Saudi Billionaire Buys Yale A New Sharia Law Center

Saudi Billionaire Buys Yale A New Sharia Law Center | The Daily Caller
Yale Law School, the most elite law school in the country, has received a $10 million donation to establish a Sharia law center.
The Abdullah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization is named for its patron, a billionaire Saudi banker who serves as CEO of the Dallah al Baraka Holding Company, a large privately-held multinational conglomerate founded by his father. Its purpose will be to bring experts on Islam and Islamic law (also known as Sharia) to Yale for lectures, seminars, guest professorships, and fellowships.
It isn’t the first time Kamel, who has an estimated worth of nearly $20 billion, has given money to Yale.
He also sponsored a popular three-year lecture series on Islamic topics which presaged the creation of the new law center.
Yale also isn’t a pioneer in having an Islamic legal program;
Harvard Law School has had its own Islamic Legal Studies Program since the 1990s.
Still, Yale says in establishing the center it hopes to become one of the top centers of Islamic legal scholarship on Earth.
...Islamic programs and endowed professorships on U.S. campuses financed by wealthy Saudis are an increasingly common sight..." 

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Muslim of the Year

Muslim of the Year:

"No other Muslim has done as much, particularly given his power as president of the United States, to further Allah’s goal of a Christian and Jew-free world. The Holy Quran, as Obama likes to call it, teaches that this false god’s will must be obeyed and that all infidels must perish from the earth. As the inscription reads on a ring the “Muslim of the Year” has worn since college, “There is no god but Allah,” his actions and non-actions have paid homage to his real and only “deity.” Indeed, Obama can issue all the Christmas messages he falsely utters to the American people and the world – pretending to be a Christian for political expediency, subterfuge and dastardly cover – but after seven years of his presidency, “We the People” are no longer fooled."

Migrant Invasion Could See EVERY Port in Northern France Fenced Off at UK Taxpayers’ Expense

(2) Migrant Invasion Could See EVERY Port in Northern France Fenced Off at UK Taxpayers’ Expense:
Every port in northern France could be fenced off to prevent Europe’s migrant invasion further spilling across the Channel – and British taxpayers will be left to foot the bill.
French police are so bewildered by the human influx that the only answer is to erect permanent concrete and barbed wire partitions to ring fence coastal towns that are seen as launching points for an attempted entry into Britain, according to UKIP MEP Mike Hookem.
Mr Hookem said the entire coastline of Normandy will need to be turned into a “fortress” to defend Britain’s borders as migrant smugglers increasingly target smaller ports with less security.
France has been reticent about shouldering the financial burden of securing its northern ports, with Britain shelling out £7 million towards state-of-the-art fencing around the port of Calais earlier this year and more UK money will be needed to complete the project.
...More than one million migrants have crossed into Europe this year, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has confirmed, with more expected in 2016.
The number is four times larger than the total for last year, with the majority crossing the Mediterranean from Turkey to Greece.
The IOM says more than 800,000 travelled this way, most of them originating in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
...“The CRS [French riot police] have lost control of it, they’ve lost control of everything.
It’s going to get worse.
How far do we go with the security and with the fencing?
Does it become fortress Europe across all of the coast of northern France?
“Because at all the small ports they are going to have to build the same kind of fencing and security there.
At the back of my mind all the time is the security of British truck drivers who are under massive threat.”
The Yorkshire MEP revealed that he is planning to significantly beef up the security surrounding his next trip to Calais in January, because many migrants are becoming increasingly violent.

Woman who failed FDNY physical test 6 times gets another chance

Woman who failed FDNY physical test 6 times gets another chance | New York Post:
A woman who six times failed the physical test to become an FDNY firefighter is being given another chance — and this time, critics say, the fix is in.
“She’ll graduate, no question,” said an FDNY member. 
“The department does­n’t want another black eye.”
Wendy Tapia was allowed to conditionally graduate from the Fire Academy on May 17, 2013, even though she had failed the running test.
After swearing her in, the FDNY gave Tapia five more chances to run the required 1.5 miles in 12 minutes or less, but she couldn’t do it. 
She quit — never having worked a tour of duty.
Now Tapia, 34, is getting yet another chance to join The Bravest.
She’s among a group of emergency medical technicians promoted to probationary firefighters and set to start the 18-week training academy Monday.
Tapia’s return comes as the FDNY has quietly eased its standards to ­admit more women.
...Lt. Elizabeth Osgood, who objected to Tapia’s special treatment, was barred from promotion for months.
Capt. Paul Mannix, the president of Merit Matters, a group opposed to quotas, was forced into silence.
Reached by phone last week, Tapia hung up on a reporter.
FDNY spokesman Jim Long refused to comment on Tapia, but said, “All who enter the academy must meet the same requirements in order to graduate.”

Cigarette tax revenue plunges as smokers buy outside New York

Cigarette tax revenue plunges as smokers buy outside New York | New York Post
Albany has really blown it — tax revenues from cigarettes are up in smoke.
New York state cigarette tax collections have plunged by about $400 million over the past five years, according to figures and estimates from the office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
And New York has also lost $1.3 billion in uncollected state cigarette taxes each year from alternative sales, according to a separate study.
The state is taxing far fewer packs, as smokers evade taxed packs, shop across state lines or buy smokes from Native American merchants to avoid punitive NY taxes. 
A typical pack in New York costs $10.60 or more, including the nation’s highest state excise tax, $4.35.
In Gotham, smokers are slapped with an extra $1.50 per pack on top of the state tax. (On top of that, there’s federal excise tax of $1.01, and an 8 percent sales tax of almost 80 cents, using our example.)
Not surprisingly, say experts, sales of taxed cigs in New York are off by 54 percent in the past decade, which is also cutting into the profits of local store owners peddling smokes.
In that same period, about 19 percent of New Yorkers stopped smoking, a pace well below the huge sales dip.
“The Germans call it ‘schadenfreude’ when you take pleasure from another person’s misfortune,” noted Dan Mitchell, a tax expert at the Washington DC-based Cato Institute, commenting on the New York smoking tax fiasco.
“Normally, I would think people who feel this way have a character flaw.
“But not in this case,” he added.
“I confess that I get a certain joy from this story because politicians are being punished for their greed.
I like the fact that they have less money to waste.”

Sam's Club CEO Is Paying Dearly For Anti-White Comments, Learning The Hard Way About Racism ⋆ US Herald

Sam's Club CEO Is Paying Dearly For Anti-White Comments, Learning The Hard Way About Racism ⋆ US Herald:

"Why would any CEO of a major international chain speak publicly and on the record to the media and insult and decry white males when a large part of your customer base happens to be those same “white males?”

Subsidies for Cooking Oil

Subsidies for Cooking Oil - WSJ:
"How many millions of taxpayer dollars does it take to create a new cooking oil?
Government-backed Solazyme is among the companies working to provide the answer.
After gorging on federal grants to make fuels that car drivers don’t want, alternative-energy companies are now trying to feed their creations to American consumers.
Bon appetit!
The Journal reports that Solazyme, which in 2009 received more than $20 million in grants to build a refinery for automotive fuel, is now selling an algae-derived oil for cooking.
Readers may recall Amyris as one of the “green tech” darlings backed by Al Gore and his colleagues at Kleiner Perkins that was destined to revolutionize the energy economy.
Now it’s focusing on facial moisturizers and cosmetics.
But only after blowing nearly $25 million from an Energy Department grant on a biofuels demonstration project.
Sapphire Energy received more than $100 million from the Obama Administration, “but it decided over the past two years to shift its focus toward nutritional supplements like Omega-3, a fatty acid,” notes the Journal.
Along with its foray into cooking oil, Solazyme is also offering “whole algae flour,” which is intended to replace ingredients like butter and eggs in traditional recipes.
We’re reminded of the “Saturday Night Live” skit about the dessert topping that doubled as a floor wax.
If the former alt-energy crowd can make it in the wilds of the real economy, so much the better.
We’d be even more encouraged if Washington would cut off the green subsidies and leave venture capital to people investing their own money."

History for December 28

History for December 28 - On-This-Day.com
Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 28th U.S. President - More information here - Today in U.S. President History, John Molson 1763 - Beer brewer, founder of Molson Beer, Martin Milner 1927 - Actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Columbo) 


Maggie Smith 1934 - Actress (Lettice & Lovage), Edgar Winter 1946 - Musician (Edgar Winter’s White Trash), Denzel Washington 1954 - Actor (Glory, Malcolm X, The Hurricane) 


1732 - "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack." 


1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain. 


1937 - The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state under the name of Eire. 


1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance." 


1956 - After five years on television, the last "Ding Dong School" was aired on NBC-TV. 


1964 - Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location near Madrid, Spain. The movies total running time is 197 minutes. 


1973 - The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud." 


1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system. 

Iran Switches Tactics...Implements New Strategy Against The US That Could Impact Everyone

Iran Switches Tactics...Implements New Strategy Against The US That Could Impact Everyone:

"A researcher at the cyber-security firm Cylance discovered that critical files from a company he identified as Calpine Corporation — which reportedly operates 82 power plants in 18 states and Canada — were illegally accessed in a breach that began around August, 2013, and may be ongoing. Brian Wallace says the compromised information included passwords, diagrams, and sensitive engineering designs of power plants; at least one stolen file was reportedly marked “Mission Critical.”

Poor nations are poor because of the lack of capitalism, not because of it

Poor nations are poor because of the lack of capitalism, not because of it - AEI | Pethokoukis Blog » AEIdeas:
Why are the wealthiest nations so much richer than the poorest nations?  
Harvard’s Ricardo Hausmann explains what’s behind global inequality and poverty:

So there are these enormous differences in productivity that make the productive places rich and the unproductive places poor. The poor people are not being exploited. They’re being excluded from the higher productivity activities. It’s not that the capitalists are taking a very large share of what they produce. It’s just that they produce very little in the first place. … 

Poor places are characterized by the absence of capitalist firms and by self-employment, employment: these are small peasants and farmers or owners of small shop. In these settings, there are no wages, there’s no employment relationship. There are no pensions. There is no unemployment insurance. The trappings of a capitalist labor market do not exist.

While Marx thought that capitalism, as a form of organizing production, would take over the world, poor countries and regions are characterized by the absence of capitalism, of capitalist forms of production. So the question we should ask ourselves is why did capitalism not succeed in these regions, leaving huge differences in productivity between the places where it succeeded and the places where it did not? The answer we have found is that modern capitalist production requires the simultaneous access to many different inputs.

“Inputs” can mean many different kinds of networks: water, electricity, urban transport, roads, the educational system, banking, Internet. I would also include economic freedom as a pretty important input, the ability to take risks and innovate without government preemptively quashing you or taking all your profits. Not exactly sure the degree to which the other stuff matters with that political economic input.

As Deirdre McCloskey elegantly states it, “The modern world was made by a slow-motion revolution in ethical convictions about virtues and vices, in particular by a much higher level than in earlier times of toleration for trade-tested progress — letting people make mutually advantageous deals, and even admiring them for doing so, and especially admiring them when, Steve-Jobs-like, they imagine betterments.”...

Coco Chanel a.k.a. Agent F-7124 - Westminster: Nazi Spy

Coco Chanel a.k.a. Agent F-7124 - Westminster: Nazi Spy:
"The anti-semitic Nazi story recently revealed in Sleeping with the Enemy by Hal Vaughan, is in fact, denied by the current House of Chanel.
Representatives say that Coco Chanel was merely involved in a love affair with a German aristocrat and that she had Jewish friends.
Nazi documents found within the French and British Defense Ministries verify the truth of it all. Chanel was an active agent of the Abwehr – a Nazi intelligence organization..."
Fascinating story!

Limbaugh: 'Islam Is a Conquest Ideology - Not Even a Religion' - Breitbart

Limbaugh: 'Islam Is a Conquest Ideology - Not Even a Religion' - Breitbart:

"According to Limbaugh, not properly defining Islam for the sake political correctness will be to our own detriment.

Partial transcript as follows:

Can I be honest with you about, say ISIS, or any other jihadist Islamic organization? It’s not about revenge.  You might think it is because they’re out dealing with who they consider to be infidels.  But the reason they’re such a threat and need to be taken seriously is that militant Islam, jihad, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, you name it, they are conquerors, folks."

The Natural Condition of Humankind

The Natural Condition of Humankind | Intellectual Takeout:
"In The Sword of Imagination, Russell Kirk has a beautiful line about the natural condition of man.
It is a strong reminder that while our civilization seems strong and our freedoms are cherished, they must always be nourished and cultivated in each generation.
Here’s the line:
“Order, justice, and freedom are garden plants; the natural condition of humankind is that of the jungle.”

If you’re looking for context, below is the paragraph from which that sentence came:
“Much of what is called history records the fruits of original sin. Even the daughters of emperors exist only precariously. Order, justice, and freedom are garden plants; the natural condition of humankind is that of the jungle. In the year 316, Diocletian, who had been master of the world, was compelled to starve himself to death in his palace. In the year 1969, President Nixon was triumphant; five years later, his enemies would pull him down. It was a wonder … that a tolerable human society could subsist at all. Prescription, custom, and convention enable generation to link with generation; but the cake of custom was being trampled under foot near the end of the twentieth century, much as the cake of custom had been broken about the beginning of the fourth century. All [I] could do was to remind some thinking people of such hard truths, and to brighten the corner where [I found myself].”
Yes, order, justice, and freedom require hard work and generational cooperation to maintain. 
We shall see if we can keep the traditions alive through the 21st century. "

14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines Litter the United States

14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines Litter the United States | American Elephants
The towering symbols of a fading religion, over 14,000 wind turbines, abandoned, rusting, slowly decaying. 

When it is time to clean up after a failed idea, no green environmentalists are to be found. 
ind was free, natural, harnessing Earth’s bounty for the benefit of all mankind, sounded like a good idea. Wind turbines, like solar panels, break down. 
They produce less energy before they break down than the energy it took to make them.  

The wind does not blow all the time, or even most of the time. 

When it is not blowing, they require full-time backup from conventional power plants.

Without government subsidy, they are unaffordable. 

With governments facing financial troubles, the subsidies are unaffordable. 

It was a nice dream, a very expensive dream, but it didn’t work.

California had the “big three” of wind farm locations — Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio, considered the world’s best wind sites. 

California’s wind farms, almost 80% of the world’s wind generation capacity ceased to generate even more quickly than Kamaoa Wind Farm in Hawaii. 

There are five other abandoned wind farms in Hawaii.
When they are abandoned, getting the turbines removed is a major problem.
They are highly unsightly, and they are huge, and that’s a lot of material to get rid of.

Unfortunately the same areas that are good for siting wind farms are a natural pass for migrating birds. 
Altamont’s turbines have been shut down four months out of every year for migrating birds after environmentalists filed suit. 

According to the Golden Gate Audubon Society 75-110 Golden Eagles, 380 Burrowing Owls, 300 Red-Tailed Hawks and 333 American Kestrels are killed by the turbines every year. 

An Alameda County Community Development Agency study points to 10,000 annual bird deaths from Altamont wind turbines.
The Audubon Society makes up numbers like the EPA, but there’s a reason why they call them bird Cuisinarts.

Palm Springs has enacted an ordinance requiring their removal from San Gorgonio Pass, but unless something else changes abandoned turbines will remain a rotting eyesores, or the taxpayers who have already paid through the nose for overpriced energy and crony-capitalist tax scams will have to foot the bill for their removal.

President Obama’s offshore wind farms will be far more expensive than those sited in California’s ideal wind locations. 

Salt water is far more damaging than sun and rain, and offshore turbines don’t last as long. But nice tax scams for his crony-capitalist backers will work well as long as he can blame it all on saving the planet.

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Kerry Tells Iran Obama Can Sidestep This New Law...Then He Gets A COLD Dose Of Reality

Kerry Tells Iran Obama Can Sidestep This New Law...Then He Gets A COLD Dose Of Reality:

"Yet again, the Obama administration is kowtowing to Iran — acknowledged to be the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world — while simultaneously attempting to circumvent a new law just passed by Congress to protect Americans from radicalized Muslims intent on doing harm."