A conservative in Washington is facing discrimination – she’s being denied permission to rent a living unit – because of her politics.
The story is outlined by Townhall columnist Zachary Petrizzo who explains the problem facing Pardes Seleh, who is “a conservative who has worked at Fox News and is now a graduate student.”
Big Jesse Jackson lie busted by scrappy Chicago neighborhood website "Jesse Jackson was getting away with a big lie so well that the Chicago Sun-Times even wrote an editorial based on his phony claim. As the old, wry journalism joke goes, Jackson’s lie was so agreeable to the prejudices of MSM-ers, that it was “too good to check.”
Enter the brave and scrappy bloggers at CWB Chicago, a neighborhood blog that:
…was created in 2013 by five residents of Wrigleyville and Boystown who had grown disheartened with inaccurate information that was being provided at local Community Policing (CAPS) meetings.
We knew from city data that robberies in our neighborhood had been soaring to record highs for three consecutive years. Yet public officials and police representatives at CAPS meetings continually said that crime was going down.
...Among the worst of those problems: criminals roaming the streets, far too many of them either out on low bail, or charged no bail at all, under the terms of the Illinois Bail Reform Act of 2017.
Rev. Jesse Jackson made a pre-Christmas plea for 19 publicly-unnamed Cook County Jail inmates to be released. These individuals were jailed merely for being poor, Jackson said, adding that “liberating the poor” was in the spirit of Christmas.
Jackson based his claim on a politician, elected Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart:
Back in March, CWBChicago published a three-part series that exposed holes in Cook County authorities’ claims that hundreds of inmates were jailed in Cook County “just because they are poor” and unable to put down a bail deposit of $1,000 or less.
Our team secured a list of the inmates that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office was referring to when Dart repeatedly made his claim about the “hundreds” of people who were supposedly jailed “because they are poor.” Then, we pulled scores of those inmates’ court files at random.
The truth, we reported on March 6th, on March 25th, andMarch 26thwas that about 85% of the people on Dart’s list had been free on low or no bail, but they violated the terms of their release by skipping court or committing more crimes and wound up back in jail.
Another 10% of the people on Dart’s list were in jail for violating terms of probation sentences.
You might think that this would be case-closed material. But if so, you don’t know Jesse.
So, you can imagine that we were skeptical when Rev. Jesse Jackson made a pre-Christmas plea for 19 publicly-unnamed Cook County Jail inmates to be released. These individuals were jailed merely for being poor, Jackson said, adding that “liberating the poor” was in the spirit of Christmas.
A Dart spokesperson claimed that “most of” the 19 individuals had never had a bond review.
Oh, the humanity! Why, it's unjust!
Except that it’s a big fat lie. And it was too good to check for the Sun-Times
[T]he Sun-Times’ editorial board, apparently taking no time to investigate the veracity of Jackson’s claims, wrote an opinion piece calling for the 19 people to be freed.
“There’s no excuse for denying a bond review to people who have a right to one under state law,” they wrote in calling for Jackson’s mysterious 19 prisoners to be unlocked.
CWB Chicago was more rigorous than the editorial board of America’s 35thbiggest newspaper, and, it turns out, the Chief Judge of Cook County was not pleased that his courts were being slandered as deficient in their treatment of bond hearings..." Read on.
What America Would Look Like as a Socialist Country: "We asked a bunch of socialists what their vision of America would look like. America is on the brink of socialist revolution. Sorta. A Gallup poll in August suggested that only 45 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 see capitalism positively, compared to 51 percent for socialism... ...But though “socialism” is gaining in popularity, nobody can seem to agree on what it means. Some liberal commentators have suggested that socialists aren’t actually all that distinct from liberals... ...In the hopes of better understanding that movement, I reached out to nine thinkers with a diverse range of perspectives on socialism and had long, frank, and open-ended conversations with them about what socialism actually is, how it’s influencing US politics, and where the recent surge of enthusiasm for it could ultimately lead us... ...Right away it became obvious this new generation of socialists is distinct from the progressives who have traditionally made up the leftmost flank of the Democratic Party. They are less compromising, their rhetoric is more stark, and their demands are often more sweeping..." Read on.
Liberal antagonists opt for socialism and sexual anarchy - Washington Times:
From the Boy Scouts to the Knights of Columbus, it’s open season on anything that doesn’t fit the cracked new world of socialism and sexual anarchy that “progressives” are fashioning for us all.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris are in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. They are writing off a significant portion of the Catholic vote even before their campaigns get underway.
Intersectionality at the Crossroads "It’s been known for a long time that revolutions eat their own, and it appears that the preposterously cobbled together coalition of leftist groups that tag their movement “intersectionality” is no exception. As the facts behind the Women’s Marches become more widely known, their organizers and the press, which covered for them, are covered in shame and deservedly losing traction.
In 2017 women (or is it womxn?) marched under a broad banner in opposition of President Trump. The hodgepodge banner under which they marched included women’s rights, immigration and healthcare reform, reproductive rights, the natural environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, and workers’ rights. Apparently, the marchers were under the mistaken belief that all these issues had a common denominator and the boogeyman was Trump.
...But the inconsistency between the views and associations of the march leaders and the useful idiots who followed their call was highlighted in recent weeks when the media were compelled to finally report what had been known for a long time but kept hidden from credulous consumers of their pap: the Women’s March leaders were linked inextricably to Louis Farrakhan, an anti-Semite, anti-homosexual, anti-white propagandist who spreads lies about slavery -- ignoring the most significant role of Moslems in it even to this day..." Read on.
History for January 2 - On-This-Day.com Philip Freneau 1752, Isaac Asimov, Roger Miller Jim Bakker 1939, Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968, Kate Bosworth 1973 1492 - The leader of the last Muslim stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. 1953 - "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
But the feminists and the gender ideologues are beginning to realize that their worldviews don’t line up very nicely.
It seems as if our culture doesn’t quite understand just how radical the transgender fad actually is—or how genuinely insulting it is to women.
When debates fired up across social media over whether or not a certain man who began identifying as a woman could be called a woman about a year ago, I remember one comment in particular.
An angry woman demanded to know if a man in a dress – or even a man with a sex change – could understand menstrual cramps, pregnancy, or dozens of other things women experience.
The answer, of course, was no.
But the woman was pronounced a transphobe anyway, for not affirming that a cross-dresser was just like her..." Read on.
Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials | The Daily Caller "The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.
The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”..." Read on.
Times financial columnist and CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin is at it again in his crusade to have banks and credit card companies enforce his leftist agenda.
Following the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, Sorkin opined the financial industry – not cops, courts and legislatures – could “reduce gun violence.” This echoed leftist calls to boycott businesses associated with the NRA.
Unable to pass laws to their liking, liberals turn to corporations to impose their views on the rest of us.
AP Investigation: Food aid stolen as Yemen starves
"TAIZ, Yemen (AP) — ...Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland, but millions of Yemenis were still living a step away from famine. Reports of organizational disarray and out-and-out thievery streamed in to him this spring and summer from around Taiz — 5,000 sacks of rice doled out without record of where they’d gone . . . 705 food baskets looted from a welfare agency’s warehouses . . . 110 sacks of grain pillaged from trucks trying to make their way through the craggy northern highlands overlooking the city.
Food donations, it was clear, were being snatched from the starving.
...Across Yemen, factions and militias on all sides of the conflict have blocked food aid from going to groups suspected of disloyalty, diverted it to front-line combat units or sold it for profit on the black market..."
It’s Past Time for Trump to Take Control of US International Broadcasting
"Without fail, every time a Trump nominee gets closer to a Senate confirmation hearing to head the International Broadcasting Bureau, the media pounces and sounds the alarm. The most recent case in point is a New York Times article dated Dec. 12 and headlined, “Troubled by Lapses, Government’s Voice to the World Braces for New Trump Management.” The article details abuses and incompetence at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting—a sister agency to Voice of America—as well as at the Mandarin and Nigerian services.
...The delay in getting President Donald Trump’s appointees into the leadership of U.S. broadcasting has allowed his critics to marshal their forces.
A bill sponsored by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to strip Trump appointees of the power to hire or fire personnel was rushed through the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in late November.
The measure would entirely undermine recent efforts at improving the troubled agency.
...In a tweet on Nov. 26, Trump mused that “While CNN doesn’t do great in the United States based on ratings, outside of the U.S. they have very little competition. Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!”..." Read all.
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Whether Trump was even aware of existing U.S. government broadcasting is unclear.
Losing no time to react, Bennett, director of Voice of America, rushed forward with a spirited defense of her network, writing in The Washington Post, “We think our credibility is rooted in the interpretation of the second half of Trump’s proposal. We, too, think our job is to show our country as it really is—through journalism based on fact.”
While Trump’s tweet appears to confirm fears that he would turn Voice of America and the other broadcasting agencies into propaganda arms, reality has been far different during his two years in office.
If anything, the White House has been MIA and has treated the U.S. government’s broadcasters with profound indifference. The White House has made minimal effort to put in place its own political appointees and to direct the much-needed reforms passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2016. Even Hillary Clinton in congressional testimony described U.S. international broadcasting as “defunct.”
If there are three words I love that some Republicans don’t, it’s “owning the libs.” Yes, it can be somewhat juvenile at times, but there’s nothing quite as rewarding on occasion as a good lib own.
That doesn’t mean you have to lower your intellectual or moral standards, mind you. It just means that sometimes, ownership of the left side of the aisle can be both entertaining and rewarding.
And if there are three words I love that some (well, most) Obamas don’t, they were these: “I totally agree!”
Ohio Wesleyan University offers a "social justice" major to students with one course specifically focused on "activism."
The major also includes a "contemporary feminist theory" course, which studies far-left concepts such as "marxist feminism" and "socialist feminism."
A university in Ohio is offering a “social justice major” to students, aiming to "cultivate...the knowledge and skills needed to analyze social injustices.”
...In addition to coursework, the majorrequires that each student does work outside of class, which includes an “activism” project..." Read on.
University Educator: Mowing Your Lawn & Acting Respectable Is Racist - Freedom Outpost"
"According to this university educator, "white supremacy is the accumulation of these aggressive messages that say 'stay off the grass,' 'mow your lawn,' 'act respectable,' 'pull your pants up,'" Earlier this month, a university educator told the Madison Board of Education why things like civility, time limits and mowing your lawn indicates you are racist.
The University of Wisconsin - Madison "educator" said that she teaches her students the alleged "connection" between white liberalism and white supremacy.
In doing so, she sought to provide "working definitions."
...Some of what she claims is white liberalism are things like a "timer" and the calls to "please finish up" when someone's time is up. Other things include numbers, the sign up process, the stage, the barrier.
"All of these signs suggest that the law and the decorum and the civility of this conversation is actually more important than what is being said," this white "educator pontificated..." Read on.
A conservative in Washington is facing discrimination – she’s being denied permission to rent a living unit – because of her politics.
The hodgepodge banner under which they marched included women’s rights, immigration and healthcare reform, reproductive rights, the natural environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, and workers’ rights. 
The sheer insanity of the 'transgender' fad | The Bridgehead
"The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.
"The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.
Times financial columnist and CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin is at it again in his crusade to have banks and credit card companies enforce his leftist agenda.
Reports of organizational disarray and out-and-out thievery streamed in to him this spring and summer from around Taiz — 5,000 sacks of rice doled out without record of where they’d gone . . . 705 food baskets looted from a welfare agency’s warehouses . . . 110 sacks of grain pillaged from trucks trying to make their way through the craggy northern highlands overlooking the city.
The most recent case in point is a New York Times article dated Dec. 12 and headlined, “Troubled by Lapses, Government’s Voice to the World Braces for New Trump Management.” The article details abuses and incompetence at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting—a sister agency to Voice of America—as well as at the Mandarin and Nigerian services.
The most recent case in point is a New York Times article dated Dec. 12 and headlined, “Troubled by Lapses, Government’s Voice to the World Braces for New Trump Management.” The article details abuses and incompetence at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting—a sister agency to Voice of America—as well as at the Mandarin and Nigerian services.
If there are three words I love that some Republicans don’t, it’s “owning the libs.” Yes, it can be somewhat juvenile at times, but there’s nothing quite as rewarding on occasion as a good lib own.
OWU offers 'social justice' major with mandatory 'activism' work
Earlier this month, a university educator told the Madison Board of Education why things like civility, time limits and mowing your lawn indicates you are racist.
Earlier this month, a university educator told the Madison Board of Education why things like civility, time limits and mowing your lawn indicates you are racist.