‘This Is How the Fascists Do It’: Watch How Protesters Try to Shut Down Ben Shapiro’s Campus Lecture | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘This Is How the Fascists Do It’: Watch How Protesters Try to Shut Down Ben Shapiro’s Campus Lecture | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“If this sort of thing happened during classes at this university, the kid that pulled the fire alarm would be off this campus so fast it would make your head spin,” he continued. “But not you out there, the protesters. Those special, magical leftist children, protected from the consequences of living in the real world with my taxpayer dollars. You get to shut us down for disagreeing with your thug tactics and your nasty, pathetic, evil ideology.”

As Shapiro spoke inside, dozens of students and Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated in front of the auditorium."

Syria: high winds and technical difficulties hinder UN airdrop

Syria: high winds and technical difficulties hinder UN airdrop | Global development | The Guardian:
"The UN’s first attempt to airdrop food to thousands of Syrian civilians in the besieged city of Deir ez-Zor has been thwarted by high winds and technical difficulties, according to the World Food Programme.

The UN food agency, which organised Wednesday’s operation, said of the 21 pallets of food airdropped to the city,

• four were damaged because their parachutes failed to open properly, 
• seven landed in no man’s land and 
• 10 drifted away and remained unaccounted for.

The mission saw a WFP-chartered Russian transport plane drop the equivalent of a medium-sized truckload of vegetable oil, lentils, rice and salt from an altitude of 7,000 metres (23,000ft).
Had it landed safely, the food would have fed 2,500 people for a month.
Unverified reports have suggested that as many as 20 people in the city have already died of starvation..."

New Report: Preschool Benefits Not Supported by Evidence

New Report: Preschool Benefits Not Supported by Evidence | Intellectual Takeout:
Would it be wise to wait before we spend millions of dollars on the alleged preschool panacea?"
As state legislative sessions kick into high gear for 2016, it’s inevitable that some lawmakers will suggest implementing a universal Pre-K plan.
This is because universal pre-K has become the silver bullet with which politicians try to lift the masses out of poverty while simultaneously improving academic performance in the public schools.
But before politicians pile on the pre-K bandwagon, they may be wise to look at the evidence first. According to a new report by Brookings scholar Dale Farran, the evidence of pre-K’s effectiveness is miniscule.
Farran writes:
“The proposition that expanding pre-K will improve later achievement for children from low-income families is premature.
Premature as well is the presumption that solid research exists to guide the content and structure of pre-K programs.
Despite more than 50 years of preliminary work on pre-K as an early intervention for young children from poor backgrounds, the field of early childhood education has a relatively small database to use as a guide to effective practice.”
Farran goes on to explain several reasons why the evidence for pre-K success is slim:
It’s based on old studies – As Farran notes, the main evidence for the effectiveness of pre-K is based on old studies, such as the Perry Preschool and the Abecedarian Project. 
According to Farran, these studies sought different goals (namely the increase of IQ scores among children labeled with “mild retardation”) than the one of “school readiness” which modern preschool proponents seek.
Furthermore, these studies incorporated elements not found in today’s preschools, including intense educational and parental-aid measures.
To say that today’s less intense pre-K programs can produce the same benefits as these old studies, Farran argues, is simply not supported by evidence..."

Lunch video-----Trump | Afterburner with Bill Whittle

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Three Black College Students Say They Were Racially Attacked; Outrage and Protests Follow. But New Information Just Turned the Tables. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Three Black College Students Say They Were Racially Attacked; Outrage and Protests Follow. But New Information Just Turned the Tables. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"But now WTEN-TV is reporting that the trio’s claims are being called false.

Turns out statements from other minority passengers on the bus contradicted what the three students claimed, sources told the Times-Union. And now charges against the three women are forthcoming, the paper reported, noting that the accusers were issued tickets to appear in court next Monday on undisclosed charges in connection to the Jan. 30 incident.

The smoking gun may be the bus’ surveillance video — "

Hundreds show up for Kalispell (MT) refugee talk

Hundreds show up for Kalispell refugee talk - Daily Inter Lake: Members
An estimated 460 people turned out Tuesday in Kalispell to hear a Bozeman-based immigration speaker detail the reasons he believes settlement of refugees in the United States is a drain on national resources and potential threat to homeland security. 
Paul Nachman said immigrants often don’t assimilate and are a drain on state resources. 
He pointed out that the two brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings were children of parents who were granted asylum from war-torn Chechnya.
...Nachman said the purpose of the United States is stated in the Preamble to the Constitution.
He focused on the part that says the people of the United States will “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
“So what the United States is about is benefiting the citizens of the United States, not rescuing the rest of the world from its distress,” Nachman said.
...After the event, Solomon said that most people came out because they wanted to learn about the refugee resettlement issue and how to speak out against bringing people into the country without proper vetting.
“I think they are ready, in an intelligent and humane way, to express their feelings and what they are standing for,” Solomon said.
The Obama administration announced in September that it intends to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States..."

Lawmakers: Administration Illegally Diverted Billions to Insurers

Lawmakers: Administration Illegally Diverted Billions to Insurers:
"Republicans on Capitol Hill are questioning the legality of a move by the Obama administration to give billions to insurers under a program implemented under Obamacare that they say is equal to an insurer bailout.
At issue for lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services violated the Affordable Care Act by diverting $3.5 billion intended for the U.S. Treasury to insurance companies.
“[Earlier this month], the administration announced that they would be using billions of taxpayer dollars to make payments to insurance companies under the Obamacare reinsurance program,” Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Penn., said Wednesday during a hearing with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
“The announcement that the administration made represents an illegal wealth transfer from hardworking taxpayers to insurers,” he continued, “and this law is very clear—$5 billion of reinsurance fees must be returned to the taxpayers...”

Democrats run your city? You got Venezuela!----- Mobile food pantry aims to lessen effects of lead from Flint water crisis

Mobile food pantry aims to lessen effects of lead from Flint water crisis | MLive.com:
FLINT, MI – The sanctuary was full and pastor behind the pulpit, but there was no service taking place Wednesday afternoon at Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church in Flint.
Residents wound their way from the front door, through a registration table and waited to have their numbers called before heading downstairs and choosing food items dropped off a short time earlier by the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
The mobile food pantry event at the Stevenson Street church, a partnership between the food bank and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, offered fruits, vegetables and non-perishable food items meant to combat the impact of lead exposure for up to 400 families.
Pastor Jeffrey Hawkins said the purpose of Wednesday's gathering was to "fight lead through nutrition, so it gives us an opportunity to help our residents out."
The food pantry is being paid for in part by a $28 million appropriations bill passed by state lawmakers and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder in January.
...."We all need help. We're suffering because of this water and high water bills and high electricity bills," she said.
"It just doesn't make no sense us paying for this water we can't use. "
...Other upcoming mobile food pantry events set to take place in the city include the following times, dates and locations:
Noon, Friday Feb. 26, My Brother's Keeper, 101 N. Grand Traverse Blvd.
Noon, Tuesday, March 1, Church Without Walls, 6202 Dupont St.
Noon, Wednesday, March 2, Bethel United Methodist Church, 1309 Ballenger Highway..."

U.S. general: Obama ‘aiding and abetting the enemy’

U.S. general: Obama ‘aiding and abetting the enemy’:

"President Obama is urging Congress to approve the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, allow for the transfer of remaining detainees to the U.S. and try them in U.S. courts.

In calling for the policy change, Obama said the move would save taxpayers money without compromising security. In fact, Obama argues that America is less safe because of the facility."

Another ObamaCare Surprise: Estate Recovery

Another ObamaCare Surprise: Estate Recovery
"Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn were about to sign applications for free coverage under Washington State’s Medicaid program — recently expanded under ObamaCare — when Sofia began reading the fine print:
If you’re over age 55, the state of Washington will bill your estate for your health expenses when you die.
So much for “free.”
Prior to ObamaCare, state Medicaid programs (enacted in 1965 and expanded in 1993) offered help to poor people who couldn't afford health coverage but required states to recover their health costs from their estates when they died.
However, state exemptions for personal goods and residences meant that such “estate recovery” efforts were modest as most people either had no other assets or had “spent down” those that they had to a minimal level.
But with the expansion under ObamaCare, more and more people will qualify for Medicaid without realizing that the coverage is really not free, but instead a hidden secured loan whose terms aren't explicit. 
As Carol Ostrom, the Seattle Times health reporter, explained:
The way Prins saw it, that meant health insurance via Medicaid is hardly “free” for Washington residents 55 or older.
It’s a loan, one whose payback requirements aren't well advertised.
And it penalizes people who, despite having a low income, have managed to keep a home or some savings they hope to pass to heirs, Prins said..."

AM Fruitcake

History for February 26

History for February 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Victor Hugo 1802 - Author, Levi Strauss 1829, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman 


John Harvey Kellogg 1852, Jackie Gleason 1916, Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician 


1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.


1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.


1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.


1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.


1933 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge.


1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.


1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.


1998 - A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.

Obama Lifts Ban On Diseased Refugees... Here's Who He's Dumping Into Your Town

Obama Lifts Ban On Diseased Refugees... Here's Who He's Dumping Into Your Town:

"If it’s a day that ends in y, you can bet that Obama’s administration is doing something to make Americans less safe from refugees. This time, he’s loosening a ban on who can come to this country with serious diseases.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the administration is set to end the ban on people immigrating to the United States with chancroid, granuloma inguinale, and lymphogranuloma venereum, three venereal diseases."

The Subprime Auto Loan Meltdown Is Here

The Subprime Auto Loan Meltdown Is Here:
Uh oh – here we go again.  
Do you remember the subprime mortgage meltdown during the last financial crisis?  
Well, now a similar thing is happening with auto loans.  
The auto industry has been doing better than many other areas of the economy in recent years, but this “mini-boom” was fueled in large part by customers with subprime credit.  
According to Equifax, an astounding 23.5 percent of all new auto loans were made to subprime borrowers in 2015.  
At this point, there is a total of somewhere around $200 billion in subprime auto loans floating around out there, and many of these loans have been “repackaged” and sold to investors.  
I know – all of this sounds a little too close for comfort to what happened with subprime mortgages the last time around.  
We never seem to learn from our mistakes, and a lot of investors are going to end up paying the price.

Everything would be fine if the number of subprime borrowers not making their payments was extremely low.  And that was true for a while, but now delinquency rates and default rates are rising to levels that we haven’t seen since the last recession.  

The following comes from Time Magazine…
People, especially those with shaky credit, are having a tougher time than usual making their car payments.
According to Bloomberg, almost 5% of subprime car loans that were bundled into securities and sold to investors are delinquent, and the default rate is even higher than that. 
(Depending on who’s counting, delinquency is up to three or four months behind in payments; default is what happens after that). 
At just over 12% in January, the default rate jumped one entire percentage point in just a month. 
Both delinquency and default rates are now the highest they’ve been since 2010, when the ripple effects of the recession still weighed heavily on many Americans’ finances. 
Read on and sharpen your pitch forks!

Venezuela Is Out of Food: Here's What an Economic Collapse Really Looks Like

Venezuela Is Out of Food: Here's What an Economic Collapse Really Looks Like
Venezuela is out of food.
After several years of long lines, rationing, and shortages, the socialist country does not have enough food to feed its population, and the opposition government has declared a “nutritional emergency.” This is just the most recent nail in the beleaguered country’s slow, painful economic collapse.
Many people expect an economic collapse to be shocking, instant, and dramatic but, really, it’s far more gradual than that.
It looks like empty shelves, long lines, desperate government officials trying to cover their tushes, and hungry people.
For the past two years, I’ve been following the situation in Venezuela as each shocking event has unfolded.
Americans who feel that our country would be better served by a socialist government would be wise to take note of this timeline of the collapse.
A quick review:

• Why Venezuela Is Out of Food

Read on

TheTruth - The Common Truth

TheTruth - The Common Truth:

"Ted Cruz works in Washington DC but he is not an establishment insider. He is not the GOP’s poster boy and the fear of him winning is tangible by both the Democrats and the old guard republicans. Ted Cruz scares the heck out of them because he is steadfast to conservative values that represent us but the old guard surrenders every day.

Ted Cruz stands for the constitution and upholding the laws with no exceptions. The old guard finds exceptions to everything and if a deal is to be made, they want a guy who will deal. They want someone who will tell you it is “good for the people” as they roll the constitution into a ball and toss it in the trash. They have that with Marco Rubio but they could never get that from Ted Cruz."

Chelsea Clinton: I Left the Church When I Was 6 Because It Opposed Abortion

Chelsea Clinton: I Left the Church When I Was 6 Because It Opposed Abortion | LifeNews.com
"In a new interview, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, says she left the Baptist Church at the age of 6 because it has a strongly pro-life position opposing abortions.
Clinton made the comment at a recent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in an attempt to address evangelicals who question her mother’s faith in God.
She said she was upset when teachers in a Sunday School class talked about the wrongness of abortion.
“I find it quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me . . . that they question our faith,’ said Chelsea.
“I was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn’t know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school — that’s a true story.”
“My mother is very deeply a person of faith,” Chelsea said.
“It is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her life’s work...”

Is this a GREAT country, or what?-----Woman puts vulgar posts about ex-friend on Facebook, faces felony, police say

Woman puts vulgar posts about ex-friend on Facebook, faces felony, police say | MLive.com:
"BAY CITY, MI — A Bay City woman is in hot water for allegedly posting some nasty comments about a former friend on Facebook.
On Monday, Oct. 19, a Bay County Sheriff's deputy responded to a 45-year-old woman's harassment complaint. The woman told the deputy a former friend of hers, 35-year-old Rene K. Kolka, was posting derogatory comments on Facebook, court records show.
The complainant provided the deputy with copies of the Facebook posts, court records show.
In them, Kolka referred to the other woman as a "slut," said "We all know her skanky ways," referred to her as a "skinny tall coke head" and advised others "Don't catch an STD" from her, court records show.
Kolka also posted the woman's phone number, court records show.
The complainant told police she has since received numerous calls from unknown men inquiring about her, court records show... "

Lunch video-----Banned Speech at the Hyatt: Pamela Geller, "Truth is the New Hate Speech"