President Obama’s ‘safe schools’ czar, Kevin Jennings, sees his transgender plans for public and private schools within reach in a move developing in the state of Maine.

A hearing is scheduled next week on a proposal before the Maine Human Rights Commission to make allowances statewide for ‘transgender’ students. An organization founded by Jennings is behind the effort, according to a new report.

The plan essentially would instruct schools to allow boys who say they are transgender to use girls’ facilities, such as restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa.

Mass Resistance, a Massachusetts organization that works to counteract the advance of homosexual activism, has documented in a new report that the Jennings-launched “Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network” “has played a key role in the nightmare plan to transgenderize restrooms in Maine’s schools.”

The report cites a reference from the Bangor Daily News that described GLSEN as a partner in the push to end biology-based restrooms.

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Atlanta Progressive News has parted ways with long-serving senior staff writer Jonathan Springston. Apparently, Springston’s affinity for fact-based reporting clashed with Cardinale’s vision.

And, no, that’s not sarcasm.

In an e-mail statement, editor Matthew Cardinale says Springston was asked to leave APN last week “because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News.”

Cardinale says he has no plans to fill the position left vacant by Springston’s exit. His full statement to CL appears after the jump.

Read More: by Andisheh Nouraee, Creative Loafing

An internal State Department report says the agency’s work in publicizing administration foreign policy and its relations with the media have been hurt by poor communication, lack of staffing and uneven leadership in the Bureau of Public Affairs.

A review by the department’s inspector general found that some employees had been instructed not to return phone calls to reporters asking sensitive questions and that the environment in one office was so tense and hostile that several workers fear violence.

The report, which was completed last week, was obtained on Thursday by The Associated Press.

The 63-page document also found that the duties of some career employees in the press office had been transferred to political appointees, which contributed to low morale. The report was compiled last fall, months after Hillary Rodham Clinton took the helm at the State Department.

“It’s a tough report,” said P.J. Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs who runs the bureau. “What the report shows is that the bureau has many strengths, but it clearly has some organizational weaknesses that we are aggressively trying to correct.”

Read More: Associated Press

Now that the MSM has done its best to ignore the Amy Bishop Obama obsession and is going all out to pin the right-wing-nut-job tail on Joseph Stack, it would seem that leftist-radical myopia is once again controlling the establishment media narrative.

It is, after all, difficult to see clearly when your legs are tingling and your passions are in willing-thrall mode.

So, here’s the pertinent question, the question our drowning Obama groupies in the MSM do not dare to ask:  Is disillusionment with Obama causing people to snap and commit acts of violence?

It’s a good question, born of common sense.

If there was a single characteristic that defined the Obama campaign followers in 2008, it was an adolescent fawning the likes this country has never seen.  There were the creepy fainting women in teenybopper crush mode wherever Obama went.  There were the so-called intelligentsia speaking of a man who, to them, seemed more like a god, a savior, an uber-competent of downright immortal stature, purely obsequious observations based on Obama’s postage-stamp-sized resume, his fondness for arugula and GQ looks.

And, who can forget the woman at an Obama rally who prattled on about how when he was elected she wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage:

Read More: by Kyle-Anne Shiver, Big Journalism