Supreme Court Case Could Spell End of Mandatory Public Sector Union Dues - Reason.com

Supreme Court Case Could Spell End of Mandatory Public Sector Union Dues - Reason.com: "Would extend "right to work" principles to government employment.--John Stossel
If your workplace is a union shop, are you forced to pay union dues?
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about that.
When I worked at CBS and ABC, I was ordered to join the American Federation of Radio and TV Artists.
That union had won a vote that gave them the right to speak for all reporters.
I said, "I'm no 'artist.' I'm a reporter! I won't join!"
But my bosses said they couldn't pay me unless I did.
In right-to-work states, unions can't force people to join.
But only 28 states are right to work.
Aging socialist bureaucracies like New York state are not among them.
But now the Supreme Court may say that no government worker, in any state, can be forced to pay a union.
"If we lose this case, the entire public sector will be right to work," warns Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, the big government employees union..."
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American hero!-----Men With Chests and Those Without - American Greatness

Men With Chests and Those Without - American Greatness
"Last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school reminds us yet again that to live well—to live free—requires men with chests. 
That is a fundamental requirement of free government.
One young man in particular, Peter Wang, died with his chest out for all to see. 
As the Daily Mail reports, Wang was killed while “holding the door for classmates, dressed in his grey ROTC uniform.”
For his heroism, the Army posthumously awarded Wang with the JROTC Medal of Heroism.
In addition, the United States Military Academy appointed Wang to West Point’s class of 2025, as it was his dream to attend the academy.
Such honors are fitting, but they are not sufficient.
Peter Wang exhibited extraordinary courage under fire for a young man, and his example serves as a stark reminder of the republican virtue required to live in a free nation. 
His sacrifice deserves extraordinary attention to match his deeds. 
With that in mind, Trump should do one of the things he does best: dispensing honors to the deserving to teach our citizens what republican virtue really is.
The idea of men with or without chests comes from C.S. Lewis’s description in The Abolition of Man. 
Lewis ends his first chapter with an important passage:
And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more “drive,” or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or “creativity.” In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
This, it seems, captures our predicament today.
A man’s chest—the organ that enables one to know right from wrong and the source of virtues like courage—is a laughable idea to many today.
This utter disbelief in the need for boys (especially) but even adult self-governing citizens more generally, to develop manly chests in order to act like free men, is systemic...
...And thankfully, there are still some men out there with chests.
Which brings us back to Peter Wang.
While others died well that day, doing their duty and protecting the innocent, Cadet Wang’s courage was extraordinary. 
We should expect that any self-respecting man would have to charge someone shooting children, but we do not expect it of those as young as Cadet Wang. 
At the mere age of 15, Wang died a man’s death so that others might live.
For such heroism, we should honor Peter Wang. 
We should raise what he did up high in our minds, not simply because of the nobility of his actions, but because Wang vindicated himself in a way that represents what is required of all of us in lesser measure if we want to live free."
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Barack Obama's border mess, mayhem, madness rage on - Washington Times

Barack Obama's border mess, mayhem, madness rage on - Washington Times:

"Obama’s legacy of steamrolling past the Constitution, bypassing Congress and thwarting the will of the American voter — the means by which his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program came into being in the first place — stands tall and strong under this Trump administration."

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FBI Will Review 16,750 Pages of Comey Documents in Response to Judicial Watch FOIA - Judicial Watch

FBI Will Review 16,750 Pages of Comey Documents in Response to Judicial Watch FOIA - Judicial Watch:

"There is significant public interest in Comey’s conduct and the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations and targeting of President (and candidate) Trump.

“The FBI has a terrible record of playing shell games with records – "

History for February 21

History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Zachary Scott 1914, Sam Peckinpah 1925 - Director, Erma Bombeck 1927 - Humorist, columnist, writer


Barbara Jordan 1936 - Lawyer, U.S. Congresswoman, Alan Rickman 1946, Kelsey Grammer 1955 - Actor ("Cheers," "Frazier")


1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.


1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.


1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.


1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France. The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.


1925 - The first issue of "The New Yorker" was published.


1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.


1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.


1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.

Hungarian Leader Calls Christianity 'Europe's Last Hope' | World News | US News

Hungarian Leader Calls Christianity 'Europe's Last Hope' | World News | US News:

"BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (AP) — Hungary's prime minister says that "Christianity is Europe's last hope" and that politicians in Brussels, Berlin and Paris favoring migration have "opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam."
Viktor Orban said Sunday during his 20th annual state of the nation speech that his government will oppose efforts by the United Nations or the European Union to make migration acceptable to the world."

No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists

No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists:

"The media’s focus on Trump’s Russian connections ignores the much more extensive and lucrative business relationships of top Democrats with Kremlin-associated oligarchs and companies. Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony) lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either,” explained a retired senior U.S. intelligence official. "

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Minneapolis TV Station's Reporters Puzzled by More Guns, Less Crime in the Gopher State

Minneapolis TV Station's Reporters Puzzled by More Guns, Less Crime in the Gopher State:
"On Thursday, Minneapolis station WCCO reported on guns and crime in Minnesota. Anchor Frank Vascarello's introduction: "More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains low." 
Imagine that.

Reporter Pat Kessler also treated more guns and less crime as paradoxical.

Reporting on crime and guns has been infested with the "Fox Butterfield effect." It is named after a New York Times reporter, who in November 2004 was surprised that:

The number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 2.1 percent last year, even as violent crime and property crime fell.

Later, a puzzled Butterfield referred to "the paradox of a falling crime rate but a rising prison population." 

Butterfield never considered the idea that fewer bad guys on the streets might lead to less crime.

The Butterfield effect as it applies to guns is the idea journalists are similarly reluctant to accept...

Partial transcript..."
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‘We Only Whisper It’ | National Review

‘We Only Whisper It’ | National Review:
"Justice Ginsburg sings another verse of “Kill the Poor.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, having decided for some inexplicable reason to do a long interview with a fashion magazine (maybe it is her celebrated collection of lace collars), reaffirmed the most important things we know about her: her partisanship, her elevation of politics over law, and her desire to see as many poor children killed as is feasibly possible.
Speaking about such modest restrictions on abortion as have been enacted over the past several years, Justice Ginsburg lamented that “the impact of all these restrictions is on poor women.”
Then she added: “It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.”..."
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Our Anglo-American Heritage Can't Be Wished Away by the Left - American Greatness

Our Anglo-American Heritage Can't Be Wished Away by the Left - American Greatness:

"Americans should understand that our legal system is founded on the British “common law” tradition, which distinguishes the legal environment in Britain and its former colonies, including the United States, from that in almost every other part of the world. “Anglo-American” common law bases ideas of justice on precedents established in previous judicial rulings. Because of this, many of the assumptions of the American legal system actually predate America itself and hearken back to ideas of justice in medieval and early modern England."

A note from my "friend" Joe (Biden)

"All over America today, mothers and fathers dropped their children off at school and left with a pit in their stomach. 
Asking themselves: "Will they be safe?" "Can it happen here?" "Will they come home?"
This can't be. 
We can't stand by and let our schools, our cities, and our communities become war zones.
It's been five years since Newtown, where 20 students and six teachers were murdered by a gunman. Since then, there have been at least another 239 school shootings where more than 400 people have been shot.
I said long ago that the most important thing anyone running for office has to decide is what they are willing to lose over. 
Not what they're willing to do to win. 
But what are they willing to lose over.
Well, how about this: Is protecting our children's lives worth losing over? Keeping weapons of war out of the classroom and off our streets? Giving parents some peace of mind? You're damn right it is.
Folks, the federal budget deficit isn't the biggest deficit we've got in Washington. We've got a courage deficit. We have too many Members of Congress who care more about the threats and the checks they get from the NRA than they do about the kids in America's classrooms.
I'm not asking for your money. 
I'm asking for your support. 
Your courage. 
To put your name on this petition next to mine. 
To send a message to every person in Congress that says, "You can't wait us out." 
Not this time.
For all those who lost their lives this week in Parkland -- and for the survivors and broken families left behind -- your words of sympathies and condolences aren't enough. 
It's never been enough. 
Your prayers aren't enough. 
We're voting on this.
And we're not going to forget what you did -- and didn't do.
Thank you.
-Joe"

This Is What A Police State And 'High Crimes And Misdemeanors' Really Look Like | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

This Is What A Police State And 'High Crimes And Misdemeanors' Really Look Like | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"As ever more deliberately concealed evidence is being uncovered of factual "collusion" between the Obama White House, the failed presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and Russia; of professional operatives in our intelligence services openly trying to first, cripple the campaign of Donald Trump, and then, having failed at that criminal objective, to delegitimize his presidency; and of secretly funded far-left anarchist groups proudly preaching violence against those they oppose, it seems the perfect time to ask three questions:

• First, what is the definition of a "Police State?"
• Second, what is the definition of "Treason?"
• And last, what – as defined in the Constitution of the United States of America – is the meaning of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors?"

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6 Common Media Myths About Gun Control

6 Common Media Myths About Gun Control:

"But the often sincere and certainly passionate claims made by those calling for gun control frequently don’t add up.

As columnist David French wrote of the recurring shootings in a brilliant column for National Review, “It’s horrifying, and governmental solutions are hard to find. Twitter’s fondest wishes to the contrary, the unique characteristics of mass shootings mean that they often escape the reach of public policy.”

After the Parkland shooting, a number of old and new myths about the Second Amendment and gun control became media narratives. Here are just a few of the more common ones."