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Russia admits its troops are moving in Crimea

Josie Ensor
telegraph.co.uk
February 28, 2014

17.35 All aircraft movements at Sevastopol’s Belbek airfield are stopped after unidentified individuals seized the runway, a according to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency

17.06 Russia has just said it will give Russian passports to members of Ukraine’s Berkut – the disbanded riot police.

16.57 A video has emerged purporting to show 12 Russian-combat helicopters (MI-24 & MI-8 3) flying over Sevastopol in Crimea.

16.51 The Foreign Office alert warns against all travel to Crimea, and says British nationals already there should leave by commercial means.

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Moving Forward on Student-Centered Education Reform

Earlier this month, North Carolina unleashed its “Opportunity Scholarship” website accepting applications for the state’s new school voucher program. Three days after its opening, some 1,400 families had applied hoping they would be lucky enough to receive a school voucher. The popularity of this program highlights the growing uneasiness among many parents about what are too often failing public schools. The sheer volume of applicants also suggests how desperate families are for student-centered education reforms — and those on the left should stop stalling and get on board the school choice train.

The cry for increasing school choice is not confined to North Carolina. Across the nation over 500,000 students are currently on charter waiting lists attempting to escape their failing public school and get into better institutions. Back in 2011, a now famous African American woman by the name of Kelley Williams-Bolar was jailed for attempting to get her daughters out of a failing public school in Akron, Ohio. In a desperate attempt to enroll her daughters into a better school, Kelley falsified her address and sent them to an alternative school outside the city. Although Kelly’s actions were dishonest, her motive to give her children the best education possible was one that many parents across the country can relate to.

North Carolina is part of a growing movement among 13 states plus the District of Columbia that offers school voucher programs. Most of these state voucher programs target low-income families typically found in failing public schools.

The positives of school choice are self-evident. Increasing school choice empowers parents with the freedom to choose which school they want their children to attend. After all, every parent contributes funding for their local public school through taxes. Is it wrong to suggest that they ought to have some measure of control over how that money is spent to educate their children? The primary responsibility of educating America’s children rests with parents — not government bureaucrats or union officials. Whether it be through a public school, private school, charter school, virtual school, or homeschool, parents knows how to best educate their child. Why should a zip code determine, as it did in the case of Ms. Kelly, where children should attend school?

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Speaker Boehner Severely Criticized on Facebook for Not Moving to Impeach Obama

Kurt Nimmo
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January 16, 2014

Speaker of the House John Boehner is experiencing a backlash after he posted the image below on his Facebook page. The image is intended to be a sharp retort to Obama’s declaration that he will rule by imperial fiat. The posted image, however, is little more than empty rhetoric considering the behavior or establishment Republicans confronting Obama’s constitutional violations.

Boehner and establishment Republicans, however, cannot easily portray themselves as defenders of the Constitution. A large number of commenters on the popular social media network told them as much.

Thousands of comments took Boehner and Republicans to task for not moving to impeach Obama. Others defended Obama and accused Boehner and the Republicans of obstructionism.

“Quit acting like you are going to do anything remotely close to following your Oath of Office!” said one commenter. The remark is a reference to Article VI, clause 3 that requires Senators and Representatives take an oath of office to support the Constitution.

“Dear Mr. Speaker, If you believed in the Constitution or even read it, you would start impeachment proceedings against the president. But you won’t, you are much too weak a leader to do the right thing,” another commenter complained about Republican lack of resolve.

Fear of even mentioning the “I” word demonstrates just how trepidatious establishment Republicans are when it comes to penalizing Obama for his crimes. During a Committee on the Judiciary meeting in December, Republicans were so adverse to the subject they didn’t even mention the word impeachment. “They didn’t use that word, of course. Republican leaders frown on such labeling because it makes the House majority look, well, crazy,” Dana Milbank wrote for the Washington Post.

“They’ve failed at cutting off funding, they’ve had difficulty suing Obama in court and they lost the 2012 election. That basically leaves them with the option of making loud but ineffectual noises about high crimes and misdemeanors,” Milbank, who was lambasted for daring to criticize Obama in 2008, continued.

“The Framers recognized that presidential abuse of power carried the greatest potential to wreck the republic,” notes Andrew C. McCarthy. “Adamant that the presidency they were creating must not become a monarchy, they carried on debates over the Constitution that were consumed with precluding this very real possibility. In the end, the Framers armed Congress with two responsive weapons: the power of the purse and the power of impeachment.”

Not since Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a dalliance with an aide have Republicans shown the sort of resolve required when a president violates the Constitution and engages in high crimes and misdemeanors.

It is now up to a small number of House Republicans to keep the effort to impeach Obama alive. In December, Texas Rep. Steve Stockman was characterized by Salon as “exotic” for disturbing proposed Articles of Impeachment to his colleagues.

A number of Republicans have urged impeachment proceedings, including Rep. Duncan Hunter of California (for Obama’s move to bomb Syria without congressional approval), Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn (over Benghazi), Iowa Republican Steve King and Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (over the debt), among others.

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How the Texas GOP Is Moving Swiftly to Protect the Political Power of White Conservatives

The Texas GOP proudly defends its right to white political power.

After the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican majorities and politicians in many Southern states quickly went to work to revive segregationist Jim Crow voting laws. 

North Carolina’s legislature passed an astounding package of bills destroying 20 years of inclusive reforms. Alabama and Mississippi began enforcing new tougher ID laws. Florida’s Tea Party Gov. Rick Scott resurrected a 2012 witch-hunt for hundreds of thousands of non-citizens—code for non-whites—on voter rolls.

And then there’s Texas, where Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Gregg Abbott, is leading the most brazenly racist effort of all.

Texas and the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have been fighting over the state redrawing election district lines to intentionally dilute the possibility of non-white voting blocks electing candidates in state and federal races. Before the Supreme Court gutted the VRA in June, Abbott would not acknowledge the race-based political implications of his state’s GOP-led redistricting.

But his latest legal filing asserts the Texas GOP’s rights to keep their state as a bastion of white Republican power.

The man who would be governor is arguing that Texas can change voting rules to discriminate against Democrats because it has a Republican majority. And if those steps undermine minority voting rights, so what, they say, because what Texas is doing it won’t be as bad as what its minorities faced in 1965—when the VRA was adopted, which is the Supreme Court’s new legal standard.

Here’s how he’s saying with a straight poker face that the Texas GOP can harm voters who are presumed to be Democrats:

“DOJ’s accusations of racial discrimination are baseless. In 2011, both houses of the Texas Legislature were controlled by large Republican majorities, and their redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party’s electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats. It is perfectly constitutional for a Republican-controlled legislature to make partisan districting decisions, even if there are incidental effects on minority voters who support Democratic candidates.”

And here’s how he’s saying that as long as the harm done to non-white voters is not as bad as anything Texas did in 1965, that perfectly legal in 2013.  

Even if violations occurred, they bear no resemblance to the “pervasive,” “flagrant,” “widespread,” and “rampant” discrimination that originally justified preclearance in 1965. See Shelby County, 133 S.Ct at 2629. Under Shelby County, bail-in could be a congruent and proportional remedy for intentional discrimination, but only in response to the kind ofever-changing discriminatory machinations that gave rise to the preclearance regime in the first place. Because nothing remotely like that has occurred in modern-day Texas, this Court cannot impose preclearance on Texas while remaining faithful to Shelby County and the constitutional principles on which it relies.”

Shelby County v. Holder is the name of the 2013 Supreme Court case where the decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts said that because Congress did not update the enforcement formula for when the DOJ could overrule changes in state voting laws, the VRA’s “preclearance” formula was unconstitutional.

Gutting the law’s standards that gave the federal government power to reject any change in voting rules in states covered by the law created the opening for North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida to erect new barriers to voting that target likely Democrats. But officials in these states have not gone as far as Texas to openly admit that race-based politics are at play.

As University of California Law School’s Rick Hasen noted on his respected ElectionLaw blog, “Texas defends itself against claims it discriminated against minority voters by claiming it discriminated against Democrats.”

His headline for that blog post was, “Only in America.” 

 

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Maine man can whistle, but he must keep moving

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man charged with disorderly conduct for his loud whistling in downtown Portland has reached a deal with the city — he can whistle, but he can’t linger in one spot.
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Maine man can whistle, but he must keep moving

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man charged with disorderly conduct for his loud whistling in downtown Portland has reached a deal with the city — he can whistle, but he can’t linger in one spot.
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Maine man can whistle, but he must keep moving