History for May 14 - On-This-Day.com Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - Painter, Richard Deacon 1921 - Actor, Bobby Darin 1936 - Singer, actor Meg Foster (Megan Foster) 1948 - Actress, Tim Roth 1961 - Actor ("Resovoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction"), Cate Blanchett (Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett) 1969 - Actress, theatre director 1897 - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled. 1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
It was bad enough when the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder engaged in spying on journalist James Rosen (and even spied on his parents' phone records). And the same cast of characters secretly spied on Associated Press reporters -- also in the name of tracking down government leakers.
Amid those discoveries were NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about massive government spying on the citizenry, which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had denied under oath. As the dominos began to fall, Holder expressed some regret, particularly as it applied to the intrusion upon journalists, who until the Obama administration had been considered largely off limits for the government's intel dragnet. Then there's my case.
A decade from now, most middle-income seniors will not be able to pay the rising costs of independent or assisted living.
"...But Ms. Harris, 72, a retired attorney, has grappled with assorted health problems...
But will she be able to afford it on her income, $4,600 a month from a state pension and Social Security?
Ms. Harris has no retirement savings and still pays a mortgage on her house, refinanced several times..." Read all and start saving!
Journalism prof provides proof of the bubble in which media exist | The College Fix
"Meredith O’Brien is a journalism professor at Northeastern University, and go figure: She’s uncertain about how to teach her subject in the age of Trump.
In a recent column at Inside Higher Ed, O’Brien, “a former newspaper and investigative reporter, award-winning columnist, and blogger,” complains […] there’s an unusual question my students have been asking with increasing frequency over the past two years: “Is this normal?”
The “this” refers to the interaction between President Donald Trump and the news media.
Typically, I am someone who tries to keep her political opinions under wraps when standing in front of a classroom.
But I answer this loaded question quickly. “No,” I say, “this is not normal. At. All.”
Ah, yes, of course: The professor is someone “who tries to keep her political opinions under wraps” … except in “emergency” cases like now.
Because Orange Man bad.
After all, the professor says, “the Clinton impeachment hearings, the Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq War, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Edward Snowden’s leaks, police shootings of unarmed African Americans that spawned the Black Lives Matter movement, mass shootings and the images of Syrian refugees washing up along the shores of the Mediterranean” … all pale in comparison to covering the day-to-day happenings of the Trump administration.
If this nonsense isn’t enough for you, check out the prof’s own blog, especially the current leading post: “A nation’s core values under attack, from within”: Right now, I am grieving for the United States..." Read all.
Two stunning revelations on Russia hoax investigation yesterday from DC super-lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joe DiGenova:
Washington, D.C. super-lawyers Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing have consistently been ahead of the news on the course of the unfolding scandal of spying on the Trump campaign and administration. Appearing last night on Lou Dobbs's Fox Business Network show, the two law and marriage partners revealed that the DoJ inspector general has already concluded that the last three of four FISA warrants were illegally obtained.
When the writer commented that some considered climate change to be a feminist issue, Steinem avidly agreed, opining that forced childbirth was the cause of many of the earth’s problems.
“Listen, what causes climate deprivation is population,” the 83-year-old icon exclaimed. “If we had not been systematically forcing women to have children they don’t want or can’t care for over the 500 years of patriarchy, we wouldn’t have the climate problems that we have.”
In 2015, Steinem articulated the same perspective to Cosmo’s Prachi Gupta,declaring that the Pope and all “other patriarchal religions” were responsible for global warming, because of dictating women’s reproductive rights..."
Those conspiracy theories generally are preposterous.
"One of the hardest lessons for young, idealistic, and educated people to learn when they come to Washington — and some never learn it — is that nobody is running things.
...But no person or group of people has the power to impose their will on society. There are just too many chefs making the soup.
...After Barack Obama got his stimulus passed on the promise that there were millions of “shovel-ready jobs,” the stimulation never quite materialized as planned...
This is a hard lesson for people who put immense faith in government to do big, important things... “Only the merest quarter-turn of the heart separates us from a material abundance beyond the fondest dream of anyone present,” he told a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa.
All we had to do was resist the urge to act like dogs returning “to the vomit of capitalism.”
Capitalism nauseates because we come into this world with programming for a “Stone Age conception of clan life,” as economist Michael Munger puts it. Our brains are wired to expect someone to be in charge.
When bad things happen, it must be because someone intended it.
We get angry at perceived slights, inconveniences, and tragedies, and our anger needs a target..." Read on.
Three Senate committee chairmen demanded answers this week about the role played by the Justice and State departments in furthering the goals of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the discredited anti-Trump dossier that helped launch the special counsel’s investigation.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham fired off inquiries to the Justice Department inspector general and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while Sens. Charles E. Grassley and Ron Johnson, heads of the Finance and Homeland Security committees, respectively, sent their own letter to Mr. Pompeo and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday.
They were all reacting to news that Mr. Steele had communicated some of his work compiling the anti-Trump document to State Department employees.
Frauds, Crooks and Criminals "Although the story makes it sound like the refugee industry has brought refugees to put on display in Washington as a response to the Trump Administration refugee slowdown, in reality they do this lobbying PR event every year no matter who is in the White House.
Refugees put on display, meet the press in Washington last week.
The lobbying initiative brings in (probably at your expense since these agencies are largely taxpayer-funded) refugees who exemplify the best of the recent crop of Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners to help persuade Congress to fund even more refugees in the coming fiscal year.
Needless to say there is NEVER any counter effort at this time by immigration restriction groups who might get around the Hill with information about the cost of the program and to put out a few horror stories about refugees who came here fraudulently and became crooks and criminals.
And, NO ONE ever mentions that the religious charities are largely federally funded and dependent on a large and regular supply of ‘new Americans’ to pay their salaries and their office overhead (so they can promote their Open Borders political agenda).
Long before her death, Jarvis' mom Ann Reeves Jarvis hoped someone would dedicate a day to honor mothers. When she died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis set out to do just that. She began campaigning not only for her mom but for moms everywhere.
It started off with her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, which takes credit for hosting the first official Mother's Day celebration three years later at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. Since then, the church has been dubbed the "International Mother's Day Shrine."
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Jarvis' Mother's Day as a national holiday..."
Liberals Clarify: 'Alt Right' Means Everyone To The Right Of Stalin | The Babylon Bee
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—An extensive study revealed that the majority of liberals define the term "alt-right" as meaning anybody who is politically to the right of Joseph Stalin. The study involved thousands of hours of focus-testing, surveying, and reaction-based observational studies on liberals from all over urban centers and liberal hotspots across the United States..." Read all!!
The most problematic part of Booker’s plan is that almost all of it would violate the Constitution. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, but Booker treats gun ownership as a mere privilege that may be granted if the government determines via an interview that it’s OK with it for you to possess a firearm.
In fact, the whole purpose of the Second Amendment was to prevent the government from determining which law-abiding citizens could or could not arm themselves, while the 14th Amendment was in large part an effort to ensure that state governments could not do so, either.
Under no circumstances would we argue that the government may require law-abiding citizens to seek its permission and undergo extensive training prior to exercising any other constitutional right.
This spring theU.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com Joe Louis (Barrow) 1914 - Boxer, "The Brown Bomber", Beatrice Arthur 1926 - Actress ("The Golden Girls", "Maude"), Harvey Keitel 1939 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction", "Thelma and Louise", "Taxi Driver") Richie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela) 1941 - Singer, Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris) 1950 - Musician, Dennis Rodman 1961 - Basketball player, nickname: "The Worm", actor 1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil. 1888?!!! 1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.
It was bad enough when the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder engaged in spying on journalist James Rosen (and even spied on his parents' phone records). And the same cast of characters secretly spied on Associated Press reporters -- also in the name of tracking down government leakers.
Typically, I am someone who tries to keep her political opinions under wraps when standing in front of a classroom.
Gloria Steinem Backs Abortion Because: “Forced Childbirth is the Single Biggest Cause of Global Warming” | LifeNews.com
There are just too many chefs making the soup.
Three Senate committee chairmen demanded answers this week about the role played by the Justice and State departments in furthering the goals of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the discredited anti-Trump dossier that helped launch the special counsel’s investigation.
It started off with her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, which takes credit for hosting the first official Mother's Day celebration three years later at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. Since then, the church has been dubbed the "International Mother's Day Shrine."
Liberals Clarify: 'Alt Right' Means Everyone To The Right Of Stalin | The Babylon Bee
The most problematic part of Booker’s plan is that almost all of it would violate the Constitution. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, but Booker treats gun ownership as a mere privilege that may be granted if the government determines via an interview that it’s OK with it for you to possess a firearm.This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.
