On Monday — the first day of class for most public schools in Texas — hundreds of school districts awoke to news of the order by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor."
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Judge Blocks Obama Administration’s Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com
Judge Blocks Obama Administration’s Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com:
"AUSTIN, Texas (TheBlaze/AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s directive to public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms coinciding with their chosen gender identity rather than their biological sex.
On Monday — the first day of class for most public schools in Texas — hundreds of school districts awoke to news of the order by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor."
On Monday — the first day of class for most public schools in Texas — hundreds of school districts awoke to news of the order by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor."
Stay Frosty Antarctica
Stay Frosty Antarctica | The Resilient Earth:
"Every few years there appears a spate of articles and even TV reports that the ice of Antarctica is about to disintegrate and drown us all.
This is reported in serious tones by well coiffed media airheads who have not a clue what they are talking about.
But this is OK, many scientists don't either.
You see, there is nothing settled about climate science, especially about what is going on at the bottom of the world.
A News & Views article in Nature by Eric J. Steig, from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, sets the stage for one new report:
The Antarctic Peninsula is a triangular, mountainous land with a coastline of dramatic, calving glaciers and rich wildlife, and it exemplifies the popular image of Antarctica. Over the past half century, it has been one of the most rapidly warming places on Earth. This warming is associated with major physical and biological changes, including a decline in the Adélie penguin population1 and the disintegration in 2002 of a large portion of the Larsen B ice shelf, a major geographical feature that had existed for millennia. It is natural to view the changes at this northernmost point in Antarctica as part of the inexorable southward march of anthropogenic climate change. It may thus seem remarkable that Turner and colleagues now report that the Antarctic Peninsula has actually cooled in the past two decades.
What?
The melting Antarctic, the coldest place on Earth, is actually getting colder?
That is precisely what John Turner and colleagues have reported in “Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability.”
Here is part of the paper's abstract, explaining just what was studied.
Here we use a stacked temperature record to show an absence of regional warming since the late 1990s. The annual mean temperature has decreased at a statistically significant rate, with the most rapid cooling during the Austral summer. Temperatures have decreased as a consequence of a greater frequency of cold, east-to-southeasterly winds, resulting from more cyclonic conditions in the northern Weddell Sea associated with a strengthening mid-latitude jet. These circulation changes have also increased the advection of sea ice towards the east coast of the peninsula, amplifying their effects. Our findings cover only 1% of the Antarctic continent and emphasize that decadal temperature changes in this region are not primarily associated with the drivers of global temperature change but, rather, reflect the extreme natural internal variability of the regional atmospheric circulation..."
"Every few years there appears a spate of articles and even TV reports that the ice of Antarctica is about to disintegrate and drown us all.
This is reported in serious tones by well coiffed media airheads who have not a clue what they are talking about.
But this is OK, many scientists don't either.
You see, there is nothing settled about climate science, especially about what is going on at the bottom of the world.
A News & Views article in Nature by Eric J. Steig, from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, sets the stage for one new report:
What?
The melting Antarctic, the coldest place on Earth, is actually getting colder?
That is precisely what John Turner and colleagues have reported in “Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability.”
Here is part of the paper's abstract, explaining just what was studied.
Here we use a stacked temperature record to show an absence of regional warming since the late 1990s. The annual mean temperature has decreased at a statistically significant rate, with the most rapid cooling during the Austral summer. Temperatures have decreased as a consequence of a greater frequency of cold, east-to-southeasterly winds, resulting from more cyclonic conditions in the northern Weddell Sea associated with a strengthening mid-latitude jet. These circulation changes have also increased the advection of sea ice towards the east coast of the peninsula, amplifying their effects. Our findings cover only 1% of the Antarctic continent and emphasize that decadal temperature changes in this region are not primarily associated with the drivers of global temperature change but, rather, reflect the extreme natural internal variability of the regional atmospheric circulation..."
Surprise: 'Non-Existent' Voter Fraud Strikes Again, in Four States
Surprise: 'Non-Existent' Voter Fraud Strikes Again, in Four States - Guy Benson:
"Literally every time I write about voter fraud, or a judge up-ends a popular and democratically-enacted voter ID law, lefties come out of the woodwork to insist that such measures amount to racist "voter suppression," cynically masquerading as a policy solution to a problem that doesn't exist in reality.
While some on the Right do overplay the threat and extent of fraud -- an impulse that can feed counter-productive, conspiratorial thinking -- the notion that it's a totally fake problem is just patently false.
Liberals must be challenged aggressively every time they make this claim: Fraud absolutely exists, and they're apparently willing to tolerate it.
Why?
Setting aside the new examples for a moment, feel free to go back and check out these examples from Florida, North Carolina, California, and Ohio -- among many others.
I needn't remind you that three of those are battleground states.
Now, onto the latest instances, as flagged and summarized at the Daily Signal:
Ruth Robinson, the former mayor of Martin, Kentucky, was sentenced to 90 months’ imprisonment on a variety of charges that included vote buying, identity theft, and fraud. With specific regard to the election charges, Robinson and co-conspirators James “Red” Robinson and James Steven Robinson threatened and intimidated residents of Martin in the run-up to the 2012 election, in which Robinson was seeking re-election. The cabal targeted residents living in public housing or in properties Robinson owned, threatening them with eviction if they did not sign absentee ballots the Robinsons had already filled out.
Guadalupe Rivera and Graciela Sanchez illegally “assisted” absentee voters in Rivera’s 2013 re-election bid for city commissioner. Rivera won the election by 16 votes, but the result was invalidated after a judge determined that 30 absentee ballots had been submitted illegally. Rivera pleaded guilty to one count of providing illegal assistance to a voter and was sentenced to one year of probation and a $500 fine.
Erin Venessa Leeper registered and voted in a 2015 school board election. As a convicted felon, however, she was ineligible to do so, and pleaded guilty to perjury last May. She was ordered to pay a $750 fine, plus $240 in court costs, and was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term and two years of probation.
Robert Monroe pleaded no contest to 13 counts of voter fraud, making him the worst duplicate voter in state history, according to Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf...Monroe will serve up to a year in jail, in addition to a suspended three-year prison sentence, five years’ probation, 300 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine..."
"Literally every time I write about voter fraud, or a judge up-ends a popular and democratically-enacted voter ID law, lefties come out of the woodwork to insist that such measures amount to racist "voter suppression," cynically masquerading as a policy solution to a problem that doesn't exist in reality.
While some on the Right do overplay the threat and extent of fraud -- an impulse that can feed counter-productive, conspiratorial thinking -- the notion that it's a totally fake problem is just patently false.
Liberals must be challenged aggressively every time they make this claim: Fraud absolutely exists, and they're apparently willing to tolerate it.
Why?
Setting aside the new examples for a moment, feel free to go back and check out these examples from Florida, North Carolina, California, and Ohio -- among many others.
I needn't remind you that three of those are battleground states.
Now, onto the latest instances, as flagged and summarized at the Daily Signal:
- Kentucky:
Ruth Robinson, the former mayor of Martin, Kentucky, was sentenced to 90 months’ imprisonment on a variety of charges that included vote buying, identity theft, and fraud. With specific regard to the election charges, Robinson and co-conspirators James “Red” Robinson and James Steven Robinson threatened and intimidated residents of Martin in the run-up to the 2012 election, in which Robinson was seeking re-election. The cabal targeted residents living in public housing or in properties Robinson owned, threatening them with eviction if they did not sign absentee ballots the Robinsons had already filled out.
- Texas:
Guadalupe Rivera and Graciela Sanchez illegally “assisted” absentee voters in Rivera’s 2013 re-election bid for city commissioner. Rivera won the election by 16 votes, but the result was invalidated after a judge determined that 30 absentee ballots had been submitted illegally. Rivera pleaded guilty to one count of providing illegal assistance to a voter and was sentenced to one year of probation and a $500 fine.
- Iowa (this woman should move to Virginia):
Erin Venessa Leeper registered and voted in a 2015 school board election. As a convicted felon, however, she was ineligible to do so, and pleaded guilty to perjury last May. She was ordered to pay a $750 fine, plus $240 in court costs, and was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term and two years of probation.
- Wisconsin:
Robert Monroe pleaded no contest to 13 counts of voter fraud, making him the worst duplicate voter in state history, according to Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf...Monroe will serve up to a year in jail, in addition to a suspended three-year prison sentence, five years’ probation, 300 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine..."
North Carolina Finds 2,214 Registered Voters over the Age of 110 – Nevo News
"Many are even older than 110. In fact, it seems that NC has an awful lot of voters that are 112, too. The Carolina Transparency project did a review of the voter rolls this year and found that there are 631 Democrats who are 112 or older. By contrast, the Republicans can only find 229 over 112 voters in the state (and “unaffiliated” found 39)."
The Flood Of 2016: Southeast Louisiana And The Consequences Of Real Community
The Flood Of 2016: Southeast Louisiana And The Consequences Of Real Community – Media:
"My younger brother, who as I write this is on his way to Baton Rouge to help flood victims, and I spent the better part of this last week doing two things: monitoring Louisiana State University flood maps and exchanging irritated text messages at how little national media attention was being given to the devastation occurring in our home state.
Between August 12 and 14, four trillion gallons of rain fell, 11 river gauges in southeast Louisiana set all time record highs, 20,000 people had to be rescued, 10,000 people have been put in shelters, and a number of souls lost their lives. In my hometown of Denham Springs, roughly 90 percent of the people living there have flood damage to their homes.
The flood is historic, tragic, and hard to conceptualize.
Quiet little suburban towns that few people outside of Baton Rouge have ever even heard of became lakes rainwater and debris almost in an instant.
Conversations went from what clothes children would wear on the first day of school, to what the basic items of survival were for a family with small children.
Through it all, media coverage was so lacking that people living outside of the immediate area resorted to social media sites to updates themselves on what was happening in the area; using uploaded videos, pictures, and posts to piece together events and timelines, the pathways of the moving water, and how long the crisis would last.
As cellular service failed, power went out across town after town, and families scrambled to find shelter, secure rescue, and just survive…news media coverage was virtually silent..."
"My younger brother, who as I write this is on his way to Baton Rouge to help flood victims, and I spent the better part of this last week doing two things: monitoring Louisiana State University flood maps and exchanging irritated text messages at how little national media attention was being given to the devastation occurring in our home state.
Between August 12 and 14, four trillion gallons of rain fell, 11 river gauges in southeast Louisiana set all time record highs, 20,000 people had to be rescued, 10,000 people have been put in shelters, and a number of souls lost their lives. In my hometown of Denham Springs, roughly 90 percent of the people living there have flood damage to their homes.The flood is historic, tragic, and hard to conceptualize.
Quiet little suburban towns that few people outside of Baton Rouge have ever even heard of became lakes rainwater and debris almost in an instant.
Conversations went from what clothes children would wear on the first day of school, to what the basic items of survival were for a family with small children.
Through it all, media coverage was so lacking that people living outside of the immediate area resorted to social media sites to updates themselves on what was happening in the area; using uploaded videos, pictures, and posts to piece together events and timelines, the pathways of the moving water, and how long the crisis would last.
As cellular service failed, power went out across town after town, and families scrambled to find shelter, secure rescue, and just survive…news media coverage was virtually silent..."
Why Luxury TVs Are Affordable when Basic Health Care Is Not
Why Luxury TVs Are Affordable when Basic Health Care Is Not | Foundation for Economic Education
"Imagine this. You are feeling under the weather. You pull out your smartphone and click the Rx app. A nurse arrives in 20 minutes at your home. He gives you a blood test and recommends to the doctor that she prescribe a treatment. It is sent to the CVS down the street, which delivers it to your door in 20 minutes. The entire event costs $20.
"Imagine this. You are feeling under the weather. You pull out your smartphone and click the Rx app. A nurse arrives in 20 minutes at your home. He gives you a blood test and recommends to the doctor that she prescribe a treatment. It is sent to the CVS down the street, which delivers it to your door in 20 minutes. The entire event costs $20.
Sounds nuts? Not so much. Not if health care were a competitive industry. As it is, medical care prices are up 105% in the last 20 years. This contrasts with the television industry, which is selling products that have fallen 96% in the same period.
Take a look at this chart assembled by AEI. It reveals two important points. First, there is no such thing as an aggregate price level, or, rather what we call the price level is a statistical fiction. Second, it shows that competitive industries offer goods and services that are falling in price due to market pressure. In contrast monopolized industries can extract ever higher rents from people based on restriction.
Consider each product or service shown. College is heavily subsidized, regulated, and exclusionary, and the costs are soaring. The textbook industry is hobbled by extreme copyright regulation, and can depend on captive buyers. Childcare is one of the most regulated industries in the country. Not just anyone can enter. Every aspect of childcare provision is controlled by the state.
On the other hand, software, wireless service, toys and and TVs (see: free trade) exist in relatively freer market settings. The price pressure is down.
It's not that complicated, folks. If you want good services, good products, innovative ideas, and low prices, you need competitive markets. The more you control, the higher the prices and the worse the results.
Clinton Foundation & Corruption: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s Love of Power
Clinton Foundation & Corruption: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s Love of Power | National Review
"For Bill and Hillary, it’s mainly about the power — not the money.
...Another reason I bring it up is that I think Hillary Clinton’s corruption is a good illustration of how we have corrupted our understanding of corruption itself.
Corruption is a deeply misunderstood word.
Today we associate it almost exclusively with graft, bribe-taking, and other forms of essentially financial malfeasance.
Graft is certainly a form of corruption, but not all forms of corruption can be described as graft. In fact, most of the corruptions in life don’t involve money at all.
My Dad always used to say that the most corrupting thing in everyday life was friendship, not money. What he meant by that is that we do things for friends we would (almost) never do for strangers offering cash.
For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that in ten or 15 years, a longtime friend of mine, say Steve Hayes, asks me to get his kid an internship at National Review or AEI (assuming they haven’t fired me by then). I’m not saying I would automatically do it; there are other considerations at play.
But let’s assume that on paper the kid is qualified. I would certainly consider it (at least to spare the young’n the professional and moral stain of working at that hive of mopery and insolence, The Weekly Standard).
But if some stranger offered me $1,000 dollars to get his kid an internship, I’m certain I would reject the entreaty summarily.
This highlights the difference between morals and ethics.
It is unethical — and arguably immoral — to take a bribe of this sort.
But, in practice, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s immoral to do this kind of favor for a friend because the simple fact is that it happens 100,000 times a day all around the world.
Teamsters help get their buddy’s kids into the union, college trustees help their golfing partner’s kid navigate the application process, generals give their incompetent old friends nice billets out of personal loyalty.
That’s because favors are the original currency of mankind.
This is not a controversial point in the academic literature. ..."
"For Bill and Hillary, it’s mainly about the power — not the money.
...Another reason I bring it up is that I think Hillary Clinton’s corruption is a good illustration of how we have corrupted our understanding of corruption itself.
Corruption is a deeply misunderstood word.
Today we associate it almost exclusively with graft, bribe-taking, and other forms of essentially financial malfeasance.
Graft is certainly a form of corruption, but not all forms of corruption can be described as graft. In fact, most of the corruptions in life don’t involve money at all.
My Dad always used to say that the most corrupting thing in everyday life was friendship, not money. What he meant by that is that we do things for friends we would (almost) never do for strangers offering cash.
For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that in ten or 15 years, a longtime friend of mine, say Steve Hayes, asks me to get his kid an internship at National Review or AEI (assuming they haven’t fired me by then). I’m not saying I would automatically do it; there are other considerations at play.
But let’s assume that on paper the kid is qualified. I would certainly consider it (at least to spare the young’n the professional and moral stain of working at that hive of mopery and insolence, The Weekly Standard).But if some stranger offered me $1,000 dollars to get his kid an internship, I’m certain I would reject the entreaty summarily.
This highlights the difference between morals and ethics.
It is unethical — and arguably immoral — to take a bribe of this sort.
But, in practice, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s immoral to do this kind of favor for a friend because the simple fact is that it happens 100,000 times a day all around the world.
Teamsters help get their buddy’s kids into the union, college trustees help their golfing partner’s kid navigate the application process, generals give their incompetent old friends nice billets out of personal loyalty.
That’s because favors are the original currency of mankind.
This is not a controversial point in the academic literature. ..."
BREAKING: Devastating Truth About Huma Leaks... Look Where She Was on 9/11
BREAKING: Devastating Truth About Huma Leaks... Look Where She Was on 9/11:
"On Sept. 11, 2001, America suffered a terror attack that changed our nation forever. Over 15 years later, in January 2017, Hillary Clinton — and her top aide, Huma Abedin — may be moving into the White House.
Those two facts may seem like a non sequitur. However, when you look at where Huma Abedin was working on that fateful day, it’s not. Not at all.
It turns out that one of Hillary Clinton’s closest confidants was working for an organization that the government wanted to put on a list of terrorist funders."
Those two facts may seem like a non sequitur. However, when you look at where Huma Abedin was working on that fateful day, it’s not. Not at all.
It turns out that one of Hillary Clinton’s closest confidants was working for an organization that the government wanted to put on a list of terrorist funders."
Refugee resettlement becomes major issue in Election 2016; death blow to Hillary?
Refugee resettlement becomes major issue in Election 2016; death blow to Hillary? « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
Putting a proposal for the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of third worlders, including large numbers who come from countries that hate us, squarely in front of the voters in the weeks before the November election could make or break a 2016 presidential candidate.
Obama’s September UN gambit comes as a huge political risk for the Hillary camp and her friends at the Refugee Council USA *** because by placing the hot topic so clearly before the public it could be like waving a red cape before a bull. Hillary has already said she wants 65,000 Syrians admitted in one year and the public is overwhelmingly against ‘welcoming’ any more!
Putting a proposal for the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of third worlders, including large numbers who come from countries that hate us, squarely in front of the voters in the weeks before the November election could make or break a 2016 presidential candidate.
Early polling already indicates that the vast majority of Americans do not want more Syrian refugees brought to their towns. Will the Obama UN propaganda stunt serve to wake up even more Americans to the nature of this program? We think so.
...It is remarkable to me that the more than 3-decades-old refugee program could make or break an American presidential candidate—and it could if Trump makes the most of Obama’s UN stunt and Hillary’s on-the-record support for 65,000 Syrians to be admitted to the US in one year!
Here (below) are some snips from Politico that interested me. The refugee industry wants to nearly triple the number of refugees admitted to the US to 200,000. They are urging Obama to make that determination in September, the month when presidents by law send their refugee wish list to Congress.
The average number of refugees admitted throughout most of Obama’s presidency has been 70,000 per year.
[Editor note: there is a lot of confusion about numbers. We are discussing only those refugees admitted through this one program and not considering the tens of thousands of successful asylum seekers and another 100,000 or so unaccompanied alien children the administration refers to as “humanitarian arrivals.” This 200,000 also does not include the hundreds of thousands entering through myriad visa programs.]
Politico (emphasis is mine):
Some are calling on Obama to admit at least 200,000 refugees from around the world, including tens of thousands of Syrians, through the U.S. refugee resettlement program and other routes. That’s effectively twice as many total refugees as the Obama administration has planned to accept in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
[….]
Obama also is preparing to host a Sept. 20 international summit on the world’s migration crisis, a meeting in which he is expected to urge other countries to double their intake of refugees. The gathering will be held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, just weeks before the end of a U.S. presidential campaign in which Republican nominee Donald Trump has made refugees an incendiary topic.
[….]
Shannon Scribner, a top official with Oxfam America, said her sense is that, despite pressure from activists, Obama is unlikely to go beyond 100,000 total refugees. One reason is that Congress controls the funding for the refugee resettlement program, and Republicans could kill any request for more money, she noted.
[….]
Trump has embraced the backlash against refugees in Europe, too — openly rooting for the British exit from the EU and comparing Clinton to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor who has emerged as the symbol of the continent’s initially welcoming stance toward the Syrian influx.
[….]
Obama likely will use the daylong summit in September, which will come on the heels of a similar U.N. summit, to push for more out-of-the-box efforts to help the world’s refugees.
[….]
“This could be one of the great Trojan horses,” Trump said of the refugee program. He has also accused Clinton of wanting to spend “hundreds of billions of dollars to settle Middle Eastern refugees in the United States” — a claim that independent fact checkers have debunked — and dinged her repeatedly for calling last September for the U.S. to admit 65,000 properly screened Syrian refugees, a 550 percent increase over Obama’s figure. [The only error in Trump’s comment is the word ‘hundreds,’ leave that out and Trump is correct—this will cost US taxpayer BILLIONS!—ed]
[….]
The September summit gives refugee advocates another chance to boost momentum for their cause. Some groups are hoping in particular to rebuild trust in the refugee program among Republicans, with outreach efforts on Capitol Hill.
...Afterall, Politico is telling us that the Open Borders Refugee Industry is going to be hitting Republican offices on Capitol Hill because they know that the only way they can win is to get Congress (Speaker Paul Ryan!) to fund 200,000 or more refugee arrivals!...
*** Here are the members of the Refugee Council USA (federal resettlement contractors being paid by the head to place refugees in your towns are in red, they have a vested financial interest in bringing in ever larger numbers of refugees):
Member Organizations
- Asylum Access
- Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
- Center for Migration Studies
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Church World Service/Immigration and Refugee Program
- Episcopal Migration Ministries
- Ethiopian Community Development Council
- HIAS
- Human Rights First
- International Catholic Migration Commission
- International Rescue Committee
- International Refugee Assistance Project
- Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
- Jubilee Campaign USA
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- RefugePoint
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration & Refugee Services
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
- World Relief
History for August 23
History for August 23 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Hazard Perry 1785, Edgar Lee Masters 1869, Mark Russell 1932 - Comedian
Barbara Eden 1934 - Actress ("I Dream of Jeannie"), Richard Sanders 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Keith Moon 1947 - Musician (The Who)
1902 - Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA.
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1959 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.
1962 - The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York City.
1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He was assassinated three weeks later.
1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
1998 - Protestors in Sudan carried a sign that bore the resemblance of Monica Lewinsky and the words "No War for Monika." The anti-U.S. demonstration was in Khartoum, Sudan.
Monday, August 22, 2016
HILLARY'S RIGHT-HAND WOMAN: HUMA ABEDIN'S Job At A Radical Muslim Journal Calls Into Question Security Clearance For State Department » 100percentfedUp.com
HILLARY'S RIGHT-HAND WOMAN: HUMA ABEDIN'S Job At A Radical Muslim Journal Calls Into Question Security Clearance For State Department » 100percentfedUp.com:
"However, soon after that “historic and transformational” 1995 event, as Clinton recently described it, her top aide Huma Abedin published articles in a Saudi journal taking Clinton’s feminist platform apart, piece by piece. At the time, Abedin was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs working under her mother, who remains editor-in-chief. She was also working in the White House as an intern for then-First Lady Clinton.
Headlined “Women’s Rights are Islamic Rights,” a 1996 article argues that single moms, working moms and gay couples with children should not be recognized as families."
"However, soon after that “historic and transformational” 1995 event, as Clinton recently described it, her top aide Huma Abedin published articles in a Saudi journal taking Clinton’s feminist platform apart, piece by piece. At the time, Abedin was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs working under her mother, who remains editor-in-chief. She was also working in the White House as an intern for then-First Lady Clinton.
Headlined “Women’s Rights are Islamic Rights,” a 1996 article argues that single moms, working moms and gay couples with children should not be recognized as families."
Donald Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment
Donald Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment | Frontpage Mag
"Today in Dimondale Michigan Donald Trump gave what was not only the best speech of his campaign but a speech that will one day be seen as a landmark in the emergence of a new Republican Party – a party finally returning to its roots as the party of Lincoln.
If this sounds like hyperbole ask yourself what other Republican leader in recent memory has addressed America’s African American communities in this voice:
"Today in Dimondale Michigan Donald Trump gave what was not only the best speech of his campaign but a speech that will one day be seen as a landmark in the emergence of a new Republican Party – a party finally returning to its roots as the party of Lincoln.
If this sounds like hyperbole ask yourself what other Republican leader in recent memory has addressed America’s African American communities in this voice:The African-American community has given so much to this country. They’ve fought and died in every war since the Revolution. They’ve lifted up the conscience of our nation in the long march for Civil Rights. They’ve sacrificed so much for the national good. Yet, nearly 4 in 10 African-American children still live in poverty, and 58% of young African-Americans are not working. We must do better as a country. I refuse to believe that the future must be like the past.
Trump’s Dimondale speech was a pledge to African Americans trapped in the blighted zones and killing fields of inner cities exclusively ruled by Democrats for half a century and more, and exploited by their political leaders for votes, and also used as fodder for slanders directed at their Republican opponents.
This was his appeal:
Read on!!
This was his appeal:
Read on!!
Obama, From Afar, Tells Louisiana Residents How To Act While Recovering From Flooding
"It was not personally coming to reassure citizens that the federal government cared about their suffering. In fact, it was not until after he was repeatedly badgered by Louisiana citizens and preceded to Louisiana by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Obama announced he would visit the state after the end of his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard."
Blog: Violent attacks against Trump supporters continue apace
Blog: Violent attacks against Trump supporters continue apace:
"Although leftists possess adult bodies, developmentally they are frozen in time somewhere between childhood and adolescence.
So when someone doesn’t agree with them, they get frustrated, angry, and rather agitated, with a tendency to behave like unruly children.
It isn’t pretty.
And sometimes it’s downright dangerous.
This propensity to yell, scream, shout down, pump fists, pound feet, lie, steal, and attack is on display just about every day in this presidential election cycle as Trump supporters are maligned (at best) and physically assaulted (at worst).
Here’s a by no means exhaustive list of some of this madness on display.
Worthy of note, Trump supporters who have been victims of violence are often framed by the media (and sometimes the police) as being suspect in some way, as if they brought the violence on themselves..."
"Although leftists possess adult bodies, developmentally they are frozen in time somewhere between childhood and adolescence.
So when someone doesn’t agree with them, they get frustrated, angry, and rather agitated, with a tendency to behave like unruly children.
It isn’t pretty. And sometimes it’s downright dangerous.
This propensity to yell, scream, shout down, pump fists, pound feet, lie, steal, and attack is on display just about every day in this presidential election cycle as Trump supporters are maligned (at best) and physically assaulted (at worst).
Here’s a by no means exhaustive list of some of this madness on display.
Worthy of note, Trump supporters who have been victims of violence are often framed by the media (and sometimes the police) as being suspect in some way, as if they brought the violence on themselves..."
Make Babies, and Don’t Let the Greens Guilt Trip You about It
Make Babies, and Don’t Let the Greens Guilt Trip You about It | Foundation for Economic Education
"Several years back, the economist Bryan Caplan wrote a wonderful book called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids.
Caplan argued that most parents underestimated the benefits of larger families and were engaging in costly parenting strategies that yielded few real benefits.
Thus, he said, if you love kids, you should have lots of them.
From NPR this week comes a story that might well be called “anti-Caplan” in every dimension.
It is a profile of bioethicist Travis Rieder and others like him who argue that it is immoral to have many children, if any at all, because of the burden that additional children place on the Earth’s ecosystem.
Given that we are already, Rieder claims, on the road to climate disaster, adding more children will both make matters worse and condemn those children to a horrible life on a worsening planet.
His argument might well be called “Altruistic Reasons to Have Fewer Kids.”
More specifically, he argues that children are what economists call negative externalities:
“We as parents, we as family members, we get the good. And the world, the community, pays the cost.”
As it turns out, that claim is almost entirely wrong.
It is parents who pay most of the costs of having children and the rest of us who reap the benefits..."
"Several years back, the economist Bryan Caplan wrote a wonderful book called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids.
Caplan argued that most parents underestimated the benefits of larger families and were engaging in costly parenting strategies that yielded few real benefits.
Thus, he said, if you love kids, you should have lots of them.
From NPR this week comes a story that might well be called “anti-Caplan” in every dimension.
Given that we are already, Rieder claims, on the road to climate disaster, adding more children will both make matters worse and condemn those children to a horrible life on a worsening planet.
His argument might well be called “Altruistic Reasons to Have Fewer Kids.”
More specifically, he argues that children are what economists call negative externalities:
“We as parents, we as family members, we get the good. And the world, the community, pays the cost.”
As it turns out, that claim is almost entirely wrong.
It is parents who pay most of the costs of having children and the rest of us who reap the benefits..."
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