Inside the Beltway: Melania Trump shines on global stage with her diplomatic skills, grace - Washington Times

Inside the Beltway: Melania Trump shines on global stage with her diplomatic skills, grace - Washington Times:
"The news media continues to snipe at the White House.
But there’s some Trump triumph as well.
First lady Melania Trump is earning accolades for her grace on the global stage this week.
Yes, an admiring press chronicles every fabulous ensemble she wears down to the last fashion detail. But they also are applauding Mrs. Trump’s demeanor and diplomatic skills during her second overseas tour.
“While in Poland this week, she delivered a powerful and assured speech,” wrote Chris Spargo of The Daily Mail, noting that Mrs. Trump simply “shines.” 
The public agrees.
A new Fox News poll released Friday found that 51 percent of Americans give the first lady a favorable review.
Mrs. Trump appears up to the challenge of her official role; she speaks five languages —and was spotted having a cordial conversation in German with Russian President Vladimir Putin when seated by him for the official G20 banquet at week’s end. Judging by the many photos from the moment, the exchange appears relaxed and convivial.
“During visits both abroad and at home at the White House, Trump has spent time with many of the spouses of world leaders, most of whom are women.
“The defining characteristic of Melania Trump’s opening months as first lady has been her humility. In that sense, Mrs. Trump is the first lady America needs,” summarized Rachel DiCarlo Currie in a new essay for Acculturated.com, also reprinted in National Review.
“We need a first lady who will, in a subtle, understated way, promote greater social cohesion at a moment when America is bitterly polarized and our elites seem increasingly disconnected from the lives of ordinary people..."
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Steve Russo - Shocker! States Start Issuing Work Requirements For...

Steve Russo - Shocker! States Start Issuing Work Requirements For...:
"Shocker! States Start Issuing Work Requirements For Food Stamps Once Again and Behold... A Huge Reduction From Obama Era Food Stamp Usage
Gee, no one could have guessed this would happen...unless you are a creature of the left. One of Emperor Obama’s major “accomplishments” of his "Historic Legacy" was to get as many people depending on government handouts as possible. 
And one of those handouts was Food Stamps, that Obama's administration gave out like candy by unlawfully dismantling welfare reform, so that the welfare state could resume its explosive growth.http://dailysignal.com/2012/07/16/obamas-gutting-of-welfare-reform-is-illegal/
Fortunately, some of his mischief has already been undone. 
After the food stamp rolls swelled for years under the Obama administration, fresh figures show a dramatic reduction in states that recently have moved to restore work requirements.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/04/food-stamp-rolls-plummet-in-states-that-restore-work-requirements.html
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Lunch video-Hilarious-----The Millenial Missionaries

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60 Percent of Americans Support Trump's Immigrant Welfare Ban

60 Percent of Americans Support Trump's Immigrant Welfare Ban:

"A plan by President Donald Trump to ban immigrants who have only been living in the U.S. for less than five years from receiving welfare services has widespread support.
In a new Rasmussen poll, 62 percent of likely voters said they support barring new immigrants to the U.S. from receiving welfare benefits for at least five years, as Trump recently proposed during a speech to supporters."

Study Finds Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of Recent Warming’ In Climate Data Sets | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

Study Finds Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of Recent Warming’ In Climate Data Sets | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):
STUDY FINDS TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENTS ACCOUNT FOR ‘NEARLY ALL OF RECENT WARMING’ IN CLIMATE DATA SETS

A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.”

“Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician.
The peer-reviewed study tried to validate current surface temperature datasets managed by NASA, NOAA and the UK’s Met Office, all of which make adjustments to raw thermometer readings. 
Skeptics of man-made global warming have criticized the adjustments..."

College will pay new employee $85K to advocate for illegals

College will pay new employee $85K to advocate for illegals
"Santa Clara University is now looking for a full-time staff member who will be paid a salary of up to $85,000 per year to advocate for illegal immigrant students.
Additionally, the staffer will be responsible for co-chairing a committee on "social justice" and researching the "best practices related to issues of diversity."
Santa Clara University, a Jesuit school in California, is looking to hire a full-time staff member to advocate for illegal immigrant students and “promote social justice.”
The job posting states that the Director of the Office for Multicultural Learning will focus on promoting social justice throughout campus, with an emphasis on supporting the school’s illegal immigrant population by providing “support through advocacy and programs for undocumented students,” coordinating “legal consultations,” and leading “Know Your Rights” workshops.
Candidates are expected to have an understanding of issues like "Bisexual Identity Development..."
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#1 This day 1967-----The Association Windy

9/11, Terrorists, and ISIS: How Canada’s Prime Minister Is Destroying The Country – Israel Video Network

9/11, Terrorists, and ISIS: How Canada’s Prime Minister Is Destroying The Country – Israel Video Network:
“What an embarrassment”: Justin Trudeau’s 60 Minutes interview “It might be nice if they paid a little more attention to the world… 

"Having a little more of an awareness of what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think is, is what many Canadians would hope for Americans”. 
What is he doing to Canada? 
What is he doing to Canada’s relationship with the USA?"

You ought to know!

Proceeds Of Hill IT Suspects Disappeared | The Daily Caller

Proceeds Of Hill IT Suspects Disappeared | The Daily Caller:

"A Pakistani family under criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police for abusing their access to the House of Representatives information technology (IT) system may have engaged in myriad other questionable schemes besides allegedly placing “ghost employees” on the congressional payroll.

Imran Awan, his wife Hina, and brothers Abid and Jamal collectively netted more than $4 million in salary as IT administrators for House Democrats between 2009 and 2017. "

My Partner Came Out As a Man – And I Struggled With Losing My Lesbian Identity - Everyday Feminism

My Partner Came Out As a Man – And I Struggled With Losing My Lesbian Identity - Everyday Feminism:
"Originally published on xoJane and republished here with their permission.
...Amy and I loved being married to each other.
Marriage intensified our already strong bond; it gave us a firm foundation, an anchor when life got turbulent.
...It wasn’t just that I identified as gay. 
I embraced being gay. 
I loved it. 
Being gay took me out of the realm of being entirely privileged — it made me empathetic, opened my eyes to all the privilege I still held, and it made me want to fight for the underdog.
Hell, it made me realize there was an underdog.
I am better, more compassionate, more willing to fight for change because I am gay.
...It turns out that I was the only one here with a decision to make.
For Amy, living out the truth had become a life or death matter.
I could stay or I could go.
But, either way, Amy had begun to transition.
Simon is his name.
What does an almost forty-year-old, out and proud lesbian do when her partner comes out as a transgender male?
...I am a lesbian who woke up one day married to a man — and I couldn’t be happier or more proud of him or of us.
Just don’t assume I’m straight."
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AM Fruitcake

History for July 8

History for July 8 - On-This-Day.com
Jean La Fontaine 1621, Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838, John D. Rockefeller 1839


Wolfgang Puck 1949, Kevin Bacon 1958, Toby Keith 1961


1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.


1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.


1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.


1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.


1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.


1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.


1960 - The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.


1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."

Majority of Poles Would Rather Leave EU than Be Forced to Take Muslim Migrants

Majority of Poles Would Rather Leave EU than Be Forced to Take Muslim Migrants:

"Urging Europeans to “wake up”, Kołodziejski writes: “Watching what is happening today in Western Europe, revealing its weaknesses both civilisational and demographic, we instead see Islam becoming stronger and more aggressive.

“It is utterly wrong to say Poland is anti-European,” he concludes. “The liberal elite is possessed with the Bolshevik mission of building a new society, and to do so they are lighting the fuse to set fire to, and destroy European civilisation.

“We do not want to take part in this suicide.”"

The way we were-----Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liiberty Valance

France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040 - The New York Times

France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040 - The New York Times:
"France is joining a growing movement to force the extinction of vehicles that run on fossil fuels, saying on Thursday that it would aim to end the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.
...The announcement by Nicolas Hulot, the French environment minister, was an expression of European leaders’ determination to pursue an environmental agenda despite Mr. Trump’s repudiation of the Paris agreement on climate change.
“It’s a very difficult objective,” Mr. Hulot said Thursday.
“But the solutions are there.”
The plan to phase out gasoline and diesel cars is part of a broader effort by France to limit global warming, which Mr. Hulot outlined Thursday.
The country will also stop issuing new oil and gas exploration permits this year, and stop using coal to produce electricity by 2022, he said..."

Norway’s ‘Voluntary’ Tax Plan Brings In Just $1,325 - Bloomberg

Norway’s ‘Voluntary’ Tax Plan Brings In Just $1,325 - Bloomberg:
"Eager to pay more taxes?
Then look no further than Norway.
Hammered by the opposition for slashing taxes and going on a spending spree with the country’s oil money, the center-right government has hit back with a bold proposal: voluntary contributions.
Launched in June, the initiative has received a lukewarm reception, with the equivalent of just $1,325 in extra revenue being collected so far, according to the Finance Ministry.
That’s not much for a country of 5.3 million people, many of whom are already accustomed to paying some of the highest taxes in the world (the top rate of income tax is 46.7 percent).
“The tax scheme was set up to allow those who want to pay more taxes to do so in a simple and straightforward way,” Finance Minister Siv Jensen said in an emailed comment.
“If anyone thinks the tax level is too low, they now have the chance to pay more...”
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I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.

I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.:

"Just a few short years ago, not many could have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women’s access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina.
But transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us—children—and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.
As explained in my 2016 peer reviewed article, “Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of Debate,” professionals who dare to question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy will find themselves maligned and out of a job."