C-SPAN has a complete recording of the hearing called by Senator Rand Paul.

War Powers and Federal Spending A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee held a hearing on war powers granted by the Constitution and whether a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) is needed for current U.S. military engagements. Attorneys and legal experts from across the political spectrum, including Fox News Channel analyst and former judge Andrew Napolitano, testified about Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to declare war, and put forward several examples from history, including 2001’s AUMF in which Congress gradually forfeited its war powers to the executive Branch.

The Institute For New Economic Thinking has the article The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools.

Lafer explains that in the new system, the children of the wealthy will be taught a broad, rich curriculum in small classes led by experienced teachers. The kind of thing everybody wants for kids. But the majority of America’s children will be consigned to a narrow curriculum delivered in large classes by inexperienced staff —or through digital platforms with no teachers at all.

Most kids will be trained for a life that is more circumscribed, less vibrant, and, quite literally, shorter, than what past generations have known. (Research shows that the lifespan gap between haves and have-nots is large and rapidly growing). They will be groomed for insecure service jobs that dull their minds and depress their spirits. In the words of Noam Chomsky, who recently spoke about education to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), “students will be controlled and disciplined.” Most will go to school without developing their creativity or experiencing doing things on their own.

This makes me more upset than I already have been with the way the world is trending. My generation may be the last one that escaped this. My daughter’s generation is struggling against the tide. What’s going to happen to my granddaughter’s generation is really frightening to contemplate.