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Schools of Indoctrination by Roseann Salanitri

The problem started way before Obama

Have you ever wondered how the heart and soul of America has morphed into something barely recognizable in such a short period of time? Or perhaps you have wondered how an American president can be re-elected after going on a worldwide tour apologizing for this nation?

There may be a reason for the demise of the American culture that does not reside in the White House or the halls of Congress but has been brewing in classrooms across America for nearly half a century or better.

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Have you ever wondered how the heart and soul of America has morphed into something barely recognizable in such a short period of time? Or perhaps you have wondered how an American president can be re-elected after going on a worldwide tour apologizing for this nation? There may be a reason for the demise of the American culture that does not reside in the White House or the halls of Congress but has been brewing in classrooms across America for nearly half a century or better.
After considering myself to be fairly well informed about the conditions of America's once excellent school system, I was recently confronted with the shocking reality. To some extent I understood that the progressive philosophies our children are being indoctrinated with in public schools run rampant. I also understood how anti-Christian and anti-Creator they had become, as well as how pro-humanistic and pro-hedonistic they had become. While I've also been puzzled about why patriotic Americans would pay for college-level classes that place their children under the influence of anarchists like Bill Ayers, I just didn't understand the scope of the indoctrination at the secondary level or how blatantly anti-American it had become. Unfortunately, I now do.

In this writing I will be addressing some very disturbing points made in an article given to an AP Government class at our local supposedly-conservative high school. For those interested, the article was published in the Huffington Post on September 14, 2015. It was written by Cody Cain and entitled "The Founding Fathers Would Deplore Donald Trump." As you would expect from the title, this opinion article bashed Donald Trump and his supporters. It employed all the familiar and effective semantics used against George W. Bush and his supporters as being uneducated, etc. While such pieces are a protected part of our right of free speech and free press, they are inappropriate to present in a public classroom setting, which is supposed to be politically neutral. It should be noted that it was inappropriate because of the way it was presented. Under protest by astute parents, the principal of the school claimed the article was part of the curriculum that required a segment on media bias. However, the article was presented to the students as an "interesting article," and follow up discussions did not include any conversation about how the article was biased. It was simply presented as "interesting."

Here's some of the details that I found objectionable as well as just plain wrong. The article stated that our Founding Fathers "desired to protect their own wealth and power," and that they were a "small minority of rich guys, and they were worried that a majority of the population would vote to take away their wealth and power." Of course neither the teacher nor Mr. Cain bothered to explain why these "rich guys" risked their lives and sacred fortunes to fight the world's greatest super power for the sake of liberty. Actually, the fact that so many of them were wealthy goes to their credit, since they were willing to risk all they had – including their lives – to fight for liberty against seemingly impossible odds.

The article went on to say that Bernie Sanders is a candidate that the Founding Fathers would have feared because he is dedicated to income equality, which meant that someone like Mr. Sanders would have been a threat to their wealth. In the article, Sanders is glorified and his principles are portrayed as noble. Of course the fact that our Founders would not have had the opportunity to secure their wealth in the kind of America Mr. Sanders advocates for escaped Mr. Cain, the AP Government teacher, and consequently the students who ultimately agreed with the article's premise.

Mr. Cain went on to disparage Mr. Trump by calling him a "demagogue" and defining the label as "A candidate who seeks support by 'appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument'." And Mr. Cain also criticized the election of a candidate with great superficial appeal but who entirely lacked the substance required to be president. Wouldn't this progressive apologist and his disciples be surprised to learn that these attributes also applied to the man now occupying the White House.

Of course there were other anti-American perversions within the article, such as the reason for the design of a two-house Congress was to insure that the upper class (the Senate) would have the power to curtail the activities of those representing the people, whom the Founders regarded as lower class and unable to rule properly. The fact that the Senate was designed to insure that the smaller states were not over-powered by the larger states never entered into the conversation in the classroom, which was supposed to be teaching some of our brightest students the basics of government.

If this is the propaganda that government-run schools have been pouring into young minds, we are in more trouble than any of us could have imagined. And it sure does explain a lot – like how Bernie Sanders is drawing the crowds he does and how a wanna-be jock like the man now occupying the White House manages to get elected to a second term. And out of all the major obstacles being devised to obliterate our liberties, this in fact may be the most damaging. While we turn our attention toward the upcoming presidential elections, it would be good to consider that those that are running on a true American platform will be diminishing in number as the years roll on. If this public school mode of operation is allowed to continue, we can expect that few in the future will understand the value of our system of government – or the value of our sovereignty as a nation.

It has often been said that elections have consequences. Perhaps it should be said that allowing progressives to teach our children and corrupt their young minds also has consequences. In the latter case, the consequence may be the death of liberty and the abdication of our sovereignty to a new world order. So, as we are paying so much attention to the up and coming elections, perhaps we would be wise to transfer some of that attention to the dens of iniquity and world dominance hiding under the cloak of public education in America. If we do, the American Dream just may have a chance of surviving. It we don't, it is surely doomed.

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Carly Fiorina: An Impressive Record of Disastrous Results by Mychal Massie

Carly Fiorina, like nearly every other candidate will say whatever it takes to get elected; the translation being, she will lie and obfuscate as much and as often as necessary to get elected.
She can claim whatever she wants, but the facts are the facts and like a giant creeping shadow, they cast a pall of disingenuousness over her.

September 26, 2001 while still CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina gave a speech entitled: "Technology, Business, and Our Way of Life: What's Next?" As far as CEO speeches go, it was consistent with the rudimentary oratorical blandness most CEOs are known for. It was the end of her speech that engendered my disdain for her that continues until today.

For those who attended public schools when teachers could actually add and subtract, and expected same of their students, September 26, 2001 was 15 days after 9/11.

Need I remind you that 9/11 represented the greatest terrorist planned and executed attack on the American people on American soil in history. With ashes still smoldering and American children trying to reconcile the loss of one or even both parents; with American families holding out hope that their loved ones' remains would be found – Fiorina elected to end her speech extolling the virtues and accomplishments Muslims had made to the world. She referred to Islam as the greatest civilization in the world.

That speech may have been 14 years ago but I challenge Fiorina to ask the children who lost their parents in that murderous act of Muslim barbarism if it seems like that was a long time ago to them.

America is tired of politicians and politically correct hacks singing the praises of Islam. Islam is a cult whose leaders are no different than rabid murderers like Charles Manson or Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple massacre in Jonestown, Guyana.

It matters to me, as it should to all voters, that she has not apologized for her appalling lack of sensitivity for American loss of life, she displayed in that speech. I believe Americans are tired of being told Muslims are nice people who love everyone and that it is only a few bad ones who are spoiling it for them all. Islam has contributed little to civilization save rape, looting, human bondage, sexual slave trading, murder, mayhem, and terrorism since the creation of their satanic figurehead Mohammad.

I also take exception with her position on abortion. Abortion is the sanctioned murder of the most helpless and innocent human beings on earth. Masking one's support for abortion as being limited to instances of rape, incest, and threat to life of the mother is a canard that allows a person to support murder with clear conscience. Mother Teresa said: "Abortion teaches a woman to kill in order to handle her problem."

America doesn't need another politician or politician "wannabe" in a position of power. We have had eight years of the revocation of traditional values complete with Obama turning America's military into a taxpayer supporter Club-Med "bathhouse" for homosexuals.

Fiorina's management style as CEO of Hewlett-Packard was a continuation of the skills she displayed while at Bell Labs. The common consensus is that she was an out-of-touch isolated, chauffeured, private jet travelling, run the company into the ground CEO – who then escaped with an eight-figure golden parachute while the former employees struggled to find jobs.

Referencing Bell Labs, Michael Rapaport wrote: "What she left behind at Lucent/Bell Labs was a smoking ruin of what had been the world's most important and productive research lab." ('The Job Killing Touch': How Carly Fiorina Wrecked Hewlett-Packard and the Bell Labs, and Set American Science Back By Decades; 9/10/2010)

Julie Bort writing for businessinsider.com said: "[Fiorina's] hoping to win votes based on her achievements in the world of business. There's only one problem with that: her biggest achievement, becoming the first woman to run Hewlett-Packard, is widely regarded as a disaster." (Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina is Planning To Run For President Based On Her Business Experience: Here's Why That's A Bad Idea; 3/30/2015)

We've had seven years of an economy and job killing machine named Obama. We do not need a person with a documented track record of those abilities to occupy the Oval Office again.

Fiorina has unfathomably been able to con her way into key executive positions leaving a legacy of disastrous results. America needs the next president to understand more about the economy and job creation than how to successfully destroy both.

Being the president of the United States isn't a ceremonial position one seeks to pad their resume and future earning power. We applaud Fiorina's sterling record of failure in corporate America (sarcasm intended), and we are confident of her ability to do the same to America. Which is precisely why we cannot elect her.

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Today in History

Today is Tuesday, September 22, the 265th day of 2015. There are 100 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset.
September 22, 1975
Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. (Moore served 32 years in prison before being paroled on December 31, 2007.)
1515
Anne of Cleves, who became the fourth wife of England's King Henry VIII, was born in Dusseldorf.
1776
during the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy by the British in New York.
1792
the first French Republic was proclaimed.
1862
President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863.
1911
pitcher Cy Young, 44, gained his 511th and final career victory as he hurled a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.
1927
Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1938
the musical comedy revue "Hellzapoppin'," starring Ole (OH'-lee) Olsen and Chic Johnson, began a three-year run on Broadway.
1949
the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1950
Omar N. Bradley was promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. "Hap" Arnold.
1964
the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," starring Zero Mostel, opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances. The secret agent series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, premiered on NBC-TV.
1985
rock and country music artists participated in "Farm Aid," a concert staged in Champaign, Illinois, to help the nation's farmers.
1995
an AWACS plane carrying U.S. and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24 people aboard.
Ten years ago:
Hurricane Rita, weakened to Category 4 status, closed in on the Texas coast, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing on a frustratingly slow, bumper-to-bumper exodus. John Roberts' nomination as U.S. chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan vote of 13-5.
Five years ago:
Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River after an intimate gay encounter in his dormitory room was allegedly captured by a webcam and streamed online by his roommate without his knowledge. (Dharun Ravi (dah-ROON' RAH'-vee) was convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and other counts and served less than a month in jail.) South African Ernie Els was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame; Doug Ford and two-time major winner Jock Hutchison from Scotland were elected through the Veteran's Category. "American Idol" announced that Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler would join Randy Jackson as judges the next season. Pop singer Eddie Fisher, 82, died in Berkeley, California.
One year ago:
The United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.
Today's Birthdays:
Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda is 88. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern is 73. Actor Paul Le Mat is 70. Musician King Sunny Ade (ah-DAY') is 69. Capt. Mark Phillips is 67. Rock singer David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) is 64. Actress Shari Belafonte is 61. Singer Debby Boone is 59. Country singer June Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 59. Singer Nick Cave is 58. Rock singer Johnette Napolitano is 58. Actress Lynn Herring is 58. Classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli (an-DRAY'-ah boh-CHEL'-ee) is 57. Singer-musician Joan Jett is 57. Actor Scott Baio is 55. Actress Catherine Oxenberg is 54. Actress Bonnie Hunt is 54. Actor Rob Stone is 53. Musician Matt Sharp is 46. Rock musician Dave Hernandez is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Big Rube (Society of Soul) is 44. Actress Mireille Enos is 40. Actress Daniella Alonso is 37. Actor Michael Graziadei (GRAHT'-zee-uh-day-ee) is 36. Actress Ashley Drane (Eckstein) is 34. Actress Katie Lowes is 33. Rock musician Will Farquarson (Bastille) is 32. Actor Tom Felton is 28. Actress Juliette Goglia is 20.
Thought for Today:
"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life." — George Sand, French author (1804-1876).         http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HISTORY?SITE=AP

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Today in History

Today is Monday, September 21, the 264th day of 2015. There are 101 days left in the year.
September 21, 1897
the New York Sun ran its famous editorial, written anonymously by Francis P. Church, which declared, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
1792
the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1893
one of America's first horseless carriages was taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles.
1912
magician Harry Houdini first publicly performed his "Water Torture Cell" trick at the Circus Busch in Berlin.
1925
the Rudolf Friml operetta "The Vagabond King" opened on Broadway.
1938
a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming some 700 lives.
1948
Milton Berle made his debut as permanent host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC-TV.
1957
Norway's King Haakon VII died in Oslo at age 85. The legal mystery-drama "Perry Mason," starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS-TV.
1964
Malta gained independence from Britain.
1970
"NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.
1975
the Warner Bros. motion picture "Dog Day Afternoon," starring Al Pacino, opened in New York.
1989
Hurricane Hugo crashed into Charleston, South Carolina (the storm was blamed for 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States). Twenty-one students in Alton, Texas, died when their school bus, hit by a soft-drink delivery truck, careened into a water-filled pit.
1996
John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Ten years ago:
Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5, 165-mph monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated. A JetBlue Airbus circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while the passengers were able to watch the drama unfold on live television; the plane landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport. Japan's Parliament re-elected Junichiro Koizumi (joon-ee-chee-roh koh-ee-zoo-mee) prime minister. Former National Organization for Women president Molly Yard died in Pittsburgh at age 93.
Five years ago:
The mayor and ex-city manager of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were among eight current and former city officials arrested in a corruption scandal that authorities said cost the blue-collar city more than $5.5 million in excessive salaries and illegal personal loans. Two men filed a lawsuit accusing Atlanta megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long of coercing them into sexual relationships when they were teenage members of his congregation. (Long, who denied the allegations, later reached out-of-court settlements with them and two other men.)
One year ago:
Thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Manhattan and cities around the world to urge policy makers to take action on climate change. A SpaceX cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station, carrying the first 3-D printer for astronauts in orbit. NASA's Maven spacecraft arrived at Mars after a 442 million-mile journey that began nearly a year earlier. Pope Francis briefly visited Albania, where he called for Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who "perverted" religion to justify violence. Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan's election commission named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (ahsh-RAHF' gah-NEE' ah-mahd-ZEYE') the country's new president.
Today's Birthdays:
Poet-songwriter Leonard Cohen is 81. Author-comedian Fannie Flagg is 74. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is 72. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is 71. Musician Don Felder is 68. Author Stephen King is 68. Basketball Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore is 66. Actor-comedian Bill Murray is 65. Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye is 64. Rock musician Philthy Animal is 61. Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is 58. Movie producer-writer Ethan Coen is 58. Actor-comedian Dave Coulier is 56. Actor David James Elliott is 55. Actress Serena Scott-Thomas is 54. Actress Nancy Travis is 54. Actor Rob Morrow is 53. Retired MLB All-Star Cecil Fielder is 52. Actress Cheryl Hines is 50. Country singer Faith Hill is 48. Rock musician Tyler Stewart (Barenaked Ladies) is 48. Country singer Ronna Reeves is 47. Actress-talk show host Ricki Lake is 47. Rapper Dave (De La Soul) is 47. Actor Rob Benedict is 45. Actor James Lesure is 44. Actor Alfonso Ribeiro is 44. Actor Luke Wilson is 44. Actor Paulo Costanzo is 37. Actor Bradford Anderson is 36. Actress Autumn Reeser is 35. TV personality Nicole Richie is 34. Actress Maggie Grace is 32. Actor Joseph Mazzello is 32. Actress Ahna O'Reilly is 31. Rapper Wale (WAH'-lay) is 31. Actors Nikolas and Lorenzo Brino are 17.
Thought for Today:
"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other." — H.G. Wells, English author (born this date in 1866, died 1946.)   http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HISTORY?SITE=AP

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Tissue Boxes – Sunday Thought For The Day by Mychal Massie

The following was written for September 20, 2015 "Our Daily Bread" by Tim Gustafson.
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As I sat in the surgical waiting room, I had time to think. I had been here recently, when we received the jarring news that my only brother, much too young, was "brain dead."

And so on this day, waiting for news about my wife who was undergoing a serious surgical procedure, I penned a lengthy note to her. Then, surrounded by nervous chatter and oblivious children, I listened for the quiet voice of God.

No matter what happens, our good & bad times still remain in God's capable hands.
Suddenly, news! The surgeon wanted to see me. I went to a secluded room to wait. There, on the table, sat two tissue boxes, conspicuously available. They weren't for the sniffles. They were for cold, hard phrases like I heard when my brother died—"brain dead" and "nothing we can do."

In such times of grief or uncertainty, the honesty of the psalms makes them a natural place to turn. Psalm 31 was the heart-cry of David, who endured so much that he wrote, "My life is consumed by anguish" (v. 10). Compounding that grief was the pain of abandonment by his friends and neighbors (v. 11).

But David had the bedrock of faith in the one true God. "I trust in you, Lord; I say, 'You are my God.' My times are in your hands" (vv. 14-15). His lament concludes with resounding encouragement and hope. "Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord" (v. 24).

This time in the waiting room, the surgeon gave us good news: My wife could expect a full and complete recovery. Of course we're relieved and grateful! But even if she hadn't been "okay," our times still remain in God's capable hands.

Lord, we give You our deepest grief and pain as well as our joy. Thank You for Your constant love and presence no matter what today holds for us. You alone are faithful!

When we put our problems in God's hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.

INSIGHT:
David was in great distress (v. 9) and in grave danger (v. 13) when he wrote Psalm 31. Because he was persecuted and threatened by powerful enemies, his close friends abandoned him (v. 11), considered him a lost cause, and left him alone to fend for himself (v. 12). Twice David affirmed his unwavering faith in God. He says in verse 6, "As for me, I trust in the Lord" and in verse 14, "But I trust in you, Lord." Acknowledging that God has been faithful to him, David confidently committed his spirit to God and trusted Him to deliver him (v. 5). While on the cross, Jesus prayed the same prayer of trust to His Father, "Into your hands I commit my spirit" (Luke 23:46). Sim Kay Tee

READ: Psalm 31:9-18
9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

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Today in History

Today is Friday, September 18, the 261st day of 2015. There are 104 days left in the year.
September 18, 1793
President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
In A.D. 14, the Roman Senate officially confirmed Tiberius as the second emperor of the Roman Empire, succeeding the late Augustus.
1759
the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.
1810
Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the forming of a national junta.
1927
the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
1931
an explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damaged a section of Japanese-owned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invaded Manchuria the next day.
1940
Harper and Brothers published "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe, two years after the author's death.
1961
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM'-ahr-shoold) was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1965
the situation comedies "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Get Smart" premiered on NBC.
1970
rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.
1975
newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1984
retired U.S. Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger became the first person to complete a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic Ocean as he landed in Italy, four days after leaving Maine.
1990
the city of Atlanta was named the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. The organized crime drama "GoodFellas," directed by Martin Scorsese, had its U.S. premiere in New York.
Ten years ago:
Tropical Storm Rita formed southeast of the Florida Keys. Millions of Afghans defied a Taliban boycott call and militant attacks to vote for a new parliament. German conservative challenger Angela Merkel's bloc won the most votes in elections, but fell short of a clear mandate to govern. "Everybody Loves Raymond" won the Emmy for best comedy in its final season; first-year hit "Lost" was named best drama.
Five years ago:
Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament in the first election since a fraud-marred ballot cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government. During his visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to five people who'd been molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking the Roman Catholic Church.
One year ago:
In a show of solidarity with Ukraine, President Barack Obama welcomed the new president of the embattled former Soviet republic, Petro Poroshenko, to the White House. Congress cleared the way for the U.S. military to train and equip Syrian rebels for a war against Islamic Group militants. Home Depot said a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the U.S. and Canada had affected 56 million debit and credit cards. Don Spirit, a convicted felon living in Bell, Florida, fatally shot his six grandchildren and his daughter before killing himself. Voters in Scotland rejected independence, opting to remain part of the United Kingdom in a historic referendum. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland, ended years of male-only exclusivity as its members voted overwhelmingly in favor of inviting women to join. Will Radcliff, 74, who'd built a multi-billion-dollar global business from flavored, icy Slush Puppie drinks, died in Cincinnati.
Today's Birthdays:
Voice actress June Foray is 98. Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 82. Actor Robert Blake is 82. Former Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, is 82. Actor Fred Willard is 82. Actor Eddie Jones is 81. Gospel singer Bobby Jones is 77. Singer Frankie Avalon is 75. Actress Beth Grant is 66. Rock musician Kerry Livgren is 66. Actress Anna Deavere Smith is 65. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino is 63. College Football Hall of Famer and retired NFL player Billy Sims is 60. Movie director Mark Romanek is 56. Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg is 56. Alt-country-rock musician Mark Olson is 54. Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) is 53. Actress Holly Robinson Peete is 51. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition) is 48. Actress Aisha Tyler is 45. Former racing cyclist Lance Armstrong is 44. Opera singer Anna Netrebko is 44. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith is 44. Actor James Marsden is 42. Actress Emily Rutherfurd is 41. Actor Travis Schuldt is 41. Rapper Xzibit is 41. Comedian-actor Jason Sudeikis is 40. Actress Sophina Brown is 39. Actor Barrett Foa is 38. TV correspondent Sara Haines is 38. Actress Alison Lohman is 36. Actors Taylor and Brandon Porter are 22. Actor C.J. Sanders is 19.
Thought for Today:
"Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up." — From "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938).