Liberals Try To Spin Target's Market Drop | The Federalist Papers

Liberals Try To Spin Target's Market Drop | The Federalist Papers:

"Target’s market value has dropped by nearly $10 billion since it announced on April 19 that it intended to implement transgender bathrooms in its retail stores.

Writing for American Thinker, Sierra Rayne noted how the liberal mainstream media has been trying to spin this bad news by blaming it on everything else but Target’s absurd transgender bathroom policy."

INDY 500: Hinch, crew chief relish Indy turnaround

Indycar Racing News | Racer.com - INDY 500: Hinch, crew chief relish Indy turnaround:
"Moments after he earned pole position for the 100th Indy 500, and once he'd climbed from the car, the first person James Hinchcliffe sought out was Ron Catt.
The two locked in a strong, reaffirming hug (above), and given where they were a year and a week ago, the firm embrace made sense.
Wind the clock back to this time in 2015 and Hinchcliffe was in a hospital undergoing medical procedures to save his life. 
Catt, his crew chief, was staring at the bloody, tattered remains of Hinchcliffe's No. 5 Arrow Electronics Honda, desperately trying to make sense of the crash that nearly ended in tragedy. Through the ordeal, Catt's calm and warm demeanor helped keep the team together as Hinchcliffe healed..."

The Problem of the Cities

The Problem of the Cities - Online Library of Law & Liberty
"Ever since people began migrating in large numbers from America’s rural areas to its urban areas  in the 19th century, cities have presented unique challenges: sanitation, housing, transportation, education, public safety, and fire protection, to name just a few.
...The rapid growth of urban areas, increased population density, and a massive influx of immigrants...hastened the rise of municipal political machines (such as Tammany Hall in New York City), official corruption, labor unrest, and the demographic diversity that continues to this day.
Even though Americans’ standard of living generally improved during industrialization...
Members of ethnic minorities disproportionately reside in U.S. cities, and their local governments are disproportionately (in fact more or less exclusively) in the hands of the Democratic Party. 
Cities expend substantial taxpayer resources to try to address poverty, crime, air pollution, congestion, substandard housing, homelessness, and the education of non-English speaking students, all of which are not as prevalent in suburban and rural areas.
Cities tend to have large numbers of unionized public employees, high (and rising) taxes and debt (including unfunded pension liabilities), and intrusive regulations.
For a variety of reasons, urban residents favor liberal policies—and elect liberals to office—to a greater degree than suburban and rural voters.
Some major American cities, such as Detroit, have become dysfunctional fiefdoms, forced into bankruptcy.
Proponents of classical liberalism generally favor limited government and free market solutions, but these views do not prevail in most American cities..."
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‘That’s Incredible!’: Franklin Graham Blasts Elementary School Principal’s Letter to Teachers Making Transgender Pronoun Demand | TheBlaze.com

‘That’s Incredible!’: Franklin Graham Blasts Elementary School Principal’s Letter to Teachers Making Transgender Pronoun Demand | TheBlaze.com:

"Evangelist Franklin Graham spoke out against an Oregon school district’s recent decision to strike a settlement with a transgender teacher — an agreement that included a $60,000 payout for emotional damages and other related expenses, and a pledge to enact transgender employee guidelines.

Graham specifically took aim at an email sent by Hall Elementary School Principal Heidi Lasher that reportedly implored teachers who work with Leo Soell — the transgender fifth-grade teacher at the center of the dispute — to use the “correct name and pronouns” when addressing transgendered individuals."

There is no significant scientifically established correlation between human activity and the warming of the earth's climate.

Climategate in Review:
"The bottom line is simple:
There is no significant scientifically established correlation between human activity and the warming of the earth's climate.
The Climategate scandal caused independent scientists and laymen around the globe to take a much closer look at the information that was being presented in support of Anthropogenic (i.e., man-made) Global Warming (AGW), and the overwhelming conclusion was that the there was no credible and conclusive evidence to support the hypothesis. 
And it was further shown that the scenarios predicting that the planet was nearing the tipping point for a series of catastrophic climate disasters, was totally invalidated by an examination of the facts, as well as a review of the earth's climate history. 
What came to light during this investigation was the following:
Climate science research is almost exclusively funded by governments around the world.
Between 1989-2009, the U.S. government alone spent $79 billion.
To keep the money flowing, it was necessary to have a compelling "story" of a pending apocalypse to justify that sort of investment.
The narrative of global Armageddon became the researchers' only fixed "fact", with all scientific data being freely manipulated as necessary in order to fit that predetermined scenario.
Politicians with a totalitarian bent saw the regulation of carbon as a potent tool for generating massive new tax revenues and for redistributing the world's wealth, while at the same time, justifying the expansion of regulatory control over businesses and the personal activities of all citizens.
Consequently, a symbiotic relationship was established between the politicians who handsomely funded the research, and the climate scientists, who fabricated a useful justification for government intervention..."
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Hah! Trump Releases Compilation of Anti-Trumpers Saying He'd Never Be Nominee

Hah! Trump Releases Compilation of Anti-Trumpers Saying He'd Never Be Nominee (VIDEO)
TRiUMPh!

DONALD TRUMP CLINCHED THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION TODAY–

Donald Trump won the nomination defeating 16 Republicans in the largest primary field ever assembled by a major party. 
...On Thursday night the Trump campaign released a compilation of anti-Trumpers saying he’d never be the Republican nominee.

The video starts with Barack Obama who is the worst economic president since the Great Depression.

Here’s another video montage of Trump naysayers insisting Trump will never win the Republican Nomination.

Do you remember when our President truely loved America?-----Memorial Day Speech by President Ronald Reagan

Noon-toon

After Enduring Attacks Over Their Free Speech Stances, College Admins Give Some Students What They Apparently Wanted All Along — Their Resignations | Video | TheBlaze.com

After Enduring Attacks Over Their Free Speech Stances, College Admins Give Some Students What They Apparently Wanted All Along — Their Resignations | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"After months of controversy over their stances on free speech and free expression, the two heads of Yale’s residential Silliman College have finally given what many students apparently have been coveting:

Their resignations.

Nicholas Christakis had been serving as the school’s master while his wife, Erika Christakis, was associate master. They handed in their resignations last week, the Yale Daily News reported."

Socialism-----Imagine No Possessions, Imagine Venezuela

Imagine No Possessions, Imagine Venezuela:
Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

You probably recognize these words, from John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”

This is considered an innocuous statement of youthful idealism, suitable for all audiences. I last heard it a few days ago, sung by a group of wholesome middle-school girls at my kids’ school. 
The song is encouraged by adults as a way of showing off your earnest idealism and your willingness to keep an open mind to new ideas. 
But its real meaning is an indifference to suffering and a determination to close off your mind to facts that undermine your political prejudices. 
About the same time I was listening to those girls sing “Imagine,” this item came across my news feed:

By morning, three newborns were already dead. The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward. Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died. “The death of a baby is our daily bread,” said Dr. Osleidy Camejo, a surgeon in the nation’s capital, Caracas, referring to the toll from Venezuela’s collapsing hospitals.

Venezuela has some of the world’s largest supplies of oil, with more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. But about 15 years ago, the late president Hugo Chavez set out to impose a socialist revolution, making a particular point about his great munificence in providing free health care for everyone. 
...It began by imagining no possessions. Private property and private businesses and private profit were supposedly the source of everyone’s problems, so the Venezuelan government set out to get rid of them, with Chavez issuing a notorious set of 49 decrees in 2001 that gave him vast power over the economy. He used this power to seize private factories and expropriate foreign owners of Venezuelan firms—ensuring that no foreign investors would want to put a single dollar into the country for the foreseeable future.

All of it reads like a vast experiment designed to find out what happens to an economy when you put it under the control of crazy people.

A clueless 2009 article in a socialist magazine specifically hailed Chavez’s interventions in agriculture, quoting his assurance that “There is a food crisis in the world, but Venezuela is not going to fall into that crisis. You can be sure of that. Actually, we are going to help other nations who are facing this crisis.” The socialist reforms included redistribution of land, the nationalization of whole sections of the agriculture sector, the formation of socialist agricultural “cooperatives,” generous subsidies and price supports, and the creation of a vast chain of government-subsidized, government-run grocery stores.
...So did this brave experiment in socialism result in “no need for greed or hunger”? Did it bring about “a brotherhood of man”?
Not exactly.

Lootings are becoming a common occurrence in Venezuela, as the country’s food shortage resulted in yet another reported incident of violence in a supermarket—this time in the Luvebras Automarket located in the La Florida Province of Caracas. Videos posted to social media showed desperate people falling over each other trying to get bags of rice. One user claimed the looting occurred because it is difficult to get cereal, and so people ‘broke down the doors and damaged infrastructure.’

Elsewhere, looters attacked a corn warehouse after employees began giving out small amounts of grain at the gates, but there wasn’t enough to go around.

‘There’s no rice, no pasta, no flour,’ resident Glerimar Yohan told La Costa, ‘only hunger.’ Yohan, like the approximately 50 other people asking employees to give her a ‘little bit’ of corn to feed her children for breakfast, was turned away.

Before you judge Venezuela’s looters, consider what you would do if your children were starving.

So much for “no hunger.” What about the “brotherhood of man”? Not only is looting soaring in Venezuela, but so are all forms of crime. It has gotten so far out of control that mobs of vigilantes are burning people alive in the streets over petty thefts. It turns out then when people are starving, there’s not a lot of brotherhood. Instead, they fight like dogs over a bone.

Before you judge Venezuela’s looters, consider what you would do if your children were starving.

Now for the part about “no greed.” If there’s one thing the history of socialism teaches us, it’s that government officials can always find a way to live like kings while the people starve. So in Venezuela we see rampant corruption, with Hugo Chavez’s daughter amassing a fortuneestimated in the billions.

There’s a lot of other baggage that comes with “idealistic” worldview of socialism. John Lennon also asked us to “imagine there’s no heaven” and “no religion.” 
Read on!

Cambridge Professor Says 'Madness' Of Fighting Global Warming Will Impoverish Everyone

Cambridge Professor Says 'Madness' Of Fighting Global Warming Will Impoverish Everyone - Technocracy News:
"TN Note: Technocracy is an energy-based, micro-managed system of total control over all production and all consumption.
Notably, Technocrats live in a fairy-land world that is devoid of economists.
They promise that they are going to ‘save the world’ but in fact, they are destroying the world.
This madness must be confronted and stopped before they push the world into total oblivion.
Cambridge University electrical engineering professor Dr. M.J. Kelly concluded in a peer-reviewed journal article that attempts to fight global warming with green energy will impoverish the world.
The Monday article found reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions enough to actually slow global warming in a measurable way simply isn’t possible without significantly reducing standards of living by plunging most of the world into poverty, destitution and starvation.
“Over the last 200 years, fossil fuels have provided the route out of grinding poverty for many people in the world,” states the article.
“This trend is certain to continue for at least the next 20 years based on the technologies of scale that are available today.
A rapid decarbonization is simply impossible over the next 20 years unless the trend of a growing number who succeed to improve their lot is stalled by rich and middle class people downgrading their own standard of living.”
The article found current CO2 emissions aren’t falling rapidly enough to slow global warming largely because most public policy has focused exclusively on developing wind and solar power, which may actually increase emissions. Continued support for wind, solar and other forms of green energy like biofuel “represents total madness” as these energy systems don’t justify the massive costs of the subsidies required to support them..."

When the public is disarmed-----Dad And Son Are Seconds From Assassination By ISIS... Then Quiet Click Half-Mile Away Happens

Dad And Son Are Seconds From Assassination By ISIS... Then Quiet Click Half-Mile Away Happens:
"The savages in the Islamic State group had picked a father and his eight-year-old son to be sacrifices in their sick execution game. 
However, a member of the British Special Air Service made sure that they would be safe in the most unlikely of ways.
According to Express.com, the execution was about to occur after Islamic State group forces marched into a Syrian town along the Turkish border. Seeking to “cleanse” the town, they were executing any remaining Shiite residents.
The father and his son were picked out because they refused to denounce their faith. However, an Iraqi spy had tipped off the Special Air Service, and the elite British military force had fixed a sniper on the attempted assassination
“Through binoculars, the soldiers could see that the crowd were terrified and many were in tears,” a source said of the execution site.
The leader of the Islamic State contingent, flanked by several guards with AK-47s,  then called for the father and son to be brought before him.
“A tall bearded man emerged and drew a long knife,” the source continued.
“He began addressing the crowd and slapping the father and his son around the head and kicking them onto the floor.”
That’s when the SAS sniper took action (H/T Mad World News).
“The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed,” the eyewitness said.
“Everyone just stared in confusion.
“The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots — three kills with three bullets. It was a good day’s work.”
Indeed it was.
While President Barack Obama has been unwilling to commit U.S. ground forces to the fight against the radical barbarians of the Islamic State group, at least our allies are willing to do what needs to be done.
If only we had American special operations troops over there who could end these savages’ reign of terror."

Judge's Ruling Extracts Ruthless Justice From Obama's DOJ After They Lied Directly To His Face ⋆ US Herald

Judge's Ruling Extracts Ruthless Justice From Obama's DOJ After They Lied Directly To His Face ⋆ US Herald:

"Not since those dark days of Watergate, has an administration attempted to circumvent, cover-up or whitewash its misdeeds as obviously as this administration. Even Richard Nixon had enough of whatever ethics he had left to resign the presidency for the good of the country.

Not so with this dismal cast of characters so corrupt that even Federal Judge Andrew S. Hanen finally acknowledged what has been apparent since this Chicago hustler has occupied the White House, that systemic corruption is rampant and has ordered every Department of Justice lawyer take an annual 3-hour ethics course for the next five years."

Here's The 'Milk List' For The 100th Running Of The Indy 500

Here's The 'Milk List' For The 100th Running Of The Indy 500
The Indianapolis 500 doesn’t greet winners with a big bottle of champagne as most races do. 
They hand the winner an ice cold bottle of milk.
This creates a curious artifact every year: a list of driver’s milk preferences.
Who wants the whole experience?
Who’d rather water it down?
Behold!
Here’s this year’s list.
According to American Dairy Association Indiana, 17 drivers requested whole milk this year, with two-percent being the next most popular at 13 requests.
The watered-down fat-free stuff may sound a little easier to stomach after being in a hot race car, but only three drivers requested it.
The driver gets the most attention, however, a rookie milk man also delivers commemorative bottles of milk to the winning car’s chief mechanic and team owner.

AM Fruitcake

History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Moore 1779 - Lawyer, social philosopher, author, Jim Thorpe 1888 - Olympic athlete, baseball and basketball player, Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond


Gladys Knight 1944 - Singer, Rudolph Giuliani 1944 - Mayor of New York City, Marco Rubio 1971 - Politician


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.


1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.


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."

True Meaning of Memorial Day

Obama Allows ‘Special Bonus’ Question During Japan Presser, Then Retracts the Offer When This Question Is Asked | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Allows ‘Special Bonus’ Question During Japan Presser, Then Retracts the Offer When This Question Is Asked | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama spoke to the press Thursday following the G7 summit in Japan. After taking questions for about 10 minutes, Obama announced he was going to allow a “special bonus” question before wrapping up the presser.

However, once he heard the question, Obama appeared to change his mind."

More Warnings——Unsustainable Auto Sales And Stock PE Ratios

More Warnings——Unsustainable Auto Sales And Stock PE Ratios | David Stockman's Contra Corner
"...automobiles, among a variety of other economic indicators as discussed recently, are sending a clear warning sign.

...Here’s the problem. There is a finite number of people to sell new cars too.

What the chart above shows is the number of cars sold currently now exceeds both the total increase in population and replacement needs of the existing population. In other words, the pool of available buyers is rapidly being depleted.

“But Lance, people will trade in those cars every couple of years, so the trend can keep going.”

Not really. As recently noted by Wolf Richter:

“Deep-subprime borrowers are high-risk. Typically they have credit scores below 550. To make it worth everyone’s while, they get stuffed into loans often with interest rates above 20%. To make payments even remotely possible at these rates, terms are often stretched to 84 months. Borrowers are typically upside down in their vehicle: the negative equity of their trade-in, along with title, taxes, and license fees, and a hefty dealer profit are rolled into the loan. When the lender repossesses the vehicle, losses add up in a hurry.

Auto loans, in general, have been in a huge boom that reached $1.04 trillion in the fourth quarter 2015:”

With more sub-prime auto loans outstanding currently than prior to the financial crisis, defaults rising rapidly and a large majority with negative equity in their vehicles, swapping out to a new car is becoming a near impossible option.

Yikes!

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Oberlin students say bad grades are getting in the way of activism

Oberlin students say bad grades are getting in the way of activism: 

• The New Yorker claims that more than 1,300 students recently signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a "C".
• The students complain that it is not fair to grade them on their performance in class because they are so distracted by their activism.