Piscataway has sicked its dog bark police on pooch perpetrators 24/7. wcbstv.com: “Muzzle it. That’s the word in one local town [Piscataway, New Jersey] as officials try to put dog owners on a financial leash if they can’t keep their pets quiet — no matter what time of day or night.”
President Obama and the Democrats tacked an amendment on to the Obamacare bill that will kill the private student loan business and make the federal government the sole lender of student loans. This would be a terrible blow to freedom and the beginning of government control of who gets loans and the curriculum taught by schools. Peter Wood has written an excellent article published at the National Association of Scholars that examines why government control of the student loan is bad for education and the country. As an example of the evils of federal control of education, the author cites Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that has been used to eliminate some college sports programs because the colleges could not maintain programs that had an equal number of men and woman. He says:
They [the federal government] succeeded in transforming Title IX from a law against discrimination into a system of quotas. Too many boys playing college sports? The Department of Education will knock your college off the list of institutions eligible to receive federally-guaranteed student loans. . . . In the name of “gender equity,” the government used its financial aid muscle to impose its own agenda on one dimension of college life. . . . . Or consider the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights which has more than once used the government’s financial leverage to foster racial preferences in college admissions and hiring.
Arizona contractors – are you ready for the new federal lead paint regulations that are effective April 22, 2010? Virginia Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law Blog: “The next wave of the EPA’s lead paint regulations take effect on April 22. These regulations will impose new training, certification, work practice and record keeping requirements on contractors performing renovations on structures built prior to 1978. . . . A number of people have asked me specific, important questions which I would like to give my take on, which can be viewed below . . . .”
See the new regulation – Title 40 Part 745 — LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING PREVENTION IN CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES. To see if your state will be the primary regulator (the lead paint police) of the lead paint regulation in your state rather than the federal government, see the EPA Authorization to States for Manage RRP Rule.
How can it be that we have government sanctioned discrimination? Phoenix Business Journal: “Federal agencies could set aside contracts for women-owned small businesses in 83 industries under a new regulation proposed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The rule would implement a law passed by Congress nearly 10 years ago. An estimated 76,000 women-owned businesses could benefit from this rule, which is much broader than the program envisioned by the SBA under President George W. Bush.”
Four young men from the Bronx were arrested by the snowball police and charged with weapons possession, attempted assault, menacing and harassment when one of them threw a snowball that hit a New York City transit officer. The member of New York’s finest, protecting and serving, did what any member of the governing elite would do in that situation – he pulled his gun and called for back up who arrested the guys. The DA won’t drop the charges and one of the dudes says he is going to sue the city for $10 million. He’ll probably win considering that New York paid a cop $4.5 million who fell backwards on his chair and shot himself in the knee. See “New York City Must Pay Cop $4.5 Million After He Accidentally Shot Himself.”