Heads-up Aberdeen, South Dakota! New resettlement site being proposed

Heads-up Aberdeen, South Dakota! New resettlement site being proposed « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
Update: State Department admits today that the Syrian Sunni surge to America is on, and readers that is why you will see many more stories like this one from South Dakota—they need to find places to put them!

People ask me all the time, how will I know if my town is next?  The only way you will know is by picking up little tidbits of information like this from South Dakota Public Radio.  Hat tip: Joanne

Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen: ““We need workers, and we certainly would be glad to have more friends and neighbors and more children in our schools and more cultures that we can learn from.” [And you get to pay for it all while big business gets cheap labor!]

There is no organized advanced planning for the secretive UN/US State Department resettlement sites.

There is no proper notice to communities. There will be no input from you, the taxpayer paying for all of this.  The process is one big free-for-all with federal contractors, like the Lutherans here, scrambling (especially now!) to find ‘welcoming’ communities with government subsidized housing as the Obama refugee surge has moved into high gear.

[Please see my previous post on the 100-mile radius, because as they move them out from the bulls-eye, they create ever-expanding target ranges for resettlement.—ed]

And, as you read and listen to the public radio story, I want you to think about this!

As infuriating as it is, it is one thing to sign the new refugees up for their “services” (aka welfare, food stamps, education, medical care), but now we see an expanding need to follow previously resettled refugees around the country as they move on their own to make sure they have a federal contractor to hold their hands to get their “services” wherever they move!

Do they ever stop being ‘clients’ of federal contractors?

And, notice that when “integration” is discussed (not ASSIMILATION) that integration seems to be linked somehow to their “services”— to their welfare?  What! no integration without a connection to the taxpayer teat?

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education | Intellectual Takeout
In recent years, the expressed goal of the education system has been to ensure that every child is college- and career-ready. 
That goal has enjoyed a measure of success, particularly as college enrollment rates rose from 26% to 41% between 1980 and 2012.

But landing a spot in college doesn’t necessarily mean students are ready for college coursework, a fact highlighted by a new report from Education Reform Now. 
According to the report, a quarter of college freshmen need to enroll in remedial courses to catch up. The authors explain:

“Contrary to common belief, remedial education is a widespread phenomenon not at all confined to low-income students or community colleges. It affects a broad swath of students, including those from middle-, upper-middle, and high-income families, as well as a broad swath of colleges.”

Unfortunately for students, taking remedial courses in college is not only embarrassing and discouraging, it is also painful financially:

“With an average of two remedial classes taken per student, the half million recent high school graduates and their families overall paid an extra $3,000 for skills and content they should have learned in high school.”

Statistics from The Nation’s Report Card only underscore the truth of this statement:

• 62% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in reading.
• 73% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in writing.
• 74% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in math.
• 76% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in civics.
• 88% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in U.S. history.

With numbers like these, is it any wonder that students and families are having to waste extensive time and money trying to catch up to the college level?

Health Law Expert’s Dire Obamacare Warning: ‘Something Has to Give’ | TheBlaze.com

Health Law Expert’s Dire Obamacare Warning: ‘Something Has to Give’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Some insurers say that their companies are losing money at alarming rates through the plans instituted under the Affordable Care Act, according to The Hill. Others have begun discussing whether or not they should drop out of the marketplaces altogether.

“Something has to give,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health law at the Kaiser Family Foundation, according to The Hill. “Either insurers will drop out or insurers will raise premiums.”"

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11 | New York Post:
"In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.
That’s quite an understatement.
Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government.
And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled.
Co-conspirators were let off the hook.
Case agents I’ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads.
A common excuse was “diplomatic immunity...”"

Europe: Suicide by Jihad

Europe: Suicide by Jihad:

• In the last two decades, Belgium has become the hub of jihad in Europe. The district of Molenbeek in Brussels is now a foreign Islamist territory in the heart of Belgium. It is not, however, a lawless zone: sharia law has effectively replaced Belgian law.
• One of the organizers of the Paris bombings, Salah Abdeslam, was able to live peacefully in Molenbeek for four months until police decided to arrest him. Belgian police knew exactly where he was, but did nothing until French authorities asked them to. After his arrest, he was treated as a petty criminal. Police did not ask him anything about the jihadist networks with which he worked. Officers who interrogated him were ordered to be gentle. The people who hid him were not indicted.
• Europe's leaders disseminated the idea that the West was guilty of oppressing Muslims. They therefore sowed the seeds of anti-Western resentment among Muslims in Europe.
• Hoping to please followers of radical Islam and show them Europe could understand their "grievances," they placed pressure on Israel. When Europeans were attacked, they did not understand why. They had done their best to please the Muslims. They had not even harassed the jihadists.

Lunch video-----Plane Hits Reporter In The Head

Plane Hits Reporter In The Head - World War Wings:
"A Bit Too Close To The Action This Time.
Now we all love reporters who take their jobs seriously and try to get the story.
Be it an amazing rescue or a dangerous situation unfolding, the good ones are right there and getting the details.
The reporter in this clip however, got a bit more than he bargained for.
The white stuff you’ll see in the video is actually flour, as part of the “flour bombing”exhibition.
Meet Richard Wyatt who worked for HTV West in England back in the 70s.
Believe it or not he actually worked there for another few decades despite what you’re about to see in this video..."

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Alleged ‘Obamaphone’ Fraud Kept Silent Until After Vote to Expand Program, FCC Member Says | TheBlaze.com

Alleged ‘Obamaphone’ Fraud Kept Silent Until After Vote to Expand Program, FCC Member Says | TheBlaze.com:

"A Federal Communications Commission member said the agency told commissioners to stay mum on a fraud case regarding so called “Obamaphones” until after a vote to renew the program, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The FCC alleged that Total Call Mobile committed fraud in the federal Lifeline program of $10 million and that the federal agency would seek $51 million in damages and penalties, the Free Beacon reported."

Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These "Bernie Is My Comrade" T-Shirts One Bit

Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These "Bernie Is My Comrade" T-Shirts One Bit - BuzzFeed News: "An online merchant has accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “trademark bullying” after a Bernie 2016, Inc. attorney sent him a cease and desist letter regarding T-shirts, mugs, and sweatshirts depicting the candidate with historic communist leaders.
Claire Hawkins, a lawyer with Garvey, Schubert, Barer — which said it is “the official organization” of the campaign — sent the letter to Daniel McCall, demanding his company, Liberty Maniacs, stop selling the items.
The products show Sanders next Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and others with the tagline, “Bernie is my comrade.”
“I was surprised Bernie’s campaign would have done that,” McCall, who designed the image, told BuzzFeed News.
“He didn’t seem to be the type of candidate, the type of guy, who would do something like this...”"

Obama's "america"-----Man Dressed as Woman Arrested for Spying Into Mall Bathroom Stall, Police Say

Man Dressed as Woman Arrested for Spying Into Mall Bathroom Stall, Police Say | NBC4 Washington
A man dressed as a woman was arrested in Virginia on Monday after police say he was caught peeping into restroom stalls three times in the past year.
Richard Rodriguez, 30, filmed a woman in a bathroom stall at the Potomac Mills Mall, Prince William County Police said on Tuesday.
A 35-year-old woman was in the stall when she saw a bag moved toward her under the stall divider. Rodriguez apparently had been filming her, police said.
The victim rushed out of the stall to confront the man and saw him hurry to another stall, next to another woman.
The victim alerted the woman and then contacted mall security of the shopping center on 2700 block of Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Somalis arriving at the rate of 750 a month right now; will it ever end?

Somalis arriving at the rate of 750 a month right now; will it ever end? « Refugee Resettlement Watch:

"As of March 31, we were 6 months into the 2016 fiscal year which began on Oct. 1, 2015.

Since you all were interested in the Syrian numbers so far I thought I should update you on the Somali migration to America.  But, first check out my post of September 2008 where I chronicled over 30 years of Somali resettlement to America.   Notice that the highest resettlement years occurred in the Bush Administration.

I want to make the point again—once the UN and the US State Department get rolling on a specific ethnic group, the flow into America continues for decades!  A reporter asked me the other day: if we blow up a place, aren’t we responsible for the people? We didn’t blow up Somalia, so why are we responsible for their mass importation to America?

As of the end of 2015 we have admitted 127,337 Somalis through the Refugee Admissions Program. This figure does not include successful asylum seekers or those in the US illegally. Do we continue taking Somalis for decades to come?

This year FY2016 we are on target for 9,000!

Checking the State Department data, I see we admitted 4,521 Somalis in the first half of FY2016.  Here is where they went:

The end of civilization-----University students are struggling to read entire books

University students are struggling to read entire books | Education | News | The Independent: "Students have reacted to claims from university professors that they struggle to read books from cover to cover by admitting it is true - but insisting it's because universities don't give them enough time to finish them.
University academics caused a furore this week by claiming many students found the thought of reading books all the way to the end “daunting”, due to shorter attention spans and an inability to focus on complex philosophies.
Jenny Pickerill, a professor in environmental geography at the University of Sheffield, told Times Higher Education magazine: “Students struggle with set texts, saying the language or concepts are too hard”.
"I recently had a student suggest an alternative book for a module I am teaching which they found easier to engage with.
It was a good book, but it was not really academic enough and I am still unsure if that matters or whether I should be recommending more readable books.
There is currently a disjuncture between the types of reading we want students to engage with and the types students feel able or willing to do.”
Jo Brewis, professor of organisation and consumption at Leicester University, weighed in saying "graduates and postgraduate students seem mainly not to be avid readers”.
Recommending whole books would overwhelm them, she added, and she tended not to do so."

Microsoft Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Secret Demands for Customer Data | TheBlaze.com

Microsoft Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Secret Demands for Customer Data | TheBlaze.com: "SAN

FRANCISCO (AP) — In the latest clash over privacy rights in the digital age, Microsoft is suing the U.S. government over a federal law that allows authorities to examine customer emails or online files without the individual’s knowledge."

Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK

Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK
Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK

The figures are part of a new poll released on April 13 in the TV documentary 'What British Muslims Really Think,' aired on Channel 4.

While 86% of Muslims feel a sense of belonging in the UK, pollsters warned of a "chasm" opening between Muslims and non-Muslims. Picture: Islamists at a protest in the UK (Photo: © Reuters)

“The integration of Muslims will probably be the hardest task” the UK has ever faced, according to the country's former Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman Trevor Phillips.
He made the comments about a new study conducted for Britain’s Channel 4 TV, analyzing What British Muslims Really Think.
The poll indicated that large numbers of Muslims, 86 percent, feel a strong sense of belonging towards Britain, while 88% think the UK is a good place for Muslims to live. On most things 78% say they would like to integrate.
However, there are key differences where sections of the Muslim community have very different and troubling views.
“On specific issues – families, sexuality, gender, attitudes towards Jews and on questions of violence and terrorism,” Phillips told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program, “the centre of gravity of British Muslim opinion is some distance away from the centre of gravity of everyone else’s opinion.”
Here are some of the more worrying find of the poll:

• 23% support the introduction of sharia into Muslim areas of Britain. 
• 39% agree “wives should always obey their husbands” (5% for the general population). 
• 52% think homosexuality should be illegal, compared with 5% of the country as a whole. Only 18% of Muslims agree it should be legal. 
• 47% believe it is unacceptable for a gay person to be a teacher (14% for the general population). 
• 35% say Jews have too much power in Britain (5% of the general population)..."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 17

History for April 17 - On-This-Day.com:
J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier, Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright, William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")


Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series), Jennifer Anne Garner 1972 - Actress ("Daredevil", "Electra", "Alias"), Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls)


1629 - Horses were first imported into the colonies by the American Massachusetts Bay Colony.


1875 - The game "snooker" was invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.


1895 - China and Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was the end of the first Sino-Japanese War. In the treaty China ceded Taiwan to Japan.


1946 - The last French troops left Syria.






1961 - About 1,400 U.S.-supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an unsuccessful attack.


1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model.


1969 - In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.


1970 - Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank.

OBAMA PRESSURED U.S. SHOE COMPANY To Keep Their Mouths Shut...But Now The Deal is OFF...And So Are The Gloves! » 100percentfedUp.com

OBAMA PRESSURED U.S. SHOE COMPANY To Keep Their Mouths Shut...But Now The Deal is OFF...And So Are The Gloves! » 100percentfedUp.com:

"Of course, putting America first is a totally foreign concept to the man who occupies the highest office in the nation. Obama appears to have even (temporarily) given up the game of golf in order to spend every last second of his final term forming alliances with communist leaders, shutting down American companies (like the coal industry he promised to bankrupt) and destroying our most basic rights afforded to us by the US Constitution (that he has absolutely no regard for). Why would anyone expect Obama to protect an American business without something being in it for him?

The Boston Globe is reporting that U.S.-based shoe manufacturer New Balance has come out hard against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal."

25 Mind Boggling Facts About the SR-71. #12 Made Me Wince. [VIDEO]

25 Mind Boggling Facts About the SR-71. #12 Made Me Wince. [VIDEO]
The SR-71 Blackbird is a total badass.

It was the nation’s preeminent spy plane for more than 30 years and served as the gatekeeper between the era of spy plans and spy satellites. But what really mattered was that the thing flat out hauls serious butt.

When you make the fastest plane every to fly, there’s mind-boggling engineering and that leads to awesome factoids. Here’s a collection of things you probably don’t know about the SR-71:

1. Even though it hasn’t flown in 15 years, it’s still the official record holder for fastest manned jet-powered aircraft.

Though a few pilots took it even faster over the years, 2,193.13 mph is the official record, set in July of 1976 to celebrate America’s bicentennial. This image above is that plane landing after hitting that accomplishment.

2. And it set the record with only one engine.

As with other speed records, to be official speed, the plane needs to fly in both directions. On the run, one engine shut down at the start of the second run, and the pilot tried to get it relit. The pilot, then-Capt. Al Joersz, said, “By the time we’d gone through the checklist, we’d already passed the second gate [thus officially starting the run]. Still, we exited the gate at Mach 3.2.”

Rich States, Poor States, 9th Edition

Rich States, Poor States, 9th Edition - American Legislative Exchange Council:

House Memo Claims Eric Holder ‘Intensely Followed and Managed’ Fast and Furious Obstruction | TheBlaze.com

House Memo Claims Eric Holder ‘Intensely Followed and Managed’ Fast and Furious Obstruction | TheBlaze.com:

"The 12-page Chaffetz memo summarizes the review of a court-ordered release of some 20,500 Justice Department documents to the House committee probing the failed program that allowed about 2,000 U.S. guns to flow to Mexican drug-trafficking organizations.

“More than previously understood, the documents show the lengths to which senior Department officials went to keep information from Congress,” the Chaffetz memo said. “Further, the documents reveal how senior Justice Department officials — including Attorney General Eric Holder — intensely followed and managed an effort to carefully limit and obstruct the information produced to Congress.”"

WHY THE LEFT’S WAR ON BATHROOMS MATTERS:

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WHY THE LEFT’S WAR ON BATHROOMS MATTERS: “Unfortunately, the bathroom wars are likely just getti…:
WHY THE LEFT’S WAR ON BATHROOMS MATTERS: 

“Unfortunately, the bathroom wars are likely just getting started,” Heather Wilhelm warns.
“The Obama administration has already chosen sides.
‘This is a good illustration that the fight for civil rights is not over,’ White House press secretary Josh Earnest said of the North Carolina law.
‘The president, every time, is going to be on the side of equality and fairness and justice for every American.’  That sounds great, unless you’re an American with traditional views on gender, your kids are in a public school, and the girls’ locker room has just been declared a gender-fluid zone. 
Alas, my friend; you simply have the wrong thoughts.
Sadly, in some cases, that’s when ‘equality and fairness and justice’ don’t really apply.”

As Matthew Hennessey wrote last month at Ricochet on Bill de Blasio’s war on bathrooms, “Fair warning: If you come to New York and you see a dodgy looking dude hanging around the little girl’s room, you’re better off keeping it to yourself. His reality is all that counts.”

Thousands of teachers flock to ‘White Privilege Conference’

Thousands of teachers flock to ‘White Privilege Conference’ | EAGnews.org:
PHILADELPHIA – Thursday marked the start of “The 17th Annual White Privilege Conference” and this year’s theme is “Let Freedom Ring, Re-Imagining Equality & Social Justice in the United States.”

The annual event is aimed at promoting the theory of White Privilege – that American society is hopelessly stacked against minorities and the only way to fix the system is for white people to acknowledge their immense “privilege” and repent.

“Our vision is to build a community committed to dismantling white privilege, white supremacy and oppression, every day, everywhere,” wrote Eddie Moore Jr., founder and president of “The Privilege Institute,” which organizes the event.

“WPC fosters an environment where every participant can engage deeply, and then through our Accountability program, bring what they have learned back to their own community so that their WPC experience impacts their lives, employment, and community all year long.”

The 2016 theme and Philadelphia location are designed to highlight the main reasons why the White Privilege Institute, and its like-minded attendees at the conference, hate America the most.

“Throughout the history of the United States, ‘liberty’ and ‘justice’ have been espoused values, which have only ever applied to a very small minority of people,” according to a letter to conference participants. “The Constitution supported the enslavement of Africans; the U.S. government orchestrated the decimation of Native American nations; until 1952 Congress prohibited Asians and Latinos from naturalizing as U.S. citizens because they were not White; the Bill of Rights did not apply to persons who were not White, male and Christian.”
Read on and see your tax dollars spent on hate.

Lunch video-----UNEARTHED VIDEO: 'Caitlyn' Jenner Wins The 1976 Olympics! » Louder With Crowder

UNEARTHED VIDEO: 'Caitlyn' Jenner Wins The 1976 Olympics! » Louder With Crowder
Unless you live on the moon, you’re well aware of ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner winning an ESPY award.
Here’s the crazy thing… Caitlyn Jenner has the exact same amount of olympic medals as you or I do. At least that’s what I thought.
Until we un-earthed this video that seems to prove, beyond all shadow of a doubt, that yes…. Caitlyn Jenner, a woman, won the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Olympics.
What a broad!

Caitlyn Jenner… an inspiration to women everywhere since 1976.

Winning an award every time we turn around. 

Also, the Kardashians. 

Her daddy must be proud!
Read more: http://louderwithcrowder.com/unearthed-video-caitlyn-jenner-wins-the-1976-olympics/#ixzz45WAxIsJH
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The Citadel May Allow Muslim Headscarf on Incoming Freshman | TheBlaze.com

The Citadel May Allow Muslim Headscarf on Incoming Freshman | TheBlaze.com:

"CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Citadel, South Carolina’s state military college in Charleston, is considering a request from a new student that the school’s longstanding uniform requirements be tweaked to allow her to wear a traditional Muslim headscarf."

(DEMOCRAT) Cullerton proposes taxing Illinois drivers by the mile

Cullerton proposes taxing Illinois drivers by the mile | Illinois Policy | Illinois' comeback story starts here:
..."SB 3267 would introduce electronic driver tracking, and create a behemoth bureaucracy to keep tabs on Illinois drivers and figure out how to process tax credits.
Illinois already hoses drivers at the pump – now, one of the state’s most powerful politicians is eyeing a new way to collect road-usage taxes from all drivers – and to make sure electric-car drivers don’t slip through the cracks.
Illinois Senate President (DEMOCRAT) John Cullerton’s Senate Bill 3267 would require all drivers – not just those with electric cars – to pay a per-mile road-user fee starting July 2017.
Drivers would still be required to pay gas taxes at the pump, but would receive a tax credit from the state to cover the number of miles they drive per month, according to the legislation..."

DAXIT: Denmark Could Follow Britain Out Of The European Union

DAXIT: Denmark Could Follow Britain Out Of The European Union:
"Denmark could vote to leave the European Union (EU) in the event of a Brexit, a poll has revealed.
According to a survey by polling firm Epinion for business consultancy Analyseenheden 4V, 27 per cent would vote to leave the EU if Britain does the same, compared to 30 per cent who would vote to remain, putting the result within the margin of error.
Given the way referendums have previously gone in the country, with the pro-EU side starting ahead only to be defeated on polling day, this could make Danish withdrawal a real possibility if the country ever held a referendum.
“No referendum has been called, but if it were, the result would likely be a Daxit, or Danexit,” according to Erik Hogh-Sorensen, a partner at Analyseenheden 4V.
...The poll is further evidence that anti-Establishment feeling is sweeping across Europe."

Obama Just Named Navy Warship Something That Infuriated Many - A Big Slap In The Face To Military

Obama Just Named Navy Warship Something That Infuriated Many - A Big Slap In The Face To Military:
"In a move that ignores both tradition and the rules in order to push a far left agenda, the Obama administration is breaking protocol by naming a U.S. warship after a left-wing politician and liberal activist.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced they will name the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer after liberal politician Carl Levin, a Michigan senator who recently retired from politics after a 31-year career.
Nearly 200 Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients were overlooked in favor of Sen. Levin who never served in the military, thus ignoring naval guidelines and tradition.
Republicans upset over the decision noted Senator Levin served on the very committee that gutted the Navy.
In fact, Levin worked to initiate a reduction of the U.S. military. 
The drawdown was so successful that American military leaders say the United States can no longer fight a war on two fronts, a goal that has been a key part of U.S. security strategy since WWII.
A spokesman for Navy Secretary Marbus said the ship was named after an “American hero” in Senator Levin.
However, honoring Senator Levin doesn’t conform to Navy Secretary Mabus’ own guidelines he issued in 2012 titled, “Policies and Practices of the U.S. Navy for Naming the Vessels of the Navy.”
According to The Washington Times, the ship newly named after the liberal politician is the only such ship — aside from the Winston Churchill — that doesn’t conform to the guidelines.
“Most Arleigh Burke honorees are naval war heroes,” wrote the Times.
“A significant number earned the Medal of Honor. There are several Navy secretaries.”
Representative Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., is one member of Congress unhappy over the breach of guidelines. Hunter, a Marine Corps veteran, sent a letter to the Navy Secretary asking why he didn’t follow his own rules in naming the ship.
“I would like an explanation as to how this decision properly reflects Navy ship-naming rules,” Hunter wrote. He added, “It is important that the Navy adhere to its own ship-naming rules and take every effort necessary to avoid politicization of this process.”
Hunter was also a critic of Secretary Marbus’ move to name a U.S. warship after union activist César Chavez — another liberal activist who never served in the military."

Obama Just Named Navy Warship Something That Infuriated Many - A Big Slap In The Face To Military

Obama Just Named Navy Warship Something That Infuriated Many - A Big Slap In The Face To Military:

"In a move that ignores both tradition and the rules in order to push a far left agenda, the Obama administration is breaking protocol by naming a U.S. warship after a left-wing politician and liberal activist."

How Brazil, the darling of the developing world, came undone

How Brazil, the darling of the developing world, came undone - The Washington Post:
"BRASILIA — It was called the “Brazil model,” or simply “the Lula model,” back when this country’s economy was roaring and its president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was a superstar of the developing world.
By balancing support for big business with big social-welfare programs, the union boss turned statesman presided over an era of growth that lifted tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty. Lula’s presidency cut a new template for a Latin American left that had long insisted that class struggle and revolution were the only road to fairness.
The coronation came when Brazil was chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, confirming its rise as a global power.
Now Brazil is limping to the Games.
Its economy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. 
A Zika virus epidemic rages.
And on Sunday, lawmakers will vote on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Lula’s hand-picked successor.
...Companies wasted thousands of hours deciphering a greedy tax system. 
And all the while, the old way of making deals — lubricating them with graft — went unchanged.
Big construction and energy companies grew fat on state contracts and government loans under Lula and Rousseff, and the opportunities for illegal enrichment were infinite. 
Slush money poured into political campaigns.
The dirt from those years is now being unearthed by a hard-charging team of prosecutors and a tough lower-court federal judge, Sérgio Moro, who is overseeing the investigation of a bribery scheme at national oil company Petrobras. 
Through wiretaps, raids, arrests and plea deals, the probe has exposed spider webs of corruption throughout Brazil’s elite..."