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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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Thursday, September 16 2010

A would-be bank robber left with a polite "thank you" after a teller told him she didn't have any money in her drawer.
 
North Charleston, South Carolina police said Melvin Jesse Blain, 31, visited a Wachovia Bank branch and passed a note to the teller saying he was robbing the bank and asking for $30,000.  After the teller told Blain she had no money in her drawer, he said "thank you" and walked out empty-handed.
 
Blain, who was arrested a short distance from the bank, explained his behavior to police by indicating that he had just finished a nearly four-year prison sentence for bank robbery and didn't want to go back.  Blain was charged with entering a bank with intent to steal.
 
—Source:  Pensacola News Journal

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