UC Berkeley 'income inequality' experts earn more than $300,000 a year

UC Berkeley 'income inequality' experts earn more than $300,000 a year - The College Fix:
‘If UC Berkeley economists are really opposed to income inequality and are concerned about low-paid workers, they might consider sharing some of their compensation with the teaching assistants, graders, readers and administrative staff at the bottom of Cal’s income distribution’
Several UC Berkeley economics professors who support “income inequality” research each earn more than $300,000 a year, putting them in the top 2 percent of the public university’s salary distribution, according to a recent report by a nonpartisan California think tank.

Cruz Tears Into DHS Chief Over ‘Systematic Scrubbing’ of Radical Islam During Contentious Exchange | Video | TheBlaze.com

Cruz Tears Into DHS Chief Over ‘Systematic Scrubbing’ of Radical Islam During Contentious Exchange | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Cruz began by comparing the number of references to “Jihad,” “Muslim,” and “Islam” found in the 9/11 commission report to the number found in several of the Obama administration’s intelligence and counterterrorism materials.

“The word ‘jihad’ appears in that report 126 times, the world ‘Muslim’ appears in that report 145 times, the world ‘Islam’ appears in that report 322 times,” he said sternly. “And yet since that 9/11 commission report, different policies have come into effect. And as a matter of systematic policy, those terms are no longer allowed to be used in this administration.”

'Make America Great Again' whiteboard messages deemed 'racial attack' by campus bias response team

'Make America Great Again' whiteboard messages deemed 'racial attack' by campus bias response team - The College Fix:

A series of messages left on dry-erase whiteboards at Skidmore College during the spring semester saying “Make America Great Again” were deemed racially motivated attacks, a determination made by the school’s Bias Response Group.
The group’s year-end report notes that the term – the tagline of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — was written on the whiteboards of two female faculty of color, one of whom has “immigrant parentage.”
One message appeared in March and another in April in separate buildings.
The report states the slogan “is associated with the political campaign of a candidate widely known to voice anti-immigrant and bigoted views.”
The report concluded that while the group “acknowledges that political speech is free and protected … [t]hese seemingly connected reports suggest a pattern of using the idea of political speech to target specific members of the Skidmore community with biased messaging.
As such, the [group] does not interpret these messages as political speech but as racialized, targeted attacks...”

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History for July 2

History for July 2 - On-This-Day.com
Hermann Hesse 1877 - German poet, novelist, painter, Ken Curtis 1916 - Actor, known for his role as Festus Haggen in the TV series "Gunsmoke", Medgar Evers 1925 - Civil rights activist from Mississippi


Dave Thomas 1932 - Founder for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver 1946 - Actor, Lindsay Lohan 1986 - Actress


1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.


1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC.


1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.


1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.


1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.


1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.


1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.


1982 - Larry Walters ("Lawnchair Larry") took flight in his homeade airship that consisted of a lawnchair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. He stayed in flight for about an hour.

Law Enforcement Sources: Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Came from Phoenix - Judicial Watch

Law Enforcement Sources: Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Came from Phoenix - Judicial Watch:

"One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”"

What Are they Hiding? Feds Tell Florida Cops to Deny Public Records Requests on Orlando Attack

What Are they Hiding? Feds Tell Florida Cops to Deny Public Records Requests on Orlando Attack | The Daily Sheeple:
"A letter revealed by the Orlando Sentinel shows the FBI requested law enforcement agencies who responded to and investigated the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub to withhold information from the public.
A letter from the FBI dated June 20 attached to a lawsuit brought by the City of Orlando seeking the release of 911 calls in full, as well as other records pertaining to the shooting, had also been forwarded to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office — but included instructions for law enforcement to deny all requests for information.

Under the guise of protecting the investigation — as well as the victims and their families — the letter asks law enforcement agencies to deny information to anyone asking and “immediately notify the FBI of any requests your agency received” so “the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels, as necessary.”
Under an official FBI seal, the letter signed by special agent in charge of the agency’s Tampa field office, Paul Wysopal — who refused to comment to the Sentinel — states, in part:
“As you know, this is an active, on-going investigation being conducted by the FBI.
The FBI considers information obtained from state and local enforcement agencies in furtherance of its investigation to be evidence or potential evidence.
Accordingly the FBI is concerned that public disclosure of such records or information at this time will adversely affect our ability to effectively investigate the shooting and bring the matter to resolution; could endanger the safety of law enforcement officers, and other individuals who have participated in or are otherwise connected with the investigation; and risks unduly prejudicing any prosecutions that may result from the investigation.”
Though the letter claims the 911 audio recordings and any other information pertaining to the mass shooting would have an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act’s Section 522(b)(7)(A) — “protecting records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes where disclosure would adversely affect a pending investigation” — the excuse seems flimsy and superficial..."

The red hands of Greenpeace: Mastio and Mahmood

The red hands of Greenpeace: Mastio and Mahmood:
"100 Nobel laureates have come together to sign a letter accusing Greenpeace of "crimes against humanity" for the environmental group's anti-scientific stand against genetically modified organisms, in particular the group's effort to stop the use of a kind of rice aimed at eradicating vitamin A deficiency, a scourge that has killed millions in the last decade and blinded tens of millions more. 
The victims, according to the World Health Organization, are mostly children and pregnant mothers.
While dozens of the 107 Nobel Prize-winning signers are in fields such as physics and economics with little specific relevance to the safety of GMO foods or efforts to fight deadly global health threats, 41 of the Nobel laureates hold the distinction for their work in medicine. 
They represent Nobel winners from virtually every year from 1989 to 2014..."

Bill Clinton's Secret Meeting With AG Lynch Draws Suspicions

Bill Clinton's Secret Meeting With AG Lynch Draws Suspicions:

"As the FBI investigation into presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton draws to a close, FBI director James Comey will soon make a recommendation to the Department of Justice head, Attorney General Loretta Lynch regarding whether to press charges against the former Secretary.

A recently uncovered private meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Lynch is drawing suspicions to the cause and subject matter of their meeting, considering the delicate legal situation between the General and the former president’s wife."

A Suspicious Meeting in Phoenix Probably Means FBI Charges against Clinton

Articles: A Suspicious Meeting in Phoenix Probably Means FBI Charges against Clinton
On Tuesday Attorney General Loretta Lynch met former President Bill Clinton at a Phoenix airport where they held a discussion that lasted at least thirty minutes.
Lynch’s explanation for her meeting with Clinton was that it was entirely coincidental and they mainly discussed his two infant grandchildren.
This is unconvincing if not preposterous. 
When Loretta Lynch opens her mouth to speak on a public policy issue, she, like her boss the president, is not likely to be telling the truth. 
So we can pretty confidently presume that something else topped the agenda, to wit: a forthcoming referral of criminal charges against Bill’s wife in the ongoing email scandal.
Meeting Clinton coincidentally or otherwise was risky a risky and ill-advised thing for Lynch to do unless she -- and likely Obama -- thought it absolutely necessary.
Lynch is a political hack but not a fool.
Merely meeting privately with the former president when she is presumably impartially overseeing the criminal investigation of his wife stinks to high heaven, and compromises her sufficiently that there are already calls for her to recuse herself from the matter..."

Benghazi Just a Symptom; Interventionism Is the Disease

Benghazi Just a Symptom; Interventionism Is the Disease - Reason.com:
"The real story of the 800-page report that is the result of the Select Committee on Benghazi's months of investigation is ...

• not about what Hillary Clinton knew and when—though, to be sure, the inquiry presents criticisms worth serious consideration given their subject's perpetual touting of her foreign policy record.
• Nor is the story found in the document's headlining revelations, like the fact that it was loyalists to the autocratic Qaddafi regime (yes, the very regime U.S. intervention aimed to overthrow) who were instrumental in saving American lives during 2012's embassy attack. 
• Nor is it the disclosure that the CIA did not know about these pro-Qaddafi fighters until after their involvement, or that the intelligence agency copped to multiple other serious errors. 
• Nor yet is it the report's allegation that forces within the Clinton State Department and the Obama administration more generally acted to impede transparency as the scandal around Benghazi grew.

No, the real story here is not specific to the Benghazi incident at all—or nearly so polarizing along partisan lines.
It is rather found in the bigger picture of bipartisan military intervention, which in Libya produced yet another a reckless war of choice, a boondoggle which did nothing to protect U.S. interests, limit the spread of terrorism, or promote democracy (or even stability) in the greater Mideast.
We didn't need two years of investigation to figure out what President Obama himself has all but admitted: 2011's U.S.-led jaunt into Libya was a fool's errand..."

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Clinton aide Abedin acknowledges private email server caused problems, hack attempted | Fox News

Clinton aide Abedin acknowledges private email server caused problems, hack attempted | Fox News:

"Long-time Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said under oath Tuesday that Clinton as secretary of state didn’t want emails sent and received on her private computer server to be accessible to "anybody,” and suggested the unusual communication setup created problems --including a potential hacking incident and missing at least one important message.

Her deposition to lawyers for the conservative group Judicial Watch provided new insights into the highly unusual decision by Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to have a private email server in her basement for private and official department communications."

Correlation of global temperature with solar activity

Correlation of global temperature with solar activity

The solar output is very nearly constant, as shown in the plot below. The range of variation is about 0.2%, so reproducible that it is often referred to as the "solar constant".

But there are other aspects of the Sun's activity that are not constant, as indicated by the changing sunspot activity.

An early indication that the Sun's variability in ways other than total output had something to do with climate was the "Maunder Minimum". The researcher Maunder found that during this cold period between 1645-1715 there was very little sunspot activity, and this discovery led to the naming of the phenomenon after him. It suggested that solar activity was coupled to climate and led to tabulations of sunspot number as an indication of solar activity.

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Air marshals add innocent people to watch lists to meet quotas

Air marshals add innocent people to watch lists to meet quotas - Citizens for Self-Governance
"The simple act of taking a picture on an airplane could land you on a federal “watch list.” The reason? Air marshals are required to meet monthly quotas and are sometimes desperate to find anything suspicious.

According to The Denver Channel, federal marshals must submit a report every month that documents suspicious persons and activities during air travel. The incentive to do so is bonuses, raises, awards, and special assignments.

The marshals that spoke did so anonymously, and what they said is quite disturbing:

“Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong.”

The database is known as a Surveillance Detection Report and anyone listed on an SDR could be misidentified by the Department of Homeland Security as a potential terrorist. That means the very lives air marshals are sworn to protect can actually become targets of investigation for little to no reason at all.

“They could be placed on a watch list. They could wind up on databases that identify them as potential terrorists or a threat to an aircraft. It could be very serious,” said a former agent who lost his job trying to get these terrible policies changed.

The report states that management from the Federal Air Marshal headquarters in Las Vegas sent out a memo as early as 2004 telling agents to be on the lookout:

There may come an occasion when you just don’t see anything out of the ordinary for a month at a time, but I’m sure that if you are looking for it, you’ll see something.

Marshals are motivated by performance evaluations and some haven’t been shy in making up entries in hopes of extra kudos from management. From the report:

One example, according to air marshals, occurred on one flight leaving Las Vegas, when an unknowing passenger, most likely a tourist, was identified in an SDR for doing nothing more than taking a photo of the Las Vegas skyline as his plane rolled down the runway.

Not all air marshals are complicit in this scam and many are speaking out. One said, “Well, it’s intelligence information, and like any system, if you put garbage in, you get garbage out.”

“I would like to see an investigation,” he added, “a real investigation conducted into the ways things are done here [in Las Vegas.]”

DHS denies there is a quota system but air marshals based in Vegas have documents that prove performance reviews are “directly linked to producing SDRs.”

Read of the day!-----I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code

I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code — Ask a Manager
A reader writes:

I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. 

Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn’t deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. 

I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.

I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it. 

I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me. 

We decided to write a proposal stating why we should be allowed someone leeway under the dress code. 
We accompanied the proposal with a petition, signed by all of the interns (except for one who declined to sign it) and gave it to our managers to consider. 

Our proposal requested that we also be allowed to wear running shoes and non leather flats, as well as sandals (not flip-flops though) and other non-dress shoes that would fit under a more business casual dress code. 

It was mostly about the footwear, but we also incorporated a request that we not have to wear suits and/or blazers in favor of a more casual, but still professional dress code.

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Who Susan Rice Was Coached By Before Talking To Public About Benghazi Says IT ALL

Who Susan Rice Was Coached By Before Talking To Public About Benghazi Says IT ALL:

"As new information emerges from the just-released report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, it’s becoming ever more evident that President Obama’s political team considered the terror attack enough of a threat to the president’s re-election in 2012 to deliberately spin the details to fool the American public.

The most pressing need for the White House was not to figure out a response to the atrocity, or even to ensure the safety of American diplomats serving in trouble spots abroad."

Here are the new rules for transgender troops

Here are the new rules for transgender troops:
"Transgender people can serve openly in the U.S. military, effective immediately.
In an historic and controversial move, the Pentagon on Thursday lifted its longstanding ban on transgender troops and began outlining how the military will begin allowing — and paying for — service members to transition, medically and officially, from one gender to another.
Now transgender troops can serve openly and will no longer be considered “medically unfit” for military service.
By October, transgender troops may begin an official process to change gender in the military personnel management systems.
Five things to watch for in the Pentagon's new transgender policy
The Pentagon will pay for health care support related to gender transition in cases where a military medical doctor determines that is necessary, according to the new policy..."
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History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com
George Sand 1804 - Author Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant, Louis Bleriot 1872 - Aviator, first to fly an airplane across the English Channel, Jamie Farr 1934 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")


Geneviève Bujold 1942 - Actress ("Coma"), Deborah Harry 1945 - Singer (Blondie), Dan Aykroyd 1952 - Comedian, actor ("Driving Miss Daisy," "Saturday Night Live," "Ghostbusters," "The Blues Brothers")


1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

 

1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.


1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.


1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.


1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.






1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.


1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.


1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman.