Free Republic

With all of the disturbing news that we as a country have been constantly bombarded with, I have pretty much kept my opinions to myself, but, I’m going to let it fly today!! It seems that everywhere we look there is some type of debauchery, violence or just outright vulgarity and disrespect and I am so sick of it!! The ways that people find to abuse, mistreat and use other human beings and animals too, now that I’m at it, for their own selfish means, never ceases to amaze me!! When our society began this steep decline in basic civility...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Y'Hica Institute for the Visual Arts in London appeared to have all the credentials for certification in a student loan program administered by the U.S. Department of Education - a Web site, a school president, a consulting firm and students who needed financial help. Unknown to federal officials who certified Y'Hica, the school didn't exist. But this wasn't just another fraud on the government. This school was an undercover sting operation by congressional investigators, who wanted to learn how closely education officials monitored aid applications from foreign schools. The investigators from Congress' General Accounting Office had...