Preparing Students For Success

 9/1/26 College Fix:

Tuskegee University’s president pushed back against criticism of the school’s dress code in a Sunday interview, arguing that requiring professional attire ensures students are “job-ready.”

“If you raise the bar, students will reach it,” President Mark Brown told Fox News.

“Why don’t we raise the bar? That’s what I think we ought to do. We’re unapologetic about that part,” he said. 

Brown added that the goal of the dress code is to set students up for success. “The focus is how do I make you a professional in whatever space you want to go in?” he said.

“Any higher education institution in the country that’s not focused on student success, no matter what type of university that is, is not focused where they should be. That’s why we exist. That’s exactly why we exist,” he said. 

The historically black university in Alabama sparked outrage after it emphasized the dress code in a recent announcement. 

Students are required to wear professional business attire, such as suits, to campus. They are also “prohibited from wearing revealing clothing” or non-religious head coverings like bonnets or du-rags to class. 

The Feminist Child Murder Defense Crowd is Busy

 9/2/26 Yahoo News:

Judge William Sullivan reminded the courtroom that orders and statutes covering "jurors, witnesses, attorneys and others" in the Lindsay Clancy case are "being enforced and will be enforced," a day after an arrest outside the courthouse.

Someone photographing jurors was arrested for intimidation. Look, I think Clancy has a strong postpartum depression insanity argument and she should not be executed, but the feminists who are turning her into a victim of patriarchy are just purple-haired septum ring crazies. 

Why Would You Not Fight At This Point?

 

Oklahoma City, Okla. (1972)

08/04/1972: Two robbers shot to death a man, his wife, and their son with rifles. The man managed a grocery store part-time. Subsequent reports indicate that a third man was the getaway driver. A witness saw the murderers march them out of the store. The witness dropped his family at home, then returned with a gun, too late.

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: robbery

Weapon: rifles[1]

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[1] "Family Shot By Robbers," [Springfield, Mo.] Springfield Leader and Press, Aug. 05, 1972 , 14; “Police Questioning Trio Held The City's Trouble Murder Case,” Daily Oklahoman, Aug. 06, 1972, 1, 2.

They were marched out the back of the store, forced to lie down, then shot to death. Why would you not put a physical struggle at this point? You cannot think you are going to be allowed to live.

Probably Not Post-Partum Depression But Still a Tragedy

 8/2/1972 Newday (Nassau Edition) describes a mother who suffocated her children, ages 8, 5, and 3 with a plastic bag while her husband slept. She was hospitalized May 26 as an emergency psychiatric patient, left against medical advice May 31. She took leave of her job as a customs inspector July 31 to care for her children and murdered them August 1st. She apparently had a history of depression and paranoia.

Preparing For My Speech

I will be speaking at a CLE (Continuing Legal Education) class at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas in September. The CLE is for lawyers. It is not a part of the conference open to the hoi-polloi (sorry). I will see if my presentation will be generally available afterwards.

As you know, I have been battling speech issues since the 2014 stroke. I am amazed that I successfully taught a 3 hour, one day a week face-to-face Western Civ class in 2018. By the time I finished lecturing each night I was exhausted.

Fortunately, I am speaking and doing Q&A for only 30 minutes. Voice exercises have been helping. As I listen to my recording of my speech, I am becoming hopeful that this was come across well.

Horrendous Nepalese Flood

 8/27/26 NDTV:

After massive flash flood that originated in Tibet and caused devastation in Nepal and China, claiming 172 lives, questions are being raised about whether early warnings from China could have helped prevent loss of lives in one of the worst natural disasters to hit Nepal.

The Chinese side has now responded to these questions saying the claims that Beijing did not issue an early warning to the Nepali side, resulting in significant casualties on the Nepali side, are fake.

Voices in Nepal have questioned that even when the border facilities at the Rasuwagadhi-Gyirong crossing and Gyirong port were hit, warnings could have been issued to save lives downstream.

"Nepal has been addressing the legitimate security concerns of our neighbours. However, it must be said with sadness that our northern neighbour has significantly undermined us. By failing to provide early warning of such a massive disaster, we suffered immense loss of human life," Nepali Journalist with Naya Patrika, a Nepali daily, posted on X.

Do You Ever Wonder What Old Football Players Do When They Get Too Old to Play?

 5/8/26 U.S. Department of Justice:

A former NFL player who owned a marketing company and was the beneficial owner of eight durable medical equipment (DME) companies was sentenced yesterday to 196 months in prison for his role in a yearslong scheme to bilk Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) out of nearly $200 million by selling patient information and sham doctors’ orders for orthotic braces that patients did not want or need.

In addition to the prison sentence, the defendant, Joel Rufus French, 47, of Armory, Mississippi, was ordered to pay $110,753,619 in restitution and to forfeit approximately $17 million that the government seized from bank accounts and other assets.  

“Fueled by lies, bribes, and overseas telemarketers, this corrupt scheme preyed on senior citizens and disabled veterans to flood the country with unnecessary medical devices — and then billed the taxpayer for it,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “Today’s sentence makes clear that if you target America’s elderly, sick, or vulnerable — and rob America’s purse doing so — you will be targeted and brought to justice.”

This is at least in the "Never steal anything small" category.  8/13/26 Ohio Attorney-General:

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Indictments filed this week by the office of Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson accuse six Medicaid providers of stealing a combined $558,383 from the government healthcare program for the needy....

Among those indicted:

• Rasheedah Biles, 42, of Pickerington, is charged with Medicaid fraud and theft in connection with Reset Tomorrow, a Columbus behavioral-health program for children that she owns and operates. The MFCU began investigating Biles after a referral in May 2025 flagged her for excessive billing. The investigation revealed that she allegedly directed employees to inflate claims for services to children in Reset Tomorrow’s after-school program and summer camp, and to residents of a group home for foster children. The fraudulent claims included upcoding and billing for services that were never provided, resulting in a $404,810 loss for Medicaid between November 2023 and October 2025.
   
• Dorika Carter, 41, of Columbus, is accused of falsifying timesheets. She claimed to have provided home-health services while a client was hospitalized, when she was working a separate full-time job and during a six-month period when she could not work due to medical reasons. The loss to Medicaid totaled $6,661.
   
• Carol Dawes-Willis, 59, of Hillsboro, allegedly billed for homemaker and personal care services on dates that she did not visit the client. Electronic visit-verification data, text messages and other documentation confirmed that no services were provided on the billed dates. The loss to Medicaid between January 2024 and October 2025 totaled $4,510.
   
• Yvette Johnson‑Woodall, 58, of Youngstown, faces charges after allegedly defrauding Medicaid of $83,857 between April 2021 and February 2026. Investigators found that she billed for therapeutic behavioral services for four clients during extended periods when no services were provided, including stretches when the clients were homeless or hospitalized. Records also show that some of her billed service hours overlapped with her shifts at a job as a school bus aide.
   
• Sasi Kaza, 55, of Clinton, was charged following an investigation that revealed a $53,405 loss to Medicaid. As the owner of Moonlight Home Health Care in Austintown, Kaza is accused of routinely billing for the maximum number of authorized hours regardless of whether services were provided. The fraudulent claims included billing for dates when clients were hospitalized and, in some cases, after they had died.
   
• Binetou Ndao, 37, of Columbus, allegedly billed for full shifts as a home-health aide despite routinely arriving late and leaving early. Data from her employer’s electronic visit-verification system showed her clocking in and out at locations other than the client’s residence. The loss to Medicaid between January 2025 and January 2026 totaled $5,140.