PJTV Trifecta - The Chicago Flash Mob Shows America Is In Deep Trouble

Hundreds of teenagers raged through Chicago's premier shopping area, attacking pedestrians and even a police officer. The wilding incident ended with dozens of arrests. Does anarchy reign supreme in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Chicago? Find out on this Trifecta.

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PolitiChicks - No-Holds Barred: Paul McKinley Has A LOT To Say About Chicago

Paul McKinley-isms: "I'm an ex-offender trying to prevent a next offender!" "I'm considered the shut up people; in our community, they come around with a large cup of shut up—don't say nothing back to the machine... and I had the audacity, the nerve, the courage to run against the machine without their permission!"

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ManCow - Chicago Mayor Pleads for "Gang Morality" ? - 10 Most Dangerous US Cities

This opening segment to the NEW Mancow Show on the Fox News network features a spirited debate regarding the escalating gun violence in Chicago and around the country, hosted by Radio Talk show host, Mancow. The panel is comprised of: Elie Mystal - Editor, Abovethelaw.com; Santita Jackson - Radio Talk Show Host; and Imogen Lloyd Webber - Political Commentator, as they weigh in with their perspectives on what's behind the numbers and what can be done to stem the rising tide of gang violence.


Ten Most Dangerous U.S.Cities
1. Flint, Mich - Democrat Mayor
2. Detroit, Mich - Democrat Mayor
3. St. Louis, Mo - Democrat Mayor
4. New Haven, CT - Democrat Mayor
5. Memphis, Tenn - Democrat Mayor
6. Oakland, Calif - Democrat Mayor
7. Little Rock, Ark - Democrat Mayor
8. Baltimore, Md - Democrat Mayor
9. Rockford, IL - Independent Mayor
10. Stockton, Calif - Democrat Mayor

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Charles Krauthammer - Bret Baier - Chick-Fil-A & Same Sex Marriage

"I think it's simply astonishing hearing Rahm Emanual defining according to his political ideas, who is welcome and who is not welcome in Chicago" says Syndicated Columnist - Charles Krauthammer, as he weighs in with his opinion on why there was such a strong reaction throughout the country of folks showing up at Chick-Fil-A restaurants. Others on the All Star Panel (Hosted by FNC's Bret Baier) are Byron York- Washington Examiner / Fox News Contributor; and Juan Williams - Fox News Contributor.

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Star Parker - Can it be un-American to be a Christian?

The current hate campaign being waged by homosexual activists against fast food chain Chick-fil-A, because of the firm’s Christian values, may well turn out to be a bridge too far. The effort may prove to be a setback for homosexual activism.

The vile attacks on the firm and its owners, the Cathy family, should make clear, finally, that the “gay rights” movement is not about refining and advancing American freedom, but about rewriting American values and advancing, not freedom, but the homosexual political agenda.

Recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at a flag raising ceremony in Alexandria, Egypt, noting the re-opening of the American consulate there. Given the current political climate in Egypt, the Secretary of State felt behooved in her remarks to highlight principles of freedom as understood by Americans.

“….to us, real democracy means that every citizen has the right to live, work, and worship as they choose, whether they are man or woman, Muslim or Christian, or from any other background.”

Perhaps Secretary Clinton should be lecturing Americans instead of Egyptians.

Can it really be that in America today a businessman can be labeled a bigot, boycotted, and cut off by suppliers because of the crime of being a Christian?

When Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy made his now famous incendiary admission that “We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit,” he was not pontificating. He was responding to a question in an interview done in a paper I expect not read by many homosexuals – the Baptist Press.

Never mind. It was sufficient provocation that Cathy publicly admitted that the Bible defines his understanding of marriage – the unique bond of man and woman – which also happens to be the standard definition in dictionaries on the shelves of every American home and library.

“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values,” said Chicago Mayor, and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel. Emmanuel defended Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno’s threat to deny Chick-fil-A permitting in Chicago because its owner supports traditional marriage and family.

But UCLA law professor and constitutional scholar Eugene Volokh points out in his blog that “denying a private business permits because of such speech by its owner is a blatant First Amendment violation.”

The Constitution? The First Amendment? Religious liberty? Do these apply to Christians?

Volokh goes on to point out that a permit might be denied, “…if Chick-fil-A actually discriminated in their serving or hiring decisions in Chicago in a way forbidden by Chicago or Illinois law….But the stories give no evidence of such actions…”

The fact that there is no evidence that Chick-fil-A discriminates in its business practices did not deter Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank from writing that Dan Cathy’s support of traditional marriage “…implied that gay people (not to mention divorced people) had no business eating at Chick-fil-A.”

One court decision after another over the last fifty years has, step by step, purged any hint of religion and traditional values from our schools and public spaces.

Has it made this a fairer, better, freer nation? If you think breakdown of family, forty percent out-of-wedlock births, a million abortions a year, $16 trillion in national debt, and government dependence is better and freer, yes.

Of course society must embrace civility, respect and tolerance. But this doesn’t mean that the sexual proclivities of some should provide license to rewrite our language and the traditions that define our faith and virtue.

Hopefully many will respond to Mike Huckabee’s appeal to patronize Chick-fil-A on August 1 as a display of support for traditional Christian values and as a reminder that our Constitution protects religious freedom.

Have we really gotten to the point where being a Christian is considered un-American?

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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Rhonda - Opting for School Choice is Easy for Rahm Emanuel

School Choice is easy for some. Americans with the financial means are able to send their children to the best schools available and reside in neighborhoods that offer successful public school education. All too often, the very worst schools in America are located in impoverished areas where parents have no choice but to send their children to failing schools.

Politicians, who hold the power to change our educational system in America, are exempted from the catastrophe that they foist on US citizens. They frequently possess the means or connections needed to send their own children to the very best, successful schools. Recently, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s new mayor, was asked in an interview where he planned to send his own children to school. His abrupt change in demeanor illustrated his indignation and intolerance for such a pointed question. The mayor stormed out of the interview as if his personal rights somehow had been violated. Predictably, his children will attend the elite private University of Chicago Laboratory School in Hyde Park just as President Obama’s daughters did.

(Rahm Emanuel interview)


While Rahm Emanuel may escape close scrutiny over his misplaced outrage, Gov. Chris Christie has not been so conveniently overlooked. He, likewise, reacted angrily to inquiry about where he planned to send his children to school with a curt “None of your business!” He did go on to explain that he values parochial education and is concerned about the educational needs of all students in New Jersey. Additionally, Christie emphasized that he pays $38,ooo in property taxes that primarily fund public schools.

When the newly elected President moved to Washington D.C., he and his wife CHOSE Sidwell Friends School over D.C.’s notoriously failing schools. His daughters will receive the same privileged education that also benefitted Chelsea Clinton and Amy Carter before them. The Obama family’s statement to the public was simply that

In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now.

The reality is that, in the end, Barack and Michelle exercised their privileged status that allows them as parents the freedom of school choice. However, school choice is denied most Americans who must attend the school that is forcibly mandated based on a zip code.

School choice includes public charter schools and voucher or scholarship programs. These innovative approaches to education vary from state to state since education is primarily the function of individual states.

Rahm Emanuel and the Obama administration led the charge against school choice in Washington D.C. when Congress sponsored the SOAR Act that reauthorized the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provided school choice scholarships for a small number of children from low-income families. D.C. public schools are ranked 51st in the nation. The results of this scholarship program have been outstanding, as highlighted in the highly awarded documentary, “Waiting for Superman.”

In the Wall Street Journal article, “The Evidence is in: School Vouchers Work”, the following key points were made:

In a study published last year, Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas found that voucher recipients had graduation rates of 91%. That’s significantly higher than the D.C. public school average (56%)

A recent study of Milwaukee’s older and larger voucher program found that 94% of students who stayed in the program throughout high school graduated, versus just 75% of students in Milwaukee’s traditional public schools. And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools “are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.” Thus can vouchers benefit even the children that don’t receive them.

Empirical data obtained in states that expand school choice options for parents consistently indicate positive results.

Rahm Emanuel’s response to the reporter who dared ask the mayor about his choice for educating his own children is an appropriate defense for the desperate necessity of granting ALL parents the right of School Choice and Educational Freedom despite their economic status:

No, no, no- you have to understand- I’m making this decision as a father. And that’s a decision we’re gonna make, and anything less than that, would be less than how I think of myself and wanna be as a father.

Dear Mayor, every American deserves this same privilege of making a decision on school choice- and nothing less.

Rhonda

(For more information on School Choice, please see my earlier post “School Choice: Vouchers to Charter Schools”, linked here.)

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Rhonda is a stay home mom of two and was a teacher for ten years. She is a graduate of Clemson University and lives in Georgia. She is dedicated to the conservative, Constitutional principles that have made America a great country.
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