[News and Observer] RALEIGH - There’s a new push to allow North Carolina teachers to carry guns in school that some state lawmakers think has a chance of being approved this year.
The School Security Act of 2019, filed Wednesday, would boost the salaries of teachers who underwent specialized police training to carry firearms on campus. The same bill was filed last year and died in committee, but Sen. Jerry Tillman, one of the new sponsors of Senate Bill 192, said that the climate has changed to give the legislation more support this year.
"This is an idea whose time has come," said Tillman, the Senate majority whip and a Republican from Randolph County. "With the heightened awareness of the legislature, I believe this bill will see success."
The bill’s two other primary sponsors are Republican senators Ralph Hise and Warren Daniel.
Last week, the School Self-Defense Act was filed in the state House to allow for armed teachers but would not pay them extra for taking on that responsibility. The bill had also been filed last year and died in committee.
Mark Jewell, president of the N.C. Association of Educators, said Wednesday that the group would continue to fight any efforts to arm teachers with guns.
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We’ll see if this year the guns rights crew can carry the day, or if the anti-gun crowd wins again. Still, all they can do is keep trying as the national zeitgeist continues to change in their favour.
[Right Scoop] Washington governor Jay Inslee is going to have to apologize a lot for being a straight white male in this insanely extremist Democratic party.
Here he is with Jake Tapper explaining why white people suck, but that people should vote for him anyway:
LOL! I can tell right now that this presidential primary campaign is going to be insanely fun to watch as more and more democrats get forced to genuflect before the most left-wing extremism of a party being led by progressive radicals. Yes, this is how you shore up the base of identity politics radicals, but it’s also how you drive off the more reasonable center moderate Democrats. No, they probably won’t be driven to vote for Trump, but this kind of crap won’t bring them out to the polls either...
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"From what I've been able to tell from news reports, here is the Democrats' 2020 campaign platform in a nutshell: 'We hate you, we *really* hate Jews, we hate babies, we hate America, and we want you to starve. Now give us all your guns.'" - OregonMuse
[WashingtonTimes] Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro isn’t ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery ‐ a stand separating him from his 2020 rivals.
"If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property," the former Obama-era housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor said on Sunday.
Castro was among the last of a pack of 2020 candidates to speak at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas, in what amounted to one of the biggest gatherings of the Democratic field yet.
As Democrats have addressed reparations in the early stages of the race, other candidates are discussing tax credits and other subsidies, rather than direct payments for the labor and legal oppression of slaves and their descendants. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would put resources such as "Medicare for All" and tuition-free college into distressed communities.
Castro tells CNN’s "State of the Union" he doesn’t think that’s the proper argument for reparations if "a big check needs to be written for a whole bunch of other stuff." Castro stopped short of saying he would push for direct compensation to descendants as president, saying instead that he would appoint a commissioner or task force that would make recommendations.
Sanders was in New Hampshire, while Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was in Dallas, Kamala Harris of California was in Miami and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota was in Tampa.
"But those reparations didn't count! Y'all waited until right before The Inflation was going to make the money worthless before handing it out!" We'll all be working on The Dignity Canal for the Chinese or the Russians or the Bolivarians and they probably still won't shut up about it and the laogai will be overcome with race riots.
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Seems like a lot of Democrats are trying to shore up the faultering black vote using promises of reperations combined with the knowledge they can spin anti-reperation arguments as racist. Not a bad strategy, and if elected they can play the race card every time their reparations nonsense goes nowhere.
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"If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property,"
Because they're long dead, idiot
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So pay them. After you pay them, they must pay compensation to the families of all the Union soldiers who died or were wounded or just served during the Civil War.
First, like Silent Brick said, thence any residuals may be redeemed in Liberia, paid one-way travel voucher included at n/c upon surrender of U.S. citizenship.
[Hot Air] Did Adam Schiff’s staff conduct a deposition with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen ‐ or did they suborn perjury and coach the witness? House Intelligence Committee member Michael Turner (R-OH) wants to know what precisely happened in their ten-hour-plus of meetings with Cohen prior to his testimony last week to three House committees. Cohen had previously pled guilty to lying to Congress and faces a three-year prison sentence, and Republicans want him referred for more falsehoods from his latest testimony as well:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Right Scoop] Washington governor Jay Inslee is going to have to apologize a lot for being a straight white male in this insanely extremist Democratic party.
