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Obama's DOE Hid News of School Voucher Success (Narcissism and Greed)
President Barack Obama’s Department of Education sat on a report
chronicling the success of a school vouchers program until after
Congress had voted not to continue the program. That’s the report from Deroy Murdock, a media fellow with the Hoover
Institution, who exposes the subterfuge in an article published by
National Review Online.
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program allows 1,714 children — 90
percent of them black and 9 percent Hispanic — to receive up to $7,500
to attend a private or parochial school instead of a public school in
the District of Columbia, which is widely believed to have one of the
nation’s most troubled school districts. Since the program’s launch in 2004, 7,852 students have applied for these grants, and participants have been chosen by lottery.
Obama — who said last year that “you do what works for the kids” — did
not intervene as Congress scheduled the program’s end after the
2009-2010 academic year.
“Now it emerges that Obama’s Department of Education possessed
peer-reviewed, congressionally mandated, federally financed research
proving this program’s success,” Murdock writes. “Though it demonstrates ‘what works for the kids,’ DOE hid this study until Congress squelched these children’s dreams.”
An amendment in the Senate to rescue the vouchers program failed on
March 10 by a vote of 39 to 58. The DOE finally released the report on
April 3. Even then, DOE researchers were reportedly barred from
discussing their findings.
“You’d think we were talking about nuclear secrets, not about a
taxpayer-funded pilot program,” An April 5 editorial in The Wall Street
Journal reported.
During the March 10 vote, 57 Democrats voted and 54 of them opposed the vouchers program.
Why? Murdock suggested, “Follow the money,” and he pointed out that
teachers’ unions shelled out $55,794,000 in political donations between
1999 and 2008, with 96 percent of the funds going to Democrats. The “winners” in the Senate vote, he added, are “the teachers’ unions,
who hate school choice, hate vouchers, and don’t give a damn about
school kids when they threaten union pay, benefits, and control of
classrooms.”
Michelle Obama Has Full-Time Makeup Artist (narcissism and greed)
Michelle Obama is the first American first lady to have a full-time makeup artist travel with her entourage. Ingrid Grimes-Miles has been serving as Michelle’s makeup artist for
six years, and now splits her time between Washington and Chicago,
where she works with news anchors at the TV station WGN.
“No other first ladies have consistently traveled with a makeup
artist,” hairdresser Bernard Portelli, who has styled Hillary Clinton’s
hair, told the New York Post.
“It took Laura Bush four years to finally look good. It’s taken
Michelle Obama two months. She wears fake eyelashes that are beautiful.
She can’t do those herself.”
Grimes-Miles and hairstylist Johnny Wright both accompanied Barack and
Michelle Obama during their recent trip to Europe. The Obamas paid the
pair’s travel expenses.
Observers suspect that Grimes-Miles is behind Michelle’s “most prominent beauty reinvention: her eyebrows,” the Post reported. “After the first lady drew criticism for looking angry, her high-arched
eyebrows were reshaped with a softer arc that gave her a friendlier
appearance.”
WE HEARD
THAT The New York Times turned on a dime when covering the recent piracy hostage crisis.
On April 10, two days after Somali pirates attacked an American cargo
ship and took its captain hostage, the Times ran a front-page story
under the headline “Standoff with Pirates Shows U.S. Power Has Limits”
— echoing a theme the Times has put forth during the Iraq war.
But after U.S. Navy Seal snipers killed three pirates and rescued the
captain, a Times story was headlined: “To Rescue Captain, U.S. Snipers
Held Steady Despite Many Moving Parts” — those parts being the bobbing
lifeboat that held the pirates, the rolling U.S. Navy ship with the
snipers, and the pirates themselves. That story made no mention of the “limits” of U.S. power.
THAT in another display of its editorial bent, the Times buried its story about the “tea parties”
(Leftist propaganda--most striking example? The Times buried information about The Holocaust--the list goes on...why even look to The Times for anything?)
— where tens of thousands of taxpayers gathered across the nation on
Wednesday to protest the Obama administration’s tax and spending plans
— at the bottom of Page 14 rather than on the front page.
What the paper did find room for on the front page was, “Soot from Third-World Stoves Is New Target in Climate Fight.”
THAT the executives in charge of Voice of America broadcasts for Iran don’t know what is being sent out over the air — because none of them speaks Farsi, the language of Iran.
A State Department report on the Persian News Network (PNN), obtained
by The Washington Times, discloses that “in part because of the
language issue, managing editors report not to the executive producer
of their show, but to a Persian-speaking senior executive editor.”
That means content is aired without high-level approval. Last year Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, said PNN’s
mismanagement allowed anti-American content to creep into broadcasts.
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