Surprising Issues Driving Voter Decisions | American Culture and Faith Institute

Surprising Issues Driving Voter Decisions | American Culture and Faith Institute:

To listen to the mainstream media, the only issues that matter in relation to the upcoming election are immigration and Donald Trump. A new national survey by the American Culture and Faith Institute, however, highlights a variety of other issues that likely voters identify as having “a lot of influence” on their votes in November. The survey also underscores how a unique mosaic of issues is of concern to divergent segments of the voting public, and there are varying levels of impact those issues have on the thinking of those divergent segments.

Four Issues Everyone Cares About

The Trouble With Solar Energy | Power Line

The Trouble With Solar Energy | Power Line
Mark Mathis of Clear Energy Alliance explains what is wrong with solar energy:

Do you know what it feels like to work with someone who arrives late, does work that others could easily do, harms others’ productivity, and then skips out when they’re most needed? It’s frustrating isn’t it? Welcome to the Solar Value Eclipse. Instead of adding value and efficiency to the electric grid, having too much solar harms the grid’s reliability, its fundamental economics, and it costs you more money.

Here is the video:

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#1 This day 1958-----Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater (1958)

Look Which Singer's Music the Rite Aid Chain Is Using to Shoo Away Vagrants

Forty years after singer-songwriter Barry Manilow won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Copacabana,” his melodic and still-popular music is now being used to shoo people away.

Away from the outside of a store, that is. 

The pharmacy chain Rite Aid is trying to weaponize Manilow’s music against local panhandlers and vagrants in California. 

A handful of Rite Aids in that state have been playing Manilow’s music outside their stores in an effort to get homeless people to set up somewhere else — as The Wall Street Journal reported a few days ago in a piece lightly titled, “He Writes the Songs That Make the Neighbors Cry ‘No More Barry Manilow!'” (That’s a play, of course, on Manilow’s 1975 smash hit, “I Write the Songs.”)

Customers had a difficult time entering those California Rite Aids due to the heavy presence of loiterers surrounding the door, The New York Post reported. Lisa Masters, a drummer from Long Beach, called the store to ask about it and said one of the employees explained it had been highly effective, the publication also reported. 
“His attitude was, ‘Would we rather have panhandlers or Manilow?’” Masters said..."

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You ought to know!

Sanctuary cities pressured with Justice grant programs - Washington Times

Sanctuary cities pressured with Justice grant programs - Washington Times:

Localities looking for money from the grant programs will have to certify that they allow officers to report on the status of illegal immigrants, they allow deportation officers access to their jails and they will give advance notice before releasing people the government wants to detain.
As a brand-new condition, localities will have to certify they comply with federal laws against harboring or smuggling illegal immigrants.
“So-called ‘sanctuary’ policies make all of us less safe because they intentionally undermine our laws and protect illegal aliens who have committed crimes,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the new conditions a way to “encourage these ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions to change their policies.”

Geniuses Possess This One Common Trait | Intellectual Takeout

Geniuses Possess This One Common Trait | Intellectual Takeout
"James Gleick has written about some of the most distinguished minds in history.
As a former science reporter at the New York Times, he profiled some of the most brilliant people in the world. 
He’s written biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feyman.
His most recent book—The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood—examined the key figures behind information theory, such as Stephen Hawking and Claude Shannon.
In a conversation earlier this year with Big Think, Gleick said he noticed that a single trait seemed present in each of the figures he studied.
That trait? 
Aloneness. 
A comfort in being alone. 
A yearning for solitude that goes beyond the normal desire most humans feel..."
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You can watch the entire clip, shared below, for yourself..."

AM Fruitcake

History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com
Gottfried Von Leibniz 1649, George Sand 1804 - Author Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant, Thomas Andrew Dorsey 1899 - Musician, "Father of Gospel Music," pianist, composed more than 1,000 gospel songs


Deborah Harry 1945 - Singer (Blondie), Dan Aykroyd 1952 - Comedian, actor ("Driving Miss Daisy," "Saturday Night Live," "Ghostbusters," "The Blues Brothers"), Princess Diana (Spencer) 1961 - Princess of Wales


1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.


1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.


1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.


1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.


1940 - In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on November 7, 1940.


1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.


1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.


1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman.

Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million

Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million:

If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president’s commitment to shrink government then voters have a reason to cheer. Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million. Savings come from President Trump’s refusal to take a salary as well as big reductions in other areas including the absence of czars, expensive “fellowships,” and spending on FLOTUS staff.

The way we were-----The Chiffons - One Fine Day - 1963

Boob-tube-----Fight Turn Messy (The Jerry Springer Show)

Laws That Are 'Impossible' to Follow Can Still Be Constitutional, Says California Court - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Laws That Are 'Impossible' to Follow Can Still Be Constitutional, Says California Court - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"Just because you cannot comply doesn’t mean the law cannot exist.
Just because a law is impossible to follow is not enough of a reason for a court to throw it out.
So California's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
On the face the ruling sounds utterly absurd, but there's a deeper explanation that makes it a little less silly and much more deeply concerning about the deference granted to lawmakers.
Some context: California passed a law a decade ago that demanded gun manufacturers implement microstamping technology that would imprint identifying information on bullets as they were shot from semi-automatic weapons.
Gun manufacturers say the technology hasn't advanced enough to comply with the law.
Smith & Wesson announced in 2014 that they would be pulling some guns from the market in California rather than complying with the law (a cynic might theorize that this is the law's actual intent).
The National Shooting Sports Foundation sued to block the law.
California's Civil Code contains a section that simply reads, "The law never requires impossibilities." 
So the question the state's Supreme Court was addressing was whether the courts can invalidate this law because it is impossible for people to comply with it.
Not only did the California Supreme Court rule that it cannot invalidate the law, but it ruled so unanimously..."
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