Tire chalking in Michigan declared unconstitutional

Tire chalking in Michigan declared unconstitutional
"Saginaw – Marking tires to enforce parking rules is like entering property without a search warrant, a federal court said Monday as it declared the practice unconstitutional in Michigan and three other states.
Alison Taylor had received more than a dozen $15 tickets for exceeding the two-hour parking limit in Saginaw. 
The city marks tires with chalk to keep track of how long a vehicle is parked. 
Her lawyer argued that a parking patrol officer violated the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed.
The purpose of marking tires was to “raise revenue,” not to protect the public against a safety risk, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
“The city does not demonstrate, in law or logic, that the need to deter drivers from exceeding the time permitted for parking – before they have even done so – is sufficient to justify a warrantless search under the community caretaker rationale,” the court said.
...Taylor’s attorney, Philip Ellison, began researching the issue when another lawyer complained that his tire was marked while he sat in his car..."
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Warren’s free college plan solves a nonexistent problem | The College Fix

Warren’s free college plan solves a nonexistent problem | The College Fix
"To borrow an expression from the great P.J. O’Rourke, if you think college tuition is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.
This week, presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed a new plan that 

• not only provides free tuition to two-and-four year public colleges and universities across America, but 
• also cancels up to $50,000 in student debt for 42 million past, present and future college students.

...Warren claims the program will be paid for with a hefty new tax on America’s richest families, who also happen to be the same families who are most able to move assets to prevent them from being taxed..."
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#1 This day 1956-----Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett ( 1956 )

Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars | Zero Hedge

Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars | Zero Hedge:

• The Brussel Times reports that a new German study exposes how electric vehicles will hardly decrease CO2 emissions in Europe over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles won't lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions from highway traffic.

According to the study directed by Christoph Buchal of the University of Cologne, published by the Ifo Institute in Munich last week, electric vehicles have "significantly higher CO2 emissions than diesel cars." 
That is due to the significant amount of energy used in the mining and processing of lithium, cobalt, and manganese, which are critical raw materials for the production of electric car batteries..."

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Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal - Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records of communications between former Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials regarding “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as JCPOA or ‘Iran nuclear deal’) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.” (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-00777)).
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated by Kerry in 2015 on behalf of the Obama State Department. In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal, Kerry reportedly had been on a “stealthy yet aggressive mission” of shadow diplomacy in an attempt to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Kerry reportedly held meetings and spoke with major players, foreign and domestic, involved in the Iran nuclear agreement who opposed the U.S. withdrawal.

Glenn Reynolds--Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories continue

Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories continue:
"...That should put the whole collusion narrative to bed, but of course it hasn’t.
After two years of what can fairly be described as mass hysteria afflicting a huge portion of our political class, the cognitive dissonance is painful. 
It would be amusing to watch, if the “broken brains” weren’t so widespread among the people who are supposed to be the sober managers and reporters of our society.
It’s like a doomsday cult whose predicted apocalypse fails to appear on schedule: 
They just announce that they made a mathematical mistake, and doomsday will actually come next year. 
Then they ask for more donations. 
The trouble is, this time it’s a cult that’s running a significant part of our nation.

A Few Humble Thoughts | The American Spectator

A Few Humble Thoughts | The American Spectator--by ROBERT HOLLAND
"First of all, about reparations, the notion of paying money to black or partially black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors from Africa.
It’s a beguiling idea.
Slavery was so hideous a crime and caused so much pain and suffering that something should be done about it.
But we face a lot of problems in the concept of reparations.
For one thing, there were a fair number of black people who emancipated themselves through superhumanly hard work, then used their savings to buy slaves. 
How do we assess their liability?
...Also, there is a chain of causation in many cases.
One black tribe attacked and captured others then the captors sold their slaves to Arab slave traders who then sold the slaves to New England slave brokers.
...Also, who would be taxed for the reparations?
The great majority of white Americans never owned any slaves. 
Why should they be taxed?
The present population of America is by a wide margin the scions of Poles and Czechs and Italians and Chinese and Jews who never owned any slaves at all. 
Why should they be taxed at all for reparations?...
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History for April 23

History for April 23 - On-This-Day.com
William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar," "Romeo and Juliet," "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564, James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck, Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker," "Heidi," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")


Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer (Traveling Wilburys), Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man," "Big Valley," "The Bionic Woman"), Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)


1789 - U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.


1984 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus the labled HTLV-III.

Otero County Declares State of Emergency, Demands National Guard Re-Open Border Checkpoints | The Daily Caller

Otero County Declares State of Emergency, Demands National Guard Re-Open Border Checkpoints | The Daily Caller:

New Mexico’s Otero County declared a state of emergency Wednesday, demanding that the governor deploy the National Guard to re-open Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoints.

The way we were-----Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder (1959) HQ Audio

Boob-tube-----THE ELGIN HOUR. Sting of Death w/ Boris Karloff. 1955 TV Kinescope

From 2012 but worth a look back-----Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest? | Watts Up With That?

Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest? | Watts Up With That?
"The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! 
“Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs. 
The driver of this is AP’s Seth Borenstein, who never met a hot story he didn’t like.  
Here’s a quote from that story Ouch July in US was hottest ever in history books:

The average temperature last month was 77.6 degrees. That breaks the old record from July 1936 by 0.2 degree, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Records go back to 1895.…

Three of the nation’s five hottest months on record have been recent Julys: This year, 2011 and 2006. Julys in 1936 and 1934 round out the top five.

Of course the first thing I do when I see these sorts of things is go look at the data. 

It tells a far more interesting and credible story. 

Here’s some graphs NCDC and Seth won’t ever put in a press release or AP story:

From NCDC’s Climate at a glance page:

Now let’s compare to July 1936:

A few things stand out right away.

1. Due to regional weather pattern variability, one state in 1936 had below normal temperatures, Texas. Take the 1936 Texas below normal temperature out of the mix and there goes your 0.2F record making difference with July 2012.

2. Many states had warmer temperatures in 1936 than 2012.  

Here’s a table, all numbers in degrees Fahrenheit..."

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NYT Moron outed!-----Edelweiss Uber alles :: SteynOnline

Edelweiss Uber alles :: SteynOnline
"...~The moronization of society proceeds apace. 
As we mentioned on the show, a bigshot New York Times correspondent thinks that playing "Edelweiss" at the White House is some kind of Nazi dog-whistle to Trump supporters. 
It is tragic and profound the way even small artifacts of our inheritance get trashed in these witless arguments, so, if you want to know the real story of the very last song in the Oscar Hammerstein catalogue, here's what I had to say a couple of years back:

Not long after Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote the song, Theodore Bikel was leaving the theatre when he found a fan and fellow immigrant waiting at the stage door for his autograph: 'I love that "Edelweiss",' said the theatregoer. 'Of course, I have known it a long time, but only in German.'

Not for the first time, Hammerstein had done too good a job. Just as his 'Ol' Man River' for Show Boat is assumed by many to be an authentic Negro spiritual, so 'Edelweiss' is assumed to be an authentic Austrian folk song. Not so. In both cases, a great craftsman manufactured them to solve a structural problem with the storytelling. But he did it so well that they have become for real what they were only intended to simulate..."

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Corsi and I will hold Mueller accountable! - WND

Corsi and I will hold Mueller accountable! - WND:

And, if the Deep State at DOJ will seek to cover up the crimes of prosecutors in the Bundy criminal cases, just imagine their intent and motivation to cover up the criminality of Mueller and his hack leftist staff. Mueller, which the swamp’s establishment on both sides of the aisle has falsely deemed a “man of great integrity,” will surely be added to the Protected Species Act, along with the Desert Tortoise (which DOJ and Bureau of Land Management goons used as a pretext to threaten the lives of the Bundys to try to drive them off their land at Bunkerville, Nevada.)
In light of this, along comes my brave co-“conspiracy theorist”(as the left likes to paint us) Dr. Jerome Corsi, who had been in Mueller’s crosshairs during his now-concluded “witch hunt.” Having been threatened by the special counsel with indictment if he did not agree to lie under oath so as to take the president down regarding nonexistent Russia collusion, Jerry, with my help and that of my co-counsel David Gray, stood his ground and said NO! Corsi would not be coerced to lie under oath before God and His Son, even when he was offered a so-called sweetheart deal to plead to one count of perjury with no jail time.

Meet the Yorkshire doctor who has invented makeup that is resistant to acid attacks - Leeds Live

Meet the Yorkshire doctor who has invented makeup that is resistant to acid attacks - Leeds Live:

• Dr Almas Ahmed is planning to launch her pioneering makeup brand next year

"A doctor from Yorkshire is showcasing the world's first makeup range that is resistant to acid attacks at a big event in Leeds next month.As part of Leeds International Festival, Dr Almas Ahmed is leading a powerful discussion into the rise in acid attacks - and what can be done to prevent the devastating impact they have on the lives of hundreds of people every single year.

Dr Ahmed first started researching the idea of acid attack resistant makeup more than 10 years ago, after model Katie Piper was attacked with sulphuric acid...

"He said: 'If somebody attacks you, just douse it on your face and it should neutralise the acid.'

"I was really shocked that my dad was worrying about that. That made me revisit the research and finish it off."..."
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Victor Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…"

Victor Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…":

• Hanson on Trump, Mueller, Democrats, the media, and the deep state

"Last week as the Mueller Report was about to drop, Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution and the National Review Institute was interviewed by The Epoch Times as part of their American Thought Leaders series. 
He offered his thoughts on the Mueller investigation, the Trump presidency, and much more.

...He eventually calls this what it was. 
An attempted coup:

This is in addition to the Stormy Daniels psychodrama, the Michael Cohen, the tax returns–so there’s been a sustained effort not to wait until 2020, but to remove the president of the United States under the idea that we are so moral and anointed unelected officials, we have a duty to somebody higher than the American people. And boil that down and it was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency before its tenure had expired.

And that’s just the first ten minutes. 
The full interview lasts 49 minutes, and I highly recommend watching the whole thing. If you prefer, you can read the entire transcript here.

Featured image via YouTube.
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Judge Rules Flint Can Sue Federal Officials Over Water Contamination | The Daily Caller

Judge Rules Flint Can Sue Federal Officials Over Water Contamination | The Daily Caller:

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Flint citizens can move forward with lawsuits targeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of the Michigan city’s lead contamination problems.
The EPA under former President Barack Obama was too slow to intervene in the case, according to U.S. Judge Linda Parker, who ruled that the federal government was not immune from legal action in the case. More than a dozen lawsuits were filed against Michigan and city officials after researchers discovered in 2016 that Flint’s water contained elevated levels of lead in 2014 and 2015.

How to steal an election!-----Aliens and Voter Fraud | Center for Immigration Studies

Aliens and Voter Fraud | Center for Immigration Studies
"Introduction

Every year there are elections that are decided by a handful of votes. This happens far more frequently than one might guess statistically. It may be unlikely that an individual's single vote will determine the outcome of elections, but it may still add marginally to the set of votes needed to gain a majority.

...Notable Studies and Cases

There have been a number of accounts that detail alien voting fraud and its impact on the electoral system. While this is hardly a full review of all instances, the following cases highlight the need to address alien registration and voting.

2008 Presidential Election. A 2014 article published in the journal Electoral Studies found that "non-citizen voters likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform." 
The report also noted that "there is reason to believe non-citizen voting changed one state's Electoral College votes in 2008, delivering North Carolina to Obama."

...The Public Interest Legal Foundation suggested that the election of Virginia's attorney general in 2013, decided by only 164 votes, may have been decided by non-citizen voters..."
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#1 Movie this week 1974-----Blazing Saddles (1974) Original Trailer - Gene Wilder Movie

This in the NYT!!-----Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020? - The New York Times

Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020? - The New York Times
"...Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend.
Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate of 2020 Democrats was passed over?
“Personally, I’d love to see a woman,” Ms. Neal, also 27, said at the event on Thursday night.
“If people are being catty and holding gender or race against a candidate, it would break my heart.”
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field
Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?..."
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#1 This day 1973-----Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando

MUST WATCH: Hilarious Little Girl Does Outstanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Impersonation

MUST WATCH: Hilarious Little Girl Does Outstanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Impersonation

There have been a lot of viral impersonations of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on social media, but none have been quite this hilarious and adorable.

Wearing glasses and bright red lipstick, a young girl brilliantly skewered the freshmen congresswoman in a way that put the current cast of Saturday Night Live to shame.

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“Like, I’m Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, and like, I want to talk about like, climate change, because like, there’s no doubt cow farts are making the climate change,” the girl’s rant begins. 
“Like, in July the climate was 96 degrees and in February the climate was 36 degrees. O.M.G. like, that’s a huge change in the climate in only four months,” the girl continues after counting the months on her fingers.
The hilarious bit continues with the child claiming that the world is going to end in 12 years.
“Like, I also want to talk about socialism because socialism is so amazing! Like, socialism is actually short for social media. 
Did you know that? 
Like, I use social media so I’m a socialist — and like three of the most successful countries in the world are socialist too. 
Venezuela, Facebook, and Twitter are all very successful socialist countries.”
The adorable impersonation concludes with the talented child asserting that she has a lot of friends who “moved to America from Facebook.”
Someone please give this child a television show!"

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Trial Date Set For Obama Aide Ensnared In Mueller Probe | The Daily Caller

Trial Date Set For Obama Aide Ensnared In Mueller Probe | The Daily Caller:

Former White House counsel Gregory Craig will stand trial in a Washington, D.C., federal court Aug. 12 on charges that he made false and misleading statements to the Department of Justice regarding work he performed for a foreign government.

Imam tells Muslim migrants to 'breed children' with Europeans to 'conquer their countries' | Daily Mail Online

Imam tells Muslim migrants to 'breed children' with Europeans to 'conquer their countries' | Daily Mail Online
Imam tells Muslim migrants to 'breed children' with Europeans to 'conquer their countries' and vows: 'We will trample them underfoot, Allah willing' 

• Sheikh Muhammad Ayed gave the speech at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
• He said Americans, Italians, Germans and French forced to take refugees
• Claims Europe was only welcoming refugees as a source of labour 

A top Iman has told Muslims to use the migrant crisis to breed with European citizens and 'conquer their countries'.

Sheikh Muhammad Ayed gave the speech at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem claiming Europe was only welcoming refugees as a new source of labour.

He said Europe was facing a demographic disaster and urged Muslims to have children with westerners so they could 'trample them underfoot, Allah willing.'..."

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