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Hospitals are 'throwing patients out of hospitals' late at night to free up beds, according to an investigation by The Times.
The newspaper estimates that each year more than 400,000 patients are discharged from hospital between 11pm and 6am: many of whom could be elderly or vulnerable patients with inadequate care and support.
The Times sent Freedom of Information requests to 170 NHS hospital trusts and analysed data from 100 that responded. These recorded 239,233 late-night discharges in the past year, which would equate to over 400,000 across the country. This represents around 3.5% of NHS hospital discharges each year.
The Times report included case studies of several patients who had been discharged inappropriately. However, the data reported tells us only the raw number of patients discharged during the seven-hour window. It does not explain why they were discharged, what the patients experienced or how many of the discharges were inappropriate.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, told The Times that he will now investigate the issue of late-night discharges. Sir Bruce said: "Patients should only be discharged when it's clinically appropriate, safe and convenient for them and their families. It is simply not fair to be sending people home late at night. We will look at this."
Why might patients be discharged at night?
Although the story has been front-page news, it does not explain why so many patients are being discharged at night or how many of these discharges are inappropriate.
Individual patients' stories support the case that some are being discharged wrongly at night to free up beds, but not all night-time discharges will be inappropriate. A small proportion of patients will always leave hospital at night for a variety of legitimate reasons, as some news sources have highlighted:
- Alcohol-related admissions: binge drinking is thought to cause over a million NHS hospitalisations each year, and drunk patients attending A&E may sometimes be transferred to wards so their health can be monitored. They may be discharged or choose to leave at night once they are more sober.
- Births: women who give birth to healthy babies often have no need to remain in hospital, and may choose to return home soon after their delivery rather than staying in hospital for the rest of the night.
- Cleared emergencies: patients brought in at night for suspected emergencies can sometimes be briefly booked into wards for checks and tests. Once it is considered safe for patients to return home they may be discharged the same night.
- Record-keeping practices: the way discharges are recorded in hospitals may not be totally accurate. For example, discharges recorded on paper might be keyed into computer systems at quieter periods such as night-time, suggesting a late-night discharge. Also, errors might occur when entering discharge times.
- Deaths: some hospital record systems count a patient as discharged if they die while in hospital. Therefore the figures are likely to include a number of patient deaths recorded during the seven-hour period from 11pm to 6am.
Overall, while there is evidence that inappropriate late-night admission does occur in the NHS, it is hard to judge the scale of the problem without more revealing data. Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, has said he will investigate the matter.
How can I give feedback on my hospital stay?
You can use the NHS Choices site to give feedback. As well as rating your hospital, you can also read and leave feedback on your GP practice, dental practice or optician. You can add positive and negative ratings and comment on what you have experienced. To post your views, simply find your facility in our NHS services directory and click the button marked "Rate and comment" to begin.
How can I make a complaint?
If you are not happy with the care or treatment you or a relative have received, or you have been refused treatment for a condition, you have the right to:
- make a complaint
- have your complaint properly investigated
- be given a full and prompt reply
The NHS has its own complaints procedure, which is the first step you can take for any complaint. You can find detailed information about the NHS complaint procedure on NHS Choices.
If you aren't satisfied with the way the NHS deals with your complaint, you can take it to the independent Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
Under the NHS Constitution you can also make a claim for judicial review if you think you have been directly affected by an unlawful act or decision of an NHS body, and receive compensation if you have been harmed.
You can also raise your concerns by contacting regulatory bodies such as the Care Quality Commission.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Overnight discharges from NHS hospitals to be examined
BBC News, 12 April 2012
NHS patients sent home at night 'to free up hospital beds'
The Daily Telegraph, 12 April 2012
NHS patients 'discharged overnight'
The Independent, 12 April 2012
NHS chief to investigate overnight discharges
The Guardian, 12 April 2012
8,000 NHS patients discharged in middle of night 'every week'
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Scott said the goal was to make sure every local, state and federal agency "has the exact same information" on the storm and preparations in order to make informed decisions. He issued the state of emergency Saturday during a media briefing in Broward County.
The state is also focusing on preparations ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Scott said delegates were being information on how to remain safe during a storm. Officials in the Tampa area were also being kept informed of issues that may occur due to Isaac, such as storm surge and bridge closures.
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The Contemporary English Version (CEV) is a fresh and clear Bible translation, first produced by the American Bible Society (ABS) in 1995. In 1997 the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) anglicised the text for the British and Commonwealth market which uses metric measurements. This British text edition was especially developed for use in Church, outreach and evangelism and is suitable for people of all ages and educational background. The translation is readable, understandable and accessible.
The Contemporary English Version (CEV) was designed to be a Bible which is easily understood when read aloud. Most of the usual biblical terminology has been adapted into everyday language, to make it readable by people without a church background. As a result of this it won the coveted Crystal Award in 1996 from the Plain English Campaign, which is awarded to publications that are considered to be as clear as possible for the intended audience. This makes the CEV a great translation for youth Bibles.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the really shocking news today was that General Petraeus thought and hoped he could keep his job. He thought that it might and it would be kept secret, and that he could stay in his position. I think what that tells us is really important. It meant that he understood that the FBI obviously knew what was going on. He was hoping that those administration officials would not disclose what had happened, and therefore hoping that he would keep his job. And that meant that he understood that his job, his reputation, his legacy, his whole celebrated life was in the hands of the administration, and he expected they would protect him by keeping it quiet.
And that brings us to the ultimate issue, and that is his testimony on September 13. That's the thing that connects the two scandals, and that's the only thing that makes the sex scandal relevant. Otherwise it would be an exercise in sensationalism and voyeurism and nothing else. The reason it's important is here's a man who knows the administration holds his fate in its hands, and he gives testimony completely at variance with what the Secretary of Defense had said the day before, at variance with what he'd heard from his station chief in Tripoli, and with everything that we had heard. Was he influenced by the fact that he knew his fate was held by people within the administration at that time?
Here is POLITICO's cheat sheet of questions that the president is likely to face:
1. Do you believe the FBI should have told you and Congress sooner about the investigation that led Gen. Petraeus to resign?They're so in the tank for this boob their first question already assumes he had no knowledge and allows him to play the victim. So to summarize: Don't expect a single tough question. Besides, he'd never answer them anyway. Here's a very simple question for the esteemed press corps: Why did you repeatedly lie that the terror attack in Benghazi was a protest against a video nobody ever saw and why is the maker of that clip in prison?
While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boozes it up in Australia and the Pentagon grapples with more floozy eruptions, outraged military families are still waiting for answers about the forgotten 9/14 attack on Camp Bastion.
Muckrakers and distraction engineers are having a front-page field day with the so-called "sex scandal." But for surviving relatives and colleagues of heroic Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, it's the national security scandal at Afghanistan's Camp Bastion that deserves headline coverage.
There's been a virtual blackout of the alarming story in the national press. As I reported last month, the meticulously coordinated siege by 15 Taliban infiltrators — dressed in American combat fatigues and armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons — resulted not only in two deaths, but also in the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam. Six Harrier jets were destroyed; three refueling stations were wiped out; six hangars were damaged.
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John (Jack) O'Rourke, a senior at New Canaan High School will receive a Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia, the district announced today.
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Hadn't been able to post since last Wednesday when my wife was hospitalized. She's facing a sixth knee surgery in the last two years.
No posts since last Wednesday resulted in seven comments, which is great. Some weren't very pleasant but that's OK. Dave, I've never been called a joke before but I do have a sense of humor and you made me laugh. Hope Jay Leno calls soon. Steve, all I know about the Vet roof is that the images you mentioned came from the architect's rendering of the stadium. Trying to remember more specifics from 41 years ago isn't easy. Heck, yesterday I couldn't remember where I left my shoes. If you are angry at the Phillies, think of six knee surgeries or children in hospitals or cancer patients. There is more to life than getting upset at a sports team.
Being a fan means sticking with your team through the highs and lows. There's nothing like winning but it doesn't last forever.
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We should have swept the Padres but didn't. Every game seems to be some kind of struggle. All the players can do is show up every day and battle. This game isn't easy and neither is life.
This is a different team from a year ago. A lineup exactly a year ago included only J-Roll, Shane and Cole.
Papelbon is 10-for-10 in saves. Yesterday was the sixth save in which he retired the side in order. The challenge lately has been getting to him.
Phillies haven't won three in a row yet. Last time they went this far into the season without a three-game win streak was 1992.
So, now the Astros come to town for two, then to the Cubs' Wrigley Field for two and back home for three with the Red Sox. Hey, how are Red Sox fans reacting these days? They had high expectations, too.
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**Lehigh Valley won two and was rained out Sunday in Louisville. RHP Scott Elarton (4-1) won his third straight on Friday, allowing one hit (4th inning single) in six innings.
**Reading lost two of three in New Britain. SS Troy Hanzawa extended his hitting streak to 14 games (.396). 1B Darin Ruf ended the weekend leading the EL in hitting (.383), hits (49) and RBI (27).
**Clearwater was idle on Sunday but won on Friday and Saturday nights. 3B Cody Asche extended his hitting streak to 13 games (.453).
**Lakewood lost two of three to Greensboro.
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DEAR ABBY: I have two sisters and three brothers, ranging in age from 52 to 69. All of us except one are comfortable financially.
DEAR ABBY: I have two sisters and three brothers, ranging in age from 52 to 69. All of us except one are comfortable financially.
The exception is our brother �Jerry,� who is homeless. He lives in a park and does odd jobs. He owes money for old student loans and probably back taxes, so he�s hesitant about finding a �real� job and having to fill out a W-4 form. I believe he uses alcohol and marijuana, but not often.
I am the only family member who is in contact with him, and I give him money occasionally. The others may not be aware of how bad his living situation is. I have no room for him in my house because my adult daughter and grandson moved in.
We are not a close family, although we have no animosity. Should I send an email or letter to my siblings about our brother? Should I ask for suggestions on how to help him? How should it be worded? � SENSITIVE SIS IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR SENSITIVE SIS: The answer to both questions is yes. Your message doesn�t have to be long or fancy. If I were writing it, I would put it this way: �Are you aware that our brother, Jerry, is homeless, living in a park and surviving on odd jobs? This is a disgrace to our family. Do you have any suggestions about how to help our brother?�
People who live on the streets (or in parks) usually have more problems than unpaid student loans and back taxes. There is often a significant mental health or substance abuse issue. My suggestion would be to involve a social worker in steering your brother toward the help he needs to get his life back. If there is money involved, wouldn�t it be more wisely spent that way?
DEAR ABBY: I am a senior citizen and an above-the-knee amputee. I wear a full-leg prosthesis and use crutches. I love being out and about, going to theaters, restaurants, outdoor markets, etc.
How should I respond to the many people who ask me what happened? Did I break my ankle, have knee surgery or what? I know telling them the truth would embarrass them. Abby, please ask your readers to think twice before asking a stranger such a personal question. �AMPUTEE IN NEW JERSEY
DEAR AMPUTEE: OK, I�ll try. Readers, I have advised many times that you not ask strangers personal questions, and this is yet another example.
Now that I have repeated that advice, I�ll offer some to you: Please do not worry about embarrassing the questioner. Feel free to tell the truth if you wish. It might teach the person a needed lesson when he or she gets more information than was bargained for. However, if you don�t want to divulge, all you have to say is, �That�s very personal, and I�d prefer not to discuss it.�
DEAR ABBY:I�m getting married next year, and in my excitement, I asked four of my good friends to be my bridesmaids. As the date grows closer, I am realizing just how much a wedding really costs. Would it be wrong for me to change my mind about having bridesmaids? The girls haven�t paid for anything yet or wasted any time during the planning process. Please help me. I don�t want to hurt anyone�s feelings, but I can�t afford to have a wedding party. � SOUTHERN BELLE
DEAR SOUTHERN BELLE: Contact your good friends individually and explain the situation just as you have explained it to me. Once they understand that financial constraints prevent you from having the wedding you fantasized about, none of them should feel slighted that you need to scale back. Frankly, I commend you on your good judgment in recognizing this now.
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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The Sunnybrook Trout Club in Sandusky, Ohio, will host it's annual Wulf School of Fly Fishing July 13-15. The course will cover both fly casting and fly fishing. Instructor Floyd Franke holds more than 40 national and international fly-tying awards. Sunnybrook is a private trout club with more than two-miles of spring-fed trout streams. Accommodations and dining is available in the club's 1940s colonial-style clubhouse. To register, or for more information, call (419) 625-8353.
Hunter safety course, Lowellville Rod & amp; Gun Club, Quarry Road, Lowellville, Aug. 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Must attend both sessions. Pre-registration required. Call N. Visingardi, (330) 536-8537.
INFORMATION -- For information on hunter, trapper and bowhunting education courses, contact the Ohio Division of Wildlife at (800) WILDLIFE. For hunter education in Pennsylvania, call (814) 432-3187.
CLUB & amp; ACTIVITY NEWS
BEAVER CREEK SPORTSMAN CLUB: Archery shoots, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., 7/8, 7/29, 8/12, 9/8-9. Turkey shoots Fridays, 6:30 p.m.; club at 4480 Washingtonville Road, Washingtonville.
BROOKFIELD TRI-DISTRICT CONSERVATION CLUB: Muzzle-loading black powder shoots are the fourth Sunday monthly at noon. Club: Sharon-Hogue Road, east of state Route 7.
COLUMBIANA COUNTY FEDERATION OF CONSERVATION CLUBS: Meetings: June 26th, Lake Tomahawk; July 7/24, East Palestine Sportsmans Club. All meetings 8 p.m.
CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC.: Open indoor archery, Mondays, Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon. Tuesday to Fridays, 6-9 p.m. Indoor shooting, Mondays through Fridays, 6-9 p.m. 2535 McCleary-Jacoby Road, Bazetta.
CONSUMERS/MAHONING VALLEY LAKES: Evans Lake closed; Pine Lake open to June 27. (800) 634-3088 for info.
EASTERN OHIO CONSERVATION CLUB: Trap shoots Wednesdays, 6 p.m., public invited. Skeet shoots 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. West Calla Road between routes 62 and 45.
EAST PALESTINE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB: Mini-archery shoots, Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. 3D archery shoots (30 McKenzie targets, trophies awarded) set third Sunday monthly through August. Pro, hunter, women, tradition and cub stakes. Registration 8 a.m.-noon and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $7 adults, $4 ages 12-16, cubs free. North Pleasant Drive off state Route 14 near the Pa. border.
FISH & amp; GAME CLUB OF VIENNA: Fairhaven Day, June 23. Registered trap shoots available. Ladies firearms classes, call (330) 534-2929 for next class. Indoor archery Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Doubles and singles trap Wednesdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. Indoor pistol range shoots Thursdays 5-9 p.m., open to public. Route 193 near airport. (330) 394-1388.
GIRARD LAKE: Season passes for 2001 (available at boathouse) with boat launching $65 for those 13 and older. Shore fishing passes are $45. For more details, call (330) 539-4065 or (330) 545-9712. Lower Girard Lake is closed. Upper Girard Lake is open to Sept. 3. Upcoming events: open bass tournament Aug. 4 and Sept.
GRAND VALLEY HUNTING RANCH: July 1, Whitetail Unlimited Firecracker Fun Shoot and Conservation Picnic, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ($25 adults); July 4, all day shoot (hamburgers off the grill); July 22, Grand Valley's 10th anniversary shoot (cake and ice cream); July 29, ladies introduction to shotgun shooting ($30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) call (440) 685-4868. For information, call (440) 685-4868. 10198 Penniman Road, Orwell, Ohio.
HARTHEGIG CONSERVATION CLUB: Trap Sundays at 10 a.m. For information call (724) 475-2295 or (724) 475-4600.
HIDDEN VALLEY SPORTSMANS CLUB: Turkey and ham shoots, Thursdays, 7 p.m. Indoor archery, Sundays, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sporting clays Sundays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Gilkey Road off Mitchell Road between Pa. routes 318 and 18. West Middlesex. Call (724) 528-2700 or (724) 962-9782.
HUBBARD CONSERVATION CLUB: Turkey shoots Thursdays 7 p.m. and Saturdays (long gun) at 2 p.m. Steaks, hams, bacon, cash and more available for winners. Meetings second Wednesday monthly, 7 p. m. Club is at 1760 Wick-Campbell Road, Hubbard. Info: (330) 534-8701.
KINSMAN CONSERVATION CLUB: Turkey shoots, Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
LAKE MILTON FISH & amp; GAME: Archery 3-D shoots June 24, July 22, Aug. 25-26, Sept. 23. Adults $8, children $3. registration 8 a.m. to noon (330) 654-9680. Trap shoots Fridays, protector class, 6 p.m. registration, 6:30 p.m. shooting. Call (330) 872-0203 or 654-4599. Bedell Road.
LAWRENCE COUNTY SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION: Skeet or trap, Wednesdays 5 p.m.; Sporting clays, Thursdays 5 p.m., Sundays 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; and 5-Stand sporting clays, Wednesdays 5 p.m., Sundays 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Harbor Road west of New Castle. Call (724) 652-1075
LEETONIA SPORTSMENS CLUB: State Youth Hunter Education Competition is Friday to Sunday in Carroll County. Monday, turkey shoots, 7 p.m. Trap shoots, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. For information call, (330) 337-7552.
LOWELLVILLE ROD AND GUN CLUB: Accepting memberships. Registered trap, Sunday, noon, single and handicap, July 1, July 29. Practice trap shoots, every Thursday . Pistol shoots Tuesdays 7 p.m. CMP shoots, 7/8, 8/12 and 9/9. Club is on Quarry Road.
MAHONING COUNTY FEDERATION OF SPORTSMENS CLUBS: Next meeting, Monday, 8 p.m., Lake Milton Fish & amp; Game Club, between Berlin Reservoir and Lake Milton, at Shillings Mill..
MAHONING SPORTSMENS ASSOCIATION: Trap practice Sundays 6 p.m. For information, call (330) 549-0225.
MAHONING VALLEY TRAP LEAGUE: League shoots:
Columbiana, 6/18; Vienna, 6/25; Lowellville, 7/2; Mahoning, 7/9; New Middletown, 7/16; E.O.C.C., 7/23; Columbiana, 7/30; Vienna, 8/6; Lowellville, 8/20; Mahoning, 8/27; New Middletown, 9/10; E.O.C.C., 9/17; Rain date (or shoot-off if not used for rain date), 9/24; Shoot-off, Lowellville Rod 7 Gun Club, 10/1.
NEW MIDDLETOWN FARMERS AND SPORTSMENS CLUB: Trap shooting Fridays, ATA registered targets start at 6 p.m.; Oakley, protectors and practice also welcome. Club is at 3341 E. Calla Road.
OHIO VALLEY BASS ANGLERS: The club is accepting new members for the 2001 fishing season. Those interested call (330) 337-0530 or (330) 482-0427.
ORWELL GUN CLUB: Turkey shoots Fridays, 7 p.m. Call (330) 683-4738.
PHEASANT VIEW FARM INC.: Offering specific hunts, for information (330) 584-6828. 11625 Beloit-Snodes Road, Beloit, Ohio, 44609.
POSSUM HOLLOW SPORTSMANS CLUB: Archery 7/8, 8/12, 9/9, 8 a.m.-noon, $7 adults, $5 children 13-16, 12 and under free. (724) 535-4985 or (724) 336-2981. Club in Wampum, Pa.
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL EAST OHIO-NORTH WEST PENN CHAPTER: For information on SCI activities call (330) 726-8155 or (330) 799-9367.
SALEM HUNTING CLUB: Monday trap shoots, 10 a.m. registration. PPC shoots, 6 p.m. Mondays. Pistol league runs second and fourth Thursdays, 6 p.m.; Blackpowder shoot, fourth Sunday, 6 p.m.; Trap shoots 6 p.m. Tuesdays; first and third Wednesdays, 6 p.m., .22 rifle shoots; second and fourth Wednesdays, 6 p.m., centerfire rifle shoots; all-you-can-eat breakfast, first Saturday of each month, 6-11 a.m. with trap shoot to follow at 11 a.m. Club: state Route 62, one mile west of Salem.
TRUMBULL COUNTY ROD AND GUN CLUB: 3D shoot, 30 McKenzie targets, 7/8, 8/12, 9/9, registration: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., $6 adults, $4 youth 12 and under. The club is at Phillips-Price Road off state Route 88. Call (330) 372-7630, or (330) 638-6691 or (330) 637-9001, for information.
WESTERN RESERVE WALLEYE ASSOCIATION: Next tournament, championship June 23, 24 at Mosquito. For information call (330) 530-3909.
WESTERN RESERVE FISH AND GAME CLUB: Junior Civilian Marksmanship Program rifle shooting, Mondays at 7 p.m. Indoor pistol shooting Wednesdays at 7 p.m., $3 for nonmembers. Indoor archery, 7 p.m. Fridays. Club is at 1058 W. Third St., Niles
WEST POINT ROD AND GUN CLUB: Call (330) 382-1028 or (330) 385-7486. Meat shoot, Sundays at noon. 3D archery shoots, third Sunday monthly. Food and novelty shoots. 30 McKenzie targets. Registration 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call (330) 532-9627.
YELLOW CREEK LONG RIFLES: Shoots second Sunday, noon. Trial walks, black powder, patched roundball and open sights only. In-lines allowed with restrictions. For information, call (330) 549-3438, (330) 738-6002, (330) 332-8376. 1153 Opal Road, Salineville.
USend your club and event news to: Outdoors, The Vindicator, Box 780, Youngstown, Ohio, 44501-0780. Include your name and a daytime phone number. Or fax your news to (330) 747-6712. Email: email@example.com.
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Without reservation, I will firmly state that my wife, Joyce, is my best friend in the truest sense of the term. For 32 of my 60 years on this Earth, we have made life's journey hand-in-hand through all the peaks and pitfalls along the way. She is the one person I can trust when it seems like everyone else has turned his or her back on me.
Without reservation, I will firmly state that my wife, Joyce, is my best friend in the truest sense of the term. For 32 of my 60 years on this Earth, we have made life's journey hand-in-hand through all the peaks and pitfalls along the way. She is the one person I can trust when it seems like everyone else has turned his or her back on me. However the term "best friend," like the word "love" takes on a wide variety of meanings in our sometimes-limited vocabulary. Frequently, we find ourselves saying we "love" ice cream or pizza, sports, or a favorite TV show. There is our love for our fellow humans, our love for God, country and mom and dad. The word "true" is sometimes put in front of love when referring to romantic feelings or emotions. Most people remember their first love though it was probably just a crush and had little or no personal involvement. I would like to address "best friend" from a slightly different perspective. Over the years I have had more than my fair share of best buddies. I think I had a new one almost every year of my school days. Most of the time, the relationship was based on common interests. With some friends I played cowboys, others Army. There were those of us who shared the love of comic books and baseball cards or horror movies. But as the Bible states, "There is a friend that is closer than a brother." I was indeed fortunate to have one of those friends – only in my case it was a sister. There was 18 months difference in our ages but we did almost everything together growing up. Some people even thought we were twins because she was tall for her age. We were always at each other's house, depending on what we wanted to do that day. During our pre-school years, we would take turns playing cowboys or Batman and Superman. Sometimes we went to her house and played with her large collection of dolls. At 60, I am too old to be ashamed to admit that I played with dolls, it was called sharing and taking turns. Of course, we had some knock down, drag out fights alone the way. Life simply has its share of bumps in the road along the way. Despite our age difference, we continued sharing time together throughout grade school, though she began to associate with young girls of her age and I began to buddy around with the guys in my class. Still, we shared vacation time together. Her mom took on some wonderful trips to The Great Smokey Mountains, Six-Flags Over Texas and several others. In fact, if it weren't for her mom I wouldn't have seen much outside the boundaries of Mississippi County, Arkansas. We attended Harding (University) College together. It was like taking a part of home with me to college. With her encouragement, my grades began to rise and I somehow managed to survive those four years sandwiched between adolescence and official adulthood. Over the years, we shared our deepest, darkest secrets and our hopes and dreams for the future. Though she achieved marital status before I did, I was the first to become a parent and was blessed to be able to share my children with her. There was a time that I wasn't sure that she would become a mother, but she eventually did. So, how do you say goodbye to your best friend? In 1993, at the age of 39, she lost her battle with cancer, leaving her precious five-month old daughter. There's not a day goes by that I don't think about her or dream about her. Whenever my daughter, Christina, talks about her childhood memories I realize you don't really ever say goodbye. Friendship is something that you keep in your heart forever.


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Duncan schooled in limits of power
Arne Duncan brought the most ambitious reform agenda in years to the Department of Education — and a determination to use every lever of power to accomplish it.
The results were stunning: In barely a year, more than 100 state laws were passed to open public schools to competition and set tough new standards for students and teachers. Duncan won allies on the right and the left, becoming one of the few Cabinet members with bipartisan support.
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But the agenda he began to advance in 2009 has now hit serious roadblocks, highlighting the limits of federal power over education. States are balking at reforms they pledged to implement in exchange for grants and waivers from federal law. An unprecedented $5 billion intervention in the nation's worst schools has yielded incremental results, at best. A noisy opposition to Duncan's reforms has emerged — and it only grew noisier this month when Duncan dissed "white suburban moms" for opposing the new Common Core academic standards because the tough tests made their kids look bad.
( WATCH: Arne Duncan sorry for 'white suburban moms' remark)
To top it off, there's no clear evidence that Duncan's prescriptions are boosting student achievement, though his backers say it's still too early to tell.
Duncan still has plenty of ambition; he's taking up several bold — and controversial — initiatives aimed at transforming higher education. Yet as his signature K-12 programs hit speed bumps, his legacy as a reformer is very much up in the air. Among the ways his reach has been limited:
— Duncan shrewdly dangled incentives to convince all but four states to adopt common academic standards meant to raise the bar for students. But he has no power to force states to adopt associated tests that the federal government has spent $350 million to develop. At least seven have dropped out and others are on the fence; analysts fear that without the tests as a common yardstick, states will be free to quietly lower the bar that Duncan has tried hard to raise.
( Also on POLITICO: Full education policy coverage)
— He successfully prodded states to start holding educators accountable for increasing student test scores in hopes of raising the caliber of the teaching corps. Yet Washington has no sway over how principals rate teachers on other factors — and in state after state, the new systems have yielded the same results as the old, with some 95 percent of teachers rated effective. Other states, meanwhile, haven't even finished designing the new evaluation metrics or merit pay programs they promised Duncan.
— Even his latest campaign, a PR push to bring more elite college graduates into teaching, shows the inherent limitations on Duncan's power. He has called for years for school districts to pay their best teachers six-figure salaries — yet he has no way to make that happen, and very few districts have adopted such lavish merit pay scales.
Duncan has been creative in exercising federal power. He dispensed billions in grants under the Race to the Top program and dished out exemptions, known as waivers, to the No Child Left Behind law to states that followed his prescriptions for reform.
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The goal, spokesman Stephen Spector said, was to push states to take "aggressive" steps that will raise student outcomes in the long run. He said much has been accomplished despite the limitations on the department's authority — limitations that he termed appropriate, given that education has traditionally been a state and local responsibility.
Genial, earnest and very tall — he played professional basketball overseas — Duncan has been a highly visible member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. He's traveled to 48 states so far, holding town halls, talking with teachers and pressing governors of both parties to get serious about education. Aides say he never slows his pace.
Duncan has "gotten more done than any secretary in recent memory," said Charles Barone, policy director of Democrats for Education Reform.
Critics, however, say his strategies have been shortsighted, even naive. States are backing away from promises they made to secure grants and waivers; just this month, Arkansas said it couldn't stick to its timetable for improving student performance or raising the quality of its teaching force. In most cases, the secretary has little leverage to make states uphold their pledges. In a ritual that strikes even some bureaucrats as absurd, he has begun granting waivers to his own waivers.
"In 2009, Arne was the new sheriff in town, with big boxes of ammunition and a shiny new gun," said Frederick Hess, an education analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "Now, it's later in the movie and he's all out of bullets and he's trying to scare states by shaking a stick at them."
( PHOTOS: Obama's second-term Cabinet)
States are rebelling in part because of a frustration with perceived micromanagement from Washington. Duncan has often said that he aims to be "tight on goals but loose on means," but state officials have a hard time squaring that with his department's prescriptive approach to reforms, such as its insistence that graduation rates count for 20 percent, rather than 15 percent, of high school ratings in Arizona.
"There's been a mistrust of states wanting to do the right thing," said Christopher Koch, the Illinois state superintendent. His is one of just a handful of states that has not received a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act, in his case because Illinois law requires that tough new teacher evaluations be phased in a year slower than Duncan would like. "We're a bit frustrated," Koch said.
Spector, the Duncan spokesman, said the department "has worked hard and steadily to be a good partner with states and districts, offering them as much flexibility as possible to be creative and innovative."
Indeed, this month, the department responded to states' complaints about heavy-handed federal oversight by giving them more autonomy. But in a sign of the fraught politics of education, the move was promptly blasted by civil rights groups that fear Duncan is easing up too much and compromising gains for poor and minority students.


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To be honest, it's not just about you. It could be about your industry as a whole. The reality is, if people don't like you or your industry, they'll talk about it online, and that negative talk can be bad for business.
Case in point: there's some software I use that's pretty good at many things. It has flaws, but the support staff has been working hard to fix it. It hasn't always been that way. At this time last year, there were many people who felt the software sucked, and they talked about it a lot online.
During the year, there were a lot of improvements made to the software. So many improvements were made that the reasons people gave for the software sucking were gone. And yet those old posts remain near the top of the heap in the search engines giving people who don't know the software the impression that it still sucks.
Fortunately, there are a lot of people who have jumped to the software's defense on that page. This is good - and bad.
It's good because if someone takes the time to read the responses to the original article, they'll see an impassioned defense of the software by its power users.
It's bad because a) few people read EVERYTHING on a page and b) those logical, impassioned defenses are down the page a ways and c) because so many people have chimed in on the topic, the page is very active and therefore HIGHLY RANKED IN GOOGLE for many search terms related to that software.
This is a lovely case study of Online Reputation Management (ORM). Yes - there's now another acronym for you to be concerned about online. Think because you're just a small fish you're safe? Think again. Anyone can be targeted online by people who don't like them. Sole proprietorships to multi-national corporations can be affected. Here are a few examples of what bigger companies experience.
- www.walmartsucks.org and www.walmart-blows.com
- www.homedepotsucks.com
- www.whyaircanadasucks.com
- www.leafs-suck.com and www.habssuck.com
- ...and thousands more - you get the picture.
So, what can you do to make sure your online reputation isn't in tatters? Check up on it every now and then. That's what.
Search for your company name online. Search for your name online. See what comes up and see if anything worries you. If you find someone who's griping about you, consider whether they have a legitimate beef or just an axe to grind and take action.
Finding something bad about you online gives you an opportunity to turn around a bad situation. Or, if that's not possible, then at least you can tell your side of the story if it's appropriate.
You can also get busy putting more good news about yourself online. Over time, that can help push bad reviews further down the search results so people will be more likely to see good news about you than bad. Some ORM companies call this "innoculation". Unfavourable content may be online, but it will be overwhelmed by the good so the effect on you or your business should be minimal.


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Texas Lawmaker Proposes Bill To Strip Funding From Schools That Abuse Zero Tolerance Weapons Policies
from the but-ultimately-won't-fix-zero-tolerance dept
We've written previously about the stupidity inherent in school "zero tolerance" policies, perhaps most painfully exemplified by a student's expulsion for "threatening" others with a pop tart he had bitten into the shape of a gun. When it comes to anything conceivably weapon-related (pop tart, 2-inch toy gun, fingers in a gun shape), most schools tend to overreact. This is largely due to a federal requirement that ties school funding to mandatory expulsions of students who bring weapons on campus.
There have been a few efforts made to roll these policies back. The NEA itself has released a paper [pdf] pointing out that questions the effectiveness of these policies in light of the fact that what little research exists indicates the policies have had very little effect on curbing unwanted behavior.
Despite the lack of rigorous research on this subject, existing case studies and analyses of suspension and expulsion data at the local level suggest that zero tolerance policies are not deterring misbehavior. In Tennessee, the number of drug and violent offenses in schools increased substantially over the first three years of a statewide implementation of zero tolerance policy. Furthermore, research has indicated that bullying is still rampant in many of the nation's schools. Approximately one in five elementary and middle school students admits to bullying his or her peers periodically. Unfortunately, researchers have not examined rates of misbehavior or suspension on a national level for schools with zero tolerance policies.The report suggests several alternative policies and responses, noting that suspensions and expulsions tend to aggravate the problem, rather than acting as a deterrent.
Texas Congressman Steve Stockman thinks he has a solution to the zero tolerance problem. Unfortunately, his laser-like focus on a single aspect means his proposed legislation will have little effect on the overall problem.
Congressman Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, calls H.R. 2625 the "Student Protection Act," and "A bill to protect the rights of children."Because Stockman is so focused on a single aspect of zero tolerance policies (his bill includes several examples of students being expelled or suspended for non-weapon "weapons," including a child who was kicked out of school and arrested for wearing an NRA shirt), his bill only addresses each specific example.
It also would deny federal funding to any school that punishes a child for "using a pencil, pen or other writing utensil to simulate a firearm."
The bill states: "So-called 'zero-tolerance' weapons policies in federally funded schools are being used to outlaw harmless expressions of childhood play.
"So-called 'zero-tolerance' weapons policies in federally funded schools are being used to teach children to be afraid of inanimate objects that are shaped like guns."
The bill continues: "No funds appropriated pursuant to any provisions of law may be used for any educational institution which punishes a student as a result of any of the following actions by the student:This is all well and good as it applies to each one of these instances, but proponents of zero tolerance policies have shown incredible amounts of creativity when applying them, rarely duplicating previous efforts. Everything noted here is highly unlikely to crop up again.
"(1) brandishing a pastry or other food which is partially consumed in such a way that the remnant resembles a gun;
"(2) possession of a toy gun which is two inches or less;
"(3) possession of a toy gun made of plastic snap together building blocks;
"(4) using a finger or hand to simulate a gun;
"(5) vocalizing imaginary firearms or munitions;
"(6) wearing a T-shirt that supports Second Amendment rights;
"(7) drawing a picture of, or possessing an image of, a firearm; or
"(8) using a pencil, pen or other writing utensil to simulate a firearm."
This also ignores two other factors. The first problem is Stockman's own. This bill follows up his failed attempt back in January to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which ties funding to weapons policies, using the argument that the bill encouraged school shooters by giving them a weapons-free target. This looks like an attempt to run an end-around and achieve the same aim (strip school funding). As such, it's probably destined to die a swift death when put to vote.
The other factor is that zero tolerance policies have enjoyed a two-decade sprawl and the havoc wreaked isn't limited, as Stockman's bill is, to only faux guns. A report [pdf] by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice points out just how far these previously limited policies have spread.
Since then, the range of situations to which zero tolerance policies have been applied has broadened. Many school districts now include drugs, alcohol, disruptive behavior, and nonviolent offenses among zero tolerance infractions. According to the most recent data of national implementation of zero tolerance policies, 94% of schools have zero tolerance policies for weapons or firearms, 87% for alcohol and 79% have mandatory suspensions or expulsions for violence or tobacco. Examples of the everbroadening scope of zero tolerance policies include treatment of nail files, paper clips, scissors, and plastic knives as weapons and Aspirin, Midol, and Certs as drugs.Stockman's bill seeks to address the problem, but only addresses outlying events, rather than core issues. His solution, untying federal funding from zero tolerance weapon policies, is probably a non-starter, especially in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. Another problem unaddressed is schools' increasing reliance on law enforcement to handle disciplinary actions, one that tends toward criminalizing behavior once written off as "kids acting like kids." The deepest problem, the spread of policies to cover every conceivable instance of "misbehavior," won't be addressed at all by a bill specifically tailored to address events that have already happened and are unlikely to reoccur.
Filed Under: overhype, school funding, weapons, zero tolerance


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Lordy, lord, it's been a mean season, hasn't it? And a long one, too.
We human beings (those bipeds lucky enough not to have been born a conservative or killed by one, that is) have suffered through the endless depravity, stupidity, duplicity and incompetence of the radical right for what now seems like forever. It's been awful, and it's been depressing, and that's putting it mildly. To have had even a fraction of a heart this last decade means to have lived in Hell.
Finally, though, the end is nigh. The signs are all there. The regressive right is cracking up, a complete and utter victim of its own success at winning power and of its own absolute failure in wielding it.
The markers are everywhere, bubbling just below the surface. Here are sixteen of them, sure signs if ever there were that the era of destructive government is (nearly) over:
* Follow the money: If you know anything about how American politics has been played over the last century, you know that the concept of Democrats out-fundraising Republicans is about as likely as likely as George W. Bush getting an honorary degree from anybody besides Bob Jones U. It could happen, to be sure (especially in some freaky parallel universe), it's just that it just ain't very likely. But guess what? It's happening now, and it's a sure sign of the regressive apocalypse (where do I order tickets for that party?). What is even more telling than empty GOP coffers is that even the big corporate money is going to Democrats. Imagine Enron contributing to Al Gore's campaign, and you'd just about have the picture. Is it possible that the healthcare industry had a recent change of heart and decided that guaranteed national healthcare is now more important than corporate profits, after all? It would be possible (though massively improbable), if they had ever had a heart to begin with. A much more plausible explanation is that the lobbyists for these fat-cats who are paid to sniff out power can see which way the wind is blowing, and that it ain't to the east anymore, ladies and gentlemen. Even the finance, insurance and real estate industries are funneling more money to Democrats than to the Reprobatlicans. (Talk about your truly bizarro parallel universes! This is the stuff of science fiction novels.) House Democrats have $28 million in the bank right now, while the GOP has $1.6 million for its congressional races (no, that's not a typo). When did that ever happen?
* Keep following the money: Has there ever been an economy this precarious for this long without throwing a rod or seizing an engine? Given how reviled Bush and his clones already are now, can you imagine how sour the public mood will be if there is a recession or worse in the coming year? When you start seeing stories about roving gangs of furious soccer moms beating up random Republicans caught without their Blackwater guards on K Street, you'll know why. Just watch the American flag pins start flying off of lapels. Stay tuned for more on this one. Gasoline is now selling for five bucks a gallon in parts of California, and that was being headlined by the Drudge Report, that bastion of anti-regressive journalism. I smell a twenty-first century Whiskey Rebellion a-brewin'.
* Follow the leader: Everybody's talking about him on the presidential campaign trail. It's just that they all happen to be Democrats. Republicans desperately want to pretend that Bush never existed (though not as much as they will want to after another year of his follies). So much, in fact, that they don't even mention his name in their debates or on the stump. The New York Times just reported that Democrats mentioned the lil' Bush feller 47 times in their last debate. Republicans? Twice, with one being a critique by Ron Paul. And this is while they're campaigning for conservative, pro-Bush votes, mind you. Did you know that Ronald Reagan (or, more accurately, the myth of Ronald Reagan) was still alive and in the White House? Neither did I, but if you listen to these bozos for more than five minutes you could certainly walk away with that impression (not to mention tinnitus and a whopping good brain hemorrhage as well, but that's another matter). It's a sure sign that your movement is in deep trouble when you can't say the name of the sitting president who so completely exemplifies its principles, for fear that doing so will destroy your candidacy.
* Follow Tucker: Right out the door, in fact. Woo-freakin'-hoo. Was there ever an unctuous little bow-tied twit of a punky spoiled brat that you just wanted to slap silly more than Tucker Carlson? Well, guess what? His ratings are doing it for you. Seems that nobody is terribly interested anymore in what the young master debater has to say, and MSNBC is getting ready to pull the plug on him, bow-tie and all. Bummer, dude. Maybe you could become a liberal now! Or, hey, if you're looking for a job, maybe you could get Bush to appoint you as ambassador to Smarmiland?
* Follow Keith: The reason MSNBC is getting ready to untuck the wee Carlson is because they want to make room for what viewers are actually interested in, which is more progressive politics, like the regular savagings of the rabid right by Keith Doberman. Here comes Rosie O'Donnell into the line-up, with a show that could make Keith look like a nice puppy by comparison. Apparently, even Joe Scarborough - fingers and toes all in the wind - is talking like a liberal these days. What was that Dylan line about not needing to be a weatherman...? You could almost come to love the free market, after all, eh?
* Follow Jon: Stewart, that is. And Stephen Colbert. Every night, incessantly, they do what sometimes seems like the only rational thing imaginable given the inanities of regressive politics in our unfortunate time. They mock it mercilessly. The good news is that for many people, especially young folk, this is their sole source of news about current developments. Is that a pretty serious indicator of the tragic state of the American polity? You betcha. But it could be a lot worse. People could be getting their 'news' from Fox, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, or even CNN or NBC. I think a very serious argument can be made that you learn more about the real world we actually inhabit from Stewart and Colbert than from the more subtle comedy shows presented every day by the mainstream disinformation media in the guise of 'newscasts'. Brian Williams may be a more honest source of information than was Baghdad Bob, but not by much. Until The Nation becomes required reading and Democracy Now! the most watched news broadcast on television, Comedy Central may be the best alternative we've got.
* Follow the kids: Speaking of the young folk, they are becoming as scarce in the Republican Party as a good vowel in Kyrgyzstan. And why not? Who wants to be in the party that's wrecking your environment, spending your future earnings, killing your friends for lies and telling you who you can sleep with? (Hint: You can't sleep with anybody. Unless, of course, you're a television preacher or a blow-hard regressive politician, in which case you can sleep with everyone. And everything. Baaaah.) What a fun bunch to hang with, eh? The even better news is that there is pretty strong evidence that people tend to stick for life with the party affiliation they adopt when they're young. As in so many other ways, therefore, George W. Bush will be the gift that keeps on giving. Thirty years from now, when regressives are an extinct species visible only in dusty museum showcases, we may wonder why we weren't as happy as little clams at a mollusk orgy to have had the Bush Leaguer around, doing a better job than we ever could have of smashing his ideology to bits.
* Follow Dobson: Please. Somebody get this destructive demon of the religious right into the home for doddering Precambrians where he belongs. As it happens, he might be taking care of it himself. It seems that Ol' Jimmy is outraged that none of the Republican front-runners are as obsessed with controlling other peoples' sexuality as his custom bible tells him they should be. He is therefore threatening to run a third-party candidate, thus ripping asunder the GOP, in which case I might just be forced into believing in god, after all. (Even better would be if McCain also launches a desperate last-call shot at the presidency with his own independent bid after losing the GOP nomination. Splitting the Halloween set vote three ways is definitely my version of heaven on earth.) Meanwhile, all indications are that the entire religious right is in complete disarray (oh, so that's what they mean by "Hallelujah!"). Loads of its troops are disenchanted with politics, disenchanted with regressivism, disenchanted with the GOP candidates, and otherwise just generally reeking of betrayal, rage and a large dose of your garden-variety steroid-enhanced mass surliness. This does not a successful political movement make.
* Follow the polls: Which have been showing for a long time now that Americans are really pissed off about what has happened to their country, and in record numbers. That's not exactly what you wanna hear when you're an incumbent running for reelection, or trying to keep your party in power. It gets better yet, though. As Paul Krugman noted this week, political research is now showing that the American public is not just aimlessly angry, but is more liberal in its attitudes than it has been since the early 1960s. And the Baby Boomers haven't even retired yet! Something tells me that killing stem-cell research and gutting Social Security, coupled with homophobia, environmental destruction, reckless aggression abroad and bankruptcy at home are not going to be big vote-getters in the coming decades. Call me crazy, but I'm going to go ahead and make that wild prediction.
* Follow the rude dude: Giuliani's popularity in the GOP indicates that even those nuts have turned away, however reluctantly, from their own social conservatism. And now the nuttiest of them all, Pat Robertson, has just endorsed this nasty little Rottweiler with the sorta liberal social policies. There's really only one viable explanation for that. Sex-obsessed pseudo-Jesus regressivism is a completely spent force, and the Pat Robertsons of this world have only two remaining choices: They can either jump on the bandwagon of sheer hypocrisy (Remember Robertson's post-9/11 rant about the abortionists, and the lesbians, and the feminists, etc.? Remember how he once sued a certain mayor of New York City to block the latter's support for gay marriage?), or they can demonstrate their utter irrelevance. Ol' Pat has made his choice. He did both.
* Follow MoveOn: Sure, they're not perfect, but they may be the best thing happening on the left these days in terms of real work with a real chance of success. More importantly, they've already shown that they know how to play hardball, and now they're learning how to play sophisticated hardball. In many ways, they're copying the playbook that the right adopted in the decades since the Goldwater ocean liner had its encounter with the proverbial iceberg, bringing the GOP back to the drawing board. Regressives have been winning for so long in part because they've been fighting smart, and in part because nobody was fighting back. The Democrats, of course, are still doing neither. But they're not the only ones with fists. Look for the right to crumple like any schoolyard bully the minute somebody stands up to it, just as Move-On is now doing.
* Follow the retirements: Republican politicians are retiring in droves now. There are 14 so far who are quitting their House seats, including Ohio's Deborah Pryce, one of the top members of the GOP leadership. Who wants the pleasure of defending the Republican record in next year's election cycle, followed by a drubbing and an ignominious pink slip? Or, if you're lucky enough to survive the tsunami, a lonely gig kicking around in forgotten wilderness of the mega-minority?
* Follow the numbers: As if the gods weren't angry enough (perhaps at Robertson for backing the pro-gay rights Giuliani?), Republicans will have to defend twice the number of Senate seats up for election next year as will Democrats. That may seem like sheer coincidence, but there is actually a perverse irony here. This is the fruit of the GOP's pyrrhic victory in 2002, when they used the Iraq war vote and general security hysteria to pummel hapless Tom Daschle-like Democrats. Now those very seats are up again, only this time the chicken has since come home to roost, and it's an angry little fowl. That's some awfully nasty karma to be carrying on your ledger, man. You might call Election 2008 the Revenge of Max Cleland.
* Follow the conversions: Just as might be expected, Republicans are starting to change their party affiliations, even in places like Missouri and Kansas (really!). And, just as also might be expected, you're hearing the classic (and true) explanation for their move: "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me". Sorry Ronnie Raygun, but what comes around... Watch for a whole lot more of this, especially after November 2008.
* Follow the food chain: They're eating their young now. Predictable, to be sure, but still so much fun to watch. Did you hear that five conservative authors - including one of the Swift Boat hatchet-men, no less - are now suing their publishing house, Regnery (did they actually mean to call it 'Degeneracy' but it just got by the spell-checkers somehow?), and its parent company, Eagle Publishing? It seems they're a little upset that Eagle "orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate", and thus rip the authors off of royalties owed to them. No kidding - really? I'm sorry, guys, but just who exactly did you think you were dealing with here? Look in the mirror! You cut a deal with a conservative press to publish your fraud, deception and self-dealing and you expected them to treat you better than George Bush did when he gave the gift of freedom and democracy to the Iraqis? And what's up with your wanting fair treatment and fair pay for your labor? You guys are starting to sound like a bunch of whiney socialists, fer crissakes! And tort-reform-needing litigious ones, at that! This is America, Dudes. Your America. Get used to being scammed by people who are richer than you.
* Follow the fallow: The right's agenda is not only bankrupt of real policy ideas, but nowadays it's even bankrupt of effective red-herrings as well. Yesterday's tried-and-true tropes no longer have that old magic anymore. "Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. Gays, gays, gays." Yawn, yawn, yawn. "Honey, have you seen the remote? I really need to change the channel. And what time are we supposed to pick up Johnny from Little League practice?" Ho. Hum. This show is over. Regressives would like to thank everyone in the audience for their participation. Unfortunately, neither your wallets nor your articles of clothing are available for return to you at this time...
If the signs of the looming conservative apocalypse get any clearer, even blind cave fish will be reading them. These guys are getting ready to crumble like a poppy seed muffin six days past its sell-by date.
It certainly couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, could it?
I hope they get every little thing that is coming to them.
Except, of course, their Regnery royalties.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (firstname.lastname@example.com), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website, www.regressiveantidote.net.


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Mr. Mellow, a Lackawanna County Democrat whose 40 years in the Senate included periods as president pro tem and minority leader, is serving a 16-month federal sentence on corruption charges. He is one of three former powerful state senators in prison for corruption. The others are Democrat Vincent Fumo and Republican Jane Orie. Now, Mr. Mellow faces state charges for an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission contract awards.
Over on the House side of the Capitol, portraits of two former speakers of the House hold their places, even though Republican John Perzel and Democrat H. William DeWeese are in state prisons for their corrupt conduct while in office.
Between the House and Senate chambers, at the main entrance of the Capitol, is a bust of the fabulous building's architect, John M. Huston. He served a prison term for graft on the project after its completion in 1906 - at three times the cost of the original appropriation.
So contract corruption in Pennsylvania literally is as old as the Capitol itself. It is remarkable that current lawmakers' response to a modern version of corruption is a debate over removing somebody's portrait.
Mr. Mellow, the bad and the good, is a part of the Senate's history. Rather than trying to erase that history, lawmakers should worry about the future. That is, instead of debating the status of a portrait, they should pass new rules prohibiting members from accepting anything from anyone other than their taxpayer-provided salaries.
They could debate eliminating the redundant and corrupt Turnpike Commission and barring from state contracts any private sector vendor found to have greased any state official.
"Portraits celebrate history," said Sen. Jake Corman of Centre County. True enough. But the objective is to make the conduct of the General Assembly worth celebrating.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Targeting Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, President Barack Obama is heading to New Hampshire, a political battleground, to begin a year-end push to extend payroll tax cuts.
During a speech Tuesday at a Manchester high school, the president was to argue that a failure to extend the tax breaks would hurt middle-class families already struggling amid a shaky economy, effectively daring congressional Republicans to block a measure and thus increase taxes.
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The White House says a middle-class family making $50,000 a year would see its taxes rise by $1,000 if the payroll tax cuts are not extended.
The president's trip follows the collapse of the special congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee, which failed to reach a deal on $1.2 trillion in cuts ahead of a Wednesday deadline. Democrats had hoped to tuck the payroll tax extension, as well as a renewal of jobless benefits for the unemployed, into a supercommittee agreement.
With that option seemingly off the table, the White House plans to make a full-court press for a separate measure to extend the payroll tax cuts before they expire at the end of the year - and set up Republicans as the scapegoat if that doesn't happen.
Republicans aren't wholly opposed to the extension. In fact, party members sent the White House a letter in September stating that extension of the payroll tax cut is one element of Obama's $447 billion jobs bill where the two sides may be able to find common ground.
Some Republicans worry that the tax cut extension would undermine the solvency of Social Security, and others are opposed to any effort to pay for the renewal by taxing the wealthiest Americans.
Last year's cut in the 6.2 percent payroll tax, which raises money for Social Security, was accomplished with borrowed money. The White House has been vague on exactly how it wants to see another round of cuts paid for; spokesman Jay Carney on Monday said only that the money should come from "asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit extra."
A senior administration official said the president would not insist on the cuts being paid for immediately. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal administration strategy.
The 2 percent payroll tax cut expiring in December gave 121 million families a tax cut averaging $934 last year at a total cost of about $120 billion, according to the Tax Policy Center. Economists say allowing the cuts to expire would harm an economy already hobbled by 9 percent unemployment.
Obama wants to cut the payroll tax by another percentage point for workers, at a total cost of $179 billion, and cut the employer share of the tax in half as well for most companies, which carries a $69 billion price tag.
The issue could appeal to independent voters in low-tax New Hampshire, the presidential swing state Obama won in 2008. With Republican candidates blanketing the state with an anti-Obama message ahead of the Jan. 10 primary, the president and his surrogates, including Vice President Joe Biden, are seeking to steal some of the spotlight for their economic message.
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