President Bush’s Soft Amnesty Bill Is 0-For-Texas-and-Georgia June 21, 2007
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With today’s announcement that U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) will not vote for President Bush’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” proposal, both of Texas’s U.S. Senators and both of Georgia’s U.S. Senators, the others being Republicans John Cornyn (TX), Johnny Isakson (GA) and Saxby Chambliss (GA), have announced their opposition to the bill.
All four Senators previously expressed some support for the bill and the concept of immigration amnesty. Their change of position will mean that getting the bill to a vote on the floor of the Senate, much less actually passing it, is a virtual impossibility.
Texas is the next American state in line to become majority non-white, and Georgia had the second-highest Hispanic growth rate in the 1990s. Both states are also homes to conservative white voters whom Messrs. Isakson, Chambliss, Cornyn and Miss Hutchinson will depend on to win re-election.
Riverview Gardens School District Loses State Accreditation June 21, 2007
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The Missouri State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has revoked the accreditation of the Riverview Gardens School District, of northeast St. Louis County.
In the last several years, DESE has taken this action against three school districts in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, the other two being Wellston and St. Louis City. All three districts are overwhelmingly African-American in its pupil makeup, even though KTVI’s website uses an artistic image of a white boy at a blackboard as an icon for the story.
Under the ethos of racial equality, the races of human beings are equally as intelligent, and are thus equally capable of academic achievement in the collective sense. Yet, DESE has not revoked their accreditation of school districts like Parkway, Rockwood, Oakville, and Francis Howell. Either DESE is comprised of white racists, an unlikely possibility considering that the educational profession is overwhelmingly left-wing, and much of DESE’s Board consists of appointees by the decidedly left-wing gubernatorial administrations of Bob Holden and Mel Carnahan, or racial equality is substantively incorrect.
“Emmett Till Cold Case Bill” Passes U.S. House June 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON | Some civil rights era murders that gathered dust for decades as “cold cases” would move to the Justice Department’s front burner, under a bill passed in the House Wednesday.
By nearly unanimous consent, the chamber agreed to create a “cold case” squad within the department to go after civil rights murders still on the books.
The Justice Department would get more than $100 million for new prosecutors, FBI agents and other resources to revisit such cases that occurred before 1970.
The bill, passed 422-2, is named in honor of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was beaten and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
Ron Paul was one of the two nays on this bill. It was originally introduced and sponsored in the U.S. Senate by former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, who was defeated last November in his bid for re-election.
What is not mentioned either by supporters of the bill, nor the mainstream media, is that most of these cases that are unsolved cannot be reopened by the Federal government nor prosecuted by them, because they occurred before the Federal Civil Rights laws that could be used existed at all. The U.S. Constitution prohibits ex post facto enforcement of criminal and civil laws.
Teen Charged With Adult Murder Charge in Apparent Self-Defense in Spanish Lake June 21, 2007
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ahryal King, who turns 17 in August, was certified this afternoon to stand trial as an adult for allegedly firing shots into a mob of teens outside his Spanish Lake house. One youth was killed, another wounded in the encounter.
King will face charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and armed criminal action when he is officially charged in the next 24 hours and transferred from the juvenile court facility on Brentwood Boulevard in Clayton to the Justice Center four blocks away.
King will join his mother, Alma, 51, at the jail. She has failed to make bond so far of $150,000, despite help from family, church and friends. She, too, is accused of firing into the crowd of teens whom, police say, were throwing rocks and newspapers at the King house and taunting Ahyral to come out and fight another teenager.
There is some speculation that Mr. King and Miss King acted in self-defense against an aggressive mob of young African-Americans congregated outside of their home.
In Spite of Dwindling Population, New Orleans’ Crime Rate Is Higher Than Ever June 21, 2007
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Washington Times:
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city’s failing justice system is attracting violent criminals the way the French Quarter once pulled in tourists, witnesses told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
“Returning drug dealers and violent criminals have chosen to come back to New Orleans … to exploit the highly dysfunctional local criminal justice system, including its notorious ‘revolving door,’ ” testified Jim Letten, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
In more than 3,000 criminal cases last year, charges had to be dismissed and suspects released because indictments were not brought within 60 days, as required by Louisiana law, said witnesses from New Orleans.And last year there was only one conviction for the 160 homicides committed.
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In the first three months of this year, violent crime is up 107 percent over the same period last year, including 91 homicides, law-enforcement officials testified.
One could wonder why Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has not utilized the Louisiana National Guard to squelch the anarchy in New Orleans. It is a solution that is available to implement right now, and would not depend on the turtle’s pace of Washington, D.C. legislation.
Fort Zumwalt School District Opening Fourth High School June 21, 2007
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Indicative of the phenomenon called “suburban sprawl,” or more properly, white flight, the Fort Zumwalt School District, which mostly corresponds to the St. Charles County cities of St. Peters and O’Fallon, is constructing a fourth high school, which will open this fall.
Fort Zumwalt will join five other Missouri school districts, three of those previous five being in the St. Louis metro area, those being St. Louis City, Rockwood and Parkway, that have at least four regular high schools.
Not coincidentally, the St. Louis City Public Schools has been closing high schools for the last few decades. St. Louis is not a growing region in terms of population, so the growth in St. Charles County of both people and school-aged students means that some other area lost population.
