Detroit City Council approves zoning changes for $450M Red Wings arena

Detroit City Council approves zoning changes for $450M Red Wings arena | MLive.com
The vote comes after months of back and forth between the council and Olympia Development of Michigan, the development arm of the Ilitch family,which is heading up the $650 million project in Detroit's Cass Corridor.

Google Gives You the Ability to Delete All of Your Search History: Here’s Why You Might Want To | TheBlaze.com

Google Gives You the Ability to Delete All of Your Search History: Here’s Why You Might Want To | TheBlaze.com:

"Google introduced a feature earlier this year that lets users download their entire search history, but some have pointed out that you can also completely delete it, which might be a good decision from a security or data tracking standpoint.

According to Venture Beat, Google released this download feature in January, but it just recently got attention when it made it onto the Google Operating System blog, which is an unofficial Google news and tips website."

Lots of "earth lovin'" photos!----National Mall TRASHED After Lefty Earth Day Celebration

National Mall TRASHED After Lefty Earth Day Celebration | The Daily Caller:

"The Global Citizen Earth Day, which was held on the Washington Monument grounds, was billed as “an event to inspire citizens to take action to protect our planet and its people,” but instead left behind a big mess for the city to clean up."

The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders

The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders - Telegraph
The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders

New research suggests that climate change could make spiders not only more numerous but larger and faster on their feet

Forget floods, droughts, sea-level rise and even the melting polar ice caps. Here’s a really compelling reason to worry about global warming. Spiders.

Research has already suggested that there will be more of them – and they will grow bigger – as temperatures rise. Now a new study, published in the journal Experimental Biology, has concluded that they are likely to be able to run faster and therefore, be harder to catch.

“Activism” Class at University of Michigan Teaches Capitalism Should Be “Overthrown”

“Activism” Class at University of Michigan Teaches Capitalism Should Be “Overthrown” | Michigan Review
“Activism” Class at University of Michigan Teaches Capitalism Should Be “Overthrown”
A textbook used for an “activism” class at the University of Michigan teaches that capitalism should be “overthrown” – claiming “capitalism means waste, poverty, ecological degradation, dispossession, inequality, exploitation, imperialism, war and violence.”
The textbook, “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution,” is assigned as mandatory reading for “Organizational Studies 203: Activism,” a class at the public university that pledges to teach students about the “struggles of movements past, as well as hands-on engagement with the struggles of today.”
...But the book blames the “global slump we are living through” on capitalism, adding it “is the predictable manifestation of a crisis-prone economic system rooted in production for profit rather than for human need. … [F]or the sake of human development and ecological sanity it needs to be overthrown.”
...It also touts pull quotes such as “capitalism turns men and women into economic cannibals, and having done so, mistakes economic cannibalism for human nature....”

National Mall Trashed After Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day Concert - Christine Rousselle

National Mall Trashed After Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day Concert - Christine Rousselle:

"It's great to care about the environment (and people probably should), but it's incredibly hypocritical to go to a concert celebrating the environment and leave the area a trash-strewn mess. Simply going to a concert is not an indulgence to litter in the future."

Yes!---Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel

Great book---Climate Change: The Facts

Climate Change: The Facts
Big Climate is slowly being crushed by a hard, icy reality: if you’re heading off to university this year, there has been no global warming since before you were in kindergarten....
You would think that might occasion a little circumspection. 
But instead the cultists up the ante: having evolved from ‘global warming’ to the more flexible ‘climate change’, they’re now moving on to ‘climate collapse’. 
Total collapse. 
No climate at all. 
No sun, no ice. 
No warm fronts, except for the heaving bosoms in Rajendra Pachauri’s bodice-rippers.
Mark Steyn, from Climate Change: The Facts

We're doomed----Watters' World: Earth Day Edition

New Book: Clinton Foundation Money Influenced Hillary’s State Department Policy | TheBlaze.com

New Book: Clinton Foundation Money Influenced Hillary’s State Department Policy | TheBlaze.com:

"Foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation will continue to be a headache for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton with a new book set to be released on May 5.

“Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter Schweizer, alleges how contributions to the foundation influenced State Department policy from 2009 to 2013, while Clinton was secretary of state, according to the New York Times,"

A feature length documentary which shows how extreme environmentalism is damaging the lives of vulnerable people from the ban on DDT to the campaigns on Global Warming.

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Finally, an open minded look at global climate change!

By N. Moore on December 13, 2009

"A thoughtful look at the current global climate change movement, the data involved, and the conclusions drawn. 

Significant time is spent on the likely repercussions of enacting climate change legislation. 

As you can imagine, it won't be pretty. 

The documentary also focuses on the harm caused by the anti-DDT campaign which has killed millions in impoverished nations. 

It's a common sense look at the issues - sure to be unpopular with the global warming blindly faithful. 

It's not a right-wing hate-fest either - just a well put together documentary 

that exposes some of the inconvenient truths that are ignored by those with an agenda. 

Best documentary I've seen in years and I watch plenty."

Students Fear for Their Safety Because Conservatives Invited a Speaker to Campus

Students Fear for Their Safety Because Conservatives Invited a Speaker to Campus | National Review Online:
Apparently, the simple presence of Christina Hoff Sommers on campus could be traumatizing. Students at both Oberlin College in Ohio and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., have been crying out that they fear for their safety because conservative groups invited someone who disagrees with their views on sexual assault and rape culture to speak on campus. 
...A photo on Twitter shows a student holding another sign reading, “TRIGGER WARNING: anti-feminism” and advertising the location of a “safe space” for anyone who might feel traumatized by Sommers’s opposing views. 
...In fact, the Oberlin students who wrote a piece for the school newspaper protesting the invitation preceded it with a trigger warning — apparently, they consider Sommers to be so dangerous that even talking about her talking could traumatize someone. 
...“It is valid and necessary to both create alternative spaces for healing and to directly challenge the violence that is happening,” it continued. 
The letter also announced an “alternate event,” titled “We’re Still Here Monday.”

History for April 22 - On-This-Day.com

History for April 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Queen Isabella I (Spain) 1451, Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) 1870 - Russian premier (1917-1924), J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 - Physicist, designed and built the first atomic bomb 


Eddie Albert (Edward Albert Heimberger) 1908 - Actor ("Green Acres"), Yehudi Menuhin 1916 - Violinist, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at age ten, Glen Campbell 1936 - Singer, actor 


Jack Nicholson (John Joseph) 1937 - Actor ("The Shining", "Batman", "The Witches of Eastwicke", "A Few Good Men"), John Waters 1946 - Director, Peter Frampton 1950 - Musician (Humble Pie) 


1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil. 


1509 - Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry VII. 


1864 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed the inscription "In God We Trust" to be included on one-cent and two-cent coins. 


1889 - At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started as thousands of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land. 


1914 - Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles. 


1915 - At the Second Battle Ypres the Germans became the first country to use poison gas. 



1931 - James G. Ray landed an autogyro on the lawn of the White House. 


1952 - An atomic test conducted in Nevada was the first nuclear explosion shown on live network television. 


1970 - The first "Earth Day" was observed by millions of Americans. 


2000 - Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father. He had to be taken from his Miami relatives by U.S. agents in a predawn raid. 


2010 - The Boeing X-37 began its first orbital mission. It successfully returned to Earth on December 3, 2010.

The Human Condition Is in Peril All Over the World -- And Obama Says Climate Change Is the Greatest Threat We Face - The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Human Condition Is in Peril All Over the World -- And Obama Says Climate Change Is the Greatest Threat We Face - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

"We have ISIS murdering 30, at least, Ethiopia Christians, 15 by drowning, 15 by beheading.  The FBI announced just this morning in Minneapolis that we're on the verge of a plague in this country of domestic Americans seeking to join ISIS because there's something romantic about it; there's something exciting about it. Their lives apparently are so empty that they are looking for excitement, they want to join ISIS.

The FBI made a major announcement in Minneapolis this morning detailing this and portraying just what a potentially huge problem it is, because if they are in this country, American citizens, obviously, are here, and if they're showing sympathy toward ISIS and wanting to join, at some point somebody at ISIS is gonna figure out they do not have to leave America to join ISIS. And they do not have to leave America to perform various ISIS tactics.  It is an imminent threat, and it's growing."

State Department Won’t Rule Out $50 Billion ‘Signing Bonus’ For Iran

State Department Won’t Rule Out $50 Billion ‘Signing Bonus’ For Iran | Washington Free Beacon
"The State Department on Monday would not rule out giving Iran up to $50 billion as a so-called “signing bonus” for agreeing to a nuclear deal later this year, according to comments made to journalists following reports that the Obama administration had formulated a plan to release tens of billions of frozen Iranian funds.

Experts have said this multi-billion dollar “signing bonus” option, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, could be the largest cash infusion to a terror-backing regime in recent memory.
A cash release of $30 to $50 billion upon reaching a final nuclear agreement would come in addition to the more than $11 billion in unfrozen assets that Iran will already have received under an interim nuclear accord reached in 2013."

If they "think" it, it will happen-------Shipping Great Lakes water? That's California dreaming

Shipping Great Lakes water? That's California dreaming

Amid rising water supply crises, could the parched American Southwest ever get its hands on the world's most abundant and valuable liquid fresh water supply — our Great Lakes?

...California isn't asking for Great Lakes water.
No Southwest state is.
But if the drought worsens, and population growth continues to soar there, desperate times could someday call for desperate measures.

Don't think the idea of a raid on Great Lakes water is that far-fetched. 
Plans were in the works to allow a Canadian company to sell Lake Superior water to Asia via tanker ships as recently as 1998. 
A coal company in 1981 wanted to pipe Superior water to Wyoming to move its semi-liquefied product back to the Midwest. 
And in 1982, Congress mandated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study the feasibility of using Great Lakes water to replenish supplies needed for the heavily agricultural Plains states. (It wasn't feasible.)

Who owns the water?...

White House: No, Obama Isn’t Undermining His Climate Message by Flying All the Way Down to Florida for Earth Day | TheBlaze.com

White House: No, Obama Isn’t Undermining His Climate Message by Flying All the Way Down to Florida for Earth Day | TheBlaze.com:

"CBS News reporter Mark Knoller asked White House press secretary Josh Earnest whether the president risks “undermining his message when he flies to the Everglades on a 747, hundreds of miles, to make a statement about climate change?”

After laughter, one reporter remarked, “He could drive.” Another said, “He could take a van.”

Public employee pensions are killing services in California

Public employee pensions are killing services in California - Watchdog.org:

A new study published by the Manhattan Institute shows that many California cities are suffering from “crowding out,” a cut in services in order to cope with the ever-increasing benefits granted to government employee retirees, which “crowd out” other spending.

Cities and counties especially feel the burden of retired government employees during recessions when tax revenues are down. For example, the city of Fontana saw a 49.5 percent decrease in its tax revenues since 2009 while pensions costs increased nearly 75 percent. 

But even when tax revenues increase substantially–San Francisco city and county saw an increase of 72 percent in revenues–pension benefits usually increase at supersonic speeds–537 percent for San Francisco.

...However such reforms will be very hard to come by. 

Just in the Canadian province of Quebec, which offers similarly generous retirement benefits, public employees staunchly opposed (but were ultimately unsuccessful into stopping) paying 50 percent of their retirement benefits. The even stormed Montreal’s City Hall in protest.

But the more California (and Quebec) wait to come up with significant structural changes, the more painful the correction will be.

Dude, where' my tax dollars?"---The State of Marijuana

The State of Marijuana | The Marshall Project:
"...Can't you just tack on a hefty tax? 
You'd think that would curb heavy use.
It might also give other states an incentive to legalize.
Colorado now has a year’s worth of data that shows significant tax revenues from legalization and very little negative impact in terms of crime.
The question is, "What's a hefty tax?"
Washington taxes cannabis 25 percent at the farmgate, 25 percent at the processor, 25 percent at retail, plus sales tax.
That means that about 40 cents of the consumer dollar goes to the state.
Sounds pretty hefty, no?
And it is, as long as market prices stay high.
But as market prices plunge — shops in Spokane now feature $200 ounces — the taxes plunge right with them. 
I think we'll see farmgate prices below $2/gram for medium-grade cannabis (compared to about $10/gram on the current illicit market) and retail at perhaps twice that.
Suddenly, the tax isn't nearly hefty enough to do what you want it to do: keep prices up and prevent big increases in juvenile use and heavy use.
The right way to do it is to tax based on THC content rather than price.
For 10 percent-THC cannabis, the right tax level would be $5-7 per gram..."

University Apologizes to Illegal Aliens for Mexican Food at Sci-Fi Event

University Apologizes to Illegal Aliens for Mexican Food at Sci-Fi Event | MRCTV
Here, we have another glaring example of self-victimization by, shockingly (sarcasm), college students. 
During a sci-fi themed event at Stevenson College, a residential college of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), students chose to be offended by (wait for it) the food provided.

The event staff deemed the theme to be “intergalactic” and decorated the room with spaceships and aliens. 
Focus on the “aliens.” 
The staff, wittingly or unwittingly, chose to cater the event with a Mexican food buffet, which students then linked the Mexican food with the theme of aliens.

Get it? 

They made a connection of goofy space aliens and illegal immigrants, specifically the term “illegal aliens.”

Wait, it gets better (or worse depending on how you receive this). 

Stevenson is APOLOGIZING for the “cultural insensitivity” of the event. Dr. Carolyn Golz, Student Life overseer, wrote a letter to students, particularly to undocumented students, apologizing for the connection students made.

“We would never want to make a connection between individuals of Latino heritage or undocumented students and "aliens" and I am so sorry that our College Night appeared to do exactly that.”...

Scott Walker: I Would ‘Absolutely’ Repeal Common Core in Wisconsin | TheBlaze.com

Scott Walker: I Would ‘Absolutely’ Repeal Common Core in Wisconsin | TheBlaze.com:

"Wisconsin Gov. Scot Walker said he would “absolutely” sign a bill repealing Common Core in his state.

Glenn Beck, interviewing Walker on the radio Monday morning, told the governor he is “seemingly a little noncommittal on Common Core. Will you sign, if it comes to your desk, a full repeal of Common Core in Wisconsin?”

“Absolutely. I proposed it in my budget,” Walker responded."

These Blue States Have Tried the Elizabeth Warren Model

These Blue States Have Tried the Elizabeth Warren Model
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in new social programs paid for with higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires.
In recent years, though, blue states such as California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota adopted this very strategy, and they raised taxes on their wealthy residents.
How did it work out?
Almost all of these states lag behind the national average in growth of jobs and incomes.
So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?
The blue states that try to lift up the poor with high taxes, high welfare benefits, high minimum wages and other Robin Hood policies tend to be the places where the rich end up the richest and the poor the poorest.
...In a new report called “Rich States, Poor States” that I write each year for the American Legislative Exchange Council with Arthur Laffer and Jonathan Williams, we find that five of the highest-tax blue states in the nation—California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois—lost some 4 million more U.S. residents than entered these states over the last decade. 
Meanwhile, the big low-tax red states—Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia—gained about this many new residents.
So much for liberal policies creating a workers paradise.

SO THIS IS BASICALLY STATE-SANCTIONED HAZING: The Footwear Cadets Were Allegedly Forced to Wear

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO THIS IS BASICALLY STATE-SANCTIONED HAZING: The Footwear Cadets Were Allegedly Forced to Wear …:
"SO THIS IS BASICALLY STATE-SANCTIONED HAZING: 

The Footwear Cadets Were Allegedly Forced to Wear During Political Event March Has Sparked an Uproar. 
As the commenters note, this was just an effort to humiliate men in the service of PC ideology.

UPDATE: From the comments:

The Canadian Army is deploying to the Ukraine.

The US Army is wearing high heels.

Yikes.

Hopey-changey.
And admit it, if in 2012 I’d said, re-elect Obama and you’ll see American fighting men forced to march in red high heels, you’d have thought I was over the top crazy, wouldn’t you? 
But then, there were a lot of real predictions about Obama’s presidency that seemed crazy and paranoid, but that have also turned out to be true. . . ."