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No Wonder Obama Won't Let Us Read TPP : By Phyllis Schlafly

On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama's plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It's called a "living agreement," which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.

That reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a "living" Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim this "living" document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress also gives up its powers to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

The secrecy wrapped around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama's promise of "transparency"? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama's trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not allowed to know the details until after it's a done deal.

TPP puts us in a new political and economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warns, "TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade, but immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress "will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers."            http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2015/06/16/no-wonder-obama-wont-let-us-read-tpp/?subscriber=1

Hillary Clinton ducks questions on trade deals during New Hampshire visit By Guardian Web

Moments before Jeb Bush formally declared his candidacy for president in Miami, Hillary Clinton stole away some of the spotlight with the first official press conference of her campaign – in which she refused once again to take an explicit position on Barack Obama's historic trade deal with Asia.

The Democrat frontrunner for president addressed reporters on a rainy Monday afternoon following a rally with supporters at a barn tucked away in an orchard in New Hampshire, ending a monthlong media drought. Despite being asked point-blank if she supports giving Obama so-called fast-track authority to negotiate the landmark 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Clinton declined to weigh in on what she called "a process issue".

The question, Clinton said, was not whether she was for or against the deal – no matter what ends up in it – but whether "its broad outlines can be improved or not to meet the legitimate questions and objections that members of Congress have raised".

"I have said from the beginning, the [trade promotion authority] is a process issue," Clinton said of Obama's fast-track negotiating authority, which would bar Congress from amending any trade deal negotiated by the White House. "The issue for me is what's in the deal. I think now there's an opportunity for the president and his team to reach out and meet with the people who have said... that we need a better deal. I will wait and see what the deal is and then I will tell you what I think about it."

Pressed again on whether Congress should have fast-track authority to negotiate trade pacts – and if she would want such authority if elected president – Clinton again said the matter was for Obama to resolve with the Democrats who are opposed to his trade agenda and voted against him in a stinging rebuke on Friday.

"I believe that you take whatever happens to you in a negotiation, and you leverage it," she said. "In this case, I believe that one of the ways the president can get fast-track authority is to deal with the legitimate concerns of those Democrats who are potential 'yes' votes to see if what's in the existing framework agreement... could be modified or changed."

Clinton added that Obama has negotiated "very hard" and acknowledged the process was "complicated".                      http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/06/16/hillary-clinton-ducks-questions-on-trade-deals-during-new-hampshire-visit/?subscriber=1

Jeb! By Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) -- Jeb Bush is ready to launch a Republican presidential bid months in the making Monday by asserting his commitment to the "most vulnerable in our society," an approach targeting the broader American electorate even as he faces questions about his policies from conservatives in his own party.
Six months after he got the 2016 campaign started by saying he was considering a bid, the 62-year-old former Florida governor will formally enter the race with a speech and rally near his south Florida home at Miami Dade College, an institution selected because it serves a large and diverse student body symbolic of the nation he seeks to lead.

"My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be in the front of the line and not the back," Bush says in a video featuring women, minorities and a disabled child to be aired at the event before his Monday afternoon announcement speech. "What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up."

Before Monday's event, the Bush campaign unveiled a new logo that features his first name with an exclamation point - Jeb! - a branding decision that conspicuously leaves out the Bush surname.

Bush joins the crowded Republican campaign in some ways in a commanding position. The brother of one president and son of another, Bush has likely raised a record breaking amount of money to support his candidacy and conceived of a new approach on how to structure his campaign, both aimed at allowing him to make a deep run into the GOP primaries.

But on other measures, early public opinion polls among them, he has yet to break out. While unquestionably one of the top-tier candidates in the GOP race, he is also only one of several in a capable Republican field that does not have a true front-runner.

In the past six months, Bush has made clear he will remain committed to his core beliefs in the campaign to come - even if his positions on immigration and education standards are deeply unpopular among the conservative base of the party that plays an outsized role in the GOP primaries.

"I'm not going to change who I am," Bush said as he wrapped up a week-long European trip this weekend. "I respect people who may not agree with me, but I'm not going to change my views because today someone has a view that's different."

Bush is one of 11 major Republicans in the hunt for the nomination. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are among those still deciding whether to join a field that could end up just shy of 20.                               http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/06/15/jeb/

The Iowa Straw Poll is irrelevant. Is Iowa?

In 1987, when Vice President George Bush ran for president, he suffered a major embarrassment early: He lost the Ames Straw Poll to televangelist Pat Robertson. He later lost the Iowa Republican caucuses to Kansas Sen. Bob Dole. In the end, he had to settle for a consolation prize: the presidency, which he won over Democrat Michael Dukakis in November.
The Ames event, for decades a marquee event on the campaign calendar, may have taken a fatal blow four years ago -- or rather two fatal blows. The first was that victory went to the erratic firebrand Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., whose candidacy soon imploded on her way to coming in last in the caucuses.

The second was the third-place finish of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who immediately abandoned the race, depriving the party of a talented and more moderate contender who might have provided a winning alternative to Mitt Romney.

Besides raising money for the state party, the straw poll traditionally was supposed to winnow out the weak aspirants in favor of the strong. But, as in 2011, it often failed in that function. In 2012, even Republican Gov. Terry Branstad said, "I think the straw poll has outlived its usefulness."

On Friday, the Iowa Republican Party recognized the straw poll's obsolescence and voted to close it down.

"We set the table and they didn't come to dinner," state party chairman Jeff Kaufmann lamented.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         One problem is that many credible candidates have elected to bypass Ames on the theory that the risk of losing is greater than any benefit from winning. In 2011, Romney skipped it, just as John McCain had done four years earlier.

This year, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee indicated they wouldn't compete in the contest, which the party had decided to move to Boone in order to reduce costs. Others were not sure things either.

"Only Ben Carson made a public commitment to be there," reported The Wall Street Journal. It would be hard to write a sentence that better defines irrelevance than that one.

What Iowans may be figuring out is that the caucuses themselves also don't matter as much as they used to. More often than not, GOP caucus victors don't wind up winning the nomination.                                                                                http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2015/06/16/the-iowa-straw-poll-is-irrelevant-is-iowa/?subscriber=1

MRC CyberAlert Monday, June 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM EDT Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996

1. FLASHBACK: ABC's '08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015

New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. At least those were the wildly-inaccurate predictions made by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.

2. CNN Anchor Gaffe: Calls Police HQ Shooter 'Very Courageous and Brave'

Ouch. During a discussion on the Dallas Police headquarters shooting on Saturday afternoon, CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield bizarrely referred to the shooter's actions as "very courageous and brave," before adding "crazy as well."

3. CNN Anchor: 'I Misspoke' Calling Dallas Gunman 'Courageous and Brave'

On Sunday, CNN's Fredericka Whitfield claimed that she merely "misspoke" when she called the gunman in the Dallas Police Department attack "very courageous and brave," but fell short of actually apologizing for her comments.

4. NBC's Mitchell Boosts 'Personal' Hillary's NYC Campaign Rally

On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell touted how Hillary Clinton "will get personal" at her upcoming NYC campaign rally, and that she will be will be "focusing on her late mother, Dorothy Rodham – twice abandoned as a child by her parents; forced to make her way across country and work as a maid." Mitchell played two clips from a campaign video where Mrs. Clinton spoke highly of her mom, and underlined that "Clinton credits her mother for her passion and values – especially fighting for women and children – one reason she wants to be president."

5. Andrea Mitchell: Bill Clinton Says Clintons Are Innocent; Case Closed?

Andrea Mitchell scored an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday, but spent the entire interview peppering the senator with questions about Hillary Clinton. This included pushing Sanders on whether Bill Clinton's claim of innocence would be enough to drop any investigation into the family's foundation.

6. Hugh Hewitt Presses Bill Daley Over Knowledge of Hillary's E-Mail Server

On Sunday's Meet the Press, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt provided some much needed balance to the show's political panel when he pressed Bill Daley, President Obama's former Chief of Staff, over Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server.

7. Nets Hailed Jenner Switching Gender; Critical of NAACP Leader Switching Race

While all three broadcast networks hailed Bruce Jenner for choosing to switch genders and become Caitlyn Jenner just one week ago – devoting 48 minutes to the story in three days – on Friday, those same networks were aghast that Spokane, Washington NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal had chosen to identify herself as black despite being white.

8. Bernard Goldberg Calls Out Seinfeld: 'Why Don't You Say Liberals Created That Creepy Culture?'

Picking up on comedian Jerry Seinfeld's concern "there's a creepy PC thing out there" on college campuses in which comedians are condemned for jokes which convey stereotypes, Bernard Goldberg called out Seinfeld for failing to recognize liberals are behind the "authoritarian" speech code.                                                                                                                            Read online http://email.mrc.org/q/1IapkX0UuHyNGbykpxMNh/wv

CyberAlert Special Edition Monday, June 15, 2015 at 5:35 PM EDT Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996

Media Reality Check: "Boosting Bush: Liberal Media Pushes Jeb to Whack Conservatives"

Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, compiled Geoffrey Dickens, the MRC's Deputy Research Director, which was posted earlier today.

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The text of the June 15 Media Reality Check:

Boosting Bush: Liberal Media Pushes Jeb to Whack Conservatives

Jeb Bush's entry into the 2016 GOP primary race hands the liberal media an establishment candidate that they enjoy using as a tool to whack conservatives. Bush's stances on immigration, Common Core and other issues have drawn praise from the likes of Chris Matthews who cooed: "He wants to run on his own terms. He's not going to become a wacko bird. He's not going to join the clown car...he believes in Common Core education. He believes in immigration."

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne hopefully cheered Bush could become a "change agent in the Republican Party" on immigration because for Bush " It's about love for their children. That doesn't go over well in large parts of the party."

It wasn't always this way for Jeb Bush. Whenever he was in the way of a liberal candidate or signed conservatives legislation they attacked him. When he was running for the Florida governorship in 2000 against liberal Democrat Lawton Chiles he was described by ABC's Jack Smith as "a radical conservative." And in 2005 ABC reporter Jeffrey Kofman compared him to the fictional Dirty Harry when he signed pro-gun legislation: "What was it Clint Eastwood said, 'Go ahead, make my day?' Well, Florida Governor Jeb Bush has done just that for gun owners here in Florida. It's going to be a lot easier to shoot and kill someone in the name of self-defense."

When there was a move to eliminate racial quotas for state college admission, in 2000, CBS's Byron Pitts sneered: "Few believe Bush will be swayed by the protests and passions of people who didn't put him in office in the first place. But like the demonstrators in Selma 35 years ago, who were beat back with night sticks and tear gas, those who gathered today said they'll be back here or in court."

But now that Bush is seen, by the liberal media, as a moderate and therefore more acceptable choice compared to his conservative rivals they seem more willing to praise him.

The following quotes from the MRC archives are a few examples of the media's attempt to use Jeb Bush as a way to slam conservatives:

# Jeb Is Better than Those "Wacko Bird," "Clown Car" Conservatives

"Lots of noise now about 2016. Jeb Bush seems like he wants to run, but he wants to run on his own terms. He's not going to become a wacko bird. He's not going to join the clown car. He believes in education, he believes in Common Core education. He believes in immigration, good immigration. He is different than some of those Ted Cruz-types out there, and he's not going to cross-dress and pretend he ain't."
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, December 2, 2014.

# NBC Promotes Jeb Bush "Noting the Missteps" of Past GOP Candidates "Playing Too Far to the Right"

"Jeb Bush, last night, became the latest in the Republican Party to speak truth to power or try to. While admitting he is thinking about running for President, he put forth the belief that he would have to lose in the primaries, especially early on, to win the election. Noting the missteps past candidates have made in perhaps trying to play too far to the right before heading into the general election."
— Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, December 2, 2014.

# Echoing Jeb: Would "Rigid Republican Factions" Reject Reagan?

"From these rocks [in Kennebunkport, Maine], the 41st President watches politics from a distance, his son saying neither his father, nor Ronald Reagan, would be accepted by any rigid Republican faction today. [to Bush] Jeb said recently that he worries about the Republican Party and the polarization."
— Anchor Diane Sawyer profiling George H. W. Bush on ABC's World News, June 15, 2012.

# NBC's Alexander to Jeb: How Can You Overcome "Ideological Problems" of GOP?

Peter Alexander: "How are you going to help the party overcome the ideological problems that, sort of, torpedoed it in 2008 and 2012?"
Jeb Bush: "I don't think we have an ideological problem. I honestly don't. I think we need to be focused on laying out a – a compelling alternative to where we are today."
Alexander: "Bush may dismiss any ideological problem. But conservatives on the right have serious concerns about his positions on immigration and education – both of which could give him headaches going forward."
— NBC's Peter Alexander on NBC Nightly News, April 17, 2015.

# Chris Matthews: Jeb Would Be Hillary's "Worst Nightmare" He Puts "The Middle in Play"

"Is Jeb Bush conservative enough to be the Republican nominee in 2016?....I think he's the Hillary people's worst nightmare if he runs. Because if he wins the nomination, the middle is in play."
— MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 26, 2015.

# Washington Post's E.J. Dionne: Bush Running Is 'Delicious,' He Can Be GOP 'Change Agent'

"The irony here is, it's almost a delicious irony, is that Jeb Bush, if he runs, maybe a change agent in the Republican Party, and you're seeing that in what Rush Limbaugh is saying, because he's going to run as someone who's not opposed to immigration reform. Indeed, he said and enraged a lot of people in the party, that immigrants who come here - it's not about illegality. It's about love. It's about love for their children. That doesn't go over well in large parts of the party. He's actually very conservative, including on education. He supports vouchers. But in the Republican Party, if you support the Common Core curriculum now, that's almost a communist act. So, then, I think Jeb is going to have to run as someone who wants to change the party from where it is now."
— Washington Post's E.J. Dionne on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, December 16, 2014.

# "Far to the Right" GOP Needs a Moderate Like Jeb to Rescue Them?

"Jeb Bush is apparently now thinking about running. And, you know, I have a source that told me that, if Jeb Bush decides not to run, that Mitt Romney may actually try it again. Because they're very concerned that the party is not moving forward, that the party has moved so far to the right that, you know, they can't elect a presidential candidate."
— CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, April 27, 2014.

# CBS Frets Jeb Bush Will Have Trouble in Primary Since GOP "Enthusiastically" Backs "More Conservative Candidates"

Jan Crawford: "[Jeb] Bush is also signaling he would run a more centrist campaign. He recently declined an invitation by Iowa Congressman Steve King, a conservative hardliner, to speak at a political forum that will showcase other potential Republican contenders. King has made controversial comments on immigration, in stark contrast to Bush's more moderate position on the issue."
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Robert Costa, Washington Post: "Bush wants to be at the center of this race on his own terms, that's why he's moving in early. He doesn't want to bow to the right his party."
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Crawford: "Now, the challenge of Bush is going to be running a center right campaign for the Republican nomination. Jeff, this is a time when the party is enthusiastically embracing more conservative candidates."
— CBS's Jan Crawford and the Washington Post's Robert Costa, CBS Evening News, January 1, 2015.

# Charlie Rose Touts Jeb Bush's Differences With GOP on Taxes

"You know that we're facing a fiscal cliff for a combination of reasons, having to do with the Bush tax cuts; having to do with raising the debt ceiling; having to do with some other issues coming late December and early January. You, in testimony before Congress, said that you were okay, as you well know, with $10 of spending cuts for $1 of tax revenue....But are you worried about the direction of your party?"
— CBS's Charlie Rose's questions to Jeb Bush on June 7, 2012, CBS This Morning.

Leasheryn's mother

As many of you know, Lea's mom is battling cancer in her eyesocket. She had some surgery done, and got the news yesterday that the surgery wound is healing much better than expected.  Keep the family in your prayers please. Dad is not well, and Lea is worn out from her duties as caregiver to both. Pray that this is a sign that they got all he cancer , and mom will continue to improve

Today in History

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2015. There are 198 days left in the year.
June 16, 1955
members of Argentina's military bombarded the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths, the same day Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for expelling two bishops from his country (however, the ban was effectively lifted in 1963).
1567
Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but ended up imprisoned again.)
1858
accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1903
Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1911
IBM had its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in New York State.
1933
the National Industrial Recovery Act became law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1943
comedian Charles Chaplin, 54, married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpinteria, California.
1944
George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, became the youngest person to die in the electric chair as the state of South Carolina executed him for the murders of two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7.
1955
the Disney animated feature "Lady and the Tramp" had its world premiere in Chicago.
1963
the world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova (teh-ruhsh-KOH'-vuh), 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 times before returning safely.
1978
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos (toh-REE'-ohs) exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987
a jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four youths he said were going to rob him; however, Goetz was convicted of illegal weapons possession. (In 1996, a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the persons he'd shot.)
1999
Vice President Al Gore formally opened his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kathleen Ann Soliah (SOH'-lee-ah), a fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had made a new life under the name Sara Jane Olson. Thabo Mbeki (TAH'-boh um-BEH'-kee) took the oath as president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela.
Ten years ago:
On the eve of Iran's presidential election, President George W. Bush said the voting was designed to keep power in the hands of a few rulers "through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy." European Union leaders put on hold plans to unite their 25 nations under a single constitution. Masked gunmen took dozens of toddlers hostage at an international school in Siem Reap, Cambodia, killing a 3-year-old Canadian boy before they were overpowered by the police.
Five years ago:
After meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg announced the oil giant was establishing a $20 billion claim fund and suspending dividends as he insisted, "We care about the small people." Movie director Ronald Neame ("The Poseidon Adventure") died in Los Angeles at age 99.
One year ago:
President Barack Obama notified Congress that up to 275 troops could be sent to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the American Embassy in Baghdad. A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama administration, ruling that the federal government can strictly enforce laws that ban a "straw" purchaser from buying a gun for someone else.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Bill Cobbs is 81. Author Joyce Carol Oates is 77. Country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock is 77. Songwriter Lamont Dozier is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Levert is 73. Actress Joan Van Ark is 72. Actor Geoff Pierson is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer James Smith (The Stylistics) is 65. Boxing Hall of Famer Roberto Duran is 64. Pop singer Gino Vannelli is 63. Actress Laurie Metcalf is 60. Actor Arnold Vosloo is 53. Model-actress Jenny Shimizu is 48. Actor James Patrick Stuart is 47. Rapper MC Ren is 46. Actor Clifton Collins Jr. is 45. Golfer Phil Mickelson is 45. Actor John Cho is 43. Actor Eddie Cibrian is 42. Actor Fred Koehler is 40. Actress China (chee-nah) Shavers is 38. Actress Sibel Kekilli is 35. Actress Missy Peregrym (PEH'-rih-grihm) is 33. Actress Olivia Hack is 32. Singer Diana DeGarmo (TV: "American Idol") is 28. Pop-rock musician Ian Keaggy (Hot Chelle (SHEL)) is 28.
Thought for Today:
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." — Dudley Field Malone, American attorney (1882-1950).

Making Babies Doesn’t Make You A Father by Mychal Massie

Recently, as a friend and I talked he shared about a documentary he had seen. The documentary addressed the devastation young male elephants were causing within their herds. It explained that the young males are causing unparalleled harm and disruption in the herds because there are an ever-decreasing number of fully-grown bull elephants.

He explained that the young males, fueled by raging hormones and no male guidance, (which included a good stomping when the situation called for it), would literally terrorize the herd.
My friend and I discussed the direct correlation between the similarities of the socially undeveloped elephants and the human landscape, specifically in predominantly black urban areas. Not only do the male children not have fathers to teach and guide them, many of them have multiple male siblings from multiple men. This is a particularly volatile situation because you have the normal different personalities within a family matrix, but you also have the potential exacerbation of same due to the added influence of multiple emotionally/psychologically immature fathers.

When you factor in the generational dysfunction, poverty, disrespect, emotional neglect, and inculcated inferiority, one need not strain themself searching for reasons reasons so many blacks are dead at the hands of other blacks or in prison. Making babies out of wedlock with any female (hopefully) not suffering from a transmittable disease, is their validation of manhood – ergo the cycle of illegitimate births, death, drug, truancy, wasted lives, ad nauseam is replicated countless times every day.

Money cannot break this cycle. We see the wealthiest athletes with several children out of wedlock from several different females. Taxpayer dollars won't correct this pandemic either as evidenced by the $22 trillion dollars wasted on the so-called war on poverty that has experienced less success than Obama has with his laughable Iran treaty.
Telling these young men to use condoms and telling the girls to go on birth control or just have them murder their unborn child as 17.3 million other black women have done is not the answer either.

The answer is to teach personal responsibility and personal accountability. The answer is to stop handicapping young blacks by inculcating them with a message of acrimony and immiseration. The answer is to teach them from birth that they are more than a color – they are Americans. The answer is teach them that the revisionist lies being taught under the guise of Afri-centric curriculums are damnable heterodoxies designed to emotionally segregate not impart marketable skills. The answer is for them to learn trades and to stop buying into the belief that if they do not go to college they won't be able to get a job.

College for most people today, and specifically blacks assures them of nothing more than a huge debt and a Pygmalion self-fulfilling prophesy that they cannot function outside the "hood".

Opening basketball courts at night so they can play ball as a means of staying out of trouble is like opening a dog kennel at night to stop dogs from barking.

The message that must be taught in the home is that respect begins with self. Men and women who respect themselves typically respect the welfare of their children. But there is still more to being a father.

My son was planned for and prepared for. Being part of my son's life has been an experience I wouldn't trade for love or money. Raising him in a bible-believing Christian church has been the paramount component in his life.

Raising children means investing ourself in them. Unlike animals, our child leaving the nest doesn't mean that they are no longer in need of our watchful eyes and concern.

My son can make travel arrangements and find his way around airports more efficiently than I can tie my shoes. I call him to ask how to use a remote control. I ask him how to use certain features on my computer, etc.

My son is mature and erudite. But when it comes to life experiences he cannot hold a candle to me because he hasn't lived as long enough to deal with the array of life's realities that I have. I am dad and I will be there until the Lord calls me home.

Father's Day isn't a day to celebrate baby-making or sperm dumps. Father's Day is about being a Father. And tragically as my friend and I both acknowledged there aren't enough fathers today.

Getting drunk with your son, telling off-color jokes and making untoward remarks about women isn't being a father. Working all of those extra hours so you can take a two-week vacation and buy HD TV's for each room of the house isn't being a father.

Being a father means investing ourselves into our children. It means showing them the love that God our Father has shown us. It means being a living example, the very best that we can be, even when we drop the ball.             http://mychal-massie.com/premium/making-babies-doesnt-make-you-a-father/

OBAMA’S DREAMERS: 121 Criminal Aliens Released By BHO Have Been Charged With Murder : Chuck Ross

And that's just the numbers since 2010! Are these the dreamers that Obama talks about? Those are definitely some interesting dreams they have.

One-hundred twenty-one illegal aliens with criminal convictions who were released by federal immigration authorities back onto U.S. streets between 2010 and 2014 have been charged with "homicide-related" crimes.
That's according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which released data in response to a letter sent in February by Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Arizona U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake.
The senators sent the letter after Mexican national Apolinar Altamirano allegedly gunned down Grant Ronnebeck, a Mesa, Ariz. convenience store clerk, over a pack of cigarettes on Jan. 22. ICE released Altamirano in Jan. 2013 on $10,000 bond related to a burglary charge. After his release, Altamirano was accused of threatening a woman, but he remained in the U.S.                                                                                                                                                                                                   In response to Grassley's and Flake's letter, Sarah Saldaña, the director of ICE, stated that 33 of the 121 illegal aliens who have been accused of "homicide-related offenses" had been released on bond at the discretion of the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) after committing their original crime. Another 24 were released because ICE was unable to obtain approval to deport alien convicts within the 180-day timeframe mandated by federal law.                          http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/15/121-criminal-aliens-released-by-obama-administration-have-been-charged-with-murder-since-2010/