Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and itsnot the weapons used.
The overwhelming evidence suggests the single largest common factor in all of these incidents is that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.
Trey Gowdy DESTROYS the Mainstream Media in Just Three Minutes on Benghazi:
"Gowdy points out that that both of Obama’s promises are broken as no one has been brought to justice, explaining that the Obama regime has prohibited witnesses from testifying about Benghazi. “No one has been brought to justice. We don’t even have access to witnesses,” Gowdy said.
Gowdy then went into his classic questioning mode, telling them that while he’s not trying to tell the media how to do their job, if they don’t know the answers to these questions, in regards to Benghazi, then he would leave them to draw their own conclusions:"
VA bonuses were incentive to hide wait times, whistleblowers say - CBS News: Germaine Clarno is a VA social worker and employee representative in Chicago. She alleges there are multiple secret waiting lists of veterans kept at the Hines VA Medical Center. Asked which divisions of the hospital kept the secret waiting lists, Clarno says, "Employees are coming to me from all over the hospital, from outpatient, inpatient, surgery, radiology." Clarno says veterans were put on secret waiting lists when they called for appointments, but they wouldn't formally get an appointment booked in the computer until one came up within the VA's goal of 14 days. The purpose of the lists, she says, was to hide how often veterans were not being seen on time. Clarno says the purpose of the lists was "to make numbers look better for their own recognition and for bonuses." The VA grants bonuses to executives and doctors, partly based on short wait times. Whistleblowers -- including Dr. Sam Foote, who revealed the scandal in Phoenix, where up to 40 veterans may have died -- believe bonuses give an incentive to conceal delays in care.
$1 Billion Obamacare Contractor Gives Employees Little or No Work; Will Media Care? | NewsBusters "The government is paying private contractor Serco $1.2 billion over five years — and likely more, as will be seen later — to process paper Obamacare applications.
In turn, according to a report by television station KMOV, Serco has hired and continues to pay a reported 1,800 workers who have virtually no work to do. Massive waste like this should develop into a national story and create a journalistic swarm.
If it does, it will be unusual, because the press has been avoiding stories which make President Barack Obama's "signature accomplishment" of state-controlled health care look bad like the plague.
We'll see if it's different this time."
French Foreign Minister: '500 Days to Avoid Climate Chaos' | The Weekly Standard Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to the State Department in Washington on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, from Iran to Syria to climate change.
Or, in the words of the foreign minister, "climate chaos." Kerry and Fabius made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that only 500 days remained to avoid "climate chaos"[emphasis added]:
Well, I’m very happy to be with John.
...And we have – as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.
It is unclear what the foreign minister had in mind with the 500 days.
However, France is scheduled to host the "21st Conference of the Parties on Climate Change" in December 2015, about 565 days from now.
Unbelievable: Harvard Students Now Must Attend Class on ‘White Privilege’: "In a ridiculous move by the administrators of Harvard’s Kennedy School, the school of government, the administrators have caved to demands by leftist students demanding that the school create a mandatory requirement for incoming students to suffer through a class that espouses rhetoric aimed at supposedly educating about “white privilege,” the catch-all term much-loved by guilty, white liberals."
"Welcome to McDonald's . My name is HAL 9000. May I take your order?"
McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn't look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.
The move is designed to boost efficiency and make ordering more convenient for customers. In an interview with the Financial Times, McDonald's Europe President Steve Easterbrook notes that the new system will also open up a goldmine of data. McDonald's could potentially track every Big Mac, McNugget, and large shake you order. A calorie account tally at the end of the year could be a real shocker. they'll even throw in an iPadwith the Happy Meal one of these days.
Police unmask 'mystery pooper' who regularly defecated on Ypsilanti park slides | MLive.com Ypsilanti’s children’s slides are free and clear of feces after the Ypsilanti Police recently identified a suspect in their hunt for the notorious "mystery pooper." .....Council Member Brian Robb said he hopes "we can just put this behind us." ..."Murdock said. “I haven’t heard of any incidents since all the to-do,” he said. ....... and a billboard requesting residents "Do your civic doody” and "Help us catch the 'poopetrator'” appeared on Interstate 94.
100th birth anniversary of mountaineer Tenzing Norgay (1914-83), co-conqueror of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953.
Birth anniversary of astronomer, mathematician and scientist Nicolas Louis De Lacaille (1713-62). He mapped nearly 10,000 stars in the Southern Hemisphere from 1750-54 and established a catalog system for the stars he observed.
Birth anniversary of L. Frank Baum, creator of the World of Oz (1856-1919).
Birth anniversaries of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Joseph Cotton (1905-94), Pierre Curie (1859-1906)
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1930 - Ellen Church became the first female flight attendant. 1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. 1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched. 1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals. 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot. 1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years. 1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
Obama: Amnesty Necessary ‘For Our Safety and Security’:
"Despite spending year prohibiting law enforcement officers from doing their jobs, President Obama declared on Tuesday that it’s “not fair” to law enforcement officials who have to deal with a broken immigration system. Further, Obama claimed that changes to immigration laws- not enforcing existing laws- are needed “for our safety and security.”
This statement comes just days after a recent report showed that ICE was forced to release 36,000 convicted criminal illegal immigrants into the population as they awaited deportation."
These States Could See Huge Insurance Rate Hikes Because of Obamacare | TheBlaze.com: "Insurance companies operating in the Washington state Obamacare exchange will reportedly raise their rates by as much as 26 percent, while rates in Virginia could go up by nearly 15 percent, presenting even more problems for the law that was sold in part on a promise that consumers would pay less for health care."
My Way News - Pentagon OKs Manning transfer for gender treatment: "In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.
Manning, formerly named Bradley, was convicted of sending classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The soldier has asked for hormone therapy and to be able to live as a woman."
Cigarette Smuggling Undermines Tax Revenue [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "In 2012, more than 27 percent of all Michigan in-state consumption was smuggled. In New York, almost 57 percent of all cigarettes consumed in the state were also illicit.
This has profound effects on the revenue generated by state (and sometimes local) government."
Rush Limbaugh’s Explosive Claim About Radical Terrorist Group Boko Haram and the Obama ‘Regime’ | TheBlaze.com: "Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday argued the Obama “regime” — as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama — “sympathize” with radical Islamic terror group Boko Haram.
Limbaugh also said the recent hashtag activism promoted by the first lady is actually “aimed at helping” the terrorists of Boko Haram."
Does tea party favorite Justin Amash vote more often with Democrats or Republicans? | PolitiFact: So where does Rogers’ claim come from? Rogers spokeswoman had no response but forwarded our request to Amash’s challenger Ellis. They noted that in 2012, a Congressional Quarterly analysis found Amash’s votes put him on the same side of President Barack Obama 51 percent of the time. It’s an interesting tidbit, but it won’t help Rogers on the Truth-O-Meter. The analysis only looked at 61 votes that year where Obama had a stated position.
It includes many consequential bills, but it’s just a fraction of the total votes taken in 2012. Further, in 2011 and 2013, Amash was opposite Obama 75 percent of the time. But it did help us find a few interesting examples of Amash voting with Obama’s favored positions. For example, Amash voted "no" on a GOP bill in 2012 that would have extended lower rates for student loans and pay for it with cuts to Obamacare. It passed the House despite a veto threat from Obama. On his Facebook page, Amash said he sided against it because he didn’t believe the cuts covered the cost of lowering student loan rates. Also in 2012, he voted against Republicans on a bill to replace across-the-board spending cuts (the so-called "sequester") with other more targeted cuts, while lifting spending caps on the military. Obama, instead, wanted to replace the sequester with tax increases and cut in other ways; Amash said he opposed the Republican proposal because it increased spending. More recently, Amash was one of just three Republicans (and 20 lawmakers in total) not to vote for more sanctions against Iran last July.
At the time, the Obama administration was asking for some leeway from Congress to approach the newly elected Iranian regime with alternatives.
Amash later said of his vote: "If our goal is peaceful reform within Iran, it would be wise to give the new president an opportunity to talk before turning to new threats." But again, these are a relatively small number of high-profile votes. Congressional Quarterly found Amash never voted with his party less than 85 percent of the time in a given year. Our ruling Rogers said Amash "votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans." Rogers didn’t back up his claim, but we found two sources that showed that Amash has sided with Republicans upward of 80 percent of the time. That may be lower than many of his colleagues, and we found found a few high-profile examples of his voting against his own party. But by the numbers, he votes far more often with Republicans than Democrats. We rate Rogers’ statement False.
Harvard’s Kennedy School Adds Privilege-Checking to New-Student Orientation - The Cut: The wonks in training at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will soon be subjected to a new and touchy-feely line of inquiry: Checking Your Privilege 101. In response to growing demand from student activists, administrators committed Friday to adding a class in power and privilege to its orientation program for incoming first-year students. “We’re at one of the most powerful institutions in the world, yet we never critically examine power and privilege and what it means to have access to this power,” says Reetu Mody, a first-year masters student in public policy and a campus activist.
“We’re excited to have the administration on board for training all Harvard Kennedy School first years.” .....Last month, they held a privilege walk: 77 students occupied the school’s courtyard, where two facilitators led a “privilege visualization exercise.”
KD Investigates: Mail Problems Persist, Some Ends Up In Garbage « CBS Pittsburgh: “People in the area are walking from one street to another street basically delivering their own mail,” he said. But perhaps most shocking is Kevin Whalen’s experience: his wife saw their mail carrier putting something in their garbage can. “So I came outside lifted up the lid and all this mail was in here,” he said.
The taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin–Madison is now offering a pioneering postdoctoral fellowship in feminist biology.
.....The feminist biology postdoctoral fellowship will focus on gender-related research and attempt to educate young research scientists on the perils of gender bias.
This month, a tiny minority of Latino students has effectively banned everybody else on college campuses from having a good time celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a once-obscure Mexican holiday that was popularized by the makers of Corona beer. For example, the all-you-can-eat “Pi Phiesta” taco bar fundraisers that some chapters of Pi Beta Phi sorority throw each year around Cinco de Mayo to raise money for local charities are likely going extinct thanks to the forces of political correctness......The sorority felt compelled to change its “Pi Phiesta” into an ocean-themed party where tacos happened to be served...... critics call Cinco de Mayo celebrations involving tacos “cultural appropriation” — “actions that trivialize aspects of a culture by not respecting a custom’s symbolic significance or the history of a style of dress or other artifact.” Pi Beta Phi’s national office has advised its local chapters to avoid all taco-eating around Cinco de Mayo.
Most conservatives, and just about all independents, have a huge misperception of the left. They think that the gulf between conservatism and leftism is primarily about means, not goals.
This perception is wrong. It is their goals that are irreconcilable. And until conservatives, independents and the Republican Party understand this, it will not be possible to defeat the left.
Take economic indicators. Most conservatives talk and act as if bad economic news disturbs the left as much as it disturbs them. It doesn’t.
..........Now back to our riddle. Why do these state-crushing economic statistics — nearly every one of which is the result of left-wing policies — have no effect on California’s Democrats, the Los Angeles Times editorial page, New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman or almost anyone else on the left?
The answer is that they don’t care. Yes, of course, as individuals with a heart, most people, right and left, care about people losing their jobs.
......They don’t care because the left is not interested in prosperity; the left is interested in inequality and in the environment. Furthermore, the worse the economic situation, the more voters are likely to vote Democrat. The worse the economic situation, the greater the number of people receiving government assistance; the greater the number of people receiving government assistance, the greater the number of people who will vote Democrat.
Therefore, both philosophically and politically, the left has no reason to be troubled by bad economic news. And it isn’t. It is troubled by inequality and carbon emissions.
Half-a-Trillion Dollars Later, States Still Don’t Have Working Obamacare Sites: "What remains amazing is the gall of Obamacare supporters in government. Each state that continues to fail in their endeavor to create a website simply seems to shrug it off and blame someone else. In the private sector, when a product fails as miserably as Obamacare has on all fronts, heads must roll. CEOs resign, marketing agents are scolded, shareholders demand accountability for the colossal missteps.
With government, however, we are the shareholders and not only have the American people rejected Obamacare, they have sat and watched bureaucrats demonstrate the stunning incompetence of government and their failure to achieve the modest success of building websites that work."
A near-stall for the economy, for sure, but at least it wasn’t worse.
That initial estimate was the government’s best guess, using the data available at the time. Based on more up-to-date figures, including the March trade data released last week, private forecasters now expect gross domestic product contracted in the first quarter for the first time in three years.
The latest evidence came Tuesday, when the Commerce Department released reports on retail sales and business inventories.
Retail sales in February and March were revised up, but business inventories grew less in March than the agency had assumed in its GDP calculations."
The overwhelming evidence suggests the single largest common factor in all of these incidents is that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.
Gowdy then went into his classic questioning mode, telling them that while he’s not trying to tell the media how to do their job, if they don’t know the answers to these questions, in regards to Benghazi, then he would leave them to draw their own conclusions:"
She alleges there are multiple secret waiting lists of veterans kept at the Hines VA Medical Center.
"The government is paying private contractor Serco $1.2 billion over five years — and likely more, as will be seen later — to process paper Obamacare applications.
Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to the State Department in Washington on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, from Iran to Syria to climate change.
"In a ridiculous move by the administrators of Harvard’s Kennedy School, the school of government, the administrators have caved to demands by leftist students demanding that the school create a mandatory requirement for incoming students to suffer through a class that espouses rhetoric aimed at supposedly educating about “white privilege,” the catch-all term much-loved by guilty, white liberals."
McDonald's Europe
Police unmask 'mystery pooper' who regularly defecated on Ypsilanti park slides | MLive.com
Further, Obama claimed that changes to immigration laws- not enforcing existing laws- are needed “for our safety and security.”
"Insurance companies operating in the Washington state Obamacare exchange will reportedly raise their rates by as much as 26 percent, while rates in Virginia could go up by nearly 15 percent, presenting even more problems for the law that was sold in part on a promise that consumers would pay less for health care."
"In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.
Cigarette Smuggling Undermines Tax Revenue [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday argued the Obama “regime” — as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama — “sympathize” with radical Islamic terror group Boko Haram.
Checking Your Privilege 101. 
Checking Your Privilege 101. 
"Tactical Firearms ruffled some feathers with its “funny” sign in front its Katy, Texas, location recently. The sign was both pro-gun and anti-Obama."
The taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin–Madison is now offering a pioneering postdoctoral fellowship in feminist biology.
For example, the all-you-can-eat “Pi Phiesta” taco bar fundraisers that some chapters of Pi Beta Phi sorority throw each year around Cinco de Mayo to raise money for local charities are likely going extinct thanks to the forces of political correctness......The sorority felt compelled to change its “Pi Phiesta” into an ocean-themed party where tacos happened to be served...... critics call Cinco de Mayo celebrations involving tacos “cultural appropriation” — “actions that trivialize aspects of a culture by not respecting a custom’s symbolic significance or the history of a style of dress or other artifact.”
For example, the all-you-can-eat “Pi Phiesta” taco bar fundraisers that some chapters of Pi Beta Phi sorority throw each year around Cinco de Mayo to raise money for local charities are likely going extinct thanks to the forces of political correctness......The sorority felt compelled to change its “Pi Phiesta” into an ocean-themed party where tacos happened to be served...... critics call Cinco de Mayo celebrations involving tacos “cultural appropriation” — “actions that trivialize aspects of a culture by not respecting a custom’s symbolic significance or the history of a style of dress or other artifact.”
Take economic indicators. Most conservatives talk and act as if bad economic news disturbs the left as much as it disturbs them. It doesn’t.
"What remains amazing is the gall of Obamacare supporters in government. Each state that continues to fail in their endeavor to create a website simply seems to shrug it off and blame someone else.
A near-stall for the economy, for sure, but at least it wasn’t worse.