History for September 16

History for September 16 - On-This-Day.com:
J.C. Penney 1875, Allen Funt 1914, Lauren Bacall 1924 


B.B. King 1925, Peter Falk 1927, George Chakiris 1933 


Mickey Rourke 1956, David Copperfield 1956, Marc Anthony 1968 


1620 - The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship arrived at Provincetown, MA, on November 21st and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th. There were 102 passengers onboard. 


1630 - The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. 


1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British. It was the first official use of the impression. 


1810 - The Mexicans began a revolt against Spanish rule. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest of Spanish descent, declared Mexico's independence from Spain in the small town of Dolores. 


1908 - General Motors was founded by William Crapo "Billy" Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies. 


1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history. 


1963 - "The Outer Limits" premiered on ABC-TV. 


1968 - "The Andy Griffith Show" was seen for the final time on CBS. 


1972 - "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS-TV. 


1974 - U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War. 

Pope Blames Refugee Crisis on 'God of Money,' 'Socio-Economic System That Is Bad, Unjust'

Pope Blames Refugee Crisis on 'God of Money,' 'Socio-Economic System That Is Bad, Unjust' | MRCTV:
In an interview with Portugal-based Radio Renascença aired yesterday, Pope Francis declared that the current refugee crisis in Europe is being caused by a “bad, unjust” socio-economic system that worships “the god of money.”

In the interview, where questions were posed in Portuguese and the responses were given by Pope Francis in Spanish, the pontiff said coveting money will bring about both human and ecological ruin:

“This is the tip of the iceberg. We see these refugees, these poor people who are escaping from war, escaping from hunger, but that’s the tip of the iceberg. But underlying that is the cause, and the cause is a socio-economic system that is bad, unjust, because within an economic system, within everything, within the world, speaking of the ecological problem, within the socio-economic society, in politics, the person always has to be the center. And today’s dominant economic system has removed the person from the center, and at the center is the god of money. It’s the fashionable god today. I mean, there are statistics. I don’t remember very well, but — this is not exact and I could be making a mistake— 17% of the population has 80% of the wealth....”

‘HILLARYUS’ VIDEO: Judge Jeanine Tears Hillary Apart Piece By Piece… That’s Gonna Leave A Mark

‘HILLARYUS’ VIDEO: Judge Jeanine Tears Hillary Apart Piece By Piece… That’s Gonna Leave A Mark:

"Barack Obama pushes her out of the inner circle, Trey Gowdy puts her on the Benghazi grill, Bernie Sanders climbs over her to top the polls, and now even Happy Joe Biden can suck 10% of her fans over to his side…even though he’s not a declared candidate for president. Poor Hillary!"

Why Do Conservatives Support Trump?

Why Do Conservatives Support Trump? | The Daily Caller:
"...But it’s not just the anger.
First and foremost – voters want an outsider. 
They also want and need a fighter — but not a quiet or reserved fighter, otherwise Ben Carson might be number one.
They want a vocal and outspoken fighter.
And not just one who’s outspoken, but speaks like they do – in plain English, faults and all — complete with the ums and uhs that go with normal speech.
Politicians have a manner of speaking that just sounds phony – mainly because it is, more often than not.
Even if their message is genuine, no one will believe them because they sound like used car salesmen – and my apologies to used car salesmen. 
It all just sounds so practiced – so polished – so memorized and scripted.
And that’s because it is.
Their wizards-of-smart handlers no doubt tell them to make sure they hit all the contrived bullet points: created jobs, cut taxes, blah, blah, blah.
Voters are tired of the boilerplate, and have finally found a “normal” guy, who speaks plain old American English and who is afraid of nothing and no one.
No topic is taboo, and for Trump, there is no “third rail” one must avoid at all costs. 
He attacks any perceived threat, male or female.
He appears to answer to no one and just doesn’t give a crap..."

THE culture of corruption-----Convicted Fraudster Helped Obama Sell Iran Deal

Convicted Fraudster Helped Obama Sell Iran Deal - Breitbart:
"Convicted fraudster Robert Creamer played a key role in selling the Iran deal to Democrats, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Creamer, a political consultant who is intimately connected with Obama’s inner political circle, pleaded guilty in 2005 to tax violations and bank fraud.
He served time in a federal prison and was under house arrest.
After finishing his sentence, Creamer worked for Obama’s presidential campaign, training organizers.
As Breitbart News first exposed in 2009, Creamer used his prison time to work on a political manual: "Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win."
In it, he devised a strategy to guide a future “progressive” president.
His plan included implementing “universal health care” as a first step to other radical reforms, including amnesty for illegal aliens.
Obama strategist David Axelrod called the book “a blueprint for future victories.”

MSNBC Co-Host Clashes With Pro-Hillary Guest, Tells Him He’s in a ‘Corner by Himself’ After Hearing This Claim | Video | TheBlaze.com

MSNBC Co-Host Clashes With Pro-Hillary Guest, Tells Him He’s in a ‘Corner by Himself’ After Hearing This Claim | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Media Matters founder David Brock came to the defense of Hillary Clinton on Monday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” claiming the media have unfairly targeted the Democrat and that there is no scandal connected to her use of private email during her tenure at the State Department."

The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary

The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary | Intellectual Takeout:
By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. 
And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology.

So what’s going on?

A recent scholarly paper from Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning—“Microaggression and Moral Cultures”—claims these trends are indicative of the emergence of a “victimhood culture” in America.

...So, basically, members of the victimhood culture that is emerging in America operate within a relatively privileged and sheltered environment and try to solve conflicts by tattling to authority figures so that they may gloat over their perceived aggressors...

Putin’s Syria Play

Putin’s Syria Play - WSJ:
For 70 years American Presidents from both parties have sought to thwart Russian influence in the Middle East.
Harry Truman forced the Red Army to withdraw from northern Iran in 1946.
Richard Nixon raised a nuclear alert to deter Moscow from resupplying its Arab clients during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Even Jimmy Carter threatened military force to protect the Persian Gulf after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
...Last month the Israeli website Ynet reported that the Kremlin planned to deploy combat aircraft to Syria to help the Assad regime. 
The Russians are also sending an “expeditionary force” of “advisers, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and pilots who will operate the aircraft.”
That deployment is now underway.
...The decision to intervene seems to have been made during a visit to Moscow last month by Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general in charge of the Quds Force. 
The general, who armed anti-American Shiite militias in Iraq, now oversees Tehran’s efforts to save Mr. Assad.
The Iran nuclear deal lifts international sanctions against Mr. Soleimani and the Quds Force.
So what is the Obama Administration to do? 
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week that Russian intervention could “further escalate the conflict” and “lead to greater loss of life,” as if human rights are the lodestar of the Kremlin’s foreign policy.
Mr. Obama also weighed in Friday, saying the Russian intervention was “doomed to fail,” and that Moscow was “going to have to start getting a little smarter.”
Mr. Obama made similar tut-tutting remarks about Mr. Putin after the invasion of Ukraine, which hardly dented the Russian’s taste for foreign adventures..."

A bunch of wussies!------"Party school" equals "creativity when planning social gatherings"??!!-----Playboy Magazine Releases Its 2015 Top Party Schools List

Playboy Magazine Releases Its 2015 Top Party Schools List -- LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --:
The following is a complete list of "Playboy's Top Party Schools 2015," as featured in the magazine's October 2015 issue (on newsstands and iPlayboy.com Friday, September 18, with the complete rankings available now at www.playboy.com/2015partyschools):

Ohio University University of Iowa Florida State University Tulane University University of Illinois

University of Texas Syracuse University University of Wisconsin University of Mississippi University of Michigan

This year's list was determined by the magazine's editors who considered a variety of factors in their selection process, including access to nightlife and musical events, and creativity when planning social gatherings..."

‘For the Record’: China’s Plan for ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ on the United States | TheBlaze.com

‘For the Record’: China’s Plan for ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ on the United States | TheBlaze.com:

"The United States could already be at war with China and not be aware of it: The People’s Liberation Army has a detailed plan for an attack on America that uses currency and computers, rather than bullets and bombs."

Ain't no edukation goin' on........College Graduates Don't Know Basic Facts About the Constitution

ACTA Press Release: College Graduates Don't Know Basic Facts About the Constitution |  ACTA
"WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) today released a survey that shows how little college graduates and the general public know about the Constitution.
According to the study, nearly 10% of college graduates think Judith Sheindlin — commonly known as Judge Judy — is on the Supreme Court;
one-third of college graduates can’t identify the Bill of Rights as a name given to a group of Constitutional amendments; and
32% believe that Representative John Boehner is the current president of the U.S. Senate. Shockingly, 46% of college grads don’t know the election cycle — six years for senators, two years for representatives.
Turning to the general population, the report finds that over half (54%) of those surveyed cannot identify the Bill of Rights accurately, and
over 1 in 10 (11%) of those ages 25–34 believe that the Constitution must be reauthorized every four years."

A war on college men

Glenn Reynolds: A war on college men:
"Jared Polis’ idea to deprive college men of due process highlights toxic campus culture of discrimination against men.
Is Congress waging a war on college men?
It’s starting to look like it.
Last week, Rep. Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, suggested that even innocent students should be booted from campus if they were accused of sexual assault.
According to Polis: "If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people."
So one of the longstanding traditions of American law — that it is better to let 10 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent — has now been turned on its head.
...The main result of adopting Polis’s approach would be to create — since we all know this policy is aimed at male students, and almost exclusively enforced against them by a university “diversity” bureaucracy in which men are wildly underrepresented — a hostile educational environment for male students.
...If any other minority were being treated this way — and, on college campuses, men are very much a minority these days — we would not hesitate to call that treatment discrimination, and to assume that it was rooted in prejudice and bigotry.
So why has the war on college men gotten a pass?"

Secretary of the Navy Insults Marines, Dismisses Study on Gender Integration

Secretary of the Navy Insults Marines, Dismisses Study on Gender Integration | PJ Tatler
The secretary of the Navy has insulted a Marine task force by questioning the integrity of their gender-integration study that was released last week. 
A summary of data showed that “mixed-gender teams completed tasks more slowly and shot with less accuracy, and that women sustained injuries at more than twice the rate of their male counterparts.”

It took the Marine Corps nine months and $36 million to discover that all-male ground combat units were faster, more lethal and less inclined to get injured than units with mixed genders. The task force came to the conclusion that the inclusion of women in combat units had a negative impact on unit cohesion.

....Mabus, a career Democrat politician *with only two years of military experience before he was appointed secretary of the Navy by Obama, criticized the study during an interview with NPR, accusing the Marines of conducting the study in a biased manner.

Army Special Forces enraged over Obama attacks

Army Special Forces enraged over Obama attacks:

"Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin commanded all Green Berets for a portion of his 36 years in uniform. He said conditions and morale for the military are even worse than the Times and Quinn stated.

“There’s more that hasn’t been reported in terms of the kinds of things our Special Forces are putting up with now, to include rules of engagement, for example,” Boykin said. “They make it virtually impossible for them to succeed and, in many cases, even to protect themselves and the people they are responsible for.”

Boykin places much of the blame for this shoddy treatment of service members at the feet of President Obama, but he said another group also shoulders a great deal of responsibility for America’s military decline."

The Map Comes To Life

The Map Comes To Life | Belmont Club:
"At intervals in history the map redraws itself.
This may be one of those times.
The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that Iraq and Syria are breaking up and the process is irreversible.
The Associated Press reports:
Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by war and sectarian tensions, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday in a frank assessment that is at odds with Obama administration policy.
...Iraqis and Syrians now more often identify themselves by tribe or religious sect, rather than by their nationality, he said.
...Brennan and Stewart forgot to add Libya and Yemen to his list.
They have already disintegrated.
...Now  Evans-Pritchard wonders whether that other boundary drawn up by European diplomatic treaties — the European Union — is now entering a similar period of revision.
It would be a dramatic reversal of fortune for a continent which only one and a half decades ago was celebrating its forthcoming triumph.
Not only is the EU beset with an unresolvable currency crisis but with a flood of refugees that threatens its political union. 
It is facing territorial challenges from its south even while a new east-west division in Ukraine rises to its east..."

History for September 15

History for September 15 - On-This-Day.com:
James Fenimore Cooper 1789, William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857, Agatha Christie 1890 


Fay Wray 1907, Oliver Stone 1946, Tommy Lee Jones 1946 


1775 - An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word "Liberty" spelled on it. 


1909 - Charles F. Kettering applied for a patent on his ignition system. His company Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) later became a subsidiary of General Motors. 


1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum. 


1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany. 


1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto. 


1950 - U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul. 


1965 - "Lost in Space" premiered on CBS TV. 


1965 - "Green Acres" premiered on CBS TV. 


1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" was published. 

OUTRAGE: Even As Obama Takes A Victory Lap On Nuke Deal, Iran Does THIS To Our Military

OUTRAGE: Even As Obama Takes A Victory Lap On Nuke Deal, Iran Does THIS To Our Military:

"In what may prove to be the most absurd strategic military move in U.S. history, U.S. President Barack Obama leads the way to a “Deal” with America’s most avowed enemy allowing them more than $100 billion to use as they please. Meanwhile Iranian leaders are shouting:

“Death To America.” And Iranian Warships Confront U.S. Navy On An “Almost Daily Basis.”

Before the ink is even dry on Obama’s much-touted Iran nuke deal, Pentagon officials are reporting that Iranian warships are confronting U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz on an “Almost Daily Basis.”

If there was any doubt about the loyalty of the executive...

BOMBSHELL: Dozens Of Terrorists May Now Be In The US Because Of This ‘Flawed’ Obama System

BOMBSHELL: Dozens Of Terrorists May Now Be In The US Because Of This ‘Flawed’ Obama System:

"FBI agents who have investigated more than 100,000 improvised electronic devices (IEDs) from Iraq and Afghanistan have concluded that dozens of terrorist bomb makers have likely been allowed to move into the United States as war refugees. Some of these same suspected terrorists are believed to have targeted and killed American troops overseas, according to an exclusive report from ABC News, which conducted a lengthy investigation of the “flawed U.S. refugee screening system.”

In 2009, two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees welcomed into America and then living in Bowling Green, Kentucky, admitted in court that they’d attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq."

We've go to have a discussion on this. Now!-----Muslim Immigration and How to Handle It

Muslim Immigration and How to Handle It:

• The political history of Muslim states has often been restricted to two options. They have either been ruled by nationalist ("secular") oppressive regimes, or Islamist oppressive regimes. Unfortunately, many people in Middle East have so much affinity for political Islam that they do not realize that political Islam is the root cause of their problems. That attitude is the main reason they cannot get rid of their backward and violent regimes, or make cultural or scientific progress.
• Sadly, the founder of Islam did not leave behind a humanitarian message to respect people of other faiths and to be on an equal footing with them. What the the Islamic State (ISIS) and other barbaric Islamist groups have been doing to people is horrific beyond words; but it is meticulously based on Islamic scriptures. So it is not the West causing these human tragedies; it is Islam and Muslims.
• Members of a culture that murders intellectuals who try to present ideas to improve their societies do not have the moral right to blame its backwardness and bloodthirsty culture on the West.
• Muslims should not try to turn Europe, which is being so generous to them, into more Muslim lands. We already have far too much barbarity, misogyny and persecution in the Muslim world. Muslims could do our people an enormous service if instead they tried harder to turn the Muslim lands into Europe-like places.
• Much more-read on!

Beware! This may be a BIG movie-Rewriting history-----Dan Rather Chokes Up at 'Truth' Premiere, Praises Film for Accuracy

TIFF 2015: Dan Rather Chokes Up at 'Truth' Premiere, Praises Film for Accuracy - Hollywood Reporter:
Iconic CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Saturday praised the Robert Redford-starring Rathergate movie Truth for its accuracy and performances ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
"Naturally I was pleased, and pleasantly surprised.
This film is very accurate. A film called Truth should be accurate," Rather told The Hollywood Reporter during a prescreening party.
James Vanderbilt's movie centers on Rather's 2006 exit from CBS after a 60 Minutes investigation two years earlier into President George W. Bush’s alleged draft-dodging during the Vietnam war.
Rather praised the performances of Redford as the famed CBS newsman and Cate Blanchett as his CBS 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes. 
"The acting is superior.
I think it's an emotional film.
Of course people will say I found it emotional because it's about me.
But I say that as objectively as I can," he said.
Since his exit from CBS, Rather said he had "spent a lot of time practicing humility … and tremendous gratitude."
In the film, Rather and producer Mapes are depicted as crusading journalists whose story is attacked by critics with a political agenda. 
CBS News chief Andy Heyward is depicted particularly negatively.
The clear suggestion in the movie is that Rather and Mapes were fired to appease the Bush White House and to protect the CBS financial bottom line. 
Before the screening, Rather looked beyond his exit from CBS to stress Truth was less about him, Mapes and President Bush and more about the broader corporatization of the news business..."

ALERT: What Colleges Are Teaching Our Students About 9/11 Will Make You Never Want To Send Your Kid To School

ALERT: What Colleges Are Teaching Our Students About 9/11 Will Make You Never Want To Send Your Kid To School:

"UNC College Republicans have led a student protest over the course, writing to Chancellor Carol Folt: “These readings offer points of view that justify terrorism, paint the United States and its government as wholly evil and immoral and desecrate the memory of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”

They continue: “There is not a single reading required that focuses on the lives of the victims, the victim’s [sic] families, American soldiers (or) families of American soldiers. Nor is there a perspective that portrays the United States as acting in good faith before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks.”

The course “does not teach students how to think, it teaches them what to think. And the material it presents is an apologetic for the violence and murder against the United States.”

Yale Law School to open Islamic law center via $10 million Saudi donation

Yale Law School to open Islamic law center via $10 million Saudi donation - The College Fix:
"The Yale Law School, thanks to a $10 million gift from Saudi banking and real estate magnate Abdallah Kamel, will create a center “for the study of Islamic Law and Civilization.”
The center, to be named after Kamel, “will bring scholars of Islam to campus for lectures, seminar discussions, visiting professorships and fellowships...”

And so It begins...ISIS Flag Among Refugees in Germany Fighting the Police

And so It begins...ISIS Flag Among Refugees in Germany Fighting the Police [Pictures]:
The Syrian operative claimed more than 4,000 ISIS gunmen had been smuggled into western nations – hidden amongst innocent refugees.
The ISIS smuggler, revealed the ongoing clandestine operation is a complete success.
Islamic State is believed to be actively smuggling deadly gunmen across the sparsely-guarded 565-mile Turkish border and on to richer European nations, he revealed.
Well, with this new Leaked picture, everything is confirmed.

I HAVE RAISED A SWEET, THOUGHTFUL, ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS MONSTER—AND SOON I WILL BE FREE

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I HAVE RAISED A SWEET, THOUGHTFUL, ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS MONSTER—AND SOON I WILL BE FREE: Glenn already linked to the jaw-dropping article titled “Bidding My College-Bound Son Good Riddance,” written by a veteran Bay Area journalist/environmentalist activist last night, but it’s worth another look for a variety of reasons.

First, modern-day radical environmentalism isn’t that modern anymore — RFK ran on doomsday environmental ads in 1968, and the first “Earth Day” in 1970 was chockablock full of nightmare predictions that never came to pass. As Fred Siegel wrote in 2010 at City Journal in “Progressives Against Progress,” as a result of Earth Day and the like:

Crankery, in short, became respectable. In 1972, Sir John Maddox, editor of the British journal Nature, noted that though it had once been usual to see maniacs wearing sandwich boards that proclaimed the imminent end of the Earth, they had been replaced by a growing number of frenzied activists and politicized scientists making precisely the same claim.

And beginning in 1970 with Walter Cronkite and CBS, environmentalist crankery has been very much approved by Big Business for decades. In 2007, GE, which makes a considerable amount of money selling light bulbs, urged its customers for the sake of Gaia to turn off the lights in their homes via the TV network it owned at the time – during halftime of a Sunday night Cowboys-Eagles NFL game whose stadium was bathed in a zillion watts of klieg lights. A couple of years later, American Express was praising would-be California “Dam Busters,” AKA, the people who helped bring you California’s current water crisis. In 2009, James Lileks linked to the following jaw-dropping MasterCard ad:

As Lileks wrote in response:

If they’d intimated that Mastercard can be used to placate your humorless little eco-scold, no one would have minded much. But no: the child is making his father a better man. It’s nice to see that Dad exists in a state of such unearthly perfection that the only means of betterment consist of abjuring incandescent lighting for pig-tailed CFLs, right? Alas: dad is a scoff-law who lets the tap run, uses doubleplus ungood bulbs,  and doesn’t correct the clerk when the food is put in a cornstarch bag, perhaps because he’s thinking about his job, the cutbacks and layoffs, the tiresome daily scrum of adult life. He works hard, but of course he could work harder – he has a part-time job so he can stay at home with his son. Mom’s full-time. He downshifted so someone would always be there when Ethan came home from school. This makes him an okay man, I guess.

But he could be better. He could buy a florescent bulb. On credit.

If I had a Mastercard, I’d print this ad out frame by frame and sent it along with my shredded card.

Afterwards, Lileks embedded a frame from the film version of 1984, in which early on in the movie, a nine-year old uniformed “Youth League” member whose father works alongside Winston in the Ministry of Truth blurts out to Winston, “You’re a thought criminal!” Later in the book, after his sister turns in dad for being a thought criminal, he and Winston sit in the white porcelain abattoir-like Ministry of Love awaiting their fates. As dad ponders how many years in a prison camp he faces, he’s proud that he raised that he raised such a good little citizen of Oceania!

‘It was my little daughter,’ said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. ‘She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.’

How many parents allow their kids to hector them over environmentalist minutia without reminding them who is in charge of the family? Even if you do, how do you raise a kid knowing that they’ll be sent off to school where they’ll hear endless variations of Al Gore-style eco-crankery from their teachers? And assuming you don’t personally buy into the corporatist mantra that “we only have [fill in number of years] to save the planet” — or eco-doomsday is sure to follow — how does a parent counteract such programming?

As If We Need Another Reason To Reject Obamacare… This One Could Nail The Law’s Coffin Shut

As If We Need Another Reason To Reject Obamacare… This One Could Nail The Law’s Coffin Shut:

"But given new figures from Obama’s own administration, even the number of people covered by Obamacare plans can hardly be held up as evidence the law is really working. The latest report published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reveals that enrollment has dropped by almost 2 million — now 9.9 million people are still enrolled via Obamacare exchanges — and that number could see additional erosion as new, higher premiums go into effect."

The EPA is dumping a cancer-causing chemical into this NY creek

The EPA is dumping a cancer-causing chemical into this NY creek - Watchdog.org:
"According to the EPA, the solvent 1,4 dioxane is a carcinogen; however, for months the agency has been releasing the solvent into the Valatie Kill creek from the Dewey Loeffel Superfund site in upstate New York.
...The EPA has been releasing a cancer causing chemical into a New York creek for months, with little notice from the media.
Town of Nassau Supervisor David Fleming has asked the EPA repeatedly to stop discharging into the creek until studies are conducted demonstrating that the process is safe, but he tells Watchdog that no studies have been done.
...“The EPA has calculated an increased risk of cancer in humans when dioxane levels in drinking water reach .35 micrograms per liter.
Despite use of an activated carbon filtration system, EPA data show the Loeffel facility has been discharging liquid in which dioxane levels were measured around .30 micrograms per liter.
But that level, tested weekly…, has twice surged as high as 6.8 micrograms per liter...”

A Little-Known Statistic about America's Education System

A Little-Known Statistic about America's Education System | Intellectual Takeout:
"By now you’ve most likely heard that America’s education system outspends all but a few countries in the world, while at the same time our students’ proficiency in reading and math has flatlined.
What you probably haven’t heard is that since 1939, the number of public school districts in America has decreased by almost 90%!
This dramatic consolidation effort was brought on by several factors, including the increased funding role of state and federal governments, the desire of teachers’ unions to expedite collective bargaining agreements, concerns about the quality of rural schools, and the neverending quest for “efficiency.”
But such rapid consolidation has had some perhaps negative consequences for American education:
1) Less autonomy for teachers and principals.
2) Less flexibility in schools.
3) Less diversity.
4) Less local control.
5) More emphasis on standardized tests.
It’s difficult to say whether or not the rapid consolidation of America’s schools has played a large role in our education system’s current mediocrity.
But I do wonder if some decentralization might benefit America’s schools."

America's city rankings set for Texas-sized shake up; Houston to edge past Chicago

America's city rankings set for Texas-sized shake up; Houston to edge past Chicago - Yahoo News Canada:
"HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hidden in the haze of the petrochemical plants and beyond the seemingly endless traffic jams, a Texas city has grown so large that it is poised to pass Chicago as the third biggest in the United States in the next decade.
Houston has been one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities for years, fueled by an energy industry that provided the backbone of the economy, low taxes and prospects of employment that have attracted job seekers.
But Houston also embodies the new, urban Texas, where political views have been drifting to the left, diversity is being embraced and newer residents are just as likely to drive a hybrid as a pickup truck.
Houston's move is also indicative of demographic shifts unfolding in the United States that will increase the population and political clout of the Lone Star State over the next several decades.
Within eight to 10 years, Houston is forecast by demographers in the two states to pass Chicago, which has seen its population decline for years, as the third-largest city."

Iran Reportedly Finds Big Uranium Reserve, Quashing Western Estimates | Video | TheBlaze.com

Iran Reportedly Finds Big Uranium Reserve, Quashing Western Estimates | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Previous estimates from Western analysts indicated that Iran’s uranium reserves were low and that the raw material required for its nuclear program would soon have to be imported.

More from Reuters:"

Out With 'Redskins' — and Everything Else!

George Will: Out With 'Redskins' — and Everything Else! — The Patriot Post:
"Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Washington Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins.
The niceness police at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have won court approval of their decision that the team’s name “may disparage” Native Americans.
We have a new national passion for moral and historical hygiene, a determination to scrub away remembrances of unpleasant things, such as the name Oklahoma, which is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning “red” and “people.”
Connecticut’s state Democratic Party has leapt into the vanguard of this movement, vowing to sin no more:
Never again will it have a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Connecticut Democrats shall still dine to celebrate their party’s pedigree but shall not sully the occasions by mentioning the names of two slave owners.
Because Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners have long been liturgical events for Democrats nationwide, now begins an entertaining scramble by states' parties — Georgia’s, Missouri’s, Iowa’s, New Hampshire’s, and Maine’s already have taken penitential actions — to escape guilt by association with the third and seventh presidents.
...Hundreds of towns, counties, parks, schools, etc., are named for Washington.
...Jacksonville, Florida — a state where Andrew Jackson honed his skill at tormenting Native Americans — Jefferson City, Missouri, Madison, Wisconsin, and other places must be renamed for people more saintly. And speaking of saints:
...To Massachusetts and Minnesota, which should furl their flags.
Massachusetts' flag shows a Native American holding a bow and arrow, a weapon that reinforces a hurtful stereotype of Native Americans as less than perfectly peaceful. 
A gimlet-eyed professor in Wisconsin has noticed that Minnesota’s flag includes the state seal, which depicts two figures, a pioneer tilling a field, and a Native American riding away — and carrying a spear.
A weapon.
Yikes.
The farmer is white and industrious; the Native America is nomadic.
So, Minnesota’s seal communicates a subliminal slander, a coded message of white superiority.
Who knew that Minnesotans, who have voted Democratic in 10 consecutive presidential elections since 1972, are so insensitive?
This is liberalism’s dilemma: 
There are so many things to be offended by, and so little time to agonize about each."

Cartoons: Gary McCoy for September 9, 2015

Cartoons: Gary McCoy for September 9, 2015 — The Patriot Post