Thursday, August 09, 2018
Twitter Suspends Candace Owens' Account for Mimicking Sarah Jeong's Racism | Breitbart
Twitter Suspends Candace Owens' Account for Mimicking Sarah Jeong's Racism | Breitbart:
Twitter slapped Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens with a temporary suspension after she highlighted racist posts made by Sarah Jeong, the recent New York Times hire whose long history of bigoted tweets about white people has placed the newspaper at the center of a public outcry. The beleaguered platform then reversed the ban, calling it an “error” in an email to Owens.
Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"Progress is being made, but another $7.5 billion is still needed.
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"Progress is being made, but another $7.5 billion is still needed.
...Unfortunately, the state went from having saved enough money to pay all promised benefits to a $6 billion underfunding gap.
New data from the state shows that it is finally starting to catch up.
From 1997 to 2002, lawmakers had enough money saved to pay for the pension benefits promised to state employees.
From 1997 to 2002, lawmakers had enough money saved to pay for the pension benefits promised to state employees.
But between 2002 and 2012 the state failed to keep up with the growing costs of those benefits and it generated $6.2 billion in debt to the people in the retirement system.
...According to the latest assessment, unfunded liabilities fell by $100 million in 2017...
New research on persistent poverty and joblessness in America - AEI
New research on persistent poverty and joblessness in America - AEI
"Many people in America think poverty is a constant state for those who experience it.
Many also think most poor people hold steady jobs.
...But the study revealed a strong connection between joblessness and long-term poverty.
Among those households that were persistently poor, 72.1 percent spent some time jobless and almost 40 percent spent at least three-quarters of the months without a job.
This directly contradicts any belief that most poor households work consistently.
According to the paper:
The idea that consistently working people (that is, the “working poor”) make up a large share of those in persistent poverty was not borne out in the data.
...This suggests that policies that increase labor force attachment would have a larger effect on reducing persistent poverty than policies to increase wages, unless they also increase steady employment.
Better identifying why adults in persistently poor households experience joblessness and what policies can help them avoid joblessness more consistently should be the next step in reducing the persistence of poverty."
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"Many people in America think poverty is a constant state for those who experience it.
Many also think most poor people hold steady jobs.
...But the study revealed a strong connection between joblessness and long-term poverty.
Among those households that were persistently poor, 72.1 percent spent some time jobless and almost 40 percent spent at least three-quarters of the months without a job. This directly contradicts any belief that most poor households work consistently.
According to the paper:
The idea that consistently working people (that is, the “working poor”) make up a large share of those in persistent poverty was not borne out in the data.
...This suggests that policies that increase labor force attachment would have a larger effect on reducing persistent poverty than policies to increase wages, unless they also increase steady employment.
Better identifying why adults in persistently poor households experience joblessness and what policies can help them avoid joblessness more consistently should be the next step in reducing the persistence of poverty."
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Homicides: Why Chicago residents don't help police solve shootings
Homicides: Why Chicago residents don't help police solve shootings
"CHICAGO – Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city’s West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can’t even remember.
Young does, however, have a huge scar to remind him what happened after he gave his rival a whupping: The man returned with a gun and shot him in the leg.
At the hospital, police asked Young, 23, to tell them who shot him, but he said he declined to name the assailant.
Weeks after the April incident, Young — who has a long arrest record and a felony conviction for drug possession — was charged for illegal possession of a firearm, when police said they caught him on the street with a weapon.
“I believe karma is (vengeful), you feel me?” said Young, explaining to USA TODAY in a July jailhouse interview why he didn’t name the man who shot him.
“One day you’re going to reap what you sow.”
Young’s no-snitching outlook sheds light on the complicated dynamic in Chicago’s neighborhoods plagued by persistent gun violence, one in which few residents are willing to assist police and even fewer perpetrators are held accountable.
Over the weekend, at least 72 people were shot in the city, including 12 fatally, but police did not record a single arrest in any of the incidents..."
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"CHICAGO – Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city’s West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can’t even remember.
Young does, however, have a huge scar to remind him what happened after he gave his rival a whupping: The man returned with a gun and shot him in the leg.At the hospital, police asked Young, 23, to tell them who shot him, but he said he declined to name the assailant.
Weeks after the April incident, Young — who has a long arrest record and a felony conviction for drug possession — was charged for illegal possession of a firearm, when police said they caught him on the street with a weapon.
“I believe karma is (vengeful), you feel me?” said Young, explaining to USA TODAY in a July jailhouse interview why he didn’t name the man who shot him.
“One day you’re going to reap what you sow.”
Young’s no-snitching outlook sheds light on the complicated dynamic in Chicago’s neighborhoods plagued by persistent gun violence, one in which few residents are willing to assist police and even fewer perpetrators are held accountable.
Over the weekend, at least 72 people were shot in the city, including 12 fatally, but police did not record a single arrest in any of the incidents..."
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'We Have to Regulate Every Aspect of People's Lives'
'We Have to Regulate Every Aspect of People's Lives':
A Santa Barbara city councilman inadvertently let slip the primary purpose of progressivism in 21st century America.
The city recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. Speaking to that issue, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Got that? "We" are smarter than you and know what's best for you better than you do.
A Santa Barbara city councilman inadvertently let slip the primary purpose of progressivism in 21st century America.
The city recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. Speaking to that issue, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Got that? "We" are smarter than you and know what's best for you better than you do.
How We Got HereThe American Spectator
How We Got HereThe American Spectator:
"Hillary was not about to go down gracefully.
Did you see this Wall Street Journal front-page headline on Monday?
It read, “Profits Soar as Economy Advances.”
That headline will probably be the most important headline of the week.
It certainly is of colossal importance.
Our economy is robust.
The rest of the world is not doing so well, for instance, China.
Yet our economy is unusually healthy.
...You, however, were probably distracted by such headlines as this: from the Washington Post’s front page, “Trump Defends Son’s ’16 Meeting” or this from the New York Times’ front page, “Trump Admits Meeting’s Aim: Tarnish Clinton.”
Then there were stories about the shopping mania of Paul Manafort, about his sidekick who is a sidekick no more, and, throughout the newspapers, stories about Donald and his family, none of them favorable but none of them as damning as the newspapers’ editors would have you think.
...How did we arrive at this chaotic place?
I thought the source of criminality was Hillary and her server, not Donald and his son.
Well, if you would like to know how we got here, lay your hands on Shattered: Inside Hillary’s Doomed Campaign.
There on page 395 you will find a hung-over Hillary angry as hell the morning after her unexpected defeat.
She directed her aides Robby Mook and John Podesta to assemble “her communications team… to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up and up…. Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
This has been the Clintons’ successful game plan ever since, though some of us have blown the whistle on it.
The origin of our present Constitutional crisis is a bit more complicated than this passage from Shattered makes out, but here is a good starting point to discover how the mob, the prosecutors, the media, and the Democratic Party are intent on stealing the last election and saving the Clintons’ hides."
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"Hillary was not about to go down gracefully.
Did you see this Wall Street Journal front-page headline on Monday?
It read, “Profits Soar as Economy Advances.”
That headline will probably be the most important headline of the week.
It certainly is of colossal importance.
Our economy is robust.
The rest of the world is not doing so well, for instance, China.
Yet our economy is unusually healthy.
...You, however, were probably distracted by such headlines as this: from the Washington Post’s front page, “Trump Defends Son’s ’16 Meeting” or this from the New York Times’ front page, “Trump Admits Meeting’s Aim: Tarnish Clinton.”
Then there were stories about the shopping mania of Paul Manafort, about his sidekick who is a sidekick no more, and, throughout the newspapers, stories about Donald and his family, none of them favorable but none of them as damning as the newspapers’ editors would have you think....How did we arrive at this chaotic place?
I thought the source of criminality was Hillary and her server, not Donald and his son.
Well, if you would like to know how we got here, lay your hands on Shattered: Inside Hillary’s Doomed Campaign.
There on page 395 you will find a hung-over Hillary angry as hell the morning after her unexpected defeat.
She directed her aides Robby Mook and John Podesta to assemble “her communications team… to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up and up…. Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
This has been the Clintons’ successful game plan ever since, though some of us have blown the whistle on it.
The origin of our present Constitutional crisis is a bit more complicated than this passage from Shattered makes out, but here is a good starting point to discover how the mob, the prosecutors, the media, and the Democratic Party are intent on stealing the last election and saving the Clintons’ hides."
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History for August 9
History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Jean Piaget 1896, Rod Laver 1938, Sam Elliott 1944
Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968
1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau.
1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
1942 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested Britain. He was not released until 1944.
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
BARTH & GRIMES: California Burns: The 'New Normal' Thanks To Obama-Era Environmental Regulations | Daily Wire
BARTH & GRIMES: California Burns: The 'New Normal' Thanks To Obama-Era Environmental Regulations | Daily Wire:
These Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs — a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.
These Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs — a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.
Rahm Emmanuel is Pouring Fuel on Chicago Fire. [VIDEO] - Victory Girls Blog
Rahm Emmanuel is Pouring Fuel on Chicago Fire. [VIDEO] - Victory Girls Blog:
"Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel didn’t set off the violence that gripped Chicago neighborhoods last weekend.
But his new police policies will pour fuel on Chicago’s savage tinderbox.
Deanna told us how some Chicago neighborhoods turned into shooting galleries last weekend, when 60 people were shot, and nine died.
But that’s not all.
By the time 6 a.m. Monday rolled around, the butcher’s bill climbed to 74 shooting victims. Twelve of those died.
The shooting galleries included a block party, a post-funeral gathering, and even someone’s front porch.
How bad is it when you’re not even safe on your own front porch?
But Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan (both Democrats, like you needed to ask) have a great idea on how to fix the police in Chicago.
Yes, fix the police.
Not the neighborhoods where gang violence is rampant, mind you.
The police, you see, have the problem..."
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"Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel didn’t set off the violence that gripped Chicago neighborhoods last weekend.
But his new police policies will pour fuel on Chicago’s savage tinderbox.
Deanna told us how some Chicago neighborhoods turned into shooting galleries last weekend, when 60 people were shot, and nine died. But that’s not all.
By the time 6 a.m. Monday rolled around, the butcher’s bill climbed to 74 shooting victims. Twelve of those died.
The shooting galleries included a block party, a post-funeral gathering, and even someone’s front porch.
How bad is it when you’re not even safe on your own front porch?
But Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan (both Democrats, like you needed to ask) have a great idea on how to fix the police in Chicago.
Yes, fix the police.
Not the neighborhoods where gang violence is rampant, mind you.
The police, you see, have the problem..."
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Emails Reveal Teachers Plotting To Hide Their Political Bias From Parents
"The Left is abusing American high school education in its struggle to gain and retain political power.
We only found out about this incident by accident.
How many more?
Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, a group of public school history teachers in the posh Boston suburb of Newton pledged to
- reject the “call for objectivity” in the classroom,
- bully conservative students for their beliefs,
- and serve as “liberal propagandist[s]” for the cause of social justice.
Read the entire email exchange here..."
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Trump Frees Obamacare Captives, Dems SueThe American Spectator
Trump Frees Obamacare Captives, Dems SueThe American Spectator:
That’s what makes this case novel, first of its kind and really important.… No scholar or court has ever said the president can use his discretion to implement a statute to purposely destroy it.… If there’s ever going to be a violation of the “take care” clause, this is it.
So, President Trump has reversed an arbitrary — and probably illegal — Obama administration fiat for the purpose of helping more Americans get affordable health insurance. But the Democrats in general, the corrupt officials of four dysfunctional cities, and a few academic ideologues say he can’t do that. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, which will probably grant the plaintiffs a temporary injunction, meaning more Obamacare victims will have to wait for years to get justice. But for the Democrats it isn’t about justice. This kind of lawfare is standard practice for these creatures. About 140 such suits have been aimed at Trump since he was inaugurated — just an appetizer for what will happen if the Democrats get control of either house of Congress in November.
So, President Trump has reversed an arbitrary — and probably illegal — Obama administration fiat for the purpose of helping more Americans get affordable health insurance. But the Democrats in general, the corrupt officials of four dysfunctional cities, and a few academic ideologues say he can’t do that. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, which will probably grant the plaintiffs a temporary injunction, meaning more Obamacare victims will have to wait for years to get justice. But for the Democrats it isn’t about justice. This kind of lawfare is standard practice for these creatures. About 140 such suits have been aimed at Trump since he was inaugurated — just an appetizer for what will happen if the Democrats get control of either house of Congress in November.
Exclusive -- Robert Epstein: Who Gave Private Big Tech Companies the Power to Decide What We Can See?
Exclusive -- Robert Epstein: Who Gave Private Big Tech Companies the Power to Decide What We Can See?"...Epstein stressed that he is not a political conservative and “certainly no fan of Alex Jones,” but he saw the Jones’ banning as a disturbing threat to the free speech and vibrant democracy he loves.
“I think the big issue here is not even a free speech issue.
The issue is: Who should be making these decisions about what people see and don’t see?
That’s the question.”
“In some ways, things are worse than you think,” he continued. “Jones himself responded by saying, ‘Well, you know people, you can still livestream me at…’ and then he gave the links to go to so you can livestream him.
But what apparently he doesn’t realize is that these companies, Google in particular, they have the power to limit access to websites, which most people know nothing about.”...
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Activists collect tales of voting problems in GA primary | McClatchy Washington Bureau
Activists collect tales of voting problems in GA primary | McClatchy Washington Bureau: WASHINGTON
"Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May.
But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 percent turnout.
The discrepancy, included in a number of sworn statements and exhibits filed as part of a federal lawsuit against the state by election security activists, comes amid swelling public concern for the security of Georgia’s voting systems.
Georgia is one of four states that uses voting machines statewide that produce no paper record for voters to verify, making them difficult to audit, experts say.
And cybersecurity experts have warned that there were security flaws on the state election website leading up to the 2016 contest that permitted the download and manipulation of voter information..."
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But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 percent turnout.
The discrepancy, included in a number of sworn statements and exhibits filed as part of a federal lawsuit against the state by election security activists, comes amid swelling public concern for the security of Georgia’s voting systems.
Georgia is one of four states that uses voting machines statewide that produce no paper record for voters to verify, making them difficult to audit, experts say.
And cybersecurity experts have warned that there were security flaws on the state election website leading up to the 2016 contest that permitted the download and manipulation of voter information..."
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Ocasio-Cortez & The DSA: What They, And Increasingly More Democrats, Believe | Daily Wire
Ocasio-Cortez & The DSA: What They, And Increasingly More Democrats, Believe | Daily Wire:
Additionally, the DSA acknowledges their coalition may range from motivated progressive Democrats to Karl Marx enthusiasts; what matters is that they are fellow travelers in socialist solidarity.
Not only do Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA want to #AbolishICE, but the DSA wants to abolish the Senate.
As stated in their digital manifest, direct democracy would require the abolishment of the “extremely unrepresentative political body” known as the Senate. The socialists take issue that each state has equal weight and representation — no matter if it is Montana or California — oddly, an ideology that prides itself on equity, attacks the system of egalitarian state influence.
Not only do Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA want to #AbolishICE, but the DSA wants to abolish the Senate.
As stated in their digital manifest, direct democracy would require the abolishment of the “extremely unrepresentative political body” known as the Senate. The socialists take issue that each state has equal weight and representation — no matter if it is Montana or California — oddly, an ideology that prides itself on equity, attacks the system of egalitarian state influence.
Why Super-Liberal West Hollywood's Vote to Remove Trump's Star Means Nothing | pluralist
Why Super-Liberal West Hollywood's Vote to Remove Trump's Star Means Nothing | pluralist
"I think it’s important to take a stand against those we believe are fraudulent.”
The West Hollywood City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday night calling for President Donald Trump’s star be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
...The council cited Trump's "disturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood" as the motivation for the resolution.
In May, Stormy Daniels, a porn star who is suing Trump, was given the key to the city..."
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"I think it’s important to take a stand against those we believe are fraudulent.”
The West Hollywood City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday night calling for President Donald Trump’s star be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
...The council cited Trump's "disturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood" as the motivation for the resolution.
West Hollywood, is a famously progressive even by Hollywood standards.
The city is a gay enclave that flies a rainbow flag over City Hall, and r esidents voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Imam of prominent Washington law firm says America will be a Muslim nation
Imam of prominent Washington law firm says America will be a Muslim nation
"An anti-Trump Muslim religious leader told his congregations in Virginia that the United States offers "great potential" and that "it will be a Muslim nation.”
"An anti-Trump Muslim religious leader told his congregations in Virginia that the United States offers "great potential" and that "it will be a Muslim nation.”
Imam Sulaiman Jalloh frequently gives sermons in English at several mosques, including Dar Al Noor in Manassas, Virginia.
In video, Imam Jalloh apparently condemned the Trump administration when he said on video:
...“Islam is the only solution to solving America’s problems.
...“Islam is the only solution to solving America’s problems.
Islam will be the solution to solve the world’s problems.
...a profile of Sulaiman Jalloh notes that he is employed by the Steptoe and Johnson law firm of Washington D.C.
...also lists himself as a former employee of Al Jazeera television network and the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts.
Steptoe and Johnson is an international law firm that represents Fortune 500 companies.
Among the attorneys in the firm are prominent former government officials, including former U.S. Secretary of Interior and Arizona governor Bruce Babbit..."
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The Grumpy Economist: Who will pay unfunded state pensions?
The Grumpy Economist: Who will pay unfunded state pensions?: "Homeowners.
So says a nice WSJ op-ed...points out its inevitability.
If indeed courts will insist that benefits may not be cut, then state governments must raise taxes, and this is the only one that can do the trick.
States can try to raise income taxes.
And people will move.
States can try to raise business taxes.
And businesses will move.
What can states tax that can't move?
Only real estate.
If the state drastically raises the property tax, there is no choice but to pay it.
You can sell, but the new buyer will be willing to pay much less.
Pay the tax slowly over time, or lose the value of the property right away in a lower price.
Either way, the owner of the property on the day the tax is announced bears the burden of paying off the pensions.
There is a an economic principle here, the "capital levy."...
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The ACLJ’s Agenda for Reform is Advancing Because Economic Promises Have Been Made and Kept | American Center for Law and Justice
The ACLJ’s Agenda for Reform is Advancing Because Economic Promises Have Been Made and Kept | American Center for Law and Justice:
While critics of this Administration have said that those promises on jobs, the economy, and achieving fair trade would be nearly impossible to achieve, it is clear that those promises are now coming true.
Real gross domestic product in the last quarter increased at an annual rate of 4.1%, as consumer spending championed the economy, according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. It is manifest, that this jump represents the fastest increase in GDP growth since the third quarter of 2014. This means that the U.S. economy is on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years.. This progress makes the promise of 4% economic growth a reality.
Real gross domestic product in the last quarter increased at an annual rate of 4.1%, as consumer spending championed the economy, according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. It is manifest, that this jump represents the fastest increase in GDP growth since the third quarter of 2014. This means that the U.S. economy is on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years.. This progress makes the promise of 4% economic growth a reality.
This'll bring in the fans!-----NFL to Unveil Male Dancers for the First Time | pluralist
NFL to Unveil Male Dancers for the First Time | pluralist"Still can't believe I'm one of the first males in history to be a pro NFL cheerleader!"
The Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints will have male cheerleaders dancing on their squads for the first time this season.
Dancers Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies have been preparing for the NFL season since they made the Rams cheerleading squad..
...He told CNN affiliate KATC that his mom sent him a link with their story.
"She told me it was my time to shine," he said in a video posted before his final audition."
"She told me it was my time to shine," he said in a video posted before his final audition."
The process has been great, everyone has been really nice to me and I can't wait to see where this goes."
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