14-Year-Old Boy Facing Assault Charge, Sex Offender Registry for Sex with 12-Year-Old Girl - Hit & Run : Reason.com

14-Year-Old Boy Facing Assault Charge, Sex Offender Registry for Sex with 12-Year-Old Girl - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A Houston-area seventh-grade boy has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child because he engaged in consensual sex with his sixth-grade girlfriend.
Unless a judge decides to show leniency, he could be forced to register as a sex offender.
That's according to the Houston Chronicle, which redacted the names of both kids.
The boy is 14, the girl, 12.
Are they too young to be engaged in a sexual relationship?
Sure.
But what business is it of the state's?
Who is well-served by criminalizing this kind of thing?
Certainly not the boy, who will face significant difficulties finishing school, getting into college, finding a job, and even just finding a place to live, if he is placed on the sex offender registry.
"The idea that a 14-year-old who has sex with a person just a little bit younger then him or her would be treated as the worst of the worst in our society and placed on the sex offender registry is really sick," the teen's attorney, Joseph Gutheinz, told the Chronicle.
It's as sick as the law is arbitrary.
In Texas, teens are immune from prosecution for underage sex if they are within 3 years of age of each other.
But this does not apply if either party is over the age of 18, or under the age of 14.
 If the sexual encounter had taken place two months earlier, before the boy's 14th birthday, it would not have been a crime..."

Caught! Minnesota Muslims with ‘bomb-making devices’ in car

Caught! Minnesota Muslims with ‘bomb-making devices’ in car
"Suspects arrested last Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Minneapolis, allegedly with an arsenal in their vehicle.
Suspects Abdullah Alrifahe and Majid Alrifahe, both of Minneapolis, were arrested last Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Minneapolis, allegedly with an arsenal in their vehicle.
A routine police check in Minnesota resulted in the arrest of two Muslim men on charges they were driving around with an arsenal of weapons including bomb-making devices.
Abdullah N. Alrifahe, 27, and Majid N. Alrifahe, 26, both of Minneapolis, were arrested May 11 after police had reason to search their car and found a hand grenade, handgun, several assault rifles and magazines and a large quantity of ammunition, according to the police report.
They also found cellphones, drone parts, computers and electronics devices capable of igniting a bomb.
Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said the size of the cache should send off alarm bells for local police, as it signals that an active Islamic terrorist cell could be operating in the city.
But the city seems paralyzed by political correctness, she said.
“Of course we have cells in Minnesota, but the Minneapolis police believe the religion of peace doesn’t commit terror acts,” Bachmann said.
“The hijab-wearing Minneapolis mayor [Betsy Hodges] and the police department blind and disarm themselves because their Muslim advisers tell them that’s what they should do.”
According to police, both men gave their address as a nearby public housing building. 
Both have a criminal history.
Abdullah has prior convictions for weapons violations.
He has also been convicted of receiving stolen property. Both men are listed as having numerous arrests, not only in Minnesota but also in Texas..."

Note the "unbiased" (LIE) they insert for Dec. 9-----House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump - The Washington Post

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump - The Washington Post
KIEV, Ukraine — A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladi­mir Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.

News had just broken the day before in The Washington Post that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, prompting McCarthy to shift the conversation from Russian meddling in Europe to events closer to home.

Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. 
Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.”..."

You ought to know!

Linda Sarsour and Feminists' Blindness to Women of Color | National Review

Linda Sarsour and Feminists' Blindness to Women of Color | National Review:

"the shameful glorifying of Linda Sarsour by New York senator Kristen Gillibrand, who praised her on the pages of Time magazine, and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, which has invited her to speak at its commencement ceremony. Feminists ignore Sarsour’s defense of sharia law, her applauding Saudi Arabia for its attitude toward women, and her promotion of violence against those who’ve spoken out against Islamists’ mistreatment of women. This exposes once more the unwillingness of the broader feminist movement to find common ground with the vast majority of women."

Why Michigan Has a Pension Problem [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Why Michigan Has a Pension Problem [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 
"By JARRETT SKORUP | May 17, 2017 | Follow Jarrett Skorup on Twitter
"The largest fiscal issue facing the state of Michigan is retiree benefits. 
For decades, the state and local municipalities have promised more retirement benefits to employees than they have set aside to pay for.
Gov. Rick Snyder and the Legislature are debating what to do about this. 
There is nothing inherently wrong with pension systems — the problem is that politicians simply don’t fund them and instead pass the costs of today’s government onto future taxpayers. 
For example, the state has saved $29 billion less than what is needed to fund the school employee retirement system and local government pension systems are similarly underfunded..."

AM Fruitcake

History for May 19

History for May 19 - On-This-Day.com:
Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, mosted noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist


Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, Pete Townshend 1945 - Musician (The Who), David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist



1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.


1568 - After being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth.


1911 - The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.


1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.


1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.


1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.


1958 - Canada and the U.S. formally established the North American Air Defense Command.


1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.

Gowdy: Clinton, DOJ Connections Run Deep | The Daily Caller

Gowdy: Clinton, DOJ Connections Run Deep | The Daily Caller:

"Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News Tuesday night that the Clintons’ “entanglements” with the Department of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer may know.

On Fox News’ “The Story,” Gowdy cryptically told host Martha McCallum that he believes “history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were.”"

The way we were-----Poster Girl

New ‘Social Justice’ Math Class Teaches Kids That Math Is Evil, Dehumanizing - Hit & Run : Reason.com

New ‘Social Justice’ Math Class Teaches Kids That Math Is Evil, Dehumanizing - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

"Millions of K-12 students across the country believe that mathematics is a sadistic discipline—(I should know, I was one of them)—but a new "social justice" training module aims to persuade teachers that maybe the kids are on to something. 
The course was designed by Teach for America and is offered through EdX, according to Campus Reform. 
It presupposes that math could be made more interesting for students if it was infused with socially relevant themes. 
That's not a terrible assumption—maybe young people would like math better if it was being taught in a language they understood. (If Olivia eats 10 pieces of avocado toast every day, how long will it be until she can afford to move out of her parent's house? That sort of thing.)
But Teach for America thinks that language is "social justice," and has designed a course that makes some startling claims about math.
"In western mathematics, our ways of knowing include formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization, and algorithmic thinking, leaving little room for those having non-western mathematical skills and thinking processes," the training course claims.
It continues:

"Mathematical ethics recognizes that, for centuries, mathematics has been used as a dehumanizing tool… mathematics formulae also differentiate between the classifications of a war or a genocide and have been used to trick indigenous peoples out of land and property."..."