Attorney General Lynch Repeatedly Dodges Lawmakers’ Questions on Clinton Email Investigation | Video | TheBlaze.com

Attorney General Lynch Repeatedly Dodges Lawmakers’ Questions on Clinton Email Investigation | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday repeatedly deflected lawmakers’ questions about the conclusion of the Justice Department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Despite repeated prodding from Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, Lynch said that as attorney general it would be inappropriate for her to comment on specifics of the investigation.

She also referred questions to FBI Director James Comey, who last week recommended against prosecution for Clinton and her aides in laying out the findings of federal investigators."

Shinola hires Rahm Emanuel's top aide for Chicago job

Shinola hires Rahm Emanuel's top aide for Chicago job - Crain's Detroit Business:
"Mike Faulman, a longtime aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has joined watch and luxury goods maker Shinola/Detroit LLC as the company prepares to launch eyewear manufacturing in the Windy City.
...The job title and details of what Faulman will do for Shinola in Chicago haven't been disclosed.
"I can confirm that Mike will be joining our brand team this fall and assisting with initiatives that we have planned for that region," a Shinola spokeswoman said via email Monday afternoon.
...Shinola has 530 total employees, with 397 in Detroit..."

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History for July 13

History for July 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Edward J. Flanagan 1886 - Founder of Boys Town in Nebraska, Sam Hanks 1914, Jack Kemp 1935


Patrick Stewart 1940 - Actor, Harrison Ford 1942 - Actor ("Star Wars" movie series, "The Fugitive"), Erno Rubik 1944 - Creator of Rubik's Cube puzzle


1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.


1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.


1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.


1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.


1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.



1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.


1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.


1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.

Police Officer Suffers Broken Spine After Protestor Threw A Concrete Block On His Head - Christine Rousselle

Police Officer Suffers Broken Spine After Protestor Threw A Concrete Block On His Head - Christine Rousselle:

"Over the weekend, Black Lives Matter protestors shut down I-94 in St. Paul for about five hours to protest the death of Philando Castile, who was shot by a police officer. During the protest, 27 cops were injured after people threw molotov cocktails, fireworks, and rocks at the officers. One officer suffered a spinal fracture after a concrete block landed on his head."

Harvard Study Debunks Shooting Myth

Harvard Study Debunks Shooting Myth | commentary
"What if the popular narrative about police racism that’s being pushed by Black Lives Matter and others in the wake of last week’s fatal shootings is based on unfounded assumptions? 
That’s the question we are forced to confront today after the publication of a new study conducted by Harvard University’s Rolando G. Fryer Jr. that shows there is no evidence that blacks are more likely than whites to be shot by cops.
Fryer, an African-American economics professor, characterized the results as “the most surprising result of my career.” 
While FBI director James Comey is quoted in a New York Times Upshot piece about the study saying that reliable statistics about interactions between African-Americans and police have been lacking, Fryer’s effort — which was published under the rubric of the National Bureau of Economic Research — seems to fill in the gap.
As the Times notes, Fryer began this undertaking because of his anger about the controversial shootings in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore that put the wind in Black Lives Matter’s sails.
But what he discovered doesn’t back up the notion that trigger-happy white cops have declared open season on blacks.
Fryer studied more than 1,332 police shootings involving ten major American police departments in Texas, Florida, and California between 2000 and 2015.
While he found that blacks were more likely to be touched or handcuffed by police during the course of investigations or confrontations, they were not more likely to be shot. 
To the contrary:
In officer-involved shootings in these 10 cities, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. 
Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. 
Both of these results undercut the idea that the police wield lethal force with racial bias...."

Following Minimum Wage Increases, Unemployment Spikes among Black Male Teens

Following Minimum Wage Increases, Unemployment Spikes among Black Male Teens | Foundation for Economic Education:
"Perhaps one of the more interesting data points from last week's Employment Report is displayed in the graph above, which shows that the jobless rate for black male teens (aged 16-19 years) increased to 40.1% in June from 28.1% in May.
Except for a slightly higher increase of 12.2 percentage points during the aftermath of the Great Recession, the 12 percentage point increase in June was the highest monthly increase in history... "

House Republicans Request Investigation Into Whether Clinton Committed Perjury Before Congress | TheBlaze.com

House Republicans Request Investigation Into Whether Clinton Committed Perjury Before Congress | TheBlaze.com:

"House Republicans are calling on the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to launch an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress.

Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, formally requested the probe Monday, claiming in a letter that FBI evidence “appears to directly contradict” statements made by the presumptive Democratic nominee."

Shock! (... not really...)-----M-1 officials decline to discuss funding problems; taxpayers on the hook

M-1 officials decline to discuss funding problems; taxpayers on the hook
"Although federal taxpayers forked over $37.2 million to help fund the delayed M-1 streetcar project in Detroit, rail officials have refused so far to disclose the budget or operating costs.

That’s important because metro Detroit voters are being asked in November to begin paying for operations of the streetcars in 2024 as part of a larger regional transit plan.

Motor City Muckraker requested a copy of the M-1 construction and operating budgets after a member of the M-1 Board of Directors expressed serious concerns about the project. 
The board member, who spoke on condition on anonymity, said the $179.4 million project is costing more than anticipated because of slower-than-expected construction. 
As a result, M-1 has less money to finance the operations, which originally were targeted at $5.5 million a year..."

Where people get their news!-----U.S. Media Publishers and Publications – Ranked for June 2016

U.S. Media Publishers and Publications – Ranked for June 2016 - Similarweb Blog
These are the top U.S. media publishers and publications in the US as of April 2016. 
As always, our rankings are determined using SimilarWeb data that combines desktop and mobile page-views. 
To check out the top publishers and publications from last month, find the complete May ranking here. 

Lunch video-----We Saved Our Democracy

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Newly released video DESTROYS liberal narrative on Alton Sterling shooting - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com

Newly released video DESTROYS liberal narrative on Alton Sterling shooting - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com:

"Once again — as we reported regarding the tragic death of Philando Castile, there are always two (if not more) sides to every story.

Unfortunately too many people – including our president and the mainstream media — are all too eager to jump to conclusions before all the facts are presented. Sadly, as we learned in Dallas, it can be a deadly mistake."

Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms

Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms | Intellectual Takeout:
"As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. 
Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words.
Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving like the subjects in The Emperor’s New Clothes, who refused to state their true opinions about the so-called clothes for fear of sounding uniformed.
But academics aren’t the only ones who practice this form of mind-numbing communication. According to a 1945 essay by George Orwell, politicians are masters of “the inflated style” of speech and writing as well:
“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them.
And this is not altogether fanciful.
...In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. …
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”
Orwell goes on to explain that politicians use the “inflated style” of speech to cover their tracks and gloss over the root problems with which society wrestles:
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. 
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. 
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”
As we start down the final stretch of the 2016 political season, Orwell’s words are worth consideration. 
Do Americans have the knowledge to see through the inflated political rhetoric given out by both parties?"

Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t

Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t | Intellectual Takeout:
"Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, “is a prime example of fictitious disease,” said Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD,” shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 in 2009.

Why would Eisenberg claim that a condition we’ve come to know so well is largely fictitious?  

While many have said that Eisenberg’s statement is highly exaggerated, it turns out that numerous doctors are finding conclusive evidence that ADHD is being “over-diagnosed” due to inaccurate diagnostic methods.

Jerome Kagan, a leading expert in child development, says:

“Let’s go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). . . . Every child who’s not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: “It’s ADHD; here’s Ritalin.” In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don’t have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they’ll make the corresponding diagnosis.”

Today in the U.S., one out of every ten boys aged 10 years old takes some form of medication for ADHD every day.  
And as this number continues to rise, those with stakes in the pharmaceutical industry continue to make money..."

Nehlen Puts Ryan On Defense: Forces Speaker To Defend To Having Wall For Himself But Not Country

Nehlen Puts Ryan On Defense: Forces Speaker To Defend To Having Wall For Himself But Not Country - Breitbart:
"House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to defend his decision to have a personal border wall to protect his home, while refusing to build a border wall to protect America.
Ryan says that the reason he needs a personal border wall is because he has three children.
“Having a backyard fence for three dogs and three kids is not a half-bad idea,” Ryan said during his Monday interview with Wisconsin’s NBC15.
Although Ryan made clear that his children are entitled to play, live and grow up in an environment that’s shielded from external threats, he did not seem sold on the idea that the rest of America’s children should be afforded such protections.
When asked if he intended to make “building a wall part of the GOP agenda,” Ryan would not answer.
Nor did Ryan answer affirmatively when asked specifically if, as House Speaker, he would allow legislation “on to the floor of the House to build a wall along the border with Mexico.”
Instead, Ryan seemed to indicate that he could perhaps use his position of power to oppose President Trump’s planned wall — noting that he doesn’t necessarily agree with Trump on “how” to secure the border..."

Top Democrat (Super Deligate) on House vet affairs committee charged with fraud

Top Democrat on House vet affairs committee charged with fraud - U.S. - Stripes: "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple fraud charges and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed after an investigation into what prosecutors call a phony charity turned into a personal slush fund.
Brown, a 69-year-old Democrat, and Chief of Staff Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, 50, entered pleas in Jacksonville federal court on charges of mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction and filing of false tax returns.
...The 24-count indictment comes after an investigation into the purported charity One Door for Education Foundation Inc., which federal prosecutors say was billed as a way to give scholarships to poor students but instead filled the coffers of Brown and her associates.
...The indictment says that Brown, Simmons and Wiley "used the vast majority" of One Door donations for their personal and professional benefit, including tens of thousands of dollars in cash deposits that Simmons made to Brown's personal bank accounts.
...One Door money was also used for such things are repairs to Brown's car and vacations to locations such as the Bahamas, Miami Beach and Los Angeles. 
In addition, House of Representatives money was used to pay a "close family member" of Simmons identified as "Person C" more than $735,000 between 2001 and 2016 for a job in Brown's office that involved little or no work, according to the indictment.
Simmons allegedly benefited from some of that money..."

STUNNING: What They're Saying About The Dallas Sniper Sounds Like Hillary/Obama Talk About ISIS

STUNNING: What They're Saying About The Dallas Sniper Sounds Like Hillary/Obama Talk About ISIS:

"And where else have Obama and Clinton tried to draw a line and make a distinction between “terrorists” and the groups that inform and are thought by many to inspire their actions?

That’s right, the president and the woman who wants to have the job next have both argued that ISIS, the Islamic State and terrorists who claim to be holy warriors in the name of Allah and the caliphate really have nothing to do with Islam, the so-called “religion of peace.”

What a remarkable similarity between the two attempts to separate, to dissociate the “parental” groups — Black Lives Matter and Islam — from the terrorists, criminals and thugs who are born out of their goals and ideals, out of their distorted doctrines and twisted teachings"

Detroit. Dead last------2016’s Best Large Cities to Live in

2016’s Best Large Cities to Live in | WalletHub®:
"With real estate and employment markets varying considerably across the country,
WalletHub compared the attractiveness of the 62 largest U.S. cities in terms 31 relevant metrics, including measures of livability, health- and education-system quality, economic growth and tax burden.
The results, as well as expert commentary and a detailed methodology, can be found below."

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History for July 12

History for July 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Gaius Julius Caesar 100 BC, Henry David Thoreau 1817, George Eastman 1854 - Founded Eastman Kodak Company


R. Buckminster Fuller 1895, Milton Berle 1908 - Actor, Bill Cosby 1937 - Actor, comedian


1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.


1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.


1870 - The first rotary can opener with a cutting wheel was patented by William W. Lyman.


1933 - A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established in the U.S.


1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.


1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.


1960 - Manufacturing began for the Etch A Sketch®.


1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.

Sheriff: 3 Dead After Shots Fired at Michigan Courthouse | TheBlaze.com

Sheriff: 3 Dead After Shots Fired at Michigan Courthouse | TheBlaze.com:

"ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (TheBlaze/AP) — A sheriff says two bailiffs and a gunman are dead at a western Michigan courthouse where a shooting happened."

Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is ‘Inherently Racist’ and ‘Anti-American’ | TheBlaze.com

Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is ‘Inherently Racist’ and ‘Anti-American’ | TheBlaze.com:

"He added that another reality black Americans face is violence within the black community.

“A black will die 1 percent or less at the hands of police and 99 percent at the hands of a civilian, most often another black,” he said.

Guiliani noted that every 14 hours in Chicago a black person is killed by another civilian.

“So if you want to deal with this, on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police,” he said. “The real danger to them … are other black kids.”"