EPA Says It Won't Pay Up On Gold King Mine Spill | The Daily Caller

EPA Says It Won't Pay Up On Gold King Mine Spill | The Daily Caller:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday that federal law does not require the agency to pay more damages incurred after a massive toxic water spill in Colorado caused by an agency employee.

EPA is not mandated under federal law to repay $1.2 billion to the states affected by the Gold King Mine spill, the Department of Justice (DOJ) supposedly told the agency. The spill caused 3 million gallons of dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and arsenic into the Animas River...

It’s move to invoke the age-old immunity measure for protection comes on the heels of the DOJ’s October decision not to charge the EPA employee involved in causing the spill..."

Worst. President. Ever: Obama's Failed Stimulus

Worst. President. Ever: Obama's Failed Stimulus:
"When running for the office of the Presidency, Barack Obama pledged to be transparent and provide all Americans the opportunity to read all government bills before being signed.

This promise ended a few weeks after his inauguration.  

The ‘Stimulus’ bill was prepared behind closed doors by Democrats only.  It was passed in the House and Senate by Democrats with no Republican input.  

Once instituted it was a US financial nightmare and another trillion dollar debt laid on American taxpayers’ backs.

...The Stimulus was horrible and ultimately turned out to be a Democrat scam to hand out billions to fellow Democrats..."

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Lunch video-----Former Black Panther DESTROYS John Lewis on Tucker Carlson Tonight

Congress revives 140-year-old rule that has federal workers in fear - good!

Congress revives 140-year-old rule that has federal workers in fear - good!:

"Over two million people are employed by the federal government, and too many of them have enjoyed unprecedented levels of job security even when they’ve failed at their duties. This undue protection has bloated the federal budget, and the new Congress aims to trim the fat by revising a rule started a decade after the Civil War.
The Holman Rule, adopted in 1876 as a means to control the booming national debt post-war, gives lawmakers the power to target wasteful programs, spending, and has also been used to eliminate individual federal employees or groups of employees."

The Disgusting Evolution Of Obama From 2008 To Today

The Disgusting Evolution Of Obama From 2008 To Today | The Federalist Papers

Robert Gehl asks, so just how political was Barack Obama’s response to Russia’s attempt to mess with the November election? 

One has to compare the reaction to the event to a similar “cyber-event” to gauge whether or not the White House’s response was partisan. 
After it was concluded that Russia attempted to interfere in the United States election, spreading “fake news” about Hillary Clinton, leaking scandalous emails and allegations about the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama’s response was to increase sanctions and toss 35 Russian diplomats from the country. 
Remember: Russia didn’t “hack” the election, as leftists claim. There was zero evidence that they managed to change a single vote. Whether or not their attempted campaign was successful may never be know. 
It’s a big deal, but so was the 2015 Chinese hack of the Office of Personnel Management. Directed by the Chinese government, the data breach resulted in the stolen personnel records of more than 21 million Americans. 
So what was Obama’s reaction to that? 
Nothing. 
To wit, The Daily Wire draws our attention to an exchange between ABC’s Jonathan Karl and White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:

KARL: “So when the Chinese hacked OPM in 2015, 21+ million current and former government employees and contractors had their personal records stolen by the Chinese. Why did the White House do nothing publicly in reaction to that hack? Which in some ways, was even more widespread than what we saw here from the Russians?”

EARNEST: “I think that what we’ve seen is that these are two cyber incidents that are malicious in nature, but materially different...”

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History for January 17

History for January 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Benjamin Franklin 1706, Anton Chekhov 1860, Al Capone 1899 - Gangster


Betty White 1922 - Actress, James Earl Jones 1931 - Actor, "Star Wars" movies as the voice of Darth Vader, Muhammad Ali 1942 - Boxer


1773 - Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.


1806 - James Madison Randolph, grandson of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House.


1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.


1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.


1945 - Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.


1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody. Wallenberg was credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews.


1961 - In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."


1994 - The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.

Weekly Update: New Border Terror Threat? - Judicial Watch

Weekly Update: New Border Terror Threat? - Judicial Watch:

"California-DC Corruption Connection

I’ve often observed that, when it comes to public policy, the Obama Justice Department has been a locus of evil.  And therefore it was concerning to see that the man who ran that Obama agency for years, the disgraced Eric Holder, has gotten himself a new, government-related gig.  On January 4 liberal California legislative leaders announced that they are using tax dollars to hire former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm to assist them in anticipated federal challenges to several state policies such as climate change and immigration.  Leftists controlling the Democratic Party are especially concerned that a new Trump administration might actually start enforcing the rule of law against California’s dangerous and unlawful sanctuary policies.  Evidently, Eric Holder will waste taxpayer funds defending this lawlessness."

Drug testing floated for White House press corps

Drug testing floated for White House press corps | Page Six:
"One proposal on dealing with the media that was pitched to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team calls for drug testing the White House press corps.

Trump’s attacks on the mainstream media were a cornerstone of his campaign and last week he called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage,” but forcing reporters to undergo random drug tests would provoke a media meltdown.

The pee-in-a-cup proposal (yellow journalism indeed) was one of 13 ideas one candidate for White House press secretary wrote in November in a confidential memo to members of the Presidential Transition Team’s Executive Committee.

“Journalists who are at the White House more than one day per week should be subject to drug screenings to occur no more than twice a year at random times,” the memo states. 

“Refusal to comply should exclude them from credentialing entirely.”

The job applicant also proposed taking away the right of the White House Correspondents’ Association to control reporters’ seating arrangements in the press briefing room..."

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Women’s March on Washington partners with Hamas-linked CAIR

Women’s March on Washington partners with Hamas-linked CAIR:
"On January 21, 2017, thousands of women are expected to take part in the Women’s March on Washington. According to the Women’s March website, the purpose of their march taking place right after President-elect Trump’s inauguration day is to advocate for “demonized” groups including LGBTQIA, Muslims, etc. 
The Women’s March has partnered with several Islamic groups, including Hamas-linked CAIR (CT), the Muslim Women’s Alliance, Arab American Association of New York, and the Women for Afghan Women.
...What seems especially odd about the feminist-LGBTQIA-Islam conglomerate is that the Islamic movements are directly opposed to the aims of mainstream feminists. 
While mainstream feminists advocate for freedom of expression in clothing, CAIR maintains that Muslim women should wear “loose-fitting, non-revealing clothing, known as hijab, or khimar”. According to CAIR’s guide for educators,.."

Latest 'Why She Lost' Clinton Conspiracy Theory | The Daily Caller

Latest 'Why She Lost' Clinton Conspiracy Theory | The Daily Caller:

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the presidential race against President-elect Donald Trump in November, and a Friday report from Politico asserts supermarket tabloids are to blame."

The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo

Articles: The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo
"Mr. Garfinkle of Garfinkle’s New Method Hebrew School in Milwaukee used to frequently echo King Solomon’s admonition; “There’s nothing new under the sun.” 
I was reminded of that this week when the rapidly unfolding “scandal” of Trump’s purported dealings with Russia hit the news. 
It has more than a few similarities with the Dan Rather faked-up story of GW Bush’s National Guard service where an anonymous, never-found source supposedly gave Bill Burkett a demonstrably fake report and Dan Rather ran with it. 
This time a Bush (Jeb) is involved but as an instigator of the story, not a victim. 
John McCain acts as the intermediary passing the junk on to the Intelligence Community, which makes sure it is published.

If you’re confused about it, let me put it in the context of the most reliable information I’ve been able to put together, noting that I think the story is likely to become even more clear over the next few days. 
As you will see, the dossier is so ridiculous, if anyone in the Intelligence Community fell for it, he’s too stupid to allow in place, and if no one did but they still played a role in publicizing it, everyone involved needs to be fired

A. Digging Up Dirt on Opponents

In September of 2015 someone -- now revealed as a Jeb Bush Super PAC donor -- paid  Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C. outfit, to compile a dossier of dirt on Donald Trump. Fusion engaged Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 agent in London, to do the job. While early accounts of the story refer to him as a “respected source”, he has a history of dumpster diving for Democrats. 

Kimberley Strassel at the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on his work for some time and explains why he keeps getting hired: “to gin up the ugliest, most scurrilous claims, and then trust the click-hungry media to disseminate them. 
No matter how false the allegations, the subject of the attack is required to respond, wasting precious time and losing credibility.”

She warns this will be the left’s game:

But it says something about the brass-knuckle approach of the left that it would go so far as to write a dossier suggesting that Mr. Trump is a Manchurian candidate -- and then to foist that report into the hands of intelligence officials. [snip] 
So the left will increasingly rely on campaigns of delegitimization designed to force opponents onto a back foot, push them off task, or even bully them out of the public arena. In the absence of a winning policy argument, this is, in their minds, the best they’ve got. Republicans had better be ready for it..."

Must read the entire article!
Much more here!
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Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century | Intellectual Takeout:
"The late RJ Rummel revealed a daunting truth: Four times the number of persons were murdered by their governments than killed in warfare.

It was in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’s Death by Government (Transaction, 1994). 

After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. 

Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing Fields (the work of art that inspired my entrance essay for and into the University of Notre Dame), and every Goldwater-esque aspect of my very soul seemed justified by the very existence of Death by Government. 

All my firms were confirmed.
Through this book, I came to what I regard as an inescapable but not well-accepted idea: state-sponsored murder is and was the primary fact of the twentieth century..."

Lunch video-----Radical Islam: The Most Dangerous Ideology

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'God Bless the U.S.A' Singer Lee Greenwood Set to Play Trump Inauguration Concert

'God Bless the U.S.A' Singer Lee Greenwood Set to Play Trump Inauguration Concert:

"Country artist Lee Greenwood, best known for his patriotic hit “God Bless the U.S.A.,” is scheduled to perform for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration during the “‘Make America Great Again!’ Welcome Celebration” on Jan 19, the day before he is sworn in.

Additionally, Greenwood’s fellow country artist Toby Keith, as well as singer Jennifer Holliday and southern rock band 3 Doors Down, have been added to the lineup for the pre-inauguration concert, the Inaugural Committee said Friday."

You tax dollars at work?-----Profs pledge to 'use regular class time' to protest Trump

Profs pledge to 'use regular class time' to protest Trump: 
"A national “teach-in” movement is asking professors to set aside class time between Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the presidential inauguration to “protest” oppression and challenge “Trumpism.”
The movement, known as “Teach, Organize, Resist,” is set to kick-off on January 18, strategically “poised between Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the presidential inauguration” as an explicit means of “challenging Trumpism.”
“Use your regular class time to attend a panel with your students.”  
“Transform your classrooms and commons into spaces of education that protest policies of violence, disenfranchisement, segregation, and isolationism,” the organizers urge educators on the movement’s homepage, clarifying elsewhere on the site that participation “is an opportunity to affirm the role of critical thinking and academic knowledge in challenging Trumpism.”
[RELATED: Students earn credit for attending anti-Trump teach-in]
“On that day, we intend to teach about the agendas and policies of the new administration, be it the proposed dismantling of economic and environmental regulations or the threatened rollback of the hard-won rights that form the fragile scaffolding of American democracy,” a description for the teach-in explains, later accusing Trump of institutionalizing “white supremacy” and allegedly proposing the “expansion of state violence targeting people of color” and other marginalized groups.
...The movement, which has been spreading on social media under the hashtag “J18,” was started by “departments, centers, and collectives at UCLA,” but has since amassed the support of 18 other institutions, many of them public.
Professors at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for instance, are asking “all UCSB faculty to actively support” the teach-in, even suggesting that they “insert a note” about it in syllabi or “use your regular class time to attend a panel with your students...”

Lauer Admits to Weeping Over Biden Award

Lauer Admits to Weeping Over Biden Award | LifeZette:
"...NBC’s host of “The Today Show” Matt Lauer confessed Friday that he was so overcome with emotion that he “just burst out crying” when President Obama surprised Vice President Joe Biden by awarding him the Medal of Freedom Thursday.
...“So I’m glad there were no cameras in my apartment yesterday because I was just sitting there weeping,” Lauer gushed. “I just burst out crying when I saw that moment. It was incredible.”
As it turned out, Lauer was not alone in his show of emotion.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, admitted on MSNBC that she, too, was “in tears.”
“You know, every time I watch this — I’m just watching that ceremony — I was in tears,” Mitchell said..."

'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus

'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus: Glenn Reynolds:

Official safe spaces marginalize Republicans as the 'other' and turn universities into a joke.

One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week’s election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the “wrong” candidate. But on closer examination, this response isn’t really amusing. In fact, it’s downright mean.

Donald Trump’s substantial victory, when most progressives expected a Hillary Clinton landslide, came as a shock to many. That shock seems to have been multiplied in academe, where few people seem to know any Trump supporters — or, at least, any Trump supporters who’ll admit to it.

• The response to the shock has been to turn campuses into kindergarten. The University of Michigan Law School announced a ”post-election self-care” event with “food" and "play,” including “coloring sheets, play dough (sic), positive card-making, Legos and bubbles with your fellow law students.” (Embarrassed by the attention, UM Law scrubbed the announcement from its website, perhaps concerned that people would wonder whether its graduates would require Legos and bubbles in the event of stressful litigation.)
• Stanford emailed its students and faculty that psychological counseling was available for those experiencing “uncertainty, anger, anxiety and/or fear” following the election. So did the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.
• Meanwhile, even the Ivy League wasn’t immune, with the University of Pennsylvania (Trump’s alma mater) creating a post-election safe space with puppies and coloring books:

Student Daniel Tancredi reported that the people who attended were “fearful” about the results of the election.

“For the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk,” Tancredi told "The College Fix." “Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals.”

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GOP Rep Pushes Repeal of Gun-Free School Zones Act Under Trump - Breitbart

GOP Rep Pushes Repeal of Gun-Free School Zones Act Under Trump - Breitbart:

"Massie’s office put out a press release in which he observed, “Gun-free school zones are ineffective. They make people less safe by inviting criminals into target-rich, no-risk environments. Gun-free zones prevent law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves, and create vulnerable populations that are targeted by criminals.”

The Safe Student Act is backed by the NRA, Gun Owners of America, and the National Association for Gun Rights."