"CNN anchor Jake Tapper teamed up with FaceCheck.org to examine Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s claims about her private email server — and the results weren’t pretty.
Tapper first checked on the validity of Clinton’s claim that she was “absolutely permitted” to use a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state."
Sanders certainly isn’t the only progressive to argue that racism and climate change are intertwined. You might not have known that climate activists are currently observing Break Free, a “two-week global wave of escalated action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground.”
Here’s what baffles me: at the same time that Obama is suing North Carolina for it’s “bathroom” law and trying to bully schools into mingling boys and girls in bathrooms and locker rooms, he is “importing” thousands of Muslims who would find it permissible to attack a non-relative male seen with any of their women.
What does he think will happen when Muslim girls are forced to shower with males who “think” they are female?
What does he think will happen when a Muslim husband sees a man (who “feels” like a woman) following his wife into a public restroom?
The only solution I can see is that public facilities and schools will be expected to provide an additional bathroom/locker room for Muslim girls only. Muslim boys would be free, of course, to share the facilities with infidel girls (if they are feeling like girls on any given day). Fair isn’t it? Other suggestions?
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Afterthought: Where is CAIR on Obama’s bathroom policy?
"A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.
The Watchdog - Mirror of the Middle East | Saudi Arabia releases video on National TV teaching husbands how to beat their wives:
The national television of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has aired a video, in which a self-styled Islamic family doctor is seen teaching men in the country how to ‘properly’ beat their wives.
The video is believed to have been aired in the country in early February, 2016.
The Kingdom’s government is said to have approved the video, and that is why it was given airtime on national television.
After airing the video in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government released the controversial video in the United States via the Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute, in April 2016. Women activists group describe the video as nothing less than infuriating.
The content of the video features the doctor who is said to specialize in therapy; Khaled Al-Saqaby teaching men how to ‘properly’ beat their wives if their [wives] disobey them.
Seattle University Students Talk Gender | The Daily Caller
"A new video shows Seattle University students struggling to say how men and women are different, if they’re even different at all.
The Family Policy Institute of Washington released a video this week where it interviewed students at Seattle University about gender identity and transgender bathrooms. The students soon struggle to explain how gender is actually fluid … kinda.
“I don’t think there is really any one way to distinguish between a man and a woman, and I don’t think it’s necessary,” one student says.
In the video, a female student is asked if there is a difference between men and women.
She answers, “Umm, no? yes? I mean …”
A different students says, “In general, yes, but I don’t know why I think that.”
“Umm … possibly?” another students answers.
President Barack Obama issued a sweeping demand Friday saying all public schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.
Meanwhile, North Carolina and Mississippi are embroiled in lawsuits over their respective LGBT laws.
In the state of Washington, activists are trying to get signatures on a petition to put the transgender bathroom issue on the ballot in November.
In the video, one student answers the question of whether people should even have the label “male” and “female” at all. “I don’t think so,” she says. “I think that its, again, a social construct of this binary that we are given at birth.”
WATCH:
The same group released a different video in April where college students have trouble saying how a white man is not an Asian woman."
"However, the letter also warned schools they could risk losing federal funding or be at risk of lawsuits if they refuse to follow the guidelines laid out in the directive. The letter stated:
“As a condition of receiving Federal funds, a school agrees that it will not exclude, separate, deny benefits to, or otherwise treat differently on the basis of sex any person in its educational programs or activities unless expressly authorized to do so under Title IX or its implementing regulations. The Departments treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of Title IX and its implementing regulations.”
Intel CEO Says Reports of the Death of Moore's Law Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - ABC News
"...CEO Brian Krzanich said he still believes Moore's Law, the rule that predicts explosive growth in computer power, will continue to hold true. In 1965, Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, predicted that the number of tiny electrical switches that could be placed on a computer chip, called transistors, would double approximately every two years at a roughly fixed cost.
..."In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times..."
...IBM showed off a prototype chip last year that was hailed as a technological breakthrough for the tiny transistors -- electrical switches that help power a computer -- that have been made so thin they're 1/10,000th the width of a human hair.
-- could allow as many as 20 billion transistors to be placed on a chip the size of a fingernail and is half the size of the current 14 nanometer standard, company officials said.
A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter."
‘We’re running a f—ing casino’: Politician tells all in manifesto | New York Post:
"An anonymous congressman has dropped a bombshell election-year book that confirms why Americans hate their national government and have rallied to anti-establishment presidential candidates like Donald Trump. The veteran politician lays bare a rotten and corrupt Congress enslaved by lobbyists and interested only in re-election in an anonymous, 65-page manifesto called “The Confessions of Congressman X.”
“Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver,” he admits. “But what the hell? It makes them happy hearing it . . . My main job is to keep my job.”
The House member — a Democrat who is either still in Congress or served sometime over the past two decades — says more time is spent fundraising than reading bills and calls Washington a “sinkhole of leeches.”
...“I contradict myself all the time, but few people notice,” X says. “One minute I rail against excessive spending and ballooning debt.
The next minute I’m demanding more spending on education, health care, unemployment benefits, conservation projects, yadda, yadda, yadda.”
...“Business organizations and unions fork over more than $3 billion a year to those who lobby the federal government.
Does that tell you something? We’re operating a f–king casino,” he says..."
“This attempt to bully our local schools into submission to the Obama Administration’s agenda is shameful and a gross abuse of the federal government’s power,” Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) said. “It has nothing to do with compassion for minority student populations and everything to do with political opportunism for the next election.”
Video shows woman beaten on city street while crowd watches | WTXF:
"PHILADELPHIA (WTXF) An alarming video of a woman being beaten on a city street while a crowd of people watches came to us by a Fresco News user.
..."The guy was actually on top of the girl-- just beating on her," the witness told FOX 29.
The woman is on the ground and you can see the man repeatedly slapping and punching the victim.
"I did hear a commotion earlier.
I didn't pay no mind and then I came out and the guy was on top of the girl," the witness explained. The witness who shot the video says the beating went on for some time. He says maybe 20 to 30 minutes.
"Did anyone try to help the woman?," FOX 29 asked, "No one, just bystanders, smiling laughing. Just standing around like a normal day, like nothing was even happening," the witness said.
You can see from the video that no one tries to intervene or help the woman.
People are on their cell phones and just watching her being beaten.
We don't know if they were possibly afraid for their own safety.
We do know someone on the block did call police. "I didn't want to jump in and be a hero and just get hurt you know. It's bad out here," the man said..."
History for May 15 - On-This-Day.com Lyman Frank Baum 1856 - Author of children's books ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), Pierre Curie 1859 - Physicist, James Mason (James Neville Mason) 1909 - Actor Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) 1937 - Singer, guitarist, Madeleine Albright 1937 - First woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State, Chazz Palminteri (Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri) 1951 - Actor, writer 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law. 1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began. 1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder. 1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service. 1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S. 1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched. 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot. 1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
"The ruling Thursday marks a win for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal challenge, and a legal setback for the administration.
“Today’s ruling by the DC federal court is an important step toward restoring the separation of powers and stopping President Obama’s power grab. The Constitution is very clear: it is Congress’ job to write our laws and it is the President’s duty to enforce them,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a statement.
At issue was a $175 million program authorizing payments to insurers that Republicans claimed were not appropriated by Congress. "
Dems on FEC shift from regulating Drudge to conservative cellphone texts | Washington Examiner
"The Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, following efforts to muzzle conservative news sites and even an anti-Obama movie maker, voted in secret to regulate conservative text messages despite a staff recommendation that the agency drop the case.
The three Democrats, in dismissing the advice from the FEC's own legal staff, voted to punish a Virginia firm that issued anti-Obama texts days before the 2012 presidential election, a move that would have set a sweeping precedent in advance of the upcoming election. It was part of a long campaign by Democrats to target those that use new technology to press their political views, including past efforts to regulate Google and Facebook messages, and most recently conservative news sites like the Drudge Report, and the maker of the anti-Obama movie, "Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception."
...Republicans have argued that the Democrats only want to muzzle conservative content.
The latest case focused on a Chantilly, Va., political action committee called Americans In Contact PAC.
Shortly before the 2012 reelection of President Obama, it sent out texts that read "The Obama administration perpetuated misinformation about Libya. Vote against Obama!" and "Obama supports homosexuality and its radical social agenda. Say No to Obama on Nov 6!..."
RICO Climate Alarmists FOIA Emails Released - Hit & Run : Reason.com: Remember the Gang of 20? A group of concerned academicians sent a letter to President Obama and Attorney-General Loretta Lynch urging that the government open up (RICO) Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act investigation against groups that dissent from the consensus that man-made climate change is a big problem. As I noted earlier:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has referred to the FBI the question as to whether people who question the scientific consensus about climate change should be prosecuted.
Lynch might have been acting on a request from George Mason University professor Jagadish Shukla, who—with 19 others—wrote a letter urging the administration to follow the advice of Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) and go after "corporations and other organizations" by using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. As The Wall Street Journal has noted, RICO is an anti-mafia statute written to help "prosecute individuals tied to loansharking and murder-for-hire."
Speaking of rackets: Shukla is the founder and head of the Institute of Global Environment and Society. His wife is the business manager, and his daughter is the assistant to the president. The organization gets 98 percent of its funding from the government, and the Shuklas have reaped more than $5 million from it over the years.
In any case, a free market legal group, the Energy and Environment Legal Insitute have been pursuing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action seeking emails from the George Mason University faculty members who were the instigators of the notorious letter..."
"The CEO of retail giant Target is zig-zagging between the many customers who are angered by his decision to open single-sex bathrooms to the other sex, the gender-identity progressives who pushed for the disastrous transgender policy, and the Wall Street stock-pickers who have chopped roughly $4.5 billion off the company’s value.
“We’re going to continue to embrace our belief in diversity and inclusion, just how important that is to our company,”CEO Brian Cornell "
Former Saudi intelligence chief: Saudi Arabia must consider ‘acquisition of nuclear weapons’ to counter Iran - NetRight Daily:
"“I’ve always maintained that we, particularly the GCC states, the Gulf Cooperation Council, must consider all options, including the acquisitions of nuclear weapons, to face whatever eventuality might come from Iran.”
As a startling reminder of just what a bad idea the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was, that was Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Turki al-Faisal, telling the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on May 7 that Saudi Arabia will go nuclear if it has to in order to defend itself against Iran. These were not the first statements from Saudi Arabia hinting at a nuclear arms race being sparked in the Middle east.
...As a result, President Barack Obama with Congressional authorization was able to lift the Iran nuclear sanctions with the stroke of a pen.
...In the meantime, Iran is apparently violating the nuclear deal and UN Security Council Resolutions with its tests of missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, appears to be seeking its own nuclear option to counter the threat of Iran and defend itself.
AndJohn Kerry— who helped shaped the agreement that altered Iran’s NPT obligations that appears to have it on a fast track to getting nuclear weapons — cried foul and said Saudi Arabia would be violating the NPT if it went forward.
Is Kerry out of his mind?
Given the chain of events that led to this point, it seems Saudi Arabia would be nuts if it wasn’t pursuing a nuclear weapons program to counter Iran.
All another indication of just how vacant U.S. leadership in the region has been since the Iran deal was finalized. Obama, Kerry, Corker and Congress have helped touch off a nuclear arms race in the most dangerous region in the world.
Good job."
Stoned Drivers Are Killing More and More Innocent Victims:
"Blake Gaston, 23, killed while riding his motorcycle in Seattle.
He played the piano, guitar, drums, wrote music, and developed websites. Elizabeth Kemble, 46, was killed by a car while walking across the street in Portland, Ore.
She previously survived three kidney transplants, and dedicated her life to helping dialysis patients and hungry seniors. Debra Majkut, 34, mother of two, killed while sitting on her couch with three children when a car smashed into her house.
And the list goes on and on. Each person was killed by a person high on marijuana..."
"A CBS news investigation found that the Obama State Department is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to save mosques overseas — to the tune of $770 million. The news has outraged taxpayer advocates and raised enormous questions about the U.S. potentially aiding terror groups with U.S. tax dollars."
HARTFORD CT TEETERS ON THE EDGE OF BANKRUPTCY: “Hartford’s problems are deep-seated, from high taxes and exorbitant living costs to widespread unemployment and rampant poverty. About a third of the city’s residents live below the poverty line. Wallethub.com recently rated it the worst capital city in America.”
Sounds like a serious case of what Robert Heinlein would call “bad luck.”
"SOMEHOW, I THINK THIS ROBERT HEINLEIN QUOTE IS WORTH REPEATING ONE MORE TIME:
"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”"
Intel hasn’t made it any easier for customers with their strange naming schemes, and the question we get asked most often is:
What’s the difference between an i3, i5, or i7 processor? Which one should I buy?"
The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Chip Limehouse, and not surprisingly, it has been met with immense conflict. The law bars any form of foreign law from usurping state law, and passed this week 68 to 42."
42 didn't oppose the bill. That should be very concerning.