Karen Lewis' campaign treasurer says making government smaller is racist [video]

Karen Lewis' campaign treasurer says making government smaller is racist [video] - Illinois Review
CHICAGO - The conservative principle of making government smaller is a racist concept that targets black families, according to Karen Lewis' trusted advisor and campaign committee treasurer Brandon Johnson.

"When you talk about making government smaller, that is code ... for eliminating black people from jobs," Johnson, from the Chicago Teacher Union's Black Caucus, said at a meeting of teachers in April 2013.

....."This move to eliminate this entire class of people is not just an issue for the people who are impacted, but also for the world around us." 

Eric Holder to Ferguson: I was harassed by cops | WashingtonExaminer.com

Eric Holder to Ferguson: I was harassed by cops | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Holder’s role in Ferguson is somewhat limited in that his office can’t pursue murder charges against Wilson — that’s a local matter.
“Our investigation is different,” Holder said in a separate meeting with local officials. “We’re looking for possible violations of federal civil rights statutes.”"

‘A Subtle Message to ISIS’ From a Ticked Off Military Veteran Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every Terrorist | TheBlaze.com

‘A Subtle Message to ISIS’ From a Ticked Off Military Veteran Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every Terrorist | TheBlaze.com:
"The powerful response from Nick Powers, identified as a Marine Corps veteran by one website, comes after terrorists beheaded American photojournalist James Foley and posted the propaganda video online for the world to see.
The main, undeniable point of his message to ISIS terrorists is this: You really don’t want to pick a fight with America’s veterans."

Emanuel stands pat on CPS hiring preference, despite (teacher union boss!!!) Lewis blast

Emanuel stands pat on CPS hiring preference, despite Lewis blast | Early & Often:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday stood firm in his decision to give graduates of Chicago Public Schools a leg up on city jobs — including Chicago firefighters — despite surprise opposition from Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis.

“We want everybody from all parts of the city to be able to participate and work for the city. I want to make sure the doors of opportunity are open to all — that everybody feels they have a fair shot. That did not exist before,” the mayor said.

.....In a full-page op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times, Lewis denounced the mayor’s plan as a “meaningless stunt” that will have “zero impact” on raising the quality of public safety and do “nothing whatsoever” to raise CPS graduation rates.

“It does, however, foster religious and racial divisiveness and invites significant legal challenges that could cost taxpayers millions,” wrote Lewis, who is considering a race for mayor against Emanuel.

Hasn’t law enforcement become more dangerous, justifying the United States of SWAT? No, it’s actually safer than ever

Hasn’t law enforcement become more dangerous, justifying the United States of SWAT? No, it’s actually safer than ever | AEIdeas:

Dispatches from the CNN Style Guide

Ed Driscoll » Dispatches from the CNN Style Guide:
"Having been corrected, what Lemon should have said was, “you’re right, I meant ‘semi-automatic.’” 
But he didn’t. 
Instead, he said:
“For me, that’s an automatic weapon.”
What?

It does not especially matter that Don Lemon doesn’t know the difference between ”automatic” and “semi-automatic” rifles.
Lots of people don’t.
But it really does matter that, having been told he was wrong on national television, Lemon contended that his prior ignorance — and not objective physical and legal reality — should prevail.
Legally and functionally, the item that the panel is discussing was a semi-automatic weapon.
There is no “dispute” over this.
This is not an ongoing “debate.” It’s not a matter of “opinion.”
It’s not an issue on which we can “agree to disagree.”
It’s not an “altercation” that can give way to “compromise.”
It’s a fact.
An undisputed fact.
And yet, for some reason, Lemon seemed to believe that he could talk his way out of his mistake.
“Let’s call this LemonSplaining,” John Nolte quips at Big Journalism.
And CNN wonders why it long ago lost the trust of a nation."

Can't fix what folks don't want fixed-----A strong spirit: 'Save Our City' hosts health screenings, prayer sessions in Muskegon Heights

A strong spirit: 'Save Our City' hosts health screenings, prayer sessions in Muskegon Heights | MLive.com: "First Ladii joined forces with other religious leaders as part of an 11-day campaign called "Save Our City."
"A lot of people are ill and don't know that they are ill because they can't afford insurance," she said. "This way, they can find out if they need to go to a doctor right away."
The event attracted about a dozen people, who had the option of being screened for depression, HIV, AIDS, as well as get vision, diabetes, pulmonary function and blood pressure tests.
According to the First Ladii, God gave her the vision to hold the campaign, as well as the intent to return to Muskegon. The reaction has been anything but a surprise for the Atlanta resident.
"People have been happy about what we are doing," the First Ladii said. "When we first came, a guy came up and he wanted prayer. He said after we prayed for him, he felt the lift come off of him. That's what we are doing this for. We want to pray over people."
Some may not know how to get the help they need. We offer them God, we offer them Jesus Christ. -- Senior Pastor Johnnie L. Brown Jr.
Others within the community have begun to see the impact this 11-day campaign has had on willing participants."

What the Former Deputy Director of the CIA Told a CBS Anchor Had Her Calling It ‘Really Scary to Hear’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

What the Former Deputy Director of the CIA Told a CBS Anchor Had Her Calling It ‘Really Scary to Hear’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"On Thursday’s “CBS This Morning,” former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell made a claim about the Islamic State terror group ravaging Iraq that had anchor Norah O’Donnell calling it “really scary to hear.”

Parents: Reading survey given to students 'questionable'

Parents: Reading survey given to students 'questionable':
"TAMPA --
Parents at Ben Hill Middle School were taken back when they saw a questionable reading survey come home with their sixth graders.
 The school's reading coach sent home a questionnaire asking the students what types of books they like to read.
Sean Phillips was shocked when he and his son noticed question number 19.
It read, "List the subjects you would like to read about. (teen pregnancy, rape, gangs, etc.)
Phillips' son Morgan told his dad he wasn't sure what those words meant.
"His second day of middle school and they introduce him to the word 'rape,'" said Phillips.
"I just stared at it for five minutes before
I could react.
I was in shock.
It's something you don't expect an 11-year-old to bring home."

Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War

Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War | Truth Revolt:

History for August 22

History for August 22 - On-This-Day.com:

In 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad began. During the five-monthlong battle, the city of 500,000 dwindled to a population of 1,515.

Anniversary of the beginning of the Vietnam conflict: a team of Free French parachuted into southern Indochina in response to a successful coup by a communist guerilla named Ho Chi Minh in the French colony (1945).

Birth anniversary of  author and friend of libraries Ray Bradbury (1920-2012).

Birth anniversaries of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), and Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003).

Happy Birthday! Valerie Harper, Bill Parcells, Cindy Williams

1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England's King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II. 


1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there. 


1865 - A patent for liquid soap was issued to William Sheppard. 


1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. 


1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea. 


1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II. 


1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition. 


1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. 


1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New Stanton, PA. 


1986 - Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients. 

Mexico Is Complaining, But Rick Perry Just Showed Them Who's Boss On The Border

Mexico Is Complaining, But Rick Perry Just Showed Them Who's Boss On The Border:
"Texas deployed about 1,000 guardsmen Thursday to aid in stopping the flow of illegals across the most porous sections of the border.
Reiterating his defense of the bold move, Perry said he went ahead with the deployment after repeatedly calling on the federal government to secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws."

Border Officials Say They Don’t Know Who’s Actually Crossing Into the U.S.: ‘We’re Struggling to Determine Who Is Really Who’ | TheBlaze.com

Border Officials Say They Don’t Know Who’s Actually Crossing Into the U.S.: ‘We’re Struggling to Determine Who Is Really Who’ | TheBlaze.com:
"The same U.S. border sector that’s seen tens of thousands of Latin American immigrants illegally stream into the United States has also been the site of crossings by people from nations with links to terrorism, raising serious national security concerns among Border Patrol agents who say they are ill-equipped to handle them."

Fire all union employees who interact with children!-----High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News: "SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) -
A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun.
Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page.
Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.
Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.
"I could understand if they made him re-write it because he did have "gun" in it.
But a pet dinosaur?" said Alex's mother Karen Gray."I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore.
Second of all, he's not even old enough to buy a gun."
Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials after seeing the message containing the words "gun" and "take care of business," and police were then notified on Tuesday.
Summerville police officials say Stone's bookbag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found.
According to Gray, Stone was suspended for the rest of the week. Gray says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested."

We are DOOMED!-----Americans Think Kids Need Constant Supervision

Lenore Skenazy: Americans Think Kids Need Constant Supervision - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A whopping 83 percent of Americans think that 9-year-olds should not be allowed to play at the park unsupervised. 
In fact, they would like to see a law prohibiting it.
And 62 percent feel the same way about 12-year-olds: Kids can be old enough for the seventh grade but not for unsupervised play time, according to most Americans.
Those are the results of a Reason/Rupe poll confirming that we have not only lost all confidence in our kids and our communities—we have lost all touch with reality, writes Lenore Skenazy.
"I doubt there has ever been a human culture, anywhere, anytime, that underestimates children's abilities more than we North Americans do today," says Boston College psychology professor emeritus Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, a book that advocates for more unsupervised play, not less."

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The Interesting American History Lesson With a ‘Common Core Twist’ | TheBlaze.com

The Interesting American History Lesson With a ‘Common Core Twist’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Speaking to about 500 juniors at Enochs High School in California, social studies teacher Janeen Zambo read from a breakup note to the students about how the writer needed space and that it was best to part ways."

The Meltdown

« The Meltdown Commentary Magazine:
"The president, according to the infatuated view of his political aides and media flatterers, was supposed to be playing o jogo bonito, the beautiful game—ending wars, pressing resets, pursuing pivots, and restoring America’s good name abroad.
Instead, he crumbled.
As I write, the foreign policy of the United States is in a state of unprecedented disarray. In some cases, failed policy has given way to an absence of policy.
So it is in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and, at least until recently, Ukraine.
In other cases the president has doubled down on failed policy—extending nuclear negotiations with Iran; announcing the full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Sometimes the administration has been the victim of events, such as Edward Snowden’s espionage, it made worse through bureaucratic fumbling and feckless administrative fixes.
At other times the wounds have been self-inflicted: the espionage scandal in Germany (when it was learned that the United States had continued to spy on our ally despite prior revelations of the NSA’s eavesdropping on Chancellor Angela Merkel); the repeated declaration that “core al-Qaeda” was “on a path to defeat”; the prisoner swap with the Taliban that obtained Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release.

Often the damage has been vivid, as in the collapse of the Israel–Palestinian talks in April followed by the war in Gaza.
More frequently it can be heard in the whispered remarks of our allies.
“The Polish-American alliance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security,” Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister and once one of its most reliably pro-American politicians, was overheard saying in June.
“It’s bullshit.”"

14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland

14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland « Watchdog.org:
"FAIRFAX, Va. — An election-integrity group is challenging the status of nearly 15,000 voters reportedly registered in both Fairfax County and Maryland.
Virginia Voters Alliance on Wednesday urged Fairfax’s electoral board to do what state officials have so far not done across the commonwealth: Purge those duplicate voters.
VVA President Reagan George complained the state Department of Elections is classifying all duplicate registrations as “inactive voters.”
That means 43,896 voters alleged to be registered in both Virginia and Maryland would stay in Virginia’s statewide database — and remain eligible to vote — until 2019."

Democrats. Teamsters Threaten 'Top Chef' Star: “We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!”

Teamsters Threaten 'Top Chef' Star: “We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!” | RedState:
Some things never change. 
After nearly 15 years of trying to clean up a reputation marred with corruption, shake-downs of the film industry, as well as violence, Boston’s famous Teamsters Local 25′s public face turned very ugly earlier this summer when the popular Bravo network show Top Chef rolled into Beantown using non-union production assistants and drivers.
Although it was only briefly reported on in June, the incident received wider coverage yesterday when Deadline.com covered it in some more detail.
In summary, when Bravo’s Top Chef began taping at Boston’s Steel & Rye in June, Teamster members from Local 25 greeted the crew and stars with picket signs, verbal abuse, alleged vandalism and even death threats.

When cookbook author, actress, model and ‘Top Chef‘ host Padma Lakshmi appeared at Boston’s Steak & Rye, according to Deadline.com, Teamster picketers got even uglier by threatening the famous host.

The Teamsters picketers were already mad. By the time Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s car pulled up to the Steel & Rye restaurant in the picturesque New England town of Milton just outside Boston, one of them ran up to her car and screamed, “We’re gonna bash that pretty face in, you f*cking whore!”

The Teamsters’ threats didn’t just stop with threats at the show’s host, according to Deadline Hollywood’s report.

Jenn Levy, Bravo’s SVP Production, wasn’t spared. Arriving at the restaurant in her black SUV, she soon found herself running a gauntlet of vitriol. “She got of her car in front of the location and quickly ran through the picket line,” a source said. “They were yelling, ‘You bitch! You slut! We’re gonna get you!’ It went on like that all day.”

One report, dated back in June, states that, in addition to verbal assaults, there were “just under a dozen cars” that had their tires slashed.

There was a large film crew at Steel & Rye today filming a television program. During the course of the taping union picketers arrived and hassled members of the crew, pedestrians and a police officer who had been hired as safety detail. One passer by said the picketers were “aggressive”. Deputy Chief King stated that just under a dozen cars had their tires slashed at some point.

A ‘Top Chef’ crew member told Deadline that, in addition to the threats, there were racial, sexual and other verbal assaults on the crew.

“As any employee of our show walked on or off set, the picketers verbally attacked us, calling the gays ‘fags,’ the blacks ‘niggers’ and most of the women ‘sluts and whores,’ ” the crewmember said. “It got worse as the day went on. They chased us down the sidewalk when we had to run from one end of the location to the next in the middle of our busy work day. They threatened to kill us, beat us, and said that they would find us and force us out of the city. Needless to say, we were terrified. I’m a strong person, but being called names and yelled at and harassed for 12 hours while working, I started to crumble. I was scared and worried for my safety.

Comedian Bill Maher Ignites Twitter Firestorm With Just 21 Words on Islam: ‘You Sound Like a Right Wing F***tard’ | TheBlaze.com

Comedian Bill Maher Ignites Twitter Firestorm With Just 21 Words on Islam: ‘You Sound Like a Right Wing F***tard’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Comedian Bill Maher faced some backlash on Tuesday after he expressed his disgust with radical Islamic groups following reports that Islamic State militants beheaded an American journalist on video."

Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Beaten Nearly Unconscious, Suffered Eye Socket Fracture Before Shooting Michael Brown: Report | Video | TheBlaze.com

Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Beaten Nearly Unconscious, Suffered Eye Socket Fracture Before Shooting Michael Brown: Report | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was beaten nearly unconscious and suffered an orbital fracture before he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, according to a new bombshell report."

Lawsuit asks San Francisco to share pain on green regulations

Lawsuit asks San Francisco to share pain on green regulations - Washington Times:
"The Endangered Species Act has wreaked havoc for decades on rural communities, but a newly filed lawsuit could force San Francisco urbanites like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to share their pain.
A federal complaint filed this week contends that the Hetch Hetchy Project, which supplies water to San Francisco and the Bay Area, has unfairly enjoyed an exemption from the “severe cutbacks” required in rural California in order to save endangered fish species.
Craig Manson, who heads the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy and Reliability (CESAR) in Fresno, said the lawsuit is aimed at addressing the “double standard” that forces farmers to give up water in the name of species conservation — without requiring Bay Area residents to do the same.
Mr. Manson wants the National Park Service to press the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end the special exemption from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), but “the Park Service just won’t do it.”
Why not? 
Jeffrey Olson, National Park Service spokesman, said the agency cannot comment on ongoing litigation, but critics point out that San Joaquin Valley farmers have nowhere near the political clout of San Francisco’s political leadership, which includes Mrs. Pelosi and a good chunk of the state’s dominant liberal power structure."

Wimps!-------College newspaper changes its name because editors thought “The Bullet” perpetuated violence

College newspaper changes its name because editors thought “The Bullet” perpetuated violence | Rare: "Students at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. will have something new to get used to when they return to school this fall.
The school newspaper has dropped a name that was almost a century old. “The Bullet” will be re-branded the “The Blue and Grey Press.”
“The editorial board felt that the paper’s name, which alludes to ammunition for an artillery weapon, propagated violence and did not honor our school’s history in a sensitive manner,” a university press release said."