Venezuela’s top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez’s campaign to stem shortages.
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Starting Jan. 31, a driver’s license and oral declaration of citizenship will no longer be enough to enter the United States for Americans and Canadians age 19 and older. People will have to present proof of citizenship, usually in the form of a passport…
Montana’s governor called on 17 other states Friday to join its rejection of the fed’s Real ID rules, but DHS says rebel states will be punished. Starting May 11, citizens of rebel states can’t use their driver’s licenses to enter any federal building or board a plane without a patdown. States that agree can get extension on pricey regs until 2014.
Sphere: Related ContentSo in costing the taxpayer money, we have to bribe our young to stay in the public schools system. This screams to me that the public school system isn’t doing it’s job by making education fun and interesting enough on a regular basis to retain our children’s attention span.
It’s high time the Federal and State governments stayed out of the the schools and let it be handled on a local level.
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