William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-10-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-10-15

How do you cause confusion, you ask? Buy four pigs. Label them #1, #2, #3, and #5. Let them loose in a shopping mall. Enjoy the show as the security personnel run around looking for the #4 pig.

21st Century Policing Is Topic

DemocracyUnplugged will host Sunday a symposium on 21st century policing. 21st Century Policing Is Topic

On the panel are Swarthmore Police Chief Brian Craig; Chester Mayor John Linder; Ray Lewis, a retired Philadelphia Police captain; William Taylor Reil of Chester County Sheriff’s Brigade; and Darren Wolfe of Community Policing.

It starts 2 p.m. at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081. There will be a question and answer session.

Hat tip Delaware County Patriots.

21st Century Policing Is Topic

Baby Killing OK With Democrats

Baby Killing OK With Democrats
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (right) with former Congresswoman and abortion clinic director Allyson Schwartz at an Obama rally in 2012

Playing the “war on women” card, that worked so well in 2012 for the divisive win-at-all-cost power seekers that run the Democrat Party, GOP candidate Sen. Rand Paul was queried about abortion by the party minions that work in its AP  propaganda division.

Wrote AP’s Phillip Elliot: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a newly declared Republican presidential candidate, is dodging a central question about abortion: What exceptions, if any, should be made if the procedure were to be banned?

He was then asked again about abortion and gave this answer:

“Why don’t we ask the DNC: Is it OK to kill a 7-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and go ask (DNC head) Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she’s OK with killing a 7-pound baby that’s just not born yet. Ask her when life begins, and ask Debbie when she’s willing to protect life. When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me.”

So Ms. Wasserman Schultz then responded saying “Here’s an answer. I support letting women and their doctors make this decision without government getting involved. Period. End of story.”

So Paul then, correctly, noted: “it sounds like her answer is yes, that she’s okay with killing a seven pound baby.”

There is an obligation to protect the weak and helpless and obviously life starts somewhere. Ms. Wasserman Schultz has revealed in a rather definitive way that monsters now run the Democrat Party.

Baby Killing OK With Democrats

Keystone Exams Waste Time And Children

By Lisa Esler

There is strong opposition to the new graduation requirement mandated by the Pennsylvania Board of Education. Keystone Exams Waste Time And ChildrenEffective with the Class of 2017, every high school student must pass the Keystone Exams in algebra, literature and biology in order to graduate.

This gives a whole new meaning to what is known as “teaching to the test.” Testing has turned teachers into technicians who are forced to educate in a one-size-fits-all approach. That is the reason so many talented, discouraged teachers have left and will continue to leave the profession. Whatever happened to trusting the teacher to evaluate the child’s progress? Furthermore, when students do not pass the Keystone Exams, financially strapped school districts then have to bear the cost of hiring remedial teachers and or providing alternative project-based assessments. Also, students who might have had above average classroom achievement, but somehow didn’t do well on the test, must take that course again the following year, forgoing other electives or needed credits.

There must be push back against the state Board of Education for declaring another unfunded mandate that hurts the school districts financially and, even worse, undermines the teachers and students by evaluating their success solely by a standardized test score.

Time, money and the children are too precious to waste on yet another unfunded mandate demanded by those unelected, unaccountable regulatory bureaucrats in the state Department of Education who bypass the legislators whenever they can with their so-called “cost-neutral” experiments.

Our elected legislators need to enact common-sense education reforms about standards, testing and student privacy rights. Plus they must return control to the local level where it belongs with teachers, parents and school boards determining what is best for their children.

Alert other parents, grandparents and taxpayers. We must sound the alarm bell in Harrisburg and demand meaningful, sensible education reforms. Now!

Mrs. Esler is a member of the Penn Delco School Board in Delaware County, Pa.

Keystone Exams Waste Time And Children

 

Congressman Marino Seeks Term Limits

Congressman Marino Seeks Term Limits
Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA10) has proposed a Constitutional amendment to limit terms of federal legislators.

Kudos to Congressman Tom Marino, the Republican who represents the 10th District of northern Pennsylvania, for his ceaseless push for federal legislative term limits.

Marino is seeking a Constitutional amendment that would limit senators to two six-year terms and members of the House to six two-year terms.

“Too few have had power for too long,” he says. “I have great friendships and working relationships with many of my colleagues here in D.C. but a common thread among many of them is they have been here too long and not enough has changed for the better; it has gotten worse.”

Marino has introduced this idea twice in the last four years.

Congressman Marino Seeks Term Limits