedly on the order of police.” You didn’t know that? Apparently the media didn’t get the memo. Literally . . .

Did you notice the tractor trailer back there to our loading dock?” the man asked the woman, who responded with an affirmative. “All the guns are already packed in, and we’re taking all the pawns out of here too, just to protect our customers’ merchandise.”

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The Human Rights Campaign founder and highly regarded Democrat political operative Terry Bean has been accused of raping a 15 year old boy. [Insert influential “coming out of the shadows” metaphor here.]

Real Estate Investor Terry Bean’s HRC has been putting money into New Hampshire Democrat hands for years, but significantly more after Ray Buckley became Chairman of the Democrat party.  All these numbers are from Open Secrets.org.

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Ann Marie Banfield – Breitbart (yes, that Ann Marie, and that Breitbart)

In New Hampshire’s last legislative session, no bill sparked more unexpected public engagement than HB 1508. It consisted of a simple statement: “Terminate all plans, programs, activities, and expenditures relative to the implementation of the common core state educational standards which have been adopted or may be adopted by the state board, including any assessments and instruction based upon such standards.”

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HB 1508 failed, but not before stirring up a hornet’s nest that shows few signs of settling down.

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I know it’s hard to believe but several NH news outlets have fresher fresh stories about the contentious, obnoxious, overbearing, mean spirited, impossible to get along with – Republican Speaker-elect, Bill O’Brien.

Yes indeed every “NH reporter” worth his salt has to do an anti-Bill O’Brien story. After all, it’s November 22, 2014 and that is the official start of the State Wide Let’s Attack Bill O’Brien Day Week of the Month Club for Democrat Reporters!

Here’s one fresh off the manure pile- “O’Brien 2.0.‘

And don’t forget the Sunday News and their lead online story – ‘A Kinder Gentler House Speaker.‘

And over on the seacoast – ‘The Return of Bill O’Brien‘

I wonder. Does NH Democrat Party Ray Buckley Chairman sit in their laps when they write this stuff or does he simply approve it after the fact?

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Two Stanford PhDs, Ross Koningstein having trained in aerospace engineering and David Fork in applied physics, have spent four years (fully funded by Google) to examine and solve the so-called problem of the so-called renewable energy future.

At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope …(Source:UK Register)

Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.

As we reflected on the project, we came to the conclusion that even if Google and others had led the way toward a wholesale adoption of renewable energy, that switch would not have resulted in significant reductions of carbon dioxide emissions. Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach. (Source: IEEE)

Now that we’ve got credentialed engineers backed by serious private industry cash (Google-worth kabillions) saying that after four years of intensive research, that the current recommended ‘solution’ to the stated problem can’t possibly solve that problem, how longer before we get them to realize that the real problem is that there is no problem?

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