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REVEALED: Barack Obama Talked Directly with Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook Concerns - Breitbart

REVEALED: Barack Obama Talked Directly with Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook Concerns - Breitbart:

"Obama was one of the instigators of the “fake news” panic that has put Facebook in the establishment’s CROSSHAIRS following the election of Donald Trump. Obama has repeatedly addressed the issue and even discussed it privately with European leaders prior to leaving office.

According to a major New York Times Magazine feature on the future of Facebook, he is also holding private discussions with Mark Zuckerberg.

Earlier that day, Zuckerberg’s staff had sent me a draft of a 5,700­ word manifesto that, I was told, he spent weeks writing. The document, “Building Global Community,” argued that until now, Facebook’s corporate goal had merely been to connect people. But that was just Step 1. According to the manifesto, "

Jacques: How to keep campus speech free

Jacques: How to keep campus speech free: 
"Charles Murray, political scientist and American Enterprise Institute scholar, spoke (or tried to) in March at Middlebury College, a liberal arts college in Vermont.
A group of conservative students had invited him to speak about his 2012 book “Coming Apart,” which describes growing class divides among whites.
Yet Murray was shouted down by a mob of students, and the event turned violent, with a faculty member getting injured. 
The opposing students bought rhetoric from the Southern Poverty Law Center that describes Murray as a “white nationalist.”
These incidents are happening with growing frequency and severity around the country. 
It’s moved beyond college students simply expressing their point of view: They want to block differing views altogether.
...Take what happened last fall at Kellogg Community College. 
Security officers at the Battle Creek school arrested students handing out pocket-sized Constitutions because they hadn’t received a permit ahead of time. 
...Some school administrators, as in the case with Kellogg, overly enforce speech policies when they don’t like the message students are spreading. 
One of the bills would make universities track free speech incidents and how administrators dealt with these situations.
“The universities are in denial,” Colbeck says..."

Imagine if a republican had been so moronic-----Dem Senator Quotes Song That Refers To Women As ‘Bitches’ 38 Times – IOTW Report

Dem Senator Quotes Song That Refers To Women As ‘Bitches’ 38 Times – IOTW Report:

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) decided to quote rapper Kendric Lamar’s song ‘Humble’ during George Washington University’s Commencement on Sunday but decided to leave out a key word the rapper uses in his song.

“In the words of Kendrick Lamar – whose real last name is Duckworth – be humble,” Duckworth told the graduates.

The lyric in the song is, “bitch, be humble” and Lamar uses the word ‘bitch,’ which is often used as a derogatory term towards women 38 times in the song.

Scientific Study: Journalists Are a Bunch of Drunks With Sub-Average Brain Function - Guy Benson

Scientific Study: Journalists Are a Bunch of Drunks With Sub-Average Brain Function - Guy Benson
"In the wake of yesterday's more nuanced piece of press criticism, and in light of the Harvard study Lauretta wrote up earlier, it felt like a bit of trolling might be in order. 
If you missed her post, she highlighted the findings of a review conducted by researchers at the prominent Ivy League university regarding media coverage of President Trump's first 100 days in office. 
Unsurprisingly, Trump set a new record for negativity, with eight out of every ten stories about his administration framed in a negative manner.  
This far exceeded the hostility encountered by his three immediate predecessors -- especially Barack Obama, who was the only recent president upon whom the news media showered majority-positive coverage.  
Trump complained this week that he's been treated more unfairly than any politician in history.
...but I don't think 'the merits' fully account for the entirety of the enormous gap between the tone and content of Obama's coverage (+18) versus Trump's (-60). 
Most of the media is appalled by Trump and furious that he won; not only because they're pro-Democratic liberals (which most of them are), but because his victory blew apart their near-unanimous consensus that he had virtually no chance. 
Proving the Smart Set wrong angers the Smart Set. 
But are elite-level journalists really the Smart Set? 
They fancy themselves as such, of course, but The Science might tell a different story:

According to a study released Thursday by neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart in association with the London Press Club, the highest functions of the human brain operate at a lower level in journalists than the average population. Her research titled “Study Into The Mental Resilience of Journalists,” blames journalists’ cognitive shortcomings on dehydration caused by excessive alcohol consumption along with poor diet, including higher levels of sugar and caffeine. Less than 5% of journalists drink enough — or any — water while 41% drank more than 18 alcoholic drinks per week.

Fact check: Mostly true.  

Here's the full study, if you're interested..."

You ought to know!

Alabama Passes Bill Protecting Confederate Memorials | The Daily Caller

Alabama Passes Bill Protecting Confederate Memorials | The Daily Caller:

"The Alabama senate passed a bill Friday which would prevent the changing of the names of Confederate memorials and removing of historic Confederate monuments.

The bill “would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument that has stood on public property for 40 or more years,” "

Skeptic » Reading Room » The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

Skeptic » Reading Room » The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies:

THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT: A SOKAL-STYLE HOAX ON GENDER STUDIES

BY PETER BOGHOSSIAN, ED.D. (AKA PETER BOYLE, ED.D.)
AND JAMES LINDSAY, PH.D. (AKA, JAMIE LINDSAY, PH.D.)

Note from the editor: Every once in awhile it is necessary and desirable to expose extreme ideologies for what they are by carrying out their arguments and rhetoric to their logical and absurd conclusion, which is why we are proud to publish this expose of a hoaxed article published in a peer-reviewed article today. 
It’s ramifications are unknown but one hopes it will help reign in extremism in this and related areas.

—Michael Shermer

“The conceptual penis as a social construct” is a Sokal-style hoax on gender studies. Follow the authors @peterboghossian and @GodDoesnt.

The Hoax

The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.

That’s how we began. 

We used this preposterous sentence to open a “paper” consisting of 3,000 words of utter nonsense posing as academic scholarship. 

Then a peer-reviewed academic journal in the social sciences accepted and published it.

This paper should never have been published. 

Titled, “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” our paper “argues” that “The penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. 

We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a gender-performative, highly fluid social construct.”... 

Read on!

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Saudi King Shatters Tradition To Welcome Melania Trump

Saudi King Shatters Tradition To Welcome Melania Trump:

"The 81-year-old king appeared at the airport in Riyadh to welcome the Trumps, and cast custom to the winds as he did so.

As Melania Trump set foot on Saudi soil, the king shook her hand, a gesture that shattered Muslim traditions in which men do not shake the hands of women.

The act did not go unnoticed."

History for May 22

  
History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 - Composer, Mary Cassatt 1844 - Painter, printmaker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels 


Sir Laurence Olivier (Laurence Kerr Olivier) 1907 - Actor, director, producer, Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author, T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon 


1819 - The steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.


1849 - Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the floating dry dock.


1868 - Near Marshfield, IN, The "Great Train Robbery" took place. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.


1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.


1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.


1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."


1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted by the U.S. Congress to appropriate military and economic aid Turkey and Greece.


1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was lost. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

Blog: Rahm's latest plan to stave off Chicago financial collapse under fire – from Dems

Blog: Rahm's latest plan to stave off Chicago financial collapse under fire – from Dems:

"Illinois is as broke as Chicago.  If this were a business, Rahm would be borrowing against his "accounts receivable" – also known as "factoring."  That is a common practice among financially troubled businesses to keep the doors open.  Rahm is trying to find a factor that will lend almost $400 mil against the promise of a broke state to come up with the cash."

The way we were-----Best Songs of the 1950s (1953-1957)