WASHINGTON DC – Archivists released thousands of records from the Bill Clinton presidency on Friday, including documents on activities by former first lady — and prospective 2016 presidential candidate — Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The more than 4,000 pages of documents include records on the health care task force Mrs. Clinton chaired in 1993, as well as her efforts on children’s issues, women’s rights, and micro-credit for developing countries.

The Friday release is the first in a series of document dumps from the Clinton era over the next several weeks that are expected to total more than 30,000 pages.

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Most of the focus will be on records related to Hillary Clinton, the former senator, secretary of State and unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008 who may make another bid in 2016. (more…)

GO BILL !!

New York – Mayor de Blasio brought down the hammer Thursday on three charter schools operated by nemesis Eva Moskowitz, leaving hundreds of kids without classrooms this fall.

“This has to be the saddest day for the Success Academy’s children, family, teachers, school leaders,” Moskowitz said after meeting with stunned charter parents in Harlem.

“Right now, our kids are being evicted. Evicted out of their school. It’s wrong and we need an explanation. You’re going to have to ask Mayor Deblasio what the motivations are for a decision that will hurt so many children now and, frankly, forever.”

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In the controversy over the New York St. Pat’s Parade you find the actual root angst of “Gay Rights” and it’s nothing to do with gay per se’ it’s all about a leftist viewpoint.

You see, in the St Paddy’s day parade, New York organizers welcome gay participants.  Gay people are not barred from participation, they are actually welcome.   The problem for the liberal left is the parade organizers want the emphasis on Irish celebration.

The parade folks don’t want a gay parade with an Irish theme, they want an Irish parade with an Irish patriotic theme;  and the radical-left just isn’t ok with that.

“Parade planners have said gays are welcome to join the procession, which is expected to draw more than 1 million people on March 17, but they cannot identify themselves in any way by their sexual orientation”, according to the New York Daily News.

For the liberal-left that just isn’t good enough, it’s too exclusionary to expect the focus to be on being Irish – they demand an accommodation to be gay first, and Irish (or not) second.

Doesn’t that just about sum up what all this sexual orientation friction is about ?

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That statement should strike the independent psyche as odd.   Alas, it does not…. why? Because the filtering prism witnessed (as applied) is only based on one thing, the perception of importance.

Why would skin color even factor in to whether or not the policy/ideology is wrong, unless you think the skin color is a defining factor in your view toward the policy/ideology.

Like most within the professionally aggrieved class, Lemon is stating he’s black first and a journalist second.  He has to overcome his inherent sense of race, to carry out his responsibility of a journalist.   Such is the reality of something that rings true in all progressives; ideological bias trumps all else when expressed.

In Don Lemon’s case it’s his race and skin color because this is what he views as central to his own psychological definitions. Black is his foundational principle.

For non-black media types the foundational principle, which overlay their decisions, is their liberal sense of world-view.

(AP) – Ukraine’s fugitive president surfaced on Thursday in Moscow, where he was said to have been seen at an opulent five-star hotel and a Kremlin country retreat once favored by the late Boris Yeltsin.

Viktor Yanukovych reportedly was granted protection in Russia, but he has not received a warm reception. Although Russia still considers him the legitimate president of Ukraine, the Kremlin has treated him cautiously and portrayed him as a coward who betrayed those who stood by him. (more…)

Time’s up.   It ran it’s course…. but like most things seasons change.

Vinyl became tape, eight tracks became cassettes, tape became CD’s… CD’s became digital downloads, Etc.    Bill O’Reilly is a CD sale in a download world.  Few buyers.

I know the Neilson’s show it, because they are no-longer touted.  Of course, it’s still early in the transitional phase.

In the beginning phase you could still sell CD’s if you put them on sale, and transitionally VHS players combined with DVD ports in one package to try and stay marketable.

Eventually VHS disappeared completely, and K-Cars ran their course.

Time’s up.   Time to cull the herd before the brand is destroyed under the optical weight of painful visibility.   It’s getting too painful to watch now.

Last night, watching B.O.R get played by Valerie Jarrett was almost as painful as watching Mitt Romney flounder in the third presidential CNN debate replete with Candy Crowley playing the role of Jabba The Hut.    We sat in our living rooms shouting to Romney “quit trying, they’re just not in to you” –  “you look foolish”. (more…)

Hiding the manipulation behind the REAL Trayvon Martin Story takes a confluence of associated interests.    Considering THIS and especially considering THIS….

…It’s not conspiracy theory – It’s conspiracy fact !

Just imagine how much political damage could immediately present itself if this story was covered by investigative journalism ?

(Associated Press)  The large, mostly African-American and Hispanic crowd was dotted with dignitaries, among them black and Hispanic members of Congress, NBA great Earvin “Magic” Johnson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Also present were the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, two black Florida teenagers killed in separate shootings.  (link)

(Miami Herald) – Joining the president at the White House was Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, D-Miami, Mami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and Dr. Theron Clark, administrator 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project, a program founded by the congresswoman to mentor at-risk boys in Miami-Dade schools. Obama cited the program in his remarks. (more…)

Before you watch the video below you must remember the significance of its venue.

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately.

A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”

With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

…. “if you can keep it”

Now watch this video from Independence Hall:

UNBELIEVABLE !…. or is it?

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Good thing we’re not on the jury or she’d have rec’d an extra year under CTH insufferable rules violation #1:

“Your honor, we the jury object.  This defendant has a profound inability to move the needle on our give-a-damn meter; may we be excused”. 

EARLIER:  “She is a daughter of Ethel and Robert Kennedy and a niece of our past president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” said Kerry Kennedy’s lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, to jurors in the packed White Plains court room, even adding that his “religious” client had two daughters who attended Ivy League schools.   She should be found not guilty of driving under the influence of a sleeping pill because she’s a human-rights activist whose life-saving work would be severely  curbed if she was sidelined by jail. (link)

(New York) She’s a mom, a human-rights leader — oh, and another fatherless Kennedy.

Testifying in her own defense at her drugged driving trial Wednesday, Kerry Kennedy wasted little time before playing the “Daddy” card.

“Daddy was the attorney general during the civil rights movement and then a senator,” the 54-year-old testified, supposedly explaining why she grew up in Virginia, but coyly invoking the memory of her slain father, Sen Robert F. Kennedy. (more…)

MARYLAND – A chilling video of Maryland police silencing an innocent student who was  recording the arrests of two other people has civil libertarians outraged.

The arrests were made at night on the streets of Towson, Maryland. A  University of Maryland-Baltimore County student who witnessed the arrests  decided to record them using his cell phone. The student, 21-year-old Sergio  Gutierrez, was soon approached by officers who objected — wrongly — to his  actions.

Gutierrez repeatedly told the officers that he knew he had the right to film  them, but the cops were prepared to use any excuse to shut him down. First they  told him that he was hampering their investigation, even though he was standing  well enough away while the arrests were being made. (more…)