“Sixth, our Border Patrol agents and officers responded admirably and responsibly to the events on Sunday. It is a testament to their training and professionalism that no one was injured. The accepted use of nonlethal force (also used by the Obama Administration in 2013) prevented further injury to agents and a mass illegal rush across the border. We will not shy away from protecting our people. I ask parents to avoid violent caravan groups and refrain from attempts to illegally enter our country – these acts will put your children in danger.
“Seventh, I want to thank President Donald J. Trump again for the decision to send @DeptofDefense to the border to bolster our ports of entry and provide force protection for Customs and Border Protection.
Canadians Are One In A Million -- While Waiting For Medical Treatment:
"Canada's single-payer healthcare system forced over 1 million patients to wait for necessary medical treatments last year. That's an all-time record.
Those long wait times were more than just a nuisance; they cost patients $1.9 billion in lost wages, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver-based think-tank.
Lengthy treatment delays are the norm in Canada and other single-payer nations, which ration care to keep costs down.
Yet more and more Democratic leaders are pushing for a single-payer system -- and more and more voters are clamoring for one.
Indeed, three in four Americans now support a national health plan -- and a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that health care is the most important issue for voters in the coming election..." Read all.
History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com Louisa May Alcott 1832, C.S. Lewis 1898, Chuck Mangione 1940 - Composer, musician Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Garry Shandling 1949 - Comedian, actor, Howie Mandel 1955 - Actor, comedian 1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial. 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
The new National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, the fourth since 2000, seems to suggest a coming climate disaster, to paraphrase the film comedy "Ghost Busters," of "epic, even biblical proportions." But its forecasts and models border on the absurd. At some point, the scientific malpractice in these global warming scare reports has to end.
Some of the projections sound like something kicked around in a Hollywood brainstorming session for a science fiction thriller, and not like the results of sober scientific reasoning and balanced statistical modeling techniques. We shouldn't be surprised, however. The three reports that preceded this one were equally bad.
By the way, that's not us speaking, but actual climate scientists. They say the latest government climate change report does a disservice to Americans by once again politicizing science and ignoring both real data and history.
Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box • The Register
"Data suggests one of plane's many brains was stuck in anti-stall mode-By Shaun Nichol With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.
Early data from the doomed plane's flight recorder suggests that for much of its 11-minute flight on October 29, the pilots were struggling with the craft's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
In effect, they were wrestling with software and hardware inadvertently trying to kill them.
...Peter Lemme, a longtime aeronautics exec and consultant who analyzed the early reports, estimates this month that the pilots fought with the MCAS system, pulling the plane's nose up 26 times before finally losing control and crashing the 737 into the Java Sea at more than 450 knots.
All 189 people on board perished..." Read all.
Nation of Islam and Scientology: Their Dangerous Alliance | Clarion Project
"The Nation of Islam and Scientology would seem to have nothing in common, yet they have formed a bizarre and dangerous alliance.
...Scientology and their group STAND pay lip service to fighting against religious bigotry.
...However, while Scientology claims their sympathies are with the Jewish faith, they in fact have had a long-term partnership with a group of the most hateful, anti-Semites in America, The Nation of Islam (NOI). The NOI has a long history of extremism and Holocaust denial.
NOI’s spiritual leader, Louis Farrakhan, has a long history of anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-white and conspiracy-filled preaching. Farrakhan regularly calls Jews “Satanic” and claims that they “control everything and mostly everybody.”
...In a recent sermon, he compared Jews to termites and called his Jewish critics “stupid.”
In 2017, Scientology awarded its highest honor, the Freedom Medal, to NOI Minister Tony Muhammad.
In his acceptance speech, Muhammad thanks Allah, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan whose name invokes loud applause..." Read on.
Canada isn't an anomaly. Every nation that offers government-funded, universal coverage features long wait times. When the government makes health care "free," consumers' demand for medical services surges. Patients have no incentive to limit their doctor visits or choose more cost-efficient providers.
To prevent expenses from ballooning, the government sets strict budget caps that only enable hospitals to hire a limited number of staff and purchase a meager amount of equipment. Demand inevitably outstrips supply. Shortages result.
Twitter updated its policy on hateful content, prohibiting the use of biological pronouns for persons who identify as transgender.
While the social media platform prohibits misgendering transgender persons, it still has other harmful content, like hardcore pornography and sexually explicit material.
Other social media platforms ban hardcore porn, but Twitter has failed to keep it off the site, calling into question what the company views as violent and harmful content.
Twitter banned the use of biological pronouns to refer to transgender persons, adding a clause prohibiting the practice to its policy regarding hateful conduct.
...The media platform also writes it is “committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance.”
” … targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” is also banned, according to the updated policy rules.
...Deadnaming refers to using the “dead name,” the name they used before transitioning, to describe or address a transgender person.
Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro commented on the change.
The Media's Credibility Is Dead
"It's common knowledge that distrust in media is at an all-time high.
...According to the last media survey from McLaughlin & Associates, voters who see anti-Trump bias in the news media outnumber voters who don't at about a 5-to-1 clip.
In 2018, the mainstream media aren't even attempting to camouflage their hyper-progressive bias.
...We'll start with the Daily Beast, a left-leaning outlet known for using ultra-sensationalized rhetoric with a strong liberal spin. Like a majority of media outlets, the Daily Beast...attempting to smear conservative author and One America News contributor Jack Posobiec.
In a column about two arrested Washington, D.C. brothers with ties to neo-Nazi movements, the Daily Beast edited a cropped a picture of Posobiec and paired it with an image of racist (and irrelevant) loudmouth Richard Spencer and Charlottesville Unite the Right Organizer Jason Kessler. The worse part about the image is that it's edited to make it appear as though Posobiec were giving a Nazi salute.
What the Daily Beast doesn't mention is that Posobiec has constantly disavowed racism, and what the site cropped is an image of him next to a black Trump-supporter at a rally specifically designed to stand against political violence.
In one fell swoop, the Daily Beast has completely distorted reality.
Posobiec had nothing to do with the racist brothers arrested in Virginia on weapons charges, but the Daily Beast couldn't pass up an attempt to smear Posobiec to rile up its reader base and feed into its construction of Posobiec as a right-wing villain.
This anecdote is all too familiar in today's media climate.
In 2018, if you're a conservative white male, you're at risk of being labeled a white supremacists (see Steve King) or a flat-out Nazi..." Read all!
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents.
Border Patrol unleashed tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd of migrants trying to cross the border in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday. According to San Diego Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott, agents did not use dispersion techniques until after migrants had struck several agents with projectiles. “Several agents were actually struck by rocks,” Scott said, before revealing that the migrants pushed women and children to the front of their group to discourage agents from responding to rock-throwing with force.
To Persuade Conservatives 'Global Warming' is Real, Read This "Here we go again… A new bombshell report from the United States government has been released on the issue of “Climate Change,” which says that we are all soon going to be destroyed by the impact of rising temperatures. Liberals and the media have, predictably, pounced on the findings as vindication of their already religious-level belief in the concept. ...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. In fact I am offended by the extreme arrogance of those who routinely act like holding such a position is akin to committing blasphemy against some sort of new-age religion. If the proof is so damn overwhelming, then why not just persuade us conservatives with the facts? Contrary to liberal perception, there actually are some sound reasons for the reluctance of many conservatives to buy into cataclysmic climate scenarios. Here are ten of them:
A dramatic change in branding: When the name got altered from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change,” it felt like we were being scammed and that, because it was still getting very cold in all the places where it should be, liberals simply needed a re-branding which gave them more flexibility...
The climate has always changed..
“The debate is over” argument...
Over-the-top predictions that never seem to come true...
Where is the real world impact?: As Walter Mondale famously asked of Gary Hart (via a then-famous Wendy’s commercial), “Where’s the beef?” If the climate is obviously changing so rapidly, why aren’t we seeing clear-cut deviations from what we are used to?...
Doom is always just far enough away: History has shown us that there is very little downside to someone claiming that, unless we listen to them, we are all doomed (it’s literally a “can’t lose” prediction!)...
That’s just ten reasons why there is skepticism on the right, and why liberal efforts to quash that skepticism continue to fail. Read 'em all!
Junk Science Has Become a Profitable Industry. Who Will Stop It? | RealClearScience
"Should we believe the headline, “Drinking four cups of coffee daily lowers risk of death”?
How about, “Mouthwash May Trigger Diabetes. . .”?
Should we really eat more, not less, fat?
And what should we make of data that suggest people with spouses live longer? These sorts of conclusions, from supposedly scientific studies, seem to vary from month to month, leading to ever-shifting “expert” recommendations.
However, most of their admonitions are based on flawed research that produces results worthy of daytime TV.
Misleading research is costly to society directly because much of it is supported by the federal government, and indirectly, when it gives rise to unwise, harmful public policy. Social science studies are notorious offenders.
A landmark study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour in August reported the results of efforts to replicate 21 social science studies published in the prestigious journals Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
...One out of the four Nature papers and seven of the seventeen Science papers evaluated did not replicate, a shocking result for two prestigious scientific journals.
The authors noted two kinds of flaws in the original studies: false positives and inflated effect sizes..." Read on!
Wrong winner certified in GRCC trustee election
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Kent County mistakenlycertifiedthe wrong winner for a seat on the Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees.
The local elections director is reaching out to the state Bureau of Elections to determine what to do next.
It's a result that has gone back and forth a couple of times.
On election night, Kathy Crosby and Sheryl Siegel were announced as the winners of two open trustee seats, beating Carlos Sanchez and Troy Williams.
But Monday, 24 Hour News 8 learned that the initial results counted only votes from Kent County and not from four other counties: Barry, Ionia, Ottawa and Newaygo.
Once those numbers were added in, Kent County election officials declared that Sanchez, the incumbent, actually beat Siegel.
...But less than an hour later, Uzarski called 24 Hour News 8 to say the results on the form were inaccurate.
He said he mistyped the number of votes for Siegel from Barry County..." Read on!
This is nutbag, far-left stuff. That's not about moms and kids in the slightest, that's about the political demands of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. And as you read further in the "demands," you can read that they also want American officials prosecuted. This is the caravan agenda as it throws hapless women and children in front of the cameras, leaves Tijuana a humanitarian disaster, and leaves Mexico with the prospect of a completely shut down border. As the leftists say: By any means necessary, and those migrants are their easily expendable pawns. Now is the scenario clearer?
"Andrea Long Chu at her home in Brooklyn. Kholood Eid for The New York Times
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it..." Andrea Long Chu is an essayist and a critic. Her book “Females: A Concern” is forthcoming." Read all.
History for November 28 - On-This-Day.com Berry Gordy, Jr. 1929 - Founder of Mowtown Records, Randy Newman 1943 - Singer, songwriter, Paul Shaffer 1949 - Bandleader ("Late Show With David Letterman") Judd Nelson 1959 - Actor ("The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," "Making the Grade"), Jon Stewart 1965 - Actor, comedian ("The Daily Show"), Anna Nicole Smith 1967 - Model, actress 1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east. 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.
Newly elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking to fill 13 slots in her soon-to-be congressional office and has sent out an ad for interested applicants to apply.
Might I suggest a historian?
General Electric was founded in 1892, and it was once one of the most powerful corporations on the entire planet. But now it is drowning in so much debt that it may be forced into bankruptcy.
General Motors was founded in 1908, and at one time it was the largest automaker that the world had ever seen. But now it is closing a bunch of factories and laying off approximately 14,000 workers as it anticipates disappointing sales and a slowing economy.
If the U.S. economy really was “booming”, both of these companies would probably be thriving.
But as you will see below, both of them have been victimized by the exact same Ponzi scheme, and both firms are sending us very clear signals that the U.S. economy is heading for troubled waters. Whenever you hear the word “restructuring”, that is always a sign that things are not going well for a company. And it turns out that GM’s “restructuring” is actually going to cost the firm 3.8 billion dollars…
General Motors said Monday it plans to effectively halt production at a number of plants in the U.S. and Canada next year and cut more than 14,000 jobs in a massive restructuring that will cost up to $3.8 billion.
Of course GM doesn’t have 3.8 billion dollars just lying around, and so they are actually going to have to borrow money in order to close these plants and lay off these workers..." Read all.
“Sixth, our Border Patrol agents and officers responded admirably and responsibly to the events on Sunday. It is a testament to their training and professionalism that no one was injured. The accepted use of nonlethal force (also used by the Obama Administration in 2013) prevented further injury to agents and a mass illegal rush across the border. We will not shy away from protecting our people. I ask parents to avoid violent caravan groups and refrain from attempts to illegally enter our country – these acts will put your children in danger.
That's an all-time record.
That's an all-time record.
The new National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, the fourth since 2000, seems to suggest a coming climate disaster, to paraphrase the film comedy "Ghost Busters," of "epic, even biblical proportions." But its forecasts and models border on the absurd. At some point, the scientific malpractice in these global warming scare reports has to end.
With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.
The NOI has a long history of extremism and Holocaust denial.
Canada isn't an anomaly. Every nation that offers government-funded, universal coverage features long wait times. When the government makes health care "free," consumers' demand for medical services surges. Patients have no incentive to limit their doctor visits or choose more cost-efficient providers.
Twitter banned the use of biological pronouns to refer to transgender persons, adding a clause prohibiting the practice to its policy regarding hateful conduct.
Like a majority of media outlets, the Daily Beast...attempting to smear conservative author and One America News contributor Jack Posobiec.
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents.
...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. 
...I do not currently believe that the case for catastrophic man-made Global Warming/Climate Change has been convincingly made. 
These sorts of conclusions, from supposedly scientific studies, seem to vary from month to month, leading to ever-shifting “expert” recommendations.
Wrong winner certified in GRCC trustee election
This is nutbag, far-left stuff. That's not about moms and kids in the slightest, that's about the political demands of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. And as you read further in the "demands," you can read that they also want American officials prosecuted. This is the caravan agenda as it throws hapless women and children in front of the cameras, leaves Tijuana a humanitarian disaster, and leaves Mexico with the prospect of a completely shut down border. As the leftists say: By any means necessary, and those migrants are their easily expendable pawns. Now is the scenario clearer?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hiring: Might I suggest a historian? - Washington Times: