HUFFPOST HILL - Washington Abuzz Over Paul Ryan's Veep Pick

A Russian fighter jet buzzed a Navy destroyer, a move known to international relation theorists as "o hai." Several members of Congress want a “National Day of Reason,” though we're pretty sure the parliamentary term is adjournment sine die. And Ted Cruz once argued against sexual gratification as a right. Considering Cruz procreates by fertilizing a clutch of eggs in his mouth, such detachment from human sexuality isn’t surprising. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, April 12th, 2016:

CHILDREN TERRIFIED OF DONALD TRUMP - And not just different-foods-touching terrified. Actually terrified. Christina Wilkie: "According to a new report by the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center titled 'The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on our Nation’s Schools,' the race is stoking fears and racial tensions in America’s classrooms. 'My students are terrified of Donald Trump. They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa,' one middle school teacher told the SPLC. The teacher was one of more than 2,000 educators who opted to take a survey conducted through the SPLC’s 'Teaching Tolerance' program. 'I have had Muslim students called terrorists,” said another teacher who submitted comments to the survey. 'There is a boy from Mexico, who is a citizen, who is terrified that the country will deport him if Trump wins,” wrote a third teacher. 'He is also scared that kids and grown-ups can and will hurt him.' Overall, more than two-thirds of the teachers who took the survey reported that their students -- mainly Muslims, immigrants and children of immigrants -- were worried about what could happen to them and their families after the November election." [HuffPost]

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