How Bobby Jindal's 7-Year-Old Son Outsmarted Common Core

Common Core Social Engineering Now At The Center Of All Educational Reform

We see social engineering now at the center of all educational reform.  Whether at the local level or, as is now more and more the case, at the federal level (Race to the Top moneys to support Common Core), the meta-purpose is a new social engineering whereby the individual teacher, the individual student, or even the individual principal is moved away from center stage. 

Systemic reorganization of educational institutions pretends to have as its highest goal "efficiency," where students move smoothly toward their goals without setbacks, failures, or unnerving attacks on their self-esteem.  A new meta-control by the master puppeteers of management infrastructure working alongside software curriculum creators is the basis for a new partnership.  The roles of individual actors within the schools – student, counselor, teacher, or even principal – become supporting cast, so to speak, for the overarching goals set by this partnership.

Even the widespread use of technology to provide the students with computers and new software to facilitate learning, while useful, merely creates an appearance of structure over a dumbing down and settling into mediocrity or worse: total contempt for and disintegration of learning and mental process for the vast majority of people.  The individual student does not have to think; rather, the program he or she is using takes him or her step-by-step, inexorably to the correct answer.  This serves the agenda of the master puppeteers mentioned above.  They will tighten their controls and the dependence of others who are struggling in the schools. 

Controversy over implementation is superficial and tends to obscure the totalitarian impulse behind their machinations.  For example, Michael Bloomberg and William “Bill” de Blasio are successive mayors of New York City.  Both are statists.  Both believe that the government should organize most facets of human experience and suppress individualism in the schools and other segments of society.  Both want to dumb down the schools in the context of a gung-ho spirit of reform.  There is to be an illusion of progress and success despite an ongoing downgrading and dilution of educational achievement and motivation.

The weaknesses, failures, and ultimately the path of doom that we find in education has not been and cannot be remediated by the measures of so-called reform taken during the past twenty-five to forty years, of which Common Core(CCSS) is only the most recent.  Before Common Core, we had No Child Left Behind (NCLB).  Before that, we had outcomes-based programs combined with school-to-work paradigms.  All these schemes resulted in an unprecedented influx of federal money into state education systems.

Under Common Core, state and local control is compromised as never before.  Standardized testing across the curricula is establishing new standardized goals and norms for curricular content.  New teacher evaluation frameworks à la Danielson and others are being implemented nationwide, with an unsurprising similarity of criteria for determining teacher effectiveness.  Extending the length of the school day or the number of years the youth spend in school is standard in the national mantra of “reform.” 

Common Core State Standards has followed No Child Left Behind as the central federal initiative in education.  But unlike NCLB, Common Core was not instated by legislation to be reviewed by our representatives with a response from the public, but as a fait accompli imposed on the public by a vast strategy implemented by government bureaucrats concentrated in the U.S. Dept. of Education, NGOs (that have a stake in consulting, providing curricula, and analyzing test composition and results), software developers of educational software, and educational book publishers (often participating in corporate conglomerates with the software developers). 

Additionally, schools have become one-stop social agencies in many cases, with clinics to deal with mental and physical health problems, pregnancy and abortion counseling centers, and social and emotional learning (SEL) programs to teach more primitive personalities the meaning of the Golden Rule.  Thus, in loco parentis has given way to the reverse formula, where families are called upon to support the mission of the schools instead of schools supporting the mission of the family.

Disruptive behavior in the schools has increased exponentially during the past 30 years.  Testing is often an alternative to education rather than simply a part of the educational process – questions are created and scored in order to assure certain outcomes (i.e., percentages who will pass).  The teachers’ grade books have become publicly available (typically, all grades have to be published on the internet using programs like Skedula or Pupil Path), thereby undermining some of the teachers' authority and control.  Teachers have been reduced to being “facilitators.”  This is the new “f-word” to describe the essence of the teacher’s role.

The teacher as authority and the student knowing his or her place in the universe have been partially invalidated.  The teacher as friend, mentor, and big brother or sister is increasingly perceived as the most desirable interpersonal model.  A more reserved relatedness of teacher to student has given way to the “new informality" (a "give me five" mentality).  Grade inflation to gratify the endless demand for self-esteem-building is seen as encouragement rather than self-seeking deception.  Goals like making a living or rising to new standards of excellence are downgraded in favor of an enhanced "sense of self."

These many “meta-changes” are being embraced by the entire spectrum of political positions; both red and blue states have accepted the premises and goals of NCLB and CCSS, with only a few exceptions.  Yet I would propose that these reforms or “irreversible changes” are exercises in futility, and could possibly lead to the mental and physical enslavement of the population instead of leading to, as Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned, a thoughtful and responsible democratic citizenry.  Ultimately, the changes taking place in education have evolved from a leftist/statist/fascistic worldview – a totalitarian impulse.  The pre-eminence of systemic thinking as opposed to focus upon the individual student and teacher – i.e., the classroom – for reform and improvement tends in the direction of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.  It seems a barren vision of a vast army of clones and drones satisfied with their ignorance and lockstep conformity.  Further, it betrays the federalism enshrined in the Tenth Amendment of our Constitution.  And it attempts to replace an ideal of individual freedom before a just God with the ideal of collective rights before an all-knowing government.

The public schools are making guinea pigs of our children.  It is amazing to this writer that the outcomes are not even worse than they are.  But the definite lines of hope for education are fading fast; an era of extreme educational decline is coming upon us unless we begin to retrench four decades of reform and get back to some basic ideas, principles, information, and goals that we have lost sight of.  Knowledge, rationality, and compassion based on Judeo-Christian values must be reaffirmed as the determinative values of education going forward.
Jeff Ludwig has taught at Harvard, Penn State, Juniata College, CUNY, and for 21 years in the New York Public High Schools.  His latest book, The Catastrophic Decline of America’s High Schools:  New York City Schools, A Case Study, will be out later this year or early 2015.

Obama's Classmates At Columbia Didn’t Just Hate Capitalism. Obama's Classmates Were Also Atheists Who Openly Despised Judeo-Christian Values… Obama's Classmates Spent There Days Learning, Discussing And Debating A Plan To Destroy America from Within, Obama's Real Crime, His Out of Comtrol Gangster Government.

Obama is indeed the anti-American.

Everything in his background screams it! His mother hated American capitalism. She despised her white middle class background so much she got impregnated by the first black communist she met. Despite being dumped by Barack Sr. she somehow taught Barack Jr. his father was a man to be admired and emulated.

Barack was mentored in his teen years by Frank Marshall Davis a communist whose whole existence revolved around the idea of a capitalistic America enslaving blacks and the underclass.

Obama's college and university education was grounded in "hanging with the radicals and communists". He then spent 20 years in the pews of Rev. Jeremiah Wright who preached "Black Liberation Theology" which taught that Jesus was a black man and American whites are the enemy.

Any proper vetting of Obama would have resulted Barack being completely unelectable.

Obama's Real Crime


Yes, this book is about how Obama hates the country as founded and hates the middle class, but Root also outlines what has been happening to our country with a full list of Obama’s accomplices, and even writes an eye-opening chapter on the unindicted co-conspirators. He provides motive and opportunity, and of course he cites ample evidence of the crime. The magic of the book is how he uses the crime analogy established by his title and connects the dots from Obama to the unions to the education establishment to Warren Buffet to the Democrat Party to the media and so on. The book is not just a well-organized case against Barack Obama -- it is an indictment of the entire liberal media political crony business education complex that produced Obama in the first place.


The most salient part of the book takes us back to Columbia University, where Root himself was a political science and pre-law major while Obama was ostensibly in the same major at the same school at the same time. This is the part of the book where Root unveils his counter-intuitive and astonishing “reverse birther” theory. In the name of avoiding spoiler alerts, will leave the readers to unpack this themselves.


The bigger point about Columbia is that Root outs this Ivy university as being ground zero for the planning and hatching of the murder plot. As he says, “it all started at Columbia.”  He buttresses his argument with the fact that Cloward and Piven hatched their evil scheme in the 60’s -- as professors at Columbia.


Root adds that “my classmates at Columbia didn’t just hate capitalism. They were also atheists who openly despised Judeo-Christian values… we spent our days learning, discussing and debating a plan to destroy America from within.” These memories are seared into Root’s psyche, as he was apparently “THE one and only conservative student” at Columbia. He says “Obama was groomed to be the ringleader” of this conspiracy, and that his “exotic” background -- perhaps fabricated in the first place -- was the perfect back story.


Overall, a little over a third of the book establishes the crime in a well thought out and organized presentation of all of the elements of the crime. The rest is focused on solutions. While the book is by no means a “self-help” work – though there are elements of that in Part Two – there are ideas you can apply to your family, your business, your personal financial situation.


There is also some much-needed advice for the Republican Party. It is important to point out that Root is no GOP automaton -- he actually ran for Vice President on the Libertarian ticket at one time. He has a very good understanding of how the GOP establishment is tone deaf, weak and ineffective. Root’s game plan for saving the country focuses alternately on the macro and the micro -- the political and the financial -- and the personal and the moral. The only way to describe Root is as an American, one who loves the country as founded -- the free enterprise, the opportunity, the charity and the liberty. It is a mistake to try and pigeonhole him into any particular political niche, though his passions are very coincident with Tea Party values.


As a successful entrepreneur, sports gambler and speaker/author -- and the son of a middle class butcher -- Root draws from a wealth of experience and experiences. The book is written in the same high-energy style Root employs as a speaker, panelist or interviewee. That is who Wayne Allyn Root is -- and he is classic Wayne Allyn in this book.


Another testament to Mr. Root himself, and to the book, is the incredible list of diverse endorsers who were willing to put their name on the book. From Ben Carson to Ann Coulter to Allen West -- to D’Souza, DeMint, Faber, Forbes, Schiff, Paul, Viguerie, and Bohannan -- the list of those who recommend this must read is impressively expansive. I believe you will agree with all of the above when you read this book.  I also think you’ll vote “guilty.”


http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/obamas_real_crime.html

Common Core standards may barely be helping Hispanic students?

If some early reports on the controversial Common Core Standards are an indication, Hispanic students in the U.S. are falling behind on the very curriculum that was intended to help them achieve higher proficiency in school.


SEE ALSO: Common core success touted Florida, but some say not so fast

Even though implementation of Common Core Standards are still being phased in throughout many school systems in the country, a new report regarding the state of New York, which recently completed its fourth year of a 12-year Common Core phase-in shows 23 percent of Latinos are proficient in math, while only 19 percent are proficient in English.

Overall, New York students are 36 percent proficient in math and 31 percent proficient in English.
Kentucky is the other state that is utilizing the Common Core Standards, but results from last year’s school year aren’t yet available. Expectations are the achievement gap between Latinos and whites will remain high.


National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Deputy VP of Education and Workforce Development Peggy McLeod told VOXXI it’s way too early for low marks to color the anticipated long-term effect of the Common Core Standards.
http://voxxi.com/2014/09/14/latino-students-failing-common-core/

Obama’s Betrayal of the Constitution

BERLIN — PRESIDENT OBAMA’s declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.

Mr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In contrast, the Obama administration has not even published a legal opinion attempting to justify the president’s assertion of unilateral war-making authority. This is because no serious opinion can be written.

This became clear when White House officials briefed reporters before Mr. Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday evening. They said a war against ISIS was justified by Congress’s authorization of force against Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that no new approval was needed.

Continue reading the main story http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/obamas-betrayal-of-the-constitution.html

                           

Obama plays both sides: Sought repeal of Bush war statute now used to justify Islamic State strikes

White House employs 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Resolution to evade Congress

President Obama’s first initiated war against an Islamic terrorist group is authorized, the White House says, by George W. Bush-signed legislation that Mr. Obama has criticized and wanted to repeal since last year.
Since beginning airstrikes last month against the Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL, the White House has said it does not need congressional approval to carry out such missions.

Last week, on the 13th anniversary of al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States, the administration announced why, saying President Bush’s Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution in 2001 is all the authority Mr. Obama needs.

In a May 2013 speech to a military audience at the National Defense University, Mr. Obama portrayed the law as dated and as a potential blank check to get the U.S. into wars.

“The AUMF is now nearly 12 years old,” he said. “Unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don’t need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states.”

Last week, The Washington Times asked a National Security Council spokeswoman whether the president still wants to repeal the authorization, given the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group.

“On the 2001 AUMF, we remain committed to engaging with Congress and the American people to refine, and ultimately repeal, the AUMF,” the spokeswoman said. “The president has made clear that he wishes to take America off a permanent war footing.”
Two days later, the White House cited the authorization as Mr. Obama’s go-ahead for airstrikes on the Islamic State.

Said Charles “Cully” Stimson, a national security law analyst at the Heritage Foundation: “There’s not only a disconnect but a failure to clearly articulate in a public forum the legal basis for the strikes.”

White House press secretary Josh Earnest defended the irony of the president’s reliance on a war authorization law that he has wanted to be changed and repealed since at least 2013.
Mr. Earnest did not repeat the call for repeal Thursday as he explained to reporters why the 2001 resolution applies to the Islamic State.

“The president is ready to engage in a conversation with members of Congress as it relates to this specific AUMF,” he said. “And we welcome or would welcome a show of support from the United States Congress for the strategy that the president has laid out.”

Mr. Obama went on national TV Wednesday night to announce a counterterrorism campaign to destroy the Islamic State over time. The U.S. will provide airstrikes, intelligence, training and advice. Iraqis and Syrians will muster their ground forces.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/14/obama-sought-repeal-of-bush-war-statute-now-used-t/

Mr. Obama campaigned for re-election as a president who was put into office to “end wars, not start them.”

The Obama administration has not given a name to the military operation, a departure from past Pentagon practices.

Obama declares war without calling it war, implementing weak military measures that in no way assure us of victory?

We said that we would go after al Qaeda, and they are on the run…” - Barack Obama, September 28, 2012

By the time of the 2012 Presidential election, Barack Obama had lied to us at least 32 times about the defeat of terrorism, code name Al Qaeda (cnsnews.com, November 1, 2012). Of course, there is plenty of blame to go around about how Republicans lost the election.

But if the liberal media had actually reported the news about the failures of the Obama administration during their first term, any faulty strategy by Romney and the Republicans would hardly have mattered, and Obama would have been soundly defeated.

Repeatedly saying Al Qaeda had been decimated and was on the path to defeat, the propaganda machine of the liberal media/Obama campaign also worked to hide any events that would indicate otherwise, such as the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

As it turns out, President Obama is the one who has been on the run, while in the last two years Al Qaeda in Iraq has transformed into an even worse form of terrorism called the Islamic State.

As it turns out, President Obama is the one who has been on the run, while in the last two years Al Qaeda in Iraq has transformed into an even worse form of terrorism called the Islamic State.

Putting off dealing with the Islamic State as they spread their regime of murder, rape, and genocide throughout Iraq, Obama was instead making sure he could get in a month of golfing and vacationing.
But after two Americans had their beheading broadcast over the internet, and with continued reports of the actions of this regime of mass bloodshed, President Obama had to declare…no, not war but counterinsurgency contingency plans, on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and the 2nd anniversary of Obama doing nothing while our Ambassador to Libya was being murdered in Benghazi

Immediately after Obama’s speech, Senator Ted Cruz said the following to Megyn Kelly on Fox News: “What has been missing is a concrete military objective to eliminate ISIS, to take them out, because they have become qualitatively more dangerous. They have seized substantial portions of Iraq, gaining a nation-state with billions of dollars of oil revenue that gives them the ability to project terror…”

Obama’s speech said nothing about how the Islamic State will be destroyed. A few advisors being sent to organize Iraqi soldiers to fight is not a strategy to defeat a threat more entrenched than the Taliban were in Afghanistan.

In the next day’s follow-up by the Obama administration to the President’s Not War speech, Noah Rothman with hotair.com summed it up this way:

“America is not going to ‘war,’ per say, according to Secretary of State John Kerry and White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest. No, what they envision is merely another counter-terror operation. Just like the supposedly model operations ongoing in nearly imploding Yemen, or in Somalia, which has become synonymous for ‘basket case failed state.’
“While traveling in the Middle East to shore up support for what everyone sure thought was going to be a war to ‘degrade and destroy’ ISIS, America’s chief diplomat took the opportunity to clarify the president’s thinking.
“ ‘What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation,’ Kerry said. ‘If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL they can do so, but the fact is it’s a major counter-terrorism operation.’”

This is probably as close as we can get Mr. Obama making a declaration of war. And what is the basis for this declaration of “a very significant counter-terrorism operation?” None other than a piece of legislation he repeatedly said needed to be repealed, the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed on September 14, 2001:

“the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

Ever ready to go beyond the bounds of his Constitutional authority, this change of heart should come as no surprise. It doesn’t seem to matter to the Obama administration that Al Qaeda officially dis-associated themselves from ISIS back in February, nor that the War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives the President only 60 days to authorize military action without Congressional approval. What really matters to his administration is that the President is on the run from polling that shows the American people are increasingly fed up with his inability to lead this country. So he declares war without calling it war, implementing weak military measures that in no way assure us of victory.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/66023?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=a68e408a09-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-a68e408a09-297703129

 

Fundamental Transformation of America is Obama's REAL War?

Pertinent, if not downright cheeky question to the leaders of the now dwindling 40 nations blindly following President Barack Obama into the Machiavellian ISIS war he deceptively tags: “a very significant counter-terrorism operation”:

Are you aware of the war that totally consumes Obama, the one he is waging against America?

That’s a question that sorely needs asking when it is so patently obvious that Obama shows far more gusto on the war deceptively called ‘The Fundamental Transformation of America’ than he displays toward the pretend war on ISIS, and one he’s been able to mastermind with no intervention for the past six years.

After all Obama hasn’t done to come to the aid of Israel against ISIS-supporting Hamas, why are you following Obama’s lead on the “very significant counter-operation”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

As so many job-providing businesses operate from Canadian soil, with the day-to-day worry about the Marxist misery Obama inflicts on their friends and family, why is Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper one of the core coalition lemmings following Obama’s ISIS lead with a war that puts advisors rather than boots on the ground?

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel lists possible participants of the ISIS Core Coalition as Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark.

And that’s not to mention the columnist David Huntwork-described 10 Arab “frenemy” states that committed on Thursday to the fight against ISIS,  including the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, or that the new coalition also includes Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

Harsh reality can always be counted on to shake rhetoric to its wobbly foundation

The duped broad Coalition of the Willing is already unravelling as the Coalition of the Balking Unwilling. Harsh reality can always be counted on to shake rhetoric to its wobbly foundation.

“In less than a day after Obama’s speech, both the UK and Germany (despite their earlier saber-rattling and tough guy talk) announced they have no interest in actually actively participating in any Obama led coalition to go after ISIS’ main bases of power in Syria. France has announced that they will not participate in any land or air actions at all. NATO member Turkey abstained from even pretending to join the anti-ISIS coalition and will not let the US use their airbases to attack ISIS targets in Syria. And now the Saudi’s probably won’t either. (David Huntwork, Sept. 14, 2014)

You don’t have to have the military acumen of a General Douglas MacArthur to know that Obama’s use of the term “very significant counter-terrorism that will have many different moving parts”  parroted zombie-like by his Secretary of State John Kerry, is nothing but a pathetic cop out.
Obama speaks a very different language from those among the 40 nations marching lemming-like off to war against ISIS.  Obama speaks in the language of doublespeak and in the Marxist dialectic.
A perfect example of Obama’s doublespeak Marxist dialectic is his self-coined con phrase, “The Fundamental Transformation of America” (FTOA)

In reality, the FTOA is essentially the absolute destruction of America from within.  Obama knew when he came up with the FTOA term that it would sound far less ominous than the utter destruction of an America much of the rest of the world counts on.

Had Obama honestly enunciated his true intentions for America pre-2008, describing the fundamental transformation of America exactly as it is, he likely never would have been propelled into the Oval Office.

People the mainstream media encouraged to vote for Obama would have thought of him as a despotic mad man.

Mainstream media, true life’s real Coalition of the Willing

But coy and cunning, Obama gave a lofty and deceiving description of his intentions, and did so in full view of a largely unresponsive mainstream media, true life’s real Coalition of the Willing. 
By identifying his so-called attack on ISIS a ‘counter-terrorism operation’, Obama ducks antagonizing the anti-war hysterics, including Code Pink activists who donate generously to his never-ending campaigns.

There’s a method in the madness of his doublespeak.  By watering down the word ‘war’ to ‘counter-terrorism’, he is sending a message that reads he is more than simpatico with the decapitating terrorists of ISIS.

Members of the international coalition who go marching off to fight ISIS should look up to the front of the ISIS attack line to see for themselves that Obama isn’t anywhere in sight.  Obama’s not there because even as Western leaders line up behind him to tackle the terrorists of the Islamic State, insincere President Barack Obama continues to spout meaningless doublespeak from the safety of the rear.

Another example of Obama doublespeak came during the so-called “Arab Spring” for which the mainstream media credits him.  The watching world was left with the false impression that the Arab Spring would be returning enemy nations to democracy.  Instead Arab Spring sprang fully-funded terrorists on an unsuspecting West.

Do nation leaders need to be told that only cowards and liars hide behind the doublespeak of Marxist dialectic?

Obama hides behind his words the same way smarmy carnival hucksters did in past eras.  If plain folk got to realize that the elixir they had paid for was nothing but sugared water that did not cure the ills that prompted them to buy it,  the hucksters always had the same comeback:  “I didn’t promise it would cure you, I only said it was good for you.”

The core coalition marching behind Obama is in the wrong battle because without America there is no free world.

Take stock of what has been happening in the USA for the past six years and this is the only conclusion: if Obama had put the same vigour he spends on his war against America on the Battle Against ISIS, beheading-crazed ISIS would be no more.
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Violations Hamper Construction of 8,000-Square-Foot Planned Parenthood Facility in New Orleans

Since June 26, the Planned Parenthood-in progress sitting on Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans has remained untouched. That’s because protests and pesky violations have brought construction to a standstill. The planned 8,000 square-foot facility could perform up to 30 abortions a day and Benjamin Clapper, the executive director of Louisiana Right to Life, said Louisianans are rejecting Planned Parenthood's agenda. Even though the organization has tried to use misleading wording to describe the purpose of their new multimillion dollar building, companies aren’t being fooled, Clapper told Townhall:

“Planned Parenthood has appealed to contractors across south Louisiana to build what they describe only as a "medical office building." They never mention abortion, and rarely do you see the words "Planned Parenthood" on proposals, plans, or other documents. But even with this deception, people have learned who Planned Parenthood is and what they truly want to do on Claiborne Avenue: sell more abortions. Louisiana is a pro-life state, and people want little to do with facilities that sell abortion.”

Of the contractors Planned Parenthood did manage to hire, two of them have been cited for violations. Documents provided by Clapper revealed that one contractor, Barre McNeely, used an unlicensed name; and a subcontractor, Quality Diamond Products, LLC, wasn't licensed for work in Louisiana. As a result, these companies received thousands of dollars in fines.

As if construction violations weren’t enough, the New Orleans Planned Parenthood is also dealing with a lack of enthusiasm. Take, for instance, the organization’s scarcely attended job fair:

“Planned Parenthood invited over 500 companies to a job fair to recruit them to help the construction of their abortion facility. At most, 40 people showed up.”

Forty too many. In fact, it seems most people who have shown up to the site have done so to protest. Louisiana has been named the "most pro-life state" in the nation for the past five years by Americans United for Life. Is it any wonder residents are distancing themselves from Planned Parenthood’s doors? 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2014/09/11/violations-hamper-construction-of-8000squarefoot-planned-parenthood-facility-in-new-orleans-n1890389

OBAMA SLOW JAMS COURTS TO STALL DEPORTATIONS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. immigration courts are backlogged with nearly 400,000 cases, and experts say the Obama administration is to blame.

The 396,552 cases are a 22 percent increase over last year, according to Syracuse University researchers.

Not surprisingly, waiting times are up, too. The average case in Imperial, Calif., currently lingers 857 days before resolution.

Richard Kelsey, assistant dean at the George Mason University School of Law and a longtime observer of immigration issues, said the problem starts at the White House.

“The president has telegraphed that he is going to take some kind of action (on immigration), so neither the courts nor the prosecutors are killing themselves to get things done,” Kelsey told Watchdog.org in an interview.

“Anyone who thinks there’s no correlation has their head buried so deep in sand they’re not getting enough air.”

Bob Dane, spokesman for the enforcement-oriented Federation for American Immigration Reform, sees other bad actors, as well.

“One reason the backlogs are building is that while illegal aliens who are caught crossing the border can accept a swift, no-fuss voluntary departure, most don’t opt for it. And why would they? They’re egged on to buy time by their immigration attorneys, local amnesty groups, the ACLU, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and La Raza,” Dane told Watchdog.

Kelsey and Dane agree politics has gummed up the U.S. legal system.

“The process is rife with politics,” Kelsey said. “If you got a minor nuisance ticket, you wouldn’t wait 857 days for adjudication.”

In the interest of justice, Kelsey said backlogged cases could be moved to courts that could handle them in a more timely fashion. Yet they’re not moving.

“This is a deliberate political effort to slow down deportations,” the former prosecutor charged.

Dane said the large and growing case backlog proves “that a massive amnesty requiring background checks on 5 to 6 million illegal aliens is sheer folly.”

“It would be a rubber-stamped fiasco ridden with loopholes and national security threats because there are simply not enough bureaucrats from here to Pluto to manage the task,” he said.

Making the backlogged system even more dysfunctional, defendants often fail to appear for their court hearings.

“Unlike normal court proceedings where a notice of the hearing must be served … there is no legal requirement that these individuals actually receive notification — only that a notice be sent out to the address they have,” said Susan Long, associate professor of managerial studies at Syracuse.

http://humanevents.com/2014/09/11/obama-slow-jams-courts-to-stall-deportations/

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The Students for Life East and West Coast Conferences are a one-day event that provides education, training, and opportunities with pro-life activists from across America and national leaders who all know just how vital this pro-life generation is to abolishing abortion in our lifetime.

- Get energized in your battle to protect the pre-born and their mothers
- Learn how to be more effective at saving lives on your campus or in your community- Strategize with other pro-life activists from schools and communities across the U.S.
- Hear from and meet national pro-life speakers and heroes

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