Wrestling Coach Put on Leave for Insulting Obama, Challenging Him to Fight...

Coach Put on Leave After Insulting Obama
(Fox News Radio) - An Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter has been placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota High School after he insulted President Obama’s intelligence and challenged the commander in chief to a fight, Fox News Radio reported Thursday. Jacob Volkmann told Fox that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High School, where he has worked as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for three years. “They didn’t like how I was representing th...

Minnesota Wrestling Coach Who Challenged Obama To A Fight Is Suspended
Earlier this month I posted a video that had Ultimate Fighting champ Jacob Volkmann saying in an interview that he’d like to fight President Obama. Here it is again: Volkmann said that he wanted to fight Obama over ObamaCare because he’s a business owner and is unhappy about what that Legislation is doing to business owners. As it turns out, in addition to being a professional fighting and a chiropractor, Mr. Volkmann is also a wrestling coach at White Bear Lake High School. And how ...

UFC Fighter Put On Leave From High School Day Job For Saying Someone Needed To Knock Sense Into Obama
Fox News: An Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter has been placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota High School after he insulted President Obama’s intelligence and challenged the commander in chief to a fight. Jacob Volkmann told Fox News Radio that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High School, where he has worked as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for three years. “They didn’t like how I was representing the school,” he said. “They said

UFC Fighter Who Wanted to Fight Obama Placed on Administrative Leave
(MMAFighting.com) — Jacob Volkmann, the UFC lightweight fighter who said that President Obama was “not too bright” following his win at UFC 125, has been placed on paid administrative leave by White Bear Lake High School in Minnesota while the school conducts an investigation regarding the comments he made to MMAFighting.com about the President. Volkmann has served as an assistant wrestling coach for the school for three years. “They gotta do the investigation and then gi...

UFC Fighter Who Challenged Obama Suspended from Coaching by School System
Never, ever commit Blasphemy: An Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter has been placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota High School after he insulted President Obama's intelligence and challenged the commander in chief to a fight. Jacob Volkmann told Fox News Radio that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High School, where he has worked as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for three years. "They didn't like how I was representing the school," he said. "They s...

Coach on Leave After Criticizing Obama
A Minnesota-based UFC fighter said he was placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota High School after he insulted President Obama’s intelligence and challenged the Commander in Chief to a fight. Jacob Volkmann told Fox News Radio that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High School, where he has worked as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for three years. “They didn’t like how I was representing the school,” he said. “They said I was re...

UFC Fighter: I regret threatening Obama in light of AZ shooting
An ultimate fighter wishes he could take back the fighting words he flung at the President. In the aftermath of the Tucson, Ariz., shootings that left six dead and 14 injured, Jacob Volkmann said he regrets saying he would like to fight President Obama and "knock some sense into that idiot." "I would never make that comment if that shooting happened first," the 30-year-old UFC lightweight told the Huffington Post. He made the heated declaration because he disagreed with Obama's Health Care pla...

Man Gets Revenge On 4:30 AM Robocalls, Amuses Megyn Kelly
Here’s a fun story for anyone who hates waking up early and loves sticking it to the man. At 4:33 am on Wednesday morning, Maryland-based lawyer Aaron Titus was awoken by a Robocall from his Children’s school alerting him that there would be a snow delay. Titus was furious that he’d been woken up when he already knew about the delay, so he did what anyone else would; he robocalled them back. Titus went online and found a Robocall company as well as as many Phone Numbers for sch...

Grassroots campaign sets meeting to discuss saving West Des Moines barn
A Grassroots campaign to save the Maplenol Dairy Barn, which neighbors Valley High School, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Faith Tabernacle Church, 131 9th Street, West Des Moines, for concerned residents. West Des Moines School District officials recently decided to raze the barn as part of a $60 million plan to expand and improve the high school. They said the 2,200-square-foot, 100-plus-year-old barn needs to be removed from the high school property to allow for additional green space...

U.S. plan aims to make school meals more healthful
It's a smackdown on French Fries and a cry for more fruits and vegetables. For the first time in 15 years, the Federal Government is calling for significant changes in school meals, including limiting the amount of trans fat, salt and Calories in the cafeteria and increasing the produce and whole grains served. The hope is that the 32 million Children who participate daily in school meal programs will have more healthful foods to chew on. The proposed rule, which would raise reimbursements to ...

Illinois school silence law may return
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The moment-of-silence law for Illinois schools, blocked by a Constitutional Challenge, may be back, the state says. State schools Superintendent Christopher Koch this week told districts an injunction against the law could be lifted in days, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. Some superintendents said they are awaiting legal advice. Jim McKay of Community High School District 117 in Lake County said principals would explain the law to Students and include a ...

Police respond to San Diego school after threat
There was no immediate indication that shots had been fired at Helix High School in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa. A suspect was taken into Custody, said Doug Tyler, a receptionist at the Grossmont Union High School District. Tyler offered no further details. "A threat to the campus of a possible shooting was phoned in. Students are in secure campus mode while police investigate the potential threat," The La Mesa Police Department said in a statement posted on its website. A statement on the ...

Three Reasons You Should Join National School Choice Week
America’s public education system is a lot like the Chicago Cubs: both have become so accustomed to failure that it has become an accepted way-of-life. While there might be something loveable and comical about a continuously lousy Baseball team, there is not a single redeeming thing to be said about perpetually bad Public Schools. A nation that tolerates bad public schools is a nation with a bleak future. That is why during the week of January 23 -29, school choice advocates from around the ...

My neighbor is kinda a bigot
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has written a book. That's the joke. Okay, not really. Presidential hopeful (also not the joke) Pawlenty was on right-wing [TW] Talk Radio to promote, well, Tim Pawlenty. It turns out he hates gay people. Still. "I have been a public and repeat supporter of maintaining Don't Ask, Don't Tell. There's a lot of reasons for that, but if you look at how the combat commanders and the combat units feel about it, the results of those kinds of surveys were different...

Ultimate Fighting Championship Wants NY In 2011
New York is one of just six states in the nation that still has not legalized Mixed Martial Arts. But Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, held a Press Conference at Madison Square Garden today where he announced his determination to change that this year. Over the last year the UFC has held events in England, Germany, Australia, Abu Dahbi and Canada. It plans to return to Brazil this year for the first time in a decade. "This sport is global, and we think it's time w...

Journos Get Mood Enhancer at 400 N. Capitol
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Remainders: Priebus
Wisconsin's Reince Priebus, winner of the RNC chair race. (Reuters). The Middle East has been remarkably tranquil during Obama's term. Herman Cain helped kill Health Care reform in 1994. Did Sarah Palin have the worst week in Washington? O'Reilly is upset that Palin won't come on his show. Mapping Republican Washington. White House press staff shuffles around. Kurtz mea culpa over Issa goof continues. Chait sees the Koch brothers behind killed Daily Caller story. NYC school chancellor suggests...

Ellison: Palins political ride may be over
During Tim Pawlenty’s interview on The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart pressed the former Governor to defend or reject government-as-tyranny language — particularly regarding President Obama’s policies — that has come to dominate the Right Wing of the Republican party through the Tea Party movement. In a unanimous vote by outgoing Board Members Tuesday evening, the Minneapolis School Board passed a resolution that significantly beefs up its LGBT Curriculum and anti-bul...

OReilly: Bachmann, Palin snubbing media after Arizona shootings
More than a dozen Republicans introduced a bill in the Minnesota House Thursday aimed at authorizing the sale of “Choose Life” license plates in Minnesota, with sales revenue going to groups that oppose Abortion. The bill is nearly identical to one passed in 2003 in Florida, one of 23 states that produces the plates. But as the Florida Independent found, tracking where funds raised through the license plate sales wasn’t an easy task. In a unanimous vote by outgoing Board Member...

Republicans aim to bring Choose Life license plates to Minnesota
During Tim Pawlenty’s interview on The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart pressed the former Governor to defend or reject government-as-tyranny language — particularly regarding President Obama’s policies — that has come to dominate the Right Wing of the Republican party through the tea party movement. In a unanimous vote by outgoing Board Members Tuesday evening, the Minneapolis School Board passed a resolution that significantly beefs up its LGBT Curriculum and anti-bul...

Is that the governor getting soup?
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was largely ignored today as he dished himself a bowl of soup in the crowded Legislative Office Building cafeteria. At the grill, he spotted House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan, and they quietly spoke for a few moments. In the checkout line, a woman was excited by the sighting. She told the cashier, " I just met the speaker - and the Governor." But the cashier was unimpressed, telling the customer, "Oh, he's here almost every day." Malloy is trying to stay out of the bub...

Michelle Malkin: Pointing fingers a popular liberal theme
I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been "far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than" they do. Recognition is the first step toward Reconciliation. It's time to recognize the poisonous pervasiveness of the Blame Righty meme. For the past two years, Democratic officials, liberal Activists and Journalists have jumped to libelous conclusions about individual shooting...

King Sees Repeal Vote Passing House Next Week
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is ready to return to official House business after marking the shootings in Tucson, Arizona, from the Hawkeye State. "I expect we will vote to Repeal ObamaCare next week," the conservative Iowan said of the House GOP, which had planned to bring a vote to the House floor this week to Repeal last year's comprehensive Health Care Reform Bill. Agenda items were swiftly scrubbed from this week's calendar in the wake of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' wounding ov...

A day with Fox News
Scott Stinson, National Post · Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 Shortly after Barack Obama delivered his address at the Arizona memorial service on Wednesday night, the cable-news pundits weighed in. It was “remarkable and extremely effective,” one noted. “[The President] behaved,” another said, “with considerable dignity and grace.” These plaudits were not exceptional on their own — Mr. Obama rarely gives a Speech in which his oratorical skills are not salute...

Maine Gov. Paul LePage To NAACP: Tell Em To Kiss My Butt
It looks like the Governor of Maine, Paul LePage won’t be attending the upcoming ceremonies marking the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday. The governor’s declined invitations from the NAACP, which LePage dismisses as “a special interest…and I’m not going to be held hostage by Special Interests.” The governor’s director of communications, Dan Demeritt , told Maine television station WCSH-TV LePage has personal commitments on Sunday and will be attending the ...