Reclaiming the American Dream : Millennials Look Toward their Future CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 26, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p99D9U59B5Y [with comments]
Beyond the expected Broading the Conservative Base CPAC Published on Feb 26, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaDhIvGvDKk [with comments]
You Build It, But you don't own it? CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 26, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIGCYCiDC4 [with comments]
Immigration: Can Conservatives Reach a Concensus? CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_P5i-LaFs [with comments]
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CPAC 2015 How Schools and Universities are Failing to Teach Kids Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTrLrG2AEh0 [with comments]
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Asset Forfeiture: The Sheriff of Nottingham at your Doorstep Published on Mar 24, 2015 by The ACU CPAC University 2015. Pat Nolan discusses Asset Forfeiture. Pat Nolan, American Conservative Union Foundation Derek Cohen, Texas Public Policy Foundation Darpana Sheth, Institute for Justice Thursday, February 26, 2015 Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kj0p7Vf14 [no comments yet] Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQCZhFBQ2p4 [no comments yet]
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Peter Wallison Government Intervention in Economic Recession CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmogJhxWGAc [no comments yet]
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CPAC 2015 Surfing For Secrets Cyber Insecurity In The Digital Age Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHpv41VpBU [with comment]
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Vote Early, Vote Often : How to Combat Election Voter Fraud CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aIpNHOh1o [with comments]
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CPAC 2015 Climate, What Tom Steyer Won't Tell You Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSzO2-5Mhk [with comments]
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US Israel - Does the Special Relationship Still Exist? CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHHWbMe5NI [with comment]
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The Red Pill or The Blue Pill? A Debate on Marijuana Legalization CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 26, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MnjN7v4vk8 [with comments]
The Wealth of a Nation : Economic Policies that Help the Average, Middle Class Americans Published on Feb 26, 2015 by The ACU Thursday, February 26, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXLxpscIQaE [with comments]
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Nigel Farage CPAC 2015
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Nigel Farage MEP Nigel Farage is the Member of the European Parliament for the South East region of the United Kingdom and leader of the UK Independence Party. http://www.nigelfaragemep.co.uk/
Police investigate threats to anti-Ukip protesters who targeted Nigel Farage Demonstrators who forced Nigel Farage to flee pub receive abusive messages by text and email as well as on Twitter and Facebook 25 March 2015 [...] The messages came after demonstrators in fancy dress held a “diversity cabaret [ http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/mar/23/beyond-ukip-cabaret-nigel-farage ]” on Sunday afternoon at a pub in Downe, Kent, where the Ukip leader was dining with his wife and children. Farage claimed that a relative had to go back to look for the children after he left the scene in a car apparently driven by his wife. [...] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/25/police-investigate-ukip-protest-threat-nigel-farage-pub
Matt Schlapp Chairman, American Conservative Union, Former White House Political Director CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtL2F2CtISc [with comment]
Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7YRauBA8Cg [no comments yet]
Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfPkD4oqCVI [with comments]
State Tax Rebellion : How States are Leading the Way CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhrrJVBbwjQ [no comments yet]
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Live Competition Washington Times Idol CPAC 2015 Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P80i2ilQblk [no comments yet]
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CPAC 2015 Criminal Justice Reform: Getting More Safety for our Tax Dollars Published on Mar 10, 2015 by The ACU Moderator: Pat Nolan, American Conservative Union Foundation Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3yeBtdHRo [no comments yet]
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A Strong America Protecting Opportunity for All Published on Feb 27, 2015 by The ACU Friday, February 27, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak0v1XTr-ZM [no comments yet]
CPAC 2015 Reigning in a Lawless President Obamnesty and Other Pen and Phone Affronts Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sajjoFwEy8 [no comments yet]
CPAC 2015 Religious Freedom in America: Would the Pilgrims Still be Welcome Here? Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCsMI2yXiqE [with comments]
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CPAC 2015 All Roads Lead to a Tax Increase? A Debate on Infrastructure Development Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUai9E-v4Dc [no comments yet]
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CPAC 2015 Naghmeh Abedini Wife of Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini Imprisoned in Iran
CPAC 2015 Blogger of the Year Award Presented to Wayne Dupree Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLM_5Zcax4 [with comments]
Dusting off the 10th Amendment the Future of Federalism Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnKThRJGrjk [with comments]
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CPAC 2015 America's Security in the Age of Jihad Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_e5tGT3Cyk [no comments yet]
CPAC 2015 Content Of Your Character Conservatives See Deeper Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtmWLsL5L8 [with comments]
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CPAC 2015 Tan, Rested and Ready do conservatives have what it takes to win in 2016 Published on Feb 28, 2015 by The ACU Saturday, February 28, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBFDblzyPyI [with comments]
California Vaccine Bill Sparks Acidic Debate, Nazi Links
MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, a bottle containing a measles vaccine is seen at the Miami Children's Hospital on January 28, 2015 in Miami, Florida. A recent outbreak of measles has some doctors encouraging vaccination as the best way to prevent measles and its spread. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By JUDY LIN Posted: 04/10/2015 6:26 pm EDT Updated: 2 hours ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California bill that would sharply limit vaccination waivers after a measles outbreak at Disneyland has generated such an acidic debate that the proposal's author was under added security this week.
Authorities wouldn't specify the extra protections around state Sen. Richard Pan on Friday, but the level of anger over the measure has been clear.
Opponents have flooded the Capitol to stand up for parental rights, and images that compare Pan to Adolf Hitler have circulated online.
"Unfortunately, there is a sub-segment of the group that seems to want to engage in vitriol and intimidation and bullying in order to get their way," said Pan, a Democratic pediatrician from Sacramento.
Sen. Carol Liu, chair of the Education Committee, which will hear the bill next week, said through a spokesman that the proposal has generated more calls to her office than any other this year, including measures on immigration, doctor-assisted suicide and police shootings.
"It literally started the first day it was in the news, and it never stopped," said Robert Oaks, Liu's spokesman.
Pan said he introduced the measure, Senate Bill 277, to limit inoculation waivers after a measles outbreak in December that started at Disneyland and sickened more than 100 people across the U.S. and in Mexico.
It would prevent parents from sending unvaccinated kids to school using waivers for religious or personal beliefs. Exemptions originally would have been available only for children with health problems, but they were recently expanded to include homeschoolers.
The plan is early in the legislative process, but it has high-level support. Senate Leader Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, has signed on as a co-author. If it becomes law, California would join Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states with such strict vaccine requirements.
Critics, however, have turned out in force. Before the bill's first legislative hearing this week, hundreds of opponents attended a rally that featured an appearance from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said the number of children injured by vaccines amounts to "a holocaust." During the hearing, an opponent threated to ask God to curse legislative supporters.
Vaccination foes have focused on potential risk factors, saying shots could be tainted or otherwise dangerous. They characterized the bill as an outrageous government overreach. They also worry about the drugs' links to autism and other developmental diseases, even as the medical community says such claims have been scientifically disproved.
Similar plans have been proposed and have failed in other states, including Washington and Oregon, where lawmakers received similar pushback.
"Some of it got pretty ugly," said Paige Spence, aide to Oregon Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. "And I did my best to shield her from seeing any of it."
Many opponents have taken a more civil tone.
Brian Stenzler, president of the California Chiropractic Association, has testified against the bill and condemned the threats against lawmakers as unacceptable. But even though opposition leaders are focused the merits of the legislation, there are some things they can't control, he said.
"It's kind of like a mother bear," he said. "You come near a cub, that mother will do anything they have to do."
"Right now," he added, "these parents are running on pure emotion and pure adrenaline."
Associated Press writers Sheila V Kumar in Salem, Oregon, and Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Washington, contributed to this report.
Her ideas on voting rights are also good politics.
By Jamelle Bouie Jamelle Bouie is a Slate staff writer covering politics, policy, and race.
June 4 2015 9:29 PM
Hillary Clinton addresses the South Carolina House Democratic Women’s Caucus and the South Carolina Democratic Women’s Council in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 27, 2015. Photo by Christopher Aluka Berry/Reuters
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton received .. http://www.tsu.edu/About/Administration/University_Advancement/communications/news-reel/honorablehillaryrodhamclintonvisitstsu.php .. the Barbara Jordan Public-Private Leadership Award at the historically black Texas Southern University in Houston. A former member of the House of Representatives, Jordan was the first black congresswoman elected from the South, the first black American to represent Texas in Congress, and a fierce advocate for the Voting Rights Act, fighting to extend its protections to minorities.
It’s on that latter point that Clinton, speaking in acceptance of the award .. http://www.tsu.edu/live/hillary-clinton-visits-tsu/ , made her remarks. “Forty years after Barbara Jordan fought to extend the Voting Rights Act, its heart has been ripped out,” she said. “What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people, and young people from one end of our country to the other.” She continued: “Since the Supreme Court eviscerated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, many of the states that previously faced special scrutiny because of a history of racial discrimination have proposed and passed new laws that make it harder than ever to vote.”
She’s not exaggerating. Republicans pitch their voter identification and “ballot integrity” laws as efforts to protect the voting process. But even a quick glance shows them as transparent efforts at voter suppression.
In North Carolina .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/north-carolina-voter-id-law , for example, Republicans drastically reduced early voting, ended same-day voter registration, repealed a mandate for high school voter-registration drives, eliminated flexibility in early-voting hours, reinstated felon disenfranchisement measures, authorized vigilante poll observers, and imposed an ID requirement that excluded municipal government IDs, photo IDs issued by public assistant agencies, and student IDs. At the time, the state itself .. http://www.wral.com/asset/news/state/nccapitol/2013/08/08/12755200/VIVA_fiscal_note.pdf .. estimated that as many as 318,000 voters would lack identification to vote on Election Day. Despite this, Gov. Pat McCrory described .. http://www.governor.state.nc.us/newsroom/press-releases/20130812/governor-mccrory-signs-popular-voter-id-law .. the measures as “common sense” designed to “ensure the integrity” of the ballot box and “provide greater equality in access to voting to North Carolinians,” which would be accurate, if words were meaningless.
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Likewise, in Wisconsin, Republicans passed a strict voter-identification law .. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/wisconsin_s_voter_id_decision_judge_lynn_adelman_destroys_the_conservative.html .. that also slashed early-voting hours, a twin move that would—noted one federal judge .. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/politics/supreme-court-blocks-wisconsin-voter-id-law.html — “deter or prevent a substantial number of the 300,000–plus registered voters who lack ID from voting” and would disproportionately harm minority voters. And beyond laws, there are the shenanigans of local officials who implement voting rules with little oversight. “Many of the worst offenses against the right to vote happen below the radar,” explained Clinton, “like when authorities shift poll locations and election dates, or scrap language assistance for non-English speaking citizens. Without the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, no one outside the local community is likely to ever hear about these abuses, let alone have a chance to challenge them and end them.”
Overall, 21 states have put voting restrictions in place since the 2010 elections .. http://www.brennancenter.org/new-voting-restrictions-2010-election , including swing states like Florida, New Hampshire, and Virginia. Next year, in 14 of these states, those laws will be in effect for the first time. And tellingly, the prevalence of those laws has a lot to do with the demographics of the state. “Of the 11 states with the highest African American turnout in 2008, 7 have new restrictions,” notes the Brennan Center for Justice .. http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/state-voting-2014 . “Of the 12 states with the largest Hispanic population growth between 2000 and 2010, 9 passed laws making it harder to vote.”
Clinton didn’t shy away from that connection. “It is a cruel irony, but no coincidence, that millennials—the most diverse, tolerant, and inclusive generation in American history—are now facing exclusion,” she said, in reference to restrictions on student voting. Likewise, she explained, “Minority voters are more likely than white voters to wait in long lines at polling places. They are also far more likely to vote in polling places with insufficient numbers of voting machines … This kind of disparity doesn’t happen by accident.”
To solve these problems and make an affirmative push for voting equality, Clinton wants to take two ambitious steps. First, she wants universal and automatic voter registration, with an opt-out for voters who don’t want to register. This wouldn’t be difficult. As the Center for Voting and Democracy notes .. http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/universal-voter-registration/why-universal-registration/ , a combination of federal standards and broader registration rules would quickly increase total registration. More importantly, it solves the problems we saw in the 2014 election cycle, when mass registration efforts ran into partisan opposition from state officials. Facilitated by federal, state, and local officials, universal registration would go miles toward improving civic engagement.
For the second step—actual voting—Clinton wants new federal guidelines for early voting, and national opportunities for weekend and evening voting. The goal, again, is to make it as easy as possible to join the process and participate. Indeed, by just announcing her support for these measures, Clinton helps reformers in states where change is possible.
These are good ideas on the merits. They’re also great politics. Voting is one of the few issues where the partisan and ideological differences are easy to understand. Democrats want to expand access to the ballot, Republicans want to restrict it. It’s an excellent issue for activism—look at the high number of voters who went to the polls in 2012 in defiance of voter-suppression measures—and a sturdy cudgel against your political opponents, who will have to take a stand and risk a mistake or worse.
To that point, Clinton attacked Gov. Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Jeb Bush by name—blasting each for their voter ID laws—and asked Republicans to “stop fear-mongering” about a “phantom epidemic of election fraud.” Condemning Republican voter suppression, Clinton said, “It is just wrong … to try to prevent, undermine, and inhibit Americans’ right to vote. And at a time when so many Americans have lost trust in our political system, it’s the opposite of what we should be doing in our country.”
Invested in voter suppression—Walker touts his ID bill to GOP audiences .. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/scott-walker-fundraises-voter-id-victory —Republicans will push back, attacking Clinton’s plan for its size and wide federal role. But it’s clear she’s ready for the fight. With this issue, she’s in her element: Calm, comfortable with details, and eager to argue her vision. This, in a sense, was the real beginning of the Clinton campaign, and it was effective.
Amelia Boynton Robinson noted as fearless, tireless leader
In this Aug. 26, 2003 file photo, Amelia Boynton, Robinson appears at an American Civil Rights Education Services tour at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the Selma march on “Bloody Sunday,” championed voting rights for blacks, and was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. She was 104. Boynton Robinson was hospitalized in July after having a major stroke and turned 104 on Aug. 18. (Gregory Smith, File/Associated Press)
By Phillip Lucas? August 27, 2015 at 2:45 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A newspaper photo of a woman who was beaten unconscious by law enforcement during a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, revealed to a wider audience the struggles and violence black people faced while fighting for the right to vote.
Fifty years after the beating, the activist in the photograph, Amelia Boynton Robinson, held hands with the first black president of the United States as she was pushed across the bridge in a wheelchair, trailed by many others including some who were also attacked on March 7, 1965.
Boynton Robinson, widely considered one of the mothers of the civil rights movement, died in a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital at age 104, her son Bruce Boynton said. Boynton Robinson was hospitalized in July after a stroke and was surrounded by family and friends when she died early Wednesday morning, her family said in a statement.
State troopers teargassed and clubbed marchers as they tried crossing the bridge during the march Boynton Robinson helped organize. Although the attack on marchers revealed ugly realities to some about how blacks were treated, Boynton Robinson had been an integral part of the civil rights movement long before the beating and iconic photo.
“The truth of it is that was her entire life. That’s what she was completely taken with,” Bruce Boynton said of his mother’s role in shaping the civil rights movement. “She was a loving person, very supportive — but civil rights was her life.”
In January, Boynton Robinson attended the State of the Union address as a special guest of Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, who calls Boynton Robinson a mentor and a friend. Boynton Robinson was the first black woman to run for Congress in the state and the first Alabama woman to run as a Democrat, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Sewell is the first black woman to be elected to Congress in Alabama.
“Without her courageous campaign for the 7th Congressional District, I know that my election to this seat in 2010 would not have been possible,” Sewell said in a written statement. Sewell said she’ll carry love and admiration for Boynton Robinson with her and will continue working to honor her life’s work.
“As she reminded us in life, there is still much work to be done for this nation to live up to its ideals of equality and justice for all,” Sewell said.
Months after visiting Washington for the State of the Union address, Boynton Robinson returned to Selma and held hands with President Barack Obama during the commemoration event.
“She was as strong, as hopeful, and as indomitable of spirit — as quintessentially American — as I’m sure she was that day 50 years ago,” Obama said in a statement. “To honor the legacy of an American hero like Amelia Boynton requires only that we follow her example — that all of us fight to protect everyone’s right to vote.”
Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia was also a fixture in the civil rights movement and called Boynton Robinson one of the most dependable and tireless leaders in turbulent era of American history. Lewis noted that she co-founded a local civic group in the 1930s and held voter registration drives through the 1950s.
“I am so glad she lived to see Dr. King lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, that she lived to see the Voting Rights Act signed into law, that she lived to see the amazing transformation our work gave rise to in America,” Lewis said.
Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Georgia, worked as an educator there and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Selma. Tuskegee University officials have said she graduated from the school in 1927 and donated much of her personal memorabilia from the 1950s and 1960s to the university.
She worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, helped organize the Selma to Montgomery march and asked Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Selma to galvanize the local community.
The Rev. C.T. Vivian worked closely with King and said he knew Boynton Robinson when she lived in Selma. Through fighting for voting rights, he said, she and others were fighting for the right to be considered fully American at a time when black people were still being denied basic freedoms.
“You just don’t know how cruel, how non-thinking, how devilish, how hateful people could be. Just to hear this brings it all out for me,” Vivian said after learning of Boynton Robinson’s death, which came less than two weeks after the death of another leading civil rights activist Julian Bond.
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