Obama Calls for Creating Separate, Race-Based Legal Systems in Hawaii

Obama Calls for Creating Separate, Race-Based Legal Systems in Hawaii:
"Though the election of the first biracial president could have served as a unifying force in America, the result has, seemingly, been the exact opposite. Playing one race against another, President Obama has often stepped into the middle of controversies to weigh in on racial tensions, helping widen the divide amongst races in America and has presided over a period of deepening racial divides in America.
 Now, it seems, President Obama is hoping to codify into law legal segregation in Hawaii.
 On Friday, a day often used by the White House to release information quietly, the Obama Administration released a proposal to change the federal rules."

The 89,000 Clean Energy Jobs Myth

The 89,000 Clean Energy Jobs Myth [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"And what came of all the clean energy jobs projected in 2010?
In that 2010 Huffington Post article, Granholm cited three businesses as part of the success of clean energy businesses: Energetx, Eaton Rapids Castings (formerly URV USA, LLC) and Merrill Technology Group-Northern Power in Saginaw.
Energetx Composites, which the state projected would generate more than 1,000 new jobs, reported 24 jobs to the state in 2011.  
The other two companies are hard to track.
In 2012, the Detroit Free Press reported that the Merrill Technology Group-Northern Power facility in Saginaw was in "standby mode," and Eaton Rapids Castings hadn't started production."

"I wish I was four again"---Poor guy... Five year old relationships are tough.

Major Jewish Group Slams MSNBC Host Toure for Suggesting Holocaust Survivors Benefitted from ‘the Power of Whiteness’ | TheBlaze.com

Major Jewish Group Slams MSNBC Host Toure for Suggesting Holocaust Survivors Benefitted from ‘the Power of Whiteness’ | TheBlaze.com:

"A major Jewish organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism and pursuing Nazi war criminals is criticizing MSNBC host Toure for suggesting that Jewish Holocaust survivors benefitted from being white."

One More Coffin Nail in the Economy

One More Coffin Nail in the Economy:
"This week, Russia and China signed an important treaty, which looks to be one more coffin nail for the American Dollar.
While not the first of its kind, this agreement means that international business between two of the world’s largest countries, both of whom are historic rivals of the United States, will no longer be carried out in U.S. Dollars, but in their own currency.
China already has such an agreement with Japan and the Euro can be seen as accomplishing the same thing for the nations who are using it.
Nevertheless, this is just one more indication of what the world thinks of the U.S. Dollar."

The religion of "peace"----Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by family

Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by family | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Hundreds of women are murdered every year in Muslim-majority Pakistan in so-called “honor killings” carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior, but public stoning is extremely rare.
.....Another police officer, Naseem Butt, identified the slain woman as Farzana Parveen, 25, and said she had married Mohammad Iqbal against her family’s wishes after being engaged to him for years."

GREED!-------Exclusive: Texas VA Run Like a 'Crime Syndicate,' Whistleblower Says

Exclusive: Texas VA Run Like a 'Crime Syndicate,' Whistleblower Says - The Daily Beast:
"Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast provide what is among the most comprehensive accounts yet of how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system.
It shows not only how they manipulated hospital wait lists but why—to cover up the weeks and months veterans spent waiting for needed medical care.
If those lag times had been revealed, it would have threatened the executives’ bonus pay.
What’s worse, the documents show the wrongdoing going unpunished for years, even after it was repeatedly reported to local and national VA authorities.
That indicates a new troubling angle to the VA scandal: that the much touted investigations may be incapable of finding violations that are hiding in plain sight.
“For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast. 
“People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.”"

What’s this? Legal victories for constitutional rights?

What’s this? Legal victories for constitutional rights?:
"With “same-sex marriage” proponents winning victory after victory, free-speech rights under attack, the Constitution daily ignored by the Obama administration and fearsome agencies like the IRS, NSA and Justice Department turned against the American people, there’s precious little news these days of victories for the common man, for liberty, for fundamental rights.
And yet, there are important legal victories taking place, many under the national news radar but highly significant nevertheless.
Just ask the residents of Carroll County, Maryland."

U.P. tribe's casino can't be blocked

U.P. tribe's casino can't be blocked : News : UpperMichigansSource.com:
"U.S. Supreme Court says Michigan can't stop Bay Mills casino
BAY MILLS (AP) -- The Supreme Court says Michigan can't block the opening of an American Indian casino.
The high court on Monday disagreed with state officials who want to shutter the Bay Mills Indian Community's casino about 90 miles south of its Upper Peninsula reservation.
Michigan is arguing the Bay Mills Indian Community violated state law and its tribal-state compact in 2010 when it opened a small casino in Vanderbilt, some 10 miles north of Gaylord.
A federal judge agreed and issued an injunction ordering the casino closed in 2011.
But the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals threw the injunction out after ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction over some claims and that the tribe also has sovereign immunity.
The Supreme Court said in 5-4 ruling that the state's lawsuit against the casino is barred by tribal sovereign immunity."

Colorado Cannabis Company Rethinks Employee Drug Test Policy

Colorado Cannabis Company Rethinks Employee Drug Test Policy | The Federalist Papers:
"A Colorado cannabis-oil business that landed in hot water among marijuana activists for its stance on drug testing employees has revised its policy under pressure.
O.penVAPE, which sells hash-oil cartridges and the vaporizer pens used to smoke them, announced in early April that it’s drug policy prohibited the workplace use of a long list of dangerous drugs.
While the list omitted marijuana in an attempt to differentiate it from harmful substances that could cause dangerous impairment at work — although it still banned pot use on the job — activists bristled at the clause allowing the company to test employees for drugs."

Holy crap! It just doubled!-------$2B needed to wipe out Detroit's blight in 5 years, task force says

$2B needed to wipe out Detroit's blight in 5 years, task force says | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The task is immense, but the time is now.
That was the message Tuesday as Mayor Mike Duggan joined leaders of the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force to release the most in-depth road map ever to eradicate eyesore houses and trash-strewn lots from the city, a crucial next step in rebuilding bankrupt Detroit.
It will take $850 million to clean up residential neighborhoods and nearby retail strips over the next five years, and about $2 billion total when adding in huge commercial edifices such as the Packard Plant and the Michigan Central Station.
About $456 million in federal money and from other sources has been identified, leaving a gap of about $394 million still needed to clean up the neighborhoods.
That money could come from savings from the bankruptcy, officials said."

2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out

2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out - Business Insider:
"Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. 
Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realize the same thing.
Potential host cities are dropping out of the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics like crazy."

U.S. leaves pregnant Christian to hang

U.S. leaves pregnant Christian to hang:
"The Sudanese court ruled Ibrahim is an apostate who left Islam since she considers herself a Christian despite her father’s Islamic faith.
She was sentenced to death and was also sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery after the court refused to recognize her marriage with Daniel Wani, an American.
Ibrahim is pregnant. 
She is also jailed along with her 20-month-old son."

This is peaceful?

Say it=Spend it------------Blight removal in Detroit to take 5 years, cost $850M, task force reports

Blight removal in Detroit to take 5 years, cost $850M, task force reports | Crain's Detroit Business:
"It would cost an estimated $850 million to remove all residential and commercial blight in the city's neighborhoods, the Detroit Blight Elimination Task Force announced Tuesday.

Random Thoughts - Thomas Sowell

Random Thoughts - Thomas Sowell - Page full:
"Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a "single payer" system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems in England, Canada and Australia, among other places.

Class warfare rhetoric would have us resenting "the top ten percent" in income. But that would be a farce, because most of us would be resenting ourselves, since more than half of all Americans -- 54 percent -- are in the top ten percent at some stage of their lives.

Some people act as if the answer to every problem is to put more money and power in the hands of politicians."

History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), French physician who helped create the decapitation device that now bears his name.

Birth anniversary of perhaps the greatest male athlete of the 20th century--Jim Thorpe (1888-1953).

Birth anniversary of James Bond creator Ian Fleming (1908-64).

Happy Birthday! Rudolph Giuliani, Gladys Knight, Marco Rubio

1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War. 


1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc. 


1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy. 


1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany. 


1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud. 


1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India." 


2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council. 

Planned Parenthood Says God Supports Abortions

Planned Parenthood Says God Supports Abortions:

"Planned Parenthood, whose implicit taxpayer-funded mission is the mass slaughter of unborn children, recently attempted to hijack religion as a way to coerce pregnant women into making the devastating decision to kill their own babies.
In a “Pastoral Letter to Patients,” the organization asserted that God does not mind the fact that developing life created in His image is being massacred by the millions in modern America.
The letter, endorsed by far-left members of the ‘clergy,’ states that the “decision to have an abortion is personal.”
According to the “religious leaders” who signed on to this outrageous disinformation campaign, the Bible does not strictly prohibit abortion, which must mean such butchery is permissible."

Sen. Ted Cruz: 41 Democrat Senators Want to ‘Repeal the First Amendment!’

Sen. Ted Cruz: 41 Democrat Senators Want to ‘Repeal the First Amendment!’:

"Cruz then explained why Democrats are pushing for the anti-free speech measure: 
“Because elected officials have decided they don’t like it when the citizenry has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done. They don’t like it when pastors in their community stand up and speak the truth. And it makes their lives inconvenient when they’re not standing for principle and actually that’s pointed out back home.”
Cruz went on to explain that the amendment, which has 41 co-sponsors (all Democrats) would specifically protect organizations like the New York Times, but would be an attack on religious liberty and would “muzzle” citizens from “saying things that government finds inconvenient.”

Money For Detroit Is Clearly a Bailout

Money For Detroit Is Clearly a Bailout [Mackinac Center]:
"The reason that this payment is a bailout and not a settlement is simple.
People “settle” when one party insists that they have a claim against the other.
When a homeowner sues a contractor when their roof collapses, the contractor may pay to settle their dispute.
Detroit is asking for something different. 
It is asking the state for assistance to pay its debts. 
That’s a textbook bailout.
The city is not asking for the state to pay all of its debts.
That is why this deal is a partial bailout.
Gov. Snyder may want to claim that this bailout releases the state from any obligations over state constitutional pension protections.
Yet the responsibility for pension obligations ultimately lies with the city.
The constitution makes pension obligations contractual obligations of the city, and these responsibilities have been deemed to be subject to federal bankruptcy rules that are fundamentally about abridging contractual rights.
(Besides, the constitutional language was also meant to prevent pension underfunding, and that was clearly a breach in the city’s responsibility.)"