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Makes is so crucial. we know the research. its very clear an effective teacher can bring a child at the 50th percentile to the 85th or 90th percentile with three years of instruction. and a very poor teacher can take the child to the 50th percentile and drop them back to the 20th percentile with three years of instruction. we know that matters and makes a difference. often in the union contracts that difference isnt recognized. people get paid the same, try to replace that poor teacher with a gr...

Borderline and will see this as a message to do some harm. that is the purpose of the poster. and if anything happens to me, thats whats going to happen. >> a doctor in north carolina speaking to us a couple of months ago, his identity severely shielded for his own safety at his request. a member of the same group that put up the wanted posters that targeted that doctor in north carolina is now doing it in wichita, too. doing it by e-mail, but you recognize the format, the grainy photo, exact ad...

That they have to live with another $13 trillion in debt to fund the president or anyone elses vision of the future. the budget was an opportunity for the president to leave. he punted we got to punt. the president punted on the budget and he punted on the deficit and on the debt. thats not leadership. thats an abdication of leadership. all right. it is 6:00 on the east coast. mark haffen ajust opened his sh. >> whats wrong with you? mark is a friend of ours. >> i only unbutton my shirt at j...

Lower back. then proceeded to go around my waistband with fingers inside my waistband. she did tell me she was going to do that. after that she gave me no further instruction. she proceeded to touch by buttocks on both sides with the palm of her hand, moved to the front, touched the tops and under my breast. again she gave me no instruction she was going to do that. bottom of my legs, inner thighs, touching my private areas. she did not tell me she was going to touch me in any of those places. >...

Let us hear from the men and women who are serving in the military. >> strike 3. thats also why republicans say they blocked this bill today, but thats not actually why they blocked it. the language in the bill that republicans filibustered today is not actually a repeal of the "dont ask, dont tell" policy. the language would allow the military to sign off on a repeal if their existing current ongoing study of it so indicated. when bill clinton instituted this policy in the early 1990s, congress...

I want to get right to a crime reporter for the "baltimore sun" on the scene. dustin, what are you learning? >> yeah, we learned that probably about half an hour ago a doctor was shot on the eighth floor of the hospital in a building called the nelson building. listening on the police scanner, what we could pick up is that he may have been in there with a relative. we dont know why he had a gun or why he shot the doctor. but thats the information we have at the moment. >> we also had been hearin...

That is a prerequisite for prosperity. education is an economic issue. education is the economic issue of our time. >> if thats the case, if education is the economic issue of our time, then how complaining is our economy affected by just long a whole day of instruction off the school week? how exactly is our economy affected by 46,000 education jobs being lost over the past three months? in order to prevent more of that, in order to prevent thing like cops and firefighters being laid off and st...

And again, we must wonder if even republicans skipped president george w. bush in harking back to republican greatness, is the dnc strategy reminding voters of the former president really so lame? in georgia, former congressman nathan deal won the republican gubernatorial runoff, narrowly defeating georgia secretary of state karen handel. that race notable for the proxy fight. former alaska governor palin having backed the loser, ms. handle. the winner supported by newt gingrich and former arkan...

Dnc strategy reminding voters of former president really so lame? in georgia, former congressman nathan diehl won the republican runoff narrowly defeating karen handle. that race notable for the proxy fight. former alaska governor palin having backed the loser, ms. handle. the winner supported by newt gingrich and former arkansas governor mike huckabee. lets turn first to "washington post" associate editor, pulitzer prize-winning columnist, nbc political analyst, eugene robinson. gene, good even...