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NEWT GINGRICH SAYS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS OK WITH WHITE BOYS BEING SHOT
“If I had a son he would look like Trayvon”, so said President of Obama. He added: “I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened”.
None of this is anything a rational man could object to.
Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, could object. He told Sean Hannity: “What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful”. He went on to explain his thinking: “Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him?” He finished up with an admonition: “Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”
Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman made it a racial issue - unless you believe that Zimmerman would have shot Martin if he were white. President Obama did not make it a racial issue and for Gingrich to suggest so, is disgraceful, fundamentally wrong, and appalling.
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GERALD RIVERA BLAMES THE VICTIM
Rivera said that the hoodie that Tryvon Martin was wearing had as much to do with his death as the man who fired the gun, a remark so reprehensible that even his son Gabriel said he was ashamed of it.
Rivera didn’t back off. On the Bill O’Reilly show he doubled down, and advised black and Hispanic parents to forbid their boys to wear hoodies.
Suggesting that the solution to bigotry is a dress code is asinine. It is as if suggesting 100 years ago that the proper approach to the lynching problem was to tell black men to stop looking at white women.
What Rivera should suggest is that all of us wear hoodies.
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BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS FOR ROMNEY. SANTORUM WINS LOUISIANA
Romney has been swept in the Deep South, but he is still on track to win the nomination. Santorum scored an easy victory in Louisiana, doubling Romney’s vote and winning every demographic. But as much as Romney cannot win where the evangelical vote counts, Santorum cannot win where it doesn’t. And it doesn’t count in the majority of states.
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TEACHERS WANTED – NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Tennessee is on the verge of passing a bill, under the guise of ‘academic freedom’, that would bar any administrator or principal from: “prohibiting any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner ….. scientific theories covered in the course being taught, such as evolution and global warming.”
It is modeled on a Louisiana law that encourages ‘critical thinking’ on scientific theories: “including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”
This raises two points. One, no scientifically controversial theory is mentioned, only politically controversial theories. Two, it is going to be easy to find teachers when teachers are no longer required to know anything, only believe something.
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WORDS OF WISDOM FROM BARRY GOLDWATER
Considered by some the father of modern conservatism, Barry Goldwater was known for straight shooting. He had this to say about the self-appointed guardians of morality: “I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A,B,C, and D. Just who do they think they are?”
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