History for May 20

History for May 20 - On-This-Day.com
Dolley Payne Madison 1768 - U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th President James Madison, Honore de Balzac 1799 - Novelist, John Stuart Mill 1806 - Editor, philosopher


Jimmy Stewart 1908 - Actor (Philadelphia Story [1940]; The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), Joe Cocker 1944 - Singer, songwriter, Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre) 1946 - Singer (Sonny & Cher), actress (Moonstruck [1987]; The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask)


1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.


1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.


1902 - Cuba gained its independence from Spain.






1916 - Norman Rockwell’s first cover on "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared.


1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.


1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.


1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.


1969 - U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, which was referred to as Hamburger Hill.

WHY IS THE MEDIA SILENT? ISIS OPERATIVE Caught Traveling Back And Forth Across Our Borders » 100percentfedUp.com

WHY IS THE MEDIA SILENT? ISIS OPERATIVE Caught Traveling Back And Forth Across Our Borders » 100percentfedUp.com:

"Why is the media silent about an ISIS operative and now a Pakistani caught crossing back and forth from Mexico to the US? The government has also sealed some of the records regarding the Pakistani man who was caught with two fake ID’s. Our southern border has become a GLOBAL MAGNET FOR ANYONE to cross over BUT does anyone care that ISIS  is here??? WTH!"

The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl

The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl | Intellectual Takeout:
"Chalk up another brilliant school suspension to the zero-tolerance police.
The perpetrator this time?
A 5-year-old with a *gasp* plastic bubble gun.
A local news station reports:
“The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and take her home.
‘If they had contacted me and said can you make sure this doesn’t happen again, we just want you to be aware, I think that would have been a more appropriate way to handle the situation.
Could we have a warning?
It blows bubbles,’ she said.”...

Bill de Blasio, NYC mayor, to fine businesses that fail to use correct gender pronouns

Bill de Blasio, NYC mayor, to fine businesses that fail to use correct gender pronouns - Washington Times:
"Greeting customers as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” — or even not using the pronoun “ze” or “zir” — could prove costly for New York City businesses under rules drafted by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s bureaucrats.
The Gotham mayor’s Commission on Human Rights says entities that fail to address customers by their preferred gender pronouns and titles are in violation of the law and could be subject to penalties of up to $250,000.
The commission issued a “legal enforcement guidance” for the New York City Human Rights Law, which now “requires employers and converted entities to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regardless of the individual’s sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the individual’s identification.”
The guidance, issued in December as part of a broader interpretation of the human rights law, notes that some people prefer pronouns that don’t have masculine or feminine forms, including “they/them/theirs or ze/hir.”
The former are plurals being drafted for use in the singular, while the latter are among several alternative pronoun systems developed by academics and/or LGBT communities.
It lists several examples of violations that could result in fines, including the “intentional and repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title.”
“For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman ‘him’ or ‘Mr.’ after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses,” the guide says.
The maximum civil fine that the commission may impose upon “misgendering” is $125,000.
But when the violation is the “result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct,” the maximum fine can double to $250,000.
The guide says businesses can avoid penalties “by creating a policy of asking everyone what their preferred gender pronoun is so that no individual is singled out for such questions and by updating their system to allow all individuals to self-identify their names and genders. They should not limit the options for identification to male and female only...”

Federal Government’s New Overtime Regulations Force Small Businesses to Make Hard Choices | TheBlaze.com

Federal Government’s New Overtime Regulations Force Small Businesses to Make Hard Choices | TheBlaze.com:

"NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices.

The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid overtime. In terms of annual pay, the threshold rises to $47,476 from $23,660. The rules take effect Dec. 1."

Michigan students sliding fast toward the bottom

Michigan students sliding fast toward the bottom:
"Michigan, already sliding toward the bottom nationally for fourth-grade reading performance on a rigorous national exam, is projected to fall to 48th place by 2030 if the state does nothing to improve education.
That finding is included in a report out today from Education Trust-Midwest, a nonpartisan education research and policy organization based in Royal Oak.
The organization analyzed more than a decade's worth of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — or NAEP, a tough exam given to a representative sample of students in each state.
In 2003, Michigan ranked 28th in fourth-grade reading.
In 2015, the state was ranked 41st.
"We're certainly not on track to become a top 10 state any time soon," said Amber Arellano, executive director of the organization.
"It's totally unacceptable for the economy, for business and especially for kids themselves..."

EgyptAir flight MS804 crash is final nail in coffin for Egypt's tourism industry

EgyptAir flight MS804 crash is final nail in coffin for Egypt's tourism industry - Nigel Thompson - Mirror Online:
"Egypt has been working extremely hard to demonstrate the country is safe to visit for Western holidaymakers - but it appears that today's crash shows it is not
Sharm el-Sheikh used to be an extremely popular tourist resort thanks to its sandy beaches and scuba diving opportunities
Obviously we do not know the exact cause of the disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804 over the Med, but sadly the early signs do all point to an act of terror.
...Tourism is absolutely vital to the Egyptian economy – at its peak before the revolution in 2011, which saw the fall of President Mubarak- it employed 10-12 per cent of the workforce and brought in almost £8billion a year.
...Then the crash of the Russian holiday jet in North Sinai on October 31, 2015 was a hammer blow, as European airlines stopped flying to Sharm el-Sheikh on the advice of governments over fears that security at the airport had been compromised and a bomb was smuggled on board.
And in January three Western tourists were stabbed by suspected Islamic State militants at a Hurghada hotel; thankfully the holidaymakers were not seriously injured.
...Though admittedly we do not know for sure it's terrorism, or where any device was planted as the plane had flown from Eritrea, to Cairo, then on to Tunis before heading, via Cairo again, to Paris.
If it turns out a bomb was planted at France's showpiece Charles de Gaulle airport, then that's a truly shocking development.
Would I fly to Egypt now? 
It's a fascinating place to visit for sure.
But sadly to me this looks like the final nail in the coffin of Egypt's tourism industry at least in the short term.
I feel most Western tourists will now stay away - and it's desperately sad for all the decent people of Egypt.
Sorry, there's no way I am flying there any time soon."

Lunch video-----WW2 - Landing is the hard part

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PUTIN Threatens To Release 20,000 "Top Secret" Emails From Hillary...Why Judge Napolitano Says This Is Very Bad News For Hillary [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com

PUTIN Threatens To Release 20,000 "Top Secret" Emails From Hillary...Why Judge Napolitano Says This Is Very Bad News For Hillary [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com:

 " when Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on Monday that Russia has possession of around 20,000 of Clinton’s emails — leaving open the possibility her deletions might not have been permanent after all.

“There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into,” Napolitano told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in an interview for The Kelly File."


As usual, the judge is great in this video!

Man Hand Raises a Baby Bird Into a Beautiful Adult Songbird

Man Hand Raises a Baby Bird Into a Beautiful Adult Songbird
A Man Going For A Jog Found This Baby Bird. You Have To See Next 36 Days... 

Veterinarian 'DachsUndDachshund' recently posted this amazing story about how out jogging one day he stumbled upon this tiny freshly hatched songbird that had fallen out of its nest. 

Unable to locate the nest so he could return the baby bird to it, he decided to take it home and hand raise it himself until it was big and health enough to be released into the world to sing its songs. 

Here is the amazingly beautiful story that is sure to put a smile on your face:

Day 1 - Here is the little chick on the first day. 
My brother had been out jogging, and found it on the sidewalk. 
It was actually still attached to part of its shell and some dried membranes..."
Read on.
Heartwarming!

Why Hasn't Obama Fired Ben Rhodes?

Why Hasn't Obama Fired Ben Rhodes? | PJ Media:
"It's a good bet that by now the entire foreign policy cosmos -- from "the Blob" to the 27-year-old reporters -- has read the New York Times Magazine profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes, "The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru."
...Freighted with the far-reaching effects of a major treaty, the Iran deal was never submitted by Obama to the Senate for ratification as a treaty. 
Framed as an agreement with Iran, it was never signed by Iran. 
Sold by the administration as a transparent deal, it is turning out to be a slush heap of secrets. 
The real blob in this drama is the rolling sludge of presidential over-reach,
White House fictions and raw abuse of public trust that has brought us everything from the indigestible "Affordable Care Act" to the Benghazi "video" narrative, to the Iran deal.
As the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo reports, leading members of Congress are calling on President Obama to fire Rhodes "over accusations the White House intentionally misled lawmakers and the American public about the contents of last summer's comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran."
...Why would Obama fire Rhodes?
If nothing else comes clear from this saga, it is that Rhodes has served for years as one of the chief ideological bag men of Obama's presidency.
If, under their ministrations the possibilities of free and open discourse are vanishing in Washington, replaced by bully pulpit narratives bouncing around the echo chamber, wasn't that the reason Obama gave Rhodes all that power in the first place?

Cash and Kerry: secretary of state acts as treasurer for Iranians

Cash and Kerry: secretary of state acts as treasurer for Iranians - NY Daily News:
"...Obama’s pact delayed Iran’s march toward the capacity to quickly assemble and — just as important — deliver by missile atomic weaponry. In return for Iran’s slowdown, the world lifted economic sanctions that had crippled the country’s economy.
Iran seems to have expected hand-over-fist commerce.
Instead, more than a few banks and businesses see too many downsides to opening up shop in Tehran. You don’t say.

• First, what self-respecting U.S. corporation would want to sully its good name by trading with a country that persists in calling for destruction of Israel and views the U.S. as the Great Satan?
• Second, the U.S. maintains sanctions on Iran for continued ballistic missile testing that shows increased capability to strike Israel with serious weaponry.
• Third, the Financial Action Task Force, the world body that sets standards for fighting money-laundering and terrorist financing, continues to, in effect, give Iran pariah status.
• In February, the task force declared: “The FATF remains particularly and exceptionally concerned about Iran’s failure to address the risk of terrorist financing and the serious threat this poses to the integrity of the international financial system.”

Rationally, banks that have been hit with large fines in the past for conducting business with Iran, as well as banks that stood warned by the fines, are wary of getting ensnared in prosecutions.
Some in Iran have suggested that the mullahs could pull out of the nuke deal unless the U.S. somehow convinces financial institutions to start dealing.
So, Kerry has become a pitchman who looks both absurd and desperate."

What The CIA 'Mistakenly' Deleted Makes You Wonder What The Obama Admin Is Doing Here

What The CIA 'Mistakenly' Deleted Makes You Wonder What The Obama Admin Is Doing Here:

"It looks like Hillary Clinton’s “home-brew” email server isn’t the only thing that calls into question the Obama administration’s handling of highly sensitive, classified information. What was just revealed about Barack Obama’s CIA is another head-scratcher, if not a heart-stopper."

Why Doctors Are Still Faxing after $30 Billion in Subsidies for Digital Records

Why Doctors Are Still Faxing after $30 Billion in Subsidies for Digital Records | Foundation for Economic Education:
An exposé in Mother Jones provides a fascinating look at how President Obama's "common sense" plan to digitalize medical records turned into an expensive fiasco.

After nearly $30 billion in stimulus money to subsidize electronic health records (EHR), many doctors think using computer software is more hassle than it's worth, and most are still faxing and mailing physical paper records. 

Something is deeply wrong here.

It turns out that having digital copies of records is only useful if they can be sent to other machines and read by them. 

And that is precisely what the stimulus failed to accomplish.

Instead, it spawned a mess of incompatible systems throughout the medical industry that couldn't easily communicate with each other. 

The government's digital health records plan created an electronic Tower of Babel in healthcare. 

Mother Jones singles out health software contractor Epic as a particular roadblock to progress, with crony connections to Obama administration that made it uniquely situated to scoop up the subsidies, but not necessarily to serve clients and patients. 

Epic was shovel ready for this stimulus windfall. 

Faulkner's company was one of the few software vendors back then offering an all-in-one package covering a hospital's record keeping needs. 

...Meanwhile, Faulkner — Epic's CEO and a major Democratic donor — landed a spot in 2009 on the Obama administration's Health IT Policy Committee, which helped shape the regulations guiding health care software and pushed to rapidly implement EHR in hospitals without first figuring out how to trade records between different systems.

...Fax, by contrast, is still free. 

And that is what hospitals and doctors are using.

...Eventually, kicking and screaming, the healthcare records industry will be dragged into the 21st century, but the government's crony regulations and subsidies haven't helped. 

And worse still, doctors' biggest paperwork burdens no longer come from patient records but from Obamacare — in some cases doubling doctors' administrative workloads..."

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History for May 19

History for May 19 - On-This-Day.com:
Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, mosted noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist


Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, Pete Townshend 1945 - Musician (The Who), David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist


1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.


1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.


1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.






1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.


1943 - Winston Churchill told the U.S. Congress that his country was pledging their full support in the war against Japan.


1958 - Canada and the U.S. formally established the North American Air Defense Command.


1974 - Erno Rubik invented the puzzle what would later become known as the Rubik's Cube.


1992 - In Massapequa, NY, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by Amy Fisher. Fisher was her husband Joey's teen-age lover.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-18-2016-toilet-gate-by-tammy.html

Toilet Gate

By Tammy Derouin

We have created a dictatorial king.  I’m not sure which title the executive prefers, dictator or king, but either way, he wears his usurped title proudly and unapologetically. We have allowed an individual and his agenda to fundamentally transform our country.  The United States of America is no longer a pillar of strength or a haven of freedom. 

We, the people, witnessed the transformation from freedom to enslavement, which was promised.  No, he didn’t promote enslavement as he campaigned.  Who would vote for someone who promised to take away all of their freedom?  Instead, he played up the perceived benefits of enslavement; the upside of living in prison, while carefully omitting the pain and suffering.

The current executive and his regime have done everything in their power to destroy our country.  They have embraced every opportunity to weaken our defenses, strengthen our enemies, target the citizens and undermine or simply disregard the U.S. Constitution.  They are destroying the balance of power which was put into place to prevent the rise of tyranny in the United States. 

The scandalous behavior of this administration continues.  The quest to create unrest is endless.  If an opportunity doesn’t present itself, one must be created.  The latest attempt is Toilet Gate....

They gave 'em $80 million by MISTAKE?!-----Auto insurers could lose tax break after Michigan revenue estimates drop

Auto insurers could lose tax break after Michigan revenue estimates drop | MLive.com:
LANSING, MI -- Declining revenue estimates could prompt lawmakers to eliminate an $80 million tax credit they accidentally awarded to auto insurers.
...With the state looking at a slightly smaller pot as lawmakers from the FY 2017 budget, House Appropriations Chairman Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, said one thing to do is cut the unintentional tax break.
"I think this creates a real incentive for folks to understand we just can't have a corporate $80 million handout giveaway.
And that needs to get fixed.
So I think it puts a little more urgency to that," Pscholka said.
A tax break the legislature inadvertently gave to auto insurance companies in 2012 is on the chopping block this budget cycle, something auto insurers claim will cause prices to customers to spike by $40 per car..."

Good golly, this is just a simple lawn service company and look at all the rules!-----Lawn, plow service to pay $38K back wages, damages for overtime violations

Lawn, plow service to pay $38K back wages, damages for overtime violations | MLive.com
"...Under a court-supervised consent judgment, H & H Lawn Service and Snowplowing and its owner, Darrell Hinken, must pay 11 employees $38,000 in back wages and damages, according to a news release from the Department of Labor.

"...H&H understands its legal obligations under the FLSA and only reached an agreement with the DOL after being charged excessive legal fees by another law firm...he disputed the government's complaint and fought it as long as he could afford to. "I spent $160,000 fighting this, then ran out of money," Hinken said.

"I work hard for my employees," he said.

An investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division found Hinken and his company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and recordkeeping provisions in these way, according to the government:

• Misclassified some employees as independent contractors, then failed to pay them overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a week.
• Paid some employees a flat salary without regard to how many hours they worked. This led to overtime violations when they worked more than 40 hours per week.
• Banked overtime hours for some employees to be paid out in future work weeks at straight time, rather than paying overtime in the pay period during which the hours were worked.
• Failed to keep required payroll records.

...The company has agreed to abide by the Fair Labor Standards Act in the future and specificially to:

• Notify employees in writing if they are claiming an overtime exemption for them, and why.
• Provide Wage and Hour Division fact sheets to all employees,  describing the definition of an employee as opposed to an independent contractor, among other topics.
• Retain a certified public accounting firm to do an annual payroll audit to  determine compliance with the law..."

Dr. Keith Ablow: Transgender Extremism Is the Biggest Issue in America | TheBlaze.com

Dr. Keith Ablow: Transgender Extremism Is the Biggest Issue in America | TheBlaze.com:

"Why is this happening? It is happening because many Americans are now seeing clearly for the first time that the assertions of a tiny percentage of the population that they are locked in the wrong bodies could end up dictating that all female Americans must accept using bathrooms alongside people with male anatomy (and vice-versa). This includes our children.

The assertions of transgender Americans that they are locked in the wrong bodies is in no way, in my opinion, proven scientifically. No researcher has ever demonstrated convincingly—not one time—that a single transgender individual shows any irrefutable physiological evidence, whatsoever, of being the gender opposite to their DNA and anatomy."

Don Surber: The Electoral College likely won't matter

Don Surber: The Electoral College likely won't matter:
"...The points made by Harry Enten:

1. The chance of an Electoral College and popular vote split is small.

2. Without looking at all the states, we don’t know how to interpret state polls.

3. We don’t have a lot of state polls.

His bottom line?

You’re going to hear a lot about the Electoral College this cycle. At various points, one state or another will be declared pivotal. But stay calm, especially with so long to go until Election Day. It’s too early to take any poll too seriously. We’ll have plenty of time to get into the weeds of different Electoral College scenarios in the months to come. For now, if you’re interested in whether Trump or Clinton is likely to be our next president, I’d pay attention to the average of national polls...

With this information, what should a candidate do?
First throw away the old playbook of campaigning only in the purple states. 
That playbook was based on a false assumption, which Harry Enten skewered.
Which means you now campaign in all 50 states. 
Sure? 
Why not?.."

Inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day

Inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day | Daily Mail Online:
No electricity, no antibiotics, no beds, no soap: 

A devastating look inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day, bleeding patients lie strewn on the floor, and doctors try to operate without tools

• President Nicolas Maduro claims Venezuela has the best healthcare in the world after Cuba 
• But death rates are soaring and hospitals are filthy as supplies run low and electricity is shut off 
• The nation is in economic crisis after price of oil - their main monetary reserve - plummeted 
• Images taken by the New York Times show patients lying on the floor covered in blood and babies dying

Lunch video-----The Blue Angels-F4 Phantom

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Little Sisters Win: Supreme Court Tells Lower Courts to Protect Them From HHS Mandate | LifeNews.com

Little Sisters Win: Supreme Court Tells Lower Courts to Protect Them From HHS Mandate | LifeNews.com:

"The Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion today in the case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor, which have been fighting to not be forced to pay for abortion-causing drugs for their employees."

Millennials Embrace Socialism, But Do They Know What It Is?

Millennials Embrace Socialism, But Do They Know What It Is? - Jonah Goldberg:
"Socialism is having a moment.
...Various polls show that millennials have a more favorable view of socialism than of capitalism.
And millennials generally are the only age group that views socialism more favorably than unfavorably.
Some conservatives aren't surprised.
Schools have been force-feeding left-wing propaganda to kids like it was feed for geese at a foie gras factory.
...Writing in The Federalist, Emily Ekins and Joy Pullmann note that many of these young people think socialism is federally mandated niceness.
A 2014 Reason-Rupe survey asked millennials to define socialism.
They had in mind a more generous safety net, more kindness and, as one put it, more "being together."
...Given a choice between a government-managed economy and a free-market economy, millennials overwhelmingly chose the latter.
It seems young people realize that putting bureaucrats in charge of Uber wouldn't work too well.
Still, it boggles the mind that anyone can see the folly of having the government take over Amazon or Facebook but be blind to the problems of having the government run health care..."

Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test

Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test - Slashdot
HughPickens.com writes:
Jackie Calmes writes in the NYT that all over the country, employers say they see a disturbing downside of tighter labor markets as they try to rebuild from the worst recession since the Depression: the struggle to find workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test. 

The hurdle partly stems from the growing ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggests employers' difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana -- employers' main gripe -- and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news. Data on the scope of the problem is sketchy because figures on job applicants who test positive for drugs miss the many people who simply skip tests they cannot pass. But Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented a 10% increase in one year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs -- up to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013..."

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’ | EAGnews.org: "MADISON, Wis. – While families across Wisconsin work and struggle to fund their children’s college education, one professor at the University of Wisconsin says tuition far is too low.
UW-Madison English Professor Caroline Levine made $121,563 in 2014-15, and presumably takes in even more now.
And she’s clearly not happy with that salary.
She announced in an op-ed recently published in the Madison Capital Times that she will be leaving the university for a job at another school, where she will be making 50 percent more.
Levine objects to Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze, which has prohibited UW leaders from passing on the exorbitant cost of administrative and faculty compensation to struggling students and their families.
“Businesses charge market rates for their products and services,” Levine wrote, according to RightWisconsin.com.
 “Top-tier private colleges and universities right now are charging $44,000 or more in tuition each year, more than three times the rate of in-state tuition for an education at the UW-Madison, ranked in the top 50 universities around the world.
“Why are prices so low? 
Because politicians have put a cap on tuition.”
How interesting to hear a UW professor suggest that the university system should operate like a business. 
Not long ago UW faculty members screamed just the opposite when the Board of Regents made changes to job-protecting tenure rights, giving chancellors more power to move tenured professors out the door if the subjects they teach are no long part of the curriculum..."
Read on!

‘Who Does President Barack Obama Think He Is?’: Evangelist Franklin Graham Issues Blistering Reaction to Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com

‘Who Does President Barack Obama Think He Is?’: Evangelist Franklin Graham Issues Blistering Reaction to Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com:

"Evangelist Franklin Graham issued a strong rebuke of the Obama administration’s recent decision to direct public schools to permit transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds their gender identity, asking whether Obama believes he’s “the sultan of Washington.”

“Who does President Barack Obama think he is? The sultan of Washington?” Graham wrote on his Facebook page. “Does he think he can just make a ‘decree’ and we will bow down and simply obey?”

Gender pronoun insanity: New York City promises to FINE people for not using 'ze' or 'hir'

Gender pronoun insanity: New York City promises to FINE people for not using 'ze' or 'hir' - The College Fix:
"...a brazen and flagrantly unconstitutional attack on free speech by New York City’s social engineers.
Almost certainly unbeknownst to the average New Yorker – a demographic not known for overweening politeness (I know, I married one) – the New York City Commission on Human Rights is demanding that employers, landlords, professionals and “all businesses” (in Volokh’s reading) ask people their preferred gender pronoun from their first interaction..."

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