Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Robert Mueller Can’t Recall – American Greatness
Robert Mueller Can’t Recall – American Greatness:
It is a great sadness, a great victory, and a great irony. The spectacle of a stooped and aged Robert Mueller, after he had (voluntarily) been so dishonestly used by the president’s enemies, was an objectively sad one, a sorry swan-song to a substantial career. The victory of the Trump Republicans is seismic, and announces the imminent exposure and punishment of those who abused the system to attack the president and deform the political system.
The irony is two-fold. If Trump’s enemies had not launched the Russian collusion nonsense, all their pre-electoral skullduggery would not have been unearthed—if they had given him the normal honeymoon for incoming presidents, a serene ambiance would have settled Washington down, at least for a year or so, and they would now be wallowing in their Washington lobbying and other sinecures.
The second irony is that there is
The irony is two-fold. If Trump’s enemies had not launched the Russian collusion nonsense, all their pre-electoral skullduggery would not have been unearthed—if they had given him the normal honeymoon for incoming presidents, a serene ambiance would have settled Washington down, at least for a year or so, and they would now be wallowing in their Washington lobbying and other sinecures.
The second irony is that there is
Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is
Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is"Leana Wen, now the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was fired from the organization over what she calls “philosophical differences over the best way to protect reproductive health.”
A few days later, she penned an op-ed in the New York Times explaining what happened and why, from her perspective.
What she reveals about the organization’s goals and methodology is not only unsurprising, but confirms what conservatives have been claiming about Planned Parenthood for years.
Wen first writes that while she understood Planned Parenthood certainly performed abortions, she didn’t believe that should be the organization’s primary goal..."
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Ann Coulter: How we became the world's suckers on immigration | TheHill
Ann Coulter: How we became the world's suckers on immigration | TheHill
"Looking at our immigration policies compared to the rest of the world, you’d think America lost a bet.
The United States is one of only two developed countries in the world (the other is Canada, and even it has some restrictions we don’t have) with full “birthright citizenship,” meaning that any child born when his mother was physically present within the geographical borders of the U.S. automatically gets a U.S. birth certificate and a Social Security card.
That means legal immigrants, pregnant women sneaking in on tourist visas, travelers on a three-week vacation, cheap foreign workers on “temporary” visas and, in some cases, foreign diplomats.
...And that’s not all.
We’re the only country but two that confers automatic citizenship on children born to illegal aliens, or “anchor babies.”
...The other two countries that grant citizenship to anchor babies are Canada and Tanzania.
Canada doesn’t have Latin America on its border, of course — and Tanzania is reconsidering the policy.
Here’s a fun fact: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — the notorious Mexican drug lord, sentenced on July 17 to life plus 30 years for drug trafficking and multiple murder conspiracies — has two children who are American, born in sunny California to his wife, who’s an anchor baby herself..."
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"Looking at our immigration policies compared to the rest of the world, you’d think America lost a bet.
The United States is one of only two developed countries in the world (the other is Canada, and even it has some restrictions we don’t have) with full “birthright citizenship,” meaning that any child born when his mother was physically present within the geographical borders of the U.S. automatically gets a U.S. birth certificate and a Social Security card.That means legal immigrants, pregnant women sneaking in on tourist visas, travelers on a three-week vacation, cheap foreign workers on “temporary” visas and, in some cases, foreign diplomats.
...And that’s not all.
We’re the only country but two that confers automatic citizenship on children born to illegal aliens, or “anchor babies.”
...The other two countries that grant citizenship to anchor babies are Canada and Tanzania.
Canada doesn’t have Latin America on its border, of course — and Tanzania is reconsidering the policy.
Here’s a fun fact: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — the notorious Mexican drug lord, sentenced on July 17 to life plus 30 years for drug trafficking and multiple murder conspiracies — has two children who are American, born in sunny California to his wife, who’s an anchor baby herself..."
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Why aren't contractors building more starter homes? Excessive fees imposed by state and local politicians - American Experiment
Why aren't contractors building more starter homes? Excessive fees imposed by state and local politicians - American Experiment
"Last week, noting how “The average single-family home in the Twin Cities will cost you $294,000 on average, a record high and 6-percent increase over June of 2018”, Kare 11 looked at ‘Why contractors aren’t building more starter homes‘. They came to the same conclusion as we have: excessive fees and regulations make Twin Cities housing expensive.
As Kare 11 report,
Read all.A recent conversation in the newsroom spawned the question: With demand so high for homes in the $150,000 – $250,000 price range, why don’t contractors just build more?“I’d love to,” said Tony Wiener, vice president of Cardinal Home Builders. “It’s not possible.”Wiener said he gets a call or email once a week asking for a new two-story house in the starter home price range. But he said the math makes it impossible for a number of reasons, and construction costs or profit are not foremost among them.“One third of the total package price, with the land, is in the regulatory costs. Your wetland fees, your park dedication fees, your permit costs,” Wiener explains..."
Richard Grenell Calls Out Left's Hypocrisy on Baltimore: Read the New York Times | Breitbart
Richard Grenell Calls Out Left's Hypocrisy on Baltimore: Read the New York Times | Breitbart:
The same phenomenon occurred in other cities, especially where elected Democrats declined to support police and backed protests against them.
“Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015, according to a final analysis of yearly crime data by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice,” the Baltimore Sun noted in April 2016.
The Times magazine article, “The Tragedy of Baltimore,” by Alex MacGillis, described “the crackup of an American city”:
“Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015, according to a final analysis of yearly crime data by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice,” the Baltimore Sun noted in April 2016.
The Times magazine article, “The Tragedy of Baltimore,” by Alex MacGillis, described “the crackup of an American city”:
So many ways to lie to us. Continuing today----Reuters Photo Fraud
Reuters Photo Fraud
"A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006
The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media.
But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the last week Reuters has been caught red-handed in an astonishing variety of journalistic frauds in the photo coverage of the war in Lebanon.
This page serves as an overview of the various types of hoaxes, lies and other deceptions perpetrated by Reuters in recent days, since the details of the scandal are getting overwhelmed by a torrent of shallow mainstream media coverage that can easily confuse or mislead the viewer.
...It's important to understand that there is not just a single fraudulent Reuters photograph, nor even only one kind of fraudulent photograph.
There are in fact dozens of photographs whose authenticity has been questioned, and they fall into four distinct categories.
The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are:
1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.
2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.
3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.
4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.
"A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006
The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the last week Reuters has been caught red-handed in an astonishing variety of journalistic frauds in the photo coverage of the war in Lebanon.
This page serves as an overview of the various types of hoaxes, lies and other deceptions perpetrated by Reuters in recent days, since the details of the scandal are getting overwhelmed by a torrent of shallow mainstream media coverage that can easily confuse or mislead the viewer.
...It's important to understand that there is not just a single fraudulent Reuters photograph, nor even only one kind of fraudulent photograph.
There are in fact dozens of photographs whose authenticity has been questioned, and they fall into four distinct categories.
The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are:
1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.
2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.
3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.
4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.
History for July 30
History for July 30 - On-This-Day.com
Thornstein Velben 1857, Henry Ford 1863, Casey Stengel 1890
Thomas Sowell 1930, Paul Anka 1941, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
1945 - The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Mark Levin: 'Coward,' 'Pompous Ass' Jerry Nadler Has 'Declared War on the American People' | Breitbart
Mark Levin: 'Coward,' 'Pompous Ass' Jerry Nadler Has 'Declared War on the American People' | Breitbart:
Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin, author of “Unfreedom of the Press,” criticized House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for efforts to force the issue of impeachment of President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives.
Levin called on his listeners to take on Nadler and his allies because he said Nadler and his Democratic colleagues had “declared war on the American people.”
Levin called on his listeners to take on Nadler and his allies because he said Nadler and his Democratic colleagues had “declared war on the American people.”
California School Has “Condom Race” Where 10-Year-Old Girls Learn How to Put On Condoms | LifeNews.com
"Outrage is growing in California against newly approved sex education materials in public schools.
“It’s shocking,” Rebecca Friedrichs, the founder of For Kids & Country, told The Christian Post.
She said one school had 10- and 11-year-old girls participate in a “condom race” in which they ran, in front of male classmates, to be the first to put a condom on a model of an erect adult male penis.
...National Catholic Register reports the concerns center around changes approved by the California Board of Education in May.
The programs are supposed to comply with the 2015 California Healthy Youth Act, “which mandates the teaching of ‘medically accurate’ and ‘age appropriate’ comprehensive sex education at least once in middle school and once in high school,” according to the report."
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Nationwide faculty group comes out against new campus free speech laws | The College Fix
Nationwide faculty group comes out against new campus free speech laws | The College Fix
"In the past few years more than a half-dozen states have passed laws that aim to protect free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses, but a nationwide faculty advocacy group has come out against those laws and similar efforts pending in other states.
- AAUP: ‘Right-wing effort to disempower public higher education’
"In the past few years more than a half-dozen states have passed laws that aim to protect free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses, but a nationwide faculty advocacy group has come out against those laws and similar efforts pending in other states.
The American Association of University Professors calls the laws “restrictive” and states on its website they are not about protecting the First Amendment but actually “one piece of a much larger well-funded, right-wing effort to disempower public higher education in the United States.”
...During a video meeting the group hosted Friday, two of its members argued the laws are “solutions in search of a problem” and said there is no free speech problem on campuses today.
...The video conference featured Risa Lieberwitz, professor of labor and employment law at Cornell University and AAUP’s general counsel, who also criticized the laws because they threaten sanctions against major disruptions of guest speakers on campus..."
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Boris Johnson Takes the Reins – Expect to See These Six Foreign Policy "Resets" | The Heritage Foundation
Sure, Boris Johnson, could use a comb. But he’s already got what matters most in a leader and ally: a backbone.
With Johnson as its new British Prime Minister, the United Kingdom can expect a bolder and more self-confident foreign policy. And the changes he makes will likely be welcomed in Washington.
Here are the top six foreign policy “resets” we can expect to see from the new PM:
Alzheimer’s in Michigan: The coming storm | Bridge Magazine
Alzheimer’s in Michigan: The coming storm | Bridge Magazine
"KENTWOOD—Just about every morning and evening, Wayne Goates makes his way to visit the woman he fell hard for in college.
From all outward signs, she has no idea who he is.
Conservatively, Goates figures he’s put in at least 20,000 hours tending to his wife in the years since her diagnosis.
She has been in a dementia care wing of a Kentwood nursing home nearly seven years, at $6,500 a month, with the total bill now running past $400,000.
"KENTWOOD—Just about every morning and evening, Wayne Goates makes his way to visit the woman he fell hard for in college.
From all outward signs, she has no idea who he is.
“The commitment and the romance is still there,” Goates says of his wife, Kristie, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 13 years ago.
“...This can be devastating financially.
For some people, it absolutely overwhelms them.”
For some people, it absolutely overwhelms them.”
In a state that’s aging faster than the rest of the nation, that’s likely to be the case for alarming numbers of aging Michigan baby boomers – born between 1946 and 1964 – and their families.
...In 2018, Alzheimer’s patients in Michigan accounted for more than $6 billion in Medicaid and Medicare charges, and another $7.4 billion in uncompensated care from more than 500,000 family members of Alzheimer’s patients.
...The share of residents older than 85 is projected to more than double between 2015 and 2045.
...“Michigan is not ready for this. I don’t think anybody is ready for what is to come,” said Jennifer Lepard, president and chief executive officer of the Alzheimer's Association-Greater Michigan Chapter..."
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NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot
NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot"Boeing's 737 Max was built with "effectively neutered" oversight, writes the New York Times, citing interviews with over a dozen current and former employees at America's Federal Aviation Agency.
Their damning conclusion?
The agency "had never independently assessed the risks of the dangerous software known as MCAS when they approved the plane in 2017."The regulator had been passing off routine tasks to manufacturers for years, with the goal of freeing up specialists to focus on the most important safety concerns. But on the Max, the regulator handed nearly complete control to Boeing, leaving some key agency officials in the dark about important systems like MCAS, according to the current and former employees...The company performed its own assessments of the system, which were not stress-tested by the regulator...
The article ends by describing the days after the first 737 Max crash, when Boeing executives visited the regulatory agency's headquarters in Seattle.
"The officials sat incredulous as Boeing executives explained details about the system that they didn't know."
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Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages In Women’s Sports. Science Says They’re Wrong | The Daily Caller
Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages In Women’s Sports. Science Says They’re Wrong | The Daily Caller:
Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn’t enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats’ claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don’t have an inherent advantage over their female competitors.
Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn’t enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats’ claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don’t have an inherent advantage over their female competitors.
The Morning Briefing: It's the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? | Trending
The Morning Briefing: It's the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? | Trending"...Trump's a racist
It's an evergreen title, isn't it?
The latest kerfuffle involves Trump's attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings who wants to dish it out and not take it.
Cummings was snarking off on the border, a favorite talking point, and Trump responded about the hot mess that is his Baltimore district.
The latest kerfuffle involves Trump's attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings who wants to dish it out and not take it.
Cummings was snarking off on the border, a favorite talking point, and Trump responded about the hot mess that is his Baltimore district.
"Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.
If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place," Trump tweeted.
If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place," Trump tweeted.
And that's racist.
Because Cummings is black and you aren't allowed to say anything to certain people who are protected.
The protected crowd are designated minorities who are Democrats.
Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ etc. who are NOT leftists are allowed and encouraged to be attacked..."
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Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco? - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine
Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco? - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine"...So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their lives.
They’ve been trying to eliminate these people for three decades now, but some individuals just refuse to learn.
It’s been a year or so since I wrote about San Francisco’s ban on the sale of fur in a move that does nothing for animals but destroys businesses that have been established there since the 19th century.
Unfortunately I can’t really devote 52 columns a year to cataloguing products banned by San Francisco.
...Juul is a San Francisco company, so once again the city is eating its young, trying to legislate out of existence a $2 billion local firm that employs 1,500 people.
...In some ways San Francisco’s descent into madness is self-correcting, because eventually so many groups will be pointing fingers at so many other groups, demanding lifestyle alterations designed to create healthy specimens of Correct Living, that the whole peninsula will devolve into something resembling the Soviet Union in 1965, if they’re lucky, and Venezuela in 2019 if they’re not..."
Unfortunately I can’t really devote 52 columns a year to cataloguing products banned by San Francisco.
In the past they’ve outlawed
- plastic bags,
- clove cigarettes,
- Coke machines,
- bottled-water machines, people playing stickball in the street,
- people playing chess in the street,
- pet stores,
- goldfish,
- masked balls, and
- the practice of letting your dog stick his head halfway out the window while you’re driving.
- Long ago they banned toys being given away with Happy Meals at McDonald’s.
- There are several states that have been under sanction by San Francisco at various times, with city employees forbidden from traveling on official business to Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, or my home state of Texas.
- ....It’s illegal to ride a Segway in San Francisco,
- to package food with Styrofoam,
- to declaw a cat, or to s
- erve chocolate milk in schools.
- No one in government is allowed to make any contract with any company that uses tropical hardwood—“Get the rugs out! The floor inspectors are coming over!”—and
- no school is allowed to offer Junior ROTC because young people who want to follow their families into military service are probably deranged.
- Don’t try to walk more than eight dogs at a time—even if they’re toy poodles and Chihuahuas—and
- don’t give your 5-year-old a slingshot for his birthday, because that’s an illegal weapon.
...Juul is a San Francisco company, so once again the city is eating its young, trying to legislate out of existence a $2 billion local firm that employs 1,500 people.
...In some ways San Francisco’s descent into madness is self-correcting, because eventually so many groups will be pointing fingers at so many other groups, demanding lifestyle alterations designed to create healthy specimens of Correct Living, that the whole peninsula will devolve into something resembling the Soviet Union in 1965, if they’re lucky, and Venezuela in 2019 if they’re not..."
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Why Do Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities?
"Congressman Elijah Cummings may honestly believe that his district in West Baltimore doesn’t stink.
But it does.
I’ve been there, I’ve seen and smelled it.
Bernie Sanders called it “the third world" back in 2016.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Especially to those bathed, clothed, and dipped in the intoxication of corrupt power, but that’s why sunlight is so helpful.
And disinfecting!
Rep. Cummings, while being very obsessed with Russia, seems utterly bewildered with the idea that anyone could dare question why so many billions of federal dollars flow to places like West Baltimore when they are obviously doing no good.
Look at other cities in similar dilapidation and there holds a unique truth:
Democrats run them all.
...For Baltimore it’s been this way for decades.And the only reason that Elijah Cummings got passionate about the issue, isn’t because it’s true.
It’s because he got called out on it, by someone who is working to make America better for everybody.
...But Democrats who lives in these cities already know that.
They live in the land of corrupt squander every waking day."
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