Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Tuesday to an aggressive crackdown on street encampments, setting the stage for the first major homeless sweeps in the city in decades.Mayor Eric Garcetti said he would sign the two ordinances, which authorize seizure and in some cases destruction of makeshift shelters and other property of homeless people. The mayor also said he supported proposed amendments that would drop a criminal penalty for violations and eliminate medication and personal documents from the list of belongings that can be confiscated.

Councilman Gil Cedillo, who cast the lone no vote, said the measures would criminalize homelessness while doing nothing to help people off the streets."We should have a war on poverty, not on the poor," LATimes

Gov. Nikki R. Haley called on Monday for South Carolina to do what just a week ago seemed politically impossible — remove the Confederate battle flag from its perch in front of the State House building here. She argued that a symbol long revered by many Southerners was , after the church massacre in Charleston, a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past.”NYT

 

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The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more.

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

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In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

Episode #1910

I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP  Her birth parents have decided to express their parental love by outing her in response to a legal dispute they have with her (#returnworld’sbestparentstrophy). They offered photos of a farm-fresh Rachel looking like she just stepped out of the General Store in Mayberry and a white-on-white birth certificate.The thing about race is that, scientifically, there is no such thing. As far back as 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the conclusions of an international group of anthropologists, geneticists, sociologists, and psychologists that stated that the concept of race was not a scientific entity but a myth.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The real estate mogul and TV reality star launched his presidential campaign Tuesday, ending more than two decades of persistent flirtation with the idea of running for the Oval Office.

"So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again," Trump told the crowd in a lengthy and meandering 45-minute speech that hit on his signature issues like currency manipulation from China and job creation, while also taking shots at the president and his competitors on the Republican side.

"Sadly the American dream is dead," Trump said at the end of his speech. "But if I get elected president I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before."Donald Trump

Jeb Bush, the son and brother of two former presidents, announced Monday in Miami that he is embarking on a journey to follow in their political footsteps — but on his own terms, promoting his record as a two-term governor of Florida, one of the nation’s biggest and most diverse states.“Not one of us deserves the job by right of résumé, party, seniority, family or family narrative,” the former Florida governor told about 3,000 of his loyalists assembled at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus. “It’s nobody’s turn. It’s everybody’s test, and it’s wide open — exactly as a contest for president should be.”

Jeb Bush subió el lunes al escenario de la universidad más grande y más diversa del país, un magnífico ejemplo de las aspiraciones de la clase trabajadora de Miami, y declaró que es el mejor candidato presidencial para ayudar a que todos los norteamericanos construyan una mejor vida para sí mismos y sus familias.“Nuestro país va por muy mal camino. Y la pregunta es: ¿qué vamos a hacer al respecto? Para mí la pregunta es: ¿qué voy a hacer? Y ya tomé una decisión”, dijo Bush en el recinto Kendall del Miami-Dade College. “Soy candidato para la presidencia de Estados Unidos”. MiamiHerald

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more.

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

“These Republicans trip over themselves promising lower taxes for the wealthy and fewer rules for the biggest corporations without any regard on how that will make income inequality worse,I’m not running for some Americans, but for all Americans,I’m running for all Americans.President Roosevelt called on every American to do his or her part, and every American answered, It’s America’s basic bargain:  If you do your part, you ought to be able to get ahead. And when everybody does their part, America gets ahead, too.” Hillary Clinton