Just Fred wrote:

Two students at a Maryland high school were injured Tuesday after a colleague opened fire in the hallway just before the start of classes, authorities said.

Looks we had another school shooting in some private school in Maryland today.  Geez, if we only had more teachers and administrators packing heat, they could have stopped this.  The answer is clear:  If we had more guns, there would be less gun violence.

Great Mills High School is a public school, not private.  I have relatives that live down there and graduated from that high school.

From other news reports, it appears the school resource officer (police officer), shot and contained the student who brought the gun to school.  Who knows how bad it would have been if not for his/her actions.

Common Sense wrote:

Brady nice try to explain the issue of the constant name calling that goes on everyday from the folks who despise President Trump. I think you are wasting your time. President Trump's win has completely shattered their world.
The constant labeling... President  Trump as Hitler or Hitler like, a Nazi or Nazi like,  Mussolini or Mussolini like
all of the foolishness. Each week there is a new issue that will bring President down and at the end of each week
the anti-Trump folks walk away disappointed once again. It will be a tough 7 years for them but they will get through it. You know how things go here! 

Common, while many who despise Trump can't seem to think rationally about his actions, the very same thing can be said about Trump's actions and his supporters who blindly support him no matter he says or does.  I keep hoping at some point people will stop blindly defending "their side" and blindly attacking the "other side" and will actually start thinking for themselves and doing it in a rational manner.  Unfortunately both sides are showing the opposite tendency.

I don't think Trump stands a chance at winning re-election unless the Dems nominate another horrible candidate like Hillary

In regards to property tax for school funding, it is a tradition that has long outlived its purpose and usefulness.

Back when this form of taxation was created to pay for schools, it made sense since there was the vast majority of people didn't have a steady wage that was taxable nor were there "income taxes" owed to the federal government.  The only way to determine someone's ability to pay was to tax his "real property", which was where the wealth of most individuals was concentrated.  Since the economy has changed so drastically since this was first used to pay for education, it is time to get rid of real estate taxes and replace it with another source of funding that most accurately represents an individuals wealth and ability to pay.

Trump is a moron and his verbal attacks on the media are ridiculous, but they are not fascist.  The media is not government controlled and is not indirectly controlled by sympathetic media spokespeople.  There are plenty of people in the media pointing out Trump's issues.  If you are going to point to Breitbart, Fox News and the other far-right sites as being sympathetic to Trump, couldn't you then say the same thing about Obama with MSNBC and the far left websites?

Also, I would not rely on Laurence Britt as an expert on fascism, I would look to more seasoned political scientists who have written peer-reviewed papers and articles that are published in respected journals.  Not someone who complies a list of points that can be used to describe just about any extreme political ideology, and by someone who wrote this list to help sell his book about how a right-wing politican took over the United States.

Rongone wrote:

From my perspective, based upon my work experience, the ultimate responsibility for the operations and awareness of the effects of operational decisions, actions, and personnel rests with the manager/director/executive/government department secretary of the group. To suggest that this person is “clueless” about the goings on in areas of responsibility is no excuse. It only demonstrates poor management skills. Also, to suggest that someone else in the chain of command (a lower ranking employee in the department) should be charged with the responsibility to prepare a response to clarify what the actions really were, is a complete abdication of duty and responsibility. She should be fired or, at least, reprimanded.

I can see making the case that she (or any Secretary) should be involved in actions that effect the department, but that is NOT what my example was about.  My example was about rescinding documents that are no longer relevant because they are outdated or were incorporated into other documents, therefore the rescinding is not effecting the operations of the department.

From my experience, state government would be paralyzed if we would have to get approval from the Secretary to get to obsolete/rescind items that were already covered in other areas and had no effect on operations or policy.

If you really believe a Secretary should be able to speak on any subject within their department without getting assistance from their staff in drafting a response, I suggest you write to your legislators (both state and federal) and either ask for them to reduce the responsibilities of government because the Secretaries don't know everything going on in their department or ask that additional government agencies be created so Secretaries can know everything that goes on in their area.

For example, when a new Secretary takes over in a PA state agency (such as DHS), each department has to complete a "Policy paper" on any topic they believe may