Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless | The Seattle Times

Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless | The Seattle Times
"A Seattle task force is recommending the City Council adopt a $75 million-per-year “head tax” on high-grossing businesses to help address homelessness.
Members of the community panel set up by the council reached consensus during their last meeting Thursday after about two months of work.
...Under the November proposal, the city would have taken 6.5 cents per employee, per hour, from companies grossing more than $10 million per year.
...With representatives from nonprofits, advocacy groups and businesses, the task force was told to consider “new progressive revenue sources,” including a head tax (also called an employee-hours tax) capable of raising $25 million to $75 million a year.
By choosing the high end of that range, the panel is recommending a tax that would yield three times more than what the council turned down a few months ago
The panel, co-chaired by Councilmembers M. Lorena González and Lisa Herbold, is recommending the council dedicate about 80 percent of the tax money to low-income housing and about 20 percent to emergency shelter and services...."
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NYT Reports On Gang Violence In Sweden | The Daily Caller

NYT Reports On Gang Violence In Sweden | The Daily Caller:

"The New York Times published a report Sunday on Sweden’s growing problem with immigrant gangs — more than a year after the paper chided President Donald Trump for calling attention to the same worrisome development.
Entitled “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class,” the report examines how weapons of war and clan-like violence have accompanied an influx of immigrants from certain parts of Europe and the greater Middle East."

The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All - Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com

The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All - Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com:
"The "assault weapon" controversy first became a national issue in January 1989, when a career criminal murdered five children at school playground in Stockton, California.
The failures of law enforcement before and during that crime—and the media and political failures thereafter—were similar to those related to the recent murders in Parkland, Florida. 
These failures are part of the reason why school shootings, and other mass attacks, persist in the United States today.

• This article is the first in a series detailing the "assault weapon" hoax from 1989 to the present.

The Stockton perpetrator, had whose name I won't repeat, had a difficult start in life.
...In a period of about two to five minutes (reports vary), he fired around 105 shots.
He hit 37 people, including one adult; five children were killed.
The police arrived five minutes after he had begun shooting.
By that point, he had killed himself.
The Stockton murderer could have been stopped before he started if the government had enforced existing criminal laws or had used existing laws to commit and provide mental health treatment for a plainly disturbed and imminently dangerous individual.
The same has been true for many subsequent mass killers.
In an article for the Howard Law Journal, Clayton Cramer I detail other notorious homicides, including mass shootings, that could have been prevented if existing laws had been used to commit and treat people who were well-known to be severely and dangerously mentally ill.
...Part of the problem was apparently that the Broward Sheriff, and the school administration, were diligently implementing the Obama administration's demand to shut down the "school to prison pipeline," by not arresting students...

• The next article in the series will examine the rifle the Stockton criminal used, and the misinformation that was spread about it.
• Future articles, will examine more of the past and present media inaccuracy about so-called "assault weapons," the many libels against law-abiding gun owners, and media coverage that has the effect of inciting copycats.

And of course the 1989 and 2018 stories of Presidents who imagined that they could find political advantage by breaking their campaign promises and betraying the people who elected them."
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History for March 5

History for March 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Gerhardus Mercator 1512 - Flemish mapmaker, William Oughtred 1575 - Mathematician, credited with inventing the slide rule, Antoine Cadillac 1658 - Founder of Detroit, MI


Rex Harrison 1908 - Actor, Penn Jillett 1955 - Magician (Penn and Teller), Andy Gibb 1958 - Singer


1624 - In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislation.


1770 - "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.


1836 - Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature.


1842 - A Mexican force of over 500 men under Rafael Vasquez invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They briefly occupied San Antonio, but soon headed back to the Rio Grande.


1922 - "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.


1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections.


1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain Speech".


1953 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.

Senator seeks answers on why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case | Fox News

Senator seeks answers on why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case | Fox News:

"A Republican senator is pressing for answers on why the FBI waited weeks to act after the 2016 discovery of thousands of emails on ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop that potentially were relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. 
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking about the timeline, citing texts between two key FBI investigators.
The messages, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in late January, indicate that top bureau officials were aware of the discovery of thousands of emails from Weiner well before the FBI sought a search warrant in late October, and effectively revived the Clinton probe right before the election. "

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How Canada ended up with Justin Trudeau

How Canada ended up with Justin Trudeau
"With all of Justin Trudeau's blunders - from blowing up Canada's relationship with India (and messing up in China, too), to welcoming floods of unvetted migrants to Canada, to running up the debt, to taking lavish vacations at taxpayer expense, to pushing for all kinds of political correctnesses, it's kind of natural to wonder why this has happened. 
Seriously, how could Canada have ended up with such an incompetent as its prime minister? 
His stupidities are legion and likely only to continue. 
A new Ipsos poll reveals that if a Canadian election were held tomorrow, Trudeau would be thrown out.    

In retrospect, it's worth looking at how Trudeau got elected because the election had consequences, all of which are on display now. 
When he was elected in 2015, he had a famous name but no signficant political experience. 
And at age 43 when he was voted in, he didn't even have much life experience, particularly as a cossetted rich man's son growing up in an elite leftwing bubble. 

...But in Canada's case, and this should be worth noting here, he was elected because of massive foreign funding, from the likes of the rabidly leftwing and secretive Tides Foundation, linked to George Soros and radical environmental movements.

In 2017, the National Post reported that Trudeau got elected after a massive influx of illegal foreign funds, mostly from the U.S.-based leftwing Tides Foundation, writing:

Foreign money funnelled towards Canadian political advocacy groups affected the outcome of the 2015 federal election, according to a document filed last week with Elections Canada and obtained in part by the Calgary Herald.

The 36-page report entitled: Elections Canada Complaint Regarding Foreign Influence in the 2015 Canadian Election, alleges third parties worked with each other, which may have bypassed election spending limits — all of which appears to be in contravention of the Canada Elections Act. ...“Electoral outcomes were influenced,” alleges the report."

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Repeal the Second Amendment? Almost Half of Democrats Say Yes | National Review

Repeal the Second Amendment? Almost Half of Democrats Say Yes | National Review
"The vast majority of Democrats also support banning all semi-automatic weapons.
More than a third of the Democratic party would do away with the Second Amendment, a survey by The Economist and YouGov revealed.
Even 21 percent of the American public would support that plan, according to the study.
The poll was conducted from February 25-27, while the nation was still reeling from the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 earlier last month.
...The survey also showed that a majority of Democrats, 82 percent, are in favor of banning semi-automatic weapons, which include handguns as well as rifles. 
Only slightly over half of Republicans, 53 percent, are against this proposal.
...Half of the general population said that gun purchasers should be required to pass a mental examination before walking away with a firearm, with 68 percent of Democrats and 41 percent of Republicans supporting this idea."

War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor 'Illegal' Speech in One Hour

War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor 'Illegal' Speech in One Hour:

"The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms like Facebook to delete content it considers “illegal” within one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the Internet."

Levin: ‘Phony Science’ of Climate Change Is About Control

Levin: ‘Phony Science’ of Climate Change Is About Control:
"On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Tuesday, host Mark Levin set the record straight on climate change when he said that the ‘phony science’ of climate change is about control.

“Every aspect of government’s involvement in this phony science called climate change is about controlling every aspect of what takes place in your automobile, what takes place in your home, what takes place in your business,” stated Mark Levin. “That’s what it’s all about. That’s their reality, to use Obama’s term.”

Levin’s comments came after former President Barack Hussein Obama spoke to an audience of people at MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference last week, where Obama’s remarks were supposed to have been kept “off-the-record” and “completely secret,” according to Reason.

As can be heard in the audio recording, apparently leaked to Reason, Obama said the following concerning climate change and science:

“You and I can have an argument about climate change in which you conclude, ‘we're not going to stop the Chinese and the Indians from burning a bunch of coal, it's gone on for a pretty long time, we're just going to have to adapt, and maybe we'll invent some new energy source in the nick of time, and that's why I'm opposed to the Paris Accords,’” said Obama. “I'll come back and say, ‘well no it just turns out if we just invest in some smart technology and we create a smart regulatory framework that incentivizes investment in clean energy, we can actually solve this problem now, and if we don't it's going to be catastrophic.’”

Below is a transcript of Levin’s remarks from his show on Tuesday addressing Obama on climate change:

“See, the vast majority of the American people are not involved in energy production. The vast majority of the American people have no idea how gasoline gets to the pump, how oil is used. They just use it.

“So when you have a slick salesman from progressivism saying, ‘All we have to do is a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We can save the planet, lower the temperature, stop the ocean from boiling, the rising of the oceans with more of this and less of that. And look, we’re willing to debate the particulars, but we’re not willing to debate the fact of climate change.’

Levin-“...only recently...with the advent of the Clinton-Gore administration, did it suddenly become the case that we have what they used to call global warming. Now we have climate change. And before that, of course, in the 70s they called it global cooling..."

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Teacher Coalition Seeks to End Obama School Discipline Policy: ‘A Lot of Fear in Schools’ | Breitbart

Teacher Coalition Seeks to End Obama School Discipline Policy: ‘A Lot of Fear in Schools’ | Breitbart:
"The school discipline policy that may have allowed Nikolas Cruz to escape arrest by Broward County law enforcement and ultimately purchase the firearm he used to kill 17 people is in effect in over 50 school districts across the country.

“He probably wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had referred him to law enforcement,” veteran FBI agent Michael Biasello told RealClearInvestigations (RCI).

In 2014, the Obama administration issued a “Dear Colleague” guidance that threatened school districts – whose disciplinary measures showed a disproportionately greater number of minority students affected – could be subject to investigation by the Departments of Justice and Education, regardless of whether the behaviors leading to the discipline were unacceptable.

Deborah York, now a retired teacher in Edina, Minnesota, tells Breitbart News she sees “a lot of fear in schools, not only physical fear of being assaulted or violently abused, but ‘system fear’ that’s coming from the top down about gag orders and data privacy, where you can’t talk among your fellow teachers, even to share information.”...

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Paul Joseph Watson on Breitbart News Daily: YouTube Censors Conservatives Because the Left Can't 'Compete with Us' | Breitbart

Paul Joseph Watson on Breitbart News Daily: YouTube Censors Conservatives Because the Left Can't 'Compete with Us' | Breitbart:

"“Well, this all came about, and this is what’s amazing to me, Alex, as a result of basically a CNN lobbying campaign. Last week they put the article up that you just mentioned saying that we were one strike away basically from a YouTube ban, which is what happens afterwards,” replied Watson. “We’re back to one strike, by the way, they revoked one of them. This started a chain of events which people are now calling the YouTube purge.”

Watson then explained that though the purge was largely affecting right-wing accounts, there were also centrist accounts being sanctioned, noting, "

New threat! Supremes could turn Constitution into ‘suicide pact’

New threat! Supremes could turn Constitution into ‘suicide pact’:
"If the court finds that Shariah supremacism equals Islam, equals religion, equals immunity from governmental protective measures, “the Constitution really will have become a suicide pact,” they wrote.

“We will have decided that anti-constitutional Shariah radicals are just as welcome as any other law abiding, patriotic Muslims.”

The brief was submitted by the American Freedom Law Center in a lawsuit against Trump’s plan to improve the security of the United States by banning entry of unvetted individuals from eight terror-supporting nations."

Missed this on the liberal media?-----Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers | Daily Mail Online

Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers | Daily Mail Online:
"'Kill all white people': Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers in random attacks bringing the total body count to six

• Fredrick Demond Scott, 22, made said in 2014 he wanted to kill all white people
• Scott has been charged in connection with three murders - two middle aged men and one homeless woman - all victims were white
• On Friday he was indicted in three other murders of white men 
• The murders were all over the course of a year with the latest victim shot in the head at noon on August 13 in Kansas City 
• All victims were killed near the Indian Creek hiking trail in the city of 480,000
• Scott's mother said he refused to get treatment for paranoid schizophrenia

A Missouri man who threatened to 'kill all white people' and was already charged with slaughtering three in the Kansas City area was indicted Friday in the murders of three other people.
Frederick Demond Scott, a 23-year-old black man, is now charged in the murders of five white men and one white woman in total, although investigators and prosecutors have not discussed a motive for the killings..."  

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Scott (pictured in court in Sept) is now facing six counts of murder and six counts of armed criminal action after being indicted on three new murders Friday..."
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Patriotic ad takes internet by storm | Fox News Video

Patriotic ad takes internet by storm | Fox News Video:
"Patriotic ad takes internet by storm - Grunt Style CEO and founder says his mission is to spread patriotism across America. The company sells patriotic and military tees."
Link is to the FNC interview with the founder. A good one!
Here's just the video:

#1 This day 1979-----I Will Survive

Liberal self-delusion and brainwashing our students-----How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart - MarketWatch

How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart - MarketWatch:
"Are we even aware of our biases anymore?

If you look at this chart and are convinced your “extreme” source belongs in the middle, you just might be part of the problem plaguing America today.

“In the past, national evening news programs, local evening news programs, and the front pages of print newspapers were dominated by fact-reporting stories,” says the chart’s creator, patent attorney Vanessa Otero.

...She released the first version of the chart back in 2016, and she’s updated it several times since. 

Over the past year, it’s gone viral, with thousands of educators at both the high school and college levels using the compelling visual..."

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ICE blames California sanctuary law for illegals' arrests - Washington Times

ICE blames California sanctuary law for illegals' arrests - Washington Times:

"Federal immigration authorities said California’s new sanctuary law forced this week’s sweep that netted 232 illegal immigrants in the Bay Area — and set off a massive controversy after Oakland’s mayor gave a public warning that may have helped hundreds of other migrants elude arrest.
Of the 232 arrests, 115 had felony or serious misdemeanor records. Another 65 had either been deported before and snuck back in, or were ignoring final deportation orders from an immigration judge.
But the remaining 52 were likely snared when officers were out in their communities looking for the priority targets."