New York Claims Hundreds of Residents are Too ‘Mentally Unstable’ to Be Allowed to Own Firearms

New York Claims Hundreds of Residents are Too ‘Mentally Unstable’ to Be Allowed to Own Firearms:
"Such a state was New York who passed the SAFE Act that implemented new anti-Second Amendment laws that placed arbitrary restrictions on firearm ownership and included provisions that make it easier for government to revoke the irrevocable right of individual firearm ownership for those deemed mentally unfit for such a right.

According to Freedom Outpost, 278 licensed gun owners in the Empire State are now deemed too “mentally unstable” to exercise their Second Amendment right. "

How they "think"----President Obama is Too Intelligent for Republicans to Understand

The Simple Truth: President Obama is Too Intelligent for Republicans to Understand:
"Which brings me to President Obama. 
While I’m not calling him a genius, I do think he’s extremely intelligent. 
I also believe that his tendency to use “big picture” thinking while drafting policy is something most Republican voters simply can’t understand.
Take “Obamacare” for instance.
It’s not a “fix health care today” law.
In fact, the law itself is made to grow and evolve over time.
My belief is that it’s a springboard to true socialized medicine.
But, as it is now, it’s a long-term outlook on our health care.
While many Republicans want to look at the “now” aspect of the Affordable Care Act, they seem unable to grasp the reality that as more Americans get health insurance, giving them access to preventable care, this lowers expenses down the road for everyone.
If people can prevent very costly heart attacks, strokes or other debilitating health issues now, that’s an overall savings for practically everyone from consumers to health insurers to doctors who now have more patients.
Quite literally, improving the overall health of Americans will improve the health of this country.
It even makes sense for our economy.
If workers are healthier, because they have access to quality health care, that means there will be fewer people calling in sick to work, showing up sick to work (putting other employees at risk) or relying on government programs because their health conditions (that were preventable) render them unable to work at all.
But to see all of that requires “big picture” thinking and Republicans seem unable to understand anything beyond the spoon-fed bumper sticker talking points they’re given by the GOP and the conservative media.
Minimum wage is another issue you see this with.
Republicans constantly paint it as a “job killer” (it’s not) while also rallying against the millions of people who are on government assistance..... "

Ten Stories NBC Nightly News Aired Instead of Covering Gruber Scandal

Ten Stories NBC Nightly News Aired Instead of Covering Gruber Scandal:

"But over the past month, NBC has found a lot of so-called “news” to fill up its evening broadcast, including a Washington story about a previously-unknown GOP staffer writing a snarky Facebook post about President Obama’s daughters. Nightly News has also carved out a lot of airtime for network self-promotion, including multiple plugs for NBC's live broadcast of Peter Pan, an entertainment program starring the daughter of anchor Brian Williams.

Below are ten stories that, unlike the Gruber videos, were deemed worthy of coverage by NBC Nightly News during the past month. With Gruber himself set to answer questions at a congressional hearing later today, NBC has a fresh opportunity tonight to fix the glaring omission of the past 30 days — the question is, will they once again pretend the Gruber story doesn’t exist?"

In Obamacare's Wake, New York's Tale of Two Medicaid Programs

In Obamacare's Wake, New York's Tale of Two Medicaid Programs:
"On the one hand, just last month Akim Murray, employee of New York City’s Medicaid Reimbursement Unit, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to a Medicaid fraud scheme in which he issued fake reimbursements to “friends and criminal associates” to the tune of more than $1 million.
In 2010, the Poughkeepsie Journal exposed massive overbilling in the state’s program for the developmentally disabled that charged $5,000 per day, or $2 million per patient, bilking the federal government for some $15 billion over 20 years that went right into the state’s coffers.
Indeed, absent several enterprising Albany-based journalists, the scam might still be going on.
In late July, the feds announced that they were seeking $1.3 billion in overpayments from 2010 (and possibly more for additional years).
In a system as vast and complex as New York’s Medicaid program, detecting waste, fraud, and abuse remains a serious challenge.
In 2013 alone, the state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General recovered close to $900 million in “improperly expended Medicaid funds”—perhaps the mere tip of the iceberg."

What Politicians Do 17 Seconds Into This Video Is Being Called ‘Un-American’ and an Act of Discrimination | Video | TheBlaze.com

What Politicians Do 17 Seconds Into This Video Is Being Called ‘Un-American’ and an Act of Discrimination | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A politician in Lake Worth, Florida, is breaking her silence one week after she joined others in abruptly and silently walking out of a city meeting before an atheist delivered his secular invocation."

Government: Gas to average $2.60 next year

My Way News - Government: Gas to average $2.60 next year:
"The Energy Department again slashed its prediction for next year's average price of gasoline across the U.S., this time to $2.60 a gallon.
That would be 23 percent below this year's projected average and the lowest full-year average since 2009."

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies - Telegraph:
"Our biggest worry is the end of the liquidity cycle.
The Fed is done.
The reach for yield that we have seen since 2009 is going into reverse”, said Bank of America."
The Opec oil cartel no longer exists in any meaningful sense and crude prices will slump to $50 a barrel over the coming months as market forces shake out the weakest producers, Bank of America has warned.
Revolutionary changes sweeping the world’s energy industry will drive down the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG), creating a “multi-year” glut and a much cheaper source of gas for Europe.
Francisco Blanch, the bank’s commodity chief, said Opec is “effectively dissolved” after it failed to stabilize prices at its last meeting.
“The consequences are profound and long-lasting,“ he said.
The free market will now set the global cost of oil, leading to a new era of wild price swings and disorderly trading that benefits only the Mid-East petro-states with deepest pockets such as Saudi Arabia.
If so, the weaker peripheral members such as Venizuela and Nigeria are being thrown to the wolves.

How to care for illegal alien children for only $182,129,786!

How to care for illegal alien children for only $182,129,786! by Curtice Mang
Thanks to the folks at Judicial Watch, we recently learned that Health and Humans Services (HHS) paid Baptist Children and Family Services $182,129,786 to house and feed illegal alien children for four months. 
That seems like a lot of money, especially when you consider this – the number of children was 2,400. 
I think that’s even more than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) spends on its Las Vegas retreats.

That works out to almost $76,000 per illegal alien child.
And you thought it was expensive to send your kids to college!
What exactly did these millions provide? 
Here is a sampling, but not a complete list:
Catering services at $75 per day for three meals and two snacks.

Three New Ways Government Threatens to Tax the Internet

Three New Ways Government Threatens to Tax the Internet – As Soon As Thursday | Somewhat Reasonable:
 ...The Feds keep breaking records for taking our money – yet have racked up an $18+ TRILLION (and counting) debt.
Government doesn’t have a revenue problem – it has a spending one.
It needs to find ways to stop being so ridiculously profligate – rather than looking for new ways to take our money.
 But was we know, that ain’t happening.
Government views our money like Jello – there’s always room for more.  
Whenever it can raise taxes – or create new ones – it all but leaps at the opportunity. 
The Internet is currently threatened with multiple brand new taxes levied by multiple levels of government.
One tax tidal wave can happen by Washington simply doing nothing.
On Thursday, the federal moratorium on Internet access taxes expires.
…Instead of putting the same (PITFA) bill to the Senate,
…Reid has decided to attach it to a proposed law called the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA).
That bill…would require online retailers to collect tax on sales they make to out-of-state consumers (subjecting these retailers to 9,998 different tax jurisdictions).
 ...And as huge as these new taxes are – they aren’t the hugest prospective new tax.
 If President Barack Obama and the leftist of the Left (like the aforementioned Pelosi) get their way, the Feds will soon begin slamming the ridiculous, bloated, wasteful, utterly unnecessary Universal Service Fund (USF)’s gi-normous phone tax – onto the Internet. 
...That’s the USF tax – which is currently 16.1%.  
And it goes up every quarter – automatically. 

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of 'Marginal Children' a 'Social Good'

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of 'Marginal Children' a 'Social Good':

"No, Gruber’s abortion advocacy is of a particularly pungent eugenics variety. He’s on record repeatedly making the case from social science that abortion is a “social good” because it reduces the number of “marginal children,” by which he means urban poor—those he says can be counted on to commit crimes if they were ever born.
Gruber co-authored a paper during the Clinton years which argued that legal abortion had saved the U.S. taxpayer upwards of $14 billion in welfare benefits and that it also lowered crime."

Lima Climate Talks Set for Record Carbon Footprint

Lima Climate Talks Set for Record Carbon Footprint - US News:
"LIMA, Peru (AP) — The current U.N. climate talks will be the first to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution they generate, offset by host country Peru's protection of forest at three different reserves, organizers say.
Now the bad news: The Lima conference is expected to have the biggest carbon footprint of any U.N. climate meeting measured to date.
At more than 50,000 metric tons of carfb/phbon dioxide, the negotiations' burden on global warming will be about 1 1/2 times the norm, said Jorge Alvarez, project coordinator for the U.N. Development Program.
The venue is one big reason.
It had to be built.
Eleven football fields of temporary structures arose for the 13-day negotiations from what three months ago was an empty field behind Peru's army's headquarters.
Concrete was laid, plumbing installed, components flown in from as far as France and Brazil.
Standing in the midday sun here can get downright uncomfortable, but the Lima sun is not reliable.
That's one reason solar panels were not used.
For electricity, the talks are relying exclusively on diesel generators.
Organizers had planned to draw power from Peru's grid, which is about 52 percent fed by non-polluting hydroelectric power. 
"We worked to upgrade transformers and generators but for some reason it didn't work," said Alvarez.

6 Years Later, Stimulus Funds Still Being Spent on Manure

6 Years Later, Stimulus Funds Still Being Spent on Manure | Washington Free Beacon:
"Almost six years after the passage of the stimulus package, taxpayer dollars have finally found their way into a shovel ready project: $60,000 to haul horse manure.
Sold as an opportunity to bring America into the “21st century,” the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus, is now being used to remove wild horse manure off of public lands.
According to a contract awarded last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will pay $58,650 to load, haul, and dispose manure from a corral in Burns, Oregon.
The facility holds wild horses and burros found on the Oregon range where they await adoption.
“Manure shall be wind-rowed, piled if necessary, loaded, and hauled to a site for a beneficial use,” the BLM said in their solicitation outlining the project.
“If there is no beneficial use for the manure, then it shall be legally disposed of in a landfill or by another approved disposal practice.”
“Stockpiling of the manure shall not be permitted,” they added.
The government anticipated that laborers would be paid $16.86 an hour plus fringe benefits for the job, which was awarded to ACW, Inc., a company in Hines, Oregon."

History for December 10

History for December 10 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas H. Gallaudet 1787 - Pioneer of educating the deaf, Emily Dickinson 1830 - Writer, Melvil Dewey 1851 - Created the "Dewey Decimal Classification" system 


Tommy Kirk 1941 - Actor, Susan Dey 1952 - Actress ("L.A. Law," "The Partridge Family"), Kenneth Branagh 1960 - Actor-director 


1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521. 


1817 - Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state. 


1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires. 


1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. 


1931 - Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she was the first American woman to do so. 


1941 - The Royal Naval battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Battle of Malaya. 


1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states. 


1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600. 


1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award. 


1994 - Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber. 

New Tape Reveals Jonathan Gruber Admitting Obama Lied About Obamacare Cost Savings

New Tape Reveals Jonathan Gruber Admitting Obama Lied About Obamacare Cost Savings:

"As Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who admitted that the law was a scheme to deceive, who also referred to on multiple occasions, “the stupid American voter,” testifies today on Capitol Hill, a newly discovered podcast captures Gruber admitting that the supposed cost savings that Obama used to sell the law were completely fictitious."

Hume: 'Inexplicable' For Dems To Release CIA 'Torture Report' | The Daily Caller

Hume: 'Inexplicable' For Dems To Release CIA 'Torture Report' | The Daily Caller:

"Fox senior political correspondent Brit Hume said Monday on “America’s Newsroom” that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s decision to release a report on the CIA’s interrogation tactics, despite the Obama administration and American allies alike warning that it could lead to violence, was “inexplicable” and “burning the ban on your way out.”

The Shocking, Three-Word Question Darrell Issa Asked Jonathan Gruber During Obamacare Hearing | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Shocking, Three-Word Question Darrell Issa Asked Jonathan Gruber During Obamacare Hearing | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) challenged Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber Tuesday by asking if Gruber is a “stupid” man who lucked his way into key jobs advising governments on health care and a professorship at MIT.

Issa said he thought to ask the question after the Kennedy Center honored Tom Hanks, who played Forrest Gump, the “ultimate in successful stupid man.”

“Are you stupid?” Issa asked Gruber, quoting a line from “Forrest Gump,” in which a young girl asked Gump, “Are you stupid or something?”

Must-Know Facts About the Chokehold Killing of Eric Garner

Must-Know Facts About the Chokehold Killing of Eric Garner | The Daily Sheeple
And the Christian Science Monitor notes:

Many on the political right and left united to condemn the grand jury decision, a rare event in an age of acute polarization.

The cover of the conservative New York Post says: “IT WAS NOT A CRIME,” written in big, bold letters, accompanied by still frames of Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold.

Fox News syndicated columnist and contributor Charles Krauthammer called the grand jury’s decision “totally incomprehensible.”

“I think anybody who looks at the video would think this was the wrong judgment,” Krauthammer said.

“It defies reason. It makes no sense,” wrote Sean Davis at the Federalist. “Just going on the plain language of the law, the police officer who killed Garner certainly appears to be guilty of second-degree manslaughter at the very least … All we have to do is watch the video and believe our own eyes.”

Leon Wolf of the conservative blog Redstate wrote, “This decision is really and truly baffling to me, and infuriating besides.”

Conservative commentator Erick Erickson endorsed this statement from the conservative Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “[A] government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice.”

Twitter also lit up with reaction, with many on the right uniting to condemn the decision.

For example, Noah Rothman – Associate Editor at Hotair – tweeted:

This is one of those moments where left and right could unite. Few seem comfortable with this outcome.

The vending machine of the future is here, and it knows who you are

The vending machine of the future is here, and it knows who you are - Telegraph:
"The vending machine brought an element of anonymity to snacking: you could scoff chocolate all day and no shopkeeper would know just how many bars -- or cigarettes, or ice creams, or lottery tickets -- you’d already gone through that day.
But that’s all about to change, because the vending machine of the future is here, and it knows who you are.
The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine, which was debuted to industry professionals in Hertfordshire in October, is claimed to be the first in the world to use facial recognition technology.
The machines are able to identify and greet a user, remember a person’s preferences and even refuse to vend a certain product based on a shopper’s age, medical record, dietary requirements or purchase history.
For example, a school can link the Luce X2 with its database and tell the machine to refuse to sell certain products, such as cigarettes, to underage students.
A gym could program the machine with its membership database not to sell fattening snacks to a person who is on a diet, while a hospital could prevent a user with health conditions such as diabetes buying a sugary product...."

Law School Students Will Be Allowed To Postpone Final Exams | The Daily Caller

Law School Students Will Be Allowed To Postpone Final Exams | The Daily Caller:

"Columbia University has allowed law school students who feel they suffered trauma from two high-profile grand jury decisions to postpone taking their final exams, the school’s interim dean Robert Scott wrote in a message to students this weekend."

Yabba Dabba Dough: Wisconsin DOT spends $30K on 'Flintstones'-style training video

Yabba Dabba Dough: Wisconsin DOT spends $30K on 'Flintstones'-style training video « Watchdog.org:
"MADISON, Wis. — Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and let your mind go blank.
Now picture, if you will, a group of motorists navigating traffic, only their cars are not powered by gas, solar power or electricity.
Nope, the only way to get around in these vehicles is by extending your feet through the floorboard and skipping your toes across the pavement, a la the “Flintstones.”
But you would be incorrect.
What I’m talking about is a two-minute roundabout training video produced by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation that features actors walking around in a circle with what appears to be cardboard automobiles hanging over their shoulders with straps.
And it cost you $30,000, according to DOT spokesman Steven Olson."

Former ABC Reporter Reveals Unflattering Account of How Obama Sometimes Handled Press Behind Closed Doors | Video | TheBlaze.com

Former ABC Reporter Reveals Unflattering Account of How Obama Sometimes Handled Press Behind Closed Doors | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Compton is the latest in a string of journalists who have complained recently about a lack of transparency from the Obama administration, including former New York Times editor Jill Abramson and Susan Page, formerly of USA Today.
“Before I walked out the door on September 10, I was a strong voice for complaining that this particular administration has been more opaque than any I have covered about what the President does in the Oval Office everyday,” Compton said. “He is far less accessible on photo-ops with meetings."

No money to fix roads.........One 'bad machine': Muskegon County to receive $600K for boat in Port of Muskegon

One 'bad machine': Muskegon County to receive $600K for boat in Port of Muskegon | MLive.com:

"MUSKEGON, MI – The Muskegon County is set to receive more than $600,000 for a new boat that would patrol and possibly fight fires or conduct search-and-rescue missions in the Port of Muskegon.
The county's board of commissioners, meeting as the Courts and Public Safety Committee Tuesday, Dec. 2, gave preliminary approval to receive a $604,575 grant from the Department of Homeland Security for a 32-foot port security boat.
The county will pay an in-kind match of $201,525 by conducting training drills, Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler said.
"It's a bad machine," said Muskegon County Commissioner Ben Cross."

Prof. Tells Students Not to ‘Tell Anybody’ About His Vexed Tea Party ‘Analogy’ — He Didn’t Know It Was Already Caught on Video | Video | TheBlaze.com

Prof. Tells Students Not to ‘Tell Anybody’ About His Vexed Tea Party ‘Analogy’ — He Didn’t Know It Was Already Caught on Video | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A psychology professor at South Texas College in Weslaco, Texas, was seemingly caught on video last month comparing the tea party to the Nazis of the 1930s in Germany.

He then told his students not to “tell anybody” about his remarks — but one of his students had already started filming after he allegedly called Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “bastard” for using the name “Cruz” to win his election."

Leftist fratricide! Delicious!-----The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple

The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple - The Daily Beast:
"Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats.
And now the media has finally noticed.
Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment.

The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.” 
In 2012, Hughes bought The New Republic, rescuing the flagship liberal magazine from financial peril and establishing himself as a player in Washington.
At the same time, Eldridge was quietly preparing to run for Congress in upstate New York.
Young, handsome, Ivy League-pedigreed, rich (“the wealthiest openly gay men under 30” according to The Advocate, a stretch considering that the fortune belongs to Hughes), and espousing predictably liberal political views, the Hughes-Eldridge partnership was destined to work wonders for America.
How swiftly things change.
In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution, while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Last week, the 31-year-old Hughes forced the resignations of both the editor and literary editor of The New Republic, whose 100th anniversary he presided over last month at a star-studded gala in Washington, D.C.
In protest of the magazine’s newly ensconced CEO’s plan to transform TNR into a “vertically integrated digital media company,” the majority of the magazine’s senior and contributing editors resigned.
Weeks before the implosion at TNR, 28-year-old Eldridge lost his congressional bid by a stunning 30 points, despite having outspent his opponent nearly 3-to-1 in a district President Obama won by 6 percentage points.
The couple had purchased a $2 million home in the district expressly so that Eldridge could run there, their purchase of a $5 million mansion in the adjoining 18th having come to naught after that seat was won by another gay Democrat in 2012."

Petition calls on MSU to cancel George Will speech

Petition calls on MSU to cancel George Will speech:
A group of activists will deliver a petition signed by tens of thousands of people to Michigan State University to protest winter commencement speaker George Will, who they call a "rape apologist," leaders announced Monday.
.....because Will stated in a column that sexual assault victims make it up to achieve the "coveted status" of "victimhood."
The column can be read here.

A group of students will deliver the petition at noon on Wednesday to the MSU administration office. Molly Haigh, a spokeswoman for the women's advocacy group UltraViolet, said more than 40,000 people had signed the petition as of Monday evening.
"It is appalling that MSU, a school currently under Title IX investigation for failing to address rape on campus, would invite a man known for shaming survivors of rape on campus to speak at their graduation ceremony," said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet.
"One in 5 women are sexually assaulted before graduating from college across America; this is an issue that MSU and every university should take extremely seriously.
We urge MSU to stop condoning rape and cancel George Will's speech."

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By George F. Will Opinion writer June 6 

Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.

Consider the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. “sexual assault.” Herewith, a Philadelphia magazine report about Swarthmore College, where in 2013 a student “was in her room with a guy with whom she’d been hooking up for three months”: 

Six weeks later, the woman reported that she had been raped. Now the Obama administration is riding to the rescue of “sexual assault” victims. It vows to excavate equities from the ambiguities of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of today’s prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults.“They’d now decided — mutually, she thought — just to be friends. When he ended up falling asleep on her bed, she changed into pajamas and climbed in next to him. Soon, he was putting his arm around her and taking off her clothes. ‘I basically said, “No, I don’t want to have sex with you.” And then he said, “OK, that’s fine” and stopped. . . . And then he started again a few minutes later, taking off my panties, taking off his boxers. I just kind of laid there and didn’t do anything — I had already said no. I was just tired and wanted to go to bed. I let him finish. I pulled my panties back on and went to sleep.’”

The administration’s crucial and contradictory statistics are validated the usual way, by official repetition; Joe Biden has been heard from. The statistics are: One in five women is sexually assaulted while in college, and only 12 percent of assaults are reported. Simple arithmetic demonstrates that if the 12 percent reporting rate is correct, the 20 percent assault rate is preposterous. Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute notes, for example, that in the four years 2009 to 2012 there were 98 reported sexual assaults at Ohio State. That would be 12 percent of 817 total out of a female student population of approximately 28,000, for a sexual assault rate of approximately 2.9 percent — too high but nowhere near 20 percent......

The World’s Climate Change Mafia Meet in Peru

The World’s Climate Change Mafia Meet in Peru | Somewhat Reasonable:

"To understand all the talk of “climate change” you must understand that everything and everyone involved—except for those of us who debunk the lies—are engaged in a criminal enterprise to transfer billions from industrialized nations to those who have failed to provide a thriving economy, often because they are run by dictators or corrupt governments who skim the money for themselves.

 The lies being inflicted on Americans include Obama’s “war on coal” that is shutting down coal-fired plants that affordably and efficiently produce the electricity the nation needs, along with the six-year delay of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Add in the thousands of Environmental Protection Agency regulations affecting our manufacturing, business and agricultural sectors and the price we are paying is huge.
 At its heart, environmentalism hates capitalism."

112 Solar Companies Close In 5 Years

112 Solar Companies Close In 5 Years | The Daily Caller:
Solar industry bankruptcies became a hot-button issue in 2011 after Solyndra declared bankruptcy. 
The company went broke after receiving $535 million in federal loan guarantees from the Obama administration.

Solyndra was quickly followed by Abound Solar and other green energy companies backed by the federal government. 

Abound got a $400 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration, but only used $68 million before the government cut off funding in the wake of Solyndra’s scandalous bankruptcy.

House Report: FDIC Targeted Gun Dealers Under Operation Choke Point | TheBlaze.com

House Report: FDIC Targeted Gun Dealers Under Operation Choke Point | TheBlaze.com:

"Another industry listed were payday lenders — the report found that FDIC had what amounted to a moral vendetta against these companies, even though they are legal.

“Personal animus towards payday lending is apparent throughout the documents produced to the committee,” the report said. “Emails reveal that FDIC’s senior-most bank examiners ‘literally cannot stand payday,’ and effectively ordered banks to terminate all relationships with the industry.”

NYT Aerial Photos: Detroit's Urban Fabric Looks Like 'A Moth-Eaten Blanket'

NYT Aerial Photos: Detroit's Urban Fabric Looks Like 'A Moth-Eaten Blanket' –  Deadline Detroit

Mad World NewsBar In Hot Water After 'RACIST' Drinking Promotion Advertised

Mad World NewsBar In Hot Water After 'RACIST' Drinking Promotion Advertised [Photos]: "Where Michael Brown’s name is mentioned, a protest ensues, which is exactly what happened Saturday evening at the bar once the word had gotten out about their insensitive promotion.
Angry residents in the area held signs and chanted outside Mug Shots — which goes by the slogan “where sarcasm is always free” — so really there is something for everyone without having to loot for it."