Walt Rice, Jr.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

WP: "Judges accused of denying Sikh student points in national civics contest"... Trump's a racist, contest was rigged, it's a conspiracy. ... Also, according to constitutional law experts we contacted, the judges were right, the student's answer was wrong.

Do journalists have no shame?

https://t.co/MSIxWoS51o

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

Is it me, or are reporters getting dumber? Both the host and the reporter on @WHYYNews this morning mispronounced the name of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney (of Dred Scott infamy). Didn’t we all learn this in high school? Hate the man, but at least get the name right.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@Protestia @JimmyParker87 Concur. You reported he was speaking, not that he was listed - and the context of the website made it clear that something was fishy and should be confirmed before making the assumption. It was unfair.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@EWess92 A bad decision. Dissent is clear and convincing. It’s not that she didn’t have the evidence to prove her claim, it’s that she didn’t have the knowledge to even state one. The time starts at the release of the tapes.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

Fox Chase 19111 post office still closed an hour after opening time. @USPS

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

CS Lewis

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

All these liberal news outlets mad, saying Trump rushed the new Air Force One into service without all the defenses necessary to properly protect the President. Sounds like they want to keep him around!

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

There are times when you should stay and times when you should leave. In churches where there’s a congregational form of government, it’s worth an effort to force out a bad pastor. In churches where you have no say, your only option is to leave. But either way, if your church heads in to open sin, you either have to faithfully call it out (and refuse to participate in the sin) or you need to leave.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@Kushal638877 @stevesi Absolutely! Real estate should be taxed at values where the government is a forced BUYER. You say my property is worth $500k? Great, you can buy it.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

The excesses of these new proposals point out the insanity of “traditional” real estate property taxes. You pay based on unrealized gain, improbable value in many cases — and if the housing market goes bust, you don’t get any refunds. The insanity comes to light the further removed from physical assets you get.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@EWess92 Coverage limit or deductible?

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

Those “several pieces of expensive equipment” is in reality 2/3 of the items selected for a sampled spot audit. Which if you extrapolate across all the schools and the full inventory… means they can’t find hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment. I don’t have a clue why everybody is ignoring this, it’s a big deal.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@davidcharns @NBCPhiladelphia … there’s no evidence of theft, and they’re probably just mislabeled. You report that as “no major problems identified” ?

Or maybe you need to ask better questions and hold people accountable. That’s what journalists do.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@davidcharns @NBCPhiladelphia Yes, because accepting a shady government self-audit for what they say it is, is clearly journalism at its finest.

Imagine if the police department did a spot check of its weapon inventory and found 97 of 147 guns “not able to be located.” And then went on to say…

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

@davidcharns @NBCPhiladelphia But you can say, the numbers are concerning because of the possibility that the problem carries much further to other schools. The whole article is “nothing to see here”. It even explains “walking” like stuff just got misplaced. That’s not what the speaker meant, we all know it.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

What’s your take? Sounds like this needs some actual reporting.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

Hey @newskag , NBC10 did a puff piece on an SDP equipment audit that found only $300k in missing items and “no”evidence of theft.

It was a spot audit of 147 items, 96 of which could not be located. Seems to me like this is 2/3 missing, and extrapolated would be a HUGE issue.

[Walt Rice, Jr. @WaltRiceJr]

Here’s the link: https://t.co/nq2j5H8dl7