Durbin Calls on Illinois-based For-profit College to Refund Tuition if Programs Lose Accreditation

Monday 6th of February 2012 12:21:58 AM
Posted by admin / Under Ed Roth

As Career Education Corporation students face prospect of worthless degrees and burdensome debt, former CEO given multi-million dollar severance package [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – After learning that the former CEO of Career Education Corporation (CEC) is set to receive a $5 million severance, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today called on the Illinois-based company to refund tuition to students if their program of study loses accreditation.  CEC, which owns and operates Le Cordon Bleu and the International Academy of Design and Technology in Chicago, risks losing accreditation after its national accreditor discovered that the company directly violated Department of Education regulations...

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Ed Schultz Demands Nashville'Rednecks' Write a Pro-ObamaSong on Osama

Monday 6th of February 2012 12:21:58 AM
Posted by admin / Under Ed Roth

On Thursday night’s edition of The Ed Show on MSNBC, "Ed Schultz threw down a threat-down on hawkish, jingoistic country crooners like Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood ," wrote Adam Gold of Nashville Scene, "or as he called 'em, ‘fun-lovin', American rednecks in Nashville, Tennessee."Schultz "put the Music Row machine on notice — jestingly expressing his hankering to hear a patriotic anthem lauding President Obama and the Navy Seals for toe-tagging Osama bin Laden." You can tell Schultz was mocking patriotic country singers because he didn’t ask Steve Earle or the Dixie Chicks for their help.

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Biden to Discuss New Guidelines About Campus Sex Crimes

Monday 6th of February 2012 12:21:58 AM
Posted by admin / Under Ed Roth

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is urging the nation’s schools and colleges to do more to prevent sexual violence, saying campus sex crimes often go unreported because victims fear that universities will not discipline offenders. Mr. Biden travels to the University of New Hampshire on Monday to discuss new Education Department instructions, issued on Monday, to public school districts, colleges and universities about their responsibilities under civil rights laws to prevent sexual violence. “Sexual violence can happen to anyone, and it happens at the best colleges,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “Very few report the crime to law...

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Ed Schultz on Libya: I’m All for This Mission'

Monday 6th of February 2012 12:21:58 AM
Posted by admin / Under Ed Roth

Ed Schultz on Libya: 'Given That Americans Died on That 747 Over Lockerbie, I’m All for This Mission' The perpetually anti-war Ed Schultz took his seat behind the desk at MSNBC studios Monday with the expressed mission of selling Barack Obama's air assault on Libya to his viewers. So passionate was the "Ed Show" host in supporting the President he several times showed video footage of downed Pan Am flight 103 while claiming that Moammar Gaddafi was responsible thereby justifying an attack on him over 22 years later. ED SCHULTZ: President Obama has decided on a more focused, realistic approach....

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Sen. Paul Unveils 5-Year Budget Plan: Eliminates Four Federal Agencies

Monday 6th of February 2012 12:21:58 AM
Posted by admin / Under Ed Roth

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled today his five-year path to a balanced budget, leaving several federal agencies behind. Among the items on the cutting room floor are the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce and Housing and Urban Development. “There’s a lot of things in here that everybody could agree to, Republicans and Democrats, but nobody’s leading on the president’s side and on our side we felt we needed to put this forward to get the debate started, at the very least,” the freshman Senator explained at a Capitol Hill press conference this afternoon. The proposal also calls for the repeal...

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