Tuesday, April 19, 2016
'Castro Caught Red-Handed' as Cuban Ship Busted Transporting Massive Cocaine Shipment
'Castro Caught Red-Handed' as Cuban Ship Busted Transporting Massive Cocaine Shipment:
"Nearly 900 pounds of cocaine was found Thursday on a Cuban ship in Panama that was headed for Belgium. A U.S. Representative from Florida says the Castro regime has been caught drug trafficking red-handed.
Cuban-American Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) is directly blaming the Cuban government for being involved in the drug shipment, according to Fox News Latino. The claim comes despite any concrete evidence from Panamanian government.
“The Castro regime has once again been caught red-handed violating international law and norms,” Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American, said."
"Nearly 900 pounds of cocaine was found Thursday on a Cuban ship in Panama that was headed for Belgium. A U.S. Representative from Florida says the Castro regime has been caught drug trafficking red-handed.Cuban-American Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) is directly blaming the Cuban government for being involved in the drug shipment, according to Fox News Latino. The claim comes despite any concrete evidence from Panamanian government.
“The Castro regime has once again been caught red-handed violating international law and norms,” Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American, said."
Obama-boat-----5 dead as historic, 20-inch rain swamps Houston area
5 dead as historic, 20-inch rain swamps Houston area:
"Many areas reported over a foot of rain.
One spot near Houston unofficially recorded as much as 20 inches."
More photos:
http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/photos-houston-flooding/#kXQNNNNUmiqa
"Many areas reported over a foot of rain.One spot near Houston unofficially recorded as much as 20 inches."
More photos:
http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/photos-houston-flooding/#kXQNNNNUmiqa
Sir Ian Botham backs Brexit slamming European Union as a 'corrupt racket'
Sir Ian Botham backs Brexit slamming European Union as a 'corrupt racket' - Mirror Online
Sir Ian Botham has gone to bat for Brexit today, slamming the European Union as "corrupt" and a "racket".
Beefy says it's "insane" that Britain doesn't have the freedom to to reach agreements to trade freely with natural allies in the Commonwealth.
And he said the £350m a week Britain pays the Union in membership fees "staggering".
He used a cricket metaphor to back up his argument.
Writing in the Sunday Times he said: "Cricket is a game where you achieve the greatest success when you are confident in your own ability to go out and stand proud.
Britain has that spirit"
Philip Brown via GettyHe says Britain, like every good cricketer, has the spirit to stand proud on its own
It comes after Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb warned quitting the EU would cause an "economic rupture" with "disastrous consequences for families..."
Sir Ian Botham has gone to bat for Brexit today, slamming the European Union as "corrupt" and a "racket".
Beefy says it's "insane" that Britain doesn't have the freedom to to reach agreements to trade freely with natural allies in the Commonwealth.And he said the £350m a week Britain pays the Union in membership fees "staggering".
He used a cricket metaphor to back up his argument.
Writing in the Sunday Times he said: "Cricket is a game where you achieve the greatest success when you are confident in your own ability to go out and stand proud.
Britain has that spirit"
Philip Brown via GettyHe says Britain, like every good cricketer, has the spirit to stand proud on its own
It comes after Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb warned quitting the EU would cause an "economic rupture" with "disastrous consequences for families..."
The Haters!-----Hundreds of anti-Rick Snyder messages chalked outside of governor's downtown Ann Arbor condo
Hundreds of anti-Rick Snyder messages chalked outside of governor's downtown Ann Arbor condo | MLive.com:
"ANN ARBOR, MI -- Hundreds of messages written in chalk littered the sidewalks in downtown Ann Arbor surrounding Gov. Rick Snyder's condo as residents continue to express their anger over the Flint Water Crisis.
Messages ranged from calling for Snyder's resignation to demands that he release emails to claims that he knew of the issue and failed to react properly.
...Susan Fecteau has been leaving chalk messages outside of Snyder's residence since the beginning of January.
However, Sunday night she had some company.
Approximately 30 people joined her at 11:30 p.m. Sunday to begin leaving messages surrounding the residence.
The group finished up around 3 a.m. Fecteau said.
"We've been trying to do it the last five Sunday's.
But we've been rained out or snowed out for the last five Sundays," Fecteau said.
"We would have had two to three times the number folks if we did it at a more convenient time."
The messages were written on both sides Main Street from East Washington to East William and down portions of East Liberty.
In the alley behind Snyder's condo, dozens of quotes from the works of William Shakespeare were chalked as well.
...Although some people may see the chalk as a nuisance, Fecteau said the response has been overwhelmingly positive since she started leaving the messages..."
"ANN ARBOR, MI -- Hundreds of messages written in chalk littered the sidewalks in downtown Ann Arbor surrounding Gov. Rick Snyder's condo as residents continue to express their anger over the Flint Water Crisis.
Messages ranged from calling for Snyder's resignation to demands that he release emails to claims that he knew of the issue and failed to react properly.
...Susan Fecteau has been leaving chalk messages outside of Snyder's residence since the beginning of January. However, Sunday night she had some company.
Approximately 30 people joined her at 11:30 p.m. Sunday to begin leaving messages surrounding the residence.
The group finished up around 3 a.m. Fecteau said.
"We've been trying to do it the last five Sunday's.
But we've been rained out or snowed out for the last five Sundays," Fecteau said.
"We would have had two to three times the number folks if we did it at a more convenient time."
The messages were written on both sides Main Street from East Washington to East William and down portions of East Liberty.
In the alley behind Snyder's condo, dozens of quotes from the works of William Shakespeare were chalked as well.
...Although some people may see the chalk as a nuisance, Fecteau said the response has been overwhelmingly positive since she started leaving the messages..."
‘We Have to Have More Dialogue — Not Threats’: N.C. Governor Defends Transgender Bathroom Bill | Video | TheBlaze.com
‘We Have to Have More Dialogue — Not Threats’: N.C. Governor Defends Transgender Bathroom Bill | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday to defend the state’s controversial LGBT bathroom law that has led many businesses to boycott the state for its “discrimination” against transgendered individuals.
McCrory, 59, spoke with host Chuck Todd about the issues concerning House Bill 2 (HB2), which has created significant backlash since it was passed into law last month. This new law creates a statewide policy that excludes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes under the law, as the News & Observer noted. The law also requires people to use the public bathrooms that correspond with their biological birth gender — not the gender with which they may personally identify."
"North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday to defend the state’s controversial LGBT bathroom law that has led many businesses to boycott the state for its “discrimination” against transgendered individuals.McCrory, 59, spoke with host Chuck Todd about the issues concerning House Bill 2 (HB2), which has created significant backlash since it was passed into law last month. This new law creates a statewide policy that excludes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes under the law, as the News & Observer noted. The law also requires people to use the public bathrooms that correspond with their biological birth gender — not the gender with which they may personally identify."
Another Meijer store is no longer open 24 hours a day
Another Meijer store is no longer open 24 hours a day | MLive.com
But the Michigan-based Midwest retailer isn't saying why the Wauwatosa store near Milwaukee city limits will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and closed through the night.
WALKER, MI -- Meijer scaled back the hours of a newly opened Wisconsin store this week.
But the Michigan-based Midwest retailer isn't saying why the Wauwatosa store near Milwaukee city limits will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and closed through the night.
A Wisconsin news station suggests an uptick in retail thefts may be the culprit, noting that Meijer representatives met with local police before making the decision.
Police have been called to the store frequently since it opened Aug. 4, reports WISN 12 News
Police have increased patrols in the area and said the calls have declined in recent months but continue. There have been 13 retail theft calls there in the past six weeks.
Joe Hirschmugl, a Meijer spokesman, would only say "the change is based on a variety of business factors."
He added the other three newly opened Wisconsin stores will remain open 24 hours a day, 364 days a year. The chain closes on Christmas.
Only a handful of retailer's 223 locations across six states aren't open 24 hours. Those stores, located in Detroit, Columbus and Chicagoland, are also open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
History for April 19
History for April 19 - On-This-Day.com:
David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author, Ole Evinrude 1877, Eliot Ness 1903
Hugh O'Brian 1930 - Actor ("The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"), Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer) 1932 - Actress ("It Takes a Thief"), Dick Sargent 1933 - Actor ("Bewitched", "Fantasy Island")
1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA.
1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech before the U.S. Congress after being relieved by U.S. President Truman. In the address General MacArthur said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The civil ceremony took place on April 18.
1989 - A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors were killed.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author, Ole Evinrude 1877, Eliot Ness 1903
Hugh O'Brian 1930 - Actor ("The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"), Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer) 1932 - Actress ("It Takes a Thief"), Dick Sargent 1933 - Actor ("Bewitched", "Fantasy Island")
1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA.
1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech before the U.S. Congress after being relieved by U.S. President Truman. In the address General MacArthur said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The civil ceremony took place on April 18.
1989 - A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors were killed.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
Monday, April 18, 2016
A Big Week for Immigration | Congressman Trey Gowdy
A Big Week for Immigration | Congressman Trey Gowdy:
"Today, the Supreme Court will allow the House of Representatives 15 minutes of oral argument as the Court examines whether President Obama’s executive actions on immigration should be held unconstitutional.
The Constitution is clear – the President does not make law, Congress makes law. In fact, the role of the President is to enforce the law. Attempts by the Executive Branch to undermine the law, regardless of motivation, are detrimental to our country and the separation of powers created under the Constitution. Once we decide some laws are worth enforcing and some are not, we have weakened the law forever."
"Today, the Supreme Court will allow the House of Representatives 15 minutes of oral argument as the Court examines whether President Obama’s executive actions on immigration should be held unconstitutional.The Constitution is clear – the President does not make law, Congress makes law. In fact, the role of the President is to enforce the law. Attempts by the Executive Branch to undermine the law, regardless of motivation, are detrimental to our country and the separation of powers created under the Constitution. Once we decide some laws are worth enforcing and some are not, we have weakened the law forever."
Ted Cruz Is Still A Senator: Cruz and Lee Introduce Bill to Roll Back ‘Choke Point’ | The Resurgent
Ted Cruz Is Still A Senator: Cruz and Lee Introduce Bill to Roll Back ‘Choke Point’ | The Resurgent:"Choke Point allowed the Justice Department to target banks who process payments for the FDIC’s list of 30 high-risk merchant categories, which was determined by pulling the list out of thin liberal air.
The list includes such illegal activities as ammunition sales, coin dealers, firearms sales, surveillance equipment, payday loans–wait a second, those are all legal, well-regulated businesses."
Yes. We... YOU are paying for this!-----Multiculti education guru denounces showing up on time, hard work, and clear language as part of white oppression
Blog: Multiculti education guru denounces showing up on time, hard work, and clear language as part of white oppression:
Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group apparently is a big deal in educational circles concerned with denouncing “white privilege.”
School districts all over the country spend big bucks sending teachers and administrators for indoctrination into White Privilege Theory.
The St. Paul public schools, for instance, have spent millions of dollars on this mission.
...A professional education consultant and teacher trainer argued at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) in Philadelphia that great teachers must also be liberal activists, and described in detail her goal for destroying the “white supremacist” nature of modern education. (snip)
On Friday, Hackman was given a platform at WPC to deliver a workshop with the lengthy title “No Freedom Unless We Call Out the Wizard Behind The Curtain: Critically Addressing the Corrosive Effects of Whiteness in Teacher Education and Professional Development.”
The long title masked a simple thesis on Hackman’s part:
Modern education is hopelessly tainted by white supremacy and the “white imperial gaze,” and the solution is to train prospective teachers in college to be activists as well as pedagogues.
In fact, Hackman argued teachers shouldn’t even bother teaching if they aren’t committed to promoting social justice in school.
Translation: Sign on the far left ideology or get out!
Remember that this woman receives larges sums of money from educational administrators, who do the hiring.
And grant tenure.
Hackman went on the outline an explicitly racist policy that at it base contends that black people are not capable of, and should not be asked to master the same essential skills and knowledge as white poeple.
[V]irtually everything associated with being a good student in modern education is actually just a tool of racist white supremacy.
“The racial narrative of White tends to be like this: Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful,” she said.
“And so then, the narrative of U.S. public education: Individual assessments, competition, outcome over process (I care more about your grades than how you’re doing), ‘discipline’ where we care more about your attendance and making sure you’re not tardy than we care about your relationships … proper English must be spoken (which is just assimilation into standard U.S. dialect), hierarchical power structure, and heavy goal orientation.”
While the traits listed may simply be regarded as positive traits for success in the modern world, Hackman described them as specific cultural traits chosen and emphasized to favor whites to the detriment of non-white groups, who are forced to assimilate white traits such as good discipline and goal orientation or else be left behind.
Hackman’s natural solution, then, is to train teachers to move away from all these aspects of white privilege in education. She routinely touted the benefits of collective assessments (measuring student learning at the class level instead of determining whether each student knows the material), as well as eliminating all school grades entirely.
East and Southeast Asia are full of students who believe that mastering the skills of showing up on time, staying to the end of the task, testing well on skills of math and written and verbal expression (including in English!), are not matters of white supremacy but rather of getting ahead in a competitive world that cares about results more than theory.
Hackman had better get to work on a theory of Asian Privilege.
Hackman would deny black students access to these skills.
And she is openly and deeply committed to subverting the possibility of them acquiring them from other teachers who do not share her delusions.
...Hackman acknowledged in the current white supremacist system, there is some expectation that teachers will know conventional English and possess other basic knowledge.
As a result, she admitted modern activist teachers should try to learn those things sufficiently to get a job, but only for the purpose of infiltrating schools to change them from within.
“My long game was, get you in, get you tenured, get you in that system and change that system,” she said.
Spot the racist.
Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group apparently is a big deal in educational circles concerned with denouncing “white privilege.”
School districts all over the country spend big bucks sending teachers and administrators for indoctrination into White Privilege Theory.
The St. Paul public schools, for instance, have spent millions of dollars on this mission.
...A professional education consultant and teacher trainer argued at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) in Philadelphia that great teachers must also be liberal activists, and described in detail her goal for destroying the “white supremacist” nature of modern education. (snip)On Friday, Hackman was given a platform at WPC to deliver a workshop with the lengthy title “No Freedom Unless We Call Out the Wizard Behind The Curtain: Critically Addressing the Corrosive Effects of Whiteness in Teacher Education and Professional Development.”
The long title masked a simple thesis on Hackman’s part:
Modern education is hopelessly tainted by white supremacy and the “white imperial gaze,” and the solution is to train prospective teachers in college to be activists as well as pedagogues.
In fact, Hackman argued teachers shouldn’t even bother teaching if they aren’t committed to promoting social justice in school.
Translation: Sign on the far left ideology or get out!
Remember that this woman receives larges sums of money from educational administrators, who do the hiring.
And grant tenure.
Hackman went on the outline an explicitly racist policy that at it base contends that black people are not capable of, and should not be asked to master the same essential skills and knowledge as white poeple.
[V]irtually everything associated with being a good student in modern education is actually just a tool of racist white supremacy.
“The racial narrative of White tends to be like this: Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful,” she said.
“And so then, the narrative of U.S. public education: Individual assessments, competition, outcome over process (I care more about your grades than how you’re doing), ‘discipline’ where we care more about your attendance and making sure you’re not tardy than we care about your relationships … proper English must be spoken (which is just assimilation into standard U.S. dialect), hierarchical power structure, and heavy goal orientation.”
While the traits listed may simply be regarded as positive traits for success in the modern world, Hackman described them as specific cultural traits chosen and emphasized to favor whites to the detriment of non-white groups, who are forced to assimilate white traits such as good discipline and goal orientation or else be left behind.Hackman’s natural solution, then, is to train teachers to move away from all these aspects of white privilege in education. She routinely touted the benefits of collective assessments (measuring student learning at the class level instead of determining whether each student knows the material), as well as eliminating all school grades entirely.
East and Southeast Asia are full of students who believe that mastering the skills of showing up on time, staying to the end of the task, testing well on skills of math and written and verbal expression (including in English!), are not matters of white supremacy but rather of getting ahead in a competitive world that cares about results more than theory.
Hackman had better get to work on a theory of Asian Privilege.
Hackman would deny black students access to these skills.
And she is openly and deeply committed to subverting the possibility of them acquiring them from other teachers who do not share her delusions.
...Hackman acknowledged in the current white supremacist system, there is some expectation that teachers will know conventional English and possess other basic knowledge.
As a result, she admitted modern activist teachers should try to learn those things sufficiently to get a job, but only for the purpose of infiltrating schools to change them from within.
“My long game was, get you in, get you tenured, get you in that system and change that system,” she said.
Spot the racist.
Are we creating Men without Chests?
Are we creating Men without Chests? | Intellectual Takeout:
"Such is the tragi-comedy of our situation – we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible.
Much can be said and has been said about modern education.
The catchphrase that seems to capture it best is ‘college and career ready’.
But what does that even mean?
What does it mean to be prepared?
As we watch college students now requiring safe spaces and therapy due to partiers wearing sombreros or a “Trump 2016” chalked on a sidewalk, as we watch the SAT standards lowered with shocking frequency, as we learn that many college graduates know little about the Constitution and our own system of law and justice, we should seriously question whether parents and the public education system are actually preparing students for college.
As we watch one political or business leader after another felled due to corruption and greed, as we watch the out-of-wedlock birthrate continue to rise, as we watch a blood bath unfold in Chicago, we should seriously question whether parents and the public education system are actually preparing students for life.
In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis warned about such possibilities when those in charge of educating no longer see value in true character education, in aiding students in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
We want these things, but we fail to teach children how to actually govern themselves:
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
That was actually the conclusion of his point.
"Such is the tragi-comedy of our situation – we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible.
Much can be said and has been said about modern education.
The catchphrase that seems to capture it best is ‘college and career ready’.
But what does that even mean?
What does it mean to be prepared?
As we watch one political or business leader after another felled due to corruption and greed, as we watch the out-of-wedlock birthrate continue to rise, as we watch a blood bath unfold in Chicago, we should seriously question whether parents and the public education system are actually preparing students for life.
In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis warned about such possibilities when those in charge of educating no longer see value in true character education, in aiding students in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
We want these things, but we fail to teach children how to actually govern themselves:
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
That was actually the conclusion of his point.
The build up to it, is worth considering as well:… The operation of [much modern education and curricula] is to produce what may be called Men without Chests.
It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals.
This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence.
It is not so.
They are not distinguished from other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardor to pursue her.
Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering devotion to truth, a nice sense of intellectual honor, cannot be long maintained without the aid of a sentiment which [many modern students] could debunk as easily as any other.
It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out.
Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so.
And all the time – such is the tragi-comedy of our situation – we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible.
You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’.
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
Truly, if you want men of virtue, you must teach virtue.
But to do so, you must also believe that there is such a thing as virtue."
It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals.
This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence.
It is not so.
They are not distinguished from other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardor to pursue her.
Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering devotion to truth, a nice sense of intellectual honor, cannot be long maintained without the aid of a sentiment which [many modern students] could debunk as easily as any other.
It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out.
Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so.
And all the time – such is the tragi-comedy of our situation – we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible.
You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’.
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
Truly, if you want men of virtue, you must teach virtue.
But to do so, you must also believe that there is such a thing as virtue."
After Paul Ryan Funds Visas for 300,000 Muslim Migrants, House Republicans Give Him Standing Ovation - Breitbart
After Paul Ryan Funds Visas for 300,000 Muslim Migrants, House Republicans Give Him Standing Ovation - Breitbart:
"Last month, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)56%
successfully pushed through Congress his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that funds visas for nearly 300,000 temporary and permanent Muslim migrants over the next 12 months.
The omnibus bill also funded sanctuary cities, illegal alien tax credits, and changed federal law to allow for a massive increase in low-skilled H-2B workers– an immigration expansion opposed by more than nine in ten GOP voters. Yet at the first gathering of all House Republicans since the omnibus’s passage, Politico reports that GOP lawmakers gave Ryan a standing ovation at the close of this week’s Republican Congressional retreat."
"Last month, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)56%successfully pushed through Congress his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that funds visas for nearly 300,000 temporary and permanent Muslim migrants over the next 12 months.
The omnibus bill also funded sanctuary cities, illegal alien tax credits, and changed federal law to allow for a massive increase in low-skilled H-2B workers– an immigration expansion opposed by more than nine in ten GOP voters. Yet at the first gathering of all House Republicans since the omnibus’s passage, Politico reports that GOP lawmakers gave Ryan a standing ovation at the close of this week’s Republican Congressional retreat."
Yep, women are signing up for firearms training and buying handguns in record numbers
Yep, women are signing up for firearms training and buying handguns in record numbers « Hot Air
While not as heavily reported in time past, women are becoming major players in the gun industry and ownership.
Contrary to popular belief, women are not stalwarts of gun control politics–they want to protect themselves as any other American.
That’s why across the country record numbers of women are lining up to obtain their gun permits.
In fact, since 2007, there has been a 270 percent increase in women having concealed carry permits.
So, the truth of the matter is that women have always been around guns; it was that no one was catering to their needs, especially when it comes to concealing their firearms.
CNN had a segment and story about this last February at the annual SHOT Show hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation:
Women are buying handguns in record numbers — especially weapons that are small enough to conceal.
But they are frustrated by the lack of firearm accessories catering to them. So some are starting companies of their own to tailor products to women.
“I thought to myself, ‘Where’s all the women’s stuff?'” said Lorelei Fay of Boise, Idaho.
Fay couldn’t find a suitable holster when she got her own concealed carry license.
Her mother had taught her to sew, so she made her own: an elastic belly band with a holster for her Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun.
It also has pockets to hold two backup magazines.
When her friends laid eyes on it, they wanted one too. So she stitched up some of the corset-style holsters and starting selling them in 2014.
Fay called her company Miss Concealed..."
While not as heavily reported in time past, women are becoming major players in the gun industry and ownership.
Contrary to popular belief, women are not stalwarts of gun control politics–they want to protect themselves as any other American.
That’s why across the country record numbers of women are lining up to obtain their gun permits.
In fact, since 2007, there has been a 270 percent increase in women having concealed carry permits.
So, the truth of the matter is that women have always been around guns; it was that no one was catering to their needs, especially when it comes to concealing their firearms.
Women are buying handguns in record numbers — especially weapons that are small enough to conceal.
But they are frustrated by the lack of firearm accessories catering to them. So some are starting companies of their own to tailor products to women.
“I thought to myself, ‘Where’s all the women’s stuff?'” said Lorelei Fay of Boise, Idaho.
Fay couldn’t find a suitable holster when she got her own concealed carry license.
Her mother had taught her to sew, so she made her own: an elastic belly band with a holster for her Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun.
It also has pockets to hold two backup magazines.
When her friends laid eyes on it, they wanted one too. So she stitched up some of the corset-style holsters and starting selling them in 2014.
Fay called her company Miss Concealed..."
Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ASHE SCHOW: Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’? We’re told…:
ASHE SCHOW: Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?
ASHE SCHOW: Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?
We’re told campus sexual assault is a massive problem across the country. We’re told that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while they’re in college. And we’re told we need to enact draconian policies right now in order to stop the epidemic.
So why then, if our country is facing a rape epidemic on par with war-torn Congo, aren’t the presidential candidates being asked about how they would solve the problem?
The candidates are asked every single debate about the Islamic State and how the United States can best fight terrorism. They’re asked about gun control and mass shootings. They’re asked about illegal immigration. But the alleged mass rapes on college campuses? Crickets.
Could it be because every rational person has realized that campus sexual assault is not the epidemic being reported in the media and by politicians eager to prove they support women?
"Well, also the notion that campuses — which are core Left institutions — are hotbeds of rape is problematic past a certain point.
It’s fine to use as a slogan on campus, but if voters in general start really thinking about campuses as high-cost rape factories, the consequences are likely to be unpleasant."
It’s fine to use as a slogan on campus, but if voters in general start really thinking about campuses as high-cost rape factories, the consequences are likely to be unpleasant."
How ‘the public is priced out of public records’ by Michigan universities
How ‘the public is priced out of public records’ by Michigan universities - Columbia Journalism Review
"In Michigan, transparency comes at a cost—and a seemingly arbitrary one at that.
The Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Central Michigan University recently conducted a FOIA audit of the state’s 15 public universities.
It asked for a year’s worth of information on expenses from the university presidents and governing boards, and also police reports on campus sexual assaults.
The goal: to compare how universities respond to requests for public information, and how much they charge.
No university denied the requests.
But the price to fulfill all of them totaled more than $20,000.
That ranged from Eastern Michigan University and two other schools that offered records for free, to the University of Michigan, where it would cost $2,774 just for presidential spending records.
UM attributed that cost to its estimate that it would take 46.5 staff hours to search for records, and many more to review and duplicate documents.
In total, presidential expenses were the most costly records; it would take $10,750.93 to fulfill them all.
Arielle Hines, president of CMU-SPJ and a senior journalism major, questioned the hours it would take to fulfill the requests.
“What archaic system are you using?” she said.
“You have to think they’d have some kind of auditing process for the president, and if not, that’s a bigger story.”
(Incidentally, this isn’t the first time that Hines, the editor of CMU Insider, has pushed for more and better transparency at public universities.)
...In the wake of the Flint water crisis, there has been a renewed push for open records reform in Michigan, a state with a notoriously poor reputation for transparency.
The CMU-SPJ report raises a new point of needed change.
Not only is the plain cost of information eyebrow-raising, but so are the scattershot rates and response times—even for identical information requests..."
"In Michigan, transparency comes at a cost—and a seemingly arbitrary one at that.
The Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Central Michigan University recently conducted a FOIA audit of the state’s 15 public universities.
It asked for a year’s worth of information on expenses from the university presidents and governing boards, and also police reports on campus sexual assaults.
The goal: to compare how universities respond to requests for public information, and how much they charge.
No university denied the requests.
But the price to fulfill all of them totaled more than $20,000.
That ranged from Eastern Michigan University and two other schools that offered records for free, to the University of Michigan, where it would cost $2,774 just for presidential spending records.
In total, presidential expenses were the most costly records; it would take $10,750.93 to fulfill them all.
Arielle Hines, president of CMU-SPJ and a senior journalism major, questioned the hours it would take to fulfill the requests.
“What archaic system are you using?” she said.
“You have to think they’d have some kind of auditing process for the president, and if not, that’s a bigger story.”
(Incidentally, this isn’t the first time that Hines, the editor of CMU Insider, has pushed for more and better transparency at public universities.)
...In the wake of the Flint water crisis, there has been a renewed push for open records reform in Michigan, a state with a notoriously poor reputation for transparency.
The CMU-SPJ report raises a new point of needed change.
Not only is the plain cost of information eyebrow-raising, but so are the scattershot rates and response times—even for identical information requests..."
Clinton Ally Lanny Davis Admits He 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Hillary's Emails Were Hacked
Clinton Ally Lanny Davis Admits He 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Hillary's Emails Were Hacked:"A well-known Clinton associate and supporter did the troubled front-runner no favors when he acknowledged during a recent radio interview that some entity — possibly a mischievous hacker or a malevolent foreign government — may well have breached the weak security of her personal server, potentially gaining access to classified national security information.
Lanny Davis told WMAL radio host Larry O’Connor that, while “there is no evidence” put forth that the server was hacked, he “wouldn’t be surprised” if it had been."
Cirque du Solei Cancels North Carolina Shows Over Public Facilities Act — Plans Shows In Dubai, Where Gays Are Put to Death
Cirque du Solei Cancels North Carolina Shows Over Public Facilities Act — Plans Shows In Dubai, Where Gays Are Put to Death - Breitbart:
"Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
“Cirque du Soleil strongly believes in diversity and equality for every individual and is opposed to discrimination in any form,” the group announced Friday in a press release.
“The new HB2 legislation passed in North Carolina is an important regression to ensuring human rights for all.”
Cirque du Soleil’s North Carolina cancelation comes as a growing number of artists and entertainers abandon their respective performances in the state to protest of the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.
The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai.
Indeed, Cirque du Solei has a planned production, Varekai, scheduled to run from September 16 to 24 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
The United Arab Emirates of Dubai has outlawed same-sex marriage, sex or gender reassignment surgery, adoption by same-sex couples, openly gay and lesbian military service, with the aforementioned being punishable by death, fines, or imprisonment.
In fact, Cirque du Solei has performed for years in the anti-LBGT United Arab Emirates, including Michael Jackson:
The Immortal Tour in 2014, Dralion in 2013, Alegria in 2009, and Quidam in 2006..."
"Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
“Cirque du Soleil strongly believes in diversity and equality for every individual and is opposed to discrimination in any form,” the group announced Friday in a press release.
Cirque du Soleil’s North Carolina cancelation comes as a growing number of artists and entertainers abandon their respective performances in the state to protest of the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.
The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai.
Indeed, Cirque du Solei has a planned production, Varekai, scheduled to run from September 16 to 24 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
The United Arab Emirates of Dubai has outlawed same-sex marriage, sex or gender reassignment surgery, adoption by same-sex couples, openly gay and lesbian military service, with the aforementioned being punishable by death, fines, or imprisonment.
In fact, Cirque du Solei has performed for years in the anti-LBGT United Arab Emirates, including Michael Jackson:
The Immortal Tour in 2014, Dralion in 2013, Alegria in 2009, and Quidam in 2006..."
U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’
U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’ | Intellectual Takeout
Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.”
The document comes complete with a Gender Pronoun Guide, definitions and examples of microaggressions versus macroaggressions, and most importantly an extensive glossary of acceptable terminology and unacceptable terminology.
Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.”
...The “Bias-Free Language Guide” is something George Orwell would not have dared to dream.
It’s eight pages of mantra on how to speak inoffensively on the following: age, class, race, culture, immigration status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, sex, gender identity … and it just goes on.The document comes complete with a Gender Pronoun Guide, definitions and examples of microaggressions versus macroaggressions, and most importantly an extensive glossary of acceptable terminology and unacceptable terminology.
A few highlights:
Read on!Preferred: Gay, Lesbian, Same Gender Loving (SGL)Problematic: “Homosexual”Preferred: White people, European-American individualsProblematic: Caucasian peoplePreferred: Undocumented immigrant or worker; person seeking asylum, refugeeProblematic: Illegal alienPreferred: Sexual Minorities, Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Problematic: People of an alternative “lifestyle”
Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them
Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them
The case against Exxon and CEI will not stop with Exxon and CEI
We think in language, and we think in stories, a fact that is appreciated most keenly not by writers or literary critics but by censors.
In the course of writing about the ongoing fraud in which a cabal of left-wing lawyers with connections to the administrations of Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo has attempted to extort many billions of dollars from Chevron, I had a memorable conversation with an executive at the energy giant.
“We are the least sympathetic defendant there is,” he said.
“We’re an oil company.
You can say almost anything about an oil company.
There are no stories in which the oil company is the good guy.”
There is one: The one where you go to the 7-Eleven and fill up your miraculous machine with a miraculous energy source that would, within the recent history of the human species, have been indistinguishable from magic.
But the point stands.
You can say anything you like, no matter how wild the claim, about an oil company or a financial firm, or, indeed, about any corporation, “corporation” now being the English word that means “a business that I hate.”
The demonization of the word “corporation” has proceeded alongside the demonization of the concept.
The American Left, which long ago abandoned its hereditary liberalism for totalitarianism, is very much interested in policing language.
Writing this week in Time, which still exists, Katy Steinmetz complains about the use of the word “transgendered” to describe people who were until five minutes ago known as transsexuals, and five minutes before that weird guys in dresses.
(The argument, in case you are wondering, is that the implicitly passive form “transgendered” suggests that something was done to these people, as though we could not distinguish between a tossed salad and a spotted owl.)
She offers other sage advice: “If you meet a trans person — someone who identifies with a gender other than the sex they were assigned at birth — it’s generally a good idea to ask which pronouns (he or she, him or her) they prefer and to use whatever that is...”
Read on and fear the war is already lost.
The case against Exxon and CEI will not stop with Exxon and CEI
We think in language, and we think in stories, a fact that is appreciated most keenly not by writers or literary critics but by censors.
In the course of writing about the ongoing fraud in which a cabal of left-wing lawyers with connections to the administrations of Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo has attempted to extort many billions of dollars from Chevron, I had a memorable conversation with an executive at the energy giant.
“We are the least sympathetic defendant there is,” he said.
“We’re an oil company.
You can say almost anything about an oil company.
There are no stories in which the oil company is the good guy.”
There is one: The one where you go to the 7-Eleven and fill up your miraculous machine with a miraculous energy source that would, within the recent history of the human species, have been indistinguishable from magic.But the point stands.
You can say anything you like, no matter how wild the claim, about an oil company or a financial firm, or, indeed, about any corporation, “corporation” now being the English word that means “a business that I hate.”
The demonization of the word “corporation” has proceeded alongside the demonization of the concept.
The American Left, which long ago abandoned its hereditary liberalism for totalitarianism, is very much interested in policing language.
Writing this week in Time, which still exists, Katy Steinmetz complains about the use of the word “transgendered” to describe people who were until five minutes ago known as transsexuals, and five minutes before that weird guys in dresses.
(The argument, in case you are wondering, is that the implicitly passive form “transgendered” suggests that something was done to these people, as though we could not distinguish between a tossed salad and a spotted owl.)
She offers other sage advice: “If you meet a trans person — someone who identifies with a gender other than the sex they were assigned at birth — it’s generally a good idea to ask which pronouns (he or she, him or her) they prefer and to use whatever that is...”
Read on and fear the war is already lost.
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