Michael Barone Reviews Tea Party Obituaries

Michael Barone is a kind of stiff, close to the vest, tacks and nails reporter. Not much humor, nor many mistakes ever seem to pop up in Mr. Barone’s reportings.

His language does not extend beyond the provable, likeable, and honest…it IS what it IS!

I always support accuracy over flair and style. Flair and style are often tricks of the journalists’ trade to cover deceit and lies which so regularly run through today’s leftwing Obamaling writings throughout America’s university programmed communication world.

Michale Barone at realclearpolitics writes:

DON’T WRITE THOSE TEA-PARTY OBITUARIES JUST YET

February marked the fifth anniversary of the reemergence of the label “Tea Party” in American politics. It was in February 2009 that Rick Santelli delivered his famous rant on CNBC, and a few days later, a group calling itself the Tea Party Patriots was organized.

Today the conventional wisdom is that the Tea Party movement is exhausted. Polls are cited showing that only one quarter of Americans express approval of the Tea Party. Democrats run ads claiming their opponents are Tea Party radicals.

Many Republicans argue that Tea Party candidates have lost winnable Senate races, cementing the Democratic majority there rather than overturning it.

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/04/dont_write_those_tea_party_obituaries_just_yet_121794.html#ixzz2v3HyM7b3

The Lefty War against School Boys Advances in Lefty Goopherland, USA

Our lefty school marms in Minnesota are going fascist.

Their boring wussie ditzy classes for girls made to feel good about their girly selves, are being disrupted by bored yet naturally energetic, natively curious, yet denied learning how to solve problems, normal boys reduced to girly-first studies. Made to feel girlish, free from boyness is never a winsome program for naturally born human males. A well disciplined class depends upon the training and devotion of a highly learned teacher, proud to share his or her own excitement and inspiration from learning to continue discovering truth and therefore spread the word and knowledge of truth to sustain and advance the original JudeoChristian educational foundations for our America.

Todays teacher class in America kindergarten through undergraduate school is UNLEARNED, NOT INTERESTED IN LEARNING, INCAPABLE OF TEACHING, NOT ABLE TO TEACH KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE THEY THEMSELVES ARE EMPTY OF KNOWLEDGE….but very ‘rich’ in feelings, especially the leftwing feminist and black racist kind, the vote Obamalings, those who for decades have destroyed the name “public schools” as a civilized place for learning knowledge. Minnesota ‘educators’ have never been more excited avoiding teaching knowledge within the public school as it is now in the Obama in Washington era.

However, Minnesota is playing catch-up in its race to destroy public schooling as it once was. Greater more profound ignorance is now essential in order for the state to elect U.S. Senators as incompetent and repulsive in character as Al Franken, most popular Democrat among our know-nothings…..the fastest growing population of human animals in the state.

For the latest on Minnesota’s DFL feminist poltical educators’ assault on schoolboys led by damaged governor Mark Dayton, please read further:

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Loans Enslave the Unlearned Long After Their Unlearning Years

Private Loans to Students up Last Year
March 4, 2014 from the National Center for Policy Analysis

Private lending to students increased 8.1 percent last year from the previous year, says the Wall Street Journal.

Banks and lenders are turning to students for business. With the employment picture improving new graduates can more easily find jobs, which makes lenders more comfortable in dealing with them. Similarly, banks see students with high earning potential as a rich source of lifelong revenue.

•Last year, the seven largest private lenders issued almost $6.9 billion in loans to students. That is an increase of 8.1 percent from 2012, and it is the second consecutive year of growth since 2009.
•As MeasureOne Chief Executive Dan Feshbach explained, “We are at a turn — there’s a lot of momentum and a lot of interest in private student loans. Banks are seeing more upside than downside to these loans.”
•Borrowers with high credit scores can benefit from private loans, while those with poor credit are generally stuck with government loans. Private loan rates vary considerably, from 2 percent for those with strong credit to more than 10 percent.
•Of total outstanding student loan debt, private loans account for just 13.9 percent of the $1.2 trillion student loan market. Private loans peaked in 2008, when they constituted 18.6 percent of total student loan debt.
•Private lenders retreated from the market during the recession, with the dollar amount of loans falling 50 percent in the 2008 to 2009 school year. During that same time, federal student loan funding increased 26 percent. Federal loans have very loose underwriting standards and do not run credit score checks on applicants.
The default rate for federal loans has only risen since 2005 (when it was 4.6 percent), with 10 percent of borrowers defaulting by September 2012 on loans from the previous year. Among private lenders, however, default rates have dropped, falling to 3.02 percent for the seven largest lenders in the third quarter of 2013.

Lenders are more confident and willing to issue loans for students who have cosigners, as most students cannot show an ability to repay.

Source: Annamaria Andriotis, “Banks Take Interest in College Lending,” Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2014.