As we head into the Christmas season, religious liberty in America continues to be under attack, and it’s not just about whether people can say “Merry Christmas” in public places. With the recent controversy over Chick-fil-A bowing to pressure to end its financial support of charities the far left has labeled as “anti-gay,” organizations that dare to hold onto certain deeply held religious beliefs will likely be punished for it.
A lack of accountability means that mismanaged institutions repeatedly get bailed out.
"The federal government shovels hundreds of millions of dollars per year to America’s 100 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with minimal accountability. ...and Congress has already rewarded the worst performers with loan deferment and forgiveness.
...Let’s look at the biggest number first.
Senator Booker hopes to throw $100 billion at HBCUs and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in general.
Under his plan, he would transform HBCUs into social-activist organizations in “the fight against climate change,” though it remains unclear why being historically black makes them particularly well qualified for this task.
...Here’s what we’re already spending on HBCUs under Title III.
In 2019 Congress gave these 101 institutions $282 million, plus $79 million in “mandatory” money (for which the institutions need to do little but fill out a form), plus $73 million for Historically Black Graduate Institutions (including law and medical schools), plus $9 million for master’s-degree programs. ...On top of all that, Howard University gets its own annual appropriation of $237 million, nearly a billion dollars every four years, having been uniquely created and chartered by Congress in 1867. ...In 2019, Congress also offered $40 million in loan subsidies that are uniquely available to HBCUs. This number represents another entirely undeserved windfall.
This loan program, the HBCU Capital Financing Program, had been required by Congress in 2018 to forgive or defer hundreds of millions in loans to HBCUs, including those that had the full ability to pay.
...Meanwhile, early in 2018, Howard was still reeling from its failure to update its steam plant, whose pipes had burst in the cold and caused a delay in the start of classes. The taxpayers’ billions over the years had not gone into plainly required maintenance..." Read all.
Megan Rapinoe named Sport Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year - ABC News
"The magazine announced Monday that Rapinoe, co-captain of the 2019 World Cup champions, was honored with "the most prestigious honor in all of sports media," which is bestowed annually upon an athlete, coach or team who "best represents the spirit and ideals of sportsmanship, character and performance."
...Steve Cannella, co-editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated..."She is a force of nature on and off the field, a trailblazing soccer player who also proves every day how large and loud a voice a socially conscious athlete can have in 2019."
Hawkins: Gun-Free Military Bases Make U.S. Troops Sitting Ducks:
The December 6, 2019, Naval Air Station Pensacola attack reminded us once more that gun-free policies on military installations make U.S. troops sitting ducks.
Breitbart News reported that a gunman opened fire Friday morning in Pensacola, killing three innocents and causing numerous others to be transported to the hospital for injuries.
Wind Turbine Blades Bigger Than Jumbo Jets Sought in Connecticut - Bloomberg
"When Iberdrola SA builds its offshore wind farm off the coast of Connecticut sometime in the middle of next decade, it plans to use turbines more powerful than anything currently on the market. The Spanish utility’s Avangrid Inc. won an auction to develop the 804-megawatt wind farm in a joint venture with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
They plan to use a turbine of at least 14 megawatts...
...The largest turbine on the market currently is General Electric Co’s 12-megawatt Haliade-X.
Each blade is 107 meters long (351 feet), bigger than the Statue of Liberty..." Read all.
Obama gave Common Core contract to publisher, got $65-million book deal in return? - American Thinker "As far-left Democrats yell about bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let's turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once penniless President Obama, who left public office a very, very rich man. ...Ostensibly, it's mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery there, right? Well, ahem...
...confirm that “senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign,making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false... hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable," according to the bombshell Post report.
Pentagon file image: Getty. ...span the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. The trove further confirms that US leaders knewvast amounts of money was being wasted in a futile attempt to "Westernize the nation". Watchdog groups commonly estimate total US spending on the war has hit $1 trillion by end of 2019. More importantly, America's 'endless war' has cost at least 2,351 American lives and over 20,000 wounded. “What did we get for this $1tn effort? Was it worth $1 trillion?” one retired Navy SEAL who had advised the Bush and Obama administrations observed in one of the documents. “After the killing of Osama bin Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”
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A video tour of the damning new 'Afghanistan Papers' revelations and their significance:
Democrats are consulting with Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Tribe, who has pushed for impeachment since before Donald Trump took office in 2016, as they prepare articles of impeachment.
The New York Times reported Saturday: “Laurence H. Tribe, the constitutional law professor at Harvard, planned to travel to Washington on Saturday to discuss impeachment with Democratic members, kept in town over the weekend for two lengthy prep sessions.”
The clip features kids from Bewsey Lodge Primary School imagining themselves in the role of Prince Henry, who wants to profess his love for and gay marry his man servant ‘Thomas’. “This school teaches children about LGBT relationships from an early age,” explains the BBC, “This class of 6 year olds is learning about gay marriage…all ages take part in LGBT lessons.”
History for December 10 - On-This-Day.com Thomas H. Gallaudet 1787 - Pioneer of educating the deaf, Chet Huntley 1911, Dorothy Lamour 1914 - Actress Dan Blocker 1928 - Actor, Tommy Kirk 1941 - Actor, Susan Dey 1952 - Actress ("L.A. Law," "The Partridge Family") 1830 - Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. Only seven of her works were published while she was alive. 1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
The Justice Department Inspector General report released Monday vindicated long-held Republican concerns over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse when it came to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s surveillance of a member of the Trump campaign.
House Intelligence Committee Republicans released their findings of potential abuses in a February 2019 report that found a “troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.”
Chesa Boudin, a one-time deputy public defender who has never tried a case, was elected in a close race, and will assume office in January. Before he had a chance to decide if the new drapes in his office were going to be socialist red or blue state blue, Boudin announced that he would not prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as “public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc.” We assume public defecating on streets and sidewalks, today’s San Francisco “treat,” will also go unprosecuted.
Then the Connecticut State Legislature abolished the death penalty – but for future cases.
Then in August 2015, in a final blow to the husband of the woman killed and the father of the young girls killed, the Connecticut Supreme Court defied the State Legislature and ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional, then commuted all death sentences to life-in-prison, even if that sentencing took place prior to the date that the death penalty was abolished.
Now is where it gets mind-blowing. Taxpayers are now on the hook to not only cover the costs of Stephen Hayes’ incarceration (6 life sentences), but they are also footing the bill for Hayes to move forward with his newfound desire to transition into a woman. One of the men convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion Hayes allegedly has only recently realized he is transgender and is undergoing hormone therapy in prison.
The ongoing, rolling fact is – “green energy”…is neither green nor energy.
“Green energy” sources – are all demonstrably worse for the environment than the traditional energy sources (like coal and oil) they seek to replace.
Wind farms – are bird blender fields. And the turbines – are uber-toxic.
So too are solar panels unnatural environmental disasters.
And the alleged energy produced by “green energy” – is a tiny fraction of the energy produced by traditional sources. So the respective costs-per-kilowatt-hour – are ridiculously inefficient.
Wind Turbine Costs More than It Saves
Solar Uses More Energy to Manufacture Than It Produces
Which is where the government money enters the picture.
Canada Loses 71,000 Jobs After Trudeau And Liberals Reelected | The Daily Caller:
The Canadian economy lost over 71,000 jobs in November — the worst decline in a decade.
The news from Statistics Canada was released Friday, just as the House of Commons resumed sitting after October’s federal election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau barely retained power with a minority government that is largely dependent on the socialist New Democratic Party voting with Trudeau’s Liberals on key legislation.
Venice Flooding Caused by Gas Stoves? | National Review "Venice suffered some historic floods in November, and we all know what the cause is: not its proximity to this strange, heaving body of liquid some call “the sea,” or the fact that Venice admits “the sea” into its city limits with a series of picturesque canals, or the fact that the entire city rests on logs and has sunk a bit over the years.
No, it’s your gas stove.
Also your shower.
And your hamburger.
The solution? Stop letting women control the temperature in the house. It’s the only logical conclusion, but we need to set this up..." Read all!
As we head into the Christmas season, religious liberty in America continues to be under attack, and it’s not just about whether people can say “Merry Christmas” in public places. With the recent controversy over Chick-fil-A bowing to pressure to end its financial support of charities the far left has labeled as “anti-gay,” organizations that dare to hold onto certain deeply held religious beliefs will likely be punished for it.
...In 2019, Congress also offered $40 million in loan subsidies that are uniquely available to HBCUs. This number represents another entirely undeserved windfall.
Megan Rapinoe named Sport Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year - ABC News
Report: Democrats Consulting with Radical Pro-Impeachment Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe | Breitbart:
Chesa Boudin, a one-time deputy public defender who has never tried a case, was elected in a close race, and will assume office in January. Before he had a chance to decide if the new drapes in his office were going to be socialist red or blue state blue, Boudin announced that he would not prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as “public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc.” We assume public defecating on streets and sidewalks, today’s San Francisco “treat,” will also go unprosecuted.
Taxpayers paying for sex change of man sentenced to death for raping, murdering young family
Venice Flooding Caused by Gas Stoves? | National Review