CNN Jim Acosta wrong on migrant caravan 'invasion' - Washington Times:
Flash ahead less than three weeks and whamo! — an actual invasion as so-called “migrants” clashed with U.S. Border Patrol guards at the San Ysidro port, throwing rocks and, yes, trying to climb over fences and walls “and so on.”
Yes, as the president predicted (and feared), thousands of migrants from the caravan gathered in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, and then stormed the border, overwhelming border guards, who were forced to fire tear gas to disperse the violent mob.
More than 19,000 Illinois government retirees receive pensions over $100K "The average six-figure retiree contributed just over $160,000 (TOTAL) toward their own pension over the course of their career. Data from Illinois’ six largest pension systems show 19,158 former government workers collect annual pensions of more than $100,000, costing those systems nearly $2.4 billion combined in fiscal year 2018. Six-figure pensioners enrolled in those systems contributed an average of $160,100 toward their own retirements over the course of their careers, and retired on average at age 59. ...TRS pays out more than $100,000 annually to nearly 12,000 pensioners – the largest number of six-figure pensioners among the six systems. SURS comes in second, with 4,283 members receiving annual benefits exceeding $100,000. Dozens of state lawmakers who bear responsibility for Illinois’ pension crisis are also receiving six-figure pension payouts from GARS.
The top annual earner among the six systems is University of Illinois, Chicago professor emeritus Tapas Das Gupta, who received nearly $504,700 in fiscal year 2018..."
"MI6 is battling President Trump to not Declassify the FISA documents.
Amazingly, The Guardian, a UK based and controlled media outlet puts out a story about "unnamed sources" and Trump being involved with WIKILEAKS.
Really? Seriously?
Why would a Foreign Intelligence Service be so concerned about a U.S. matter?
Why would a Foreign Intelligence Service be so concerned about the release of U.S. documents?
Why would a Foreign Intelligence Service be so concerned about "sources and methods"?
Why would a Foreign Intelligence Service care about "Russian Collusion" in a U.S. election?
Why would a Foreign Intelligence Service even be involved in spy craft associated with the United States and supposed ally care who holds power in OUR COUNTRY!!!
Tough questions, but anyone who can critically THINK can figure out the answers.
Working with a foreign government in the removal/overthrow of your own elected government, folks, without a doubt..........is TREASON..."
New Evidence Reveals Full Extent of Common Core’s Historic Failure "...Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming evidence of the slow-motion train wreck that has resulted – reduced student achievement by almost every metric.
Fordham refuses even to acknowledge the bad news, much less try to rationalize it.
...Study authors Ted Rebarber of AccountabilityWorks and Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute advocate restoring genuine diversity in education models by removing centralized government control over K-12 school standards.
But the prelude to that argument came from Rebarber, who minced no words in describing the doleful effect of Common Core on education.
“In my view,” Rebarber observed, “[Common Core] is really the worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years.”
...Rebarber focused on scores of the bottom quartile of students, those who were already behind – “the students that were touted as the target for improvement.” Under Common Core, these students’ performance has fallen..." Read on.
“Sixth, our Border Patrol agents and officers responded admirably and responsibly to the events on Sunday. It is a testament to their training and professionalism that no one was injured. The accepted use of nonlethal force (also used by the Obama Administration in 2013) prevented further injury to agents and a mass illegal rush across the border. We will not shy away from protecting our people. I ask parents to avoid violent caravan groups and refrain from attempts to illegally enter our country – these acts will put your children in danger.
“Seventh, I want to thank President Donald J. Trump again for the decision to send @DeptofDefense to the border to bolster our ports of entry and provide force protection for Customs and Border Protection.
Canadians Are One In A Million -- While Waiting For Medical Treatment:
"Canada's single-payer healthcare system forced over 1 million patients to wait for necessary medical treatments last year. That's an all-time record.
Those long wait times were more than just a nuisance; they cost patients $1.9 billion in lost wages, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver-based think-tank.
Lengthy treatment delays are the norm in Canada and other single-payer nations, which ration care to keep costs down.
Yet more and more Democratic leaders are pushing for a single-payer system -- and more and more voters are clamoring for one.
Indeed, three in four Americans now support a national health plan -- and a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that health care is the most important issue for voters in the coming election..." Read all.
History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com Louisa May Alcott 1832, C.S. Lewis 1898, Chuck Mangione 1940 - Composer, musician Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Garry Shandling 1949 - Comedian, actor, Howie Mandel 1955 - Actor, comedian 1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial. 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
The new National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, the fourth since 2000, seems to suggest a coming climate disaster, to paraphrase the film comedy "Ghost Busters," of "epic, even biblical proportions." But its forecasts and models border on the absurd. At some point, the scientific malpractice in these global warming scare reports has to end.
Some of the projections sound like something kicked around in a Hollywood brainstorming session for a science fiction thriller, and not like the results of sober scientific reasoning and balanced statistical modeling techniques. We shouldn't be surprised, however. The three reports that preceded this one were equally bad.
By the way, that's not us speaking, but actual climate scientists. They say the latest government climate change report does a disservice to Americans by once again politicizing science and ignoring both real data and history.
Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box • The Register
"Data suggests one of plane's many brains was stuck in anti-stall mode-By Shaun Nichol With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.
Early data from the doomed plane's flight recorder suggests that for much of its 11-minute flight on October 29, the pilots were struggling with the craft's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
In effect, they were wrestling with software and hardware inadvertently trying to kill them.
...Peter Lemme, a longtime aeronautics exec and consultant who analyzed the early reports, estimates this month that the pilots fought with the MCAS system, pulling the plane's nose up 26 times before finally losing control and crashing the 737 into the Java Sea at more than 450 knots.
All 189 people on board perished..." Read all.
Nation of Islam and Scientology: Their Dangerous Alliance | Clarion Project
"The Nation of Islam and Scientology would seem to have nothing in common, yet they have formed a bizarre and dangerous alliance.
...Scientology and their group STAND pay lip service to fighting against religious bigotry.
...However, while Scientology claims their sympathies are with the Jewish faith, they in fact have had a long-term partnership with a group of the most hateful, anti-Semites in America, The Nation of Islam (NOI). The NOI has a long history of extremism and Holocaust denial.
NOI’s spiritual leader, Louis Farrakhan, has a long history of anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-white and conspiracy-filled preaching. Farrakhan regularly calls Jews “Satanic” and claims that they “control everything and mostly everybody.”
...In a recent sermon, he compared Jews to termites and called his Jewish critics “stupid.”
In 2017, Scientology awarded its highest honor, the Freedom Medal, to NOI Minister Tony Muhammad.
In his acceptance speech, Muhammad thanks Allah, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan whose name invokes loud applause..." Read on.
Canada isn't an anomaly. Every nation that offers government-funded, universal coverage features long wait times. When the government makes health care "free," consumers' demand for medical services surges. Patients have no incentive to limit their doctor visits or choose more cost-efficient providers.
To prevent expenses from ballooning, the government sets strict budget caps that only enable hospitals to hire a limited number of staff and purchase a meager amount of equipment. Demand inevitably outstrips supply. Shortages result.
Twitter updated its policy on hateful content, prohibiting the use of biological pronouns for persons who identify as transgender.
While the social media platform prohibits misgendering transgender persons, it still has other harmful content, like hardcore pornography and sexually explicit material.
Other social media platforms ban hardcore porn, but Twitter has failed to keep it off the site, calling into question what the company views as violent and harmful content.
Twitter banned the use of biological pronouns to refer to transgender persons, adding a clause prohibiting the practice to its policy regarding hateful conduct.
...The media platform also writes it is “committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance.”
” … targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” is also banned, according to the updated policy rules.
...Deadnaming refers to using the “dead name,” the name they used before transitioning, to describe or address a transgender person.
Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro commented on the change.
The Media's Credibility Is Dead
"It's common knowledge that distrust in media is at an all-time high.
...According to the last media survey from McLaughlin & Associates, voters who see anti-Trump bias in the news media outnumber voters who don't at about a 5-to-1 clip.
In 2018, the mainstream media aren't even attempting to camouflage their hyper-progressive bias.
...We'll start with the Daily Beast, a left-leaning outlet known for using ultra-sensationalized rhetoric with a strong liberal spin. Like a majority of media outlets, the Daily Beast...attempting to smear conservative author and One America News contributor Jack Posobiec.
In a column about two arrested Washington, D.C. brothers with ties to neo-Nazi movements, the Daily Beast edited a cropped a picture of Posobiec and paired it with an image of racist (and irrelevant) loudmouth Richard Spencer and Charlottesville Unite the Right Organizer Jason Kessler. The worse part about the image is that it's edited to make it appear as though Posobiec were giving a Nazi salute.
What the Daily Beast doesn't mention is that Posobiec has constantly disavowed racism, and what the site cropped is an image of him next to a black Trump-supporter at a rally specifically designed to stand against political violence.
In one fell swoop, the Daily Beast has completely distorted reality.
Posobiec had nothing to do with the racist brothers arrested in Virginia on weapons charges, but the Daily Beast couldn't pass up an attempt to smear Posobiec to rile up its reader base and feed into its construction of Posobiec as a right-wing villain.
This anecdote is all too familiar in today's media climate.
In 2018, if you're a conservative white male, you're at risk of being labeled a white supremacists (see Steve King) or a flat-out Nazi..." Read all!
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents.
Border Patrol unleashed tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd of migrants trying to cross the border in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday. According to San Diego Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott, agents did not use dispersion techniques until after migrants had struck several agents with projectiles. “Several agents were actually struck by rocks,” Scott said, before revealing that the migrants pushed women and children to the front of their group to discourage agents from responding to rock-throwing with force.
To Persuade Conservatives 'Global Warming' is Real, Read This "Here we go again… A new bombshell report from the United States government has been released on the issue of “Climate Change,” which says that we are all soon going to be destroyed by the impact of rising temperatures. Liberals and the media have, predictably, pounced on the findings as vindication of their already religious-level belief in the concept. ...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. In fact I am offended by the extreme arrogance of those who routinely act like holding such a position is akin to committing blasphemy against some sort of new-age religion. If the proof is so damn overwhelming, then why not just persuade us conservatives with the facts? Contrary to liberal perception, there actually are some sound reasons for the reluctance of many conservatives to buy into cataclysmic climate scenarios. Here are ten of them:
A dramatic change in branding: When the name got altered from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change,” it felt like we were being scammed and that, because it was still getting very cold in all the places where it should be, liberals simply needed a re-branding which gave them more flexibility...
The climate has always changed..
“The debate is over” argument...
Over-the-top predictions that never seem to come true...
Where is the real world impact?: As Walter Mondale famously asked of Gary Hart (via a then-famous Wendy’s commercial), “Where’s the beef?” If the climate is obviously changing so rapidly, why aren’t we seeing clear-cut deviations from what we are used to?...
Doom is always just far enough away: History has shown us that there is very little downside to someone claiming that, unless we listen to them, we are all doomed (it’s literally a “can’t lose” prediction!)...
That’s just ten reasons why there is skepticism on the right, and why liberal efforts to quash that skepticism continue to fail. Read 'em all!
Junk Science Has Become a Profitable Industry. Who Will Stop It? | RealClearScience
"Should we believe the headline, “Drinking four cups of coffee daily lowers risk of death”?
How about, “Mouthwash May Trigger Diabetes. . .”?
Should we really eat more, not less, fat?
And what should we make of data that suggest people with spouses live longer? These sorts of conclusions, from supposedly scientific studies, seem to vary from month to month, leading to ever-shifting “expert” recommendations.
However, most of their admonitions are based on flawed research that produces results worthy of daytime TV.
Misleading research is costly to society directly because much of it is supported by the federal government, and indirectly, when it gives rise to unwise, harmful public policy. Social science studies are notorious offenders.
A landmark study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour in August reported the results of efforts to replicate 21 social science studies published in the prestigious journals Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
...One out of the four Nature papers and seven of the seventeen Science papers evaluated did not replicate, a shocking result for two prestigious scientific journals.
The authors noted two kinds of flaws in the original studies: false positives and inflated effect sizes..." Read on!
Wrong winner certified in GRCC trustee election
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Kent County mistakenlycertifiedthe wrong winner for a seat on the Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees.
The local elections director is reaching out to the state Bureau of Elections to determine what to do next.
It's a result that has gone back and forth a couple of times.
On election night, Kathy Crosby and Sheryl Siegel were announced as the winners of two open trustee seats, beating Carlos Sanchez and Troy Williams.
But Monday, 24 Hour News 8 learned that the initial results counted only votes from Kent County and not from four other counties: Barry, Ionia, Ottawa and Newaygo.
Once those numbers were added in, Kent County election officials declared that Sanchez, the incumbent, actually beat Siegel.
...But less than an hour later, Uzarski called 24 Hour News 8 to say the results on the form were inaccurate.
He said he mistyped the number of votes for Siegel from Barry County..." Read on!
This is nutbag, far-left stuff. That's not about moms and kids in the slightest, that's about the political demands of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. And as you read further in the "demands," you can read that they also want American officials prosecuted. This is the caravan agenda as it throws hapless women and children in front of the cameras, leaves Tijuana a humanitarian disaster, and leaves Mexico with the prospect of a completely shut down border. As the leftists say: By any means necessary, and those migrants are their easily expendable pawns. Now is the scenario clearer?
"Andrea Long Chu at her home in Brooklyn. Kholood Eid for The New York Times
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it..." Andrea Long Chu is an essayist and a critic. Her book “Females: A Concern” is forthcoming." Read all.
"...Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming evidence of the slow-motion train wreck that has resulted – reduced student achievement by almost every metric. 
"...Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming evidence of the slow-motion train wreck that has resulted – reduced student achievement by almost every metric. 
“Sixth, our Border Patrol agents and officers responded admirably and responsibly to the events on Sunday. It is a testament to their training and professionalism that no one was injured. The accepted use of nonlethal force (also used by the Obama Administration in 2013) prevented further injury to agents and a mass illegal rush across the border. We will not shy away from protecting our people. I ask parents to avoid violent caravan groups and refrain from attempts to illegally enter our country – these acts will put your children in danger.
That's an all-time record.
That's an all-time record.
The new National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, the fourth since 2000, seems to suggest a coming climate disaster, to paraphrase the film comedy "Ghost Busters," of "epic, even biblical proportions." But its forecasts and models border on the absurd. At some point, the scientific malpractice in these global warming scare reports has to end.
With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.
The NOI has a long history of extremism and Holocaust denial.
Canada isn't an anomaly. Every nation that offers government-funded, universal coverage features long wait times. When the government makes health care "free," consumers' demand for medical services surges. Patients have no incentive to limit their doctor visits or choose more cost-efficient providers.
Twitter banned the use of biological pronouns to refer to transgender persons, adding a clause prohibiting the practice to its policy regarding hateful conduct.
Like a majority of media outlets, the Daily Beast...attempting to smear conservative author and One America News contributor Jack Posobiec.
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents.
...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. 
...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. 
These sorts of conclusions, from supposedly scientific studies, seem to vary from month to month, leading to ever-shifting “expert” recommendations.
Wrong winner certified in GRCC trustee election
This is nutbag, far-left stuff. That's not about moms and kids in the slightest, that's about the political demands of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. And as you read further in the "demands," you can read that they also want American officials prosecuted. This is the caravan agenda as it throws hapless women and children in front of the cameras, leaves Tijuana a humanitarian disaster, and leaves Mexico with the prospect of a completely shut down border. As the leftists say: By any means necessary, and those migrants are their easily expendable pawns. Now is the scenario clearer?