The Increasingly Popular Idea that Has Glenn Beck Saying: ‘America, Run for Your Lives’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Increasingly Popular Idea that Has Glenn Beck Saying: ‘America, Run for Your Lives’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“America, run for your lives,” Beck said. “This is really dangerous. You have people who are openly saying that they want redistribution of wealth. That is socialism. Now, you have those same people saying that they want nationalism to play a role. That’s nationalism [and] socialism, otherwise known as Nazis.”
“When a country is so mishandled and mis-run that they have to build walls — be it virtual or literal walls to keep not people from coming in, but people from going out — that is a sign a country is about to go very dark,” Beck said."

Awesome: 24 things you must have an ID to purchase

Awesome: 24 things you must have an ID to purchase |:

17. Buy a cell phone

23. Purchase nail polish at CVS

 24. Purchase certain cold medicines

 But not to vote?

More Than 20 Obama Officials 'Lost or Destroyed' E-mails After House Launched Probes

Issa: More Than 20 Obama Officials 'Lost or Destroyed' E-mails After House Launched Probes | National Review Online:
The revelation that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilynn Tavenner did not retain her e-mails means that more than 20 witness in the Obama administration to lose or delete e-mails without notifying Congress, according to the top House investigator.

“The Obama administration has lost or destroyed e-mails for more than 20 witnesses, and in each case, the loss wasn’t disclosed to the National Archives or Congress for months or years, in violation of federal law,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said ofTavenner’s lost e-mails.

“It defies logic that so many senior Administration officials were found to have ignored federal recordkeeping requirements only after Congress asked to see their e-mails,” he continued. “Just this week, my staff followed up with HHS, who has failed to comply with a subpoena from ten months ago. Even at that point, the administration did not inform us that there was a problem with Ms. Tavenner’s e-mail history. Yet again, we discover that this administration will not be forthright with the American people unless cornered.”

A Good Way to Wreck a Local Economy: Build Casinos

A Good Way to Wreck a Local Economy: Build Casinos - The Atlantic

..... Casinos promise a new and easy flow of revenues to hard pressed local governments.

The promise however comes increasingly hedged with fine print.

The casino market is nearing saturation, if it is not already saturated.
Two casinos have closed in Mississippi this year.
Four have closed or will soon close in Atlantic City, including the glitziest hotel on the boardwalk, Revel.
Casinos that do stay in business yield less to their towns and states.
Revenues from Maryland’s first casino, in Perryville, at the northern tip of Chesapeake Bay, have already dropped 30 percent from their peak in 2008, and are expected to decline even more rapidly in future as competitors proliferate.

Yet the truly bad news about casinos is not found in the tax receipts. 
It’s found in the casinos' economic and social impact on the towns that welcome them.

Until the late 1970s, no state except Nevada permitted casino gambling.
Then Atlantic City persuaded its state legislature to allow casinos, in hope of reviving the prosperity of the battered resort town.
Hotels sprung up along the seafront.
Thousands of people were hired.
And the rest of Atlantic City … saw no benefits at all.
All these years later, it still has desperate trouble sustaining even a single grocery store.

No one should look to casinos to revive cities, “because that’s not what casinos do.”
So explained the project manager for a new Wynn casino rising near Philadelphia.
He’s right, but it has taken a surprisingly long time for city governments to acknowledge a fact that was well understood by the 19th-century Americans who suppressed gambling in the decades after the Civil War.

The impact of casinos on neighboring property values is “unambiguously negative,” according to the economists at the National Association of Realtors. 
Casinos don’t encourage non-gaming businesses to open nearby, because the people who most often visit casinos do not wander out to visit other shops and businesses. 
A casino is not like a movie theater or a sports stadium, offering a time-limited amusement. It is designed to be an all-absorbing environment that does not release its customers until they have exhausted their money.

The Institute for American Values has gathered the best evidence on the social consequences of casinos.
That evidence should worry any responsible city government.

IRS union runs on taxpayer subsidies

IRS union runs on taxpayer subsidies « Watchdog.org:

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Congress takes its five-week vacation, the hard partisan work continues at the National Treasury Employees Union, subsidized by taxpayers.
The Washington Times reported this week that the Internal Revenue Service provides government salaries, office space and equipment to NTEU operatives, who ostensibly represent 92,000 IRS employees.
The IRS’ deputy commissioner calculates these union workers spent 573,319 hours in 2012 on NTEU business. 
That’s the equivalent of 286 full-time employees doing nothing but union labor.
Additionally, the union spent $687,400 on travel — also on the taxpayers’ tab. 
And who can forget the $4.1 million Star Trek-themed “training” session in Las Vegas four years ago?
On top of the ongoing outlays of time and money, there’s the politics of it all.
Ninety-four percent of NTEU campaign contributions go to Democrats.
For whatever reason, Republicans go along for the ride.
“The union naturally wants greater benefits, bigger salaries and more handsome bonuses, so Congress pays the union to do it,” the Times reported."

A Junior Doctor's Salary

A Junior Doctor's Salary - The Atlantic

Michigan authorities: Truck hauling human waste spills load

Michigan authorities: Truck hauling human waste spills load | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Authorities say a truck hauling human waste crashed on a Lansing-area freeway, spilling its load on the roadway. 
WLNS-TV reports the drivers of two cars and a motorcycle that crashed while trying to avoid the truck had minor injuries.
 The crashes happened around 5 a.m. Friday on northbound U.S. 127 in Ingham County.
Police say a tire blew on the truck's trailer, leading to the initial crash."

Sooooo, we gonna see results or just get new AC?-------6 Michigan schools get state money to switch to a year-round calendar

6 Michigan schools get state money to switch to a year-round calendar | MLive.com:

LANSING -- Six Michigan schools will receive money to help transition from the traditional school calendar to a year-round "balanced" calendar.

The State Board of Education is set to approve grant requests for four schools at next week's meeting, and two additional schools received money through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to help offset their costs as well.

GEE Edmonson Academy, a charter school in Detroit, is set to receive $395,000, while the Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System is the largest beneficiary at $750,000. Watersmeet Township Public Schools will get $709,000, less than the $735,000 they requested, while Ypsilanti Community Schools will get $146,000, far below their $507,500 request.

Baldwin Community Schools and Madison District Public Schools in Oakland County each received $750,000 through the MEDC to aid in their transition to the new calendar.

The MDE funds are part of a $2 million pilot program included in the new state budget to help schools switch to the alternative calendar in some or all of their buildings. The money helps cover costs associated with preparing buildings - such as installing air conditioning for hot summer months - and other one-time setup expenses.

Safer Streets? Yes, Please! | Bicycling Magazine

Safer Streets? Yes, Please! | Bicycling Magazine

Why are liberals turning against freedom of speech? Examiner Editorial | WashingtonExaminer.com

Why are liberals turning against freedom of speech? Examiner Editorial | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Among the most distressing distempers on the liberal side of the American public policy debate is the mushrooming pressure to repeal the First Amendment and put officials in charge of censoring political speech. How things have changed. Liberals like former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once were the stoutest defenders of the right of every American to speak his mind."

Top 5 facts about Hamas the mainstream media desperately doesn’t want you to hear

Top 5 facts about Hamas the mainstream media desperately doesn’t want you to hear |:
"The mainstream media has fallen right into the Hamas plan.  
Hamas knows their best chance of being successful is to have to world view Israel in a negative light.
Hamas wants Israel to look like warmongers who are killing innocent civilians.
The media largely ignores the fact that rockets are raining down on Israel and Hamas then uses human shields.
A free and honest press is the enemy of Hamas right now, and very few journalists have the courage to call out Hamas for the evil acts they are committing everyday."

From Ben Shapiro:

Hamas’ Military Headquarters Are Located Underneath a Hospital. 

Hamas Shoots Peace Protesters.

Hamas Built Its Terror Tunnels Thanks to Dual-Purpose Aid. 

This alone should be enough to have any legitimate seeker of peace to support Israel. Sadly, the list of things that Hamas is doing in cowardice continues.

Hamas Uses Women, Children, and the Mentally Ill as Human Shields. 

Hamas’ Goal Is The Total Destruction of Israel and The Murder of Jews Everywhere. 

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 - One Week, One Oshkosh

History for August 8

History for August 8 - On-This-Day.com:

Kool-Aid Days, Hastings, NE (Aug 8-10). See www.kool-aiddays.com

200th birth anniversary of Esther Hobart McQuigg Morris (1814-1902), women's rights pioneer.

Birth anniversaries of Matthew Henson (1866-1955), Fredric March (1897-1975), Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919).

Happy Birthday! Keith Carradine, Roger Federer, Dustin Hoffman

1588 - The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English fleet ending an invasion attempt. 


1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing." 


1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall. 


1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain. 



1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day. 


1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85. 


1995 - Saddam Hussein's two eldest daughters, their husbands, and several senior army officers defected. 

Doctors Begin To Refuse Obamacare Patients | The Daily Caller

Doctors Begin To Refuse Obamacare Patients | The Daily Caller:
"Obamacare plans have shrunk payments to physicians so much that some doctors say they won’t be able to afford to accept Obamacare coverage, NPR reports.
Many of the eight million sign-ups in Obamacare exchanges nationwide already face more limited choices for physicians and hospitals than those in the private insurance market. But with low physician reimbursement rates, the problem could get even worse."

Liberal Newspaper Warns Obama: Don’t ‘Tear Up the Constitution’ With Executive Action on Immigration | TheBlaze.com

Liberal Newspaper Warns Obama: Don’t ‘Tear Up the Constitution’ With Executive Action on Immigration | TheBlaze.com:
“If, in fact, I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so. But we’re also a nation of laws,” Obama said at the time.
The Post noted that “some of the same Democrats and pro-immigrant advocates urging” Obama to take action “would be outraged if a Republican president took a similarly selective approach to enforcing the laws.”
Obama has asked Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to review the options the administration can take on immigration without congressional authorization."

Watch: Judge Napolitano Just Blew The Lid Off This Huge Obama Admin Scandal

Watch: Judge Napolitano Just Blew The Lid Off This Huge Obama Admin Scandal:

"Judge Napolitano criticized Obama’s attitude towards the CIA’s conduct:
Yet the language you just heard from the President of the United States as he attempted to justify it, is enough to make George Orwell blush.
The government is out of control.  The President is permitting spying on the Senate and these guys can’t keep their jobs when they lie."

Michigan housing chief runs up thousands in bills, expense records show

Michigan housing chief runs up thousands in bills, expense records show | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: "LANSING — The head of the state housing authority has rung up tens of thousands of dollars in expenses since taking office in 2012, dining on filet mignon, escargot and foie gras, staying in hotels that cost $400 to $500 a night, and traveling in a stretch limousine, records show.
Most — but not all — of the expenses have been paid by the state agency.
Officials who vet expense vouchers have rejected hundreds of dollars in reimbursements Scott Woosley has sought, such as a $47.60 “dinner” receipt from a Washington, D.C., bar for which the only items consumed were three glasses of 15-year-old El Dorado rum.
In June 2013, the state agency paid $1,253 for Woosley and other Michigan State Housing Development Authority officials to drive across Nebraska in a stretch limousine after a mix-up sent the state-owned plane they flew in to Omaha instead of Lincoln, where their meeting was to take place, according to the records obtained by the Michigan Democratic Party under the Freedom of Information Act.
Woosley, who is paid $135,000 a year, made no apologies for his expense vouchers in a telephone interview Wednesday, though he said any reimbursement requests he made for alcohol charges were unintentional. 
He said he generally submits the expenses he incurs believing the state will reimburse him for only those charges they deem appropriate.
“You can’t find a hotel in New York around the holidays that’s not four or five hundred a night,” Woosley told the Free Press."

Angry Republican leaders ready to shut door on open primaries

Angry Republican leaders ready to shut door on open primaries - Washington Times:
"CHICAGO — Any party that allows its opponents to help pick its candidates in “open” primaries is a PPINO — a “political party in name only” — say many Republican officials at their annual summer meeting.
Republican National Committee members and activists are still seething about reports that longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, enlisted Democrats to help him win his tough primary contest this summer against state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who was backed by the tea party."

New NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll Spells Bad News for Obama | TheBlaze.com

New NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll Spells Bad News for Obama | TheBlaze.com:
"President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit a new low of 40 percent, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday."

Chart of the day: Work vs. jail shares for black male high school dropouts ages 20-24 since 1935

Chart of the day: Work vs. jail shares for black male high school dropouts ages 20-24 since 1935 | AEIdeas:

Guess What Obama Has Racked Up More of Than All the Presidents From Washington to Clinton Combined

Guess What Obama Has Racked Up More of Than All the Presidents From Washington to Clinton Combined

"Remember when President Barack Obama boasted of lowering the debt by half? Or when, in 2008, Obama accused President George W. Bush of being “unpatriotic” for taking out a “credit card in the name of Bank of China.”

Well, it appears that Obama has reached his self-defined “unpatriotic” zone himself. According to CNS News, the new debt increase from the Obama administration is more than all of the presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton COMBINED:

- The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during Barack Obama’s tenure as president.

- When President Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the total federal debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Now it has risen to $17,618,599,653,160.19 — up $6,991,722,604,247.11 from Obama’s first day on the job.

- The $7,060,259,674,497.51 in new debt alone from Obama’s presidency is $61,341.82 per household.

Worldwide------Italy Falls Back Into Recession, Raising Concern for Eurozone Economy

Italy Falls Back Into Recession, Raising Concern for Eurozone Economy - NYTimes.com:
"FRANKFURT — The Italian economy shrank in the second quarter, according to an official estimate on Wednesday, taking economists by surprise and provoking concern that violence in Ukraine and tension with Russia could be pushing the broader eurozone back into recession.
Italy’s gross domestic product contracted 0.2 percent from April through June, compared with the first quarter of 2014, Istat, the Italian statistics office, said in a preliminary estimate.
It was the second quarterly decline in a row for Italy, meeting the most common definition of a recession. In the first quarter, output shrank 0.1 percent compared with the previous quarter.
The decline dashed hopes that Italy, the third-largest eurozone economy after Germany and France, was finally emerging from a decade of stagnation."

How Elizabeth Warren and Other Democrats Want Obama to Bypass Congress to Mandate ‘Economic Patriotism’ | TheBlaze.com

How Elizabeth Warren and Other Democrats Want Obama to Bypass Congress to Mandate ‘Economic Patriotism’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Democratic senators are calling for President Barack Obama to take executive action that would essentially increase the tax burden on many American companies. The White House isn’t ruling out a unilateral act, invoking the phrase “economic patriotism” to condemn companies that incorporate overseas."

Is Gardeners' Question Time racist?

Is Gardeners' Question Time racist? - Telegraph:

"One current presenter, Bob Flowerdew, rubbished the idea, calling it “ridiculous”, and asked whether experts on the show “should stop using Latin names to avoid offending the Romans”.
But Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, claimed the programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promoted nationalist and fascist beliefs.
Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, the academic said: “Gardeners’ Question Time is not the most controversial show on Radio 4, and yet it is layered with, saturated with, racial meanings.
“The context here is the rise of nationalism. The rise of racist and fascist parties across Europe. Nationalism is about shoring up a fantasy of national integrity. My question is, what feeds nationalism? What makes nationalism powerful?”
Dr Pitcher said the “crisis in white identity in multicultural Britain” meant people felt unable to express their views for fear of being called racist, so expressed their racial identity in other ways, such as talking about gardening.
Speaking on the same programme, Lola Young, a crossbench peer and former professor of cultural studies, backed Dr Pitcher’s analysis.
She added: “I remember back in the late 80s-early 90s when rhododendrons were seen as this huge problem, and people were talking about going out rhododendron-bashing.
“That was at a time when Paki-bashing was something that was all too prevalent on our streets.”
However Mr Flowerdew, a regular panellist on the show, denied that people who enjoyed talking about gardening were closet racists.
He said: “People aren’t gardening because they have some narrow nationalist view of the world.
“They are gardening because they enjoy it and they like to be outside in nice surroundings.”

Republicans Are Losing Faith in Their Michigan Senate Candidate

Republicans Are Losing Faith in Their Michigan Senate Candidate - NationalJournal.com:
"August 6, 2014
Terri Lynn Land is officially her party's nominee for Michigan's open Senate seat, and Republicans are less than inspired. 
Not that that should come as any surprise.
There's one simple reason Michigan Republicans worked feverishly to recruit someone other than Land to run:
She is not a top-tier candidate.
The last few months of her campaign is proof, revealing the warts and weaknesses that her allies have always known could ruin the GOP's best opportunity in two decades to take a grab at this Senate seat.
Certainly, Land has some things going for her.
The former secretary of state is a woman in a male-dominated party.
She's known by GOP donors nationwide after serving on the Republican National Committee, and has raised impressive sums of money, self-funding roughly one-third of her campaign.
She also won two statewide elections with healthy majorities, giving her solid name identification.
But on the nuts and bolts of campaigning – operational tactics, articulating policy specifics, messaging through advertisements and media – there were serious doubts about whether Land could compete.
With partisan control of the Senate up for grabs, Michigan's race this year is a nationally significant one. Republicans who know Land were concerned about her lack of exposure to the national spotlight, and whether she could survive the scrutiny of such a campaign.
Those fears are now being realized."

John Bolton: ‘The World's Descending Into Chaos’ Under Obama

John Bolton: ‘The World's Descending Into Chaos’ Under Obama | Truth Revolt

Varney then transitioned to the recent WSJ/NBC poll that presents damning numbers about the American people’s opinion of President Obama’s leadership—particularly in foreign policy, with a dismal 36% approval.

Bolton: Yeah, I’d like to know who those 36% are because the world’s descending into chaos. And I think this poll and the drop in approval numbers overall, gives the lie to the conventional political wisdom that Americans don’t care about foreign policy, that it’s too remote from their lives.

I think the American people are much more sensible and practical than their political leaders, and they see that because our economy here at home depends on a global economy that instability in Europe can have a profound effect...

Varney argued that the American public has become used to the 24-hour news cycle, and expects stories like Ukraine to be resolved, but they are “just not going away.”

Bolton responded, “It’s just the tip of the iceberg,” pointing out that Putin broadcasted his intentions eight years ago, but was being met by "no effective American or European resistance":

Bolton: It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Look, Putin gave us strategic warning eight years ago when he said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. That was a statement right then that he intended to get Russian hegemony in the space of the former Soviet Union.

That’s what he is doing and he is meeting no effective American or European resistance.

See which neighborhoods and precincts in Muskegon had the highest voter turnout

See which neighborhoods and precincts in Muskegon had the highest voter turnout | MLive.com:

Conservative Commentator Ben Shapiro Appears on CNN, Utterly Slams Network for Gaza Coverage | Video | TheBlaze.com

Conservative Commentator Ben Shapiro Appears on CNN, Utterly Slams Network for Gaza Coverage | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“You should also mention all the restrictions that Hamas puts on your reporting in the Gaza Strip, you should also mention all the context with regard to Hamas putting children in harms way, you should also routinely mention the fact that Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction not only of the state of Israel but for the murder of Jews across the world, which of course, CNN does not.”

Is New York the Next Detroit?

Is New York the Next Detroit? - Bloomberg View:

In theory, unions should be leading the charge for more conservative accounting standards; after all, it is their job to make absolutely sure that their members will be able to count on those pensions in their old age. 
In practice, unions often have other priorities. Witness Detroit, where the unions did nothing to stop the absolutely grotesque mismanagement of the city's pension funds.
In New York, reports the Times, the unions don’t want to move to more conservative pension accounting, because if they do, the city will be required to put more money into the pot . . . and the taxpaying public might mobilize against the union workers who put them in this spot.
Of course, putting it off will ultimately just make the problem worse; the inexorable logic of compounding is just not very forgiving. 
Over the next few decades, we are going to come face to face with more problems like Detroit’s: pensions that must be paid, legally and morally, but cannot be paid while still offering an acceptable level of government services. 
Taxpayers’ wallets are not an inexhaustible resource, and cities and states that demand too much will see their citizenry depart for more fiscally responsible climes.