California mulls texting fee to help poor people get phones

California mulls texting fee to help poor people get phones:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are considering a plan to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
The proposal is scheduled for a vote next month by the state Public Utilities Commission, the Mercury News reported..."

From 2016-----UN panel says the U.S. owes reparations to African-Americans | PBS NewsHour

UN panel says the U.S. owes reparations to African-Americans | PBS NewsHour
"The United States owes African-Americans reparations for slavery, a recent report by a United Nations-affiliated group said.

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said that compensation is necessary to combat the disadvantages caused by 245 years of legally allowing the sale of people based on the color of their skin. 
The U.N. group warned that the U.S. has not confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.”...

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LA college district abolishes free speech zones as part of lawsuit settlement | Fox News

LA college district abolishes free speech zones as part of lawsuit settlement | Fox News:

A Los Angeles college student who sued his school for allegedly curbing his right to free speech after it prevented him from passing out copies of the U.S. Constitution was vindicated in court this week.
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), which represents nine schools, including Pierce College, agreed on Wednesday to settle a lawsuit filed against them last year by student Kevin Shaw after he was barred from passing out copies of the document because he wasn’t in the school’s designated “free speech zone,” which measured 616 square feet or about the size of three parking spaces.

Detroit Class Size Figures Skewed Upward By Gym And Team Sports – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Detroit Class Size Figures Skewed Upward By Gym And Team Sports – Michigan Capitol Confidential:
School district’s average class size is 26.73; 1,502 classes have fewer than 10 students
...“In Detroit, Martin said class sizes currently range from a low of 15 students up to the 40s and 50s in elementary schools. Surveys are being sent to teachers this month to allow the union to compile data reports, he said,” The Detroit News reported.
But only 340 classes (or 4 percent of all 8,701 classrooms) in Detroit’s conventional school district have 40 or more students in them.
...The average classroom size for Detroit Public Schools was 26.73 students, a figure that doesn’t include any class with fewer than 10 students.
...The largest class in the Detroit system had 107 students, and it was a team sports class.
The second-largest class, with 88 students, was also a team sports class, as was the third-largest class with 81 students.
The vast majority of the classes with 40 or more students were physical education or team sports classes..."

Top 10 Worst Helicopter Parenting Moments of 2018 - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Top 10 Worst Helicopter Parenting Moments of 2018 - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"...3). Child Protective Services showed up at the home of Corey Widen, a mom in Wilmette, Illinois, after someone reported seeing her daughter, age 8, walking the dog alone. 
Investigators interrogated Widen, her daughter, other family members, and the girl's pediatrician before coming to their senses and admitting that mom had not committed neglect..."

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California politician arrested after spanking his daughter

California politician arrested after spanking his daughter
"A Democratic assemblyman in California was arrested Monday on suspicion of child cruelty after allegedly spanking his daughter.
On Wednesday, he claimed that he had only done so as a means of punishment.
In an interview with the Fresno Bee, lawmaker Joaquin Arambula spoke about an incident at home Sunday night that led him to spank his 7-year-old.
The following day, when she went to school, she allegedly told her teacher what had happened and expressed how she was upset about it, sparking an investigation by Child Protective Services (CPS).
“I disciplined her as a consequence to something she did. This is something that’s really rare for us. It’s a tool of last resort but it’s something that we do. And I spanked her bottom,” he explained. “She was pretty upset, and she struggled to be able to share her emotions, as I’m sure you can appreciate a 7-year-old will. But that’s all that happened.”
Joaquin Arambula was arrested Monday on suspicion of child cruelty..."

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How Many Votes Would Hillary Have Lost If We Knew What the Hell She Was Doing? - The Rush Limbaugh Show

How Many Votes Would Hillary Have Lost If We Knew What the Hell She Was Doing? - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

How many votes would Hillary Clinton have lost if it had been known that she paid for the Trump dossier? How many votes would Hillary Clinton have lost if it had been known that the entire Russian collusion story was a hoax that was perpetrated by an FBI and a DOJ which had implanted spies in the Trump campaign?
How many votes do you think Trump might have won by if the things that we know today had been revealed during the campaign? Hillary Clinton paying for (and writing, essentially) the Steele dossier. All of these hijinks. People at the FBI trying to set Trump up, six different spies embedded in the Trump campaign. How many votes do you think Hillary Clinton would have lost if James Comey had not illegally exonerated her on July 5th for having not created a crime, not a prosecutable crime in the email server scandal?

Illinois is officially a ‘sanctuary state’ for immigrants - Hoy Chicago

Illinois is officially a ‘sanctuary state’ for immigrants - Hoy Chicago
"With mariachis performing in the background, Governor Bruce Rauner signed the TRUST Act on Monday, at a Mexican restaurant in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, officially barring cooperation between Illinois police departments and immigration officials.
...The law denies local law enforcement the ability to detain people on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency charged with identifying and investigating immigrants present in the country illegally.
It also prohibits local officials from inquiring about a person’s immigration status, something Ruiz-Velasco called a “very important protection,” that will make immigrants more comfortable reporting crimes to local police..."
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History for December 16

History for December 16 - On-This-Day.com
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer, Jane Austen 1775, George Santayana 1863


Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer, Margaret Mead 1901, Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author


1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.


1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."

Here’s How Much The Mueller Investigation Has Cost Taxpayers | The Daily Caller

Here’s How Much The Mueller Investigation Has Cost Taxpayers | The Daily Caller:

Mueller’s investigation has so far proven no hard evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia but has implicated various campaign aides in unrelated crimes. Trump campaign staff Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos have all been targeted by the broad scope investigation.

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LOL: California Drafting Plan To Tax Text Messages, Reports Say | Daily Wire

LOL: California Drafting Plan To Tax Text Messages, Reports Say | Daily Wire
"In California's never-ending quest to tax everything, there are new reports that the liberal state may soon levy a tax on text messages.
California state regulators are working on a plan to charge cell phone users a fee for text messaging, all in the name of collecting taxpayer money to pay for programs to make phone service cheaper to low-income residents, the San Jose Mercury News reported..."
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Worry Over Kids’ Excessive Smartphone Use is More Justified Than Ever Before | Intellectual Takeout

Worry Over Kids’ Excessive Smartphone Use is More Justified Than Ever Before | Intellectual Takeout:
"Parents who fear their kids are spending too much time in front of screens now have more reason for concern.
New research funded by the National Institutes of Health found brain changes among kids using screens more than seven hours a day and lower cognitive skills among those using screens more than two hours a day..."
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Obama’s Mexican Gunrunning Op Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense - Judicial Watch

Obama’s Mexican Gunrunning Op Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense - Judicial Watch:

Obama’s scandalous Mexican gunrunning operation could help in the defense of a notorious drug lord on trial in New York and the feds are trying to ban its mention in the courtroom. It’s yet another ripple effect of a shameful Obama experiment known as Fast and Furious that let Mexican drug traffickers obtain U.S.-sold weapons. The failed program was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which were used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Arizona.

As campus liberals go nuts, academics target conservatives - The College Fix

As campus liberals go nuts, academics target conservatives - The College Fix
"...The “Network of Concerned Academics” actually has a rather limited and singular “concern:”
It believes that higher education, academic freedom and freedom of speech are all under assault by conservatives. 
Well, that’s an interesting contention: Conservative campus constituencies often number in the single digits on most campuses, and it is rather difficult for conservative organizations to make any inroads into higher education.
Meanwhile, the most aggressive and pernicious political actors on campus are overwhelmingly liberal ones: 
It’s progressives who are shouting speakers down, ruthlessly policing language, enforcing strict political orthodoxy, and generally making everyone terrified to register even a hint of dissent.
This is not mere conjecture..."
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From Suleiman to Suhail Khan – Islam’s Key Tools are Espionage & Intel Gathering | Creeping Sharia

From Suleiman to Suhail Khan – Islam’s Key Tools are Espionage & Intel Gathering | Creeping Sharia
"Suleiman the Magnificent, who is known as the most respected sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was in power from 1520-1566.
...Suleiman the Magnificent mastered manipulation of  spies in the community for profit or status to provide information about his enemy during his 46 years as emperor. 
...During the Soviet’s war in Afghanistan in the 1980’s, the Afghans set up beverage stands immediately outside the Soviet bases. 
In fact, these stands – similar to the stands Afghans set up outside U.S. bases in our recent war there – were used as intelligence collection points.
As convoys came and went from the bases, their size, number of vehicles, estimates of personnel, and routes were radioed ahead to the mujahideen ahead who would often ambush them.
On 9/11/2001, Suhail Khan was working in the White House. 

• Khan is the son of Mahboob Khan, one of the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the United States who created some of the most influential Muslim Brotherhood groups in America. 
• ...Suhail Khan went on to gain a secret clearance and work for two successive Secretaries of Transportation with access to America’s infrastructure, despite his ties to jihadis like his father, Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi, and many others.
• ...ISNA was identified by the U.S. government as a Muslim Brotherhood organization which sent money directly from its accounts to leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas and to Hamas leaders overseas in violation of U.S. law.
• Mohamed Magid was the Vice President then President of ISNA for many years, had a secret clearance, served on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Committee, was a frequent guest at the White House, worked with several Secretaries of State, led “Interfaith Outreach” programs with the Christian and Jewish communities in America, and was – and still is – involved in many other Islamic jihadi organizations...

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