8 killed, 30 wounded in Presidents Day weekend shootings across Chicago | Chicago Sun-Times: "Eight people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in Presidents Day weekend shootings across Chicago.
The last fatal shooting of the weekend happened early Tuesday in Englewood. Maurice D. Hutson, 24, was involved in a fight with a group of males about 12:25 a.m. in the 6800 block of South Normal when one of the males pulled out a handgun and fired a shot, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Hutson suffered a gunshot wound to the back and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:06 a.m.
He lived in the Roseland neighborhood.
On Monday evening, a boy was shot and killed in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
About 5:20 p.m., 15-year-old Larenzo Smith and a 19-year-old woman were walking in the 7600 block of South Champlain when someone approached them and fired shots, authorities said. Smith, who lived in the same block as the shooting, was shot in the chest and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he died at 6:04 p.m.
The woman suffered a gunshot wound to her hip and was taken to Christ, where her condition stabilized.
Another 24-year-old man was killed in a shooting Monday morning..."
And on and on...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Did the Progressive 'Broward County Solution' Cost 17 Student Lives?
Did the Progressive 'Broward County Solution' Cost 17 Student Lives?:
""We're not compromising school safety. We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017.
Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution."
As Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in sending students to the state's juvenile justice system.
County leaders responded with a perfectly progressive solution: "lower arrests by not making arrests."
Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related issues, not criminal ones.
The results impressed the people who initiated the program.
Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later.
One particular motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other..."
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""We're not compromising school safety. We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017.
Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution."
As Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in sending students to the state's juvenile justice system.
County leaders responded with a perfectly progressive solution: "lower arrests by not making arrests."
Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related issues, not criminal ones.
The results impressed the people who initiated the program.
Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later.
One particular motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other..."
Read on!
Nancy Pelosi ignores net worth inquiry after lecturing on 'inordinate wealth' - Washington Times
Nancy Pelosi ignores net worth inquiry after lecturing on 'inordinate wealth' - Washington Times:
"The Washington Free Beacon noted in January that Mrs. Pelosi’s 2016 financial-disclosure statement places her “in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans.”
“Pelosi’s annual property tax bill alone on three luxury homes last year— $137,000 — is more than twice the 2016 U.S. median household income of $59,039, which the U.S. Census reported last fall,” the website reported Jan. 25."
"The Washington Free Beacon noted in January that Mrs. Pelosi’s 2016 financial-disclosure statement places her “in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans.”
“Pelosi’s annual property tax bill alone on three luxury homes last year— $137,000 — is more than twice the 2016 U.S. median household income of $59,039, which the U.S. Census reported last fall,” the website reported Jan. 25."
Taxpayers May Lose On High-Balance Student Loans
Taxpayers May Lose On High-Balance Student Loans:
"The Brookings Institution has released a new research report by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis looking at student borrowers with very high balances.
The research provides a good reminder that borrowers with high balances, who often feature prominently in media coverage of student debt, are the exception.
Just 14% of all federal student loan borrowers have balances above $50,000, and the majority of those individuals borrowed to pursue expensive graduate degrees.
But looking at balances rather than borrowers tells the exact opposite story.
While just 5% of borrowers in default owe more than $50,000, these borrowers also owe over 25% of the dollars in default.
Though high-balance borrowers default at a relatively low rate, the risk they pose to taxpayers is substantial..."
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"The Brookings Institution has released a new research report by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis looking at student borrowers with very high balances.
The research provides a good reminder that borrowers with high balances, who often feature prominently in media coverage of student debt, are the exception.
Just 14% of all federal student loan borrowers have balances above $50,000, and the majority of those individuals borrowed to pursue expensive graduate degrees.
Despite their relative rarity, high-balance borrowers deserve our attention for the risk they pose to the federal government’s finances. While high-balance borrowers represent just a small share of the individuals with outstanding student loans, they owe over half the outstanding balances...
While just 5% of borrowers in default owe more than $50,000, these borrowers also owe over 25% of the dollars in default.
Though high-balance borrowers default at a relatively low rate, the risk they pose to taxpayers is substantial..."
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History for February 22
History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com:
George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States., James Russell Lowell 1819, Robert Baden-Powell 1857
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892, Robert Young 1907, Edward M. Kennedy 1932 Lea Salonga 1971
1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.
1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.
1923 - The first successful chinchilla farm opened in Los Angeles, CA. It was the first farm of its kind in the U.S.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/02/manipulation-and-suppression-by-tammy.html
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/02/manipulation-and-suppression-by-tammy.html
Manipulation and Suppression
By Tammy Derouin
The United States of America is in
crisis. We are supposed to be the land of the free where the
government not only acknowledges our God-given rights but protects
them. Once again, more evidence is making its way to the surface
that the Obama administration was full of corruption and scandal.
Our government, under the destructive
desire of the Obama administration, launched non-stop attacks on the
American people and our founding principles. The desire of his
administration to inflict harm, irreversible harm, on our country has
become more and more transparently clear with each passing day.
The list of scandals is long and
sordid. So many were listed during the years of darkness. The Left,
however, not only denies them but has turned manipulation and
suppression of the truth into an art form. Their spin doctors have
attempted to blame others or make up their own reality, twisting and
turning facts into fiction and fiction into facts. The press, well
we know by now, that our once free press betrayed the American
people. The press could have been heroes had they done their job.
Instead, they will probably fare much worse than the actual players
of the anti-American Obama administration. They could have informed
America of so many wrong doings had they not given up their right of
freedom of speech.......
Where Are the Indictments of Obama’s Foreign Colluders? | Frontpage Mag
Where Are the Indictments of Obama’s Foreign Colluders? | Frontpage Mag:
"The Clinton campaign employed a British foreign agent who used Russian intelligence sources to put together opposition research meant to interfere with the results of a United States election. Collusion between the Clinton campaign, Steele and the Russians doesn’t require an endless fishing expedition.
Foreigners interfering in United States elections are not a new phenomenon. Muslims in Gaza famously ran a phone bank for Obama. A Hamas political adviser had declared that he hoped Obama would win.
There was no investigation. Nor did anyone indict the Gazans running the phone bank.
The indictment states that, “the Federal Election Campaign Act… prohibits foreign nationals from making any contributions, expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements for electioneering communications.” But Obama had chosen to accept untraceable donations from abroad. He had failed to ask for proof of citizenship and his website had even allowed donations from Iran and North Korea.
The chair of Nigeria’s stock exchange had organized an “Africans for Obama” fundraiser. The Albanian Socialist Prime Minister had been accused of a scheme to transfer $80,000 to an Obama fundraising committee. Gazans bought and resold Obama t-shirts from the campaign website. And no indictments.
None of that counts as election interference. And none of it generated an investigation of Obama."
"The Clinton campaign employed a British foreign agent who used Russian intelligence sources to put together opposition research meant to interfere with the results of a United States election. Collusion between the Clinton campaign, Steele and the Russians doesn’t require an endless fishing expedition.
Foreigners interfering in United States elections are not a new phenomenon. Muslims in Gaza famously ran a phone bank for Obama. A Hamas political adviser had declared that he hoped Obama would win.
There was no investigation. Nor did anyone indict the Gazans running the phone bank.
The indictment states that, “the Federal Election Campaign Act… prohibits foreign nationals from making any contributions, expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements for electioneering communications.” But Obama had chosen to accept untraceable donations from abroad. He had failed to ask for proof of citizenship and his website had even allowed donations from Iran and North Korea.
The chair of Nigeria’s stock exchange had organized an “Africans for Obama” fundraiser. The Albanian Socialist Prime Minister had been accused of a scheme to transfer $80,000 to an Obama fundraising committee. Gazans bought and resold Obama t-shirts from the campaign website. And no indictments.
None of that counts as election interference. And none of it generated an investigation of Obama."
Four Liberal PACs Outspent the NRA in 2016 Campaign
Four Liberal PACs Outspent the NRA in 2016 Campaign:
"If the National Rifle Association is powerful because it gives so much money to Republican politicos, what about these left-wing groups that give far more to Democrats?--by Mark Tapscott
Four liberal political action committees (PACs) that support only Democrats gave more than $393 million in independent campaign contributions during the 2016 election cycle, an amount that collectively was seven times more than that reported by the NRA.
Even the average for the four liberal groups — $98.25 million – exceeded the $54.4 million total spent by the gun rights group, according to an examination of Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign funding data compiled by opensecrets.org.
The campaign spending data provide a marked contrast to a familiar narrative that always dominates mainstream media reporting following tragedies like the horrendous events last week in Broward County, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 16 students and one football coach dead.
Typical of the narrative is the “‘Thoughts and Prayers’ and Fistfuls of NRA Money: Why America Can’t Control Guns (A Grim Update),” which appeared in the Los Angeles Times...
...“You know how the argument goes.
The ‘conventional wisdom’ is the NRA’s heavy spending stops hundreds of politicians from enacting the “common sense” gun control laws they and everyone else would otherwise support …
“There’s only one problem with that theory. It’s all wrong.”
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"If the National Rifle Association is powerful because it gives so much money to Republican politicos, what about these left-wing groups that give far more to Democrats?--by Mark Tapscott
Four liberal political action committees (PACs) that support only Democrats gave more than $393 million in independent campaign contributions during the 2016 election cycle, an amount that collectively was seven times more than that reported by the NRA.
Even the average for the four liberal groups — $98.25 million – exceeded the $54.4 million total spent by the gun rights group, according to an examination of Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign funding data compiled by opensecrets.org.
The campaign spending data provide a marked contrast to a familiar narrative that always dominates mainstream media reporting following tragedies like the horrendous events last week in Broward County, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 16 students and one football coach dead.
Typical of the narrative is the “‘Thoughts and Prayers’ and Fistfuls of NRA Money: Why America Can’t Control Guns (A Grim Update),” which appeared in the Los Angeles Times...
...“You know how the argument goes.
The ‘conventional wisdom’ is the NRA’s heavy spending stops hundreds of politicians from enacting the “common sense” gun control laws they and everyone else would otherwise support …
“There’s only one problem with that theory. It’s all wrong.”
Read it all!
Taxing Innovators To Pay For Universal Welfare Is A Terrible Idea | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Taxing Innovators To Pay For Universal Welfare Is A Terrible Idea | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"A new "study" in Britain suggests that by raising taxes sharply on Facebook, Amazon and Apple, the government could pay for a universal basic income (UBI) for all Britons. It's an absurd idea, which is why it can't be counted out.
The so-called FANG companies — the above-mentioned three, plus Google and Netflix — have been vilified now for years in Europe and in the U.S. as "monopolies" and, worse, "predators." When such strident rhetoric is used by politicians, you know they're going in for the kill. There's money to be made in taking down big, successful companies."
"A new "study" in Britain suggests that by raising taxes sharply on Facebook, Amazon and Apple, the government could pay for a universal basic income (UBI) for all Britons. It's an absurd idea, which is why it can't be counted out.
The so-called FANG companies — the above-mentioned three, plus Google and Netflix — have been vilified now for years in Europe and in the U.S. as "monopolies" and, worse, "predators." When such strident rhetoric is used by politicians, you know they're going in for the kill. There's money to be made in taking down big, successful companies."
Catch and release?-----Teen accused of threat to 'shoot up' school charged, released on bond | MLive.com
Teen accused of threat to 'shoot up' school charged, released on bond | MLive.com:
"MANISTEE COUNTY, MI -- A 17-year-old Wellston resident accused of threatening to "shoot up" a school in Manistee County was arraigned Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Cullen Shafer was charged with a felony threat of terrorism, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
He is out of jail on bond, which was set at $100,000.
Shafer is accused of making a verbal threat to shoot up Brethren High School...
The alleged threat was reported Monday, but police said it was made last week.
That same week, a 19-year-old Florida man shot and killed 17 people, and injured another 14, at a school shooting in Parkland, Florida..."
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"MANISTEE COUNTY, MI -- A 17-year-old Wellston resident accused of threatening to "shoot up" a school in Manistee County was arraigned Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Cullen Shafer was charged with a felony threat of terrorism, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
He is out of jail on bond, which was set at $100,000.
Shafer is accused of making a verbal threat to shoot up Brethren High School...
The alleged threat was reported Monday, but police said it was made last week.
That same week, a 19-year-old Florida man shot and killed 17 people, and injured another 14, at a school shooting in Parkland, Florida..."
Read on!
Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama State Department Provided Classified Records to Sen. Ben Cardin to Undermine President Trump - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama State Department Provided Classified Records to Sen. Ben Cardin to Undermine President Trump - Judicial Watch:
"Judicial Watch today released 42 pages of heavily redacted State Department documents containing classified information that was provided to Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. The documents show Russian political interference in elections and politics in countries across Europe.
According to a March 2017 report in the Baltimore Sun: “Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin received classified information about Russia’s involvement in elections when the Obama administration was attempting to disseminate that material widely across the government in order to aid in future investigations, according to a report Wednesday … Obama officials were concerned, according to the report [in The New York Times, below], that the Trump administration would cover up intelligence once power changed hands.”"
"Judicial Watch today released 42 pages of heavily redacted State Department documents containing classified information that was provided to Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. The documents show Russian political interference in elections and politics in countries across Europe.
According to a March 2017 report in the Baltimore Sun: “Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin received classified information about Russia’s involvement in elections when the Obama administration was attempting to disseminate that material widely across the government in order to aid in future investigations, according to a report Wednesday … Obama officials were concerned, according to the report [in The New York Times, below], that the Trump administration would cover up intelligence once power changed hands.”"
What if there were serious gun controls? | TheHill
What if there were serious gun controls? | TheHill:
"After the Las Vegas murders, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) urged Congress to “take a stand against gun violence by passing common-sense gun safety laws.” On Monday, after the mass murder in Texas, he wrote, “A simple idea: Anyone convicted of domestic abuse should see their rights under the 2nd Amendment severely curtailed.” On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced that he and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are writing a bill “to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence — be it in criminal or military court — from buying a gun.
In the spirit of these proposals, here are some ideas for tough federal gun laws — most of which should have been enacted years ago."
"After the Las Vegas murders, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) urged Congress to “take a stand against gun violence by passing common-sense gun safety laws.” On Monday, after the mass murder in Texas, he wrote, “A simple idea: Anyone convicted of domestic abuse should see their rights under the 2nd Amendment severely curtailed.” On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced that he and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are writing a bill “to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence — be it in criminal or military court — from buying a gun.
In the spirit of these proposals, here are some ideas for tough federal gun laws — most of which should have been enacted years ago."
Time to push back against the global warming Nazis « Roy Spencer, PhD
Time to push back against the global warming Nazis « Roy Spencer, PhD:
"Yeah, somebody pushed my button.
When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line.
They are still doing it.
They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with (2) the denial that the Nazi’s extermination of millions of Jews ever happened.
Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison.
It’s time to push back.
I’m now going to start calling these people “global warming Nazis”.
The pseudo-scientific ramblings by their leaders have falsely warned of mass starvation, ecological collapse, agricultural collapse, overpopulation…all so that the masses would support their radical policies.
...Dissenting scientific views are now jack-booted through tactics like pressuring scientific journals to not publish papers with which they disagree…even getting journal editors to resign.
Like the Nazis, they are anti-capitalist.
They are willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism, advocating expensive energy policies that increase poverty.
And if there is a historically demonstrable threat to humanity, it is poverty.
...This authoritarianism tends to happen with an over-educated elite class…I have read that Nazi Germany had more PhDs per capita than any other country...
So, as long as they continue to call people like me “deniers”, I will call them “global warming Nazis”..."
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"Yeah, somebody pushed my button.
When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line.
They are still doing it.
They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with (2) the denial that the Nazi’s extermination of millions of Jews ever happened.
Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison.
It’s time to push back.
I’m now going to start calling these people “global warming Nazis”.
The pseudo-scientific ramblings by their leaders have falsely warned of mass starvation, ecological collapse, agricultural collapse, overpopulation…all so that the masses would support their radical policies.
...Dissenting scientific views are now jack-booted through tactics like pressuring scientific journals to not publish papers with which they disagree…even getting journal editors to resign.
Like the Nazis, they are anti-capitalist.
They are willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism, advocating expensive energy policies that increase poverty.
And if there is a historically demonstrable threat to humanity, it is poverty.
...This authoritarianism tends to happen with an over-educated elite class…I have read that Nazi Germany had more PhDs per capita than any other country...
So, as long as they continue to call people like me “deniers”, I will call them “global warming Nazis”..."
Read on!
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