Yes, it's "The B"... but could easily be the NYT-----Tim Tebow Suspended For Using Performance-Enhancing Bible Verses

Tim Tebow Suspended For Using Performance-Enhancing Bible Verses:
"BINGHAMTON, NY—League officials confirmed Thursday that Double-A baseball player and devout Christian Tim Tebow has been suspended for using performance-enhancing Bible verses both on and off the field.
Tebow was spotted injecting the encouraging Bible passages into his morning devotional in the team’s locker room and was reported to appropriate authorities.
He is barred from playing in the league until a full investigation of his Bible-reading activities can be conducted.
“The league has a zero-tolerance policy on Bible verses that inspire and encourage a player to do his best and play for the glory of God, and thus bestow an unfair advantage,” league investigator Mack Columbeau said in a press conference.
“We will be looking into this matter objectively and completely before rendering a final judgment on Mr. Tebow.
If he has violated league policy, he’ll be punished appropriately.”
According to sources close to the matter, Tebow had looked around to make sure no one was in the locker room, but had forgotten the closed circuit cameras. 
He then flipped to the “highly illegal” PEVs Philippians 4:13 and Joshua 1:9 and slowly read through them and their appropriate contexts, before hiding his Bible contraband back in his baseball bag and trotting out to the field for practice.
“The evidence is pretty convincing—this doesn’t look good for Tebow’s career,” Columbeau added."

Mike Rowe Hits Hard for Fatherhood | Intellectual Takeout

Mike Rowe Hits Hard for Fatherhood | Intellectual Takeout
"Parents "have put their own happiness above the best interests of their kids."   
"If you’ve followed Intellectual Takeout for any length of time, you’ll know that Fatherhood is a regular topic. 
You’ll also probably recognize that it’s not a popular topic in the culture. 
The Ivory Tower declares patriarchy as one of the great sins of the West. 
Hollywood and Madison Ave. do their parts to mock and belittle fatherhood, often portraying fathers as buffoons and fools. 
And government, many would argue, has created systemic forms of oppression that work against fathers.
Yet, in the face of it all, more and more people are beginning to question the narrative. 
Here’s Mike Rowe’s recent take on the issue: 

A couple years ago, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were getting divorced, Jolie was quoted as saying, ‘It never even crossed my mind that my son would need a father.’

I was struck by her comment, and I remember wondering how many other Americans might share her view. At the time, I didn’t think many. But today, I’m convinced the number is significant. I'm also amazed at how quickly fatherhood has fallen out of favor. Can you imagine a celebrity - or anyone for that matter - saying such a thing just twenty years ago?

This week’s episode of RTF [Returning the Favor] is about a guy named Carlos who found an effective way to deprogram bullies. Please watch it. It's a great story about a great guy making a real difference around a serious issue. It occurred to me though, half way through filming, that bullying – like so many other social ills in today’s headlines – isn’t really a problem at all; it’s a symptom. In my view, a symptom of a society that seems to value fatherhood less and less.

The facts seem pretty clear.

• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes – 5 times the average. (US Dept. Of Health/Census)
   
• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes – 32 times the average.
   
• 85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes – 20 times the average. (Center for Disease Control)
   
• 80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes – 14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)
   
• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes – 9 times the average. (National Principals Association Report)
   
• 43% of US children live without their father [US Department of Census]

Is it really so surprising to learn that a majority of bullies also come from fatherless homes? As do a majority of school shooters? As do a majority of older male shooters?..."

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Senator Collins and the Imaginary Roe Decision – Da Tech Guy Blog

Senator Collins and the Imaginary Roe Decision – Da Tech Guy Blog:

Senator Collins and the Imaginary Roe DecisionJuly 6, 2018 Ellen Kolb

“I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law….Roe v. Wade is a constitutional right that is well established.”

Thus spake Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), according to a CNN report.

But which Roe v. Wade decision does Sen. Collins stand by? 

• There’s the imaginary Roe, which dictates that unregulated abortion be available throughout pregnancy. 
• Then there’s the actual Roe, which permits states to leave abortion unregulated but also permits many laws protecting the lives and safety of mother and preborn child.

Where does Sen. Collins stand on First Amendment protections for peaceful pro-life witnesses outside abortion facilities? 

After all, McCullen v. Coakley is “established decision, established law.” 

Or does she consider peaceful pro-life witness to be an attack on abortion rights?

How about restrictions on public funding of abortion and abortion counseling? 

The Supreme Court OK’d such restrictions decades ago. 

Abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project use terms like “gag rule” to describe efforts to keep abortion providers out of taxpayers’ wallets. 

In the Senator’s view, do restrictions on public funding amount to “hostility” to Roe v. Wade?...

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Instances of Voter Fraud Continue to Mount, Further Compromising Our Elections | The Heritage Foundation

Instances of Voter Fraud Continue to Mount, Further Compromising Our Elections | The Heritage Foundation:

Clearly, as the 5th Circuit and the Supreme Court have demonstrated, the left’s argument that election integrity is a smoke screen for discrimination is fallacious. And as the Heritage database—and the Ritter and Mason cases—prove, election fraud is a real issue meriting a serious policy response.
Elections are the pathway to political power in America. So long as that is true, there will be a powerful incentive to rig results to guarantee victories. The failure of states to adopt and vigorously enforce election integrity measures only encourages voter fraud, ultimately blemishing the entire electoral system and harming the credibility of its results. This does a disservice to the American people.
One of the greatest gifts of American citizenship is political participation—and that gift is short-circuited by the left’s belittling of the importance of election integrity.

ABC Admits Media Peddled ‘Fake News’ On Immigration, But Suggests It Was Worth It | MRCTV

ABC Admits Media Peddled ‘Fake News’ On Immigration, But Suggests It Was Worth It | MRCTV
"ABC openly admitted Sunday to having published “fake news” – their words, not mine – about the Trump administration “losing” 1,500 migrant children, a debunked story that quickly caught fire and spawned countless hashtag campaigns and anti-ICE protests across the country.  
(Here's MSNBC's Chris Hayes boo-hooing over the whole nonsensical thing about a month ago.)
Now, well after the myth has been permanently ensconced as fact in the brains of millions of rapid anti-Trumpers nationwide, ABC's admitting the entire thing was false – but, in a stunning feat of mental gymnastics, they claim the bogus story ended up being a good thing.
In an article actually entitled, “A fake news story helps expose a real crisis,” author Lauren Pearle admits the Trump administration was unfairly accused of having “lost” 1,500 kids who’d crossed the southwest U.S. border illegally – a claim I’d disputed in a video roughly four weeks ago, only to be accused of Nazism by radical progressives.
But by ABC’s own admission (and as I'd pointed out), the administration didn’t “lose” anyone; they’d simply placed these kids with sponsors, usually a family member, who didn’t respond when the government tried to check up on the child..."
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History for July 7

History for July 6 - On-This-Day.com
Marc Chagall 1887, Satchel Paige 1906, Pierre Cardin 1922


David McCullough 1933 - Author, Ringo Starr 1940 - Musician (Beatles), Shelley Duvall 1949 - Actress ("The Shining")


1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.


1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.


1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.


1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.


1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.


1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.


1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.


1994 - Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name "Cadabra."

Feds Not Done with Zuckerberg, Expands Data Misuse Investigation

Feds Not Done with Zuckerberg, Expands Data Misuse Investigation:

The federal investigation into Facebook’s data sharing with Cambridge Analytica has been expanded to look into the tech giant’s actions and statements as well as added three other agencies into the discussion.
People familiar with the official inquiries told the Chicago Tribune that the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have been included in the Justice Department’s questioning of the personal data of 71 million Americans shared between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. The five people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The way we were-----Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight