Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report | Reuters

The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-collected-500-million-u-s-call-records-in-2017-a-sharp-rise-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR

Bernie Proposed Everyone Gets a Job & Free Healthcare | Armstrong Economics

You really have to wonder just when will these people stop with the promises of robbing the rich to hand out free everything to everyone else. Bernie Sanders wants to introduce a plan to guarantee everyone a job at $15 an hour. He is clueless that if you raise wages, people spend more and prices rise and will NOT remain the same. You end up back where you started. To begin with, not everyone wants a job. There are plenty of people who have no problem living off of welfare. But he also wants to guarantee healthcare to everyone. That may be a wonderful idea, but you MUST first nationalize all hospitals and then doctors must become government employees. You have to lower the wages of doctors and you have to eliminate the lawsuits or specify how much you will be paid for what injury. Without a comprehensive structural reform, all these proposals are absolutely worthless and would bankrupt the entire system as is. We simply have to let it burn down to the ground and start from scratch. Healthcare and education will ONLY become affordable when people cannot get insurance and to stay in business, prices will have to drop.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/bernie-proposed-every-gets-a-job-free-healthcare/

When we are already 20 trillion in debt, how does Bernie propose to pay for that? Print money and or raise taxes?

Increasing Demands for Oversight of Homeschooling in Connecticut | Parenting

“How is it that, in this state of sometimes stultifying bureaucracy, parents can withdraw their children from school with a one-page form and no questions asked?” is how the editorial for the Hartford Courant begins. In fairness, it does seem odd. After all, a friend of mine is trying to build a …
— Read on pjmedia.com/parenting/increasing-demands-for-oversight-of-homeschooling-in-connecticut/

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