Might we call it a "vast left wing conspiracy"? Attkisson Charges ‘Well-Orchestrated Strategy' Underway to Diminish Benghazi Coverage

Attkisson Charges ‘Well-Orchestrated Strategy' Underway to Diminish Benghazi Coverage | NewsBusters
“Well, the key words they use, such as ‘conspiracy’ and ‘delusional,’ are in my opinion clearly designed to try to controversialize a story -- a legitimate news story and a legitimate area of journalistic inquiry,” Attkisson asserted.
“To some degree, that's been successful,” she added, “but I think primarily among those who don't want to look at this as a story in the first place.”
....... an email sent by Ben Rhodes, a White House communication advisor, indicates that "from the beginning, the administration saw Benghazi as a political problem."
“The politicizing was going on at the White House,” she noted, “and that email was clear evidence of it.”

California School District Gives Students Absolutely Jaw-Dropping Assignment in Attempt to ‘Meet Common Core Standards’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

California School District Gives Students Absolutely Jaw-Dropping Assignment in Attempt to ‘Meet Common Core Standards’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"The Rialto school district in California is under fire over a stunning eighth-grade assignment that asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust and “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
The thoroughly debunked idea that the Holocaust was nothing more than a “hoax” created by the Jews has long been alleged by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists."

Is it a fact that we simply don't care?--------Huge margin in favor of Grand Rapids streets tax: 'The potholes won this election'

Huge margin in favor of Grand Rapids streets tax: 'The potholes won this election' | MLive.com:
"“There’s a much bigger political machine here” than in those other cities, Hagerstrom said.
Voter turnout was abysmal with only 13.7 percent, or less than one of out every seven registered voters, showing up at the polls.
Holding the election in May instead of August or November was a point of contention for tax opponents, who sued unsuccessfully to force the proposal off the ballot.
Hagerstrom called it “unfortunate” that Grand Rapids pushed the tax past “the lack of voters.”"

Oooh Kaaay Governor, your job is to make sure our bridges are safe. Right?-------Experts tell us our bridges will kill us!

But now you tell us they're dangerous.
Right?
What happened to ALL the money we gave you to make sure this wouldn't happen?
Michigan Infrastructure Transportation Association & Reference Materials & MITA Press Releases:
"The statewide analysis (based on Michigan’s 2014 National Bridge Inventory data**) reviewed bridge conditions on 10,929 state and local bridges, of which 1 in 4 (2,843) were either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

While Governor Rick Snyder’s Dashboard and other sources often reference 12 percent of bridges (1 in 8) being in poor condition, the situation is much more dire when analyzing state and local bridges that are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

9 Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True

9 Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True:
"Four years ago, many health policy analysts, including those at The Heritage Foundation, predicted some of the effects this law would have on Americans. These are all coming true. Here are nine of our predictions that have come to pass—and it’s not over yet."

Dem State Senator: Calling A Fish From Asia An 'Asian Carp' Is 'Hurtful' and Offensive

Dem State Senator: Calling A Fish From Asia An 'Asian Carp' Is 'Hurtful' and Offensive:
"The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved John Hoffman's (D-MN) bill to change the name "Asian carp" so called because the species originates from Asia, to "invasive carp". 
Since Asian carp were introduced in the U.S. in the 1970's, the fish have spread to dozens of states causing destruction in the delicate ecosystems of the waterways.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been fighting off the most invasive species, the black carp from China, the Silver carp from Vietnam, and Grass carp from China from spreading into the Great Lakes were the fish could do massive damage the regions fishing industry.
While arguing his case on the Senate floor, Hoffman said that referring to the fish as “Asian” was hurtful to some people... "

Somehow, this doesn't surprise...........Detroit bankruptcy bill for 6 months: $36M

Detroit bankruptcy bill for 6 months: $36M | The Detroit News:
"Detroit — Lawyers and consultants have billed taxpayers $36.3 million in fees and expenses for six months of work on Detroit’s landmark bankruptcy case, according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.
The total figure ballooned from $13.75 million charged during the first quarter after Detroit filed bankruptcy in July."

2014 primary results: Tuesday’s takeaways: GOP establishment prevails

2014 primary results: Tuesday’s takeaways: GOP establishment prevails - POLITICO.com:
"It was a big night for the GOP establishment Tuesday, as Thom Tillis won the Republican Senate nomination in North Carolina, clearing the 40 percent threshold to avoid a runoff.
The speaker of the state House now has six months to train his fire on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
The result secures the Tar Heel State’s status as a top GOP pickup opportunity this fall.

Pandering, meet influence pedling---29of 30 Dow Companies Invest in Clinton

Dow Companies Invest in Clinton -- With One Holdout - Bloomberg:
"The blue-chip political investment for big business is Clinton Inc.
Twenty-nine of the 30 Dow Jones (INDU) Industrial Average index companies have given money or in-kind support to projects branded by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, according to a review of Clinton Foundation and U.S. State Department reports.
The main gates to Clintonworld are the Clinton Foundation, an umbrella group overseeing the former president’s causes such as raising money to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and its spinoff Clinton Global Initiative, which recruits corporate sponsors for international charitable projects.
Major corporations also responded to a call for cash from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure."

Dem. Staffer: ‘Tea Baggers’ Just Looking to Tarnish Obama’s Legacy

Dem. Staffer: ‘Tea Baggers’ Just Looking to Tarnish Obama’s Legacy:
"It seems, however, that Democrats have moved on to the next phase of their denials: they are now lashing out at those who dare to question the official version of events.
 A senior staffer to a Democrat House member spoke to the Daily Mail that Tea Party House members- “Tea baggers,” as he called them- were flailing in an attempt to tarnish the legacy of Barack Obama."

History for May 7

History for May 7 - On-This-Day.com:

Great American Grump Out

Beaufort Scale Day (Francis Beaufort Birth Anniversary)

Birth anniversaries of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), Gary Cooper (1901-61), Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-93) and Johnny Unitas (1933-2002).

1429 - The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc. 


1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.



1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister. 


1942 - In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other. 


1945 - Germany signed unconditional surrender ending World War II. It would take effect the next day. 



1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony. 


1954 - French Colonial Forces surrendered to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu after 55 days of fighting. 


1960 - Leonid Brezhnev became president of the Soviet Union. 






1975 - U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War. 


1977 - Rookie Janet Guthrie set the fastest time on opening day of practice for the Indianapolis 500. Her time was 185.607. 


1992 - A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified as the 27th Amendment. 


1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record. 

Major Ruling: Supreme Court Says Prayers at Government Meetings are Constitutional

Major Ruling: Supreme Court Says Prayers at Government Meetings are Constitutional:
"Today’s Supreme Court ruling is in line with a previous ruling in 1983 on a similar issue. The Nebraska legislature had the practice of an opening prayer and found itself at the center of a lawsuit. At that time, the court upheld the prayer practice stating that it was not in violation of the First Amendment and is, indeed, part of the nation’s fabric. "

House Will Soon Move a Bill to End One of the NSA’s Most Controversial Activities | TheBlaze.com

House Will Soon Move a Bill to End One of the NSA’s Most Controversial Activities | TheBlaze.com:
"The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will consider a bipartisan bill that would stop the National Security Agency from the bulk collection of phone data, an activity that riled up millions of Americans when it was disclosed through a leak by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The committee will consider the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday afternoon, which would also require intelligence agencies to more aggressively filter out data from Americans that is accidentally captured."

"Climate Disruption"! That's the ticket!---------Scientists Label White House Climate Report ‘Pseudoscience’

Scientists Label White House Climate Report ‘Pseudoscience’ | The Daily Caller:
"“This National Assessment is much closer to pseudoscience than it is to science,” wrote scientists Patrick Michaels and Paul Knappenberger of the libertarian Cato Institute in their comments submitted to the Obama administration.
“It clearly believes that virtually everything in our society is tremendously dependent on the surface temperature, and, because of that, we are headed towards certain and inescapable destruction, unless we take its advice and decarbonize our economy, pronto,” Michaels and Knappenberger added."

Detroit "leaders" not digging state pooolice--------Visitors deserve a safe Belle Isle

Editorial: Visitors deserve a safe Belle Isle | The Detroit News:
"Some members of the Detroit City Council aren’t happy about the significant increase of police presence on Belle Isle now that it’s a state park. 
Yet the police are addressing one of the primary complaints Detroiters had about the island before the state took it over:
It wasn’t always a comfortable place for family leisure and recreation.
....City Council President Brenda Jones says troopers need sensitivity training, and she has repeated social media reports that hundreds of arrests have been made on the island, which came under state control Feb. 10.
But Michigan State Police numbers paint a different picture.
Troopers have reported 55 arrests out of 329 traffic stops from Feb. 1 to April 27. 
Among those arrests were 25 fugitives who should have been behind bars."

Tax payers are doomed!---------------Club owner wins fight, $1.5 million verdict against New Brunswick in naming of sports bar

Club owner wins fight, $1.5 million verdict against New Brunswick in naming of sports bar | NJ.com:
Lawrence Blatterfein, a dedicated Yankees fan who owns other clubs in New Brunswick, wanted to open a sports bar in New Brunswick in 2011 and name it Buck Foston’s Road House, which is a twist on the sports rivalry between the Yankee’s and the Boston Red Sox.
But New Brunswick officials opposed granting Blatterfein a liquor license for the new sports bar, which would have been at Routes 1 and 18 in the former Benningan’s Restaurant.
.....But Cahill said today that the name was not the reason why he and the city council opposed the sports bar—it was its location at one of the heaviest traveled intersections in the city.
Cahill, who testified during the trial, said he was disappointed with the verdict but, “while it would have been better to win, the verdict was not for the amount Mr. Blatterfein was seeking” and the sports bar never opened.
The mayor said Blatterfein was asking for $7 million to $10 million in damages.

Another "leader" Just being "Detroit"-------Sex acts by Otis Mathis a terrible example to kids

Sex acts by Otis Mathis a terrible example to kids | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
We are asked the question so much that it becomes overwhelming: What the heck is wrong with Detroit?
But if we want people to stop asking the question, then we need to stop being the Detroit that begs it.
Take, for instance, the latest scandal connected to the Detroit Public Schools.
The debate has been over whether formerDPS board president Otis Mathis should have resigned after exhibiting horrendous behavior and poor judgment.
Mathis quit after admitting to "inappropriate actions" with his hand between his legs behind his desk while the district's female superintendent sat opposite him trying to have a conversation.

He expressed deep regret and then, inexplicably, asked for his resignation back, buoyed by the comments of fellow board member Reverend David Murray, who dismissed the behavior of the 55-year-old Mathis this way: 
"He's a young man; maybe he didn't know it was offensive to her ... That's just the way it is."

What THE hell?! "He's a young man?!"

More Fireworks: Carney Indicates White House May Not Cooperate With Special Benghazi Investigation | Video | TheBlaze.com

More Fireworks: Carney Indicates White House May Not Cooperate With Special Benghazi Investigation | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Carney took similar question several times about whether the administration would cooperate.
He was asked if the administration considered the new committee legitimate, and said he declined to speculate. ABC’s Jonathan Karl later asked directly if the administration would cooperate, to which Carney declined to give a yes or no answer.
“What I’m not going to do is speculate about what might come and how it’s going to play out,” Carney said after making a comment that elicited laughter from the White House press corps. “What I will remind you of is our cooperation of our history on this and many others.”

Answer: "No"---------Can We Please Hold Blacks to the Same Standard as Donald Sterling?

Articles: Can We Please Hold Blacks to the Same Standard as Donald Sterling?:
With Sterling’s come-uppance, America has witnessed the reality that for a white person openly to express negative feelings about blacks is virtually “the kiss of death.”
......Question: If an overwhelming majority of Americans condemn whites who make racist statements, when are we going to hold blacks to the same standard?
Are blacks perceived to be racist?
Although polls cannot readily plumb actual racist sentiments, they can tell us if there is a perception that this or that group, or society as a whole, is racist.
....According to this poll, 37% of American adults think “most blacks” are racists, compared to 15% who believe the same about “most whites,” and 18% who say that about “most Hispanics.”
Blacks in the poll were more likely to say that “most blacks” are racist (31%), compared to 24% who harbored this view of “most whites,” and 15% who felt that way about “most Hispanics.”
The list of prominent blacks whose racist comments are on record is too long to be adequately cited. 
Some blacks have uttered far more egregious racist comments than others. 
Calling for the murder of white babies, for example, is a far graver breach of civil talk than asking for the creation of an all-black professional basketball league.
Nevertheless, the “conventional wisdom” among academic social scientists is that blacks cannot be racists. Only whites are racists.

Imagine if FOX did this----- The racists at MSNBC celebrate Cinco de Mayo by showing us what they think of Mexicans

Politics: The racists at MSNBC celebrate Cinco de Mayo by showing us what they think of Mexicans | Best of Cain:
Tequila and Sombreros! 
From Al Sharpton, to Melissa Harris Perry, to the uni-monikered wunderkind named Toure, someone at MSNBC yells "racism" pretty much every hour. 
These people love charging others with "racism" so much, that they simply can't help themselves. 
They do it the way news radio does traffic and weather: "every ten minutes, on the eights."

So, yesterday, when MSNBC decided to announce the arrival of Cinco de Mayo, they did it with all the respect, sensitivity, and class you would expect from such a racially concious group of "progressives."  
....Oh wait, no they didn't. 
They did it by slapping a sombrero on producer Louis Burgdorf and having him prance around - guzzling tequila - while shaking a pair of maracas.

Obama's highway tolls take cash, time and privacy:

Obama's highway tolls take cash, time and privacy: Column:
"Tolls are plan B. But they'll also make the driving experience worse, and less private.
If states set up old-fashioned toll booths on the interstate, as a number already have for bridges and tunnels, you'll have to slow down to pay. (Which, ironically, will waste gas.)
Politicians will undoubtedly like it, though, because all those toll booth employees will be government employees who can probably be counted on to re-elect incumbents. 
Of course, this is the 21st century, so we'll let drivers who opt in use radio frequency chips or bar codes to whiz by sensors that withdraw money from your bank account.
But that's not really an improvement because it also means that the government will have a handy computerized record of where you go and when. 
It might not save time, either, as E-ZPass lanes clog up, too."

Gonna be HUGE!----Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton

Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton | Vanity Fair:

"After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking out?
I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth”),
Lewinsky, 40, says it is time to stop “tiptoeing around my past—and other people’s futures.
I am determined to have a different ending to my story.
I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past. 
(What this will cost me, I will soon find out.)”"

It’s Official: The IRS Will Raid Your Tax Data Through Obamacare | TheBlaze.com

It’s Official: The IRS Will Raid Your Tax Data Through Obamacare | TheBlaze.com:
"The Internal Revenue Service this week will publish a final rule requiring Obamacare health insurance exchanges to hand over key personal data to the IRS, which will use the information to implement the tax aspects of the controversial health care law.
The IRS rule covers health exchanges that sell insurance to individuals, and it takes effect this year. That means people enrolled in an Obamacare exchange this year will have their information given to the IRS as soon as it’s needed for tax purposes."