College Bloat Meets ‘The Blade’ - WSJ

College Bloat Meets ‘The Blade’ - WSJ
"Mitch Daniels, America’s most innovative university president, tells how he’s kept tuition from rising and how acquiring Kaplan University will expand educational access.
...Mr. Daniels kicks off our conversation with a morality tale: “I’ll speak to an audience of businesspeople and say: Here’s the racket that you should have gone into. 
You’re selling something, a college diploma, that’s deemed a necessity. And you have total pricing power.” 
Better than that: “When you raise your prices, you not only don’t lose customers, you may actually attract new ones.”
For lack of objective measures, “people associate the sticker price with quality: ‘If school A costs more than B, I guess it’s a better school.’ ” 
A third-party payer, the government, funds it all, so that “the customer—that is, the student and the family—feels insulated against the cost. 
A perfect formula for complacency.” 
The parallels with health care, he observes, are “smack on.”...

CAIR Is Suing Texas -- You'll Never Believe Why | Clarion Project

CAIR Is Suing Texas -- You'll Never Believe Why | Clarion Project
"CAIR is suing Texas because it believes that Texas should be anti-Semitic — and the Lone Star state passed legislation that it’s not.
That’s quite an admission of its true colors on CAIR’s part.
Yet today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is announcing a lawsuit against the state of Texas for passing anti-BDS legislation last year.
BDS stands for the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israel which aims to strangle the Jewish state economically while at the same time calls for the flooding of Palestinians into Israel to destroy the Jewish character of the state.
According to the definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and officially adopted by the U.S. (and 31 other nations), the BDS movement has been deemed at its core an anti-Semitic movement.
This is fundamentally because the movement “[applies] double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of by any other democratic nation.”
For example, there are at least 100 land disputes across the globe that are not subject to “BDS” movements..."

Weekly Update: JW Gives Testimony on Capitol Hill about Clinton Foundation - Judicial Watch

Weekly Update: JW Gives Testimony on Capitol Hill about Clinton Foundation - Judicial Watch:

When I was asked by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations to testify this week about the Clinton Foundation, I knew the challenge would be organizing the vast trove of information we have accumulated through court action over the past several years.
That evidence, I told the committee, warrants a serious investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Moreover, there is evidence that the Obama Justice Department suppressed an investigation of the Foundation.
In my testimony, I said that we were suspicious from the very beginning of Hillary Clinton’s term at the State Department if she and Bill could keep Foundation and government business separate. By 2014, it was evident that we were right, and we issued a report with the Washington Examiner:

Ivy League course chews on 'racial otherness'

Ivy League course chews on 'racial otherness'

• An Ivy League institution will host a course called “Literature, Food, and the American Racial Diet” during the spring 2019 semester.
• The Princeton course will be taught by English professor Anne Cheng, who incorporates “critical race studies” and “feminist theory” into her analyses.
• The course will explore “how ‘taste’ informs the ways in which we ingest or dispel racial otherness,” noting that “food, like books, is the site of our greatest consumption of and most vulnerable encounter with ‘otherness.’”

Read on.

Editorial: End law that enables state to steal property

Editorial: End law that enables state to steal property
"Uri Rafaeli was behind on his property taxes by $8.41 in 2013.
And that's all it took for Oakland County to foreclose on a rental property he owned to collect the small sum and a $277 penalty.
Six months later, the county sold the property at auction for $24,500, turning a huge profit.
As hard as it is to believe, the county’s action was legal. Michigan’s General Property Tax Act requires county governments to seize property for unpaid taxes and keep the proceeds from the sale.
The size of the debt does not matter..."

Lunch video-----Most insane ski line EVER

Noon-toon

How the liberal morality police ruin lives - Washington Times

How the liberal morality police ruin lives - Washington Times:

What’s really dangerous is not a man who wants his son to be heterosexual or a boy who uses a gay slang to upset another boy — it’s the adults who cynically use those situations to destroy lives in a fascist effort to gain political and social power by controlling people through fear.

STARBUCKS’ NEW BATHROOM POLICY NOT WORKING OUT AS HOPED. …

Instapundit Blog Archive STARBUCKS’ NEW BATHROOM POLICY NOT WORKING OUT AS HOPED. …A half-dozen toilets were locked or b…
STARBUCKS’ NEW BATHROOM POLICY NOT WORKING OUT AS HOPED.

…A half-dozen toilets were locked or barricaded for no clear reason. Others were closed for prolonged “cleaning,” which an insider said was needed after extreme soiling caused by drug-using, incontinent vagrants.

“Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.

“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave. (entrance on West 32nd Street) and at a branch at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane. At 252 W. 31st St., the road to relief was blocked by garbage cans. Furniture and boxes formed a barrier at 61 W. 56th St.

A rope and traffic cones barred the way at 38 Park Row. When a desperate visitor asked if the loo would reopen any time soon, a barista directed him to a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby.

It gets even worse; read the whole thing. 
Other than pretty much everybody except the ozone layer of Starbucks’ executives, who could have seen this coming?--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

#1 Movie this week 1966-----A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) Trailer

Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness | Intellectual Takeout

Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness | Intellectual Takeout
"How did we arrive at a point in our history where gangs of hecklers chase politicians from restaurants, where senate hearings have lost all decorum, where family members and friends part ways over politics?
Every day brings new examples of incivility and violence. 
In the last twenty-four hours, I have casually browsed several sites online. 

• Here was a professor advocating castration for white Republicans; 
• celebrities mocking a black singer for praising the President; 
• strangers leaving death threats on the phones of politicians, judges, and their families; anonymous callers phoning in false accusations of rape; 
• some wicked soul mailing the poison ricin to a Republican senator and to officials at the Pentagon..."

Read on.

#1 This day 1988-----Chicago - "Look Away" (Official Music Video)

Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while | Ars Technica

Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while | Ars Technica:
"We dive into the many ways first-gen 5G hardware will (temporarily?) ruin phone design.
2019 is going to be the year of 5G—at least, that's what the cellular industry keeps saying.
We're going to see the launch of several 5G smartphones from OEMs like Samsung, Motorola, and OnePlus, and carriers will be tripping over themselves to tell you how awesome their new 5G networks are despite coming with a slew of asterisks.
I would like to make something up about how ridiculous the 5G hype has gotten, but it's hard to top actual quotes from industry executives, like Verizon's claim that 5G will "dramatically improve our global society."
Faster mobile Internet is coming, but should you care about it yet?..."

You ought to know!

Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Just Dropped A Bombshell

Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Just Dropped A Bombshell:

President Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017, so the 302 of the Flynn interview Comey read must have been written before then. Why then was a new 302 drafted on August 22, 2017? And by whom?
The timing of the re-write—shortly after then-FBI Agent Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team after his anti-Trump text messages came to light—raises the possibility that Mueller wanted to scrub the evidence of Strzok’s taint.

They lied: The UN Migration Pact IS legally binding and could be valid FOR ALL countries

They lied: The UN Migration Pact IS legally binding and could be valid FOR ALL countries:
"They lied.
For months proponents of the UN Migration Pact told us that the pact was non-binding.
The response to the many citizens of nation states worldwide having signed country specific petitions was that it was non-binding so there was nothing to worry about, it was going to be good.
The immensely opposed and disastrous document declares unlimited migration to be treated as a human right, thereby deprecating the term ‘illegal migrants’, and criminalises any criticism of migration as hate speech.
...Now we know.
In a frank exchange with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Hebner of the AfD drew out an admission that it is, in fact, legally binding.
As well, that it will be adopted as rule for all UN Member states once enacted..."

AM Fruitcake

History for December 17

History for December 17 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Henry 1797, John Greenleaf Whittier 1807, Erskine Caldwell 1903
  

William Safire 1929, Eugene Levy 1946, Giovanni Ribisi 1974 - Actor


1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville Wright made the flight.


1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.

Why 'Separation of Church and State' was Never Intended to Mean 'Government Versus God' | CBN News

Why 'Separation of Church and State' was Never Intended to Mean 'Government Versus God' | CBN News:

"When the Founders talked about separation of church and state, they had a historical context that we really lack," David Barton of WallBuilders told CBN News.
He said those Founders saw great danger in rulers establishing a specific religion their subjects then had to practice.
Christian historian Rev. Eddie Hyatt, the author of Pilgrims & Patriots, explained, "Church and state were merged together, and the church used the power of the state to enforce its doctrines and practices."

The way we were-----Jigsaw - Sky High [HQ]

Boob-tube-----American Douglas DC-7 - "New York to Los Angeles" - 1954

Too big!-----How big is government in your county? - American Experiment

How big is government in your county? - American Experiment
"...also breaks that down for each into the share of GDP derived from Private goods-producing industries, Private services-providing industries, and Government and government enterprises. 
...What of Government and government enterprises? 

The bottom five counties – with an average of 7% of GDP deriving from this sector – are Lincoln, Olmsted, Hennepin, Roseau, and Steele. 

The top five – with an average share of 35% – are Mille Lacs, Cass, Carlton, Pine, and Mahnomen. Figure 1 shows the government’s share of GDP across Minnesota.

Figure 1: Government and government enterprises as a percentage of county GDP

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis

Across the state, the median share of GDP was 37.4% for Private goods-producing industries, 48.9% for Private services-providing industries, and 12.2% for Government and government enterprises.--John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment. 

The Growing Muslim Population in Europe | Intellectual Takeout

The Growing Muslim Population in Europe | Intellectual Takeout
"...Currently (2016) there are about 26 million Muslims in Europe, or about 4.9% of the continent’s population. 
This has grown from 19.5 million (3.8%) in 2010. 
However, the current Muslim population is not spread evenly: they make up 6.3% of the UK’s population, 6.1% of Germany’s population, 6.9% in Austria’s population, 8.1% in Sweden and 8.8% in France. 
...In the “high migration” scenario, the non-Muslim population in Europe would still decline by about 30 million people. 
But this would be more than compensated by the Muslim population growing by 50 million people, meaning that the population of Europe as a whole would grow modestly: by 4% over the next 30 years. 
...Sweden would be 30% Muslim, while Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and the UK would be pushing 20%. 
Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Finland would not be far behind in the mid-teens..."

FBI Releases Key Steele Dossier Document | The Daily Caller

FBI Releases Key Steele Dossier Document | The Daily Caller:

Steele was ultimately working for the Clinton campaign and DNC, not a private client. And Steele’s use of some “unidentified” sources could raise questions about his collection methods.
A former MI6 officer, Steele was hired in June 2016 to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. His immediate employer was Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was working for Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and the DNC.