Tuesday, April 17, 2018
'Little Pink House' eminent domain case deserves more attention
'Little Pink House' eminent domain case deserves more attention:
"Susette Kelo's 'Little Pink House' movie shed lights on an often-ignored subject: Whether or not the government has the right to take your property.
Like some sort of HGTV dream, Susette Kelo found a house in the perfect location and within her budget.
She lovingly restored and updated it, and lived there happily ever after.
Well, until she was thrown out, to be precise.
Because it wasn’t an HGTV dream, but an eminent domain nightmare.
Her “little pink house” (the color was actually called “Odessa Rose”) was condemned to make space for an industrial development project.
She fought the condemnation all the way to the Supreme Court but — in what was something less than the usual rosy Hollywood ending — she lost.
Her home was taken, her neighborhood was demolished, and then, adding insult to injury, the industrial redevelopment fell through and it turned out to have all been for nothing..."
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"Susette Kelo's 'Little Pink House' movie shed lights on an often-ignored subject: Whether or not the government has the right to take your property.
Like some sort of HGTV dream, Susette Kelo found a house in the perfect location and within her budget.
She lovingly restored and updated it, and lived there happily ever after.
Well, until she was thrown out, to be precise. Because it wasn’t an HGTV dream, but an eminent domain nightmare.
Her “little pink house” (the color was actually called “Odessa Rose”) was condemned to make space for an industrial development project.
She fought the condemnation all the way to the Supreme Court but — in what was something less than the usual rosy Hollywood ending — she lost.
Her home was taken, her neighborhood was demolished, and then, adding insult to injury, the industrial redevelopment fell through and it turned out to have all been for nothing..."
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James Comey, Andrew McCabe clash on story of media leak - Washington Times
James Comey, Andrew McCabe clash on story of media leak - Washington Times:
"But inside the Justice Department last year, the two men, who had run the bureau as a team before both were fired nearly a year apart, were locked in a bitter dispute over who was telling the truth. They provided “starkly conflicting accounts” about a pivotal private meeting that helped lead to Mr. McCabe’s firing, an investigation has found.
Mr. McCabe’s attorney basically accused Mr. Comey of lying, or at least of lacking credibility, in testifying about a conversation the two had over a leak to The Wall Street Journal. The attorney said the Justice Department inspector general was anointing Mr. Comey as a “white knight carefully guarding FBI information while overlooking that Mr. McCabe’s account is more credible.”
Mr. McCabe accused Mr. Comey of denying the deputy’s version as a way to distance himself politically from the Journal leak."
Mr. McCabe’s attorney basically accused Mr. Comey of lying, or at least of lacking credibility, in testifying about a conversation the two had over a leak to The Wall Street Journal. The attorney said the Justice Department inspector general was anointing Mr. Comey as a “white knight carefully guarding FBI information while overlooking that Mr. McCabe’s account is more credible.”
Mr. McCabe accused Mr. Comey of denying the deputy’s version as a way to distance himself politically from the Journal leak."
Even Starbucks Is Racist Now, Apparently. In three years, Starbucks has gone…
Instapundit » Blog Archive » YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Even Starbucks Is Racist Now, Apparently. In three years, Starbucks has gone…:
"OUR DAILY TREACHER: Even Starbucks Is Racist Now, Apparently.
"OUR DAILY TREACHER: Even Starbucks Is Racist Now, Apparently.
In three years, Starbucks has gone from this…
…To facing this:
As Treacher writes:Read it!!
Read the whole thing.---Posted by Ed Driscol"
…To facing this:
As Treacher writes:Read it!!
Read the whole thing.---Posted by Ed Driscol"
History for April 17
History for April 17 - On-This-Day.com
J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier, Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright, William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")
Don Kirshner 1934 - Music publisher, created The Monkees, Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series), Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls)
1946 - The last French troops left Syria.
1961 - About 1,400 U.S.-supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an unsuccessful attack.
1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model.
1969 - In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 - Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed.
1970 - Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank.
1993 - A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted.
1996 - Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents.
Monday, April 16, 2018
Nikki Haley to Russia on Future Gas Attacks in Syria: ‘The United States Is Locked and Loaded’
Nikki Haley to Russia on Future Gas Attacks in Syria: ‘The United States Is Locked and Loaded’:
"Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said Saturday at the second emergency meeting in as many days that the overnight strike against Syrian infrastructure was justified “to deter the use of chemical weapons.”
Haley gave Russia a stern warning about the Syrian regime’s future use of chemical weapons, a warning she said came directly from President Donald Trump."
Haley gave Russia a stern warning about the Syrian regime’s future use of chemical weapons, a warning she said came directly from President Donald Trump."
New American History school textbook slams Trump supporters: 'Afraid of rapidly developing ethnic diversity of country' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror
New American History school textbook slams Trump supporters: 'Afraid of rapidly developing ethnic diversity of country' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"American schools are the battlefield for our children’s minds and progressives are in charge of it all, from writing the textbooks, to those reading them aloud in class.
Indianapolis talk radio host Alex On-Air posted several examples on Twitter from the Advanced Placement edition of “By The People: A History of the United States,” published by textbook giant Pearson which has a copyright of 2019.
"American schools are the battlefield for our children’s minds and progressives are in charge of it all, from writing the textbooks, to those reading them aloud in class.
Indianapolis talk radio host Alex On-Air posted several examples on Twitter from the Advanced Placement edition of “By The People: A History of the United States,” published by textbook giant Pearson which has a copyright of 2019.
Reading like an Op-Ed from the New York Times or The Nation, the book says of the 2016 election:
Trump’s supporters saw the vote as a victory for the people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America–a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group. Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history. They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.
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The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California | Minding The Campus
The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California | Minding The Campus:
"...The reason was that most of the preferred students were not academically competitive in the law schools to which they’d been admitted.
They tended to drop out, rank low in their law school classes and passed the state bar exam at lower rates than did minority students who had attended less prestigious law schools.
Sander wrote, “Most black law applicants end up at schools where they will struggle academically and fail at higher rates than they would in the absence of preferences.”
Sander had touched a raw nerve.
Defenders of the affirmative action orthodoxy sprang to attack Sander’s research (e.g., this article by David Chambers and other law professors) and Sander quickly took them on here...
...Pacific Legal Foundation’s brief points out the obvious truth that “race-preference advocates criticize Professor Sander’s research for not having an appropriate data set, while at the same time they try at all costs to restrict his access to that data.”
In other words, the State Bar has acted in bad faith, using every trick in the legal book to keep Sander (and the public) from seeing that racial preferences have adverse effects..."
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"...The reason was that most of the preferred students were not academically competitive in the law schools to which they’d been admitted. They tended to drop out, rank low in their law school classes and passed the state bar exam at lower rates than did minority students who had attended less prestigious law schools.
Sander wrote, “Most black law applicants end up at schools where they will struggle academically and fail at higher rates than they would in the absence of preferences.”
Sander had touched a raw nerve.
Defenders of the affirmative action orthodoxy sprang to attack Sander’s research (e.g., this article by David Chambers and other law professors) and Sander quickly took them on here...
...Pacific Legal Foundation’s brief points out the obvious truth that “race-preference advocates criticize Professor Sander’s research for not having an appropriate data set, while at the same time they try at all costs to restrict his access to that data.”
In other words, the State Bar has acted in bad faith, using every trick in the legal book to keep Sander (and the public) from seeing that racial preferences have adverse effects..."
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EXCLUSIVE – Jeff Landry: Accurate Census Protects Our Republic
EXCLUSIVE – Jeff Landry: Accurate Census Protects Our Republic:
"Furthermore, the reinstatement restores the rule of law. The Supreme Court has held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits “vote dilution” by state and local jurisdictions engaged in redistricting, which can occur when a racial group is improperly deprived of a single-member district in which it could form a majority. Multiple federal courts of appeals have held that, where citizenship rates are at issue in a vote-dilution case, citizen voting-age population is the proper metric for determining whether a racial group could constitute a majority in a single-member district."
Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion
Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion
- Islam is filling the cultural vacuum of a society with no children and which believes -- wrongly -- it has no enemies.
- In Sweden, by 2050, almost one in three people will be Muslim.
- The European mainstream mindset now seems to believe that "evil" comes only from our own sins: racism, sexism, elitism, xenophobia, homophobia, the guilt of the heterosexual white Western male -- and never from non-European cultures. Europe now postulates an infinite idealization of the "other", above all the migrant.
- A tiredness seems to be why these countries do not take meaningful measures to defeat jihadism, such as closing Salafist mosques or expelling radical imams.
- Muslim extremists understand this advantage: so long as they avoid another enormous massacre like 9/11, they will be able to continue taking away human lives and undermining the West without awakening it from its inertia.
In a prophetic conference held in Vienna on May 7, 1935, the philosopher Edmund Husserl said, "The greatest danger to Europe is tiredness".
Eighty years later, the same fatigue and passivity still dominate Western European societies.
It is the sort of exhaustion that we see in Europeans' falling birth rates, the mushrooming public debt, chaos in the streets, and Europe's refusal to invest resources in its security and military might..."
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Eighty years later, the same fatigue and passivity still dominate Western European societies.
It is the sort of exhaustion that we see in Europeans' falling birth rates, the mushrooming public debt, chaos in the streets, and Europe's refusal to invest resources in its security and military might..."
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Pictured: French police eject some of the 80 migrants and pro-illegal-immigration activists who occupied the Basilica of Saint Denis, on March 18, 2018. (Image source: Video screenshot, YouTube/Kenyan News & Politics)
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Bumped from 2016!-----MuskegonPundit: Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone
MuskegonPundit: Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone: "Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone: David Mastio
Before hitting the panic button, remember we are winning the war on lead poisoning
Now that the leaching of poisonous lead into the tap water of Flint, Mich., has been declared a national emergency, it might be time to dial back the panic just a notch (or two).
Flint's 8,000 children have not had their lives destroyed.
Jesse Jackson can roll up his crime tape.
Michael Moore can go back to promoting his latest film.
Taken as a whole, in fact, Flint's kids are better off than the previous generations of Michigander kids in at least one important way.
Even after Flint’s disaster, the city’s children have far less lead in their blood than their parents or grandparents did at the same age.
...But amid the furor, it's important to take a deep breath and put the exposure levels in context.
In 2005, Michigan completed the years-long process of collecting 500,000 lead blood tests from children in the state under 6.
Back then, 26% of kids tested — that's more than one in four — had blood lead levels (5 micrograms per deciliter or greater) that would cause concern today.
In the hardest hit parts of Flint now, only 10.6% of kids have such concerning levels of lead in their blood.
How can that be?
...In the late 1970s, 88% of Americans ages 1 to 5 had at least 10 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood, or twice as much as today's level of concern.
By the early 1990s, only 4.4% of children were exposed to so much lead..."
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Nikki Haley warns U.S. chemical weapons attack 'could easily happen' - Washington Times
Nikki Haley warns U.S. chemical weapons attack 'could easily happen' - Washington Times:
"U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said a chemical weapons attack “could very easily happen” on American soil.
“We have to be very conscious of the fact that we can’t allow even the smallest use of chemical weapons,” Ms. Haley said on “Fox News Sunday.”“That’s why you saw the president strike this past weekend, that’s why you saw him expel 60 Russian spies after the attack in Salisbury. This very easily could happen in the United States if we’re not smart and if we’re not conscious of what’s happening.”"
“We have to be very conscious of the fact that we can’t allow even the smallest use of chemical weapons,” Ms. Haley said on “Fox News Sunday.”“That’s why you saw the president strike this past weekend, that’s why you saw him expel 60 Russian spies after the attack in Salisbury. This very easily could happen in the United States if we’re not smart and if we’re not conscious of what’s happening.”"
Dreamers In The News | Human Events
Dreamers In The News | Human Events: "...To make up for the Fourth Estate’s failure, this week, I’ll highlight five Dreamers who have done noteworthy things just in the last month.
- The Bounceback Child Rapist
A few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement caught up with Dreamer Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian, 24, in a courthouse parking lot in Oregon. Police in Seaside, Oregon, had arrested Lopez-Fabian for multiple rapes of a girl “younger than 14,” assault and harassment.
Law enforcement then released Lopez-Fabian the day of his arrest, without notifying I.C.E., despite the fact that he had already been deported twice to his native Guatemala, in 2013 and 2014.
Apart from conservative websites — and Britain’s indispensable Daily Mail! — this story made only the local press.
- The Butterfingered Gun Slinger
Also two weeks ago, Dreamer Jaime Melchi-Sigas, 22, pleaded guilty to the federal offenses of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a counterfeit alien registration card. Melchi-Sigas was already serving time in a state prison for reckless homicide and tampering with physical evidence..."
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Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times
Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times:
"...But if chemical weapons were used in the attack — which Mr. Trump blamed on the Syrian government as well as its Russian and Iranian allies — it would be the latest in a string of such attacks in Syria in the last five years. Syria, Russia and Iran all denied that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic says it has confirmed at least 34 chemical attacks since 2013, many of which it said used chlorine or sarin, a nerve agent, and were conducted by the Syrian government...
Hasaka
Sheikh Maqsood
Saraqib
Raqqa
Aleppo
Kafr
Zeita
Latakia
Tamana
Deir al-Zour
Khan
Sheikhoun
SYRIA
Homs
Palmyra
50 MILES
Chemical Attacks
Confirmed in Syria
Douma
An attack here killed
about 70 people on April 7
Sarin
Damascus
Chlorine
A 2013 sarin attack
in Ghouta killed
1,400 people
Chemical not specified
The U.S. launched a strike against
a Syrian air base in response to
this sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun.
At least eight attacks
were confirmed in
April 2014
2013
2014
2015
Data unavailable
2016
2017
The New York Times |Source: Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
It is likely that there have been more than these 34 confirmed chemical attacks in Syria..."
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Harvey, the first domino in Illinois: Data shows 400 other pensions funds could trigger garnishment – Wirepoints Special Report | Wirepoints
Harvey, the first domino in Illinois: Data shows 400 other pensions funds could trigger garnishment – Wirepoints Special Report | Wirepoints: "You’d be mistaken to think Harvey, Illinois has a unique pension crisis.
It may be the first, and its problems may be the most severe, but the reality is the mess is everywhere, from East St. Louis to Rockford and from Quincy to Danville.
A review of Illinois Department of Insurance pension data shows that Harvey could be just the start of a flood of garnishments across the state (click here to see the list).
Harvey made the news last year when an Illinois court ordered the municipality to hike its property taxes to properly fund the Harvey firefighter pension fund, which is just 22 percent funded.
Now, the state has stepped in on behalf of Harvey’s police pension fund.
The state comptroller has begun garnishing the city’s tax revenues to make up what the municipality failed to contribute.
In response, the city has announced that 40 public safety employees will be laid off..."
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