The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a bill today that would require schools to conduct comprehensive background checks on employees using state criminal and child abuse registries and the FBI’s fingerprint database.
The measure was introduced by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y. It would also bar schools from hiring or keeping on staff anyone who has been convicted of certain violent crimes, including crimes against kids, crimes involving rape or sexual assault, and child pornography.
The legislation is in response to a report issued earlier this week by the Government Accountability Office, which found that schools have, in some cases, hired individuals with histories of sexual misconduct as teachers, coaches, janitors, and administrators, partly because of lax systems of background checks.
The bill sends “a strong message that people who abuse children, or do not do their jobs to keep children safe, will face serious consequences,” said Rep. Miller during floor debate.
The full Senate has yet to take up the bill and the legislative clock could run out before it has the chance. Lawmakers are headed out of town soon, so it’s tough to say whether the measure will become law before the 111th Congress ends. The next Congress, which includes many new members, will have to start from scratch in January on any bills that aren’t finalized before this Congress leaves town.
But, even if the Senate doesn’t get around to the bill, the House passage could potentially boost momentum for this issue. Miller, who will be the top Democrat on the Education committee in the new Congress, said today he would like to revisit the topic down the line.
“I hope that in the next Congress we’ll be able to take an even more comprehensive approach to protect children in our schools,” he said.
Back in June, I warned that Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) was demagoguing a sand barrier ’solution’ that probably won’t help, will take many months, use up valuable resources, vanish in the first storm — and many scientists think will make things worse. As one Coastal geologist explained: “I have yet to speak […] Climate Progress
Bloomberg News has taken an unorthodox step in the world of wire services, and created an opinion section that it says "will embrace a diversity and variety of opinion."
But early signs suggest a liberal tilt to"Bloomberg View", as it's called. It will be edited by David Shipley, former deputy editor of the New York Times opinion page, and James Rubin, who was a deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton.
Furthermore, Bloomberg employees are quite open about the fact that the views of the company's president, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, will be reflected prominently in its content.
Bloomberg News has taken an unorthodox step in the world of wire services, and created an opinion section that it says "will embrace a diversity and variety of opinion."
But early signs suggest a liberal tilt to"Bloomberg View", as it's called. It will be edited by David Shipley, former deputy editor of the New York Times opinion page, and James Rubin, who was a deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton.
Furthermore, Bloomberg employees are quite open about the fact that the views of the company's president, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, will be reflected prominently in its content.
From: Sammon, Bill To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers; 069 -Politics; 005 -Washington Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay; Smith, Sean Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009 Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data…
…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
This morning, MediaMatters released the bombshell e-mail “sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon … less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was ‘on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.‘ ”
So maybe the only bombshell is that Sammon was foolish enough to put this egregious Fox News policy into an email. What follows is an extended excerpt of the MediaMatters story, including a video of the story that triggered the email:
This latest revelation comes after Media Mattersuncovered an email sent by Sammon to Fox journalists at the peak of the health care reform debate, ordering them to avoid using the term “public option” and instead use variations of “government option.” That email echoed advice from a prominent Republican pollster on how to help turn public opinion against health care reform.
Sources familiar with the situation in Fox’s Washington bureau have expressed concern about Sammon using his position to “slant” Fox’s supposedly neutral news coverage to the right.
Sammon’s orders for Fox journalists to cast doubt on climate science came amid the network’s relentless promotion of the fabricated “Climategate” scandal, which revolved around misrepresentations of emails sent to and from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.
At the time of Sammon’s directive, it was clear the “scandal” did not undermine the scientific basis for global warming and that the emails were being grossly distorted by conservative media and politicians. Scientists, independent fact-checkers, and several investigations have since confirmed that the CRU emails do not undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet.
Contrary to Sammon’s email, the increase in global temperatures over the last half-century is an established fact. As the National Climatic Data Center explains, the warming trend “is apparent in all of the independent methods of calculating global temperature change” and “is also confirmed by other independent observations.”
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On the December 8 edition of Happening Now, one of Fox News’ daytime straight news shows, Fox White House correspondent Wendell Goler delivered a live report from Copenhagen and was asked by host Jon Scott about “U.N. scientists issuing a new report today saying this decade is on track to be the warmest on record.”
Goler accurately reported that, indeed, 2000-2009 was “expected to turn out to be the warmest decade on record,” following a “trend that has scientists concerned because 2000-2009 [was] warmer than the 1990s, which were warmer than the 1980s.” Goler went on to explain that “ironically 2009 was a cooler than average year in the U.S. and Canada,” which, he said, was “politically troubling because Americans are among the most skeptical about global warming.”
When Scott brought up the “Climategate” emails, Goler explained that although people had raised questions about the CRU data, “the data also comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and from NASA. And scientists say the data of course across all three sources is pretty consistent.” Watch:
Less than 15 minutes after the segment, Sammon sent the following email to the staffs of Special Report, Fox News Sunday, and FoxNews.com, as well as to other reporters, producers, and network executives, instructing them to “IMMEDIATELY” include objections of “critics” when reporting on climate data:
From: Sammon, Bill To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers; 069 -Politics; 005 -Washington Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay; Smith, Sean Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009 Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data…
…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
That night’s Special Report with Bret Baier – Fox’s flagship news program — featured another report by Goler on the Copenhagen conference. Anchor Bret Baier introduced the report by saying that as “‘climategate-fueled skeptics continued to impugn global warming science, researchers today issued new and even more dire warnings about the possible effects of a warmer planet.”
Goler’s report featured a clip of Michel Jarraud of the World Meteorological Association explaining the recent finding that 2000-2009 “is likely to be the warmest on the record.”
Appearing to echo Sammon’s orders, Goler immediately followed this by saying that “skeptics say the recordkeeping began about the time a cold period was ending in the mid 1800s and what looks like an increase may just be part of a longer cycle.”
After running a clip of American Enterprise Institute scholar Kenneth Green questioning the “historical context” of the WMO’s climate findings, Goler then brought up the climategate emails:
GOLER: Meanwhile, the hacked or leaked e-mails from East Anglia University pushed the U.N. to once again defend its data. Scientists say it’s consistent with that from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, and the U.N. secretary general says nothing in the e-mails cast doubt on the basic scientific message.
BAN KI-MOON, U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL (video clip): That the climate change is happening much, much faster than we realized and we human beings are the primary cause.
Watch:
That night, on the same Special Report broadcast, correspondent James Rosen advanced the wildly misleading claim that climate scientists “destroyed more than 150 years worth of raw climate data.”
By the time Sammon sent his email on December 8, it was already clear that “Climategate” was not only overblown, but also had no bearing on the validity of scientific theories about climate change.
In a letter to Congress sent four days before Sammon’s memo, 29 prominent scientists — including 11 members of the National Academy of Sciences — stated: “The body of evidence that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming is overwhelming. The content of the stolen emails has no impact whatsoever on our overall understanding that human activity is driving dangerous levels of global warming.”
On December 2, the prestigious science journal Naturestated: “Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real — or that human activities are almost certainly the cause. That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several that are completely independent of the climate reconstructions debated in the e-mails.”
On November 25, the American Meteorological Society released a statement saying: “For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small. Even if some of the charges of improper behavior in this particular case turn out to be true — which is not yet clearly the case — the impact on the science of climate change would be very limited.”
On November 23, Peter Frumhoff, the director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a “lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report” by the IPCC said: “[O]ur understanding of climate science is based not on private correspondence, but on the rigorous accumulation, testing and synthesis of knowledge often represented in the dry and factual prose of peer-reviewed literature.”
Severalsubsequentinquiries into the climategate emails did not find evidence of scientific malpractice that damages the credibility of CRU’s climate science and also cleared the scientists of deceptively manipulating climate data.
Shortly after Sammon’s memo, numerous media outlets, including the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact.com also analyzed the emails and concluded that they did not undermine climate science.
Nonetheless, Fox’s news and opinion programs relentlessly hyped the supposed scandal in order to cast doubt on the scientific case for climate change, both before and after Sammon’s memo. Some lowlights:
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeatedly pushed climategate distortions, both before and after Sammon’s directive.
On December 3, America’s Newsroom host Bill Hemmer falsely claimed the emails showed scientists hiding “evidence of a decline in global temperatures.”
Online, Fox’s website Fox Nation characterized the emails as “Global Warming’s Waterloo.”
Neil Cavuto, Fox’s “Senior Vice President of Business News” and host of Your World with Neil Cavuto, interviewed a filmmaker dressed as a polar bear during the Copenhagen conference and joined him in promoting “Climategate” distortions.
A month after Sammon sent his memo, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies released data confirming that 2009 was the second warmest year on record and marked the end of the warmest decade on record.
After spending weeks hyping the Climategate non-scandal, Special Report never mentioned the NASA report.
Media Matters contacted Sammon and Fox spokespeople for comment and we have not received a response.
Jocelyn Fong and other Media Matters staff contributed to this report.
Kudos to Media Matters for unearthing this story from the anti-earth folks at Fox News. See also the Politico story, “Fox editor urged climate skepticism.”
Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Bill Sammon e-mailed staffers last December to instruct them not to assert that the “planet has warmed (or cooled)” without “IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question.”
Sammon’s e-mail, obtained by Media Matters, came less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler reported on-air that the World Meteorological Organization at the U.N. said 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.”
The missive was sent three weeks after the so-called “Climategate” scandal broke and in the middle of the Copenhagen climate summit.
The Fox News bureau chief wrote to his staff that it was “not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
Climate change isn’t the only topic where Sammon has told staffers to tip their coverage toward conservatives: he also instructed staffers to echo GOP talking points in the health care debate by using the term “government option” instead of “public option.” Sammons defended the wording, told the Daily Beast that “public option” is a “vague, bland, undescriptive phrase,” while “government option” is “simply an accurate, fair, objective term.”
Read the full e-mail below.
From: Sammon, Bill
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers; 069 -Politics; 005 -Washington
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay; Smith, Sean
Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009
Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data…
…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
Here’s the segment that resulted in Sammon’s e-mail:
During yesterday’s NFL football game between the NY Jets and the Miami Dolphins, a member of the Jet’s coaching staff intentionally and purposely stuck his leg out and tripped a Miami playerrunning down the sideline on punt coverage. How pathetically rotten and despicable could one be. To make matters worse, the player was injured. Video here.
Is this what the Jets call swagger? We call it a complete lack of class. This is what it has come to with the Jets after being destroyed by the New England Patriots a week ago 45-3 and losing yesterday to Miami 10-6. All of Jets management should be ashamed of themselves and the individual who did this dastardly act should be fired.
This play happened with 2:58 left in the third quarter, when the Dolphins punted to Jets receiver Santonio Holmes(notes). As Holmes took the ball for a short return, cornerback Nolan Carroll(notes) was hurt on the right sideline as he rushed down to cover the play. The replay showed strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi extending his knee just enough to trip Carroll up on the play. Carroll was down for a minute, but returned to play later in the game.
Jets cioach Sal Alosi – idiot of the week award
Jets coach Sal Alosi later admittedhe interfered with Carroll. You made a mistake, really? You don’t think! You not only should be fined, the organization should as well and this coach should be terminated immediately. What is up with all the crap that has been going on with the Jets lately …Brett Favre/Jenn Stergersaga, Mexican reporter Ines Sainzsexual harassment and now this. Maybe it is an organizational issue.
“I made a mistake that showed a total lapse in judgment,” Alosi said in a statement released by the Jets about 2½ hours after the game. “My conduct was inexcusable and unsportsmanlike and does not reflect what this organization stands for.”
If the NFL is going to fine player for hits on QB’s that are nothing more than playing the game, they better fine this fool triple.
Companies doing business with Broward County got letters this week warning them: Please do not give gifts this holiday season to county staff or their family members.
The letter has the subject line “Broward County’s ‘Code of Ethics — No Gift Policy” and is dated Dec. 6.
It alerts recipients that the County Commissioner “recently approved landmark ethics reform” that includes a prohibition on “gifts of any kind” being given by a vendor or potential vendor to “any county employee or their immediate family.”
“With the holiday season upon us,” the letter says, vendors are respectfully asked NOT to deliver any gift(s) to an individual, department, office or division of the county government or the immediate family of same.”
Tthe new film "Fair Game" is so full of falsehoods and is such an affront to historical accuracy that even the Washington Post's editorial staff felt obligated to debunk the many untruths it presents.
"We're not in the habit of writing movie reviews," began a Post editorial on Friday. But "Fair Game" "deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of what its promoters are saying about it" – namely, that the film is a factual account of the Valerie Plame scandal (as, predictably Plame and her husband Joe Wilson claim). It most certainly is not, the Post writes (h/t Ed Driscoll):
Washington (CNN) – Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he has authorized “significant” actions related to the criminal investigation of WikiLeaks as the website faces increasing pressure worldwide for publishing sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables.
“National security of the United States has been put at risk,” Holder said. “The lives of people who work for the American people have been put at risk. The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way. We are doing everything that we can.” FULL STORY
From West’s office: Blyth has worked for more than 20 years in the Legislative and Executive Branches of the federal government. He has served on the congressional staff of several members of Congress in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, including serving as the Chief of Staff for Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) and Congressman Bill Martini (R-NJ). Blyth was also a presidential appointee for President George W. Bush in two federal agencies. He is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College with a degree in Government and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Blyth is a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Reserve. He is a resident of Arlington, Virginia and Boca Raton, Florida.
As deputy chief of staff and legislative director, he picked Josh Grodin. He was West’s campaign manger.
From West’s office: Grodin has spent a decade working for various campaigns and political organizations including acting as Political Director of the nationally recognized non-profit, Vets for Freedom. Grodin was appointed by President George W. Bush to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in 2005 where he served as a Legislative Analyst in the Office of Legislative Affairs. Grodin has also worked for three members of Congress on Capitol Hill. Grodin has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas, and an M.S. in Defense & Strategic Studies/International Relations.
As communications director, Angela Sachitano, formerly with the Sun Sentinel, currently with WPTV-Ch. 5 in Palm Beach County.
From West’s office: Sachitano is an expert in front of and behind the camera and has spent the past 12 years working as a journalist and media analyst for various companies and news outlets across the country, including most recently reporting for the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach. Sachitano is a a native of Florida and graduated from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
There is an old saying around Congress – there are Republicans, Democrats and Appropriators. With Republicans promising to reign in the federal government, the first order of business is to change the culture of the Appropriations Committee which has been the fueled the spending beast for decades.
The Republican leadership will decide on the next chairman of the Committee in a few days. The leading contenders are Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Jack Kingston (R-GA). Word on the street is that Rogers will select Bill Inglee as the Committee Staff Director should he get the job.
Who is Bill Inglee?
Inglee is the classic RINO who ran the Wednesday Group – the meeting of the liberal Republicans on the Hill. He went on the serve as a lobbyist for Lockeed Martin where he pushed for defense earmarks for the company.
To secure earmarks Inglee gave political contributions to leading Democrats include Jack Murtha (D-PA) and Dan Inouye (D-HI). In short, Inglee is not only a RINO, he is an appropriator through and through.
The time has come to reform and limit the appropriations process. The last thing conservatives need is an earmarking RINO running to committee.
The Senate Republicans have shaken up their staff, laying off seven employees in the biggest reorganization in years.
The seven GOP staffers who were laid off include the staff budget specialist, two veteran press aides, a researcher, and other aides. Some will continue working until a few days before Christmas.
Some Capitol insiders believe that the new budget guru for the Senate GOP will be Michael J. Cicchetti, the deputy secretary of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s budget office.
Cicchetti told Capitol Watch on Thursday that he has heard those rumors, too, but said he is not sure where he will be working next. The top officials at the Office of Policy and Management are expected to be replaced when Democrat Dannel Malloy takes over the governor’s office on January 5.
“Like any organization, we’re constantly evaluating ourselves and evaluating whether we’re achieving our goals and objectives,” Senate Republican leader John McKinney told Capitol Watch. “We’ll have some new hires. I don’t know the total yet.”
McKinney declined to mention any names and said he was not sure whether seven new employees will be hired to replace those who are being laid off. He said, however, that the caucus expects to have some money left over in a difficult budget year, and they will be returning money to the state treasury. The Senate GOP staff has more than 30 positions.
McKinney declined to comment on whether David Cappiello, a former Senate Republican budget chief who worked this year for the unsuccessful campaign of Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate, will be returning to his former position.
“It hasn’t been my practice to comment on personnel matters,” McKinney said. ”There are always rumors around the building and very rarely are they true.”
When it comes to the GOP agenda, future House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) always looks for constructive input. On Wall Street Reform, Boehner was quick to consult corporate lobbyists on how to defeat it. On the GOP “Pledge to America,” he made sure to invite “senior Republican lobbyists” and “more than 20 trade representatives” to offer their advice, while summarily ignoring that of the public. Now, apparently seeking to flesh out the GOP’s social agenda, Boehner has invited another influential voice to the table: the far right Christian activist Randall Terry.
As the founder of the extremist, pro-life group Operation Rescue, Terry turned rabid fanaticism into a high-profile career. Known for his outlandish antics and incendiary rhetoric, Terry earns the scorn of most respectable lawmakers. But, according to an email alert obtained by Right Wing Watch, Terry’s extremism has now secured him a spot in Beohner’s inner circle. Meeting with Boehner’s staff, Terry apparently demanded the GOP “hasten the end of legalized child killing in America” and that “unless the Republicans do something concrete to save babies from murder, then they are collaborators with child killers, and we must treat them as such”:
We must demand that Republicans who won the House of Representatives hasten the end of legalized child killing in America. Their victory could be a strong step forward for the babies, but it also might be yet another set back after 50,000,000 dead babies.
We must not delude ourselves!…We already see pro-life fundraising letters and petitions heralding this GOP victory as an automatic victory for the babies’ lives. This is simply not true![…]
When the Republicans are in power, pro-life groups and leaders become way too “polite.” We lose our edge; we don’t hold them accountable; we settle for trite phrases and broken promises as long as they will meet with us for 10 minutes, and we can take our picture with them, or they come to one of our meetings and receive some useless award.
I beg you to carefully consider my words; look at this situation with prophetic insight. Unless the Republicans do something concrete to save babies from murder, then they are collaborators with child killers, and we must treat them as such.
We have Pro-Life DEMANDS for Mr. Boehner & House GOP
We Must Play Hard Ball: They Must Fear Pro-Lifers!
If using any political opportunity to orchestrate absurd and offensive protests constitutes “hard ball,” Terry brings the “A” game. During the health care reform debate, he was nearly arrested outside a Tennessee federal courthouse for stabbing baby dolls. During Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s confrimation, Terry launched a “defeat Sotomayor” roadshow with fliers dubbing her the “Angel of Death.” Turning on Democratic leadership, he also launched a contest “Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid BURN IN HELL!” video contest complete with demonstration. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also earned an effigy burning tour for voting to confirm Justice Elena Kagan.
Not satisfied with just focusing on politicians, Terry targeted President Obama’s children by touting aborted baby pictures outside their school. He even blamed Dr. George Tiller — a Kansas doctor murdered for administering abortions – for his own death. When Terry brought his charade to Capitol Hill last year, ThinkProgress caught a rehearsal of one of his “wrath to come” protests in which he told one of his followers dressed as Reid and Pelosi, “stand here and she’s gonna whip you with this whip.”
Yet these incendiary antics don’t seem to phase many conservatives and even earn re-enactment on their preferred news network. Perhaps that is why Boehner feels so comfortable bringing such a radical extremist into the establishment fold. However, Terry knows that “trite phrases and broken promises” are in Boehner’s wheelhouse and is unlikely to disappear now that he has his foot in the door.
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Washington (CNN) – Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he has authorized “significant” actions related to the criminal investigation of WikiLeaks as the website faces increasing pressure worldwide for publishing sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables.
“National security of the United States has been put at risk,” Holder said. “The lives of people who work for the American people have been put at risk. The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way. We are doing everything that we can.”
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