Thursday, August 09, 2018
Twitter Suspends Candace Owens' Account for Mimicking Sarah Jeong's Racism | Breitbart
Twitter Suspends Candace Owens' Account for Mimicking Sarah Jeong's Racism | Breitbart:
Twitter slapped Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens with a temporary suspension after she highlighted racist posts made by Sarah Jeong, the recent New York Times hire whose long history of bigoted tweets about white people has placed the newspaper at the center of a public outcry. The beleaguered platform then reversed the ban, calling it an “error” in an email to Owens.
Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"Progress is being made, but another $7.5 billion is still needed.
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"Progress is being made, but another $7.5 billion is still needed.
...Unfortunately, the state went from having saved enough money to pay all promised benefits to a $6 billion underfunding gap.
New data from the state shows that it is finally starting to catch up.
From 1997 to 2002, lawmakers had enough money saved to pay for the pension benefits promised to state employees.
From 1997 to 2002, lawmakers had enough money saved to pay for the pension benefits promised to state employees.
But between 2002 and 2012 the state failed to keep up with the growing costs of those benefits and it generated $6.2 billion in debt to the people in the retirement system.
...According to the latest assessment, unfunded liabilities fell by $100 million in 2017...
New research on persistent poverty and joblessness in America - AEI
New research on persistent poverty and joblessness in America - AEI
"Many people in America think poverty is a constant state for those who experience it.
Many also think most poor people hold steady jobs.
...But the study revealed a strong connection between joblessness and long-term poverty.
Among those households that were persistently poor, 72.1 percent spent some time jobless and almost 40 percent spent at least three-quarters of the months without a job.
This directly contradicts any belief that most poor households work consistently.
According to the paper:
The idea that consistently working people (that is, the “working poor”) make up a large share of those in persistent poverty was not borne out in the data.
...This suggests that policies that increase labor force attachment would have a larger effect on reducing persistent poverty than policies to increase wages, unless they also increase steady employment.
Better identifying why adults in persistently poor households experience joblessness and what policies can help them avoid joblessness more consistently should be the next step in reducing the persistence of poverty."
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"Many people in America think poverty is a constant state for those who experience it.
Many also think most poor people hold steady jobs.
...But the study revealed a strong connection between joblessness and long-term poverty.
Among those households that were persistently poor, 72.1 percent spent some time jobless and almost 40 percent spent at least three-quarters of the months without a job. This directly contradicts any belief that most poor households work consistently.
According to the paper:
The idea that consistently working people (that is, the “working poor”) make up a large share of those in persistent poverty was not borne out in the data.
...This suggests that policies that increase labor force attachment would have a larger effect on reducing persistent poverty than policies to increase wages, unless they also increase steady employment.
Better identifying why adults in persistently poor households experience joblessness and what policies can help them avoid joblessness more consistently should be the next step in reducing the persistence of poverty."
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Homicides: Why Chicago residents don't help police solve shootings
Homicides: Why Chicago residents don't help police solve shootings
"CHICAGO – Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city’s West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can’t even remember.
Young does, however, have a huge scar to remind him what happened after he gave his rival a whupping: The man returned with a gun and shot him in the leg.
At the hospital, police asked Young, 23, to tell them who shot him, but he said he declined to name the assailant.
Weeks after the April incident, Young — who has a long arrest record and a felony conviction for drug possession — was charged for illegal possession of a firearm, when police said they caught him on the street with a weapon.
“I believe karma is (vengeful), you feel me?” said Young, explaining to USA TODAY in a July jailhouse interview why he didn’t name the man who shot him.
“One day you’re going to reap what you sow.”
Young’s no-snitching outlook sheds light on the complicated dynamic in Chicago’s neighborhoods plagued by persistent gun violence, one in which few residents are willing to assist police and even fewer perpetrators are held accountable.
Over the weekend, at least 72 people were shot in the city, including 12 fatally, but police did not record a single arrest in any of the incidents..."
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"CHICAGO – Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city’s West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can’t even remember.
Young does, however, have a huge scar to remind him what happened after he gave his rival a whupping: The man returned with a gun and shot him in the leg.At the hospital, police asked Young, 23, to tell them who shot him, but he said he declined to name the assailant.
Weeks after the April incident, Young — who has a long arrest record and a felony conviction for drug possession — was charged for illegal possession of a firearm, when police said they caught him on the street with a weapon.
“I believe karma is (vengeful), you feel me?” said Young, explaining to USA TODAY in a July jailhouse interview why he didn’t name the man who shot him.
“One day you’re going to reap what you sow.”
Young’s no-snitching outlook sheds light on the complicated dynamic in Chicago’s neighborhoods plagued by persistent gun violence, one in which few residents are willing to assist police and even fewer perpetrators are held accountable.
Over the weekend, at least 72 people were shot in the city, including 12 fatally, but police did not record a single arrest in any of the incidents..."
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'We Have to Regulate Every Aspect of People's Lives'
'We Have to Regulate Every Aspect of People's Lives':
A Santa Barbara city councilman inadvertently let slip the primary purpose of progressivism in 21st century America.
The city recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. Speaking to that issue, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Got that? "We" are smarter than you and know what's best for you better than you do.
A Santa Barbara city councilman inadvertently let slip the primary purpose of progressivism in 21st century America.
The city recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. Speaking to that issue, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Got that? "We" are smarter than you and know what's best for you better than you do.
How We Got HereThe American Spectator
How We Got HereThe American Spectator:
"Hillary was not about to go down gracefully.
Did you see this Wall Street Journal front-page headline on Monday?
It read, “Profits Soar as Economy Advances.”
That headline will probably be the most important headline of the week.
It certainly is of colossal importance.
Our economy is robust.
The rest of the world is not doing so well, for instance, China.
Yet our economy is unusually healthy.
...You, however, were probably distracted by such headlines as this: from the Washington Post’s front page, “Trump Defends Son’s ’16 Meeting” or this from the New York Times’ front page, “Trump Admits Meeting’s Aim: Tarnish Clinton.”
Then there were stories about the shopping mania of Paul Manafort, about his sidekick who is a sidekick no more, and, throughout the newspapers, stories about Donald and his family, none of them favorable but none of them as damning as the newspapers’ editors would have you think.
...How did we arrive at this chaotic place?
I thought the source of criminality was Hillary and her server, not Donald and his son.
Well, if you would like to know how we got here, lay your hands on Shattered: Inside Hillary’s Doomed Campaign.
There on page 395 you will find a hung-over Hillary angry as hell the morning after her unexpected defeat.
She directed her aides Robby Mook and John Podesta to assemble “her communications team… to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up and up…. Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
This has been the Clintons’ successful game plan ever since, though some of us have blown the whistle on it.
The origin of our present Constitutional crisis is a bit more complicated than this passage from Shattered makes out, but here is a good starting point to discover how the mob, the prosecutors, the media, and the Democratic Party are intent on stealing the last election and saving the Clintons’ hides."
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"Hillary was not about to go down gracefully.
Did you see this Wall Street Journal front-page headline on Monday?
It read, “Profits Soar as Economy Advances.”
That headline will probably be the most important headline of the week.
It certainly is of colossal importance.
Our economy is robust.
The rest of the world is not doing so well, for instance, China.
Yet our economy is unusually healthy.
...You, however, were probably distracted by such headlines as this: from the Washington Post’s front page, “Trump Defends Son’s ’16 Meeting” or this from the New York Times’ front page, “Trump Admits Meeting’s Aim: Tarnish Clinton.”
Then there were stories about the shopping mania of Paul Manafort, about his sidekick who is a sidekick no more, and, throughout the newspapers, stories about Donald and his family, none of them favorable but none of them as damning as the newspapers’ editors would have you think....How did we arrive at this chaotic place?
I thought the source of criminality was Hillary and her server, not Donald and his son.
Well, if you would like to know how we got here, lay your hands on Shattered: Inside Hillary’s Doomed Campaign.
There on page 395 you will find a hung-over Hillary angry as hell the morning after her unexpected defeat.
She directed her aides Robby Mook and John Podesta to assemble “her communications team… to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up and up…. Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
This has been the Clintons’ successful game plan ever since, though some of us have blown the whistle on it.
The origin of our present Constitutional crisis is a bit more complicated than this passage from Shattered makes out, but here is a good starting point to discover how the mob, the prosecutors, the media, and the Democratic Party are intent on stealing the last election and saving the Clintons’ hides."
Read all.
History for August 9
History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Jean Piaget 1896, Rod Laver 1938, Sam Elliott 1944
Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968
1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau.
1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
1942 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested Britain. He was not released until 1944.
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
BARTH & GRIMES: California Burns: The 'New Normal' Thanks To Obama-Era Environmental Regulations | Daily Wire
BARTH & GRIMES: California Burns: The 'New Normal' Thanks To Obama-Era Environmental Regulations | Daily Wire:
These Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs — a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.
These Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs — a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.
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