School Discipline: Federal Rules Not Helping | National Review

School Discipline: Federal Rules Not Helping | National Review:

"DeVos has done an admirable job of reining in Barack Obama’s executive overreach. From giving states more freedom on K–12 schooling to paring back heavy-handed higher-education regulations, she’s taken step after step toward restoring a limited and principled federal role. But there is, unfortunately, one glaring exception: The Obama administration’s guidance on school discipline remains in full force."

Run, Joe, Run | The American Spectator

Run, Joe, Run | The American Spectator:
"Biden sees an America waiting with bated breath for him to challenge Trump.
Convinced of his own wonderfulness, Joe Biden trots around the talk shows as if on a perpetual victory lap.
What has he won?
Who knows?
It speaks to the embarrassing emptiness of liberal culture that such a buffoon is accorded the status of a victorious statesman. 
Encouraged in this delusion, Biden allows himself such modest musings as: “I have regret that I am not president. Because I think there’s so much opportunity. I think America is incredibly well-positioned.”
Still the blarney-ridden, puffed-chest phony with hair plugs of his empty senatorial days, Biden finds Trump very threatening to his manhood and likes to shadow-box him in the company of such tough questioners as Stephen Colbert.
On the campaign trail last year, Biden said that he didn’t want to debate Trump but to beat him up: “I wish I were in high school, I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”...
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Liberals must finally face facts about Bill & Hillary Clinton - NY Daily News

Liberals must finally face facts about Bill & Hillary Clinton - NY Daily News:
"In the past few weeks, I've been a woman of split personalities.
On a good day, I'm elated — empowered and inspired by the many women who have courageously opened the floodgates to help end the shroud of silence and shame that surrounds victims of sexual assault and harassment.
I shared my stories.
I brought other women together to share theirs.
We were giddy at the catharsis.
It felt like a sea change.
...While the right has certainly lost a significant amount of credibility on that front — conservative evangelicals defiantly embraced Trump despite his many troubling moral deficiencies — the left still has a long overdue unpaid bill to pay. 
Bill Clinton, that is.
That it has taken liberals almost 30 years to begin to question whether Clinton's behavior in the 1990s warrants additional scrutiny is both disturbing and unsurprising.
Disturbing, because his accusers were in many cases credible, yet were subjected to vicious smear campaigns by Clinton supporters and the Clintons themselves.
Unsurprising, because for the past three decades, Democrats have been trying to elect or re-elect a Clinton to office, and so covering up or denying their numerous and obvious flaws was for many a full-time job..."
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Report: Obama-era holdovers have led effort to funnel US arms to Iranian militants – TheBlaze

Report: Obama-era holdovers have led effort to funnel US arms to Iranian militants – TheBlaze:

"A new report from the Washington Free Beacon alleges that a substantial amount of United States military equipment has found its way into the hands of Iranian militant groups, with the tacit approval of the U.S. government.

The report, which is based on interviews with current and former U.S.  government officials, alleges that the military has turned a blind eye to the fact that large quantities of military equipment that was earmarked for use by Iraqi militias in the fight against the Islamic State has fallen into the hands of militant Shiite Iranian groups."

Yes, Virginia, there is vote fraud

Yes, Virginia, there is vote fraud
"If ever there were an election that proved the importance of accurate voter rolls, it was Virginia’s on Nov. 7.
With control of the General Assembly hanging in the balance, at least three Democratic candidates demanded recounts of their Republican opponents’ razor-thin victory margins.
One candidate led by 106 votes, another by 86, and a third led by only 10.
Another five races were decided by fewer than 900 votes. 

...People who oppose efforts to clean up voter rolls or to check voter IDs say that it could discourage some people from voting. 

But in the rare instance in which someone is removed from the rolls who is eligible to vote, that person can still vote. 

He or she can fill out a provisional ballot and furnish proof of residency later. 

So there is no justification for inaccurate voter rolls.
In 2013, Democrat Mark Herring defeated Republican state Sen. Mark Obenshain for attorney general by only 165 votes out of more than 2.2 million votes cast.
Nobody knows how many fraudulent votes are cast in any election, but we do know that literally thousands of ineligible voters are on Virginia’s voter rolls, including illegal immigrants and convicted felons.

...In May 2017, PILF issued a sequel, “Alien Invasion II,” which found:

•   Virginia election officials quietly removed 5,556 voters for non-citizenship between 2011 and May  2017;
•   1,852 of those removed as noncitizens cast ballots;
•   A total of 7,474 illegal ballots were cast from the pool of removed noncitizens;
•   Some records of illegal voting date back to the 1980s, way before their respective removals

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How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches' • The Register

How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches' • The Register
"At least some commercial aircraft are vulnerable to wireless hacking, a US Department of Homeland Security official has admitted.
A plane was compromised as it sat on the tarmac at a New Jersey airport by a team of boffins from the worlds of government, industry and academia, we're told. 
During the hack – the details of which are classified – experts accessed systems on the Boeing 757 via radio-frequency communications.
“We got the airplane on September 19, 2016. 
Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration,” said Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the cyber-security division of the DHS's science and technology directorate..."
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Antarctic Volcano Role In Warming Was Understated | Science 2.0

Antarctic Volcano Role In Warming Was Understated | Science 2.0
"There is additional evidence a mantle plume, basically a geothermal heat source such as a volcano, is below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land and it explains a substantial amount of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet. 
...The discovery may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlier era of rapid climate change, and why it is so unstable today. 
Antarctica's bedrock is laced with rivers and lakes, the largest of which is the size of Lake Erie...


Depiction of flowing water under the Antarctic ice sheet. Blue dots indicate lakes, lines show rivers. Marie Byrd Land is part of the bulging "elbow" leading to the Antarctic Peninsula, left center. Credit: NSF/Zina Deretsky

...At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet -- just as is happening today. 
Such a volcano explains this rapid loss..."
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Transgender Inmate Sues Indiana Department of Correction to Obtain Hormone Therapy

Transgender Inmate Sues Indiana Department of Correction to Obtain Hormone Therapy:

"A transgender inmate is suing Indiana’s prison system for denying his requests to undergo hormone therapy.
Anthony Loveday, 55, claims the Indiana Department of Correction’s (DOC) decision to deny his hormone therapy is cruel and unusual punishment, according to the complaint obtained by the Indianapolis Star.

Loveday, who is biologically male but identifies as female, stated in the lawsuit that he experienced depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts because the state would not provide him hormone therapy."

Prosperity and Taxation: What Can We Learn from the 1950s? | International Liberty

Prosperity and Taxation: What Can We Learn from the 1950s? | International Liberty:
Prosperity and Taxation: What Can We Learn from the 1950s?
In my decades of trying to educate policy makers about the downsides of class-warfare tax policy, I periodically get hit with the argument that high tax rates don’t matter since America enjoyed a golden period of prosperity in the 1950s and early 1960s when the top tax rate was more than 90 percent.

Here’s an example from Politico of what I’m talking about.

Well into the 1950s, the top marginal tax rate was above 90%. …both real GDP and real per capita GDP were growing more than twice as fast in the 1950s as in the 2000s.

This comparison grates on me in part because both Bush and Obama imposed bad policy, so it’s no surprise that the economy did not grow very fast when they were in office.

But I also don’t like the comparison because the 1950s were not a halcyon era, as Brian Domitrovic explains.

…you may be thinking, “But wait a minute. The 1950s, that was the greatest economic era ever. That’s when everybody had a job. Those jobs were for life. People got to live in suburbia and go on vacation and do all sorts of amazing things. It was post-war prosperity, right?” Actually, all of these things are myths. In the 1950s, the United States suffered four recessions. There was one in 1949, 1953, 1957, 1960 — four recessions in 11 years. The rate of structural unemployment kept going up, all the way up to 8% in the severe recession of 1957-58. …there wasn’t significant economic growth in the 1950s. It only averaged 2.5 percent during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

For today’s purposes, though, I want to focus solely on tax policy. And my leftist friends are correct that the United States had a punitive top tax rate in the 1950s.

This chart from the Politico story shows the top tax rate beginning on that dark day in 1913 when the income tax was adopted. It started very low, then jumped dramatically during the horrible presidency of Woodrow Wilson, followed by a big reduction during the wonderful presidency of Calvin Coolidge. Then it jumped again during the awful presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. The rate stayed high in the 1950s before the Kennedy tax cuts and Reagan tax cuts, which were followed by some less dramatic changes under George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

What do we know about the impact of the high tax rates put in place by Hoover and Roosevelt? We know the 1930s were an awful period for the economy, we know the 1940s were dominated by World War II, and we know the 1950s was a period of tepid growth.

But we also know that high tax rates don’t result in high revenues..."

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AM Fruitcake

History for November 15

History for November 15 - On-This-Day.com
William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham, Georgia O'Keeffe 1887, Ed Asner 1929


Petula Clark 1932, Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945, Beverly D'Angelo 1954



1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.


1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War.


1901 - Miller Reese Hutchison patented an electrical hearing aid.


1939 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.


1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.


1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC.


1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.

University of Maryland Students Vote to Install $20,000 Napping Stations in Library - Breitbart

University of Maryland Students Vote to Install $20,000 Napping Stations in Library - Breitbart:

"The student government at the University of Maryland recently voted to install two napping stations in the school’s library that will cost over $20,000.
“The order for two pods — including shipping, delivery, assembly and installation — would cost a combined $21,818.20 after applying a learning institution discount of $6,470,” reads a report from the school’s newspaper on the pods."

You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear

You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear:

"With the help of the DNC (broke, but forking over millions to this end), Hillary pulled off what Kimberly Strassel rightly calls “one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history." She hired a smear outfit (Fusion, headed by Glenn Simpson) which put together ludicrous claims, leaked them to willing press cohorts, including David Corn at Mother Jones, hired Christopher Steele (GPS) to concoct a fairytale about Donald J Trump and had Steele give the Dossier to the FBI in July 2016. Then press megaphone Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News -- obviously tipped off by Steele -- reported, “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump advisor and Kremlin.”

Having generated this nonsense, handed it off to the FBI, and shared the news of that handoff to Isikoff, Hillary “jumped all over it, spinning its own oppo research as a government investigation into Mr. Trump.” She and her surrogates hit the airwaves with it:"

The way we were-----Stand By Me, Ben E King, 1961

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Crash Of The Tu-144 – The Higher You Rise, The Farther You Fall | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines

Crash Of The Tu-144 – The Higher You Rise, The Farther You Fall | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines:
CONCORDSKI.

The quest for the best supersonic aircraft is one that drove a wedge between Russia and the rest of the world. ..

“Just wait until you see us fly. Then you’ll see something.”

– Mikhail Kozlov (Tupolev Tu-144 Pilot)

The Tu-144 launched with a steep climb and everything was going fine until its nose started to dip. In this clip, BBC News shows film of the tragic crash as well as an interview test pilot John Farley who witnessed the crash.

Teaching Millennials How Not to Think Stupid | Minding The Campus

Teaching Millennials How Not to Think Stupid | Minding The Campus
TEACHING MILLENNIALS HOW NOT TO THINK STUPID

"...Here is the speech I gave them.

Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason. For many of you have not yet been educated. You have been dis-educated. To put it bluntly, you have been indoctrinated. Before you learn how to think you must first learn how to stop unthinking.

Reasoning requires you to understand truth claims, even truth claims that you think are false or bad or just icky. Most of you have been taught to label things with various “isms” which prevent you from understanding claims you find uncomfortable or difficult.

Skip All Terms Ending in ’ism’

Reasoning requires correct judgment. Judgment involves making distinctions, discriminating. Most of you have been taught how to avoid critical, evaluative judgments by appealing to simplistic terms such as “diversity” and “equality.”

Reasoning requires you to understand the difference between true and false. And reasoning requires coherence and logic. Most of you have been taught to embrace incoherence and illogic. You have learned to associate truth with your subjective feelings, which are neither true nor false but only yours, and which are constantly changeful...."

...So, here are three ground rules for the rest of the semester.

1.  The only “ism” I ever want to come out your mouth is a syllogism. If I catch you using an “ism” or its analogous “ist” — racist, classist, etc. — then you will not be permitted to continue speaking until you have first identified which “ism” you are guilty of at that very moment. You are not allowed to fault others for being biased or privileged until you have first identified and examined your own biases and privileges.
2.  If I catch you this semester using the words “fair,” “diversity,” or “equality,” or a variation on those terms, and you do not stop immediately to explain what you mean, you will lose your privilege to express any further opinions in class until you first demonstrate that you understand three things about the view that you are criticizing.
3.  If you ever begin a statement with the words “I feel,” before continuing you must cluck like a chicken or make some other suitable animal sound.

To their credit, the students received the speech well. And so far this semester, only two students have been required to cluck like chickens."

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Court-ordered deportations surge after Trump ends Obama-era delay tactics

Court-ordered deportations surge after Trump ends Obama-era delay tactics:

"Government data shows the Trump administration has already shifted the "culture" of immigration attorneys, who used to have more tools under the Obama administration to delay court decisions on whether to remove illegal immigrants, but are now being forced to push for a final verdict more quickly.

Under Obama, immigration attorneys were more likely to leave cases for illegal immigrants in limbo, thus preventing them from ever ruling on whether they needed to be removed from the U.S. An official from the Executive Office for Immigration Review explained to the Washington Examiner that attorneys would push for an administrative closure, or a pause in the proceedings before an administrative judge."