Last March the US Department of Education’s civil rights survey examined all 97,000 public schools in the US, representing 49 million students. They study found that...

Black students accounted for 18 percent of the country’s pre-K enrollment, but made up 48 percent of preschoolers with multiple out-of-school suspensions. Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students. Black girls were suspended at higher rates than all other girls and most boys. Black students were more than three times as likely to attend schools where fewer than 60 percent of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements.

That's only 4 of the study's 14 key findings, and that is only looking at race and justice through the lens of public education. What does that say about us as a country? What does it mean for the lives of these young people who get caught in the gears of a criminal justice system so early in their lives? The town hall meeting on November 17th is set to address these and other pressing questions raised by the glaring racial inequities of our criminal justice system.

The virulence of the anti-gay hate on the right is now officially out of control. If you can stomach it, click on this video and skip to minute 6 to listen to the "Christian" "Pastor" who organized the Gay Hate Fest in Iowa attended by Ted Cruz. Merely being within 500 yards of this guy should disqualify a person from becoming the GOP nominee, but Ted Cruz ACTUALLY SPOKE AT HIS CONFERENCE. Cruz, naturally, used the conference to get his victimhood on:

“These threats are not imagined,” Cruz said. “There is a war on faith in America today. In our lifetimes, did we ever imagine that in the land of the free and home of the brave we would be witnessing our government persecute its citizens for their faith?”

Persecution of Christians apparently means making them bake cakes for gay weddings. Meanwhile, and unironically, the "Pastor" hosting the event demands the "religious liberty" to kill homosexuals in accordance with the teachings of the book of Leviticus.

Washington Post: “As Trump has become the defining character of this Republican presidential primary contest, the race itself has seemed to take on elements of his personality — in particular, his aggressive, seemingly shameless rejection of the idea that he has ever been wrong.” “The influence is especially strong in Fiorina and Carson, the two other political outsiders, who have risen in Trump’s slipstream. All three will be onstage Tuesday evening in Milwaukee for the fourth televised GOP debate.” “As with Trump, some of these outsiders’ most memorable debate moments have come when they uttered statements that turned out to be exaggerated or untrue. And, like Trump, they have played to a distrustful electorate by criticizing the fact-checkers and refusing to acknowledge that any facts were wrong.” Reality has a liberal bias. Not the media.

Based on the polling, Secretary Clinton should crush Ted Cruz. But polls don't vote, people do. And right now, the Cruz voters are fired up - and the Clinton voters aren't. But that isn't surprising. Democrats have spent 25 years honing a simple, yet wholly uninspiring message - "We are a little less crappy than them!" IT IS A HORRIBLE MESSAGE THAT HAS FAILED, AND FAILED, AND FAILED. Yet, with that terrible track record, the Beltway geniuses who run the Democratic Party are about to run that play one more time.

the Democrats’ problem is social capital

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Peter

Ben Carson is crying about media scrutiny, saying it is unfair and that is because secular progressives fear him. LOL. Dr. Carson, as a secular progressive, let me tell you that I do not fear you. I pity you. You are a pathological liar with a clear psychological problem and a mental illness. I find you laughable as well. If you were to be your party's nominee, Hillary Clinton would win nearly 50 states and all Republicans everywhere would be swept out of office. So I am actually rooting for you.

This is the latest in a series of on again off again ICarly style podcasts I'm doing with Donviti. This iteration is going to keep to under 30 minutes and is going to deal with, being 50, Eagles Football, some politics and Game of Thrones (if that show ever comes back on. [Note to my fellow DL contributors - I'm only putting it here for now, so don't worry.]