Friday, May 06, 2016
BREAKING: Court Hands Down Huge Decision on Sheriff Joe, Illegals Absolutely Terrified
BREAKING: Court Hands Down Huge Decision on Sheriff Joe, Illegals Absolutely Terrified:
"Sanity finally prevailed in Arizona on Monday when a federal judge lifted another judge’s previously instituted ban that had blocked Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from conducting raids on workplaces that knowingly or unknowingly employed illegal immigrants.
According to The Arizona Republic, the original lawsuit filed by civil rights grievance mongers argued against state laws that made it a felony for illegal immigrants to use stolen identities to acquire employment."
"Sanity finally prevailed in Arizona on Monday when a federal judge lifted another judge’s previously instituted ban that had blocked Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from conducting raids on workplaces that knowingly or unknowingly employed illegal immigrants.According to The Arizona Republic, the original lawsuit filed by civil rights grievance mongers argued against state laws that made it a felony for illegal immigrants to use stolen identities to acquire employment."
Stuff you need to know!-----You lock your doors. Why leave your bank and credit card info unlocked?-----Five ways to take your passwords to the next level
Five ways to take your passwords to the next level:
"World Password Day is apparently a day for “taking our passwords to the next level”, so here are five traditions the crooks and password crackers really, really don’t want us to start.
In 2007, Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research looked into the password habits of half a million users in their large-scale study of website password habits.
They found that the average user needed about 25 distinct passwords but only had about six.
The average user has 6.5 passwords, each of which is shared across 3.9 different sites.
Each user has about 25 accounts that require passwords.
That’s a problem because it rewards anyone who steals one of your passwords with the key to a number of other sites as well, making the damage far worse."
"World Password Day is apparently a day for “taking our passwords to the next level”, so here are five traditions the crooks and password crackers really, really don’t want us to start.
They found that the average user needed about 25 distinct passwords but only had about six.
The average user has 6.5 passwords, each of which is shared across 3.9 different sites.
Each user has about 25 accounts that require passwords.
That’s a problem because it rewards anyone who steals one of your passwords with the key to a number of other sites as well, making the damage far worse."
Soooo, how we gonna fight Iran and N Korea?-----Meet The Company That Poached The FBI's Entire Silk Road Investigation Team
Meet The Company That Poached The FBI's Entire Silk Road Investigation Team - Slashdot
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot:
The FBI team that brought down Silk Road has a new home. After headline-grabbing investigations, arrests, and prosecutions on some of America's highest-profile cybercriminals, five of U.S. law enforcement's most prized cybercrime aces have all left government service for greener pastures -- a titan consulting firm called Berkeley Research Group (BRG). BRG's newly hired gang of five includes former federal prosecutor Thomas Brown, as well as former FBI agents Christopher Tarbell, Thomas Kiernan, and Ilhwan Yum -- names that punctuated many of the biggest cybercrime stories of the last decade including Silk Road, LulzSec, Liberty Reserve, as well as the hacks of Citibank, PNC Bank, and the Rove Digital botnet; and the prosecution of Samarth Agrawal for stealing crucial code for high-frequency trading from the multinational, multibillion dollar bank Societe Generale."
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot:
Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com
Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system."
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system."
Do victim's lives matter?-----Civil Rights Leader Warns About More Black-On-Black Crime
Civil Rights Leader Warns About More Black-On-Black Crime | The Daily Caller:
"A member of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights sent a letter to Senators Thursday warning them of an increase in black-on-black crime due to sentencing reform.
“I live in a predominantly black area of inner-city Cleveland.
For my neighbors and me, these concerns are not remote.
When these men are released from prison earlier than they otherwise would have been, they are coming back to my neighborhood and neighborhoods like mine,” Peter Kirsanow wrote in the letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The committee has recently approved a criminal justice reform bill that lowers mandatory minimums and will allow convicts have to their sentences retroactively reduced.
The bill has 37 bipartisan cosponsors.(RELATED: Criminal Justice Bill Lowers Punishments For Smuggling Drugs In Submarines)
Kirsanow in his letter wrote, “The Sentencing Reform Act is predicated on the belief that rehabilitation is not only possible, but likely.
Yet scholarly literature indicates that a person who has been convicted of multiple offenses is always more likely to offend (again) than is a person who has never offended.”...
"A member of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights sent a letter to Senators Thursday warning them of an increase in black-on-black crime due to sentencing reform.
“I live in a predominantly black area of inner-city Cleveland.
For my neighbors and me, these concerns are not remote.
When these men are released from prison earlier than they otherwise would have been, they are coming back to my neighborhood and neighborhoods like mine,” Peter Kirsanow wrote in the letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.The committee has recently approved a criminal justice reform bill that lowers mandatory minimums and will allow convicts have to their sentences retroactively reduced.
The bill has 37 bipartisan cosponsors.(RELATED: Criminal Justice Bill Lowers Punishments For Smuggling Drugs In Submarines)
Kirsanow in his letter wrote, “The Sentencing Reform Act is predicated on the belief that rehabilitation is not only possible, but likely.
Yet scholarly literature indicates that a person who has been convicted of multiple offenses is always more likely to offend (again) than is a person who has never offended.”...
Sounds like the perfect video to send Hillary-----Pro-ISIS Account Posts Suicide Vest Instructional Video
Pro-ISIS Account Posts Suicide Vest Instructional Video :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism: "
"...A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) hacking group calling itself "Cyber Kahilafah" released a step-by-step video in Arabic Sunday showing how to build a suicide vest.
It appears to be a mashup of earlier videos, borrowing its beginning from a January video that showed the ISIS Paris attackers engaging in beheadings and other brutal activities.
That video was produced by the ISIS-controlled Al-Hayat Media. Cyber Kahilafah's video is grainier and cruder than typical Al-Hayat productions.
Arabic instructions are superimposed over earlier ones written in the Cyrillic alphabet, likely in Russian.
In the video, Arabic instructions give the user a step-by-step guide to assembling the suicide vest's components, including detonating cord, buckshot, switches, wires, a trigger button, cardboard, LEDs, a nine-volt battery and a detonator housing.
At the same time an instructor assembles the components, while an Islamic nasheed (chant) is heard in the background singing about jihad against the unbelievers..."
"...A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) hacking group calling itself "Cyber Kahilafah" released a step-by-step video in Arabic Sunday showing how to build a suicide vest.
That video was produced by the ISIS-controlled Al-Hayat Media. Cyber Kahilafah's video is grainier and cruder than typical Al-Hayat productions.
Arabic instructions are superimposed over earlier ones written in the Cyrillic alphabet, likely in Russian.
In the video, Arabic instructions give the user a step-by-step guide to assembling the suicide vest's components, including detonating cord, buckshot, switches, wires, a trigger button, cardboard, LEDs, a nine-volt battery and a detonator housing.
At the same time an instructor assembles the components, while an Islamic nasheed (chant) is heard in the background singing about jihad against the unbelievers..."
Obama Learns of Navy SEAL's Death, Instantly Makes Sick Move to Dishonor Him Publicly
Obama Learns of Navy SEAL's Death, Instantly Makes Sick Move to Dishonor Him Publicly:
"President Barack Obama responded to Tuesday’s death of Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV in Iraq by making no public statements whatsoever about the warrior’s premature demise.
Moreover, when White House press secretary Josh Earnest stepped out to the podium for that morning’s first press briefing, he made no mention of Keating until prodded about it by reporter Mark Knoller, according to the Washington Free Beacon."
"President Barack Obama responded to Tuesday’s death of Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV in Iraq by making no public statements whatsoever about the warrior’s premature demise.Moreover, when White House press secretary Josh Earnest stepped out to the podium for that morning’s first press briefing, he made no mention of Keating until prodded about it by reporter Mark Knoller, according to the Washington Free Beacon."
Like, dude....aren't there more important things to "phony" about?-------At UNC, red party cups swapped with ones telling students to save planet, avoid rape
At UNC, red party cups swapped with ones telling students to save planet, avoid rape - The College Fix:
"Protecting the environment and stopping sexual assault are two concepts rarely linked – yet an activist group at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has managed to combine the two on an unlikely source: party cups.
Yes, the ubiquitous red cups favored among partying college students nationwide were recently swapped out at a UNC fete with clear cups declaring “Respectful of each other.
Grateful for the earth” on one side, “Get the conversation started about sexual assault” on the other, and a tagline: “Please compost this cup.”
The activist group behind the cups is Carolina Conscious, which describes itself online as “a growing group of students dedicated to helping the entire Carolina community improve our campus.”
Their main brainchild so far is the compostable, disposable cups that aim to “act as a reminder to maintain conscious, ethical behavior in social settings,” the group says on Facebook.
The effectiveness of the cups’ message, however, did not appear to widely resonate at the party – at least when it comes to protecting the planet.
Many of the Carolina Conscious cups could be seen trashed on the ground both during and after the celebration..."
"Protecting the environment and stopping sexual assault are two concepts rarely linked – yet an activist group at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has managed to combine the two on an unlikely source: party cups.
Grateful for the earth” on one side, “Get the conversation started about sexual assault” on the other, and a tagline: “Please compost this cup.”
The activist group behind the cups is Carolina Conscious, which describes itself online as “a growing group of students dedicated to helping the entire Carolina community improve our campus.”
Their main brainchild so far is the compostable, disposable cups that aim to “act as a reminder to maintain conscious, ethical behavior in social settings,” the group says on Facebook.
The effectiveness of the cups’ message, however, did not appear to widely resonate at the party – at least when it comes to protecting the planet.
Many of the Carolina Conscious cups could be seen trashed on the ground both during and after the celebration..."
History for May 6
History for May 6 - On-This-Day.com
Maximilien Robespierre 1758 - French revolutionary, Sigmund Freud 1856 - Psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis, Robert E. Peary, Sr. 1856 - Explorer
Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina) 1895 - Actor, (George) Orson Welles 1915 - Actor ("War of the Worlds", "A Man for All Seasons", "Catch-22"), Tony Blair 1953 - British Prime Minister
1527 - German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance.
1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 on board) were killed.
1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
1941 - Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California's March Field.
1942 - During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
1960 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com
Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system. Those on the list were some of Clinton’s closest aides during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, including former chief of staff Cheryl D. Mills, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy."
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system. Those on the list were some of Clinton’s closest aides during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, including former chief of staff Cheryl D. Mills, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy."
An evil man-----Obama’s Absurd Order To Strip 200,000 Veterans Of Their Firearms And Finances
Obama’s Absurd Order To Strip 200,000 Veterans Of Their Firearms And Finances | American Military News:
"A bill is being proposed that could help almost 200,000 veterans preserve their right to keep and bear arms and their right to their own finances – both of which Obama is trying to take away.
The legislation is being spearheaded by Senator Rand Paul who introduced the bill on April 19, 2016. Here is Rand Paul’s press release on the issue on his website.
This bill is a response to an executive action passed by President Obama in Jan. 2016.
Here is the White House’s press release on the action.
The executive action passed by Obama targets, in part with previous laws and regulations, veterans and calls into question their “mental competence”.
Shortly after the action was passed veterans began receiving letters from the VA stating that an “unidentified report” indicated they may be declared “incompetent” or “mentally defective” and would be stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights.
These vets were then told they would need to prove competence within 60 days.
Along with losing their 2nd Amendment rights vets were also threatened with losing the right to control their own finances.
Any veteran declared “incompetent” would also have a fiduciary appointed to them by the VA. Again, they were given 60 days to prove their competence..."
"A bill is being proposed that could help almost 200,000 veterans preserve their right to keep and bear arms and their right to their own finances – both of which Obama is trying to take away.
The legislation is being spearheaded by Senator Rand Paul who introduced the bill on April 19, 2016. Here is Rand Paul’s press release on the issue on his website.
Here is the White House’s press release on the action.
The executive action passed by Obama targets, in part with previous laws and regulations, veterans and calls into question their “mental competence”.
Shortly after the action was passed veterans began receiving letters from the VA stating that an “unidentified report” indicated they may be declared “incompetent” or “mentally defective” and would be stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights.
These vets were then told they would need to prove competence within 60 days.
Along with losing their 2nd Amendment rights vets were also threatened with losing the right to control their own finances.
Any veteran declared “incompetent” would also have a fiduciary appointed to them by the VA. Again, they were given 60 days to prove their competence..."
Obama Learns of Navy SEAL's Death, Instantly Makes Sick Move to Dishonor Him Publicly
Moreover, when White House press secretary Josh Earnest stepped out to the podium for that morning’s first press briefing, he made no mention of Keating until prodded about it by reporter Mark Knoller, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
“I can tell you the president has been briefed on this incident, and everyone here at the White House, including the first family, extends our condolences to the family of the service member that was killed today in northern Iraq,” Earnest then said."
‘It Was Easy’: Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Claims He Repeatedly Broke Into Clinton’s Private Server | TheBlaze.com
‘It Was Easy’: Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Claims He Repeatedly Broke Into Clinton’s Private Server | TheBlaze.com:"The infamous Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer” said in a pair of interviews which aired Wednesday that he was able to repeatedly access Hillary Clinton’s private email server — and claimed that he came across evidence that indicated others had done so as well."
Tyranny of the minority-----School cancels Father-Daughter Dance — not ‘inclusive’ enough
School cancels Father-Daughter Dance — not ‘inclusive’ enough | EAGnews.org:
"COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina elementary school recently canceled an upcoming Father-Daughter Dance because some parents complained it was not “inclusive” enough.
The principal of Brockman Elementary in Forest Acres decided after consulting with the local Parent Teacher Organization to cancel the upcoming Father-Daughter Dance after some parents apparently felt it left some students out, presumably those without fathers, WIS reports.
A flyer for the dance – which has raised $2,000 for the PTO in the last five years – clearly states all are welcome to attend, but “there were a few parents that did not think the father-daughter dance was inclusive, when actually, it was at all times,” Richland One School District spokeswoman Karen York told the news site.
“It was never an event that was exclusive only to fathers and daughters,” she said. “Mothers and anyone else who wanted to show up at the dance were certainly welcome to attend.”
...WIS posted an informal poll on its website asking viewers to weigh in on the issue.
“Based on the facts at hand, do you think this father-daughter dance should have been canceled?” the poll questions.
In total, 93 percent of respondents voted “No,” while only 5 percent voted “yes.” Two percent voted “I don’t know....”
"COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina elementary school recently canceled an upcoming Father-Daughter Dance because some parents complained it was not “inclusive” enough.
The principal of Brockman Elementary in Forest Acres decided after consulting with the local Parent Teacher Organization to cancel the upcoming Father-Daughter Dance after some parents apparently felt it left some students out, presumably those without fathers, WIS reports.A flyer for the dance – which has raised $2,000 for the PTO in the last five years – clearly states all are welcome to attend, but “there were a few parents that did not think the father-daughter dance was inclusive, when actually, it was at all times,” Richland One School District spokeswoman Karen York told the news site.
“It was never an event that was exclusive only to fathers and daughters,” she said. “Mothers and anyone else who wanted to show up at the dance were certainly welcome to attend.”
...WIS posted an informal poll on its website asking viewers to weigh in on the issue.
“Based on the facts at hand, do you think this father-daughter dance should have been canceled?” the poll questions.
In total, 93 percent of respondents voted “No,” while only 5 percent voted “yes.” Two percent voted “I don’t know....”
So much corruption, stuffed into one Chicago tour
So much corruption, stuffed into one Chicago tour:
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - While designing a walking tour of Chicago focused on corruption and political shenanigans, journalist Paul Dailing watched new scandals pop up at a rate that only reinforced the city's reputation for rackets and rough politics.
Just in the past year, the chief executive of the city's schools pleaded guilty to wire fraud and the police chief lost his job in a scandal over police shootings of black men.
Then, last month, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was convicted of a financial crime and admitted to sexually abusing high school wrestlers in Chicago's suburbs decades ago.
There was no way Dailing could stuff all the new cases into the three-hour weekly downtown tour he launched in April.
After all, he had to cover two centuries of graft, embezzlement, blackmail, patronage, vote-buying, gerrymandering and scams.
But he ties them into a culture of corruption that has hurt the city and the state of Illinois..."
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - While designing a walking tour of Chicago focused on corruption and political shenanigans, journalist Paul Dailing watched new scandals pop up at a rate that only reinforced the city's reputation for rackets and rough politics.
Then, last month, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was convicted of a financial crime and admitted to sexually abusing high school wrestlers in Chicago's suburbs decades ago.
There was no way Dailing could stuff all the new cases into the three-hour weekly downtown tour he launched in April.
After all, he had to cover two centuries of graft, embezzlement, blackmail, patronage, vote-buying, gerrymandering and scams.
But he ties them into a culture of corruption that has hurt the city and the state of Illinois..."
You Want a ‘Deal’? It’s Called the Constitution. | Glenn Beck
You Want a ‘Deal’? It’s Called the Constitution. | Glenn Beck:
"You want to fix America?
Here’s the first thing we must do: Root her in truth.
—The truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.
—The truth that these rights are automatically theirs and don’t require the government’s permission or input, and the government can never take them away.
—The truth that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights, and when the government doesn’t do that, it is the people’s right and their duty to change or abolish it.
That is the change we seek. That is what the Republican Party must stand for."
"You want to fix America?
Here’s the first thing we must do: Root her in truth.
—The truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.
—The truth that these rights are automatically theirs and don’t require the government’s permission or input, and the government can never take them away.
—The truth that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights, and when the government doesn’t do that, it is the people’s right and their duty to change or abolish it.
That is the change we seek. That is what the Republican Party must stand for."
White Men Should Stop Running For Office, Colorado Group Says
White Men Should Stop Running For Office, Colorado Group Says | CPR:
"A new political action committee has one question for straight white men with political aspirations.
"Dude, can you not?"
It's a question embedded in the name of the organization.
The Can You Not PAC plans to discourage straight white men from running for office in Colorado's diverse districts.
The hope is that will clear the lane from female, minority and LGBTQ candidates.
..."We want to ask, 'Have you ever thought about not running for office?' "
In the short term, the pair plans to focus on Colorado districts that have large blocs of minority voters but tend to elect "traditional" candidates.
...Long term, they hope to tackle what they call a "crisis of overconfidence" among straight white men.
A 2004 study found that among professions that most generally produce candidates for elected office, more men than women feel they are qualified. Political scientists think that helps explain why U.S. legislatures are mostly male.
...Huelsman admitted they've gotten pushback from white males who are eyeing a future in politics. But he called that a "positive first step" of starting conversations about privilege. "
"A new political action committee has one question for straight white men with political aspirations.
"Dude, can you not?"
It's a question embedded in the name of the organization.
The Can You Not PAC plans to discourage straight white men from running for office in Colorado's diverse districts.
The hope is that will clear the lane from female, minority and LGBTQ candidates.
..."We want to ask, 'Have you ever thought about not running for office?' "
In the short term, the pair plans to focus on Colorado districts that have large blocs of minority voters but tend to elect "traditional" candidates....Long term, they hope to tackle what they call a "crisis of overconfidence" among straight white men.
A 2004 study found that among professions that most generally produce candidates for elected office, more men than women feel they are qualified. Political scientists think that helps explain why U.S. legislatures are mostly male.
...Huelsman admitted they've gotten pushback from white males who are eyeing a future in politics. But he called that a "positive first step" of starting conversations about privilege. "
Half of immigrant-led households collect welfare as admission rules go unenforced
Half of immigrant-led households collect welfare as admission rules go unenforced - Washington Times:
"Immigrants are supposed to be beneficial to the U.S. — so much so that federal law requires them to prove they won’t end up on the public dole if they are legally admitted.
But it’s a stricture honored more in the breach than in compliance, according to statistics obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which found that of the millions of legal immigrants living in the U.S. and collecting welfare or other public benefits, only a single person was kicked out of the country over the last three years for becoming a public burden.
...No enforcement means more impoverished immigrants willing to test their chances, said Ian Smith, the FAIR investigator who obtained the data.
“Like all removal grounds, they’re supposed to deter that behavior, and it’s there to make sure that [those] people come into this country are at least somewhat desirable,” he said.
“It was supposed to be a filtration mechanism.
It’s like anything.
If you don’t enforce it, the deterrence element gets turned off.”
...Immigrants from Mexico and Central America have the highest rate, with nearly three-quarters using at least one program.
The Caribbean is second, with a 51 percent use rate..."
"Immigrants are supposed to be beneficial to the U.S. — so much so that federal law requires them to prove they won’t end up on the public dole if they are legally admitted.
But it’s a stricture honored more in the breach than in compliance, according to statistics obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which found that of the millions of legal immigrants living in the U.S. and collecting welfare or other public benefits, only a single person was kicked out of the country over the last three years for becoming a public burden....No enforcement means more impoverished immigrants willing to test their chances, said Ian Smith, the FAIR investigator who obtained the data.
“Like all removal grounds, they’re supposed to deter that behavior, and it’s there to make sure that [those] people come into this country are at least somewhat desirable,” he said.
“It was supposed to be a filtration mechanism.
It’s like anything.
If you don’t enforce it, the deterrence element gets turned off.”
...Immigrants from Mexico and Central America have the highest rate, with nearly three-quarters using at least one program.
The Caribbean is second, with a 51 percent use rate..."
After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate
After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate | The Daily Caller
"It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.
Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse.
To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.
Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” is sort of like going back in time.
Back to a world where flip phones were cool and “Futurama” was still putting out new episodes.
A world where a bitter presidential candidate was trying to rebrand himself as an environmental crusader.
But have Gore’s warnings, which were alarming to many in 2006, come true?
In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, The Daily Caller News Foundation re-watched “An Inconvenient Truth” just to see how well Gore’s warnings of future climate disaster lined up with reality..."
Short answer?
The film was (and remains) bunk!
Read on.
"It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.
Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse.
To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” is sort of like going back in time.
Back to a world where flip phones were cool and “Futurama” was still putting out new episodes.
A world where a bitter presidential candidate was trying to rebrand himself as an environmental crusader.
But have Gore’s warnings, which were alarming to many in 2006, come true?
In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, The Daily Caller News Foundation re-watched “An Inconvenient Truth” just to see how well Gore’s warnings of future climate disaster lined up with reality..."
Short answer?
The film was (and remains) bunk!
Read on.
Whether He Wins or Loses Today, Ted Cruz Needs to Stay in Till June 7 | The Resurgent
Whether He Wins or Loses Today, Ted Cruz Needs to Stay in Till June 7 | The Resurgent:
"A lot of reporters have already written Ted Cruz’s campaign obituary. Yesterday, my phone buzzed repeatedly with reporters wanting comment on stories they were already writing about where Cruz and #NeverTrump go after Trump wins Indiana. The polling in Indiana is notoriously unreliable, but all the polls do point to a Trump lead.
If Cruz pulls out a win in Indiana tonight, it will be a real upset changing the narrative. If Cruz loses, his ability to stop Trump from 1,237 delegates shrinks to possible, but highly improbable. Regardless, Cruz should stay in the race."
"A lot of reporters have already written Ted Cruz’s campaign obituary. Yesterday, my phone buzzed repeatedly with reporters wanting comment on stories they were already writing about where Cruz and #NeverTrump go after Trump wins Indiana. The polling in Indiana is notoriously unreliable, but all the polls do point to a Trump lead.If Cruz pulls out a win in Indiana tonight, it will be a real upset changing the narrative. If Cruz loses, his ability to stop Trump from 1,237 delegates shrinks to possible, but highly improbable. Regardless, Cruz should stay in the race."
The 9 worst predictions about Trump's rise to the top
The 9 worst predictions about Trump's rise to the top - POLITICO:
With Trump all but clinching the GOP nomination, we look back at the greatly exaggerated reports of his political demise.
...Here are a few predictions that, in hindsight, do not look as great as they once seemed:
“...Harry Enten wrote for FiveThirtyEight on June 16, 2015, the day Trump declared himself a candidate....“For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another ‘Home Alone’ movie with Macaulay Culkin — or playing in the NBA Finals — than winning the Republican nomination,” Enten wrote.
Prognosticator Nate Silver remarked in mid-September that Trump would not be the nominee because he is “not really a Republican.”
“...There’s an alternate reality in which he decided to run as a Democrat instead — he wouldn’t have to change his policy positions all that much."
Former Mitt Romney adviser and noted Trump critic Stuart Stevens took to CNN on Oct. 5 to boldly predict...“I don’t think he’s going to be on the ballot by Feb. 1,” Stevens declared.
As Trump cemented his place as the party’s front-runner in mid-October, Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Bernstein dismissed pundits who said that the insurgent candidate’s stock was rising. "
..and he will lose once the further winnowing of the candidates produces one or two strong opponents,” he concluded. “In short, everything we know about how presidential nominations work says Trump isn’t going to be the nominee, or even come close.”
“The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat tweeted Sept. 25.
...“No major party has ever nominated a figure like Trump or Carson, and I don’t believe that the 2016 GOP. will be the first,”..
Writing for The New York Times’ The Upshot blog on Dec. 15, Nate Cohn wrote of Trump’s appeal as a factional candidate, suggesting parallels to Howard Dean, Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain.
...“He does not have broad appeal throughout the party; he is unacceptable to the party’s establishment; and there are reasons to believe that his high numbers may be driven by unsustainable factors...”
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol...“I don’t think Trump will be the nominee, so I don’t expect it to be an issue,” Kristol said. “But since I don’t think I could support Trump, and I’d like to have someone to vote for, if Trump were to be the nominee, I’d be open to a new party, probably for 2016 only — but you never know.”
“Pundits who underestimated Trump’s potential last autumn have been hesitant to come out and state what has now become apparent:
He is probably not going to be the Republican nominee after all,” Jacob Weisberg wrote for Slate on April 8, three days after Cruz earned a temporary reprieve by trouncing Trump in Wisconsin.
With Trump all but clinching the GOP nomination, we look back at the greatly exaggerated reports of his political demise.
...Here are a few predictions that, in hindsight, do not look as great as they once seemed:
- Because he’s not a ‘real candidate’
“...Harry Enten wrote for FiveThirtyEight on June 16, 2015, the day Trump declared himself a candidate....“For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another ‘Home Alone’ movie with Macaulay Culkin — or playing in the NBA Finals — than winning the Republican nomination,” Enten wrote.
- Because he’s ‘not really a Republican’
Prognosticator Nate Silver remarked in mid-September that Trump would not be the nominee because he is “not really a Republican.”
“...There’s an alternate reality in which he decided to run as a Democrat instead — he wouldn’t have to change his policy positions all that much."
- Because he’ll be out by Iowa
Former Mitt Romney adviser and noted Trump critic Stuart Stevens took to CNN on Oct. 5 to boldly predict...“I don’t think he’s going to be on the ballot by Feb. 1,” Stevens declared.
- Because he ‘seriously’ won’t win
As Trump cemented his place as the party’s front-runner in mid-October, Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Bernstein dismissed pundits who said that the insurgent candidate’s stock was rising. "
..and he will lose once the further winnowing of the candidates produces one or two strong opponents,” he concluded. “In short, everything we know about how presidential nominations work says Trump isn’t going to be the nominee, or even come close.”
- Because everyone will laugh at you for thinking that Trump will win
“The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat tweeted Sept. 25.
- Because it’s going to be Marco Rubio
...“No major party has ever nominated a figure like Trump or Carson, and I don’t believe that the 2016 GOP. will be the first,”..
Writing for The New York Times’ The Upshot blog on Dec. 15, Nate Cohn wrote of Trump’s appeal as a factional candidate, suggesting parallels to Howard Dean, Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain.
...“He does not have broad appeal throughout the party; he is unacceptable to the party’s establishment; and there are reasons to believe that his high numbers may be driven by unsustainable factors...”
- Because I’ll leave the party
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol...“I don’t think Trump will be the nominee, so I don’t expect it to be an issue,” Kristol said. “But since I don’t think I could support Trump, and I’d like to have someone to vote for, if Trump were to be the nominee, I’d be open to a new party, probably for 2016 only — but you never know.”
- Because he’s finally collapsing
“Pundits who underestimated Trump’s potential last autumn have been hesitant to come out and state what has now become apparent:
He is probably not going to be the Republican nominee after all,” Jacob Weisberg wrote for Slate on April 8, three days after Cruz earned a temporary reprieve by trouncing Trump in Wisconsin.
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