Admitted child molester lectures us about raising our own kids re. guns

NRA host taunts Parkland teens: No one would know your names if classmates were still alive

As they’ve stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays and the stoic-faced subjects of a Time magazine cover.

But they’ve also increasingly become targets: Their most prominent critics are people who see them less as survivors of a tragedy and more as pawns in a larger effort to influence gun policy.

The latest attack came from Colion Noir, a host on NRATV who took to the airwaves on the eve of the Parkland teens-led March on Washington, telling them: “No one would know your names” if a student gunman hadn’t

“To all the kids from Parkland getting ready to use your First Amendment to attack everyone else’s Second Amendment at your march on Saturday, I wish a hero like Blaine Gaskill had been at Marjory Douglas High School last month because your classmates would still be alive and no one would know your names, because the media would have completely and utterly ignored your story, the way they ignored his,” Noir said.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/24/nra-host-taunts-parkland-teens-no-one-would-know-your-names-if-classmates-were-still-alive/&freshcontent=1

Costello (R-PA) is out.

Best #AMARCHFOROURLIVES sign so far...

AZ-08: RNC Spends Money In Supposedly Safe District

The RNC has put $281,250 into the special election to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), “the first financial commitment by either national party in a district that has voted reliably Republican since being drawn in 2011,” the Washington Post reports.

“The RNC declined to comment on the investment, but Arizona’s 8th District was not necessarily seen as a potential Democratic pickup. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won just 37% of the vote in the district — worse than her showing in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, which Democrat Conor Lamb just won in a squeaker.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/23/rnc-spends-money-in-supposedly-safe-district/

Trump bans most transgender Americans from serving in the military

President Trump on Friday moved to ban most transgender people from serving in the military.

Trump issued a memo Friday on policies determined by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, stating that transgender people are "disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances."

"Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria -- individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery -- are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances," the memo reads.

Trump issued a memo Friday on policies determined by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, stating that transgender people are "disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances."

"Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria -- individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery -- are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances," the memo reads.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/380050-trump-bans-most-transgender-americans-from-serving-in-the-military?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

IL-03: Republicans nominate Holocaust denier to challenge Lipinksi

Jones, whom the GOP has denounced as a Nazi and who has a section on his campaign website devoted to denying the Holocaust, was unopposed in the primary and won the Republican nomination to represent the Illinois 3rd District in Congress.

Maybe some of the 13,158 suburban Cook County residents who voted for Jones strongly believe in freedom of speech and Jones' right to express his views.

Perhaps some of the 3,023 voters in Chicago who punched his ticket agree with his positions on immigration ("no more sanctuary cities!&quot or his support of 2nd Amendment rights ("concealed carry for personal protection!&quot .

I suppose it's possible some of the 4,093 people in Will County who cast ballots for Jones did so knowing about his anti-Semitic views but supported him anyway because of his stances against abortion and same-sex marriage.

More likely, the 65 DuPage County residents who voted for Jones, 70, didn't know about his former membership in the American Nazi Party or that he ran for mayor of Milwaukee as a member of the National Socialist White People's Party in 1976.

Jones, however, told me Wednesday he believes the votes for him were no accident.

"The people who voted for me knew exactly who I was," Jones said. "They liked what I had to say."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-primary-election-recap-st-0322-20180321-story.html

Wisconsin Republicans to block special elections

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says Republicans may rewrite special election statutes after a judge ordered Gov. Scott Walker to call special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats.

A Madison judge ruled Thursday that Walker must order the elections by March 29.

Fitzgerald told reporters Friday the ruling creates multiple elections to fill the Senate seat. The Senate wrapped up its two-year session Tuesday but Fitzgerald said the body could reconvene to consider a bill to "align" special elections with the regular cycle.



https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/senate-leader-may-return-to-change-special-election-law

New Research On Racism Shows Wealth Doesn't Protect Black Men And Boys From Poverty

According to research, which took a look at census data, Black boys in America are the least likely to make it out of poverty, but are also the fastest to slide into it, no matter the income bracket they grow up in.

“Even children whose parents make the same amount of money, who grow up on the same block, they grow up to have dramatically different incomes in nearly every single neighborhood in the U.S.,” said Nathaniel Hendren, co-author of the Equality of Opportunity Project’s latest study.

“Even for Black sons whose families make roughly a million dollars a year, they are equally likely to be incarcerated as...the white son of a family that makes $40,000 a year,” he explained.

Black girls, on the other hand, don’t seem to fall into the same downward cycle when it comes to income as their male peers, and the difference could be due to higher rates of incarceration for Black men.



https://www.essence.com/news/new-research-racism-punishes-black-boys-poverty

Kentucky Republican suggests using Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth as 'target practice'

A Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state tweeted Tuesday that he would like to use Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.

Carl Nett, a former member of the U.S. Secret Service who also worked under contract with the CIA, was responding to a tweet from Yarmuth, who was bragging about his F grade from the National Rifle Association.

Yarmuth said he is asking colleagues to join him in wearing a button with the "F" rating on it every day until "the GOP finally stands up to the gun lobby and helps us pass common-sense gun safety legislation. Find me to get a pin."

Nett responded: "Move it over just a bit. I was trained center mass."


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/20/kentucky-republican-suggests-using-democratic-rep-john-yarmuth-target-practice/442275002/