Elderly Politician Attacked For Being Too Old, By Fellow Republicans

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Elderly Politician Attacked For Being Too Old, By Fellow Republicans

Retired Cop Shoots Fellow Moviegoer to Death Over Texting and a Thrown Bag of Popcorn

Chad Oulson was texting his toddler when the argument that ended his life started. Will his shooter claim he was "standing his ground?"

A 71-year-old retired police officer man in has been charged with second-degree murder after shooting another man to death over the latter"s texting in a movie theater. 

Curtis Reeves, the armed retired officer, became enraged when Chad Oulson would not stop texting, despite a request to do so. The argument escalated into a  shouting match and Oulson purportedly threw his bag of popcorn at Reeves, who promptly removed his .380 caliber gun from his pants pocket and fired one fatal shot into the man"s chest. Oulson"s wife, who attempted to shield her husband"s chest from the bullet with her hand, was also injured. 

The movie playing throughout the real-life carnage was “Lone Survivor,” about Navy SEALS in Afghanistan. 

Oulson was immediately taken to a Tampa-area hospital, where he died shortly after arrival.

Charles Cummings, a retired combat Marine in Vietnam, who witnessed the shooting with his son expressed his horrified bewilderment to the Associated Press. 

“I can"t believe people would bring a pistol, a gun, to a movie theater,” he said. “I can"t believe they would argue and fight and shoot one another over popcorn. Over a cellphone.” 

Also according to AP, Reeves told detectives after he was arrested that Oulson struck him in the face with an unknown object, and that he “was in fear of being attacked.” 

Defense attorneys are now speculating whether Reeves will be able to invoke Florida"s “Stand your ground” law in his defense, the infamous statute used to defend, and ultimately acquit George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. 

“Stand your ground does not limit it to just fear of death, stand your ground permits you to use deadly force if you think you"re abou tto suffer bodily harm,” said well known defense attorney Stephen Romine to KSDK. 

The next step in the case, say criminal law experts, will likely be the defense filing a stand your ground motion, at which point the judge will decide if the defense can be used. 

 

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College Board Spotlight: Amy Wilkins, Senior Fellow for Social Justice

College Board Spotlight: Amy Wilkins, Senior Fellow for Social Justice
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Today’s Spotlight on The College Board is Amy Wilkins. Who would have thought that the College Board, an institution generally associated with academic merit would be so socially concerned as to have a Senior Fellow on Social Justice.

Amy Wilkins

Amy is the College Board’s leading advocate for social justice. In this role, she works to evaluate, support and expand the College Board’s social agenda. She also works to elevate and increase awareness of the College Board’s commitment to serving all students, especially students of color and students from low-income and minority communities

Most recently, Amy served as the vice president for government affairs and communications at the Education Trust. She played an integral part in that organization becoming the force it is today.

Amy previously has worked with the Children’s Defense Fund, the Democratic National Committee, the Peace Corps and the White House Office of Media Affairs.

More information on other members of the College Board can be viewed here. Be sure to press the “read more” buttons to view more of the bio.

AB Graves

AB Graves has spent the last three years becoming an expert the programs schools systems are promoting. Mrs. Graves has been presenting and working with Maryland grassroots activists on Education issues. She’s briefed both elected officials and candidates for office on Common Core, IB, AP and trends in the classroom. She points out key strategies for fighting politicization of the classroom.

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Takes aim at fellow Republicans...

Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster to draw attention to funding of Obamacare went past the 13-hour mark Wednesday morning, topping the length of the filibuster led earlier this year by Sen. Rand Paul.

“As difficult as it is to cross one’s party leaders, I say — with perhaps a little familiarity to the consequences — that it’s survivable, and ultimately it’s liberating,” Mr. Cruz said as he neared the 14th hour of his talk-a-thon, which he began at 2:41 p.m.

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He read excerpts from both Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and from Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” on the floor, carefully sipped water, and grabbed a quick snack at one point while fellow filibuster leader Sen. Mike Lee asked a 45-minute-long question, giving the Texas Republican a chance to stretch his legs, check messages on his iPhone and confer with his staff.

Mr. Cruz had vowed to keep talking until he couldn’t stand any longer.

Democrats disputed calling it a filibuster, arguing that because a vote is locked in for later Wednesday, there is a final limit on how long Mr. Cruz could speak, and therefore he wasn’t able to really block any action.

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By speaking, Mr. Cruz was stalling the time and making colleagues have to wait by speaking all Tuesday afternoon.

In his remarks, he repeatedly took aim at fellow Republicans, urging them to join him in voting against limiting debate on a stopgap spending bill that also defunds Obamacare. Many Republicans said they will vote along with Democrats to proceed with the stopgap bill because as of now it contains the defunding provisions.

Mr. Cruz, though, said it is certain Democrats will be able to strip the defunding provision with a majority vote later in the process, so the only chance to exert influence is early on, when it will take a 60-vote threshold to even proceed with action.

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Mr. Paul’s filibuster earlier this year, which delayed a confirmation vote on the CIA director’s nomination, lasted just over 12 hours and 50 minutes — a mark Mr. Cruz crossed just after 3:30 in the morning.

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Takes aim at fellow Republicans...