Nuclear alternatives
A Very Fast, Very Safe, Very SLIMM Nuclear Reactor
““One of the latest to emerge is the SLIMM – the Scalable LIquid Metal–cooled small Modular reactor. This is a fast reactor that uses liquid sodium (Na) to cool and exchange heat, and that generates 10 to 100 MW for many years, even decades, without refueling, depending on what power level is desired. It’s very smaller version, the VSLIMM, generates 1 to 10 MW.
Its designers, Drs. Mohamed S. El-Genk, Luis Palomino and Timothy Schriener from the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies in Albuquerque, describe it thus:
"Fully passive operation with no single point failure, cooled by natural circulation of sodium during operation and after shutdown, high negative temperature reactivity feedback and redundant control and safety shutdown, walk-away safe, long life without refueling, factory fabricated, assembled and sealed, shipped to the construction site by rail, truck, or barge, installed below ground to avoid direct impact by missiles or aircraft, and mounted on seismic oscillation bearings to resist earthquakes.”
The reactor has redundant and passive decay heat removal by heat pipes and natural circulation of ambient air.
In other words, it can’t melt down, is cheap to construct and only needs ordinary outside air to cool off if it does shut down quickly for any reason. With Na’s very low vapor pressure, the reactor operates below atmospheric pressure so there is no pressure vessel to worry about.””
— James Conca
Biochar
Biochar: A better start to rain forest restoration
““An indigenous farming technique that’s been around for thousands of years provides the basis for restoring rain forests stripped clear of trees by gold mining and other threats.
A carbon-based soil amendment called biochar is a cheap and effective way to support tree seedling survival during reforestation efforts in the Amazon rain forest, according to new research from Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).
Restoring and recovering rain forests has become increasingly important for combatting climate change, since these wide swaths of trees can absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. The problem is particularly acute in areas mined for alluvial gold deposits, which devastate not only rain forest trees but also soils. High costs can be a huge barrier to replanting, fertilizing and nurturing trees to replace those lost in the rain forest.
The scientists found that using biochar combined with fertilizer significantly improved height and diameter growth of tree seedlings while also increasing the number of leaves the seedlings developed. The experiment, based in a Peruvian Amazon region called Madre de Dios, the heart of illegal gold mining trade in that country, used two tropical tree species: the fast-growing Guazuma crinita and Terminalia amazonia, a late successional tree often used as timber.””
— Alicia Roberts
Government makes you poorer
Makes sense
A Modest Proposal For US Slavery Reparations
““Since most of the Democratic Presidential aspirants have come out in favor of at least studying reparations for slavery, I wanted to offer a common sense proposal. I propose that slavery reparation be paid for by the single organization that had the most to do with the existence and protection of slavery in this country: the Democratic Party.””
— Warren Meyer
Hollywood Made It Wild
The American Old West: How Hollywood Made It “Wild” to Make Money & Advance Gun Control
““Hollywood has a clever way of distorting our perspective on history, and a great example of this is Western film – a movie genre we've all come to love. Cattle rustlers, guns blazing, outlaws running loose, and vigilantes dishing out vengeance indiscriminately. These scenes have become more synonymous with the American Frontier than Winchester and their "Cartridge That Won the West." But these fictional tales have produced more than entertainment for over a century; they've also contributed to an ongoing, subtle push for gun control, all while making Hollywood millions.
Revisionist history books tell us that the “Wild West” was an anarchic period of time that was not conducive to human prosperity. Images of a Hobbesian nightmare – a life that is brutish and short – are ingrained in our consciousness thanks to decades of public schooling and violent images on the silver screen which are light on actual history and heavy on creative license.
However, individuals who believe in liberty and developing their critical thinking faculties should be skeptical of most mainstream narratives regarding history, especially American history. After all, these narratives by and large have been created by Hollywood, a legacy institution that has historically advanced politically correct content with the support of Washington in order to perpetuate the cultural status quo.
When the curtain of political correctness that's been draped over this particular period of history is pulled back, we see a much more nuanced picture of the American Frontier. In fact, research by historians such as Peter J. Hill, Richard Shenkman, Roger D. McGrath, Terry Anderson, and W. Eugene Holland shows that this period was rather indicative of a “not so wild, Wild West.”
For the purposes of this article, the Wild West will now be referred to as the Old West. This is by no means a pedantic distinction, but rather an acknowledgment of the fact that this time period was not “wild” by any stretch of the imagination when compared to other chaotic periods in human history. Indeed, the Old West had its fair share of challenges for American settlers. But as we’ll see below, crafty settlers found ways through ingenuity and mutual cooperation - all done with very limited state interference - to create a stable order for generations to come.””
read the rest at Ammo.com
Helped Trump
Journalists Matt Taibbi and Aaron Maté explain how the Russiagate narrative helped Trump
““A sad irony is that the Russiagate narrative, which so many people clung to in an attempt to bring down Trump, only helped him. Actual occurrences that could have undermined Trump’s authority and damaged his reputation were ignored as much of the media and political class focused almost exclusively on a literal conspiracy theory that does not resonate with the voter base that stayed home on Election Day or the Obama-to-Trump voters. Surely, Trump has done awful things, coverage of which could get out the vote and galvanize opposition. But the Russiagate obsession perpetuated Trump’s narrative about being picked-on by a media that peddles fake news and a political elite that represents the status quo. Trump was able to come off, once again, as the outsider who takes on the establishment, which in turn persecutes him. And now that the Mueller report has said he didn’t collude with Russia, he’s celebrating.””
— Katie Halper
“The EU Just Destroyed The Internet #Article11 #Article13”
NeoNote — Wiretapping
❝❝To me, the interesting thing is that most of the mainstream media is willing to ignore things like this so long as it's a Democrat doing it to a Republican.❞❞Read More...
“Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains "Deboosting" "Troll Report" & Political Targeting in Interview”
Snow hits the southwest
Arizona Airport, Highways Shut Down; Flagstaff Receives Record Snow From Winter Storm Quiana
““Winter Storm Quiana continued to dump heavy snow on parts of Arizona Friday, prompting emergency declarations, closing schools across the region, shutting down interstates and bringing record snow to the Flagstaff area.
Flagstaff Pulliam Airport remained closed Friday morning, a day after reduced visibility forced its closure, KTAR reported. More than 38 inches of snow fell at the airport Wednesday into Friday, covering the runway.
With more than 35 inches of snow on Thursday alone, it was the snowiest single day on record for the city of Flagstaff. The heavy snowfall prompted city officials to declare a state of emergency.
>snip<
More than 300 flights were canceled Thursday at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, according to FlightAware.
Traffic on southbound Interstate 15 was being directed off the highway at Pimm, Nevada, because the road was closed from the state line to Bakersfield, California, until shortly after 3 p.m. local time.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said southbound U.S. 95, the other major route from Las Vegas to California, also closed because of hazardous road conditions and stuck vehicles. Traffic was being diverted back to Las Vegas at mile marker 35.
I-11 was closed at mile marker 2 south of Henderson because of the heavy snow.
Las Vegas saw its first measurable snowfall in more than a decade. Eight-tenths of an inch of accumulating snow was recorded Thursday at McCarran Airport, making it the fifth day this month the city has received some snow. Thursday was also the first time Vegas has received measurable snow since Dec. 17, 2008.
The last time Las Vegas received five days of snow in February was 1949, according to the National Weather Service.””
— Pam Wright and Ron Brackett
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Donald Trump: ‘We’ve Got to Get Out of These Endless Wars’
The Winter is Wreaking Havoc on Electric Vehicle Batteries
Taxes Are Getting Weaponized for Partisan Purposes
“How willing are you to pay taxes when you know they’re intended to do you harm?”The Real Problem: The Militarization of the NFL
“Professional sports should stop shilling for the warfare state.”San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students
Covington Student Nick Sandmann’s Lawyers Send Preservation Letters to Media, Celebrities
“The defamation lawyer tweeted a video that has crucial footage ignored by the MSM.”Major DNA Testing Company Sharing Genetic Data With the FBI
U.S. Coup Attempt In Venezuela Lacks International Support
The cheapest Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe—for as little as $9,000
Trump Once Wanted to Negotiate With Russia Over Nukes. Then Mueller Happened.
The Democrats and the politics of division
When Feminists Abandon Girls
Why Does the Federal Government Fail So Miserably Most of the Time?
Friday roundup clearence
It’s Negative 24 Degrees and the Wind Isn’t Blowing. This is Why We Need Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power, Not Renewables
South Bend Mayor and Possible Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Decries "Endless War"
Bill Nye’s Latest Climate Warning: The Us Will Have To Grow Its Food In Canada
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs executive order scrapping Common Core
The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.'s Favorite Political Weapon
Whatever Mueller Finds, Gag-Orders and No-Knock Raids Should Appall EVERYONE.
What the Press Missed About Vanguard Founder's Fortune
“John Bogle's life is a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money.”Venezuela Finds Out The Hard Way That Only Bitcoin Is Unconfiscatable
VA announces new rules giving veterans access to private providers
Primetime CNN, MSNBC Ignore Virginia Dems Supporting Late, Post-Term Abortions
PRESIDENT PELOSI? House Speaker holds public bill signings — to compete with Trump?
Noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania and Texas show vote fraud is real
Dems Are Shocked, Shocked To Learn That 'Medicare For All' Outlaws Private Insurance
No-Knock Warrant for Deadly Drug Raid Describes Heroin and a Gun Cops Didn't Find
Yoho’s ‘Zero-for-Zero’ Sugar Plan To Curb Foreign Subsidies Returns
Water From the Air and Power From Trash
“Technology extracts at least 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere at a cost of less than 2 cents per liter.”Politico: Liberals Developing New Phraseology to Hype 'Climate Change'
Europe 'coming apart before our eyes', say 30 top intellectuals
South Carolina Police Hauled in $17 Million Through Civil Asset Forfeiture Over Three Years
France’s Red Scarves: Ready-Made Counter-Protest and New Media Darlings
Howard Schultz Shoots Down Liz Warren Attack With Passionate Defense of the American Dream
An American Nightmare
“Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.”Don't Expect The EU To Cave On May's Brexit Deal Until The Very Last Minute
Chaos has reportedly erupted inside Facebook as employees find themselves unable to open the company's apps on their iPhones
After 4 Cops Shot in Houston, Police Promise to Go After and ‘Track’ Those Who Criticize Police
‘I’m Not Going to Enforce That’: Sheriffs Disobey New Anti-Gun Laws—Refuse to Disarm Citizens
When 'Former' Spies Run Wild, Bad Things Happen
84% of 18-24 year olds don’t know how to change a light bulb… but they think they can run the economy?
Entrepreneurship Lifts Cambodia from the Clutches of Extreme Poverty in a Single Generation
“So long as there is peace and political stability in Cambodia, the future is looking bright for this growing economy.”NANCY? Pelosi botches words, suffers face spasms, confuses Dems, GOP while vowing no border wall funding
Roger Stone faces a gag order. He has a plan to resist it.
The Unseen Costs of Humanitarian Intervention
Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for sharp tax increases on the wealthy: 'We've had it as high as 90 percent'
Oversized headline catchup
Mark Penn: FBI Trump-Russia investigation shows deep state was worse than we thought
The Shutdown Is Providing Evidence Of Private Businesses Making Government Obsolete
The shutdown’s real lesson: Government has taken hostage too much of the economy
Political Nightmares Multiply for Europe Ahead of Davos
Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules
The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity
Supreme Court to Consider Whether Police Can Order Blood Draws from Unconscious Drivers
Public Disdain For Russia Probe Intensifies, Trump Approval Climbs — IBD/TIPP Poll
Trump's Terrible Record on Property Rights
“The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to constitutional property rights.”California prohibits gender-based auto insurance: report
Ladies, expect your rates to go upDemocrats Failing to Control Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green Revolution
If Republicans were smart, they'd keep quiet while the Democrats self-destructSecond Thoughts On Pot
Dems fly to Puerto Rico on chartered jet, meet with lobbyists, see 'Hamilton' as shutdown drags on
Just the Hispanic Caucus.US approved thousands of child bride requests
Oh My: Catholic Archdioceses Admit Wuerl Knew Of McCarrick Abuse Allegation In 2004
Philly residents defy the city’s controversial ‘soda tax’
Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time
5 Things To Do About Our Culture’s Antagonism Against Men
Gab Promotes Bitcoin as 'Free Speech Money' to Over 850,000 Users
The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
“Those households, enterprises and organizations that have no debt, a very low cost basis and a highly flexible, adaptable structure will survive and even prosper.”How Facebook Borrows From the NSA Playbook
5 reasons why there’s still no end to the shutdown
“They can’t end the standoff because Democrats and Republicans are trying to solve different problems”The only acceptable answer: “None of your f(ornicating) business!”
Who gave National Review the power to excommunicate?
Employee at Ford Office Fired After Disagreeing With Transgender Post
Majority Preservation Act
“The first House Democratic bill aims to hamstring opponents.”Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize
This Reporter Took a Deep Look Into the Science of Smoking Pot. What He Found Is Scary.
Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?
Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me
Oversized year change roundup
Union Scum: Seasonal UPS Workers Had Paychecks Taken By Local Teamsters Chapter In Boston
Firm Who Warned America of ‘Russian Meddling’ Caught Running Fake Russia Bot Campaign
Liberal Donor Apologizes For Funding Group That Falsely Claimed Russians Supported Roy Moore In Alabama Senate Race
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics
Imagine if We Paid for Food like We Do Healthcare
How Should Facebook (and Twitter, and YouTube, and...) Decide What Speech To Allow?
The angry lawyer who went on a racist rant that went viral got kicked out of his office space — and his week is only getting worse
Angela Merkel: Nation States Must "Give Up Sovereignty" To New World Order
A year after net-neutrality’s repeal, the Internet is alive and well — and faster than ever
A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe?
NY police say 'Muslim Community Patrol' car not sanctioned by them
New Documents Suggest The Steele Dossier Was A Deliberate Setup For Trump
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement
France: Year's 1st yellow vest event brings tear gas, fires
Eminent Domain: The Wall’s Other Problem
Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It
The New Congress and the Rolling Catastrophe of the US Body Politic
Fact check: What's a 'national emergency,' and can Trump declare one to get his wall?
Movies for Libertarians: Little Pink House
House Lawmakers Prepare Rollout Of Gun Control Proposal
Man Sells Junk Guns To Buy-Back Program, Buys New Gun With Cash
The Vaccination Debate
“Now—we have remarkable new information: a respected pro-vaccine medical expert used by the federal government to debunk the vaccine-autism link, says vaccines can cause autism after all. He claims he told that to government officials long ago, but they kept it secret.”How Medicare For All Could Become the Leading Cause of Death In America
Ginsburg missing Supreme Court arguments for 1st time
Airport Security Lines Grow Across The Nation As TSA Sickout Continues
Holiday week roundup
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Federal judge in Texas rules Affordable Health Care Act unconstitutional
VA Whistleblower Visited By FBI, Sent To Psych Ward, Set To Be Terminated From Job
FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing whistleblower raid
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Face Off With French Police; Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Used On Protesting Yellow Vests
Moscow To Set Up Military Base In Caribbean
The Green New Deal: eco pastiche
Personal Bank Accounts in Venezuela Frozen to “Fight Terrorism”
Every Bubble Is In Search Of A Pin
Will Half Of All Colleges Really Close In The Next Decade?
Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts
Venezuela Joins the Social Credit Club
Million Plus NJ Gun Owners Defy State Law, Refuse to Turn Over Banned Gun Mags
New Jersey Magazine Capacity Restriction: Now What?
New Bill Prohibiting 3D Printed Firearms Introduced to Congress
One Year Ago Today, the FCC Killed the Internet
“Hillary Clinton's $84 Million Money-Laundering Scheme”
The Anatomy Of Hillary Clinton's $84 Million Money-Laundering Scheme
Friday supersized roundup
Thursday super roundup
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Australia screws your privacy
Their arguments among each other lead to pluralism, the American religious virtue that no one wants to talk about.
Read More...Closing Monument Valley
Sunday bonus roundup
Thursday oversized roundup
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“Stossel: Google and Facebook Cross "The Creepy Line"”
Tuesday roundup
The Amazon Deal Shows Why We Must End Corporate Welfare
Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian's Claim That Manafort Visited Assange
Migrant caravan hits tourism
Will Dems Protest Clintons, Too?
Macron Looks to Tax Measures to Curb
Truth Is What We Hide, Self-Serving Cover Stories Are What We Sell
Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?
Revealed: Marriott's 500 Million Hack Came After A String Of Security Breaches
Paris protests reveal fracture between France’s haves and have-nots
Miseducated or Stupid?
I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that's a big problem for social media companies
Is the FBI Raiding Whistleblowers' Homes to Protect Robert Mueller?
I deleted my Twitter account. It's a breeding ground for thoughtlessness and contempt.
Monday roundup
Youngest kids in class may be over-diagnosed with ADHD
Destroyed for Nothing
“The closing of GM’s Detroit plant—erected at the expense of a vibrant urban neighborhood—is a final twist of the knife in a tale of displacement and destruction.”Exclusive: Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media In Search
You can be an advocate or you can be a search engine. You can't honestly be both.Obama Tells Wall Street to Thank him for Making Them so Much Money
The work-from-home doctor will see you now
The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice
The Forgotten Legacy of George H.W. Bush That the Media Won’t Tell You About
Post Office Has Boom Year: Loses More Money Than Ever
San Francisco's Wealthy Leftists Are Making Homelessness Worse
G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire
Texas Bill Would Set Foundation for a “Gun Rights Sanctuary State”
Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns
Supreme Court Deals Unanimous, Welcome Blow to Administrative State in Frog Case
Curtains for the Clintons
The Cities That Amazon HQ2 Left Behind
“Amazon’s yearlong search for the location of its second headquarters was billed as a chance to transform an American city. In reality, it made plain an economic system that increases inequality, monopoly power, and political polarization.”Bonus Sunday roundup
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Minneapolis' Healthy Foods Mandate Screws Over Ethnic Grocers
“The city's Staple Food Ordinance mandates that stores carry products customers don't want.”Buried? Feds to release major climate report day after Thanksgiving
Mises Predicted the "Red Meat Tax"
Why A Revote Is Necessary After Brenda Snipes Resigns Amid Florida’s Midterm Insanity
Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns
Information Attacks against Democracies
Roberts, Trump spar in extraordinary scrap over judges
Wednesday roundup
Supersized Monday roundup
In Democratic circles, anti-Semitism is becoming normal
The ACLU Condemns DeVos's Title IX Reforms, Says These Due Process Safeguards 'Inappropriately Favor the Accused'
“So much for civil liberties.”Household debt hit a record high of $13.5 trillion last quarter
A Warm-Up For 2020: Arizona’s Maricopa County Just Stole The Senate Election
I'm not sure about the allegations, but I'm watching closely.GOP Audits Elections Office In County That Swung To Democrats
Hanging On: Republican Congresswoman Mia Love Is Now Favored To Prevail In Tight Re-Election Bid
Stacey Abrams Acknowledges Loss In Georgia Governor's Race
Is an ‘Internet of Ears’ the next big thing for smart homes?
SAF, NRA File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Initiative 1639
Kansas City Health Department pours bleach on food meant for homeless people
Debra Messing Joins Alyssa Milano, Condemns Anti-Semitic Women's March Leaders
Gridlocked, in Fair Weather and Foul
“New Yorkers demand that the mayor clear the roads—but only in snowstorms.”Bubble Trouble: Seattle-Bellevue Metro Housing Market Goes South
Democrats’ Way Back: Is the Resistance rooted in reality?
Identity Politics and American anti-Semitism
Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Liberal Scorned: The Media Turns on Facebook and Google
Trump backs sentencing reform bill he says will give ex-inmates 'a second chance at life'
The Institutionalization of Social Justice
There's a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men
Loggers support Trump's claim that wildfires caused by 'poor forest management'
Global warming alarmists pissed off by Canadian gov’t report that nukes their narrative about polar bears
Friday roundup
Batkid saved San Francisco five years ago, and his cancer's been in remission ever since
Read More...The inevitable progression of progressive politics
Thursday - November 15, 2018
Freedom of the press
Oversized Wednesday roundup
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Pelosi On Broward County: ‘There Is No Election Fraud,’ Just ‘An Honest Count Of The Vote’
Arizona Democrat's Lead Now 'Insurmountable'
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
❝How Florida elections work—or don’t❞This is What Retail Investors Did with GE This Year as it Plunged
Google’s Highly Cited Scholar Wants a ‘Farewell to Free Speech’
Lhamon’s Confession: She Gamed The Narrative
God and Guns in the Synagogue
Understanding the Global Recession of 2019
Former Hillary Adviser: “Hillary will run again”
‘None of the above’ tops list of potential 2020 Dems, poll shows
Alabama Voters Pass Amendment to Display Ten Commandments at Public Schools
This won't end well. Why is it that certain monotheists define religious freedom as their religion above all others?Should We Abolish the Electoral College?
Judicial Watch sues for records on overlooked House IT scandal
Bonus Sunday mini-roundup
Poll – Dem Choice For 2020 POTUS Race: None Of The Above
Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point
“Last week brought new revelations regarding Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration’s effort to freeze politically disfavored businesses out of the financial system.”U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service
The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
Florida Sec. of State Orders Recount for Both Senate and Governor’s Races
“The mandatory recount occurs if the winning candidate’s margin is less than 0.5 percent”Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?
Proof positive that these Dems were against Jeff Sessions before they were for him
Feinstein Urged Obama To Use Presidential Power To Limit Immigration: ‘No Legislation Necessary’
Friday roundup
As His Final Move in Office, Jeff Sessions Limits Use of Court Settlements to Reform Rotten Police Departments
I Think I Have Lost the Plot -- When Did AG Jeff Sessions Become a Liberal Icon?
What Causes a Normal Election to Spiral into Tribal Warfare?
Senate Judiciary Committee Report: 45 Interviews, Zero Evidence To Corroborate Claims Against Kavanaugh
China’s president vows to lower tariffs, increase imports amid tensions with US
Harvard's Racist Diversity
Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
Keith Ellison, Farrakhan groupie and go-to Congressman for anti-Israel activists, elected Minnesota AG
Note to Resistance media: The First Amendment wasn’t written to protect a reporter’s right to grandstand in the White House
Devastating wildfire blazes through California town: 'The community of Paradise is destroyed'
Florida Official Overseeing Vote Count Destroyed Ballots, Accused of Not Removing Dead Voters from Rolls
McSally vs. Sinema ballot update: About 9,600 votes separate the candidates, with Sinema in the lead
ABC, NBC Ignore Antifa Mob Assaulting Home of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
Saudi prince MBS tells US evangelicals the world should focus on Iran, not him
Thusday roundup
Illegal Migrants Boast of Aiding Democrats’ Campaigns
Funny how the rule of law is sacrificed to get the "right" people electedThree European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Invasion
America Goes to War
“Fighting Russia, China and al-Qaeda simultaneously requires more money”Fmr Assistant Secretary of Treasury Explains What The Mid-Term Elections Are Really About
“The establishment is seeking to make a massive statement this election cycle by punishing all those inside Washington who've ever challenged them.”Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats best chance to defeat Trump in 2020
Right-wing activist group films undercover video of Kyrsten Sinema, staffers
Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
6 Questions About The Huge CIA Blunder That Allowed Enemies To Kill 70 U.S. Spies
CIA's ‘surveillance state’ is operating against us all
This Ousted Judge Just Released All the Juvenile Defendants Who Promised Him They Wouldn't Kill Anybody
“He was releasing everybody. Apparently he was saying that's what the voters wanted.”Cannabis Industry Cheers Sessions' Departure at DOJ
3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better
Tuesday roundup - election day
If money was really speech, there would be no legal limit to campaign donations.
Read More...Oversize Monday roundup
The Gods Do Not Vote
Friday roundup
Changing the Rules
Controlling the internetWhy Is Social Media So Toxic?
Have we really wiped out half of all animals?
If Dems win the House, ‘climate committee’ will return – seeking energy taxes
Napolitano Teaches Basic Civics to Desperate ‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts
It wouldn't be the first time Trump said something outrageous to set the discussionWe Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent
How Trump Is Winning The Midterm Elections
Pakistan acquits Christian woman on death row
Surveillance Cameras Can Identify Anyone by “Talking to Their Cellphones”
Everything you need to know about economics you can learn in the pet food aisle
'Stalked within your own home': Woman says abusive ex used smart home technology against her
If You Liked 'Axis of Evil,' You're Gonna Love 'Troika of Tyranny'
Foxconn: Failure & Fraud
Thursday roundup
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Civility 101: James Cromwell Says ‘There Will Be Blood’ if Dems Lose Midterms
If this is true, why hold elections?State-Backed Digital Currency Offers Nothing for Canadians
Is This Worse Than '68?
Moving The Goalposts: IPCC Secretly Redefines what ‘Climate’ means
Bolsonaro is not a fascist
Dad at McDonald's with kids shoots and kills masked gunman who opened fire
Why Halloween Is America’s Most Neighborhood-Nurturing Holiday
Hillary Clinton Drops Super Racist Comment During Event
Can you imagine any Republican getting away with this?The Misguided Rabbis of Twitter
“Calls to excommunicate pro-Trump Jews are not simply wrong. They’re poison.”Election predictions
Why polls probably aren't workingFeds Order Google To Hand Over A Load Of Innocent Americans' Locations
Not guilty, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So much for the "right" of privacy.New Research Confirms We Got Cholesterol All Wrong
“The U.S. government has pushed a lot of bad nutrition advice over the years. Maybe it should stop advising us on what to eat.”Warmists and Skeptics Should Agree That This is The Real Scandal in Climate Science
Oversized Monday roundup
Report: 3,000 SNAP Retailers Used Social Security Numbers of Dead People During Obama Administration
China Targets Control Over Internet of Things for Spying, Business
Once Again, NBC Sits On Story Related to Sexual Misconduct Until After It Matters
Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate
'#WalkAway' movement renouncing liberalism marches through nation's capital
One of the Best Arguments Against Blocking Speech on Social Media....
“...is so we become aware of who might be dangerous.”Defensible Space
““Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.”Deficits Do Matter: Debt Payments Will Consume Trillions of Dollars in Coming Years
U.S.-bound migrants enter Guatemala, others clash at border
Another 3000 strong caravanIs Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
Murder in Pittsburgh and the Targeting of Alternative Social Media
Voters in Oregon Have the Opportunity to Create 10 “Gun Sanctuary” Counties
New Hampshire Privacy Amendment on the Ballot
Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
Mexico offers caravan migrants benefits to stay; thousands refuse
Virtue-signaling and derangement in the wake of a massacre
Approval voting
Fargo Considers Whether to Turn Local Elections into a Voting System of Likes (and Dislikes)
“Measure 1 would introduce "approval voting" to the city, meaning voters wouldn't have to abandon independent and third-party choices.”““It's called "approval voting," and residents of Fargo (population: 120,000) are being asked in a ballot initiative if they'd like to be the first municipality in the United States to try it.
Rather than simply voting for one candidate, voters in this system are asked to approve or oppose each person on the ballot. The votes are all tallied, and the candidate with the most approval votes is declared the winner. Much like Maine's ranked-choice instant runoff voting system, this approach doesn't lock voters into supporting a single candidate. It thus allows voters to support third-party and independent candidates if they like them, without having to "throw their vote away" or spoil the chances of a major-party candidate they also support.
Approval voting is a pet project of The Center for Election Science, and the group has been involved in the education campaign in Fargo running up to the election. Polls show that support for this change is high, twice that of those who oppose the change. But more than a third of those polled say that they are undecided, so the center has some work ahead.””
— Scott Shackford
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Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Ecuador says Assange must sort out own issues with Britain
When Will Politicians Admit Social Security Is on a Collision Course with Math?
FBI: 'Pipe Bomb-Like' Devices Mailed To Prominent Dems Had 'Sulfur Substance,' Digital Clock, 'Harmless' White Powder
Not meant to explode. A hoax or a warning? I'm leaning towards hoax.What a bunch of idiots
““A few days ago the creator of the most famous consumer ‘credit score’ in the United States announced a major overhaul in how it rates borrowers.”Pentagon sends 800 troops to US-Mexico border as migrant caravan advances
The Feds Just Hit A Notorious Swatter With 46 New Charges. He Intends To Plead Guilty
Extending the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Undermines Tax Reform
Criticizing a Drag Show Earned This Catholic College Student a Visit From the Title IX Coordinator
Their Ideology Is Envy And Their Policy Is Theft
Los Angeles Owes Billions in Pension Debts. Now It's Asking Citizens for Permission to Run a Bank.
Foxconn’s Predatory Reliance on Eminent Domain
European Court: Woman's Defamation of Muhammad Doesn't Count as Free Expression
CEI Expert Says EU Proposal to Ban Single-Use Consumer Plastic Items "Won't Help the Environment"
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An exclusive look at Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids money
Where does the money come from? Who decides who gets money and who does not? How is this not buying votes?A Law Intended to Protect Crime Victims Is Being Used to Shield the Identities of Police Officers
Unaccountable authority will be abused.Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience – you have no effing idea what you’re talking about
Politico Report Says Russiagaters Should Prepare To Kiss My Ass
Methods and Tricks Used to Create and Perpetuate the Human-caused Global Warming Deception
Divided Democrats struggle to answer Trump's claims on migrant caravan
Watching a Country Make a Fool of Itself
Saudi dissidents fear 'long arm' of state after Khashoggi murder
A Texas Police Officer Is Charged After Mishandling 130 Sex Crime Cases
Georgia Mayor Has Plan To Round Up Town's Sex Offenders on Halloween
California company that hires protesters is accused of extortion
Previously Deported Illegal Aliens Join Caravan: ‘It’s Time for Me to Go Back’
Judge bars New Hampshire proof of residency requirement for new voters
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Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment
TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening
Guilty until proven innocentPsyched at The American Psychological Association
Don't you dare question the expertsFacebook Blacklists Left-Wing Site that Praised Purge of Infowars
Unaccountable censorshipEthanol Boondoggle
“Ethanol fuel is a boondoggle that benefits Big Agra, corn farmers and refiners and no one else.”Saudis Admit Khashoggi Murder - Offer Weak Cover-Up
An Ohio University Student Said She Received Death Threats. The Police Think She Sent Them Herself.
Caravan of migrants swells to 7,000 and stretches more than a mile long as they continue marching towards the U.S. border
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Headlines that don't merit their own entry
The truth about electric cars
When a DNA Test Reveals Your Daughter Is Not Your Biological Child
Will U.S. Success In Cutting Greenhouse Gases Kill The Paris Climate Deal?
Honduras's paid caravan 'refugees' exposed as frauds by Venezuela's real refugees
Emails Show Obama FDIC Struggled With Legal Basis For Operation Choke Point
Texas Democrats Caught Mailing Pre-Filled Voter Registrations To Non-Citizens
Elizabeth Warren's Other Cherokee Scandal: Her Fight Against Tribal Sovereignty
Khashoggi misinformation highlights a growing number of fake fact-checkers
Migrant caravan clashes with Mexican police, waits on bridge at Guatemalan-Mexican border
Black Trump Supporters Declare Their Independence From The Democratic Party
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Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test Is ‘Useless,’ ‘Inappropriate And Wrong’ Cherokee Nation Official Says
U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud
Saudis said ready to concede writer was slain in botched interrogation
A White Woman Falsely Accused a Black 9-Year-Old Boy of Groping Her
“Surveillance footage disproves her allegations—and reminds everyone not to automatically believe victims.”How An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech That Tracks Almost Every American
The Next Generation Of Democratic Leaders Wants To Move Up, But The Baby Boomers Are In The Way
I don't usually cite BuzzFeed, but this one is dead on.Washington Post: “Double or Triple” Fuel Prices to Solve the Climate Crisis
‘60 Minutes’ Was Outmatched by Trump (Column)
The FBI Doesn’t Want Users To Know Who Hacked Facebook
On Eve of Harvard Bias Trial, Dueling Rallies Show Rifts Among Asian-Americans
More Entrepreneurship Would Help Progressive Causes, But Progressives Do Not Understand It At All
Facebook Slams Independent Voices With Latest Political Purge
Understanding "Brazil’s Donald Trump"
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Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016
How about that? They paid more than their fair share.Gore: Jet Stream 'Getting Loopier and Wavier,' So 'We Have a Global Emergency'
Al Gore is capitalizing on the news and fear. The jet stream hasn't changed.Trump snubs Feinstein, Harris to nominate conservative judges to liberal 9th Circuit
Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’
Italian Interior Minister prepares legislature for self-defence: “No trial for those who defend their property”
‘Bitcoin and Guns, That’s the Only Way to Save This Country’
From the UkraineLibertarian and Police Accountability Pages Deleted in Facebook Purge
Golly gee whilikers, could Facebook have an agenda?Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July
500,000 Afghan migrants are ready to enter Europe via unprotected Turkish-Greek border area
Technically, isn't that an invasion?Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer 'law and order' march in Portland
Dozens of Witches Gather to Place Public Hex on Brett Kavanaugh
They have decided that he is guilty and they are going to be very public about itBlack Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Home
Venezuela Has Lost 13% of its Population in a Mass Exodus from Socialism
Fight Fizzles Before Police Arrive; Cops Start Tasing and Arresting People Anyway
Violence, Public Anger Erupts In China As Home Prices Slide
Lawsuit: KSP trooper attacks man after Facebook post
Strange doings in KentuckyFusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in 'real legal jeopardy', GOP investigator says
Toronto's Sick Kids hospital preparing policy for euthanasia for youth over 18 that could one day apply to minors
Human 2.0 Is Almost Here: The Transhumanism Agenda Just Went Mainstream
The view from Saudi Arabia as world holds its breath
“With Saudi Arabia one of Britain's closest allies, diplomats are treating the alleged death of Jamal Khashoggi very carefully.”Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages
This won't end wellHow the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred
Congress Can’t Create an Independent and Unaccountable New Branch of Government
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was designed to be unaccountable.Wind & Sun
The down side to wind power
““As the world begins its large-scale transition toward low-carbon energy sources, it is vital that the pros and cons of each type are well understood and the environmental impacts of renewable energy, small as they may be in comparison to coal and gas, are considered.
In two papers — published today in the journals Environmental Research Letters and Joule — Harvard University researchers find that the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius.””
— Leah Burrows
Remember, the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine. This means that wind power and solar power are at best supplemental power sources. There has to be something else to provide baseline power.
Given that, we also need to acknowledge the costs of power sources.
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WATCH: #HimToo: Neil Patrick Harris Recalls Proposition From Whoopi Goldberg When He Was A Mid-Teen
So why isn't Goldberg being attacked over hitting on a teen?Democrats agree to confirmations of 15 Trump judges
"Principle" bows to politicsSometimes I Just Go Full Potato
“By engaging in this public surge and display of unfettered hate – for there is no other name for it – they are revealing themselves for what they really are: extreme radicals and bullies willing to do anything, including burn down the house while you are in it, to get what they want. They do not believe society’s laws and rules apply to them, because they regularly and intentionally (or stupidly) misinterpret the Law of the Land. They are encouraged to do so, and to traipse as close to the edge of anarchy as possible to get what they want, with no thought to the consequences.”I Won’t Support An Elizabeth Warren Presidency While She Appropriates My Identity
So the author would support a liar as long as she stops lying about what's important to the authorWe’re Not on the Brink of Civil War. Here’s Why.
How Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Finally United The Right Under Trump
Sad to say, totally accurate.Six Months Later, People Are Finally Realizing That FOSTA Actually Is Putting Lives At Risk
Top Ten Alternative Media Sites BANNED on Facebook and Twitter
First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were
What Sears’ Bankruptcy Says About Amazon’s Future
Posers, the lot of them
We “refuse to be silent any longer”: magic as self-care after Kavanaugh
They don't want justice. The want attention. They don't know the least little thing about magick. But they know how to put on a show.
Exactly what is it that either Trump or Kavanaugh have done to threaten them?
It all boils down to putting conservative judges on the bench. Eighty-four so far.
The implications are terrifying. It means that most progressives know that they only way they can have a progressive society is by controlling the judiciary. Not by getting people elected, but by having a moral authority with the final say.
I don't like conservatives either. But the actions of the progressives are driving me away.
And progressives still can't point to one thing that has been done and say, "Look, here is the threat!"
It's about who is on the bench. Not about what was said. Not about what was done. But about who sits in judgement.
That is tyranny.
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Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Study: 80% of Americans Believe Political Correctness Is a Problem
Trump's Trade War Isn't Working Because Tariffs Hurt Americans
The $15 Minimum Wage Is Turning Hard Workers Into Black Market Lawbreakers: New at Reason
Rand Paul Reveals Media Hid Key Detail About GOP Baseball Attacker
Obama had secret plan to validate Clinton victory if Trump didn't accept it: report
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Study: Economic Boom Largely Ignored as TV's Trump Coverage Hits 92% Negative
The First Amendment protects your right to not be a rat.
Two Students Hooked Up. It Was Clearly Consensual. He Still Spent $12,000 Defending Himself.
With corruption like this, it’s no wonder so many pension funds are insolvent
Antifa Arsonists Vandalize Pro-Trump Truck — THEN TORCH IT (Video)
Antifa Shut Down Major Intersection, Threaten Citizens with Violence If They Don’t Obey
Pennsylvania's Libertarian Senate Candidate Gets Invited, Then Snubbed From Televised Debate
Fearmongering Article Falsely Claims 'Halloween Is Christmas for Sex Offenders'
Data Showing Navy's Poor Aviation Safety Record Disappears From Website
Sex Workers Pioneered the Early Internet—and It Screwed Them Over
That sign telling you how fast you’re driving may be spying on you
A Florida Man Faces Prison for Making Grills Without a License
What Seems To Be Going on At @Tesla, and The Risks Of Buying (and Shorting) $TSLA Stock
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Do Half of All Marriages Really End in Divorce?
“This outdated statistic has many young people hesitant to tie the knot.”NATO to Deploy 45,000 Troops Near Russian Border—Calling it a “Defensive” Move
China confirms detention of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei
U.S. not invited to Canada’s upcoming trade meeting — only ‘like minded’ nations allowed
How the mushroom dream of a ‘long-haired hippie’ could help save the world’s bees
ACLU's Opposition to Kavanaugh Sounds Its Death Knell
BOMBSHELL: audit of global warming data finds it riddled with errors
Politico: 'After Failing to Stop Kavanaugh, Dems Wonder If It's Time to Be More Ruthless'
"Next time they should just murder the nominee."Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley attack urging tech giants to end the delusion that it's making the world a better place
Trump Isn’t a Self-Made Man. His Wealth Is the Product of Years of Government Subsidies.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Eliminate' Electoral College, It 'Undermines' Democracy
There is one thing good I can't deny about the Electoral College, it kept Al Gore and Hillary Clinton the Presidency.IPCC Report Reaches Dire Conclusions Based on Models that Overstate Rate of Warming
The Democrats' Complaints About the Senate Being Undemocratic Are Pure Whining and Excuse-Making: Here's Why
Witch hunt
Trauma and Truth
““That idea—that the presumption of innocence, fundamental to common law, should be suspended for accusations of sexual assault—has been the cornerstone of the campus-rape bureaucracy; during the Kavanaugh hysteria, that conceit jumped out of the ivory tower into the world at large. It will be no easy task to put it back. In preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the #BelieveSurvivors mandate, as well as its corollary: the claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don’t report their assaults, that’s because the “social and emotional” costs are too high, as California congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.””
— Heather Mac Donald
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Privacy and a new web?
Opportunity for Amerindians
Bet you didn't know what Facebook is doing
Fight back
Man attempts to kidnap 11-year-old girl, friends throw hot coffee on him and escape, Michigan police say
❝❝\A group of four girls, ages 11 to 14, noticed a man followed them as they left a gas station convenience store in Millington, Michigan, last week. They crossed the street. He did, too. Then, the man, identified as 22-year-old Bruce Hipkins, grabbed the 11-year-old girl in the group, Millington Police Department Chief Jason Oliver told USA TODAY.
“He grabbed the youngest and said: 'You’re coming with me,'" Oliver said.
No, she wasn't.
"The girls turned around and started punching him," Oliver said. "They threw coffee, slurpees. They used whatever they had.”
Then, Hipkins attempted to take another girl, grabbing her by the hair, Oliver said. The girls continued pummeling him, and he eventually ran away. ❞❞
— Ashley May
Vote for the label
Vermont governor's race: Christine Hallquist, Phil Scott win primaries
““Vermont Democrats made history Tuesday by nominating Christine Hallquist as the first transgender individual to be a major party candidate for governor.””
— April McCullum
That's the first paragraph.
According to the article the transgender label is more important than the candidates qualifications. The label is more important that the candidate's character. The label is more important than anything you might consider.
This is the inevitable result of identify politics. The label must transcend all other reasons.
Sadly, this is the result of party politics too.
Politics is about controlling other people. You must not be allowed to make up your own mind. You might do it wrong.
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Scientists say the dream of unlimited clean energy is about to come true
At this point this is a well informed guess, but it could be huge. The ramifications of shifting from a petroleum based economy to a fusion one is unprecedented. Also, I want helium airships the size of stadiums.John Bolton’s History of Tirades and Dirty Tricks
Realist or loose cannon?Young Anti-Gun Demagogues Copy Their Elders
The stakes can't be higher. I think it's going to backfire. Pun intended.Report: FBI Officials Dragged Feet Breaking into Terrorist's Phone to Try to Force Apple to Weaken Encryption
Another sign of a runaway bureaucracy.Rep. Thomas Massie: 'Anybody That Voted for the Omnibus Committed an Appalling Act'
There's a problem when no one is allowed to ask questions before the bill is signed into lawNYT Tries To Trip Up Roseanne Barr On Trump Support, Fails
Think about this. The Paper Of Record went after Rosanne Barr for a political opinion and flubbed itStormy Daniels Lawyer Michael Avenatti Says She ‘Would Consider’ Settlement With Trump
This means she knows she flubbed it, regardless or what happened.Facebook Is Deeply Enmeshed In Education Data Mining And It’s Probably Affecting YOUR Children
It's not going to stop there. Facebook is a data mining company. Count on any "regulation" of FB to protect the data mining, even in the classroom.The Anti-Gun Movement’s Use of Child Crusaders Debases National Discourse
They use children so their opponents won't tell the kids to shut up and let the adults speak.Privileged Whites Leave Inner-City Minorities Defenseless With Gun Control Push
“As the privileged white community of Parkland, FL spreads its message of universal disarmament following a high school shooting, the voices of inner-city communities are not being heard as the debate continues.”Hemp Farming Bill Hits US Senate Next Week With Powerful Bipartisan Support
Hemp used to be the industrial fiberWhy Are States So Strapped for Cash? There Are Two Big Reasons
“The proportion of state and local tax revenues dedicated to Medicaid and public pensions is the highest since the 1960s”name redacted trial: Pulse gunman's father revealed as FBI informant, but judge won't dismiss case
I am really beginning to wonder just what is going on at the FBI15 Years of War: To Whose Benefit?
Yes, it's been fifteen years. Is the nation safer?Wednesday roundup
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CDC Admits Rx Opioid Deaths ‘Significantly Inflated’
Imagine that, government lying to create a crisisHouse passes controversial legislation giving the US more access to overseas data
Secretly going after your privacyEx-Nobel Secretary Admits Obama’s Prize Was A Mistake
It was all for showThink you know Mary Magdalene? Think again
This could be an amazing film. I hope it finds and American distributerWhat Are Zombie Retail Stores Really Worth: Answers Emerge
When the commercial real estate bubble bursts, it's going to hurtPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He’s Exceeding Expectations.
Great news and demonstrating how to do it rightRivals and consumers will rein in Facebook, not regulation
Don't fall for government's promise. Contrast with It’s Time to Break Up FacebookFriended: How the Obama Campaign Connected with Young Voters
It was acceptable for Obama, not for TrumpYouTube Suspends Major Gun Manufacturer, Bans Instructional Gun Videos
It is a private platform after all. But what do you think will be off limits tommorrow?Scott Walker Is Making It Harder to Receive Welfare in Wisconsin. Will This Become a Nationwide Blueprint?
I do not believe government should do welfare.Jann Wenner says MeToo suffers from absence of due process
He's rightHOGG WILD! David Hogg Rallies Democrats in DC: “If You Listen Real Close You Can Hear the People in Power Shaking” (VIDEO)
This is manufactured.Reforming Dodd-Frank, for Real
“Rather than adopting a recent Senate bill, Congress should reconsider last year’s House measure, which is much more supportive of free-market discipline.”Lawsuits Pile Up As #DeleteFacebook Movement Spreads
Facebook is a data-mining companyRural hospital shutdowns force communities to take care of their own
A real healthcare crisisThe Cambridge Analytica Scandal: An Elitist Delusion
They want to control you, and not just the RepublicansHillary fundraiser causes a stink with the DNC
Hillary Clinton wants the 2020 nominationWill the Democrats Blow It in 2020?
“The question is whether the Democrats will lead their party on a giddy march to the left.”Earth Hour or Human Achievement Hour: Which is the enlightened choice?
I have it on good authority that most of the people reading this are human.Thursday supersized roundup
Survey Says: Politicized Sports, Entertainment Driving Viewers Away
But some progressives have been saying it doesn't make a make a significant differenceDigitalships and Double-Standards
Document drop: Another fatal FBI fumble in Florida
What happens when diversity is more important than public safetyThe Schooling of David Hogg
Public spectacle doesn't mean you'll get respect. See also Dear David Hogg, You’re a Lying, Opportunistic, Insufferable Little Toe Rag
California judge holds climate change ‘tutorial’ ahead of landmark case against oil companies
This alone should be enough to show the judge's biasNOAA Data Tampering Approaching 2.5 Degrees
Completely rewriting climate historyEU reveals a digital tax plan that could penalize Google, Amazon and Facebook
The important thing is NOT that the EU is going after these companies. The important thing is that "traditional businesses" pay 23.2% in taxes.Why Trump Is Right to Reject the Paris Climate Agreement
It was never about reducing CO2. It was about the United States paying through the nose.The Problem With Social Justice Today -- Dividing Rather than Unifying
Labels, pronouns, and power over speech.Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed
I still think the Obama and Clinton Russian connections should be investigated.Congress Is Still Ignoring Its Spending Problem as Deadline Looms for $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill
“Four out of five voters agree that Washington has a spending problem, but a new omnibus spending bill will add yet more to the national debt.”Freedom-Loving Parents, Rejoice: Utah Approves Free-Range Kids Bill
Let kids be kidsThe sad hysteria of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Targeting conservative people and groupsElizabeth Warren’s Unaccountable Federal Agency Backfires on Her: New at Reason
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional. All government agencies should answer to Congress.More California Cities Seek to Defy ‘Sanctuary State’ as Revolt Spreads
This could make the succession movement very interestingFrance: Toward Total Submission to Islam, Destruction of Free Speech
All other things being equal, the side that can't stand dissent is usually wrong.Syrup Smugglers Take on the Maple Mafia
The free market is economic activity between consenting adults. Funny how governments don't like that, "for your own good" of course.CalPERS retirees are suddenly worried about their pensions. What happened?
Government took too much power and mismanaged the assetsFired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say
I'm not even sure this is legal against a sitting Attorney GeneralFOSTA Passes Senate, Making Prostitution Ads a Federal Crime Against Objections from DOJ and Trafficking Victims
Another headline grab for politicosHalf her humanity
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Israeli officials meet Qatari, Saudi and UAE counterparts at White House
With any other president, this would be front page news. North Korea, the Middle East, Russia. So what exactly did Obama do for his Nobel Peace Prize?Girl Scouts Write Anti-Smoking Legislation in Colorado
“A government for the children, of the children, by the children.”FBI Insiders Blow Whistle on Massive Las Vegas Cover Up; Agents Told Not to Investigate Key Evidence Including ISIS Terror Link
Not sure this is true, but we still don't know what happened. Somebody is covering stuff upHungary “Ready to Fight” United Nations Plan to Facilitate Global Mass Migration
Refugee migration was a total disaster for the EU, even if the elites don't want to admit itThe Federal Government's TIGER Program Splurges on Sidewalks in Rural Florida and Recreational Boat Ramps in Iowa
“It was supposed to be a temporary stimulus program. Instead it's an engine for pork.”Drunk History: When the Government Banned Female Bartenders
When government meddles, it costs freedomThe World Is Better Than Ever. Why Are We Miserable?
Something to think aboutStores use secret shopper score to track and decline returns
The article tries to sell this a Really Bad Thing, but really it's just the companies acting in self-defense.REVEALED: Obama Campaign Hired Fusion GPS To Investigate Romney
The same company that the Clinton campaign hired to for the Russia dossier,Last photographs of Stephen Hawking emerge showing him enjoying a night out in Mayfair as his children pay tribute to the professor's 'brilliance and humour' after he dies peacefully aged 76
What a brilliant man and a remarkable life3 Questions Congress Should Answer Before Bailing Out Obamacare
I don't think it should be bailed out. The free market would lower costs dramaticallyThe Meaning of Freedom
“I learned that to be strong wasn’t good enough; you had to use your strength to help those who were unable to help themselves. I learned that it is better to build than to destroy, and violence, even amongst warriors, is always a last resort.”Socialism Is Not Now, Nor Has It Ever Been, A Friend To Women
Freedom rests in choice and the free marketMonday roundup
We’re Letting Mentally Ill People Walk Around. Do You Like The Results?
The problem is what do you do with the people? And who decides what is mentally ill?Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether
There are reasons I don't like calling the Democrat party the "Democratic" partyA Heretical Plan for Cutting Spending on Education
“Government at all levels fuels an educational arms race through lavish and indiscriminate funding.”Going to College Is Selfish
“Let's stop pretending education is a public good.”The Women's March Has a Farrakhan Problem
“The group refuses to be accountable for a high-level alliance with an open anti-Semite.”The Psychology of Progressive Hostility
Excellently writtenThere is No "Free Trade"--There Is Only the Darwinian Game of Trade
I don't like it but he has a pointVisa Refuses to Cut Ties with Semi-Automatic Rifle Manufacturers
Good for themThe Campus Victim Cult
“A dialogue about why colleges and universities have become so hostile to freedom of thought”There Would Have Been No Soviet Communism If Not For Western Technology
Something to considerCapitalism Has Proven to Be the Best System For Feminism
Feminism could never have existed except in a capitalist systemIn 45 days, lawmakers pushed to expand and assert their power here, there and everywhere
Republicans can't be trusted with power eitherFreedom of Speech Should Protect All Opinion
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‘Barbarism’: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.
Freedom of speech also means freedom not to speakCIA Still Arguing Its Official Leaks To Journalists Shouldn't Be Subject To FOIA Requests
Codswallop. It's just because they don't want citizens taking a close look at their propagandaSanctuary Showdown: The Feds Sue California
Article I Section 8 gives Congress control of immigration. This is not a "states rights" thing, the Tenth Amendment does not applyGeek Squad's Relationship with FBI Is Cozier Than We Thought
I wonder if Best Buy's customers knew that the FBI was peeking into their computersGun crackdowns have already led to too many federal abuses
Government WILL abuse power. The only long term answer is reducing the power that government has.The Deleterious Effects of Our Tabloid Discourse
It's screwing with our thinking, says the guy typing blurbs for headlinesSouth Africa Is Prioritizing White Land Confiscation Over Critical Water Supply Needs
So who will be blamed for the drought?The Ever-Changing ‘Russia Narrative’ Is False Public Manipulation
Taxpayer funded no lessWhich Democrat is obstructing confirmation on Trump’s openly-gay nominee for Ambassador to Germany?
So now it's not enough that he is gay and very qualified? So much for looking out for minoritiesCNN, MSNBC Journalists Give Trump Glowing Praise for North Korea Move as Obama Flacks Lose It
These were the same journalists who a few months ago were saying that Trump was a clown who was endangering the world.The Robot Replacement for Fast Food Workers Has Finally Arrived
If it costs less than a salary would and is more reliable, this is the wave of the futureMedicare’s New Day
“The program’s privately managed plans provide quality care while controlling costs—and winning political support.”These communities sued Big Oil over climate change; then the backlash began
One lawsuit begats others. Irony abounds.Thursday roundup
Malthusian Specter Pushed Back Further: Crops Engineered to Use 25 Percent Less Water
Welcome news, especially in less developed parts of the WorldRand Paul, on Trump: ‘I Think He Will Sign Audit the Fed if We Can Get it to Him’
Noble goal, but I am not sure Trump will go alongWhat Forfeiture Reforms? New Hampshire Police Bypass State Law, Keep Taking People's Stuff
“The Department of Justice's loophole lets officials seize property without having to get a conviction.”Trump DOJ sues California over 'interference' with immigration enforcement
Tenth Amendment advocate that I am, the states have no power over immigrationSeven House Democrats Have Direct Ties To Notorious Jew-Hater Farrakhan, Republicans Call for Their Resignations
“If seven House members had ties to David Duke, they would be forced to resign in disgrace. This is no different.”DOJ to give Oversight panel more 'Fast and Furious' documents
This SHOULD years agoRyanair Threatens to Ground Flights and ‘Prove’ Brexit Voters Wrong, ‘No More Cheap Holidays’
So why should customers use this airline?Florida Senate OKs bill for year-round Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Savings Time is unnecessary. A state doesn't need Congressional approval to change. There are some really silly regulations requiring states to go through the Department of Transportation.Silicon Valley and the ABCs of Diversity
Sometimes diversity isn't the best standardBen Carson Nixes ‘Inclusive’ And ‘Discrimination Free’ Clause From HUD Statement
When it conflicts with the job, diversity should take a back seatWant Boys to Become Men? Teach Them the Classical Virtues
The real answer to "toxic masculinity"Jerry Brown accuses Jeff Sessions of lying, using California for a ‘political stunt’
Who is breaking the law?What If We Operated Auto Garages Like We Do Public Schools?
We should rethink thingsWednesday Roundup
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China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe
Will China demand censorship across the globe? A free internet is humanity's last, best hope.Schumer Will Vote ‘No’ On Judicial Nominee Because He Is White
“The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary. Quattlebaum replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama nominees who were African American.”Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say
There isn't a trend. See also School Shootings Have Declined Dramatically Since The 1990S. Does It Really Make Sense To Militarize Schools?Google tried censoring 'gun' shopping searches. It backfired
Someone didn't think it through. Well, it was a bad decision anyway, but the unintended consequences…The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All
“A 1989 shooting at a Cal. schoolyard began the national "assault weapon" issue. It was a consequence of law enforcement failure.”More cover-up questions
Remember Seth Rich?SHOCKER: Companies Pulling NRA Support Totally Backfires
People are taking the NRA boycott seriously. Just not the way the virtue signalers hoped.Obamacare: Will States do the Job that Congressional Republicans Have Failed to Do?
All sorts of implications hereSeven Feet Of Snow In Northern California Puts Screeching Halt To State’s Drought
You mean climate fixes itself?Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?
This needs to be in the gun control (victim disarmament) discussion. Remember this The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing GroupsHigh School Teacher Suspended For Pro-Gun Comments On Parkland Shooting
Thou shalt not dissentHow Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts Into Dickensian “Debt Collection Mills”
“Federal law outlawed debt prisons in 1833, but lenders, landlords and even gyms and other businesses have found a way to resurrect the Dickensian practice.”YouTube Purge Begins=> Top Conservative YouTube Sites Taken Down in February Sweep
Thou shalt not dissent OR criticizeReclaiming “Liberal”
In 1900 America, "liberal" meant what "libertarian" means todayLaura Moser Shakes Off the DCCC
This might be a glimpse of what happens next. See also When DCCC Calls, Hang Up the PhoneNeoNotes — news bias and agendas
Friday supersized roundup
Florida vote to post 'In God we Trust' in schools prompts a question: Whose God?
Why does government think it can choose someone's religion?Behind name redacted Rampage: Obama's School-Leniency Policy
DisturbingDick’s Sporting Goods Bans Some Rifle Sales…Again
Virtue signaling…againGoogle is censoring shopping results for AR-15, handguns and more
Chilling. Do you really want Google deciding what you can see on the 'net?A rural county legalized marijuana farms. It took their tax money – then voted to ban them
Literally taxes are theftThe IRS Is Coming for Your Passports
This is probably seven types of illegal.Police Unions Defend Bad Cops Who Do Awful Things. Why Won't They Defend Broward County Deputy?
Follow the money‘Chappaquiddick’ to Open Film Festival… on Martha’s Vineyard
Beyond surrealStop treating the Southern Poverty Law Center like it's a respectable and responsible organization
The SPLC is heavily biased against conservatives, and moderately biased against libertariansChina banned the letter N from the internet after people used it to attack Xi Jinping's plan to rule forever
Why we need a free and open internetStill More Bad News (For Democrats) About The GOP Tax Cuts
Blacks, Hispanics, and women hit hardestKoch Brothers Group Launches Ads Against Tax Breaks for Amazon HQ2
Why should any company be shielded from the taxes that other companies pay?The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing Groups
Yes, it's BuzzFeed which I don't like using as a source. It's also accurate.Some Billings students are opposed to planned walk-out
Funny how only one side of the debate is hitting the national mediaFacebook Keeps Secret Files on EVERYONE Including Non-Users – Here’s How to See Yours
Exaggerating, but not by muchWhat Mueller Has and What He’s Missing
There is very little doubt that this was an attempt to derail an elected PresidentDerry business turning away Republican customers
If the tables were turned, don't you think a business would be shamed into servicing Democrat voters?Italian Voters Set to Shake European Union to Its Core as Anti Mass Migration and Euroscepticism Dominate Election
What? You mean Brexit was not an isolated event?Trump the 'Big Second Amendment Person' Becomes 'Trump the Gun Grabber'
“Trump's embrace of gun control is consistent with his views before he ran for president.”Pittsburgh Still Won't Let Anyone See Its Amazon Bid
There's no reason voters shouldn't know the detailsShocker! Rent Control Makes Housing Scarcer and More Expensive
“San Francisco rent control reduced affected rental housing by 15 percent while boosting citywide rents by 5 percent”How can a place with 58,000 homeless people continue to function?
Excellent questionWhat Has Capitalism Ever Done For Us?
Capitalism holds the roots of freedom'Get on the Right Side of History': A Phrase G.K. Chesterton Would Have Understood
“Telling others to 'get on the right side of history' is not just a form of intellectual bullying.”Thursday roundup
Wednesday roundup
Supersized Monday roundup
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13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability In Kids
The simplest solution is allowing more private schools unbound by most government regulationShooting Survivor: CNN Gave Me "Scripted Question" After Denying Question About Armed Guards
There is a political agenda, even if the kids are not crisis actors. See also CNN Scrambles: Denies ‘Scripted Question,’ Invites Pro-Gun Student to AppearJudge Nap: Order From New Judge in Michael Flynn Case Is 'Unheard-Of
It's looking more and more like Michael Flynn was blackmailed by the special prosecutor's officeThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Unaccountable. Trump’s Budget Tries to Change That.
No governmental agency should be unaccountable.Wendy McElroy: Privacy Prevents Violence and Crime
This contradicts the government narrative about privacy. That is the biggest reason you should pay close attention. Government is not your friend, especially when it is pretending to be.Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon?
I didn't expect thatArmed School Resource Officer Stayed Safely Outside School While Mass Killing Was Underway
The professionalCompetition In Technology Is More Vibrant Than It Looks
It doesn't fit in the normal market segmentsAre We Free to Discuss America’s Real Problems?
“It is only when people are confronted with speech they don’t like that we see whether these abstractions are real to them. ”Police Announce Program to Illegally Stop People for ‘SAFE Driving’ & Facebook Owns Them
“Safe driving is now a reason for police to pull you over, check the inside of your car, demand your papers, and stomp what is left of the 4th Amendment into the ground.”“Cash Must Not Be Made the Scapegoat”
“In the War on Cash, a rare defense of physical money by an ECB Board Member.”Mueller Files Sealed New Charges in Manafort, Gates Case
Why does this look more and more like blackmail?Idaho is ignoring Obamacare rules. That could set off a catastrophic chain reaction.
Using the process against itselfShould Teachers Be Armed?
Sometimes even LewRockwell.com asks the right questionsThursday roundup
Florida Shooting Survivor Says Media Is Exploiting Shooting to Push an Agenda
Brandon Minoff is a voice of reason. No, not the only one. And no, his opinion isn't necessarily the last word. But ask yourself, why aren't we hearing more from students like him? See also Parkland School is turning into America’s Grenfell TowerWitnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite
It was always about promises they couldn't keep.Unrestrained Judgment
Obama put a policy in effect by decree, and the judge claims that Trump can't repeal it by decreeSchool shooting survivor knocks down 'crisis actor' claim
David Hogg says he is not a crisis actor. See also Houston-area school district threatens to suspend students who protest after Florida shootingThe End of (Artificial) Stability
“The central banks'/states' power to maintain a permanent bull market in stocks and bonds is eroding.”Officials Identify More Rotherham Victims, Number Up to 1,510
This is why nations must insist that the rule of law applies to everyone. No exceptions.JOURNALISM! CNN harasses Trump supporter at her home over what she shared on Facebook
Thou shalt not dissentDonald Trump's Listening Session With Mass Shooting Survivors Was Really Powerful
If this is acknowledged at all, within 24 hours someone will find a reason to dismiss it.Broward Deputies to Carry Rifles on School Grounds: Sheriff
After the fact and it's only temporaryCleaning Up Air Pollution May Strengthen Global Warming
Unintended consequences. Maybe.Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. Could school system have done more?
Not just the school system. 39 visits by police.South Africa's Brand New President Wants To Confiscate Land From White Farmers
That didn't work so well in Zimbabwe. Bottom line, when government confiscates and redistributes, expect disasterDr. Gina Loudon: Do You Trust Federal Bureaucrats to Decide if You’re Sane Enough to Keep Your Second Amendment Rights?
The state is not a moral entityRemember
Supersized Wednesday roundup
No, boys aren't broken
❝❝Me, I think men protect their own, and stand between innocents and danger. I'm sure there are hundreds of other ways. I just don't buy that manhood is validated by the gender of the people you might sleep with.❞❞
— NeoWayland
“Peter Wang died a 'hero' in Florida shooting, wearing his ROTC uniform. Petition seeks a full honors military funeral”
“JROTC students use Kevlar pads to shield classmates from Florida shooter”
“Hero boy shot five times shielding classmates from Florida school gunman”
“Florida school shooting: Football coach shot, killed while protecting students hailed as hero”
“A heroic geography teacher died protecting his students from the Florida high school shooter”
Read More...Mass school shootings
Monday roundup
Black History Month is a failure
Read Carter G. WoodsonGreg Gutfeld: How To Stop Mass Shootings Without Gutting the 2nd Amendment
Smart thinking hereHillary Clinton Claims There Have Been ‘Over 230’ School Shootings Since 2012
Overhyped hysteria aimed at gun ownersFlorida students turn to activism in wake of shooting
Feelings trump common senseTop GOP donor threatens to cut off contributions unless party supports assault weapon ban
A reminder that most shootings in America use handgunsWomen’s March organizing national school walk-out
More feelings trumping common senseGoogle's firing of James Damore was legal, labor board says
Technically correct but morally wrong. Also ‘Advancing Gender Stereotypes’: You Can Be Fired for Telling the Truth, Feds RuleArizona House approves ban on harassment secrecy pacts
“The Arizona House on Thursday approved legislation allowing victims of sexual misconduct to talk to police or testify in a criminal case even if they signed a non-disclosure agreement as part of a civil settlement.”‘Peace Through Strength’ Is a Racket
“The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.”“Blockchain” Stocks Completely Disintegrate
Bubbles pop‘Top Priority’ — Sessions Orders ‘IMMEDIATE REVIEW’ Of FBI, While FL. Gov. Calls For Director Wray’s Resignation
Not sure if it can be cleaned up, it might be time to blow it up and start overChronicle of a white supremacist PR crisis and the making of a hoax
Those who seek attentionMarijuana Criminal Cases Dropped En Masse by Philadelphia District Attorney
As Wendy McElroy asks, what about the people already in jail?Bonus Sunday roundup
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When Border Searches Become Unreasonable
Warrantless searches are not a good ideaLegacies aren’t what they used to be as Obama faces environmental lawsuit
More and more questions about the Obama "library"Blowback: How Torture Fuels Terrorism Rather Than Reduces It
Somehow we're fueling revengeMore Proof Lib Media Bias Is Just A Myth…
This isn't a regular story, but it was just too goodPelosi’s Message To Democrats: Fight Anything Trump, Republicans Put Forward
Nothing about the meritsUS Army Going Old School With Training After Too Many Recruits Act “Entitled”
Time for some changesReport from Louisiana: Are Indie Booksellers Coming Back?
I'd love to see them bounce backScandal, Corruption, Lawbreaking — And So What?n
Interesting take on the attacks on TrumpBOMBSHELL: Comey Held Secret Obama White House Meeting Before The Inauguration
And he forgot to mention it to CongressCourt orders restoration of DACA program
The original program was done without Congress and is illegalIt's The (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age Of Free Speech
Wired makes the case against free speechBill Gates: tech companies inviting government intervention
Yeah, they kinda areDon’t Abandon the King Standard
We need to find common groundTuesday roundup
Inside The Two Years That Shook Facebook—And The World
Very long but a good summaryFederal abuses on Obama's watch represent a growing blight on his legacy
Some of us knew this during his first term'We are being targeted': Voodoo believers fear a backlash
There's a mess, but this article doesn't help sort it ourIs California Starting To Circle The Drain?
A long and almost unbelievable tale of what happens when the police aren't policing anymoreWe All Live on Campus Now
Groupthink spillover'Hire the best and fire the worst': Trump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years
If this is a plan and not a negotiating ploy, it's a really good ideaAre Progressives More Biased Than Conservatives?
“Progressives generally assume that they're less biased than conservatives. New research shows otherwise.”Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members
It's an issue that should be examined before they pass any lawCatholic School Parents Fight Lesbian Teacher's Firing. Here's Why That's Good.
Shifting moralityIf You Really Wanted to Ban Porn, Here's What It Would Take
Detailed look at exactly what it would takeNew York Times CEO: Print journalism has maybe another 10 years
Digital works better for millions of peopleCalifornia’s drought restrictions on wasteful water habits could be coming back — this time they’ll be permanent
Water is precious in the desert, and California has acted otherwise for decadesCommonwealth in secret succession plans
I didn't know that head of the Commonwealth wasn't hereditary.Monday roundup
I remind you that no American political fact for the last two years has been easily ascertained. Or static.
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Look out for flying pigs
Rand Paul is right
““When Rand Paul took control of the Senate floor just before 6 p.m. Eastern, virtually every one of his Republican colleagues grimaced. Five years ago, they would have cheered him.
Paul's speech, which slowed attempts to pass a massive budget deal before the government shuts down at midnight, was a savaging of his party -- a party that appears to have turned 180 degrees from the deficit hawks of the mid 2010s who insisted that government spending was ballooning out of control and was crippling the country.
"When the Democrats are in power, Republicans appear to be the conservative party," Paul said at one point. "But when Republicans are in power, it seems there is no conservative party. The hypocrisy hangs in the air and chokes anyone with a sense of decency or intellectual honesty."
He is 100% right.
The simple fact is that Republicans in the Obama era defined themselves primarily as committed to reducing government spending and shrinking the nation's debt. The ur-document of that age was Paul Ryan's budget, in which he proudly touted the need to confront entitlement spending and make the hard cuts necessary to keep the country solvent for the foreseeable future.””
— Chris Cillizza
Friday roundup
Uranium One informant makes Clinton allegations to Congress
Clintons, the scandals that keep on givingCanadian PM: Sharia law is compatible with democracy
In which the Canadian PM proves his idiocy beyond any doubtLet Us Eradicate Poverty, Not Demolish Wealth
Smart headline, but the rest of the article worth readingBefore You "Buy the Dip," Look at This One Chart
I think this is sound adviceJudicial Watch Tom Fitton Reports 3rd Dossier Provided by Obama to Sen. Cardin
If there was a third dossier, was there a fourth and fifth? What did President Obama know and when did he know it?Online Gambling -- None Of Washington's Business (But Its Enemies Don't Care)
Beware of politicos who promise things for "your own good"Institute for Justice Sues New Jersey Over Ban on Home Bakers Selling Their Cakes
Notice how Big Government loves to go after the little guyOne year later: President’s regulations crackdown is working
Less government means more prosperityConsumers Are Open to Superhuman Vision and Cognitive Enhancements. Are Regulators?
Regulators shouldn't have any sayCongress must stop union scheme siphoning funds from Medicaid
Yep.Why are we still regulating Main Street like Wall Street?
Good questionSenate Report: Obamacare and Medicaid Expansion Contributed to the Opioid Epidemic
You mean reducing the cost of medicine by fiat made addiction problems worse? Gee, who could have foreseen that?$20 Billion Hidden in the Swamp: Feds Redact 255,000 Salaries
Somebody is hiding stuff from the votersThursday roundup
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Dow plunges 1,175 points in wild trading session, S&P 500 goes negative for 2018
It's called a bubbleAmerica’s Lost Decade
The Fed still has the brakes onFLASHBACK: Adam Schiff called for FISA transparency — on Russian TV!
Golly gee whiz, I wonder what changed his mind.Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
A unusual view worth looking atThe Dishonesty of #MeToo in Canada’s Literary Scene
Unexpected effectsSteele’s Second Dossier Included Info From Clinton Associates in Obama’s State Department
What second dossier you ask? Ah, therein hangs a tale'I Hope This Is an Instance of Fake News': FBI Messages Show the Bureau's Real Reaction to Trump Firing James Comey
No one is beyond review.Is Congress Finally Pushing Back Against Security Agencies' Over-Reach?
About bloody timeUS Military Has ‘No Accurate Numbers’ for the Strength of the Taliban
Twenty-plus years and we still don't knowWhat’s the Chance of Iconic GE Going Bankrupt?
Watch this one, it's a keystoneForensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?
Unquestioned faith is always a bad ideaHarvard Commits to Ban on Single-Sex Organizations, But Will Allow 'Gender-Focused' Female Groups
Funny how it ends up with two sets of rulesThe Federal Reserve May Secretly Want to Sink the Record-Breaking Stock Market
Government doesn't want anything resembling a free marketMonday super roundup
The Nunes Memo: Just an Opening Act
Watch the Democrats try to hide the fallout. Additional - If You Think The Nunes Memo Will 'Discredit' FBI and DOJ, You Haven't Been Paying Attention For the Past 50 Years & Nunes Memo Alleges FBI Used Dossier to Get FISA Warrant on Trump Campaign MemberNew Mexico Considers Forcing High-School Students into State-Approved Post-Graduation Plans
There is no way this is legal under the 13th AmendmentA male backlash against #MeToo is brewing
The backlash has been brewing for yearsFederal 5G: An authoritarian approach in the name of 'safety'
I'm pretty sure this was a manufactured leak to get people talking about the issueCan State Governments Impose "Excessive Fines," Treat Citizens Like Walking ATMs? Indiana Says Yes
Yeah, fuck that.Inside a Public School Social Justice Factory
Performance sacrificed for social justice. Additional - Academics Suffer After Minnesota School System Adopts Social Justice CurriculumTory Government REJECTS Petition for a Free Speech Act
Funny how speech is one of the first things to goIranian Police Arrest 29 Women for Appearing in Public Without a Hijab While Western Feminists Impose World Hijab Day #StrongInHijab #Metoo
Funny how women's rights go out the window when it's under Islam. Anyway, watch this carefully, it's important.Federal Regulators Want to Ban Zen Magnets, but Shihan Qu Battles On
It's hard to see this as anything except Federal overreachThe Real FISA Scandal
Democrats are presumed innocent and Republicans are presumed guiltyVisual Map Of The Cabal Behind ‘Trump Dossier’ Will Never Be Aired On CNN
Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage
The three faces of the Democratic Party are coming to a head
Pretty accurate summationChild Services Caught Taking Bribes to Look the Other Way As Mom Tortured 5yo Boy to Death
Official won't save youBritain’s first ‘private police force’ has 100 per cent conviction rate and is now investigating murder and rape
InterestingFriday roundup
Furious Formula 1 'grid girls' who were fired from their jobs say they've 'lost important income because feminists think they know best'
Meddling in lives "for your own good"Mika kicks ‘Fire and Fury’ author off ‘Morning Joe’
Michael Wolff has worn out his welcomeThe Cognitive Biases That Convince You the World Is Falling Apart
Things aren't as bad as they seemCan Amazon Transform Health Care? It's Not a Crazy Idea
Government is still in the way‘When is this going to stop?’ Philadelphia cop, a Delco native, describes harrowing shooting
Attacking others is not religion, it's politicsGuess Why Hundreds of Busboys Just Lost Their Jobs
Mandated minimum wageNew Mexico bill would force students to apply to college
I wonder if the state will send armed agents to make sure students attend classes when they didn't want to applySeattleites making a run to the border for … Coke?
The new ProhibitionCops Raid House, Kill 72-Year-Old Woman Who Was Asleep, Woke Up, Tried to Defend Herself with a Pellet Gun
You are not allowed to resistThe Brick-and-Mortar-Retail Meltdown in January
It's going to get worseWhat Ideology Leads to a “So What You’re Saying Is…” Interview?
“…when discussing topics like prejudice, it seems that many of us aren’t speaking the same language.”Political Correctness Serves the Ruling Elite
Enforcing "thou shalt not dissent"High School play cancelled after activists object to “colorblind casting”
Funny how the right against racism only works one wayThursday roundup
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Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science
SillinessDemocrats And Leftists Will Be Giving At Least Six Separate Responses To Trump’s State Of The Union Address
This disunity shows that the Democrats still don't know what to do about Trump'Booze Equality' Bill Inches Forward for Virginia Craft Distilleries
“ The Virginia wine tax is $1.51 per gallon and the tax on beer is $0.26 per gallon. The ABC Board marks up the price for liquor sold on-site at distilleries by 69 percent. Once ABC takes its 54 percent cut of the purchase price, it ends up effectively taxing spirits at a rate of $30.88 per gallon.”Man Incarcerated for 6 Years Without a Trial Because He Demanded a Speedy Trial
Yes, it happened. In America.Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI
“Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.” First, the misspellings are straight from the article. Second, the only reason that this "dossier" is even being considered is because nothing in the original panned out.FCC chair opposes nationalizing 5G network
The other commission members don't like it eitherAmazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase to tackle employee health care costs, delivery
The single biggest problem in healthcare is government, but this article doesn't admit thatNope, Trump Doesn't Get Credit for Low Black Unemployment
It started before Trump was sworn inNational I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks
Americans didn't want it but we're stuck with itHow Trump is Retooling Politics for the 21st Century
The press and the politicos aren't coping with himKelly: White House to Release Nunes Memo ‘Pretty Quick’
This is the fork in the road“Dreamers” vs. demons
Worth consideringCenters for Disease Control and Prevention director RESIGNS after her purchase of tobacco stocks is exposed
The CDC is not a regulatory agencyTuesday roundup
Minnesota, Plundered by Vikings
The stadium scam strikes againGillibrand Softens Tone On Clinton Sex Scandals
Selective outrageEliminate Google From Your Life
I know it's LewRockwell.com, but it's also dead onStudent Expelled for Sexual Assault Had Evidence His Accuser Was Dating the Cop Who Investigated the Case
The cop should be brought up on chargesIn fight over Bombardier CSeries, Boeing loses friends as well as tariff case
Corporate cronyism exposed.Democrats Turn To A Kennedy For Rebuttal To Trump's State Of The Union Address
He's a lightweightTrust Is Collapsing in America
The important takeaway from this is that decline in trust predates Trump. Institutions have been exploiting and failing Americans for a long time, and it's beginning to showWhy Free Speech Matters
Great articleEnvironmentalists Ready to Sue to Fight EPA Deregulation
I don't think this has ever happened beforeSeven Days in January
“The signs are already there as to the effort to exonerate Hillary.”Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here's Why
“The status quo has not changed the inputs or added any new feedback loops, so the output of the system--extremes of widening income and wealth inequality--cannot possibly change.”You Won’t Believe How Much the House Has Spent on Harassment Cases
You should ask why Congress wants to hide this~$1 trillion of real estate is on the move … here’s why
Automatic cars will change the face of the nationWhat did President Obama know, and when did he know it?
Thursday roundup
Wednesday roundup
Drone rescues teens
“2 Teens Were Rescued By A Drone While Lifeguards Were Still Learning How To Use It”
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California, Poverty Capital
Not all is goldenReal Federalists Need to Step Up to Fight Jeff Sessions' War on Weed
I still want to know where the Federal government gets the power to outlaw cannabisShe was 91 and dying of dementia. City Hall fined her $39K. Now it says her family must pay.
“In Coachella, Officials Buried A Great-Grandmother In Debt By Mailing Fines To The Wrong House, Then Took Her To Court After She Was Dead.”Wells Fargo Glitch Leaves Customers With Empty Bank Accounts
I'd say it's time to change banksWorst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study
Seems like the science isn't settledCatherine Deneuve, #MeToo, and the Fracturing Within Feminism
This is more important than it looks. The RadFems DO NOT speak for all women. This also confirms a trend I've been watching for five years or soFear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail
The politicos want you scared and not asking questionsHouse Report Concluded Pakistanis Made ‘Unauthorized Access’ To Congressional Servers
So why isn't this make more headlines?I Propose the 48 Hour Trump / MSM News Rule
Why does this make too much sense?These Hospitals Are Sick of High Drug Prices. So They're Starting Their Own Nonprofit Drug Company
Competition worksMexican Cities Are Escaping Corruption and the Cartels through Secession
Now that is an interesting idea.Massive flu outbreak? Here’s the real story the media won’t touch. The lies, the hoax, the scandal.
“That would mean the flu vaccine has been ineffective for decades.”Bill Introduced to Stop Civil Forfeiture Funding of DEA Marijuana Eradication Program
“DEA's use of proceeds acquired through civil asset forfeiture to expand marijuana enforcement makes the already unacceptable practice even worse.”Thursday roundup
Wednesday roundup
FBI, DOJ Argue for Dismissal of Suit About Garland, Texas Attack
The FBI not only knew about a 2015 terrorist attack, they provoked it. So why aren't the people responsible under arrest?Thanks Capitalism, Refrigerators Are Awesome!
Living better than the kings of a century agoGOP Leaders Tell Fiscal Hawks To Fly Away, No Budget This Year
Reduce spending. Reduce taxes. Decrease regulation. Decrease laws. That's the only way to restore lasting freedom.NYC Police Union Argues Releasing Body Cam Footage Violates Cops' Civil Rights
Police privilege.Thoughts on Challenging the Climate Orthodoxy
Nobody should be beyond questionSenate Votes to Shut Down Rand Paul Filibuster Against Surveillance Act Renewal
When government doesn't trust you, why should you trust government?Trump to PC: “No More!”
Donald Trump's greatest virtue is that he disrupts.Jeff Flake: You know that ‘Trump is Stalin’ thing I mentioned? Nevermind.
Right out of an old SNL sketchPresident Nobama
No one should be surprised that Trump is unraveling Barack Obama's "legacy"Carillion’s Demise
“To me, this looks like a catch-all company that has bedded itself in with the government and helpfully told politicians and civil servants that they can take care of everything. No problem, just leave it to us, just keep that cash hose turned on full.”European Angst Over Immigration
Europe may have committed cultural suicide by opening to "immigrants" who don't want to assimilate to the existing culturesClinton Corruption Update: It’s All One Scandal
You should ask yourself why Hillary Clinton is not in prison?Democrats: Trump must capitulate on DACA “to prove you’re not prejudiced or bigoted”
This will make the Democrats look very foolish. Go after Trump with anything less than the truth and it will backfire.Tuesday roundup
Policing Sexual Desire
Great piece.HIDDEN CAMERA: HUNDREDS of Twitter Employees Paid to View “Everything You Post Online” Including Private “Sex Messages”
And making money doing it.NAACP Says MLK’s Vision Can’t Be Achieved Without Fighting Global Warming
In all my studies, MLK didn't once mention global warming or climate change.Backdoor Censorship through Libel Law
Here's something Trump is actually doingComic Convention Bans Christian Conservative Actor Kevin Sorbo For Friendship With Hannity
Guilty by associationHow Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It
There needs to be competition, these companies are breaking their promisesThe Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords
“Who really benefits from the 14,000 pages of Dodd-Frank?”Collapse of Construction Giant with 43,000 Employees Globally Sparks Fear and Mayhem
Size doesn't always guarantee successJesse Jackson praises and thanks Donald Trump for a lifetime of service to African Americans
YouTube video - flashbackKafkaesque campus sexual assault tribunal at Johnson & Wales alleged in lawsuit
“Female waited a year to complain, male not given copy of complaint, entire process only 5 weeks, no record of hearing”Police Knew That Hawaii Missile Attack Report was False Within Five Minutes After Alert
I'm glad someone was on the jobFLASHBACK: The Obama Administration Called Netanyahu A ‘Chickensh**’
Funny how none of the major networks are talking about that oneShrinks present latest plot to remove Trump from office
The unelected, unappointed, and answerable to no one believe they have the power to overturn an election. The only way to take Trump out is truth. Anything else will backfire, badly.Fake news checking
Google’s New ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Partisan Garbage
““Now, you may believe that conservatives are hopeless liars in need of relentless correcting, so I’ll concede the point for argument’s sake. Even then, you’d have to admit it’s a small miracle that, according to Google’s search engine, not a single prominent liberal or mainstream site in the entire universe has ever uttered a dubious or questionable claim.””
— David Harsanyi
The obvious
Of Crudeness and Truth
““Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.
For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump’s suggestions—to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country—are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.
So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I’m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we’ve got.””
— Andrew Klavan
Thursday roundup
Charity instead of trash
“Instead of Trashing Groceries During Cooler Malfunction, Store Donates 35,000 Pounds of Food”
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“We All Knew”
“Can't be sure if parts of it are true”
“The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true”
Read More...Thursday roundup
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Thursday roundup
United Apologizes To Passenger Booted For Congresswoman
also Sheila Jackson Lee’s Long History Of Being An Entitled ‘Queen’Half of America thinks we’re making it up
And they are not wrongUK Muslim No-Go Zones ‘Heading Toward Disaster,’ Non-Muslims Scared, Businesses Stoned
Radical Islam is a cancer and still remain so until other Muslims take a stand.Homeland Security’s Multibillion Dollar Comedy Show
This agency never should have been created10 times the intel community violated the trust of US citizens, lawmakers and allies
In the words of Claire Wolfe, "Only ten?"Freedom Necessarily Includes the Freedom to Act Self-Destructively
Don Boudreaux answers his mail.#MeToo Is Turning Into a Witch-Hunt
What happens when the radical feminists destroy their own goals?Why Does Blow-Drying Hair in Arizona Require 1,000 Hours of Training?
Occupational licensing has become a bane on American societyCollision with Reality: What Depth Psychology Can Tell us About Victimhood Culture
I despise the politics of victimhood. This goes a long way to describing it.Sen. Ron Wyden cosponsors bill to legalize marijuana across U.S.
It's amazing to me that marijuana is considered more dangerous than alcohol, despite all evidence to the contraryH.R. 38: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017
A Federal law for gun freedom?Roy Moore files lawsuit to block Alabama Senate result
Back in 2000, I blasted Al Gore for demanding the courts intervene. Here is a result.Another Arctic blast poised to usher in 2018
But, but it's global warming climate change…Wednesday roundup
The Government Loves to Make Us All Criminals
When the ordinary becomes illegalChicago Police Union Trying To Stop New Use-of-Force Policies
Police power beyond constraintElectric bike crackdown spurs delivery worker concern
"Electric bikes are illegal to operate on city streets and those at the top of the food chain need to be held accountable."Regulator tells Vermont hospital to dial back surgeries, revenue
“That's a problem for the Green Mountain Care Board, which has come down on Copley for making too much money and doing too many surgeries. Copley's success is seen as a violation of the Board's master plan for managing health care costs in the state.”Using the Blockchain to Fight Corruption
A promising approach to fight election fraudONE-THIRD Of U.S. Homicide Spike Coming From 5 Chicago Neighborhood
Conservatives would point out that Chicago is a victim of liberal polices."Wealth Effect" = Widening Wealth Inequality
Not sure I agree, but worth thinking aboutWords We Didn't Hear
InterestingPresident Trump Cuts Funding to UN After Israel Vote
Actions have consequences> Or at least they should.Tuesday roundup
Israel to formally announce intent to leave UNESCO
Although I am not a blind supporter of Israel, there is no other nation that has been vilified for so little reason.University of Minnesota Retracts Restrictions on Christmas Decorations
“In a memo sent by the University of Minnesota earlier this month, staff was told that Santa and Christmas tree decorations were “not appropriate” for campus buildings.”Santa Calls It Quits
ParodyCities, volunteers clash over feeding homeless in public
It's not charity unless it's Officially ApprovedHow Opaque Healthcare Pricing Mechanisms Rip Off Consumers
Or How Government Conspires to Keep Medical Costs HighWrong-footing the NYPD
Going through the motions without fixing the problemsChristmas 2017: Why I'm Hopeful
Who Regulates Bitcoin Trading? No U.S. Agency Has Jurisdiction
No regulation is not necessarily a bad thingJesus is offensive
Family asked to remove 'offensive' Jesus sign from their Christmas display because it offended a neighbour
““A family has been asked to take down a sign with the name “Jesus” from their Christmas display, after a neighbour reportedly claimed it was offensive.
Mark and Lynn Wivell said their homeowner’s association had made the request after they put up the display outside their home in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
"As part of our Christmas decoration, we would display the name Jesus to point out to everyone that we in this family believe that the reason for the season is to celebrate the birth of Jesus," Mr Wivell told the FOX43 news channel.””
— Henry Austin
Keeping the public safe
No roundup for the next few days
Thursday roundup
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Can States Reimpose Net Neutrality?
More importantly, should they? Net neutrality is about something that might happen, not something that has happened. And once government starts regulating, existing firms are protected and new competition is discouraged.Trump and the NFL Agree: Taxpayers Should Keep Subsidizing Stadiums
The stadium scam is one of the biggest boondoggles ever allowed in AmericaRebuilding America First
Major priority shiftsUn-Merry Christmas: The Perverse Incentives to Over-Consume and Over-Spend
If you have enough, why do you need the Brand New Model?How Activists Took Control of a University: The Case Study of Evergreen State
Social justice displaces educationMassachusetts Adopted Common Core – and It’s Beginning to Show
Another case of education taking a back seat to social objectives.Would More Infrastructure Spending Have Stopped Yesterday's Derailment?
Politicos still aren't answering the big question. Is mass transit cost effective?Ben Carson Admits War on Drugs Conflicts with War on Poverty
Major opinion change from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.Matt Damon faces backlash for latest sexual harassment comments
"We're in this watershed moment, and it's great, but I think one thing that's not being talked about is... the preponderance of men I've worked with who don't do this kind of thing."Dictionaries as Propaganda Tools
Gods, enough of the social justice activism and toxic politics corrupting everythingSwedish Police Warn Rapes ‘Worst They Have Seen in 35 Years’
It's not the native born Swedes who are raping womenGerman Jews Told To Hide Jewish Symbols To Avoid Attacks By Muslim Migrants…
The first duty of government is to protect citizens. So where are the police and other authorities?Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC accused of 'corrupt' money scheme in new FEC complaint
The corruption just keeps on comingTuesday roundup
The Big Con: The Truth Behind Net Neutrality and Why the Sky Is Not Falling
“Net neutrality was the government’s response to an actual problem. As usual, their response ignored the problem completely.”The Modern Art Of Pervs
Changing mores and the sexualization of childrenThe secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
“How Hezbollah turned to trafficking cocaine and laundering money through used cars to finance its expansion.” So Obama let them break the law. I don't agree with the War on Drugs, but the President should uphold the law.CDC director says there are ‘no banned words’ at the agency
Well, I fell for this one too. I should know by now that the really bad stuff about Trump seldom turns out true. Also No, the CDC did not ban a list of wordsSince Feeding the Homeless is Now Illegal, A Group Carried AR15s to Give Out Food—It Worked
Unsanctioned, unofficial charity.The Other Tech Bubble
The ugliness behind the startup culture.In Legalizing Marijuana, Uruguay Trips over the Dollar, US Laws, and Global Banks
or “Why Drug Lords Love the Patriot Act.”3 Reasons Millennials Should Consider Ditching Karl Marx for Ayn Rand
“Karl Marx doesn’t align with what’s important to Millennials.”Jedi Mind Trick: The Disturbing, Destabilizing Abnormal Is Now Normal
Change means disrupting the system. And there's plenty of disruption.Is Your Cell Phone Protected by the Constitution?
The Supreme Court will decide, and it doesn't look good.‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From The Beginning And Now We’ve Won’
Deliberately screwing up society.Comey Should Be Indicted
It was obvious months ago, but now it's a given. It won't happen though. Indicting Comey is one step closer to HRC. And indicting HRC is one step closer to Barack Obama.Right Wing Extremism vs. Islamic Extremism in the United States: A Look at the Numbers
Debunking the claim that most terrorism in the US is carried out by the right wing.Monday roundup
Trump to remove ‘climate change’ as a national security threat
It never was a threat. It was an excuse to divert money and resources to a religious cause. Yes, the climate alarmists are a religion. Right down to treating dissenters as heretics.Miami pulls the plug on its red light camera program
Too many cities have leveraged red light cameras into a revenue source and manipulated the light timing to maximize revenue.Donald Trump, Lying, and Eroding Social Trust
Good questions. Presidents and politicos lie, it's what they do. The problems is believing one flavor is better than the other.States Fight Calif. and Mass. over Meddlesome Livestock Law
Why should one state control how farming occurs in another?Navajo Nation sues Wells Fargo in fake-account scandal
“Vulnerable” needs some explaining. There are cultural assumptions that the Diné have that most of the U.S. doesn't. This puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to legal issues.‘Internet Service Providers Should Not Be Able To Decide What People Can See Online,’ Says Man Who Decides What People Can See Online
Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite.The #MeToo Movement Is Destroying Trust Between Men And Women
“Demonizing Men Undermines Both Sexes”Judicial Watch President: "Forget Mueller," The Real Question Is "Do We Need To Shut Down The FBI?"
The Bureau is compromised.Democrats Can Weaponize the Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump
It won't work. Trump is better at this game than the press or his political opponents. He won't go quietly when allegations are in the air.Masterpiece Cakeshop: Are We Free To Disagree?
This nuance is important and often misreported in the media. Jack serves all customers; he does not want to be forced to create all messages.UN Security Council weighs resolution saying Jerusalem decisions are void
Yeah. The UN has no authority in the affairs between two nations or in the internal affairs of any nation. Nor does the US. Nor should they.CA Dems Proposing Spending $1 Billion Giving Health Care To Illegal Immigrants
As long as CA pays and not the rest of the country, I've no problem. But they will find a way to shift the costs, just watch.Trump administration forbids CDC officials from using 7 words and phrases
I'm torn on this one. On the one hand, I don't think the administration should be banning words. On the other hand, I've seen some of the nonsense coming out of the CDC in the last few years.Weekend roundup
How Using Eminent Domain to Seize Land for a Border Wall Harms American Property Owners
Your property rights are gone. Also National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’How you can be tracked even with your GPS turned off
Why wouldn't you want to be tracked, Citizen? Are you doing something wrong?Feds moving quickly to cash in on seized bitcoin, now worth $8.4 million
Seized from a "suspected" Dark Web dealer. Not convicted, but "suspected"Federal Labor Board Reverses Bad Decision that Made Corporations Responsible for Franchise Decisions
If it's the franchisee that cut's the employee's paycheck, then the franchiser has no responsibility. This was a cash grab pure and simple.Harlem Shook: Google Is Using Its Immense Power To Censor Content That Doesn’t Fit Its Political Goals. Everyone In America Should Be Concerned About That
For all the talk about net neutrality, it's the service providers who are the real censors. Why is Google filtering results? Why is Facebook manipulating your feed and tracking down everyone you may have talked to since the sixth grade? Why is Twitter monitoring the non-Twitter online activity of it's verified members? If you are not paying for a product, you are the product.Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition
And oldie but still accurateThe Warlock Hunt
#MeToo will destroy everyone, women and men. That's what happens when you raise table stakes.Big Brother Installing Surveillance Cameras in Places of Worship
Two simple questions. Will surveillance cameras make parishioners safer? How long until an Authority Figure™ decides to monitor the cameras to make sure the worshipers are doing things "correctly?"Bitcoin futures are about to get another big boost
“TD Ameritrade, the largest futures operation of any online brokerage, is going to allow bitcoin futures trading on its platform starting Monday.” The Federal Reserve is about to get competition.Residents Outraged as DHS Spraying Town With Chemicals—Using Them as Human Guinea Pigs
Did anyone bother asking the residents what they thought?Is climate change REALLY the culprit causing California’s wildfires?
More claims without proofCourt Rules Plastic Flamingos Okay But Growing Vegetables in Front Yard Is ILLEGAL
“That’s what government does – interferes in people’s lives.”Watch: Police body cam of innocent woman clamped in K-9’s jaws. She’s suing.
Even if she wins, the cop won't pay. In many states sovereign immunity and qualified immunity "protect" police officers, even fi the actions of the police are illegal.“The pathetic legacy of feminism’s Women’s Liberation Movement”
Well, she's done an excellent piece on The pathetic legacy of feminism’s Women’s Liberation Movement, Here's an excerpt.
““The Women’s Liberation Movement, that bridge between Second and Third Wave feminism, might be summed up as follows: We are women and, with enough government programs, public service announcements, and Planned Parenthood outlets, we can eventually be invincible!
Except after forty years of this “you are woman, you are strong, you are invincible” yadda, yadda, yadda talk, the daily sex scandals are revealing that the whole empowerment thing has been a sham. It turns out that, when confronted with an unprincipled alpha male, women are weak. Women do not fight back when these brutes sexually bully, humiliate, or assault them. Women are victims not warriors.””
The whole piece is worth your valuable time. And if you aren't a regular reader, give her a try. You may not always agree, but she does make you think.
Forgive
How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque
““The night of Nov. 14, 2015, was not the first time Ted Hakey, 50, went into his backyard in Meriden, Connecticut, and fired guns to let off some steam. It was the night after a deadly terror attack in Paris, and Hakey was furious.
So he shot his Springfield Armory M1A .308-caliber rifle into the air. Some of those shots hit the Baitul Aman Mosque next door. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time.
“I wanted to scare ’em, but the shots that hit were never supposed to hit,” says Hakey, who admits he harbored significant hate for Muslims back then. His Facebook posts reflect that well enough.
Prosecutors used some of those posts to build their case against him. The shooting got him six months in jail on federal hate crime charges, but leaders of the mosque argued he should be forgiven and not even serve jail time. Dr. Mohammed Qureshi, the mosque president, expressed this feeling to the judge at Hakey’s sentencing.
For 29-year-old Zahir Mannan, the criminal case was an opportunity to show Hakey and anyone else paying attention — which by then included the national media — what Islam is really about.””
— Arthur Nazaryan
Wednesday roundup
U.S. not granting loan relief to defrauded students: inspector general
A good move I thinkTreasury's Tax Reform Analysis Confirms Republicans Don't Give a Damn About the Deficit
Both major parties want to spend more than the government actually has. Not more than it should have, but more than it has.You Won’t Be Surprised To Hear Who’s Behind Today’s Press Conference By Trump’s Accusers
If you go after Trump with anything less than the absolute truth, expect to fail.Georgia Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Require Conviction for Asset Forfeiture
A major step. There are 14 other states that already require this.It's Official: Bitcoin Surpasses "Tulip Mania", Is Now The Biggest Bubble In World History
I don't understand bitcoin. Either this is a really big bubble, or there is a desperate need for an unregulated currency.So I Just Had An Interesting Email Exchange With The Special Counsel’s Press Office:
Glen Reynolds tries to find out if Lisa Page was involved in approving Peter Strzok’s warrant requests.America's malls are rotting away
Another sign of the commercial real estate collapseAlabama election: Democrats defeat Roy Moore, dealing huge blow to Donald Trump
Theocratic Republican defeatedUber Price-Gouges Millennial Passenger $14,000 For 5-Mile Ride
Uber is a good idea with lousy executionThe FBI’s Perjury Trap of the Century
There was no collusion. The Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign..Starving polar bears are the fake news face of climate change
Don't fall for itTSA To Stop Taking Driver’s Licenses from 9 U.S. States
The Real ID legacyGlobal Conflicts to Watch in 2018
“The U.S. is now the most unpredictable actor in the world today.”“I’m trying to bring some happiness to people…”
Man Spends Black Friday Paying For $10K Worth Of Toys For Local Kids
““A New Jersey man spent this Black Friday putting together a great surprise for dozens of local families.
The man, identified only as Charlie K., told CBS 3 that he woke up Friday morning planning to shop for his son when a bright idea hit him. He went over to the Toys R Us store in the town of Cherry Hill, where he paid for orders that customers had put on layaway.
He wound up paying for more than 60 orders totaling over $10,000, according to WMUR.
“I’m trying to bring some happiness to people, to the community that brought happiness to me and my family,” he told CBS 3. “I love this community and I am trying to provide back to it.”
A Toys R Us spokeswoman confirmed the good deed.
“We love the heartwarming acts of one secret Santa who visited Toys R Us Cherry Hill this morning - Charlie K. paid off more than 62 Layaway orders totaling approximately $10,780,” the spokeswoman told NJ.com.
On top of that, Charlie K. also purchased an additional $2,000 worth of toys for Toys for Tots, a charity run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve that brings Christmas gifts to children whose parents can’t afford them.””
— Hilary Hanson
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Former Dem Congresswoman Sentenced To Five Years In Prison On Corruption Charges
She used both her Congressional membership and a charity.This Company Will Bring Health Care To Your Door, On Demand
As Obamacare destroys the healthcare system, expect smart people finding ways to make it workThey Don't Give Any Advance Notice When They Change The Narrative
Scapegoating on a massive scaleFacebook’s Sheryl Sandberg warns of a “Me Too” backlash against women at work
The backlash is inevitable. The question is how hard and how long.Facebook Is Banning Women for Calling Men ‘Scum’
And the backlash begins…12 states ask Supreme Court to block California egg law
This is long past due. California likes to use it's size and power to meddle in the internal affairs of other states. Almost like they learned it from the Federal government.Judge Halts Indiana Town's Cruel Attempt to Fine Residents Out of their Properties
Not eminent domain, but almost as badMoore spokesman calls sex assault accusers ‘criminals’
I'm not surprised given Moore's history. The sex accusations without proof don't bother me. I'm seriously disturbed that a theocratic Republican with a history of ignoring court rulings is about to be elected to the United States Senate.Can States Compel You to Bake a Cake Against Your Will? The Supreme Court Will Decide.
Most of the pagans and progressives I know think this is a slam dunk. But they don't like it when I ask if that means that the states can force you to do things that violate your beliefs.Tuesday roundup
Microsoft's new Chinese web portal censor's words like "freedom" and "democracy"
Read More...The stack is still there
Charity vending machines
The Last Generator
“Man Who Gave The Last Generator To A Crying Stranger Gets A Free One From Lowe's”
Read More...Molecular Robot
“Scientists Create World’s First ‘Molecular Robot’ Capable Of Building Molecules”
Read More...Monday roundup
Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory
Appointing more judges than anytime in the last 40 years.The next major battle over voting rights in America is based on a lie
Preventing voter fraudTrevor Noah hits Warren: Native American claims are 'something problematic'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren manipulated the system into giving her more privilegeHave We Been Lied To About The Kate Steinle Case?
It's not so cut and dried. The defense argued it was an accident.Cops Steal $91,800 From a Musician, Claiming He Gave It to Them
This is highway robbery, even if it did happen in modern day Wyoming.Chicago’s Debt Dereliction
Chicago keeps playing games and faces insolvencyWATCH: Cops Kill Family’s Dog in Front of Kids, Force Dad to Cut Its Head Off Or Go To Jail
Another example of puppycideThe Last Thing A Suicidal (Or Any) Person Needs
“They’ve already called the cops more than 100 times on their users, with the best of intentions.”Even a $1 million retirement nest egg isn't enough anymore
Part of this is inflation, but an out-of-control government is a close secondFeds Steal $1.74 Billion in Bitcoin, Kidnap Man for Life for Building Website that Used It
A tale of prohibition and government controlA must read: A Veneer of Certainty Stoking Climate Alarm
Without the alarm, they lose their moral and political powerWhere the Government Fear-Porn Propaganda Industry is Headed
They need you afraid so you don't ask questions.Ravens, NFL scramble as fans stay home
If a business doesn't give customers what they want, they go elsewhere.The stack abides
Flyers for Fairness stumps for a modernized ATC system
Because government can't get it doneCalls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes
Because denying climate change AS THEY DEFINE IT should be a heresy punishable by lawA $150 Billion Misfire: How Disaster Models Got Irma Wrong
Golly gee wilikers Mr. Weatherman, you mean we can't perfectly predict disaster?B.C. to parents: Please lock up your kids
Maybe government doesn't know better than parentsBlockchain Fix For Voter ID
This makes sense. Which is why the politicos oppose it.A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones
Because government can't keep your data safe'I’ll Tell You One Goddamned Thing for Sure. I’m Not Staying at a Motel 6 From Now On.'
Seems this discount chain is a government informantLegendary Mel Brooks: “Political correctness will be the death of comedy…”
He's right, and it's already showing.Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking 'the red pill'
Perpetual victimhood can make you very tiredTrump Slams the Brakes on Self-Driving Cars
No regulation prevents innovation? First time I've seen that line.Jimmy Kimmel Got a Hand From Chuck Schumer in His Fight Against Obamacare Repeal
There's no problem with speaking for the Democrat party AS LONG AS you tell people that is what you are doingFederal government notifies 21 states of election hacking
Yep, the election was hacked. Just not by the people you've been toldHealth Care Costs Are the Reason You're Not Getting a Raise: New at Reason
Some things come full circle. Employers started offering health insurance and other benefits because the government imposed salary caps.UN solution for a pollution free planet: polluters should pick up the bill
Even the United Nations can be right sometimesStanford Study Finds Fake News Didn’t Tip Election Against Clinton
And the truth will set you FREEUndercover cop, Air Force officer, med student among those police swept up during downtown protest
LevelingFool Me Twice: Trojan Horse Democrats Pile into the House of Single-Payer
Obamacare was never designed to provide healthcare. It was designed to screw healthcare up so badly so that people would demand massive permanent government intervention.It Gets Ugly in Catalonia
Spain can't afford to let Catalonia goHow to Disappear an Activist (Or, Where IS Andy Ostrowski?)
What government can do if they don't like what you sayDiCaprio: History will ‘vilify’ Trump for not fighting climate change
When the facts don't stand up, make it a moral case.Big Brother Walmart Tries to “Help” You: “It’s Like Magic”
They want access to your house so they can watch you and deliver thingsThe stack returns
More from the stack
New Segregation Signs Pop Up in Leftist Establishments
Perpetuating racism in the name of freedomBorder Agents Seized American Citizen's Truck, Never Charged Him With A Crime
"You have no rights here"The Senate Is Close To Undermining The Internet By Pretending To 'Protect' The Children
Justifying tyrannyWe Didn't Normalize Trump. We Normalized the Left's Violence.
All other things being equal, the side that can't stand dissent is wrong.Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
So why isn't Obama called to account for this?I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life
"As I got to know my new Midwest home, I realize how living in a bubble and subscribing to the Middle America stereotypes is truly damaging to this country."To Combat "Hate," Make Government Weaker
Worth thinking aboutJames Comey Tried to Discredit Trump’s Wiretapping Assertions That Proved True
Why isn't this man in jail?Entire Volume of CIA Files On Lee Harvey Oswald, Set to Be Released in October, Has “Gone Missing”
Somebody is still hiding truth.The Silencing of Dissent
A paranoid take that may be trueTrump: “Venezuela Has FAITHFULLY Implemented Socialism…” The UN Goes SILENT!
Trump is right on thisHours After Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County Tickets Residents for Code Violations
You'd think there would be other priorities. You'd be wrong.File a FOIA, Get Sued
Why do you want to know, Citizen?More clearing out the stack
Clearing out the stack
Breaking the boundaries of civilization.
"I remember back in the early nineties when as a young man I started copping flack for polite acts of a gentlemanly nature."Scientists have spiders producing enhanced web that can hold a human
All sorts of possibilitiesCanada demands U.S. end ‘right to work’ laws as part of NAFTA talks
Not going to happenRex Murphy: 'Antifa' are despicable fascists — call them that, openly, now
Hiding violence behind a mask is cowardiceAntifa has a rapid response team that targets alt-right organizers
Not surprisingThe United States of Manufactured Hysteria
Politicos WANT you to panic and not think things throughMore than 5,000 out-of-state voters may have tipped New Hampshire against Trump
Potential voter fraudNBC, AP Publish Article Saying Crooked Democrat Menendez on Trial in New Jersey Is a Republican
Except he isn'tU.S. Virgin Islands spent money intended to help after hurricanes
Another case of politicos diverting moneyHow a Not-Racist Cop Arrested a Man for ‘Walking While Black,’ Blamed It on Black People and Walked Away With $100,000
Of course he didThe Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard
Accountable to noneCivilian Review Board Substantiates Charges Against Policeman in Eric Garner Case
This is why civilian review boards need more powerThe mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded
One less mystery for speculation98.5 Percent of Federal Crimes Never Approved by Congress
Out of control bureaucracy staffed with self-righteous technocratsCatalonia mayors sign decree approving independence vote, defying Spanish government
Spain won't let them goWhat Happened To "What Happened": Amazon Slashes Hillary's Book Price 40% Before It Hits Shelves
I don't think people care what Hillary thinks anymoreWATCH: Police ‘Protect’ Society by Stealing Man’s Money for Improperly Selling Hot Dogs
Robbery is robberySupreme Court temporarily lifts restrictions on Trump travel ban
Why do progressives want to limit the same power every President has had?Apple and 7-Eleven Are Why Trump’s Threats to Sever Trade With China Are Empty
Trump likes to draw attention to thingsPope Francis: People Have a ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Combat Climate Change
Nope. Not when it's a fraud.This New Database Is Tracking How Many Cops Are Charged With Crimes
We need this❝The New York Times: Propaganda Machine❞
❝What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?❞
Wednesday roundup - current headlines
Revived 29Nov2017
Super oversized roundup - clearing out the old stack
“A panic is not an answer”
A panic is not an answer: We’re at imminent risk of turning this #metoo moment into a frenzied rush to blame all men
““Maybe so. But they could also hurt young women, who need the support and mentorship of male supervisors. In many industries, this means the kind of after-hours collaboration that has always advanced young men.
Unfortunately, a new puritanism seems to be ascendant. Timothy Noah of Politico suggests we could limit sexual harassment by making meetings with anyone behind closed doors a fireable offense.
Suddenly, office Christmas parties and happy hours are under a cloud. There is talk of replacing alcohol with game rooms.
Such suggestions are silly and infantilizing. We need rules to rid ourselves of creeps, not purge every workplace of all interpersonal risk.””
— Christina Hoff Sommers
Why is this cop not under arrest for assualt?
Thursday roundup
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Antifa violence in Berkeley
Private citizens to the rescue
“Cajun Navy's on the way: South Louisiana springs into action to help Texas amid Harvey floods”
Read More...Truth from the Federalist - worth your time
When Trump supporters ask why I don't trust him…
For future reference - What Trump first said about Charlottesville
“Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: 'Some Very Fine People on Both Sides'”
Read More...85% of Americans support free speech over not offending others, says survey
73% Say Freedom of Speech Worth Dying For
❝❝A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that an overwhelming 85% of American Adults think giving people the right to free speech is more important than making sure no one is offended by what others say. Just eight percent (8%) think it’s more important to make sure no one gets offended.>snip<
This shows little change from past surveying. Eighty-three percent (83%) think it is more important for the United States to guarantee freedom of speech than it is to make sure nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures.
Seventy-three percent (73%) agree with the famous line by the 18th century French author Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Only 10% disagree with that statement, but 17% are undecided.
Among Americans who agree with Voltaire, 93% rate freedom of speech as more important than making sure no one is offended. That compares to just 69% of those who disagree with the French author's maxim.❞❞
Not going for the win
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Cured
“Peanut Allergy Cured In Majority Of Children In 'Life-Changing' Immunotherapy Trial”
Read More...Name calling for politics
Electonic Frontier Foundation on hate speech
Monday roundup
China and India are dangerously close to military conflict in the Himalayas
While the rest of the world is fascinated by Brexit and Donald Trump.We Fight for the Users
Related - The Justice Department Wants to Know if You've Visited an Anti-Trump Resistance Site. This is a direct threat to you.Charlottesville and Its Aftermath: What if It Was a Setup?
We have no proof, this is all highly speculative rumor. But yeah. Related - Here’s How Virginia State Police Facilitated Violence At Charlottesville, ACLU fires back at Gov. McAuliffe after comments on violence at Charlottesville rallyNoam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the Right'
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Chomsky for the fourth time in a week. But he's right. This time.Change the sheets and kiss the Byrd statue goodbye, West Virginia
If the Confederate general statues should be removed, then what about the memorials to a Senator who was a ranking KKK member?Is Google Working with Liberal Groups to Snuff Out Conservative Websites?
“In other words, nice website you've got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it.” Related - Gathering Storms And Threats to Liberty, Leftist “journalist” Lauren Kirchner of ProPublica threatens Jihad Watch, Tech Censorship of White Supremacists Draws Criticism From Within Industry, & Silicon Valley escalates its war on white supremacy despite free speech concernsLibertarians of Convenience
“People identifying as urban progressives increasingly find their own goals stymied by laws and regulations, and they’re demanding that these restrictions be overturned or limited. In other areas of city policy, though—typically, when they don’t hold a personal stake—they often push aggressively for ever more regulations and a more intrusive government.”Bannon out
Steve Bannon is out at White House
After watching the last few days, I'm pretty sure he wanted to be fired. I don't know what happened, but someone like Bannon doesn't just give a telephone interview on a lark. Word is he turned in his resignation on August 7th (pre-Charlottesville) effective August 14th, and it was extended to today.Thursday roundup
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The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
Google doesn't believe in diversity of thought. Related - The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo, Google Fires Engineer For Noticing Men And Women Are Different, The Google Firing Demonstrates That Identity Politics Is Incoherent and Vicious & Google is more afraid of liberal outrage than federal lawGraphic Video Shows Cops Hold Down Handcuffed Teen, Torture Him With Taser—For Sleeping in Truck
Why haven't these police officers been charged with assault?The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
The rules don't work. Pay attention to the XKCD comic mentioned in the article.Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes
That Pentagon report that has everyone worried lately? It's from April of 2013. The Obama administration was notorious for released revised news and figures later, usually on Friday when no one was paying attentinon.Justice Officials Sent Talking Points to FBI on Lynch Tarmac Meeting With Bill Clinton
I'd say this qualifies as suspicious.Venezuela inflation quickens to 248.6 percent in year to July: opposition
Socialism fails every time it's tried.A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack
This one is from The Nation. It's the first major left wing source that even admitted that it may not be the Russians.The Afghan War Doesn't Need to Be Privatized—It Needs to Be EndedSo when does the perpetual war end?
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As I said, the tax exempt status is a "devil's trade" intended in large part to silence churches.
Read More...Algorithm
You could take the original Rocky and this film and you wouldn't need any of the films between them.
Read More...Monday roundup
Molina Healthcare Exits Obamacare Exchanges in Two States, Experiences $230 Million Loss
Remember, the exchanges were never meant to last. And this is another mess that Obama chose to have his successor fix.Coast Guard Chief Will Disregard Trump’s Ban on Transgenders in Military
He can't, not legally. If the code changes and Trump gives the order, it's a court martial offense.FBI monitored social media on Election Day for 'fake news' about Hillary Clinton: Report
So who gave the order? And did this really happen?Venezuela says crushes anti-government attack on military base
BOM scandal: “smart cards” filter out coldest temperatures. Full audit needed ASAP!
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology apparently gooses the numbers before they become Official™.Immigration Brings Out the Social Engineers
“If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.”Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow
I don't think it will happen, but you can practically feel the NY Times droolDunkirk: A contrary view about a movie everyone else loves
Something I never considered but well worth thinking about.U.S. job growth surges in July
I'm not sure the growth is stable, but yes, the numbers did surge. And yes, Obama would have killed for those numbers.1.8 million California acres were set aside for frogs.
Environmentalism is a crusade, ecology is a science studying interconnections and tradeoffs.
Thursday roundup
Whatever Is On Imran Awan’s Smashed Hard Drives Likely Can Be Recovered
This will be interesting.Danish 17-year-old girl who used a pepper spray to fight off a rapist near migrant asylum centre is told SHE will be prosecuted for carrying the weapon
It's headlines like this that make me wonder if Europe has a future.Scientists Still Seek A Reliable DUI Test For Marijuana
How Civil Asset Forfeiture Reduces Economic Mobility
Related - Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind. Someone please explain why civil asset forfeiture is not legalized highway robbery.Maduro’s Stranglehold On Disarmed Venezuelans
Related - Venezuela's Price Inflation Hits an Annual Rate of 952% — Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids — Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters to stave off hunger amid mounting food crisis — Deadly election day in Venezuela as protesters clash with troops — Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse — The elites and politicos are building a case for intervening in Venezuela. It's a bad idea.Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter: FBI Report Shows It Was Seth Rich – Not Russians – Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
Related - Lawsuit says Fox knowingly faked Seth Rich story“No Please Stop!” Dash Cam Shows Cop Fire 21 Shots as Unarmed Teens Beg for Their Lives
When will Americans start holding police officers accountable for breaking the law?Commercial Crabber Of 50 Years Tells Gore Sea Level Hasn’t Changed Since At Least 1970
Take away the adjusted numbers and there is no climate change.Navajo Nation Purchases Colorado Land
This has been in the works for a while. It gives the Diné a place close to the last of their sacred mountains.Wednesday roundup
Monday roundup
Shock Poll Shows Kid Rock WIth A Huge Lead In The Michigan GOP Senate Primary
He's the leading GOP candidate without doing anything and he's within striking distance of the incumbent. Just like Trump, this isn't because of anything he has done. It's because People. Are. Pissed. Off.A Demagogic Bully
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long since lost any connection to reality.Amazon is thinking about using its delivery drones to scan your house to sell you more stuff
I'm pretty sure that this is in the active planning stage.Markets Relax Merrily on a Powerful Time Bomb
The bill always comes due.Judge Slams ‘Incompetent’ Cops After SWAT Raids Innocent Family for Growing Tomato Plants
Police powers need to be put in check.California Lawmakers Passes 400% Gas Tax Increase then Give Themselves FREE Gasoline and Cars!
Beware the exceptions!It’s time for single-payer … the consumer to provider
Eliminate the middlemen, government and the insurance companies. Then watch the prices drop.Federal Gun Prosecutions Up 23 Percent Under Trump, DOJ Says
This is not a good thing. Notice how there is no context. The main use of the 2nd Amendment is so citizens can protect themselves against government.British Climate Minister Boasts About Bypassing the US Federal Government
Remember it's not about saving the planet. It's about shifting massive amounts of cash and power.“13 Reasons Jeff Sessions is a @$#/!” by ReasonTV
“Jeff Sessions is on the ropes with Donald Trump. Good.
The president is pissed because Sessions recused himself from the investigation of Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election. But here are a baker's dozen of reasons to hate the attorney general, including his obsession with restarting the war on pot, his call to jack up mandatory minimums, and his support for civil asset forfeiture. Then there's his lack of interest in due process, willingness to subvert state's rights when they conflict with his desiblurb outcome, and desire to lengthen prison terms for non-violent criminals. Also, he might be some kind of statist elf.”
Read More...Thursday roundup
Wednesday roundup
A trillion dollar industry
“Commentary: Can the NOAA, NASA, EPA, Met Office, and British academia all be wrong about climate change?”
Read More...Competion keeps companies honest
What Obama did
America's Media Meltdown
❝❝In the 2008 campaign, reporters ignored the close and disturbing relationships between the mostly unknown Obama and a cast of unsavory characters: his racist and anti-Semitic pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the neighborhood confidant and former terrorist Bill Ayers, and the wheeler-dealer and soon-to-be felon Tony Rezko.
Instead, journalists quickly started worshipping candidate Obama in a manner never quite seen before, not even in the days of the iconic liberal presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas declared Obama to be a deity (“Obama's standing above the country, above the world, he’s sort of God.”) His very words were able to make the leg of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “tingle.” His pants’ crease proved for David Brooks a talisman of his future greatness, along with the fact that the mellifluent Obama “talks like us.”
While a few journalists were aware of their cult-like worship, most were hooked and competed to outdo one another with embarrassing hagiographic praise. Upon election, Obama was summarily declared by one presidential historian and television pundit to the smartest man with the highest IQ ever to have been president.
Obama himself channeled the veneration, variously promising in god-like fashion to cool the planet and lower the seas, remarking that his own multifaceted expertise was greater than that of all of the various specialists who ran his campaign. For the next eight years, the media largely ignored what might charitably be called an historic overextension of presidential power and scandal not seen since the days of Richard Nixon’s presidency. A clique of journalists set up a private chat group, JournoList, through which they could channel ideas to promote the Obama progressive agenda.❞❞
— Victor Davis Hanson
Friday roundup 21Jul2017
Seismic Shift In Syria: Trump Ends Covert Obama-era CIA Program Which Sent Arms To Jihadists
Of course the media covered this, right?Trump threatens to gut Obamacare markets
If you can't repeal, then just let it collapse. Smart move. The Washington elite keep underestimating Trump.Fmr. U.N. Amb. Power Emerges As Central Figure In Obama Unmasking Investigation
Does anyone doubt that the Obama administration tried to fix the 2016 election anymore?Warren's consumer 'protection' agency sets dangerous precedent
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) should be abolished as quickly as possible. It does not answer to anyone, and yet has tremendous power over business and consumers.Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions
From the first, the really interesting stuff has been excluded. The entire 2016 election, including the efforts of the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, should be investigated.Mueller’s Investigation Must Be Limited and Accountable
Notice how Robert Mueller is staying away from investigating the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign. This investigation is not about possible crimes or justice. It's not even about the 2016 election. It's an open ended, unlimited, and unaccountable taxpayer funded effort to bring down the legally elected President. I don't like Trump, I don't trust Trump, BUT he was legally elected. Why isn't this called what it is, a coup d'état?Trump Eliminates More Than 800 Obama Regulations
For a man who is incompetent and unfit to be President, he seems to be doing quite a bit.Clarence Thomas vs. Jeff Sessions on Civil Asset Forfeiture
I would love to see a civil asset forfeiture case hit the Supreme Court. Right now I think there's an excellent chance it could be overthrown.Thursday roundup 20Jul2017
Wednesday roundup
Hungary vs. Soros
Hungarian Gov’t Steps Up Fight Against George Soros
❝❝The campaign follows a series of moves to halt Soros’ operations in the country. The government argues that Soros is pushing for a one million migrant influx to Europe per year. It is now trying to impose legislation that would force NGOs in the country to reveal where their funding originates and the purpose for which the money was received.
“In Hungarian public life there is a single important element which is not transparent: Soros’s mafia-style network and its agent organizations,” Orban’s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is why the government insisted that [the] parliament decide on making these organizations transparent, as the Hungarian people have the right to know who represents what and for what purpose.”
The frosty relationship between Orban and Soros reached an all-time low after Hungary passed education reforms in March that could threaten the future of the Soros-funded Central European University in Budapest. Soros lashed out at Orban, describing his “mafia state” as “one which maintains a facade of democracy.”❞❞
— Jacob Bojesson
Fix health care
Taxing Hospitals Is a Lousy Way to Fix Health Care
❝❝But if that’s the case, then the best solution is probably to stop subsidizing it, not to make the subsidy more complex. A lot of the current mess in the American health-care system can be traced back to the thicket of hidden subsidies and fiddling regulations we’ve enacted over the years, trying to fine-tune the system into some platonic ideal where nothing ever goes wrong and no one ever makes an unseemly amount of money. But fine tuning has not delivered us the platonic ideal of anything, except perhaps the word “dysfunction.” It might be time to step back and rethink our approach.
We might start by asking ourselves, “Why are hospitals tax exempt in the first place?” When the income tax was first levied, giving hospitals nonprofit status made sense, because these organizations did largely act as charities. Over the succeeding decades, however, the government decided that it didn’t want to rely on charities for charity care, and enacted a series of programs that financed such care with government dollars.
In an ideal world, perhaps hospitals would have gratefully accepted those dollars, and redirected the money they’d been spending on treating patients to cover gaps in the system, like dental care (woefully underprovided either by charity or government fiat). But we do not live in the ideal world. The difference between a charity hospital and its for-profit brethren has shrunk smaller and smaller, and by now, seems too small to justify treating them as charities.❞❞
— Megan McArdle
Health care tied to your job
Monday roundup
House Advances Bill That Would Expand the DEA's Power to Make Legal Highs Illegal
Government can't keep up with regulating new products, so you have to loose freedom.How Trump Can Avoid Impeachment: Order NSA to Declassify All Intel On Democratic Email Leaks
This is a Really REALLY good idea!Why Middle America Doesn't Care About The Trump Jr. Narrative: Reuters Explains
Maybe the mainstream media should pay attention to what their audience wantsTens of Thousands of Muslims Gather to Denounce Islamist Terror – Mainstream Media Ignores It
This is important. The Islamists will never be defeated until most Muslims decide to defeat the extremists. It can't be done from the outside.VISA takes its War on Cash to US Retailers
“We’re focused on putting cash out of business.”5 Cities That Won't Be Hosting the 2024 Olympics, and Why That Makes Them Winners
The Olympic Games lose money for the host city. I think the International Olympics Committee may have started the stadium scam, where the local government is on the hook for the bills and the sports team gets most of the revenue with no risk.Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities
“Congress is permanently in “Annie” mode. It will deal with its war responsibilities, like its myriad other forfeited powers, tomorrow, which is always a day away.” — George WillPhoenix Taxpayers Lose $200 Million on Sale of Largest Hotel in Arizona
Government should NEVER finance private enterprise. Government is so bad at it that it never ends well for taxpayers.Can property survive the great climate transition?
Here we get to the nub. Private property is the the foundation of prosperity, as explained in Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Without private property, there can be no free market. Without a free market, the economy is screwed. The climate alarmist movement exists to redistribute wealth "for the greater good."L.A. County sheriff can't give prosecutors the names of problem deputies, appeals court rules
So even if they lie, falsifiy reports, and stolen, the deputies are ABOVE THE LAW.Is Russiagate Really Hillarygate?
The most important question of the 2016 election.Highway robbery
Authorities in Utah Seized Nearly $3 Million in Cash and Assets From Citizens Last Year
❝❝In one case highlighted by the Salt Lake Tribune, cops seized cars and other property—including "a $25 flashlight…a $4,000 mountain bike, a $2,500 motorcycle and a guitar autographed by Led Zeppelin worth $3,000"— and charged several people after a methamphetamine bust, prosecutors say.
Cops like to publicize such busts because it feeds a narrative that asset forfeiture is used primarily against big-time drug dealers. But they're rather out of the ordinary, the report shows.
Most forfeitures (69 percent) take place during traffic stops and most of the time only money is seized. According to the state report, cash was taken in 99 percent of forfeitures during 2016, with the median seizure amounting to only $1,031.
That means, in many cases, the amount seized was considerably less than four-figures. In one instance, the report shows, police took $16 from a motorist.❞
— Eric Boehm
Buy their meals
Millionth passenger
“Southwest Pilot Showers His Millionth Passenger With Gifts, Pays For Her Ticket”
Read More...The heart knows
Friday roundup
DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team
Something else about the 2016 election that traces straight back to the Obama administration. Gee, what are the chances?De Facto Federal Legislation of Cryptocurrency is Nigh
“An upcoming meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) is likely to change how law enforcement across the U.S. approaches bitcoin. Right now, the meeting is under the radar, but its fallout could soon make a pivotal debate flare on a state-by-state level.”Which Campaign Truly Colluded With Russia?
Many questions about Russian influence if people looked harder at the Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign.The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation
Thirteen steps that the media has used every time so far.The crisis in America’s crime labs
No one person and no one agency has all the answers. No one is beyond criticism. No one is beyond question.Illinois' Fiscal Problems Won't Stay in Illinois
“Wisconsin's budget takes a $51 million hit as The Land of Lincoln tries to extract more revenue from its residents, including those who work or live elsewhere.”Jeff Sessions Wants More Mandatory Minimums, Less Justice
Mandatory miniumum sentences have seriously warped the justice system.Damning New Report Shows How Oakland Cops Covered Up Their Sexual Exploitation of a Minor
Cops must be held accountable if they have powers. If proven true, this should result in immediate dismissal, arrest, and a fast trial.Trump Jr. Entrapped by Obama White House to Obtain FISA Warrant and Spy on Campaign
Very interesting, but it's mostly speculation.Kid Rock for Senate
I am not sure it's really happening or if it's a stunt. He'd be better than most of the serving Senators.Radical Dem Worked For Russian Lawyer Who Met With Trump, Jr.
Odd how Democrats have the most Russian connections, isn't it?Sharing is caring
Rescue Pup Melts Hearts by Sharing its Good Fortune With Homeless Dog
““Lana the rescue dog may have a loving home to call her own, but she hasn’t forgotten what it’s like to live on the streets.
So when she saw a nearby homeless pup outside of her family’s home in Brazil, she decided to share her wealth with the foreign hound.””
— McKinley Corbley
“We’re going to get them out.”
Rip currents swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain..
““When Jessica and Derek Simmons first saw the beachgoers pausing to stare toward the water, the young couple just assumed someone had spotted a shark.
It was Saturday evening, after all, peak summer season in Panama City Beach for overheated Florida tourists to cross paths with curious marine life. Then they noticed flashing lights by the boardwalk, a police truck on the sand and nearly a dozen bobbing heads about 100 yards beyond the beach, crying desperately for help.
Six members of a single family — four adults and two young boys — and four other swimmers had been swept away by powerful and deceptive rip currents churning below the water’s surface.
“These people are not drowning today,” Jessica Simmons thought, she told the Panama City News Herald. “It’s not happening. We’re going to get them out.”””
— Katie Mettler
❝What are your questions?❞
Thursday roundup
Language of force
Tragedy from incentives
Details, details…
Wednesday roundup
Tuesday roundup
Newspaper Publishers Want Congress to Bail Them Out of Bad Investments
Let them fail.Amazon Prime does more for northern food security than federal subsidies, say Iqaluit residents
This is working now, but Amazon may pull out.What happened when Walmart left
When the economy collapses, not even Walmart can save you.John McCain faces questions in Trump-Russia dossier case
John McCain can not be trusted.Once Again, NY Times Attempts to Create Trump/Russia Collusion Where There's No Evidence
The New York TImes pioneered fake news and they still do it better than anyone else.The U.S. Media’s Murky Coverage of Putin and TrumpIt seems the Russian press doesn't think the U.S. media is misreading what is happening.
Cash for Clunkers Was a Complete Failure
We suspected and now we know. Nothing government demands from a business won't impose greater costs on the customer.
Liberals target the Rust Belt: ‘Democrats should be able to win in all these places’
Not after writing them off for sixteen years they can't.
California Looking to Give Unions Private Workers' Phone Numbers, Addresses
Now you know who the legislators really work for.
Monday roundup
Feds Turn Burning Man Into a Police State, Announce Drug Tests for Attendees and Mass Spying
The more weird attention you draw, the bigger example the authorities will try to make you.Maine's state legislature shot down a bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation
They are afraid it might offend Muslims. No word about how not passing the law might offend the women who are targeted.Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science
There's long been evidence that certain psychodelics have psycological and spiritual benefits.Point: Trump’s War on Junk Science
Junk science has been part of American policy.People Over Process: Why Democracy Doesn’t Justify Exclusion
I've said before that freedom is the goal, not democracy.You’re Asking the Wrong Questions
Free speech in the days of Trump.Politicos disconnect from reality
UW study finds Seattle’s minimum wage is costing jobs
❝❝The team concluded that the second jump had a far greater impact, boosting pay in low-wage jobs by about 3 percent since 2014 but also resulting in a 9 percent reduction in hours worked in such jobs. That resulted in a 6 percent drop in what employers collectively pay — and what workers earn — for those low-wage jobs.>snip<
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray defended the minimum wage law, saying that “businesses across the city are competing for employees and our city is in the midst of a period of nearly unprecedented growth. Raising the minimum wage helps ensure more people who live and work in Seattle can share in our city’s success, and helps fight income inequality.”❞❞
— Janet I. Tu
Something's rotten in Syria
Global Warming NOT
Shrinkflation
“American Pravda”
“Project Veritas' new video showing CNN Producer John Bonifield admitting that CNN's Russia narrative is "bullsh*t" and all about ratings”
Read More...“What is Fake News?”
“What is fake news? Is Donald Trump correct when he says CNN, The New York Times, and other mainstream outlets report fake news? Commentator and bestselling author Andrew Klavan explains.”
Read More...Roaming Millenial on the Project Veritas video and student debt
“In this Weekly Rundown, we take a look at the current state of American student loan debt and the newly released Project Veritas John Bonifield CNN tapes that address the media's coverage of Trump and Russia. Fake news confirmed.”
Read More...Making the law-abiding criminal
Black Guns Matter
Black Guns Matter Preaches A Pro-Second Amendment Message in Minnesota
❝❝MINNEAPOLIS — “I’m a reformed scumbag from North Philly that tryin’ to do the right thing,” was a powerful statement that quieted a small conference room in Hotel Minneapolis.
Maj Toure, the founder of Black Guns Matter, made his way to the Twin Cities for a long weekend to spread his message to black communities.
Appearing on the Twin Cities radio show, “Black Republican Black Democrat,” Toure said that he created Black Guns Matter because he was “tired” of seeing his friends die at the hands of police officers and the hands of one another.
His message is simple. Educating everyone, but especially people of color, about their second amendment rights, gun safety, and encouraging a community stigmatized by gun violence to own guns to protect themselves.❞❞
— Preya Samsundar
Watching you
How The EU’s Data Grab Could Affect You
❝❝The EU is poised to grab personal data in a way that could impact people around the globe. Information is power; it is power over your life and almost always includes a raid upon your wealth. The control of information is particularly important to cryptocurrencies because, unlike cash, they leave a transaction trail that makes privacy more difficult and imperative. Without privacy, it is not clear how liberating bitcoin can be for the individual.
A headline in New Europe (June 12) captures the purpose of the upcoming data grab in the EU: “The office of the European Public Prosecutor [EPPO] promises a new era has dawned in the EU for fighting financial crime.” Financial crime refers to the movement of wealth upon which a government frowns. It includes wealth rescued from confiscatory areas like Greece and the purchase of ‘unapproved’ services like sex. Financial crimes that do not involve theft or fraud are simply people who take control of their own financial choices.
The New Europe article further explains, “Every year, at least 50 billion euros of revenues from VAT are lost for national budgets all over Europe through cross-border fraud.” Taxes. The article could not be clearer about the EPPO being a tax grab. The word “terrorism” may be thrown into every second sentence but, in this content, it is a synonym of “tax collection.” The EU states do not want money to flow over borders and away from their reach. And, since nothing flows quite so smoothly as cryptocurrency, it will be targeted.❞❞
— Wendy McElroy
Getting away from the bankers and Feds
“How I missed the point of bitcoin”
“Congress considers bill greatly expanding feds’ power to seize your money, Bitcoin, and property”
Read More...Friday roundup
Report Says DEA Doesn't Even Know If The Billions In Cash It Seizes Is Having Any Impact On Criminal Activity
So if seizing cash doesn't work, why do it?Poor Neighborhoods Hit Hardest by Asset Forfeiture in Chicago, Data Shows
Another of my maxims applies here. “Government authority tends to be used against those least likely to resist.”Redesigned pride flag recognizes LGBT people of color
Behold the victim hierarchy, “my victimhood is more important than yours.” They took something that was inclusive and made it about race. What's more, the black and brown stripes are on top. Do you really think that just happens to be the way it turned out? See also There's Controversy Over The Addition Of Two New Colors To The Gay Pride FlagThe Progressive Tea Party that Never Was
Why can't progressives build effective groups from the ground up?What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln
Utter catastrophe is not strong enough for what Illinois faces. This may well be the only way out.Good riddance to the Russia myth — and blame Team Obama for promoting it
I'd say Team Hillary, but at least they are calling it a myth.Fifteen Lawyers in Search of a Crime
There's no evidence that the Russians helped the Trump campaign, but that doesn't stop the government lawyers.Carrier Will Move Jobs to Mexico, Despite Trump’s Promise to Keep Them in Indiana
It's still crony capitalism, an unholy alliance between a company and government.John and Cindy McCain's shaky foundation
Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
❝❝Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University.>snip<
Critics worry that the institute’s donors and McCain’s personal leadership in the organization’s exclusive “Sedona Forum” bear an uncanny resemblance to the glitzy Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that annually co-mingled special interests and powerful political players in alleged pay-to-play schemes.
The institute has accepted contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder George Soros and from Teneo, a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band, former President Bill Clinton’s “bag man.” Teneo has long helped enrich Clinton through lucrative speaking and business deals.❞❞
Cindy McCain: Crony Philanthropist
❝❝It turns out the "freedom, democracy, and human rights" institute launched by Cindy and Sen. John McCain is supported by large donations from entities known for persistent rights violations, including Saudi Arabia, a U.S. defense contractor selling smart bombs to the Saudis, and a Moroccan mining company occupying land in Northwest Africa.
In fact, examining McCain's philanthropic record reveals a long history of personal abuse of nonprofit resources, shady connections, and shoddy work. For years, McCain has been playing the role of crony philanthropist, and now she is poised to bring her dubious advocacy to the highest levels of government.❞❞
Headline roundup
Single-payer health care would have an astonishingly high price tag
Some of us already knew that. When we tried to tell people, we were told to shut up because obviously we were wrong.Harvard: California minimum wage hikes have led to major restaurant closings
More expenses and the same price means less profit and fewer business. It also means fewer jobs.City trees are dying early because they are struggling to sleep due to streetlights
I didn't see that one coming.Victory!: Governor Abbott signs Texas “Bowie Bill”
Bowie knives are illegal? In Texas?Advances in apathy
Claire Wolfe says it's long past time to tune out.Whistleblower Banker: “All Misery on Earth is a Business Model”
Wondering what happend to the free market?Nullify this!
“Juries Can Acquit the Guilty, 9th Circuit Says, but 'There Is No Right to Nullification'”
Read More...None of my business
FINALLY!! It's about damn time!
“Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.”
““A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.””
— Justice Anthony Kennedy
Headline roundup
Net Neutrality Supporters Want to ‘Ban Drudge’
One of my maxims applies here. “Ever notice that when someone starts talking about the common good, they try to take something away from you?”Judge: Lois Lerner’s tea party-targeting testimony can stay secret — for now
So what are they hiding?How Team Obama tried to hack the election
We know it happened. Why isn't it being investigated?Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia
Again, we know it happened. Why isn't it being investigated?Get Congress Back to Legislating, Not Just Budgeting
Another example of unintended consequences.CNN’s Kathy Griffin and the Face of Tolerant Democrats
Griffin doesn't want to face the consequences.Flashback: Obama Admin. Offers to Share Syria Intel on Terrorists With Russia
Yep. We know it happened. Why isn't it being investigated?Just a bit biased
Fake news from the Washington Post
”Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump”
“Trump: I had ‘absolute right’ to share ‘facts’ with Russia”
Read More...❝Shut up. You have no rights.❞
“Detroit Cops Raid an Innocent Family's Home at Gunpoint on Bogus Sex-Trafficking Tip”
Read More...Innocent but imprisioned
Filed for future reference
Ice Age Britain: River Thames will freeze over on 'this date' – and could kill millions
❝❝Experts told Daily Star Online planet Earth is on course for a “Little Age Ice” within the next three years thanks to a cocktail of climate change and low solar activity.
Research shows a natural cooling cycle that occurs every 230 years began in 2014 and will send temperatures plummeting even further by 2019.
Scientists are also expecting a “huge reduction” in solar activity for 33 years between 2020 and 2053 that will cause thermometers to crash.
Both cycles suggest Earth is entering a global cooling cycle that could have devastating consequences for global economy, human life and society as we know it.❞❞
— Joshua Nevett
Guilty until proven innocent
Friday Roundup
Solar and wind power are not practical. The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow.
Read More...Columnist criticized for climate dissent
Certainty
Climate of Complete Certainty
❝❝Well, not entirely. As Andrew Revkin wrote last year about his storied career as an environmental reporter at The Times, “I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.” The science was generally scrupulous. The boosters who claimed its authority weren’t.
Anyone who has read the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change knows that, while the modest (0.85 degrees Celsius, or about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the Northern Hemisphere since 1880 is indisputable, as is the human influence on that warming, much else that passes as accepted fact is really a matter of probabilities. That’s especially true of the sophisticated but fallible models and simulations by which scientists attempt to peer into the climate future. To say this isn’t to deny science. It’s to acknowledge it honestly.
By now I can almost hear the heads exploding. They shouldn’t, because there’s another lesson here — this one for anyone who wants to advance the cause of good climate policy. As Revkin wisely noted, hyperbole about climate “not only didn’t fit the science at the time but could even be counterproductive if the hope was to engage a distracted public.”
Let me put it another way. Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science and creates openings for doubt whenever a climate claim proves wrong. Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions. Censoriously asserting one’s moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.❞❞
— Bret Stephens
Silence
The Bad Manners of the Campus Left
❝❝What the hooligans last Thursday at my lecture in Colorado were objecting to was a very different kind of invasion—a peaceful, voluntary offering of ideas they were unaware of, didn’t want to hear, and thought it was their right to prevent others from hearing. Their intent was to intimidate, to harass, to silence, to dominate. This is not conduct that a citadel of education should tolerate for an instant.
Interesting, isn’t it, that what some go to college for, others find “offensive.” As I watched the incident occur, I thought to myself, “I’m standing in a taxpayer-funded institution of supposedly ‘higher’ education, not a Khmer Rouge re-education camp, for crying out loud!”❞❞
— Lawrence W. Reed
Newspeak devours free speech
What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech
““Instead of defining freedom of expression as guaranteeing the robust debate from which the truth emerges, Lyotard focused on the asymmetry of different positions when personal experience is challenged by abstract arguments. His extreme example was Holocaust denial, where invidious but often well-publicized cranks confronted survivors with the absurd challenge to produce incontrovertible eyewitness evidence of their experience of the killing machines set up by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Not only was such evidence unavailable, but it also challenged the Jewish survivors to produce evidence of their own legitimacy in a discourse that had systematically denied their humanity.
Lyotard shifted attention away from the content of free speech to the way certain topics restrict speech as a public good. Some things are unmentionable and undebatable, but not because they offend the sensibilities of the sheltered young. Some topics, such as claims that some human beings are by definition inferior to others, or illegal or unworthy of legal standing, are not open to debate because such people cannot debate them on the same terms.
The recent student demonstrations at Auburn against Spencer’s visit — as well as protests on other campuses against Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and others — should be understood as an attempt to ensure the conditions of free speech for a greater group of people, rather than censorship. Liberal free-speech advocates rush to point out that the views of these individuals must be heard first to be rejected. But this is not the case. Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good.””
— Ulrich Baerh/t Bookworm Room
Somebody KNEW
Feds knew of 700 Wells Fargo whistleblower cases in 2010
❝❝America's chief federal banking regulator admits it failed to act on numerous "red flags" at Wells Fargo that could have stopped the fake account scandal years earlier.
One particularly alarming red flag that went unheeded: In January 2010, the regulator was aware of "700 cases of whistleblower complaints" about Wells Fargo's sales tactics.
An internal review published on Wednesday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that the regulator didn't live up to its responsibilities. The report found that oversight of Wells Fargo (WFC) was "untimely and ineffective" and federal examiners overseeing the bank "missed" several opportunities to uncover the problems that led to the creation of millions of fake accounts❞❞
— Matt Egan
Secret demands
“Court Rules Facebook Can’t Challenge Demands for User Data (and Can’t Tell Users)”
Read More...Yeah, he kinda does
Rand Paul: Trump needs Congress to authorize military action in Syria
❝❝Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday night that President Trump needs congressional authorization for military action in Syria after Trump ordered an airstrike in retaliation for a deadly chemical attack earlier this week.
"While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked," Paul said in a statement shortly after reports that the U.S. had launched more than 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles against an airfield in Syria.
"The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate," Paul said. "Our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer, and Syria will be no different."❞❞
— Brooke Seipel
This is what I was talking about.
While Democrats are muddying the water with the "Russian connection" and judicial filibusters, President Trump just ordered attacks on another sovereign nation without Congressional authorization.
Why is this legal? Well, part of it is because of Bush the Younger and Obama. They too launched military strikes without Congressional approval.
All the nonsense that is being thrown at Trump, and when he does do something that is morally wrong, no one cares.
It gets lost in the noise.
Hey Democrats, you own that one too.
All other things being equal, the side that can't stand dissent is wrong
Theft by any other name
IRS Seized $17 Million From Innocent Business Owners Using Asset Forfeiture
❝❝The IRS seized more than $17 million from innocent business owners over a two-year period using obscure anti-money laundering rules and civil asset forfeiture, compromising the rights of individuals and their businesses, a government watchdog has found.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report Tuesday detailing how, between 2012 and 2014, IRS investigators seized hundreds of bank accounts from business owners based on nothing but a suspicious pattern of deposits. In more than 90 percent of those cases, the money was completely legal. The report also found that investigators violated internal policies when conducting interviews, failed to notify individuals of their rights, and improperly bargained to resolve civil cases.❞❞
— C.J. Ciaramella
Illegal spying on legal phone calls
“Former US Attorney: Susan Rice Ordeblurb Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump”
Read More...Susan Rice unmasked
“CNN Goes On Rampage Against Susan Rice Bombshell, Instructs Viewers To Ignore Story”
Read More...I've nothing more to add to this headline
Professor says studies don't use science
J Scott Armstrong: Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Papers in Scientific Journals Follow Scientific Method
❝❝According to Armstrong, very little of the forecasting in climate change debate adheres to these criteria. “For example, for disclosure, we were working on polar bear [population] forecasts, and we were asked to review the government’s polar bear forecast. We asked, ‘could you send us the data’ and they said ‘No’… So we had to do it without knowing what the data were.”
According to Armstrong, forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) violate all eight criteria.
“Why is this all happening? Nobody asks them!” said Armstrong, who says that people who submit papers to journals are not required to follow the scientific method. “You send something to a journal and they don’t tell you what you have to do. They don’t say ‘here’s what science is, here’s how to do it.'”
Digging deeper into their motivations, Armstrong pointed to the wealth of incentives for publishing papers with politically convenient rather than scientific conclusions.
“They’re rewarded for doing non-scientific research. One of my favourite examples is testing statistical significance – that’s invalid. It’s been over 100 years we’ve been fighting the fight against that. Even its inventor thought it wasn’t going to amount to anything. You can be rewarded then, for following an invalid [method].”
“They cheat. If you don’t get statistically significant results, then you throw out variables, add variables, [and] eventually you get what you want.”
“My big thing is advocacy. People are asked to come up with certain answers, and in our whole field that’s been a general movement ever since I’ve been here, and it just gets worse every year. And the reason is funded research.”❞❞
— Allum Bokhari
Legal theft
Maine is poised to make it a lot harder for police to steal your stuff
❝❝Civil asset forfeiture is a national problem, and a big one. In 2014, for the first time in recorded history, police in the United States seized more money and property through civil asset forfeiture than all burglars and thieves combined. Making matters worse, civil asset forfeiture has been known to disproportionately impact African Americans and Latinos, creating significant barriers to opportunity in their communities. According to a study in Oklahoma, nearly two thirds of seizures come from racial minorities, representing a significant disparity.❞❞
— Payton Alexander
Emphasis added. H/T reddit
Black & Blue & hate crimes
Louisiana and Kentucky have both passed laws that add police and emergency responders to the hate crime laws.
Read More...Repeal Obamacare with just one sentence
Rep. Mo Brooks files bill to repeal Obamacare
❝❝Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.❞❞
— U.S. Congressman Mo Brooks
Secret group creates blacklist
Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
Read More...Soros manipulating media
“Leaked Documents Reveal Expansive Soros Funding to Manipulate Federal Elections”
Read More...Still plenty of ice
Abnormal
Dear Media: Please Stop Normalizing the Alt-Right
❝❝For Jew-hating racists, the attention means they can playact as a viable and popular movement with pull in Washington. In return, many in the media get to confirm their own biases and treat white supremacy as if it were the secret ingredient to Republican success.
Meanwhile, this obsessive coverage of the alt-right not only helps mainstream a small movement but it's also exactly what the bigots need and want to grow.
Check out the coverage of this weekend's National Policy Institute conference in Washington. As far as I can tell, these pseudointellectual xenophobic bull sessions have been going on for years, featuring many of the same names. These people have generally been given the attention they deserve, which is to say exceptionally little. If you read this week's headlines, though, you would have thought the German American Bund had packed 22,000 cheering fascists into the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center.❞❞
Hoodwinking Congress - blast from the past (2005)
Buying Reform
❝❝Charged with promoting campaign-finance reform when he joined Pew in the mid-1990s, Treglia came up with a three-pronged strategy: 1) pursue an expansive agenda through incremental reforms, 2) pay for a handful of "experts" all over the country with foundation money and 3) create fake business, minority and religious groups to pound the table for reform.
"The target audience for all this activity was 535 people in Washington," Treglia says — 100 in the Senate, 435 in the House. "The idea was to create an impression that a mass movement was afoot — that everywhere they looked, in academic institutions, in the business community, in religious groups, in ethnic groups, everywhere, people were talking about reform."
It's a stark admission, but perhaps Treglia should be thanked for his candor.>snip<
But this money didn't come from little old ladies making do with cat food so they could send a $20 check to Common Cause. The vast majority of this money — $123 million, 88 percent of the total — came from just eight liberal foundations.
These foundations were: the Pew Charitable Trusts ($40.1 million), the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy ($17.6 million), the Carnegie Corporation of New York ($14.1 million), the Joyce Foundation ($13.5 million), George Soros' Open Society Institute ($12.6 million), the Jerome Kohlberg Trust ($11.3 million), the Ford Foundation ($8.8 million) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($5.2 million).
Not exactly all household names, but the left-wing groups that these foundations support may be more familiar: the Earth Action Network, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, the Public Citizen Foundation, the Feminist Majority Foundation . . .
What did this liberal foundation crowd buy with its $123 million?
For starters, a stable of supposedly independent pro-reform groups, with Orwellian names you may have heard in the press: the Center for Public Integrity, the William J. Brennan Center for Justice, Democracy 21 and so on.
Plus, favorable press coverage. Here, the story — as laid out in the Political Money Line report — gets really ugly.❞❞
Cult of Clinton
Right to boycott
“Fashion Designers Are Boycotting Melania Trump. Shouldn't Bakers and Florists Have the Same Right?”
Read More...Compromise
Good thing she wasn't elected…
Bussed in protestors
Tiny houses banned
Tiny Homes Banned in U.S. at Increasing Rate as Govt Criminalizes Sustainable Living
❝❝As the corporatocracy tightens its grip on the masses – finding ever more ways to funnel wealth to the top – humanity responds in a number of ways, including the rising popularity of tiny houses.
These dwellings, typically defined as less than 500 square feet, are a way for people to break free of mortgages, taxes, utility bills and the general trappings of “stuff.” They’re especially attractive to millennials and retirees, or those seeking to live off-grid.
But government and corporations depend on rampant consumerism and people being connected to the grid.
Seeking actual freedom through minimalist living should seem like a natural fit for the American dream, but the reality is that many governments around the country either ban tiny homes or force them to be connected to the utility grid.❞❞
Grow a lot faster
Memo To The Next President: We Can Grow A Lot Faster
❝❝The idea that there is some kind of inevitable decline in productivity, he says, is nonsense: "Experience and formal analysis tell us clearly that innovation and productivity happen where there is rule of law, simple and predictable regulation, property rights, reasonable taxation, an open and competitive economy, and decent public infrastructure," Cochrane wrote recently. "These politicians do have ample control over, and ample opportunity to screw up."
Presidents, working with Congress, can have an enormous impact on the things that matter.
So what matters? A kind of consensus is emerging among some economists that significant barriers to growth exist — and that they can be swept away. Doing so could push the long-term growth path back above 3% -- creating millions of new jobs and higher incomes at the same time.❞❞
Nativists threatened by success
“Alt-Right Nativists Launch Witch Hunt Against Chobani Yogurt Founder For Helping Refugees”
Read More...“Parliament is sovereign.”
This classic 1867 piece has lessons for today.
For length reasons, this entry has it's own page.
Read More...Sometimes the police are not your friends
Taking away choice
Maybe too windy
Unlimted immigration is not a good idea
UK economy grows after Brexit
“UK economy grows 0.5% in three months after Brexit vote”
The article is boring, but the headline sums it up nicely.
Economies grow when government interference is reduced.
Governments can’t negotiate free trade.
Just remember those.
Politico elites lie
Rigged? In What Way Is This Election NOT Rigged?
❝❝The political and media elites are outraged beyond measure by Donald Trump’s charge that the election could be rigged. How dare he suggest such a thing, they say, for the system is as honest as the day is long!
It shows he knows he is going to lose, they say. It shows that he has no faith in the American system, and is really a fascist at heart.
In reality, it shows no such thing, but it does show that a conversation about whether this election -- and the political system in general -- is rigged is one that the elites most desperately do not want to have.
And that is why we must have it.
And, if we’re going to have it in an honest fashion, the question should be framed not as “Is the system rigged?” but as “In what way is the system not rigged?”❞❞
Donald Trump’s one merit in this election is that he is the system breaker.
No matter who is elected, no matter who wins the inevitable court case challenging the election, the two major political parties are done.
Finished.
There is nothing that can save them now.
Hillary Clinton’s machinations and betrayals are set out for all to see. The Democrat elites helped her shut out all competition. We don’t know exactly why. It certainly wasn’t because of her accomplishments. The takeaway is that the DNC elites can’t be trusted.
The RNC elites are gunning for Trump. He wasn’t supposed to win. The fix was in. The takeaway is that the RNC elites can’t be trusted.
Do you understand yet?
The takeaway is the the elites can’t be trusted.
Government is not your friend.
A government smaller than absolutely necessary.
These are the things you should remember.
Hang onto your freedom.
HT Bookworm.
Utah tries grabbing tribal land and pilfering tribal funds
The Legacy of Obama comes to Arizona
Ali was cool
Get that? The science is settled. Don't question the dogma. Thou shalt not dissent!
Read More...Public blasphemy
Environmentalism vs. the Navajo
“For thee, not for me…or my friends”
DOJ delays Apple case
Thirteen thousand
If the U.S. Marshalls arrested 13,000 "worst of the worst," repeat, violent offenders…
Why were there 13,000 "worst of the worst" repeat, violent offenders out there to be arrested?
Rebellion rumbles
I haven't been the only one who noticed. I thought it would happen much sooner. Lately things have been coming to a head.
❝John Hackmann, a Fairview Heights, Ill., retiree, labeled it a “Washington cartel.”
“They just let the government do whatever they want,” said Jim Walker, an Arnold, Mo., businessman.
What is the establishment? Nationally, eight in 10 people told a McClatchy-Morning Consult poll this month it includes members of Congress. Similar numbers cited the Democratic and Republican parties, political donors, Wall Street bankers and the mainstream media.
They split on whether Trump, a billionaire real estate developer who’s thrived in the New York business world, was part of the establishment, but seven in 10 said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton was.
In essence, the establishment lives and thrives in a small world that lives and works in New York and Washington, on Wall Street, in Big Media, and in Politics, connected by the high-speed Acela corridor and often by mutual self interest.
Many, perhaps most, do care deeply about the common good though they are anything but common themselves. They hire each other and each other’s children. They huddle at the same white tie and black tie dinners. And, they sometimes attend each other’s weddings.❞
Of course Limbaugh has been going after the establishment too.
Remember, the elites chose Bush and Clinton. Those were the two people who were supposed to get the nomination. It blew up in their faces.
There's only one question left.
The FBI demands you sacrifice privacy
Apple stands for rights
The FBI won’t stop at one iPhone.
The FedGovs won’t stop at ten thousand smart phones.
Read More...This is why John Kerry won't call it a treaty
Better?
“We need to put the American flag down”
Identity politics and power through guilt will ALWAYS demand more no matter what is given…
Read More...Nutcase
The narrative is not the tragedy
Watching the headlines #3
“Doctors' Criticism Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats”
“Save the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandates”
“Obama To Circumvent Congress With ‘Gag Order’ On Firearm Coverage”
“You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History”
Read More...Drought conditions does not mean climate change
Watching the headlines #2
“CNN ATTACKS Duke basketball coach for NOT speaking out against new Indiana Religious Freedom law”
“Everybody's Lost Their Goddamn Mind Over Religious Freedom”
“The overblown hypocrisy of Tim Cook's business boycott of Indiana”
“Sounds like Apple’s CEO needs to disable the ‘hypocrite’ app on his iPhone”
Read More...Dirty Water
Watching the headlines #1
Beacon Headlines Quick Links for 31Aug2009
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Beacon Quick Links for 31Aug2009
Roundup of my link stack
Max Yasgur understood real American Values
Taking a stand even when you don't agreeThe Artist Formerly Known as Dissident: Artists have a duty to dissent—even against Obama
How we tolerate dissent says a great deal about our characterReal unemployment rate at 16 pct: Fed official
You should ask who is juggling the figures and whyBill would give president emergency control of Internet
Hey, let's take something that works because it's decentralized and no one person or group controls it and centralize controlLatest in Stimulus: 'Cash for Refrigerators
Because 'Cash for Clunkers' was such an unquestioned successChicago August Ends with Near-Record Cold
Because that global warming thing is getting blamed for everything elseThat's it for today. I'm going to go find someplace that doesn't have a crew digging up the road or laying new asphalt outside.
Posted: Mon - August 31, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Beacon Headline Quick Links for 23Mar2009
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Roundup of the headline links
Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?
I've begun to wonder that myself.Wikileaks taken offline after publishing Australia's banned websites
Turns out that the server couldn't handle the traffic.Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government
Encouraging signsDHS Officials Skirt Open Meeting Laws to Promote REAL ID
Evidently the law only applies to the little people.Montana's Sound Money Bill
I am not convinced that this one isn't a big dose of wish fulfillment, but it could be. Also here, but consider the source.US Mint Suspends Production of More Gold and Silver Coins
Granted it's collectable coins, but certainly worth watching close. Especially if states start requiring gold and silver for payment.US bikini wax ban plans ditched
New Jersey officials found they had a fight on their hands.Law puts non-offenders on state's sex registry
Another example of the tyranny of the sex offender laws.Posted: Mon - March 23, 2009 at 01:49 PM
Beacon Headline quick links for 03Mar2009
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Check out these stories all over the web
BofA chief admits Merrill aid 'mistake'
This is what, the third or fourth bank who said that their bank was forced to take the bailout money?Our Troubled Economy is a Response to Barack Obama's Policies
Just not the response he wanted. Watch the blame game continueSwitzerland Should Stiff-Arm The IRS
The interesting question is why something that was perfectly acceptable last year requires drastic action this year. Hat tip Samizdata.netPosted: Tue - March 3, 2009 at 07:02 AM
Alternately destroying the environment
Sometimes reason wins
Ah, the delicious irony
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Yahoo pulls the plug on fake profiles used by British police
““INTERNET companies including Yahoo! are hindering police investigations into child abuse by closing down the undercover identities used by officers to trap paedophiles.
British child protection police habitually pose as children online, using false profiles to ensnare abusers trying to groom girls and boys for sex.
But the companies say they will shut down all bogus identities on their sites even if they know they are being run to catch paedophiles.
“Everybody using our service, regardless of whether they are law enforcement agencies, has to abide by our terms of service and if they don’t we will close them down,” said Yahoo!.
Its terms of service state that all information used to make up a profile must be “true, accurate current and complete”.
The stipulations are intended to protect users from exploitation and abuse, but antiabuse campaigners say they are frustrating police sting operations on hardcore offenders.””
Why should police have special privileges not available to the general public? Why should a private company overlook abuses of services just because it is government agents?
Yes, I know it is that old saw about "protecting the children," but without that justification, doesn't Yahoo! owe it's customers protection from frauds online?Posted: Sun - May 20, 2007 at 02:31 PM
Milk shortage
What happens when green means taking food out of mouths?
Pinaka update
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Were the genocidal remarks misinterpreted?
The controversy surrounds comments made during two recent speeches in which Pianka discussed the need for population control and the impending disease pandemic that might well just take care of it. Some heard the comments as simply a warning. To others, however, it sounded like Pianka was advocating the use of deadly viruses to kill off millions of people.
Pianka, who calls the latter interpretation nonsense, says the whole thing has blown out of proportion. Many, however, seem to be taking his critics seriously. Pianka said he is scheduled to meet with FBI officials today.
"Someone has reported me as a terrorist," he said. "They think I'm forming a cadre of people to release the airborne Ebola virus into the air. That I'm the leader and my students are the followers."
There's no denying that Pianka, even at first glance, seems a little eccentric.
His office, which he has inhabited for 38 years, is cluttered with books, stacks of paper, bones and even a few beers. There's a photo of him dressed like British naturalist Charles Darwin. Scattered pictures of lizards and a copy of his semi-autobiography, "The Lizard Man Speaks," reveal his area of expertise — lizards and evolutionary ecology. On his desk, he keeps a stuffed likeness of the Ebola virus that was sent to him by students who enjoyed his speeches.
He is particularly troubled by the recent explosion in the human population. He says we now take up about 50 percent of all livable space on Earth and that people should have no more than two children. Humans, and the way they've multiplied, are "no better than bacteria," he says.
Dr. Pinaka is not denying the remarks, just their interpretation. Without context, it's hard to say who is right. But it is certainly worth watching.
Posted: Wed - April 5, 2006 at 04:33 PM
University of Texas professor advocates genocide?
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Killing off 90 percent of humans
Up to now, it's been a very private thing.
Here is the first public entry. Eric R. Pianka, who evidently has been very naughty.
If true, he's damn right the general public is not ready for his theories. However, I have to be honest here. The man making these claims is a Creationist and may have an agenda. Either way this situation bears close watching.
I'll will consider this genocidal solution for a microsecond when the professor volunteers to be exterminated first. Then I will dismiss it with prejudice.
Here is his web address.
Posted: Mon - April 3, 2006 at 05:35 AM