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Schools Are Teaching Kids to Use Their 
Body, Not Their Mind, To Affect Politics 
by Marina Medvin  
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Trump says Comey ‘guilty of crimes,’ 
warns DOJ he won’t ‘stay away’ forever 
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by Brooke Singman 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump, in a fiery exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends," blasted former FBI Director James Comey... on Thursday as a “liar and a leaker” who is “guilty of crimes” -- while issuing a stern warning to the Justice Department about the Russia probe. He said he tries to "stay away" from the Justice Department's affairs, "but at some point I won't." He suggested the DOJ hasn't adequately scrutinized Comey and others amid the focus on the Russia probe. "Our Justice Department should be looking at that kind of stuff, not the nonsense of collusion with Russia. There is no collusion with me and Russia, and everyone knows that,” he said...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-comey-is-guilty-crimes.html.
Trump warns Senate Democrat will 'have a big price
 to pay' for disclosing Ronny Jackson allegations
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by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump on Thursday predicted Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is going to have serious problems... as a result of his comments on Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. "For Jon Tester to bring up stuff like 'candy man' and the kinds of things he was saying and then to say, 'Well, you know, these are statements that were made.' There is no proof of this," Trump told Fox News. The White House announced Thursday morning that Jackson is withdrawing his nomination. "For him to be doing this to this man and his family, I think Jon Tester has to have a big price to pay in Montana. I don't think people in Montana — the admiral is the kind of person that they respect and admire — and they don't like seeing what's happened to him," he added on "Fox and Friends."...
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220 Airstrikes on Palestinians; World Yawns
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ While all eyes are set on the weekly demonstrations organized by Hamas and other Palestinian factions along the border... between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as part of the so-called March of Return, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus is facing a wide-scale military offensive and ethnic cleansing by the Syrian army and its allies. The war crimes committed against the Palestinians in Yarmouk camp have so far failed to prompt an ounce of outrage, much less the sort of outcry emerging from the international community over the events of the past four weeks along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The international community seems to differentiate between a Palestinian shot by an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shot by a Syrian soldier. In the first case, Hamas and several Palestinian groups have been encouraging Palestinians to march towards the border with Israel, with some even trying to destroy the security fence and hurling stones and petrol bombs at Israeli troops...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12221/palestinians-airstrikes 
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90 Mostly Far-Left Muslims Are Running for Political Office
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by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Donald Trump’s so-called travel ban — which is NOT a travel ban of Muslims — has motivated some 90, mostly far-left, Muslims... to run for office and most are Democrats so far, we could only find far-left Democrats. They are also motivated by a far-left community organizer named Nadeem Mazen. CNN, and other outlets, blatantly lied about the ban, and what follows is one example of how they distorted the truth: “the travel ban which temporarily kept immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the US”. The truth is the travel ban is a temporary ban on TERROR nations, not Muslims, and it is meant to last until the government can get the vetting right. Muslims have been lied to on this issue. A ban of this nature has been implemented by modern presidents routinely, including Barack liar-nObama...  http://www.independentsentinel.com/90-mostly-far-left-muslims-are-running-for-political-office/
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Special master named to review documents in Michael Cohen case
by LYDIA WHEELER

{ thehill.com { ~ The federal judge overseeing the case against President Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen... on Thursday appointed a former federal judge to review the documents seized in a raid of his office and hotel room, according to multiple reports. Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York appointed Barbara Jones — who served a 16-year term on the Manhattan’s federal court and is now a partner at law firm Bracewell — to serve as the “special master" and  decide which of Cohen's materials are protected by attorney-client privilege and what can be reviewed by federal prosecutors, the The New York Post reported.  The quick decision came after Wood received a letter   Thursday morning from federal prosecutors in Manhattan withdrawing their objection to Cohen's request for a special master. Prosecutors had initially pushed for the use of a Justice Department "taint team" to perform the review, but cited new developments in changing their position...  http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/385027-special-master-named-to-review-documents-in-michael-cohen-case.
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Schools Are Teaching Kids to Use Their 
Body, Not Their Mind, To Affect Politics 
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by Marina Medvin 
{ townhall.com } ~ Teachers and school administrators have been supporting and encouraging student walkouts in protest of “gun violence.”

I: “What are you protesting?”

Kid: “Gun violence.”

I: “Ok. No one disagrees with you. ‘Gun violence,’ an ambiguous term by which you mean gun crimes, is already prohibited by every state of these United States as either murder or brandishing or other type of criminal assault. Go back to class.”

What they are actually attempting to protest is the ability of anyone to possess a gun. Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens laid out a logical explanation for what the politics behind these school walkouts are really attempting to achieve: “a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment.” 

But these kids are not being taught to understand, rationalize and articulate the problem. These kids are taught that ambiguous, nonsensical terms like “gun violence” are fine to use, instead of particularizing the problem and articulating the solution, like Justice Stevens had to point out. These kids are being taught that using their bodies in protest, as opposed to using their minds in intellectual discourse, is smarter. Teachers are encouraging kids to walk out of class in lieu of studying the psychological causes of the shootings, our legal processes, and the American government.

Even private schools have jumped on this political bandwagon of walkouts and have sent emails to paying parents saying that kids will be supported by teachers for the 4/20 walkout. Even though only 6% of school shootings take place in private school and private schools are disproportionately less likely to experience a school shooting, school administrators encouraged those kids to walk out  instead of to sit-in and to discuss the disproportionality of public school shootings and the potential reasons behind the disparity.

It is worrisome to me as an American to see the political mockery that these students, encouraged by teachers and school administrators, have made of the tragic deaths of our innocent school kids. And the administrators’ role in this is significant: students are not being encouraged to think as individuals and to patiently debate without a physical component. Students are instead being taught that the physical component together with groupthink is the answer to their problems. This significantly diminishes their ability to rationalize in their own self interest. This significantly diminishes their ability to think objectively and to deeply understand the solutions they are supporting. 

Go back to Justice Stevens’s proposition, for instance. The gun-ban position is very appealing to these kids, because is sounds so simple on its face - “No gun, no shoot! Problem solved!”

Right? Wrong. Keep thinking. 

In the real world, humans do not always follow the rules. This is an inalienable attribute of humanity. People will break the rules, bad people will exist, and bad things will happen. There is nothing that we can do to stop them. The human race has not yet been able to uncover the secret to ridding the world of murder, larceny, and rape. Maybe because those crimes are not always cut and dry and I can tell you from a criminal defense attorney’s perspective that in fact most of these allegations are not ever so simple as acts that are right or wrong; that is why we have a jury system and a 12-person jury must take time to deliberate to reach a unanimous verdict.

There is no legislation that will prevent the inevitability of human nature. 

Murder is illegal. Yet people commit murders. Drug possession is illegal but it does not stop drug possession.

Legislation of bad behavior does not eradicate the bad behavior. Legislation of gun possession will only eliminate possession rights for the law-abiding individuals who possessed weapons for personal security. For it is the law-abiding who abide by the law. And the law abiding are not the ones who you are worried about. More importantly to consider in this balance is that law-abiding Americans have used their firearms in self-defense 3.6 times as often as criminals have used them for “gun violence,” according to studies conducted by our the CDC. Moreover, many states already have increased penalties for committing crimes with a gun. These increased penalties have not stopped gun-related crimes.

We can safely assume that if someone has decided to break the law by intending to commit mass murder, then gun possession deterrence will not stop them. So what does punishing the law-abiding via gun prohibition actually achieve in the quest to stop school shootings? 

And if we are to protect our schoolchildren against “gun violence,” then how do we do that disarmed? Instead, the only proactive rational response to defend against “gun violence” in schools can be to increase school security protocols restricted access, cameras, ALICE drills, etc and to add armed and trained guards. To guard our schools as preciously as we guard our banks, police departments and courthouses. Many schools agree and have implemented armed security measures.

So why are students not demanding armed guards and physical protection? After all, a law does not physically manifest itself and magically appear between a shooter and his victim to prevent the shooter from killing his victim. A law does not instantaneously defend - it simply creates deterrence. And we know the deference does not stop crime. Why are kids not demanding immediate protection, physical protection from an expectedly non-law-abiding shooter? Because they are being publicly encouraged not to think think via rational self-interest, but to support a groupthink cause. 

As we know, some intelligent individuals disagree with this. Justice Stevens, for one, disagrees and articulates why. This is all natural and part of expected political discourse. But I am not seeing respectful discourse from most students who disagree. 

Other than Donald Trump’s listening session, we are not hearing much of an intelligent discussion from the students. Instead we are seeking physical protests and their kid leader regurgitating Twitter politics.

There are some important exceptions to this generality, such as Kyle Kashuv, a free-thinker student who is knowledgeable about our rule of law and has found an intellectual way to discuss the problems. ”I truly believe this livestream -- learning about our Constitution and finding ways to save lives without infringing on our Constitution -- is the best way to sanctify the day and remember those who were lost in the Parkland shooting and in Columbine," Kashuv told CNN. "I created this event to do just that.” He does not have much public support from schools and school administrators. 

These are all issues that need to be discussed and debated in class. Kids need to be taught how to rationalize and how to research, not how to regurgitate. Kids need to be taught individualism, not mob mentality and groupthink. Kids need to be taught to use their minds to affect politics, not their bodies. That’s the point of school. They can learn how to protest all on their own, I promise.

Without the teachers doing their jobs, even with strong at-home parental intervention attempts, individual thinkers like Kyle Kashuv will become more and more rare. As parents we need to strongly revaluate the roles of our public schools, private schools, and home schooling.

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