TRUMP SWEEPS NEW YORK - GOP Helps SS SINKING CRUZ - CHANGING THE $20 BILL

1.       New York Primary

-          The president of the New York Veteran Police Association (NYVPA) Lou Telano delivered an award to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at a press conference in Staten Island, New York on Sunday morning. Feb 11-15 AP Poll: 86% of Republicans Think Donald Trump Can Win General Election

LISTEN TO THE SHOW ON IHEART.SMYTHRADIO.COM

-          On morning Joe Wednesday Member of the Georgia Republican party, former Newt Gingrich backer, and RNC rules committee member Randy Evans told MSNBC's Morning Joe that Donald Trump could win the GOP nomination even if he comes short of 1,237 delegates but must get 1100.

-          Poll: Donald Trump Hits 65 Percent in New York, More than 50 Percent Ahead of Ted Cruz 12% and Kasich 1% - By Boston  Emerson College

-          On Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Republican party convention won 14 out of the 14 Wyoming delegates who will go to the Republican National Convention in July – Cruz (23) 66.3% 644 – Trump (1) 7.2% 70 – Rubio (1) 19.5% 189 delegates

a.       The Wyoming win is another victory demonstrating how Cruz’s campaign has organized party insiders and activists to make it difficult for Trump to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination, ABC reported.

b.      Prebuis Know the rules (1B)

c.       ABC are you getting beat on the ground? Manafort (1A)

-          After Brussels terrorist attacks and with the European Union estimating that 3 million more migrants will arrive in Europe this year, the patience of Slovenians, traditionally known for tolerance, is wearing thin. Today, anti-Muslim protesters in Slovenia chanted "Donald Trump, Donald Trump!".

-          During the RNC speech Cruz mic went dead for 7 mins and Rush calls it dirty tricks.

-          Ted and the Dildo

a.       A Time for Truth, Sen. Ted Cruz proudly chronicles his days as a Texas solicitor general, a post he held from 2003 to 2008. Bolstering his conservative cred, the Republican presidential candidate notes that during his stint as the state's chief lawyer before the Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts, he defended the inclusion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, the display of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a congressional redistricting plan that assisted Republicans, a restrictive voter identification law, and a ban on late-term abortions. He also described cases in which he championed gun rights and defended the conviction of a Mexican citizen who raped and murdered two teenage girls in a case challenged by the World Court. Yet one case he does not mention is the time he helped defend a law criminalizing the sale of dildos

2.       Public Re Education Program

-          Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton’s face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday

-          Over 50 million students are heading off to approximately 98,500 public elementary and secondary schools for the fall 2015 term, and before the school year is out, an estimated $634 billion will be spent related to their education. By ed.gov

-          70 percent of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level, according to BeginToRead.com.

-          32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read. That’s 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can’t read.

-          The current literacy rate isn’t any better than it was 10 years ago. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy

-          The Act of 1867 directed the Department of Education to collect and report the "condition and progress of education" in annual reports to Congress. In the first report of 1870, the Commissioner proudly reported that nearly 7 million children were enrolled in elementary schools and 80,000 were enrolled in secondary schools. Also some 9,000 college degrees had been awarded. (.15%) This contrasts with 1990, when 30 million enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools and 11 million enrolled in secondary schools. Over 1.5 million bachelors and higher degrees were awarded. (3.7%)

-          In 1979, President Carter advocated for creating a cabinet-level Department of Education.

-          Upgrading Education to cabinet level status in 1979 was opposed by many in the Republican Party, who saw the department as unconstitutional, arguing that the Constitution doesn't mention education, and deemed it an unnecessary and illegal federal bureaucratic intrusion into local affairs

-          Susan Brownell Anthony (February 20, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

3.       EARTH QUAKES OF THE CENTURY

-          7.8: At least 77 dead, hundreds injured in Ecuador earthquake

-          Japanese Authorities have confirmed 32 deaths from Saturday’s magnitude-7.3 earthquake, and nine from a magnitude-6.5 quake in the same area Thursday night.