Incredible Number of U.S. Colleges Now Offer Socialistic ‘Social Justice’ Degrees

Incredible Number of U.S. Colleges Now Offer Socialistic ‘Social Justice’ Degrees:
"A new report issued by College Fix reporter Toni Airaksinen has found that more than 100 colleges across the country are now offering academic programs (minors, majors, graduate degrees, concentrations, certificates, etc.) in “social justice” fields.
“The Fix found at least 64 American colleges that offer minors in social justice or a substantially similar field, such as social justice leadership,” Airaksinen reported.
“At least 18 offer four-year degrees in the field, and at least 15 offer master’s degrees.”
...For instance, at Rutgers University, a public school in New Jersey, undergrads can minor in “social justice.”
One of the courses offered, “Practicing Social Justice,” requires students actually participate in leftist causes.
According to the course’s description, “Practicing Social Justice” will introduce “students to diverse practices of social justice activism including grassroots organizing, labor organizing, political organizing, and transnational organizing. 
Readings about social change efforts are combined with student participation in community mobilizations, labor organizing efforts, political campaigns, and transnational social movement and NGO activism.”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
Leftists have been dominating college campuses for the better part of the past 60 years, and their efforts have most certainly paid off..."

Army's Transgender Training Addresses MALE Pregnancies — Todd Starnes

Army's Transgender Training Addresses MALE Pregnancies — Todd Starnes: 
"The Army has begun mandatory transgender sensitivity training for soldiers. 
The training covers everything from “transfemale” soldiers to transgender shower etiquette to dealing with a male soldier who becomes pregnant.
...The matter of male soldiers with child is tucked away inside the Army’s “Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Soldiers Training Module, Tier 2: Commanders and Leaders.”
...“The training module specifically outlines key roles and responsibilities of commanders, transgender soldiers, military medical providers and administrative management organizations,” Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson told USA Today. 
“This training is mandatory for all uniformed members, as well as Department of the Army civilians.”...

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Blog: Remember when Ted Kennedy asked the Russians to 'interfere'?

Blog: Remember when Ted Kennedy asked the Russians to 'interfere'?
"...If Sen. Schumer and House Minority Leader Pelosi want to investigate attempts to work with Moscow to influence a U.S. election, they should investigate Sen. Ted Kennedy's attempt to get the Russians to help him prevent the re-election of President Ronald Reagan in 1984.  
As Peter Robinson wrote in Forbes in 2009, London Times reporter John Sebastian, poring in 1991 over Soviet archives Boris Yeltsin had made public, found a memorandum detailing another instance of Sen. Ted Kennedy going a bridge too far:

Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."

Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign."

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Mark Levin masterfully obliterates liberal Trump ‘obstruction’ narrative in just 3 quick points – TheBlaze

Mark Levin masterfully obliterates liberal Trump ‘obstruction’ narrative in just 3 quick points – TheBlaze:

"The firebrand radio host then went on to excoriate Comey for saying Hillary Clinton needed to have shown “specific intent” to violate criminal statutes by retaining classified information on her private email server despite the statute in question not requiring intent. But when it comes to Trump and the allegation of obstruction of justice, Democrats are trying to rewrite statutes to pin Trump with some kind of wrongdoing.

“So they change the standard for Hillary” to make it harder to prosecute her, but “they lower the standard for [obstruction for] Trump because they want him out,” Levin added."

Michigan is Spending As Much on State Police Pensions as Salaries [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan is Spending As Much on State Police Pensions as Salaries [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "The cost of providing retirement benefits for Michigan State Police employees nearly matched their gross pay last year, with most of the money going toward paying down debts incurred by decades of pension underfunding.
One out of every five dollars spent by the state police last year went for retirement benefits, according to the Senate Fiscal Agency.
Total state police spending in the 2015-16 fiscal year was $640.1 million, with $115.7 million of this going toward the retirement system.
That compares to $118.1 million paid in gross wages to employees.
...James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said that underfunding is causing the state police to vastly overpay for benefits.
“State troopers are offered generous retirement benefits and that’s fine,” Hohman said.
“But the underfunding in the system means that they are getting Cadillac benefits at Ferrari prices.”"

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History for June 19

History for June 19 - On-This-Day.com
Blaise Pascal 1623, Moe Howard 1897, Charles Cunningham Boycott 1897



Spanky McFarlane 1942 - Musician (Spanky and Our Gang), Salman Rushdie 1947 - Author, Paula Abdul (Paula Julie Abdul) 1962 - Singer, dancer, judge on "American Idol" - American Idol Merchandise
 

0240 BC - Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.


1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames.


1939 - In Atlanta, GA, legislation was enacted that disallowed pinball machines in the city.


1942 - Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.


1944 - The U.S. won the battle of the Philippine Sea against the Imperial Japanese fleet.


1952 - "I've Got a Secret" debuted on CBS-TV.


1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.


1973 - Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey League).

Vice Adm. Aucoin Holds Press Conference about USS Fitzgerald Collision

Vice Adm. Aucoin Holds Press Conference about USS Fitzgerald Collision:

"USS Fitzgerald experienced extensive damage and flooding after a collision with the Filipino container ship at 0220 local time, 17 June, approx. 56 nm off the coast of Honshu, Japan.

The damage included a significant impact under the ship's pilothouse on the starboard side and a large puncture below the ship's waterline, opening the hull to the sea.

The ship suffered severe damage rapidly flooding three large compartments that included one machinery room and two berthing areas for 116 crew. The commanding officer's cabin was also directly hit, trapping the CO inside.

The crew's response was swift and effective, and I want to point out - as we stand by the ship - how proud I am of them.

Heroic efforts prevented the flooding from catastrophically spreading which could have caused the ship to founder or sink. It could have been much worse."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Congress: Political Islam 'Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution'

Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Congress: Political Islam 'Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution':

"Political Islam, focused on establishing an unfree society ruled by strict sharia law, is “fundamentally incompatible” with the U.S. Constitution and the overall “foundation of the American way of life,” declared Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an expert at the Hoover Institution think tank, during a Senate panel hearing."

The way we were-----The Doors - Touch Me

Broadway Icon Won't Perform If Trump Comes To Her Show | The Daily Caller

Broadway Icon Won't Perform If Trump Comes To Her Show | The Daily Caller:
"Broadway star Patti LuPone had strong words for the Trump administration while on the Tony Awards red carpet Sunday, refusing to perform if the president ever attended her show.
LuPone, whose performance in “War Paint” earned her an acting nomination, said that President Donald Trump shouldn’t see her show, telling Variety reporter Gordon Cox on the red carpet that, “I won’t perform if he does.” 
When Cox asked LuPone why, she declared, “Because I hate the motherfucker, how’s that?”
The Huffington Post described the series of biting remarks as the “Fire Emoji Personified.”..."
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Germany: Police Powerless Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs

Germany: Police Powerless Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs:
"The clans simply have no respect for the authorities."

• Observers have surmised that the real reason for the judge's leniency was that he feared his family might be subjected to retribution from the clan.

• "In their concept of masculinity, only power and force matter; if someone is humane and civil, this is considered a weakness. In clan structures, in tribal culture everywhere in the world, ethics are confined to the clan itself. Everything outside the clan is enemy territory." — Ralph Ghadban, Lebanese-German political scientist and leading expert on Middle Eastern clans in Germany.
• "The state promotes organized crime with taxpayer money." — Tom Schreiber, a member of the Berlin House of Deputies.

A court in Hanover has handed suspended sentences to six members of a Kurdish clan who seriously wounded two dozen police officers during a violent rampage in Hameln. 

The court's ruling was greeted with anger and derision by police who said it is yet another example of the laxity of Germany's politically correct judicial system..."

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Climatologist Breaks the Silence on Global Warming Groupthink

Climatologist Breaks the Silence on Global Warming Groupthink:

"Following is her verbal remarks as delivered to the US Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate Over the Magnitude of the Human Impact on Earth’s Climate.”

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The debt-bubble landmine Obama left for Trump | New York Post

The debt-bubble landmine Obama left for Trump | New York Post:
"President Trump came in for much jeering when he told reporters he had “inherited a mess” from President Barack Obama.
On the economy, though, Obama did indeed leave behind a hidden mess: a seemingly healthy jobs market dependent on cheap debt.
When this debt bubble bursts, just as the last one did, the manufacturing jobs Trump wants to save will be in even greater peril.
The country’s last bubble was in housing.
Between 2000 and 2007, Americans nearly doubled their mortgage debt, from $5.9 trillion to $10.6 trillion.
This didn’t bother anyone in a position of power.
The housing boom created millions of jobs, from construction to home-furnishing, and people felt rich.
What bothered the pols was when the illusion broke.
Since the 2008 crash, neither Democrats nor Republicans have been interested in creating a sturdier economy.
Instead, they’ve built up another bubble, this time in the car and SUV industry.
How?
The same way: cheap debt.
In 2010, Americans owed $809 billion on their cars (after adjusting for inflation). 
Today, they owe nearly $1.2 trillion, according to the New York Fed.
And the rate of growth has been accelerating...
But who is borrowing for used cars — and at much higher interest rates — is a huge concern.
People with not-great credit scores have always made up about a fifth of the auto-loan market.
But the percentage of people borrowing even though they have really bad credit scores has surged, reports Bloomberg.
It’s now a third of the subprime auto-bond market, up from just 5 percent seven years ago..."

Your Neighbor's Fancy Car Should Make You Feel Better About Income Inequality - Reason.com

Your Neighbor's Fancy Car Should Make You Feel Better About Income Inequality - Reason.com
"...And let's face it:
In practical terms, the difference between a $200,000 Tesla and my last car, a beat-up minivan worth $2,000 at trade-in, is not all that large.
They're both safe forms of transportation that get you from point A to point B and, given legal limits and the reality of suburban traffic, most of the time they're driven at roughly the same speeds.
In that sense, measures of income inequality overstate the differences within a developed country like the United States. 
The products available to the masses are, in many cases, nearly as good as those available only to the elite.
Your garbageman's old Timex and your podiatrist's brand new Rolex serve almost precisely the same function.
It wasn't always so.
A century ago, a hungry rich person had access to significantly more food and more choices than a poor one.
Yet even bluebloods would have been able to get their hands on less variety and quality than one now finds at an average Midwestern all-you-can-eat buffet.
...So why the 21st century panic about the gap between the rich and poor?
At first glance, the numbers do look damning...
...But appearances can be deceiving.
As the Brookings economist Gary Burtless has pointed out, if you account for transfers such as government housing assistance and employer-provided health insurance, "Americans in the bottom one-fifth of the distribution saw their real net incomes climb by almost 50 percent" since the late 1970s, while "those in the middle fifth of the distribution saw their incomes grow 36 percent."
It's worth remembering that anytime someone says the gap between rich and poor is increasing, what he usually means is that rich people are getting richer faster than poor people are getting richer—not that any group is becoming worse off overall..."
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Lunch video-----16 Russian Dancers Stand Absolutely Still, But When They Start To Move… WOW!

16 Russian Dancers Stand Absolutely Still, But When They Start To Move… WOW!:
"I thought that the entire idea of dancing is for the audience to see the moves, but with Beriozka things are a little bit different.
In this traditional Russian dance, performers appear to be floating across the stage, and it is nothing short of impressive. 
Their secret technique is called the floating step and in a second you are going to have a hard time trusting your eyes!
I thought that these dancers are standing still while the stage beneath them seems to be moving.
Even the skirts doesn’t seem to ruffle, but that is all part of the show.
The women actually have to stay on their tippy toes (en pointe) the entire time to maintain the illusion."

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Trump Wanted Comey to Refute False Notion He Was Suspect | National Review

Trump Wanted Comey to Refute False Notion He Was Suspect | National Review:

"Patently, Comey and the FBI did not believe Trump had obstructed an investigation by lobbying on Flynn’s behalf. And just as patently, that’s because Trump did not do so: You cannot act corruptly – as the obstruction statute requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt – if you do not believe what you are doing is against the law. Since Trump had as much authority as any prosecutor or FBI agent to weigh the merits of prosecuting Flynn, he cannot have acted corruptly in doing so."

Deadly London Tower Fire Fueled By 'Green Energy' Rules | The Daily Caller

Deadly London Tower Fire Fueled By 'Green Energy' Rules | The Daily Caller:
"London’s Grenfell Tower was made worse by government “green energy requirements” that allowed fire to rapidly engulf the building Wednesday, leaving at least 57 people dead and scores more wounded or missing.
While it’s unknown what sparked the fire, experts say that the cladding, or exterior insulation, created a chimney effect through which the fire rapidly spread upwards. 
The cladding was added to Grenfell’s exterior in 2015 as part of a $12.8 million retrofit.
“I have never seen a fire that has engulfed an entire building like this in a career of more than 30 years,” Matt Wrack, who heads the Fire Brigades Union, told The Telegraph.
...The Telegraph noted that cladding “is used as an insulation to make buildings more sustainable to meet green energy requirements.”
Some 30,000 buildings in the U.K. have been retrofitted with cladding to cheaply comply with green energy mandates..."

Seattle Passes 'Gun Violence' Tax — Gun Sales Plummet, Violent Crime Rate Soars

Seattle Passes 'Gun Violence' Tax — Gun Sales Plummet, Violent Crime Rate Soars
"The city of Seattle, Washington, passed a controversial “gun violence” tax on the sale of all firearms and ammunition in 2015. 
Critics argued that violent crime would increase, and gun dealers would either close up shop or move out of city limits.
Proponents of the law, which went into effect on January 1, 2016, argued that neither would happen and the law would generate from $300,000 to $500,000 on an annual basis, which, in 2016, was earmarked to “fund a study of gunshot victims, including medical and behavioral interventions.”
The critics were right.
...According to the Seattle Police Department, the number of gun shootings with injuries is up 54 percent and gun deaths have doubled during the first five months of 2017, as compared to the same period before the law went into effect.
As reported by TheGunMag.com, the law places a $25 tax on every firearm sold, and a five-cent tax on each centerfire cartridge, and two cents per rimfire cartridge.
Dave Workman, senior editor of GunMag, rhetorically asked “how much data do you need?”, adding “The data says the law has failed to prevent what they promised it would prevent.”
City officials wouldn't reveal the amount of revenue generated by the law in 2016, saying only that it was “under $200,000...”

A Scientist Didn’t Disclose Important Data—and Let Everyone Believe a Popular Weedkiller Causes Cancer – Mother Jones

A Scientist Didn’t Disclose Important Data—and Let Everyone Believe a Popular Weedkiller Causes Cancer – Mother Jones:
"A World Health Organization group called RoundUp a “probable carcinogen,” but it didn’t have all the facts."
Does a common herbicide cause cancer? 
Over the past several years, that question has stirred up no shortage of controversy, with international health agencies offering conflicting information. 
The weedkiller, a chemical called glyphosate, is commonly sold by the agribiz giant Monsanto under the brand name RoundUp. 
...After extensive reviews, most regulatory agencies—the US Environmental Protection Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, and those of many other nations—have come to the conclusion that it does not cause cancer. 
So when the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the UN’s World Health Organization, declared RoundUp a probable carcinogen in 2015, there was an international outcry. 
Shortly after, 184 plaintiffs in California filed a legal case against Monsanto, saying that the company failed to warn them about the risks of its product. 
Since then, in a separate suit, hundreds more plaintiffs have claimed that RoundUp caused their cancers, citing the IARC’s findings as evidence.
About that evidence: 
According to a new Reuters investigation, Aaron Blair, the scientist who led the IARC’s review panel on glyphosate, had access to data from a large study that strongly suggested that Roundup did not cause cancer after all—but he withheld that data from the RoundUp review panel. 
Weirder still: Blair himself was a senior researcher on that study...
...As of yet, there are no signs of IARC backing off its conclusion that RoundUp causes cancer. 
“Despite the existence of fresh data about glyphosate,” reported Reuters, the agency is “sticking with its findings.”
But the cat is out of the bag. 
During an EPA budget hearing Thursday, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) asked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to look into the withheld evidence on RoundUp. 
Eisen, meanwhile, worries that IARC’s handling of this case will damage public perception of the group. 
“This is going to end up undermining people’s confidence in this agency’s ability to do this well,” he said. “They don’t seem interested in getting to the bottom of these things. These decisions seem based in politics.”"
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