Why the BuzzFeed debacle damaged journalism and handed Trump a gift | Fox News

Why the BuzzFeed debacle damaged journalism and handed Trump a gift | Fox News:

"It is a perversion of what we do for a living to spew out material that may be nothing more than bogus rumors and disinformation, and to claim, as BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith does, that this is “how we see the role of reporters in 2017.”

The president-elect and his team decided yesterday to tackle this head on, to take the fight to both BuzzFeed and CNN, to make the media the issue rather than defensively deflecting the questions. And they had a big fat target.

BuzzFeed, a pop culture site with an overlay of news, is not exactly friendly to Trump. In fact, Smith told his staff in a 2015 memo that it’s “entirely fair to call him a mendacious racist, as the politics team and others have reported clearly and aggressively: he's out there saying things that are false, and running an overtly anti-Muslim campaign.” This, said Smith, was fact, not opinion."

YouTube removes influential conservative website's channel

YouTube removes influential conservative website's channel | Fox News
The YouTube channel of influential conservative politics and law website Legal Insurrection has been removed by the video sharing service, citing copyright infringement claims.
“This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted,” explains YouTube, in a notice posted to channel’s page.
Legal Insurrection founder and publisher and Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson voiced his anger and astonishment at the channel’s removal.
“It’s very frustrating, it’s very scary, to have 8 years of content removed without a chance to defend yourself,” he told FoxNews.com.
In an email, Jacobson said that he never received notice of the claims prior to the channel's removal on Thursday.
On Friday the publisher received notification from YouTube that the copyright claims were filed by the Modern Languages Association (MLA) based on audio posted of a recent MLA vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli universities.
 The boycott resolution at the MLA Delegate Assembly failed.
"Clearly this was a politically motivated move," he told FoxNews.com.
"I never received any request or complaint from MLA. These were perfectly legitimate fair use excerpts with great news value."
"This is an attempt to silence our reporting on a matter of great public importance," added Jacobson, whose website reported on the vote.
"We intend to pursue all available remedies, and call on YouTube to restore our account..."

Don't Violate My Liberal Bubble — A Case Study

Mark Alexander: Don't Violate My Liberal Bubble — A Case Study — The Patriot Post:
"I have a type-Hollywood friend on the Left Coast, who posted derogatory remarks about AG nominee Jeff Sessions on her social media page.
After I challenged her views, and those of her likeminded friends who responded, she removed the post.
No doubt she took it down because she did not want her leftist colleagues to know she associated with someone outside their bubble — especially a conservative with constitutionally constructionist views.
Consequently, I sent her a message suggesting she must have missed Barack Obama’s farewell remarks. Unfortunately, I had to slog through his self-congratulatory sycophant fest, and one thing he stated emphatically pertained to social media echo chambers: “For too many of us, it’s become safer to retreat into our own bubbles … especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. … And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it’s true or not, that fits our opinions.”
While it is my friend’s prerogative to post liberal copy/paste political diatribes, and then remove that post when challenged, this was a case study in how liberals — even intelligent liberals like my friend, protect their social media bubbles from the threat of opposing views..."

Women Scared As Suburban France Becomes Radicalized

Women Scared As Suburban France Becomes Radicalized:
"Radicalization is happening through the funding of mosques by Qatar who is importing to France their radicalized version of Islam.

A mosque in France. (Illustrative photo: © Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)

Recent undercover footage shows two French women’s rights activists entering a cafe in the Paris suburb of Sevran. 

 Upon entering the cafe, the two women were shocked as they were met with hostility from the notably all-male customers.
One of the male customers told the women, “It’s best to wait outside. There are men in here … In this cafe, there is no diversity.” 

Another customer explained, “In this cafe, there is no mixing. We are in Sevran, not Paris. Here there is a different mentality. It is like back home.”
Women in suburbs all over France are having similar experiences..."

Lunch video-----Ted Cruz Awesomely Rebuts Democrat Smears Against Jeff Sessions!

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House Dems Seek to Slow Obamacare Repeal - Washington Free Beacon

House Dems Seek to Slow Obamacare Repeal - Washington Free Beacon:

"House Democrats are attempting to slow the Obamacare repeal process at the committee level after the Senate passed the first step to reversing the law, according to a letter submitted to three committees on Thursday.

Top Democrats on the House Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Energy and Commerce committees submitted letters to their Republican chairmen calling on them to organize hearings on the “impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act through budget reconciliation.” The measure is aimed at slowing the process of repeal after the Senate voted 51-48 to pass a budget resolution that would strike down the law on Thursday."

5 Big Myths About ObamaCare's Repeal — Busted

5 Big Myths About ObamaCare's Repeal — Busted | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Health Reform: Democrats are predicting doom and gloom if Republicans make good on their ObamaCare repeal plans. 
Aren't these the same Democrats who promised that ObamaCare would be a huge success?

Early Thursday morning, the Senate voted 51-48 for a budget resolution that marks the first step toward the repeal of ObamaCare.

Democrats say repealing ObamaCare will strip millions of Americans of insurance, leave people with pre-existing medical conditions unable to find coverage, increase the budget deficit, and be a political nightmare for Republicans.

Let's leave aside for a moment the fact that Democrats also promised ObamaCare would let you keep your plan, lower health costs, grow more popular by the day, and that Republicans would pay a steep political price for opposing it.

The fact is that these dire forecasts are all based on big myths peddled by Democrats and the mainstream media.

• It will add 20 million to uninsured rolls.
Read on for the rest!

The truth is that Democrats fear ObamaCare's repeal not because they worry about the harm it will do. 
They fear repeal because the GOP's free-market oriented replacement plan is likely to be far more popular and successful.

How they "think"-----Teachers Unions and Title IX Zealots Want to Destroy Betsy DeVos

Teachers Unions and Title IX Zealots Want to Destroy Betsy DeVos - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"...Know Your IX, an activist organization that works to diminish due process protections for students accused of sexual assault on university campuses, is tweeting under the hashtag #DearBetsy in hopes of pressuring her to continue the Education Department's misguided and legally suspect campaign against fairness and justice in university misconduct hearings.

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Matt McGorry 

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#DearBetsy, Uphold #TitleIX because ALL students deserve an education free from sexual violence. @BetsyDeVoshttp://bit.ly/DearBetsy 

10:29 PM - 6 Jan 2017

 
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"Ms. DeVos must fully explain whether she supports the radical view that it should be more difficult for campus sexual assault victims to receive justice," Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat and member of the committee that will vote on DeVos's confirmation, told Politico...."

Study details how professors turn students into leftist activists

Study details how professors turn students into leftist activists - The College Fix
"Why are college students so adept at pushing progressive causes and protesting for them? 
It might stem from a movement in higher education that “redefines civics as progressive political activism.”

The National Association of Scholars digs into that movement in a new 523-page report on the state of civics education on college campuses. T
he study, Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics, calls this movement “New Civics.”

The New Civics seeks above all to make students into enthusiastic supporters of the New Left’s dream of “fundamentally transforming” America.

The transformation includes de-carbonizing the economy, massively redistributing wealth, intensifying identity group grievance, curtailing the free market, expanding government bureaucracy, elevating international “norms” over American Constitutional law, and disparaging our common history and ideals.

An executive summary of the advocacy group’s report lists nine findings on the state of civics education nationwide. 

Among them is that traditional civics education is in deep decay while the progressive New Civics movement has taken over..."

WSJ: George Soros Lost $1 Billion After Trump Won - Breitbart

WSJ: George Soros Lost $1 Billion After Trump Won - Breitbart:

"The Wall Street Journal reports Thursday that billionaire left-wing financier George Soros lost nearly $1 billion as a result of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the November 2016 presidential election.
The Journal‘s Gregory Zuckerman and Juliet Chung report:"

The Genius of Donald Trump?

The Genius of Donald Trump? | Power Line:
"I don’t think we’ll ever quite get to the core of Donald Trump, but he sure is fun to watch. 
Has anything ever felt better than watching him thump on CNN yesterday in the most sublime moment of his press conference? 
After, take note, praising the New York Times for avoiding the scurrilous and surely fake “Company Intelligence Report”? 
Divide and conquer! 
I am sure the NY Times editorial page got heartburn over Trump’s praise and will now work overtime, but having already gone to eleven on the “Trump the Nazi” scale, how can you turn it up any higher?

Meanwhile, the appropriately named CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who behaved so boorishly at the press conference, is already suing for peace:

De-escalate, you say? 
Heh. I say Trump should grind Acosta with his heel. 
I think, incidentally, that Trump really enjoys these press conferences.
I’ll bet thumping the press and his enemies is a ton of fun for him, and we may well get lots of press conferences from him, but only at intervals that make sure they don’t become routine. 
The man knows show business..."

AM Fruitcake

History for January 14

History for January 14 - On-This-Day.com
Benedict Arnold 1741, Albert Schweitzer 1875, William Bendix 1906


Andy Rooney 1919, Tom Tryon 1926, Faye Dunaway 1941


1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.


1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered.


1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months.


1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation.


1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama.


1969 - An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members.


1973 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII and became the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.


1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC.

Vote-a-Rama Ends with Senate Passing Obamacare Repeal - Breitbart

Vote-a-Rama Ends with Senate Passing Obamacare Repeal - Breitbart:

"The Senate is already rolling back President Barack Obama’s legacy.
It passed the continuing resolution, S. Con.Res. 3, that tears away the fees, taxes and subsidies from the 201o Patient Protection and Affordable Cart Act, Obamacare, shortly after 1:25 Thursday morning, 51-to-48."

Utah elementary school offers ‘After School Satan Club’ for 5-year-olds

Utah elementary school offers ‘After School Satan Club’ for 5-year-olds | EAGnews.org
TALYORSVILLE, Utah – Students at Vista Elementary School now have new options for after school activities – the After School Satan Club.

The club is the latest to launch as part of nationwide effort by The Satanic Temple to mock Christian and other religious student organizations that work with students in public schools, and it’s open to children between the ages of 5- and 12-years-old, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

“Kids naturally have that ability to be curious and question things,” said Chalice Blythe, head of the Temple’s Utah chapter. “We’re basically just saying we should bolster that.”

Blythe contends students who join will be exposed to “academic and educational” material that does not include lessons about Satan, though the Granite School District refused to allow the Tribune’s reporters to cover an open house to kick off the club Wednesday.

District officials notified parents about the new club without announcing the name, and urged those with any concerns to address them to state lawmakers.

The letter alleges state law mandates that the district must allow private groups to rent space at public schools..."

Michigan School Districts: We Have No Ineffective Teachers

Michigan School Districts: We Have No Ineffective Teachers [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The law requires annual ratings, but is murky on how to do it
Judging by the percentages, the state of Michigan didn’t have one ineffective teacher or administrator last year in the entire public school system, which covers 899 charter schools and conventional school districts.
That’s according to the cumulative reports filed by all the state’s public schools after the 2015-16 year.
The percentage of teachers and administrators who were given the lowest evaluation was so small that the state rounded it down to zero percent.
There were just 400 “ineffective” schoolteachers out of 94,164 in the state of Michigan in 2015-16, or fewer than one per school district. 
That comes out to zero percent..."

President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation

 Steve Russo - President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation —...
President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation — 1/11/89

"Instead of wasting an hour and a half listening to a self congratulatory narcissist, lie to you about the last 8 years of his "Historic Legacy," telling you how wonderful he is and how he saved the planet and created X,Y and Z.... all of which you know not to be true, while 20,000 of his cult followers cheer him on, How about listening to a Farewell address from an actual successful president that created 19 million jobs and turned around the American economy and it's place in the world after the second worst president (Carter) turned it into crap. It's a very short address, only 20 minutes long.

But if you don't have the time, fast forward to the 9:27 mark where he speaks about the role of the government.... small and limited..."

President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation — 1/11/89

President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation on 1/11/89. For more information on the ongoing works of President Reagan's Foundation,…

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On His Way Out, Obama Moves To Make National Elections Less Secure | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

On His Way Out, Obama Moves To Make National Elections Less Secure | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"With almost no notice, Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson announced that his department was designating the nation's elections system as "critical infrastructure," thereby giving DHS greater control over how states run their own elections.
This is a classic example of a government solution in search of a problem, one that will itself end up creating actual problems.

There's been no evidence of any foreign government tampering with election outcomes — although there were reports of attempts to gain access to registration databases."

OBAMA ENDS VISA-FREE PATH FOR CUBANS WHO MAKE IT TO US SOIL

News from The Associated Press:
OBAMA ENDS VISA-FREE PATH FOR CUBANS WHO MAKE IT TO US SOIL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident.

The repeal of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy is effective immediately. 
The decision follows months of negotiations focused in part on getting Cuba to agree to take back people who had arrived in the U.S.

"Effective immediately, Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal, consistent with U.S. law and enforcement priorities," Obama said in a statement. "By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries. The Cuban government has agreed to accept the return of Cuban nationals who have been ordered removed, just as it has been accepting the return of migrants interdicted at sea..."