Turning our public schools into political madrassas-----Multnomah County GOP Chairman Sues Portland Public Schools Over Gun Control Protests - Willamette Week

Multnomah County GOP Chairman Sues Portland Public Schools Over Gun Control Protests - Willamette Week
"The lawsuit alleges Portland Public Schools violated parents' and students' First Amendment rights to advance the district officials' political agenda. 
...The suit relies heavily on documents released by PPS following a public records request filed by a plaintiff in late March 2018.
The lawsuit argues those records revealed a coordinated effort by Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, the Board, teachers and local anti-gun groups to advocate for stricter gun control with public protests, walkouts and classroom "indoctrination."
In a statement, Buchal said his lawsuit "demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which PPS officials have misused scarce educational resources for narrowly partisan and political objectives."...
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The future of the democrat party?

Ocasio-Cortez Continues To Melt Down Over High 'Unfavorable' Ratings | Daily Wire

Ocasio-Cortez Continues To Melt Down Over High 'Unfavorable' Ratings | Daily Wire:

Ocasio-Cortez's claim that centrists legitimize bigotry when they side with the Republican Party over the Democratic Party is laughable considering the bigotry scandals the Democratic Party has faced this year.

The Tragedy of Baltimore - The New York Times

The Tragedy of Baltimore - The New York Times
"...In 2016, the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division concurred, releasing a report accusing the city’s Police Department of racial discrimination and excessive force.
The city agreed to a “consent decree” with the federal government, a set of policing reforms that would be enforced by a federal judge. 
...But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place.
In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous.
Other elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge..."
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History for March 20

History for March 20 - On-This-Day.com
Henrik Ibsen 1828, B.F. Skinner 1904, Ozzie Nelson 1906


Fred "Mr." Rogers 1928, Hal Linden 1931 - Actor ("Barney Miller"), Holly Hunter 1958 - Actress


1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.

1989 - A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.

Todd Starnes: Sex offender reads to kids at library's drag queen story time -- How the heck did that happen? | Fox News

Todd Starnes: Sex offender reads to kids at library's drag queen story time -- How the heck did that happen? | Fox News:

Drag Queen Storytime is a national movement that has swept across libraries from coast to coast, introducing children as young as two-years-old to drag queens. Organizers say its mission is to promote love and acceptance. But critics say it has nothing to do with tolerance and everything to do with indoctrination.
In 2018 a drag queen in Lafayette, Louisiana all but admitted to city council members that storytime was about pushing an agenda.
“This is going to be the grooming of the next generation,” Santana Pilar Andrews told council members. “We are trying to groom the next generation.”

The way we were-----Clarence 'Frogman' Henry: Ain't got a home

Boob-tube-----Sean Connery - What's My Line

Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart

Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart
"Political leaders and public figures were falling over themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of crickets.
...Without exception, the mainstream media gave top billing to the shootings, with newspapers carrying the story on their front pages and television news channels leading off their broadcasts with the story.
The bizarre aspect of the coverage was not, in fact, the attention paid to a heinous crime committed in New Zealand, but the absolute silence surrounding the simultaneous massacre of scores of Christians by Muslim militants in Africa.
As Breitbart News alone reported among major news outlets, Fulani jihadists racked up a death toll of over 120 Christians over the past three weeks in central Nigeria, employing machetes and gunfire to slaughter men, women, and children, burning down over 140 houses, destroying property, and spreading terror..."
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HARSH BUT FAIR: …

Instapundit Blog Archive  HARSH BUT FAIR: …
HARSH BUT FAIR:

---Posted by Glenn Reynolds 

Graham: Need A Special Counsel To Investigate "Potential Crimes" By Department of Justice, FBI | Video | RealClearPolitics

Graham: Need A Special Counsel To Investigate "Potential Crimes" By Department of Justice, FBI | Video | RealClearPolitics:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told FNC's Sean Hannity Wednesday night that the Department of Justice must answer two questions: Did they stop the Clinton investigation because they wanted her to win? Did they start the Russian investigation against Trump as an insurance policy in case he won?
Graham also called for a special counsel to investigate "potential crimes" committed by officials in the Department of Justice, especially the FBI.

Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang| National Review

Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein & Hollywood’s Sexual Predators | National Review

Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang

• Where the ‘price of admission’ is stripping on camera, or worse.

"If you’re tempted to turn away from the torrent of squalid news that continues to flow out of Hollywood, resist the temptation.
The more of these revolting exposes you read, the more clearly you will see the underlying monstrosity in Hollywood, as clearly as the hero of John Carpenter’s They Live sees aliens disguised as everyday people when he puts on the sunglasses.
Former CBS chief Les Moonves’s career had already ended in disgrace for repeated instances of alleged sexual harassment and assault uncovered last summer by The New Yorker.
Yet until this week the board that fired him for preying on women was planning to beg His Majesty’s forgiveness for decoupling him from his kingdom, pressing into his hands a $120 million payoff.
Maybe not anymore.
The New York Times, with the cooperation of a washed-up talent manager who, at 75, decided to open his mouth about Moonves, reported on how the triangular sex trade works in Hollywood.
Innocent young sweet pea from some place like South Carolina hits town, desperate for a break.
Managers and agents and suchlike human succubi latch on to her with an eye toward turning her out..."
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KOMO News' special: Seattle is Dying

KOMO News' special: Seattle is Dying
“People didn’t use to use the word embarrassing about Seattle, but they use it a lot now,” the narrator to a new KOMO News special titled “Seattle is Dying” says. 
The focus of the special is homelessness and the ways in which it has changed the city.

There’s a section featuring angry residents of one area of the city who are screaming at their representatives for action. 

They want the tent cities managed and they’re tired of calling the police only to find out the police can arrest people but those same people will be back on the street, sometimes within hours..."

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Lunch video-----Milton Friedman - Redistribution of Wealth

Noon-toon

There are just nine steps from freedom to socialism to societal breakdown | Fox News

There are just nine steps from freedom to socialism to societal breakdown | Fox News:

Talk of socialism is suddenly everywhere. The journey from a free society to socialism, however, does not occur overnight.  It’s a stepped process that begins slowly and ends with a rush.
Here are those steps:

Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong | Fortune

Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong | Fortune:

• The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess: Inside a digital revolution gone wrong. A joint investigation by Fortune and Kaiser Health News.

"The pain radiated from the top of Annette Monachelli’s head, and it got worse when she changed positions. 
It didn’t feel like her usual migraine.
The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief.

Two months later, Monachelli was dead of a brain aneurysm, a condition that, despite the symptoms and the appointments, had never been tested for or diagnosed until she turned up in the emergency room days before her death.

Monachelli’s husband sued Stowe, the federally qualified health center the physician worked for. Owen Foster, a newly hired assistant U.S. attorney with the District of Vermont, was assigned to defend the government.
Though it looked to be a standard medical malpractice case, Foster was on the cusp of discovering something much bigger—what his boss, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, calls the “frontier of health care fraud”—and prosecuting a first-of-its-kind case that landed the largest-ever financial recovery in Vermont’s history.

Foster began with Monachelli’s medical records, which offered a puzzle.
Her doctor had considered the possibility of an aneurysm and, to rule it out, had ordered a head scan through the clinic’s software system, the government alleged in court filings.
The test, in theory, would have caught the bleeding in Monachelli’s brain.
But the order never made it to the lab; it had never been transmitted.

The software in question was an electronic health records system, or EHR, made by eClinicalWorks (eCW), one of the leading sellers of record-keeping software for physicians in America, currently used by 850,000 health professionals in the U.S.
It didn’t take long for Foster to assemble a dossier of troubling reports—Better Business Bureau complaints, issues flagged on an eCW user board, and legal cases filed around the country—suggesting the company’s technology didn’t work quite like it said it did.

Until this point, Foster, like most Americans, knew next to nothing about electronic medical records, but he was quickly amassing clues that eCW’s software had major problems—some of which put patients, like Annette Monachelli, at risk..."
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Bought off?-----Why did Kamala Harris let Herbalife off the hook?

Why did Kamala Harris let Herbalife off the hook?

"...U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris announced her intention to seek the presidential nomination by casting herself as a tireless advocate of men and women who lack power and wealth....“I knew I wanted to protect people,” Harris told the crowd of 20,000. 

“And I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable.”

But as the attorney general of the nation’s largest state — and therefore one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in the nation — Harris declined to investigate Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that has been accused of fraudulent marketing practices. 

• ...prosecutors in the San Diego office of the California attorney general sent Harris a lengthy memorandum that argued for an investigation into Herbalife and requested resources in order to undertake such an investigation. Similar investigations into Herbalife were already taking place elsewhere.
• About three weeks after the San Diego letter was sent, Harris received the first of three donations to her campaign for the U.S. Senate from Heather Podesta, the powerful Washington lobbyist whose ex-husband Tony’s firm, then called the Podesta Group, had worked for Herbalife since 2013. 
• Heather Podesta’s own lobbying firm, Heather Podesta and Partners, would soon be hired by Herbalife, too.

Harris did not pursue an investigation, even as the Federal Trade Commission proceeded with an investigation of its own, which had been opened the previous March and which suggested that sufficient grounds for such scrutiny did exist..."

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#1 This day 1964-----The Beatles - She Loves You [Come To Town, ABC Cinema, Manchester, Unit...

Stress Mess: 3 In 5 Millennials Say Life More Stressful Now Than Ever Before - Study Finds

Stress Mess: 3 In 5 Millennials Say Life More Stressful Now Than Ever Before - Study Finds: "...According to one recent survey, about 3 out of 5 millennials (58%) feel life is more stressful right now than ever before.
In fact, the survey of 2,000 American millennials, commissioned by CBD oil company Endoca, reveals that one-third of millennials believe their lives are more stressful than the average person’s life..."
Here are the top 20 stressful scenarios reported by millennials:

1. Losing wallet/credit card

2. Arguing with partner

3. Commute/traffic delays

4. Losing phone

5. Arriving late to work

6. Slow WiFi

7. Phone battery dying

8. Forgetting passwords

9. Credit card fraud

10. Forgetting phone charger

18. Job security

A journalistic disgrace!

Steele admits he used posts from 'random individuals' on CNN website for Trump dossier

Steele admits he used posts from 'random individuals' on CNN website for Trump dossier:

The dossier that launched several investigations into Donald Trump and his presidential campaign was based, in part, on posts from "random individuals" from a CNN website that allows the public to publish unverified information.
Christopher Steele made the admission in a deposition given in connection with a lawsuit against the dossier.  The judge released portions of the deposition this week.

Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal

Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal
"What shocked even the old timers in my hometown was that Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the man who gave me my Eagle Scout Award, would accept kickbacks in cash right across his desk.
They were troubled less by his criminality -- that was expected in Newark -- than by his lack of subtlety.
Addonizio paid for his indiscretion with a lengthy prison sentence.
So it is with the current college admissions scandal.
People have been scamming their ways into prestige universities for decades, maybe centuries, but in the past they have had the good sense not to put the cash on the table. 
It seems that in this scandal a few of the bribers and their brokers may well pay for their indiscretion with prison sentences as well.
...Malia is the fourth member of the Obama family to attend that august university, none of whom, save perhaps for Grandpa Obama, deserved to be there.
...Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him.
Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard."

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History for March 19

History for March 19 - On-This-Day.com
William Bradford 1590 (Baptism date) - Founder and Governor of Plymouth Colony, Wyatt Earp 1848 - American gambler, sheriff and Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, AZ, he took part in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, William Jennings Bryan 1860 - American politician


Ursula Andress 1936 - Actress, Glenn Close 1947 - Actress, Bruce Willis 1955 - Actor ("Die Hard", "The Sixth Sense")


1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.


1998 - The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people in next two decades.

Trump donates paycheck to Department of Homeland Security, tweets photo | Fox News

Trump donates paycheck to Department of Homeland Security, tweets photo | Fox News:

Homeland Security is comprised of several different agencies or organizations that focus on securing the U.S. and its citizens. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are among those included under the department umbrella.

Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart

Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart:

“The hypocrisy on display is astounding,” the pastors continued. “Christianity is the dominant religion of our country. It is the foundation of our government and morality. And yet, Christians are treated as fair game for mockery and insult.”
Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group in the world, but the mainstream media routinely ignore this fact as if it were unimportant or uninteresting. As a result, many people do not even realize how widespread the persecution is or that 75 percent of the victims of religious persecution around the world are Christians.
Whatever the reason — or reasons — for the media silence surrounding the most recent massacres of Christians in Nigeria as well as numerous other such events, it should give right-thinking people pause.
By all means, the lethal shootings of dozens of Muslims in New Zealand is a massive story and merits extensive coverage. But it only stands to reason that similar coverage should be devoted to the slaughter of Christians.

The way we were-----American Bandstand 1964 -Songs of ’63- Be My Baby, The Ronettes

Boob-tube-----26 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1957