"The president has stated that his plans for the energy sector will necessarily cause utility rates to “skyrocket“ and result in the closure of coal-fired power plants.
The Heritage Foundation released a study last fall that found the EPA regulations the Obama administration has announced in order to achieve its climate change goals would reduce the United States’ Gross Domestic Product by $2.5 trillion by 2030. Further, employment levels would “track nearly 300,000 jobs below the no-carbon-regulation baseline in an average year, with some years seeing an employment deficit of more than 1 million jobs.”
Politico reporter downplays 'clumsy' Chelsea Clinton request | Washington Examiner Politico reporter Mike Allen on Monday downplayed his attempt to offer Chelsea Clinton a "relaxed" interview, and instead chalked it up to a "clumsy" email he wrote. A 2013 email trail showed that Allen told Clinton aide Philippe Reines that if Chelsea Clinton agreed to an interview, the questions would be pre-screened. Allen said his offer amounted to a "no risk" interview opportunity for Clinton. Allen didn't offer an explicit apology for the email, but did tell his readers "My bad!" in his Monday morning email. He then implied that he never really offered cushy interview terms to Clinton, since his employer doesn't allow him to make that offer. "You may have missed a Gawker post last week that rightly took me to task for something clumsy I wrote in an email to Philippe Reines in 2013, seeking an interview with Chelsea Clinton at a Politico brunch," he said, referring to the site that first published the emails.
"In the email, I said I'd agree to the questions in advance." "I have never done that, and would never do that," he wrote. "The email makes me cringe, because I should never have suggested we would," he added.
"We retain full, unambiguous editorial control over our events and questioning. My bond with readers and newsmakers is built on knowing I don't pull punches." Allen said Politico's policy is never to promise editorial control to an interview subject, and defended his past interviews as "spontaneous, conversational and news-driven." The interview never took place.
But in the 2013 email conversation between Allen and Reines, Allen said, "I would work with you on topics [for the interview with Chelsea], and would start with anything she wants to cover or make news on.
Quicker than a network hit, and reaching an audience you care about with no risk." It's not unusual for a journalist to discuss the terms of a potential interview in advance, but it is remarkable that an influential reporter would suggest that he was entirely relinquishing control of an interview to a powerful person, though Chelsea's mother Hillary had not yet announced her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination."
NYT Changes Global Warming To "Climate Whiplash" | The Daily Caller:
"Ironically, the COP 21 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris began 565 days after Fabius declared we only had 500 days to avert “climate chaos.” “Climate chaos” has remained the politically correct description of global warming ever since, despite its failure to materialize.
The New York Times opinion piece uses the term “climate whiplash” to describe the long-term outcomes of global warming, including potential cooling that could occur thousands of years from now. It claims that, in thousands of years, the cooling predicted to follow global warming will cause species adapted to deal with global warming to go extinct."
"Since the battle over Syrian refugees is still being waged and the President along with many of his progressive supporters are labeling anyone who disagrees with the idea of bringing them into the United States as racist It’s meant to illustrate that the problem with taking in the refugees is not a matter of bigotry but a matter of safety.
Not the list is still incomplete as Sessions and Cruz haven’t heard back from the administration on their request outlined above:
The key thing with the twelve terrorists Sessions named, each and every one of them were “vetted” before they were allowed to stay in the country. The same way this President promises to vet all 10,000 of the Syrian refugees he is inviting to the country in the coming year.
The “dirty dozen” list of list of refugees-turned-jihadis below was originally published by Breitbart:"
We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015 - The Washington Post "Aug. 26 is the 238th day of the year. And with the fatal shooting in Virginia today — in which a gunman shot himself after killing two reporters and wounding one more person — plus the shooting of four during a Minneapolis home invasion, the number of mass shooting incidents has risen to 247 for the year. These numbers are compiled by the moderators of the GunsAreCool subreddit, a sarcastically named community that tracks gun violence in America.
They define "mass shooting" as any single incident in which at least four people are shot, including the gunman.
The tracker comes in for some criticism because its definition is broader than the FBI's definition, which requires three or more people to be killed by gunfire.
But the broader definition is nonetheless a useful one, because it captures many high-profile instances of violence — like the recent Lafayette theater shootings — that don't meet the FBI's criteria..."
CONFUSED AGAIN: Hillary thinks Republicans are in charge | The American Mirror:
Is this what Huma Abedin means when she says Hillary is “often confused”?
CNN’s Dan Merica was covering Clinton’s speech to a union crowd in Boston yesterday when he quoted her as saying, “It is time we get back to where we were before the Republicans came in and messed it up again.” The last time we checked, Barack Obama is nearing his 8th year in office.
A Republican hasn’t been the executive in nearly a decade — Hillary’s own party has been in control.
But maybe the recent batch of state department emails explains Clinton’s rhetoric.
Judicial Watch reported in mid-November:
Judicial Watch today released more than 35 pages of emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin revealing that Abedin advised Clinton aide and frequent companion Monica Hanley that it was “very important” to go over phone calls with Clinton because the former Secretary of State was “often confused.”
...The Abedin email material contains a January 26, 2013, email exchange with Clinton aide Monica Hanley regarding Clinton’s schedule in which Abedin says Clinton is “often confused:”
Abedin: Have you been going over her calls with her? So she knows singh is at 8? [India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]
Hanley: She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call. Will go over with her
Abedin: Very imp to do that. She’s often confused...
claims went viral in the main stream media just as President Obama came under increasing fire for his plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. this fiscal year.
Below are excerpts from Breitbart’s report concerning several of the refugees sought, indicted or sentenced on terror grounds.
“On January 29, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a federal warrant was unsealed for the arrest of Liban Haji Mohamed – a native of Somalia who sources indicate came to the United States as a refugee, adjusted to Lawful Permanent Resident status, and subsequently applied for and received citizenship – for allegedly providing material support to Harakat Shabaab Al-Mujahidin, also known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda.
Mohamed is believed to have left the U.S. on July 5, 2012, with the intent to join Al-Shabaab in East Africa." Read on and know the democrats will continue this madness.
"Erik Prince, the former head of the defense contracting company Blackwater, appeared on Breitbart News Daily to discuss security measures the American people must take to protect themselves amid threats against the nation.
Discussing the ongoing terror threat in Brussels, Prince commented:
“Brussels was not paying attention for many years, even decades,” he said. “At least, prior to the De Blasio administration, New York (City) was paying attention. It was monitoring the potential pockets of problems.”
Watch: Woman on a German Train Witnesses Dark Side of Syrian Refugees...: Woman on German Train Speaks Arabic. Syrian Refugees Have No Idea… ...This German woman who, fluent in Arabic, took a midnight train going anywhere.
She heard the “migrants” say some abominable things.
She saw them do disgusting things.
Trigger warning: defecation and rape references abound.
But you know, tolerance.
Transcript of the highlights: "They shouted various insults in my direction, they tried to take away my luggage.
Since, like I said, I’m perfectly fluent in Arabic, I understood everything that they were saying.
While I waited for my train, I saw what was happening in the station.
People without shame, simply defecated right where they stood.
The women shouted, they were beaten by their own kind, not by the police who didn’t even touch them.
Children were screaming, there were huge piles of trash.
They could not speak a single European language.
They were noisy, shouting, and all they could think to do in the heat of the moment was to grab the luggage of passerby and shout obscenities after them. Ninety percent of them were men between 18 and 45, completely healthy men who grabbed random children and fought their way forward, using the children as human shields. Five people with tickets entered my train car.
We sat down, the rest of the car was totally empty.
Within minutes, something unbelievable happened.
Huge screaming, the windows were cracking, the situation was unbelievable.
Like some dark cloud, a mass of people got on.
There were conflicts, fights and other awful things. The situation’s climax was when they began talking to each other in a relaxed tone, considering whether or not they should rob us, since that would please Allah because we were infidels.
As for me, it would be really worth raping me because I am not dressed like a proper woman.
I haven’t got a hijab on my head, that is, I’m not Muslim and so I am bad. The train stopped.
Speakers said in English and German that the train doesn’t go any further.
The four people and I who had tickets, started battling our way through the migrant mass.
At first, they didn’t want to let us go, and they talked about using us as hostages, that it would be worth stopping us."
Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high - The Washington Post: You've heard the news about honeybees.
"Beepocalypse," they've called it. Beemageddon.
America's honeybees are dying, putting honey production and $15 billion worth of pollinated food crops in jeopardy. The situation has become so dire that earlier this year the White House put forth the first National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, a 64-page policy framework for saving the nation's bees, butterflies and other pollinating animals. The trouble all began in 2006 or so, when beekeepers first began noticing mysterious die-offs. It was soon christened "colony collapse disorder," and has been responsible for the loss of 20 to 40 percent of managed honeybee colonies each winter over the past decade. The math says that if you lose 30 percent of your bee colonies every year for a few years, you rapidly end up with close to 0 colonies left.
But get a load of this data on the number of active bee colonies in the U.S. since 1987. Pay particular attention to the period after 2006, when CCD was first documented. As you can see, the number of honeybee colonies has actually risen since 2006, from 2.4 million to 2.7 million in 2014, according to data tracked by the USDA.
The 2014 numbers, which came out earlier this year, show that the number of managed colonies -- that is, commercial honey-producing bee colonies managed by human beekeepers -- is now the highest it's been in 20 years. So if CCD is wiping out close to a third of all honeybee colonies a year, how are their numbers rising?
One word: Beekeepers. A 2012 working paper by Randal R. Tucker and Walter N. Thurman, a pair of agricultural economists, explains that seasonal die-offs have always been a part of beekeeping: they report that before CCD, American beekeepers would typically lose 14 percent of their colonies a year, on average..."
“Today, we show the Polish and everybody else,” he said.
And show them, they did. It’s now illegal to serve alcohol within 500 feet of a mosque in Hamtramck, which is surrounded by Detroit and is the most densely populated town in Michigan with a population of 22,000.
“The Polish people think we were invading them,” said Masud Khan, a leader of the town’s al-Islah Islamic Center. “We were a big threat to their religion and culture. Now their days are gone.”"
‘This Is Not a Day Care’: Read College President’s Scathing Open Letter to ‘Self-Absorbed and Narcissistic’ Students | Video | TheBlaze.com:
In the face of college students far and wide complaining about emotional “triggers” they see and hear, annexing “safe spaces” where opposing views can’t hurt their feelings and even threatening free speech, Everett Piper is seemingly fed up with it all. The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University began his recent open letter to students with a story it appears he could hardly believe himself.
“This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt ‘victimized’ by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13,” Piper explained in his letter posted to the school’s website.
“It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.”
And with that, Piper apparently had enough.
“I’m not making this up,” he continued. “Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them ‘feel bad’ about themselves, is a ‘hater,’ a ‘bigot,’ an ‘oppressor,’ and a ‘victimizer.’”
Piper went on to explain to students that the familiar feeling of “discomfort” when confronted with wrongdoing is called a “conscience” — and that the “goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness” or help you achieve “self-actualization.”
More from Piper: Read on!
History for November 30 - On-This-Day.com Jonathan Swift 1667, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835 - Writer ("Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn"), Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874 Richard Crenna 1926, Dick Clark 1929 - Television personality ("American Bandstand"), G. Gordon Liddy 1930 - Radio talk show host, convicted for his role in the Watergate burglaries in 1972 1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. 1853 - During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet at the battle of Sinope. 1858 - John Landis Mason received a patent for the first pepper shaker with a screw-on cap.
1875 - A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine. 1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married. 1954 - In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds. 1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers. 1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
"Oof. In 1975, Hillary Clinton was the attorney for an accused rapist. She was caught on tape laughing because her client passed a polygraph test, with Hillary remarking that it “forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” apparently indicating she believed her client was guilty of the sexual assault.
War-torn Warbirds: Haunting Images of B-24 Liberators:
"According to militaryhistory.about.com the B-24 wasn’t hugely popular with the air crews:
Among the issues with the B-24 was its inability to sustain heavy damage and remain aloft. The wings in particular proved vulnerable to enemy fire and if hit in critical areas could give way completely.
It was not uncommon to see a B-24 falling from the sky with its wings folded upwards like a butterfly.
Also, the aircraft proved highly susceptible to fires as many of the fuel tanks were mounted in the upper parts of the fuselage.
In addition, crews nicknamed the B-24 the “Flying Coffin” as it possessed only one exit which was located near the tail of the aircraft.
This made it difficult to impossible for the flight crew to escape a crippled B-24. Over 6000 B-24 Liberators were lost during WWII, 31% of all those build…" (many more photos at link)
The Heritage Foundation released a study last fall that found the EPA regulations the Obama administration has announced in order to achieve its climate change goals would reduce the United States’ Gross Domestic Product by $2.5 trillion by 2030. Further, employment levels would “track nearly 300,000 jobs below the no-carbon-regulation baseline in an average year, with some years seeing an employment deficit of more than 1 million jobs.”
