Tuesday, July 03, 2018
The Toxic Race-Mongering of the Left | Klavan On The Culture
The Toxic Race-Mongering of the Left | Klavan On The Culture
"Imagine a world in which leftists, by some magic, were unable to accuse their political opponents of racism.
Racism, sexism, all of the various make-believe phobias — these charges were suddenly somehow off-limits during political discussion.
Instead, at all the leftist venues — The New York Times, the TV network news departments, CNN and the rest — the commentators had to accept that their political opponents were people of good will with the best interests of the country at heart.
They had to ask themselves — and even possibly ask actual conservatives — what it was about border security that seemed important to them, why social spending might be destructive, why Islam might be incompatible with western thought, why teachers' unions were impeding the rise of the poor and so on.
If that magical moment ever occurred, we might start to have an intelligent political debate in this country.
But don't hold your breath..."
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"Imagine a world in which leftists, by some magic, were unable to accuse their political opponents of racism.
Instead, at all the leftist venues — The New York Times, the TV network news departments, CNN and the rest — the commentators had to accept that their political opponents were people of good will with the best interests of the country at heart.
They had to ask themselves — and even possibly ask actual conservatives — what it was about border security that seemed important to them, why social spending might be destructive, why Islam might be incompatible with western thought, why teachers' unions were impeding the rise of the poor and so on.
If that magical moment ever occurred, we might start to have an intelligent political debate in this country.
But don't hold your breath..."
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Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' | TheHill
Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' | TheHill:
"From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message.
She’s just not always the best messenger.
The Los Angeles lawmaker’s early calls for President Trump’s impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party’s young, liberal base.
And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House Democrats, who admire how Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions.
"She is up-to-date, she is smart, she is authentic and she is not scared to express herself,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) told The Hill, adding that her constituents in Milwaukee often ask her if she knows Waters.
"She is transformative in terms of appealing to different generations of people.”
...Waters is aware that she sometimes pushes the envelope, according to a former aide who said the congresswoman thinks Democrats as a whole have engaged in "nice guy politics" for too long..."
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"From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message.
She’s just not always the best messenger.
The Los Angeles lawmaker’s early calls for President Trump’s impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party’s young, liberal base. And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House Democrats, who admire how Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions.
"She is up-to-date, she is smart, she is authentic and she is not scared to express herself,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) told The Hill, adding that her constituents in Milwaukee often ask her if she knows Waters.
"She is transformative in terms of appealing to different generations of people.”
...Waters is aware that she sometimes pushes the envelope, according to a former aide who said the congresswoman thinks Democrats as a whole have engaged in "nice guy politics" for too long..."
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Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret Service, FBI Conservative News Today
Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret Service, FBI Conservative News Today:
Stunning revelations from the IG report of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz (an Obama appointee) suggests that the 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton was coordinated — contradicting their claims that the meeting was accidental and coincidental.
Stunning revelations from the IG report of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz (an Obama appointee) suggests that the 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton was coordinated — contradicting their claims that the meeting was accidental and coincidental.
Fact Check: Did Obama Detain 90,000 Children At The Border?
Fact Check: Did Obama Detain 90,000 Children At The Border?
"This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge
"This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge
President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale recently tweeted that “Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared.”
What followed was a barrage of angry tweets and an attempt by AP prove the claim false by conflating two narratives; the first being that Trump is putting separated migrant children in prison-like conditions – which the left quickly abandoned after it was revealed that viral photographs depicting the caged migrant children actually happened under Obama.
Caged Migrant Children Photo Goes Viral As Left Rages At Trump...Except It Happened Under Obama zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-2…
...The “Fact Check”
Two days after Parscale’s tweet, AP published the article “NOT REAL NEWS: Obama didn’t separate 90,000 migrant families,” conflating the “separated families” narrative with the “children in cages” narrative – while pointing to a “conservative website” (which they don’t link to) as the source of the claim.
“The claim, published on a conservative website, was repeated on social media throughout the week as President Donald Trump faced criticism over his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy” –AP
What website? Who said that? Parscale said detained, not separated.
The false claim appears to stem from a January 2016 Senate subcommittee report that investigated how the Department of Health and Human Services, under the Obama administration, placed thousands of unaccompanied children illegally entering the country.
The subcommittee report found that from October 2013 through 2015 the federal agency placed nearly 90,000 children with a sponsor, after they were detained at the border without a legal guardian. The majority of those sponsors, the report found, were a parent or legal guardian living in the country. –AP
Note how AP simply says that the 90,000 children were placed with a sponsor… Unfortunately, they’re missing a giant link in the chain; the detention centers the kids are placed in first.
Taking a look at the Senate subcommittee report AP references (page 8), since the thrust of the left’s outrage over Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy was originally poor migrant children being forced into cages…
First, we have the 90,000 under Obama figure – but there’s a footnote. Then the report notes that the majority of unaccompanied children over that two-year period were placed with a parent or a legal guardian.
Since the beginning of FY2014, HHS has placed almost 90,000 UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child] with sponsors in the United States.(31) According to HHS, it places the majority of those UACs with the child’s parent or legal guardian.(32)
Now let’s look at that footnote (31) attached to the 90,000 figure – which directs us to an Office of Refugee Resettlement publication entitled: Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsors by State..."
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ICE Director Tells Protesting Democrats to 'Get Their Facts Straight and Inform Themselves'
ICE Director Tells Protesting Democrats to 'Get Their Facts Straight and Inform Themselves':Though he said critics of ICE “need to get their facts straight” about the two federal agencies, he noted that the U.S. Border Patrol is not to blame for the controversial practice either.
“If the American public wants to know who to blame for family separations, the first people they need to blame is Congress,” Homan said. “We went up the Hill several months ago and told them what the loopholes were.”
They've known for years!-----Maybe It's Not Global Warming: Volcanic Heat Found Under Antarctica's Fastest Melting Glacier | The Daily Sheeple
Maybe It's Not Global Warming: Volcanic Heat Found Under Antarctica's Fastest Melting Glacier | The Daily Sheeple:"A group of scientists at the University of Rhode Island stumbled on something unexpected when analyzing data brought back from a 2014 expedition to western Antarctica.
Scientists found an abundance of the noble gas Helium-3, indicating there is a volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island glacier — the fastest-melting glacier in the South Pole.
The findings were published in a study in the journal Nature Communications.
...“When you find helium-3, it’s like a fingerprint for volcanism.
“The volcan
ic heat sources were found beneath the fastest moving and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, the Pine Island Glacier,” Loose said.
“It is losing mass the fastest.”
Previous research has identified a network of volcanic rifts beneath Western Antarctica that could be contributing to the ice sheet’s instability.
A 2014 University of Texas study concluded that “large areas at the base of Thwaites Glacier are actively melting in response to geothermal flux consistent with rift-associated magma migration and volcanism.”...
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