Prepared by Paul Smith, Executive Director, Citizen Impact
Updated March 5
CURRENT ISSUES:
Race to the Top/Common Core
SB 167 (pertaining to common core curriculum, and nullifying any commitments relating to the federal Race to the Top program) did not get a vote in committee, so is stalled, but not dead.… Read the rest
Implementation of Common Core Standards increases federal control of education, and negatively impacts private schools and home schools.
The state of Georgia applied for the federal Race to the Top grant, and by accepting these funds, agreed to adopt Common Core State Standards.… Read the rest
By Rep. J. Randy Forbes
(Click here to read article at Washington Times site)
Catholic adoption agencies have been forced to close their doors in Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., because their religious beliefs about marriage were deemed unacceptable by their jurisdictions.… Read the rest
By Sue Ella Deadwyler of Georgia Insight
“Pathological gambling is extremely incapacitating and results in failure to maintain solvency or provide basic support for one’s family.” – American Psychiatric Association
When gambling expands, government expands.
More police are hired to investigate and prosecute increased crime; more judges and
courts are needed to investigate and prosecute gambling addicts’ crimes; more welfare
programs are needed to support gambling-related poverty; more agencies are created to
monitor and regulate gambling; more medical services are needed to treat diseases of
addicted gamblers; and more laws are needed to control crime and money launderers.… Read the rest
Paul A. Smith, Citizen Impact Founder & Executive Director
Many Americans are fed-up, jaded, discouraged, or cynical, after November’s election, because they think “nothing has changed.” Unfortunately, this is a focus on the national scene, and a result of a news media who offers only the news they decide we need/want to hear. … Read the rest
Critics say President Obama’s Religious Freedom Day proclamation doesn’t line up with the actions of his administration
Leigh Jones Posted: Jan. 17, 2013 World Magazine
Religious liberty advocates mocked the Religious Freedom Day proclamation President Barack Obama signed Wednesday, lambasting him as one of the strongest opponents to the First Amendment ever to lead the nation.… Read the rest
By Lindsey M. Burke
Published December 27, 2012 | FoxNews.com
A war of words is brewing. But this one doesn’t involve slinging insults. It’s a battle over what forms of writing – novels, poems, and non-fiction – will define English instruction for millions of American schoolchildren in the years to come.… Read the rest
By Denny Burk on December 28, 2012 (www.dennyburk.com)
I am astonished that more Americans aren’t in an uproar about what is happening to Hobby Lobby right now. As many of you know, Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit earlier this year to try and get relief from Obamacare’s abortion mandate.
from Alliance Defending Freedom
On December 7, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear legal challenges filed by same-sex activists against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and the voter approved marriage amendment in California known as Prop 8.… Read the rest
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012
By Diana Davis WSB-TV
ATLANTA — Could betting on horse racing be coming to Georgia?
The idea has repeatedly failed, but supporters and opponents say next year may be different.
Channel 2’s Diana Davis found out why at a Tuesday afternoon hearing at the state Capitol.… Read the rest
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