Sunday, June 28, 2015

The need to get our minds right

The need to get our minds right | Power Line: "This transformation is itself the “beginning” of something much larger and more dangerous than same-sex, monogamish “marriages.” Yes, polygamy is just around the corner. And Obergefell’s evident determination to, somehow, use the law to equalize the self-esteem (“dignity”) of adults and children in all sorts of irregular groupings is at least Orwellian.

But this is not the half of it. As it has been so far described, one might imagine that there is a dyad involved, one consisting of the “state” on one hand, and these diverse family-ish groupings — and that the rest of us just go about our business. Not so. The revolutionary mindset that the Court has perhaps half-witlessly embraced means to eliminate all felt “stigma,” any trace of social “humiliation,” just so that everyone’s “identity” is equally valued.

Doing all that requires a lot more than just a fair shakedown at the courthouse. It requires getting all of our minds right. And so we should expect today’s decision to inaugurate the greatest crisis of religious liberty in American history. I am certain that it will."


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I Watched Insanity Applauded During A Eulogy

Editorial: I Watched Insanity Applauded During A Eulogy - Galganov.com: "WHAT I SAW IN THIS SOUTH CAROLINA CHURCH WAS TERRIFYING:
I saw the leader of the FREE WORLD, as a man who is so immersed in himself . . . who believes that he is so smart and talented, as to have the answers to everything.

I gave witness to a man who truly believes that he is so much above the people, that he alone knows what people need and don’t need . . . who fully understands how the world should be according to himself, rather than how the world really is according to everyone else.

I witnessed a man with such an indescribably profound capacity to LOVE himself, so much so, as to break into song at a solemn moment at the Eulogy of 9-Murder Victims, as a terrifying vision of the World’s Commander-In-Chief."


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Saturday, June 27, 2015

The Supreme Court and Federal Reserve are corrupt in the same way.

Random Thought:
The Supreme Court and Federal Reserve are corrupt in the same way. Both institutions defer excessively to legislative and regulatory agendas instead of sticking to their respective mandates.
(Re: Judicial Restraint.)

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Consumer bureau a 'cesspool' of discrimination and retaliation, union head says

Consumer bureau a 'cesspool' of discrimination and retaliation, union head says:



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You Are What You Say You Are

You Are What You Say You Are:

"[M]odernity permits liberties previously unknown or unrecognized. Today we're not held to reality."

ObamaCare Ruling Is Judicial Dereliction

George F. Will: ObamaCare Ruling Is Judicial Dereliction: Although conservatives are dismayed about the Supreme Court's complicity in rewriting the Affordable Care Act -- its ratification of the IRS' disregard of the statute's plain and purposeful language -- they have contributed to this outcome. Their decades of populist praise of judicial deference to the political branches has borne this sour fruit. The court says the ACA's stipulation that subsidies are to be distributed by the IRS through exchanges

General Hayden STUNNED at how Kerry’s capitulations have put US in a ‘PERVERSE’ negotiating position

General Hayden STUNNED at how Kerry’s capitulations have put US in a ‘PERVERSE’ negotiating position: Former director of the CIA and NSA, principal of the Chertoff ...


Unsettled Climate Science

Had Enough Therapy?: Unsettled Climate Science: "When the leader of the Roman Catholic Church can use an encyclical to articulate the views of a crackpot German atheist who worships Mother Earth, something is seriously wrong. When Pope Francis can hop on the movement that wants to repeal the Industrial Revolution, without really considering the good that it has brought to human beings, it appears that ideology has captured the Argentinian mind of the head of the Catholic Church.
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The Imperial President

The Imperial President: "You're in my house."
OK, I know I'm just a suburban Jewish mom and stuff and not very bright, but I thought that the White House belonged to the American people?
Like, we the people and whatnot?
Silly me.


Arrogant, narcissist.  Basically a very disturbed human being masquerading as the President of the US.

A moral world requires moral violence

A moral world requires moral violence: POPE FRANCIS had harsh words for the arms industry on Sunday, condemning as "two-faced" those who claim to be Christian while manufacturing weapons or investing in companies that produce them. "It is hypocritical to talk about peace and make weapons,"...

All-Time World Champions of Institutional Racism

All-Time World Champions of Institutional Racism :: SteynOnline: "The Anglo-Celts who settled America and elsewhere are not great slavers. No slavery in Canada, or Australia, or New Hampshire. In the anglosphere, slaveholding was an enthusiasm of the southern states of the US, and the biggest institutional supporter of slavery - in the entire English-speaking world - was the Democratic Party. And, after slavery was abolished by Republicans, the Democrats created a century-long apparatus of enforced segregation and anti-miscegenation laws, again unique in the English-speaking world."


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The New Civil War: With Malice Toward All; And Charity For None

The New Civil War: With Malice Toward All; And Charity For None | The Camp Of The Saints: "The Left In America has launched a pogrom against all America stands for with the intention of purging this nation and this people of it’s birthright by dividing it up with the intention of then conquering it.

The Spirit that animates those in Power And Control is the exact opposite of that which animated Mr. Lincoln:

With malice toward all; with charity for none; with firmness in the Left, as no God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to open up the nation’s wounds; to not care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting war among ourselves, and with all nations.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

AGENDAS: The Indoctrination of Our College Students

AGENDAS: The Indoctrination of Our College Students: This video demonstrates that our colleges do not educate, they indoctrinate: There is no way to explain the ignorance of these students short of assuming they have been indoctrinated to hate Israel.  Israel does not occupy Palestine.  There has never been a nation called Palestine, and the land that was given to the Palestinians to […]

Collapse, Part 4: Loss of Faith in Public Institutions

oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Collapse, Part 4: Loss of Faith in Public Institutions: "“Americans’ confidence in most major U.S. institutions remains below the historical average for each one,” a Gallup spokesman said in a news release. All in all, it’s a picture of a nation discouraged about its present and worried about its future, and highly doubtful that its institutions can pull America out of its trough.
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Rap music is hateful - why don't we ban that also?

Hannity: Why Stop Selling Confederate Flags If You Can Still Buy Rap Music? | Mediaite:



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O’Reilly Blasts ‘America Haters’ for Trying to Undo ‘the American Compact’

O’Reilly Blasts ‘America Haters’ for Trying to Undo ‘the American Compact’:



I'm typically not a big fan of O'Reilly but he has a good point here.





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Rand Paul's Flat And Fair Tax: Even Better Than Reagan Plan

Rand Paul's Flat And Fair Tax: Even Better Than Reagan Plan - Investors.com: "Perhaps the strongest case for the Fair and Flat tax is that it eliminates all of the special interest loopholes and carve-outs in the tax code.

Tax lobbyists in Washington would become an endangered species — and it couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. The richest 1% get the preponderance of the tax write-offs, so getting rid of the big deductions would increase their taxable income while lowering the rate.

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Former New Black Panther Leader: "Finish the Mission - Kill the Slave Masters... And Their G*ddam Families"

Former New Black Panther Leader: "Finish the Mission - Kill the Slave Masters... And Their G*ddam Families" (VIDEO) - The Gateway Pundit: "Former New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz told the crowd it was time to finish the mission and kill the slave masters and their g*ddam families.
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Why isn't this called hate speech.  Why is this tolerated?  Why does he get to threaten others without being rebuked?  Biased much?  Perverted tolerance much?





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The Culture of Smugness - the Liberal Elite

The Culture of Smugness | The American Spectator: "The resurfacing of racist ideologies is due not to the South’s past but to the nihilistic present, in which resentments and identity politics thrive. Eliminating the Confederate flag won’t arrest that unruly culture. It will make it even more rootless and ahistorical. Teens who shoot up churches and movie theaters haven’t been reading the biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Robert Lee. They have been immersed in an increasingly demented pop culture that celebrates the absence of virtue and discipline.

Only the liberal elite could be smug enough to think America is moving from a culture of “hate” to a culture of love under its dictates. Instead, it is moving toward a new culture of hate, one that is marked not by balanced moral judgments but by fanatical fiats. “We are on the right side of history,” its champions claim, but future generations will likely find such deluded moral boasting as far less honorable than the Civil War valor the Left seeks to erase."


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"American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why"

"American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why":
Key sentence: "Trying to encourage conservation, progressive lawmakers and environmentalists have made matters worse."
I'm shocked, just shocked.

EPA Head Gina McCarthy is Simply NOT NORMAL!

"The Lid": EPA Head Gina McCarthy is Simply NOT NORMAL!: "So in the end I admit, there are things about me that aren't normal, like my love for oreo cookie ice cream, or the fact that I am Jewish and never went to medical or law school.  But unlike Gina McCarthy the EPA administrator, I do not declare the end of discussion when the man made climate change hypothesis has so much scientific evidence weighing against it...I  would suggest that it is Ms. McCarthy who has issues with normalcy.
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After a year of fake unity with Hamas, Abbas says ‘enough’

After a year of fake unity with Hamas, Abbas says ‘enough’: Whether or not the Hamdallah government indeed resigned, Gaza’s rulers unlikely to be part of the next one


Tuesday, June 23, 2015

When Will the Left Ban T-Shirts Celebrating This Racist?

When Will the Left Ban T-Shirts Celebrating This Racist?:

Thanks, guys in the comments.

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Prepare for Muslim extremism as we prepared for WW2 says former defence chief

Prepare for Muslim extremism as we prepared for WW2 says former defence chief:
Britain must stop “sleepwalking” and prepare to tackle Muslim extremism as seriously as it planned for the Second World War, a former head of the Armed Forces has warned.
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux said extremism poses a “real threat” to the world and condemned dithering politicians too reluctant to lead the way.
Warning that Islamic State militants would wreak a “hell of a lot of damage” in the coming years, he argued the Armed Forces risk being left “on the back foot” by leaders who fail to plan properly.
“I think the problem is that we have not seen that we need to approach this issue of Muslim extremism as we might approach World War Two back in the 30s,” the former Chief of the Defence Staff said.
“This is a real threat to us and we’re sleepwalking in the way we’re approaching it.”

One day we will have to confront Islam.  Likely sooner than later. Likely far more bloody than anything seen to date.

"Time to get real: Iran is playing the world for suckers"

"Time to get real: Iran is playing the world for suckers":
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry seems to have it dead right.
The report last week by The New York Times that Iran kept growing its nuclear stockpile throughout the negotiations, despite White House assurances to the contrary, was the last nail in the coffin.
Iran has been caught red-handed lying, cheating, anddouble-talking throughout this process. It is still developing missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads, according to the Pentagon. It is reportedly still working with North Korea on military nuclear technology.
In other words, everything we know suggests Iran is still on its nuclear trip, despite its promises and despite the ongoing negotiations.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Surprise: After scandal fuels billions in new funding, VA wait times…increase

Surprise: After scandal fuels billions in new funding, VA wait times…increase:

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Big Government.


‘Government’ is just another word for the things we choose to do together: The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department […]

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Does our government represent the people? Shocking graph on political corruption in DC. Sign up here to stop the Beltway Bandits - Powdered Wig Society

Powdered Wig Society Does our government represent the people? Shocking graph on political corruption in DC. Sign up here to stop the Beltway Bandits - Powdered Wig Society: "One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” Economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

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Obama to blame for anti-cop sentiment: NYPD union boss

Obama to blame for anti-cop sentiment: NYPD union boss: A top NYPD union leader said on Sunday cops fear they’ll be prosecuted simply for doing their jobs — and went as far as blaming President Obama for anti-police sentiment....

Saturday, June 20, 2015

'Harshest' gun control laws won't stop evil

Bernie Kerik: 'Harshest' gun control laws won't stop evil: (Newsmax) - The "harshest of the harsh gun laws" do little to stop people with criminal or evil intentions, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik tells Newsmax TV. In an interview with "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth, the author of "From Jailer to Jailed" said the "roughest gun laws" in cities and states "really make no difference. When the bad guys want to get guns, they get them and they use them for what they want."...

Friday, June 19, 2015

The Only Truth About Brian Williams' Matt Lauer Interview Is That He's Still Full Of Sh*t

"The Lid": The Only Truth About Brian Williams' Matt Lauer Interview Is That He's Still Full Of Sh*t: "Williams is correct on one thing, he expects to be held to a different standard. Other people would be expected to admit that they lied, would have to speak from the heart, but Brian Williams is allowed to continue with packaged answers without showing true remorse. As the old saying goes, you cant bullshit a bullshitter. Perhaps he is perfect for his new role at MSNBC, they never get it right either.
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

JOHN HINDERAKER: Someone Tell The Pope: Environmentalism Crushes The Poor. The Church has never b…

JOHN HINDERAKER: Someone Tell The Pope: Environmentalism Crushes The Poor. The Church has never b…:
JOHN HINDERAKER: Someone Tell The Pope: Environmentalism Crushes The Poor. The Church has never been opposed to poverty as such.

Iranian Intellectual And Dissident: The Iranian Regime Is As Bad As ISIS, Yet Western Leaders Ignore Its Crimes

Iranian Intellectual And Dissident: The Iranian Regime Is As Bad As ISIS, Yet Western Leaders Ignore Its Crimes:
On October 30, 2014, Iranian intellectual Mohammad Maleki, a former president of Tehran University and a critic of the Iranian regime, published an open letter to the people of Iran in the online daily Roozonline.com. In the letter, he wondered why U.S. and European leaders are shocked by ISIS’ beheadings yet ignore the brutal crimes that the Iranian regime has been committing ever since its establishment against its own people and the people of the region. Maleki argued that the Iranian regime, under its founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor Ali Khamenei – who are the Iranian equivalents of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi – is the same as ISIS because it too executes people systematically and brutally violates the human rights of many prisoners. Maleki pointed to the mass killing of Iranian prisoners, especially of militants from the oppositionist Mojahedeen-e Khalq organization who were sentenced during the 1980s in disregard for their rights and subjected to physical and psychological torture. He claimed that the West even helped the Iranian regime by giving it a free hand in Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s ouster and letting it act against Iranian oppositionists there, in collaboration with then-Iraqi president Nouri Al-Maliki, who is an Iranian lackey.

Expert: Israel Didn't Commit War Crimes in Gaza

Expert: Israel Didn't Commit War Crimes in Gaza: NGO Monitor's legal advisor dismisses accusations that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.



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GREENFIELD: Why Do Mass Shootings of Black People Only Get Covered When a White Man Pulls the Trigger?

GREENFIELD: Why Do Mass Shootings of Black People Only Get Covered When a White Man Pulls the Trigger?: Last year’s bloodiest Chicago weekend saw 82 shot and 14 killed in one weekend.

Those are the kinds of numbers that give the city its Chiraq nickname and the victims tend to be black. That’s something they have in common with the victims of the latest mass shootings.

Dumping Brian Williams on MSNBC Shows How Much Contempt NBC has for MSNBC

Dumping Brian Williams on MSNBC Shows How Much Contempt NBC has for MSNBC:
What do you do with an ethically-challenged news anchor who got in trouble for constantly telling lies? He’s not good enough for NBC, but maybe he’ll be okay for MSNBC.
Obviously MSNBC is a disaster.
The attempt to create a liberal FOX News just attracted a bunch of marginal personalities ranging from Al Sharpton to Mia Farrow’s son with little talent or even the ability to read a teleprompter. Their ratings were terrible and clumsy attempts are being made to retool MSNBC into something that normal people might actually want to watch.
But dumping Brian Williams on MSNBC really expresses just how much contempt NBC has for MSNBC and its viewers.
The assumption is that having a compulsive report on breaking news stories would lead to credibility problems on NBC, but that MSNBC viewers don’t remotely care what’s true and what isn’t.
And considering the network’s history, they’re probably right.
Anyone capable of putting up with Al Sharpton has no standards anyway. Shipping Brian Williams to the MSNBC Gulag just conveys that in a very public way.
“Here’s a national laughingstock. We think he’ll fit in great with you guys.”
Maybe it’s time for MSNBC and its viewers to actually develop some standards.
 




“If you think it’s rude to ask to look at your co-authors’ data, you’re not doing science”: Guest post

“If you think it’s rude to ask to look at your co-authors’ data, you’re not doing science”: Guest post:



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Last month, the community was shaken when a major study on gay marriage in Science was retracted following questions on its funding, data, and methodology. The senior author, Donald Green, made it clear he was not privy to many details of the paper — which raised some questions for C. K. Gunsalus, director of the National […]

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Documents challenge Clinton claim no classified intel on personal email…

IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Documents challenge Clinton claim no classified intel on personal email…:

IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Documents challenge Clinton claim no classified intel on personal emails.

NewsBusted: You Can't Monkey Around with the Laws of Economics, or, The Unintended Consequences of a $15 Minimum Wage

NewsBusted: You Can't Monkey Around with the Laws of Economics, or, The Unintended Consequences of a $15 Minimum Wage:

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"According to a new study, chimpanzees may have the ability to cook.  Which is more bad news for fast-food workers demanding 15 dollars an hour!" -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller

Fifty Years After Passage, Ted Kennedy's Immigration Bill Is Drowning America In Left-wing Immigrants

Fifty Years After Passage, Ted Kennedy's Immigration Bill Is Drowning America In Left-wing Immigrants:

Sen. Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration act allowed the Democrats to start winning elections the same way they win recounts: by enlarging the pool of voters.

Shock: Katharine Archuleta Is a Democrat Machine Hack With Scarcely Any Qualifications Except Loyalty To, and Dependency Upon, Democrat Patronage

Shock: Katharine Archuleta Is a Democrat Machine Hack With Scarcely Any Qualifications Except Loyalty To, and Dependency Upon, Democrat Patronage:

there are never any consequences to failure these days.

there are never any consequences to failure these days.: In fact, failure has become a weird status symbol in the ruling classes.

The bigger the screw up, the more likely it will redound to your favor in the future. It’s as if we have fallen into an alternative universe where all of the normal human structures are upside down and backward. Rambling About the Passive-Authoritarian State | The Z Blog

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The New Minstrelsy :: SteynOnline

The New Minstrelsy :: SteynOnline: "We have raised two generations in the west who want to be ...something else. After three years of being sued by insecure, litigious Nobel Fauxreate Michael E Mann, I've come to see the climate cult as a mass version of Rachel Dolezal minstrelsy. It's about the wish of First World advanced societies to enjoy the cleansing moral frisson of an idealized pre-industrial Third World aesthetic. Well, without the disease and diminished life expectancy... But, if they ever did get their way, I'd bet it would work out as well for them, and us, as it did for Thomas Evans.

~As I've said, sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive. What I found interesting was the instant demand for Tim Hunt's resignation, but the comparative ease with Rachel Dolezal's years of deception - not to say the vigorous pushback by the expert that she's more black than Clarence Thomas. Ms Dolezal may be white, but Sir Tim is beyond the pale.

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Micro-Totalitarianism

Micro-Totalitarianism | The American Spectator: "The concept of “micro-aggression” is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of debating those differences in a marketplace of ideas. To accuse people of aggression for not marching in lockstep with political correctness is to set the stage for justifying real aggression against them.

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Monday, June 15, 2015

Subprime People and Intellectual Bubbles

One Cʘsmos: Subprime People and Intellectual Bubbles: "I guess that's the point I wanted to get to. It's nice to have all the factual backing Wallison provides, but the real problem is that the left lives in an intellectual bubble inflated by with dreams, wishes, hopes, and more-or-less pure bullshit.

Obamacare is surely a bubble, and Instapundit (among others) has written at length on the Higher Education Bubble. I haven't read the book, but from the perspective we are discussing, the government is creating artificial demand by insisting that everyone should go to college, and here's some money to pay for it and keep you indebted to the government forever.

Thus, college is filled with subprime intellects, and not just the students! If. Only.

Global warming? Bubble. Feminism? Bubble. Keynesian economics? Bubble. What was Obama but a giant bubble inflated by the toxic fumes of the left?"


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The New Religion - Hypocrisy

The New Religion | The Z Blog: "It’s why cases like this will not have a lasting impact on the evolution of the New Religion. Hypocrisy, it turns out, is a great adaptation. It solves a lot of problems for human religion. Whether it is Catholic Bishops living like royalty while railing against earthly pleasures or Progressive pundits championing Bruce Jenner while condemning Rachel Dolezal, hypocrisy lets the faithful get past the internal contradictions and outright lunacy of their faith."



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Netanyahu: If Iran Wins, the World Loses

Netanyahu: If Iran Wins, the World Loses: Netanyahu meets with Cypriot President Anastasiades and stresses it's not too late to change deal on Iran's nuclear program for the better.


Attempt to Reboot With a New Hillary Clinton Won't Work

Attempt to Reboot With a New Hillary Clinton Won't Work: "Like past attempts by politicians to re-imagine themselves (“new Nixon”), Hillary’s second start to her campaign was to a large degree a sleight of hand maneuver. Her problems stemmed from blows to her reputation from revelations about her bizarre use of private emails and the ethical questions that arose once the press began scrutinizing the Clinton Family Foundation. Clinton’s inability or unwillingness to candidly address these issues dovetailed with her refusal to speak to the press after she began her campaign to give her the impression of a woman trying to run for president in a bubble.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

The Magna Carta's message to the Supreme Court

ROBERT KNIGHT: The Magna Carta's message to the Supreme Court:
Exactly 800 years after the signing of the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215, the church-state question is still very much front-page news.
That's because the left's ongoing hostility toward religious freedom and its pursuit of a radically secular agenda keeps bumping up against principled opposition. If those pesky religious ...

Israeli Gaza report charges Hamas with war crimes

Israeli Gaza report charges Hamas with war crimes:
The inter-ministerial report published by Israel Sunday contains documentary evidence rebutting Palestinian charges that Israel violated the rules of war in its Gaza operation last summer. It lists as the causes for a defensive war the long barrages of Palestinian missiles and mortars against Israeli civilian areas, kidnappings, and attacks on Israel by sea and through cross-border assault tunnels..
"Hamas combat manuals and training materials recovered by IDF forces in the Gaza Strip demonstrate that its strategy was to deliberately draw the hostilities into Palestinian urban terrain, and to use built-up areas and the presence of the civilian population as human shields for tactical advantage and political gain and propaganda.”

The report stated that "despite warnings to civilians of coming attacks, many Palestinians were deliberately exposed to the hostilities because of Hamas's illegal tactics that themselves constitute war crimes.” It shows mosques used by snipers and schools as ammo depots.

The IDF routinely rigorously investigates every allegation of misconduct by IDF troops and any miscreants are punished as it did after the Gaza operation. The Israeli document was published ahead of the UNHRC report, convinced it was designed to be the basis for the Palestinian war crimes case against Israel before the International Criminal Court. Israel refused to cooperate with the UNHRC probe, charging its findings were one-sided and determined in advance of any investigation.


Traditionalism vs. Modern Society

Traditionalism vs. Modern Society | Intellectual Conservative: "And this brings us to the ultimate irony in what is happening in the United States. In order to bring about a supposedly more just and equitable system the nation is turning to progressively more corrupt individuals who seek, not to spread the wealth around (which can only happen through economic growth) but to concentrate that wealth in the hands of themselves and their cronies. The cronies in business feed the creature of big government and the government grants them the ability to freeze out competition or gain other benefits that only accrue in a powerful and corrupt system; a system that the American system was supposed to prevent from happening.

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“Sex as mere recreation, as contact sport, as a source only of superficial pleasure has produced armies of the desperately sad and anxious”

“Sex as mere recreation, as contact sport, as a source only of superficial pleasure has produced armies of the desperately sad and anxious” | Wizbang: "So given this stress on the goodness of sex and sexual pleasure, what separates the Christian view from, say, the “Playboy” philosophy? The simple answer is that, for Biblical people, sexuality must be placed in the wider context of love, which is to say willing the good of the other. It is fundamental to Catholic spirituality and morality that everything in life must be drawn magnetically toward love, must be conditioned and transfigured by love. Thus, one’s business concerns must be marked by love, lest they devolve into crass materialism; and one’s relationships must be leavened by love, lest they devolve into occasions for self-interested manipulation; even one’s play must be directed toward love, lest it devolve into mere self-indulgence."


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Roots of Progressivism

Blog: Huge problem for gun-grabbers: Polls reveal Americans know guns make their homes and neighborhoods safer: "I could see in their eyes that the notion of an adult being in full control of his impulses was foreign to them.  Ultimately, it was a fear of self-control being the ruling and reliable force in life that was at issue.  This is the mentality that welcomes government control, because, after all, we aren’t to be trusted to control our own lives. I think this is the root of progressivism, actually.  It is a neurosis, or as Michael Savage puts it, a mental disease.

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Into The Fray: The masquerade behind Obama’s Jewish outreach

Israpundit » Blog Archive » Into The Fray: The masquerade behind Obama’s Jewish outreach: "The US president holds Israel to a standard of immaculate altruism, while holding the Palestinians to no standards at all.

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INFOGRAPHIC: How to Tell Age in Prog Years

INFOGRAPHIC: How to Tell Age in Prog Years: By The People's Cube


Need help figuring out an age in prog years? Use this handy-dandy reference chart as a tutorial:




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Government Works Badly

Government Works Badly, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Two huge recent scandals, both of which involve the federal government, strongly support the case that the government should not be given more power and, in fact, should have much of its power stripped away.

The two scandals are the horrible performance of the misnamed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the poor security measures of the Office of Personnel Management which led to hackers getting access to data of virtually all federal employees.

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New plan for "Obamahood" sounds like communism to me

New plan for "Obamahood" sounds like communism to me - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com: "Hmm, the policy of forced social egalitarianism, communal living, and social engineering, sounds — dare I say it — like communism to me."


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Magna Carta anniversary: now, finally, we mark the spot where freedom was born

Magna Carta anniversary: now, finally, we mark the spot where freedom was born - Telegraph: "A statue of the Queen in Runnymede will be a permanent and long-overdue symbol of a day which changed the world forever"


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Friday, June 12, 2015

Mark Levin: The EPA Isn’t Green, It’s Red, It’s Commie

Mark Levin: The EPA Isn’t Green, It’s Red, It’s Commie: Mark Levin wasn’t very happy about an article written by the New York Times and he expressed those views on his show. “The Environmental Protection Agency is assaulting you. It’s shutting down coal mines, it’s shutting down coal-fired plants, it’s shutting down utilities, it is shutting down businesses and operations, it’s putting people out of…

TransRace, TransSex, TransAbled: Objective Truth and Self-Marginalization

TransRace, TransSex, TransAbled: Objective Truth and Self-Marginalization: "Objective Truth is dead. It has been slain by human feelings — by a soft tyranny of sentimentalism which dictates that how a person feels about anything now defines its reality."


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Abolish Ex-Im Bank, Don't Reform It

Abolish Ex-Im Bank, Don't Reform It:
Over at the American Spectator, University of Chicago lecturer Frank Schell recently published a column arguing that the Export-Import Bank should be reformed, not abolished. Today, I have a piece disagreeing for two reasons:
First, Congress has no appetite for substantive changes. Second, corruption and favoritism are inevitable consequences of Ex-Im’s very mission. As such, Congress should let the agency’s charter expire…
America’s entrepreneurs are talented and resourceful enough to compete in global markets without having to spend time influence-peddling in Washington. They deserve the opportunity.
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

CNN’s Lemon: Liberals and Progressives 'Most Easily Offended and the Least Tolerant'

CNN’s Lemon: Liberals and Progressives 'Most Easily Offended and the Least Tolerant': When a longtime liberal media veteran with a couple decades of coverage under his belt blames “liberals and progressive[s]” for a “dangerous” culture of “political correctness run amuck,” you know that a backlash is brewing.

State Department Hid Dysfunction, Corruption Of Hillary Years

State Department Hid Dysfunction, Corruption Of Hillary Years: Corruption: State Department investigators were apparently pressured to cut parts of a report that would hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes. ServerGate may be followed by InspectorGate.From 2009 to 2013, she traveled to more nations than any top U.S. diplomat in history. But U.S. foreign policy today is in a shambles, from a destabilized Middle East on the threshold of a nuclear arms race to a backfired Russian "reset" with ex-KGB officer

Pathetic: Obama thinks THIS will save Iraq? He's dead wrong..

Pathetic: Obama thinks THIS will save Iraq? He's dead wrong... - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com: "And so it is, just days after Commander-in-Chief Obama announced to the world ten months after first stating he did not have a strategy to combat ISIS, that he STILL doesn’t have a strategy, the White House announces it will send another 450 troops into Iraq as trainers.

No clear guidance was issued other than an intent to train more Iraqi troops. Sadly, we now have a little over 3,400 “trainers” in Iraq and only 2,598 Iraqi Soldiers in training. Of that number there are 800 Kurds and 1798 Shia, and no Sunnis are being trained. Do y’all see the laughable irony? We have more “trainers” in Iraq than those being trained.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

ARMAGEDDON? What unrestricted Muslim immigration means for the future for Europe

ARMAGEDDON? What unrestricted Muslim immigration means for the future for Europe - Walid Shoebat: "Then there’s the Islamic State (ISIS), looking toward Italy and Spain as their first targets for the spread of the caliphate into the EU. And don’t forget the rape epidemic, a huge problem in several EU countries with large Muslim populations where Muslim men prey on white Christian women. All this and more, coming soon to a Western nation near you with liberal Muslim immigration policies.

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Environmentalists Becoming Hysterical As “Climate Change” Scam Falls Apart

Environmentalists Becoming Hysterical As “Climate Change” Scam Falls Apart:
The “Climate Change/Global Warming” crowd is reaching the point of hysteria. Fewer and fewer people are taking them seriously anymore.
Their drastic, proposed global regulations are being rejected by many countries around the world.
And, many of their dire predictions just haven’t come true – the computer models upon which they base [...]


Ann Coulter Exposes The Illegal Immigration Cabal

Ann Coulter Exposes The Illegal Immigration Cabal: Congratulations Ms. Coulter on your new book,Adios America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole! Can you give us an...

Former US intel chief calls Iran nuclear deal “wishful thinking”

Former US intel chief calls Iran nuclear deal “wishful thinking”:
In written testimony to the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said according to Fox News: "It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but merely a placeholder.” The 10-year timeframe on parts of the deal "only make sense" if the US thinks a "wider reconciliation" with Iran is possible. But, in Gen Flynn’s view, this is "wishful thinking." He added that "regime change" is the best way to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Iran has "every intention" of building a nuclear weapon, and their desire to destroy Israel is "very real." 

Political Correctness Has Made This Country Unrecognizable

Political Correctness Has Made This Country Unrecognizable:

  • jerry seinfeld
  • political correctness

Dennis Prager: Differences Between Left and Right: Part III

Dennis Prager: Differences Between Left and Right: Part III — The Patriot Post: "And feelings — not reason — is what liberalism is largely about. Reason asks: “Does it do good?” Liberalism asks, “Does it feel good?”

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Norway Deports Muslims, an AMAZING Thing Happens

Norway Deports Muslims, an AMAZING Thing Happens | Wizbang: "Norway recently rounded up 824 Muslims who had ties with radical groups. They deported them. An amazing thing happened that has Norway celebrating!

Violent crime dropped by 30%.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

BALTIMORE: Liberal City of the Future

Doug Ross @ Journal: BALTIMORE: Liberal City of the Future: "he ideology which has governed Baltimore, Detroit, Illinois, California, and the nation for the past several years, has always been to create a new policy or social program, or additional taxes and spending (aka “investments”) to address our socio-economic ailments. It’s not “school reform,” “job training,” or “investments in infrastructure” that elevate and strengthen communities, it’s a thriving economy. And nothing douses entrepreneurism and economic growth like the massive taxing and regulatory burdens the leftist ideology is so totally invested in.

Perhaps none have addressed the issue as frankly as former Congressman Allen West has. He said last week, “Yes, the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit is that Baltimore, and so many other urban areas and inner city communities in America, are a reflection of the abject failure of liberal progressive socialist policies as advanced by the Democrat party. The truth is that it is a culture of dependency … that has created what we’re seeing play out in Baltimore.”

The policies that have shrunk Baltimore’s economy, stymied the job market, and blighted the cityscape are liberal policies. The policies that have created a lack of trust with law enforcement are liberal policies. It is highly improbable that city officials would ever fess up to their ownership. It’s much more convenient to cast blame wherever they can make it stick, in an obvious obfuscatory misdirection to avoid culpability. Exactly like the president did blaming congress for his own failures in broaching those issues on a national level."


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Markets, Not Janet Yellen, Should Set Interest Rates

Markets, Not Janet Yellen, Should Set Interest Rates:
Well yeah. But sadly this is a revolutionary idea for many of the world’s old school Keynesian economists.




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Fournier On Hillary: ‘Nobody Trusts Her To Come Forward With An Authentic Message’ [VIDEO]

Fournier On Hillary: ‘Nobody Trusts Her To Come Forward With An Authentic Message’ [VIDEO]: 'Who is she?'


Monday, June 8, 2015

Glenn Beck Rails Against the ‘Redefining’ of Bravery in America

Glenn Beck Rails Against the ‘Redefining’ of Bravery in America | Video | TheBlaze.com: "Glenn Beck on Monday railed against those who he believes are “redefining” what bravery truly means. On his radio program, Beck specifically singled out those who are praising former Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner’s decision to come out as transgender, but care little for the suffering and bravery of those in the Middle East.

Beck has made it clear that he wishes Jenner nothing but happiness, but believes Americans have lost perspective of the struggles in the world if they see her actions as the highest form of bravery.

“How many hours of network time have been lost forever on Bruce Jenner?” Beck demanded. “Every story like that drowns out the voices of those who have been beheaded. Their voices cry out from the blood-soaked sands of Libya. We have become a people that, quite frankly, are absurd.”"


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The New Transgender Agenda: Cultural Confusion

The New Transgender Agenda: Cultural Confusion: "To reach such lows in America today, it was necessary for truth to be minimized and a new foundation to be established: there is no God.

In order to understand how bizarre behavior is accepted and celebrated today, we need only look to the decision-makers today in the fields of education, entertainment, media, and government. They are the ones shaping public opinion; Christianity no longer guides our culture. They are the ones – like many of us – who grew up in a country embracing moral relativism and in a government school system immersed in Humanism, where man is god and there is no absolute truth.

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If Your BS Detector Isn't Shrieking, It's Broken

oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: If Your BS Detector Isn't Shrieking, It's Broken: "We now inhabit a world where virtually everything is a con."


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The “Ferguson effect.”

The “Ferguson effect.”: This incessant drumbeat against the police has resulted in what St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson last November called the “Ferguson effect.”

Cops are disengaging from discretionary enforcement activity and the “criminal element is feeling empowered,” Mr. Dotson reported. Arrests in St. Louis city and county by that point had dropped a third since the shooting of Michael Brown in August. Not surprisingly, homicides in the city surged 47% by early November and robberies in the county were up 82%.



Similar “Ferguson effects” are happening across the country as officers scale back on proactive policing under the onslaught of anti-cop rhetoric. Arrests in Baltimore were down 56% in May compared with 2014. Article | The New Nationwide Crime Wave

“You’re Nothing But a Pimp!” Black Pastor Rebukes Sharpton

“You’re Nothing But a Pimp!” Black Pastor Rebukes Sharpton:
The highly polarizing Reverend Al Sharpton was in Hartford, Connecticut speaking at an anti-violence event organized in response to the murders of 5 city teens over the past couple weeks.
But Sharpton received a sharp rebuke from a black pastor who charged that Sharpton was “nothing but a pimp,” after it [...]


Good One: How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion

Good One: How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion: I've written about media sophistication and messaging (and ownership, especially of social media tools) in the past and how conservatives are missing the boat.
One big problem is that conservatives are pretty busy working, running business and raising their families. They don't have a huge amount of time left over for totalitarian politicking. 
But everyone needs to do SOMETHING.
As I always say, do what you can, not what you can't.

"When it comes to brainwashing, every one of us has our breaking point. But we absolutely must push back once we understand those tactics: “The totalitarian potentate, in order to break down the minds of men, first needs widespread mental chaos and verbal confusion, because both paralyze his opposition and cause the morale of the enemy to deteriorate – unless his adversaries are aware of the dictator’s real aim.”
"Of course, it’s really hard for control freaks to do their work on us if we are speaking freely with one another in friendship, and especially if we all understand what they are up to and can call them on it in one voice. So their first order of business is to separate us. A sense of enforced isolation is a cruel and effective tool for instilling loneliness and then delusion in people."

NRA: State Dept Rule Change a 'Gag Order on Firearm-Related Speech'

NRA: State Dept Rule Change a 'Gag Order on Firearm-Related Speech': The NRA is warning that new regulations proposed by the State Department could result in shutting down online gun blogs and forums.

UK's Pat Condell Warns America Is Losing Free Speech

UK's Pat Condell Warns America Is Losing Free Speech: British atheist writer and comedian Pat Condell's latest YouTube video targets American progressives who seek to sabotage the First Amendment in a desire to criminalize speech they deem offensive.

Sunday, June 7, 2015

As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence

As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence: Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS’s latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a...

Comrade De Blasio: “America Has A Democracy Problem”

Comrade De Blasio: “America Has A Democracy Problem”:
No, we have an idiot Communist problem, including yourself, you and your ilk who want to override the Constitution and make everything an identity politics game of division. Via The Hill: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said on Sunday that Americans would benefit from reformed national voting laws. “We have a democracy problem,” […]




Treasury Secretary Lew Jeered, Embarrassed at JPost Event

Treasury Secretary Lew Jeered, Embarrassed at JPost Event: President Obama has Israel's best interests at heart, Lew tells JPost conference - but unprecedented heckling ensues.
Finally, they call out these ridiculous snakes for what they are.

First They Came for Pamela Geller, and I Did Not Speak Out

First They Came for Pamela Geller, and I Did Not Speak Out: Chris Cuomo, CNN, and all others who won't stand with Geller sneer at history's hardest lessons.

Progressives: The Target is Never What it Seems

The DiploMad 2.0: Progressives: The Target is Never What it Seems: "I have written  (here and here) how progressives are masters at distorting words and redefining them so that they no longer are even close to their original meanings. "Liberal" and "gay," of course, are probably the most such distorted words. Words are the ammunition of discussion and debate, and if one side is allowed to select the ammunition, well, the ensuing discussions and debates are to be expectedly one-sided. The idea is to create turmoil, chaos; keep society and its institutions reeling from one punch to the next. The only solution to this turmoil? Why, naturally, more progressive government and regulation.
The strategy is working . . . "


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‘NOBODY oughta be too BIG to FAIL!’ – Rick Perry goes POPULIST against Wall St. bankers

‘NOBODY oughta be too BIG to FAIL!’ – Rick Perry goes POPULIST against Wall St. bankers:
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Rick Perry clarified ...

"To kill a snake you have to chop off it's head....The whole world's opinion of America would change overnight."

"To kill a snake you have to chop off it's head....The whole world's opinion of America would change overnight.":
Yes, I know. I'm not at all interested in soccer either. I too let the FIFA blowup blow right past me.
But I was wrong. Thanks to the skills of John Oliver and his team I can now see the FIFA Kerfuffle as a gigantic metaphor for the deep and abiding corruption of, well, the entire glob. On the one hand, it is both illuminating and entertaining. On the other hand, it is an argument for the pit and confirming this planet's appointment with the death meteor.

What if the world were at war and didn’t know it?

What if the world were at war and didn’t know it?:

Since the ability to attack without actually triggering a response confers a distinct advantage,

Russia has actually designed a form of warfare to evade the threshold of cultural psychology and avoid the detection of legalistic minds like President Obama’s. The approach is called hybrid warfare. ”Hybrid warfare is a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare and cyberwarfare. … By combining kinetic operations with subversive efforts, the aggressor intends to avoid attribution or retribution.” The War of the Green Men | Belmont Club

DENMARK is bowing to sharia blasphemy laws with self-censorship

DENMARK is bowing to sharia blasphemy laws with self-censorship - Walid Shoebat: "Even Muslim candidates for Denmark’s general election, which is two weeks away, claim that they are being intimidated by their radical Muslim brethren who advocate for sharia law to be the law of the land…in Denmark! Free expression campaigners say those making the threats have been encouraged by their success in intimidating cartoonists and newspapers.

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Violent backlash against Sweden’s policy of flooding the country with dangerous Muslim invaders

Violent backlash against Sweden’s policy of flooding the country with dangerous Muslim invaders - Walid Shoebat: "The Swedish government says it’s planning a strategy to challenge growing ‘Islamophobia’ following a string of arson attacks on mosques. Yet no plans to stem the soaring rape and crime rates attributed to Muslim immigrants?

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Saturday, June 6, 2015

The Tyranny of the Mentally Ill

GayPatriot » The Tyranny of the Mentally Ill: "Without winning an election, without ever putting their demands before the public, mentally ill people have come to run our society; dictating behavioral norms, censoring speech, and forcing politicians to adopt irrational policies lest they upset the fragile sensibilities of deeply unbalanced people. How long can a society survive when the inmates are literally running the asylum?

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You are now leaving the American Sector

Checkpoint, Charlie | Roger’s Rules: "Consider, to take just one example, our institutions of so-called higher education.  You know as well as I how thoroughly that “so-called” is merited by sodden, politically correct swamps that our colleges and universities have occupied in recent years.  Those scenes of spurious “micro aggressions” and  “trigger warnings,” of mephiticrievance mongering, sexual inversion, and infantile political posturing: is there any aspect of American society more distaste, more pampered, more epicene?  I doubt it. "


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A Black Man Speaks the Truth

Don Surber: Colbert I. King breaks black silence on black violence: "Pillars of our community can’t seem to find words to talk about the social conditions in neighborhoods where violence is one of the leading causes of death. It is as if it is an act of betrayal to point out that the principal cause of black bodies broken by violence can be found within our own ranks.
Owning up to the sickness may be hard to do; so too the treatment. But an honest assessment of what’s happening in our own community — and dealing with the causes — might have spared Charnice Milton and the Charnice Miltons yet to come.
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What the left calls science normal people call lies

What the left calls science normal people call lies: I have anticipated this moment for a long, long time -- the truth coming out about carbon dioxide having no ill effect on the weather.
Now we have admissions that global warming "facts" are all lies.
From the Daily Caller:
Scientists may have lied about the EPA’s involvement in a recent study put out earlier this year claiming Obama administration regulations on carbon dioxide emissions will save thousands of lives every year.
Emails obtained by the blog JunkScience.com’s Steve Milloy show Harvard University and Syracuse University researchers involved in the study consulted with the EPA while conducting their study, contradicting their previous statements the study was done independently of the agency.
“Emails obtained from EPA through the Freedom of Information Act show that Harvard University, Syracuse University and two researchers falsely claimed a study supporting EPA’s upcoming global warming rules was conducted ‘independent’ of the agency,” Milloy wrote.
In May, scientists released a study finding the EPA’s so-called “Clean Power Plan” — which aims to reduce CO2 emissions 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 — would prevent 3,500 premature deaths every year because cutting CO2 emissions will also lower traditional air pollutants and allegedly save lives.
Carbon dioxide is a nutrient for the very plants that are the basis of life on this planet. For years lefties have ridiculed doubters for their faith in God and their belief that man-made global warming is man-made lies.
You cannot legislate science and it is not based on a show of hands.


Pamela Geller Targeted by ISIS for Assassination: ‘It Won’t Stop with Me’

Pamela Geller Targeted by ISIS for Assassination: ‘It Won’t Stop with Me’ - Freedom Outpost: "The media wants to make it all about Pamela Geller – "controversial," "provocative," "inciteful" – as if they think that if they get rid of me, they are rid of the problem. The media has been avoiding reality since 9/11, and now we are suffering the consequences of their avoiding reality. There is a problem in Islam with or without Pamela Geller. By virtue of this jihadist murder plot against me, I have become the proxy for every freedom-loving American who refuses to submit to violent intimidation.

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It won't stop with me.  What will it take for that message to finally sink in?



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Friday, June 5, 2015

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’:
(CNSNews.com) — Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
Dr. McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a “disorder of ‘assumption’” – the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
He also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”

Sharyl Attkisson: Freedom of Information Act Is ‘Pointless, Useless Shadow of Its Intended Self’

ARRA News Service: Sharyl Attkisson: Freedom of Information Act Is ‘Pointless, Useless Shadow of Its Intended Self’: "Attkisson testified along with Vice News investigative reporter Jason Leopold, Newsweek investigative reporter Leah McGrath Goodman and New York Times assistant general counsel Dave McCraw. Each shared stories about excessive delays.

The reporters complained the law, which requires the government to respond to Freedom of Information requests within 20 business days, with the option of a 10-day extension under “unusual circumstances,” is flagrantly violated or ignored, resulting in an unprecedented backlog in requests.

Leopold said fewer than 1 percent of the thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests he submitted across dozens of federal agencies have been decided within the law’s legal timeframe.

Federal agencies often cite lack of funding and staff as reason for the increase in backlogs, but Attkisson said blame falls on the agencies themselves. She claimed federal officials “intentionally” create delays not because they lack resources but rather to conceal public information.

“FOIA law was intended to facilitate the timely release of public information,” Attkisson said. “Instead, federal officials have perverted it and use it to obfuscate, obstruct and delay. The broken system is not by accident, it’s by design.”

Beyond unusually long delays, the journalists on the panel complained of repeated instances of unnecessary redactions or rejection of requests because of misuse of the law’s various exemptions.

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Greta Van Susteren Rips Marilyn Mosby: ‘Scaring Police from Keeping the Nation Safe’?

Greta Van Susteren Rips Marilyn Mosby: ‘Scaring Police from Keeping the Nation Safe’?:
Greta Van Susteren opened her Fox show tonight by asking, “Is Baltimore City state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby scaring police from keeping the nation safe?” Mosby this week filed a gag order to prevent Freddie Gray‘s autopsy results from becoming public knowledge, and with every passing day critics like Van Susteren have less and less confidence in Mosby’s ability to fairly prosecute the case.
She said that Mosby’s deliberately angering the police while making absolutely no effort to “repair the relationship” between them. And that’s important because prosecutors and the police need to have a good relationship with each other.
Criminal defense attorney Ted Williams added that cops are clearly scared of even putting a hand on someone in fear of being accused of brutality or arrested, a fear that has been articulated by Baltimore cops.
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LA Schools Novel Plan to DRASTICALLY Increase Graduation Rates

LA Schools Novel Plan to DRASTICALLY Increase Graduation Rates:
What do you do when your public school system is so sub-par that two-thirds of your students fail to graduate?
If you’re Los Angeles, the answer is not to question your methods but rather to lower the bar for students. Currently in Los Angeles, students are required to pass with a “C” [...]
Is this just insane or what?



"All you worshipers of Darwin should maybe wonder what Darwin would have to say about an organism that refuses to defend itself, and won't reproduce."

"All you worshipers of Darwin should maybe wonder what Darwin would have to say about an organism that refuses to defend itself, and won't reproduce.": People post pictures of Darwin all over the Intertunnel but they have no idea what he said, or what it meant.

They definitely don't know that a friar made applesauce of his theories, and the science-is-settled contingent of the last century simply stapled them together and put Darwin on the front like the cover of a TPS Report. Darwin worshipers mistake cowardice, self-absorption, and sloth for wisdom in an uncertain world. I am Spenglerian. Society is an organism, too, if you ask me. All you worshipers of Darwin should maybe wonder what Darwin would have to say about an organism that refuses to defend itself, and won't reproduce. He'd say it deserves everything it gets. Sippican Cottage: Looking for Signs and Wonders

Paying the Price for Racial Demagoguery

Paying the Price - Thomas Sowell: "Mainly because it is not a mistake for those people who are looking out for their own political careers. Critics who accuse the mayor of Baltimore and the Maryland prosecutor of incompetence, for their irresponsible words and actions, are ignoring the possibility that these two elected officials are protecting and promoting their own chances of remaining in office or of moving on up to higher offices.

Racial demagoguery gains votes for politicians, money for race hustling lawyers and a combination of money, power and notoriety for armies of professional activists, ideologues and shakedown artists.

So let's not be so quick to say that people are incompetent when they say things that make no sense to us. Attacking the police makes sense in terms of politicians' personal interests, and often in terms of the media's personal interests or ideological leanings, even if what they say bears little or no resemblance to the facts.

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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Obama: you are no Roosevelt

MONICA CROWLEY: Obama: you are no Roosevelt - Washington Times: "Our current president, a committed leftist, not only refuses to project American power in any meaningful way but has the United States in active retreat, leaving gaping vacuums to be filled by pure evil.

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Dr. Thomas Sowell – Baltimore Politicians Using Police for Political Ends

Dr. Thomas Sowell – Baltimore Politicians Using Police for Political Ends:
Dr. Thomas Sowell, the noted economist and great American thinker, has weighed in on the situation in Baltimore as it is now unfolding.  His criticisms of the politics involved in the Freddie Gray incident point to a greater problem in America – using race to advance political agendas and gain wealth and power.


Frackin A!!! New EPA Study Says Fracking Does NOT Hurt Drinking Water

"The Lid": Frackin A!!! New EPA Study Says Fracking Does NOT Hurt Drinking Water: ""Today's study confirms what we already know. Hydraulic fracturing, when done to industry standards, does not impact drinking water," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement. "States have been effectively regulating hydraulic fracturing for more than 40 years and this study is evidence of that.""


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Black Chicago Pastor Reaches Out to Republicans

Black Chicago Pastor Reaches Out to Republicans:

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Socialist "Justice" | Human Events

Socialist "Justice" | Human Events: "Markets, in which individuals, not just rulers, have property rights, give people options. Businesses have an incentive to serve as many people as possible, regardless of gender or ethnic group. They also have an incentive to be nice — customers are more likely to trade with people who treat them fairly. Everyone gets to choose his own path. That’s what I call justice.

Injustice is telling people that they must wait to see what their rulers decide is fair.

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Our Biggest Problem Is A Lying, Stinking Media

Our Biggest Problem Is A Lying, Stinking Media - Alicia Colon: "The media elites have perfected the modus operandi of targeting any who tried to expose the encroaching Marxism in the federal government and academia. Their successful demonization of Senator Joe McCarthy is a prime example of Nazi Joseph Goebbels' rule of propaganda; ""If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

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Liberty's Torch: Quickies: What Homosex Hath Wrought

Liberty's Torch: Quickies: What Homosex Hath Wrought: "The institution of marriage was safest and soundest when you were deemed married if your neighbors and your priest / minister / rabbi said so. This is just one more demonstration that there is no room for politics in private decision making or private arrangements. Events in Alabama present a hopeful sign that the cornerstone of every stable and prosperous society might yet be saved by the rueful “we were wrong” declarations of a sufficient number of state legislators.

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Egypt Says NY Times Promoting Muslim Brotherhood Agitprop

Egypt Says NY Times Promoting Muslim Brotherhood Agitprop |: "The Egyptian ambassador to the U.S. has written a public letter toThe New York Times protesting “its unquestioning adoption of Moslem Brotherhood’s propaganda” and false characterization of the Islamist group as non-violent."


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Iran’s Missile Program: A Major Omission in the Nuclear Deal

Iran’s Missile Program: A Major Omission in the Nuclear Deal:
A nuclear weapons program has three legs: producing nuclear fuel, constructing a nuclear warhead, and delivery systems.  Although the nuclear agreement being finalized with Iran is supposed to address the first two factors, the last one has been completely ignored.
Iran’s ballistic missile program is the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East.  Iran is not constructing long-range missiles  and ICBMs to lift monkeys into space.  The purpose of Iran’s missiles is to launch nuclear warheads against Israel, Europe and the United States.
Not only is Iran’s missile program being left out of a nuclear agreement with Iran, the agreement will lift all UN Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran over this program.
On June 2, the Hudson Institute hosted an excellent panel on  Iran’s missile program with Representative Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Dr. David Cooper, Michael Eisenstadt, and Dr. Thomas Karako.   Hudson Adjunct Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs moderated the event.
Rep. DeSantis gave a great introduction on this issue and his concerns about the nuclear talks.  All the panelists were very good, especially Eisenstadt who discussed how Iran appears to be constructing missiles to accommodate a “tri-conic” nuclear warhead design that he believes Iran acquired from Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.  (Eisenstadt discusses this at 28:05.)
You can watch this panel below.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

You Can’t Buy ‘Lady Parts’ And Call Yourself a Woman

You Can’t Buy ‘Lady Parts’ And Call Yourself a Woman:



You probably haven’t missed the latest cover of Vanity Fair featuring Bruce Jenner coming out as ‘Caitlyn’. HE wants to be referred to as SHE now that he’s purchased enough plastic surgery that he looks better than his ex-wife.

And the left thinks this is just fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some are even calling the guy [...]

Muslim leader arrested in child-sex sting

Muslim leader arrested in child-sex sting:

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(WorldNetDaily) - More than 100 people, including the Orlando leader of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, were arrested in a two-county Florida sex-sting operation, many of whom for allegedly trying to have sex with children....


The Supremes Give Cover to Islamic Supremacism

The Supremes Give Cover to Islamic Supremacism:

The Supreme Court this week demonstrated once again the cluelessness of our government about Islamic supremacism. Effectively, it agreed that shariah-adherent female Muslims’ constitutional right to religious freedom requires U.S. employers to enable them to wear on the job symbols of their commitment to that totalitarian program.

The trouble is, shariah is less a code of religious practice than it is a repressive political doctrine. When Muslims require women to cover up, they manifest their submission to shariah – and their affinity for its direction that all non-Muslims be compelled to do the same.

The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday will facilitate such efforts. In the mistaken belief that they are protecting freedom of religion, the justices have given new license to Islamic supremacists to demand still further, liberty-sapping concessions from the rest of us.

Obama's Vapid, Jew-Hating and Malignant Narcissism Knows No Bounds

Obama's Vapid, Jew-Hating and Malignant Narcissism Knows No Bounds: It really takes a special kind of chutzpah, as the most antisemitic POTUS in American history, to proclaim that you are the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in that office. 



It's grotesque and obscene.



Every time I think we have reached a record level of disgusting with this administration and this man, the bar just gets set lower and lower.



His kapo advisors should also be ashamed of themselves but you can't shame the shameless.



These leftist extremists were born Jewish, but their religion is leftism. Sickening.