Grassley sent a letter to Barr on April 25 inquiring whether the Justice Department is investigating leaks to the media regarding several stories involving the Russia investigation. Grassley noted a leak to The Washington Post on April 11, 2017, regarding the existence of a classified surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Barr did not identify which leaks are being investigated.
“We have multiple criminal leak investigations underway,” Barr told Grassley.
NPR/Ipsos conducted a national poll recently and found that more than 8 in 10 teachers — and a similar majority of parents — support teaching kids about climate change.But in reality, it’s not always happening: Fewer than half of K-12 teachers told us that they talk about climate change with their children or students. Again, parents were about the same.The top reason that teachers gave in our poll for not covering climate change? “It’s not related to the subjects I teach,” 65% said.[…]That raises the question: Where does climate change belong in the curriculum, anyway?...
NPR = Nitwit Pinko Radio
Nothing on that list of 8 idiotic “ways to teach climate change” is even remotely related to climate science…
55% of the teachers surveyed said they did not teach about climate change in their classrooms. 65% replied that it wasn’t related to the subject(s) they taught and 17% said the didn’t know enough about climate change to teach it…
My hunch is that 97% of teachers, including the 45% who “teach” about it, are insufficiently familiar with the science to teach it.
Instead of having English teachers focusing on climate change, maybe they should just teach English…
But then again, you can get, like, an Ivy League degree in, like, economics, you know, like by speaking this way. You can even, like, get elected to Congress, like you know, whatever…
"...Metro Detroiters, on average, are paying more for health insurance each month than 24 other top metros, according to a new report by doxo, a bill pay service, that looked at the 2018 costs of the country's nine most commonly paid bills.
Monthly health insurance bills in the metro Detroit region averaged at $214.
That's $78 more per month, or 57% higher, than the average for top 25 metros, according to the report..."
...While it's not metro Detroit's highest above-average bill, drivers in the region are paying more for car insurance than most. Detroit ranks No. 3 on the list with an average monthly cost of $297. Miami ranked first with an average cost of $337, followed by Washington, D.C. at $302..."
History for May 3 - On-This-Day.com Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer, Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3 Pete Seeger 1919 - Folk singer, James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1928 - Singer, Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons) 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax. 1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."
Attorney General Bill Barr Says He Won’t Stop Using The Word ‘Spying’ | The Daily Caller:
Barr continued, “I think spying is a good English word that, in fact, doesn’t have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection, so I’m not going to back off the word ‘spying.'”
To further defend his use of the word, Barr pointed out that many members of the media also used the term before they decided to attack him for doing the same.
“Frankly, we went back and looked at press usage and up until all the faux outrage a couple of weeks ago, it’s commonly used in the press to refer to authorized activities,” he explained.
Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist "As polls tighten and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders looks more like a serious contender than a novelty candidate for president, the liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist. He’s now cleaned up as a “progressive” or “pragmatist.” But he’s not even a socialist. He’s a communist. Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-communist past. It won’t be easy to do. If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He was a communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War. Rewind to 1964.
While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA.
He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda.
There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.”...
China is doing more to green the earth, and eliminate global energy poverty, than any other government. China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines. “When you put money down and put steel into the ground for a coal-fired power plant it’s a 40- or 50-year commitment.”
China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines. China, known as the world’s biggest polluter, has been taking dramatic steps to clean up and fight climate change. So why is it also building hun...
Joe Biden On Anita Hill In 1998: 'She Was Lying':
But in 1998, Biden admitted to Specter that “It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, [Hill] was lying” about a key part of her testimony. The exchange was published in Specter’s 2000 memoir, “Passion for Truth: From Finding JFK’s Single Bullet to Questioning Anita Hill to Impeaching Clinton.”
The issue is important, as the media and other partisans rewrite the historical record about Hill and her accusations.
...In recent months, climate preachers have garnered immense publicity. Greta Thunberg, a mentally disabled child from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, has been telling us we’re out of time. The end is nigh. If we don’t heed her warning we’ll be punished for our environmental sins.
Rather than comforting this disturbed child, rather than urging this family to get its own house in order before it scolds the rest of us, journalists, politicians, religious leaders, and activists have instead made Greta famous.
This is madness. We’re now taking moral instruction from a household in which children decide to starve themselves for months, in which adults are told they’re not permitted to go to the toilet.
Today's Greens Are Yesterday's Reds | RealClearPolitics "New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made national headlines last week with his call to ban “traditional glass and steel skyscrapers” in the name of the environment. ...This remark from our self-described socialist reveals in plain language a sobering truth. Today’s greens are yesterday’s reds. ...What should be alarming is how this new war on prosperity, or to use the mayor's disparaging spin, this attack on “monuments to wealth,” is being launched in the name of the environment..." Read on.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described “socialist,” is doubling down on his efforts to give federal officials total control over Americans’ health care.
The senator has just unveiled the Medicare for All Act of 2019 with 13 leading Senate Democrats, including fellow contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Americans should find this bill chilling. If passed, it would essentially abolish all private health coverage in America, regardless of whether Americans like their current plans.
Nigeria and the U.S.: A Tale of Two Energy Economies | RealClearMarkets
"...Nigeria simultaneously is energy-rich and energy-poor was illustrated by the ongoing tug of war between the Nigerian government and Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID).
This was over a prior agreement for P&ID to build a state-of-the-art natural gas processing plant along the Nigerian coast.
In a nutshell: The government was supposed to provide the land and build the pipeline to deliver the gas to the plant. It failed to do either.
As a result, over 282 billion cubic feet of gas were wasted (flared) in 2018 alone.
...This arrangement was win-win. ...How is it that a nation with over 37 billion barrels of proven oil reserves can find itself in a position of energy poverty?
This question confronts us yet again with age-old lessons about the importance of property rights, the rule of law, and the often-perverse incentives of government officials.
Merely contrast the Nigerian bungling of the P&ID contract with the recent evolution of the natural gas market in the U.S.
U.S. gas production in 1990 was 17.8 trillion cubic feet; in 2018 it was 30.4 trillion cubic feet, an increase of about 71 percent.
...The easy explanation for this sharp increase in US production is the fracking/horizontal drilling revolution.
That is correct as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough:
That tremendous technological advance did not take place in a vacuum.
It is the result of the US system of property rights---much of the modern increase in gas production has taken place on private land---combined with legally-enforceable contractual arrangements, investments in infrastructure that more-or-less are driven by market forces, and sharp constraints on the ability of government officials to interfere with private arrangements, except through processes constrained by the rule of law..." Read all!
'Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow': Here Are Some Of The Worst Global Warming Predictions Pushed By...The Experts "...yet, the urban elites, the liberals, the Democrats—all of these people want us to move away from the very energy sources that have made us the most vibrant and powerful economy in the world in ten years because…we’re all going to die if we don’t. ...This is where some over-educated and condescending liberal snob decided to lecture the rest of us that we must sacrifice hundreds of billion, if not trillions, of dollars to reduce global temperatures or we’ll all perish. Time is running out, they said. Right now, the arbitrary timeline is 21 years. ...Buildings that cannot be retrofitted for energy efficiency requirements have to be destroyed, farting cows must die, and the internal combustible engine has to go. It’s a return to caveman times, folks—because the same clowns who said that global cooling will doom us all in the 1970s said so. ...Ever since this blasted Earth Day was created in 1970, the green warriors have predicted catastrophe. And they were all totally and utterly wrong. Here are some of their biggest whoppers, courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute who doled out 18 of their biggest flops since 1970. You can about the rest in the link. The Day After Tomorrow is more...two days before the day after tomorrow (via AEI) [emphasis mine]:
Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle.“The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness..."
How Nine Universities Pander to Campus Radicals - Minding The Campus
"In higher education, disgraceful scandals and major embarrassments once arrived one by one.
Now, they appear in clusters, like epidemics we should have been expecting.
...What follows is a selective review of the intellectual measles epidemic.
Let’s look at what’s happening at Williams, Middlebury, Yale, Trinity, Columbia, Concordia, Villanova, and Sarah Lawrence.
Williams
A new National Association of Scholars report on the resurgence of racial segregation in American higher education embargoed until April 29, does not apply to my mentioning a new student proposal endorsed by the student newspaper at Williams College. As The College Fix reports, a group of activists at the college, the Coalition Against Racism Now, is demanding that the college create race-based “affinity housing.”... Read all.
Venezuela banned private citizens from owning guns seven years ago, leaving firearms solely in the hands of the army and the police. Now, as the country’s opposition attempts to oust the oppressive Maduro regime from power, it is a decision some have come to regret.
Climate models have done a terrible job predicting climate. But one thing which is extremely predictable is that data will be tampered with to create warming...
Grassley sent a letter to Barr on April 25 inquiring whether the Justice Department is investigating leaks to the media regarding several stories involving the Russia investigation. Grassley noted a leak to The Washington Post on April 11, 2017, regarding the existence of a classified surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Nothing on that list of 8 idiotic “ways to teach climate change” is even remotely related to climate science…
55% of the teachers surveyed said they did not teach about climate change in their classrooms. 65% replied that it wasn’t related to the subject(s) they taught and 17% said the didn’t know enough about climate change to teach it… 
Nothing on that list of 8 idiotic “ways to teach climate change” is even remotely related to climate science… 
Subway removes pork from stores after 'strong demand' from Muslims | Daily Mail Online
World pretty jazzed that Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue includes model in a hijab and burkini – twitchy.com:
"...Metro Detroiters, on average, are paying more for health insurance each month than 24 other top metros, according to a new report by doxo, a bill pay service, that looked at the 2018 costs of the country's nine most commonly paid bills.
"As polls tighten and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders looks more like a serious contender than a novelty candidate for president, the liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist. He’s now cleaned up as a “progressive” or “pragmatist.”
Street Preacher Greta Thunberg | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Today's Greens Are Yesterday's Reds | RealClearPolitics
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described “socialist,” is doubling down on his efforts to give federal officials total control over Americans’ health care.
...How is it that a nation with over 37 billion barrels of proven oil reserves can find itself in a position of energy poverty? 
"...yet, the urban elites, the liberals, the Democrats—all of these people want us to move away from the very energy sources that have made us the most vibrant and powerful economy in the world in ten years because…we’re all going to die if we don’t. 
