January 23, 2017

Monday Toon Roundup 1: Unreality Show

January 22, 2017

Charlie Liteky, Army chaplain in Vietnam who gave back Medal of Honor, dies

Source: CBS

SAN FRANCISCO -- Charlie Liteky, an Army chaplain in Vietnam who won the Medal of Honor for rescuing more than 20 wounded men but later gave it back in protest and became a peace activist, has died.

Longtime friend Richard Olive said Liteky died Friday night at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Francisco. He was 85.

The Army awarded Liteky the highest military decoration for his actions on Dec. 6, 1967, when his company came under intense fire from an enemy battalion in Bien Hoa province. Despite painful wounds in the neck and foot, Liteky carried more than 20 men to the landing zone to be evacuated during the fierce firefight.

“Noticing another trapped and seriously wounded man, Chaplain Liteky crawled to his aid,” the Army’s official citation reads. “Realizing that the wounded man was too heavy to carry, he rolled on his back, placed the man on his chest and through sheer determination and fortitude crawled back to the landing zone using his elbows and heels to push himself along.”

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlie-liteky-dead-vietnam-medal-of-honor/

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January 22, 2017

In a first, judge finds teachers Colorado high doesnt count in Texas

After Maryam Roland, a public high school teacher in Ysleta, in El Paso, tested positive for marijuana use in 2015, the State Board for Educator Certification sought to suspend her license for two years. In her defense, Roland argued that because she’d smoked the pot during a vacation in Colorado, where the drug has been legal for recreational use since 2013, she had done nothing wrong.

Such explanations typically have not met with success, attorneys said. In an opinion released earlier this month, however, a Texas judge agreed with Roland, comparing punishing her for using pot in Colorado to penalizing someone after returning from a vacation in Las Vegas.

“Possession of a usable quantity of marijuana is a criminal offense in Texas, but so is gambling,” Administrative Law Judge William Newchurch wrote. But the court “would not recommend that the Board find a teacher unworthy to instruct in Texas because she legally gambled in Nevada.”

Paul Armentano, deputy director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws — NORML — said it was the first he’d heard of a judge siding with an employee in such a claim. “I think it’s a big deal,” he said.


more

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/first-judge-finds-teacher-colorado-high-doesn-count-texas/LLgiTlTgXoikkRY2fAgeZN/

January 22, 2017

Toon: Trump the Chick Magnet

January 22, 2017

Tom the Dancing Bug Toon: Founding Fathers Discussion

January 22, 2017

Toon- Total disconnect

January 22, 2017

Sunday's Doonesbury - Bored Already

January 21, 2017

This is heartbreaking- from today's march

January 21, 2017

Image- Something to aim for

January 21, 2017

Warren: 'I'm here to fight back'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on thousands of protesters at the Women’s March on Boston to "fight back" a day after President Trump took office.

“Now we can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back. Me, I’m here to fight back,” Warren told the crowd at the Boston Common.

Warren appeared at the rally, a “sister march” of the Women’s March on Washington, on Saturday as protesters took to the streets in cities across America to demonstrate against Trump.

more

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/315475-warren-im-here-to-fight-back-against-trump