Montana State University-Bozeman plans to hike tuition for out of state students. The school claims it will lose about $2.5 million due to the cap freeze on tuition. This freeze helps students and struggling families pay for college.
I don’t know why the university system always claims it needs more money. Somehow, they are able to get tax dollars and grants to renovate the Student Union Building and the gym. It seems university officials are only out for their wallets.
A stunning victory for gun owners as Congress votes to allow citizens to carry loaded firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. This is a first step to regaining our Second Amendment rights taken away by the Brady Act.
On a national level, our country is finally moving in the right direction. What I thought was impressive about the legislation was that a total of 105 Democrats broke with party lines to join 174 Republicans to support the gun measure. When the Republicans controlled the House this bill didn’t get passed.
Last week Senator Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, held a meeting to discuss a plan for crafting major health care reform in the United States. During the committee hearing a group of organized protesters from the Maryland Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program were arrested.
They claimed that Sen. Baucus had excluded them from the committee hearing and silenced their voices. Since the election of Barack Obama and his “promised change” the group has made an obligation to ask every congressman to enact socialized medicine.
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As I’m sure most of you have heard a few weeks ago President Obama announced his team was going to take 90 days to cut $100 million out of the budget. So, like many others it got me thinking about just how much money that is.
I’ve seen a few different visualizations of the cut and two of them I found particularly good. The first is a picture that was posted on the Just Citizens blog called A few trillion here or there. It’s a nice way to see how much of the budget is ACTUALLY BEING CUT.
The best one I’ve seen is the above Youtube video which can be found here, it is only a minute and a half and well worth the time.
The Two Rivers Detention Facility in Hardin, MT has generated a lot of media attention across the world. As the prison facility tries to find some new homes from many unlikely contenders. It has even drawn the attention of media outlets such as, Al-Jazeera News Network about hosting the detainees from Guantanamo.
It is doubtful the prison can obtain these prisoners because the state’s congressional delegation disagrees on the issue. This leaves the city and county without a source of revenue- it needs.
Montana has finally done the unthinkable. It has prevented the beginning stages of Big Brother. The governor signed HB-531 into law banning all red light cameras as mentioned in my previous post. The unholy contract between the city of Bozeman and Redflex has been ripped into pieces.
The citizens of Montana can rejoice!!! They do not need to worry about their privacy being invaded by the watchman eye of the government. The city officials will now be in check. They will be forced to take down all their cameras on the Main Street.
Well, it looks like the shady practices of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have finally caught up to them. Yesterday the Las Vegas Review Journal had a piece entitled ACORN voter registration drive nets charges, which lays out the 39 charges filed against ACORN and their employees.
I would first like to mention that the Attorney General AND the Secretary of State of Nevada are BOTH democrats. So…the charge by ACORN that the politicians are just “grandstanding” is ridiculous.
More than 100 activists in Missoula, MT protested against capitalism last Friday. These organizers met at the Wells Fargo’s branch near downtown and demanded a bailout of their own. Due to the national branch accepting a $25 billion bailout it received last October by the Bush Administration.
An article in the Billings Gazette illustrated that the protesters’ intent to solve the problem was socialism. Their thoughts are well known with the teachings of Karl Marx. The protesters called for the death of capitalism and the rise of “solidarity, socialism, communalism and activism.” This crowd was organized by the Two Rivers branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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