What If Only Taxpayers Could Vote?

What If Only Taxpayers Could Vote? | The State:
"This might be the most disturbing electoral map ever created.
To realize so few people would vote Democrat if only taxpayers could vote is enlightening to say the least. 
This map originates from a BuzzFeed article some time ago covering a multitude of antiquated and restrictive voting scenarios.
In this scenario, both men and women can vote, but poll taxes are added back to exclude non tax paying voters.
This, of course, disproportionately affects ethnic minorities as an unintended consequence..."

Here's A Case Study In How Journalists Protect Hillary Clinton From Bad News

Here's A Case Study In How Journalists Protect Hillary Clinton From Bad News | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Media Bias: It took six years and a court order for the Associated Press to dislodge Hillary Clinton's schedule from the State Department. 
What it show
ed is that Clinton entertained a parade of visitors who were major donors to the Clinton Foundation. As thanks for this important investigative work, the AP is being viciously attacked by other journalists.
"This is an important and interesting thing that people should know about,
Clinton's tenure in the highest office that she's ever held, secretary of state.
Who did she meet with?
Who are those people?" said Associated Press executive editor Kathleen Carroll.
The fact that State refused to turn these documents over for years, and did so only after being ordered by a judge, clearly suggested that Clinton had something to hide.
Even now, State is withholding half of Clinton's meeting schedule until after the election.
The information the AP was able to get its hands on strongly supports other evidence showing that the Clinton Foundation was little more than a pay-to-play operation, with the Clinton's trading payments to their personal "charity" for access and favors.
In common parlance, this is called graft, and it's the sort of crass political corruption that journalists used to care about.
But not when it involves their chosen presidential candidate.
On CNN's Reliable Sources this Sunday -- over a chyron that read "Critics Say AP Story Flawed" -- Brian Stelter started his segment by wondering "why the AP published the story at all? 
They conducted a long investigation.
Did they just want to show that they had done the work?
Did they just want to show that they had found something, even if it didn't amount to much?.."

Leak: Soros funded ousting of Glenn Beck from Fox News

Leak: Soros funded ousting of Glenn Beck from Fox News:

"In the memo, Vandenberg says a reason for continuing to fund Color of Change is that the group through implementing successful political communications campaigns “has held media companies accountable for derogatory actions, including successful campaigns to oust Glenn Beck from the Fox Network and Pat Buchanan from MSNBC.”

The memo appears to confirm the suspicion among conservatives that Soros has funded aggressive attacks on advertisers to silence effective conservative commentators.

$40 million attack"

There's a Big Problem With One of Hillary Clinton's Favorite Campaign Stories

There's a Big Problem With One of Hillary Clinton's Favorite Campaign Stories | Mother Jones:
"...But Hillary Clinton's campaign has been invoking DeLay's name a lot lately to demonstrate that she can reach across the aisle to work productively with anyone—even Tom DeLay.
It's a great narrative.
As the story goes, Clinton, as first lady, set aside partisan differences to find common ground with DeLay even as he was mercilessly attacking her husband and obstructing his agenda.
By the campaign's telling, the pair first worked together on an adoption bill that became law in 1997 and helped thousands of foster children find loving homes.
Clinton has been telling the story on the stump for more than a decade now, but it's been especially prominent during this presidential campaign, emphasized repeatedly by the candidate and her surrogates, most notably by her husband Bill, who brought it to prime-time TV during his Democratic National Convention speech last month.
"I don't remember ever working with her" on that bill, DeLay told Mother Jones.
There's just one problem with the story: 
It isn't accurate. 
Over the years, the tale of Tom and Hillary has grown in mythic proportions, as Bill and others have conflated dates and confused events in a way that makes a better story but vastly overstates the relationship between DeLay and Hillary Clinton..."

Detailing Russian Surface to Air Missile Coverage

Detailing Russian Surface to Air Missile Coverage – Defensetech:
"The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, has released an informational graphic highlighting Russia’s increasing surface-to-air missile coverage in Europe.
The graphic released Monday details the Russian military’s deployment of S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems not only within Russia and Kaliningrad, the Russian city in a territory between Poland and Lithuania, but also Crimea and areas encircling the Ukraine, even Latakia, Syria.
The S-300 has a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles); the S-400 up to 400 kilometers (250 miles). 
Both systems are designed to target any number of U.S. and NATO aircraft, from bombers to fighters to spy planes.
Notably absent from the picture is any reference to the S-500, which a reader of this blog has argued was already deployed around Moscow but which an expert contacted by this correspondent has said remains in development...."

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State Department ordered to hand over files on Abedin | Washington Examiner

State Department ordered to hand over files on Abedin | Washington Examiner:

"A federal judge ordered the State Department on Monday to hand over all documents related to the employment status of Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, by the end of September."

Sports Drinks Are Mostly Pointless

Sports Drinks Are Mostly Pointless
"Sports drinks seem like they should be healthy.
Athletes endorse them, and they don’t have the same “liquid candy” reputation as the Pepsi a few shelves over.
But how helpful are they to serious and casual exercisers? 
Not very, it turns out.
To be clear, we’re talking about sports drinks, not energy drinks like Rockstar and Monster.
Despite the similar names, they’re no relation.
Energy drinks are super-caffeinated soda with a few gimmicky supplements thrown in to make them look special.
Sports drinks, on the other hand, are the beverages like Gatorade and Powerade that deliver carbohydrates and electrolytes in a typically fruity, brightly colored fluid sold in plastic bottles.
To put it another way: energy drinks are for all-night video game marathons; sports drinks are for actual marathons..."

Caution: Men (Not) At Work

Caution: Men (Not) At Work | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Jobs: While the Fed and government policymakers fret over "full employment," a new study by one of America's leading demographers and economists argues that in fact we are in the midst of a full-blown unemployment crisis — one that remains, in his words, "hidden."
This Friday, a new jobs report will come out.
If the Wall Street consensus is correct, it will show the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5% while nonfarm payrolls will grow about 180,000 for the month.
But that won't tell the whole story.
Nicholas Eberstadt, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, argues in a new book called "Men Without Work," due out next week, that we're suffering not from full employment, but massive underemployment — in particular, nearly one out of six working-age men have no job and are no longer looking for one. 
A release for his book calls this "a hidden time bomb with far-reaching economic, social and political consequences."
With 10 million fewer male workers in the labor force than we should have, it's hard to disagree..."

Breaker, Breaker One-Niner! Regulators Are Running Amok!

Breaker, Breaker One-Niner! Regulators Are Running Amok! | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Late last week, the Transportation Department issued a proposed rule that would require new commercial trucks and buses to have speed-limiting devices installed in them.
The government says the move is about increasing safety and reducing emissions, but what it's really about is showing how federal regulators can pretty much do whatever they want these days.
After all, there were no votes on this proposal in Congress.
No committee meetings. 
No public debate. 
Just pressure put on Washington bureaucrats by special interests.
On the surface, the mandate might seem reasonable.
After all, nobody wants to be on a highway with an 18-wheeler or a commercial bus barreling down on them.
The government says that the rule could save lives.
And the American Trucking Association backs the mandate.
But there's no guarantee that this rule will save any lives at all..."

Caution: Men (Not) At Work | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Caution: Men (Not) At Work | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"While the Fed and government policymakers fret over "full employment," a new study by one of America's leading demographers and economists argues that in fact we are in the midst of a full-blown unemployment crisis — one that remains, in his words, "hidden."

This Friday, a new jobs report will come out. If the Wall Street consensus is correct, it will show the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5% while nonfarm payrolls will grow about 180,000 for the month. But that won't tell the whole story."

Polling Benchmarks Trump Needs to Overtake Clinton

Polling Benchmarks Trump Needs to Overtake Clinton | RealClearPolitics
"Can Donald Trump win this election?
And if a comeback is in store, when will the polls start to show it?
It's impossible to know if Trump will make a comeback.
Clinton is the clear favorite and leads in the polls, but there are still more than two months left in the race.
It's possible to imagine scenarios where Trump catches up and overtakes Clinton.
But it's important to try to figure out if those scenarios are plausible and what the early signs of a Trump comeback might be.
To that end, I analyzed polling from 11 presidential elections and came up with three rules of thumb - Trump can still win, to do so he needs to be within a few points in late September, and there isn't much time to move polls in October - to help guide readers through the next two-plus months of polling.
These guidelines came from an analysis of historical polling data,.."

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History for September 1

History for September 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Ely Beach 1826 - Designer of New York City's earliest subway, patented a typewriter for the blind, Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes), Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) 1922 - Actress (The Munsters, Salome, McLintock!)


Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) 1923 - Boxer, the only heavyweight champion to have won every fight in professional career, Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian,  Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) 1957 - Singer (Miami Sound Machine)


1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.


1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.


1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.


1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.


1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.

1970 - The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV. The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.


1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.


1979 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/08/hook-line-and-sinker-by-tammy-derouin.html

Hook, Line and Sinker

By Tammy Derouin

The Progressive Left likes to promote social justice. So what is social justice?  Most definitions are pretty similar.  Words like fair and just are used to map out some sort of directive for individuals within a society.  It doesn’t take long for the word distribution to pop up.  Distribution of not only wealth but privileges and opportunities are thrown in the mix.  Who would determine what is fair or just within the society?  If you dig a little deeper a motive begins to emerge.  Within the mumble jumbo of key words and desirable objectives a conspiracy begins to unfold. 

In order for this Utopian quest to get underway, the population needs to buy into the idea.  That’s not too hard.  Who wouldn’t agree that people should be treated fairly and justly?  Well, there’s the proverbial Hook.

The Left works its magic and begins to vilify anyone or any institution which is opposed to what they, the Left, feels is an absolute right, entitlement or fact.  They will force their will by elevating their chosen causes or groups.  What they interpret as equal treatment under the law becomes special rights for many.  It may even be interpreted as overdue justice.  So, if some individuals now feel they don’t have the rights they once had, it’s okay because they had them for too long.  Many fall for this unequal justice as some sort of payback and jump on the band wagon.   They enjoy riding out the proverbial Line.

Who decides what is fair and just?  Who decides how to distribute wealth, privilege and opportunities?  The answer is very interesting and so very predictable.  Once you’ve accepted the bait, you have been hooked......

A Really Important Melanoma Breakthrough Just Rocked the Science World

A Really Important Melanoma Breakthrough Just Rocked the Science World:
"A major scientific discovery has been made that will affect future treatment options for melanoma — the most aggressive of all skin cancers.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have determined that a melanoma tumor sends out vesicles, small structures enclosed by a membrane, that contain molecules that cause changes in the dermis — the inner layer of the skin — and allow the cancer to spread to other vital organs, including the brain, lungs, liver, and bones.
Understanding this process means that investigators can finally begin to stop the cancer before it reaches the metastatic stage.
For years, scientists have understood that melanoma forms in the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin.
At this stage, the cancer is unable to enter the bloodstream because it doesn’t have access to blood vessels.
Yet it somehow can find a way to break the barrier to connect with the numerous blood vessels running through the dermis..."

SC school bans American flag from football games

SC school bans American flag from football games | EAGnews.org:
"TRAVELERS REST, S.C. – School officials’ decision to ban students from displaying the American Flag at a recent football game is creating controversy in a South Carolina school district.
On Friday, Travelers Rest High School principal Lou Lavely banned students from carrying American flags into a football game against Berega High School, because a lot of students at Berega are Hispanic. 
Lavely contends the American flag could have been used to taunt those students, WNCN reports..."

Brace Yourself, Bridget: 'Single-Payer' Health Care Is On Its Way | PJ Media

Brace Yourself, Bridget: 'Single-Payer' Health Care Is On Its Way | PJ Media:

"If you haven't figured out by now that Obamacare -- aka, the Patient Deflection and Unaffordable "Care" Act -- was designed to fail from the start, you haven't been paying attention. "Insurance" that wasn't really insurance, an ever-spiraling cost structure, the destruction of private (i.e. real) insurance, and the creation of yet more dependents on the federal government -- these were the real goals of Obamacare when it was rammed through Congress in the dead of night at Christmas, 2009. And now, voila!"

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. “While many intelligence se…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. “While many intelligence se…

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. 
“While many intelligence services have tried to steal secrets from NSA, only the Russians have been able to do so consistently. Kremlin penetration of NSA has been a constant.”

Plus: “In fairness to NSA, the record of our Intelligence Community, indeed our whole government, in counterintelligence is nothing less than dismal. 
And it’s gotten markedly worse during Barack Obama’s two terms in the White House, with their unprecedented losses of America’s secrets to spies, traitors, and hackers. 
However, given the importance of NSA to our collective security—it’s the backbone of counterterrorism operations across the Western world, our vital shield against jihadism—it’s important that the agency at last starts getting serious about security. 
Catching some Russian moles would be a solid beginning.”

WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN …:

WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN REVOLUTION FAIL: Eli Lake at Bloomberg News discusses a new book by The Wall Street Journal‘s Jay Solomon, The Iran Wars.

Excerpt:

…Obama wasn’t just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran…Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America’s support.

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We Just Discovered What May Really Be Behind Kaepernick's Protest | The Federalist Papers

We Just Discovered What May Really Be Behind Kaepernick's Protest | The Federalist Papers:

"It truly is extraordinarily sad to watch people, who have opportunities that people around the world only dream of thanks to the God-given rights protected by this incredible nation, disrespect it so thoroughly.

In fact, this spoiled, misinformed couple not only has opportunities that people around the world only dream of, many people in this country could only dream of being so fortunate — and that goes for people of all races, despite Kaepernick’s race-resentment sentiment."

The Clinton Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam

The Clinton Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam | Observer
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” says the frequently delusional Blanche Dubois near the bitter end of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Ah yes, kind strangers.
It’s a playwright’s loaded line.
Put bluntly, Miss Blanche may practice intermittent prostitution.
...Blanche Dubois is a fictional character. 
Hillary Clinton often inhabits a fictional universe. 
Claiming she was targeted by snipers in Bosnia and telling Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey exonerated her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information are just two examples of Hillary’s fictional existence.
However, Hillary’s State Department was no cheap Mississippi hotel, and the latest batch of emails confirming close, coordinated contact between Hillary’s top State aides and the kind strangers who donate to the Clinton Foundation ain’t rumors spread by traveling salesmen.
Even The Associated Press is troubled by the number of Clinton Foundation donors with quick access to Hillary’s senior staff.
The second paragraph in the AP report has numbers, not rumors:
“At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press.
Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million...”

Former East to lag behind West for years to come: study

Former East to lag behind West for years to come: study - The Local
Twenty-six years after reunification, eastern Germany remains economically anaemic with little prospect of catching up with the rest of the country by 2030, a study published on Wednesday said.

Of the eastern states, only "Saxony and Brandenburg will reach the level of overall average German growth" between 2015 and 2030, wrote Joachim Ragnitz of the Ifo economic think-tank.

The remaining federal states formed from the former territory of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt - will by contrast reckon with "in parts  extremely low growth rates".

Eastern Germany's GDP grew by 1.2 percent per year between 2010 and 2015, underperforming the 1.6 percent achieved by western Germany plus Berlin, Ifo calculated..."

Hillary's Coughing and the Debates

Articles: Hillary's Coughing and the Debates
Hillary's flacks maintain that she has no serious health problems, but there is an increasingly public amount of evidence that they are lying.
Her coughing fits, for example, have gone on for minutes during interviews and speeches and debates.
The leftist establishment media has totally ignored this running story, but there is one venue in which her uncontrollable coughing and hacking cannot be hidden from the American people: the presidential debates.
Because her health seems to getting worse all the time and because she has never appeared in a nationally televised presidential debate (indeed, even her few debates with Bernie Sanders were scheduled to avoid large audiences) the stress of standing before 100 million or so Americans watching her live should make the chances of her descending into minutes of coughing, gagging, and hacking while the world watches very real.
What happens then?
Well, consider if she keeps coughing for two or three minutes, as she has several times.
It will interrupt whatever point she has been trying to make and focus instead on her inability to speak.
A debater affects audiences as much by his demeanor and voice as by what he actually says.
Images matter, as the haggard-looking Nixon proved in the 1960 presidential debates..."

U.S. Meets Target of Admitting 10,000 Syrian Refugees | TheBlaze.com

U.S. Meets Target of Admitting 10,000 Syrian Refugees | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday met President Barack Obama’s goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, the White House announced.

Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United States. After a slow start, the administration was able to hit the goal about a month early and just a few weeks before Obama convenes a summit on refugees during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly."

Federal Deficits Explode — Is Anyone Paying Attention?

Federal Deficits Explode — Is Anyone Paying Attention? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
"Red Ink: The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit will be 33% higher than last year's. 
Over the long term, the deficit picture is just as bleak. 
But on campaign trail, this looming threat gets zero attention from either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The CBO's updated budget projections show that federal government's fiscal outlook has worsened considerably over the past year.

Red ink in fiscal year 2016, which ends on Sept. 30, will hit $590 billion. 
That's much worse than the CBO had expected just a few months ago. 
It's also a big jump from last year's deficit, which was an already outrageously high $439 billion. Revenues climbed 1% this year, but spending jumped 5%.

What's more, the CBO projects that in 10 years the annual deficit is on track to more than double, topping $1.3 trillion by 2026. 

That's equal to 4.9% of the nation's economy, a scale that has been reached only seven times since World War II (and four of those years were under President Obama).

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