Sessions ends Obama-era leniency on sentencing, infuriating civil rights groups | Fox News

Sessions ends Obama-era leniency on sentencing, infuriating civil rights groups | Fox News:

"“We will enforce the laws passed by Congress pure and simple,” he said at an awards ceremony in Washington D.C, adding that prosecutors deserved to be “unhandcuffed and not micro-managed from Washington.”

“This is a key part of President Trump’s promise to keep America safe,” Sessions said. “We’re seeing an increase in violent crime in our cities – in Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, Milwaukee, St. Louis and many others.  The murder rate has surged 10 percent nationwide – the largest increase since 1968.”"

Top Business Thinker: Millennials Are Flunking at Work Because They're Entitled and Disloyal | Heat Street

Top Business Thinker: Millennials Are Flunking at Work Because They're Entitled and Disloyal | Heat Street:
"...Now he has revisited the subject, specifically millennials’ conduct in the workplace.  
He is not impressed.
...He writes in Leaders Eat Last, which will be re-published on May 23: “Wherever I go, no matter the organization size or industry, managers are looking for guidance on how to lead their millennials.
“Exasperated, many have resorted to simply asking their millennials what they want.
Requests from their young workforce range from open plan seating, to more flexibility as to when they work, to providing their meals or a laundry service for them.
“Many executives find that even when some or all of these requests are granted, they still struggle to inspire engagement or loyalty and many millennials remain unable to find the sense of job satisfaction or fulfillment they crave.”"...
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AM Fruitcake

History for May 16

History for May 16 - On-This-Day.com
William Seward (William Henry Seward, Sr.) 1801 - Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, Henry Fonda 1905 - Actor, father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, Margret Rey 1906 - Co-author and illustrator of children's books (Curious George)


Studs Terkel (Louis "Studs" Terkel) 1912 - Author, historian, actor, broadcaster, Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919 - Musician, Debra Winger 1955 - Actress


1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.


1960 - A Big Four summit in Paris collapsed due to the American U-2 spy plane incident.


1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.


1963 - After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.


1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.


1977 - Five people were killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling on top of the Pan Am Building in Manhattan, toppled over, sending a huge rotor blade flying.


1985 - Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.


1996 - Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the nation's top Navy officer, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after some of his military awards were called into question.

The American Left Is Talking Itself Into Violence

The American Left Is Talking Itself Into Violence:

"Something is wrong with the American Left. The recent spate of violent protests on college campuses has been well-documented, but the violence and intolerance championed by left-wing student activists is beginning to creep off campus and into mainstream public life.

The reason for this is straightforward enough: although progressives pride themselves on their putative tolerance and diversity, the imperatives of leftist politics are fundamentally illiberal. Justice imposed through power is the philosophical foundation of the political left, and when earnest progressives become convinced the only avenue to power is violence, their tolerance quickly falls by the wayside. Consider a few recent events, none of which involved college protesters but all of which were marked by threats of violence."

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Don Surber: Trump busts a billionaire's monopoly

Don Surber: Trump busts a billionaire's monopoly:
Trump busts a billionaire's monopoly

For eight years, Barack Obama waged an open war against North Dakota. 
Obama's billionaire buddy Warren Buffett owned the railroad that had a near monopoly on transporting oil out of the state. 
Obama kept pipelines from opening because it would ruin Buffett's monopolistic environment.

I hope Buffett paid Obama well for services rendered.

But that swamp was just drained.

From the Associated Press:

There are hundreds more jobs than takers in the heart of North Dakota's oil patch. Finding a hotel room, parking space or table at a restaurant is no longer easy.

More than two years after the state's unprecedented oil bonanza fizzled to a lull, North Dakota - the nation's No. 2 oil producer behind Texas -- is experiencing a sort of boomlet that has pushed daily production back above 1 million barrels daily....

Buffett is kissing off $3 million a day -- $1 billion a year.

From the story:

The $3.8 billion pipeline -- expected to be fully operating next month -- opens up the possibility for North Dakota oil to be sold on the world market, where industry officials say it could earn several dollars more per barrel. Shippers also can save about $3 per barrel moving the oil by pipeline rather than using the mile-long trains that have carried North Dakota crude to the Gulf Coast since 2008, industry officials say.

Yep. 
Buffett pocketed $3 a barrel from transporting 1 million barrels of oil a day on his railroad..."
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