Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Win For Trump: Supreme Court Rules Against Immigrants With Criminal Records | Daily Wire
Win For Trump: Supreme Court Rules Against Immigrants With Criminal Records | Daily Wire:
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled against immigrants who argued that even if they had committed crimes that made them deportable, the Department of Homeland Security could take them into immigration custody to decide what to do with them after they’ve finished their sentences after more than roughly one day has gone by since their release.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled against immigrants who argued that even if they had committed crimes that made them deportable, the Department of Homeland Security could take them into immigration custody to decide what to do with them after they’ve finished their sentences after more than roughly one day has gone by since their release.
• Chart: O’Rourke Raised More Than Sanders in First 24 Hours of Campaign | Statista
• Chart: O’Rourke Raised More Than Sanders in First 24 Hours of Campaign | Statista:
"In the first 24 hours after announcing his campaign on Thursday, Beto O’Rourke raised US$6.1 million in donations, according to campaign officials..."
"In the first 24 hours after announcing his campaign on Thursday, Beto O’Rourke raised US$6.1 million in donations, according to campaign officials..."
Read it all!-----President Trump Saves Thousands of Lives | Power Line
President Trump Saves Thousands of Lives | Power Line
"On December 6, the New York Times headlined: “U.S. Murder Rate for 2018 Is on Track for a Big Drop.” The story was based on homicide statistics from 66 large cities. (The official FBI numbers for 2018 won’t come out until September 2019.)
"On December 6, the New York Times headlined: “U.S. Murder Rate for 2018 Is on Track for a Big Drop.” The story was based on homicide statistics from 66 large cities. (The official FBI numbers for 2018 won’t come out until September 2019.)
The murder rate in the United States in 2018 is on track for the largest one-year drop in five years.
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Murder rose 23 percent nationally between 2014 and 2016 before leveling off in 2017.
The Times can’t think what might have caused the homicide rate to rise rather dramatically during the last years of the Obama administration.
In the 1960s, the murder rate (expressed in homicides per 100,000 population) rose rapidly.
The decline that began in the mid-1990s continued to the point that by 2014, the homicide rate was back where it had been before the social upheaval of the 1960s.
But then something happened.
In 2015, the homicide rate suddenly reversed its downward trend and spiked upward.
In 2016 it jumped upward again.
In those two years–2015 and 2016–there were 4,968 more murders than would have been the case if the 2014 rate had remained steady. (The delta is actually more than that, since population increased after 2014.)
It should be noted that other violent crimes increased during the last two years of the Obama administration, as well.
The incidence of forcible rape, like homicide, has been in long-term decline–down from a high of 42.8 per 100,000 in 1992 to 25.9 in 2013.
It rose slowly for a couple of years, then took off like a shot in 2016, jumping suddenly from 28.4 per 100,000 to 40.9.
Aggravated assault similarly spiked in 2015 and 2016, while property crimes in general continued their historic decline.
So what happened in 2015 and 2016 to cause the violent crime rate, including the homicide rate, to rise after decades of decline?
I can’t think of any explanation other than the Black Lives Matter movement and the relentless attacks on law enforcement that it engendered, which were supported by the Obama administration.
But what happened when Donald Trump took over in the White House?
The homicide and violent crime rates began to fall again.
If the New York Times’s projection is correct, the second year of the Trump administration saw a steeper decline in the homicide rate.
Again, what could possibly have caused this change?
I can’t think of a plausible theory other than the Trump administration’s renewed support for law enforcement and the waning of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
Something happened beginning in 2017 that has saved thousands of lives.
If it wasn’t the new administration in Washington, what was it?"
It does provide this useful chart, with the homicide rate for 2018 based on 66-city data:
Note that the Y-axis starts at zero, which means that the U.S. has seen a wide variation in our murder rate over the past 50 years. In the 1960s, the murder rate (expressed in homicides per 100,000 population) rose rapidly.
By the early 1970s it was around twice the previous level.
The homicide rate dipped during the 1980s but remained high until the mid-1990s, and then began to decline sharply.
That decline had something to do with the crackdown on crack cocaine.
Maybe other factors were at work as well.
I think the more widespread ownership of handguns and issuance of carry permits played a positive role.The decline that began in the mid-1990s continued to the point that by 2014, the homicide rate was back where it had been before the social upheaval of the 1960s.
But then something happened.
In 2015, the homicide rate suddenly reversed its downward trend and spiked upward.
In 2016 it jumped upward again.
In those two years–2015 and 2016–there were 4,968 more murders than would have been the case if the 2014 rate had remained steady. (The delta is actually more than that, since population increased after 2014.)
It should be noted that other violent crimes increased during the last two years of the Obama administration, as well.
The incidence of forcible rape, like homicide, has been in long-term decline–down from a high of 42.8 per 100,000 in 1992 to 25.9 in 2013.
It rose slowly for a couple of years, then took off like a shot in 2016, jumping suddenly from 28.4 per 100,000 to 40.9. Aggravated assault similarly spiked in 2015 and 2016, while property crimes in general continued their historic decline.
So what happened in 2015 and 2016 to cause the violent crime rate, including the homicide rate, to rise after decades of decline?
I can’t think of any explanation other than the Black Lives Matter movement and the relentless attacks on law enforcement that it engendered, which were supported by the Obama administration.
But what happened when Donald Trump took over in the White House?
The homicide and violent crime rates began to fall again.
If the New York Times’s projection is correct, the second year of the Trump administration saw a steeper decline in the homicide rate.
Again, what could possibly have caused this change?
I can’t think of a plausible theory other than the Trump administration’s renewed support for law enforcement and the waning of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
Something happened beginning in 2017 that has saved thousands of lives.
If it wasn’t the new administration in Washington, what was it?"
Turning our public schools into political madrassas-----Multnomah County GOP Chairman Sues Portland Public Schools Over Gun Control Protests - Willamette Week
Multnomah County GOP Chairman Sues Portland Public Schools Over Gun Control Protests - Willamette Week
"The lawsuit alleges Portland Public Schools violated parents' and students' First Amendment rights to advance the district officials' political agenda.
...The suit relies heavily on documents released by PPS following a public records request filed by a plaintiff in late March 2018.
The lawsuit argues those records revealed a coordinated effort by Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, the Board, teachers and local anti-gun groups to advocate for stricter gun control with public protests, walkouts and classroom "indoctrination."
In a statement, Buchal said his lawsuit "demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which PPS officials have misused scarce educational resources for narrowly partisan and political objectives."...
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"The lawsuit alleges Portland Public Schools violated parents' and students' First Amendment rights to advance the district officials' political agenda.
...The suit relies heavily on documents released by PPS following a public records request filed by a plaintiff in late March 2018.The lawsuit argues those records revealed a coordinated effort by Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, the Board, teachers and local anti-gun groups to advocate for stricter gun control with public protests, walkouts and classroom "indoctrination."
In a statement, Buchal said his lawsuit "demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which PPS officials have misused scarce educational resources for narrowly partisan and political objectives."...
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Ocasio-Cortez Continues To Melt Down Over High 'Unfavorable' Ratings | Daily Wire
Ocasio-Cortez's claim that centrists legitimize bigotry when they side with the Republican Party over the Democratic Party is laughable considering the bigotry scandals the Democratic Party has faced this year.
The Tragedy of Baltimore - The New York Times
The Tragedy of Baltimore - The New York Times
"...In 2016, the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division concurred, releasing a report accusing the city’s Police Department of racial discrimination and excessive force.
The city agreed to a “consent decree” with the federal government, a set of policing reforms that would be enforced by a federal judge.
...But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place.
In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous.
Other elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge..."
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"...In 2016, the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division concurred, releasing a report accusing the city’s Police Department of racial discrimination and excessive force.
The city agreed to a “consent decree” with the federal government, a set of policing reforms that would be enforced by a federal judge. ...But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place.
In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous.
Other elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge..."
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History for March 20
History for March 20 - On-This-Day.com
Henrik Ibsen 1828, B.F. Skinner 1904, Ozzie Nelson 1906
Fred "Mr." Rogers 1928, Hal Linden 1931 - Actor ("Barney Miller"), Holly Hunter 1958 - Actress
1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.
1989 - A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Todd Starnes: Sex offender reads to kids at library's drag queen story time -- How the heck did that happen? | Fox News
Todd Starnes: Sex offender reads to kids at library's drag queen story time -- How the heck did that happen? | Fox News:
Drag Queen Storytime is a national movement that has swept across libraries from coast to coast, introducing children as young as two-years-old to drag queens. Organizers say its mission is to promote love and acceptance. But critics say it has nothing to do with tolerance and everything to do with indoctrination.
In 2018 a drag queen in Lafayette, Louisiana all but admitted to city council members that storytime was about pushing an agenda.
“This is going to be the grooming of the next generation,” Santana Pilar Andrews told council members. “We are trying to groom the next generation.”
In 2018 a drag queen in Lafayette, Louisiana all but admitted to city council members that storytime was about pushing an agenda.
“This is going to be the grooming of the next generation,” Santana Pilar Andrews told council members. “We are trying to groom the next generation.”
Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart
Media Silence Surrounds Muslim Massacre of Christians | Breitbart"Political leaders and public figures were falling over themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of crickets.
...Without exception, the mainstream media gave top billing to the shootings, with newspapers carrying the story on their front pages and television news channels leading off their broadcasts with the story.
The bizarre aspect of the coverage was not, in fact, the attention paid to a heinous crime committed in New Zealand, but the absolute silence surrounding the simultaneous massacre of scores of Christians by Muslim militants in Africa.
As Breitbart News alone reported among major news outlets, Fulani jihadists racked up a death toll of over 120 Christians over the past three weeks in central Nigeria, employing machetes and gunfire to slaughter men, women, and children, burning down over 140 houses, destroying property, and spreading terror..."
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Graham: Need A Special Counsel To Investigate "Potential Crimes" By Department of Justice, FBI | Video | RealClearPolitics
Graham: Need A Special Counsel To Investigate "Potential Crimes" By Department of Justice, FBI | Video | RealClearPolitics:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told FNC's Sean Hannity Wednesday night that the Department of Justice must answer two questions: Did they stop the Clinton investigation because they wanted her to win? Did they start the Russian investigation against Trump as an insurance policy in case he won?
Graham also called for a special counsel to investigate "potential crimes" committed by officials in the Department of Justice, especially the FBI.
Graham also called for a special counsel to investigate "potential crimes" committed by officials in the Department of Justice, especially the FBI.
Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang| National Review
Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein & Hollywood’s Sexual Predators | National Review
"If you’re tempted to turn away from the torrent of squalid news that continues to flow out of Hollywood, resist the temptation.
The more of these revolting exposes you read, the more clearly you will see the underlying monstrosity in Hollywood, as clearly as the hero of John Carpenter’s They Live sees aliens disguised as everyday people when he puts on the sunglasses.
Former CBS chief Les Moonves’s career had already ended in disgrace for repeated instances of alleged sexual harassment and assault uncovered last summer by The New Yorker.
Yet until this week the board that fired him for preying on women was planning to beg His Majesty’s forgiveness for decoupling him from his kingdom, pressing into his hands a $120 million payoff.
Maybe not anymore.
The New York Times, with the cooperation of a washed-up talent manager who, at 75, decided to open his mouth about Moonves, reported on how the triangular sex trade works in Hollywood.
Innocent young sweet pea from some place like South Carolina hits town, desperate for a break.
Managers and agents and suchlike human succubi latch on to her with an eye toward turning her out..."
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Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang
- Where the ‘price of admission’ is stripping on camera, or worse.
The more of these revolting exposes you read, the more clearly you will see the underlying monstrosity in Hollywood, as clearly as the hero of John Carpenter’s They Live sees aliens disguised as everyday people when he puts on the sunglasses.
Former CBS chief Les Moonves’s career had already ended in disgrace for repeated instances of alleged sexual harassment and assault uncovered last summer by The New Yorker.
Yet until this week the board that fired him for preying on women was planning to beg His Majesty’s forgiveness for decoupling him from his kingdom, pressing into his hands a $120 million payoff.
Maybe not anymore.
The New York Times, with the cooperation of a washed-up talent manager who, at 75, decided to open his mouth about Moonves, reported on how the triangular sex trade works in Hollywood.
Innocent young sweet pea from some place like South Carolina hits town, desperate for a break.
Managers and agents and suchlike human succubi latch on to her with an eye toward turning her out..."
Read on.
KOMO News' special: Seattle is Dying
KOMO News' special: Seattle is Dying
“People didn’t use to use the word embarrassing about Seattle, but they use it a lot now,” the narrator to a new KOMO News special titled “Seattle is Dying” says.
The focus of the special is homelessness and the ways in which it has changed the city.
“People didn’t use to use the word embarrassing about Seattle, but they use it a lot now,” the narrator to a new KOMO News special titled “Seattle is Dying” says.
The focus of the special is homelessness and the ways in which it has changed the city.
There’s a section featuring angry residents of one area of the city who are screaming at their representatives for action.
They want the tent cities managed and they’re tired of calling the police only to find out the police can arrest people but those same people will be back on the street, sometimes within hours..."
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There are just nine steps from freedom to socialism to societal breakdown | Fox News
There are just nine steps from freedom to socialism to societal breakdown | Fox News:
Talk of socialism is suddenly everywhere. The journey from a free society to socialism, however, does not occur overnight. It’s a stepped process that begins slowly and ends with a rush.
Here are those steps:
Talk of socialism is suddenly everywhere. The journey from a free society to socialism, however, does not occur overnight. It’s a stepped process that begins slowly and ends with a rush.
Here are those steps:
Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong | Fortune
Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong | Fortune:
It didn’t feel like her usual migraine.
The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief.
Monachelli’s husband sued Stowe, the federally qualified health center the physician worked for. Owen Foster, a newly hired assistant U.S. attorney with the District of Vermont, was assigned to defend the government.
Though it looked to be a standard medical malpractice case, Foster was on the cusp of discovering something much bigger—what his boss, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, calls the “frontier of health care fraud”—and prosecuting a first-of-its-kind case that landed the largest-ever financial recovery in Vermont’s history.
- The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess: Inside a digital revolution gone wrong. A joint investigation by Fortune and Kaiser Health News.
It didn’t feel like her usual migraine.
The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief.
Two months later, Monachelli was dead of a brain aneurysm, a condition that, despite the symptoms and the appointments, had never been tested for or diagnosed until she turned up in the emergency room days before her death.
Monachelli’s husband sued Stowe, the federally qualified health center the physician worked for. Owen Foster, a newly hired assistant U.S. attorney with the District of Vermont, was assigned to defend the government.Though it looked to be a standard medical malpractice case, Foster was on the cusp of discovering something much bigger—what his boss, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, calls the “frontier of health care fraud”—and prosecuting a first-of-its-kind case that landed the largest-ever financial recovery in Vermont’s history.
Foster began with Monachelli’s medical records, which offered a puzzle.
Her doctor had considered the possibility of an aneurysm and, to rule it out, had ordered a head scan through the clinic’s software system, the government alleged in court filings.
The test, in theory, would have caught the bleeding in Monachelli’s brain.
But the order never made it to the lab; it had never been transmitted.
Her doctor had considered the possibility of an aneurysm and, to rule it out, had ordered a head scan through the clinic’s software system, the government alleged in court filings.
The test, in theory, would have caught the bleeding in Monachelli’s brain.
But the order never made it to the lab; it had never been transmitted.
The software in question was an electronic health records system, or EHR, made by eClinicalWorks (eCW), one of the leading sellers of record-keeping software for physicians in America, currently used by 850,000 health professionals in the U.S.
It didn’t take long for Foster to assemble a dossier of troubling reports—Better Business Bureau complaints, issues flagged on an eCW user board, and legal cases filed around the country—suggesting the company’s technology didn’t work quite like it said it did.
It didn’t take long for Foster to assemble a dossier of troubling reports—Better Business Bureau complaints, issues flagged on an eCW user board, and legal cases filed around the country—suggesting the company’s technology didn’t work quite like it said it did.
Until this point, Foster, like most Americans, knew next to nothing about electronic medical records, but he was quickly amassing clues that eCW’s software had major problems—some of which put patients, like Annette Monachelli, at risk..."
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Bought off?-----Why did Kamala Harris let Herbalife off the hook?
Why did Kamala Harris let Herbalife off the hook?
"...U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris announced her intention to seek the presidential nomination by casting herself as a tireless advocate of men and women who lack power and wealth....“I knew I wanted to protect people,” Harris told the crowd of 20,000.
"...U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris announced her intention to seek the presidential nomination by casting herself as a tireless advocate of men and women who lack power and wealth....“I knew I wanted to protect people,” Harris told the crowd of 20,000.
“And I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable.”
But as the attorney general of the nation’s largest state — and therefore one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in the nation — Harris declined to investigate Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that has been accused of fraudulent marketing practices.
- ...prosecutors in the San Diego office of the California attorney general sent Harris a lengthy memorandum that argued for an investigation into Herbalife and requested resources in order to undertake such an investigation. Similar investigations into Herbalife were already taking place elsewhere.
- About three weeks after the San Diego letter was sent, Harris received the first of three donations to her campaign for the U.S. Senate from Heather Podesta, the powerful Washington lobbyist whose ex-husband Tony’s firm, then called the Podesta Group, had worked for Herbalife since 2013.
- Heather Podesta’s own lobbying firm, Heather Podesta and Partners, would soon be hired by Herbalife, too.
Harris did not pursue an investigation, even as the Federal Trade Commission proceeded with an investigation of its own, which had been opened the previous March and which suggested that sufficient grounds for such scrutiny did exist..."
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