Read of the month! The toughest, smartest man in politics today!----Sheriff Clarke: Attacks On Police Will Result in More Black Crime Victims

Sheriff Clarke: Attacks On Police Will Result in More Black Crime Victims - Right Wisconsin - Conservative politics and perspective powered by Charlie Sykes:
"EDITOR'S NOTE: Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke testified Tuesday before the House Committee on the Judiciary on policing and criminal justice reform.
Clarke's testimony in its entirety is presented below.

"Good morning, Mr. Chair, and Honorable Members of the Committee on the Judiciary. Thank you for the opportunity to state my view, which is backed by 37 years of experience from ground level concerning police accountability, aggression towards police, public safety concerns, and what might be the right thing for us to work on now.

Since the events that led to riots in Ferguson, Missouri, police use of force has become scrutinized nationally. Police use of force should be scrutinized—locally, that is. It should be examined in terms of factual data and circumstances that led to the police action, and not from an emotional foundation of false narratives or catchy slogans like “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” or “No Justice, No Peace” or “Black Lives Matter.” Let’s leave that conduct for the public to engage in, not the mainstream media or those elected officials who can’t resist the opportunity to exploit the emotions of an uninformed or misinformed public simply for political gain.

We will no doubt hear a lot of statistics thrown around today; some distorted to achieve a predetermined agenda. In 2013, the USDOJ under Attorney General Eric Holder did a study in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice on traffic stop data. They found that when you use control factors that statistics and research require for legitimate findings, any racial disparities are attributed to differences in offending. The study showed that Black drivers violated speeding and other traffic laws at much greater rates than whites. That conclusion of this study under the Eric Holder-led USDOJ might be ugly to some, but it is what the data and research found. That same study showed that three out of every four Black drivers said that police had a legitimate reason for stopping them.

The same is true in arrest and incarceration data of African-American males. Participation rates in violent crime explain the disparity of why so many Black males are locked up in prison. Black males are disproportionately involved in violent crime, and this violence is predominantly perpetrated against other Black people. It is not the result of a discriminatory criminal justice system.

Blacks make up 37.5% of the prison population at the state and federal levels. If we released those convicted on drug charges alone the percentage of Black males in prison would drop to 37%, a mere half of one percent. So much for the myth of Black males filling up prisons merely for drug convictions--not to mention that illegal drug use is the scourge of the Black community and leads to a great deal of violent crime....
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The government is going to ban trans fats.

The government is going to ban trans fats. | PJ Tatler
The nanny state’s death star agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is getting ready to ban trans fats.

If you enjoy donuts, movie popcorn, pie crust or french fries (to name a few) you’d better movie quickly before the jack boot of government food regulation sucks as much joy as possible from the American food palette.

Writes Politico, “The Obama administration is expected to all but ban trans fat in a final ruling that could drop as soon as next week, killing most uses of an ingredient that has been put in everything from frozen pizza to Reese’s Pieces but since deemed harmful to human health...”

Peter Suderman at Reason sums it up nicely.

The FDA and its supporters argue that trans fat restrictions are necessary as a health measure following a 2013 proposal that trans fats not be “generally recognized as safe.” This is more than a little bit ironic given that for decades, trans fats were pushed by the public health community as a healthier alternative to saturated fats. Indeed, the food industry shifted to trans fats through the 1980s and 1990s in part because of a requirement that food products with saturated fat be labeled—a requirement which, of course, was put in place by the FDA.

At least indirectly, then, FDA food regulations helped make the use of trans fats more common—yet now the agency is trying to ban the same fats its earlier work likely have encouraged. Meanwhile, itincreasingly seems clear that the old public health wisdom about the evils of saturated fats was off-base, and that the once-evil saturated fats aren’t nearly as bad as previously thought...

Liberals Believe You 'MUST be Made' to Obey - Eagle Rising

Liberals Believe You 'MUST be Made' to Obey - Eagle Rising:

"Even so, it’s during those rare moments of candor that our cultural Marxist friends’ rhetoric actually aligns with their intended actions. In other words, every so often, and usually by accident, they tell the truth.

Take this recent declaration by President Obama at Georgetown University. He was discussing his contempt for conservative new media in general and Fox News in particular:

“[W]e’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues,” he said.

How Kim Jong-un of him. In sum: Goal 1) Control thought by, Goal 2) Controlling the media."

The little man is delusional-------Obama's poverty mythology

STEPHEN MOORE: Obama's poverty mythology - Washington Times:
Everything has contributed to our current malaise except for his own failed policies.

Here’s a brief truth squad examination of Mr. Obama’s mythologies and misstatements of fact. 

This was a long speech, so I will just identify as many of the whoppers as space permits.

President Obama: “The stereotype is that you’ve got folks on the left who just want to pour more money into social programs, and don’t care anything about culture or parenting or family structures … .”

After more than $20 trillion spent on the War on Poverty since 1964 (in inflation adjusted dollars), how is it a stereotype to say the left only wants to pour money at programs? 

Just a few weeks ago, the president blamed the Baltimore riots on Republicans for not spending and borrowing even more money for his social programs. 

He sounded like a parody of himself.

If the left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps...?

Read on...

History for May 21

History for May 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Plato 427 B.C., Glenn Hammond Curtiss 1878, Armand Hammer 1898 


Raymond Burr 1917, Andrei Sakharov 1921 - Soviet physicist, he came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Soviet antiwar activist, Mr. T (Lawrence Tero Tureaud) 1952 


1542 - Hernando de Soto died along the Mississippi River while searching for gold. 


1819 - Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as "swift walkers." 


1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton. 


1881 - The United States Lawn Tennis Association was formed in New York City. 


1924 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago. 


1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20. 


1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll. 


1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores. 


1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/05/bang-bang-by-tammy-derouin-i-witnessed.html

Bang!  Bang!

By Tammy Derouin

I witnessed something extraordinary on a school playground.  An activity which was once typical child’s play has been banished and is now treated like criminal activity.  I probably spent more time watching and gauging the reaction of parents and wondering when the SWAT team was going to descend from the trees than I spent watching the kids.

The kids were enjoying one of my favorite childhood activities, a game of Good vs. Evil, or as we called it in my day, playing guns.  The “bad guys” have changed but the objective remains the same.  I remember playing Army with the neighborhood kids.  I fought the Nazi’s on the ground and the Commie’s in my fighter plane.  We also played Navy.  One of the neighborhood boys had a basement which was perfect for pretending we were on a submarine.  Yeah, we torpedoed the enemy! No, we didn’t apologize!

In this particular game, Zombies were the enemy.  The kids knew who and what was evil.  They even knew the objective was total elimination.  A familiar sound of chasing and defeating the enemy filled the air. Bang! Bang!  Nerf Guns were the weapon of choice.  Several kids ran around with Nerf Guns and to my pleasant surprise, no one felt the need stop them.  Toy guns weren’t confiscated and no one was suspended.... 

Warning signs in the EU-----HSBC to charge for holding deposits

HSBC to charge for holding deposits - FT.com:
"...The unusual steps come after the European Central Bank became the first big central bank to announce a negative deposit rate — in effect a penalty on banks parking their surplus cash — last year.
Central banks in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland have also imposed negative policy rates of between minus 0.25 per cent and minus 0.75 per cent as they battle deflation and currency pressures.
HSBC wrote to the banks that will be affected this week and will introduce the negative interest rates on August 1. 
It will not affect the deposits of individual or corporate customers."

88 years ago: Bath (Michigan) School disaster kills 45

88 years ago: Bath School disaster kills 45:
"On May 18, 1927, an explosion ripped through the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building.
Andrew P. Kehoe, a local farmer and school board member, who was also the school's caretaker, had placed more than 1,000 pounds of dynamite in the school building over a period of months, setting a timer so it would explode when classes were in session.
Kehoe had been angry about property taxes used to fund a new school.
He blamed the tax for his financial hardships and the fact that he had fallen into foreclosure on his farm.
After the explosion, Kehoe drove up and detonated explosives in his truck, killing himself and three adults (the school superintendent, the postmaster and his father-in-law) and a child nearby who had survived the original blast.
Before blowing up the school, Kehoe killed his wife, Nellie, and set off various devices that caused his house and other farm buildings to burn.
The tragedy took 45 lives, 38 of them children, and injured 58 others, according to the Bath School Museum.
Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history."

"I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not."

Althouse: "I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not."
"I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not."

Said Duke professor Jerry Hough, defending himself after getting criticized for something he wrote in the comments section of a The New York Times editorial titled "How Racism Doomed Baltimore." Hough's I'm-old defense appears in a WaPo article titled "Duke professor, attacked for ‘noxious’ racial comments, refuses to back down."

Here's what Hough wrote in the NYT:

"This editorial is what is wrong. The Democrats are an alliance of Westchester and Harlem, of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore. Westchester and Montgomery get a Citigroup asset stimulus policy that triples the market. The blacks get a decline in wages after inflation.

But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white. The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.

In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word “colored.” The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.

So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.

I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existemt because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.

It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King [statue]. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X..."

CHILLING Video: Famous Liberal Law Professor Warns of Obama Dictatorship; Urges Congress to Act

CHILLING Video: Famous Liberal Law Professor Warns of Obama Dictatorship; Urges Congress to Act:

“Our system is changing, and this body [Congress] is the one branch that must act, if we are to reverse those changes,” Turley urged.

Turley said that there is a new model of government emerging, one in which our Founding Fathers thoroughly rejected, and pointed out that when Obama announced his unconstitutional dictatorial powers, Democrats in Congress cheered him on."

When Open Government Slams Shut

When Open Government Slams Shut - Reason.com
On March 2, The New York Times revealed that Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton had used a private email account to conduct official business for her entire four-year tenure as secretary of state. 
Clinton emailed President Barack Obama on an insecure server hosted in her own home. 
She destroyed many of her own messages, as she admitted after the Times article; the State Department had to conduct negotiations with her lawyers to get their hands on what remained of her official records. 
One can safely conclude that Hillary Clinton was more concerned about shielding her correspondence from scrutiny by American taxpayers than by foreign intelligence services.
Clinton's defenders made several half-hearted attempts to justify her behavior, but it was longtime aide Paul Begala who cut to the heart of the matter. 
"Voters do not give a shit about what email Hillary used," Begala told CNN. "They don't even give a fart."
It's depressing to contemplate, but as a strictly political calculation Begala may well be right. 
And here lies the paradox behind debates over government transparency: 
We don't know—and therefore have a hard time being outraged by—what we don't know. 
Maybe voters would have been incensed by the contents of the missives, but anything incriminating is likely long since deleted. 
The Democratic Party's presumptive 2016 frontrunner may well have made the shrewd calculation that it's better to violate transparency laws than be confronted with evidence of more serious wrongdoing...."

Sooo effective an advertising tool that NO Michigan company has added money to it!-------Pure Michigan Scare Tactics

Pure Michigan Scare Tactics [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
...The MEDC is the state’s corporate welfare arm, which hands out select subsidies to corporations and oversees the film incentive program and the Pure Michigan advertising campaign.

Specifically, the House GOP plan would redirect $185 million of spending on “economic development” programs to road construction and maintenance. The MEDC does not want its funding cut and responded with what is known as the “Washington Monument syndrome.” As noted by MIRS:

Steve Arwood, chief executive officer of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), said the plan "severely limits the state's ability to have an economic development strategy moving forward."

"Furthermore, it threatens to eliminate the entire Pure Michigan tourism effort – an industry which supports 214,333 jobs in our state," he continued. 

Here is a description of the Washington Monument syndrome, via Wikipedia:

The Washington Monument syndrome, also known as the Mount Rushmore syndrome, or the firemen first principle, is a term used to describe the phenomenon of government agencies in the United States cutting the most visible or appreciated service provided by the government when faced with budget cuts. It has been used in reference to cuts in popular services such as national parks and libraries or to valued public employees such as teachers and firefighters. This is done to put pressure on the public and lawmakers to rescind budget cuts.

Sure enough, after the press release from the MEDC, the media reports soon followed. An MLive headline said, “Pure Michigan campaign could disappear under House Republican road plan....”

Everything Is Awesome, Mideast Edition

Everything Is Awesome, Mideast Edition - WSJ
Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s deputy national security adviser, has been offering a reassuring view of the Iranian nuclear deal in the face of some Arab skepticism.
“If you can diplomatically and peacefully resolve the nuclear issue in a way that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” he told reporters last week, “we believe that will lead to a much more stable region.”
Mr. Rhodes also contends that with a deal “there will be no need to see [a] regional arms race.”

So what’s more frightening: That Mr. Rhodes believes what he’s saying? Or that he does not?

Just for Mr. Rhodes’s benefit, here’s a refresher course on stability and the arms race in the Middle East since April 2, 2015, the day Mr. Obama announced his framework nuclear agreement with Iran.

April 2: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif immediately accuses the U.S. of “spin” and contradicts Mr. Obama’s key claims regarding the terms of the deal.

April 12: A Swedish think tank reports that Saudi Arabia registered the biggest increase in defense spending in the world.

April 13: Moscow says it will deliver the S-300 air-defense system to Tehran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei later boasts that the U.S. “can’t do a damn thing” militarily against Iran.

Read on. Long, sad and frightening list

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"I recount these events not just to illustrate the distance between Ben Rhodes’s concept of reality and reality itself. It’s also a question of speed.
The Middle East, along with our position in it, is unraveling at an astonishing pace. 
Reckless drivers often don’t notice how fast they’re going until they’re about to crash.

We are near the point where there will be no walking back the mistakes we have made.
No walking away from them, either.
It takes a special innocence to imagine that nothing in life is irreversible, that everything can be put right, that fanaticism yields to reason and facts yield to wishes, and that the arc of Mideast history bends toward justice."

Watch How Hillary Clinton Reacts When Ed Henry Interrupts Event to Ask if She’ll Ever Answer Press Questions | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch How Hillary Clinton Reacts When Ed Henry Interrupts Event to Ask if She’ll Ever Answer Press Questions | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"After nearly a month-long shutout, Hillary Clinton took a few questions from the press on Tuesday — but not before she had some sly words for Fox News reporter Ed Henry.

As Clinton spoke with event attendees in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Henry cut in to ask if she would talk to the press.

“Maybe when I finish talking to the people here, how’s that?” the Democratic presidential candidate said."

‘It Sure Looks Like Some Ferguson Protestors Were Paid To Do So By Liberal Organize Missouri’

‘It Sure Looks Like Some Ferguson Protestors Were Paid To Do So By Liberal Organize Missouri’ | Ed Driscoll:
“Remember the protests (and riots) in Ferguson last summer? It looks like at least some of the protestors were told they would be paid to show up and now they’re upset the checks haven’t arrived yet,” Katie Pavlich writes atTownhall. “Weaselzippers has the full story and the screen shots showing “protestors” using the Twitter hashtag #cutthecheck in response to non-payment. Based on tweets, Organize Missouri is responsible for issuing payments:”

On May 14, protesters, upset with not being paid their promised checks for protesting, protested outside MORE, Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment, an ACORN organization which had received funding through George Soros to fund the protests.

....And now we learn that a pro-Obama organization apparently paid for at least some of the protestors to swing into action. Call it a vast left-wing conspiracy, to coin a phrase.

Limbaugh Swats Down Media's Gotcha Question to GOP Candidates on Iraq

Limbaugh Swats Down Media's Gotcha Question to GOP Candidates on Iraq

...Rush Limbaugh is suggesting a better way for GOP candidates to respond -- reject the premise.
"The premise"? That the Iraq war was a monumental foreign policy blunder for which Republicans are solely responsible and should bow their heads in perpetual shame, despite ridding the world of the worst tyrant since Pol Pot.

Limbaugh went after it with a vengeance on his radio show Monday and it made for bracing audio --

Knowing what we know now, should somebody ask Hillary if Bill Clinton should have just gone ahead and killed bin Laden when he had the chance several times? Knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have pulled out of Somalia? Blackhawk down, because that's what convinced bin Laden that we were a paper tiger. Bin Laden said so to an ABC reporter, John Miller. He said, yeah, when I saw you guys cut and run from Somalia, I knew you could be had. So knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have pulled out of Somalia when he did?

But I've got an entirely different perspective on this -- why even accept the premise in this knowing what you know now? The premise in the knowing what you know now question is that Iraq was a mistake, that Iraq was a total boondoggle. .... Knowing what we know now, should Bill Clinton have used a condom with Monica when she had on the blue dress?

Following a commercial break, Limbaugh elaborated on his premise --

I know this will not happen but I would love to see it -- I wish one of these Republicans would not accept the premise in this knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion of Iraq, or should Bush have, or was it a mistake, or what have you. Because the premise is that it was a mistake.The premise is that it was a debacle. The premise is that it was the worst damn thing that ever happened in America, was the Iraq war.  And that premise need not be accepted.

I would love it if Rubio or Jeb or anybody says -- well you know what, Chris (alluding to Fox News's Chris Wallace), you know what George (Stephanopoulos, purported ABC newsman/Clinton cheerleader), you know what, pick your native liberal reporter, knowing that the Democrats would rip this country apart because of the Iraq war, knowing that the Democrats would actively seek the defeat of the U.S. military, and knowing that the Democrat party would do everything they could to sabotage the war effort, I might have rethought it.

Knowing what I know now that the Democrat party was going to take the occasion of the Iraq war to rip this country apart, that they would use it to elect an unqualified president who would then cut and run, Barack Obama, I might not have, George. I might not have, Chris...

Read it all and wonder why it seems no one connected with the republicans ever listens to Rush. 

Mom Arrested, Shackled, Jailed Because Her Honor Roll Son Had 3 Unexcused Absences at School

Mom Arrested, Shackled, Jailed Because Her Honor Roll Son Had 3 Unexcused Absences at School | The Free Thought Project:
"Screven County, Georgia – Mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested this week because her son had too many unexcused absences from public school.
Writing on her Facebook page before turning herself in, Giles said “If anyone feels the need to go public with this feel free to do so….the facts are Sam originally had what they consider 12 unexcused absences, 6 are allowed per year, so he had 6 more than is acceptable, but the doctor reissued 3 excuses that Sam didn’t turn in, so basically I am being arrested for THREE days.”
She also noted that her child has all A’s and B’s in school.

The Girl Scouts Transgender Stance That Has Conservatives Up in Arms: ‘Stop This Nonsense…Now!’ | TheBlaze.com

The Girl Scouts Transgender Stance That Has Conservatives Up in Arms: ‘Stop This Nonsense…Now!’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Conservative critics are once again expressing frustrations with the Girl Scouts of America over the group’s transgender policy — and a recent blog post that affirms its stance."

HoneyBaked tradition leaves Detroit

Paul W: HoneyBaked tradition leaves Detroit:
 "Harry Hoenselaar felt he had Detroit’s best ham in 1957.
In fact, his ham was good enough to grow his family business into 382 corporately owned and franchisee-owned stores, with nearly a half billion dollars in sales.
That’s a lot of Ham.
HoneyBaked Ham.
The nearly 60 sweet years in Detroit apparently drawing to a close. 
The three families that now control HoneyBaked Ham have decided to move their main headquarters out of Detroit to Alpharetta, Georgia..."