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One of their own tries to speak sense to them. Will it sink in? Can it? (See 1 below.)
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Egyptian journalist points the way. (See 2 below.)
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Israeli Defense Minister, Ya'alon, continues to disagree with America's approach towards Iran but in a somewhat more muted tone. (See 3 below.)
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This could be an ad from ComCast:
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"Four Little Words" was a song and now could be a torpedo. (See 4 below)
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Teachers can make a great difference if they are allowed the freedom to teach in the way they know best and have the ability and desire. (See 5 below.)
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One of my late father's most respected partners has written a book about his life and his relationship with my father.
The book is entitled: "Newspaper Boy" Chervis Isom is the author and he is in the process of placing the book on Amazon, but until then anyone interested in buying the book may review the website: www.thenewspaperboy.net He e mailed me that: " if my name- Chervis Isom- is added to the search line, the website pops right up. Without my name, there is a lot of confusion with a movie by a similar name. The website contains a summary of the book, a list of endorsements by writers and an author bio. "
Chervis gave me the book in draft form before it was edited and it is a delightful story of a wonderful man who has become a revered lawyer. The kind of lawyer my father made sure comprised his entire firm which is now known as Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwaell and Berkowitz, having merged with former Sen. Howard Baker's firm.
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1) Black America: Stop The Insanity!
By Lloyd Marcus
Remember that spiky-haired blonde fitness guru all over TV years ago? Her famous line was "Stop the insanity!" As a commonsense-thinking black conservative, I offer the same clarion call to fellow black Americans: "Stop the insanity!"
I do not know what it is going to take for black America to see the light -- to understand the betrayal of a majority of the modern civil rights coalition. If these so-called advocates truly gave a hoot about blacks, they would celebrate extraordinary black conservative achievers such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain. These blacks should be held high for black youths to see what can be achieved in the greatest land of opportunity on the planet via education, hard work, and good choices.
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Now I am going to tell you.'
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.
Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families
so you could have the freedom you have.
Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. don't ever forget it.'
By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the state of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.
Teachers can make a great difference if they are allowed the freedom to teach in the way they know best and have the ability and desire. (See 5 below.)
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One of my late father's most respected partners has written a book about his life and his relationship with my father.
The book is entitled: "Newspaper Boy" Chervis Isom is the author and he is in the process of placing the book on Amazon, but until then anyone interested in buying the book may review the website: www.thenewspaperboy.net He e mailed me that: " if my name- Chervis Isom- is added to the search line, the website pops right up. Without my name, there is a lot of confusion with a movie by a similar name. The website contains a summary of the book, a list of endorsements by writers and an author bio. "
Chervis gave me the book in draft form before it was edited and it is a delightful story of a wonderful man who has become a revered lawyer. The kind of lawyer my father made sure comprised his entire firm which is now known as Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwaell and Berkowitz, having merged with former Sen. Howard Baker's firm.
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Dick
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1) Black America: Stop The Insanity!
By Lloyd Marcus
Remember that spiky-haired blonde fitness guru all over TV years ago? Her famous line was "Stop the insanity!" As a commonsense-thinking black conservative, I offer the same clarion call to fellow black Americans: "Stop the insanity!"
Why do you continue sleeping with the enemy, voting for liberal Democrats whose policies imply that you are inferior, stupid, and culturally immoral? When the NAACP and Democrats claim that requiring a photo ID disenfranchises blacks, such implies we are stupid. For the life of me, I do not understand why millions of blacks are not highly insulted by this absurd claim. Do blacks fly? Do blacks drive cars? Do blacks cash checks?
When Democrats and liberals accept over 70% out-of-wedlock births and fatherless households as a cultural norm in the black community, I am offended. And yet, I am called a sellout.
Liberal Democrats' policies and programs have destroyed the black family and continue to devastate the black community. Meanwhile, blacks vote monolithically for Democrats and politically beat up anyone, black or white, who offers commonsense solutions. For crying out loud, stop the insanity!
God forbid that a black person dare to think outside the liberals' we-be-simpleminded-blacks-in-need-of gov'ment-intervention-to-survive box. Blacks becoming successful the old-fashioned way -- by earning it -- does not cut it with Democrats and liberals. Liberal media and Democrats grab such uppity blacks by their afros and politically drag their black derrières kicking and screaming back to the liberal Democrat plantation.
There, such blacks are strung up in the public square with their naked backs exposed, made an example for any other conservative-leaning blacks contemplating their escape. Beaten, battered, and broken black conservatives are flogged within an inch of their political lives with countless articles and operative pundits calling them a stupid n*****, Uncle Tom, and traitor to their race.
A prime example of a black overlord of the Democrat liberal plantation attempting to rein in a black escapee is North Carolina NAACP Chapter President Rev. William Barber. Black race-baiters typically use Black History Month and Martin Luther King Day to trash America for purposes of extortion.
In celebration of MLK Day, Rev. Barber called black conservative and Tea Party American Senator Tim Scott a puppet, saying, "A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy."
Senator Scott is about applying commonsense solutions to issues plaguing our country. Thus, once again, any black who does not view him- or herself as a victim of an eternally racist white America, entitled and in need of lowered standards and expectations, is a dummy, a tool of white Republicans -- a stupid self-loathing n*****. This is not an exaggeration.
I have been called these names and worse by Democrats and liberals for many years every time I suggest that blacks stop having babies out of wedlock, stop dropping out of schools, stopping killing each other, stop blaming whitey, and assume personal responsibility for their lives. To me, this is true black empowerment.
And yet, these blacks are despised by the white liberals and black civil rights leaders. Why? In a nutshell, these blacks nuke the Democrats' and liberals' entitlement and big-government narratives.
So while black America believes that white conservative Republicans are burning the midnight oil plotting ways to keep blacks down, Democrats and liberals are the ones keeping blacks enslaved.
With the liberal mainstream media in the Democrats' back pocket as complicit liberal plantation gatekeepers, I will continue praying for divine intervention while pounding on the plantation masters' door. Let my people go! My fellow black Americans, it truly is time to stop the insanity.
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| MEMRI: Egyptian Journalist: We Should Attack Hamas Terrorists in Gaza until They Kiss Egyptian Shoes In a January 9, 2014 interview on Faraeen TV, Egyptian journalist Muhammad Hassan Al-Alfi said: "We should discipline [Hamas] just as Israel did... We must strike them so they learn to respect the Egyptian shoe," adding: "Only then will they kiss that shoe and learn what Egypt is worth." Following is an excerpt: Muhammad Hassan Al-Alfi: I pray that Allah deems every word that I ever wrote in defense of the Palestinian cause to be a sin, for which He will reckon with on Judgment Day, because they are not worthy of what he have done for them. Our sons were killed and our economy was ruined in wars fought for their sake. We fought for their sake, and now, they are fighting against us, kidnapping our sons [in Sinai] and killing them. The terrorist camps in Gaza must be attacked. The Al-Qassam Brigades, which train them and send them over here, must be attacked. We should discipline them just as Israel did. We should not just retaliate. When you are weak, you get hit. We must strike them so they learn to respect the Egyptian shoe. TV Host: Exactly. Muhammad Hassan Al-Alfi: Only then will they kiss that shoe and learn what Egypt is worth. [...] The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media and original analysis and research on developments in the region. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available on request. MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be used with proper attribution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3)Israel MoD Boss Blasts US Mideast Missteps Warns of Iranian Hegemony as Washington Pivots From Region By BARBARA OPALL-ROME TEL AVIV — Two weeks after apologizing for a scathing attack on US Secretary of State John Kerry and the US-led Mideast peace drive, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon delivered a relatively temperate, yet no less critical assessment of US policy and its impact on the region. In a Jan. 28 address kicking off an annual security conference here, Ya’alon assailed Washington for disengaging from conflict zones, relinquishing its role as global policemen and succumbing to an interim deal with Iran which he assailed as an “historic fumble.” Unlike his tirade against Kerry, whom Ya’alon blasted as “inexplicably obsessed” with pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal unworthy of “the paper it was printed on,” the MoD boss offered a constructive assessment of a strategically shifting region. Washington, said Ya’alon, will remain the world’s sole superpower, despite “the current situation, when the United States decides to disengage from conflict zones and is unenthusiastic about serving as the world’s policeman.” While the US is challenged in the region by Russia and China, “there is no one that wants to step into the shoes of the United States.” Russia is leading in the Syrian theater by default, Ya’alon told a gathering of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), due to Washington’s decision to “lower its profile.” According to Ya’alon, a former head of military intelligence and Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, only two nations divide the world into territorial sectors of operational responsibility: the United States and Iran. And while Washington has disengaged forces from Iraq and is drawing down from Afghanistan, Iran is rushing into those countries and elsewhere around the globe to fill the vacuum with terror and export a “messianic, apocalyptic” version of Islamic revolution, he said. “The United States has its commands and Iran has its Corps. … It’s a regime that is now well received in the world despite the fact that it continues to spread its balance of terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian theater in Gaza, South America, Asia and Africa,” Ya’alon said. On the US-led drive to reach a two-state peace deal, Ya’alon dismissed as “legend” claims that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a main source of Sunni-Shi’a wars and other troubles roiling the region. “There is an argument between us and our friends about the [larger regional significance] of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But you can’t hang what’s happening in the Middle East on this conflict,” he insisted. He also rejected arguments articulated by the US government, most world powers and many experts in Israel that failure to conclude a Palestinian peace deal deters Saudi Arabia and other moderate Sunni states from forging a united front against Iran. “People in the Arab countries don’t raise the Palestinian issue; it’s only lip service for external consumption. What does the Palestinian issue have to do with the Iranian threat?” In a televised interview presented Jan. 28 at the same INSS event, Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas utterly dismissed Ya’alon’s assertions, insisting that 57 Arab and Islamic states — “from Mauritania to Indonesia” — would grant “full recognition” of Israel once a two-state deal was concluded. “The opportunity for peace might not return,” Abbas told attorney, INSS fellow and former Israeli peace negotiator Gilead Sher. But Ya’alon, a prominent, yet relatively pragmatic hawk in the right-of-center coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said peace with the Palestinians “apparently won’t be realized in my generation.” It is way too premature, he insisted, to consider US-crafted security arrangements when Palestinians are unwilling to accept Israel’s right to exist in the region as a sovereign homeland for the Jewish people. “You can’t talk about security coming from unmanned aerial vehicles and sensors. As long as the Israeli flag does not appear on their map, and Palestine extends from Rosh Hanikra [bordering Lebanon in the north] to Eilat [at the Red Sea]…. As long as they are unwilling to declare an end of conflict and end of claims until the last Palestinian refugee is satisfied, what is there to discuss? This is the essence of the conflict.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Will: Four words could sink ACA
By George Will
Someone you probably are not familiar with has filed a suit you probably have not heard about concerning a four-word phrase you should know about.
The suit could blow to smithereens something everyone has heard altogether too much about, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter, ACA).
Scott Pruitt and some kindred spirits might accelerate the ACA’s collapse by blocking another of the Obama administration’s lawless uses of the Internal Revenue Service.
Pruitt was elected Oklahoma’s attorney general by promising to defend states’ prerogatives against federal encroachments and today he and some properly litigious people elsewhere are defending a state prerogative that the ACA explicitly created.
If they succeed, the ACA’s disintegration will accelerate.
Because under the ACA, insurance companies cannot refuse coverage because of an individual’s pre-existing condition. Because many people might therefore wait to purchase insurance after they become sick, the ACA requires a mandate to compel people to buy insurance. And because many people cannot afford the insurance that satisfies the ACA’s criteria, the ACA mandate makes it necessary to provide subsidies for those people.
The four words that threaten disaster for the ACA say the subsidies shall be available to persons who purchase health insurance in an exchange “established by the state.”
But 34 states have chosen not to establish exchanges.
So the IRS, which is charged with enforcing the ACA, has ridden to the rescue of Barack Obama’s pride and joy. Taking time off from writing regulations to restrict the political speech of Obama’s critics, the IRS has said, with its breezy indifference to legality, that subsidies shall also be dispensed to those who purchase insurance through federal exchanges the government has established in those 34 states. Pruitt is challenging the IRS in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The IRS says its “interpretation” of the law is “consistent with,” and justified by, the “structure of” the ACA. The IRS means that without its rule, the ACA would be unworkable and that Congress could not have meant to allow this. The ACA’s legislative history, however, demonstrates that Congress clearly wanted subsidies available only through state exchanges.
Some have suggested that the language limiting subsidies to state-run exchanges is a drafting error. Well.
Some of the ACA’s myriad defects do reflect its slapdash enactment. But the four potentially lethal words were carefully considered and express Congress’ intent.
Congress made subsidies available only through state exchanges as a means of coercing states into setting up exchanges.
In Senate Finance Committee deliberations on the ACA, Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., one of the bill’s primary authors, suggested the possibility of making state-run exchanges the sole source of subsidies because only by doing so could the federal government induce state cooperation with the ACA.
Then the law’s insurance requirements could be imposed on states without running afoul of constitutional law precedents that prevent the federal government from commandeering state governments.
If courts disallow the IRS’ “interpretation” of the law, the ACA will not function as intended in 34 states with 65 percent of the nation’s population. If courts allow the IRS’ demarche, they will validate this:
By dispensing subsidies through federal exchanges, the IRS will spend tax revenues without congressional authorization. And by enforcing the employer mandate in states that have only federal exchanges, it will collect taxes — remember, Chief Justice John Roberts saved the ACA by declaring that the penalty enforcing the mandate is really just a tax on the act of not purchasing insurance without congressional authorization.
If the IRS can do neither, it cannot impose penalties on employers who fail to offer ACA-approved insurance to employees.
If the IRS can do both, Congress can disband because it has become peripheral to American governance.
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5) Great teacher!!! |
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a Military History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.
When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'
'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.'
She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.
Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the
right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom.
When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'
'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.'
She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.
Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the
right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom.
Now I am going to tell you.'
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.
Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families
so you could have the freedom you have.
Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. don't ever forget it.'
By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the state of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.
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