Using Tax Incentives and Giveaways To Lure Amazon's HQ2 Is Like Going To a Strip Club - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Using Tax Incentives and Giveaways To Lure Amazon's HQ2 Is Like Going To a Strip Club - Hit &Run : Reason.com:
"Give Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, a lot of credit. 
They really know how to play local and state governments against one another. 
When the online behemoth announced it was taking bids for its second headquarters (HQ2), it laid out some ground rules for an operation it claims will come with $5 billion in investment and 50,000 new jobs.

It wants a metro area with more than a million people, with the actual site located within 30 miles of the population center and within 45 minutes of an international airport. It wants enough space to eventually build up to 8 million square feet of office space.

All told, the online retailer received 238 applications from desperate state and local governments ready to throw tax dollars at Amazon like a half-soused salesman making it rain dollar bills on a pole dancer at a strip club. Amazon recently narrowed down to 20 finalists. 
How frenzied are the bids? 

• The city of Newark and the state government of New Jersey have said they'd put together a combined $7 billion in incentives to lure the company to one of the country's most famously failed cities. 
• Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who supposedly trades in fiscal responsibility, has put his taxpayers on the hook for $5 billion to woo Amazon to Montgomery County, which is adjacent to Washington, D.C. 
• Chicago's Rahm Emanuel has talked about gifting Amazon employees' income taxes back to the company and 
• Dallas has pledged to build a high-speed-rail station at the retailer's location (exactly where a train will go to and fro is not clear)..."

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15 Times Major Media Outlets Used a Statistic about Plastic Straws Based on Research by a 9-Year-Old - Hit & Run : Reason.com

15 Times Major Media Outlets Used a Statistic about Plastic Straws Based on Research by a 9-Year-Old - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Yesterday, I reported that the oft-cited, debate-driving statistic that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day was the product of a 9-year-old's guesstimations. 
Despite those shaky factual foundations, the 500 million figure has quickly spread, virus-like, across the media landscape and even into our shops and schools.
Visitors to the D.C. tea house Teaism—just a short walk from Reason's D.C. office—will be confronted with the questionable fact on a small poster adorning the restaurant's single-use straw dispenser, replete with a picture of a cute sea turtle.
Meanwhile, impressionable children at the Mount Vernon Community School in nearby Alexandria, Virginia, are coming home with "Straw Wars" handouts citing the same dubious figure.
It's easy to understand how the school could have been led astray, given how ubiquitous this claim is in the media. 
Please see below for a list of just a few of the news outlets that have cited this "fact"—or otherwise quoted people saying it without any critical pushback—in their reporting:..."
Read on for a long list of fake newsees.

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When He Says “No”: Denying A Woman Sex Is Rape | Thought Catalog

When He Says “No”: Denying A Woman Sex Is Rape | Thought Catalog: 
"In recent times, Feminism has done great things to broaden the definition of rape. 
In the beforetime, the 19 hundreds and suchlike, the common perception of what was rape was limited to that of a violent and mentally unstable man forcing himself upon a woman against her will. But now, thanks to the great work of Feminists everywhere, we all know that image is a lot more diverse and nuanced—something that in turn makes it much easier for us to put away creeps for a long time without that pesky “evidence” they’re always asking for. "

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Time's Up, Hillary Clinton

Time's Up, Hillary Clinton:

"While most of her supporters can't think of anyone who's a bigger and better champion for women than Clinton, here comes the bucket of salt to pour in that 2016 wound that never really healed. According to the New York Times, Clinton shielded one of her advisers, Burns Strider, from being fired for repeatedly sexually harassing a younger staffer during her 2008 presidential campaign."

This Civil War - My South Carolina Tea Party Convention Speech-Sultan Knish

Sultan Knish:

Friday, January 26, 2018

This Civil War - My South Carolina Tea Party Convention Speech

Posted by Daniel Greenfield 11 Comments

"(The following is the speech that I delivered this Sunday at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach..."
"This is a civil war.
There aren’t any soldiers marching on Charleston… or Myrtle Beach. 

Nobody’s getting shot in the streets. 
Except in Chicago… and Baltimore, Detroit and Washington D.C.
But that’s not a civil war. 

It’s just what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground. 

And then they dig a hole in the ground so they can bury it even deeper.
If you look deep enough into that great big Democrat hole, you might even see where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
But it’s not guns that make a civil war. 

It’s politics.
Guns are how a civil war ends. 
Politics is how it begins.
How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. 

And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.
That’s the basic issue here. 

Who decides who runs the country? 

When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. 

When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war..."

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History for January 29

History for January 29 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Paine 1737, William McKinley (U.S.) 1843, W.C. Fields 1880


Paddy Chayefsky 1923, Tom Selleck 1945 - Actor (Television: "Magnum P.I."), Oprah Winfrey 1954


1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."


1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.


1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.


1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.


1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.


1958 - Charles Starkweather was captured by police in Wyoming.


1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 1,292.62.


1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

The Sad Decline of the FBI: You Read It Here First [Updated] | Power Line

The Sad Decline of the FBI: You Read It Here First [Updated] | Power Line:

"To say that the FBI has lost the confidence of the American people is an understatement. But it isn’t just the FBI; Barack Obama corrupted the Department of Justice from the top down. Those who were paying attention have known this for a long time. We started writing about the DOJ scandals early in Obama’s administration. I haven’t done a thorough search, and this may not be the first such instance, but on September 7, 2010, a year and a half into Obama’s first term, I wrote:"

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Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit?

Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit?:
"Scientists at the University of Manchester have found a surprising global warming culprit – sandwiches.
In the first study of its kind, the researchers carried out an in-depth audit of various sandwiches throughout their life cycles and found the triangular meals could be responsible for the equivalent annual carbon emissions of 8.6 million cars in Britain alone.
...What the researchers found was that not all sandwiches are created equal and that some varieties have larger carbon footprints than others.
...According to the team, a number of factors affect the sandwich's carbon footprint. Ingredients is one of them, with items like meat in general and pork in particular, cheese, prawns, lettuce, and tomatoes being particularly large footprint culprits..."

Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson

Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson
Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson

By John Dale Dunn

Who is this man, this Jordan Peterson, academic clinical psychologist, tenured at the University of Toronto with hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, who has made a splash recently as a voice of reason, battling the political correctness elites and upsetting the academic grandees?

Less than a week ago, we got a stormy weather alert in an article that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled "What's So Dangerous about Jordan Peterson?" by Tom Bartlett, with the tease "Not long ago, he was an obscure psychology professor.  Now he leads a flock of die-hard disciples."  One might suppose, considering Mr. Bartlett's choice of words, that Peterson is a Jim Jones-style cult-leader, but instinctively, I knew I would like to find out about anybody described as dangerous by the trade paper of American higher education.

Mr. Bartlett considers Dr. Peterson a threat because Peterson deviates from the leftist academic canon – a conservative, traditionalist, moralist anti-political correctness psychologist academic.  He objects to the speech police and the tyranny of the left.  He that a totalitarian-speech police state is developing in Canada, and, by instinct and conviction, he objects strongly to the "good speech" laws demanding the use of concocted or inapposite pronouns and labels preferred by the little darlin's of the newly concocted gender-identity claxon, cowbell, and tin drum army.

Peterson objects to speech police tactics, and he does it eloquently.  That's a threat to and dangerous for the academic poobahs who live and breathe censorship and intellectual tyranny.  Bartlett's essay is an alert: watch out for this conservative who has a bad attitude on lots of things and opposes our new pronoun gender identity group project and our promotion of the grievance status of the newly formed sex-gender-dysmorphist deviant group.

After I wrote to others about my discovery of Peterson, I was directed by one reader to a recent Peterson media splash, a YouTube interview cum debate by a feminist firebrand interviewer Cathy Newman at Britain's Channel 4.  Ms. Newman, a veteran U.K. TV personality, engaged Dr. Peterson on her claim that unequal female pay and power in business and other organizations are an example of gender persecution and oppression by patriarchal Western societies.  Ms. Newman came, all armed up, shouting her flinty-edged argument that gender job inequalities are due to bias and abuse by men.  Then came a well deserved Peterson social sciences buzzsaw refutation of her arguments, delivered with a smile to the visibly frustrated and increasingly desperate Newman, who seemed relieved when the 30 minute "interview" ended.

Much more!
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