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Look Homeward, 'Change Agents'
by Michelle Malkin
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Judge Tosses Get Rich Quick Lawsuit From
JIHADI CLOCK BOY Ahmed Mohamed
{ rickwells.us } ~ We all remember when Hussein liar-nObama and his minions on the pro-Islamic terrorist left went nuts over the great little “clock boy,”... the junior jihadi who brought a fake bomb to school and said it was a clock. Non-Muslim school kids are disciplined for even saying the word “gun” but it’s “racist, bigoted and xenophobic” to call out a teen in a high school for what was little more than a terrorist threat and a possible dry run for a subsequent attack. Instead of being denounced, Hussein liar-nObama invited Ahmed Mohamed to the White House and urged him to bring the collection of wires and circuit boards he claimed was a clock with him. The Secret Service must have loved that one. These days the left is going crazy about guns in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. They are the same anti-American phonies who attacked those trying to prevent clock boy Mohamed or anyone else from setting off a bomb in a classroom as Islamophobes. Law enforcement and school officials failed to stop Cruz but are vilified for stopping clock boy Mohamed. The Democrats truly are the kings of hypocrisy... https://rickwells.us/judge-lawsuit-clock-boy/ .
Limbaugh: Why Dems should fret over Pennsylvania
by BOB UNRUH
{ wnd.com } ~ The results may not be official for some time, but it appears that a Democrat, Conor Lamb... now leading by only a few hundred votes, may have won a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that two years ago chose President Donald Trump by 20 points. Mainstream media regard the apparent outcome as an “unmistakable good sign” for Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterms approach. But talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh believes it’s the Democrats who should be concerned. He said it’s because Lamb had to run as a Republican to win. “If you didn’t know any better, he’s a Trump acolyte. He had to run as Donald Trump. … In fact, you might even be able to say that Conor Lamb did a better job of explaining the Trump agenda than the Republican did, and it shows the power of the Trump effect,” he explained... http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/limbaugh-why-dems-should-fret-over-pennsylvania/.
Congress Fights For Higher Gas Prices
by DAVID WILLIAMS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Two members of the United States Senate are obstructing the Trump Administration’s bipartisan effort... to provide relief to middle class families and the nation’s small refiners. Republicans and Democrats alike – including Gov. John Carney (D-Del.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), and Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Penn.) – have called for regulatory relief from the Renewable Fuel Standard’s Renewable Identification Number’s (RINs) mandate because it unfairly transfers wealth from Main Street to Wall Street. Although the law was created with good intentions, its current form is crony capitalism and a far cry from putting America’s interests first. The White House has taken note, which is why two meetings were held last week with four Republican senators to discuss a RINs reform plan that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently put together. Reportedly, one more meeting may occur this week... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/13/congress-fights-for-higher-gas-prices/ .
We Have Got To Stop The Gateway Giveaway
by TED BUDD
{ dailycaller.com } ~ In the back rooms and hallways of Congress, they’re putting together the giant 2,000-page funding bill that will take us to the end of the federal fiscal year in October... Hidden deep within the bill could be one of the largest earmarks of all time: a $900 million allocation for the Gateway Project – a set of nine different rail upgrades for a tunnel between New York and New Jersey. This is Chuck clown-Schumer’s top priority, but President Trump has threatened to veto the bill if funding for Gateway is included. I’ve fought this boondoggle since September of 2017, when I tried to strip the money out of the House transportation funding bill, an effort that got overwhelming support from House Republicans. Right now, as negotiations proceed, the White House and House conservatives are pushing back against this pork, with liberal Republicans and Northeast Democrats on the other side. Here are some facts about why it’s so important to kill the Gateway Giveaway... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/13/we-have-got-to-stop-the-gateway-giveaway/# .
Teen Jihadi Murdered 13-Yr-Old, Attacked
Two Others At Birthday Sleepover
{ rickwells.us } ~ A teenager from Jupiter, FL says he murdered a 13-year-old boy and tried to kill another and his mothers... because his religion, Islam, told him to do it. Corey Johnson, 17, fatally stabbed Jovanni Brand, 13, while he slept at a sleepover held for friends of her son by attorney Elaine Simon. Simon was also brutally attacked, as was her son Dane. Johnson had become upset that Jovanni Brand, also referred to in reports as Jovanni Sierra, the victim who turned 13 on the day he was murdered, had referred to celebrities as “gods.” Johnson felt that anti-Islamic conduct had to be punished and warranted his version of the death penalty. He was also angered that Dane had “made fun of” his Islamic “faith,” according to Johnson’s statement to police. Police reports and the briefing indicate that Ms. Simon awoke just before 6 am Monday morning to the sounds of Jovanni Brand groaning. She went upstairs to investigate and was met at the top of the stairs by Johnson, who lunged at her with a knife he had brought from home. She was stabbed at least a dozen times... https://rickwells.us/jihadi-murdered-attacked-sleepover/.
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Look Homeward, 'Change Agents'
by Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week and next week and next month to protest school shootings:
Ask not what the rest of the country can do for your local school's safety; ask what your local school boards and superintendents have been failing to do for you.
Chances are, the adults closest to you -- those most directly responsible for your security -- have been shirking their primary duties, squandering scarce resources and deflecting blame.
Yes, it's glamorous and exciting to appear on "The Ellen Show," rub elbows with Eminem at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, pal around with Anderson Cooper, and soak up praise and donations from George Clooney and nOprah for shouting at the NRA, Republicans and President Trump.
Sure, it's fun to ditch your homework, parade around in "March For Our Lives" swag, and watch your Twitter mentions explode like SpaceX launches every time you indignantly accuse gun-owning moms of hating their own children.
It's lit like Bic to be the Democrats' new junior lobbyists, fundraisers and voter registration captains.
But when the media whirlwind dies down and the Everytown buses ship you back home, mundane realities will set in.
Negligence, incompetence and inattention to the core mission of education and ensuring students' safety don't just spring out of nowhere. They are not alien invaders descending upon your neighborhoods from thousands of miles of away to impose chaos and misery upon your erstwhile Edenic existence.
Take Broward County, Florida. The current superintendent, Robert Runcie, was hired to clean up encrusted corruption in the district and school board that dates back to the early 1990s and resulted in three statewide grand jury investigations in 1997, 2002 and 2011. That last report blasted "malefeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance" on the Democrat-dominated school board and within top management at the district. In fact, the grand jury concluded after probing waste, fraud and favor-trading in capital construction projects:
"The culture of misfeasance and malfeasance at the school district is so deeply ingrained, so longstanding and so severe that we believe employees who blow the whistle will either be subsumed into the existing culture or drummed out of the District as soon as current attention is diverted from the Board and District."
Indeed, one former building inspector who was fired in retaliation for warning about building code violations received a $45,000 settlement from the crooked school board. One board member was convicted on extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges involving school construction. Under Runcie, an $800 million renovation bond passed by voters in 2014 for school repairs on moldy, decaying buildings has been abjectly squandered; critics have alleged more bid-rigging, lax oversight and circumvention of graft reforms passed seven years ago.
The grand jury had issued a prophetic warning: "Bad habits and corrupt practices often return when the light of inquiry is turned off."
Five years later, the district was entangled in yet another fiscal scandal after the state auditor general determined the schools had misallocated $23 million in federal Title 1 funds for low-income students; had "failed to correct safety violations at some schools;" and "paid health insurance premiums for former employees who were ineligible and in some cases dead," according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
When public scrutiny is diverted to red herrings and politically expedient scapegoats, feckless educrats are all too happy to participate in accountability Kabuki theater. After the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month, Runcie immediately pounced: "If we really want to do something, spend money on adding more school resource officers and law enforcement."
What bunk. Continued profligacy is no violence prevention strategy. If school leaders can't exhibit basic fiscal discipline and stewardship, how can they be trusted to ensure classroom discipline and physical safety?
Is it any surprise that Runcie's social justice pandering to dismantle the "school to jailhouse pipeline" won him liar-nObama administration accolades -- while endangering the lives of children used as political pawns?
The same set of corruptocrats who were in place while cronies rigged bids for personal gain stood by while book-cookers rigged crime statistics to appease racial bean counters.
There were no district-wide walkouts and nationwide protests when Broward County parents of special-needs students were laughed at during a school board meeting as they exposed how their children had been bullied, beaten and bitten by tormentors without consequences in 2016. Nor was there a massive uproar last fall when the district acknowledged a whopping 480 incidents of alleged sexual harassment and abuse in its schools.
As a famous Chicago community organizer once quipped, "Change is hard." Selfies with gun control armbands is easy. Cleaning your own house, district and county is hard. Junkets to D.C. are easy. Digging through audits and public records is hard. Regurgitating Mad Libs-like talking points against the NRA and Second Amendment is easy.
Go back to class and look homeward, all you young "change agents." The faultiest faults are near, not far.
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