1.
New York Primary
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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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!".
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During the RNC speech Cruz mic went dead for 7
mins and Rush calls it dirty tricks.
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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
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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
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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
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70 percent of inmates in America’s prisons
cannot read above a fourth grade level, according to BeginToRead.com.
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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.
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The current literacy rate isn’t any better than
it was 10 years ago. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy
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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%)
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In 1979, President Carter advocated for creating
a cabinet-level Department of Education.
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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
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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
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7.8: At least 77 dead, hundreds injured in
Ecuador earthquake
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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.
