Happy Mother's Day in advance, Mom--thanks for not aborting
me. ~Bob
Woman films her own
abortion to show world how “cool” it is
Excerpt: Letts, whose job involves encouraging women to have
abortions, sees her own abortion as an entirely positive experience, and hopes
the video will prove to be both instructional and morally persuasive. She feels
better about herself every time she watches the video, according to
Cosmopolitan.
Latest Lung Update.
Update on above: I was changing the hoses on my O2
concentrator Thursday night and my body was twisted. Coughed and bank went into
muscle spasms in my back again. Pain s fairly sever with movement or coughing.
Good job they gave me a wheelchair. But it is not life threatening and will get
better again. ~Bob
Will There Be Spring?
I wrote this over 40 years ago. ~Bob
Excerpt: Take a look at the graph below. From the end of
World War II until 1964 the poverty rate in this country was cut in half.
Further, 94% of the change in the poverty rate over this period can be
explained by changes in per capita income alone. Economic growth is clearly the
most effective antipoverty weapon ever devised by men. The dotted line shows
what would have happened had this trend continued. Economic growth would have
reduced the poverty rate to a mere 1.4% of the population today ― a number so
low that private charity could probably have taken care of any unmet needs. But
we didn’t continue the trend. In 1965 we launched a War on Poverty. And as the
graph shows, in the years that followed the portion of Americans living in
poverty barely budged. In 1965, 18% of the population lived in poverty. Today
we are at 15%, or 50 million Americans. That’s after spending $15
trillion on antipoverty programs and continuing to spend $1 trillion a
year.
WaPo Fact Checker: Four Pinocchios for Obama’s claim
that Republicans have ‘filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation’
WaPo Fact Checker: Harry Reid’s claim that the Koch
brothers are ‘one of the main causes’ of climate change
Excerpt: We understand Reid’s overall point, but it’s
important to stick to the facts when making such claims. Given that Reid did
not accurately describe the U-Mass. report, our rating on this statement tips
toward Three Pinocchios.
A
Commandant and a Colonel and USMC History. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
As an end of the week salute to Colonel Mac Dube, USMC below is republished a
bit of USMC history - a commandant and Colonel Dube and other Marines, too,
round out the truth.
Tillis wins
Republican nomination for U.S.
Senate in North Carolina
Excerpt: The establishment wing of the Republican Party
scored a major victory in North
Carolina Tuesday when state House Speaker Thom Tillis
won the party's nomination for U.S. Senate, turning back tea party challengers
who threatened to complicate the GOP's effort to unseat Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.)
in a key midterm battleground. (From a friend and very consrervative political
activist in NC.: Unfortunately,
various organizations throughout the state that use the name of the Tea Party worked
hard to defeat Tillis. These groups branded Tillis as the
"establishment" candidate. While Tillis has worked hard for years
to build a working conservative force in the legislature, his critics have done
nothing constructive for the state or the Republican Party. (The Washington Post blog
story also used the "establishment" label for Tillis, but in the
context of NC ,"establishment" is
a compliment.) Some of the ads and
"robo calls" made to attack Tillis were outrageous lies. --KC)
Excerpt: I wrote above that tonight was a victory for the
Republican establishment in part because Mitt Romney endorsed
Tillis, and Rand Paul backed
his conservative/libertarian/tea party opponent, Greg Brannon. But is there
anyone more disappointed tonight than Sen. Kay Hagan? After all, her implicit
support for the grassroots candidate in the race didn't make much of a
difference at all.
Taxpayers to keep on
paying for lawmaker cars
Excerpt: Last week, members of Congress voted against
giving themselves a bump in pay. It would have been terrible optics. But they
couldn’t quite part with that monthly allowance covering the lease on their
cars, a cost of nearly half a million dollars a year.
Federal judge orders
halt to 'John Doe' investigation
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/federal-judge-orders-halt-to-john-doe-investigation/article_09df81d5-df62-5144-929c-c74afb654810.html
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/federal-judge-orders-halt-to-john-doe-investigation/article_09df81d5-df62-5144-929c-c74afb654810.html
Excerpt: U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa on Tuesday
ordered a halt to the John Doe investigation that targeted the recall campaign
of Gov. Scott Walker and “all or nearly all right-of-center groups and
individuals in Wisconsin who have engaged in issue advocacy from 2010 to the
present.” In issuing his preliminary injunction, Randa sided with Wisconsin
Club for Growth, finding the John Doe probe into alleged illegal campaign
coordination is hampering the group’s constitutionally protected right to free
speech.
Excerpt: Hollywood
is sick, sick, sick. Behind its curtain of holier-than-thou progressivism, the
entertainment world's top A-list stars have engaged in the most depraved sexual
abuse against vulnerable children and teens, according to a growing number of
victims. After years of cover-up, the institutional scandal is exploding.
Finally.
Rethinking America
Excerpt: Our ability to print money is already in
jeopardy, as other nations have been making noise about altering the
international reserve-currency system to emphasize
multiple currencies, elevating their status and decreasing the strength of
the U.S. dollar. Our ever-increasing national debt would then place us on shaky
ground. The Treasury securities we have been offering to China and others would
no longer hold the same appeal, and all the borrowing we have done against the
financial well-being of our progeny will come back to plague us and them.
Clayton Lockett: A
just execution, regardless. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Last week the state of Oklahoma "botched" an execution. Botched
is the accepted term in the media coverage, despite the factClayton
Lockett was executed. He just died badly, suffering for 43 minutes until
he eventually had a heart attack. Oklahoma 's governor
has called for an investigation. President Obama asked Attorney
General Eric Holder (who is seeking the death penalty in the Boston
Marathon bombing case) to review the death penalty. Obama's position was a
perfectly defensible straddle:
Moral Bankruptcy. By
Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: There was a time when common sense and common
decency counted for something. Educators felt a responsibility to equip
students with solid skills that could take them anywhere they wanted to go in
later life — enable them to become doctors, engineers or whatever they wanted
to be. Too many of today's "educators" see students as a captive
audience for them to manipulate and propagandize.
Excerpt: Bill Ayers, among others, had signed a letter,
“Long live People’s China .
Love live Comrade Mao.” The American counterparts of China ’s Red Guard remain largely
unrepentant because here the Cultural Revolution never ended. Instead it
went mainstream. Its members were never disavowed and their acts of terror
continue to be celebrated and whitewashed by a left that finds them alternately
embarrassing and thrilling.
John Kerry Condemns
Faith, Takes One More Step Toward Fascism
http://lastresistance.com/5658/john-kerry-condemns-faith-takes-one-step-toward-fascism/
http://lastresistance.com/5658/john-kerry-condemns-faith-takes-one-step-toward-fascism/
Excerpt: “There is no surer sign of decay in a country than
to see the rites of religion held in contempt.” – Niccolo Machiavelli. Everything
changes. That statement may seem obvious, but what we often forget is that
change isn’t always positive. While we are inundated by promising messages of
change, like Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, what change really amounts to is
deterioration. Just as we all age, our philosophies are subject to a slow
deterioration as well. The unfortunate side effect of an aging philosophy is
that it will eventually be replaced by something else
Excerpt: Democratic Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (Nev. ) is making an
excellent case for getting rid of Harry Reid as majority leader. In farcical
fashion, he is denying amendments on energy — which would pass overwhelmingly —
to an energy efficiency bill. Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (Ky. ) took
to the floor to decry the logjam: Once again, the Majority Leader is
shutting down the voice of the people in the Senate. For seven long years, he’s
refused to allow a truly comprehensive debate on energy in this chamber.
Vietnamese Navy
Confronts Chinese Ships in Oil Rig Dispute
Excerpt: Tensions in the South China Sea intensified
Wednesday as Vietnamese vessels confronted Chinese ships that were working to
place an oil rig off Vietnam ’s
coast, and Vietnamese officials claimed that their ships had been rammed by the
Chinese vessels. (Oh, joy--pass the popcorn. Viet & Chinese commies killing
each other? Let us hope. ~Bob)
South China Sea
tensions rise as Vietnam
says China
Excerpt: Vietnam
said on Wednesday a Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two of its ships in a
part of the disputed South China Sea
where Beijing
has deployed a giant oil rig, sending tensions spiraling in the region.
Cops: Teen Had Loaded
Revolver In Her Vagina
Excerpt: A 19-year-old Tennessee woman had a loaded handgun hidden in
her vagina when she was brought into jail yesterday afternoon
following a collar for driving with a suspended license, police report. As
Dallas Archer was being booked into the Kingsport
jail, a female corrections officer alerted to an “unknown object” in the
teenager’s crotch during a search. (I'm overwhelmed at the tasteless joke
potential. ~Bob)
Holocaust Survivor
Says Obama’s America
identical To Hitler’s Germany
http://lastresistance.com/5665/holocaust-survivor-says-obamas-america-identical-hitlers-germany/
http://lastresistance.com/5665/holocaust-survivor-says-obamas-america-identical-hitlers-germany/
That's a real stretch. ~Bob Excerpt: Anita Dittman, now 86 years young, lived through the Nazi
years of Hitler’s Germany .
She remembers Hitler’s rise to power and what it was like living under his
dictatorship. Dittman also survived the Holocaust and has recently told her
story, which is being included in a project called Trapped in Hitler’s
Hell.
EPA Employees Not
Fired For Watching Pornography, Stealing Money
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/07/epa-employees-not-fired-for-watching-pornography-stealing-money/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/07/epa-employees-not-fired-for-watching-pornography-stealing-money/
Excerpt: The Environmental Protection Agency has not been
firing employees for watching pornography and falsifying federal documents,
according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. “How much pornography
would it take for an EPA employee to lose his job?” Issa asked EPA officials,
including the agency’s second-in-command, testifying before the House Oversight
Committee. Issa chairs the committee. “This individual spent four consecutive
hours on a site called ‘sadism is beautiful,’” Issa pressed the EPA employees.
“You are running an organization from which no one can get fired.” (Watching
porn probably qualifies as a disability and they are thus ADA protected. ~Bob)
What is this
mysterious aircraft filmed 'blitzing Taliban base in Afghanistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2623330/Is-Inter-Stellar-Assistance-Force-Mysterious-UFO-filmed-blitzing-Taliban-base-Afghanistan.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2623330/Is-Inter-Stellar-Assistance-Force-Mysterious-UFO-filmed-blitzing-Taliban-base-Afghanistan.html
Excerpt: U.S.
Marines captured this incredible footage of what looks like a UFO hovering over
a Taliban encampment - then blowing it to kingdom come.
What Drives
Vladimir Putin? Aggressors often attack weaker neighbors to
restore a sense of pride. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a disaster of a declining
population, corruption, authoritarianism, a warped economy, and a high rate of
alcoholism. Why, then, would Putin want to ruin additional territory in Crimea
and Ukraine the way that he
has wrecked most of Russia ?
Hillary's State
Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists
Excerpt: The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought
hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its
official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now,
lawmakers and former U.S.
officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American
government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by
abducting hundreds of innocent girls.
President Obama’s
L.A. Visit: Alan Horn Fundraiser, Shoah Foundation Speech
Excerpt: Tickets to the event start at $10,000 per person,
which includes dinner and a photo op. Those donating $32,400 per
couple get listed as “sponsors” and can also take part in a VIP reception.
Those donating $64,800 per couple are listed as “hosts” and also can take part
in a “VIP clutch.” (Can you think
of any better place to discuss the "problems of inequality" than at
the home of a Hollywood mogul and hanging with
movie stars who paid $64,800? I hope Obama lamented the greed and callousness
of wealthy elites at the event. The wrong kind of wealthy elites, of course. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters)
Excerpt: Do not shoot Detroit grandmother Paris Ainsworth. Even if
you hit her four times, you’ll
only make her mad: Her siblings now jokingly call her Rambo. However, Paris
Ainsworth easily could have been killed. Her attackers shot her four times, but
she had eight bullets for them. “If I wouldn’t have had my gun I would be dead
today,” she said.
Take Joe Biden's
advice on guns
Too funny. ~Bob
Report: Pentagon paid
$150 per gallon for green jet fuel
Excerpt: The Department of Defense paid $150 per gallon for
alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market
price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on
Wednesday. (Cui Bono. ~Bob)
Baier Tracks:
Keystone on hold, but ‘green’ line goes…
Excerpt: “As the battle over the administration-stalled
Keystone XL pipeline heats up, with even top Democrats calling for Senate
action to move it forward, there is another project that is moving full steam
ahead despite significant pushback. Conservative economist Steve Moore writes
about a 500-mile green energy power line to connect windmills to the power
grid. That project is moving forward despite going right through an Army
testing ground at New Mexico ’s White Sands
Missile Range
Excerpt: On May 7th New Hampshire Representative Timothy
Horrigan (D-Durham) stood on the state house floor and argued against legislation
forbidding the use of EBT cards for guns, saying such a ban "is a blatant
violation of the Second Amendment." (And without an ID--that's racist.
~Bob)
The Real Reason Big Labor Wants a Minimum Wage Hike. By Fred Wszolek
Excerpt: Union workers already make considerably more than
the current minimum wage. However, many union bosses set up their contracts so
that an increase in the minimum wage leads to an increase in the union wage as well.
Baseline union wages are often set at a certain percentage above the minimum
wage, so the former would be set to increase. Higher union wages mean higher
union dues.
Good riddance: Common
Core backlash claims new casualties. By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/05/09/good-riddance-common-core-backlash-claims-new-political-casualties/
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/05/09/good-riddance-common-core-backlash-claims-new-political-casualties/
Excerpt: All politics is local. So Republican politicians
with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are
saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core. In
bellwether Indiana
this week, anti-Common Core activists won a pair of
pivotal electoral victories against GOP Gov. Mike Pence. Pence’s attempt to
mollify critics by rebranding and
repackaging shoddy Common Core standards is fooling no one.
One Fed Employee Laid
Off. From The Patriot Post
Remember the "Republican sequester" -- the
negotiating tactic that Team Obama dreamed up to trigger automatic spending
cuts if a grand budgetary bargain couldn't be reached between Democrats and
Republicans? The one Obama used both to coax Republicans to the table and then
to beat them over the head? The one he continually blamed on Republicans even
as the facts (and the video) proved otherwise? As The Hill reports, "The
Obama administration and Democrats last year claimed that sequestration would
be devastating to the government and to the wider economy. Republicans have
repeatedly questioned those claims, calling them scare tactics." But as it
turns out, the Government Accountability Office reports that one single
solitary federal layoff at the Justice Department can be attributed to the
sequester. That certainly makes sense, because the administration deliberately
made the sequester as painful as possible for the general public and
not federal employees and agencies. Remember the canceled White House tours,
the closed national parks and the long delays for air travelers? Remember to
blame Obama.
IRS to Give Up Lerner
Emails. From The Patriot Post
All it took was holding Lois Lerner in
contempt of Congress and the IRS suddenly agreed to turn over all of
her emails to a House investigative panel. IRS commissioner John Koskinen had
said it might take years to produce them, leading to a threat of a contempt
charge for him too. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) said,
"While it is good that we are finally getting these emails, it should
never have taken this long." Still, he said, "The Committee will
thoroughly review the Lerner documents and follow them wherever they may
lead." Where it may lead is to reveal again that the administration finds
conservative political groups to be more of a threat than, say, jihadis in Benghazi .
I-Team: After NY Gun Control Law, Assault Rifles Only Look
Different. By Ann Givens and Chris Glorioso
Excerpt: Now some critics say one part of the law – the
assault rifle ban – is not effective because new models being made to
comply with the law are almost entirely the same as those that were banned.
Environmentalists
Have Lost the Climate Change Debate. By David Harsanyi
Excerpt: The bloodcurdling National Climate Assessment is
here, and it portends catastrophe; floods, clouds and other assorted weather
events are imminent! But, says the report, “there is still time to act to limit
the amount of climate change and the extent of damaging impacts.” Have you
noticed that we’re always at the cusp of a cataclysm yet the deadline to act
always moves to a politically convenient not-too-distant future? I guess that
when the time to act runs out – it will at some point, right? – we can begin
thinking about defunding all these panels and reinvesting in something more
productive, such as figuring out how we can adapt to the future.
“Moderate” Republicans Doing More Damage Than Democrats
Excerpt: Compromise is to be used when one
possesses common ground with their opponent. If one does not have any such
common ground, a place where beliefs overlap, there is no benefit to
compromise. In fact, without common ground, compromise doesn’t even exist.
Moreover, if finding common ground requires one to violate their beliefs, even
in the slightest, what is the point? What is the cost, morally, strategically,
and politically of compromising, when it forces us to bend what should
otherwise be a straight principle?
Excerpt: Population out migration can be a key marker for a
disturbed society with deeply rooted policy flaws. It's a far better sign of a
state's health to have people lined up on its borders trying to get in than it
is to have people lined up on its borders trying to get out. Over the past 165
years, California
has grown at an average annual compound rate of 3.8%. But in recent times it
has morphed from being America 's
(if not the world's) greatest people attractor to being a massive population
and jobs repellent (see actual population in blue on the chart above).
White House Warns of
Floods, Wildfires, Swarms of Killer Bees, Cats and Dogs Living Together in Sin.
By Daniel Greenfield
Obamacare News
$922 per enrollee
Excerpt: The total spent on all the Exchanges was $7.394
billion. The total spent on the Exchanges in the 15 jurisdictions operating
their own Exchanges was $3.869 billion, while the total spent on the Exchanges
in the 36 states in which the federal government operates the Exchange was
$3.524 billion. The average cost-per-enrollee for all 50 states plus DC was
$922. For the 15 jurisdictions running their own Exchanges it was $1,503, while
for 36 states in which the federal government operates the Exchange it was
$647.
Millionaire
Democratic donor pal of George. By Timothy P. Carney
Excerpt: Rick Segal, CEO of financial
services firm Seavest, bundled between
$250,000 and $500,000 for the president's reelection campaign, in addition to
his $165,000 in political contributions since 1990. Seavest also profits
from Obamacare. Seavest has a business that invests in health-care properties.
Segal's Seavestments are paying off now, thanks in part to Obamacare:
Excerpt: America
seems to be slamming the door these days on the greatest salesman of the 21st
Century. The liberal Gannett Corporation's USA TODAY ran a poll last week and
it appears Obama's salesman days are over. 67% of Americans still oppose Obamacare
despite Obama's minions spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to
promote it. Rap stars, movie stars, and a number of the 30 million getting
healthcare for free still couldn't win over America to socialized
medicine.
Confirmed: Many of
Obamacare's 'Eight Million Enrollments' are Duplicates. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: We've been throwing cold water on the
administration's so-called exchange "enrollment" figures for months,
and for good reason: They're incomplete to the point of deception.
The Washington Post reported back
in November that official tabulations were including anyone who's
"selected a plan," which is the equivalent of placing an item in a
virtual shopping cart online, regardless of whether the check-out and payment
steps ever took place.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Iftikhar doesn’t even mention the verses that
Muslims like Abubakar Shekau point to in order to justify kidnapping young
girls and selling them into sexual slavery: "If you fear that you will not
act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two,
three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one,
or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial."
(Qur’an 4:3)
Today's Mis-Direct
Flavor? Boko Haram. By John Bernard
In one of the latest examples of the inability of writers,
the media and politicians to clearly define our current enemy, Nick
Cohen, writing for "The Observer" makes an impassioned plea for
the safety of some two hundred and twenty Nigerian girls, seized by one of the
more current and infamous forward elements of Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram. For
starters, these girls are Christian and from a predominately Christian village
in northeast Nigeria ,
called Chibok. What I will agree to is the insulting, narrowly focused
Obama Administration which has bent over backwards, seeking asylum for children
and families of Islamic origin while unconscionably ignoring the plight of
beleaguered Christians in places like Homs, the Coptic villages of Egypt and
now, Christians once again being brutalized by the Devil's forces in Nigeria.
Widow is gang-raped
as 'punishment' for having an affair with a married man in Indonesia
Excerpt: The rapists caught the couple together when they
barged into her house in the northern Indonesian province of Banda Aceh
Islamist Militants
Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Northeastern Nigeria
Excerpt: Islamist insurgents have killed hundreds in a town
in Nigeria ’s
northeast this week, the area’s senator, a resident and the Nigerian news media
reported on Wednesday, as more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the militants,
known as Boko Haram, remained missing.
Excerpt: Gunmen in the Pakistani city of Multan have shot dead a lawyer defending a
university lecturer accused of blasphemy, police and officials say.
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