Mapped: The world's most (and least) free countries

Mapped: The world's most (and least) free countries: 
"The annual Freedom in the World report, which ranks nations according to civil liberties and political rights, has been released. 
The work of nonpartisan organisation Freedom House, it judges countries according to a range of criteria. 
Each is then assigned a total score and placed in one of three pots: "Free", "Partly free" and "Not free". "

#1 This day 1966-----The Beatles - We Can Work it Out

Nets Censor Revelation FBI Lost 400 Texts from Two Shady Anti-Trump Officials

Nets Censor Revelation FBI Lost 400 Texts from Two Shady Anti-Trump Officials
"There were disturbing revelations out of the FBIover the weekend when it was made public that the Bureau had somehow lost roughly 400 text messages between an anti-Trump investigator and a lawyer he was romantically involved with. 
Since then, there have been calls from Republican members of Congress for another special counsel to investigate the FBI’s shady handling of the Clinton e-mail and Russia investigations. But despite this bombshell news, the three major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have been dead silent.

During their Monday evening newscasts, there was not a single second dedicated to bringing up this highly damaging development. 
Instead of reporting on the FBI, ABC’s World News Tonight gushed about the Super Bowl, CBS Evening News reported that Minnie Mouse got her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and NBC Nightly News fawned over yet another royal wedding in the U.K.

Where the networks wanted to censor the revelations, Fox News Channel’s Special Report covered them in detail..."

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Wait.. What? Loretta Lynch Already Knew Comey Would Let Hillary Go Free When Announcing She Would Accept FBI's Conclusion

Wait.. What? Loretta Lynch Already Knew Comey Would Let Hillary Go Free When Announcing She Would Accept FBI's Conclusion:

"According to an exchange between Strzok and Bureau lawyer Lisa Page, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch reportedly knew former FBI Director James Comey would let Hillary Clinton off the hook in her email investigation when she announced the Justice Department would “defer” to the FBI’s conclusion. "

Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Actually Saying? - The Atlantic

Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Actually Saying? - The Atlantic: 
"My first introduction to Jordan B. Peterson, a University of Toronto clinical psychologist, came by way of an interview that began trending on social media last week. 
Peterson was pressed by the British journalist Cathy Newman to explain several of his controversial views. 
But what struck me, far more than any position he took, was the method his interviewer employed. 
It was the most prominent, striking example I’ve seen yet of an unfortunate trend in modern communication.
First, a person says something. 
Then, another person restates what they purportedly said so as to make it seem as if their view is as offensive, hostile, or absurd...

* * *

Peterson begins the interview by explaining why he tells young men to grow up and take responsibility for getting their lives together and becoming good partners. 

He notes he isn’t talking exclusively to men, and that he has lots of female fans..."

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History for January 24

History for January 24 - On-This-Day.com
Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941


John Belushi 1949, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Mary Lou Retton 1968


1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.


1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.


1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.


1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.


1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.


1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.


1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.


1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

‘Dreamers’ Storm Schumer’s New York City Home, Demand Amnesty ‘Now’

‘Dreamers’ Storm Schumer’s New York City Home, Demand Amnesty ‘Now’:

"The group that organized the protests in New York and on Capitol Hill, United We Dream, is funded by a slew of social justice and open borders organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.

United We Dream’s website announcing the New York protest reveals the group’s agenda:"

GOP lawmakers demand that 'alarming' memo on FISA abuses be made public | Fox News

GOP lawmakers demand that 'alarming' memo on FISA abuses be made public | Fox News:

"A four-page memo circulating in Congress that reveals alleged United States government surveillance abuses is being described by lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming,” with one congressman likening the details to KGB activity in Russia.
Speaking with Fox News, the lawmakers said they could not yet discuss the contents of the memo they reviewed on Thursday after it was released to members by the House Intelligence Committee. But they say the memo should be immediately made public.
“It is so alarming the American people have to see this,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said."

The way we were-----The Supremes , Love Child 1968

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CNN: Gov’t Shutdown Risks an Undetected Asteroid Strike :: Grabien News

CNN: Gov’t Shutdown Risks an Undetected Asteroid Strike :: Grabien News

0:00 / 2:40

Now that the government is shutdown, Planet Earth risks ... an undetected asteroid strike!

That's the warning coming from CNN, anyway.

Reporter Tom Foreman on Friday hyped the threat posed by the government shutdown, citing a pause in some senior nutrition programs, a loss of scientific research, and NASA's asteroid monitoring system.
Worse, an asteroid is coming February 4th, he said..."
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Advice to Young Ladies in This Very, Very Stupid Era - Kurt Schlichter

Advice to Young Ladies in This Very, Very Stupid Era - Kurt Schlichter:
"...But, in the loosest sense of the term, Aziz is a man.
Now, he’s not like the males you knew in your Gender Studies seminars, but he is like actual men.
He digs pretty girls and having intimate relations with them without a lot of concern for their feelings.
He’s got a goal and he probably correctly assessed that Grace, his retroactively unwilling partner, had a goal too.
They were just different goals.
This is because men and women are different. 
Yeah, that the sexes are different is totally a thing no matter what your ponytailed grad student TA at Oberlin told you.
Aziz played you by pretending to be woke. Aziz was tacky and clumsy and droolingly overeager to make up from his pre-fame decades of drought.
And he displayed the kind of hilariously inept seduction game one might expect from a guy whose seduction game in the recent, pre-sorta stardom past, probably consisted of lowering his standards and outright begging.
Welcome to Earth..."
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WALSH: The Vile, Awful Women's March Is A Symptom Of The Spiritual Disease That Infects Our Culture | Daily Wire

WALSH: The Vile, Awful Women's March Is A Symptom Of The Spiritual Disease That Infects Our Culture | Daily Wire:

"On Friday, hundreds of thousands of compassionate, welcoming, cheerful women and men took to the streets of Washington. D.C., rallying in support of basic human rights. Then the Women's March happened.
Taking place just a day after the March For Life, and in direct contrast to the annual pro-life event's joyful atmosphere of hope and generosity, the Women's March was once again vile, aimless, and embarrassing. Bitter feminists donned their trademark vagina hats and carried grotesque, pornographic signs referring explicitly to their own genitalia.

Venezuela's economic collapse, by the numbers - Axios

Venezuela's economic collapse, by the numbers - Axios
"Venezuela's economic crisis has stretched into 2018 after government forces forcefully quashed protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government last year, killing at least 120 in the process. In recent weeks, the black market exchange rate — far more trusted than the government's laughably rosy official rate of 10 Venezuelan bolivars for one U.S. dollar — has spiraled out of control, recently topping 200,000 bolivars for a dollar, per DolarToday.

Data: dolartoday.com; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios
Why it matters: The crippling economic forces that spurred last year's protests against the Maduro regime have accelerated, and many ordinary Venezuelans not only can't afford food but also often don't have the cash to pay for it.
For normal Venezuelans, the country's hyperinflation takes an exacting toll on daily life. Per a report from CNN Money's Stefano Pozzebano, citizens in Caracas now wait for hours at banks to obtain their daily allowance of cash, equivalent to just a few cents and worth less and less each day..."
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THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming. …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming. …:
"THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! 
Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming.

To be fair, this really is the 21st century I was once promised."

Posted by Ed Driscoll

Mythologies of Illegal Immigration - American Greatness

Mythologies of Illegal Immigration - American Greatness:
The illegal immigration debate has come to a head once again...
Enough obfuscation. 
Here are some of the most pernicious myths of illegal immigration, debunked.
The System is “Broken”
Broken for whom exactly? Not for Mexico and Latin America. 
Together they garner $50 billion in annual remittances. 
The majority of such transfers are likely sent from illegal aliens...
But the “Dreamers”!
There are 700,000-800,000 DACA recipients, though no one knows the exact numbers. 
Nor is there a clear definition of who constitutes the population of the “Dreamers,” other than arriving into the United States illegally as a minor. 
It is an ossified concept, one frozen in amber, given that the average age of a so-called “Dreamer” around 25. 
When a Dreamer reaches 40, is he still defined as a Dreamer? 
Or have his “dreams” already come true?..."
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