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Friday, March 10, 2017

This is (one way) how they silence dissent-----Cornell students: security fees used to silence conservatives

Cornell students: security fees used to silence conservatives

Conservative groups are questioning Cornell University’s commitment to free speech, saying they’ve had to pay significantly more money in security fees than have liberal groups on campus.
The nonpartisan Cornell Political Union recently hosted its first right-of-center speaker, and claims it was the only time Cornell has ever required a security fee for a speech.
The president of the Cornell College Democrats corroborated the claims, saying he cannot recall ever having to provide extra security for a speaker, a condition commonly imposed on the College Republicans.

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Woman Brutally Beaten for the ‘Sin’ of Walking Her Dog « Clarion Project

Woman Brutally Beaten for the ‘Sin’ of Walking Her Dog « Clarion Project:
"A woman who went to a public park to walk her dog in the city of Canakkale, Turkey was attacked by three women with Islamic headscarves.

According to an article in the local newspaper, Canakkale Olay, the woman, identified as A.K., was walking her dog in a municipal park in the Barbaros neighborhood when she was approached by a woman with a hijab in her late 30s who said to her, “This building complex and the park is ours. You cannot walk your dog here, it is a sin.”
The woman allegedly also said to the dog keeper, “Are you a kafir [infidel]? You are playing with a dog. Isn’t that a sin?”
Two other women with headscarves joined in and it quickly turned into a physical attack.
The attackers allegedly smashed A.K.’s head on the stones in the park and hit her in the head with a marble block..."

They keep repeating the lie!--Lunch video-----There Is No Gender Wage Gap

Noon-toon

Obamacare Officials Literally Do Not Care | The Daily Caller

Obamacare Officials Literally Do Not Care | The Daily Caller:

"Obamacare health exchanges gave more than $100 million in tax credit payments to non-tax filers without checking their identities, and $22 million in tax credits to documented inmates and illegal immigrants.

Federal health care officials said verifying Obamacare enrollees’ identities was irrelevant."

Angey and nuts!-----Yes, Millennials Have More Personality Disorders

Yes, Millennials Have More Personality Disorders:

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"If you were to come across someone who cried in the streets, who saw the world in terms of black and white and made death threats against strangers, who cowered in a special room and made public displays of naked self-harm and blood letting, you might conclude that they were suffering from a personality disorder.
All these symptoms can be found in the High Conflict Personality Disorder category known as Axis II in DSMV, including Anti-Social PD, Histrionic PD, Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD.
Alternatively, you might reason that these are the everyday behaviors of the modern Social Justice Warrior (SJW)..."

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON---Democrats’ Unintended Consequences: Media Collusion, Partisan Overreach | National Review

Democrats’ Unintended Consequences: Media Collusion, Partisan Overreach | National Review
"Eight years of a fawning press have made the Left reckless.
The classical idea of a divine Nemesis (“reckoning” or “downfall”) that brings unforeseen retribution for hubris (insolence and arrogance) was a recognition that there are certain laws of the universe that operated independently of human concerns.
Call Nemesis a goddess.
But it was also simply an empirical observation about collective and predictable human behavior: Excess invites unexpected correction.
Something like hubris incurring Nemesis is now following the frenzied progressive effort to nullify the Trump presidency.
FAKE NEWS
“Fake news” was a term the Left invented to describe the ancient practice of propaganda (updated in the Internet age to drive Web traffic).

They applied it to the supposed Russian habit of planting international news stories to affect Western elections, and in particular Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency and his tendencies to exaggerate and massage the truth.
But once the term caught on in our faddish age, who were the more appropriate media fakers?
Fake news now serves as a sort of linguistic canary to remind the public that it is customarily saturated with a lethal gas of media disinformation.
Thus “fake news” seemed a proper if belated summation and clarification of years of liberal bias in the media that were supposed to be our custodian of the truth.

Were NBC anchor Brian Williams’s fantasies fake news?
Were Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” Rathergate memos?
How about the party line circulated in JournoList or the Washington and New York reporters who colluded to massage the news to favor the Clinton campaign, as revealed in the Podesta WikiLeaks trove?
Was jailing a video maker part of an Obama-administration fake-news attempt to blame Benghazi deaths on a spontaneous riot?
Was the Iran Deal’s “echo chamber,” about which Ben Rhodes later bragged, the epitome of fake news?

Thank the Left, because suddenly the term “fake news” is becoming a common description of the media’s effort

to suggest that Trump once went to Moscow to frolic with prostitutes,
that his lawyer met Russians in Prague,
that he removed Martin Luther King’s bust from the Oval Office,
that he was going to employ “100,000” guardsmen to enforce immigration law,
or that he wished to invade Mexico.

The once liberal invention of the term “fake news” now mostly refers to media efforts by leftists to warp the Trump presidency; to progressive media celebrities who have been caught lying, colluding, or plagiarizing; and to the cohort of unapologetically left-wing journalists who, in the words of Obama White House operative Ben Rhodes, “know nothing” and thus are easily manipulated by their progressive political puppeteers..."
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Yup, they're still losing!------Democrats Flip Zero Seats in Four Blue State Special Elections

Democrats Flip Zero Seats in Four Blue State Special Elections:
"Democrats have failed since Election Day in November to take any Republican-controlled seats in four special elections in blue states, despite hefty investment from the Democratic Party.
Since President Trump's election, there have been several state-level special elections across the country.

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The Republican State Leadership Committee, or RSLC, published a memo this week showing Republicans have won every district they previously held across multiple states that Democrats have won in the last three or more presidential elections.
Republicans kept their seats despite "hefty financial investments and high profile Democrats lending star power to state-level candidates," RSLC noted.
There were four elections that Democrats hoped to win to show their resistance to Trump could be translated into electoral victories.
The elections were in Virginia, Minnesota, and, most recently, Connecticut–all states Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election..."
Read all about 'em!

BUSTED: Swedish Minister FORCED To Apologize For LYING About Sweden's Rape Plague ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily

BUSTED: Swedish Minister FORCED To Apologize For LYING About Sweden's Rape Plague ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily:

"Lies. Damned Lies. And (Swedish) Statistics.

It turns out that the Democratic talking points they tried to bash Trump’s claims about problems in Sweden were based on lies.

But what else is new?"

This is America?-----Bakers Accused of Hate Get Emotional Day in Court

Bakers Accused of Hate Get Emotional Day in Court
The ongoing battle between gay rights and religious liberty escalated Thursday as husband-and-wife bakers in Oregon appealed their case after being ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for declining to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.

“...Every time we tried to make a constitutional argument it was stomped on, because it was administrative law,” he said.

...In an exclusive telephone interview with The Daily Signal later, she added: “We lost everything,” she said.

“I loved my shop, and losing it has been so hard for me and my family.”

“That was a part of our life, and it was something that we thought was going to be passed down to our kids.

It’s something that I miss every day still.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get over it because it was our second home.”

...Under Oregon law, it is illegal for businesses to refuse service based on a customer’s sexual orientation, as well as race, gender, and other characteristics.

The Kleins maintained that they did not discriminate, but only declined to make the cake because of their religious beliefs about marriage. Designing and baking a custom cake for a same-sex wedding, they said, would violate their Christian faith..."

Much more!

AM Fruitcake

Russia's Largest Bank Confirms Hiring Podesta Group To Lobby For Ending Sanctions | Zero Hedge

Russia's Largest Bank Confirms Hiring Podesta Group To Lobby For Ending Sanctions | Zero Hedge:

"The lobbying campaign targeted Congress and the executive branch, with Podesta and other lobbyists arranging at least two meetings between Sberbank officers and Department of State officials, according to Elena Teplitskaya, Sberbank’s board chairman, who spoke to House aides in August.

“The Democrats are sitting there trying to convince us that the Russians are trying to throw the election to Trump,” a congressional aide who requested anonymity and met Teplitskaya told TheDCNF.

“And then they’re with us here in the House and meeting directly with the administration behind closed doors on the issue of the sanctions. The hypocrisy could not be any richer,” he said.
As the Caller puts it, "the discovery of high-profile Democrats like Podesta being paid lucrative fees for lobbying to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia contrasts with charges from Democrats that President Donald Trump and his key aides are soft on Russia while the Obama administration was tough on Moscow."

Podesta is one of the Democrat’s highest profile lobbyists who enjoys close personal and business connections to former Presidents Obama and Bill Clinton. John Podesta was chief of staff in Clinton’s White House and special counselor in the Obama White House."

History for March 10

History for March 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Claire Booth Luce 1903, Heywood Hale Broun 1918, Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger")

Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress, Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol", Carrie Underwood Merchandise

0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.

1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.

1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.

1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1910??!

1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.

1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.

Thursday, March 09, 2017

So, That Khizr Khan Claim That The US Stopped Him From Traveling Was Apparently Nonsense | Daily Wire

So, That Khizr Khan Claim That The US Stopped Him From Traveling Was Apparently Nonsense | Daily Wire:

"Gold Star father Khizr Khan may have been lying when he said his “travel privileges are being reviewed" by American authorities. Once a speaker at the Democratic National Convention, Khan shot to fame after holding out a copy of the Constitution and lambasting then Republican-candidate Trump in front of an audience of Democrats. Now he’s back in the news, or better yet, fake news.

On Monday, Khan claimed that he was barred from traveling to Canada after he was invited to speak at a conference."

This B-52 Fast And Low Will Send Chills Down Your Spine - World War Wings

This B-52 Fast And Low Will Send Chills Down Your Spine - World War Wings
"Few things are cooler than a low flyby, especially
if they’re fast!
On the other hand, it also depends on the plane.
We’ve seen plenty of modern day jets do that as well (that’s what fighter pilots do), however, seeing a B-52 Stratofortress like this is something else....

We’re glad this thing is on our side!

WATCH NEXT: Extremely RARE B-52 Flyby With Vapor–She’s Screaming Too

We gonna bail them out too?-----From Bad to Worse for Puerto Rico

From Bad to Worse for Puerto Rico by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin Guzman - Project Syndicate
SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico’s deep and prolonged recession has led to a severe debt crisis.

And the combination of economic contraction and massive liabilities is having dire consequences for the island.
Everywhere in the United States commonwealth, private-sector jobs are being lost.
Total employment in Puerto Rico has fallen from 1.25 million in the last quarter of the 2007 fiscal year workers to less than a million almost a decade later.
Without employment, large numbers of Puerto Ricans (who are US citizens) have emigrated.
But, despite this flight, the unemployment rate is now 12.4%.
Without job prospects, the labor participation rate has plummeted to 40%, two-thirds of the level on the US mainland.
About 60% of Puerto Rico’s children live in poverty.
The commonwealth’s debt position is clearly unsustainable..."
Bad times, read on!

West Virginia Removes 36,635 Departed Voters from Voter Rolls - Breitbart

West Virginia Removes 36,635 Departed Voters from Voter Rolls - Breitbart:

"West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner has removed 36,635 dead or departed voters from state’s election rolls during his first 45 days on the job.
A Republican, Warner began working with the state’s 55 county clerks almost immediately upon taking office on Jan.16 and was able to report March 3 that outdated voter lists are being set right."

This make too much sense!-----Glenn K. Beaton: No wall, no raids, just enforce the employment laws | AspenTimes.com

Glenn K. Beaton: No wall, no raids, just enforce the employment laws | AspenTimes.com:
"In the soap opera that substitutes for an American immigration policy, there are three actors.
The first is the immigrant.
I admire immigrants.
They've traveled thousands of miles to build better lives in a strange land where many don't even speak the language.
They send much of the money they earn here back to their families in their homelands.
America could use more such courage, work ethic and selflessness.

I like seeing such people come to America — legally.
But the illegal kind is a different story.
Though they may be admirable in many respects, illegal immigrants are still breaking the law.
To say that they are merely "undocumented workers" is to say that an intruder in your house is merely an "undocumented visitor."
It sacrifices truth at the altar of political correctness.
...But we don't need a wall.
We don't need tears.
We don't need raids and we don't need to break up families.
We don't need bravado to symbolize that we're a nation.
We just need politicians with the morality and courage to enforce the laws already on the books that make the hiring of illegal immigrants illegal.
Fine employers who violate those laws.
Fine them, as the president might say, "big time."
Our illegal immigration problem would disappear overnight.
And then we can again be the nation takes the tired and poor who are yearning to breathe free, legally."

New York has no idea how to keep the lights on when Indian Point closes | New York Post

New York has no idea how to keep the lights on when Indian Point closes | New York Post:
"Last week’s hearings on Gov. Cuomo’s push to close the Indian Point nuclear plant shed some new light on the pain the shutdown will cause.
It ain’t pretty.

Think about it: The Westchester plant can pump out 2,000 megawatts of juice, enough to power 2 million homes.
It accounts for 25 percent of the region’s electricity.
In fact, in 2015, Indian Point generated 10 percent of the power consumed in the entire state.
So the decision to close it, starting in 2020, raises a big question:
Without Indian Point, how will the greater New York City area keep the lights on?
Cuomo pushed to close the plant because, he says, it’s so close to the city that an accident would put too many folks at risk.
Plus, he’s absolutely sure enough replacement juice will somehow appear to keep the region humming after it shuts down..."

Lunch video-----Most amazing aircraft Handley page victor

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Democrats’ Unintended Consequences: Media Collusion, Partisan Overreach | National Review

Democrats’ Unintended Consequences: Media Collusion, Partisan Overreach | National Review:

"unforeseen retribution for hubris (insolence and arrogance) was a recognition that there are certain laws of the universe that operated independently of human concerns.

Call Nemesis a goddess. But it was also simply an empirical observation about collective and predictable human behavior: Excess invites unexpected correction. "

Canada's New Blasphemy Laws

Canada's New Blasphemy Laws:

Although these motions against "Islamophobia" are not legally binding, extremists have already started demanding them as laws.
People in hostile societies put their lives at risk by speaking against the majority; meanwhile, shutting out any criticism against hardliner behaviour in the West actually means giving extremists a license to keep on committing atrocities.
Motions such as these are how most Muslim societies -- and other authoritarian states -- were founded: by depriving citizens of the basic right to express a difference of opinion, and worse, on the pretense of "doing good." The blasphemy laws of Pakistan were introduced on the premise of protecting the sanctity of the people's religious beliefs, but the laws only ended up meting out public death sentences to innocent and marginalized victims.

A resolution, M-103, seeking to condemn so-called "Islamophobia," was introduced a few weeks ago in the peaceful country of Canada by Liberal Party MP Iqra Khalid in the House of Commons, sparking a controversy..."
Much more. Read on!

POWERFUL!-----NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE ON JANUARY 15, 2017: “Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era.”

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MARCH 9, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE ON JANUARY 15, 2017: “Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era.”

Apparently the Times staff took their headline to be their own how-to guide for the news.

Shot:

Chaser: