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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Has the Ignorant Media Gotten Worse? - Reason.com

Has the Ignorant Media Gotten Worse? - Reason.com:
"Has the media gotten worse?
Or am I just grouchier?
Every day I see things that are wrong or that so miss the point I want to scream.
Four examples:

Storm Coverage

As this week's storm approached the East Coast, the media reverted to breathless hype: "monster storm ... very dangerous."
Here I blame my beloved free market: Predicting scary weather works. Viewers tune in.

What galls me more is the reporters' government-centric thinking.
"Everything is closed," they say. "Employees can't get to work."
But the corner grocery stayed open.
So did many gas stations and restaurants.
Why is it that when government buildings close, so many private businesses stay open?
Because their own money is at stake...

The Deep State

Monday, The New York Times ran the headline "What Happens When You Fight a 'Deep State' that Doesn't Exist?"
The article explained that unlike Egypt or Pakistan, America doesn't really have a powerful deep state, and to claim that it does "presents apolitical civil servants as partisan agents."
Give me a break.
"Apolitical civil servants"?
A deep state absolutely exists.
Some call it "administrative state" or "regulatory state."
These are the people who crush innovation and freedom by issuing hundreds of new rules. Regulators, if they don't pass new rules, think they're not doing their jobs.
...People who choose to work for, say, the EPA, tend to be environment zealots. This should surprise no one. Somehow, New York Times reporters don't see it..."
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Donna Brazile finally admits she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign | Washington Examiner

Donna Brazile finally admits she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign | Washington Examiner:

"Veteran Democratic operative Donna Brazile finally admitted that she used her former position as a CNN commentator to relay questions ahead of debates to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary."

Is Denmark On The Brink? | Zero Hedge

Is Denmark On The Brink? | Zero Hedge:
"Iben Thranholm examines political and social events with focus on their religious aspects, significance and moral implications.
She is one of Denmark’s most widely read columnists on such matters.
Thranholm is a former editor and radio host at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), at which she created a religious news program that set a new standard for religious analysis in the newsroom. She has traveled extensively in the Middle East, Italy, the United States and Russia to carry out research and interviews.
She has been awarded for her investigative research into Danish media coverage of religious issues.

...How do the Danes look at Sweden, with hope or apprehension?

I Tranholm: With absolute horror!

The Swedish media, which is quite pro-government and its leftwing policies, does not always report the full extent of the problems in their society.

So it is hard to have a very accurate picture of what is going on.

But we in Denmark have a good sense.

We are very aware of the murders, rapes, riots, violence and the hand grenades that go on there.
This does not often make the news but we know it is going on.

And we don’t want to go down the same route. ..."

Read on!

These NCAA Tournament Schools Are Anti-Free Speech Dumps | The Daily Caller

These NCAA Tournament Schools Are Anti-Free Speech Dumps | The Daily Caller:
"America’s college and university campuses are brimming with vast multitudes of bureaucrats and strong contingents of students who want to limit speech they find offensive.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a civil rights organization which sues college and universities for violating students’ First Amendment rights, has meticulously put together a Bracket of Shame to showcase the absurd and frequently egregious censorship currently occurring on America’s college campuses.
courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom

courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom

The rules are simple: Only March Madness teams are eligible. America is oozing with colleges and universities which infringe heinously on student speech rights. However, their basketball teams are also terrible, so they don’t make the cut here.

West Regional

In the West region, Gonzaga University certainly stands out for hiring Melissa Click, the disgraced University of Missouri professor last seen calling for “muscle” to remove a student journalist who was trying to film an anti-free speech event.

There’s also Virginia Commonwealth University, which authorizes dorm staffers to remove students’ speech expressions on their own doors if the speech doesn’t reflect the taxpayer-funded school’s values. And there’s taxpayer-funded West Virginia University, which, according Alliance Defending Freedom, maintains a bizarre policy allowing complaints against students for “abuses of social justice principles.”

Vanderbilt University wins the West region, though, because it has violated federal law by trying to require nursing school students to submit to abortion training, and because of its strangely hostile stance toward Christian groups.

Midwest Regional

In the Midwest region, several schools stand out for their embarrassing lack of commitment to First Amendment rights.

Michigan State University became a national laughingstock just last month when school officials outlawed whiteboards from doors in dorm buildings because it’s possible that someone could scrawl some offensive message or image on them. Also, until just months ago, the taxpayer-funded school maintained a women’s study lounge in its main student union in which male students could not trespass..."
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Could Someone Please Inform the Federal Judiciary That Jihadists Are Muslim? | National Review

Could Someone Please Inform the Federal Judiciary That Jihadists Are Muslim? | National Review:

"Someone needs to inform the federal judiciary that jihadists are Muslims, and targeting jihadist-infested nations for a short entry ban is not the same thing as targeting the broader Muslim community. Trump’s ban doesn’t touch cardiologists in Indonesia or programmers from India. Instead, it pushes the pause button on entry from six of the most hostile and violent nations in the entire world.

That’s unreasonable? That’s anti-American? That’s unconstitutional? Only with those who’ve lost their judicial and moral bearings and have sacrificed the Constitution and common sense on the altar of their own politics."

Yes, everything is politically correct for these religious fanatics---------Civil rights watchdog dunks on journo’s ‘socially conscious’ NCAA picks with free speech Bracket of Shame – twitchy.com

Civil rights watchdog dunks on journo’s ‘socially conscious’ NCAA picks with free speech Bracket of Shame – twitchy.com:
"Someone, somewhere likely thinks the perfect football game would consist solely of Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest at the 50-yard-line while Bob Costas delivers an hour-long gun control lecture from the broadcast booth.

Most people, though, enjoy sports as sports, realizing that the players are athletes, not social justice warriors.

Leave it to CNN and Michael Smerconish, then, to attempt to kill all fun associated with the NCAA tournament by bringing on sports writer Larry Platt to present his “socially conscious” NCAA bracket.

And now we give them $100 million?!!-----Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says - CNN.com

Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says - CNN.com:
(CNN)The mayor of Flint, Michigan, reacted to a federal lawsuit which claims donors were directed away from a charity for victims of the city's water crisis and toward a fund sharing a name with her campaign fund Wednesday, calling the allegations "outrageously false."

In the suit filed Monday, fired administrator Natasha Henderson claims that in February 2016, Flint's current mayor, Karen Weaver, directed a former city employee and a city volunteer to stop directing potential donors to a charity called Safe Water/Safe Homes.
That charity was run by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and had been approved by the city for water-crisis donations.
Instead, the lawsuit claims city employee Maxine Murray was directed by Weaver to begin directing donations to "Karenabout Flint."
According to the lawsuit, Murray came to Henderson "in tears" and in fear of "going to jail."
..."Karen About Flint" was Weaver's campaign slogan when she ran for mayor in 2015, and her Twitter handle is @karenaboutflint..."

Islamist Turkish Minister: ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin In Europe’ | Daily Wire

Islamist Turkish Minister: ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin In Europe’ | Daily Wire:
"Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has claimed that “holy wars will soon begin in Europe.”
...“Holy wars will soon begin in Europe,” he added in an ominous message predicting the collapse of the liberal democratic European project.

As a political ally of Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Cavusoglu is committed to demonizing the Netherlands following the diplomatic row that erupted after the Dutch government denied entry to Turkish officials who wished to campaign for domestic causes.
In fact, over the weekend, Cavusoglu’s own plane was barred from landing in the Netherlands when he made clear that his intentions were to galvanize popular support among Turkish nationals for a Turkish referendum aimed at expanding the powers of dictatorial Islamist President Erdogan.
Tensions between the two countries hit a boiling point when Erdogan compared to the Dutch government to “Nazis” and “fascists,” prompting Prime Minister Rutte to dismiss the Erdogan government as unhinged."

Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Travel Ban Is Former Obama Classmate | The Sean Hannity Show

Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Travel Ban Is Former Obama Classmate | The Sean Hannity Show:

"It turns out that Judge Derrick Watson, the U.S. District Court Judge who on Wednesday ruled against President Trump's temporary travel restriction, has an interesting connection to President Obama: both he and the 44th president were classmates at Harvard Law School.

The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports:"