Cubans handed cash, Social Security card, food stamps, Medicaid at U.S. border

BIENVENIDO: Cubans handed cash, Social Security card, food stamps, Medicaid at U.S. border | Washington Examiner:
"Thousands of Cubans rushing the U.S. border in record numbers are being greeted with a Welcome Wagon operation the provides them with taxpayer-funded benefits including cash, a Social Security card, food stamps, and Medicaid, according to a review of the latest immigration crisis on the border.
During a field trip to the Laredo, Texas crossing point, two experts from the Center for Immigration Studies documented how Cubans are provided with the services free of charge in a storefront operation set up by a Cuban immigrant, who even provides housing and schedules transportation to Miami.
"The door is wide open.
Come and get your free stuff," is how Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, sized it up.

Not just risking national security. Persona greed!-----WATCHDOG RELEASES TOP TEN MOST ETHICALLY CHALLENGED HILLARY EMAILS

FACT Marks One-Year Anniversary of Clinton Lying at UN
(Washington, D.C.) – March 10, 2016-One year ago today at the United Nations, Hillary Clinton stood in front of the world and lied when she stated:
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.” 
Much has changed during that time as a court-ordered release of over
30,000 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server revealed that Clinton sent or received at least 2,079 emails containing classified material, 104 of which she personally and proactively wrote and sent.
...“Overwhelming evidence points to the fact that as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton abused her official position to help her friends and advance her political interests, all while putting our national security at great risk,” said Matthew Whitaker, Executive Director, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.
“We will continue to expose the truth about the content of her emails because a politically powerful
individual needs to be held to the same standard as all other citizens.”
The content ranges from granting special access to Clinton’s campaign and Clinton Foundation donors, to assisting her son-in-law’s business contact, to ordering aides to act counter to security protocol:
1. Clinton intervenes for son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky: On August 22, 2012, Clinton acted on a request from her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, for the State Department to assist one his business contacts that also had ties to a Clinton Foundation donor. This email exchange was the subject of an ethics complaint filed by FACT with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in December 2015, which was based upon this apparent special access to the State Department that was given based upon relationships with Clinton’s family members and Clinton Foundation donors.
A long, tawdry list.
Read on!

Lunch video......for dogs!!

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Loretta Lynch’s law firm tied to Hillary Clinton

Loretta Lynch’s law firm tied to Hillary Clinton:

"Lynch was with the Washington-headquartered international law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP from March 2002 through April 2010.

According to documents Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign made public in 2008, Hogan & Hartson’s New York-based partner Howard Topaz was the tax lawyer who filed income tax returns for Bill and Hillary Clinton beginning in 2004.

In addition, Hogan & Hartson in Virginia filed a patent trademark request on May 19, 2004, for Denver-based MX Logic Inc., the computer software firm that developed the email encryption system used to manage Clinton’s private email server beginning in July 2013. A tech expert has observed that employees of MX Logic could have had access to all the emails that went through her account."

The rise of the ‘gentleman’s A’ and the GPA arms race

The rise of the ‘gentleman’s A’ and the GPA arms race - The Washington Post:
"The waters of Lake Wobegon have flooded U.S. college campuses. A’s — once reserved for recognizing excellence and distinction — are today the most commonly awarded grades in America.
That’s true at both Ivy League institutions and community colleges, at huge flagship publics and tiny liberal arts schools, and in English, ethnic studies and engineering departments alike.
Across the country, wherever and whatever they study, mediocre students are increasingly likely to receive supposedly superlative grades.
...the share of A grades has tripled, from just 15 percent of grades in 1940 to 45 percent in 2013.
At private schools, A’s account for nearly a majority of grades awarded."

These are great-----These Photos Show The Disappointing Reality Of Many Tourist Destinations

These Photos Show The Disappointing Reality Of Many Tourist Destinations | 22 Words:

Mona Lisa - Expectation


Mona Lisa - Reality

Colleges quietly recruiting illegal alien students

Colleges quietly recruiting illegal alien students | The American Mirror:
"Kansas State University has built a “certain underground, word-of-mouth” system for aggressively recruiting illegal immigrant students, regardless of whether they qualify for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Over the last several years Kansas State recruiters have used privately raised cash to provide grants and scholarships to illegal immigrant students, and word is starting to spread.
Students like Maria De La Torre – an illegal immigrant valedictorian of her high school class in Missouri, where non-citizens must pay out-of-state tuition – are getting sweetheart deals that cover virtually all of their education.
...Kansas State is certainly not the first university to court illegal immigrants, however.
The Associated Press earlier this month highlighted similar efforts by Western New Mexico University, as well as City University of New York, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School Of Medicine.
Officials at Western New Mexico University are targeting high performing illegal immigrant high schoolers “using a combination of social media and face-to-face recruiting.
“Through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the school works to convince students they’d find a hospitable environment for immigrants and possible financial aid at the 3,700-student university located in the mining town of Silver City,” according to the news service."

Answer? Nothing for the children. Lots of democrat votes for the politicians.-----Four Questions About the Detroit Public Schools Plan

Four Questions About the Detroit Public Schools Plan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
The Michigan Senate passed a package of bills that would rescue Detroit Public Schools financially. Among other things, it includes $48.7 million to keep the insolvent district afloat until the end of the current school year, which is considered a down payment on a larger bailout that includes $515 million in debt forgiveness and another $202 million for transition costs.
The debt forgiveness is not the most controversial part of the package; the state is already on the hook for this money and the district has no way to repay it.
A more contentious part of the rescue plan is a proposal to create a new Detroit Education Commission, appointed by Mayor Mike Duggan, with the power to ration the expansion of charter schools in the city.
This comes despite the fact that the best independent research shows charters are currently providing better learning opportunities for Detroit children and that federal reports have labeled DPS as the nation's worst urban school district since 2009.
The Senate proposal’s prospects are uncertain in the Michigan House, which has bailout legislation that is much friendlier toward increasing school choice options in the city.
As legislators work out a solution, they should consider the following questions.

• 1. What are taxpayers getting for the money legislators are sending to Detroit?

Read on and DEMAND answers!!

Communism Part I: How It’s Marketed | Glenn Beck

Communism Part I: How It’s Marketed | Glenn Beck:

"A generation has passed since the Cold War ended — and along with it, a true understanding of communism. Young voters today grew up in school systems where capitalism was often a dirty word. They heard the siren call of socialism and its promise of being the great equalizer. They’re in for a rude awakening.

In this series, Glenn discusses the origins of communism, what it really means and what lurks behind the pleasant label of “democratic socialism.”

Yeah, mo money gonna fix it.......Detroit Principals Indicted In $1 Million Kickback Scheme

Detroit Principals Indicted In $1 Million Kickback Scheme | The Daily Caller:
"Federal authorities have charged at least 12 school principals in Detroit with participating in a $900,000 kickback scheme involving fake school supply orders which wasted millions of dollars while district leaders begged for more state money.
Businessman Norman Shy made $908,500 in payments to school principals in return for receiving a series of Detroit Public Schools (DPS) contracts to deliver school supplies, totaling about $2.7 million, according to court documents.
The alleged scheme was quite involved, with principals submitting fake invoices to cover for Shy, who often never even delivered the promised school supplies.
The federal probe implicates Shy and 12 current and former principals and one administrator.
The least-involved member is accused of receiving $4,000 in bribes, while Cara Flowers, the assistant superintendent for DPS’s special education department, is accused of taking a whopping $324,000.
The alleged kickbacks included not only cash payments, but gift cards and even free home repairs.
Astonishingly, less than two months ago, one of the charged principals, Ronald Alexander, appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, where his sad story about a crumbling school building spurred DeGeneres to make a $500,000 donation, touted as her most generous gift ever..."

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History for March 30

History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com
Vincent Van Gogh 1853, Richard Dysart 1929 - Actor, Peter Marshall 1930 - Game show host ("Hollywood Squares")


Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor, Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician, Celine Dion 1968 - Singer


1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory.


1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while his patient was anesthetized by ether.


1858 - Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil.


1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.


1916 - Pancho Villa killed 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.


1939 - The comic book "Detective Comics #27" appeared on newstands. This comic introduced Batman.


1950 - The invention of the phototransistor was announced.


1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.

Michigan Strips Ed Board's Travel Funding | The Daily Caller

Michigan Strips Ed Board's Travel Funding | The Daily Caller:

"Voicing their clear opposition to a guidance from Michigan’s Board of Education that would push schools to allow male students to use girls bathrooms and locker rooms, Republicans in the state legislature hit board members where it hurts: their wallets."

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine | TIME
"The road to revolution is long and arduous"
North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.
The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year.
The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.
“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.
Rodong Sinmun called for a “70-day campaign of loyalty” and reportedly demanded that the North Korean people demonstrate their allegiance to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
To that end, the country is requiring all residents of Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital city, to deliver about 2 lb. of rice to state warehouses each month.
The Telegraph reports that the country has also requested nearly half a million tons of food aid from other countries.
As of last month, however, only 17,600 tons had arrived."

Chicago Teachers Union threatens members who cross picket line

Chicago Teachers Union threatens members who cross picket line | EAGnews.org:
"CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union is threating members who don’t want to walk out on their students April 1.
The CTU is planning a “Day of Action” for April Fool’s Day, and some teachers are complaining that union officials are threatening to kick them out of the union if they don’t participate, DNAinfo reports.
“It was said to me as a matter of fact that the consequences of choosing to come to school is being kicked out of the union,” a South Side high school teacher who did not want to be identified told the news site.
“I’m furious about the whole thing.”
Other educators also spoke up, though none were willing to give their name out of fear that CTU leadership will retaliate.
“’How do I get out of being part of this debacle?
Is a question being asked in teacher lounges at schools across the city,” a grade school teacher said, adding she’s “morally and ethically” against a walkout.
Teachers who are kicked out of their union must continue to pay union fees but do not receive the same benefits as full members.
If non-union teachers don’t cough up the cash, most union contracts allow union officials to require the district to terminate their employment..."

Homegrown Nuclear Terrorism in Belgium Proves Cruz Right

Homegrown Nuclear Terrorism in Belgium Proves Cruz Right:

"This is no joke. This is probably the closest thing to nuclear terrorism we’ve witnessed in the age of jihad, and the plot was hatched in a western country by children of Islamic immigrants born in Belgium.
If you think for one minute this problem is limited to Europe, think again. Every week there is another incident of a homegrown terrorist arrested in any one of our fifty states on charges of aiding ISIS or some other radical Islamic group."

Islamist Terror Growing in Lethality and Geography

Islamist Terror Growing in Lethality and Geography, IPT Analysis Finds :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism:

The massacres in Brussels and Paris are only the latest salvos in a heightening and devastating threat from radical Islamists globally.

They illustrate troubling and much larger trends that the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has identified in a new analysis based upon its extensive research, sources and multiple databases, including the University of Maryland Global Terrorism Database.

The IPT's analysis reached the following conclusions:

• Islamist attacks in Europe will increase over the next 18 to 24 months.
• Terrorism in Africa will expand numerically and geographically.
• Radical Islamists will further destabilize the Middle East, targeting specifically Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
• Jihadists will expand their efforts and focus in South and Southeast Asia.

IPT research found that on average of 3,284 people died in Islamist terror attacks only five years ago. 

Today, that average is 28,708 per year....

Looking ahead, the IPT is pessimistic that the numbers will improve in the short and medium term. They are based on the following critical trends identified in the data.

Trend 1: Islamist Terror Engulfs More Lives

The chart below shows the stunning increase in deaths caused by radical Islamic terror since 2001.

Time Period	2001-2006	2007-2011	2012-2013	2014-2015	Total
Annual Attacks	302	493	1,440	2,930	10,088
Annual Fatalities	2,508	3,284	9,537	28,708	79,244

*Final 2015 numbers are not yet available, but they are not expected to significantly alter the IPT's results.

Trend 2: Islamist Terror Shifts Primarily to the Middle East and Africa
Read on!

This Stunning Chart Shows How Trump's Border Wall Will Stop Illegal Immigration

This Stunning Chart Shows How Trump's Border Wall Will Stop Illegal Immigration
There have been a lot of arguments put forth about Trump’s border wall idea.

Some say such a wall will do nothing to stem the tide of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States through our southern border. 
Others argue that the hundreds of miles of border can only be secured by a well constructed barrier.

The following chart from The Daily Caller should put any debate over the matter to rest.

The data is compiled from immigration statistics by the Hungarian Police and shows that not only does such a wall work, it begins working almost instantly.

Several European countries have erected fences to keep migrants out, and, according to the numbers, every case appears to have a large impact.…

When the fence went up Oct. 17, the influx went down to 870 from 6,353 only a day earlier. Illegal border crossing were steadily below 40 per day throughout the rest of the month

The numbers speak for themselves.

We now have proof of concept for how to mitigate and eliminate the immigration crisis facing the United States.

Are our elected officials prepared to step up and do what needs to be done?"

Lunch video-----AMAZING! Fighter Jet Lands Itself AFTER Pilot Ejects!

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Judicial Watch: Obama Administration Withholds Draft Whitewater Indictment of Hillary Clinton - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: Obama Administration Withholds Draft Whitewater Indictment of Hillary Clinton - Judicial Watch:

"The draft indictments relate to allegations that Clinton provided false information and withheld evidence from federal investigators to conceal her involvement with the defunct Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the collapse of which lead to multiple criminal convictions.  Clinton provided legal representation to Madison Guaranty as an attorney at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Clinton’s Rose Law Firm billing records, long sought by prosecutors, were found in the private quarters of the White House shortly after an important statute of limitations had expired.

In its motion for summary judgment, the National Archives confirmed that it has located the Clinton draft indictments, stating, "

Actually, not-----Rough landing in Oklahoma City!

Oklahoma City Airport video shows moment plane was almost pushed off the runway
Heart-stopping video of a plane being pushed off the runway upon landing in Oklahoma City in 60 mph winds - but the pilot corrects it just in time 
Footage taken by a helicopter Wednesday at Will Rogers Airport The United Airlines flight looked as if it would overshoot the runway 
Strong winds twisted the plane as it came in to land However the pilot managed to straighten up the aircraft in time 
This is the incredible moment that a pilot manages to successfully land a plane in Oklahoma City in strong 60 mph winds.
A video taken by a KFOR-TV's Bob Moore Chopper 4 shows the United Airlines flight being pushed away from the runway as it came in to land in the far-from-ideal conditions on Wednesday afternoon.
As the plane approached the runway, it is clearly thrown off course by the wind, and looks as if it might overshoot its landing.
The plane appears to be veering to the right of the runway as it sets down.
The footage shows the aircraft shaking and struggling to get on track.
However, without seconds to spare, the pilot manages to straighten the plane up, and it makes a bumpy landing.
The landing was a great feat by the pilot, given the conditions.
The video was taken at Will Rogers Airport.

Peeling the rotting onion-----City wants to pump $30 million into Detroit pension funds to address shortfall

City wants to pump $30 million into Detroit pension funds to address shortfall - Crain's Detroit Business:
"The city could set aside $30 million this year — three times as much as initially planned — to cover an estimated $500 million pension shortfall, Detroit's CFO John Hill said Monday.
Hill revealed the more aggressive plan to deal with surprise budget problem first disclosed during Mayor Mike Duggan's State of the City address in February — a problem that emerged despite Detroit filing bankruptcy three years ago and shedding $7 billion in debt.
The payment is part of an overall plan to contribute as much as $70 million in the short-term to deal with a pension shortfall that must be repaid starting in 2024.
Duggan blamed the shortfall on an unnamed bankruptcy consultant using outdated mortality tables to calculate life expectancy of city retirees.
...Meanwhile, the city is trying to pinpoint the exact size of the shortfall.
The city is close to hiring a firm to conduct pension and actuarial services.
A firm could be selected in two weeks, Hill said.
"The number is about $500 million higher than expected," Hill told commissioners.
"What we really want to come out of this contract is what that range is going to be..."