RUTHFULLY YOURS

An e-pal P.K. sent me a note after viewing the video in which four admittedly nasty kids hurled admittedly nasty invectives and taunts at the aggrieved school monitor.

Dear Ruth,

The bullies on the right bore me – not as much as those on the left – but there is such shallow thinking. Middle school boys near Rochester, NY verbally abused a “bus monitor” this spring. Glenn Beck claims these boys aren’t human.Bus monitors need to be like cool baseball coaches. Mrs. Klein was ill suited for the job. My son Noah is shy and wouldn’t be involved is such a thing. But he has classmates that I have coached with aggressive temperaments that would – and they aren’t all bad boys and I have a real problem with Glenn Beck’s unloading on them. …..Peter…..

I agree with Peter and I remember that I grew up in the East Bronx with a lot of bullies and “bad kids”….As my brother reminds me half of the bullies became thugs but the other half became cops…..rsk

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Online Outrage Over Bullying of School Bus Monitor By JENNIFER PRESTON

More than $380,000 has been raised online for a 68-year-old school bus monitor from Rochester, N.Y., after a cellphone video went viral this week, showing a group of seventh-grade boys on the school bus mocking and taunting her.

The monitor, Karen Klein, who drove a bus for the Greece Central School District for 20 years before becoming a monitor three years ago, was sitting in the back of the bus on Monday afternoon when the boys began pelting her with vile remarks and one profanity-laced insult after another about her weight, her hearing aid and her sweat glands.

One of the four students captured the incident on his cellphone and posted it on his Facebook page. It found its way to YouTube, where it now has more than 1.6 million views. The video prompted outrage as well as a discussion about bullying that led to the creation of an online “vacation fund” for Ms. Klein.

http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/Judaic-Studies-and-Western-Civilization–6815 I’ve yet to see, among the criticisms of college ethnic and gender studies departments, a similar criticism of Judaic Studies departments. Is this because, as some charge, Jews have a privileged place in our universities? The pervasiveness of anti-Israel sentiment on campuses, usually with carte blanche or often support from faculty and administrators, argues […]

A Fine for Not Using a Biofuel That Doesn’t Exist By MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as […]

http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/06/life-under-sharia Brutality and Injustice Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, defends the freedoms and liberties of Western society against “stealth jihad,” a campaign by Islamists to slowly and methodically implement a Sharia-compliant theocracy in the West. Sharia is Islamic law, based on the Koran and the teachings and personal actions of Mohammad […]

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/20009-Why-So-Many-National-Security-Leaks.html
The simple truth why there are so many national security leaks is that the prime actors — government officials, Congress, the media — want them or are unwilling to stop them.
The current spate of serious leaks is not the first time this has occurred. There were major leaks during the Bush administration damaging to the post-9/11 ramping up of anti-terror activities, with no punishment of the offenders. By comparison, the leak of Valerie Plame’s not-so-secret CIA employment became the subject of a Special Prosecutor, and abuse of that process. These two examples revealed that prosecution and follow-up on leaks depended on whose political position was furthered and whose political ox was gored rather than the actual damage to national security.

There are laws on the books, federal agencies with the responsibility, and contracts signed that can be used to find and bring leakers to justice. Justifiably, national security professionals and front-line Special Operations forces have protested the lack of enforcement. Self-servingly, media has demanded even more impunity via a federal shield law. Partisanly, Congress has abdicated its oversight role. Avoidingly, Presidents have mouthed platitudes or claimed innocence.
The abdication of responsibility for or by those responsible or who should be deeply concerned about national security during the Bush administration has been taken to blatant new depths by the Obama administration’s re-election campaign.

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2154/We-Have-Another-PrObamedia-Sweepstakes-Winner-Dana-Milbank.aspx The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank has earned the PrObamedia Laurels this week (or, at least, this morning — competition is fast and furious) for blaming decreasing poll numbers measuring American confidence in the presidency not on Barack Obama’s presidency but on … “conservative leaders” and … Tucker Carlson! Milbank writes: Under the Obama presidency, […]

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Dear friend,

Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to produce subpoenaed documents requested for the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. But this isn’t the only thing plaguing Holder and his Justice Department.

In May, PJ Columnist J. Christian Adams learned that Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner had discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the state’s voter rolls. Noncitizens were also found (at least four of them might have voted) and the secretary of state began purging them as well.

Adams applauded Florida for taking the voter registration problem seriously, but Eric Holder’s Justice Department reacted differently. Shortly after the state began to take action, the DOJ’s Voting Section ordered Florida to stop purging foreigners from the voter rolls.

You may recall that PJ Media’s “Every Single One” series exposed the partisan DOJ hiring practices and the radicalism of the DOJ Civil Rights Division lawyers hired by the Obama administration. Two of the DOJ lawyers whose radical background was exposed by Adams and Hans A. von Spakovsky in that series are now at the forefront of the fight to stop Florida from cleaning up its voter rolls.

Take Elise Shore, the DOJ attorney behind the initial letter telling Florida to stop removing foreigners from the rolls. She worked for more than two years as a Regional Counsel for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) where she was an outspoken critic of Georgia’s voter ID law and its proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration. It seems Ms. Shore wasn’t able to set aside MALDEF-style radicalism, even after she started working for the taxpayers of the United States.

Then there is Jenigh Garrett, the DOJ Voting Section lawyer who filed the lawsuit to stop Florida from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls. She is a long-time opponent of state election integrity laws, and she worked for approximately five years as an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF).

Adams’ reporting on this story didn’t stop there. He also brought to light the real scandal in the fight between Florida and the Eric Holder Justice Department, which is that Holder is ultimately defending foreigners voting in American elections. Holder’s actions haven’t deterred citizen groups from finding problems with the voter rolls elsewhere, though. Just this week Election Integrity Maryland found dead voters infesting the rolls in the state’s three largest jurisdictions.

J. Christian Adams will continue to provide updates on the DOJ’s radical efforts on his PJ Media blog, “Rule of Law.” Check back frequently, and please let your friends know about the great work Adams is doing.

Sincerely,

Roger L. Simon

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Leading Global Warming Advocate Recants! … 'Models Fail Dramatically …' Globalists Switching Gears: Royal Society Lecturer Says CO2 Not Affecting Earth’s Temperature … Fritz Vahrenholt, a German green energy investor, says he has reassessed his position on man-made climate change. Vahrenholt has been a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg […]

The G20 is a great idea…but only if you think the entire world should become more like France, Italy, Spain and Greece http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1335/time_to_fight_statism_by_shutting_down_the_g20 For the most part, international summits like the recently concluded G-20 meeting in Mexico are pointless – but expensive – publicity stunts for incumbent politicians. They pose for photo-ops, have boring meetings, […]

http://news.yahoo.com/poll-obama-loses-advantage-economic-anxieties-increase-063013702.html

TOO SOON TO POP THE CHAMPAGNE BUT NEVER TOO SOON TO HELP REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES……RSK

WASHINGTON – Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Meanwhile, new financial filings reveal that although major donors supporting the president and Republican challenger Mitt Romney spent millions of dollars last month on their respective candidate, outside political groups helping Romney are reaping a growing share of the largesse.

With Election Day less than five months away, the new poll shows that Romney has exploited concerns about the economy and moved into a virtually even position with the president.

Three months of declining job creation have left the public increasingly glum, with only 3 out of 10 adults saying the country is headed in the right direction. Five months before the election, the economy remains Obama’s top liability.

“I’m not going to vote for Obama,” said Raymond Back, a 60-year-old manufacturing plant manager from North Olmsted, Ohio, one of the most competitive states in this election. “It’s just the wrong thing to go. I don’t know what Romney is going to do, but this isn’t the right way.”