Video: State Dept. Spokesperson Stuck to Her Lines… Until She Thought Her Mic Was Off | Video | TheBlaze.com

Video: State Dept. Spokesperson Stuck to Her Lines… Until She Thought Her Mic Was Off | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki was seemingly caught on a hot mic calling one of her prepared statements on one of America’s policies on Egypt “ridiculous” following a press conference.
When reporters, including the Associated Press’ Matt Lee, pressed her to comment on the acquittal of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, she provided a pre-written response."

Medicaid Malfunctions

Medicaid Malfunctions - Reason.com:
"When President Obama pitched his health care overhaul in 2008 and 2009, he repeatedly argued that the existing health system relied too heavily on emergency room usage by the uninsured, which drove up the cost of care for everyone else.
"If there are affordable options and people still don't sign up for health insurance, it means we pay for those people's expensive emergency room visits," he said in one speech promoting the law.
But the argument that emergency room usage could be reduced by passing the health law never quite held up.
...The results are clear: Emergency room visits are up significantly more in expansion states than in non-expansion states"

What happened to Michigan House Democrats' petition to slay high gasoline prices?

Ken Braun: What happened to Michigan House Democrats' petition to slay high gasoline prices? | MLive.com:
..Substitute fuel price conspiracies for fraudulent faith healing, and my dad’s fake pastors have nothing on our politicians.

During June of 2013, Democrats in the Michigan House unveiled LowerMIGasPrices.com. 
It was a Web page dedicated to a legislative resolution calling on Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate whether “big oil companies” were “colluding to unfairly increase gas prices.”

“If the cost for gasoline is being unfairly set by unscrupulous producers, wholesalers or retailers,” said House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel of Auburn Hills, “those vendors need to be prosecuted.”

Republican State Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge created a similar stir by calling on Congress to look into the prices.

Shortly thereafter, I demonstrated that if price collusion was really taking place, then “big oil” was doing a poor job of it. 

The price of gasoline in August of 2013 was $3.60 per gallon, roughly the same - inflation adjusted - as the price paid in Michigan way back in 1981.

This week, I filled a tank at Kroger for $2.50 per gallon. Inflation-adjusted, that is 44 cents lower than what was paid back in 1974, the year after an example of real and deliberately malicious producer price fixing - the 1973 Arab oil embargo - rocked the national and world economy.

...Is it an accident the Democrats’ “War on Women” drumbeat increased in intensity as those gasoline prices fell?

Probably no more a coincidence than the current state of the LowerMIGasPrices.competition page, created by House Democrats a year ago this summer. 
It is now as easy to find as the medical records proving the maladies of those cured by greedy televangelists. 

All of the ‘gas price’ Web content has vanished, replaced by an unintentionally ironic “Fatal error” message on the page.

Except it wasn’t an “error.” 

It was just a scam. 

No “big oil” collusion was discovered, because it did not happen. 

The names of those who signed that petition have been forgotten just as the Web page has. Or, perhaps like the easy marks who reliably fill the coffers of the phony preachers, those petition names have been saved in some database so as to beguile the gullible yet again.

Both the politician and TV faith healer prey upon our need to believe bad things can be fixed with the extraordinary interventions of supposedly extraordinary mortals. 

The bogus cleric scams his flock by citing the authority of God, and the politician by slaying dragons that don’t exist.

Alas, exposing these frauds is as easy as it is pointless, because there’s always customers willing buy anything.

Fast-food workers plan to strike in 150 American cities

Fast-food workers plan to strike in 150 American cities:
"Fast-food workers in more than 150 U.S. cities are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday(12/4), the latest in a series of protests demanding a higher minimum wage and the opportunity to unionize.
These planned labor disruptions are part of a campaign that began two years ago with nationwide strikes and that flared most recently in September.
The walkouts are backed by one of the country's largest labor organizations, the Service Employees International Union.
And organizers say their movement is gaining momentum.
"Seattle and San Francisco passed laws raising wages to $15 over the next couple years, and cities from New York to Los Angeles are pushing for higher wages too," according to the website of StrikeFastFood, a group involved in planning the walkouts.
"But there's still a long way to go before every worker gets $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
It's going to be a hard fight, but we know we can do it. We don't have any other choice."
McDonald's is expected to be the focus of this week's work stoppages."

A Two-Day Battle to Charge My Car Convinced Me We're Not Ready for EVs

A Two-Day Battle to Charge My Car Convinced Me We're Not Ready for EVs | WIRED

The real-world range of a Nissan Leaf is roughly 80 miles (84, according to the sticker on the window). That’s on par with pretty much everything else except theway more expensive, road trip-ready Tesla Model S. 
I left San Francisco with about 50 miles left in the Leaf’s 24 kilowatt-hour pack, and knew when I arrived that I wouldn’t have enough have enough juice to make the 35-mile drive back.

Once I’d wrapped up my meeting and gotten back to the car, I used the Leaf’s navigation system to find the nearest charging station. 
I figured I’d hang out for half an hour or so before heading north. 
The Leaf, like many EVs, will direct you to the nearest charging station. 
That system isn’t nearly good enough: 
First off, it doesn’t tell you whether the station is occupied. 
That’s a real problem: 
Unlike a gas station, it doesn’t take three minutes for each car to fill up and move on. 
It takes at least 20 minutes, and that means if the plug you need is taken, you’re going to be waiting a while. 

Stunned Pastor Noticed Something Very Important Missing From This Disney Billboard | TheBlaze.com

Stunned Pastor Noticed Something Very Important Missing From This Disney Billboard | TheBlaze.com:

"Charges that Disney — known for producing kid-friendly films, TV shows and theme parks — has diminished God’s importance in its products are nothing new, but the company is facing a fresh round of criticism from a pastor who recently noticed something missing from one of its billboards."

Daily Show: Whites Bringing Up Black-on-Black Crime Should ‘Go ‘F**k Themselves’

Daily Show: Whites Bringing Up Black-on-Black Crime Should ‘Go ‘F**k Themselves’ | Media Research Center:
"On Dec. 2, Jon Stewart brought on "The Daily Show," “Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore," to bash conservatives for calling out the more deadly epidemic of black on black crime in light of the Ferguson protests.
Playing CNN clips of Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others calling out the media to talk about the “real epidemic” of black-on-black crime, Stewart asks Wilmore,
“What do you say to those people?” 
“Oh, I don’t know Jon. 
I would say maybe they should probably go fuck themselves.” 
This response of course garnered cheer and applause from the audience.
He continued:
“First of all, can we stop calling it ‘black on black crime?’
It’s just crime.
Okay?
I mean black on black just makes it sound like a category on Red Tube.
That’s a porn site, John.”
After some lewd jokes about porn, Stewart asks Wilmore,
“You don’t think a conversation about black on black crime should be happening now?” "

2 Weapons That Atheists Use in War on Christmas

2 Weapons That Atheists Use in War on Christmas:

"Never fear, the attorneys are here to separate fact from fiction surrounding private citizens' right to freely express religious faith in the public square. Nativity scenes will appear in nine State Capitols this Christmas—five of them due to the work of the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm."

Doubling Down On Climate Alarmism

Doubling Down On Climate Alarmism
Falsified Alarmism
The United States/China pact and the UN meeting in South America are little more than desperate attempts to keep the climate agenda going in an energy-hungry, fossil-fuel world.
Consumers are choosing oil, gas, and coal over politically correct, economically inferior substitutes. But in the intellectual/government/pundit sphere, a witch’s brew of bad science and Gruber salesmanship has turned an intellectual cause into a fringe religion — and self-defeating politics.
For decades, climate campaigners have warned that, unless we cut CO2 emissions rapidly and drastically, environmental devastation will be just around the corner.
Like the running-out-of-oil predictions since the 1860s, the running-out-of-livable-climate (“tipping point“) meme of the last 25 years has been repeatedly falsified.
President Obama’s science advisor John Holdren, for example, refuses to disavow his 1980s prediction that by 2020, a billion people could perish from famine induced by man-made climate change.
Holdren, going down with the Obama ship, now manufactures fringe analyses as mainstream science.

History for December 6

History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com
Ira Gershwin 1896, Lester Gillis (George "Baby Face" Nelson) 1908 - Gangster, Len Barry 1942 


Wally Cox 1924, Tom Hulce 1953, JoBeth Williams 1953 


1790 - The U.S. Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia. 


1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. 


1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb. 


1883 - "Ladies' Home Journal" was published for the first time. 


1917 - More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors. 


1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned. 


1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became to largest municipality to file for bankruptcy. 


1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier. 


2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution. 

St. Louis Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Armed Black Males Allegedly Drag Woman Out of Her Car | TheBlaze.com

St. Louis Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Armed Black Males Allegedly Drag Woman Out of Her Car | TheBlaze.com:

"Victim: 26-year old white female

Suspect(s): Three unknown black males, late teens-early 20s
The victim stated she was driving in the 4600 block of Lansdowne when three unknown suspects walked in front of her vehicle. When the victim attempted to drive around them, the suspects displayed a firearm and ordered her to stop her vehicle, to which she complied. One of the suspects then approached the driver’s side, produced an object, possibly a crowbar, and struck the windshield of her vehicle. The suspects then ordered the victim to exit her vehicle. The victim refused and one of the suspects pulled her out of the car. "


Where's Sharpton, Holder and Obama?  
Come on guys!  What's taking so long?  You're going to want to jump right in and state these young men are guilty.  Hurry before the evidence begins to show up!  Do process isn't necessary anymore, remember.  

BREAKING: Officer Darren Wilson Is About To Find Out How Generous His Supports Are

BREAKING: Officer Darren Wilson Is About To Find Out How Generous His Supports Are:

"Office Darren Wilson, who recently had to resign his position in the Ferguson Police Department, is about to get a big surprise. After four months, of having to hide out, and being fearful he will be recognized and attacked by a mob of Mike Brown supports. The 28-year-old officer felt it as best he turn in his resignation due to the numerous death threats on his fellow police force. Wilson stated,  “I’m not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me.”  Once his resignation was turned in Mayor James Holmes said that he would not be given a severance package."

Black Radio Caller Explodes on ‘White, Liberal Hippie Kids’ Protesting Police Killings: ‘That’s Not What Happened, You Idiots!’ | TheBlaze.com

Black Radio Caller Explodes on ‘White, Liberal Hippie Kids’ Protesting Police Killings: ‘That’s Not What Happened, You Idiots!’ | TheBlaze.com:

"A black man, identified only as Ed from Queens, New York, called into SiriusXM’s “Opie with Jim Norton” show on Thursday to defend the grand jury decisions in the police-involved killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City."

Since Obama Took Office, the Federal Debt Has Increased by Almost 70 Percent

Since Obama Took Office, the Federal Debt Has Increased by Almost 70 Percent:

"The federal government hit a new milestone Friday: The total federal debt now tallies more than $18 trillion.

Just six years ago when President Obama took office, total debt stood at $10.6 trillion, which means it now has increased by almost $8 trillion—roughly 70 percent—during his tenure as president."

EPA Employees Paid More Than $1 Million to Not Work

EPA Employees Paid More Than $1 Million to Not Work: "

How would you like to get paid a full-time salary plus benefits for not working, and without taking any sick days? Sounds like a dream, right?

According to both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General, eight EPA employees were paid more than $1 million while on paid administrative leave. These eight employees were on paid leave for at least four months. Four of them were on leave for more than a year, including one who was away for more than four years."

What?!!! They accuse an entire fraternity of rape and cover-up and this is the apology?!!!--------A Note to Our Readers | Rolling Stone

Every fraternity on campus ordered shut down!!!
Anyone who questioned this fabrication shouted down as a "denier"?!!!
Consiously decided NOT to contact ANY of the accused?!!!
SHAME!
A Note to Our Readers | Rolling Stone:
To Our Readers:

Last month, Rolling Stone published a story titled "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, which described a brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie at a University of Virginia fraternity house; the university's failure to respond to this alleged assault – and the school's troubling history of indifference to many other instances of alleged sexual assaults. The story generated worldwide headlines and much soul-searching at UVA. University president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and also to examine the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.

Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. In the months Erdely spent reporting the story, Jackie neither said nor did anything that made Erdely, orRolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question Jackie's credibility. Her friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported Jackie's account. She had spoken of the assault in campus forums. We reached out to both the local branch and the national leadership of the fraternity where Jackie said she was attacked. They responded that they couldn't confirm or deny her story but had concerns about the evidence. 

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

Will Dana
Managing Editor
And not even the decency to let people comment on their site.
SHAME!

The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway

The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway | Muckrock
You may have heard that the image-conscious Los Angeles Unified School District chose to return the grenade launchers it received from the Defense Department’s surplus equipment program. You probably have not heard about some of the more obscure beneficiaries of the Pentagon giveaway:

• Police in Johnston, R.I., with a population less than 29,000, acquired two bomb disposal robots, 10 tactical trucks, 35 assault rifles, more than 100 infrared gun sights and two pairs of footwear designed to protect against explosive mines. The Johnson police department has 67 sworn officers.
• The parks division of Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources was given 20 M-16 rifles, while the fish and wildlife enforcement division obtained another 20 M-16s, plus eight M-14 rifles and ten .45-caliber automatic pistols.
• Campus police at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, received 12 M-16s to help protect the 8,811 students there (or perhaps to keep them in line).
• The warden service of Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife received a small aircraft, 96 night vision goggles, 67 gun sights and seven M-14 rifles.

The Response From Press Secretary Josh Earnest That Made Jon Stewart Stop Everything and Yell, ‘What?!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Response From Press Secretary Josh Earnest That Made Jon Stewart Stop Everything and Yell, ‘What?!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"By now, it’s no secret that the two new ambassadors nominated and confirmed by the Senate are lacking credentials (i.e. America’s new ambassador to Argentina doesn’t even speak Spanish and the new ambassador to Hungary is a former soap opera producer)."

Oh yeah, your tax dollars "at work" on ANOTHER college campus------White Privilege Conference: Being white is like being an alcoholic

White Privilege Conference: Being white is like being an alcoholic | The Daily Caller:
"The 15th annual National White Privilege Conference took place in Madison, Wisconsin, last week — subjecting attendees to informational sessions that explained why everything they did was inherently racist and oppressive.
The conference was funded in part by hotel tax revenues, the University of Wisconsin and the City of Madison — in other words, by taxpayer dollars.
It was a colorful week, according to an account by the MacIver Institute
Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher and current activist, hosted a session titled, “Stories from the front lines of education:
Confessions of a white, high school English teacher.”
Radersma advised participants — who paid more than $400 for the privilege of hearing her rant about privilege — that teaching was a purely political act, and neutral people should “get the fuck out of education.” (RELATED: University addresses racism by having a racially segregated group discussion)
“Teaching is a political act, and you can’t choose to be neutral,” said Radersma. 
“You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it. 
And if you think you are neutral, you are a pawn.”
All teachers who do not actively confront the system are promoting white supremacy, said Radersma.
She also said that white people fighting oppression is akin to alcoholic trying to resist the temptation to drink.
The dark sickness of racism is at the heart of all the actions of white people."

Conservatives Train Fire on 'Land Grab' in Key Defense Bill

Conservatives Train Fire on 'Land Grab' in Key Defense Bill:

“The decision to attach an extreme land grab to the NDAA is a disservice to members of the armed forces,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a prepared statement. “With the military’s shrinking budget, it is offensive that this bill would be used to fund congressional pork.”

Notre Dame Offers Seminar On White Privilege

Notre Dame Offers Seminar On White Privilege | The Daily Caller:
"The University of Notre Dame is offering a one hour credit seminar discussing the critical issue of white privilege.
The class is being offered in the spring semester of 2015.
In the course registrar, the course is listed as Sociology 25280 and is named “White Privilege Seminar.”
The course will meet eight times next semester for two hours each time.
The course description goes into more detail as to the logistics of the class.
“This six-week preparatory class is designed to educate and train White Privilege Conference delegation participants on the definitions of, historical/current paradigm of, and causes/effects of white privilege.”
Along with the training seminar, students will be required to attend the White Privilege Conference after the training class from March 8-14.
The course description’s claims the main objective for each student is “personal transformation: to leave the class and conference more aware of injustices and better equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional, and worldwide systems of oppression.”"

Illegal Immigrants Meeting at the White House Say Obama’s Executive Action Is Not Enough | TheBlaze.com

Illegal Immigrants Meeting at the White House Say Obama’s Executive Action Is Not Enough | TheBlaze.com:

"Young illegal immigrants had a meeting at the White House Thursday following President Barack Obama’s recent executive action to shield about 5 million people from deportation

The group of eight, who were brought to the United States by their parents as children, met with Obama domestic policy advisor Cecilia Munoz on the day that the House approved an essentially symbolic measure to roll back the president’s actions."

Mapping Migration in the United States

Mapping Migration in the United States - NYTimes.com
Where people who lived in each state in 2012 were born
Each shape represents where the people living in a state were born.
Within a state, larger shapes mean a group makes up a larger share of the population.

The Most Horrifying Music Video You’ll Ever See – A Country Song Dedicated to Hilary Clinton

The Most Horrifying Music Video You’ll Ever See – A Country Song Dedicated to Hilary Clinton | Liberty Blitzkrieg:

"This has to be a joke.
I don’t think this is a joke.
Please, someone tell me this is a joke.
Brace your ears for an unbridled musical holocaust. This is essentially the American equivalent of Putin riding a horse bare-chested."

BREAKING: Govt. Hiring Thousands of New Federal Employees to Immediately Approve Applications For Obama's Executive Amnesty - Katie Pavlich

BREAKING: Govt. Hiring Thousands of New Federal Employees to Immediately Approve Applications For Obama's Executive Amnesty - Katie Pavlich:

"A December 1 bulletin from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) details the immediate opening of 1,000 permanent federal employee positions at a new operational facility that will open soon in Crystal City, Virginia. Newly hired employees will be tasked with approving applications submitted by illegal immigrants taking advantage of President Obama's recently announced executive amnesty program."

Student Fakes a Rape Threat to Advance Diversity Initiatives

Student Fakes a Rape Threat to Advance Diversity Initiatives | National Review Online:

"A federal investigation revealed that a racist rape threat against a University of Chicago student activist was actually fake, written by the student’s friend to gain support for their cultural-sensitivity initiatives.
Freshman Derek Caquelin posted a threat against junior Vincente Perez on his own Facebook wall on November 18 — and then claimed a racist hacker must have done it.
Perez had co-written a petition earlier in November demanding that the university address cultural-sensitivity issues after he saw students wearing Mexican Halloween costumes that had offended him. The petition’s demands included “a mandatory cross-cultural competency program” and faculty “diversification.”"

If you disagree with us you are a denier. Or a racist. Or both..........Doubting rape now equals … Holocaust denial?

Doubting rape now equals … Holocaust denial?
Slate magazine’s Amanda Marcotte tweeted earlier today that rape denialism is akin to … Holocaust denialism:

Is this what any sort of skepticism about a rape story is now?

The College Fix recently reported on emerging questions regarding the alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. 

Even the Washington Post is now questioning the accuracy of Rolling Stonereporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s UVA story.

Does the Post also believe the Holocaust never happened?

20 Signs You Are Living in a Progressive Utopia | TheBlaze.com

20 Signs You Are Living in a Progressive Utopia | TheBlaze.com:

"Consequently, in order to identify whether one is in fact living in a progressive Utopia, one merely needs to identify instances in one’s society, economy and political system, themselves a natural outgrowth of the culture (itself an outgrowth of the ideas that a people has imbibed), in which facts, logic and history have been shoved aside in favor of the whims of the wise collective.

Here are 20 signs that you might be living in such a blissful place:"

Sears to accelerate closings, shutter 235 stores

Sears to accelerate closings, shutter 235 stores
The retailer also said it's accelerating the number of stores it plans to close this year, boosting its list from the 130 underperforming stores it announced in its second-quarter earnings release, to a total of 235 stores.
Analysts called the move a step in the right direction for the company, which has been tapping into its real estate in creative ways to compensate for downward-spiraling sales.
Still, they said the haircut won't be enough on its own to turn the tide at Sears, adding that it needs to close even more stores—and figure out how to become profitable.
....Sozzi sounded a more sour note on Sears, saying "the soul of this report is really bad." 
Although the company said it expects its improving year-over-year adjusted earnings trend to continue in the fourth quarter, Sozzi said it was concerning that the retailer didn't offer up any sales figures for the holidays so far.
...According to Retail Metrics, Sears hasn't posted a quarterly profit since fourth quarter 2012.

Sowell: 'Psychiatrist' Needed to Explain GOP Wanting More Foreign Workers

Sowell: 'Psychiatrist' Needed to Explain GOP Wanting More Foreign Workers

Thomas Sowell, author of "Basic Economics," argued that increasing the number of foreign workers in the US "will keep down the wages of American workers" and that "you would have to get a psychiatrist" to explain the GOP's support for increased foreign labor on Thursday's "Laura Ingraham Show."

"The competition will keep down the wages of American workers, I mean, this is not a new principle. I mean this has been known for hundreds of years," he stated.

When asked why the GOP would support such a policy, he responded "you would have to get a psychiatrist or someone like that to explain that. There are cleaning women who say 'I don't do windows. I don't explain Republicans.'"

On the issue of giving the president fast-track authority on trade, Sowell argued that while "by and large free trade does benefit the country," "a lot of what is called free trade is not free trade."