Hillary Hits Obama for Being Too Strict on Illegal Immigrants

Hillary Hits Obama for Being Too Strict on Illegal Immigrants | The Weekly Standard
Hillary Clinton took a swing at President Barack Obama for being too strict on illegal immigrants. Clinton said, in an interview with Telemundo, that she would be less strict if she becomes president of the United States.
"I believe in comprehensive immigration reform.
And it would include in my plan a path to citizenship, which I think is absolutely essential.
 That is the goal.
But if we still are working toward it, fighting for it, then I want to do everything in my power not only to continue-- the executive orders that-- President Obama has put forth, D.A.P.A., and D.A.C.A., and the kinds of changes that he has made," Clinton said in response to a question about how much further she'd go on executive action than Obama.
"But I want to do more on an individual basis by putting more resources, more personnel into the system to try to help as many people as possible get a different status.
I will not be deporting parents.
I will not be breaking up families.
I will not be doing what we've seen too much of, which is tryin' to, you know, make immigrants the scapegoat for everything that people are concerned about in the country.
..."That's within existing authority within the executive branch. 
I'm gonna look for every legal way I can find to make sure that we don't intimidate and terrify hard working immigration families.
That they know that they will not have to worry about a knock on the door or a raid on their workplace.
Because I just don't think that's the right thing to do."

Finally an Accomplishment! Obama Turns Putin into World’s Most Powerful Leader - Eagle Rising

Finally an Accomplishment! Obama Turns Putin into World’s Most Powerful Leader - Eagle Rising:

"On Tuesday, the New York Post’s Benny Avni has some even harsher (but still true) words for President Obama and his liberal supporters.

The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.

President Obama (remember him?)"

Portland State course aims to ‘make whiteness strange’

Portland State course aims to ‘make whiteness strange’ | BizPac Review:
"According to Portland State University Professor’s Rachel Sanders’ “White Privilege” course, “whiteness” must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved.
The course description states that “whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States” and claims that “to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.”
Students taking the course will “endeavor to make whiteness strange.” 
In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must “interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.”
The course readings and concepts are drawn, in part, from the field of “critical race theory.” According to Harvard University, critical race theory “combine[s] progressive political struggles for racial justice with critiques of the conventional legal and scholarly norms which are themselves viewed as part of the illegitimate hierarchies that need to be changed.”
The Portland State University course description claims the construction of “whiteness” attaches material and psychological benefits to “individuals who identify, or are identified, as white.”"

Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings

Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings | Fox News: "Baltimore's bloody summer ended with a barrage of bangs, as the rate of homicides and gun crimes continued to spike in the wake of the racially charged case of Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody left citizens angry and cops demoralized.
For September, homicides were up 39 percent and non-fatal shootings nearly doubled over the same month in 2014, continuing a disturbing trend that has gripped the Charm City since Gray's death in April and the rioting that followed.
For the year, murders are up 52 percent and non-fatal shootings 80 percent over last year.
"We have highly motivated bad guys in Baltimore," Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith told FoxNews.com.
"I don't think police officers are going to engage potential gang members the way they did before Gray..."

Men haters try to change American boys-----Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity

Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity - The College Fix
‘Being emotional is manly in my opinion’
The size of G.I. Joe’s biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s guns in the Terminator movies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control.
That message and similar ones were conveyed recently to students during Vanderbilt University’s “Healthy Masculinities Week,” organized by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. 
Attendance for students was optional.
...Political correctness has value, Katz said. Supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump say like they him for “not being politically correct,” but what they really mean is they like him “for saying racist and sexist comments,” Katz added.
Pop culture also has an insidious effect on masculinity, Katz continued, imploring the audience not to “check your brain and moral conscience when you go to the movies.”
He showed clips from his film Tough Guise, in which Katz claims “there has been a ratcheting up of what it takes to be considered menacing in the 1980s and 90s.”
As evidence, Katz noted that G.I. Joe’s biceps have gotten larger over the years and that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone use bigger guns for their iconic roles as the Terminator and Rambo than did Humphrey Bogart in his 1930s and 1940s film roles.
Athletes and fraternity members are a risk to themselves and others because of the pressure put on them to act masculine, according to other events from the week.
One event featured a screening of the limited-release documentary The Mask You Live In, which blames “America’s narrow definition of masculinity” for the deteriorating mental health of boys and men.

“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he’s a boy is when he’s told to ‘be a man,’” former NFL player Joe Ehrmann says in the film.
Now a minister, Ehrmann spoke on an all-male panel in 2013 titled “Breaking the Male Code,” which was organized by Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler.
...Asked about the Fox News pundits’ criticisms, Vanderbilt’s Dicker said they “missed the fact that … there are many ways to be masculine, but American society pressures boys and men to adopt” the version that prioritizes “being competitive, stoic and aggressive, for example.”
Boys and men should also be taught that “emotional vulnerability, cooperation, and sensitivity are valuable human traits,” Dicker said.

German Woman Gets Eviction Notice to Make Room for Migrants — and She’s Not the First | TheBlaze.com

German Woman Gets Eviction Notice to Make Room for Migrants — and She’s Not the First | TheBlaze.com:

"A German woman is protesting the eviction notice she received informing her she has until the end of the year to vacate the government-owned apartment she rents in order to make room for migrants who have arrived seeking asylum.

“I think it’s a scandal to throw tenants out of their apartments,” Gabriele Keller, 56, told Germany’s SWR television. “I can’t see the sense of it.”

Kissing the American Dream Goodbye

Kissing the American Dream Goodbye | Intellectual Takeout:
"According to The Atlantic, the American dream has been downsized.
In fact, the American dream is no longer the simple wish of “home, job, and family.” Instead, many Americans simply dream about getting out of debt.
“[W]hen a survey asked people which things were the most important to their personal American dream, only 26 percent selected ‘owning a nice home’ as a top choice, while 37 percent chose ‘achieving financial security’ and 36 percent chose ‘being debt free.’ 
In a 2013 Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll that asked respondents to define what it means to be middle class, 54 percent of respondents chose ‘having the ability to keep up with expenses and hold a steady job while not falling behind or taking on too much debt,’ and only 43 percent defined being middle class as earning more, buying a home, and saving.”  "

History for October 6

History for October 6 - On-This-Day.com:
George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems, Reginald Fessenden 1866, Helen Wills Moody 1905 


Carole Lombard 1908, Thor Heyerdahl 1914, Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930 


Britt Ekland 1942, Millie Small 1946, Elisabeth Shue 1963 


1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer. 


1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army. 


1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. 


1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot". 


1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks. 


1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House. 


1991 - Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky. The ceremony was held at Michael Jackson's estate near Los Angeles, CA. It was Taylor's 8th marriage and Fortensky's 3rd.

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America:

"A phobia is an irrational fear. It is not irrational to give warning of an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief, expression, speech, and even thought. It is suicidal for a free society willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly. Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official who has sworn to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Silencing those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the American love of liberty."

College Professor Slams Gun-Free Zones in Wake of Oregon Community College Shooting | TheBlaze.com

College Professor Slams Gun-Free Zones in Wake of Oregon Community College Shooting | TheBlaze.com:

"A Cornell School of Law professor said there is a “single common thing” among mass shootings, and it’s not religion or racism — it’s gun-free zones.

In an editorial for USA Today Sunday, clinical law professor William A. Jacobson slammed gun-free zones for achieving the opposite of their intended purpose. He cited Umpqua Community College, the site of a deadly rampage by a 26-year-old who fatally shot nine people before turning the gun on himself."

Importing Terrorists

Arnold Ahlert: Importing Terrorists — The Patriot Post:
"Apparently, the Obama administration’s determination to promote amnesty, maintain open borders and sanctuary cities, release thousands of criminal immigrants onto American streets, and enhance the Islamic State’s recruiting ability by letting them run wild in the Middle East were insufficient efforts to undermine national security.
In a move best described as unconscionable, the administration granted asylum in the U.S. to 1,519 previously inadmissible foreigners involved in terrorism — because their crimes were ostensibly committed “while under duress.”
Even worse, the administration had to “tweak” the law to do so. 
In February 2014, an “Exercise of Authority” enacted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the State Department amended the parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act that had taken a zero-tolerance approach towards asylum seekers involved in any material support for terrorism.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry provided exemptions for “an alien who provided limited material support” to terrorist entities..."

Guns and alcohol

Guns and alcohol - The Washington Post:
"After various highly publicized shootings, those of us who are skeptical about gun controls are often asked:
So what are we suggesting should be done about the shootings?
If we’re not suggesting gun controls (as opposed to proposals such as letting teachers or professors be armed, increasing concealed carry rights outside schools, providing school guards or trying to figure out, maintain and extend the remarkable fall in violent crime since the early 1990s) — the argument goes, we’re not taking gun tragedies seriously.
...Every day, about 30 people are killed in the U.S. in gun homicides or gun accidents (not counting gun suicides or self-inflicted accidental shootings).
And every day, likely about 30 people are killed in homicides where the killer was under the influence of alcohol, plus alcohol-related drunk driving accidents and alcohol-related accidents where the driver wasn’t drunk but the alcohol was likely a factor (again not including those who died in accidents caused by their own alcohol consumption).
If you added in gun suicides on one side and those people whose alcohol consumption killed themselves on the other, the deaths would tilt much more on the side of alcohol use, but I generally like to segregate deaths of the user from deaths of others.
So what are we going to do about it? 
When are we going to ban alcohol? 
When are we going to institute more common-sense alcohol-control measures?
Well, we tried, and the conventional wisdom is that the cure was worse than the disease — which is why we went back to a system where alcohol is pretty freely available, despite the harm it causes (of which the deaths are only part).
We now prohibit various kinds of reckless behavior while using alcohol.
But we try to minimize the burden on responsible alcohol users by generally allowing alcohol purchase and possession, subject to fairly light regulations.
...Now the likely pathologies of gun prohibition — or even of many regulations that fall short of prohibition — would probably differ in some ways from the likely pathologies of alcohol prohibition. I’ve talked of some of those likely pathologies elsewhere, but this post is not about that.
Likewise, the social benefits of responsible gun use are different from the social benefits of responsible alcohol use, and the fraction of drinkers who abuse alcohol is likely higher than the fraction of gun owners who abuse guns.
But those are questions for another post.
My point here is simply that the right answer to “so what are we going to do about it?,” even when the “it” is horrible, is sometimes “not that much,” at least beyond forbidding intentional or reckless misbehavior.
We should certainly consider proposals that aim to ameliorate the problem, and weigh their costs and benefits. 
But we should not presume that there’s somehow a moral imperative to Do Something. 
In fact, there’s a moral imperative not to do something that’s likely to make matters worse."

Jason Chaffetz Announces His Run for House Speaker | TheBlaze.com

Jason Chaffetz Announces His Run for House Speaker | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah says he’s running for House speaker in a longshot challenge to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

Chaffetz — chairman of the high-profile House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — says voters and the public want Republicans to fight. He says the current House leaders don’t deserve an automatic promotion."

Water Use ‘Rats’ Inform Government on Homeowners Who Sprinkle Their Lawns Too Much in LA

Water Use ‘Rats’ Inform Government on Homeowners Who Sprinkle Their Lawns Too Much in LA | Somewhat Reasonable:
"A new form of informant is emerging in politically correct California — the “water rat.”
The water rat is a person who dials “311” to report that a neighbor is wasting water in Los Angeles, or who files a complaint on the other residents of their street at savewater.ca.gov, the government’s informant tip site.
The informants are creating a wave of anxiety in Hollywood, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter.
“I called the DPW (Department of Public Works) and told them there was a hose draining a huge amount of water from someone’s driveway,” the trade paper reported, of comments made by a tipster. “The water waste stopped the next day.
I still check every day.
It’s been more than a month, and I do feel it was due to me.”
During the month of May 2015, alone, 29,000 Californians informed on their neighbors about suspected water use violations in the drought-stricken state.
Use of too much water is considered, today, in LA, an obscene form of demonstration of wealth, and is not socially acceptable for movie stars, movie producers, or executives in related industries."

I disagree. But interesting, none the less.-----Prohibition Kills

Prohibition Kills - Reason.com
Remember the guy who bought 80-proof vodka that turned out to be 190-proof Everclear and died from alcohol poisoning?
Probably not, because that sort of thing almost never happens in a legal drug market, where merchants or manufacturers who made such a substitution, whether deliberately or accidentally, would face potentially ruinous economic and legal consequences.
In a black market, by contrast, customers frequently get something different from what they thought they were buying: something weaker, something stronger, or some other substance entirely.
As The Washington Post notes in a recent story about fentanyl-laced heroin, the results can be fatal.
This phenomenon is so familiar by now that calling it an unanticipated consequence of prohibition suggests that people writing drug policy know nothing of its history. 
It may not even be accurate to call uncertainty about the contents of black-market drugs an unintended consequence of prohibition, since it serves prohibitionists' avowed goal of discouraging drug consumption.
After all, the more dangerously unpredictable drugs are, the less likely people are to use them.
That calculation, of course, sacrifices the interests, and sometimes the lives, of undeterred drug users for the sake of protecting more risk-averse people from their own bad decisions.
But that is what prohibition is all about.
For anyone who doubts that making drugs more dangerous is an entirely predictable, if not intentional, result of prohibition, here are a few recent examples to consider, starting with the one highlighted by the Post.

• Fentanyl-Spiked Heroin

• Levamisole-Laced Cocaine

• Lethal LSD Lookalikes...Read on

Grade School Boys Suspended for Staring at a Girl

Grade School Boys Suspended for Staring at a Girl - The Gateway Pundit

Two grade school boys were suspended recently for playing a staring game. They were staring at a girl. She was also staring back at the boys.

Reason reported:

Kids can get in trouble for smooching. They can get in trouble for touching. They can get in trouble for chewing, playing with toys, and making sugary snacks. They can get in trouble for waving their hands the wrong way (don’t even get me started on pencil-twirlers). And yes, they can even get in trouble for staring.

According to WLWT.com, the principal at St. Gabriel Consolidated School—a private institution—suspended a pair of 12-year-old boys for a day for playing a staring game with a female student:

Tolbert believes her son and another student at St. Gabriel were unfairly punished.

Tolbert said the boys got into a staring match with a female student last school year.

“He was playing a game with her. He said she was laughing. They were engaged. When she finally giggled and said stop. He stopped,” Tolbert said.

The female student was cited in court papers as saying she also stared at the boys.

Hours After Oregon College Shooting, Hillary Clinton Gave an Interview — Watch Her Response | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hours After Oregon College Shooting, Hillary Clinton Gave an Interview — Watch Her Response | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Hours after the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon, Hillary Clinton said she felt an “absolute urgency” to push for gun control.

The Democratic frontrunner’s remarks came in an interview with Janet Wu, a journalist with Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV.

“I have to tell you, Janet, I am just sick of this,” Clinton said. “I’m sick about it, and I feel an absolute urgency for this country to start being sensible about keeping guns away from people who should not have them.”

Immigration Will Outpace American Population Growth 7 To 1 Through 2065

Immigration Will Outpace American Population Growth 7 To 1 Through 2065
The following chart and background have been provided to Breitbart News exclusively from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, which is chaired by 

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

80%

. The chart shows that for every 1 net American born to today’s population—births minus deaths—the federal government will add 7 more people to the country through future immigration.

The Senate Subcommittee told Breitbart News:

October 3rd marked the 50th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act. According to Pew Research, in the five decades since the Act’s adoption, 59 million immigrants have entered the United States. Pew further estimates that, including the descendants of those new arrivals, immigration policy added 72 million people to the population of the United States. In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 Americans were foreign-born; today, nearly 1 in 7 are foreign-born. The United States has taken in four times more worldwide immigrants than any other nation on Earth. Over the next five decades, Pew projects that new immigration, including the descendants of those new immigrants, will add 103 million to the current U.S. population. The net addition of 103 million new persons is exclusively the result of new immigration of persons not currently in the U.S. The 103 million figure does not include any immigrants currently in the U.S. or their future children. (As a side note: Pew data shows that new foreign-born arrivals will not lower today’s median U.S. age of 38; Pew estimates the median age of the foreign-born in 2065 will approach 53.)

Pew also found that, by more than a 3-1 margin, Americans wished to see immigration rates reduced – not raised. Unless such reductions are enacted, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever recorded in U.S. history and will keep climbing to new all-time records every decade of the 21st century. Pew projects that by 2065, more than 1 in 3 U.S. residents will either be foreign-born or have foreign-born parents, assuming no law is passed to reduce immigration rates. By contrast, in the 20th century, after the foreign-born population share peak reached in 1910, immigration was reduced for the next six consecutive decades.

Lower-income workers, including millions of prior immigrants, are among those most severely impacted by the vast inflow of new workers competing for the same jobs at lower wages. Across the economy, average hourly wages are lower today than in 1973, while the share of people not working is at nearly a four-decade high. Yet the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill would have tripled green card issuances over the next decade (issuing more new green cards than the entire population of Texas) and the industry-backed I-squared bill would triple admission of new H-1B foreign workers provided to technology corporations as low-wage substitutes for their existing workers..."

Same risk as our electric infrastructure-----Nuclear power plants in ‘culture of denial’ over hacking risk

Nuclear power plants in ‘culture of denial’ over hacking risk - FT.com:
"Nuclear power plants around the world are harbouring a “culture of denial” about the risks of cyber hacking, with many failing to protect themselves against digital attacks, a review of the industry has warned.
A focus on safety and high physical security means that many nuclear facilities are blind to the risks of cyber attacks, according to the report by think-tank Chatham House, citing 50 incidents globally of which only a handful have been made public.
The findings are drawn from 18 months of research and 30 interviews with senior nuclear officials at plants and in government in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, Ukraine and the US.
“Cyber security is still new to many in the nuclear industry,” said Caroline Baylon, the report’s author.
“They are really good at safety and, after 9/11, they’ve got really good at physical security.
But they have barely grappled with cyber.”
The report cites officials who describe the industry as being “far behind” other industrial sectors when it comes to insulating themselves against digital attacks.
Ms Baylon said there was a “culture of denial” at many nuclear plants, with a standard response from engineers and officials being that because their systems were not connected to the internet, it would be very hard to compromise them.
“Many people said it was simply not possible to cause a major incident like a release of ionising radiation with a cyber attack . . . but that’s not necessarily true.”
...The report points to a 2008 incident at the Hatch plant in Georgia to illustrate how vulnerable plants could be to deliberate digital disruption: though not an attack, when a contractor issued a routine patch to a business network system, it triggered a shutdown.
Most facilities still do not take cyber security seriously enough in spite of such instances, Ms Baylon said.
...“It would be extremely difficult to cause a meltdown at a plant or compromise one but it would be possible for a state actor to do, certainly,” said Ms Baylon
“The point is that risk is probability times consequence.
And even though the probability might be low, the consequence of a cyber incident at a nuclear plant is extremely high.”"

US mass shootings prompt surge in weapons sales

US mass shootings prompt surge in weapons sales - FT.com:
"Business has been brisk for Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in North Carolina, since the Oregon community college shooting last week that left 10 people dead, including the 26-year-old suspect.
Mr Hyatt saw an even bigger surge in customers after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, before the gunman killed himself.
After that incident, President Barack Obama made his first major push for stricter gun laws. 
In the wake of the Oregon shooting, Mr Obama on Friday again urged Americans to challenge the powerful gun lobby, saying he could not do it alone.
However, the calls for tighter gun laws lead to an increase in weapons sales.
“Once the public hears the president on the news say we need more gun controls, it tends to drive sales,” said Mr Hyatt, who owns one of the largest gun retailers in the US.
“People think, if I don’t get a gun now, it might be difficult to get one in the future. 
The store is crowded.”
...Gun sales this year could surpass the record set in 2013, when gun purchases surged after the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders..."

IRS: Take Away Muslim Group’s Tax-Exempt Status | Official Ben Carson for President 2016

IRS: Take Away Muslim Group’s Tax-Exempt Status | Official Ben Carson for President 2016:

"The Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim group, recently demanded that I withdraw as candidate for the 2016 presidential race. By doing so, the organization has brazenly violated IRS rules prohibiting tax-exempt nonprofits like CAIR to intervene in a political campaign on behalf of—or in opposition to—a candidate. (Click video link to witness the violation.)"

Study: Homophobic attitudes 'associated with psychosis and other forms of mental illness'

Study: Homophobic attitudes 'associated with psychosis and other forms of mental illness' - The College Fix:
"A paper by a cadre of Italian researchers claims that anti-gay, or “homophobic,” attitudes are signs of a possible mental disorder.
That’s right — for, as one of the study’s authors noted, “… for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia, associated with potentially severe psychopathologies.”
But Cornell University’s William M. Briggs scoffs:

“Potentially severe psychopathologies?
Sounds like the sort of thing that requires treatment, perhaps even against the will of the patients.”
Is this study worthy of its bombast?
Not according to Briggs:
...Consider, for example, some of the questions on the 25-item “Homophobia Scale,” scored 1 to 5, from “Strongly agree” to “Strongly disagree”:
–Homosexuality is acceptable to me.
–Marriage between homosexual individuals is acceptable.
–Homosexuality is immoral.
–Organizations which promote gay rights are necessary.
–Homosexual behavior should not be against the law.
...Read the full article."

Humor: Following

Humor: Following — The Patriot Post: