Friday, June 28, 2019
Caravans to U.S. Included 1.5K Deported Criminals, 30 Sex Offenders
Caravans to U.S. Included 1.5K Deported Criminals, 30 Sex Offenders:
Recent caravans of foreign nationals included more than 1,500 previously deported convicted criminal illegal aliens, nearly 30 of which were convicted of sex crimes, federal officials say.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data provided to the House Oversight and Reform Committee this week reveal that two recent caravans of about 11,300 nationals that flooded the United States-Mexico border in October 2018 and January 2019 included about 1,520 previously deported illegal aliens who had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.
Recent caravans of foreign nationals included more than 1,500 previously deported convicted criminal illegal aliens, nearly 30 of which were convicted of sex crimes, federal officials say.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data provided to the House Oversight and Reform Committee this week reveal that two recent caravans of about 11,300 nationals that flooded the United States-Mexico border in October 2018 and January 2019 included about 1,520 previously deported illegal aliens who had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.
YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators...
YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators, But It Doesn't Work - Slashdot
"YouTube is looking to send a message to content creators who step out of line by disabling ads on videos that infringe on the site's policies.
The punishment is meant to revoke a key source of income, presenting a strong incentive for users to change their behavior.
But, as Julia Alexander writes via The Verge, many creators make money through other platforms, rendering YouTube's punishment largely ineffective.
From the report:
...For up-and-coming YouTubers reliant on that revenue, it can pose a huge problem. Many people just entering YouTube's Partner Program, a threshold that signifies a creator can start earning ad revenue, may rely on that advertising money as they start their career. Channels that face day-to-day monetization issues, one of the biggest issues within the community, are struggling to understand what works and what doesn't. But for larger creators, who still keep their ability to reach a huge number of subscribers, the punishment doesn't necessarily accomplish YouTube's goals."YouTube isn't likely to ban high-profile channels, either," Alexander writes.
"If a channel's content is borderline, meaning that it doesn't violate YouTube's rules but is considered harmful, moderators will allow videos to remain up.
Demonetizing a channel's videos allows YouTube to appear to have taken a strong action, even if that action isn't always effective."
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"YouTube is looking to send a message to content creators who step out of line by disabling ads on videos that infringe on the site's policies.
The punishment is meant to revoke a key source of income, presenting a strong incentive for users to change their behavior.
But, as Julia Alexander writes via The Verge, many creators make money through other platforms, rendering YouTube's punishment largely ineffective. From the report:
...For up-and-coming YouTubers reliant on that revenue, it can pose a huge problem. Many people just entering YouTube's Partner Program, a threshold that signifies a creator can start earning ad revenue, may rely on that advertising money as they start their career. Channels that face day-to-day monetization issues, one of the biggest issues within the community, are struggling to understand what works and what doesn't. But for larger creators, who still keep their ability to reach a huge number of subscribers, the punishment doesn't necessarily accomplish YouTube's goals."YouTube isn't likely to ban high-profile channels, either," Alexander writes.
"If a channel's content is borderline, meaning that it doesn't violate YouTube's rules but is considered harmful, moderators will allow videos to remain up.
Demonetizing a channel's videos allows YouTube to appear to have taken a strong action, even if that action isn't always effective."
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History for June 28
History for June 28 - On-This-Day.com
Henry VIII 1491 - King of England from April 21, 1509 until his death, known for his six marriages and his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - Philosopher, writer, composer, Richard Rodgers 1902 - Composer
Mel Brooks 1926 - Writer, director, actor, Gilda Radner 1946, Kathy Bates 1948 - Actress
1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Mexico Has Deployed 15,000 Troops To The Border, Is Now Detaining Illegal Migrants | The Daily Caller
Mexico has deployed 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen at the U.S.-Mexico border and is detaining migrants who attempt to illegally cross.
The Mexican government’s actions aim to meet President Donald Trump’s demands that the country help slow the influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico, AFP reports.
Joe Biden is contractually obligated to receive angel hair pomodoro at every paid speech
Joe Biden is contractually obligated to receive angel hair pomodoro at every paid speech
"Joe Biden is a candidate of habit.
When Biden was in the Senate, he was often its poorest member — a designation he's proudly touted even on the 2020 campaign trail.
Yet Biden turned his finances around after his time as vice president, and seemingly hasn't figured out a creative way to use his fortune.
Since leaving office, the 2020 frontrunner has pulled in "millions of dollars largely from book deals and speaking fees that ranged to as much as $200,000 per speech," The Washington Post reports via public documents.
And at every one of those events, Biden has maintained one very major demand: Pasta. Contracts required that his speech hosts serve him "angel hair pomodoro, a caprese salad, topped off with raspberry sorbet with biscotti," the Post reports.
He'd wash it down with "Coke Zero, Regular Coke, Orange Gatorade and black coffee," all of which had to be in his dressing room, the Post continues.
"Joe Biden is a candidate of habit.
When Biden was in the Senate, he was often its poorest member — a designation he's proudly touted even on the 2020 campaign trail.
Yet Biden turned his finances around after his time as vice president, and seemingly hasn't figured out a creative way to use his fortune.
Since leaving office, the 2020 frontrunner has pulled in "millions of dollars largely from book deals and speaking fees that ranged to as much as $200,000 per speech," The Washington Post reports via public documents. And at every one of those events, Biden has maintained one very major demand: Pasta. Contracts required that his speech hosts serve him "angel hair pomodoro, a caprese salad, topped off with raspberry sorbet with biscotti," the Post reports.
He'd wash it down with "Coke Zero, Regular Coke, Orange Gatorade and black coffee," all of which had to be in his dressing room, the Post continues.
It's in Biden's paid speaking contracts that his hosts must serve him Italian meals and stock his dressing room precisely. washingtonpost.com/politics/once-…
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE
Instapundit Blog Archive HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE
Busting the college-industrial complex.
Busting the college-industrial complex.
Which is profitable for the toll-takers.--Posted by"Yet even as reformers have pushed to remove a variety of barriers to employment, the biggest and most significant barrier to employment in American life — the use of the college degree as a default hiring device — has gone blithely unremarked. Indeed, even as reformers target employment obstacles for felons and florists, the pervasive use of college-degree requirements, despite its dubious legality and profound costs, has bizarrely escaped serious consideration.
At its best, higher education can be a powerful engine of opportunity and socioeconomic advancement. And that’s the way it’s almost universally described — at least in college brochures, think-tank reports, campaign stump speeches, and legacy media. Nevertheless, for too many Americans, the truth is that post-secondary education is principally a toll: an ever-more-expensive, increasingly mandatory, two-, four-, or, more accurately, six-year pit stop on the way to remuneration.
‘Time Is Running Out’: Schiff Hopes To Decide On Mueller Subpoena Soon | The Daily Caller
‘Time Is Running Out’: Schiff Hopes To Decide On Mueller Subpoena Soon | The Daily Caller:
Mueller’s team concluded its 22-month investigation of President Trump and his associates on March 22. A report of the investigation said that prosecutors were unable to establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russia government. Prosecutors were less definitive on the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation. Mueller neither cleared Trump nor exonerated him on the obstruction question.
Mueller’s team concluded its 22-month investigation of President Trump and his associates on March 22. A report of the investigation said that prosecutors were unable to establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russia government. Prosecutors were less definitive on the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation. Mueller neither cleared Trump nor exonerated him on the obstruction question.
Trump's Policy "Magic Wand" Boosts Manufacturing Jobs 399% In First 26 Months Over Obama's Last 26
"During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently promised to revive America’s manufacturing economy.
Trump’s focus on manufacturing brought out high-profile critics who scoffed at the notion.
President Obama notably said in June 2016 that manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.”
He said this at a time when manufacturing job growth had flatlined, falling by 31,000 from January of 2016 to when he delivered his pessimistic comments in June of that year.
...But comparing the nation’s most-recent economic recovery from the trough in June 2009, the pace of job growth was slower in Obama’s tenure than in any past recovery—except for the rebound from the mild eight-month recession in 2001, following the deflation of the dot-com bubble..."
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Comparing Baseball Player Salaries to Teacher Pay Reveals Confusion on Basic Economics - Foundation for Economic Education
Comparing Baseball Player Salaries to Teacher Pay Reveals Confusion on Basic Economics - Foundation for Economic Education
"Bernie Sanders is confused.
Again.
He recently took to Twitter to opine that:
"Bernie Sanders is confused.
Again.
He recently took to Twitter to opine that:
As is often the case, the senator from Vermont was partially correct.
Baseball players do, in some cases, get paid hundreds of millions of dollars.
Where he is confused, and this is a very typical confusion for Sanders, is as to the source of that money.
- Fans, Not The Nation, Pay Baseball Players
“The nation” doesn’t pay baseball players.
Fans pay baseball players by buying tickets, merchandise, and products whose sellers advertise at games.
Importantly, each person who contributes to paying the baseball players decides for himself whether the product baseball players are offering is worth the price.
And that individual choice is what keeps the entire industry consistently focused on satisfying the fans..."
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Chip Roy Proposes Obama’s Border Policy As Democrats Postpone Vote Indefinitely | The Daily Caller
Chip Roy Proposes Obama’s Border Policy As Democrats Postpone Vote Indefinitely | The Daily Caller:
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy offered former President Barack Obama’s border supplement on Monday evening as an amendment to the Democrat-backed border supplemental appropriations bill.
“I am asking you to consider an amendment that reflects the language that President Obama sent of $762.8 million to fund [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] so they can do their job, provide beds, so we can drop the pressure valve down and ensure that Border Patrol can do its job, ICE can do its job,” Roy said while speaking to the House Committee on Rules.
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy offered former President Barack Obama’s border supplement on Monday evening as an amendment to the Democrat-backed border supplemental appropriations bill.
“I am asking you to consider an amendment that reflects the language that President Obama sent of $762.8 million to fund [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] so they can do their job, provide beds, so we can drop the pressure valve down and ensure that Border Patrol can do its job, ICE can do its job,” Roy said while speaking to the House Committee on Rules.
"Yet another round of spectacular data tampering by NASA and NOAA. Cooling the past and warming the present." - Clarice Feldman
Clarice Feldman - Clarice Feldman
"Yet another round of spectacular data tampering by NASA and NOAA.
Cooling the past and warming the present."
"Yet another round of spectacular data tampering by NASA and NOAA.
Cooling the past and warming the present."
Democrats Unanimous As House Passes Bill Forcing Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports | The Daily Caller
Democrats Unanimous As House Passes Bill Forcing Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports | The Daily Caller
"The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.
Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.
The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.
Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.
Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it..."
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Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.
The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.
Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.
Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it..."
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Every Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Built Today Will Be Scrap Metal by 2050 - American Experiment
Every Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Built Today Will Be Scrap Metal by 2050 - American Experiment
"Here today, scrap metal by 2050.
That’s the rough life of wind turbines and solar panels, which only have useful lifetimes of 20 and 30 years, respectively, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Energy Sage.
That’s a lot of money to spend on part-time energy sources that do not last as long as coal, natural gas, or nuclear plants, which can run for 40 to 80 years..."
"Here today, scrap metal by 2050.
The short useful lifetimes of wind turbines and solar panels are one of the least talked about, but most important, aspects of energy policy.
This fact becomes even more important if we are to believe liberal politicians that claim we need to spend billions of dollars on these energy sources because climate change is an “existential crisis.”
These short lifetimes have profound implications on the cost of using wind and solar.
This is particularly bad news because Xcel Energy plans to squander $7.5 billion building 3,000-4,000 MW of solar (based on today’s costs for solar) and spend $2 billion maintaining wind turbines through 2034, even though these assets will still depend on natural gas backup when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.That’s a lot of money to spend on part-time energy sources that do not last as long as coal, natural gas, or nuclear plants, which can run for 40 to 80 years..."
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House Passes $383 Billion Spending Package | The Daily Caller
House Passes $383 Billion Spending Package | The Daily Caller:
The House passed a $383 billion spending package on Tuesday, which includes funding for a number of different government agencies.
The package included five funding bills and passed the House in a vote of 227-194. It includes funds for Commerce and Justice; Agriculture, Interior, Environment; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, according to The Hill.
The House passed a $383 billion spending package on Tuesday, which includes funding for a number of different government agencies.
The package included five funding bills and passed the House in a vote of 227-194. It includes funds for Commerce and Justice; Agriculture, Interior, Environment; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, according to The Hill.
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think - WSJ
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think - WSJ:
"When I asked Wilfred Reilly about last week’s appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to take up the Jussie Smollett case, he was cautiously optimistic.
Mr. Reilly is author of a new book, “Hate Crime Hoax,” in which he details how the initial publicity for supposed hate crimes tends all but to disappear if the allegations are exposed as fake.
...Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine.
Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017.
He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”
...The sad reality is that there is no shortage of individuals and entities with a vested interest in exaggerating racial tensions in the U.S.—from civil-rights organizations to corporate diversity officers to professors of race and gender studies.
...But Mr. Reilly has a larger point to make.
The Smollett case isn’t an outlier.
Increasingly, it’s the norm.
And the media’s relative lack of interest in exposing hoaxes that don’t involve famous figures is a big part of the problem."
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- A political scientist found that fewer than 1 in 3 of 346 such allegations was genuine.
"When I asked Wilfred Reilly about last week’s appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to take up the Jussie Smollett case, he was cautiously optimistic.
Mr. Reilly is author of a new book, “Hate Crime Hoax,” in which he details how the initial publicity for supposed hate crimes tends all but to disappear if the allegations are exposed as fake.
...Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine.Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017.
He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”
...The sad reality is that there is no shortage of individuals and entities with a vested interest in exaggerating racial tensions in the U.S.—from civil-rights organizations to corporate diversity officers to professors of race and gender studies.
...But Mr. Reilly has a larger point to make.
The Smollett case isn’t an outlier.
Increasingly, it’s the norm.
And the media’s relative lack of interest in exposing hoaxes that don’t involve famous figures is a big part of the problem."
Read all.
History for June 27
History for June 27 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Stewart Parnell 1846, Mildred J. Hill 1859, Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872
Helen Keller 1880, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927, H. Ross Perot 1930
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Fox Expert: New York, California High-Tax Exodus 'Just Beginning'
Fox Expert: New York, California High-Tax Exodus 'Just Beginning':
The recent state and local tax (or SALT) deduction cap is pushing some residents out of states with higher tax rates, and some believe it will get worse.
The 2017 “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” introduced a $10,000 limit on SALT deductions, and the consequences are now becoming apparent. Some Americans are responding to the change by moving into states where they can limit their government fiscal liabilities.
The 2017 “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” introduced a $10,000 limit on SALT deductions, and the consequences are now becoming apparent. Some Americans are responding to the change by moving into states where they can limit their government fiscal liabilities.
UN revises population projections downward | TreeHugger
UN revises population projections downward | TreeHugger
"Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.
"Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.
For almost every issue we talk about on TreeHugger, there are always comments that the biggest cause of all our problems is population, that there are just too many people.
But as we have noted before, population growth is slowing and we really have a consumption crisis, not a population crisis.
But as we have noted before, population growth is slowing and we really have a consumption crisis, not a population crisis.
Now, the United Nations Population Division has revised their population projections down again, as growth is declining more quickly than expected, populations are shrinking everywhere except Africa, and even it is slowing down.
According to the Economist,
According to the Economist,
Birth rates are falling faster than expected in some developing countries. In the late 1980s Kenya had a fertility rate of 6.5, implying a woman could expect to have that many children. Two years ago the UN reckoned Kenya’s fertility rate would drop to 2.1 (the point at which the population sustains itself naturally) only in the late 2070s. Because of new data, it now thinks Kenya will reach that point a decade earlier.Read all.
Michael Smith--- Fans of Best of the Web Today
Fans of Best of the Web TodayMichael Smith
"Banning people from social media, academia and other groups because they support Trump has less to do with the progressive left's personal dislike for Trump and more to do with the fact that Trump presents them with yet another convenient excuse to keep doing what they have always done.
Collectivism is a Ponzi scheme, a con game. If you are too aware to participate in the con, you must be exiled.
Senator Barry Goldwater had none of the personal issues that Trump brought to the White House, yet if you look at the 1964 presidential campaign, you will see almost exactly the same rhetoric used against Goldwater and the GOP.
Over 50 years of the same old, same old.
Goldwater was a racist. He was mentally ill. Republicans hate the poor and old people. He was a gun nut. He was a warmonger.
The biggest change is that the Democrats are no longer afraid to expose themselves as communists, something unthinkable in the Cold War 60's.
From the article:
"But the most striking echo of the Goldwater campaign is in a media that often functions as an adjunct to the Democratic campaign. Fifty-two years ago, such naked partisanship in the coverage of a national election was unprecedented, and many Goldwater supporters saw it as a violation of a public trust. That these days, such media behavior is nearly a given shows how much Americans’ expectations of journalists have changed—with enduring consequences both for the profession and for the nation."
Nothing new under the sun.
Commies gonna commie."
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