Michigan has the worst government transparency and accountability laws and practices in the country, according a new corruptibility report card from the Center for Public Integrity.
Michigan received a failing grade -- and the lowest overall score -- from CPI, which measured each state on 250 specific "indicators" related to ethics enforcement, lobbying disclosure, political financing, legislative accountability and more.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Integrity Report ranks Michigan worst in nation for government transparency, accountability - mlive.com
Integrity Report ranks Michigan worst in nation for government transparency, accountability - mlive.com:
Poll: Banning Biological Males from Girls' Sports, - Louder With Crowder
Poll: Banning Biological Males from Girls' Sports, - Louder With Crowder:
The issue of allowing transgender males to compete in girls' sports is contentious. There are lawsuits on behalf of biologically female athletes. States are trying to level the playing field. Bipartisan bills are being proposed in Congress to allegedly save women's sports. The issue was even discussed during a hearing for Joe Biden's education secretary. Like with a lot of things, it gets framed as a left vs. right issue. Where do most Americans stand? According to a recent Politico poll, with the biologically female athletes.
Hmmm. True or not?-----The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary
The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary
"GeoeongineeringWatch.org is excited to announce the release of our groundbreaking documentary that conclusively exposes the existence of global climate engineering operations.
Global climate engineering operations are a reality.
Atmospheric particle testing conducted by GeoengineeringWatch.org has now proven that the lingering, spreading jet aircraft trails, so commonly visible in our skies, are not just condensation as we have officially been told.
"GeoeongineeringWatch.org is excited to announce the release of our groundbreaking documentary that conclusively exposes the existence of global climate engineering operations.
Global climate engineering operations are a reality.
Atmospheric particle testing conducted by GeoengineeringWatch.org has now proven that the lingering, spreading jet aircraft trails, so commonly visible in our skies, are not just condensation as we have officially been told.
Over 75 years ago global powers committed the planet and populations to a climate engineering experiment from which there is no return.
The intentional dimming of direct sunlight by aircraft dispersed particles, a form of global warming mitigation known as “Solar Radiation Management”, has and is causing catastrophic damage to the planet's life support systems.
All are needed in the critical battle to wake populations to what is coming, we must make every day count. Share credible data from a credible source, make your voice heard. Awareness raising efforts can be carried out from your own home computer...Read all.
No More Cakes and Ale | The Pipeline
No More Cakes and Ale | The Pipeline
...It is perhaps even more alarming that many people don’t seem to care that their world is collapsing, an attitude that only hastens the collapse.
"The world we once regarded as normal no longer exists.
If certain powerful figures in the political and medical communities have their will, we will never return to the way things were.
As Klaus Schwab states in his book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, “Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal.
The short response is: never.”
...And people are buying into it.
One detects a certain frivolity of mind, the readiness and even eagerness to capitulate to a prevailing orthodoxy, in effect, a superficiality of thought, a dwindling of intellectual range, a loathing for the things we ignorantly take for granted and a perverse desire to see them taken from us.
...We have been educated to hate our culture.
As the student chant has it, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western civ has got to go.”
...When a free society collectively agrees to the surrender of its freedoms, undertakes to hasten its demise—Western civ has got to go—and concentrates on the relatively trivial in the process of its dismemberment, we are witnessing a failure of intelligence and a sapping of character, the besetting vices of the modern West, as they were, according to Bryant, the mortal defects of the Roman Empire....Read all.
Horowitz: Wall construction under Biden? Red states can complete border wall in Texas and Arizona - TheBlaze
Horowitz: Wall construction under Biden? Red states can complete border wall in Texas and Arizona - TheBlaze:
What can states do when the federal government not only keeps its border open, but directly invites the cartels and smugglers to bring in potentially millions of new migrants, along with cartel members, gangsters, and previously deported criminals? That is a question we never thought we'd have to grapple with, but it is of vital importance for our national security and communities.
Liars are more likely to believe other lies: study
Liars are more likely to believe other lies: study
"Turns out you absolutely can bulls- -t a bulls- -tter.
Canadian researchers who studied the psychological effects of lying have revealed that those who tend to exaggerate or distort statements may also be more gullible and likely to believe the lies of others.
“It probably seems intuitive to believe that you can’t ‘bulls- -t a bulls- -tter,’ but our research suggests that this isn’t actually the case,” said Shane Littrell, lead author and psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
“In fact, it appears that the biggest purveyors of persuasive bulls- -t are ironically some of the ones most likely to fall for it.”
...Researchers hope their study may contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms behind misinformation, and why so many are susceptible to “fake news” headlines...Read all.
A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus - Foundation for Economic Education
A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus - Foundation for Economic Education
"From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, state and local governments responded in various ways from issuing emergency orders—citywide shutdowns to school closures and beyond—but it’s the suspension of various laws and regulations that is exposing the unnecessary regulatory web that burdens businesses...
- In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott waived oversize and overweight restrictions for commercial trucks and suspended requirements to register under the International Registration Plan or to obtain temporary registration, as long as the truck is registered in one US state. Gov. Abbott also waived regulations allowing doctors to receive the same payment for over-the-phone telemedicine visits that they would for in-person visits for patients on state-regulated insurance plans. Most notably, he waived state laws that prohibit alcohol industry trucks from delivering supplies to grocery stores...
- In Boston, restaurants typically need a specific permit to provide carry-out service, but Mayor Marty Walsh lifted that requirement to allow for every restaurant to offer the service.
- Even New York City suspended its enforcement of illegal e-bikes during the crisis to accommodate for the influx of delivery orders, the state also moved to allow liquor-to-go...Read all.
Name a Great Civilization Created by Progressive Leftists - WSJ
Name a Great Civilization Created by Progressive Leftists - WSJ:
What exactly has the cancel mob ever built?--By James Freeman
- "To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are.” That’s the headline on a New York Post op-ed from University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, who writes of contemporary cancel culture: It’s happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote: How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?
- ...And Mr. Reynolds is urging more clear and candid expression: Historically, it’s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech. It isn’t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context. It isn’t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers. You know who does these things? Horrible, awful people.
- University of Iowa law student Luke Kennedy concludes: Cancellations of figures like Dr. Seuss will continue to succeed so long as the only political group that feels free to share its opinions is the far left. This guarantees it will sound the loudest, even though it isn’t representative. Even worse, the group’s ideology holds both that words are violence and that silence is violence; only echoing its words is acceptable...Read all!
Furious Sheriff Spreads Photos of Biden's 'Crime Scene'
Furious Sheriff Spreads Photos of Biden's 'Crime Scene':
He added that “one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there.”
“This administration owns this decision,” Dannels said. “And what it’s doing is, it’s forcing us back to 2019, when we had the largest — what I call — crime scene in the country to include the largest humanitarian situation going on,” he said, sharing some of the photos of the “crime scene.”
SHOCK REPORT! FBI Sends in Armored Vehicle with Turret, 2 Vans, 6 FBI Vehicles, 3 Local Police Vehicles to Arrest Young Father Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally - UNBELIEVABLE INTERVIEW! - Please Help...
SHOCK REPORT! FBI Sends in Armored Vehicle with Turret, 2 Vans, 6 FBI Vehicles, 3 Local Police Vehicles to Arrest Young Father Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally
- Joshua James was arrested this week and is being charged in connection to the violent events of January 6th in Washington D.C.
- Joshua James is an Iraq War veteran. He was wounded in a bomb blast in Iraq. And Joshua is being held by the FBI without bail. Joshua is the breadwinner in his family. He receives retirement pay from the military. He has three young children including a 3-year-old.
- Then an Army armored vehicle with a turret on top, 2 FBI vans, 6 FBI vehicles, 3 local police and sheriff’s vehicles pulled up and ransacked their home.
- Audrey James, his wife, was forced to sit outside for 8 hours with her 3-year-old while the FBI searched their home and broke a light fixture.
- The FBI is holding him until trial because he was seen speaking with two other members of the Oath Keepers that day...
On Friday The Gateway Pundit spoke with Audrey James and she is understandably distraught...Read all.
Famed pastor condemns 'woke' culture that is creeping into evangelical churches: 'Deadly' for the Gospel - TheBlaze
Famed pastor condemns 'woke' culture that is creeping into evangelical churches: 'Deadly' for the Gospel - TheBlaze:
Youssef, 72, who serves as pastor of the Church of The Apostles in Atlanta with about 3,000 members, told the outlet that he remembers watching the Episcopal Church collapse from the inside in the '80s as an Episcopal priest. He said the denomination followed the culture away from Christian principles and moved toward secularism — a move made evident with its vote to approve same-sex marriage.
"Those same battles that I fought in the mainline denominations are now invading the evangelical churches," Youssef said. "It's the same arguments, the same lingo, and the same words repeating themselves with such precision I am deeply, deeply concerned."
History for March 13
Joseph Priestley 1733
- 1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico..
- 1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
- 1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
- 1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.
- 1925 - A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution.
- 1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
- 1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.
- 1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
Friday, March 12, 2021
Mark Levin shreds Biden's 'disgusting, propagandistic' speech to nation on COVID-19 - TheBlaze
Mark Levin shreds Biden's 'disgusting, propagandistic' speech to nation on COVID-19 - TheBlaze:
He went on to say:
This speech that Joe Biden gave is the most disgusting, propagandistic speech that a demagogue, even a politician, has ever given. It is pathetic. And you'll notice he and his spokesperson Psaki never tell us exactly what they've done and exactly who's done it. That is so different from the Trump administration.
This is so appalling. This man has exploited this pandemic like no politician has ever exploited a pandemic. When he's sitting in his basement eating his oatmeal that's dripping on his loafers, what does he do?
SCOTUS puts Medicaid work requirements case on hold as Biden looks to reverse Trump policy
SCOTUS puts Medicaid work requirements case on hold as Biden looks to reverse Trump policy
“The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hold off on a dispute over former President Donald Trump’s effort to let states impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
Without comment, the court pulled the case from its scheduled argument later this month.
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department had requested the move in late February while the new administration began the process of unwinding the Trump-era rule.
It was the latest in a series of major cases before the Supreme Court this year that have been dismissed or put on hold while the new administration reviews the government’s policies.” (03/11/21)...Read all.
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