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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Fw: Fight Cuts in Social Security & Medicare
Top Hospitals Offer Separate and Unequal Care
Top Hospitals Offer Separate and Unequal Care
The city's top hospitals offer blue-chip care to patients with private insurance, but people with Medicaid do not fare nearly as well. An advocate argues we must do better.
Top Hospitals Offer Separate and Unequal Care
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT
Georgia Terrorism Suspect Allegedly Found Inspiration In Fox News Expert’s Novel
You may have read about four men arrested in Georgia Tuesday for what the New York Times described as a domestic terror plot involving guns, bombs and the toxin ricin, all aimed at killing federal and state officials and spreading terror. Yesterday (11/2/11), Fox News’ Jonathan Serrie reported on the case for America’s Newsroom and noted in his report that one of the defendants “allegedly cited the online novel, Absolved, which discusses small groups of citizens attacking U.S. officials. Apparently, this defendant… allegedly saying that these attacks would be based on events in that novel.” But what Serrie and host Martha MacCallum didn’t mention is that the author of Absolved is a Fox News expert.
Media Matters has the details:
Indeed, the author, Mike Vanderboegh, has been mainstreamed by the network, which has repeatedly featured him as an expert on the ATF's failed Operation Fast and Furious. Fox has identified Vanderboegh as an "online journalist" and an "authority on the Fast and Furious investigation," and has consistently failed to acknowledge his extremist views, actions, and affiliations.Vanderboegh, a former member of the militia and Minuteman movements and now a leader of the "anti-government extremist group" the Three Percenters, which claims to represent the three percent of gun owners who "who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act" but will instead, "if forced by any would-be oppressor, ... kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution."
Maybe that's why our Priscilla couldn't find the story on Fox Nation.
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Georgia Terrorism Suspect Allegedly Found Inspiration In Fox News Expert’s Novel
Ellen
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:19:34 GMT
After two years on the market, a buyer may have been fond for the ivy-covered landmark.
After two years on the market, a buyer may have been fond for the ivy-covered landmark.
The Harlem brownstone that poet Langston Hughes called home for two decades, and where he wrote many of his greatest works, may have a buyer after more than two years on the real estate market.
After two years on the market, a buyer may have been fond for the ivy-covered landmark.
Billy Shannon
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:16:37 GMT
There's A Bad Tenants' "Blacklist": Is Your Name On It?
The New York State Office of Court Administration [OCA] sells the names of every tenant sued in housing court for eviction, handing over the names to private companies that create lists of potentially bad tenants. Landlords then buy the lists to screen out applicants, many of whom wind up on this list even if they win their housing court lawsuits. Or even if an error resulted in them getting sued by mistake. But now a legal team is going to court to fight the blacklisting. [ more › ]
There's A Bad Tenants' "Blacklist": Is Your Name On It?
John Del Signore
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:17:00 GMT
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African-American - News November 3, 2011 Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver says the White House has made an effort to mend its relationship with the group. Venerable Rosenwald School saved (The State) NJ job losses have hurt blacks and Hispanics more than whites (Asbury Park Press Online)  A major civil rights leader and former head of the NAACP has joined two other prominent African-Americans in making a video promoting marriage equality. Ann Coulter defends remarks that conservativeA blacks are 'so much better' than liberal blacksA (New York Daily News) Lee OKs plan for redistricting (News Press)  Editor's note: Fredrick D. Robinson, a Baptist preacher, is studying ministry in North Carolina. | ||
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Muslims, Obama Voters Not Welcome in TX Gun Safety Class
Muslims, Obama Voters Not Welcome in TX Gun Safety Class
By Cynthia Hsu on November 2, 2011 5:45 AM | No TrackBacks
Crocket Keller's gun glass is open to all: except non-Christian Muslims and those that voted for President Obama. Keller purchased some radio air time for his concealed hand gun course, held at the Keller's Riverside Store in Texas.
During one part of the advertisement, Keller specifically includes a disclaimer that says he excludes liberals and Muslims.
Why? It's because these two classes of individuals "have already proven" that they are unable to "make a knowledgeable and prudent decision as under the law."
Is this kind of discrimination legal?
Keller says that he hasn't gotten many complaints about his student selection practice. In fact, he staunchly defended his right to choose who to teach.
His controversial radio ad also garnered attention. On YouTube, the spot got 1,000 views the first day and had 17,000 views by the third, reports the Houston Chronicle.
Despite the advertisement's popularity, Keller may be violating regulations.
In a statement, the Texas Department of Public Safety says that they license and certify certain individuals to teach coursework and provide training to those looking to get their concealed handgun license. The statement goes on to explain that instructors are expected to adhere with state and federal statutes.
Specifically, if an instructor denies service to potential students on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion, Keller could be at risk of suspension or revocation.
Considering Keller is making no qualms that he will deny students if they are Muslim, his license may be in a precarious position.
The Department has now started to investigate Crockett Keller's gun class. It might soon mean that the Keller's Riverside Store owner will face penalties if he doesn't open his course to individuals from all backgrounds.
Related Resources:
- Crockett Keller, Texas Gun Safety Instructor, Refuses To Teach Liberals And Muslims (Huffington Post)
- Religious Discrimination (FindLaw)
- Muslim Man Fired for Not Shaving Beard (FindLaw's Law & Daily Life)
- Abercrombie Sued for Religious Discrimination, Again (FindLaw's Law & Daily Life)
Scott Stringer Wants to Halt Group's Spending of Columbia Cash in Harlem
Scott Stringer Wants to Halt Group's Spending of Columbia Cash in Harlem
November 2, 2011 9:46am | By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
Borough President Scott Stringer called for safety improvements at Greenwich and Duane streets at an Oct. 6, 2011 press conference. (DNAinfo/Julie Shapiro)
HARLEM — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants to stop a group from distributing $150 million in funds from Columbia University's community benefit agreement with West Harlem, saying he has concerns about its lack of transparency.
In a statement released Tuesday, Stringer called on the West Harlem Local Development Corporation to "halt any further disbursement of funds" because they were doing so "without a formal application process, without public notices, without protocols for selection, without advice from a community advisory committee and without adequate, transparent discussion by the LDC as a whole."
"I am especially dismayed that LDC’s executive committee continues to disburse funds," Stringer wrote.
The agency is responsible for giving away $76 million in cash and making sure Columbia delivers $30 million for construction of a new K-8 school in conjunction with Teachers College, $20 million for an affordable housing fund and $20 million in in-kind benefits.
Cops Continue To Justify Ticket-Fixing As Vicious Beating Cover-Up Is Revealed
Last week, 16 NYPD officers were indicted at a Bronx courthouse on charges related to the department's massive ticket-fixing probe. One hundred and sixty other officers have also been implicated in the probe, and may be forced to testify against other cops when it goes to trial. Many officers continue to argue that ticket-fixing is a mere courtesy that has always been extended to officers, their families, and other city officials. And one cop rationalized the ticket-fixing because it ensured a meeting between his gravely-ill child and the Yankees. [ more › ]
Cops Continue To Justify Ticket-Fixing As Vicious Beating Cover-Up Is Revealed
Ben Yakas
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:35:00 GMT
Dismal Tale Of Arrest For Tiniest Of Crimes - NYTimes.com
She was handcuffed. For the next 36 hours, she was moved from a cell in the 26th Precinct station house on West 126th Street to central booking in Lower Manhattan and then -- because one of the officers was ending his shift before Ms. Zucker could be photographed for her court appearance, and you didn't think he was going to take the subway uptown while his partner stayed with her at booking, did you? -- she was brought back to Harlem.
Dismal Tale Of Arrest For Tiniest Of Crimes - NYTimes.com
The Huffington Post News Editors
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:03:40 GMT
'Crackheads' Aren't Coming to Get You
Last June, the U.S. Sentencing Commission finally corrected what was widely understood to be a racialized disparity: crack offenders (84 percent of whom were African American) were given the same mandatory five-year minimum sentence as were offenders in possession of 100 times as much powder cocaine (about 30 percent of whom were African American).
The Commission voted unanimously to redress what it called the "fundamental unfairness" of the old law by allowing prisoners convicted before it was changed to seek to reduce their sentences.
Today is the day that federal prisoners who have petitioned for reduced sentences under rules Congress passed last year were able to begin released.
In a piece for MSNBC this week, Alex M. Johnson says there's no reason to believe thousands of "crackheads" are going to start flooding America's streets as a result.
First, the new policy applies only to those convicted in federal court — the tens of thousands of crack cocaine convicts in state prisons aren't affected. And it effectively applies only to those federal prisoners convicted after 2007.
Second, the reduction isn't automatic; prisoners must go before federal judges, allowing for potentially dangerous or violent offenders to be screened out.
Third, a study by the Sentencing Commission showed that crack cocaine offenders were released early were actually less likely than members of a control group to re-offend.
Most significantly, Johnson points out that the new policy doesn't actually wipe out the disparity in cocaine sentencing. While the crack possession-to-powder possession isn't 100:1 anymore, it's still 18:1 — meaning you can have 18 times more powder cocaine than crack in your possession and still receive the same minimum sentence.
So, maybe what people should really be worried about this week is not that "crackheads" will be released and come to get them, but rather that the law behind this development is still inexplicably unfair in a way that has everything to do with race.
Read the U.S. Sentencing Commission statement on new guidelines (.pdf)
Read more at MSNBC.
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'Crackheads' Aren't Coming to Get You
Jenée Desmond-Harris
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:04:00 GMT
Education Officials Pledge Changes After "National Report Card" Finds NY Students Do Poorly
A new nationwide report card released Tuesday shows New York schools could use some extra help as reading test scores were flat among fourth and eighth grade students.
Education Officials Pledge Changes After "National Report Card" Finds NY Students Do Poorly
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:21:18 GMT
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African-American - News November 2, 2011 "I've been through it before, I'll go through it again. It's the same person, the same group of people," says Randall. NAACP: North Carolina Needs More Black Federal Judges (WDBZ-AM Cincinnati) Toure Ridicules 'Constant Minstrelsy' Of Herman Cain's Presidential Campaign (Mediaite)  Since the time Rachael Grier-Reynolds was a child, she's been trying to help the world become a more peaceful place. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (Ricklibrarian) | |||
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City Rules Could Transplant Gardens
Community gardeners fear city regulations could force them to till new fields and leave some of the green growing spaces unprotected.
City Rules Could Transplant Gardens
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT
Loose Nut May Have Started Manhattan Wastewater Treatment Plant Fire
A report released today reveals that a loose fitting may have caused the summer fire at a Harlem wastewater treatment plant that led to gallons of raw sewage being dumped into the city's waterways.
Loose Nut May Have Started Manhattan Wastewater Treatment Plant Fire
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:04:59 GMT
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Kelly swears-in James O'Keefe as deputy despite urgings to hire Latino
A former NYPD official has been chosen to return to his old post as head of the Police Academy — over the recommendations of elected officials who urged the job be given to a Latino.
Kelly swears-in James O'Keefe as deputy despite urgings to hire Latino
ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:36:50 GMT
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