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To The Left

By Tammy Derouin

We are willingly trading our freedom for a false sense of security.  The Left would have us believe that removing gun rights from law abiding citizens is going to reduce radical Islamic terrorist attacks.  More gun laws will not prevent this type of an attack.  A terrorist is a terrorist, a criminal is a criminal and evil is evil.  Each will act regardless of the law.

 

You know what would reduce these attacks; a president who cared about the United States.  If we had a president who valued the rights and safety of the American people, we wouldn’t be dealing with attacks on our own soil.  But, we have an individual who appeases and aids our enemy.  I really thought our Constitution stated something about this kind of behavior. 

We have a president who likes to lecture Americans after we’ve been attacked.  He doesn’t want us to judge our enemy based on the actions of the few; the ones who have actually carried out their desire to destroy us.  He wags his finger at Americans because of his lack of courage to utter the words radical Islam or jihad. He judges all law abiding gun owners by the actions of a few.  Funny how the request for respect only goes one way, to the Left!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who had the bombs to stare evil in the eyes while blasting it into oblivion.....

Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs

Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs | Intellectual Takeout:
I got my first summer job around age 11 when my elderly neighbor asked me to weed her garden. 
As I advanced through middle and high school, that once a month money-making enterprise expanded into bigger and better paying jobs – and more dealings with the general public.

While such an experience may seem like a natural progression of life, recent reports suggest such an idea is not necessarily the case. 

In fact, data shows a steady downward trend in the number of teens who get summer jobs. (Chart)

According to a recent article from Market Watch, the reason why teen employment is in decline is one we’ve heard before: young people aren’t interested in work..."

Here's How The Community Reinvestment Act Led To The Housing Bubble's Lax Lending

Here's How The Community Reinvestment Act Led To The Housing Bubble's Lax Lending - Business Insider:
"...Contrary to my initial conclusion, the evidence is overwhelming that the CRA played a significant role in creating lax lending standards that fueled the housing bubble. 
Once I realized this, I had to abandon my suspicion that the anti-CRA case was a figment of the rhetoric of Republicans attempting to distract attention from their own role in the mortgage mess.

So I laid out the facts and arguments that had convinced me to switch sides in the CRA debate. 
...If you carefully run through these posts and the accompanying comments, I think you'll see that every argument raised by the "Defend CRA at all costs" crowd has been refuted.
For people with less time on their hands, here's a quick guide to the main points raised by the CRA defenders and the arguments that refute them. If I've left out any salient points, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.

Let's begin:

• How could a piece of 1977 legislation be significant to the deterioration of mortgage standards 25 years later?
Read on and see how badly we've been screwed by our own government.

After DNC attack, hacker Guccifer 2.0 claims Hillary Clinton 'dossier' leak | Fox News

After DNC attack, hacker Guccifer 2.0 claims Hillary Clinton 'dossier' leak | Fox News:

"A hacker who goes by the name ‘Guccifer 2.0’ claims to have  published a dossier of Hillary Clinton-related documents accessed during the recent attack on the Democratic National Committee’s computers.

In a blog post Tuesday, Guccifer 2.0 described the haul as “a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server.”

The files include a “HRC Defense Master Doc” outlining criticism and defense points on issues such as U.S. military intervention in Libya, the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack and the Clinton email server controversy."

Revolt by Security Diplomats May Define Hillary as the Weak Candidate

Revolt by Security Diplomats May Define Hillary as the Weak Candidate | Observer
"51 dissident State Department Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), the Dissent 51, signed a Dissent Channel cable savaging the Obama Administration’s Syria policy and implicitly attacking the Obama Administration’s inept diplomatic and military strategy for eliminating the anti-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Usually one FSO (or at most a handful) sign a dissent cable. 51 is an unprecedented number of government line officers signing a dissident document which—Obama Administration denials to the contrary—could put their careers at risk.
The Dissent 51 FSOs demonstrate that America still has federal employees who will risk their careers to express profound professional disagreement with what they believe are major policy errors which damage U.S. interests, in this case long term U.S. security interests in the Middle East and Europe.
This is good news.
The Dissent 51 cable, however, also exposes a severe and now embedded morale problem within the State Department.
One solo signee per dissent cable seems to be the usual case, with a rare duo or trio. 51 shows that senior State Department officials and the White House have vehemently ignored their own staff experts. Now the experts are exasperated.
The exasperation may have begun as personal exasperation but it is now institutional exasperation—which is why I describe the morale problem as embedded..."

The Rise in Per Capita Federal Spending

The Rise in Per Capita Federal Spending | Mercatus:
"Government debt is projected to reach 77 percent of the US gross domestic product by 2024, if not sooner. 
Economists have identified that level of debt as counterproductive, yet this sad state of affairs is the result of a growing bipartisan propensity to spend, as a worrying trend has emerged: high levels of spending under Republican administrations have become institutionalized in Democratic ones."

Lunch Video: Like Clockwork, Every Stupid Argument for Destroying the 2nd Amendment

Video: Like Clockwork, Every Stupid Argument for Destroying the 2nd Amendment | The Daily Sheeple
Utterly ridiculous, but sadly predictable.

Now Jeh Johnson is saying gun control is a matter of homeland (national) security and something has to be done that doesn’t infringe on the 2nd amendment “AS INTERPRETED BY THE SUPREME COURT”...

So tell me again… how would the “no fly no buy” list have magically prevented Orlando? Answer: it wouldn’t have.

Noon-toon

Bathroom signs!

‘They Were Trying to Rewrite History’: Judge Napolitano Bashes DOJ Over Orlando 911 Transcripts | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘They Were Trying to Rewrite History’: Judge Napolitano Bashes DOJ Over Orlando 911 Transcripts | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The U.S. Department of Justice released transcripts Monday morning of the Orlando terrorist’s phone conversations with 911 operators, omitting references to Islam and the Islamic State terror group.

But after receiving backlash from lawmakers and the public, the DOJ reversed its initial decision to scrub the transcript and released a full, unredacted version Monday afternoon, calling the uproar over the omitted phrases “an unnecessary distraction.”

Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It

Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It | The Daily Sheeple:
Did you know that your Facebook mobile app has complete access to your phone’s microphone?

Recently, an expert has come out to claim that Facebook may be listening in on your conversations. 
Kelli Burns, a mass communication professor at the University of South Florida, believes the app might be using people’s microphones to gather data on the content of people’s conversations.

Facebook admits that the app is capable of listening to what’s happening around it — but claims the feature simply identifies what people are listening to or watching as means of conveniently posting about it.

Currently, the feature is only available in the U.S. and has been available for a couple of years according to Facebook, although recent warnings from Burns have drawn renewed interest.

According to a report in The Independent:

Professor Burns has said that the tool appears to be using the audio it gathers not simply to help out users, but might be doing so to listen in to discussions and serve them with relevant advertising. She says that to test the feature, she discussed certain topics around the phone and then found that the site appeared to show relevant ads.

Though Professor Burns said she was not convinced that Facebook is listening in on conversations – it may have been that she was searching for the same things that she chose to discuss around the phone – but she said that it wouldn’t be a surprising move from the site.

The claim chimes with anecdotal reports online that the site appears to show ads for things that people have mentioned in passing.

Read on!

Trump’s Pro-Growth Path to Victory

Trump’s Pro-Growth Path to Victory - WSJ:
"Can Donald Trump make America grow again?
His record-breaking number of GOP primary voters—more than 13 million—seem to think so.
And Americans overall strongly prefer Mr. Trump over Hillary Clinton on the economy, and on employment and jobs, according to Gallup’s latest polling.
...Yet consider the potentially axiom-breaking speed and magnitude of the rise of U.S. trade with China after China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.
By 2015, compared with 2000, American trade with China (adjusted for inflation) almost tripled to a $577 billion annual rate, and now represents 3.2% of U.S. gross domestic product.
...Since 2000—the last year before the great expansion of U.S. trade with China began—real per capita U.S. annual GDP growth has fallen, on average, to less than 1%.
In the five years before 2000, growth averaged more than 3%. 
We can’t blame the Great Recession for this dismal “new normal”—it began right after 2000 when trade with China took off, not in 2008 when Lehman Brothers failed..."
Read on!

Secret Service officer whose tell-all about Hillary Clinton banned from networks

Secret Service officer whose tell-all about Hillary Clinton banned from networks | Daily Mail Online
Secret Service officer whose damning tell-all about Hillary Clinton is already a bestseller reportedly BANNED from appearing on broadcast networks after she labels book 'trash'

• Hillary Clinton and her campaign have reportedly blocked Gary Byrne from promoting his new book on any of the broadcast networks 
• ABC, CBS and NBC did not respond to requests for comment from DailyMail.com 
• Crisis of Character details Byrne's years as a Secret Service uniformed officer in the Clinton White House 
• The book is already a bestseller and number two on Amazon's list for the month of June 
• Byrne claims to have walked in on Bill Clinton being intimate with Monica Lewinsky and implies Hillary may have slugged her husband in the book 
• Several agents said in an interview that Byrne did not even have the access to see the things he writes about given his low rank the Service

Dem Congressman and Clinton Superdelegate Convicted in Racketeering Case | TheBlaze.com

Dem Congressman and Clinton Superdelegate Convicted in Racketeering Case | TheBlaze.com:

"PHILADELPHIA (TheBlaze/AP) — Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was found guilty in a federal corruption case Tuesday. Chaka was found guilty of all charges, including charges related to racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Fattah is a superdelegate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton."

What If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes?

What If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes? (VIDEO) - FIRE

Administrators at college campuses routinely use speech codes to launch investigations into campus newspapers, prohibit religious symbols, and silence support for political candidates.  
Instead of fostering a marketplace of ideas at the university, faculty and students often push to disinvite controversial speakers and entertainers. 
College administrators have used speech codes to prohibit biased speech, disrespectful speech, and “inappropriately directed laughter,” and to restrict all questionable speech to “free speech zones.”... 

Shocking Homophobia by Western Muslim Educators

Shocking Homophobia by Western Muslim Educators:
"Islamic private schools in Canada have been found to be using textbooks produced by Saudi Arabia which endorse the death penalty for homosexuality.
In two of the school textbooks, homosexuality is described as "one of the most heinous sins" and the death penalty recommended is by stoning or by fire.
The books allegedly explain that homosexuality is bad not only because it goes against the laws of nature, but also because it spreads moral corruption and HIV.
The books propose that early marriage and executing gay people will save society from homosexuality.
Meanwhile in Australia the controversial Sheikh Shady Al-Suleiman has denied that he supports punishments for homosexuals, despite having previously made statements that Allah will punish gay people and adulterers with HIV/AIDs for their sins..."

AM Fruitcake

History for June 22

History for June 22 - On-This-Day.com
George Vancouver 1757, Erich Maria Remarque 1898, John Dillinger 1902 - Gangster


Carl Hubbell 1903, Brit Hume 1943 - Broadcast journalist, Cyndi Lauper 1953 - Singer


1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers. 


1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.

1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.


1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.


1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory".


1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18.


1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.


2009 - Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.

Trio With Long Rifles, Handguns Arrested Near Holland Tunnel Entrance Outside New York City | TheBlaze.com

Trio With Long Rifles, Handguns Arrested Near Holland Tunnel Entrance Outside New York City | TheBlaze.com:

"Police say three people, two men in their 50s and one woman in her 20s, were arrested Tuesday on the New Jersey side of New York City’s Holland Tunnel carrying several long rifles and handguns."

State Government Up to Its Eyeballs in Pension Debt

State Government Up to Its Eyeballs in Pension Debt [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Unlike Washington D.C., Michigan’s state government is constitutionally prohibited from spending more than it takes in each year and borrowing to make up the difference.
...There is other debt that gets paid by taxpayer dollars without being general obligation debt.
Some $3.1 billion borrowed to build or improve state offices and college buildings is also of concern because it will take another $247 million from the new budget — more money that won’t be available for other uses.
But other portions of the state’s $26.6 billion official debt are less of a concern to taxpayers.
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority, for instance, borrowed $2.0 billion and then lent it in turn to housing developers.
Taxpayers will not be liable as long as developers make their payments.
That level of debt is worrisome, but it is the semi-off-the-books debt that poses the major threat to taxpayers, not only in Michigan but all around the country — and pensions are exhibit No. 1.
Michigan state and local governments have promised their employees far more in pension benefits than can be supported by the amount set aside for that purpose.
There may be no official mortgage or bond offering for this debt, but every taxpayer is on the hook for it nonetheless.
The state-run school pension system is largest pension system in Michigan. Lawmakers have promised teachers and school employees $67.7 billion in pension benefits, but set aside and invested only enough to cover $41.0 billion.
...And even these numbers are less firm than they appear.
The underfunding came about two ways.
As auditors have noted, state officials and lawmakers made overly optimistic assumptions about future returns from pension fund investments and payroll gains.
The actual debt owed to retirees in this system may actually be higher than $26.7 billion.
...Moreover, the pension figures ignore billions of quasi-liabilities represented by health insurance benefits that have been promised to school and government retirees. 
Unlike its treatment of pensions, Michigan’s constitution does not prohibit trimming those insurance benefits, or even eliminating them altogether..."

At UNC Chapel Hill, 16 departments have zero registered Republican professors, analysis finds

At UNC Chapel Hill, 16 departments have zero registered Republican professors, analysis finds - The College Fix:
"Professors registered as Democrats outnumber those registered as Republicans by a ratio of roughly 12 to one at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill – and in 15 departments zero registered Republican professors can be found – according to educators’ registered party affiliations.
The College Fix researched the political party registrations of 1,355 UNC Chapel Hill professors using the state’s online public voter database, maintained by the State Board of Elections.
Of those, 615 were registered Democrats, while only 50 were registered Republicans, a ratio of about 12 to one.
The remaining party affiliations included 299 professor who are unaffiliated (in North Carolina, voters can register as unaffiliated), 291 professors whose names could not be found the database, and 98 professors’ whose party affiliations could not be determined. Two professors are registered libertarians.
Even with the high number of professor party affiliations that could not be determined, the results found Democrat professors outnumber Republican ones in every single department surveyed, and what’s more, nearly half of the 34 departments probed found no registered Republicans at all.
Those 16 departments are:

• African-American Studies
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Art
• Asian Studies
• Biology
• Classics
• Communications
• Environmental Science
• Genetics
• Geology
• History
• Linguistics
• Marine Sciences
• Public Policy
• Women’s Studies

Read on!