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Lacking Common Sense
by Tom McLaughlin
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Top Headlines
U.S. Navy confirms seven missing sailors on USS Fitzgerald deceased. (Fox News)
15 days after Islamist terror attack, terror flags waved openly in streets of London. (CNS News)
Van hits Muslim worshippers near London’s Finsbury Park mosque. (NBC News)
198 million Americans hit by "largest ever" voter records leak. (ZDNet)
Trump administration keeps liar-nObama LGBT policies at the Pentagon and other agencies. (The Daily Signal)
Surprise! Sex offender shot by ICE in Denver had already been deported. (Hot Air)
U.S. shoots down Syrian fighter jet over Syria. (ABC News)
Oregon becomes first state to allow nonbinary gender on driver's license. (OregonLive)
World War II hero, Medal of Honor recipient Arthur Jackson dies at 92. (Idaho Statesman)
Policy: Free market health care reform. (Capital Research Center)
Policy: Ignore the critics. The Amazon/Whole Foods deal is good for consumers. (Investor’s Business Daily)
Humor: "Crooked Hill" Street sign altered to read "Crooked liar-Hillary" Street. (Fox News) ~The Patriot Post
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Massive Russian collusion
found, but not by Trump
by David Kupelian
{wnd.com} ~ Is it just me, or is everyone missing the biggest, most mind-boggling part of the never-ending “Trump-Russia collusion” drama?... I’m talking about something more troubling than ex-FBI chief James Comey being one of the biggest leakers, or his refusing for months to inform Americans that Donald Trump was never under FBI investigation – while capitulating to liar-nObama AG Loretta Lynch’s demand that he hide the fact that liar-Hillary Clinton was under investigation. I’m talking about something more absurd than an investigation lasting almost a year – entirely without evidence of a crime!... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/massive-russian-collusion-found-but-not-by-trump/
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The Russian US Election
Hacking Big Lie Got Bigger
by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ According to Bloomberg News, “Russian Cyber Hacks on the US electoral system are far greater than previously known.”... A Big Lie – utter rubbish! The CIA, and likely NSA and FBI, can cyberattack targets anywhere, making it appear to have originated elsewhere – outside America from any other designated country. Despite months of allegations, insinuations and accusations, not a shred of evidence suggests any Russian hacking of America’s November 2016 election or any other US target. Claims otherwise are Big Lies. Repeated enough gets most people to believe them...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/russian-us-hacking-bigger-lie/
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30 Senate Democrats Met With Russian
AND Chinese Diplomats About The Iran Deal In 2015
by Aaron Bandler
{dailywire.com} ~ The article, published in 2015, noted that the Russian and Chinese diplomats, as well as officials from countries like Britain and Germany, were meeting with these Democrats to ease their concerns about the Iran deal... Later on in the piece, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is cited as having been swayed to support the Iran deal as a result of the meeting. "When I questioned the ambassadors of our P5+1 allies, it also became clear that if we reject this deal, going back to the negotiation table is not an option," Gillibrand said. The article also pointed out that "Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Chris Coons of Delaware, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin" were among the 30 Democratic Senators in that meeting...This dems are claiming for collusion in the Trump admin, http://www.dailywire.com/news/14047/flashback-30-senate-democrats-met-russian-and-aaron-bandler
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Left Are Lockstep Radicals,
GOP Disorganized, Horrible Salesmen
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Newt Gingrich notes how the left has become progressively more and more militant over the past twenty-five years or so... He described speaking before of a group of over 300 students earlier in the week and asking them how many felt “intimidated on campus for being Republican or being pro-Trump,” with one out of every three hands going up. Gingrich talks about the radical differences in the politicized issues between Democrats and Republicans but Bartiromo wonders if that isn’t also the case among Republicans. She cites Congressman Mo Brooks who described the situation as “we pass legislation in the House and it goes to the Senate to die.” He references Ronald Reagan and how he understood that by “turning up the light for the American public that you can turn up the heat on Congress.” He says, “There are enough Democrats up for reelection next year in the Senate, in states that Trump carried...http://rickwells.us/gingrich-left-lockstep-radicals-gop-disorganized-horrible-salesmen/
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CNN Propagandist Throws A Fit
His Disruptive Antics Aren’t Being Recorded
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The CNN Fake News propagandist who found himself relegated to the back edge of the Rose Garden, what he called “Siberia” and not given a question last week, now has even more to be raging about... Jim Acosta, known to President Trump for his “very fake news,” and belligerence, is throwing a tantrum on-air over another action the Trump administration failed to get his approval of before enacting. This one also negatively impacts the media elitist. Sean Spicer held a news conference in which there was no audio or video recording allowed. Acosta’s going to have to shut up and write, to actually be a reporter. The indignity and inhumanity is almost too much for him... http://rickwells.us/cnn-propagandist-throws-fit-disruptive-antics-recorded/
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“A boy is throwing things at other students. He won’t stop, and he refuses to go to the principal’s office. Can you help me?”
“Sure,” I said. The boy wouldn’t make eye contact when I entered the room. Every other student did though, waiting to see what would happen.
Common sense is often a misnomer when applied to educational and judicial practice these days, and it’s refreshing to have a Supreme Court justice willing to point that out.
Lacking Common Sense
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ The young woman looked nervous as she knocked on the window of my classroom door. “Excuse me, class,” I said as I stepped out to speak. She was a former student and substituting in the next classroom.
“Sure,” I said. The boy wouldn’t make eye contact when I entered the room. Every other student did though, waiting to see what would happen.
“Bobby,” I said (not his real name). “Miss Fellows told you to go to the principal’s office and now I’m telling you.” He just sat there, still not making eye contact. “Bobby,” I repeated, “Maine law say that if a student is a danger to others and refuses to leave the classroom, the teacher can use the necessary force to remove him. Now I’m telling you again to go down to the principal’s office.”
That got no response either.
“I’m going to count to three. If you’re not moving at three, I’ll move you. One, two, th…”
That got no response either.
“I’m going to count to three. If you’re not moving at three, I’ll move you. One, two, th…”
He got up, went out the door, and headed for the stairs. I picked up the wall phone and called down to say Bobby was on his way. “Thank you,” said Miss Fellows.
“You’re welcome,” I said, then returned to my classroom and forgot about it.
The following Monday, Jim Underwood, the principal, came into my room during my free period. I liked Jim. He was a very effective administrator. “Tell me what happened with Bobby,” he said, because he’d been out of town when I dealt with Bobby and appointed another teacher as acting principal. I filled him in.
“You’re welcome,” I said, then returned to my classroom and forgot about it.
The following Monday, Jim Underwood, the principal, came into my room during my free period. I liked Jim. He was a very effective administrator. “Tell me what happened with Bobby,” he said, because he’d been out of town when I dealt with Bobby and appointed another teacher as acting principal. I filled him in.
“If you had removed him,” Jim said, “I would not have backed you up.”
That surprised me. Like I said, Jim was a good principal, one of the best I ever worked with. “Jim,” I said. “That is state law. I have a copy in my briefcase.”
That surprised me. Like I said, Jim was a good principal, one of the best I ever worked with. “Jim,” I said. “That is state law. I have a copy in my briefcase.”
“I know it is,” he said, “but the courts are interpreting it differently now.”
“So, if I wasn’t to remove him, what was I supposed to do?”
“Call the police.”
“So, if I wasn’t to remove him, what was I supposed to do?”
“Call the police.”
“You’re kidding,” I said.
“Nope.”
“That’s crazy. I’m supposed to leave two classrooms full of students sitting on their hands and wait for the cops because of one disruptive student?”
“Nope.”
“That’s crazy. I’m supposed to leave two classrooms full of students sitting on their hands and wait for the cops because of one disruptive student?”
“Yup. That’s what they’re telling us now.”
Bobby went to the office on his own because he knew I wasn’t bluffing. Calling the police would ruin half a day for about fifty students and at least two teachers. Clearly, things were getting much too complicated and I wondered how much longer I could continue in it in the teaching profession.
Bobby went to the office on his own because he knew I wasn’t bluffing. Calling the police would ruin half a day for about fifty students and at least two teachers. Clearly, things were getting much too complicated and I wondered how much longer I could continue in it in the teaching profession.
In July of last year a similar case came before our newest Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, when he was on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. A middle school boy in New Mexico had disrupted class by generating fake burps. He wouldn’t stop and was sent into the hall, but he kept opening the door to “let out a giggling belch” as the Daily Signal described it. Then:
“a school resource police officer placed the student under arrest ‘for interfering with the educational process.’ The 13-year-old then spent approximately one hour locked in a juvenile detention facility before he was released to the custody of his mother. He was never charged for his misbehavior.”
“a school resource police officer placed the student under arrest ‘for interfering with the educational process.’ The 13-year-old then spent approximately one hour locked in a juvenile detention facility before he was released to the custody of his mother. He was never charged for his misbehavior.”
The boy’s mother filed suit claiming her son’s civil rights had been violated. This was an even less serious case than the one I dealt with because there was no danger from flying objects, yet the student had been arrested and incarcerated, however briefly. Ten years had passed and the teaching profession had continued its decline. A minor incident became a federal case and made it to a high court, which, in a 94-page ruling decided in the school’s favor.
Gorsuch wrote only four pages in dissent. According to the Daily Signal again: “Gorsuch . . . explained that a reasonable police officer should have understood that arresting a ‘class clown for burping was going a step too far.’”
Indeed.
Gorsuch concluded that: “the statutory language on which the officer relied for the arrest in this case does not criminalize ‘noises or diversions’ that merely ‘disturb the peace or good order’ of individual classes.”
Gorsuch concluded that: “the statutory language on which the officer relied for the arrest in this case does not criminalize ‘noises or diversions’ that merely ‘disturb the peace or good order’ of individual classes.”
Referring to his colleagues on the 10th Circuit, he said: “Often enough the law can be ‘a ass—a idiot,’” quoting Charles Dickens, “and there is little we judges can do about it, for it is or should be emphatically our job to apply, not rewrite, the law enacted by the people’s representatives. In this particular case, I don’t believe the law happens to be quite as much of a ass as they do.”
Ouch.
Ouch.
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