LEADERS ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE CITIZENS"All of us must be aware of the things that happening around us. Being informed about the current event will give us knowledge on how things works around the world and help us decide which path shall we take for journey. Current events serves as our guide for us to find out the things that we must do and we should have done. Discussing current events makes us informed and be an involved citizen. Moreover, we will better understand people and how they relate to one another."
"The Importance of Current Events". Talk Business & Politics. April 26, 2012 On The Sidelines Of Democracy: Exploring Why So Many Americans Don't Vote
McCain's last message read aloud as Washington returns to work without himMy fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,
Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them. I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else's. I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America's causes -- liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people -- brings happiness more sublime than life's fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves. Fellow Americans' -- that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process. We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been. We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do. Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening. I feel it powerfully still. Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America. CNN: Updated 4:08 PM ET, Mon August 27, 2018 Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools... and It Children Lost!Toss a dart at a map of Detroit, and the bull’s-eye, more or less, would be a tiny city called Highland Park. Only three square miles, Highland Park is surrounded by Detroit on nearly all sides, but it remains its own sovereign municipality thanks largely to Henry Ford, who started building Model Ts there in 1910. Ford didn’t care for the idea of paying Detroit taxes, so he pressured Highland Park to resist annexation by the larger city. By the end of the decade, his Albert Kahn-designed factory had revolutionized mass production. Five years later, Walter Chrysler started his own car company a few blocks away. Continue reading the main storySylvia Brown lives in the suburbs now, but she still proudly calls herself a Parker, the local term for a Highland Park native. When Brown was a kid, she’d tell people she lived in the capital of Detroit. Her father worked for the city, and her mother taught at the public elementary school. In high school, Brown played on the volleyball and tennis teams and won a scholarship her junior year to study abroad in Japan. She fretted about traveling such a long distance — she never expected the judges to pick a black girl from Highland Park — but her guidance counselor encouraged her not to be afraid to cross 8 Mile Road, the famous divide between city and suburbs. So when the offer came last summer to take a job as the superintendent of George Washington Carver Academy, a pre-K-8 charter school in Highland Park, Brown thrilled at the chance to come home. She also had no illusions about what she was signing up for. In 1992, Brown’s sophomore year at Highland Park High, Chrysler’s corporate headquarters decamped to exurban Auburn Hills, a departure that cost Highland Park a quarter of its tax base and 50 percent of its annual budget. Today the city is staring down the same problems as much of Detroit: crime, abandonment, disinvestment. (A local pastor once described Highland Park to me as “Detroit writ small.”) The public library closed in 2002. In 2011, the local power utility dug up two-thirds of the city’s streetlights in response to $4 million of unpaid bills; the mayor-elect advised citizens to leave on their porch lights instead. A major victim of the city’s borderline insolvency was its public-school system, which had been under state control since 2012. To read the rest of the article from the New York Times click here. 20Years of Covering Checks and BalancesAs Congress returns this week from its summer recess, Washington and its press corps are stirring from what has been a fitful August slumber. It will be a busy fall, just as it was in 1998, when I became the congressional correspondent for The Baltimore Sun as a new name entered the political conversation: Monica Lewinsky.
Back then, the Capitol’s august press gallery above the Senate chamber was jam-packed with reporters. Every regional newspaper worth its salt had someone in the Capitol keeping an eye on its congressional delegation and the most pressing matters of the day. I sat crammed in next to a reporter from The San Francisco Examiner, another from New York Newsday, another from The Chicago Sun-Times and three from The New York Times. Then came the long eclipse: the decline of the mid-size, then major daily newspapers, and with them, the twilight of the congressional reporter. The Senate press gallery, with its century-old tile floors and chandeliers, is now a sadder place. Where I, a Baltimore Sun reporter, was once crammed into a carrel alongside such venerable Times reporters as Lizette Alvarez, Alison Mitchell and Eric Schmitt, there are file cabinets. I returned to the congressional press corps in 2012, this time as a reporter for The Times. The hallways of the Capitol were and still are packed with reporters, but most of them work for newsletters and pricey trade outlets catering to Washington lobbyists and insiders. To Read the rest of the article chick here. How to identify Reputable SourcesJanuary 2017
rewrote Instagram's terms of use in plain English so kids would know their privacy rightsIt’s no secret that teenagers love social media.
Members of “Generation Z” can spend up to nine hours a day sharing photos on Instagram, consuming “content” on YouTube and talking to friends on Snapchat. (Just don’t ask them to get excited about Facebook. But how much do these teens understand what they’ve agreed to give up when they start an account with those sites? Click here to find out
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