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Home Schooling Is Not a Crime
by Michelle Malkin 
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Jeff Sessions, resign! But do this first
by LARRY KLAYMAN
{wnd.com} ~ Among many reports, the big news this week coming out of the “Capital of Corruption” is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed under oath... by the rabid pro-liar-Clinton/ liar- nObama and anti-Trump prosecutors of Special Counsel Robert Mueller! The reason for this: Sessions is a target or at least a subject of Mueller’s criminal probe into alleged Trump collusion with Russia as well as the attorney general’s role in the firing of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey. First, with regard to the Russian collusion investigation, is Sessions’ stupid error of judgment, during his confirmation hearings for the post of attorney general, when he did not testify fully and truthfully about his meetings with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his Senate office during the height of the 2016 presidential campaign. The fact the attorney general had contact, in the ordinary course of his Senate duties, with the premier representative of the Kremlin in the United States, a world power, is not a crime and in fact furthers international relations... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/jeff-sessions-resign-but-do-this-first/Will Gang of Six Grant Amnesty to
ex-DACA Gang Members and Criminals?
by JENNIFER G. HICKEY
{immigrationreform.com} ~ One of the unanswered questions about so-called “bipartisan deal” put on the table by six pro-amnesty senators... is just how many illegal immigrants will reap the reward of amnesty? In many ways, the reality of the proposal does not match with the dreams its sponsors are selling. Not only would the “Gang of Six” give the recipients of President liar-nObama’s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program a pathway to U.S. citizenship, it would pave the way for DACA-eligible illegal aliens and the parents of DACA illegal aliens. Nor does it make cuts to legal immigration levels, and it fails on multiple levels to strengthen security at the borders or interior law enforcement. But there are serious questions even if amnesty is reserved for the 700,000 individuals who have already benefitted from DACA... https://immigrationreform.com/2018/01/23/will-gang-six-grant-amnesty-ex-daca-gang-members-criminals/ .
liar-nObama’s DOD Gave Security Clearances
to Contractors Charged with Felonies,
Including Pedophilia
by EDWIN MORA
{breitbart.com} ~ The Pentagon was forced last year to rescind interim security clearances granted under the liar-nObama administration... to at least 165 contractors linked to various crimes, including felony convictions for pedophilia and foreign government affiliations, revealed a report issued by the Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS). According to the report, DOD contractors preserved their ability to access sensitive government information despite prior criminal records and other illicit past activity that the Pentagon’s vetting process failed to detect. “Of those 165 cases, 151 people had pre-existing issues that they did not disclose and were not discovered during initial checks; the issues were not identified until the investigation was completed in 2017,” noted the report, adding, “The interim decisions analyzed … actually occurred before 2017 and were subject to a final decision by the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) in 2017.”... http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/26/pentagon-obamas-dod-granted-security-clearances-to-contractors-charged-with-pedophilia/ .
Russian collusion?
I'll give you Russian collusion
by JOSEPH FARAH
{wnd.com} ~ Do you keep wondering, like me, how CNN-New York Times fake media and their cohorts in the Democratic Party... keep screaming about the phantom collusion between Russia and President Trump but never mention the shocking, real, national security-shaking collusion between Russia and liar-Hillary Clinton in the Uranium One deal? Little noticed two weeks ago was a federal grand jury indictment of a Maryland man, Mark Lambert, that could change that scenario. Of course, with the liar-Clintons’ seeming invulnerability to the consequences of the law of the land, maybe not. Lambert was indicted for several counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, to commit two counts of wire fraud and the international promotion of money laundering in connection with the Uranium One deal that sent massive amounts of America’s strategic uranium reserves to Russia – in a deal no one can figure out, expect that it helped enrich the liar-Clintons... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/russian-collusion-ill-give-you-russian-collusion/
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Angry ‘DREAMers’ Surround clown-Schumer’s
Home, Refuse to let him Sleep!
by JOE GOMEZ
{immigrationreform.com} ~ The “DREAMers” were giving Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer (D-N.Y.) nightmares last night... Dozens of illegal alien activists surrounded his townhouse in New York City, demanding that he attach the Dream Act onto a future spending bill. “If clown-Chuck won’t let us dream, we won’t let him sleep!” They chanted, drumming on empty buckets and carrying signs that read #Selloutclown-Schumer... https://immigrationreform.com/2018/01/24/angry-dreamers-surround-schumers-home-refuse-let-sleep/..
Home Schooling Is Not a Crime
{townhall.com} ~ It's elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With two million K-12 students now educated at home including our 9th grade son, the temptation to exploit the most marginal cases of alleged child abuse by home-schoolers has proven irresistible to statist politicians and government apologists.
Take the case of David and Louise Turpin's 13 starving children, reportedly found tethered to their beds after one of the siblings escaped and contacted police. The Turpins' "house of horrors" in Riverside County, California, grabbed international headlines last week -- and lured a parade of publicity hounds. Former neighbors in Texas claimed they suspected physical abuse by the parents but did nothing at the time. These thirsty fame-seekers will, however, be appearing on "Dr. Phil" later this week to slurp up their 15 minutes of leechdom.
Louise Turpin's half-sister, Teresa Robinette, who also sat on the sidelines for years, miraculously found the energy and motivation to wake up early for an interview on NBC's "Today Show," where she gregariously gossiped about family secrets.
Another of Louise Turpin's sisters, Elizabeth Flores, dry-cried and show-sniffled on ABC's "Good Morning America" about her "love" for the Turpin children whom she claims to have tried to Skype unsuccessfully "for 20 years." How heroic of her. Flores also confessed that David Turpin allegedly spied on her while she showered. For some reason, it was more urgent for Flores to report this information to "GMA" anchor Robin Roberts and millions of strangers tuned into the boob tube than it was to tell her sister. Or her nieces and nephews. Or authorities.
But instead of training tough scrutiny where it belongs -- on the parents, relatives and acquaintances of the alleged victims -- California legislators and narrative-shaping liberal journalists have instead directed their wrath at home schooling.
The Turpins had filed required paperwork with the state registering their supposed home school, the Sandcastle Day School, as a "private school." Several court cases in California have upheld the right to home school. Parents have the option to sign an affidavit establishing a home-based educational program, hire credentialed tutors or register with an independent study program.
The deep, wide and vast majority of home-schoolers nationwide are loving, excellent and responsible instructors and parents. Yet, public school lobbyists have marginalized them as amateurs, weirdos and menaces who don't have the intelligence to raise and educate their own children. Democratic legislators in California have sought to undermine home-schoolers' autonomy with intrusive legislation, such as a bill proposed last fall that would have required parents to allow inspectors to search their residential bathrooms for state-mandated feminine hygiene products for female students.
In New York City, incompetent nanny state bureaucrats have routinely harassed home-schooling families and falsely accused them of "educational neglect" after losing their paperwork. Home-schooling mom of two, Tanya Acevedo, who is suing the Big Apple, told my CRTV.com program how bureaucratic snafus that classified her son as a truant led to a Child Protective Services investigation.
"You start to question yourself as a parent when they come through those doors," Acevedo recounted. "My child he eats three meals a day, he's well taken care of, and I felt that there was no need for them to be knocking at my door. ... it was a really scary and really nerve-racking experience."
For her crime of exercising educational self-determination, Acevedo was treated as guilty of child abuse until proven innocent.
The idea that there is something especially sinister and crime-enabling about home schooling -- The Week's Damon Linker warned darkly of the "sickening danger of home-schooling," for example, and NPR invoked the specter of a "cult" -- betrays an all-too-common bias against parental autonomy that ignores the government's own gross misconduct. From coast to coast, child welfare agencies see parental negligence where none exists and conversely ignore abuse when it's under their employees' noses. Federal audits of state child welfare bureaucracies in California and Texas last year found rampant failures to detect abuse, investigate allegations and track referrals.
Moreover, sexual abuse scandals have rocked inner-city schools, suburban public school districts and wealthy private schools alike. "In 2014 alone," according to former federal education official Terry Abbott, "there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual relationships with students."
Yet, the vultures of political opportunism are using the plight of the Turpin children to impose expanded control over all home-schoolers in the Golden State. California Assemblymember Jose Medina, D-Riverside, plans to introduce a bill requiring that "mandated reporters" designated by the state Department of Education conduct annual assessments in all home schools.
Echoing Medina's concern for "the lack of oversight the state of California currently has in monitoring private and home schools," liberal New Republic writer Sarah Jones decried how "lax homeschooling laws protect child abusers." She pivoted quickly from the Turpin tragedy to an attack on the home-school movement's academic achievements and opposition to mandatory kindergarten.
Fundamentally, the home-school crackdown caucus views the very freedom to educate one's own children as a threat to government authority. In the name of liberating the Turpin children, they seek to keep the rest of us home-schooling families in regulatory chains.
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