Friday, October 26, 2018
Why Democratic Senators Won’t Succeed in Attempt to Block Judicial Nominee | The Heritage Foundation
Why Democratic Senators Won’t Succeed in Attempt to Block Judicial Nominee | The Heritage Foundation:
Whenever the president makes a judicial nomination, the Judiciary Committee chairman asks the home-state senators whether they support or oppose the nominee. This practice has come to be called the “blue slip” process because those home-state senators communicate their position on a blue slip of paper.
Since the practice began in 1916, 17 of the 19 Judiciary Committee chairmen have treated the views of home-state senators as input for senators to consider rather than a veto of the nomination. Only two chairmen have treated negative or withheld blue slips as a veto that automatically prevents a hearing.
Since the practice began in 1916, 17 of the 19 Judiciary Committee chairmen have treated the views of home-state senators as input for senators to consider rather than a veto of the nomination. Only two chairmen have treated negative or withheld blue slips as a veto that automatically prevents a hearing.
The Problem With the FBI's 'Active Shooter' Data | RealClearPolitics
The Problem With the FBI's 'Active Shooter' Data | RealClearPolitics"Many people are focusing on the political biases in the FBI’s treatment of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, but the political corruption of the agency goes deeper.
One can also see it in the FBI’s raw crime data, particularly when it comes to the public shootings that have so galvanized Americans.
The first report under the Obama administration came out in 2014, just weeks before the midterm elections, making it timed for maximum political influence.
The FBI’s first report claimed that only once from 2000-2013 did a concealed handgun permit holder stop one of 160 reported “active shooter” attacks.
These active shooter attacks include any time a gun is fired in a public place, even if no one is injured or killed.
...The report got massive news coverage on the front pages of such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, as well as all of the TV news networks.
Unfortunately, the problems with the reports have continued during the Trump administration.
...But the bureau misses at least 23 cases where permit holders saved the day.
That means they stopped 11.5 percent of active shooter incidents from 2000 to 2017.
We at the Crime Prevention Research Center are more confident that we have all of the cases from 2014 to 2017, when 16.5 percent of attacks were stopped.
Back in 2015, when I pointed out errors in the original report, the FBI simply responded, “We acknowledge in the FBI report that our data are imperfect.”
But no correction was ever made..."
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History for October 26
History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts), Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich), Mahalia Jackson 1911- Singer
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008, Keith Urban 1967 - Singer, Seth MacFarlane 1973- Writer, producer ("Family Guy")
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
DHS: Mexican Cartels Make $2.5 Billion Per Year on Human Smuggling
DHS: Mexican Cartels Make $2.5 Billion Per Year on Human Smuggling:
Homeland Security Spokesperson Katie Waldman said Mexican cartels yield $2.5 billion per year by smuggling people into America at a rate of about $5,000 per person. She offered her remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday in an interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE HOSTILITY
Instapundit Blog Archive THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE HOSTILITY
"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE HOSTILITY:
“Asked to think the way a liberal thinks, conservatives answered moral questions just as the liberal would answer them, but liberal students were unable to do the reverse.
Rather, they seemed to put moral ideas into the mouths of conservatives that they don’t hold.
To put it bluntly, Haidt and his colleagues found that progressives don’t understand conservatives the way conservatives understand progressives.”---Posted by Glenn Reynolds
"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE HOSTILITY: “Asked to think the way a liberal thinks, conservatives answered moral questions just as the liberal would answer them, but liberal students were unable to do the reverse.
Rather, they seemed to put moral ideas into the mouths of conservatives that they don’t hold.
To put it bluntly, Haidt and his colleagues found that progressives don’t understand conservatives the way conservatives understand progressives.”---Posted by Glenn Reynolds
Megyn Kelly Skips 'Today' as Questions Mount Over Her Future at NBC :: WRAL.com
Megyn Kelly Skips 'Today' as Questions Mount Over Her Future at NBC :: WRAL.com:
"On the Tuesday episode of her show, Megyn Kelly made racially insensitive remarks that caused a backlash.
On Wednesday, she apologized at length to her NBC studio audience, which rewarded her with a standing ovation. And on Thursday, she did not go on the air.
In place of the live show that had been scheduled for Wednesday, NBC broadcast a previously recorded episode of “Megyn Kelly Today.”
“Happy Friday!” Kelly said in the show’s opening moment.
It was the latest sign that Kelly may never return to the NBC airwaves.
Her decision to skip “Megyn Kelly Today” came two days after she suggested, during an on-air round-table discussion, that it was appropriate for white people to dress in blackface as part of their Halloween costumes.
Kelly apologized in an email to her NBC colleagues hours after making those remarks.
On Wednesday, she delivered an on-air apology in the opening minute of her 9 a.m. show — “I’m Megyn Kelly, and I want to begin with two words: I’m sorry.”
"On the Tuesday episode of her show, Megyn Kelly made racially insensitive remarks that caused a backlash.
On Wednesday, she apologized at length to her NBC studio audience, which rewarded her with a standing ovation. And on Thursday, she did not go on the air.In place of the live show that had been scheduled for Wednesday, NBC broadcast a previously recorded episode of “Megyn Kelly Today.”
“Happy Friday!” Kelly said in the show’s opening moment.
It was the latest sign that Kelly may never return to the NBC airwaves.
Her decision to skip “Megyn Kelly Today” came two days after she suggested, during an on-air round-table discussion, that it was appropriate for white people to dress in blackface as part of their Halloween costumes.
Kelly apologized in an email to her NBC colleagues hours after making those remarks.
On Wednesday, she delivered an on-air apology in the opening minute of her 9 a.m. show — “I’m Megyn Kelly, and I want to begin with two words: I’m sorry.”
Noemie Emery: Christine Blasey Ford's lasting impact
Noemie Emery: Christine Blasey Ford's lasting impact:
Which leads to the sad part of the Ford disappearance. She stopped being a person of utility. She still rouses and works up the feminist base, but it was worked up already. But since the hearing, she really works up the conservative voters, passive and listless before the commotion, who were aroused and then brought to a boil by enraged attacks on their man.
Which leads to the sad part of the Ford disappearance. She stopped being a person of utility. She still rouses and works up the feminist base, but it was worked up already. But since the hearing, she really works up the conservative voters, passive and listless before the commotion, who were aroused and then brought to a boil by enraged attacks on their man.
Destroying the AGW Hypothesis
Destroying the AGW Hypothesis--Michael May shared a link.
"Interesting paper from Dr. Edwin Berry.
The above-ground atomic bomb tests in the 50s and 60s raised the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere from the “normal” 100 percent to 180 percent until the tests were terminated in 1963.
Dr. Edwin X Berry`s article basically states that the IPCC CO2 theory is wrong because it cannot simulate the carbon-14 data, it claims nature treats human CO2 differently than natural CO2 which violates the Equivalence Principle, and its predictions with natural CO2 are extremely wrong.
Therefore, all the climate models are wrong.
Obama Tells One Whopper Of A Lie. It's About Lying. | Daily Wire
Obama Tells One Whopper Of A Lie. It's About Lying. | Daily Wire:
Speaking in Nevada on Monday, former president Barack Obama uttered what may have been the most pompous, patronizing, and pretentious lie from a politician since Woodrow Wilson, the president who championed executive power over legislative power by expanding the executive branch, who stated, “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
Obama actually said this: "Unlike some I actually try to state facts. I believe in facts. I believe in a fact-based reality and a fact based politics. I don't believe in just making stuff up."
Speaking in Nevada on Monday, former president Barack Obama uttered what may have been the most pompous, patronizing, and pretentious lie from a politician since Woodrow Wilson, the president who championed executive power over legislative power by expanding the executive branch, who stated, “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”Obama actually said this: "Unlike some I actually try to state facts. I believe in facts. I believe in a fact-based reality and a fact based politics. I don't believe in just making stuff up."
Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes
"There has been an increase by up to 6 percent in the number of highway crashes in four of the states where the recreational use of marijuana has been legalized, according to a pair of new studies.
The new reports do not prove there’s a direct risk caused by the use of marijuana among motorists, but they raise caution flags, especially since there is no easy way to test drivers to be sure if they are, in fact, under the influence of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, said David Harkey, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Highway Loss Data Institute.
“It’s certainly early in the game,” Harkey told NBC News.
But, he warned, “We’re seeing a trend in the wrong direction.”...
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NP View: Enough about weed. The Liberals need to fix our economic mess—fast | National Post
"A top priority must be repairing Canada’s seriously damaged global competitiveness, including overhauling our uncompetitive tax regime
Regulatory issues and an uncompetitive tax regime are crippling Canada's competitiveness, a Senate committee report warns.
The federal government has understandably had its hands full in recent months.
The legalization of cannabis was one major public policy file that was consuming a lot of energy, the NAFTA renegotiation another.
Now that these issues are largely behind us, the government is able to tackle other pressing issues.
And not a moment too soon.
Sen. Doug Black, of Alberta, persuasively argued in the Financial Post this week why a top priority must now be repairing Canada’s seriously damaged global competitiveness.
Sen. Doug Black, of Alberta, persuasively argued in the Financial Post this week why a top priority must now be repairing Canada’s seriously damaged global competitiveness.
Good-news stories about cannabis jobs springing up in once-moribund small towns and the sincere relief at a new NAFTA deal should not obscure a far more serious economic story.
As the senator notes, “investors are fleeing the country. Major energy projects are dead or dying. It’s not just money leaving Canada … businesses and individuals are heading south in favour of a warmer investment climate.”..."
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X. NATO and the Challenge in the North Atlantic and the Arctic: Whitehall Papers: Vol 93, No 1
X. NATO and the Challenge in the North Atlantic and the Arctic: Whitehall Papers: Vol 93, No 1"It has been said far too often that ‘the world changed on 9/11’.
...We cannot predict with certainty where the next threat will emerge, or where the next war will take place – but the security of the North Atlantic has always been a focal point for NATO.
...What are the Challenges?
The one constant that must guide NATO policies, operations and forces is that, regardless of whatever regional challenges it is addressing, it must also be prepared to deter the most capable adversary it might face.
Today, that is Russia..."
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Report: Millions in Food Stamp Dollars Flowed to Terrorists | Breitbart
Report: Millions in Food Stamp Dollars Flowed to Terrorists | Breitbart:
Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according to an explosive report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).
The report from GAI, where Breitbart News Senior-Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as president, highlighted several instances where money obtained through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud went to fund acts of terrorism, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing.
The report from GAI, where Breitbart News Senior-Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as president, highlighted several instances where money obtained through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud went to fund acts of terrorism, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing.
Have We Not Learned Anything From What We Watched Happen To Europe?
Steve Russo
Have We Not Learned Anything From What We Watched Happen To Europe?
This is not a caravan of Doctors, Scientist and Engineers bringing cultural enrichment, this is the beginnings of a third-world invasion we cannot absorb.
Article IV Section 4 of the United States Constitution clearly states:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence..."
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Have We Not Learned Anything From What We Watched Happen To Europe?
This is not a caravan of Doctors, Scientist and Engineers bringing cultural enrichment, this is the beginnings of a third-world invasion we cannot absorb.
Article IV Section 4 of the United States Constitution clearly states:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence..."
Read on!
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