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To: puborectalis who wrote (774186)	3/11/2014 10:23:40 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1570940

Hamas unveils rocket statue in Gaza City...

To: puborectalis who wrote (774186)	3/11/2014 11:01:40 AM
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I don't think cons. care what the pope says, hell even america catholics don't care what the pope says

To: puborectalis who wrote (774186)	3/11/2014 12:10:21 PM
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Democrat Senator Claims He Drove from New Jersey to Hawaii

To: puborectalis who wrote (774186)	3/11/2014 4:44:18 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1570940

Dems running into more Texas trouble Rosslyn Smith There is another roadblock on the Democrats' plan to turn Texas blue. On Monday Michael Barone belatedly noted the unexpected showing of Ray Madrigal indicates possible dissatisfaction by Hispanics with the pro-abortion feminists beloved by Democratic Party leadership. What hasn't earned more than a couple of brief mentions, however, is the unexpected development in the US Senate race in Texas. The Democrat plan was to have an attractive, well financed candidate ready for after the Republicans pulled themselves apart in a battle between the establishment and the Tea Party. The reality is the Republican primary was tame but there is to be a runoff between the Democratic Party's favored candidate, millionaire David Alameel, and Kesha Rogers, a 37 year old African-American follower of Lydon LaRouche. Alameel is a founder of the Jefferson Dental Clinic chain and he is said to be pumping a significant part of his personal fortune into his campaign. He has supported Republican candidates in the past, but now says Republicans have become too extreme. Rogers had raised next to nothing. She has also called for the impeachment of Obama and is said to have once painted a Hitler-like mustache on an Obama poster. She has been photographed holding such a poster. Like the typical follower of Lyndon LaRouche, she is vocally against Wall Street interests, which followers of LaRouche seem to think are controlled by British bankers connected to the Royal Family. When a poll a week before the March 4 primary showed Rogers in the lead, t he Democratic Party scrambled to spread the negative word about her to prevent a runoff -- or to at least make sure she came in third in the five candidate field. They failed on both counts as Rogers was the winner in 33 counties. Many of them were small rural counties, but she also carried Waller County in the Houston exurbs. While Alameel was the overwhelming winner garnering 47.1% of the vote, Rogers ran four percentage points ahead of what seems to be the other template for the Democrat candidate for statewide office, lawyer and single mother Maxey Scheer, Unlike Ray Madrigal's surprising 20% of the vote in the gubernatorial primary, which was concentrated in the heavily Hispanic border counties, Roger's support comes from all parts of the state. Nor can it be attributed to racial solidarity, as she won several counties in the Panhandle and in West Texas where there are few African Americans. This is not the first time followers of Lyndon LaRouche have given the leadership of the Democratic Party heartburn. LaRouche's movement has shown a knack for positioning superficially attractive candidates in low interest Democrat primaries. As a result, both the Democratic Party and the media are usually quick to draw attention to any candidate's LaRouche connections. Thus the question here is: did Rogers do as well as she did because the voters were ignorant of her political connections or was it because they knew, but liked her strident anti-Obama message? http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/dems_running_into_more_texas_trouble.html Wouldn't it be great to have a black Democrat in the Senate who wants to repeal Obamacare and impeach Obama?

To: puborectalis who wrote (774186)	3/11/2014 4:45:06 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1570940

The Left Versus Minorities Written By : Thomas Sowell March 11, 2014 If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left’s avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools, cutting their funding, among other things. These schools have given thousands of low income minority children their only shot at a decent education, which often means their only shot at a decent life. Last year 82 percent of the students at a charter school called Success Academy passed city-wide mathematics exams, compared to 30 percent of the students in the city as a whole. Why would anybody who has any concern at all about minority young people — or even common decency — want to destroy what progress has already been made? One big reason, of course, is the teachers’ union, one of Mayor de Blasio’s biggest supporters. But it may be more than that. For many of the true believers on the left, their ideology overrides any concern about the actual fate of flesh-and-blood human beings.[iframe name="aswift_1" width="300" height="250" id="aswift_1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; position: absolute;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Something similar happened on the west coast last year. The American Indian Model Schools in Oakland have been ranked among the top schools in the nation, based on their students’ test scores. This is, again, a special achievement for minority students who need all the help they can get. But, last spring, the California State Board of Education announced plans to shut this school down! Why? The excuse given was that there had been suspicious financial dealings by the former — repeat, former — head of the institution. If this was the real reason, then all they had to do was indict the former head and let a court decide if he was guilty or innocent. There was no reason to make anyone else suffer, much less the students. But the education establishment’s decision was to refuse to let the school open last fall. Fortunately a court stopped this hasty shut-down. These are not just isolated local incidents. The Obama administration has cut spending for charter schools in the District of Columbia and its Justice Department has intervened to try to stop the state of Louisiana from expanding its charter schools. Why such hostility to schools that have succeeded in educating minority students, where so many others have failed? Some of the opposition to charter schools has been sheer crass politics. The teachers’ unions see charter schools as a threat to their members’ jobs, and politicians respond to the money and the votes that teachers’ unions can provide. The net result is that public schools are often run as if their main function is to provide jobs to teachers. Whether the children get a decent education is secondary, at best. In various parts of the country, educators who have succeeded in raising the educational level of minority children to the national average — or above — have faced hostility, harassment or have even been driven out of their schools. Not all charter schools are successful, of course, but the ones that are completely undermine the excuses for failure in the public school system as a whole. That is why teachers’ unions hate them, as a threat not only to their members’ jobs but a threat to the whole range of frauds and fetishes in the educational system. The autonomy of charter schools is also a threat to the powers that be, who want to impose their own vision on the schools, regardless of what the parents want. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to impose his own notion of racial balance in the schools, while many black parents want their children to learn, regardless of whether they are seated next to a white child or a black child. There have been all-black schools whose students met or exceeded national norms in education, whether in Louisiana, California or other places around the country. But Eric Holder, like Bill de Blasio, put his ideology above the education — and the future life — of minority students. Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats, letting parents decide where their children will go to school. That is obviously offensive to those on the left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us. http://www.rightwingnews.com/column-2/the-left-versus-minorities/