On July 1, interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans reverted from 3.4% to 6.8%. Given the desire to appease young voters (and their parents) and to not add considerably to the existing $1 trillion mountain of student loan debt in the U.S., lawmakers have been feeling the pressure to figure out a sensible long-term solution.
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Senate Reaches Tentative Deal On Student Loan Interest Rates
One day after failing to move forward on a one-year extension of low interest rates on federal Stafford student loans, the U.S. Senate has reportedly reached a tentative agreement that tie interest rates to the 10-year Treasury bond, thus resulting in a moderate increase in interest rates for students taking out their first loan this fall.
On July 1, interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans reverted from 3.4% to 6.8%. Given the desire to appease young voters (and their parents) and to not add considerably to the existing $1 trillion mountain of student loan debt in the U.S., lawmakers have been feeling the pressure to figure out a sensible long-term solution.
On July 1, interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans reverted from 3.4% to 6.8%. Given the desire to appease young voters (and their parents) and to not add considerably to the existing $1 trillion mountain of student loan debt in the U.S., lawmakers have been feeling the pressure to figure out a sensible long-term solution.
ABORTION POLL BY LEFT-LEANING HUFFINGTON POST YIELDS VERY INTERESTING RESULTS
By a margin of 59 to 30 percent, Americans said they would favor a “federal law that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.”
Further, “on a 20-week abortion ban, 70 percent of conflicted respondents said they were in favor of the measure, along with 30 percent of respondents who gave pro-abortion rights responses to both questions and 89 percent of those who gave anti-abortion responses to both,” according to the Huffington Post.
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Benghazi Update
Last year's deadly terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, continues to dog the Obama administration. Yesterday it was State Department executive Victoria Nuland's turn. She's the president's nominee for chief envoy to Europe. Nuland was questioned by senators for her role in shaping the now-famous talking points that followed the attack. Nuland would not blame her former boss, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Nuland said her role was not to shape policy, but rather to make sure the administration's message was consistent. Senators of both parties agreed Nuland is qualified for the new job.
Federal Funding Announced For Fenwick Beach Pumping
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to repair and restore the beaches in Fenwick and other coastal resort towns in Delaware to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock. With the contract awarded last week, a notice to proceed is expected to be issued at any time and a construction schedule will be released. With Fenwick and other Delaware beaches in the height of their seasons, the beach replenishment and restoration projects will likely be scheduled after Labor Day.
During the project, roughly 389,000 cubic yards of sand will be pumped onto the beach in Fenwick from offshore borrow sources and spread over about 6,500 feet of shoreline. The dunes ravaged during Sandy last October and other storms last winter and early spring will also be restored to their pre-storm conditions.
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Terrorist Gets Permission From CIA To Build A Vacuum Cleaner
The confessed mastermind of the 9-11 attacks has had a chance to use the skills he went to college for. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He asked for and got permission from the CIA to design a vacuum cleaner. Mohammed has been confined to a basement prison in Romania for a decade. A former CIA official tells the Associated Press, the CIA wanted Mohammed to retain his sanity after years of waterboarding and solitary confinement. In case he or his colleagues should ever stand trial or testify in court, the officials says, the CIA didn't want them to go nuts. No word on plans to build a better vacuum cleaner.
Study: Youth Attitudes Shift In Great Recession
Drew Miller clearly remembers the day his father was laid off.
Miller, now 25, was a freshman at an Ohio college, full of hope and ready to take on the world. But here was this “red flag … a big wake-up call,” he says. The prosperous years of childhood were over, and his future was likely to be bumpier than he’d expected.
Across the country, others of Miller’s generation heard that same wake-up call as the Great Recession set in. But would it change them? And would the impact last?
The full effect won’t be known for a while, of course. But a new analysis of a long-term survey of high school students provides an early glimpse at ways their attitudes shifted in the first years of this most recent economic downturn.
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Miller, now 25, was a freshman at an Ohio college, full of hope and ready to take on the world. But here was this “red flag … a big wake-up call,” he says. The prosperous years of childhood were over, and his future was likely to be bumpier than he’d expected.
Across the country, others of Miller’s generation heard that same wake-up call as the Great Recession set in. But would it change them? And would the impact last?
The full effect won’t be known for a while, of course. But a new analysis of a long-term survey of high school students provides an early glimpse at ways their attitudes shifted in the first years of this most recent economic downturn.
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Federal Hackers Not Welcome
Federal hackers can leave their black T-shirts folded and their red hair gel in the medicine cabinet. They're not welcome at this year's annual DefCon hacking convention. In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations, the conference founder has politely asked federal attendees to take a year off. Jeff Moss says the other hackers need time to process what they now know about the National Security Agency. DefCon attracts more than 15,000 code jockeys to Las Vegas each year. This year's conference starts Aug. 2.
Maryland Tally 4 Heat-Related Deaths This Summer
Maryland health officials say there have now been four heat-related deaths in the state this summer.
This week's report on heat-related illnesses in the state shows the addition of three deaths. The new report lists the death of a Wicomico County woman 65 or older, a Baltimore County man 65 or older and a Baltimore County girl.
Baltimore County police say 16-month-old Sabriya Towels died last week after she was left in a vehicle for several hours. The office of the Medical Examiner ruled that the cause of death was hyperthermia.
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This week's report on heat-related illnesses in the state shows the addition of three deaths. The new report lists the death of a Wicomico County woman 65 or older, a Baltimore County man 65 or older and a Baltimore County girl.
Baltimore County police say 16-month-old Sabriya Towels died last week after she was left in a vehicle for several hours. The office of the Medical Examiner ruled that the cause of death was hyperthermia.
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Rep Requests National Guard Help Stop Chicago Violence
State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) is making the request.
“I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois State Police (to) come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron (sic) Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially,” she said at a news conference in Springfield.
Over the holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago, and Davis says the police don’t have the manpower to make arrests.
“I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois State Police (to) come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron (sic) Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially,” she said at a news conference in Springfield.
Over the holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago, and Davis says the police don’t have the manpower to make arrests.
Inept Muslim Arsonist Trying To Commit Insurance Fraud Lit Himself On Fire By Mistake
An arsonist has been described by police as ‘inept’ after setting fire to himself while trying to burn down a takeaway.
Rana Kamran later told doctors that his injuries were from cooking oil he had spilled on himself at his home in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, after falling over.
But his DNA was linked to a jacket that was dumped after a blaze at Hafiz takeaway that was so fierce an elderly woman had to be rescued and treated for smoke inhalation from a neighbouring house.
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Rana Kamran later told doctors that his injuries were from cooking oil he had spilled on himself at his home in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, after falling over.
But his DNA was linked to a jacket that was dumped after a blaze at Hafiz takeaway that was so fierce an elderly woman had to be rescued and treated for smoke inhalation from a neighbouring house.
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NEW BLACK PANTHER: NEVER CONTACTED BY OBAMA DOJ OVER ZIMMERMAN THREATS
Despite issuing a widely publicized threat against Zimmerman last year, the New Black Panther Party was never contacted by the Department of Justice according to a statement from a NBPP spokesman.
Breitbart News spoke exclusively to Brother James J. Muhammad, the National Director of Education for The Ordinary People Society New Black Panther Party. He said, "We were never contacted by the Justice Department. We were never contacted to calm down."
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Asiana Crash Victim Struck By Fire Truck, But Unclear If It Killed Her
One of the two girls killed in the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport was run over by a fire truck as first responders rushed to the scene, but it's unclear whether she was alive or dead at the moment she was struck, a San Francisco Police Department spokesman told NBC News.
Medical examiners will not release autopsy results for “at least two or three weeks,” San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault told NBC Bay Area on Sunday. Coroner’s officials are working to determine how 16-year-old Ye Mengtuan died.
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Medical examiners will not release autopsy results for “at least two or three weeks,” San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault told NBC Bay Area on Sunday. Coroner’s officials are working to determine how 16-year-old Ye Mengtuan died.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY 7-12-13
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.“
Matthew 11:28-30
Matthew 11:28-30
Flooding In Delaware
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| Route 1 in Dover near Buffalo Wild Wings |
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| Route 1 in Bethany |
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| Blue Hen Mall |
From DelDot
New Castle County:
DARK SIGNALS
None reported
Trees Down
None reported
Flooding
None reported
KENT COUNTY:
Trees Down
None reported
Flooding
2636 S. Little Creek – Water on Roadway
US 13 SB near White Oak – Down to one lane – Flooding
RT 8 EB by Dover High School – Flooded
N Little Creek Rd IFO Post Office – Flooded
Division St @ RT 8 – Flooded
S. Little Creek Rd between Horse pond Rd & RT 9 – High Water on Roadway
Horsepond Rd between Lafferty & Starlifter Lane
RT 8 @ Cranberry Run - Water on Roadway
Zion Church @ Deer Run Rd. – Water on Roadway / Flooded
Artis Dr. @ RT 8 – flooding across roadway
SUSSEX COUNTY:
Trees Down
34397 Rickards Rd – Road closed
Camp Arrowhead Rd @ South Dr. – across the roadway
Flooding:
RT 24 EB west of Longneck Rd – Water on Roadway
Old landing Rd Between RT 1 & airport Rd – Water on Roadway
Indian Mission Rd @ Beaver Dam Rd – Water on Roadway
RT 1 NB between RT 26 & IRIB - Water in right lane
Lighthouse Rd @ London Ave. – Water on Roadway
Main St Warrington St. – Flooded
RT 20 between RT 26 & Dagsboro – Flooded
US 113 @ nine foot Rd – Flooded
Hollymount Rd @ Karma Ln – Flooded
Hollyville Rd @ RT 24 – Water on Roadway
Hardscrabble Rd @ Shortly Rd – Water across Roadway
Holts Landing Rd @ Ellis Lane - Flooded
Banks Harbor Retreat is closed
RT 113 & RT 9 – High water
RT 26 @ Towne Center – High Water
Closed:
Lighthouse Rd @ Sand Cove Rd – Closed due high water
Falling Point Rd @ Cow Hoon Dr. – Road is Bucking
Woodland Ave @ Briar Ct – Closed due to flooding and accident
Holly Lake Rd between Phillip Branch @ RT 24 – Closed due to Flooded 1 ft. of water on Roadway
Thanks and Be Safe and Drive Carefully
Sergeant Paul G. Shavack
Director of Public Information
Delaware State Police
State Prepares For Former Inmates To Sign Up For Medicaid
When the enrollment date for individual health plans rolls around in October, former inmates will also be eligible for health plans offered in state health care exchanges, another part of the “Obamacare” Affordable Care Act implementation. But health advocates say that at best it’s more likely they’ll be signing up for Medicaid, because of their low incomes.
About 9,000 to 10,000 inmates are released from Maryland prisons annually.
“Statistically a majority of the people we see, we help enroll into the Primary health care program,” said Sheila Mackertich, vice president of Health Care Reform Initiatives at Health Care Access Maryland. “Most of our people are either low income or no income.”
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We’re The Sweetie-Pie Libertarians
The other day, an aide to a prominent American politician was the subject of an attack in the major media. Why, this person has said some things that all right-thinking people oppose! When he was a radio host, he was provocative! We’ve never observed this phenomenon before! And he thinks there might be some kind of objection to the Lincoln regime! Why, he must support slavery!
(Cue my interview with a zombie.)
Now there are perfectly good reasons one might have to oppose the Lincoln regime. Lysander Spooner opposed it, and Spooner supported John Brown. (I suppose Spooner supported slavery?)
A few thoughts off the top of my head:
(1) Lincoln was a man of his time, which means he viewed large, centralized states as self-justifying goals. This was the age of centralization in Italy, Germany, and Japan, after all. Yes, large, centralized states can abolish slavery. They can also wage horrifying wars, carry out genocides, and erect massive police states. As many people were killed in World War I, the first great war of the world’s centralized states, as there had been slaves in the South.
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Above The Law
Fidelity to the rule of law is the centerpiece of a free society. It means that no one is beneath the protection of the law and no one is absolved of the obligation to comply with it. The government may not make a person or a class of persons exempt from constitutional protections, as it did during slavery, nor may it make government officials exempt from complying with the law, as it does today.
Everyone who works for the government in the United States takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws written pursuant to it. In our system of government, we expect that Congress will write the laws, the courts will interpret them and the president will enforce them. Indeed, the Constitution states that it is the president’s affirmative duty to enforce the law. That duty is not an abstract formulation. Rather, it means the president cannot decline to enforce laws with which he disagrees or whose enforcement might cause him or his political allies to lose popularity. It also means the president cannot make up his own version of the law as a substitute for what the Constitution commands or Congress has written.
In the modern era, presidents have rejected the value of the rule of law and instead followed their own political interests. President George W. Bush, for example, while signing into law a federal statute prohibiting the government from reading your mail without a search warrant, boasted that he had no intention of enforcing that law — and we know that he famously did not enforce it.
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Everyone who works for the government in the United States takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws written pursuant to it. In our system of government, we expect that Congress will write the laws, the courts will interpret them and the president will enforce them. Indeed, the Constitution states that it is the president’s affirmative duty to enforce the law. That duty is not an abstract formulation. Rather, it means the president cannot decline to enforce laws with which he disagrees or whose enforcement might cause him or his political allies to lose popularity. It also means the president cannot make up his own version of the law as a substitute for what the Constitution commands or Congress has written.
In the modern era, presidents have rejected the value of the rule of law and instead followed their own political interests. President George W. Bush, for example, while signing into law a federal statute prohibiting the government from reading your mail without a search warrant, boasted that he had no intention of enforcing that law — and we know that he famously did not enforce it.
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Mexico Takes The Cake In Overweight List
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Nearly a third of Mexican adults are obese, a recent United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization report says, topping even the United States, which comes in a close second at 31.8%.
The United States has long been a fixture atop the chubby list.
The culprit? High-calorie, low-cost, processed foods and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle as Mexican incomes rise and more people move into metropolitan areas.
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