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Nationals’ Trea Turner is the latest MLB player to have ugly tweets uncovered (The Washington Post)
Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner became the latest Major League Baseball player unable to outrun his online history Sunday when some tweets resurfaced that included racially insensitive language and homophobic slurs. The tweets were sent in 2011 and 2012 while he was playing collegiate baseball at North Carolina State.
“There are no excuses for my insensitive and offensive language on Twitter,” Turner said in a statement released by the Nationals. “I am sincerely sorry for those tweets and apologize wholeheartedly. I believe people who know me understand those regrettable actions do not reflect my values or who I am. But I understand the hurtful nature of such language and am sorry to have brought any negative light to the Nationals organization, myself or the game I love.” [Read More]
Trump admin has no central strategy for election security, and no one’s in charge (NBC News)
After nearly two years of calling Russian election interference a hoax and its investigation a witch hunt, President Donald Trump on Friday presided over the first National Security Council meeting devoted to defending American democracy from foreign manipulation.
“The President has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors,” the White House said in a statement afterward.
But current and former officials tell NBC News that 19 months into his presidency, there is no coherent Trump administration strategy to combat foreign election interference — and no single person or agency in charge. [Read More]
The 40th Annual National Conservative Student Conference (YAF)
Young America’s Foundation’s signature program is now approaching its 40th year! The 40th Annual National Conservative Student Conference will educate and inspire college students with the principles of individual freedom, a free-market economy, a strong national defense, and traditional values.
Students hear from policy leaders, authors, and activists who cover a broad array of topics —just blocks away from the National Mall and our National Monuments, and learn the best ways to stand up for and advance conservative ideas on campus just in time for the start of your fall semester! [Read More]
South Carolina school district ends snow days, will have students learn online (Fox 5 DC)
Students in one South Carolina school district will still have work to do even when it snows.
Anderson School District 5 is the first district in the state to eliminate snow days with what it calls eLearning days. When the roads are too icy for buses, teachers will send assignments to their students’ computers and can even monitor their progress online.
Superintendent Tom Wilson told the Anderson Independent-Mail it makes no sense to run buses on a make up day in June where only a quarter of students attend. [Read More]
Two theories on why Trump won’t harden our election machinery (The Washington Post)
President Trump chaired a meeting Friday of his most senior national security advisers to discuss the administration’s effort to safeguard November’s elections from Russian interference, the first such meeting he’s led on the matter, but issued no new directives to counter or deter the threat.
The meeting, which lasted less than an hour, covered all the activities by federal agencies to help state and local election officials, and to investigate and hold accountable Russian hackers seeking to undermine American democracy. [Read More]
Our weird political era just got a little hairier. For the first time, millions of Americans are asking, “What is Bigfoot erotica?”
That question has been inspired by Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat who’s running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th District. On Twitter this Sunday, Cockburn accused her Republican opponent, Denver… [Read More]
Riggleman: White supremacists not welcome in Charlottesville (Roanoke)
The horror we saw in Charlottesville last August is all but unfathomable. A violent rally on the streets of Charlottesville took the lives of three innocent people. Nazis and White Supremacists chanted “Blood and Soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” These despicable displays of anti-Semitic and racist hate reminded our nation that evil still exists within our borders. As a former United States Air Force enlisted member and Intelligence Officer, I find that unacceptable. I fought for our ideals of freedom and to have khaki wearing individuals spitting in the face of those ideals — while parading abject ignorance through Charlottesville — chills me to the bone. August 12th, 2017, is a wake-up call that all of us must stand together against hate. As a country, commonwealth and city, we can do better. Illegitimate belief systems that caused untold suffering have absolutely no place in Republican or Democratic politics. We must not allow this ideology to become accepted, and Charlottesville is where we draw the line. [Read More]
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