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  1. Posted

    Welcome to Progressive Utopia.

    Please check your brain at the door ...

     

    http://dailycaller.c...pline-policies/

     

    President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.

    His July 26 executive order established a government panel to promote “a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools.”

    “African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline,” said the order, titled “White House Initiative On Educational Excellence.”

    Because of those causes, the report suggests, “over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.”

    “What this means is that whites and Asians will get suspended for things that blacks don’t get suspended for,” because school officials will try to level punishments despite groups’ different infraction rates, predicted Hans Bader, a counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bader is a former official in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, and has sued and represented school districts and colleges in civil-rights cases.

    “It is too bad that the president has chosen to set up a new bureaucracy with a focus on one particular racial group, to the exclusion of all others,” said Roger Clegg, the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

    “A disproportionate share of crimes are committed by African Americans, and they are disproportionately likely to misbehave in school… [because] more than 7 out of 10 African Americans (72.5 percent) are born out of wedlock… versus fewer than 3 out of 10 whites,” he said in a statement to The Daily Caller. Although ” you won’t see it mentioned in the Executive Order… there is an obvious connection between these [marriage] numbers and how each group is doing educationally, economically, criminally,” he said.

     

    The order created a “President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.” It will include senior officials from several federal agencies — including the Departments of Education, Justice and Labor — which have gained increased power over state education policies since 2009.

    The progressives campaign for race-based discipline policies also won a victory in Maryland July 24.

    The state’s board of education established a policy demanding that each racial or ethnic group receive roughly proportional level of school penalties, regardless of the behavior by members of each group.

    The board’s decision requires that “the state’s 24 school systems track data to ensure that minority and special education students are not unduly affected by suspensions, expulsions and other disciplinary measures,” said a July 25 Washington Post report.

    “Disparities would have to be reduced within a year and eliminated within three years,” according to the Post.

    The state’s new racial policy was welcomed by progressives, including Judith Browne Dianis, a director of the D.C.-based Advancement Project. “Maryland’s proposal is on the cutting edge,” she told the Post.

    Dianis’ project is also a law firm that litigates race-related questions, and it gains from laws and regulations that spur race-related legal disputes.

    “The combination of overly harsh school policies … has created a ‘schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track,’ in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior,” claimed the group’s website.

    This “is a racial justice crisis, because the students pushed out through harsh discipline are disproportionately students of color,” the group insisted.

    The administration had previously advertised its support for the campaign to impose race-based discipline policies.

    In February, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that “we’ve often seen that students of color, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with special needs are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled.”

    “This is, quite simply, unacceptable. … These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed,” he said in his speech, given in Atlanta, Ga.

    Holder’s speech did not, however, include any evidence of discrimination toward any individual African-American student. For example, he offered no evidence that school infractions by African-American students prompt stiffer punishments than similar infractions by white, Hispanic or Asian students.

    The progressive campaign to impose race-based rules on schools relies on various judges’ decisions, which penalize so-called “disparate impact” in hiring.

    According to progressive lawyers, “disparate impact” may occur when companies or state and local governments hire and promote people at rates different from their percentage in the local population.

    Because of judges’ decisions, juries can force companies and state agencies — such as city boards that hire police officers and firefighters — to pay heavy financial penalties to plaintiffs, even when hiring policies are recognized as color-blind.

    When facing a disparate impact lawsuit, employers have to justify their hiring practices, for example, by showing that the job demands special skills possessed by relatively few members of a racial or ethnic group.

    In 1997, however, the Seventh Circuit appeals court barred the practice of racial balancing in school discipline to avoid disparate impact lawsuits, said Bader.

    Progressives say the “disparate impact” claims are supported by the 1964 Civil Right Act.

    Critics, such as Clegg, say “disparate impact” law is used to trump popular and effective color-blind practices, such as civil-service tests by governments and employment-suitability testing by companies.

    Another critic, David Rettig, head of the National Character Education Foundation, told The Daily Caller in February that apparently-disproportionate school discipline practices can be a reflection of local crime reports.

    “Outside the walls of the school, how many of these kids are coming from not just dysfunctional homes, but homes that are not supportive of their children?” he told TheDC.

  3. Posted

    My first was a 5" XD-45 bi-tone. I shot it well, and I could afford it, so that's how I made my choice. But, since they I've decided that I wanted something a little "simpler" design-wise, so I sold the XD and used the proceeds to pick up a Glock 19.

    It still shoots very well, and is envied by the many other members of my XD45 brood for its stainless slide!

    As a matter of fact, it's packed and ready for a range trip tomorrow morning to SJSC

     

    And my first is still with me - a S&W 17 (6 shot .22) in 6" from the summer I was 21 (and bumbling Gerry Ford was President)

    It still shoots great, but the cylinder bores require some measure of deeeeeep cleaning for factory-easy loading!

  7. Posted

    Not really sure what the point of these were other than being a novelty. It looks awkward to shoot

    as a pistol and you don't have the stock to use it as a rifle. Guess more of a Novelty?

    With a single point sling to provide tension, and a standard 2-handed grip, they are quite steady and extremely effective as long-range, carryable handguns.

     

    And fun as hell to shoot!

  17. Posted

    The force you exerted when priming THIS piece of brass:

    - was it more than others in the same batch ?

     

    Was it YOU that swaged the primer pockets of THIS LC brass:

    - or are you assuming it was properly swaged already?

     

    Was this your FIRST RELOAD of this LC brass?

     

    Glad you and your dog are ok (with the exception of the canine fecal stain on the rug)

  21. Posted

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    This is what one looks like!

    And they're fun as hell to shoot

    Lots of muzzle flash (only a 7.5" barrel) and lots of noise!

    But so little recoil (it's a .223, after all)

    Single point sling on the stud at the back (under the tube) lets you push/pull with either 2 hands on the pistol grip (like a handgun) or one around the front of the mag/magwell (my 15 rounders are longer than the one in the photo)

  23. Posted

    Currently using a Barska 20-60x80, which replaced a defective (and the last one Midway had) Konus 20-60x80 which I had used for less than a year.

    The glue on the Konus failed and the sucker literally fell apart. I got is for under $200

    The Barska was about $220, and is an ok scope, but certainly does not measure up to my teammates' Kowa scopes.

    As they say in the high power game, "Buy once, cry once"

    (ie, Midway is not the place to buy high quality, top of the line optics)

     

    btw, I can see my .223 hits at 300 under the right conditions with my current Barska

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