A Simple Question - Thomas Sowell

A Simple Question - Thomas Sowell:
"It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. 
The simple question was asked by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, and it was addressed to two Democrats.
He asked what has Hillary Clinton ever accomplished.
The two Democrats immediately sidestepped the question and started reciting their talking points in favor of Hillary.
But O'Reilly kept coming back to the fact that nothing they were talking about was an accomplishment.
For someone who has spent her entire adult life in politics, including being a Senator and then a Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has nothing to show for all those years -- no significant legislation of hers that she got passed in the Senate, and only an unbroken series of international setbacks for the United States during her time as Secretary of State..."

Dems Tell Teachers To Trash Global Warming 'Denier' Books | The Daily Caller

Dems Tell Teachers To Trash Global Warming 'Denier' Books | The Daily Caller:
"Three senior House Democrats asked U.S. teachers Monday to destroy a book written by climate scientists challenging the environmentalist view of global warming.
The Democrats were responding to a campaign by the conservative Heartland Institute copies of the 2015 book, “Why Climate Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” to about 200,000 science teachers.
Democratic Reps. Bobby Scott of the Committee on Education, Raúl M. Grijalva of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Eddie Bernice Johnson of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology all issued a statement telling teachers to trash the book.
“Public school classrooms are no place for anti-science propaganda, and I encourage every teacher to toss these materials in the recycling bin,” Scott said.
“If the Heartland Institute and other climate deniers want to push a false agenda on global warming, our nation’s schools are an inappropriate place to drive that agenda.”
The book’s three authors all hold doctorates and taught climate or related science at the university level...
The best way to get adults to act like environmentalists is by brainwashing their children, according to research published by Oregon State University.
Talking to kids about global warming caused their parents to use less energy and act more like environmentalists..."

Smartphones Aren't as Ubiquitous as You Think | Statista

• Chart: Smartphones Aren't as Ubiquitous as You Think | Statista:
"At a time where you can send a photo of your dinner to your grandma and seconds later receive an approving 'thumbs up', it is easy to imagine that absolutely everyone has a smartphone.
As our infographic shows though, using data from Pew Research Center, this is actually far from the case."

You ought to know!

MINNESOTA: FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM Legislator Votes To Make Life Insurance Companies Do The UNTHINKABLE For Dead Terrorists [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com

MINNESOTA: FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM Legislator Votes To Make Life Insurance Companies Do The UNTHINKABLE For Dead Terrorists [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com:

"The first female Muslim legislator in America says that President Trump is a “fascist” (See video below). She also states that the Americans who voted for Trump were motivated by “hate.” But apparently, voting to force life insurance companies to pay benefits to terrorists who are killed in the act of committing terror in the United States is an “act of love?” in Democrat Rep. Omar’s eyes…"

Everyone Should Read John Kelly's Speech About 2 Marines In The Path Of A Truck Bomb - American Military News

Everyone Should Read John Kelly's Speech About 2 Marines In The Path Of A Truck Bomb - American Military News:

"...Nine years ago, two US Marines from very different walks of life met for the first time when they were put on guard duty at 7:30 in the morning.

Just minutes later, the pair of Marines guarding a gate in Ramadi, Iraq, were staring down a large blue truck packed with 2,000 pounds of explosives. They could have sought cover, like an Iraqi policeman on the scene who ran away and lived.

Instead, Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter and Cpl. Jonathan Yale stood their ground. Their split-second choice saved the lives of 50 people.

In 2010, then-Lt. Gen. John Kelly — who now serves as Secretary of Homeland Security — told their story to a packed house just four days after he had lost his own son, Robert, to combat in Afghanistan.

He spoke of the 9/11 attacks, the enemy that America was fighting, and praised the brave men and women who had volunteered to go overseas since then. Then he moved to the remarkable story of these two Marines, which he told the crowd, showed the “quality of steel in their backs.”

Here’s what he said:

...What he didn’t know until then, he said, and what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal. 

Choking past the emotion he said, “Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did.”

“No sane man.”

“They saved us all.”...

Read on and be proud to have lived in a world with men such as these. 

AM Fruitcake

History for April 25

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader, Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system), Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist


Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella", Al Pacino 1940 - Actor, Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)


1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.


1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below. The attack was unsuccessful.


1952 - After a three-day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment was annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.


1953 - Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA.


1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.


1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.

18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year • AEI

18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year • AEI:

"In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in the 1970, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article. Well, it’s now the 47th anniversary of  Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 17 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970?"

The way we were-----35 WOODSTOCK PHOTOS THAT WILL TAKE YOU BACK TO 1969

How Did NY Gov. Cuomo Make $783,000 From A Book That Sold Only 3,200 Copies? | Zero Hedge

How Did NY Gov. Cuomo Make $783,000 From A Book That Sold Only 3,200 Copies? | Zero Hedge
"...The New York governor, whose memoir was published by the News Corp.-owned HarperCollins in 2014, saw his gross income more than double last year, to $417,748 for 2016 (from $196,243 the year before), the Buffalo News reported Tuesday. 
Cuomo attributed $218,100 of that increase to sales of his memoir, “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Successes in Politics and Life.”

In 2015, the governor reportedly earned zero income from book sales and in the nearly three years that it's been on the market, it has sold just 3,200 copies. 
But Cuomo, the Buffalo News found, reported that he received a total of $783,000 from HarperCollins in book sales over the past three years,  a number that would translate to royalty payments of nearly $244.69 per copy.

Today, the book was selling on Amazon for $8.45.

A spokesperson for Gov. Cuomo told International Business Times, “This payment was contractual and per the agreement with the publisher...” 

Read on!

Citing racial strife, students at wealthy colleges demand reparations - The College Fix

Citing racial strife, students at wealthy colleges demand reparations - The College Fix: 
"Financial compensation, affirmative action, more money for therapy
Students who attend a wealthy and elite cluster of schools in Southern California are demanding various forms of reparations, citing racial strife and other injustices they allegedly face.
Various student factions at the private consortium  — which costs an average of more than $50,000 annually — have lodged demands to make right ills they claim to face at the “5Cs” as its known among students, consisting of Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer colleges.
...The various forms of reparations some students seek for the oppression they say they face includes financial compensation, affirmative action and more money for therapy.
...Racial strife has also hit Harvey Mudd, the math- and science-focused campus among the 5Cs.
Campus leaders recently cancelled classes for two days to go over “long bottled-up tensions about workload,” Inside Higher Ed reports, adding in its April 18 article: “minority students issued demands to administration — among them to funnel more money into counseling services, specifically geared toward students of color, and to prioritize minority student groups with funding and other perks.”..."
Read on!

Wind Industry Titan Soaks Up Billions in Tax Subsidies [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Wind Industry Titan Soaks Up Billions in Tax Subsidies [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:

"A renewable energy company that is worth $60 billion — and hasn’t paid federal income taxes for the last seven years — is among the country’s largest recipients of federal subsidies. It’s also suing a small Michigan township as it seeks to take advantage of a state law for its financial gain.

NextEra Energy, based in Florida, has filed lawsuits in Michigan against Ellington Township and Almer Township seeking to compel the municipalities to allow its wind turbine towers to be erected."

FACT SHEET: Why the Wells Fargo CEO and Board Must Go: Whitewash, Cover Up and Dereliction of Duty | Better Markets

FACT SHEET: Why the Wells Fargo CEO and Board Must Go: Whitewash, Cover Up and Dereliction of Duty | Better Markets:
"Wells Fargo, one of the largest banks in the United States, engaged in an egregious, years-long, illegal practice of ripping off millions of customers.  
It fraudulently opened and funded millions of bogus accounts with stolen customer money.  
In addition to falsely inflating revenue, profits and bonuses, these activities almost certainly manipulated the bank’s stock price. 

The Whitewash and Cover Up

You wouldn’t know that from the carefully crafted Report released this week by the independent members of the bank’s Board of Directors.  

That Report whitewashed away with misleading Orwellian language these many pervasive illegal and possibly criminal activities.  

The Report conceals more than it reveals. 
It is not surprising that an investigation conducted by a Board exonerates the Board and its handpicked CEO while blaming virtually everything on two senior executives no longer at the bank.  

What is surprising is how the Report ignores likely criminal conduct while detailing more than a decade of incomprehensible levels of incompetence, negligence and dereliction of duty by the Board, the current CEO and dozens of other executives and supervisors..."

Blog: Hold the celebrity enablers of Venezuela's hellhole accountable

Blog: Hold the celebrity enablers of Venezuela's hellhole accountable
"What holds Venezuela together these days? 
According to the New York Times,this state is held together only by an encircling ring of death-squad gangs, who serve as its enforcers. 
These are the community organizers known as 'colectivos' who ride and circle around menacingly on motorcycles, and shoot randomly into crowds to generate terror.  
I saw them myself in Caracas in late 2005, and they were scary. 
Now, they are engorged with drug cash and legitimized by the state. 
Who could have imagined that this tontons macoute situation would be the logical conclusion of Chavista socialism?

Not Venezuela's celebrity endorsers from the Hollywood elites, that's for sure. 
These Useful Idiots spent years using their capacity for drawing media attention to browbeat the West into believing that Chavista socialism was the wave of the future. 
They were no different from the political pilgrims who endorsed the Soviet Union in its early days while the Ukraine starved from the communists' man-made famine. 
Sean Penn declared that anyone in the West who called the late Hugo Chavez a dictator should be imprisoned and gushed:

(Chávez) is a fascinating guy. He’s done… incredible things for the 80% of the people that are very poor there.

Meanwhile, film producers Michael Moore tweeted on Chavez's 2013 death that:

Hugo Chavez declared the oil belonged 2 the ppl. He used the oil $ 2 eliminate 75% of extreme poverty, provide free health & education 4 all..."

Read on! 

Lunch video-----Fake News Remix - Donald Trump vs. The Mainstream Media

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Russia Hacking Reveals This SHOCKING Democratic Plot | The Federalist Papers

Russia Hacking Reveals This SHOCKING Democratic Plot | The Federalist Papers:

"The investigation by The New York Times revealed that among the documents purloined by the Russians is called both an “email” and a “memo” and was written by a Democratic operative.

Here’s how the Times put it: “[The] Democratic operative expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far.”

FBI Director James Comey was worried that Lynch would put the kibosh on their investigation into Clinton’s activities. "

Sean Hannity Accused Of Sexual Harassment | The Huffington Post

Sean Hannity Accused Of Sexual Harassment | The Huffington Post
"Sean Hannity is the latest Fox News star to be accused of sexual harassment.
In an interview with the Pat Campbell Show on Friday, former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel claimed that Hannity had invited her to his hotel room — twice — when they appeared together for one of his programs. 

But when she rebuffed him, Schlussel said that she was never asked back on the show.
Schlussel claimed the “awkward” incident began when Hannity invited her to a store where he was signing books. 

While there, she said Hannity asked her: “Why don’t you come back with me to my hotel?” Schlussel said she responded: “No, I have to get ready for the show.”
...Her comments were aired just days after Bill O’Reilly’s ouster by Fox News in the wake of revelations that he and the company had paid out some $13 million to women who accused him of sexual harassment..."

Macron and Le Pen Through to the Run-Off | Statista

• Chart: Macron and Le Pen Through to the Run-Off | Statista:
"As generally predicted, Macron and Le Pen have made it through to the second round run-off in the French presidential election.
With 24 and 21 percent of the votes respectively, France now has a very clear choice to make on May 7.
Will voters choose Macron, the pro-Europe internationalist, or Le Pen, the anti-EU protectionist?
Polls suggest the internationalist will trounce the protectionist but as 2016 showed us, anything can happen in politics nowadays."