School Reverses Ban On Prayer, After Being Reminded Of Constitution

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"While school cannot endorse any religion, they also cannot forbid students from praying. And the fact that they would forbid it because others might see it, is a ridiculous violation.

"Via Daily Caller:

A Wyoming school that told students they couldn’t pray in the cafeteria has lifted the ban after a Christian legal group threatened legal action on constitutional grounds.

A small group of students at Platte County School District #1 created a prayer circle in the cafeteria of Glendo High School to pray for their meal on October 15. The students prayed audibly, and it was not part of a regularly scheduled group. Afterward, the students say Principal Stanetta Twiford accosted one of the students and accused the student of forcing their religion on other students.

The principal allegedly said students needed permission to pray and then must go in the hallway or gymnasium if they wanted to talk to God. That way, other students wouldn’t see the prayer. The school argued the students were a captive audience being forced to witness the prayer. The father of two of the students appealed to the principal, who stood firm on the rule.

The parents of two of the students then reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom, A Christian legal group, which now represents the students. ADF sent a letter to the district Dec. 4, threatening to take legal action if the district continued to ban the students from praying.

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The Dem Debate: "Hillary is still, alas, massively unlikable. . . "

To repeat: Hillary is "massively unlikable". Um, in a nice way, of course. TD

http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

Hillary's debate claim can't be verified  . . . "It's at least equally logical to state that Paris and San Bernardino will inspire more terrorist attacks and recruit more jihadists than anything Donald Trump has said."

Dem Debate: Saturday Night Lites . . . "No one brought up her criminal activities, no one addressed her foundation's slush funds, her husband . . . "
. . . She is still, alas, massively unlikable, but one can forgive that, if one has not sat, stupefied, by her endless lies and cover-ups, her dissembling and self-aggrandizing."

Hillary Clinton criticized over ISIS comments, Trump recruitment video claim

Hillary Clinton caught in another video lie  " . . . “‘He is becoming ISIS‘s best recruiter,’ she claimed. ‘They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.’” (DailyMail Dec. 20, 2015)

"ISIS has only been recruiting jihadists since Trump came onto the presidential election scene?" . . .

The Daily Mail said, "The Clinton campaign did not respond to DailyMail.com's request for evidence of the former secretary of state's claim about Mr Trump and ISIS recruitment."  Is this the video?
. . .Politifact when looking for the purported videos after her claim Saturday night but found nothing.
Legal Insurrection dumped on Hillary as well

FACT CHECK: Glossed-over realities in Democratic debate

Bernie Sanders, left, speaks as Hillary Clinton listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate shown on TV screens in the media filing room, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H

The Democratic Candidates Do Their Best to Preserve ISIS

. . . "For Hillary it's an embarrassment -- or should be.  She's the woman who refused as head of the State Department to name Boko Haram (now pledged to ISIS) a terrorist organization at the very time they were raping and kidnapping girls in the name of Allah.  Now she's telling us we have ISIS where we want it -- or something like that.  Her remarks to that effect during the debate are being explained away or placed "in context"by Democrats, but that she could even claim something close to that is reprehensible.  She and Obama are, if not the mother and father of ISIS, at least their aunt and uncle." . . .

Ted Cruz Parodies Himself And Mocks Democrats In Clever New Campaign Ad

Watch the Campy Christmas Infomercial Ted Cruz Is About To Play During SNL . . . "Cruz is no stranger to non-traditional campaigning, he has cooked baconon the end of a machine gun and performed full-throated “Princess Bride” impressions on the trail in 2016. The above video features Cruz reading to his two daughters, along with his wife, in a traditional Christmas setting. However, the Christmas tales he tells are political satire."

"The greatest American recruiting tool ISIS has is our feckless leader, Obama "

Sharp-eyed people will notice the mug on the nightstand.

Obama -- Disengaged, Delusional, or Diabolical?  . . . "In a recent TV discussion of Obama’s effort to change the subject in this manner, Charles Krauthammer suggested that Obama was either disengaged or delusional. But in fact, "diabolical" may be the better term. But Obama may have foreseen just such happenings when he informed us that it was his desire to “fundamentally transform” America. No one thought at the time that he might have in mind the weakening of America to the point of our being so vulnerable as to possibly being taken over by an Islamic caliphate that his neglect had made possible. And while this may seem far-fetched, let’s take a closer look at what Barack Obama and his feckless former secretary of state have accomplished in just seven short years." . . . By Ken Eliasberg

"Shortly after taking office (and not long after his “fundamental transformation” speech) Obama flew to Cairo to deliver an apology and a loving outreach to Islam -- going so far as to suggest that Islam has deep roots in the USA. As recent events have made clear, there is no question that they are buried deep in the soil of the Obama administration. One very stark example is the Muslim Brotherhood, mother of all Islamic terrorist organizations; it is banned in Egypt, its birthplace, but welcome in the White House."

VIDEO: Uncovered Trump Interview From Over 25 Years Ago Will Shock A Lot of People

Oprah Winfrey interviews Donald Trump 25 years ago

"Part of an Oprah Interview with Donald Trump that took place about 25 years ago. NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted material herein is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 

Hat tip to Robert J. Hope; Sacramento, CA. Semper Fi, Bob

You may not know what "Vocal Fry" is, but you hear it every day

We hear it often on "House Hunters" for one.
Vocal Fry  "You sound like a Kardashian? Speech therapists "vocal fry" the call is low, throaty-up of young women are gaining importance. "Sunday Morning" Faith Salie contribute girls should be encouraged to find their voices, however, say that there should be creaky uncomfortable.

More on this here.

"Vocal fry: An attack on women?"

Then there is the ubiquitous "like"

If You Use This Word, People Will, like, Think You're, like,, Stupid   . . . "When the first "like" pops out of my mouth, I can already tell that someone is immediately taking me less seriously, something I already have a problem with, as a 24-year-old woman working in media.

It goes something like (appropriate use of word as conjunction) this:

Me: "Hi, I'm Zoë, the Associate Books Editor for Huffington Post Books."

Serious publishing person: "Nice to meet you, Zoë."

Me: "We're, like, doing a TON of interesting things right now on our Books page. It's, like, really cool."

How to talk like a Valley Girl

Hillary Clinton’s video problem; William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar" in "Essay; Blizzard of Lies"

Hot Air  . . . "Bernie Sanders once again seemed to only make headlines for apologizing to Hillary Clinton and making her look good. For her part, the former Secretary of State trotted out some of her usual misleading talking points against a pair of flailing wannabes who aren’t ever going to get within smelling distance of the Democrat nomination.
"There were some golden oldies, such as Clinton’s long debunked claim of “30,000 deaths due to gun violence every year.” (We covered that one exhaustively when she first trotted it out at the President’s request.) And of course she had to explain away her cozy ties with Wall Street. But the one thing which seems to get Clinton in more trouble than anything else is whenever the subject of videos comes up. And I’m not talking about this disturbing image:

DNC failed to allow proper time, apparently

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/221904/

"The actual event I’m referring to had to do with Donald Trump. (Of course.) In one of the more jaw dropping moments of the night, Clinton stared down the audience and proclaimed as fact that ISIS was showing videos of Donald Trump to aspiring radicals in an effort to recruit them.

"Say what, now?

"Politico was running their “Wrongometer” again and they lit into that one.

. . . "To their credit, the media actually covered this outrageous claim at length." 

As William Safire wrote in Essay; Blizzard of Lies: 

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

 Hillary's debate claim can't be verified . . . "It's at least equally logical to state that Paris and San Bernardino will inspire more terrorist attacks and recruit more jihadists than anything Donald Trump has said.
"Neither narrative is provable. But it just goes to show that Clinton has upped the ante and will now blame Trump and Republicans directly for "playing into the hands" of terrorists."