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Saturday, February 01, 2020
Virginia Legislature Officially Approves Gun Control | The Daily Caller
Virginia Legislature Officially Approves Gun Control | The Daily Caller:
The Virginia House of Delegates approved a series of gun control laws Thursday, just over a week after Second Amendment activists staged massive protests at the state capital of Richmond.
The legislation included universal background checks, red flag laws and a law limiting citizens of the Commonwealth to one firearm purchase a month, according to ABC News. Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has made gun control a top priority since Democrats took control of the state legislature last November.
The legislation included universal background checks, red flag laws and a law limiting citizens of the Commonwealth to one firearm purchase a month, according to ABC News. Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has made gun control a top priority since Democrats took control of the state legislature last November.
Trump Supporters Score Higher on Verbal Ability Tests – Reason.com
Trump Supporters Score Higher on Verbal Ability Tests – Reason.com
...The mean verbal ability score for Trump supporters was 6.15 words correct, while the mean verbal ability score for Clinton supporters was 5.69 correct, a difference of nearly a half a question on a 10-question test.
This moderate difference is statistically significant at p>.0005.
Further, Trump supporters score significantly higher on verbal ability (6.15 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.70 correct), whereas Clinton supporters score significantly lower on verbal ability (5.69 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.98 correct)..."
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- And they do better on most science knowledge questions, too.
...The mean verbal ability score for Trump supporters was 6.15 words correct, while the mean verbal ability score for Clinton supporters was 5.69 correct, a difference of nearly a half a question on a 10-question test.
This moderate difference is statistically significant at p>.0005.
Further, Trump supporters score significantly higher on verbal ability (6.15 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.70 correct), whereas Clinton supporters score significantly lower on verbal ability (5.69 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.98 correct)..."
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Felon no longer deemed threat after sex reassignment treatment
Felon no longer deemed threat after sex reassignment treatment
"The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is no longer seeking the commitment of a former Midwest Christian Services student convicted of myriad sex crimes because the individual now identifies as a woman.
...Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks wouldn’t comment on the reason for the dismissal other than to say “an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.”
In November, the Storm Lake Times reported that Joseph Matthew Smith, a 23-year-old convicted of molesting a fellow MCS student in 2014...
...Smith has expressed a preference to identify as Josie, according to court documents.
“We don’t believe we have evidence sufficient to prove Josie Smith has a significant chance of reoffending,” Hicks said late last week..."
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"The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is no longer seeking the commitment of a former Midwest Christian Services student convicted of myriad sex crimes because the individual now identifies as a woman....Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks wouldn’t comment on the reason for the dismissal other than to say “an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.”
In November, the Storm Lake Times reported that Joseph Matthew Smith, a 23-year-old convicted of molesting a fellow MCS student in 2014...
...Smith has expressed a preference to identify as Josie, according to court documents.
“We don’t believe we have evidence sufficient to prove Josie Smith has a significant chance of reoffending,” Hicks said late last week..."
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Presidents Have the Authority—and Every Right—to Remove Ambassadors | The Heritage Foundation
Presidents Have the Authority—and Every Right—to Remove Ambassadors | The Heritage Foundation:
Multiple news outlets last week reported on a 2018 video recording in which two men with Ukrainian connections, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, apparently inform President Donald Trump that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was undermining his policy and asserting that he soon would be impeached. In response, Trump reportedly ordered: “Get rid of her.”
Unsurprisingly, this recording became part of the broader impeachment debate, which accuses Trump of abuse of power, even though Yovanovitch herself acknowledges that she “served at the pleasure of the president.”
Unsurprisingly, this recording became part of the broader impeachment debate, which accuses Trump of abuse of power, even though Yovanovitch herself acknowledges that she “served at the pleasure of the president.”
Israeli Arabs Reject 'Nightmare' of Living Under Palestinian Authority | United with Israel
Israeli Arabs Reject 'Nightmare' of Living Under Palestinian Authority | United with Israel
"Responding to deal’s suggestion that Arab communities be transferred to a PA state, Israeli Arabs reject the opportunity, saying they prefer to live in Israel.--By United with Israel Staff
"Responding to deal’s suggestion that Arab communities be transferred to a PA state, Israeli Arabs reject the opportunity, saying they prefer to live in Israel.--By United with Israel Staff
Residents of the ‘Triangle’ of Israeli-Arab towns and villages in the Haifa District have slammed US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, according to which their communities would be transferred to a Palestinian state, Ynet reported.
...“This is a nightmare that cannot be implemented,” Taibeh Mayor Shuaa Massarweh Mansour said, Ynet reported..."
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The Fiscal Cost of Resettling Refugees in the United States
The Fiscal Cost of Resettling Refugees in the United States
"...Reflecting America’s long tradition of providing refuge to the oppressed, we have admitted over 3.5 million people since 1980 and 96,900 refugees just in the last year in 2016.
As the nation considers what levels of immigration we can fiscally and environmentally sustain, it is important to understand the costs of resettling both refugees (people seeking refugee status abroad) and political asylum seekers (those applying for refugee status from within the United States).
According to a new study released by FAIR, the annual cost to U.S. taxpayers is $1.8 billion and over five years, that financial burden skyrockets to $8.8 billion.
...The cost per refugee to American taxpayers just under $79,600 in the first five years after a refugee is resettled in the U.S...."
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"...Reflecting America’s long tradition of providing refuge to the oppressed, we have admitted over 3.5 million people since 1980 and 96,900 refugees just in the last year in 2016.
As the nation considers what levels of immigration we can fiscally and environmentally sustain, it is important to understand the costs of resettling both refugees (people seeking refugee status abroad) and political asylum seekers (those applying for refugee status from within the United States).According to a new study released by FAIR, the annual cost to U.S. taxpayers is $1.8 billion and over five years, that financial burden skyrockets to $8.8 billion.
...The cost per refugee to American taxpayers just under $79,600 in the first five years after a refugee is resettled in the U.S...."
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Bad News Alarmists - Official Data Reveals Arctic Sea Ice is once again GROWING - Electroverse
Bad News Alarmists - Official Data Reveals Arctic Sea Ice is once again GROWING - Electroverse
BAD NEWS ALARMISTS — OFFICIAL DATA REVEALS ARCTIC SEA ICE IS ONCE AGAIN GROWING
Arctic sea ice extent in January 2020 is sitting ABOVE levels observed in the years 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012 (record low extent), 2011, AND 2010..."
BAD NEWS ALARMISTS — OFFICIAL DATA REVEALS ARCTIC SEA ICE IS ONCE AGAIN GROWING
There is nothing catastrophic, alarming, or even a little worrisome about this data, and it comfortably puts to bed the “prophecies of doom” perpetuated on a daily basis across the western media.
Very few MSM outlets have fact-checking as a top priority–there is a lot of grandstanding, of course, and paragraphs upon paragraphs on how science + consensuses have –for what would be first time in history– magically combined to deliver an unquestionable truth…"
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Trump Signs USMCA Trade Deal At The White House | The Daily Caller
Trump Signs USMCA Trade Deal At The White House | The Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) at the White House on Wednesday, declaring that he is “finally ending the NAFTA nightmare.”
The USMCA is a trade deal between the three countries that replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Trump campaigned on getting rid of NAFTA in 2016, calling it the worst trade deal in history and blaming it for the mass outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs.
The USMCA is a trade deal between the three countries that replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Trump campaigned on getting rid of NAFTA in 2016, calling it the worst trade deal in history and blaming it for the mass outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs.
Transparency International Fails On Solutions: If You Want To Defeat Corruption, Push For Economic Freedom
Transparency International Fails On Solutions: If You Want To Defeat Corruption, Push For Economic Freedom: 
The first of these was that of Transparency International, which released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in 1995.
The annual index continues to be expanded and improved, and the 2019 ranking was released last week.
It covers 180 countries and territories around the world..."
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- The more economic freedom the lower corruption (higher transparency).
The first of these was that of Transparency International, which released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in 1995.
The annual index continues to be expanded and improved, and the 2019 ranking was released last week.
It covers 180 countries and territories around the world..."
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History for February 1
History for February 1 - On-This-Day.com
John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney) 1894 - Director, Clark Gable 1901 - Actor ("It Happened One Night", "Gone with the Wind"), Stuart Whitman 1928 - Actor ("Cimarron Strip", "The Longest Day")
Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999, Garrett Morris 1937 - Actor, comedian, Sherman Hemsley 1938 - Actor ("The Jeffersons")
1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Barr Warns That ‘Militant Secularists’ Are Imposing Values On Religious People | The Daily Caller
Barr Warns That ‘Militant Secularists’ Are Imposing Values On Religious People | The Daily Caller:
Attorney General William Barr warned that religious people are not imposing their beliefs on others, but that “militant secularists” are imposing their values on religious people.
Barr discussed religious freedom in the United States during an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and co-host Father Dave Dwyer, CSP, on SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel. The attorney general warned that religion is being “driven out of the marketplace of ideas,” and that “there’s an organized, militant secular effort to drive religion out of our lives.”
Barr discussed religious freedom in the United States during an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and co-host Father Dave Dwyer, CSP, on SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel. The attorney general warned that religion is being “driven out of the marketplace of ideas,” and that “there’s an organized, militant secular effort to drive religion out of our lives.”
Whether It’s a ‘Climate Emergency’ or Nuclear War: Doomsday Never Seems to Happen | Watts Up With That?
Whether It’s a ‘Climate Emergency’ or Nuclear War: Doomsday Never Seems to Happen | Watts Up With That?
"From 1947 to today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, keepers of the “doomsday clock”—a holdover from the atomic age and Cold War—has predicted doom by moving the hands of a prop clock closer to or further away from midnight.
Midnight represents a global doom disaster in progress.
"From 1947 to today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, keepers of the “doomsday clock”—a holdover from the atomic age and Cold War—has predicted doom by moving the hands of a prop clock closer to or further away from midnight.
Midnight represents a global doom disaster in progress.
In a breathless press release on January 23, which included a cameo from former California governor and climate activist Jerry Brown, the group announced that due to “climate change,” the world is 20 seconds closer to midnight, standing at 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight.
Photo by Lexey Swall Photography, courtesy of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The scientists announced:
Civilization-ending nuclear war—whether started by design, blunder, or simple miscommunication—is a genuine possibility. Climate change that could devastate the planet is undeniably happening. And for a variety of reasons that include a corrupted and manipulated media environment, democratic governments and other institutions that should be working to address these threats have failed to rise to the challenge.
In essence, they are saying nuclear war and climate change are equivalent threats.
Such a comparison is mind-bogglingly ridiculous.
Consider that climate change has no “hair trigger” like nuclear catastrophe does. Some despot or dictator who obtains a nuclear weapon is entirely different from the slow change of climate over 100 years.
Yet, these supposedly learned scientists have embraced the hype of “climate emergency” as if it was on par with a nuclear hair trigger.
Lamenting the lack of action and interest in climate change, they write:Lip service continued, with some governments now echoing many scientists’ use of the term “climate emergency.” But the policies and actions that governments proposed were hardly commensurate to an emergency. Exploration and exploitation of fossil fuels continues to grow.
Because all governments don’t sense an “emergency” and have not pulled the plug on electricity grids powered by fossil fuels, the Atomic Scientists are in despair..."
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Sooo, if 3rd graders can't read, promote 'em anyway-----Gov. Gretchen Whitmer launching effort to undercut Michigan’s third-grade reading law | Bridge Magazine
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer launching effort to undercut Michigan’s third-grade reading law | Bridge Magazine"Undercutting Michigan’s controversial third-grade reading law, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will unveil in her State of the State address Wednesday an initiative to help struggling readers avoid flunking and advance to fourth grade.
...The intent, according to Whitmer, is to lower the number of kids who flunk because they are struggling readers.
...In October 2016, the Michigan Legislature passed a law requiring students who are more than a grade level behind in reading by the end of third grade to be retained, joining 15 other states with similar read-or-flunk laws.
...If past test scores are an indication, the state’s low-income, urban and minority children will be more likely to be flagged for retention.
...Teachers and principals can request a good cause exemption for students..."
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...Teachers and principals can request a good cause exemption for students..."
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Border Patrol Nabs Five-Time Deported Illegal Alien And Convicted MS-13 Gang Member | The Daily Caller
Border Patrol Nabs Five-Time Deported Illegal Alien And Convicted MS-13 Gang Member | The Daily Caller:
The U.S. Border Patrol, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), arrested an MS-13 gang member who was living in the U.S. illegally and had been previously deported from the country multiple times.
Border Patrol agents working in Ohio executed an arrest warrant in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday, leading to the apprehension of 38-year-old Mexican national Juan Carlos Alvarez-Robles, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in a press release. The agency noted that Alvarez-Robles is a convicted member of MS-13, a transnational gang known for its brutality, and that he had already been removed from the U.S. a total of five times.
Border Patrol agents working in Ohio executed an arrest warrant in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday, leading to the apprehension of 38-year-old Mexican national Juan Carlos Alvarez-Robles, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in a press release. The agency noted that Alvarez-Robles is a convicted member of MS-13, a transnational gang known for its brutality, and that he had already been removed from the U.S. a total of five times.
I BET I KNOW WHO GETS DECIDE WHAT THE TRUTH IS
The Democrats and Their Prophetic Failure. Again. - American Thinker
The Democrats and Their Prophetic Failure. Again. - American Thinker
"It was only last October that I diagnosed the Democrats as suffering from “prophetic failure.”
That’s what happens when the prophecies of a religious cult fail to turn up on cue.
...These are not the actions of a cunning political party carefully plotting how to win 51 percent of the vote at the next election.
These are the desperate actions of a religious cult traumatized by the failure of prophecy.
And never mind the science!
"It was only last October that I diagnosed the Democrats as suffering from “prophetic failure.”
That’s what happens when the prophecies of a religious cult fail to turn up on cue.
...These are not the actions of a cunning political party carefully plotting how to win 51 percent of the vote at the next election. These are the desperate actions of a religious cult traumatized by the failure of prophecy.
And never mind the science!
- That mucking around with the labor market hurts people at the bottom.
- That rifles are not a major cause of gun deaths.
- That “broken windows” policing broke the crime wave in New York City.
Here’s an example of how bad things are: a new fully-qualified high-school English teacher who’s quit teaching, after one quarter of full-time teaching.
She “loved teaching English and engaging with students,” but...
She “loved teaching English and engaging with students,” but...
From Quillette:
But nationwide, issues like administrative lack of support and incompetence, overwhelming class size, burdensome paperwork, and disciplinary issues overshadow the joys of teaching and make public schools intolerable places to build a career.
So what are our liberal friends doing about this?
They are gutting school discipline, because racism.
So education is going to get worse, a lot worse, before it gets better.
They are gutting school discipline, because racism.
So education is going to get worse, a lot worse, before it gets better.
At least when you are a conservative you do not get to live in a cocoon where nobody is allowed to criticize you.
It’s the old problem.
What do you do about a crazy religious cult convinced that the rest of the world is evil?"
What do you do about a crazy religious cult convinced that the rest of the world is evil?"
Lunch video-----Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, speaks his mind.
"Rex sits down with Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and an outspoken critic of the climate-change hysteria and eco-fanaticism which currently inundates politics, journalism, and academia.
Dr. Moore talks about his adventures confronting Soviet and Japanese whaling ships, sailing across the ocean to stop nuclear bomb tests, advocating for Golden Rice (a GMO food for the poor), why he became disillusioned with Greenpeace’s mission, and the rampant untruths and myths surrounding global warming."
Dr. Moore talks about his adventures confronting Soviet and Japanese whaling ships, sailing across the ocean to stop nuclear bomb tests, advocating for Golden Rice (a GMO food for the poor), why he became disillusioned with Greenpeace’s mission, and the rampant untruths and myths surrounding global warming."
Study: Bernie Sanders' Wealth Tax Would Shrink U.S. Economy and Lower Wages
Study: Bernie Sanders' Wealth Tax Would Shrink U.S. Economy and Lower Wages:
Senator Bernie Sanders plan to tax the wealth of some of America’s richest families would add new revenue for the government at the cost of shrinking the economy, lowering wages, and reduce capital formation in the United States, according to a new analysis from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Budget Model.
Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, has said he would impose a graduated wealth tax starting at 1 percent of a household net worth above $32 million. It would climb to 8 percent on households with a net worth above $10 billion.
Senator Bernie Sanders plan to tax the wealth of some of America’s richest families would add new revenue for the government at the cost of shrinking the economy, lowering wages, and reduce capital formation in the United States, according to a new analysis from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Budget Model.
Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, has said he would impose a graduated wealth tax starting at 1 percent of a household net worth above $32 million. It would climb to 8 percent on households with a net worth above $10 billion.
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