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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (777833)	4/1/2014 2:56:17 PM
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Remember When Obama Touted the Now-Recalled Chevy Cobalt? .................................................................................................................................. National Review Online ^ \| April 1, 2014 10:25 AM \| By Jim Geraghty

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (777833)	4/1/2014 3:00:57 PM
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Garry Kasparov--On Ukraine, Obama’s Munich Moment ............................................................................ Time ^ \| April 1, 2014 \| Garry Kasparov

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (777833)	4/1/2014 3:51:34 PM
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The Media Won’t Cover Leland Yee’s Alleged Gun-Running Because They’re Democrat Operatives with By-Lines NYT buries Yee story on A21. One paragraph. by Bryan Preston April 1, 2014 - 11:28 am The only thing I can do with this Glenn Reynolds column is endorse every single word of it. It is absolutely right. Yee told an FBI agent that, in exchange for $2 million in cash, he’d fill a shopping list of weapons, which he took personal responsibility for delivering, according to the indictment. He also allegedly “masterminded” a complex scheme bring illegal weapons into the country, agreeing to “facilitate” a meeting with an illegal arms dealer to arrange for the weapons to be imported via Newark, N.J. In arranging all of this, the indictment said, Yee relied on connections with Filipino terrorist groups who could supply “heavy” weapons, including the Muslim terrorists of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Yee allegedly noted that the Muslim terrorists had no reservations about kidnapping, extortion and murder. This all sounds like news. You’ve got charges of huge bribes, rampant hypocrisy, illegal weapons and even a connection with foreign terrorists — and from a leading politician in an important state. But — and here’s the part Hollywood would miss — *outside of local media like San Francisco* magazine, the coverage was surprisingly muted.The New York Times buried the story as a one-paragraph Associated Press report on page A21, with the bland dog-bites-man headline, “California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.” This even though Yee was suspended, along with two others, from the California state senate in light of the indictment. CNN, home (also until last week) of Piers Morgan, whom Yee had praised for his anti-gun activism, didn’t report the story at all. When prodded by viewers, the network snarked that it doesn’t do state senators. Which is odd, because searching the name of my own state senator, Stacey Campfield, turns up a page of results, involving criticisms of him for saying something “extreme”. Meanwhile, CNN found time to bashWisconsin state senator and supporter of Gov. Scott Walker, Randy Hopper over marital problems. But there’s a difference. They’re Republicans. When Republicans do things that embarrass their party, the national media are happy to take note, even if they’re mere state senators. But when Democrats like Yee get busted for actual felonies, and pretty dramatic ones at that, the press suddenly isn’t interested. Read the rest. If he hadn’t been forced out of the race by being arrested, what would Leland Yee have done with the California secretary of state post? There’s a question that no one in the media will even think of pursuing. CNN’s excuse about not covering mere state senators rings especially hollow to anyone who has watched Texas politics over the past year**. Do a site search of state Sen. Wendy Davis and you’ll find a whole lot of CNN stories about a certain state senator. Here, here, here, here, here, here…just a sample of CNN stories about state Sen. Wendy Davis — Democrat. In fact, the only reason that Wendy Davis is the Democrat governor nominee in Texas is her adoring media coverage. Absent that, she’s a leftist state senator in a red state who would be fighting just to keep her state senate seat. Without the ridiculous media hype, she would not have even run for governor. Everyone knows why MSNBC isn’t interested in the Leland Yee story. He’s a Democrat and they’re open leftwingers. But CNN is still supposed to be a news network. They have no excuse for omitting the Yee story. It’s obvious that the only thing stopping them from covering Yee is that, if the charges against him are true, the anti-gun gun-running Democrat is the biggest hypocrite in the political universe. But the likes of CNN are right behind him. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/04/01/the-media-wont-cover-leland-yees-alleged-gun-running-because-theyre-democrat-operatives-with-by-lines/

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look at what you goobers are doing now, what children you are, thin skin like Obama and attacking the little children Outrage: Students who are opted out of Common Core testing will have to ‘sit and stare’April 1, 2014 BEN VELDERMAN Ben is a communications specialist for EAG and joined in 2010. He is a former member of the Michigan Education Association. Archive» MARION, N.Y. – The controversy surrounding the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests is causing some New York school leaders to act as childish and immature as the students they are supposed to be leading. 13WHAM.com reports at least 16 school districts in the Empire State have implemented a “sit and stare” policy for students who’ve been opted-out of the state assessments by their parents. These students “will have to sit at their desks without any other reading or testing materials, while all the students around them take the 60- to 90-minute exams,” the news site reports. It’s not difficult to read between the lines here. The “sit and stare” policy is a way petty and vindictive school principals and superintendents can get back at parents who are pushing back against the Common Core experiment. The parents are making the school leaders’ lives more difficult, so they’re going to return the favor – by making the children pay. That’s not just our interpretation of what’s happening; the leader of the state’s largest teachers union sees it the same way. “This (‘sit and stare’) policy aimed at students whose parents elect to ‘opt out’ their children from state standardized testing is unconscionable,” said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the New York State United Teachers, in a February press release. “This is cruel to those students not taking the exam and a distraction and disservice to those who are attempting to complete it,” Iannuzzi added. “Punishing or embarrassing children because their parents exercised their right to choose not to have their children participate in tests they consider inappropriate is, frankly, abusive.” [iframe width="336" height="280" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" id="aswift_3" name="aswift_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;"][/iframe] Kathryn Wegman, the superintendent of one of the “sit and stare” districts, defended the policy by noting state law does not contain a provision that allows parents to opt their children out of state-required tests. But one expert on the subject recently told Joy Pullman of the Heartland Institute that there’s not a state in the nation “that has a ‘no opt-out’ clause” in its law. In other words, what state law doesn’t forbid, parents can do. That means opting out of the test is their legal privilege. Wegman offered more excuses for the “sit and stare” policy. She told 13WHAM.com that the district does not have the right, nor the staff and space, to provide an alternative setting for opt-out students during test days, which are set to occur this month. That seems like a flimsy excuse to us. Most districts have a small army of aides and office employees who could monitor the opt-out students. And if they don’t have the manpower, why can’t Wegman and other K-12 leaders get some parent volunteers to help out for a few hours during test days? As for the space limitations – it seems most schools could find some space in the cafeteria, library and gymnasium to accommodate the students who aren’t taking the test. Leaders in “sit and stare” schools aren’t showing much imagination in this process because their goal isn’t to solve the problem. Rather, it’s to punish the children of uncooperative (and free thinking) parents. That’s reprehensible and parents and taxpayers should pressure their elected school board members to take corrective action against any school employee who would use such tactics.