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Unraveling the Right's false attacks on Kevin Jennings
Research ››› ››› MATT GERTZ
Media Matters for America examines and debunks the wide array of falsehoods and distortions the right-wing media have used in their attempts to smear and discredit Department of Education official Kevin Jennings and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which Jennings founded and previously served as executive director.
1) CLAIM: MassResistance is a legitimate source for Jennings information
2) CLAIM: Right-wing attacks on Jennings are not anti-gay
3) SMEAR: Jennings failed to report "statutory rape" of student
4) SMEAR: Jennings "urged" student to "further the relationship" with "older man ... forcing his way" on him and to "keep quiet"
5) SMEAR: Jennings advocated for or supports NAMBLA
6) SMEAR: Jennings' ties to anti-AIDS group disqualify him from public service
7) SMEAR: Jennings is linked to an "Anti-Christian Art Porn Exhibit"
8) SMEAR: Jennings promoted "Child Porn in the Classroom"
9) SMEAR: Jennings is "linked to shocking teen sex talk"
10) SMEAR: Jennings knew the content of "sex talk" workshop in advance
11) SMEAR: High school students received "fisting kits" at 2001 GLSEN conference
12) SMEAR: GLSEN handed out explicit safe-sex booklet to children
13) SMEAR: GLSEN gave teens "directories to gay 'leather' bars" in Chicago
14) SMEAR: Jennings is a "pedophile"
15) SMEAR: Jennings "spoke about the promotion of homosexuality in the public school curriculum"
16) SMEAR: Jennings called for mandatory "LGBT course" for teachers
17) SMEAR: Book forward written by Jennings suggests support for NAMBLA
18) SMEAR: Jennings has "contempt for religion"
19) SMEAR: Jennings is not qualified for his post
20) SMEAR: Jennings "Personally Pushed Books That Encouraged Children to Meet Adults at Gay Bars For Sex"
21) CLAIM: Jennings is the "Safe Schools Czar"
CLAIM: MassResistance is a legitimate source for Jennings information
REALITY: MassResistance is an anti-gay "hate group." Accuracy in Media pointed readers to the website of the Massachusetts-based anti-gay group MassResistance to get "the facts on Jennings," stating that the group's longtime leader Brian Camenker "has covered the scandal of Obama's appointment of Jennings in much detail." Many right-wing outlets have relied on the group's false or misleading claims about Jennings in attacking him. MassResistance has been labeled a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center; even conservative commentator Dean Barnett has stated that the organization "verges on being a hate group." Camenker himself reportedly denied that gays and lesbians were targeted during the Holocaust and has compared the gay rights movement to the Nazis.
CLAIM: Right-wing attacks on Jennings are not anti-gay
REALITY: Right-wing media unleashed anti-gay rhetoric in attacks on Jennings. In their attacks on Jennings, numerous conservative media figures have resorted to thinly veiled homophobic appeals to paint Jennings, who is gay, as a "radical" "gay activist" with an "agenda" of "promoting homosexuality in schools," and have misrepresented or distorted Jennings' previous comments about religion and tolerance. Moreover, in a blatant appeal to homophobia, the right-wing media have termed a series of allegations "Fistgate," even though several of those allegations have little or nothing to do with the sexual practice of fisting -- or, for that matter, with Jennings himself.
SMEAR: Jennings failed to report "statutory rape" of student
REALITY: Student was at least 16 -- the legal age of consent -- when he spoke to Jennings. Numerous right-wing and Fox News media figures advanced the falsehood that Jennings, in the words of Fox News host Bill Hemmer, knew of a "statutory rape" and "never reported it," based on Jennings' past statements about advice he gave to a student who told him about his relationship with an older man when Jennings was a high school teacher in the late 1980s. In fact, a 2004 letter from Jennings' attorney, as well as a statement from the former student and his Massachusetts driver's license definitively show that he was at least 16 -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts -- when he approached Jennings.
SMEAR: Jennings "urged" student to "further the relationship" with "older man ... forcing his way" on him and to "keep quiet"
REALITY: No evidence supports these claims. WorldNetDaily, in at least four separate articles, falsely claimed that Jennings "counseled a 15-year-old student to keep quiet about being seduced by an older man." Likewise, Limbaugh accused Jennings of having "encouraged" and "facilitated the relationship," and claimed that he "urged" the "15-year-old" to "further the relationship" with "older man ... forcing his way" on him. In fact, nothing in Jennings' 2000 speech for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, his 1994 book, or the student's own statement in any way suggests that the student told Jennings that someone was "forcing his way on" him or that Jennings "urged" the student to "further the relationship," nor do they support the claim that Jennings told the student to "keep quiet."
SMEAR: Jennings advocated for or supports NAMBLA
REALITY: Jennings once praised Hay for his pioneering gay civil rights work. Right-wing media sources including The Washington Examiner, The Fox Nation, The Washington Times, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Karl Rove, have linked Jennings to the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) based on a 1997 speech in which Jennings praised gay rights activist Harry Hay. But like many obituaries written about Hay upon his death in 2002, Jennings was touting Hay as a gay civil rights pioneer for his role in helping start "the first ongoing gay rights groups in America" in 1948, and Jennings' comments had nothing to do with NAMBLA.
SMEAR: Jennings' ties to anti-AIDS group disqualify him from public service
REALITY: Group credited with improving awareness, treatment of disease. Hannity and The Washington Times editorial board have insisted that Jennings' past involvement with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) somehow disqualifies him from serving in the Obama administration. But such arguments are absurd, given that ACT UP, an anti-AIDS activist organization, has been credited with both creating awareness of the AIDS epidemic in America and facilitating more effective treatment of the disease. For example, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reportedly stated that ACT UP played "a significant role in the whole idea of expanded access to experimental drugs."
SMEAR: Jennings is linked to an "Anti-Christian Art Porn Exhibit"
REALITY: Exhibit actually features "posters, stickers, and other visual media" used by ACT UP's AIDS activists. Right-wing web sites attempted to smear Jennings by claiming that he, in the words of Gateway Pundit, "funded a pornographic anti-Christian art show." In fact, Jennings is listed on a Harvard Art Museum press release as providing a gift to the museum's exhibit ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993. According to the release, the exhibit includes "over 70 politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City" and "chronicles New York's AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) through an examination of compelling graphics created by various artist collectives that populated the group."
SMEAR: Jennings promoted "Child Porn in the Classroom"
REALITY: Jennings' group recommended adults review books for suitability. Conservative blogs and The Washington Times editorial board have claimed that Jennings is unfit as "Safe Schools Czar" because he supposedly promoted "child porn" by allowing GLSEN to recommend for students in grades 7-12 books that included sexually explicit content. The organization, however, specifically stated on its book list website that "some titles for adolescent readers contain mature themes" and recommended that "adults selecting books for youth review content for suitability"; further, schools regularly teach books that contain sexually explicit material. In a December 11 statement, Martin Garnar, chair of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, said: "Though Jennings' and GLSEN's critics claim to be upholding American morals and values by condemning the GLSEN book list, they are actually undermining the values of tolerance, free inquiry, and self-determination that inform and sustain our democratic way of life in the United States."
SMEAR: Jennings is "linked to shocking teen sex talk"
REALITY: Jennings criticized content of state employees' workshop at GLSEN/Boston conference. Several right-wing media outlets have claimed that Jennings is, in the words of Fox Nation, "linked to shocking teen sex talk," referring to a recorded exchange that occurred during a "Queer Sex and Sexuality" workshop during a 2000 conference sponsored by the Boston branch of GLSEN. In fact, Jennings reportedly criticized some of the workshop's content when the recordings were first released in 2000, and the people involved in conducting the controversial discussion were state employees and contractors, not GLSEN employees.
SMEAR: Jennings knew the content of "sex talk" workshop in advance
REALITY: Critics have presented no credible evidence that Jennings knew the specific contents of the workshop in advance. WorldNetDaily and Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft have both claimed that Jennings knew about the controversial workshop's contents ahead of time, citing a MassResistance blog post which claims, "Of course Jennings and the Massachusetts Department of Education knew beforehand what the 'sexuality educators' would discuss with children at the 'fisting' workshop. The instructor Margot Abels said so herself" [emphasis in original]. But the statements MassResistance cites Abels reportedly making indicate only that her immediate supervisors in the Department of Education were aware of her work -- not Jennings or other GLSEN officials. Moreover, while MassResistance claims that Jennings "worked hand in hand with the Mass. Department of Education from the beginning, as co-chair of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth education committee," Jennings left that commission years before the 2000 workshop took place.
SMEAR: High school students received "fisting kits" at 2001 GLSEN conference
REALITY: Planned Parenthood distributed safe sex kits including "instructions for how to make a 'dental dam.' " Conservative bloggers have followed Hoft's lead in claiming that "fisting kits" -- often placed in quotes -- were distributed at the 2001 GLSEN/Boston conference. But those bloggers have presented no evidence that the kits distributed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts were actually intended for fisting. Indeed, while the conservative newspaper Massachusetts News - cited by Hoft -- reported in 2001 that the kits were "intended for 'fisting' or oral sex," the paper described the kit's contents as "a single plastic glove, a package of K-Y lubricant and instructions on how to make a 'dental dam' out of the material," and offered no support for their claim that the kits were "intended for 'fisting.'" FoxNews.com has reported that Hoft "alleged that Jennings and GLSEN were involved in Planned Parenthood's purported distribution of 'fisting kits,'" but that the kit "was actually for making a 'dental dam' -- designed to prevent STD transmission during oral sex."
SMEAR: GLSEN handed out explicit safe-sex booklet to children
REALITY: Community health group -- not GLSEN -- says it mistakenly brought "about 10 copies" of booklet banned under GLSEN policy to conference. Conservative bloggers and the Washington Times editorial board have falsely stated or suggested that GLSEN had distributed to children an explicit safe-sex booklet which included "the addresses and phone numbers of Boston-area gay bars" and "Pushed Anal S*x in Parks With Strangers." In fact, a community health group -- not GLSEN itself -- reportedly said that it had mistakenly "left about 10 copies" of the booklet on an informational table it rented at a 2005 GLSEN conference at Brookline High School in Massachusetts; the group reportedly apologized for doing so; GLSEN stated that if it had known the booklets had been at the conference, it would have demanded they be removed; and the Brookline school superintendent reportedly said he believed no students had actually taken the book.
SMEAR: GLSEN gave teens "directories to gay 'leather' bars" in Chicago
REALITY: Chicago Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce -- not Jennings or GLSEN -- produced guide for GLSEN national conference. Hoft has claimed that GLSEN "passed out guides to gay leather bars in Chicago to students in 2000." But according to an October 7, 2000, press release from the anti-gay groups Americans for Truth, the Chicago Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce -- not Jennings or GLSEN -- produced a visitor's guide that was distributed at GLSEN's annual conference in Chicago. That guide reportedly, according to the press release, "contain[ed] a full-page ad for Steamworks, a homosexual bathhouse in Chicago" [Americans for Truth press release, 10/7/00 (from the Nexis database)]. According to right-wing WorldNetDaily, "Organizers said around 800 people, including teenage students, some of whom received financial scholarships, attended the event."
SMEAR: Jennings is a "pedophile"
REALITY: Even right-wing Accuracy in Media acknowledged there is "no evidence to support" that smear. On December 10, a blogger for Accuracy in Media, which purports to "set the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage" falsely claimed Jennings is a "pedophile." Shortly after Media Matters brought attention to the blog post and noted that no allegations of pedophilia have been made against Jennings and that the only evidence the blogger appeared to cite to support her allegation was a false claim, the post was removed without comment. The following day, Accuracy in Media stated that it "regret[s] the publication" of the blog post and that it has "no evidence to support" that allegation that Jennings is a "pedophile."
SMEAR: Jennings "spoke about the promotion of homosexuality in the public school curriculum"
REALITY: Jennings said promoting sexual orientation in schools was "ineffective." Andrew Breitbart and The Washington Times grossly distorted comments Jennings made to a GLSEN audience in 2000 to claim he "spoke about the promotion of homosexuality in the public school curriculum" and "criticize[d] schools for promoting heterosexuality." In fact, in the audio files posted by the Times and Breitbart, Jennings promoted a curriculum that demands "respect [for] every human being regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of gender identity, regardless of race or religion or any of the arbitrary distinctions we make among people," and said that efforts to promote a specific sexual orientation through schools were ineffective.
SMEAR: Jennings called for mandatory "LGBT course" for teachers
REALITY: Jennings called for course on "issues of bias in the classroom." The Washington Times' Kerry Picket reprinted a doctored transcript -- originally posted by a conservative blog -- of 2008 comments by Jennings to falsely claim Jennings had said he wanted teachers to be required to "take an LGBT course" -- a claim also echoed by The Fox Nation. In fact, responding to an audience member who asked about how to combat stereotypes held by teachers based on race, gender, and ethnicity as well as sexual orientation, Jennings did not call for a mandatory "LGBT course," but rather called for a mandatory course on "issues of bias in the classroom" for aspiring teachers in order for them to be aware of "how biases can influence how you interact with your students."
SMEAR: Book foreword written by Jennings suggests support for NAMBLA
REALITY: Jennings called for valuing "every human being as a precious gift." Hannity and Karl Rove attempted to link the foreword Jennings wrote for the 1999 book Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling to his purported support for NAMBLA and statutory rape. In fact, in the foreword -- which, contrary to Rove's and Hannity's suggestions, had nothing to do with statutory rape -- Jennings called for valuing "every human being as a precious gift" and looked forward to the day when people could "walk down our streets without fear."
SMEAR: Jennings has "contempt for religion"
REALITY: Jennings indicated that "he later returned to religion," he went on to join board of a Protestant seminary. Conservative media figures Brian Kilmeade and David Limbaugh have highlighted what they termed Jennings' teenage "hatred for God" or "contempt for religion," based on a statement Jennings made in his memoir describing his mindset more than 30 years ago. But later in his memoir, Jennings writes that he since found from the Bible "the inspiration I need to continue my work," and he went on to serve on the board of the Union Theological Seminary.
SMEAR: Jennings is not qualified for his post
REALITY: Jennings has received broad support from education and other officials. Several right-wing media figures have called for Jennings' firing or resignation, based on smears detailed elsewhere in this document. But their caricatures of Jennings are undercut by the fact that education and other officials have spoken highly of Jennings, who has received numerous awards and was a one-time appointee of Republican Massachusetts Gov. William Weld.
SMEAR: Jennings "Personally Pushed Books That Encouraged Children to Meet Adults at Gay Bars For Sex"
REALITY: Book in no way supports this claim. Hoft falsely claimed that Jennings "Personally Pushed Books That Encouraged Children to Meet Adults at Gay Bars For Sex," citing MassResistance's falsehood that a book Jennings recommended to high school and college students, One Teenager in 10, "encourage[s] teens to, among other things, go to gay bars and have sex with adults to see if they like it." Media Matters for America has reviewed the book, compiled all references to gay bars, and determined that the book at no point encourages teens to "go to gay bars and have sex with adults"; in fact, a majority of the youth testimonials included in the book that mention gay bars refer to them negatively.
CLAIM: Jennings is the "Safe Schools Czar"
REALITY: Jennings is head of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, created by the Bush administration. Numerous right-wing media have referred to Jennings as the "White House Safe Schools Czar." In fact, Jennings' actual title is "Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools, US Department of Education," and he is a member of the senior staff of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, not part of the White House staff. He directs The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, which was established under the Bush administration and previously headed by Bush administration appointees Eric G. Andell and Deborah A. Price. A search of the Nexis database finds no indication that either Andell or Price were ever referred to as a "czar." Media Matters has noted that in attacking so-called Obama administration "czars" as unaccountable, Fox News frequently targeted officials who have been confirmed by the Senate, were appointed to positions created through legislation passed by Congress, or had counterparts in the Bush administration.
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HARTSVILLE, SC – Coker's desperate comeback attempt came up short in a 69-64 loss to Anderson College Saturday afternoon in men's basketball action. CC drops to 1-3 overall and 0-1 in conference, and the Trojans move to 2-3, 1-0 in the CVAC.
The Cobras started the game well and eventually grabbed a 23-15 lead with six minutes left in the first period. At that point, the Trojans burly center Randy Javois took over the game and CC went into a long offensive dry spell. Javois, 6"6' and 325 pounds, scored eight straight points to tie the contest at 23-23. Following a pair of free throws by sophomore Abram Ludd, Anderson tied the game and never trailed again.
For a span of 10:19 at the end of the first half and beginning of the second, Coker scored only four points while the Trojans poured in 25. At the end of the spell the Cobras trailed 40-27 but closed the gap back to nine points with 14:11 to play. As Coker struggled to put points on the board, Anderson ran relentlessly pounded the ball inside for easy buckets.
The Cobras trailed 60-42 with 4:50 to play but finally found their stroke again. CC out-scored AC 22-9 the rest of the way, using a full-court press to create some turnovers and also taking advantage of the visitors' poor foul shooting. Anderson converted only 5-12 free throws in the final minutes of the game, leaving the door partially open. Coker continued to chip away at the lead but there just wasn't enough time to make it all the way back.
The Trojans shot an amazing 64 percent in the game by pounding the ball inside to Javois, Osvaldo Haynes and Odin Palacio. The trio combined for 37 points on 16-21 shooting and also pulled down 23 rebounds. AC turned the ball over 27 times, however, and managed only 52 percent shooting from the foul line.
Senior Jay Farrow/Sanford, NC led all scorers with 21 points and had three assists. Sophomore Vance Caraway/Charlotte, NC had 10 points and senior Jamie Jenkins/Columbia, SC finished with nine.
Javois led Anderson with 19 points and nine rebounds before fouling out in 22 minutes of play. Palacio contributed 10 points and eight boards, and Haynes had eight points and six rebounds. Alfred Boykin finished with nine points and Chris Poore totaled eight points and five rebounds.
Coker only turned the ball over nine times, a season low, but was outmanned on the glass for a 42-20 AC advantage. The Cobras finished the game shooting 41 percent from the field.
Coker heads to Morris College now on Monday, December 6, for an 8:00 PM tip off.


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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:49 am
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The biggest problem within our deficit spending is health care costs. Our system is too expensive
Having it paid by the government does not make it "free" healthcare, we still have to pay for it in higher taxes.
Obviously we need to find ways to lower the overall costs, such as legal reform, stop giving free care to illegal aliens, and a mandate because as it is only sick and old people have health insurance (exaggeration)
Everyone needs to be insured especially including the young and healthy.
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Quote; ...'stop giving free care to illegal aliens.'
And if they haven't the means to pay, and have no insurance ...just leave them to die if they fall seriously ill? Hardly practical or sensible, but very right wing!
We have a National Health Service which is free to ALL, at point of delivery. Despite its many problems, it has served us well since the late 1940's, and it remains a magnet to half the worlds freeloading population who come here as 'health tourists', to take advantage of free treatment. (Abortions and cancer treatment are top of the list.)
Under our system , the National Health Service MUST provide full and free treatment to anybody in need, no matter how or when they arrived. The fact that we natives have funded the system through our taxes all our working lives, and visitors have contributed not a farthing, is irrelevant. If they are here, they are treated.
The cost of this abuse runs into millions, but what is the alternative? Can any civilised country do any less?
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:28 am
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Keep them out of our country so they are not here to freeload, that's what we need to do. How will Mexico solve any of their problems if we continue to allow their youngest and most able workers to immigrate?
Your healthcare system works (to some degree) because;
A. You do not share a border with Mexico.
B. Your country does not tollerate illegal immigration to the degree that we do.
C. People in your nation do not have the easy ability to sue like we do and thusly you are not subject to the plague of parasite lawyers and judges to the degree that we are and your system does not breed defensive medicine like ours.
Please do not try and compare our country and our healthcare situation to yours, apples and oranges.
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:31 am
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BB...your offensive Xenophobia really has no place on this forum. The notion that our healthcare system is broken due to "freeloaders" is crazy. Migrant workers in this country, predominantly from Mexico are a huge part of the economy. The work they do helps many industries generate profits, and pay taxes. These taxes help pay for healthcare. The idea that they are freeloaders is ridiculous and rooted in hate. If you really want to reduce the inflow of migrant workers into the US, why dont you call the Chamber of Commerce, or your favorite Republican Congressman.
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:27 am
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GURGLETROUSERS wrote:
Under our system , the National Health Service MUST provide full and free treatment to anybody in need, no matter how or when they arrived. The fact that we natives have funded the system through our taxes all our working lives, and visitors have contributed not a farthing, is irrelevant. If they are here, they are treated.
It is the law here than anyone turning up at an emergency room must be treated regardless of legal status and ability to pay. Consequently, it is not uncommon for emergency rooms to be clogged with uninsured people seeking non-emergency treatment. It is estimated that half of the illegal aliens in this country do not have health insurance.......that means anywhere from 6 - 10 million people here illegally potentially seeking treatment for which they cannot pay. That's a problem.
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Mr Gybe...is it also a problem that 25 Million citizens without health insurance also use the ER as a primary means of care?
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Beagle buddy. Keep it up. You are the reason that the Republicans lost the entire minority vote by a huge margin. You make the rest of us proud to despite Republican-sanctioned bigotry.
Mrgybe has suddenly realized that using the emergency room for primary care is costly and inefficient. Is he now able to point to Republican (or anyone else's) solutions? Or just call people names?
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:46 am
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Mr. G. .... I'm not suggesting that both our countries are not facing big problems, both with regard to health care, and large scale immigration. I'm just not sure how these problems can sensibly be tackled.
It is not a case of apples and oranges, we face similar difficultiues. Our country is signed up to European Law, and we are obliged to accept those seeking sanctuary from real, or claimed, oppression.
By E.U. law those fleeing are supposed to be received in the first safe country into which they arrive, but they don't They make a beeline for England because our benefits and welfare system guarantees them immediate housing, health care, and welfare payments.
Immigration to both our countries is reaching worrying proportions, and next year we face a further influx of Romanians, of which estimates range from a few hundred thousand, to a couple of million. Nobody knows.
The real issue is that the world is heavily over populated, and still increasing, and seems divided into the haves, and the have nots, and the free, and the oppressed. Naturally the have nots, and the oppressed want better lives. The real question is, at what stage must the drawbridge be raised, if or when, host countries become unable to cope?
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For those with short memories who revere Saint Ronnie despite his arming the contras, lying to Congress and so forth:
WASHINGTON As the national debate over immigration reform began last week, a GOP-leaning advocacy group circulated talking points for Republicans. Among them: Don't mention Ronald Reagan.
The unusual warning to party faithful reflects the hangover Reagan left over immigration reform in 1986 by granting amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act was pitched as a get-tough moment, with sanctions on employers and beefed-up border control. But it was largely a failure.
The law gave birth to "amnesty" as a slur, and unfulfilled promises about the border sowed distrust that drives a "border-first" mentality today, even as the government has made strides with security. It's the rare sore spot Republicans have with Reagan, whose mixed record on taxes and government spending has been lost to grand efforts to shape him into a monument to conservatism.
"I believe in the idea of amnesty," Reagan once declared.
The memory of 1986 haunts the current debate, providing lessons on what to avoid but also one of the biggest obstacles to success.
"The big problem with immigration is convincing people in the country that it won't turn into a 1986 endgame," conceded Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who is among the bipartisan Gang of 8 working toward a bill.
Graham, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the group are struggling to convince others that the path to citizenship being considered this time is not amnesty because undocumented residents would have to pay fines and go through a series of hoops before getting in back of the line to seek a green card.
Despite early momentum, fueled in part by the GOP's dismal performance among Hispanics in the November elections, the A-word continues to burn hot.
"This is the same old formula that we've dealt with before, including when it passed in 1986, and that is promises of enforcement and immediate amnesty. And of course the promises of enforcement never materialize," Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said on a radio show last week. He attacked Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, as "amazingly naive."
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The Immigration Reform and Control Act was, in broad terms, no different than the approach being tried today. It was cast as a "three-legged stool" that had improved border security and penalties for hiring illegal immigrants; a temporary agricultural worker program; and legalization of immigrants who arrived in the United States before 1982.
It has become popular for Republican commentators to say Reagan was fooled by Democrats to grant amnesty in exchange for a false promise of tougher border control. But the legislation was pushed by members of both parties and its failure bears bipartisan fingerprints.
"It's revisionist history," said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. "The narrative is produced by people who have opposed reform."
Lawmakers wrestled with immigration for more than a decade leading up to 1986 and were eager to move on, Papademetriou said. "They felt they took care of the issue. Nobody was going to invest significant money on additional border control." The bill called for a 50 percent increase in Border Patrol officers but did not provide a guarantee for funding.
The tsunami of illegal immigrants did not begin until the 1990s, exposing another shortcoming of the bill Reagan signed. It did not account for demand for low-skilled workers as the economy grew, what is known as "future flow." With no legal avenue, immigrants snuck into the country or overstayed visas.
Employers faced penalties for hiring illegal immigrants but there was little threat. They did not have to verify, for example, that documents workers provided were real. Fakes were common. Immigration officers also could not enter a farm without a search warrant or the owner's permission.
An effort to create a national ID system for workers was stripped out of the legislation under a deluge of criticism, including a last-minute speech by Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif., who invoked Nazi Germany.
"Obviously the damn bill didn't work. They took the guts right out," said former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wy., a leader at the time.
He said both Republican and Democratic administrations since 1986 failed to execute the law and he is still raw over the exclusion of a "secure identifier" for tracking workers.
"At least we brought 3 million people out of the dark," Simpson added. "Sure it was amnesty. If you're here in the U.S. illegally, you're expendable. You're going to be used up."
Learning from the past
President Barack Obama and some Democrats and immigrant activists are resisting a hard correlation between enforcement and the citizenship pathway, noting an unprecedented amount of resources have been poured into the border and deportations have reached record levels.
But the memory of 1986 is driving Republicans and some Democrats to focus on additional border measures, saying certain (still undefined) criteria must be met before any of the current 11 million undocumented residents can begin to seek legal status.
"If there is not language in this bill that guarantees that nothing else will happen unless these enforcement mechanisms are in place, I won't support it," Rubio told Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, one of many interviews he has done to sell reform.
Calling the 1986 law "well-intentioned, but counterproductive," Rubio said, "If we're gonna deal with this, let's deal with it once and for all and in a way that this never, ever, happens again."
But convincing opponents is already proving difficult. The conservative National Review editorialized last week that Rubio "is wrong about how to go about repairing our immigration system, and wrong to think that an amnesty-and-enforcement bill at this time will end up being anything other than the unbuttered side of a half-a-loaf deal. And there is no reason to make a bad deal for fear of losing a Latino vote Republicans never had."
Even if Rubio and his Senate partners can craft a bill that satisfied various viewpoints, the past weighs heavily in the House, where most Republicans are tucked into reliably red districts.
"The trick is to design a bill that doesn't have the same flaws as the 1986 one," said Walter Ewing, senior researcher at the Immigration Policy Center. "It's very hard to do but it's doable. If you do it carefully and rationally, without too much inflammatory rhetoric poisoning the process."
Harder tone
Rhetoric surrounding the debate has run hot for years, including the recent presidential election when Mitt Romney promised to be so tough on immigrants they would "self-deport." The election results, in which Obama took 71 percent of the Hispanic vote, shook the GOP.
One of the messages: Watch what you say. The GOP-leaning Hispanic Leadership Network circulated a list of talking points to Republicans last week urging a different tone. Do use the term "undocumented immigrant," don't use "illegals" or "aliens," the group instructed. "Don't use phrases like 'send them all back,' 'electric fence,' 'build a wall along the entire border.' It concluded, "Don't use President Reagan's immigration reform as an example applicable today."
The difference between Republican views in the 1980s and today is striking.
During a 1980 debate with George H.W. Bush, Reagan talked about open borders.
"Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don't we work out some recognition of our mutual problems? Make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit and then while they're working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back. And open the border both ways by understanding their problems."
In his farewell address Reagan talked about a "shining city on a hill" now a mantra of modern Republicanism. "And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here," Reagan said.
"He spoke out in a way that would alienate many modern Republicans," said Stephen Knott, who has written books about the former president. He said Reagan was influenced by his time as governor of California, where agricultural workers from Mexico were critical, and sided with his more libertarian advisers against a national identifier.
Reagan faithful say that he would have not stood for the porous borders and that his vision of amnesty was that it was a one-time deal. More than a quarter century later, it hangs over the debate.
"If you want to drag up old laundry, go ahead," said former Sen. Simpson. "It's not how we got here. It's what the hell do you do now?"
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Forgotten in this account is the political background for encouraging, not merely allowing, workers from Mexico. California remains a huge farm state, despite the relatively small value of farm produce in the current state economy. Ronnie was governor at the height of efforts to organize farm workers into unions. (Relative peace was achieved by Jerry Brown's actions in ensuring legislation establishing the Agricultural Labor Relations Board was enacted.) One of the motives for Republican immigration policy then, and in his subsequent actions as President, were to assure a ready supply of un-unionized workers from south of the border held farm worker labors low. The subsequent decades have seen those immigrants move into labor and teamster jobs. All of this has been tacitly accepted by Republicans to dilute the power of unions--while their surface rhetoric is to bash the immigration that their policies allowed.
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Gurgletrousers, I assumed you were in Canada. Yes your country has a huge problem with immigrants, legal or not. Also I have been reading about many problems with your healthcare system. The level of costs may be lower but the care seems to be lacking in many regards.
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There is an exercise in Function Theory of One Complex Variable by Greene & Krantz that is very similar to a Proposition in the book, but I am having trouble getting to the conclusion.
Let $f : \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ be a polynomial. Suppose further that $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial z} = 0$$ and $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial \bar z} = 0$$ for all $z \in \mathbb{C}$ Prove that $ f \equiv$ constant.
Now, part of the proposition (1.3.2) proves that if $p$ is a polynomial, $$p(z, \bar z) = \sum a_{lm}z^l \bar z^m$$ with $\frac{\partial f}{\partial \bar z} = 0$, then $\frac{\partial ^{l + m}}{\partial z^l \partial \bar z^m}p$ evaluated at zero is $l!m!a_{lm}$.
Is this the constant that $f$ equals? It doesn't seem like I've used the hypothesis, or reached the conclusion!
Maybe I should use the definition of the partial... $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial z} := 1/2 (\frac{\partial }{\partial z} - i \cdot \frac{\partial }{\partial z})f$$
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.


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In the endless-loop battle over the federal deficit, whether and how to reduce spending on Social Security and Medicare remains one of the most combustible topics. The Business Roundtable, a group of more than 170 of the nation's chief executives, has now spelled out its own stance on entitlement reform, and its headline proposal is: Americans need to wait longer for retirement benefits. Most notably, the group advocates raising the Medicare and Social Security eligibility ages to 70, up from the current 65 for Medicare and 66 or 67 for full benefits for Social Security.
The organization unveiled its position in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Gary Loveman, the CEO of Caesar's Entertainment. The magic number 70 wasn't in the editorial, but it appears in the more detailed version of the proposals on the Business Roundtable website. The roundtable also backed means-testing of entitlement benefits; creating private-sector competition for Medicare; and using the so-called chained CPI to slow the annual inflation adjusted growth of Social Security payouts. The group doesn't specify a timetable for phasing in these reforms, and consequently it doesn't try to estimate how much they would save, but none would apply to anyone who's currently 55 or older. (Incidentally, the median age of CEOs of S&P 500 companies is…55.)
The proposal to turn 70 into the new 65 is a shoot-the-moon expansion of the parameters of the entitlement debate. During the fiscal-cliff negotiations, the White House briefly signaled a willingness to hike the Medicare eligibility age to 67, only to take the proposal off the table. In the eyes of some critics, increasing the Medicare threshold ignores both medical realities and the hard facts of the job market. Many surveys show that most Americans would prefer to keep working to 70, or beyond. But according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, in practice the average man retires by age 64, the average woman by age 62. For many, poor health is a factor in their decision to leave the workforce as early as they do; others leave the workforce involuntarily after layoffs.
Loveman, at least, seems to think these are minor hurdles. As he told Politico yesterday , "I am encouraged by how relatively easy these remedies really are." They undoubtedly seem easier to those whose pay averages $362,000 a year—the median compensation for a private-company CEO, according to Chief Executive magazine. (CEOs of larger, S&P 500 companies make much more, of course; Loveman has earned about $28 million over the past five years, according to Forbes.)
Snark at the expense of the 1% aside: In an ideal world, if the roundtable's proposal became law, it would be counterbalanced by a commitment from private-sector employers to keep employing, training, and most importantly insuring their employees for those additional three to five years. That would take some pressure off the federal budget without shifting the financial burden entirely to older workers. Fingers crossed.


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Using the Internet to connect not only machinery, but operational data and people, has the potential to bring enormous benefits to manufacturers. GE is working aggressively to exploit these efficiencies, changing the way people interact with information and improving the way they work each and every day. They are even developing some fun marketing tactics and a few quirky ads to help people connect with these important concepts.
Those of us in the manufacturing world have been using the Internet for a variety of technology transfer activities for many years: webinars, online training, service and support activities, ecommerce, customer care activities and much more. With the explosion of mobile devices and collaboration tools, the speed of information flow and the ability to process information has become more important than ever.
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These are 4 simple ways to protect your identity and personal information from Medicare fraud, but they can be difficult to do if you're caught off guard.
During Medicare Open Enrollment - between now and December 7 - you can expect to hear a lot about the choices, benefits, and lower costs you have when it comes to Medicare.
Open Enrollment is a great time for you to review and compare your Medicare choices and make you have the coverage that fits your needs. Unfortunately, it's also a popular time for Medicare fraud schemes.
During Open Enrollment, you'll find Medicare information all around you – in the mail, on TV, in the paper, and on your computer. Here are a few reminders to keep you safe from those who might not have your best interests in mind:
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You'll be hearing so much about Medicare during Open Enrollment, that it may not surprise you to get phone calls or visits to your house from people selling Medicare plans. It's illegal for someone to call and ask for your Medicare number, Social Security number, or bank or credit card information. A Medicare representative or a private insurance plan working with Medicare will never call and ask for this information, and we will never call you or come to your home uninvited to sell Medicare products. If a sales agent does call or visit you uninvited they are violating the Medicare marketing rules.
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If someone asks you for your Medicare number, stop and think. If you wouldn't feel comfortable giving that person your credit card number, don't give them your Medicare number.
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Residents' decision this week to sell The Point Lake and Golf Club to Donald Trump resulted from two votes - one of which was quite close.
Donald Trump's son Eric told the Observer after Thursday's night vote that he and his father were pleased with what he called "overwhelming" support.
Homeowners were asked to vote on two issues affecting the sale of the exclusive Lake Norman club. One vote involved club members, whose votes were weighted depending on their membership levels. Those with golf memberships, for example, had the most votes.
Of the 1,793 weighted votes cast, 73 percent supported a sale, compared to 27 percent against the sale. Many of the club's golfers had favored a sale, residents have told the Observer.
In the other vote, homeowners were asked to vote on approving an amendment to documents governing the homeowners association. Fifty-one percent of total property owners were needed to approve the amendment, which would allow the sale.
That vote was closer: Roughly three-quarters of the 864 property owners voted. Of those, 450 homeowners, or 52.1 percent, voted yes.
Residents who voted yes to a sale have said the club would benefit from Trump's deep pockets and passion for golf. They expect to see better food, enhanced facilities and possibly rising home values because of Trump's involvement. Opponents say they worry about rising prices and disruption to their quality of life.
Crescent Resources developed the Nantucket-themed community and club in the late-1990s. All homeowners in the roughly 900-lot community must belong to the club. During the past few months, the prospect of a sale to the Trump Organization stirred up emotions among neighbors, pitting some against one another.
The sale is expected to close April 5.
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Residents' decision this week to sell The Point Lake and Golf Club to Donald Trump resulted from two votes - one of which was quite close.
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- Anonymous said...
Yet, we have the iconic Quail Hollow Wells Fargo tournament? How did they allow this competition, ...weak little fis in a small bowl
- March 30, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- George Hanson said...
"All homeowners in the roughly 900-lot community must belong to the club."
Why do you keep saying this? It is not true.
They strongly encourage membership by suggesting that if you do not join, in the future when you decide to sell your house the club will probably deny your buyer membership, thereby rendering your house WAY LESS attractive than the one next door that does have so called membership rights, but it is by no means mandatory.
It's right there on the club website, check it out.
- March 30, 2012 at 8:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
Where do i get the artificial Trump rug weave? Do they do plugs or sod?
- March 30, 2012 at 10:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Homeowners become 'community members' which still need to pay dues and fees. They are not required to acquire 'equity memberships' which may or may not be available when homeowners later sell their home
- March 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM
- George Hanson said...
What happens if an initial purchaser in The Point does not apply for membership during the reservation period?
Initial retail purchasers who do not acquire a membership during the reservation period and the subsequent purchasers of homes and homesites may acquire a membership only if one is available and not reserved for sale to other select invitees of the Club. If an initial retail purchaser of a residence or homesite does not acquire an equity membership prior to closing, it is highly unlikely that a membership will be available at a later date. After closing of the purchase agreement, there is no guarantee or assurance that an equity membership will ever subsequently be available, and neither the initial purchaser nor any subsequent purchaser will have any continuing opportunity to obtain an equity membership.
- March 31, 2012 at 4:11 PM
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This so spoke to me – I constantly oscillate between creating/consuming and feel guilty when my reading pile or my google reader backs up to the point of overload…I feel better after reading your post here. I guess a lot of us are in the same boat…I like your guidance to set aside time EVERY day to create though
- April 1, 2012 at 4:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
What happened to the "how's business" guy? he didn't last long.
he was funny. "How's business?"
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PITTSBURGH - The Penguins' remarkable mid-season turnaround has prompted the team to remove the interim tag from coach Dan Bylsma's title.
Penguins general manager Ray Shero said the team's performance under Bylsma made the decision "very easy."
Bylsma led the Penguins to an impressive 18-3-4 record over the last 25 games of the regular season after taking over for Michel Therrien on Feb. 15.
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This is the third of a four-part series on how to train in the early part of your season which I call Base 1. You can read my previous posts on workout frequency and duration if you haven't seen them. That will give you a better perspective before starting into this post.
This series of posts assumes that your first race is still in the neighborhood of 6 months in the future. The training is essentially the same regardless of sport or even of the distance or type of race (crit, road race, ITT, 5km, 10km, half marathon, marathon, sprint tri, Olympic tri, half-Ironman, Ironman). Generally, it doesn't matter what sort of event you are training for, the intensity is quite similar at this early stage of training. Aerobic fitness is an underlying ability for endurance athletes of all types. So with that in mind, here are my thoughts on training intensity for Base 1.
Intensity. I've said this so many times here that I'm reluctant to say it again. I'm sure you are starting to get the message if you follow this blog. The bottom line of one's training strategy is that the workouts should gradually become more race-like as the season progresses. So the reverse side is that when you are several months out from your first A race the training may well be quite unlike the race, especially in terms of intensity. I generally interpret this to mean that the workouts are done at a lower intensity than that anticipated in the race. Of course, with very long, steady-state events such as Ironman triathlons race intensity for most is zone 2. So in that regard an Ironman triathlete does not therefore have to spend the entire Base 1 period in zone 1. Instead there will be quite a bit of zone 2 now.
In fact, regardless of the sport, I have those I train spend a considerable amount of their training time in zone 2. Throughout the Base period, but especially in Base 1 and 2 (3-4 weeks each) I have the athletes do weekly workouts in zone 2 and I watch to see how well matched their power and heart rate (cycling) or pace and heart rate (running) are. I call this "decoupling." I'm looking to see if they can generally do increasingly longer workouts in zone 2 with minimal decoupling. This is described in a previous post here. When it becomes apparent that they can do such workouts with ease then they are ready to advance to somewhat more challenging training in Base 3.
When it comes to measuring intensity I therefore require those I coach to have a heart rate monitor, power meter (cycling), and/or speed-distance device such as a GPS or accelerometer (running). For cycling I rely much more heavily on power than heart rate for nearly all workouts. The exception is recovery workouts. These may be done either by perceived exertion or heart rate. Speed-distance devices are not as reliable and accurate as power meters so many of the running workouts I assign are based on heart rate. Running intervals done near and above the upper threshold are more likely to be based on pace, however.
I don't believe that anaerobic training (that done at a higher intensity than lactate/anaerobic/functional threshold) is necessarily counterproductive in the early Base period as many coaches seem to believe. I say "believe" here because I've never come across any research which addresses this issue. However, I don't have anyone train at such a high intensity load in Base 1. It only takes a few weeks, perhaps 6 to 12, to achieve a very high level of anaerobic fitness. So to start doing such training with six months to go until one's first A-priority race means that such fitness would have to be maintained for months on end. A half a year or more of VO2 max intervals is a good way to burnout an athlete, and for no good reason.
Check back in a few days and I'll get down to real nitty-gritty with early Base period workouts with examples.


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It is difficult to find a more conservative politician than Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. On virtually every count, the state's senior senator has the credentials many only can long for.
He has a 96 percent approval rating from the American Conservative Union. He has a 100 percent approval rating from the National Right to Life Committee. Both the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America have given him a solid A. Heritage Action said he is one of the nation's top five most conservative senators. He's been endorsed by the Kansas State Rifle Association, 79 Republican state representatives, 31 Republican state senators, all statewide elected Republican office holders on the ballot in 2014, the Kansas Black Republican Council, and all members of the Kansas congressional delegation.
Roberts has spent a political lifetime building up his conservative credentials. He's had three terms in the Senate, preceded by eight terms in the House, to earn his 0 percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League.
Still, he's drawn an opponent for the 2014 primary -- from the right.
Dr. Milton Wolf, a Leawood radiologist and political novice, believes he's the true conservative when compared to Roberts. And he's earned the endorsement of at least one hard-right organization, the Madison Project, which is chaired by former Kansas Rep. Jim Ryun.
The battle is on for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.
Interestingly, the GOP establishment brought it upon itself when it welcomed the Taxed Enough Already crowd in 2010. Eager to seize the majority of the House of Representatives, Republicans welcomed tea party candidates with open arms. Not only did they reclaim the House, state legislatures around the country had solid GOP gains just in time for redistricting. Tea partyers didn't do as well in the U.S. Senate, either in 2010 or 2012, but candidates such as Wolf are lining up for the upcoming elections.
Joining the Madison Project to promote "more pure" conservatives are the Senate Conservatives Fund, Heritage Action and Club for Growth. The 16-day government shutdown in the fall is being blamed on the influence these groups already have in Washington as they attempted yet another repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
That effort was futile other than raising millions for those political organizations. And it angered a lot of high-ranking GOP leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who believe the party suffered in the public's eye.
Ultraconservatives are emboldened to take over the party.
"If Mitch McConnell and John Boehner think the grassroots are going to sit back and let them continue to work with Democrats to mortgage our nation's future, they're mistaken," Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, said in a statement. "It's time for Americans to rise up and begin replacing establishment Republicans with true conservatives in the 2014 primary elections. There's no question anymore about where these leaders stand."
The litmus test for true conservatism nowadays appears to be 100-percent commitment to overturning Obamacare, voting against any legislation or spending bills that add to the deficit, opposing any debt limit increases, reducing the national debt without touching defense spending or raising taxes, reforming immigration in a way that does not allow any path to citizenship, and never working with Democrats unless they've ceded every single item you're seeking.
Aside from health care and bipartisanship, the list doesn't sound all that different from the Republican Party platform stretching back to at least the days of President Dwight Eisenhower -- when Roberts' father was the GOP National Committee chairman.
Who is a RINO, Republican In Name Only? We would suggest it's the tea party faction. We'll see what the public has to say about the matter in 2014. Sen. Roberts' race will be one of the telltale signs.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Terrible start cost us - Moyes
A poor start and a much-changed side cost Everton the chance of progression in the Capital One Cup at Leeds, according to manager David Moyes.
The Premier League's third-placed side arrived in West Yorkshire as one of the favourites to lift the trophy, but left a rain-sodden Elland Road with a 2-1 third-round defeat after having their noses bloodied by the Championship battlers.
On whether or not his decision to rest some players was key, Moyes said: "These boys are in the squad and have to be able to show they can come in and play. If you don't use them, what's the point in having them? The players want to play and be involved."
Moyes made six alterations to the team that won convincingly at Swansea on Saturday, giving breathers to the likes of Leighton Baines, Tim Howard and Phil Jagielka, but his starting line-up still featured the likes of Sylvain Distin, Marouane Fellaini and Steven Naismith.
But the Toffees, be it before or after Nikica Jelavic, Phil Neville and Steven Pienaar were thrown on as part of an unsuccessful rescue mission, were never able to settle on the ball as Aidy White gave Leeds a fourth-minute lead and the excellent Rodolph Austin doubled it with 20 minutes left.
Distin would reduce the deficit with a header but Everton had left themselves with too big a mountain to climb, something Moyes was quick to acknowledge.
"We were not very good in the first half, but we got better in the second, but not as good as we've been playing," he added. "We started terribly, gave them the initiative and lost the game in the opening 20 minutes due to the way we started. We gave away a really poor first goal and left ourselves trying to get back into the game."
While Moyes headed back to Merseyside to plan for a pick-me-up meeting with Southampton, opposite number Neil Warnock showered in what he called his "best-ever cup win".
Such praise was rich from a man who took an unfancied Sheffield United side to the semi-finals of both domestic competitions a decade ago, but he claims that owing to the injury crisis that is currently sweeping his already-thin squad, this victory was sweeter.
"I think that's as good a performance as I've ever had in the cup, because of the circumstances," he said. "They had a strong team, they're nearly top of the Premier League and they wanted to win. But we were better on the night. We deserved the win. They did have a few chances and we did too."


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Top Ten Tuesday #1: Most Anticipated Books of 2013
Top Ten Tuesday Books 2013
So on a few writing blogs I follow, there's a "Top Ten Tuesday" meme that people do, where each week they give a new theme, and you give your top ten books for that theme. I decided I'd start doing it here. The list is roughly in the order of most- to least-anticipated (with the exception of #10).
Most Anticipated Books of 2013
- Untitled, by Vince Flynn and Brian Haig. Vince Flynn is, if not my favorite, at least one of my favorite authors. And a new book series, co-authored with Brian Haig (who I am also a fan of)? Count me in.
- A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin. While the book itself has already been released, I'm looking forward to the paperback version that will match the other books in the series that I have. I've only read Game of Thrones and part of Clash of Kings, but I immensely enjoyed both, and can't wait to finish them and read ADwD.
- Unknown Book, by Michael Connelly. Another of my favorite authors. He usually writes at least one book a year, so I'm looking forward to whatever book he writes that comes out in 2013. I'm hoping it's another Mickey Haller book, but I definitely wouldn't mind a Harry Bosch novel, either.
- Unknown Book, by Jim Butcher. Once again, Butcher usually comes out with a new Dresden Files book every year, which is a completely fantastic series -- I definitely look forward to reading his 2013 book, and his book that was released today, Cold Days, should be arriving by UPS within the next day or two.
- Unknown Book, by Tom Clancy. As of 2010, Tom Clancy has been publishing a book or two a year, so I assume that this trend will continue. I still have to read his older books (with the exception of Patriot Games), but I've read Dead or Alive, Against All Enemies, and Locked On and really enjoyed them (and just pre-ordered Threat Vector), so I look forward to whatever he comes out with in 2013.
- Unknown Book, by Brad Thor. Writing a book or two a year, I expect another book to come out in the summer of 2013. I haven't read his latest book, Black List, yet, but I plan to get it shortly.
- Unknown Book, by Ben Coes. A relatively new author, with only three books to his name, has been publishing a book once a year, and as such I expect that he will do so in 2013. I've only read his first book, unfortunately, but I loved it and I have his second.
- The Third Bullet, by Stephen Hunter. Unfortunately, this is one of those authors that I really need to catch up on. I've only read one book by him, and part of another, but I greatly enjoy them, and this book sounds like it's going to be great.
- The Night Ranger, by Alex Berenson. Yet again an author that I really must read more of, having only read one book by him. But I really enjoyed it, and I plan to make my way through his series at some point, and this book sounds interesting.
- Unknown Book, by Unknown Author. I'm sure there's another (if not more than one) book that I'll be eagerly anticipating during 2013, but I'm not sure what that is yet. =P
Feel free to give your own Top Ten Anticipated Books of 2013, comment on mine, etc. I do not own or take credit for the idea of this list, but unfortunately cannot link to where I got it from, as it is a blog with a commenting system.
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