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A GREAT STORY – FROM CNN:  (CNN) Dr. Henry Heimlich reached his arms around the gagging woman's body and did what he does best: grasped his left fist in his right hand and thrust quickly and upward.  It was 1974 when he created the lifesaving maneuver and the American Medical Association gave it his name. On Monday -- at age 96 -- he got to use his own maneuver on someone who was choking.
Heimlich was eating a steak in the dining room of the Deupree House, a senior living community in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he noticed the woman next to him start to choke...As more than 100 other diners looked on, Heimlich said he stood up, spun the victim around and launched into his namesake technique.
He placed his arms around her waist, fist below the ribcage -- just above the belly button. Then, Heimlich pressed three times, and Patty Gill Ris, 87, coughed out a piece of her hamburger.  Ris had just moved to the community in March and was dining next to Heimlich for the first time.  "Oh gosh am I lucky that I sat there. And God put me right there at that table right next to Dr. Heimlich," she said.  And that is a truly great and inspiring story.

GOOD! – FROM FOX:   Relatives of the woman shot to death on a San Francisco pier last year filed a lawsuit Friday saying the illegal immigrant accused in the killing should have been in custody if not for a series of mistakes by city and federal workers.  The killing of Kate Steinle in July 2015 and the arrest of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez put San Francisco's leaders on the defensive as critics and outside politicians called for a change in the city's sanctuary law. Despite national outrage, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday upheld those protections for people in the country illegally.  The sheriff at the time of the killing, Ross Mirkarimi, is named in the lawsuit, along with ICE and the Bureau of Land Management. Mirkarimi previously defended the release of the suspect, a repeat drug offender and habitual border-crosser.  Frank Pitre, the lawyer for Steinle's family, said the lawsuit points out "failures at every level."  It certainly does, and the worst failures were at the moral level – the left's insistence that hardened criminals be treated better than the victims of their crimes.  They're oppressed, you know.

WHAT OUR KIDS ARE TAUGHT – FROM THE HILL:   While President Obama visits the site of the world's first nuclear strike in Japan on Friday, a new poll finds Americans are split over the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.  Forty-three percent of Americans say they approve of the use of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities in 1945, while 44 percent disapprove, according to a CBS News poll released Friday.  That compares to Gallup polling in 2005 that found significantly higher approval among Americans for dropping the bombs, with 57 percent approving and 38 percent not.  The CBS polling found that men are much more likely to support having used the atomic bomb, with 58 percent approving compared to 28 percent disapproving. Women disapproved using the bomb, 54 percent to 33 percent.  White Americans also approved of its use, 49 percent to 24 percent, while non-white Americans strongly opposed having used it, 62 percent to 38 percent.  The bomb was used to end the most horrible war in history.  Ending the war probably saved millions of lives.  It is easy for people some 71 years later to pass moral judgment, especially since they're out of danger and bear no risk from mortal combat.  I suspect some of the poll results reflect what our children are being taught in "history" classes, that America is usually wrong and that other cultural "narratives" must be respected.  It probably also reflects, in the racial divide, the propaganda handed to minority children – that race, gender, and ethnicity are everything, and facts mean nothing.

May 27,  2016