Nikki Haley is killing it at the United Nations - Washington Times

Nikki Haley is killing it at the United Nations - Washington Times:

“It’s a new day at the @UN,” Haley tweeted, in the aftermath of the vote. “We were proud that more countries were on the right side of history … than weren’t, when it came to condemning Hamas and holding them responsible for Gaza.”
And the world is taking notice.
“While procedural maneuvers were used to block it, we’re proud that by working with the Americans and our friends around the world, a majority of nations in the U.N. voted for the first time to condemn the terrorists of Hamas,” tweeted Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon.
That’s huge. That’s historic. And that’s the big stick Haley’s been carrying for some time at the global body.

NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally puts the hammer down: ‘Antarctica is gaining ice’ | Watts Up With That?

NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally puts the hammer down: ‘Antarctica is gaining ice’ | Watts Up With That?
"A new paper about to be in press, comes at the end of a flurry of papers and reports published this week that claims Antarctica was losing ice mass. Zwally says ice growth is anywhere from 50 gigatons to 200 gigatons a year.

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NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally says his new study will show, once again, the eastern Antarctic ice sheet is gaining enough ice to offset losses in the west.

Is Antarctica melting or is it gaining ice? 
A recent paper claims Antarctica’s net ice loss has dramatically increased in recent years, but forthcoming research will challenge that claim.

NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally first challenged the “consensus” on Antarctica in 2015 when he published a paper showing ice sheet growth in eastern Antarctica outweighed the losses in the western ice sheet.

Zwally will again challenge the prevailing narrative of how global warming is affecting the South Pole. 

Zwally said his new study will show, once again, the eastern Antarctic ice sheet is gaining enough ice to offset losses in the west..."

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Know this guy!-----Jordan Peterson and Conservatism’s Rebirth - WSJ

Jordan Peterson and Conservatism’s Rebirth - WSJ
"The psychologist and YouTube star has brought the concepts of order and tradition back to our intellectual discourse.
Jordan Peterson doesn’t seem to think of himself as a conservative.
Yet there he is, standing in the space once inhabited by conservative thinkers such as G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley Jr. and Irving Kristol.
Addressing a public that seems incapable of discussing anything but freedom, Mr. Peterson presents himself unmistakably as a philosophical advocate of order. 
His bestselling book, “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,” makes sense of ideas like the “hierarchy of place, position and authority,” as well as people’s most basic attachments to “tribe, religion, hearth, home and country” and “the flag of the nation.” The startling success of his elevated arguments for the importance of order has made him the most significant conservative thinker to appear in the English-speaking world in a generation.
Mr. Peterson, 56, is a University of Toronto professor and a clinical psychologist.
Over the past two years he has rocketed to fame, especially online and in contentious TV interviews..."
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Lunch video-----Islam. How To Properly Beat Your Wife (MEMRI TV)

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Dersh On Manafort: Why Does The Government Get To Win Without A Hearing Or Trial? | The Daily Caller

Dersh On Manafort: Why Does The Government Get To Win Without A Hearing Or Trial? | The Daily Caller:

Alan Dershowitz slammed the legal system for allowing the jailing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, explaining on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” that he shouldn’t be jailed based solely on an indictment.

Tip: Pentagon Covering Up Fact That Female Officers Nearly Sank Navy Ship : The Other McCain

Tip: Pentagon Covering Up Fact That Female Officers Nearly Sank Navy Ship : The Other McCain: "An anonymous email came in over the transom this morning:
Hi, Stacy.
During the early weeks after the USS Fitzgerald was speared by a lumbering Philippine container ship, it was noteworthy that the captain and a couple of admirals were publically named, but not the actual officer in charge, the officer of the deck. (OOD) 
The other person who should have kept the Fitz out of trouble is the person in charge of the combat information center, the Tactical Action Officer.
That individual is supposed to be monitoring the combat radar, which can detect a swimmer at a distance of two miles.
Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out.
The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! 
The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!
Another fun fact: In the Navy that won WWII, the damage control officers were usually some of the biggest and strongest men aboard, able to close hatches, shore up damaged areas with timbers, etc. The Fitz’s damage control officer was also a woman, and she never left the bridge.
She handled the aftermath of the accident remotely, without lifting a finger herself!
Look it up: The OOD was Sarah Coppock, Tactical Action Officer was Natalie Combs. . . .
When I noticed last year that they were doing all they could to keep the OOD’s name out of the headlines, I speculated to my son that it was a she. 
Turns out all the key people (except one officer in the CIC) were female!...
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#1 Movie this week 1981-----Superman II (1980) Official Trailer #1 - Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman...

NYT focuses on small math test gap favoring some boys while downplaying much larger reading test gap favoring girls - AEI

NYT focuses on small math test gap favoring some boys while downplaying much larger reading test gap favoring girls - AEI

"The chart above (with the red ellipses added) is from the New York Times article “Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts” and is based on 260 million standardized reading and math test scores for third through eighth graders in nearly every district in the country. 
Here’s the story’s lead:
In much of the country, the stereotype that boys do better than girls at math isn’t true – on average, they perform about the same, at least through eighth grade. 
But there’s a notable exception.
In school districts that are mostly rich, white and suburban, boys are much more likely to outperform girls in math, according to a new study from Stanford researchers, one of the most comprehensive looks at the gender gap in test scores at the school district level.
As Warren Meyer points out on the Coyote Blog:
If your first reaction was something like “wow, the gender gap in favor of girls in English simply dwarfs any gender gap that exists in favor of boys in math,” you had the same reaction as I did. 
All I could think was that all this discussion of getting more girls in STEM is a fine aspiration, but my God, boys in English are a dumpster fire.
I saw the chart standalone like this before I flipped to the source New York Times article and read more.  
And, incredibly, this is the title of the article: “Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts.”...
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#1 This day 1961----Pat Boone - Moody River

Feminist bookstore to close this month, blames white supremacy - The College Fix

Feminist bookstore to close this month, blames white supremacy - The College Fix
"A quarter-century-old feminist bookstore in Portland, Oregon is slated to close its doors at the end of this month, and part of the reason, it says, is its “inability to ‘reform and re-envision’ a space founded on ‘white, cis feminism (read: white supremacy).'” 
In Other Words, founded in 1993 by Portland State University professor Johanna Brenner and a pair of women’s health activists, also cited difficulty with funding and a lack of volunteers. 
According to The Oregonian, the store’s mission is  “to strengthen resistance against a culture of oppression. We seek to create a safer space where women, people of color, queer, trans, gender variant folks, workers, and those who live at the intersections of these identities can organize for self-determination and build a sustainable movement for liberation.”...
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Tying Hillary's Emails to the Russian 'Collusion' Probe - American Greatness

Tying Hillary's Emails to the Russian 'Collusion' Probe - American Greatness:

Obama’s Culpability
It is not hard to see why the FBI would exonerate Clinton. It was not the bureau’s decision to make, but rather,�as Andrew McCarthy first explained, it was the president’s.
“If Clinton had been charged,” McCarthy wrote early this year, “Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the Clinton–Obama emails would have been in the spotlight.

Bill Maher: We Need to Stop Saying Most Cops Are Good Until There's More Evidence

Bill Maher: We Need to Stop Saying Most Cops Are Good Until There's More Evidenc
"Bill Maher suggested there should be a movement for people who have been victims of police brutality after a discussion on his show about police brutality.

During a segment on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, Maher called out abusive police officers and the people who protect him on Friday.

“We need to stop saying most cops are good like we know that to be true,” Maher said. 
“I hope it’s true, but I need some evidence, unlike cops.”

...That’s the question I’m asking tonight – if so many cops are good why are there so many videos of them being bad?” Maher questioned..."

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AM Fruitcake

History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com
Sylvia Porter 1913 - Economist, journalist, Paul "Red" Adiar 1915 - Oil well firefighter, Richard Boone (Richard Allen Boone) 1917 - Actor


Tom Wicker (Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker) 1926 - Journalist, Paul McCartney 1942 - Musician (Beatles, Wings), Roger Ebert 1942 - Film critic, screenwriter


1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.


1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.


1863 - J.J. Richardson received a patent for the ratchet wrench.


1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.


1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.


1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.


1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

Democratic Rep. Admits The Child Migrant Crisis ‘Was Kept Very Quiet Under The Obama Administration’ | The Daily Caller

Democratic Rep. Admits The Child Migrant Crisis ‘Was Kept Very Quiet Under The Obama Administration’ | The Daily Caller:

Cuellar added that the number of children being held at the border right now is similar to the amount during the Obama administration.
“We still see the numbers,” he said, adding that “not all of them are being separated. Some of them are coming alone.”
“Keep in mind that under the law, you can separate a child if that person, the adult, is not the real parent or the custodian because sometimes we see situations where they’ll bring a child because they know of the policy that we have over here with children.”

The way we were-----Bobby Vee - Devil Or Angel

Boob-tube-----My Favourite 1950s/1960s Commercials (Part 1)

With FBI's boiling hate for voters exposed, America dodged a bullet by electing Trump

With FBI's boiling hate for voters exposed, America dodged a bullet by electing Trump
"One of the biggest takeaways from the Department of Justice's 500-page inspector general report is how deep the contempt for voters is among the Federal Bureau of Investigation's leadership elite.

The text messages are incredible.  According to the gleanings of J. Christian Adams over at Pajamas Media:

One FBI agent on the Hillary investigation wrote in an FBI text:

Trump's supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.

"POS" is the agent's acronym for "Pieces Of S‑‑‑."

There's also this from Adams:

In another FBI communication, Strzok says he visited a rural Virginia Walmart – and the customers had a political odor:

Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support....

Strzok does not say he could see Trump support, or hear it discussed.  Rather, he smelled it among the customers.

And this:

Other FBI agents on the Hillary investigation ridiculed the "average American public."  Others referred to Donald Trump as "Donald Drumpf" on FBI instant messages repeatedly.

Even after the election, FBI agents complained about being on duty on Inauguration Day.  "F‑‑‑ Trump," wrote one agent on the Hillary investigation in an FBI communication.

It's so bad that the I.G. report said these remarks, just oozing with contempt for the American public, led to an atmosphere that "has brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBI's handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI."...
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American woman!-----Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hands

Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hands:
“...They go for your jugular ... because when they can get the vein you’re dead in a couple of minutes,” she said.
This bobcat did go for her upper body.
“It caught me slightly on my face, but I got him before he could do much damage there,” she said.
“I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat.
I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this.”

With both hands around the bobcat’s neck she began squeezing, but she never shouted for help because her 5-year-old granddaughter was in the house.
“I was scared if I screamed for help that my granddaughter would come out and I didn’t want that to happen,” she said.
“Once I got him where he wasn’t moving I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911,” she said.
Phillips’ son was also called after the 911 call and he showed up with a gun.
But Phillips would not release her grip on the crazed animal as she feared it might not truly be dead.
She didn’t want her son to fire the gun because she was so close, so he pulled a knife.
“My son stabbed it four or five times, but it never budged so I knew it was completely dead,” she said..."
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Power to the people!-----Fed Up in Seattle | City Journal

Fed Up in Seattle | City Journal:
"...Fortunately, the head tax fight has revealed that some of the core constituencies of the progressive coalition—affluent liberal neighbors, labor unions, and blue-collar workers—are starting to turn against the politics of the far Left.
Over the past few months, members of the Iron Workers Local 86 shouted down Socialist Alternative councilwoman Kshama Sawant at a political rally in front of the Amazon Spheres, fed-up neighbors in the wealthy Green Lake neighborhood exploded against four councilmembers at a public town hall, and dockworkers in the Ballard neighborhood physically collared councilman Mike O’Brien and threw him out of a party at the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard..."
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FBI Official: Clinton’s Testimony Was ‘Hard To Impossible To Believe’ | The Daily Caller

FBI Official: Clinton’s Testimony Was ‘Hard To Impossible To Believe’ | The Daily Caller:

The FBI officials who interviewed Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server found some of her claims “hard to impossible to believe,” according to the Department of Justice’s inspector general’s.
Clinton repeatedly claimed ignorance when�pressed by�FBI agents in a July 2016 interview about�receiving multiple emails�with a “(C)” classification marker, according to the IG’s report on the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private server. She said she did not know that the marker denoted classified information and “speculated it was a reference to paragraphs ranked�in alphabetical order.”

Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says - The Washington Post

Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says - The Washington Post: January 28, 2016--The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services..."
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