Friday, October 06, 2017
Late-Term Abortions: Where Liberals Deny Science | National Review
Late-Term Abortions: Where Liberals Deny Science | National Review:
"liberals have tarred those who question climate-change research as “deniers” of scientific facts. The label was meant to equate disagreeing with computer models that predict a rise in temperatures with denying the Holocaust. It’s a clever tactic but also a double-edged sword, since the Left’s faith in science is highly selective. When it comes to late-term abortions, liberals are the real science deniers."
Time for Trump to Decertify the Iran Deal | Roger L. Simon
Time for Trump to Decertify the Iran Deal | Roger L. Simon:"...In normal times, devoid of mass murderers and endless natural disasters, the looming October 15 certification decision on this deal would be front and center in the national consciousness.
It still should be because, ultimately, it is even more important than hurricanes and psychopathic killers.
It's about nuclear war.
The biggest mistake of the Obama years was not the Affordable Care Act — that can be fixed eventually — but the Iran deal, which has already resulted in massive catastrophe, causing irreparable damage.
Iran, financially enriched by the agreement, has been able to play a growing and truly evil role throughout the Middle East (and even South America), but especially in the unending Syrian civil war through its brutal own Revolutionary Guard and its bloodthirsty Hezbollah cutouts.
This war has undoubtedly changed the character of Europe forever by creating millions of refugees. Every one of our lives has been or will be affected by it, directly or indirectly.
(Reminder: One of the Paris Bataclan theatre terrorists who slaughtered 130, more than twice Las Vegas, held a Syrian refugee passport.)
Even now, as ISIS is being pushed back, Iran, not us or our allies, is moving in to take control of their territory.
...Obama's motivation to make this deal...remains one of the great mysteries of our time.
...Nobody really knows what's in it, deliberately so — just like the Affordable Care Act, actually. Only in this instance, Nancy Pelosi did not have to tell us to sign it to know what's in it, because it was never signed in the first place — nor intended to be. It was simply put in place — Constitution be damned — over the heads of an impotent Congress by Obama and his claque of unwise wise men and women.
... According to Eli Lake: "The centerpiece of Trump's new Iran strategy will be the designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, placing it in the same category as al Qaeda and the Islamic State."
The Revolutionary Guard is responsible for approximately 15 percent of Iranian GNP. Designating them a terror organization, which they indubitably are, would result in a substantial financial hit to the mullahs.
The Swamp, of course, will object.
That's not how the game is played.
But the truth is, the Swamp game is destructive to our country and the West, not mention factually absurd..."
'Monday Night Football' Ratings Crash, As Fans Continue to Bail on the NFL and ESPN - Breitbart
'Monday Night Football' Ratings Crash, As Fans Continue to Bail on the NFL and ESPN - Breitbart:
"The NFL allowed players to use the league’s national stage to disgrace the flag and the anthem. The NFL also chose to take the players side against the leader of the free world, when he rightfully called those players out. As a result, it appears the league may have done irreparable harm to its brand."
51% Of Murders In The U.S. Come From Just 2% Of The Counties | Zero Hedge
51% Of Murders In The U.S. Come From Just 2% Of The Counties | Zero Hedge:
"The Distribution of Murders
The United States can really be divided up into three types of places.
Places where there are no murders, places where there are a few murders, and places where murders are very common.
In 2014, the most recent year that a county level breakdown is available, 54% of counties (with 11% of the population) have no murders.
69% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 20% of the population.
These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country.
The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders.
The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders.
As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties."
"The Distribution of Murders
The United States can really be divided up into three types of places.
Places where there are no murders, places where there are a few murders, and places where murders are very common.
In 2014, the most recent year that a county level breakdown is available, 54% of counties (with 11% of the population) have no murders.
69% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 20% of the population.
These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country.
The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders.
The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders.
As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties."
...Gun Ownership
According to a 2013 PEW Research Center survey, the household gun ownership rate in rural areas was 2.11 times greater than in urban areas (“Why Own a Gun? Protection is Now Top Reason,” PEW Research Center, March 12, 2013).
Suburban households are 28.6% more likely to own guns than urban households. Despite lower gun ownership, urban areas experience much higher murder rates...
Conclusion
- This study shows how murders in the United States are heavily concentrated in very small areas.
- Few appreciate how much of the US has no murders each year.
- Murder isn’t a nationwide problem.
- It’s a problem in a very small set of urban areas, and any solution must reduce those murders.
UN Head Offers Misleading Data on Hurricanes and Climate Change
UN Head Offers Misleading Data on Hurricanes and Climate Change
"The United Nations is manipulating statistics to try and prove a causal relationship between the reported increase in carbon dioxide concentrations and the purported increase in extreme hurricane events over the last several decades, focusing in particular on the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
“Over the past 30 years, the number of annual weather-related disasters has nearly tripled, and economic losses have quintupled,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
...The UN is using the familiar logical fallacy of equating statistical correlations with proof of causation.
...However, the report went on to conclude that it is “premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.”
...Moreover, even the statistical correlations may be misleading.
The report examined records of past Atlantic tropical storm or hurricane numbers (1878 to present), which it found to be incomplete in terms of reported storms prior to 1965.
Reliance on ship-based observations during that period meant that some storms, particularly short-lived ones, were simply overlooked because they had less opportunity for chance encounters with ship traffic.
There were no satellites more than five decades ago to observe and measure hurricanes with the same degree of accuracy as can be performed today.
Even with the sketchier information we do have regarding hurricanes in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, we know that five of the eight seasons with the most major hurricanes since 1851 occurred prior to 1965.
The strongest hurricane on record to hit the U.S. occurred on the Florida Keys on Sept. 2, 1935.
And while Hurricane Maria was a tragically devastating hurricane to be sure, Puerto Rico suffered an even worse hurricane in 1928.
...“In summary,” the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report stated, “neither our model projections for the 21st century nor our analyses of trends in Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm counts over the past 120+ yr support the notion that greenhouse gas-induced warming leads to large increases in either tropical storm or overall hurricane numbers in the Atlantic.”..."
Read on!
"The United Nations is manipulating statistics to try and prove a causal relationship between the reported increase in carbon dioxide concentrations and the purported increase in extreme hurricane events over the last several decades, focusing in particular on the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
“Over the past 30 years, the number of annual weather-related disasters has nearly tripled, and economic losses have quintupled,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
...The UN is using the familiar logical fallacy of equating statistical correlations with proof of causation.
...However, the report went on to conclude that it is “premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.”...Moreover, even the statistical correlations may be misleading.
The report examined records of past Atlantic tropical storm or hurricane numbers (1878 to present), which it found to be incomplete in terms of reported storms prior to 1965.
Reliance on ship-based observations during that period meant that some storms, particularly short-lived ones, were simply overlooked because they had less opportunity for chance encounters with ship traffic.
There were no satellites more than five decades ago to observe and measure hurricanes with the same degree of accuracy as can be performed today.
Even with the sketchier information we do have regarding hurricanes in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, we know that five of the eight seasons with the most major hurricanes since 1851 occurred prior to 1965.
The strongest hurricane on record to hit the U.S. occurred on the Florida Keys on Sept. 2, 1935.
And while Hurricane Maria was a tragically devastating hurricane to be sure, Puerto Rico suffered an even worse hurricane in 1928.
...“In summary,” the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report stated, “neither our model projections for the 21st century nor our analyses of trends in Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm counts over the past 120+ yr support the notion that greenhouse gas-induced warming leads to large increases in either tropical storm or overall hurricane numbers in the Atlantic.”..."
Read on!
The Last Words Of Ambassador Stevens In Benghazi Have Been Revealed | Daily Wire
The Last Words Of Ambassador Stevens In Benghazi Have Been Revealed | Daily Wire:
"Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans - U.S. State Department staffer Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods - were murdered during a 13-hour terror attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that started on the night of September 11, 2012.
On Monday, giving testimony in Washington against terrorist Ahmed Abu Khattala, who's accused of orchestrating the attack on the consulate, Diplomatic Security Special Agent Scott Wickland, the ambassador's bodyguard, revealed Stevens' harrowing last words:"
"Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans - U.S. State Department staffer Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods - were murdered during a 13-hour terror attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that started on the night of September 11, 2012.On Monday, giving testimony in Washington against terrorist Ahmed Abu Khattala, who's accused of orchestrating the attack on the consulate, Diplomatic Security Special Agent Scott Wickland, the ambassador's bodyguard, revealed Stevens' harrowing last words:"
WATCH: Shapiro Fiercely SHREDS Kimmel's Gun Control Rant | Daily Wire
WATCH: Shapiro Fiercely SHREDS Kimmel's Gun Control Rant | Daily Wire:
"Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro absolutely tore apart Jimmy Kimmel's emotion-laden monologue on Monday night in which a tearful Kimmel ripped the GOP for not enacting harsher gun control laws as well as those who responded to the Las Vegas massacre by praying rather than pressing for harsher gun control laws. Kimmel's monologue got wide media play from the gun control-obsessed MSM; "
The danger of campus echo chambers - The College Fix
The danger of campus echo chambers - The College Fix
"The Yale Daily News commissioned a study recently that revealed a rather startling figure: of the faculty at Yale, a mere seven percent identify as conservative.
To the more cynical among us, “seven percent” seems like an abnormally high number...
Given the climate at your average American university, seven percent seems almost generous.
Our campuses have an ideology problem.
It’s not simply that more and more colleges have begun kowtowing to the absurdist, shrieking demands of hysterical student mobs (though that is a problem, and a significant one); it is, rather, than progressive professors and administrators increasingly have nobody with which to disagree, and nobody who will disagree with them.
We all experience this in our lives to certain degrees: most people have family, or friends, or both, with whom they are more or less ideologically aligned.
But a too-homogenous network of friends and family can be, in the end, intellectually poisonous, sort of like a vaccination in reverse.
You can very easily forget that there are other people with other opinions out there, individuals who might not see the world in just the same way you do.
And such political insularity can be intellectually and philosophically dangerous..."
"The Yale Daily News commissioned a study recently that revealed a rather startling figure: of the faculty at Yale, a mere seven percent identify as conservative.
To the more cynical among us, “seven percent” seems like an abnormally high number...Given the climate at your average American university, seven percent seems almost generous.
Our campuses have an ideology problem.
It’s not simply that more and more colleges have begun kowtowing to the absurdist, shrieking demands of hysterical student mobs (though that is a problem, and a significant one); it is, rather, than progressive professors and administrators increasingly have nobody with which to disagree, and nobody who will disagree with them.
We all experience this in our lives to certain degrees: most people have family, or friends, or both, with whom they are more or less ideologically aligned.
But a too-homogenous network of friends and family can be, in the end, intellectually poisonous, sort of like a vaccination in reverse.
You can very easily forget that there are other people with other opinions out there, individuals who might not see the world in just the same way you do.
And such political insularity can be intellectually and philosophically dangerous..."
President Trump isn't responsible for Puerto Rico’s decades of corruption and collapse | Fox News
President Trump isn't responsible for Puerto Rico’s decades of corruption and collapse | Fox News:
"Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are very, very concerned about the people of Puerto Rico.
Both have joined the mayor of San Juan in criticizing President Trump for not doing enough for the Commonwealth in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Seriously, where have they been?
Where were they when Puerto Rico’s debts ballooned to $123 billion, thrusting the economy into an 11-year recession?
Where were they when 50,000 of the island’s best and brightest hightailed to the mainland every year, looking for jobs and opportunities, as median household income sank to $18,626 as compared to $56,516 on the mainland?
Where were they as the territory’s power system went bust, while its administrators came under FBI investigation for stealing from the people of Puerto Rico?
They were nowhere to be seen, except of course during election season..."
"Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are very, very concerned about the people of Puerto Rico.
Both have joined the mayor of San Juan in criticizing President Trump for not doing enough for the Commonwealth in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Seriously, where have they been?Where were they when Puerto Rico’s debts ballooned to $123 billion, thrusting the economy into an 11-year recession?
Where were they when 50,000 of the island’s best and brightest hightailed to the mainland every year, looking for jobs and opportunities, as median household income sank to $18,626 as compared to $56,516 on the mainland?
Where were they as the territory’s power system went bust, while its administrators came under FBI investigation for stealing from the people of Puerto Rico?
They were nowhere to be seen, except of course during election season..."
Smoking cannabis does make people more violent | Daily Mail Online
Smoking cannabis does make people more violent | Daily Mail Online- Cannabis users more likely to commit violent crimes, research has shown
- Study found there was a ‘more constant relationship’ between cannabis and violence than between alcohol or cocaine use and violence
- More than 20 US states have legalised cannabis for medical purposes
"Cannabis users are more likely to commit violent crime, pioneering research has shown.
It warned those who smoke the drug regularly run an increased risk of using violence against others.
The project is the first to demonstrate that cannabis is not only linked with violent crime but is the cause..."
Le Pen Calls for Tough Anti-Terror Law in France, Islamism Seeks ‘to Enslave Us’ - Breitbart
Le Pen Calls for Tough Anti-Terror Law in France, Islamism Seeks ‘to Enslave Us’ - Breitbart:
"In the wake of the Marseille jihadist attack Saturday, French politician Marine Le Pen has called for anti-terrorist legislation that directly combats Islamist ideology, which “wages war” on the West and seeks “our enslavement.”"
Police: 'Noose' found in Michigan State residence hall was a shoelace
"EAST LANSING - An item found on a stairwell door handle in a Michigan State University residence hall and initially believed to be a noose was, in fact, a shoelace, MSU police say.
...A matching packaged shoelace was found outside Holden Hall, the residence hall where the incident was reported, MSU spokesman Jason Cody said in a news release.
MSU police spoke with the student who lost both shoelaces which "are packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose," Cody said..."
Both Cody's statement and Simon's original statement can be found at cabs.msu.edu/news/key-issues/issue-docs/racial-incident.html."
...UPDATED STATEMENT:
"I was distressed this morning to learn of a racial incident in one of our residence halls. A student reported a noose was hung outside of her room. I want to recognize the courage it took for the student to report this incident.
MSU Police and our Office of Institutional Equity were immediately notified, and both promptly began investigations. I want to be clear: This type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus. No Spartan should ever feel targeted based on their race, or other ways in which they identify. A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America.
While at this time we do not know all of the details, the Spartan community can be assured we are vigorously investigating this situation."
-- Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU President
History for October 6
History for October 6 - On-This-Day.com
George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems, Reginald Fessenden 1866, Florence Seibert 1897
Carole Lombard 1908, Shana Alexander 1925, Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot".
1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
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