Newswise — The environmental community is voicing concern after President Obama suggested Congress might move an energy bill forward without a carbon-trading system in place.
According to Rafael Reuveny, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, the entire negotiation in Congress is “politics as usual” and meant to stall [...]

(The Washington Post) Soon after Arne Duncan left his job as schools chief here to become one of the most powerful U.S. education secretaries ever, his former students sat for federal achievement tests. This month, the mathematics report card was delivered: Chicago trailed several cities in performance and progress made over six years.
Miami, Houston and [...]

“She has written critically about legal opinions under Bush that addressed the war in Iraq, interrogation methods, a military tribunal system denying certain rights to detainees captured in the war on terrorism and Bush’s use of presidential signing statements to ignore provisions of new law.”
(Indystar.com) The nomination of the Indiana University professor tapped by President [...]

(BGviews) President Barack Obama’s slipping national approval rating has not resulted in negative esteem amongst surveyed University students.
According to Pollster.com, a Web site containing information related to various polls across the nation, the most recent Gallup poll places Obama’s approval rating at 53 percent nationally. This is a 14 percent slide from their first post-inauguration [...]

(Southbendtribune) Fallout continues from the spring controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went behind closed doors at their fall meeting Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, what action they should take to increase oversight of the nation’s [...]

(www.dailybreeze.com) The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions to [...]

In a nearly party line vote, Congressional Democrats decided you don’t need a bank to get a college loan…you need Uncle Sam.  According to the AP the vote broke down as follows:
A “yes” vote was a vote to pass the bill.
Voting yes were 247 Democrats and 6 Republicans.
Voting no were 4 Democrats and 167 Republicans.

(Associated Press) WASHINGTON – “The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge.
The vote was 253-171 in favor of a bill that fulfills nearly all of [...]

Read the following and guess who is supporting Obama’s “non-Socialist” healthcare reform plan…
“Within our country, the Obamajority is needed to take to the streets in support of health care with a public option paid for by reversing the obscene tax giveaways to the super rich during the Bush years. If health care reform fails, it [...]