Washington state Democrats are pushing a bill that would make sure kindergartners will learn about sex starting in 2022. House Bill 2184 <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2184.pdf?q=20200121052633">states</a>, “In accordance with the requirements in this section and any recommendations of the sexual health education work group established in the 2019-2021 omnibus operating appropriations act that are enacted by the legislature, every public school shall provide comprehensive sexual health education to each student by the 2022-23 school year.”
As radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1676789/rantz-mandatory-sex-ed-kindergarten-washington/">points out</a>:
<blockquote>One section of the curriculum for teachers to use as a guide suggests talking to students about the penis as not having “any bones in it, but when people talk about an erection as a ‘boner,’ they’re mistaken.” Girls are taught about a “very sensitive little area at the top called the clitoris.”</blockquote>
Despite the fact that a survey conducted by the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education work group (CSHE) , which was created in 2019 under the Office of Superintendent, found that 54% of respondents felt sex education for children in grades K-5 should not be required, a <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/208965#toolbar=0&amp;navpanes=0">document</a> from CSHE reportedly stated that such education was necessary because the “social emotional needs of our youngest students must be addressed for prevention of future challenges.” CHSE added that this was “an issue of equity and would help to ensure all students across the state receive quality, evidence-informed instruction, regardless of who they are or where they live,&#8221; according to Rantz.
As Rantz points out, “It’s not surprising that the group rejected the public’s input. The entire 16-member, all-female work group were described as in agreement with their findings, though they had conversations about what some of the K-3 curriculum should look like.”
State Representative Michelle Caldier (R-Bremerton), speaking at a House Education Committee hearing, admonished CHSE, stating, “I think that sometimes, you know in politics and when we’re making decisions. that it’s very easy to surround ourselves with people who just agree with us and I think that if the work group just had conversations and no disagreement, that really concerns me because I know there’s a lot of disagreement for that. And I would encourage you guys to go back and really listen to the people who disagree and come back with something better.”
Laurie Dills, from the Office of Superintendent lamely responded that “we were exposed to a wide variety of viewpoints around the state.”
The curriculum includes statements such as these: “This lesson does, however, acknowledge that ‘there are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have. Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies are.’”
Rantz noted, “For Grade 1, teachers should have their students read ‘My Princess Boy’ before teaching the six and seven-year-olds about reproduction.”
“My Princess Boy” <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Princess-Boy-Cheryl-Kilodavis/dp/1442429887/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIME6PF5URKD&amp;keywords=my+princess+boy&amp;qid=1579614476&amp;sprefix=My+Princess+boy%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-1">describes itself</a> this way on its Amazon website: “Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy.”
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Learning and playroom

Washington State Dems Push Bill Forcing Kindergartners To Learn About Sex

Children

Washington

Tragedy struck the Simmons family of Washington State last Friday when their car drove off of a winding road last Friday and down a 200-foot embankment into a wooded area, striking several trees.
Forty-Seven-Year-Old Corey Simmons was killed in the crash, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/us/4-year-old-girls-escape-deadly-washington-accident/index.html">reported</a>, but his twin 4-year-old girls miraculously survived. The girls were able to unbuckle their car seats and escape the wreckage of the crash. They then climbed the 200-foot embankment back to the road, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/09/twin-4-year-washington-girls-escape-car-crash-killed-father/2628337001/">reported</a>.
Trooper Heather Axtman, a spokesperson for the Washington State Patrol. told the outlet that the twin girls were immediately seen by an unidentified good Samaritan when they reached the side of the road. The Samaritan kept the twins in her car to keep them warm while she called 911 and then waited with the girls until paramedics arrived to take them to the hospital.
The girls received only minor injuries during the crash and were soon reunited with other members of their family.
“I have kids of my own and typically, kids are scared of the dark and the woods,&#8221; Axtman told USA Today. &#8220;They overcame these fears because they knew their dad needed help, and that is so heroic.”
&#8220;This story will stick with me because of the bravery and heroic actions of these little girls,&#8221; she added.
The outlet reported that authorities still do not know what caused the crash. Axtman said it happened in a rural area that was not well lit. Axtman told CNN that the father was not wearing a seatbelt when the car crashed.
KING-TV spoke to the mother of the twins, Esther Crider, who was surprised by what they had done. Crider’s daughter from a previous relationship, Rebecah, said the family wanted to thank the Good Samaritan who helped the twins after the fateful crash.
“We are so incredibly thankful, and we are desperately looking for who she is,&#8221; Rebecah Crider told KING-TV. &#8220;We would love to personally meet her and thank her.”
Axtman, however, said the Good Samaritan did not want to be identified.
The crash happened just a week after the family cut down their own Christmas tree for the first time, Esther told the outlet. She provided KING-TV with a photo of Simmons with the girls from that outing.
A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/corey-simmons-funeral-amp-family-fund?utm_source=customer&amp;utm_medium=copy_link&amp;utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet">GoFundMe account</a> has been set up to help the family after Corey’s unexpected and tragic death. So far the family has raised just over $13,000 toward their $18,000 goal.
“An unexpected tragedy has hit our family, leaving a sadness in our hearts,” the GoFundMe page says. “Family, friend and father to 3; 47 year old [sic] Corey Simmons was taken away from us to soon due to a car accident on Friday December 6, 2019.”
The page also says that Simmons was “an amazing father that loved his 3 children and step children,” who was “loud, fun and goofy.”
The page asks for help for the girls and Esther, who was described as “Corey’s Girlfriend/mother of the girls,” because of the loss of Simmons just before Christmas.

County Sheriff

Twin 4-Year-Olds Escape Car Accident That Killed Their Father By Unbuckling Booster Seats And Climbing 200 Feet

In Tacoma, Washington, a showdown is coming because the city is considering taxing gun sales.
The councilman proposing the measure to be brought up on Tuesday at the city council, Ryan Mello, stated, “I can’t ban assault rifles in the city of Tacoma. I can’t ban certain types of ammo in the city of Tacoma. I can’t require safe storage. There’s a lot I can’t do. The one thing I am not pre-empted from doing is reasonable taxation on firearms and ammunition,” as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/proposed-tax-on-gun-sales-faces-opposition-in-tacoma-wash-11572255002?mod=djemwhatsnews">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported.
The legislation would require a $25 per gun sale to fund violence prevention programs.
The Journal noted, “Opponents of the proposal, which would also collect taxes on ammunition, have said it would force gun shops out of the industrial port city of 215,000. In Seattle, lawmakers projected $300,000 to $500,000 a year in gun taxes, but last year received only $77,642 because gun stores moved away.”
Dan Davies, the owner of Mary’s Pistols in Tacoma, told the Journal, “It’ll put us out of business; there’s no ifs, ands or buts about it. They’re punishing innocent people for the deeds of criminals.”
Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, expressed the worries of gun rights advocates, asserting, “Are we concerned that politicians will try to seek their antigun agenda through taxation? Yes, that’s what this is about.”
Despite the fact that gun stores and gun parts makers have warned they will have to leave Tacoma if the tax is implemented, Mello enthused that the new tax would raise between $30,000 and $40,000 annually each year.
The Journal noted that Cook County in Illinois passed a gun tax in 2013, and Seattle followed in 2015. The Cook County government <a href="https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/firearm-and-firearm-ammunition-tax">wrote in 2013</a>:
<blockquote>Effective April 1, 2013, as provided in Sections 74-665 thru 74-675, Firearm Tax Ordinance, a tax is imposed on the retail purchase of a firearm in the amount of $25.00 for each firearm purchased … It shall be the duty of every retail dealer to remit and report the tax due on sales of firearms purchased in Cook County on forms prescribed by the Department. After April 1, 2013, the first tax return and payment, if applicable, is due by May 20, 2013. Subsequent returns and payments are due on the 20th day of each month. Returns must be submitted even if no tax is due.</blockquote>
The city of Seattle <a href="http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s3=&amp;s4=124833&amp;s5=&amp;s1=&amp;s2=&amp;S6=&amp;Sect4=AND&amp;l=0&amp;Sect2=THESON&amp;Sect3=PLURON&amp;Sect5=CBORY&amp;Sect6=HITOFF&amp;d=ORDF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2F~public%2Fcbor1.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G">wrote in 2015</a>,
<blockquote>The City finds and declares that gun violence directly affects the City and its residents. Therefore, the City intends to exercise its taxing authority, as granted by the Washington State Constitution and as authorized by the Washington State Legislature, to raise general revenue for the City and to use that revenue to provide broad-based public benefits for residents of Seattle related to gun violence by funding programs that promote public safety, prevent gun violence and address in part the cost of gun violence in the City.</blockquote>
The city added, &#8220;The tax rate shall be $25 per firearm sold at retail, $.02 per round of ammunition that contains a single projectile that measures .22 caliber or less sold at retail, and $.05 per round of ammunition for all other ammunition sold at retail.&#8221;

Blue Ridge Arsenal Gun Store

Showdown In Washington State: City Considers Taxing Gun Sales

Guns

Taxes

Shane McDaniel provides free firewood to people in need of free heat during winter. McDaniel, of Lake Stevens, Washington, has been profiled for his generosity by the “<a href="https://www.today.com/news/washington-man-gives-away-free-firewood-families-need-t149002">Today Show</a>” and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/12/21/father-his-sons-cut-wood-fill-trucks-then-they-brought-it-homes-that-needed-heat/">The Washington Post</a>.
But in <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1567063/dori-firewood-lake-stevens/">an interview</a> on “The Dori Monson Show” on KIRO Radio, McDaniel said he is being hassled by the city for having too much firewood on his property.
Here’s the kicker – it was the city that provided him all that firewood. The city had removed some evergreen trees in order to erect a new building. The city, according to McDaniel, knew of his charity work and asked if he would accept the trees. He did.
“They dropped off dump truck load after dump truck load [of full-sized logs] in my driveway until I couldn’t chop any more,” McDaniel told Monson.
He also received firewood from other locals who heard about his charity work. Between that and the logs from the city, a huge pile of firewood formed on McDaniel’s property.
In a Facebook post, McDaniel climbed to the top of the pile and placed an American flag as the camera flies away to give an eagle-eye view of the massive pile of firewood.
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Several months after the city provided the logs, it threatened to fine McDaniel for the massive pile of firewood, which it referred to in its notices as “rubbish” and “debris.”
The city, according to McDaniel, cited him for “violating the fire code, having too-high of woodpiles, and keeping the piles too close to his neighbor’s property,” KIRO radio reported.
McDaniel told the radio station that the pile would be collected as winter rolls in and that he wouldn’t store such a large amount of firewood in the future.
“I realize that we can’t have a giant firewood pile in the middle of town,” he told Monson. “The volunteer movement simply produced more, the goodwill that came in was simply more than anticipated, and the pile grew very large.”
The radio station reported that the fines are growing as McDaniel waits to help those in need. He said he has received fines of $500 per violation per day, which have added up to about $70,000 per month. By the time McDaniel estimates the firewood would be delivered, the fines would add up to more than $250,000.
“I don’t think that dropping off those logs and showing up 12 weeks later and fining me $70,000 a month is very American,” he told Monson.
In response to McDaniel’s interview, the mayor of Lake Stevens issued a response denying some of McDaniel’s allegations and explaining the city’s position:
<blockquote>I want to update you about a current fire wood situation. A local resident has accumulated a significant pile of firewood to donate to those in need. I applaud and respect him for this charitable cause. However, the wood pile has grown to such a size that it is a potential fire hazard, generating complaints from other residents. The accumulation of firewood blocks access to the property and poses a significant danger to this property and adjacent properties. The city and Fire District jointly began an action to address the safety concerns.
We first contacted the owner in July about the issue and we have asked several times that he distribute the firewood, but our requests were ignored.
He has since taken the city to task on social media and made some inaccurate statements. To clarify, none of this wood belongs to the city. All the Douglas Fir wood, cut down from recent city projects, is stored with the city for cutting into lumber for the Pavilion. The city has indicated “fines” are pending and his rights to contest the violation, but no fines have been imposed to date. We are hoping that he will work to correct the issues voluntarily.
I’m sure we could line up volunteers to move the wood to needed residences. If you need wood for heating this winter, please consider helping us put this issue to rest and ask him for some!</blockquote>
McDaniel also suggested the city may have an ulterior motive for the “pending” fines. He suggested the city wants his property to turn it into a city park.
“I know they want the property, and it’s awfully suspicious,” he told Monson. He also said he had to pay $6,000 in legal fees last year to avoid paying a $60,000 fine for having sand on a “beach” on his property. He says he has also used his business, &#8220;Norm’s Market – Keg and Bottleshop,” to post political statements about the city.
“Will they just wipe the fine away when the wood is gone, or will they continue to hack at me?” he told Monson.
“I’m not going to go down there and beg … What I’m not going to do is let a couple bullying city administrators with an ax to grind push me around,” he added.

firewood

Washington Man Threatened With $70,000 A Month Fines After Chopping Firewood For Charity

It might surprise many Americans to learn that, per <a href="https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/annual-reports-and-sourcebooks/2018/FY18-Annual-Report-and-Sourcebook.pdf">Department of Justice statistics</a>, a whopping 43% of all federal offenses are committed by non-citizens. Tragically, as then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/dhs-doj-report-thousands-of-avoidable-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-in-texas-alone/">put it last year</a>, every single crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a readily preventable crime:
<blockquote>
Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire has recently <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/47569/teenage-girl-kidnapping-suspect-seattle-suburb-josh-hammer">reported</a>, the state of Washington has been experiencing an upsurge in crime committed by illegal aliens. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/burien-man-charged-with-luring-and-assault-accused-of-trying-to-drag-a-14-year-old-girl-into-his-pickup">noted</a> how a 51-year-old Seattle-area man charged with luring and second-degree assault after he allegedly tried to force a 14-year-old girl into his pickup truck turned out to be a twice-deported illegal alien. Seattle-based radio host Dori Monson <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1390219/dori-illegal-immigrant-burien-girl/">opined</a> on the lawless sanctuary city laws that mollycoddle criminal aliens throughout Washington state:
<blockquote>
We have the most lax laws. We are attracting drug vagrants, and we are attracting illegal immigrants. We are seeing the ramifications of it on the streets with all of the women who are being sexually assaulted, from the woman at the Ballard car dealership to Kelly Herron at Golden Gardens, to this teenage girl in Burien.
Washington is the best place to be if you&#8217;re an illegal immigrant. We&#8217;ve got sanctuary everything and a governor who tells you you&#8217;re a pillar of the community when you come into this country illegally and commit crimes. What a great place to come and abduct 14-year-old girls.
</blockquote>
Now, as The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/washington-sanctuary-inslee-2020/">reported</a> last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken it upon itself to hone its crosshairs upon and utterly excoriate Washington state&#8217;s lax sanctuary city regime:
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement ripped Washington for becoming the latest state to enact policies that protect illegal immigrants from local law enforcement and federal authorities.
&#8220;ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety. It&#8217;s unfortunate that current local and state laws and policies tie the hands of local law enforcement agencies that want and need to work with ICE to promote public safety by holding criminals accountable and providing justice and closure for their victims,&#8221; the agency said Thursday in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation. &#8230;
&#8220;Sanctuary policies not only provide a refuge for illegal aliens, but they also shield criminal aliens who prey on people in their own and other communities,&#8221; ICE stated. &#8220;When ICE officers and agents have to go out into the community to proactively locate these aliens, it puts personnel and potentially innocent bystanders at risk.&#8221;
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According to The Daily Caller, &#8220;The newly-enacted legislation largely prohibits local law enforcement from asking about an individual&#8217;s immigration status or place of birth, with an exception if it pertains to a criminal investigation.&#8221;

ICE Tears Into Washington State For Enacting Sanctuary City Policies

Illegal Immigration

Immigration

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Sanctuary Cities

Trump Administration

We live in a country where, <a href="https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/annual-reports-and-sourcebooks/2018/FY18-Annual-Report-and-Sourcebook.pdf">according to the Department of Justice</a> itself, a whopping 43% of all federal offenses are committed by non-citizens. That is an eye-gouging statistic. Nonetheless, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/8/feds-release-168k-illegal-immigrant-family-members/">released</a> 168,000 illegal aliens into the interior just since December, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection itself <a href="https://twitter.com/USBPChief/status/1126261497179574272?s=20">released</a> another 33,000 into the interior just from March through May. Mass catch-and-release, which 2020 Democratic presidential candidates seem to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47434/lawlessness-kirsten-gillibrand-vows-implement-mass-josh-hammer">endorsing</a> en masse, is quite literally deadly.
The tragedy of illegal alien crime in America is that every single criminal act is preventable &#8212; and would have been prevented if feckless political elites would merely enforce immigration law. Here is how then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/dhs-doj-report-thousands-of-avoidable-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-in-texas-alone/">put it</a> last year:
<blockquote>
Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
</blockquote>
Conservative commentator Daniel Horowitz <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/dhs-doj-report-thousands-of-avoidable-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-in-texas-alone/">phrased</a> it similarly last year:
<blockquote>
[I]f we implemented border and interior enforcement and ended all amnesty magnets, we wouldn&#8217;t have illegal immigration, and therefore, we would not have robust transnational drug cartel networks operating undetected in our country. Many downstream and secondary American drug traffickers would never have the opportunity to get involved in the drug trade, which in itself would reduce the flow of drug criminals into both federal and state prison. More importantly, fewer people would die.
</blockquote>
Now, The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/burien-man-charged-with-luring-and-assault-accused-of-trying-to-drag-a-14-year-old-girl-into-his-pickup">highlights</a> how a suspect <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1390219/dori-illegal-immigrant-burien-girl/">charged</a> with luring and second-degree assault after he allegedly tried to force a 14-year-old girl into his pickup truck is actually a twice-deported illegal alien:
<blockquote>
King County prosecutors Monday charged a 51-year-old Burien man with luring and second-degree assault for allegedly trying to drag a Federal Way girl into his truck last week.
Esequiel Medina-Vasquez was arrested Thursday night and remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail, jail and court records show. &#8230;
Federal court records show Medina-Vasquez, a citizen of Mexico, was deported from Arizona in 2007 and from Chelan County in Eastern Washington in 2014. After he was deported from Washington, King County prosecutors say he was again arrested in 2017 for entering the country illegally, but the charging documents don&#8217;t say where he was arrested.
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Seattle-based radio host Dori Monson <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1390219/dori-illegal-immigrant-burien-girl/">provides</a> more color:
<blockquote>
Medina-Vasquez has been deported twice before, in 2007 and 2014. He was also arrested in 2017 for coming into the country illegally, but clearly he didn&#8217;t get sent back to Mexico. He was allowed back on the streets, where he was able to attempt a sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl. &#8230;
We have the most lax laws. We are attracting drug vagrants, and we are attracting illegal immigrants. We are seeing the ramifications of it on the streets with all of the women who are being sexually assaulted, from the woman at the Ballard car dealership to Kelly Herron at Golden Gardens, to this teenage girl in Burien.
Washington is the best place to be if you&#8217;re an illegal immigrant. We&#8217;ve got sanctuary everything and a governor who tells you you&#8217;re a pillar of the community when you come into this country illegally and commit crimes. What a great place to come and abduct 14-year-old girls.
</blockquote>
Amidst our current ongoing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46643/poll-even-many-more-democrats-now-describe-our-josh-hammer">crisis</a> at the southern border, every town, it seems, is a <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/our-open-border-has-turned-every-american-city-into-a-border-town/">border town</a>.

Teenage Girl Kidnapping Suspect In Seattle Suburb Is A Twice-Deported Illegal Alien

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The State of Washington is now officially offering a third option for how residents can handle the bodies of loved ones after they&#8217;ve passed on: they can be turned into compost.
On Tuesday, the state&#8217;s Democratic Governor, Jay Inslee, signed <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5001&amp;Year=2019&amp;Initiative=false">SB 5001</a> &#8220;concerning human remains&#8221; into law, which includes composting along with burials and cremations as a means of handling human remains. The law &#8212; the first of its kind in the U.S. &#8212; will go into effect on May 1, 2020.
The state&#8217;s House and Senate both passed the bill with bipartisan support and overwhelming majorities, and Inslee signed it into law after a trial study found that the process (also called &#8220;liquid cremation&#8221;) resulted in soil that &#8220;smelled like soil and nothing else,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/washington-becomes-first-state-ever-to-allow-human-composting">Fox News</a> reports. 
The Washington Senate describes the &#8220;liquid cremation&#8221; process in its <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/5001-S.E%20SBR%20FBR%2019.pdf">final bill report</a>: &#8220;Alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction are added as allowable reduction methods for handling deceased persons&#8217; bodies for their disposition. Alkaline hydrolysis is the reduction of human remains to bone fragments and essential elements in a licensed hydrolysis facility using heat, pressure, water, and base chemical agents. Natural organic reduction is the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil.&#8221;
The bodies are &#8220;mixed with substances like wood chips into about two wheelbarrows&#8217; worth of soil in a span of several weeks,&#8221; Fox explains. The resulting compost can then be used by loved ones.
&#8220;Subject to the terms of the document of gift and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, a person that accepts an anatomical gift of an entire body may allow embalming, burial, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and use of remains in a funeral service,&#8221; the senate report explains (excerpt below). 
&#8220;It gives meaning and use to what happens to our bodies after death,&#8221; said People&#8217;s Memorial Association Executive Dir. Nora Menkin, Fox reports.
The bill specifies that &#8220;a license or endorsement is required in order to operate a crematory or conduct a cremation, operate or conduct alkaline hydrolysis, operate or conduct natural organic reduction, or operate a natural organic reduction facility.&#8221; The procedure has been estimated to cost around $5,500.
The new law &#8220;paves the way for Recompose, a project to build the first urban &#8216;organic reduction&#8217; funeral home in the country,&#8221; <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-becomes-first-state-to-legalize-human-composting/">The Seattle Times</a> reports. &#8220;Washington already has several &#8216;green cemeteries,&#8217; such as White Eagle Memorial Preserve in Klickitat County, where people can be buried without embalming, caskets or headstones. The Recompose model is more like an urban crematorium (bodies go in, remains come out), but using the slower, less carbon-intensive means of &#8216;organic reduction,&#8217; or composting.&#8221;
The amended version of the bill passed in the House by a vote of 80-16 and the Senate by a vote of 38-11.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46981/california-couple-must-pay-586k-uprooting-tree-james-barrett">California Couple Must Pay $586K For Uprooting Tree On Their Property</a>
Relevant excerpt from the <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/5001-S.E%20SBR%20FBR%2019.pdf">final bill report</a>:
<blockquote>
Alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction are added as allowable reduction methods for handling deceased persons&#8217; bodies for their disposition. Alkaline hydrolysis is the reduction of human remains to bone fragments and essential elements in a licensed hydrolysis facility using heat, pressure, water, and base chemical agents. Natural organic reduction is the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil.
A license or endorsement is required in order to operate a crematory or conduct a cremation, operate or conduct alkaline hydrolysis, operate or conduct natural organic reduction, or operate a natural organic reduction facility.
Subject to the terms of the document of gift and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, a person that accepts an anatomical gift of an entire body may allow embalming, burial, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and use of remains in a funeral service.
The Inspector&#8217;s inspection authority is modified to entering the premises or place of business, where funeral directing, embalming, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction is carried on for the purpose of inspection.
Various statutes governing the final disposition of human remains, handling and scattering of the remains, and the operation of facilities that offer these services are amended to include alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction. Generally, the amendments include adding alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, final disposition, and related terms in a similar manner to cremation terms. The term human remains is modified. Technical changes are made. 
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Washington Becomes First State To Allow Human Composting

While the media decries the fact that President Donald Trump won&#8217;t be charged with obstruction for tweets critical of the investigation into the nonexistent crime of collusion, a man in Washington state knows what it&#8217;s like to be convicted of obstruction.
Solomon McLemore was loudly arguing with his girlfriend in 2016. The shouting got so loud that a neighbor called the police. Police arrived but no one answered the door. The yelling stopped, but police say they heard glass shattering and suspected domestic violence, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/19/washington-supreme-court-refusing-to-let-cops-enter-homes-without-warrants-isnt-obstruction/#672150d767a3">according to Forbes</a>. Officers proceeded to break down McLemore&#8217;s door, and he told them they needed a warrant to enter his home.
Police also, according to Forbes, said they heard McLemore &#8220;tell his girlfriend to tell police that she was ok.&#8221;
Police found that McLemore&#8217;s girlfriend wasn&#8217;t injured, but they arrested him anyway &#8212; not for domestic violence, but for &#8220;obstructing a law enforcement officer.&#8221; The <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.76.020">statute</a> says: &#8220;A person is guilty of obstructing a law enforcement officer if the person willfully hinders, delays, or obstructs any law enforcement officer in the discharge of his or her official powers or duties.&#8221;
McLemore was convicted of this crime and sentenced to 20 days of house arrest. One might think this punishment was light enough not to fight, but even with the short sentence, McLemore is a convicted criminal. When he and his attorneys appealed, they did not challenge police officers forcibly entering his residence.
The issue was never about whether police acted appropriately or reasonably &#8212; in this case, it appears they did. But Justice Steven Gonzalez wrote in his lead opinion for the Washington Supreme Court that there was &#8220;no law requiring people to open their own doors to officers seeking warrantless entry.&#8221;
&#8220;While cooperation with the police might have been wise, the failure to do so was not criminal under these circumstances,&#8221; Gonzalez wrote, as reported by Forbes. &#8220;Lack of cooperation does not become obstruction of justice merely because it causes the police delay. As a general proposition, there is no obligation to cooperate with the police.&#8221;
For McLemore, the state supreme court divided evenly on his case, meaning the lower court&#8217;s decision to uphold his conviction will stand.
As Forbes noted, McLemore&#8217;s case makes Washington State &#8220;an outlier&#8221; when it comes to obstruction laws.
&#8220;In the vast majority of cases called to our attention, courts have held that there is no obligation to open a home to an officer&#8217;s warrantless demand for entry,&#8221; Judge Gonzalez wrote. He then referred to a recent case in New Jersey in which the state&#8217;s Supreme Court &#8220;on almost identical facts, unanimously held failure to act was not obstruction.&#8221;
Originally, it looked like McLemore would get relief from the state Supreme Court, as in an odd twist the court decided to give the lead opinion additional weight to break the tie, but then retreated from that position and changed its conclusion.
&#8220;We in the lead opinion would hold the city presented insufficient evidence to sustain [Solomon] McLemore&#8217;s conviction and remand to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. However, we recognize this opinion has garnered only four signatures. Therefore, there being no majority for the reversal of the judgment of the trial court, it necessarily stands affirmed, and the order of this court is that the judgment appealed from be and it is hereby affirmed,&#8221; the new conclusion reads, according to Forbes.

Washington Man Refused To Let Cops Into His Home Without A Warrant. He Was Convicted Of Obstruction.

Last Tuesday night, an illegal alien road rage suspect allegedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-state-deputy-was-killed-by-illegal-immigrant-ice-says">shot and killed</a> a Washington state sheriff&#8217;s deputy named Ryan Thompson. According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-state-deputy-was-killed-by-illegal-immigrant-ice-says">Fox News</a>, Thompson tragically became the first active-duty law enforcement officer to be shot and killed in the line of duty in Kittitas County, Washington since 1927.
Here is how commentator Daniel Horowitz <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/2-americans-killed-illegal-immigrants-deported/">summarized</a> the incident at Conservative Review:
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Because of an illegal alien who overstayed his agriculture visa, a sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Washington state is dead and another local police officer wounded. According to Fox News, &#8220;29-year-old Juan Manuel Flores Del Toro, a Mexican citizen, entered the U.S. at Laredo, Texas, in April 2014 on a temporary agricultural worker visa.&#8221; The maximum duration of an H-2A visa is no longer than three years. Del Toro&#8217;s visa expired at some time several years ago, but he still remained in the country illegally for an unknown amount of time. Tuesday night, following a road rage incident with Del Toro, police were called out to the scene, and the illegal alien opened fire on the cops. The 42-year-old Kittitas County Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Ryan Thompson was killed, and 22-year-old Kittitas Police Officer Benito Chavez was wounded. &#8230;The suspect in this killing should long ago have been removed from this country.
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According to Fox News, &#8220;Ellensburg[, Washington] Police Capt. Dan Hansberry said there were no warrants pending for [Del Toro&#8217;s] arrest, and officers do not know why he fled the attempted stop.&#8221;
Thompson was married with three children at the time of his untimely death.
The tragedy of crimes committed by illegal aliens is that every single crime is, by definition, a preventable one. And all that had to have been done in order to prevent each committed crime was the proper enforcement of the nation&#8217;s immigration laws. As Horowitz also notes, Congress passed a statute in 1996 that mandated the creation of a visa tracking system to monitor and apprehend illegal aliens who overstay their visas. And as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) <a href="https://cis.org/Report/Analyzing-New-Visa-Overstay-Report">notes</a>, there were nearly 700,000 visa overstays just in 2017.
With border crossing numbers only further increasing, of late, illegal immigration continues to pose a severe national threat. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44291/data-suggest-no-relationship-between-central-josh-hammer">reported</a> earlier this month, even a Washington Post national security reporter specializing in immigration enforcement and drug trafficking found himself so flabbergasted by the latest numbers reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that he could only find one word to describe the influx: &#8220;Bonkers.&#8221;
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&#8211;Honduras has displaced Mexico as the #2 source of unauthorized migration (Guatemala has been #1 since Nov) 
&#8211;Last month was the busiest Feb at the border in 12 years 
&#8211;31k referrals for medical care, up from 12k last Feb
These numbers are bonkers
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Illegal aliens in the United States <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics">routinely commit</a> violent crimes. Consider the following <a href="https://www.dps.texas.gov/administration/crime_records/pages/txcriminalalienstatistics.htm">data</a> from the Texas Department of Public Safety, in summarizing the endemic illegal alien crime problem in the nation&#8217;s largest border state:
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According to DHS status indicators, over 282,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and February 28, 2019, of which over 191,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS.
Over the course of their entire Texas criminal careers, these 191,000 illegal aliens were charged with more than 471,000 criminal offenses which included arrests for 1,026 homicide charges; 53,056 assault charges; 15,055 burglary charges; 60,799 drug charges; 709 kidnapping charges; 29,203 theft charges; 41,540 obstructing police charges; 3,549 robbery charges; 5,674 sexual assault charges; 6,948 sexual offense charges; and 6,829 weapon charges. DPS criminal history records reflect those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 217,000 convictions including 474 homicide convictions; 23,020 assault convictions; 7,808 burglary convictions; 31,500 drug convictions; 289 kidnapping convictions; 13,813 theft convictions; 20,954 obstructing police convictions; 1,959 robbery convictions; 2,987 sexual assault convictions; 3,742 sexual offense convictions; and 3,059 weapon convictions.
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Illegal Alien Kills Sheriff’s Deputy In Washington State, Report Says

Second-term Washington Gov. Jay Inslee officially announced his presidential candidacy Friday, and he&#8217;s running on a platform that sounds like it was ripped from the since-deleted, much-maligned <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf">FAQ</a> for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal.&#8221;
In a presidential announcement <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgdlWO-4yI&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> released Friday, Inslee issues some rather familiar doom-and-gloom warnings as well as some pie-in-the-sky promises.
&#8220;We&#8217;re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we&#8217;re the last that can do something about it,&#8221; the governor says ominously as apocalyptic images play in the background, which the viewer is clearly supposed to believe are the grim results of global warming.
&#8220;We went to the moon and created technologies that have changed the world,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;Our country&#8217;s next mission must be to rise up to the most urgent challenge of our time: defeating climate change. This crisis isn&#8217;t just a chart or graph anymore. The impacts are being felt everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;We have an opportunity to transform our economy, run on 100 percent clean energy, that will bring millions of good paying jobs to every community across America, and create a more just future for everyone,&#8221; Insleee proclaims.
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Inslee is a former congressman who was elected governor in 2012 and has another two years in office after winning his second election in 2016. Calling his bid a &#8220;longshot campaign,&#8221; <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jay-inslee-announces-climate-focused-2020-presidential-run-does-he-stand-a-chance/">The Seattle Times</a> provides some highlights of Inslee&#8217;s progressive and largely &#8220;climate-focused&#8221; political career:
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As governor, Inslee generally has pursued a liberal agenda, backing minimum-wage increases, higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses, raises for teachers and state government employees and declaring a moratorium on the death penalty. He also backed a record-setting, $8.7 billion tax-break deal to lure Boeing&#8217;s 777 plant and angered labor leaders by pressuring the Machinists union to approve a contract that ended workers&#8217; defined-benefit pension plan.
He also has pushed an ambitious climate agenda, with mixed results, failing to persuade lawmakers and voters to adopt pollution fees on carbon emissions, but boosting electric-car infrastructure and creating a clean-energy fund that has poured millions into green projects. Despite Inslee&#8217;s agenda, greenhouse emissions in Washington have continued to rise, missing near-term reduction goals set in state law.
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The Times reports that Democratic lawmakers in Washington are currently &#8220;making a big push&#8221; to try to ram through Inslee&#8217;s climate change agenda, many of the proposals of which have been stalled for &#8220;years.&#8221; Just a day before his announcement, the State Senate was debating his radical request to phase out the use of fossil fuels at Washington utlities, the paper notes.
Inslee, 68, has also proven that he&#8217;s willing to take on Trump on the national stage, opposing the president on rolling back business-stifling environmental regulations, arming teachers to better protect students, and the administration&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Muslim ban.&#8221;
The Democratic governor&#8217;s &#8220;green&#8221; candidacy shares much in common with AOC&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; which sets as its goals a massive overhaul of the economy, which will include 100% use of renewable energy in ten years, net-zero emissions, massive infrastructure projects &#8212; including high-speed rails all over the country and the &#8220;greening&#8221; of all buildings &#8212; Medicare-for-All, and living wage jobs for every American.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43994/ocasio-cortez-cant-understand-ivankas-problem-james-barrett">Ocasio-Cortez Can&#8217;t Understand Ivanka&#8217;s Problem With &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217;</a>

Sound Familiar? Dem Governor Running For President Vowing To Switch To 100% Clean Energy, Provide Millions Of Green Jobs

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A 23-year-old Washington state resident was arrested earlier this month after posting threatening messages to cops on Facebook.
Jaydin Ledford, a self-described Marxist who, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/jaydin-ledford-okanogan-county-sheriffs-office-sheriff-tony-hawley-omak-1339509">according to Newsweek</a>, &#8220;also claims to &#8216;speak for the trees&#8217;&#8221; posted several messages aimed at Washington cops, and even included a death threat naming Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.
&#8220;Ozzie Knezovich is gonna get a bullet in his skull,&#8221; Ledford&#8217;s post read.
He also posted multiple death threats against cops after members of the police force publicly denounced a recently passed gun control bill (I-1639) which expands background checks and prohibits anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic rifle, among other things. The National Rifle Association has already filed a lawsuit against the law.
&#8220;I-1639 is law,&#8221; Ledford wrote on Facebook. &#8220;[S]heriffs that are non compliant will be shot. By me.&#8221;
In another post, according to Newsweek, Ledford wrote, &#8220;I really want to kill a police officer.&#8221;
Sheriff Knezovich, who was named in one of Ledford&#8217;s posts, told the media outlet he found the threats &#8220;ironic.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an individual who wants to ban guns &#8212; except he wants to kill people,&#8221; Knezovich said.
Ledford was arrested on federal charges of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/file/851856/download">cyberstalking</a>. From Newsweek:
&#8220;According to the statute, cyberstalking includes &#8216;any course of conduct or series of acts taken by the perpetrator on the Internet that place the victim in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury, or causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to the victim or the victim&#8217;s immediate family.'&#8221;
Sheriff Tony Hawley told the outlet Ledford was also charged with harassment, and that the sheriff&#8217;s office was informed of the young man&#8217;s threats by a &#8220;concerned citizen.&#8221;
Hawley told Newsweek he encouraged his deputies to patrol in pairs in case they encountered Ledford, and worried the 23-year-old may have inspired others to take out cops.
Ledford was arrested just a couple days after Christopher Paul Hasson, a former U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43747/former-coast-guard-lieutenant-self-proclaimed-ashe-schow">the other side of the fringe political spectrum</a>. Hasson, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, was arrested on drug and weapons charges, and police discovered an arsenal at his home and a cache of steroids and other drugs.
&#8220;When law enforcement raided Hasson&#8217;s apartment, they said they found a locked container loaded with more than 30 vials of what appeared to be human growth hormones. He has also ordered more than 4,200 pills of the narcotic Tramadol since 2016, along with synthetic urine to allegedly bypass possible random drug screenings at work,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/self-proclaimed-white-nationalist-planned-mass-terror-attack-government-says-i-am-dreaming-of-a-way-to-kill-almost-every-last-person-on-earth/2019/02/20/61daf6b8-3544-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html">The Washington Post reported</a>.
Police also discovered that Hasson was a fan of right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik and had a list of potential targets, including multiple high-profile Democrat politicians and media personalities.
While Hasson doesn&#8217;t appear to have posted threats on social media, his stash of weapons along with Breivik&#8217;s manifesto and the Democrat hit list is certainly concerning. And it appears he may have been considering an attack, writing in a draft email two years ago about a &#8220;bombing/sniper campaign.&#8221;
Officials from the Baltimore FBI field office and the Coast Guard Investigative Service arrested Hasson last Friday.

Self-Proclaimed Marxist Threatened Cops Who Oppose Gun Control: You ‘Will Be Shot. By Me’

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Hundreds of people gathered in Olympia, Washington to protest a bill that would require them to vaccinate their children against measles.
In other words, these people demanded their &#8220;right&#8221; to decide whether to protect their own children from a highly contagious disease. There is currently a measles outbreak in Washington State, with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-outbreak-2019-northwest-measles-outbreak-prompts-look-at-vaccine-exemptions-2019-02-01/">more than 50 cases</a> currently being treated, according to CBS news. State lawmakers proposed a bill that would remove the ability for parents to decide not to vaccinate their children due to philosophical concerns. CBS reports that 32 other states <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-measles-outbreak-hundreds-rally-to-presesrve-not-to-vaccinate-children-2019-02-08/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=63395701">already have such laws</a>.
But in Washington, hundreds actually rallied against the bill, believing the vaccine could cause more damage than the disease itself. Remember, there are anti-vaxxers out there who believe vaccines cause autism, despite massive amounts of research and data disproving such claims.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html">calls the vaccine for measles</a> &#8212; known as the MMR vaccine because it protects against measles, mumps, and rubella &#8212; &#8220;about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective.&#8221;
&#8220;Measles is so contagious that an unvaccinated person has a 90 percent chance of catching the disease if they&#8217;re near someone who has it. The virus can survive for up to two hours in a room where an infected person sneezed,&#8221; CBS reported.
Before the vaccine for measles became available in 1963, according to the CDC, 3 million to 4 million Americans got the disease.
&#8220;Of these, approximately 500,000 cases were reported each year to CDC; of these, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 developed encephalitis (brain swelling) from measles,&#8221; the CDC stated.
Monique Murray, a mother who doesn&#8217;t want to vaccinate her child, doesn&#8217;t think she&#8217;s doing any harm.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel I&#8217;m putting my child at risk. There&#8217;s nothing that&#8217;s going to change my mind on this on that specific vaccination,&#8221; Murray told CBS.
Washington is not the only state experiencing a measles outbreak. The New York State Department of Health currently <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/2170/">reports an outbreak</a> in parts of the state, &#8220;including the lower Hudson Valley and parts of New York City.&#8221;
Unvaccinated people traveling to other parts of the world are the most likely to bring the disease back to the U.S.
There is a chance of a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine, but the CDC insists this is extremely rare. There is also a small risk of febrile seizures, though this does not cause any long-term effects. Still, the CDC explains that getting the vaccine <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/mmr-vaccine.html">is safer than getting any of the diseases it prevents</a>, despite what the protesters in Washington think.
The idea that vaccines cause autism comes from the fact that signs of autism start to show around the same time children get vaccinated. Parents wanting to blame someone assume the vaccine caused the autism, even though autism is not a side effect, but a condition all its own.
CBS reports Washington lawmakers hope to pass the law requiring the measles vaccine by April.

There’s A Measles Outbreak In Washington State. These People Just Protested A Bill That Would Require Them To Vaccinate.

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Nobody tosses a dwarf (in Washington). 
According to <a href="http://mynorthwest.com/1254218/rantz-washington-dwarf-tossing-ban/">MyNorthwest</a>, a Republican state senator is seeking to ban the practice of &#8220;dwarf tossing&#8221; in Washington state because it &#8220;demeans and exploits those of small stature.&#8221;
So, what exactly is &#8220;dwarf tossing&#8221;? Apparently, it started in Australia in the 1980&#8217;s and usually takes place in a bar or pub where drunken revelers compete at who can throw a dwarf (little person) the farthest. The little person is typically suited up with Velcro and thrown onto a mattress or a Velcro-coated wall.
In Washington State, Sen. Mike Padden (R-Spokane Valley) recently announced <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5486&amp;Year=2019&amp;Initiative=false">legislation to prohibit dwarf-tossing contests at bars and strip clubs</a>. If passed, the state would become the third in the United States to ban &#8220;dwarf tossing,&#8221; an entirely voluntary contest.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing funny about dwarf-tossing,&#8221; Padden said in a press release. &#8220;It ridicules and demeans people with dwarfism, and causes others to think of them as objects of public amusement. Even when participants are willing, it exposes them to the possibility of lifetime spinal injury. Dwarf-tossing is an offense to our sensibilities.&#8221;
MyNorthwest notes that &#8220;dwarf tossing is hardly commonplace and the Washington Post recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-a-trump-judicial-nominee-reignited-the-debate-over-dwarf-tossing/2019/01/22/65fd885a-0d21-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.cbd182af0aae">indicated</a> that little people overwhelmingly reject the contest.&#8221; Not all people with dwarfism object to the practice. One such dissenter is &#8220;&#8216;Mighty&#8217; Mike Murga, an actor and performer who regularly participates in dwarf-tossing events at bars, house parties and strip clubs in Michigan.&#8221;
The debate over whether to outlaw &#8220;dwarf tossing&#8221; in the United States has been ongoing. In 2001, Dave Flood, a.k.a. &#8220;Dave the Dwarf,&#8221; <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lQFQAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=r1UDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1342,4094341">filed suit</a> against Florida to overturn a 1989 law allowing the state to fine or revoke the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor_license">liquor license</a> of a bar for holding such contests. In 2011, Florida State Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritch_Workman">Ritch Workman</a> introduced legislation to overturn the state&#8217;s ban, arguing that it creates an &#8220;unnecessary burden on the freedom and liberties of people&#8221; and &#8220;an example of Big Brother government.&#8221;
&#8220;If a little person wants to make a fool out of themselves for money, they should have the same right to do so as any average sized person,&#8221; Workman stated.
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo also banned dwarf tossing in all New York bars in 1990, denouncing it as a &#8220;strange diversion&#8221; that belongs in the Middle Ages.
&#8220;Any activity which dehumanizes and humiliates these people is degrading to us all,&#8221; Cuomo said. &#8220;This bill recognizes that and, in effect, declares these bizarre games to be debased.&#8221;
The bill passed the New York state legislature with just one dissenting vote. Any bars that participated in the practice could have their liquor licenses revoked.
The bill, similar to one that became law in Florida last year, amounts to a ban because the events have not been popular outside bars. It passed the legislature with only one dissenting vote.
&#8220;Dwarf tossing belongs in the Middle Ages, not the modern age,&#8221; said state Sen. Nicholas Spano, who sponsored the bill in 1990.

Republican State Senator Wants To Ban ‘Dwarf-Tossing’ In Washington

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, for now, to take up a case involving a Washington state high school football coach who was fired after praying silently following a game.
Coach Joe Kennedy asked the Supreme Court to reverse <a href="https://firstliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/16-35801.pdf">a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision</a> that stated the school district had the right to fire him because students and fans could see him when he would take a knee and silently pray after games:
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The panel held that plaintiff spoke as a public employee, not as a private citizen when he kneeled and prayed on the fifty-yard line immediately after games in school logoed-attire while in view of students and parents. The panel held that plaintiff had a professional responsibility to communicate demonstratively to students and spectators and he took advantage of his position to press his particular views upon the impressionable and captive minds before him. The panel held that because plaintiff&#8217;s demonstrative speech fell within the scope of his typical job responsibilities, he spoke as a public employee, and the district was permitted to order him not to speak in the manner that he did. Plaintiff accordingly could not show a likelihood of success on the merits of his First Amendment retaliation claim, and was not entitled to a preliminary injunction.
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Kennedy was hired by Bremerton High School (BHS) in 2008 and fired in 2015, with a contract that &#8220;entrusted&#8221; him &#8220;to be a coach, mentor and role model for the student athletes,&#8221; according to court documents. He was expected to &#8220;exhibit sportsmanlike conduct at all times&#8221; and informed him that, as coach, he was &#8220;constantly being observed by others.&#8221;
Kennedy also led prayers with the team before and after games, but court documents note the tradition predated his employment and that his religion didn&#8217;t require him to lead such prayers, but did require him to give thanks after each game.
As Kennedy kneeled and prayed after each game, members of the team began to join him until a majority of the team was also praying. Members of the opposing team were also invited to join. Kennedy eventually began giving mid-field motivational speeches after the games that included religious messaging.
On September 17, 2015, Bremerton School District (BSD) sent Kennedy a letter saying he would be investigated for breaking the school&#8217;s policy on &#8220;Religious-Related Activities and Practices,&#8221; which stated that students may &#8220;engage in private, non-disruptive prayer at any time not in conflict with learning activities&#8221; and &#8220;[s]chool staff shall neither encourage nor discourage a student from engaging in non-disruptive oral or silent prayer or any other form of devotional activity.&#8221;
Kennedy cooperated with the investigation and was told by BSD Superintendent that his prayers after the game were &#8220;problematic,&#8221; and that he must stop including religious content in his motivational speeches. He was told he could continue to practice his religion, but not when people could see him.
Kennedy stopped praying on the field while students and fans were around for several weeks, but on October 14, 2015, he asked for a religious accommodation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, stating that &#8220;his official coaching duties ceased&#8221; after the game was over.
The school disagreed and fired Kennedy, who in turn sued. The case made its way through the system, eventually landing before the Supreme Court, which has now declined to take the case because it needs more information.
In a court statement filed by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas, the justices wrote that the court does &#8220;not grant such review to decide highly fact-specific questions,&#8221; and could not reach important constitutional issues &#8220;until the factual question of the likely reason for the school district&#8217;s conduct is resolved.&#8221;
This means the court could review the case in the future, and attorneys from First Liberty Institute, a pro-religious freedom organization representing Kennedy, plan to return to the district court and resolve the Supreme Court&#8217;s questions and perhaps return to the highest court in the future.
&#8220;The Supreme Court seems to understand that banning all coaches from praying just because they can be seen is wrong and contradicts the Constitution,&#8221; Kelly Shackelford, President and CEO of First Liberty, said in a press release. &#8220;We are eager to return to the District Court, answer the questions the justices raised today, and give the Court another opportunity to protect the right of every American to engage in private religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of getting fired.&#8221;
One other interesting note in Alito&#8217;s opinion could perhaps be construed as a suggestion to Kennedy and his attorneys on how to proceed. The justices note that Kennedy relied solely on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, but has other claims that could help his case, and took a shot at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/872">Employment Division v. Smith</a>, a controversial opinion from former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 1990 that many conservatives dislike due to how it affected religious liberty.

Supreme Court Declines To Take Case Of High School Football Coach Fired For Praying After Games

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Supreme Court

A Bellevue, WA police chief was cleared on charges he raped a woman after it was discovered she created fake emails to prove her accusation.
Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett says he is moving on from the false accusations, made by a woman who still is not being named, but seems likely to be charged with multiple crimes relating to her claims. The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/i-wouldnt-wish-this-upon-anybody-bellevue-police-chief-moving-ahead-after-investigation-clears-him-of-womans-rape-accusations/">reports</a> that Mylett was cleared after a two-and-a-half month investigation completed by neighboring Bothell police.
The 44-year-old Issaquah, WA, woman who accused Mylett claimed he raped her two years ago at his Bothell home during an encounter arranged &#8220;through an adult sex website.&#8221; The woman also made accusations against two other Bellevue detectives, which led to domestic violence and witness tampering charges against one of them (those charges were dropped earlier this month).
&#8220;Bothell investigators found Mylett&#8217;s accuser had gone so far as to create phony, backdated email exchanges that contained the address of a Bothell rental home where Mylett temporarily lived,&#8221; the Times reported. &#8220;But lease records and other evidence proved Mylett had moved out of that house prior to when the woman claimed the assault occurred, and DNA tests ruled Mylett out as a possible match to genetic evidence gathered from clothing the woman turned over as part of the case.&#8221;
Mylett was put on administrative leave when the allegations were made against him.
The woman had a history of hooking up with men she found on Craigslist and then claiming the consensual encounters as rape, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. Though she had made two false accusations prior to Mylett, she was not charged because of her mental-health problems.
This time, however, it appears she won&#8217;t get away with her false accusations against men.
&#8220;Bothell police have since forwarded probable-cause findings against the woman recommending charges of perjury, tampering with evidence and making a false statement to police,&#8221; the Times reported. &#8220;Prosecutors are now reviewing the case. A lawyer representing the woman said earlier Tuesday he wasn&#8217;t able to comment on the open investigation for ethical reasons.&#8221;
Mylett wouldn&#8217;t outright say his accuser should be charged for her crime, but did say &#8220;people should be held accountable for their actions.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the process of the claims that were made against me worked, and I think another process will take place and I am confident that the right decisions will be made,&#8221; he said.
Mylett also said he hoped his situation wouldn&#8217;t lead women to not report sexual assaults, though it is unclear how someone clearly faking a rape accusation would keep genuine survivors from coming forward.
Mylett said earlier in a press conference announcing his return to work that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t wish this upon anybody,&#8221; referring to his false accusation.
&#8220;I have a deeper appreciation about what it means to be falsely accused, and I also have a deeper appreciation of what it&#8217;s like to be on administrative leave,&#8221; Mylett said. &#8220;And I think it will make me a better chief and a better human.&#8221;

She Claimed A Cop Raped Her. DNA, Rental Records Proved She Lied.

Hoax

Rape

A district court judge jumped from his bench, threw off his robe, and chased after two inmates who attempted to flee from his Chehalis, WA courtroom on Wednesday.
Judge R.W. Buzzard leapt from his chair when Tanner Jacobson, 22, and Kodey Howard, 28, <a href="https://6abc.com/judge-chases-after-handcuffed-inmates-making-escape/4546629/">ran for the door while still handcuffed</a>. Buzzard chased the two men through a hallway and a stairwell, eventually apprehending Howard on his own.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what to think by the time they hit the door,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/10/24/judge-thwarts-inmates-escape-orig-vstan-bdk.cnn">Buzzard told CNN</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;there&#8217;s nobody between them and the street, so I wanted at least to find out where they were going.&#8221;
Footage from the Lewis County court house shows the two inmates running down a hallway when Howard face-planted going around a corner. He picked himself up but lost a shoe in the process. This allowed Buzzard time to catch up to him and grab him before he could escape through an emergency exit. Jacobson was arrested a few blocks from the court house.
&#8220;Once I got to the stairwell, I knew I was going to be able to catch the one that was just in front of me because I immediately started gaining on him,&#8221; Buzzard told CNN.
Chief Deputy Dusty Breen of the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said Buzzard was &#8220;a help&#8221; to apprehending the inmates, and that this was &#8220;not the first incident Judge Buzzard has gotten involved in,&#8221; though he didn&#8217;t elaborate.
Howard had been <a href="https://tdn.com/news/local/arrests-made-in-toledo-burglary-case/article_aa5dc032-1450-11e0-8df6-001cc4c03286.html">arrested previously for burglary</a> in 2010, but a search of current public records could not find why he was before Buzzard at this time. Jacobson <a href="http://www.chronline.com/crime/sirens-rape-reported-chehalis-man-accused-of-assault-with-cup/article_20be598c-2428-11e8-a106-d3bde26954c1.html">was previously arrested on March 8</a>, &#8220;on suspicion of residential burglary and trafficking in stolen property.&#8221; Authorities say he stole three Stihl chain saws and sold one at a Centralia, WA pawn shop. As with Howard, a search of current public records could not find the reason he was arrested this time.
Both men appear to have been arrested on or around Oct. 17.
Both men are now also charged with second-degree escape for their episode in front of Judge Buzzard.
In a statement <a href="https://6abc.com/judge-chases-after-handcuffed-inmates-making-escape/4546629/">reported by ABC6</a>, Sheriff Rob Snaza said of the attempted escape: &#8220;these things don&#8217;t happen very often.&#8221;
Watch the chase below:
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WATCH: Judge Chases After Two Suspects Trying To Escape Courtroom

The University of Washington seems to have a real problem with privacy and ethics.
When teaching assistant Rebecca Ferber saw three conservative students eating lunch and discussing politics, she began recording them. She then posted a photo of their face on Twitter and asked her followers what she should throw at them: a &#8220;water bottle,&#8221; her &#8220;entire backpack,&#8221; or her &#8220;insides.&#8221; The latter <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/uw-faculty-member-secretly-records-conservative-students-doxxes-and-mocks-them-on-twitter/">won by a large margin</a>, according to the College Fix.
Jason Rantz of KTTH radio first discovered the tweets. The conservative students were talking about the formation of a new campus group, &#8220;Students for Self Defense&#8221; and suggested organizing a &#8220;Beers for Brett&#8221; event to celebrate Judge Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
&#8220;Tagging Shultzy&#8217;s Bar and Grill &#8212; <a href="http://mynorthwest.com/1139400/seattle-bar-deny-college-republicans/">which initially asked the club not to visit them due to the &#8216;political nature&#8217; of their event</a> &#8212; Ferber tweeted &#8216;@shultzys there is a group of UW students organizing a &#8216;Beers for Brett&#8217; event for tomorrow if Kavanaugh is confirmed. I hope you won&#8217;t allow these men to celebrate the success of putting a rapist on the Supreme Court and enact this kind of violence on the U District,&#8217;&#8221; Rantz wrote.
Ferber then tweeted that she had recorded the students &#8220;to see if there is any useful information &#8230; &#8221;
One of the students who was recorded, freshman Zach Wildfang, told Rantz they barely even talked about Kavanaugh.
&#8220;[Ferber] had just posted that &#8230; we were sitting there, plotting our celebration and this was before the confirmation, anyway,&#8221; he told Rantz on the radio. &#8220;We had surfaced it, in our group that the tweet had come out. Another student ran a little &#8216;background check&#8217; on Ms. Ferber and that&#8217;s when it came out that she was UW faculty, which was a little alarming as incoming freshman to see that&#8217;s how they treat students.&#8221;
Another student who was present, Cameron Edwards, learned about the tweets days later, and told Rantz: &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty ridiculous that people can just dox you whenever they want &#8230; &#8221;
Chevy Swanson, the third student present at the lunch and president of the UW College Republicans, filed a complaint against Ferber with the school at UW President Ana Mari Cauce&#8217;s encouragement.
Rantz said he confirmed that the school was investigating the complaint, even though UW spokesman Victor Balta said the university could not &#8220;discuss any ongoing complaint or confirm that one is underway.&#8221;
This is not UW&#8217;s only problem with privacy violations. Just a few weeks ago, UW students created a website <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36869/defamation-website-names-men-anonymously-accused-ashe-schow">to anonymously accuse men</a> &#8212; students or not &#8212; of sexual assault without any verification.

University Faculty Member Secretly Records Conservative Students, Doxxes Them On Twitter

College Republicans

Education

After a professor from the University of Washington School of Computer Science wrote an <a href="https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/">essay for Quillette</a> asserting that women were less likely to strive for computer science degrees than men because women and men are different, the university&#8217;s School of Science Director Hank Levy emailed the campus, stating, &#8220;We disagree with the conclusions drawn in the article.&#8221;
As Toni Airaksinen noted in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11083">Campus Reform</a> in her article about the situation, Levy would not confirm whether he had read Stuart Reges&#8217; article or reviewed the research Reges cited. Spokeswoman Kristin Osborn told Campus Reform, &#8220;We disagree with the assertion that gender differences and preferences [help] explain the disparity between men and women in computer science and engineering &#8230; we disagree with the notion that any one factor could be seen as greater than any other. &#8230; The source data used in the piece is not our concern, and we don&#8217;t believe it would be productive to comment on it.&#8221;
For his part, Reges told Campus Reform that he couldn&#8217;t understand how his work could be condemned without his research being read. He stated, &#8220;This is what science should be about. UW already decided based on ideology, not science, that they disagree with my conclusions. When you&#8217;re sure you know the right answer before you even look at evidence to the contrary, you cease to be a scientist.&#8221;
Here are some excerpts from Reges&#8217; article:
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I believe that women are less likely than men to want to major in computer science and less likely to pursue a career as a software engineer and that this difference between men and women accounts for most of the gender gap we see in computer science degree programs and in Silicon Valley companies &#8230; The NPR piece also noted that we have experienced a slow but steady decrease in women majoring in computer science since 1984, as indicated in the graph below &#8230; The idea that men drove women from the field is not supported by the data. There has been no period of time when men have been increasing while women have been decreasing. In 48 of the last 50 years the trend was the same for men and women with the percentage of women going up at the same time that the percentage of men went up and the percentage of women going down when the percentage of men went down. But while the trend has been the same, the magnitude of the response has differed significantly. &#8230;
In both cycles, men disproportionately reacted to the boom part of the cycle and women disproportionately reacted to the bust. &#8230; Men disproportionately respond to economic incentives, so they are more likely to respond favorably to reports of high salaries for tech workers. Women tend, on average, to be more risk averse, and are more likely to respond strongly to negative stories about dwindling job prospects in tech. &#8230;
In 2013, Psychological Science published <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612458937?journalCode=pssa">a paper</a> &#8230; They concluded that women may choose non-STEM careers because they have academic strengths that many men lack. They found that individuals with high math ability but only moderate verbal ability were the most likely to choose a career in STEM (49 percent) and that this group included more men than women (70 percent men). By contrast, individuals with both high math ability and high verbal ability were less likely to pursue a career in STEM (34 percent) and this group had more women than men (63 percent women). &#8230;
In 2018, another paper explored the same question from a different perspective using international data from the PISA survey (the Programme for International Student Assessment) &#8230; in almost all the countries&#8212;all except Romania and Lebanon&#8212;boys&#8217; best subject was science, and girls&#8217; was reading &#8230;
Our community must face the difficult truth that we aren&#8217;t likely to make further progress in attracting women to computer science. Women can code, but often they don&#8217;t want to. We will never reach gender parity.
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Professor Asserts Men And Women Are Different. University’s School Of Science Disagrees.

Gender

Last month, the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32255/religios-freedeom-win-scotus-invalidates-ruling-hank-berrien">reported</a> that the Supreme Court invalidated the ruling of a Washington state court against Arlene&#8217;s Flower owner Barronelle Stutzman. The high court ordered the state to reconsider its ruling against a florist who served a gay couple for over ten years but would not do their wedding flowers based on her religious convictions.
The religious freedom organization Alliance Defending Freedom (<a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8608">ADF</a>), had taken up her case, as they did with Masterpiece Cakeshop owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31923/exclusive-masterpiece-cakeshop-owner-speaks-out-jacob-airey">Jack Phillips</a>, who also received a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court.
The following is an interview with Mr. Phillips and her ADF attorney Kristen Waggoner in which they discussed the outcome of the case, its effect on Mrs. Stutzman, and what it means for religious liberty.
DW: What were you thinking when you heard about the verdict? 
Barronelle: I was very grateful and hopeful, especially after they ruled in (Masterpiece Cakeshop&#8217;s) favor. I&#8217;m hoping to get the same ruling when it goes back before the lower court. 
DW: This case has been going on for six years. How has it affected your business?
Barronelle: It has affected our shop. We do not accept weddings at the moment because of the lawsuits. So, we&#8217;ve lost that potential income that those customers could bring, but we&#8217;re also very grateful for people supporting us.
DW: Arlene&#8217;s Flowers has a rich history in the community. How did your friends and neighbors react to the situation? 
Barronelle: The community has continued to shop at our store and have supported us. We&#8217;re very thankful for that. 
DW: Mrs. Waggoner, some are suggesting that because SCOTUS did not overturn the case, but sent it back to the lower court, it could go either way. It is not a definite win. What is your response to that?
Mrs. Waggoner: My response is that the Supreme Court gave a definite ruling in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop. That ruling clearly says that the government cannot engage in hostility again people of faith. There is no place for that in a diverse society. Baronelle has experienced that kind of hostility from the state government in Washington. 
The high court vacated that decision. The decision that says she loses her case is no longer in place. And the lower court is required to revisit her case in light of what was said in Masterpiece. 
It may not be a final determination in all respects, but it is a win that her case has to be reconsidered in light of what the high court said. 
DW: Are you expecting a positive outcome in Washington state court?
Mrs. Waggoner: I&#8217;m hopeful in the end that Baronelle will prevail but even if she doesn&#8217;t, it will ultimately be the Supreme Court that decides these issues. We are hopeful in that as well. 
DW: Barronelle, when you heard that the decision was about to be made by the Supreme Court, what were you expecting? Were you excited, cautiously optimistic, what were you thinking?
Barronelle: I was very hopeful and I&#8217;m pleased. I don&#8217;t want the government to tell me what I can and cannot create. 
DW: Mrs. Waggoner, the Masterpiece Cakeshop and Arlene&#8217;s Flowershop cases both affect freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and even free speech. How do these two cases affect that?
Mrs. Waggoner: I think we&#8217;ve had a tremendous year at the Supreme Court. Not only were we able to prevail in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, but we were able to achieve that vacating of Barronelle&#8217;s case. Both of these cases were about compelled speech. When we look at them together, we are delighted that the court affirmed the right that all Americans have the right to speak messages that are consistent with their beliefs. The government cannot force them to write or create something against their convictions. 
DW: Do you have anything you would like to add?
Barronelle: Americans should stand up for free speech and religion. Regardless of how you stand on marriage, just with our Constitution alone, we should take a stand now. 
Mrs. Waggoner: First, it is important to point out that the Supreme Court said that the same rule has to be applied in the marriage debate. The government cannot tip the scale to co-opt private voices to speak messages or participate in ceremonies just because it matches an ideology the government wants to pursue. 
Regardless of what side of the marriage debate you&#8217;re on, both sides deserve to be protected and neither side should be compelled to engage in something that violates a core belief that they have. It applies to a gay graphic designer as it does the Christian baker. 
Second, I want to be clear that Barronelle served everyone who came into her shop, no matter their walk of life. She employed and served people who identify with as LGBT for years. She worked with the customer for ten years. It was one event that she declined. 
That decision came just a couple of months after Washington redefined marriage so it was very new in that state. 
She did it in the most kind, gentle way possible and recommended other flower shops to him who could do a good job. They talked, hugged, and he left.
She found herself then receiving a certified letter from the government saying you will violate your conscience or lose your business. You choose. That is unprecedented, how the Washington state attorney general handled that. 
To conclude, I want to point out that the Washington AG used the Consumer Protection Act as a way to prosecute this case. That has never been done to someone in Barronelle&#8217;s situation. Ever. 
When it has been alleged that someone violated anti-discrimination laws there, they just go after that person under those laws, but instead, he went after her under a different law just so he could get her. 
Then he bypassed the human rights commission in Washington. Normally, it would go through there. But the attorney general decided to go through a different process so he could go after her right then and directly. 
This is the only case in the United States involving a creative professional where the attorney general has sued the person personally. If he had just wanted to establish the legal principle, or set a rule, he only needed to sue Arlene&#8217;s Flowers. He wanted to hurt her so badly, he sued her personally and corporately. 
Again, that is highly unusual and it has never been that way in any other case in Washington state. 
The state continued to compare Barronelle to those who engaged in racial bigotry and wouldn&#8217;t serve African-Americans at the lunch counter. That is demeaning and it is disparaging of someone&#8217;s beliefs. 
<div>To find out more information on the case, visit ADF&#8217;s <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8608">website</a>.</div>

EXCLUSIVE: Arlene’s Flower Shop Owner Speaks Out On Supreme Court Decision

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)

Conservatism

Gay Rights

LGBT

On Monday, the National Radio Hall of Fame announced that conservative radio host, television personality, and bestselling author Mark Levin was inducted into the Hall in their &#8220;Spoken Word On-Air Personality&#8221; after a record-breaking vote.
The NRHF said on their <a href="http://nationalradiohalloffame.com/">website</a>, &#8220;They report an unprecedented level of listener participation with more than a half million votes cast for the two voting categories, Music Format On-Air Personality and Spoken Word On-Air Personality. The increase is attributed to the competitive and creative campaigning waged by nominees.&#8221;
Levin thanked his fans on Twitter saying, &#8220;Thanks to you, my wonderful listeners for your support! You turned out in record numbers to vote! And the National Radio Hall of Fame has just announced that WE will be induced into the Radio Hall of Fame.&#8221;
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Thanks to you, my wonderful listeners for your support! You turned out in record numbers to vote! And the National Radio Hall of Fame has just announced that WE will be induced into the Radio Hall of Fame. <a href="https://t.co/xe0H7DJfG6">https://t.co/xe0H7DJfG6</a>
&#8212; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1011201419733536770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;But I truly have the most wonderful audience, and I owe them everything,&#8221; <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/no-1-public-votes-mark-levin-into-radio-hall-of-fame">said</a> Levin, as reported by the Washington Examiner. &#8220;They are smart, loyal, and patriotic, and I&#8217;m blessed by them. I&#8217;d be nowhere in this business without my listeners, and I never take them for granted. And it is my audience who voted me into the National Radio Hall of Fame by an unprecedented vote turnout. I also wish the other nominees well as they are all top talents. And, of course, thanks for my loving family for all their support.&#8221;
Levin has had an iconic career as a radio host, television pundit, noted author, and founder of the popular website Conservative Review. His commentary has touched on topics such as politics, pop culture, and media bias. 
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31428/voting-begins-induct-mark-levin-national-radio-jacob-airey">reported</a>:
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After serving as an legal adviser to former President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s cabinet, Levin began giving on-air contributions to both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity radio shows, respectively.
In 2002, he was given his own time slot for The Mark Levin Show on WABC and moved into syndication 2006 on Sundays.
Since that time, he has founded CRTV, where he hosts &#8220;Levin TV,&#8221; and has become host to the Fox News program &#8220;Life, Liberty, Levin&#8221; on the weekends.
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