Monday, May 23, 2016

CALIFORNIA GOP Ballot Recommendations



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Find the complete list of candidate endorsements at the link. Here are the California GOP's recommendations for June Ballot Measures: (Only one is one the Humboldt Count Ballot)

Proposition 50: Members of the Legislature, Suspension
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"It works equally horribly for the student who wants to do better and the student who doesn't want to try too hard," said Dana Hunter of Doylestown, who sends two of her three children to Cold Spring Elementary. "I've had kids say: 'This is great. It doesn't matter how many I get wrong, I just get an M on everything.' "



As a lawyer, Dennis Weldon has to make sense of tortuous legal papers. But a year ago, the Plumstead Township resident opened a nine-page document that left him flummoxed. It was his child´s report card from Gayman Elementary School in the Central Bucks School District. Gone was the traditional A-B-C-D-F report from the teacher. Instead, parents were sent to their computers to click open a nine-page digital document with row after row of learning standards and success indicators for specific reading or math skills. Grades ranged from a high of E (exceeding standards), through M (meeting standards) and A (approaching standards), down to LP (limited progress).

Weldon said his wife, also a lawyer, struggled to comprehend the new "standards-based" report card, too. Another Central Bucks parent, a lawyer as well, told Weldon: "I don't even open it. . . . It's information overload."

...Spurred on by national guidelines set out in the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math, scores of districts across Pennsylvania and New Jersey have moved in recent years to ditch the old-school report cards that graded students competitively against their classmates, based on tests and quizzes....

Taking Donald Trump seriously: His jump in polls against Hillary changes the media mindset





There’s a whole lot of good news and ‘splodey head angst in the latest ABC/Washington Post national poll... The poll sample size of 1005 includes a mix of 33% Democrat, 27% Republican and 35% Independent. Democrats over sampled by eight points, (D+8). However, even with the sample skew (D+8) Donald Trump still beats Hillary Clinton 46% to 44%, and Trump is crushing Clinton with Independent voters 48% to 35%.In addition to the overwhelming 13 point polling lead among independent voters, the same poll shows that 20% of Bernie Sanders supporters will vote for Donald Trump...

‘Can’t answer a simple question honestly’: HRC’s response about debate infuriates Bernie supporters



Sunday, May 22, 2016

“The people who are running against Trump didn’t have the courage to say anything against Clinton. Courage is what is missing in Washington. We don’t have a national backbone anymore. That’s why people are going to Trump – the man has a backbone.”



Dolly Kyle, a longtime girlfriend of Bill Clinton, has a message for Juanita Broaddrick: I believe you.

Kyle told WND she believes Clinton is capable of the 1978 sexual assault Broaddrick claims has haunted her ever since.

“I will say I completely believe everything Juanita has ever said about that,” Kyle told WND. “I also believe Hillary threatened her in the follow up. In terms of threats and intimidation, it was initially Billy who threatened to destroy me in 1992 if I cooperated with the media. I found it later it was Hillary who was behind the actual attacks against me through her sniveling sycophant Sidney Blumenthal. So this is what they’ve been doing forever.”

...“This is the reason Trump is doing so well,” Kyle said. “We Americans grew up thinking people who went to Washington should be brave, should be our John Wayne or Davey Crockett or whatever. And we have been grossly disappointed.

“The people who are running against Trump didn’t have the courage to say anything against Clinton. Courage is what is missing in Washington. We don’t have a national backbone anymore. That’s why people are going to Trump – the man has a backbone.”
Los Angeles attorney Candice Jackson, the author of “Their Lives: The Woman Targeted By The Clinton Machine,” agrees with Kyle.

“I firmly believe that the history of the GOP shows that nobody else would have been bold enough to bring this right back at the Clintons so directly, maybe not at all,” Jackson told WND. “It’s been in large part due to Donald Trump’s being willing to stand out there as a non-politically correct person, an outsider willing to throw it right back at them. I don’t think anybody else would have done it. I think a lot of us would have been talking about Bill and Hillary’s mistreatment of women, but no doubt it’s going to be a lot more effective when the Republican nominee is actually willing to say the words.”

And Jackson says the Clintons had better be ready, because this is just the beginning.

Ralph Nader Rips Idea of 'Microaggressions'