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Seattle Public Schools may do away with a nearly decade-old requirement that all students earn a C average to graduate, and an even-older policy that athletes maintain a C average to play on school teams. If the School Board approves recommendations endorsed by Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, as well as most district high-school principals and counselors, a D average will be good enough to earn a high-school diploma. Student athletes would need to pass five of six classes with D grades or better. District officials understand there are concerns about relaxing standards at a time when everyone from President Obama on...

Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh saying that Jimmy Carter is "the Nation's hemorrhoid, and we don't have a tube of Prep H big enough to deal with it." He made the remarks in response to Jimmy Carter saying that most of the opposition to President Obama is because he is "a black man." (Audio)

Former President Jimmy Carter’s view that some of the recent protests against President Obama, including the “You Lie!” outburst by Representative Joe Wilson last week, are “based on racism,” has fueled a new war of words over this already charged issue. The former president first weighed in on Tuesday during a question-and-answer session at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Mr. Carter responded to a question about Mr. Wilson’s eruption by saying that he did believe it was laced with racism. Coupling the Wilson remark with the images in recent weeks of angry demonstrators wielding signs depicting Mr. Obama as a...

Here, in the first decade of the 21st century, we as Americans can look back on a history for which we are justly grateful. We live in a nation that saw freedom and prosperity abound like no other in the history of this planet. Our nation was forged in the crucible of the struggle for liberty, and her history, while certainly not perfect, has been one of consistently increasing liberty for increasing numbers of her inhabitants. Yet, we nevertheless find ourselves at a cusp in our history. We are poised at the precipice, ready to fall headlong into the pit...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) continued his attack on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) health care bill, sharply questioning the chairman’s decision to conduct months of bipartisan talks that failed to win a single Republican backer, while shutting out Democrats on the committee. Hours after Baucus released his sweeping health care plan, Rockefeller said he could not vote for the bill as it stands – and questioned why Baucus allowed the so-called “Gang of Six” talks between three Republicans and three Democrats to progress for months. “I’m not very happy about that obviously,” Rockefeller said of the process. “I...

Video: ACORN Claims Videographer and Glenn Beck Were Manipulated by Worker in San Bernadino (Cannot be posted)

Fearful of a Madrid-style subway train bombing, authorities are poised to make more raids to seize bomb-making materials at locations in Queens, sources said Wednesday. The FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team arrived in New York in anticipation of the offensive to thwart a Denver-based terror cell with ties to Al Qaeda, police sources told the Daily News. Another source said an earlier raid uncovered nine backpacks and cell phones, raising memories of the March 2004 bombings in Madrid. A series of terrorist bombs detonated aboard commuter trains killed 191 people. The source said authorities feared a potential attack on the...

When you're developing the X double bar and R charts, and your samples go up to, say, 15, where do you get your values for the A2, D3 and D4 values?

Former President Jimmy Carter is throwing his two cents in on Congressman Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) outburst on the House floor last week. Mr. Carter is calling Mr. Wilson's "you lie" accusation towards President Obama during the President's address to Congress last week an act of racism. While these racism charges are debated, it should be noted that Mr. Carter referred to Mr. Obama as "this black boy" in August of 2008 during the last presidential elections. I uploaded this video at Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv at the time.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – British actress Kate Winslet lead the pack of People magazine's 10 best-dressed women of 2009, with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama chosen for "best accessible glamour." Although the list, released on Wednesday, does not have numerical ranking, Winslet, 33, who won an Oscar in February for playing a dour Nazi in "The Reader," was deemed to be the best-dressed woman on the red carpet on 2009 "with her unique brand of sexy sophistication, modern Hollywood glamour and those enviable curves."

According to theHill.com it appears that the last vestige of Republican support has melted away in the form of Olympia Snowe who expressed concerns over the budgetary constraints the health reform bill poses. When a woman who voted for the 787 Stimulus package is concerned over price, you got a problem! Max Baucus feels will address some of the concerns put forth by critics of the reform, specifically the ability to pay for the program. In the speech to Congress, Obama suggested that Democrat's bill will not add one cent to the deficit and instead will match every expenditure with...

Study Shows One Abortion Ups Premature Birth Risk for Women by 36 Percent Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new study by a Canadian researcher finds that women who have just one abortion increase the risk of having a premature birth in a subsequent pregnancy by 36 percent. The research is the latest in a long string of studies confirming the link between abortion and premature birth. http://www.LifeNews.com/int1321.html

Robert Gibbs is scheduled to brief the press at the top of the hour. Here are some of our questions for him: - Does the White House agree with former President Carter that some of the president's critics are motivated by racial animus? - Has the president expressed any opinion on the House's reprimand of Rep. Wilson? - Adm. Mullen said yesterday he expected a further increase in the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. Why would he say that, if, as the White House insists, no determinations about force deployment have been made? - Were you disappointed that no Republicans...

Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn’t sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own. How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN, which gets millions of dollars in federal funding, and allow a couple of independents with $3,000 and a bad wardrobe scoop them on the undercover story of the year? It’s easy when newsrooms are more concerned with political direction than truth. Stick around to the end, when Stewart zings Michelle Malkin haters:

A senior adviser says Obama disagrees with those who see racism at playPresident Obama doesn't believe that racism is much of a factor in the wave of opposition to his policies evident at rallies and other protests around the country this summer. Obama acknowledges that many Americans oppose his ideas on healthcare and other issues, but he disagrees with those who see racism at play, a senior Obama adviser told U.S. News. Obama, the first African-American president, still feels a strong sense of approval and affection from the crowds that he speaks to, a replication of the positive attitudes he...

Where are all my girlfriends from the Vast Right Wing Knitting Circle? I miss you all! Let me know by responding to this post.

I'm not saying New Jersey is in the best condition right now, but compared to other states we're not doing too bad considering the make up of our economy, and that many New Jerseyans were directly affected by the financial collapse last year. But now some are blaming the Governor for their economic ills when in fact Jon Corzine has spent much of the last four years, with pail in hand, bailing out the under compartments of a ship that Captain George W. Bush steered with his unsound and untested economic policies into every ice burg he pretended wasn't there.

At the 27th “Osnabrücker Baumpflegetagen” (one of Germany’s most important annual conferences on all aspects of forest husbandry), Empa researcher Francis Schwarze’s "biotech violin" dared to go head to head in a blind test against a stradivarius – and won! A brilliant outcome for the Empa violin, which is made of wood treated with fungus, against the instrument made by the great master himself in 1711. September 1st 2009 was a day of reckoning for Empa scientist Francis Schwarze and the Swiss violin maker Michael Rhonheimer. The violin they had created using wood treated with a specially selected fungus was...

In the past the race card was in fact a potent play for the left. I wonder if it hasn't been played so often that it's now thin enough for people to see through. The latest Rasmussen poll suggests that is the case: Twelve percent (12%) of voters nationwide believe that most opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan are racist. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of voters disagree, and 21% are not sure.[snip] Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans reject the notion that most of the opponents are racist. So do 78% of voters...

With all this talk of racist marches on Washington and racist comments made during presidential speeches and racist outcry over the pResident’s policies, we really should look at the facts. We all know that the Democratic Party has a long history of racism its members want you to forget. Jimmy Carter’s rant to CNN yesterday is one way they try to pretend that we’re the racists. Here are a couple of joke quotes for fun -- followed by a slew of real quotes made by real racist Democrats.