2015 November, week 4

2nd month of the 4th quarter of the 26th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

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  "All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills." --- article 1 section 7 paragraph 1  

 
 
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2015 November

2nd month of the 4th quarter of the 26th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression


 
 

2015-11-22

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Christopher Monckton _WND_
are freedom-loving productive people vanishing?
"...There is also a 'State Science Institute', somewhat similar in its ideological approach to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA.   Like the Goddard Institute, which the GOP would do well to defund entirely if it wins the coming election, the State Science Institute does not do science but hard-left propaganda.   Thompson and Mouch, working with acquiescent and more than somewhat crooked socialist billionaires such as James Taggart (think Gore, Gates, Steyer et hoc genus omne), set about dismantling capitalism and the free market and replacing it with a totalitarian command economy in which, one by one, the principal means of production, distribution and exchange are brought under the direct control of the useless Mouch...   The audit of socialist totalitarianism to date is as follows.   Deaths in consequence of National Socialism and the resulting Second World War and Holocaust: 75M.   Deaths resulting from Communist socialism: at least 100M and counting.   Deaths arising from environmentalist socialism: 40M (chiefly children) killed by malaria as a direct result of the ban on DDT, 40M from the socialists' refusal to permit effective public-health measures against HIV during its earliest stages in the mid-1980s, and uncounted tens of millions more arising from their refusal to allow the 1.2G people who have no access to electricity to get it from cheap, reliable, clean, base-load, coal-fired power-stations.   Socialism kills, and preaches while it does so, and sneers and snarls at any who dare gainsay it until nearly all have been cowed into a fearful, cringing silence...   The reign of the monsters will be terrible, but it will be short.   This time next week, I shall report from Paris, where the instrument of global dictatorship will be signed -- unless at this 11th hour we can stop them."

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Joseph Farah _WND_
Obummer regime and RINOs have been stone-walling the biggest hacks in USA history
"When hackers breached U.S. government computer data-bases getting access to the names, addresses and [Socialist Insecurity numbers (SINs) and associated information] of 22M current and former federal employees and contractors, it represented a cyber attack of Pearl Harbor or 2001/09/11 proportions.   It was, by far, the largest infiltrations of supposedly secure data in the history of the United States of America, exposing to foreign enemies, terrorists and criminals a treasure trove of information that has compromised national security in ways that may not be completely understood for decades to come.   So congress finally got around to investigating the debacle last week, with closed-door hearings before the House Armed Services Committee.   And what happened? Officials from the Office of Personnel Management [OPM], the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] and Department of Homeland Security [DHS] all refused to testify.   Why? How? The officials canceled their previously scheduled appearance at the last minute because the committee would be doing what it routinely does with classified hearings -- transcribing the proceedings for review by members of congress...   [Security having been grossly breached by them, they're saying it would be a breach of security to say anything to the relevant committee-members.]..."

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Richard Douglas _Washington DC Times_
the idiocy of the visa waiver program -- no vetting, no background checks, nor background investigations
"...Citizens of Visa Waiver Program countries may enter the United States of America without a visa for up to 90 days [wink wink nudge nudge].   President Reagan signed the program into law in 1986.   For its first 14 years, congress kept a [loose] rein on the program by requiring its re-authorization every 2 years.   In 2000, congress moved to make the VWP permanent, under pressure from Bill Clinton's State Department and the travel industry...   Severely restricting or outright repeal of the Visa Waiver Program today is...necessary.   [No one should be able to set foot in the USA until and unless they've passed a thorough background investigation. Period.   But maybe we could build a visa applicant/refuge applicant/asylum applicant holding facility in the Marianas, or the Antarctic research station.]"

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Jennifer Harper _Washington DC Times_
Americans reject Dem/Red/leftist demand that every would-be "migrant"/ "refugee"/ "asylum seeker"/ invader/ terrorist/ cross-border criminal be admitted without a proper and conscientious background investigation

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Michele Hickford _Allen B. West_
already here: meet USA's first Muslim-majority city

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
A.F. Branco _WND_
"Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals, ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate, and the end-game (cartoon)

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Jonah Goldberg _WND_
why the left/Reds cling to denial about Islamic terrorism

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Chuck Norris _WND_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate and a 1777 congressional Thanks-Giving prayer
"...Constitutionally speaking, as commander in chief of the armed forces, the president has the power to repel invasions.   But the Framers of the Constitution bestowed the power to declare war upon Congress, unless it comes to invasion -- like how the FBI has recently warned us that ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate has presence in all 50 states of our union?...   In 1862, the supreme court opined that the president 'has no power to initiate or declare a war', but if there were an invasion, 'the president is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force...without waiting for any special legislative authority'.   Prize Cases (1863)...   before we give thanks and pray this Thanksgiving, I suggest that our Founders' following proclamation and prayer from the first national day of thanksgiving in America (set for 1777 Dec. 18), declared by the Continental Congress on 1777 Nov. 1, be read from congressional corridors to American dining tables across our country.   'FORASMUCH as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God;   to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of;   and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common Providence, but also to smile upon us in the Prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties;   particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the means used for the support of our troops and to crown our arms with most signal success:   It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart THURSDAY, the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanks-giving and praise; that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their Divine Benefactor;   and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please GOD, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance;   that it may please him graciously to afford his blessing on the governments of these States respectively, and prosper the public council of the whole;   to inspire our commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the Providence of Almighty GOD, to secure for these United States the greatest of all human blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE;   That it may please him to prosper the trade and manufactures of the people and the labor of the husbandman, that our land may yet yield its Increase;   to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing Hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that Kingdom which consisteth in Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost.'"

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Ben Kinchlow _WND_
the only source of our liberty and happiness

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
reverend Jesse Lee Peterson _WND_
antidote to the poison killing the USA

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Barbara Simpson _WND_
terrible week in review

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
I would bring back water-boarding of captured terrorists and foreign covert operatives; it's peanuts compared to what they do to us

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Robert Knight _Washington DC Times_
leftists object to reasonable, common sense precautions

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Armstrong Williams _Washington DC Times_
a sober reflection on how to defeat terrorists

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Aaron Klein & Ali Waked _Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate PR-clones announce sleeper cells allegedly have "all kinds of weapons"

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
Ban Ki-moon: Russia & USA should unite to defeat ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Brandon Darby _Breitbart_
Houston TX Chronicle writer Dylan Baddour says dozens of "Syrians" coming into Texas from Mexico is not news
"...Breitbart Texas broke a story revealing that Syrians currently have access to the porous U.S.A.-Mexico border, specifically in Texas.   The sources for the story used the word 'caught' as they brought attention to the matter that would have otherwise remained unknown to the public.   Due to the use of that one word in an accurate report revealing people from a nation partly controlled by ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate currently have access to [and through] our porous border with Mexico, the folks from the Houston Chronicle and other left-leaning news outlets claim that our report was full of 'inaccuracies', though when questioned on that claim one Houston Chronicle writer admitted the only alleged 'inaccuracy' was the use of that one word...   [going on to claim that being detained at a port makes them 'legal immigrants'/'refugees'/'asylum seekers' rather than illegal alien barbarian invaders]...   Also, I should note, the Southwest border is about the only place that Syrians can claim asylum (which is different from refugee status -- that allows them to petition for asylum outside of the country), experts agree.   Syrians will not get visa approval to fly to the United States or Canada.   Sometimes not even Mexico -- those with good money fly to Central America..."

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
beagles to sniff out bio-terror at LAX

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
illegal alien "children" & other-than-Mexicans (OTMs) continue to invade at record rate

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
Brownsville, TX: cartel used make-shift rafts to float drug-loaded pick-up trucks across Rio Grand/Rio Bravo

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Jarrett Stepman _Breitbart_
leftists/Dems/Reds are trying to distance themselves from fellow leftist racist Woodrow Wilson

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
Marco Rubio supports Trade-Promotion Authority and Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty, Ted Cruz opposes them

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
S.A. Miller _Washington DC Times_
TEA partiers support Donald Trump (and Walker, and Santorum, and Huckabee) tentatively, not trusting whether he'll stand by campaign assertions
"...Trump edged out Cruz for tea party support, 32% to 30%, in a Quinnipiac University Poll earlier this month...   The Quinnipiac Poll identified immigration as the #2 issue for tea party voters behind the economy and jobs..."

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Trent Baker _Breitbart_
Patrick J. Buchanan warns that Europe has been morphing into a Muslim continent

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
Palestinian murdered 21-year-old Israeli woman named Hadar Buchris, by repeated stabbing

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Stephen Moore _Washington DC Times_
colleges students protest against hurt feeeeelings
Town Hall: who created these campus whiners?

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Gary Lauer _Washington DC Times_
ObummerDoesn'tCare discriminates against "middle class": punishes middle-class families that work too hard and earn too much
"Obamacare discriminates against middle-class families who buy their own health insurance, but protects tax breaks for corporations. How is this fair?..."

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Joel B. Pollak _Breitbart_
when Harry S. Truman singled out ethnic German "refugees" & "asylum seekers" to require investigations regarding the character, history, and eligibility

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Christine Rousselle _Town Hall_
Sarah Palin wrote a pun-filled thank-you note to singer Adele

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
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2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Eric Worrall
are stringent vehicle emissions standards driving a surge in coal?

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Larry Kummer
el Nino: nature disappoints climate hysteria activists

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Larry Kummer
VolksWagen's crass crony socialist capitulation to the corrupt EPA thuggery

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
Daniel Nussbaum _Breitbart_
during whacky California's drought, water-conservers were fined, while wealthy scofflaws had free rein

2015-11-22 (5776 Kislev 10)
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_Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Destroying the Lives, Families, and Careers of the USA's] Best & Brightest Workers_ (amazon; 480 pages; 10.6MB)
 
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2015-11-23

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
main characters in the H-1B story speak at Center for Immigration Studies panel on "Betrayal of USA's Best and Brightest": Michelle Malkin, John Miano, Leo Perrero, Paul Donnelly, Francis Cissna, Bryan Griffin, Mark Krikorian
"Well, not all the main characters, but certainly some of the interesting ones..."
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2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Mark Sherman _Washington DC Times_/_AP_
states ask supremes for more time to prepare arguments in response to Obummer's appeal of 5th circuit sustaining of district court injunction against unconstitutional and illegal amnesty of illegal aliens
"..If the justices agree to the state's request, the [Obummer regime's scheme] would miss the court's informal dead-line for a decision by the end of June.   The [scheme that Obummer] unveiled a year ago mainly affects people who are living in the country illegally, but who have children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.   Unless the court was to take the rare step of scheduling an argument in May, the issue would not be heard by the justices until the fall or decided before 2017 Spring..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Leonid Bershidsky _Jewish World Review_
leisure deficit, attacks on personal private vehicles, are killing off the suburbs
Note the illustration: "Tata... LifeStyle Residences. World-Class Spaces Coming Soon..."
"It's possible the biggest cause of gentrification in formerly depressed urban areas is that today's skilled workers can't spare the time to commute.   If true, this has implications for businesses ranging from real estate development to tech -- and raises the question of why companies still insist that white-collar employees come in to work.   Lena Edlund and Michaela Sviatchi of Columbia University and Cecilia Machado of the Getulio Vargas Foundation wondered why the relationship between housing prices and distance from the center of major U.S.A. cities has reversed since 1980.   That year, prices were higher in the suburbs, and urban centers were going to seed.   In the next 30 years, prices within three miles of the central business districts of the 27 biggest cities more than doubled.   Within a radius of 3 to 10 miles, they increased by 60%.   Further out, they grew by only 6% to 10%...   Indeed, since 1990, the number of skilled people working long hours -- 50 a week or more -- has been growing.   There are often two such people to a relatively affluent household, and they know a long commute is not an option: It doesn't just leave little time for fun and family life, it's downright bad for one's health.   A 2012 paper showed that increasing the daily commuting time from 62 minutes -- the average for Americans living in urban areas -- by another 60 minutes leads to a 6% decrease in health-related activities and so contributes to obesity.   Short commutes that can be made by foot or bicycle actually increase a worker's life satisfaction because they're healthy and provide a cushion between home and work life..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Katie Zezima & Sean Sullivan _Jewish World Review_
Marco Rubio & Ted Cruz clash over immigration and the GOP's future... or is it all just campaign-season kabuki theater?

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
their eye is on the sparrow -- USCIS wastes more time on tiny populations while refusing to look at larger, more dangerous populations

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
senators Grassley and Durbin propose intentionally weak, ineffectual H-1B and L-1 visa reforms (S2266); part 1 of 3
"...The H-1B program is for [cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled] non-immigrant workers (most often in the IT industry) [with flexible ethics] and it currently has annual ceilings of 20K for workers with advanced degrees from U.S. educational institutions and 65K for all others [plus infinite exemptions from the aforesaid phony limits].   The L-1 program is for multi-national companies and allows them, without numerical limits [without even pretend regulations for local market compensation], to transfer professional workers ['temporarily', for a week or a month or a year] from their over-seas units to their U.S.A. operations..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
Muslim terrorists in Mali would be welcome under Paul Ryan's new "refugee" bill (HR4038)
"Last week establishment Republican speaker of the House Paul Ryan shot down the idea of a religious test for 'refugees' coming to America at [tax-victim] expense.   Ryan said, 'We will not have a religious test, only a security test.', before touting his bill that allegedly gives extra scrutiny to those 'refugees' coming to the U.S.A. from Syria and Iraq.   The day after Ryan's bill was pushed through the House on a closed Rule, meaning no conservative amendments were allowed, Muslim terrorists – jihadis as they call themselves -- launched a terror attack on the American-owned Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali.   One American, former Peace Corps volunteer Anita Datar, was among 27 reported dead after the Muslim jihadis attacked the hotel shouting 'Allahu akbar' [Our God is great].   The bill the House passed, HR4038, 'The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act', or rather was forced by Speaker Ryan to pass, limits the extra scrutiny and security certification to purported refugees only from Syria and Iraq...

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
Smithsonian art exhibit tries to glorify H-1B grantees to celebrate 25 years of economic destruction

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Michelle Quinn _San Jose CA Mercury News_
tech executives claim to be "empowering" bodies shopped and cast aside

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Jerry Kammer _Center for Immigration Studies_
"Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals and the wisdom of Michael Oakeshott

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
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2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Alyssa Rosenberg _Jewish World Review_
religion in "Star Wars"

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Greg Mille & Souad Mekhennet _Jewish World Review_
inside the surreal world of ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate's propaganda machine

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Conservative HQ_
Donald Trump and the "migrant"/ "refugee"/ "asylum seeker" data-base
"It's become a predictable pattern.   Donald Trump says something, the media recoils in horror and begins calculating his demise.   And then the polls don't move an inch -- or even go up slightly.   Such is the way it is in politically correct America, where merely mentioning certain ethnic groups will get you run through the wringer of [leftist] scourge.   Trump's latest linguistic apostasy concerns a comment he made late last week in response to a reporter's question about starting up a data-base for American Muslims, where The Donald unequivocally stated his administration would keep track of all of them.   The [leftist] media didn't like it...   The country class is extremely concerned about terrorism right now.   Radical Islamists are threatening to destroy us.   Trump is promising to do whatever it takes to protect the American public.   People see him as a strong leader because of it.   It's not rocket science, yet the media acts shocked when Trump or Ben Carson says something slightly off the trail of accepted discourse...   I'm with Cruz on this one.   Under our Constitution, government can't collect information on citizens without probable cause to suspect wrong'doing [plus a warrant from a judge].   For non-citizens, all bets are off, of course..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Philip Bump _Jewish World Review_
just so you know: the government already has a list of Muslims in the USA
"...If you go to the FB ad-buying site -- which anyone can do; it's right here -- it only takes a few clicks to get the social network's estimate of the number of Americans on FB who are interested in the Muslim faith.   Cobbling together everyone who lives in the U.S.A. and who has liked pages or items dealing with Islam gives you 9.4M possible targets for your ads -- a number substantially higher than the the 2.75M Muslims Pew Research estimates in the U.S.A.   But still: FB has a sense of who's interested in the subject.   If that level of pin-pointing surprises you, wait for the punchline.   FB's information is very, very rough compared to that compiled by large consumer data companies.   According to one expert, it is also almost certainly the case that the government buys that data to get a clearer picture of the American population.   Here's how it works.   Go to the Google ads site and you can see what the search giant thinks it knows about you -- or, at least, what it's willing to share about what it knows.   Based on my search history and the web-sites I visit, Google figures that I am a male aged 35-44, which is correct...   By giving information to a central source, a data broker like Acxiom or Experian...   Data like credit card purchases, browser history, online shopping, who you donate to, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, purchases in grocery stores where you swipe your loyalty card...   can also easily build out a profile of a household.   Where you vacation.   Where you work.   They can analyze languages spoken and last names to develop a picture of a person's or family's ethnicity, or religion...   '...the government, writ large, is the largest source of funds for the data brokerage industry.', Sparapani said...   You know of the government's existing databases instinctively: [Socialist Insecurity], Census data, your college or home loans, your tax information, and so on.   For immigrants and refugees, there's more information, including interviews and background checks...   '...DHS and others have already purchased these materials...'..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
_Conservative HQ_
RINOs Yebbie Booosh, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Karl Rove... suckered by or complicit with anti-USA leftists like Obummer and George Soros

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Charles Ornstein _Jewish World Review_
how your most private health/medical care information can be revealed due to the laws that seem to say otherwise

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Mark Steyn _Jewish World Review_
the week in "Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam"
"...So not only is terrorism nothing to do with Islam, but Muslims have 'nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism'.   [Hitlery Rotten Clinton] said this a few hours before yet another US citizen was killed by terrorists shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' -- this time in a mass slaughter at the Radisson Hotel in Bamako, Mali.   Hostages were given a stark choice: if they could recite from the Koran, they would live; if they were incapable of reciting from the Koran, they would die.   So whoever these terrorists were -- 'you name it' -- they knew enough about Islam to be able to recognize quotations from the Koran.   Yet they can't be Muslims because Muslims have 'nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism'.   So who does have something to do with terrorism? Republicans mainly.   Republicans are the greatest recruiting tool for terrorism that has ever been devised -- far more effective than jihadist snuff videos on 'social media'.   Just ask [president Barack Hussein Obummer]..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Stephen Carter _Jewish World Review_
predicting terrorism through the power of markets adversaries
"...Prediction markets work by allowing investors to trade securities that are priced to reflect other investors' beliefs about the likelihood that a particular event will occur.   If you are holding the security and the event occurs then you 'win'.   They are generally regarded as useful tools for aggregating information that is decentralized.   Electoral prediction markets, according to their supporters, are more accurate than political polling.   If the markets are as good as claimed, one theory on why they work so well is that people incorporate less their own preferences than their knowledge of how friends and neighbors plan to vote.   And with money at stake, they 'bet' with their heads rather than their hearts..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
David Weigel _Jewish World Review_
voters say their reaction to the Muslim terrorist attacks on people in Paris, is ramped up by Obummer's insane reactions, distrust of his motives, and a desire to defeat ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
after ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate falls
"...To guide this strategic planning, it's useful to look at five dates that marked the end of other convulsive conflicts: 1648, 1815, 1919, 1945 and 1989.   Four of them created durable new frameworks that addressed the causes of instability.   One, however, set in motion the disaster of the modern Middle East.   Let's quickly review these 5 peace agreements.   In each, there's a lesson for today:   The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 is probably better known than the obscure conflicts it resolved, which are collectively described as the Thirty Years' War..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Kathleen Parker _Jewish World Review_
defeating ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate will take more than bombs and boots (great cartoon! 2015-11-16 by Pat Bagley from the Salt Lake Tribune)

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Dianne Feinstein: ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate is a quasi-state; Obummer: ISIL is just a bunch of killers with good "social media"

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Leon Panetta: the resources applied to defeat ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate have not been sufficient

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Russia claims to be bombing ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate ruthlessly; Obummer says he still doesn't know if Russians are on-board

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Iran "news": ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate was groomed by Zionists & Americans; the Muslim terrorist attacks in Paris are a plot to send armies to the Middle East to remove Bashar al-Assad
"...As translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Kayhan's Editor Hossein Shariatmadari wrote on Nov. 15 that '[ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate] elements are not the good soldiers of Iran and Hizbullah, who defend the innocent with their bodies.   Rather, they are people with no sense, cultivated by the Zionists, Americans, British, French, and Saudis, and will attack anywhere there is an opportunity...'..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
chairman of the House Intelligence committee David Nunes (R-CA): Obummer White House denied having a containment strategy toward ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate... until Obummer claimed "we have contained them"

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
Rush Limbaugh: in Barack Hussein Obummer's mind, his #1 enemies are non-leftists, not Muslim terrorists

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Mark Judge _Cybercast News Service_
advertisement produced by the Church of England, featuring "the lord's prayer" rejected by British cinemas
"The Digital Cinema Media (DCM) agency, which handles British film advertising for the major movie chains, Odeon, Cineworld and Vue, refused to show the 60-second film because it believed it would risk upsetting or offending audiences..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Dennis Byrne _Political Mavens_
mission creep: unconstitutional Medicaid money being used to house the homeless

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Jessica Chasmar _Washington DC Times_
Alan Dershowitz: where are the "safe spaces" for Jewish students?

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Laura Ingraham
Reuters/Ipsos poll: 53% of Americans feel like strangers in our own country
Mike Flynn: Breitbart
"According to the Reuters survey, 58% Americans say they 'don't identify with what America has become'.   While Republicans and Independents are the most likely to agree with this statement, even 45% of Dems/leftists/Reds share this feeling.   More than half of Americans, 53%, say they 'feel like a stranger' in their own country...""

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Laura Ingraham
evil anti-USA Obummer vows/threatens to bring more "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals into USA

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Laura Ingraham
Austin TX Independent School District recruiting more Arabic-speaking tutors
KEYE TV CBS

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
flow of "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals shows no sign of winter slow-down: UN expects 60K by February
"...as many as 5K migrants from the Middle East may travel from Turkey into Europe every day.   That equates to some 600K migrants moving north between the beginning of November 2015 and the end of February 2016.   That represents a huge increase in the migrant flow, as the first ten months of 2015 saw a total of 850K migrants arriving in Europe by sea.   If the rate is sustained, some 1.9M more migrants could be expected to arrive in Europe next year...   Earlier this month the UN agency reported that the number of migrants entering Europe by sea in October this year was equal to the total for the whole of 2014, when approximately 219K new arrivals were recorded..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Laura Ingraham
Friday, corrupt?/negligent?/stupid? JFK airport officials let 150 on flight from Cancun, Mexico skip customs, leave airport into USA
NY Daily News
Caroline May: Breitbart
"...As of Sunday 144 passengers had returned for processing and an official told The Daily News that the remaining passengers were U.S. citizens..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
_Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate pig: murder women who provoke en's desire

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Threat Knowledge Group: ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate threat to the USA

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Victor Morton _Washington DC Times_
DoS issued travel alert due to increased terrorism threats; avoid crowds for at least the next 3 months

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Paul Nuttall member of European parliament _Breitbart_
Brussels became a Muslim terrorist hot-spot because of socialist mayor's immigration ideology
"...about half a mile north-west of Brussels city centre lies the shabby suburb of Molenbeek.   It is one of Brussels' 19 districts.   This run down area of the Belgian capital has become the epicentre of a media storm during the past week as a number of the terrorists behind the appalling Paris attacks came from Molenbeek...   Breitbart London's Raheem Kassam... So we planned to take a lengthy walk around the area the following day with the leader of the Swedish Democrats Jimmie Akesson...   the root of the problem is a hard-line socialist of the Jeremy Corbyn school of Left wing lunacy.   In 1992 Phillipe Moureaux -- a prominent Brussels socialist -- became the mayor of Molenbeek.   He remained in that post until 2012.   During his twenty years in office, any questioning of the demographic change in Molenbeek was shut down as 'racist', and Moureaux pursued his policies of multiculturalism and 'diversity' with gusto.   During Moureaux's reign of madness the population of Molenbeek exploded.   In the first five years of the century the population rose by 12% and in the first fifteen years by a massive 30%.   Molenbeek's population grew to around 100K with around 30% of foreign nationality and another 40% of foreign origins (people who now have Belgian passports).   This huge wave of immigration made it impossible for people to integrate properly, but any criticism was silenced.   Of course, as a result, the new immigrants voted en masse for the Belgian Socialist Party, so Moureaux stayed in power.   It's not too dissimilar to the game played by the Labour Party in many cities and towns in the North of England.   However, Moureaux failed on every count: Molenbeek does not have many different cultures and it is certainly no longer diverse.   There is one culture: an Islamic culture and no real diversity as almost everyone is either Arab or at least of Arab origin..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
Bo Dietl: NYC on highest alert since 2001/09/11 after de Blasio gutted critical intelligence unit

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Edwin Mora _Breitbart_
Assyrian army commander: we are losing Christianity

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Sarkis Zeronian _Breitbart_
illegal aliens breach fence from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Melilla

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
Australians march against Islamization, extreme leftist counter-protests turn violent

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Awr Hawkins _Breitbart_
armed protesters surrounded Irving, Texas mosque to oppose Islamization of USA... no violence

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Lana Shadwick _Breitbart_
deputy Darren Goforth's murder was in retaliation for being a deputy sheriff

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Deborah Danan _Breitbart_
full 17% of Arabs in Israel support ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate: 57% believe Islamic Movement represents them
Jerusalem Post

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
poll: 1 in 5 British Muslims has sympathy with Muslim terrorists who have joined ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Tammy Bruce _Washington DC Times_
terrorism explodes... insane Obummer goes to war against USA
"Since the horrific Paris terror attacks, [president Obummer] and the Dems/leftists/Reds want you to think that defending ourselves from Islamic terrorism will only make things worse.   Bombing the ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate, you see, will make it easier for them to recruit.   [Barack Hussein Obummer] also says closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison will make us safer because, according to him, ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate, uses its existence as a recruitment tool.   The president also insists that any effort to pause the importation of Syrian refugees while we strengthen the vetting process will also cause more Muslims to join the ranks of those insane mass murderers...   One of my co-bloggers noted the 'curious paradox' of this position at my web-site: 'Strikes me as a curious paradox that Muslims are not Muslims when they are active terrorists, but they are all potential terrorists if we do anything to offend Muslims [or effectively defend against terrorism].   I have in mind the dire warnings of a recruitment bonanza if we don't accept Syrian refugees.'...   In what could have been a Churchill-like moment for him, [Obummer] instead chose to be Mr. Magoo..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Trent Baker _Breitbart_
pro-ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate messages found painted on large rock at Youngstown State U in Ohio

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Raheem Kassam _Breitbart_
Hungary's prime-minister Viktor Orban:
"...Orban -- who has been the most fervent defender of the Judeo-Christian West during the ongoing migrant crisis -- said that the 'number one job' for European policy makers since the Paris attacks is 'to defend the borders and to control who is coming in'.   He said it was 'logical' that Europe's enemies -- radical Islamists -- would send terrorists in with the migrant wave.   'All of them present a security threat because we don't know who they are...' taking aim at his fellow countryman George Soros, a billionaire whose Open Society Foundations finance almost every large pro-migration think tank and pressure group in the Western world...   Mr. Orban's opposition to left-wing Europhiles who in his words 'destroy freedom in the name of freedom' has brought upon him the more devious and anti-democratic elements of the EU -- specifically in the form of foreign [tax-victim-funded] agitation against him..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Julian Robinson _London Daily Mail_
IDF soldier grieves after brother-in-arms was stabbed to death by Palestinian, who wounded 2 others at a gas station in Eastern Israel

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Brendan Cole _London Daily Mail_/_AP_
more Palestinians stabbed people in Israel

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
_Breitbart_
stabbed teen recounts chilling encounter with Palestinian terrorist; perpetrator was arrested after 5 hours

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Sara Malm _London Daily Mail_
over 1,500 turned out for memorial service for Ezra Schwartz

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
_Breitbart_
Obummer regime finally sent condolences to media and family of young Jewish man from Massachusetts killed in Palestinian terrorist attack

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Andrea Noble _Washington DC Times_
CCRKBA to DC police-chief Cathy L. Lanier: DC firearms ordinances and regulations make it difficult to take down an active initiator of force

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Patrick Howley _Breitbart_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton: all rape victims deserve to be believed...
alleged victim of rape by Bill Clinton: I think she has always known...they have this evil compact between the two of them that they know what the other does and overlook it... these are not good people for America

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Tony Lee _Breitbart_
Roger Stone: "new media" are holding Hitlery Rotten Clinton accountable for arming ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate, putting Americans in danger

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Patrick Howley _Breitbart_
Donald Trump criticized Hitlery Rotten Clinton for hypocrisy for having, when she was NY senator, supported a border fence/wall for Israel, but not the USA

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Paul Driessen & Gene Taubman _Washington DC Times_
in Israel, terrorism from Palestinians lurks daily

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Allum Bokhari _Breitbart_
destroying network privacy won't destroy ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Liam Deacon _Breitbart_
UK soccer fans celebrate elimination of Jihadi John in "terrace chant"

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Peter Morici _Breitbart_
Islamic initiation of force and fraud threatens European liberty, prosperity and democracy
Washington DC Times

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
non-violent Muslims -- mostly women -- rally in Rome against the ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate cancer

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Adelle Nazarian _Breitbart_
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) hosted "inter-faith panel" in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, California on "xenophobia"

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Chriss W. Street _Breitbart_
in Argentina, "conservative" Mauricio Macri defeated Peronists/Marxists in election
"...The warm climate and fertile land encouraged a huge immigration from Western Europe.   In the early 1900s Europeans referred to a wealthy person as someone who was 'as rich as an Argentine'.   In World War 2, with a quarter of all the food in Britain being imported from neutral Argentina, Argentina was the second richest nation on the planet.   But all of that ended with the 1943 fascist military coup, and the 3 terms beginning in 1946 for Juan Perón as president.   The military strongman squandered Argentina's enormous wealth with a combination of radical social spending and blatant corruption..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Scot Vorse _Breitbart_
facts about ObummerDoesn'tCare

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Lauretta Brown _Cybercast News Service_
Ted Cruz on the lunacy of trans-gender policies: even my 5-year-old knows there's a difference between boys and girls

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
census bureau: 21.6% of children in the USA -- 15.931M -- were on food stamps in 2014

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Scott Morefield _WND_
let's care for "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals over there

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Phyllis Schlafly _WND_
just say "no" to "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals being brought into the USA without proper, conscientious background investigations

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Joseph Farah _WND_
bogus comparison between holocaust and "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Laura Ingraham
contrary to media reports, "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals are a burden in Maine: interview with Mary Mayhew (partial transcript and audio)
"Today on The Laura Ingraham Show, Mary Mayhew, Health and Human Services Commissioner, discussed the massive welfare reforms Maine has implemented over the past four years.   Despite immense backlash from the media, governor LePage's administration has reduced enrollment in the state's food stamp program by over 58K.   Further, 357K individuals were receiving Medicaid in Maine when LePage was elected, a number that has fallen to 287K.   Mayhew attributes the decline to eliminating the waiver of the work requirement previously attached to food stamps; under the new legislation, recipients need to work 20 hours a week, volunteer an hour a day, or attend a class to receive food stamps past 3 months.   The program seeks to de-incentivize government and encourage Maine residents to become active in the workforce and economy.   Unfortunately, the influx of Somalian refugees over the past several years has, according to Mayhew, taken away from opportunities previously available to residents in Maine.   These refugees have had a wide on the welfare program, the education system, and many other aspects of society.   Despite recent articles claiming Somalis can save Maine's economy, Mayhew says, 'overall, we have seen an increased burden to the infrastructure and the welfare programs' as a result of the refugees..."
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2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Abraham H. Miller _Washington DC Times_
Obummer refugee scheme favors Muslims; no Christians and persecuted minorities allowed

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Mychal Massie _WND_
Obummer continues to bad-mouth and mock the USA and our citizenry

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Victor Davis Hanson _PJMedia_
politics and what remains of the English language

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Todd Starnes _Town Hall_
Veterans Administration ban of Christmas Trees causes yuletide up-rising

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Robert Davi _Breitbart_
Islam needs reformation and USA needs no more immigration without integration/assimilation

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
in USA "white" Christians are now a minority

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
while Obummer attacks the right to own and carry arms for the defense of ourselves, our neighbors, and the state, let us reflect on their importance for discouraging tyranny

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Ed Feulner _Washington DC Times_
restoring a sense of gratitude for the USA

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Richard W. Rahn _Washington DC Times_
work and productivity
"Your Thanksgiving dinner is going to be less expensive.   This year the average person will need to work 2 hours, 21 minutes and 57 seconds to pay for all the items in a standard Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people -- a work reduction of one minute and 8 seconds from last year.   Back in 1986, the average person needed to work 3 hours, 12 minutes and 27 seconds to pay for the same dinner, or 50 minutes and 30 seconds longer than a worker today.   This is the great beauty of the capitalistic system -- in real terms, as measured by the time necessary to work to buy most anything, the price falls year after year.   If you wonder who calculates stuff like this, go the web-site HumanProgress.org, and you will find how my Cato colleague Marian Tupy put together the numbers.   Many of the good-news facts that follow were put together by Mr. Tupy and his colleague Chelsea German and can be found in more detail at the Human Progress web-site..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Raymond Ibrahim _Human Events_
Obummer's love for Sunni Muslim terrorists and hate for Christians has been exposed

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Guy Taylor _Washington DC Times_
Sunni Muslim sheikhs in Iraq decry insufficient help from USA in battling ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate, say Russia is eager to fill the void

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Jennifer Harper _Washington DC Times_
Rand Paul: to defeat ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate and other terrorists, cut off their money
"“As a doctor, I know that attacking symptoms isn't the same thing as finding a cure.   I'm also mindful of what the Cold War official and nuclear strategist Paul Nitze said: One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.   If we are to eradicate ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate once and for all, it's time to take a hard look at what is fueling its growth: money.', GOP presidential hopeful senator Rand Paul says in a forceful new voter outreach.   'ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate's reserve of an estimated $2G makes it the world's most well-financed terrorist organization.   Air-strikes have impacted ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate's oil trade, but there's one form of funding we can put an immediate stop to: donations from citizens, purported non-profit groups, and governments or private sources in Gulf nations including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.   Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military equipment paid for by American [tax-victims] are in ISIS’s hands.', the law-maker continues, advising the U.S.A. to adopt a more prudent, selective approach to military action..."

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
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2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Eric Worrall
Russian power assets attacked: how long will the trans-Siberian pipe-line last?

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer: $3G for UN climate fund is a smart investment

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Eric Worrall
claim: terrorist attacks in France increased likelihood of a climate treaty

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Anthony Watts
how not to measure temperature, British facepalm edition

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
whacked-out Barack Hussein Obummer: "climate change" summit in Paris is a message to (Muslim) terrorists

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
James Delingpole _Breitbart_
no, prince Charles, "climate change" is not the cause of civil war in Syrin, nor for the development of ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate
Eric Worrall

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Kip Hansen
chaos & climate part 2 -- chaos = stability

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Sam Dorman _Cybercast News Service_
some senators want proper examination and constitutional two-thirds vote requirement for approval of any climate treaty negotiated at Paris conference, other senators call for carte blanche senate approval of ANY climate treaty negotiated in Paris, regardless of specifications, terms, and conditions

2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Ben Wolfgang _Washington DC Times_
coal communities see bleak future as Obummer's agenda and increased supplies and use of natural gas speed industry's decline

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2015-11-23 (5776 Kislev 11)
Andrea Shea King _WND_
private property saved the Puritan Pilgrims
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  "I returned & saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time & chance happeneth to all of them." --- Ecclesiastes 9:11 (quoted in Eric Arthur Blair/George Orwell, quoted in Richard Lederer 1991 _The Miracle of Language_ pg 148)  

 
 

2015-12-24

This morning, for president of the USA, I'm liking (1) Mark Levin, (2) Jeff Sessions, (3) Michelle Malkin, (4) Rick Santorum, (5) Tom Tancredo, (6) Ted Cruz, (7) Donald Trump, (9) Ann Coulter, (10) Ben S. Carson, (11) Thomas Sowell, (12) Mike Huckabee, (16) Ken Blackwell, (18) Allen West, (20) Tom Cotton, (21) Carly Fiorina, (23) Rand Paul, (25) Gary Johnson, (26) Jim Gilmore, (30) Alan Keyes, (20,000) Marco Rubio (i.e. far worse than Keyes, but far far far better than Yebbie Booosh), (100,000,000) Yebbie Booosh, (160,000,000) any native US citizen chosen at random from a nationwide telephone directory or census list, (209,000,000) Lindsey Grahamnesty, (230,500,000) Chris Christie, (309,999,000) Hitlery Rotten Clinton, but at this stage the preference order is likely to change with the next corroborated bit of news that comes by.

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
sex matters in employment, forget age?: more on Durbin-Grassley bill
"One of the more obscure features of the recently-announced Durbin-Grassley bill on H-1B/L-1 visa 'reform' (S2266) is to mandate better data collection on the visa holders, particularly on [sex].   We really neeeed the [sex] data, supporters say.   Really? I'm concerned about [sex] discrimination in the tech industry, but I'd argue that there is far more pressing data that ought to be collected -- say counts of Americans who apply for jobs that ultimately are filled by H-1Bs.   Collect data on [sex] of H-1Bs -- how politically correct!   Unfortunately, there is no concern for age discrimination, arguably a much more troubling problem..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Laura Ingraham
two-dozen former Disney STEM professionals replaced by H-1B guest-workers prepare law-suit against Disney
Patrick Thibodeau: ComputerWorld/IDG: have filed complaints with EEOC for illegal discrimination based on national origin

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Laura Ingraham
senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) & John Cornyn (RINO-TX): young immigrants risk being abused by sponsors with criinal records

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
Obummer's comparison of terrorists with tourists highlights the fact that USA immigration/tourism/exchange/guest-work system is totally dysfunctional
Washington DC Times
Everyone who wants to enter should have to pass background investigation for signs of intention to initiate force or fraud, and medical tests for communicable diseases.

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
senators Grassley and Durbin propose intentionally weak, ineffectual H-1B and L-1 visa reforms (S2266); part 2 of 3, how it allocates 65K of the 130K-200K H-1B visas

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Neil Munro _Breitbart_
senator Jeff Sessions cites 12 Muslim "refugees" turned terrorists charged this year, hopes to shrink Obummer's 2016 "refugee" budget

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
how Obummer cooks the terrorism numbers
Washington DC Times
"...Pew Research, which is no right-wing echo chamber, polls extensively on what Muslims believe about current events, and found that only 57% of Muslims in nine predominantly Islamic countries hold an unfavorable opinion of al-Qaeda.   Mathmeticians, even math majors, generally regard 57% as less than 99.9%.   One in 4 Muslims has a favorable opinion of Hezbollah, from whom ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate learned certain torture techniques used on American captives, such as William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut whom the CIA concluded was reduced to 'close to a gibbering wretch'.   Once months of torture finally killed him, his body was dumped on the side of a dirt road.   Pew finds that a third, or 33% of Muslims support Hamas, whose soldiers once went into a hotel in the Israeli city of Netanya and burst into a room where a group of elderly Jews, including several Holocaust survivors and some in wheel-chairs, were having a Passover supper.   One of the Hamas heroes detonated his suicide vest, killing 30 and wounding 140 others.   The Palestinian Authority later named a soccer tournament to honor the suicide bomber.   The math major could tell [Obummer] that a third, or 33%, is less than 99.9%...   If Muslims shunned the terrorists by the percentages that Christians shun the Ku Klux Klan, observes Josh Gelernter in the National Review, 'the president would have a point'.   But they don't, and he doesn't."
Discover the Networks: Hamas
Discover the Networks: Hezbollah/Hizbollah/HizbeAllah

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Mairead McArdle _Cybercast News Service_
senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO): the traumatized sex-trafficking victims behind the statistics

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
pending bills dealing with Syria and national security

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
disappearing governors
World Net Daily
Town Hall
"...The withdrawal of governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and then of Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, are major losses -- not because we know that either of them would make a great president, but precisely because we have no idea whether either of them would have been great or awful..."
But at this point, governor Chris Christie of New Jersey seems to be the kind of articulate candidate only a RINO could love, who would repel Republican voters on election day.s

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
the USA-basher-in-chief rolls on
Cybercast News Service
World Net Daily
Town Hall
Human Events
"How could America have twice elected a president who not only can't stand America but also won't perform his constitutional duty of defending it?...   Islamist terrorists are waging a global war against America and our allies, and the president won't even identify our enemy.   He sees Christians, Republicans and conservatives as the real threat to America -- the distorted version of America, that is, that he envisions.   He continues to trash America on foreign soil at every opportunity..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Carol Morello _Jewish World Review_
shocking news!: the haughty John Kerry supported Israeli response to wave of attacks by Palestinians

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Kim Lachance Shandrow _Fox_
Jeff Bezos's start-up launched and landed reusable sub-orbital rocket Blue Origin

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Dennis Prager _Jewish World Review_
* USA universities imploding *
World Net Daily
Town Hall
"For over half a century, American universities, with few exceptions, have ceased teaching and begun indoctrinating.   In the last few weeks, this downhill spiral has accelerated.   The university is now a caricature of an educational institution.   It is difficult to come up with an idea or policy that is more absurd than the ideas and policies that now dominate American campuses..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Walter E. Williams _Cybercast News Service_
** free speech **
Jewish World Review
World Net Daily

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Patrick J. Buchanan _Cybercast News Service_
will Europe man-up?
World Net Daily
Town Hall
Human Events
"...Yet, from 1914 August to 1918 November -- World War 1 -- 850 French died every day for 51 months, a total of 1.3M in 4 years in a country not nearly so populous as France is today.   On 1914 Aug. 22, some 27K French soldiers died resisting the German invasion.   Yet France survived to dictate terms to Berlin.   But that France was another country than today's.   In our own Civil War, in a country one-tenth as populous as today, 400 Americans, North and South, died every day for 4 years...   Every week in Iraq, terrorists claim as many lives as were lost in France.   In Syria's civil war, 250K have died.   This translates into more dead every day for 4 years than died in Paris on Nov. 13..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
explosive suicide belt found in South Paris garbage dumpster

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Raheem Kassam _Breitbart_
whackadoodle Obummer: EU citizens should lose their privacy after Muslim terrorist attacks against people in Paris, but Americans have already lost ours
"...has today called for the European Union (EU) to implement legislation which would require airlines to share passenger data with government bodies across the political bloc, as well as with each other..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
at UN, i.e. Bizarroland, Israel gets blamed for Muslim terrorism
So, if the occupation is the impetus, when are the Palestinians going to stop occupying Israel -- especially Eastern Israel, and move back to Palestine=Gaza Strip and Jordan and the Arabian peninsula?   Lebanon took in a bunch of them, and they didn't appreciate that, either.

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Suzan Fraser & Nataliya Vasilyeva _Cybercast News Service_/_AP_
Turkey F16s allegedly shot down Russian Su-24 fighter jet near border with Syria, Russia claims it was shot down by ground-fire inside Syria
Breitbart
Rowan Scarborough: Washington DC Times: Pentagon backs Turkey's version of events, blames "incursion" of Russian jet
Jordan Schachtel: Breitbart: "Free Syrian Army" shot down Russian rescue helicopter using TOW missile they'd gotten from USA
L. Todd Wood: Washington DC Times
Breitbart/AFP: NATO called extra-ordinary meeting
Patrick Goodenough: Cybercast News Service: Turkish-backed Syrian rebels against al-Assad government killed parachuting Russian pilot

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Conservative HQ_
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson: electable non-leftists

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Liam Deacon _Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate cell aimed at recruiting women discovered in the heart of London

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Dave Boyer _Washington DC Times_
Obummer says USA is united with France in mission to destroy ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
US planes left ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate fuel tanker trucks and rail-cars unharmed "because they ran out of ammunition"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
former DIA chief lieutenant-general Michael Flynn: ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate intelligence doctoring probe should start at White House
"...'There are 16 intelligence agencies, there’s five large ones, and there’s two that provide what we call “all-source intelligence assessments.” Those are the most important ones that go into the White House. And I will tell you that accuracy, and the warnings that have been provided on the rise of radical Islamists over the last few years, have been very, very clear. So what the president has actually received from the national intelligence system is pretty good intelligence, and I would say it's pretty accurate.'..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
CNN slipping into anti-semitism?: emphasizes latest attacks on people in Paris were not aimed solely at Jewish people
"...This war is one between Islamist Barbarians and the civilized world. Period..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Deborah Danan _Breitbart_
NYTimes head-line confused terrorists for victims
"continues to lead the growing trend in global media of equating the deaths of Palestinian terrorists with the murder of innocent Israeli civilians.   Following Sunday's report ​on attempts ​by ​Palestinian terrorists to stab Israelis in three unrelated attacks, the Times ​published the headline, '1 Israeli and 3 Palestinians Killed in Attacks in West Bank'.   According to the web-site HonestReporting.com, the head-line implies that the Israeli [defensive use of force] were worse because more Palestinians were killed, while failing to take into account that the 3 Palestinians were in fact terrorists [initiators of force, and confuses Palestine=Gaza Strip with Eastern Israel]..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
Pew: 65% of Americans don't trust media "news"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Ari Sofer _Breitbart_
Arab-Israeli father near Nazareth sreceived message from his son that he was going to attack people
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
Brian Mast running for Florida's 18th congressional district understands the threat of "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals
"...'Protecting the American people is the single most important function of the federal government.'   Mast, who fought at the tip of the spear for the U.S. military in the ongoing war against radical Islamic terrorism, served under the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) as a bomb disposal expert.   While on his last deployment in Afghanistan, Mast was tasked with protecting his brothers in arms from IED's on a nightly basis..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
_Conservative HQ_
Phyllis Schlafly says a lot more incumbents need to be defeated in primaries
"...on December 2, 2015 she is convening the first #WhiteFlagCongress town-hall at 19:00 in the Eagle Forum headquarters, 7800 Bonhomme Ave., St. Louis, MO.   At the new whiteflagcongress.com web-site the Eagle Forum founder announced the purpose of the #WiteFlagCongress campaign: 'At this pivotal moment in U.S. history, when our leaders ought to be standing stronger and fighting harder than ever for us -- they've chosen to wave a white flag in the face of government over-reach and overspending.   The only thing that gets their attention is a primary!   Every one of them is guilty until proven innocent!   Primary Them!' &nnbsp; In an incisive column for Investor's Business Daily Mrs. Schlafly made the case that such a movement and town-hall meetings are necessary because nothing has really changed since the feckless John Boehner was ousted as speaker of the House and replaced with [RINO] Paul Ryan.   Said Schlafly: Shortly after he was sworn in as speaker of the House, Paul Ryan admitted to his colleagues: 'The House is broken.   We are not solving problems; we are adding to them...   Neither the members nor the people are satisfied with how things are going.'   Ryan continued, however, 'I am not interested in laying blame' or, for that matter, in accepting his share of it.   If the House seems broken, it's because of congress' consistent failure to exercise its legitimate powers.   Mrs. Schlafly further noted that in his first act as incoming speaker, Ryan signed off on a deal that out-going speaker John Boehner had secretly negotiated.   A key provision surrendered congress' authority to 'borrow money on the credit of the United States' for the remainder of [president Obummer's] term in office.   Last week's release of the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] reminds us, said Schlafly, that congress had already [tried to surrender] its sole [constitutional] power [and duty] to 'regulate commerce with foreign nations'..."
defeat the "white flag congress"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Laura Ingraham
meeting about expansion of mosque in Virginia exposes deep divide

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Laura Ingraham
Michigan's immigrant population reached 636,569
Michigan Live

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Hans von Spakovsky _PJMedia_
non-leftist "Empower Texans" faces political persecution

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Victor Davis Hanson _National Review_
how much damage will we let Obummer do in his last year in office?

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Susan Berry _Breitbart_
Rush Limbaugh: Obummer will do bad things we can't conceive of now by the time his term ends in 2017 January

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Laura Ingraham
Larry Kudlow: Donald Trump prevails despite left's and RINOs' efforts; likens elite opposition to Trump to elite dislike of Reagan (mp3)

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Phyllis Schlafly _Town Hall_
governors say you can't dump "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals withough making a serious, conscientious attempt at investigating each one

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
Austria's population expected to increase 60K per year due to flood of "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals
"...Konrad Pesendorfer, head of Statistik Austria, said that by 2030 the small central European nation will have 9.3M inhabitants, with statisticians forced to revise figures due to the migrant crisis..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
Poland's prime-minister refuses 7K "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals due to national security concerns in wake of Muslim terrorist attacks in Paris in which such participated

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
_Breitbart_/_AFP_
Brussels extends terrorism alert; USA issues travel warning

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
former Muslim author warns: sharia is with us in Austria & Germany, and it is women who suffer

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Star Parker _WND_
thank the left for 2 places of moral chaos: a world of 1.2G Muslims produced just 5 Nobel laureates

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
_Breitbart_
callers to satellite radio program urge more Americans to read Quran to "know the enemy"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
Pamela Geller on Ahmed the clock disassembler's $15M tax-victim shake-down

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Barry Farber _WND_
French finally wake from their slumber, make USA today look like France was at the beginning of WW2

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Bill Murchison _Town Hall_
on liberty and Thanks-Giving

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Joseph Farah _WND_
the war against Thanks-Giving

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Jerry Newcombe _WND_
the Puritan Pilgrims, the Mayflower Compact and the USA constitution

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Tom Purcell _Town Hall_
much for which to be thankful

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Cortney O'Brien _Town Hall_
Ted Cruz catching up to Donald Trump

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Michelle Fields _Breitbart_
within-state polls: Mitch McConnell is the most unpopular senator, followed by Gary Peters and Bob Menendez

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Neil Munro _Breitbart_
there were 400 additional murders in the USA in 2015, admits leftist report

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
poll: Obummer approval numbers continue to dive

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
Jefferson's constitution: Ben Carson was 100% correct -- DC media had it 100% wrong

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
Chicago cop charged with murder in shooting of black teen 2014-10-20
Don Babwin & Michael Tarm: Washington DC Times/AP

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Leif Babin & Jocko Willinik _Washington DC Times_
Obummer does not own up to his mistakes and make adjustments accordingly

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Kellan Howell _Washington DC Times_
US Army colonel who blew whistle on waste in $43M compressed natural gas terminal in Afghanistan claims the Pentagon has been retaliating against him

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Jessica Chasmar _Washington DC Times_
Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings says he is "more fearful" of "white" men than of "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
man charged with raising funds for al-Qaeda was bonded out in Ohio
"...Salim is a chemical engineer but worked as a financial analyst..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Palestinian funeral eulogy from that "religion of peace": "strike the Jews, count them and kill them to the last one"
"...The funeral was being held for Laith Mansarah and Abu Al-Aish, 2 Palestinian terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers on Nov. 16 when they were in the process of destroying the home of one of their fellow jihadis.   The home of deceased Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Abu Shaheen was scheduled for demolition after he murdered an Israeli citizen in June..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Chriss W. Street _Breitbart_
deaths due to terrorism have quadrupled during Obummer regime
"...Deaths from terrorism increased 80% last year to an all-time-record of 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013.   The number is up about 426% from the 7,654 killed by terrorists in 2008 under president Bush [Shrub], according to the latest report from 'Vision of Humanity'.   The 2014 economic cost of 13,370 terrorist attacks in 93 countries included property damage, medical costs, lost income for victims, and the indirect costs of preventing and responding to terrorist acts.   The annual 'Global Terrorism Index' report estimated those costs hit an all-time-high in 2014 of $52.9G...""

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Kellan Howell _Washington DC Times_
several armed men have taken hostages in Roubaix, northern France (about 70 miles SE of Calais, less than 4 miles SW of Herseaux, Belgium, 145 miles NNE of Paris, France)

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Carolyn Tyler _KGO abc San Francisco CA_
firearm used to murder muralist in Oakland had been stolen from US ICE agent's vehicle

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
_WND_
"Snapping": how leftist college profs teach young people to be mentally ill

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Jack Kerwick _WND_
teaching racism and hate in higher "education"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
Western Washington U cancelled classes due to "hate speech"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Newt Gingrich _Washington DC Times_
Barack Hussein Obummer meet terrorist Hasna Aitboulahcan: his flippant dismissal of the threat is delusional

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Ann Bednarz _CIO_/_IDG_
STEM professionals average 52-hour work-week
"Among 600 'IT' pros surveyed, 54% said they work more than 40 hours per week.   At the high end of the over-time group, 18% of respondents said they work more than 60 hours per week, and 17% said they top 50 hours per week..."
Not reported are software product developers in what BLS calls the "software publishers" sub-industry of the "information" industry.   The survey, by a firm that sells tech support tools, seems to have focused on the tech support and house geek in a non-STEM firm categories.

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
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2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Eric Worrall
super-coral -- the latest scheme to solve the climate non-crisis

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
F.J. Shepherd
"climate change" and examination of possibility of a "sub-tropical Canada"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Josh
Tuesday titter: prince Charles in the green-house

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
whacky Obummer: Paris climate cabal will be a "powerful rebuke to terrorists"?!?!

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
UK think tanks continue leftist war against meat consumption

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
James Delingpole _Breitbart_
German professor Friedrich Karl Ewert: NASA fiddling with climate data on an unbelievable scale; planet has been cooling since 1940
"...But the activist scientists at NASA GISS -- initially led by James Hansen (pictured above), later by Gavin Schmidt -- wanted the records they are in charge of maintaining to show warming not cooling, so they began systematically adjusting the data for various spurious reasons using ten different methods.   The most commonly used ones were: Reducing the annual mean in the early phase.   Reducing the high values in the first warming phase.   Increasing individual values during the second warming phase.   Suppression of the second cooling phase starting in 1995.   Shortening the early decades of the data-sets.   With the long-term data-sets, even the first century was shortened.   Ewert's findings echo that of US meteorologists Joseph d'Aleo and Anthony Watts who examined 6K NASA weather stations and found a host of irregularities both with the way they were sited and how the raw data had been adjusted to reflect such influences as the Urban Heat Island effect.   Britain's Paul Homewood is also on NASA GISS's case.   Here he shows the shocking extent of the adjustments they have made to a temperature record in Brazil..."

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Eric Worrall
UNICEF claim: 500M children are "at risk" from "climate change"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Anthony Watts
the Paris effect: 97% of Americans don't believe "climate change" is a top concern

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Anthony Watts
the ultimate "Godwin effect" -- UC medical science professor Clarence A. Mills 1941-03-27: "global warming caused Hitler"

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
Ari Halperin
CO2 residence time said to be 40 years, not 1K years per previous claims

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
John E. Adams _WND_
how to "fix" "climate change" and vanquish your enemies

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2015-11-25

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
calling attention to, and comments on, David North's post on the Durbin-Grassley bill (S2266)

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Patrick Thibodeau _ComputerWorld_/_IDG_
on-line Smithsonian exhibit recounts experiences of H-1B grantees and their families, but not of the millions of displaced US citizens

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Catherine Ho _Jewish World Review_
ways people legally enter the USA and how congress may change them

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
Guatemala's congress passed "anti-coyote" law

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
EB-5 visa program gets another black eye... maybe 2 of them

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Michelle Fields _Breitbart_
DHS: 680K green cards have been given to immigrants from majority Muslim countries within the last 5 years alone
"The data, released by senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), adds that these, 'refugees have instant access to federal welfare and entitlements, along with local benefits and education services; these costs are not offset'.   The release from Sessions notes that, 'Assuming no change in visa policy, the U.S.A. can expect to give green cards to another 680K more migrants from these countries over the next 5 years...   A green card entitles recipients to access federal benefits, lifetime residency, work authorization, and a direct route to becoming a U.S. citizen.'   The number, 680K isn't 'an estimate of total immigration, as it does not include temporary immigrants who return home, nor is it an estimate of population change, as it does not include births or deaths, among other considerations'.   [President Barack Hussein Obummer] has also directed his administration to accept 10K 'Syrian' 'refugees' by 2016..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
attorney for displaced Disney STEM professionals: I think Marco Rubio lies to please his corporate donors
"...'When you tell America that there are not enough «qualified» American workers -- whether you are Mark Zuckerberg, or [Disney CEO] Bob Iger, or Marco Rubio [or Larry Ellison or Craig R. Barrett or William Green or Khaled Naim or Hannah Kain or Eric Davidson or David A. Raymond or Lynn Shotwell or William T. Archey or Michael Bloomberg or Paul Redifer or John Chambers or Gordon J. Coburn or Eric Schmidt or Alan Davidson or Pablo Chavez or Steven Ballmer or Gagan Sabharwal or Kiran Karnik or Ameet Nivsarkar or Deepakshi Jha or Som Mittal or Robert D. Blackwill or Safra Catz or Jason Mahler or Julian Castro or Rahm Emanuel or Annise Parker or Paul Jacobs or Alice Tornquist] -- when you say that there aren't enough «qualified» Americans while hundreds of «qualified» Americans are being fired, and replaced by «less qualified» foreigners, that's a straight lie.   And I think Rubio lies.   And the only motivation I can imagine he has to do so is the support he gets from his corporate donors.'...   Blackwell told Breitbart that she got involved in representing the tech workers after learning how American citizens are being discriminated against in their own country by virtue of their American nationality.   Indeed, [after the flop of their previous 'innovation'/'innovative' campaign] groups promoting policies that would replace American workers frequently use the term 'new America' as a euphemism.   For instance, the Murdoch-Iger lobbying firm is called the 'Partnership for A New American Economy'; the National Journal has launched 'The Next America' project; and the White House's immigration initiative is called the 'New Americans Project'.   Similarly, senator Marco Rubio's campaign theme is, 'A New American Century'...   This response prompted swift rebuke from labor expert and Howard University professor Ron Hira.   'It's ironic that Rubio would basically blame American workers for not being skilled and trained [even though] American workers in his own state, who have the skills and were doing their job, were replaced by H-1B workers, who had less skills.'   Census data shows that there are currently 11M U.S. workers with STEM certification that are not working in STEM employment positions..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Milo Yiannopoulos _Breitbart_
I've found the perfect job for these poor jihadist "refugees"

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
previously convicted, then deported MS-13 gangster was caught at Hidalgo Texas
"...When authorities checked his information they found out that Gutierrez had been deported on 2013 October 11 through New Orleans, Louisiana.   The criminal complaint filed against him revealed that on 2009 September 14, Gutierrez was convicted one count of malicious assault causing severe injury and one count of gang-related criminal activity.   According to the criminal information on file, Gutierrez was sentenced to 20-years in prison on one charge and 15-years in prison on a second charge that were set to run concurrent.   It remains unclear if the sentence was probated or lowered since he was deported approximately 4 years after his conviction and sentence..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Janine Turner _Washington DC Times_
states should use "compact" clause to guard against illegal immigration
"Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution: 'No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.'   As the world watches in horror as ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate kills, maims, and terrorizes the people of France, Belgium, and Russia, as the U.S. State Department issues a worldwide travel alert until 2016 February, as the FBI and DHS issue warnings to the American people that the United States is under high alert for a terror attack on the homeland, nothing is being done about our open porous borders.   It is absolutely beyond comprehension.   We face a crisis in our country today.   Wide swaths of open land on our borders are literally open doors for terrorists; we are inviting them in to threaten our communities and kill our citizens.   Due to this emergence it serves Americans well to be aware of what options the United States Constitution offers them via the States.   Article 1 Section 10 Clause 3 may provide the answer.   Your representative may not even be aware of this lawful loop-hole..."
OTOH, the constitution also allows states to "inspect" incoming goods and people, and to charge what it costs.

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2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Yonason Goldson _Jewish World Review_
a short history of MidEast violence over the last century
"First it was repeated attacks by the combined armies of Israel's neighbors.   Then it was a coordinated uprising of suicide bombings and shootings.   Then it was missile attacks from Iraq.   Then another uprising.   Then missiles from [Gaza=Palestine].   Now it's random attacks with knives and weaponized cars and trucks.   And all along, according to much of the world, it's been Israel's fault for deny the rights of the Palestinian people to live peacefully in the land that has been theirs since time immemorial...   Before 1920, even the concept of a Palestinian people did not exist.   Arabs living in the region considered themselves part of greater Syria, until the French and British divided the region and ended hope of a single commonwealth.   Only then, in a desperate attempt to create a national identity out of whole cloth, local Arabs proclaimed themselves Palestinians and begin lobbying for a country of their own.   And they got what they wanted. The next year, colonial-secretary Winston Churchill divided the region into what are now Jordan and Israel.   The Arabs received 76% of the land.   The rest was reserved as a Jewish homeland.   But even that was not enough.   In 1947, the United Nations divided the remaining territory roughly in half, leaving Israel with 13% of the original 'Mandate'.   The Jews accepted the compromise.   The Arabs launched a war against the Jews..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Heather Robinson _Political Mavens_
Jon Voight calls it like he sees it at Zionist Organization of America dinner

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
John Stossel _Jewish World Review_
self-defenseless
World Net Daily

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
cut funding for UN until it defines terrorism (even better: simply eliminate this unconstitutional funding)

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
Swiss courts and citizens agree: Ticino bans burqas, sets $9,828.84 fine

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
new "right wing" Polish government removed EU flags from press conferences
"...Asked about the change, Mrs. Szydlo said she was happy with Poland remaining inside the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, but national matters called for the national flag..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
Italian prime-minister announced additional 1G Euros for security

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Michelle Fields _Breitbart_
Rand Paul: Boston bombers were coddled but still decided to attack us (ditto the ones in Sweden, Netherlands, and France)

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Larry Levy: mosque surveillance in NYC worked to stop terrorism

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
Ray Kelly: NYC is at higher risk due to irrational political correctness

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Erik Prince: terrorists have tens of thousands of soft targets to choose from in the USA

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
Sharyl Attkisson's scathing indictment of Obummer for willfully ignoring intelligence on terrorism

2015-11-30 (5776 Kislev 18)
Mairead McArdle _Cybercast News Service_
Mark Levin: Obummer has created disaster in the Middle East

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Lana Shadwick _Breitbart_
Houston Texas school district assigns ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate recruiting homework assignment to teach "critical and analytical thinking skills"

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
have a happy, politics-free ThanksGiving
Cybercast News Service

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
in defense of empire

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Frances Stead Sellers _Jewish World Review_
Donald Trump's female employees consider him a champion for women

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Sasha Issenberg _Jewish World Review_
new privacy-violations tech applied to finding those most able to influence elections

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
political translations
"It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions.   For example, when [president Barack Hussein Obummer] says that defeating ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate is going to take a long time, how is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very slowly? It is saying the same thing in different words.   Defenders of the administration's policies may cite how many aerial sorties have been flown by American planes against ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate.   There have been thousands of these sorties, which sounds very impressive.   But what is less impressive -- and more indicative -- is that, in most of those sorties, the planes have not fired a single shot or dropped a single bomb.   Why? Because the rules of engagement are so restrictive that in most circumstances there is little that the pilot is allowed to do, unless circumstances are just right, which they seldom are in any war.   Moreover, the thousands of sorties being flown are still a small fraction of the number of sorties flown in the same amount of time during the Iraq war, when American leaders were serious about getting the war won.   Politics produces lots of words that can mean very different things, if you stop and think about them.   But politicians depend on the fact that many people don't bother to stop and think about them.   We often hear that various problems within the black community are 'a legacy of slavery'.   That phrase is in widespread use among people who believe in the kinds of welfare state programs that began to dominate government policies in the 1960s.   Blaming social problems today on 'a legacy of slavery' is another way of saying, 'Don't blame our welfare state policies for things that got worse after those policies took over.   Blame what happened in earlier centuries.'   Nobody would accept that kind of cop-out, if it were expressed that way.   But that is why it is expressed differently, as a 'legacy of slavery'..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
Austrian teen ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate "poster girl" beaten to death for trying to escape them

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Lana Shadwick _Breitbart_
Richard Dawkins compared Ahmed the clock disassembler to ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate child "soldiers" and PR flacks

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Dana Milbank _Jewish World Review_
even leftists recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is president Barack Hussein Ohhh-Bummer!
Susan Jones: Cybercast News Service

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Dominic Basulto _Jewish World Review_
investors see gene-editing as a hot technology
"In just the past 9 months, venture capitalists have plunked down more than $200M in start-up companies developing an innovative gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats).   In 2014, MIT Technology Review touted this gene-editing technology as 'the biggest biotech discovery of the century'..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Cynthia Kane _Jewish World Review_
persevering and prevailing in an insane world

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
James Gattuso _Cybercast News Service_
ObummerGrinch! regime snuck out 144 big regulations right before ThanksGiving holiday
"...The regulations span the full scope of American life, ranging from labeling requirements for pet food, new test procedures for battery chargers, mandated paid sick leave for contractors, and automatic speed limiters for trucks to a dozen new rules limiting energy use (and increasing the price) of everything from furnaces and dishwashers to dehumidifiers..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
defeating and reforming evil empires

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
general John Campbell: destruction of Afghan field hospital was a tragic mistake of getting the wrong building
"...the crew of the U.S. AC-130 gun-ship relied on a physical description of the compound provided by Afghan forces, which led the crew to attack the wrong target.   The report said the intended target, thought to be under Taliban control and being used as a prison, was 450 yards away from the hospital..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
L. Brent Bozell iii & Tim Graham _Cybercast News Service_
NYTimes Book Review rigs the book ratings

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Conservative HQ_
Louisiana election of governor shows that Democrat-lite candidates are losers for the GOP (though I have seen worse than David Vitter)

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
RINO California consultant Rob Stutzman worked with Dems/leftists/Reds to defeat Vitter
"...according to Conservative Review, Vitter wanted to repeal Dodd-Frank, has voted against most bail-outs, wanted to defund [ObummerDoesn'tCare], opposed open borders and has championed the fight against illegal immigration.   He has also strongly opposed international treaties that dilute American power and sovereignty..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
Curt Clawson (R-FL-19) understands that "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals are a threat to the USA
"...After the Paris attack of Friday, November 13, when the issue of what to do about the threat posed by Muslim terrorists -- jihadis as they call themselves -- entering the United States through [Obummer's] Syrian 'refugee' 're-settlement' program came to the fore, Clawson proposed a well-thought-out alternative: he introduced a bill that would bar the use of federal money to assist with relocation of the refugees that offered the greatest threat.   Clawson's bill would immediately bar the use of federal funds to process immigrants from Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, or Yemen, until 'a vetting system we can trust' is in place.   'It is not safe or right to put this burden on Florida, especially in the wake of the reported findings in the Paris attacks revealing that some of the terrorists [very recently] arrived in Europe posing as Syrian refugees.', Clawson told Ledyard King of the Ft. Myers News-Press Washington bureau... And senators Jeff Sessions and Ted Cruz have documented some 72 other domestic terror incidents attributable to Muslim 'refugees' or 'refugee-related individuals' -- in just the past year alone..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Breitbart_/_Reuters_
French & German ministers propose 10G Euro fund for "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals crisis

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
luxury cruise liners commandeered for use as accommodations for "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals as Sweden struggles with housing crisis

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Breitbart_/_AFP
strained Sweden is tightening asylum rules some more

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Rush Limbaugh: according to the left, "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals will commit genocide

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
Canada limits single male "Syrian" "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals
"...According to CBC News, the Canadian government will 'limit those accepted into Canada to women, children, and families only', due to 'some ongoing concerns about security'..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
over the last 10 years only 713 refugees have been kicked out of USA for committing violent crimes
"According to a report from WSB-TV News, 1,033 refugees have been deported between 2003 and 2013. Of them, 713 were deported for aggravated felonies..."
Of course some who committed felonies got pre-trial diversion (plea bargains) and agreed to remove themselves but did not, some pled guilty and agreed to remove themselves but did not, some were charged and indicted and tried but not convicted, more were convicted of violent felonies but not deported, and some who were deported are not removed.

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Breitbart_
Israeli seriously wounded in knife-attack at Fawwar junction near Hebron/Chebrun before being shot by police; both were taken to hospital

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Breitbart_
Israeli envoy to UN: Israeli blood is no less precious than French blood
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2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Breitbart_/_AFP_
the haughty John Kerry speaking in Ramallah Israel (14 miles NNE of Jerusalem; 36 miles E of Palmachim) says Obummer regime is committed to "Palestinian statehood"

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
_Conservative HQ_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton and the death of truth: illegal aliens are indeed illegal, and they are here illegally, and they are aliens

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
e-mail messages show that CNN reporter co-ordinated with Hitlery Rotten Clinton campaign

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
Kosovo banned 16 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) linked to Muslim terrorism

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
ebola has broken out again in Liberia; 2 dead, hundreds quarantined

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
Russia pilot rescued, claims they were not warned by Turkey

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Aaron Klein _Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate were warned 45 minutes before, and then again with low passes before US air-strikes

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Charlie Nash _Breitbart_
power-mad FAA wants all RC helicopters/drones registered
"[17 pages of rules...] The FAA recommends that anyone in possession of a drone weighing between 0.55 [less than 9 ounces] and 55 pounds should be registered as a 'pilot'.   This covers nearly all consumer drones on the market, but registration is suggested to be free, and easy to do on-line.   Each pilot will only have to register once, no matter how many drones they own or purchase.   Current penalties for flying an unregistered aircraft are considered too severe, at $25K, for simple drone users.   Drones are to only be flown by those aged 13 and above, suggests the FAA, and tourists are not to be immune from these rules and guidelines, including the proposed pilot registration.   Pilots are also expected to affix their registration number to each drone for easy identification..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Susan Berry _Breitbart_
2 Planned Parenthood facilities in PA dinged for bio-hazard violations, storage of dead babies in janitor closet

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Kelvin Chan _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Hong Kong's mysterious vanishing business executives

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Christopher S. Rugaber _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
UMich consumer sentiment index rose from 90 at the end of October to 91.3 in mid-November
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2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Richard Sheinin _San Jose CA Mercury News_
how many turkey dinners does it take to pay the rent?   in the San Francisco bay area it is a lot
"...San Francisco, where it would take 78 turkey dinners to cover the $4,950 average rental for a 2-bed-room apartment...   San Jose tied with Los Angeles for 6th place...   The average San Josean would need to fork over 41 holiday dinners in order to cover $2,500 in rent.   Oakland, where it would take 35.5 turkey dinners to cover $2,212 in rent, ranked 7th in the nation...   Washington, DC (57.5 dinners), New York (49 dinners), Miami (48.5 dinners), and Boston (48 dinner).   Turkey rent is a relative bargain in Detroit (13 dinners), Chicago (26.5), and Atlanta (30.5)..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Sam Dorman _Cybercast News Service_
Pew: older white men more likely than bigoted millennials to support free speech

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Sam Dorman _Cybercast News Service_
Sean Hannity: Americans are going to die because, just as terrorists were imported to and developed in Paris, they are trying to import and develop them in the USA

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
Denzel Washington: there has never been a time when God didn't direct, protect, and correct me

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
reverend Rafael Cruz: Obummer & his regime want to create strife... Obummer is a proud star student of Saul Alinsky

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Morton C. Blackwell _True Blue Republican State_
nomination, delegates, non-leftist candidates "Conservatives are keenly aware of the fact that, among the several presidential candidates the Republican Party has nominated since Ronald Reagan, not one of them supported Reagan for nomination in 1980..."

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Sharon Machlis _ComputerWorld/_IDG_
great R packages for importing data, wrangling/transforming it, & visualization

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Christopher S. Rugaber _USA Today_/_AP_/_Gannett_
UMich consumer sentiment index rose from 90.0 in late-October to 91.3 in late-November
Trading Economics
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2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Anthony Watts
Bjorn Carey of Stanford U: study demonstrates a pattern in "how scientists lie about their data"

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Ferdinand Engelbeen
about spurious correlations and causation of the CO2

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Barbara Hollingsworth _Cybercast News Service_
NOAA: record 121 months since last major hurricane hit USA

2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Eric Worrall
renewables: "big investment opportunity" which "neeeeds government, i.e. tax-victim support", i.e. crony socialism

2015-11-24 (5776 Kislev 12)
James Delingpole _Breitbart_
"climate change caused Syrian drought that created ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate" is an urban myth
"As Roger Andrews demonstrates here in great detail the 'drought' that supposedly ravaged Syria between 2006 and 2011 and drove thousands of ordinary Syrians into the arms of ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate and al-Qaeda never actually happened...   there was no drought in Aleppo...   Yes, in some parts of Syria it's true there were much greater falls in average annual rain-fall.   But not in any of the main crop-growing areas..."

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2015-11-25 (5776 Kislev 13)
Robert Moore _Cenantua_
a Richmond editorial (1864) targets Lincoln's ThanksGiving

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  "Learning to read... we slowly learn to read ourselves.   Once we learn how to read, even if then we do not live more wisely, we can at least begin to be aware of why we have not." --- Mark Shorer (quoted in Richard Lederer 1991 _The Miracle of Language_ pg 165)  

 
 

2015-11-26: ThanksGiving Day in the USA

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
follow-up on the Smithsonian

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
"migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals issue

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2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Robert Emmett Tyrrell ii _Jewish World Review_
the return of a 47-year-old headline
"I was thumbing through an old magazine over the week-end.   It was 47 years old to be exact, and I came across a surprisingly prescient piece entitled wittily, 'The Arab, the Jew, and the Pickle'.   What particularly caught my eye was that the piece was written by me in what is now called The American Spectator.   Imagine that.   In it, I argued that Israel had no other choice but to resist its enemies.   They were all around little Israel and they were hostile to the utmost.   Any sign of weakness would put the state of Israel in mortal danger.   That piece got me to thinking.   Have I not made this point for years? I did a search and found that I made almost exactly the same point November of 1976 in the pages of Harper's.   The piece was entitled -- rather unimaginatively -- 'Chimera in the Middle East'.   Then, as I Googled, I found what I already knew.   I have been making it in other places for years, for instance, in The American Spectator, the Good Times (also known as the Washington Times) and other places along the way.   Israel has no alternative but to resist its enemies, and, incidentally, its enemies now seem fewer, at least fewer in the Middle East.   Perhaps what enemies the Israelis still have in the Middle East are dreadfully dangerous but they are not so numerous as they were in the past.   Such countries as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states now feel they have other fish to fry than Israel.   They have actually been supportive of Israel recently, for instance, on the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran.   Yet Europe has for the most part been held aloof from Israel -- until Nov. 13.   With the massacres in Paris, the French government also sees itself as up against implacable foes in the cowardly and quite mad terrorists who come from the fever swamps of Islamist fundamentalism.   Soon I should hope other European countries will join in the fight.   ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate and all the other terrorist groups have got to be extinguished.   These terrorists do not employ diplomats.   They only employ suicide bombers and fighters who hide behind women and children.   They offer no negotiating principles.   They only want to kill and to be killed.   Extinguishing their madness is going to take a long time.   Whatever possessed Europeans to think they could live peacefully with such savages prowling the globe?..."

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Gina Barreca _Jewish World Review_
on dooms-day, I'l curl up with a real book

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Andrea Peterson _Jewish World Review_
Europeans -- but not Americans -- get Google to bury what other people say about them

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
college & university administrators are reaping what they have sown

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
academia's farce continues

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Laura Hollis _Jewish World Review_
real threats to our liberty

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
what to be thankful for?
Washington DC Times

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Larry Elder _Jewish World Review_
survival tips for today's colleges & universities
"...Here's what's really happening.   Faculty leftists now rule the humanities departments in America's colleges and universities.   They teach victimhood.   Students learn that they've been victims of America's racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.   So why the surprise when they begin to act like victims? And due to self-imposed or external pressure to 'diversify' campuses by race and ethnicity, colleges relax customary academic standards of admission for so called 'under-represented students', specifically blacks and Hispanics.   Such students would have done fine at a less competitive school, one commensurate with their grades and test scores.   But when standards are watered down, students can struggle to compete, thus becoming 'academically marginalized'.   Thus the very same students who 'benefited' from the push for diversity then complain about the perceived 'micro-aggressions' that supposedly hinder their success..."

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
_Conservative HQ_
USA is a nation of pioneers, not immigrants
"The establishment media, encouraged none too subtly by [president Barack Hussein Obummer's] ThanksGiving address, and his policies of bringing thousands of potential Islamist terrorists to this country and unconstitutionally granting amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens, has now decreed that 'Thanksgiving is about immigration' and that the Pilgrims were 'illegal immigrants'.   Normally this could be dismissed as a bunch of soft-headed [leftist] non-sense, but in the light of [Obummer's] announcement that he wants to bring additional Muslim 'refugees' to America, and grass-roots concerns about [Communist Corpse] and the rewriting of American history in many of our school text-books, it bears closer examination and rebuttal.   First of all, Thanksgiving is in no way about 'immigration'.   It may be about faith in God*, perseverance, brotherhood in the face of hardship or even the value of goodwill among diverse people, but it is not about immigration for the simple reason that the Pilgrims did not consider themselves to be 'immigrants'.   They were pioneers -- colonizers who undertook a voyage for 'the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country'.   If today's immigrants come to America with similar goals to advance Islam -- and there's plenty of reason to believe that many legal and illegal immigrants from Muslim countries do -- then we should certainly not see their arrival as a reason to celebrate, because they represent an existential threat to our way of life.   It is also worth noting that the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans -- Indians -- was not the relationship of welfare recipient Pilgrim to welfare giving Indian that [leftists] would like us to think..."

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Joseph Farah _WND_
the anti-USA, anti-Western Civilization, pro-"refugee" racists

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2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Eric Worrall
climate divestment rhetoric, meet reality

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Anthony Watts
European Commission report: global increase in CO2 emissions has stagnated

2015-11-26 (5776 Kislev 14)
Jim Steele
petition congress to investigate USGS polar bear research methods

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2015-11-27

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
novelist hidden in plain sight

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Ken Klukowski _Breitbart_
Obummer regime asking supremes to decide on unconstitutional and illegal amnesties for illegal aliens by 2016 June (before elections)

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
_Conservative HQ_
new poll: 84% of Americans say "NO!" to massive immigration from the Middle East
"A nationwide survey of 2016 likely general election voters conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for our friends at SecureAmericaNow.org finds that more than 4 out of 5 voters, 84%, categorize immigration from the Middle East to the United States as 'Dangerous'.   Responding to the question: 'In light of the most recent Islamic Terror attacks in Paris, how dangerous do you see immigration from the Middle East to the United States as...?'   The plurality, 49%, answered 'very dangerous', with another 35% saying 'somewhat dangerous'.   Only 12%, said it was 'not dangerous at all', with the remaining 4%, saying they didn't know.   These numbers are strong across the board noted the pollsters as even Democrats (75%) and [Leftists] (69%) view immigration from the Middle East as dangerous.   What's more, those surveyed firmly rejected the idea that Americans have a moral obligation to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian 'refugees'.   Responding to the questions, 'Syria is engulfed by a deadly civil war.   There are estimates that hundreds of thousands of people have died because of this fighting.   Do you feel it is our moral duty to re-settle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees?'   Only 1 in 4 Americans said they believe it is our moral duty to re-settle tens of thousands of Syrian 'refugees'.   The majority of Americans, 56%, say no, it is not our moral duty, with another 19% saying they didn't know.   Only a plurality of self-described liberals, 48%, said that it was our moral duty to re-settle tens of thousands of 'refugees'.   The majority of moderates (57%) and conservatives (73%) said it was not.   But Americans are not insensible to the plight of Syria's 'refugees' and other people displaced by the on-going [wars] in the Middle East.   When presented with this alternative to re-settling Syria's Islamic 'refugees' here, 'Transporting and processing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees safely to the United States is a logistical and security nightmare but providing humanitarian aid is a moral imperative that the United States should address.   Rather than allowing millions of Syrians to be displaced by the Civil War to Europe and the U.S.A., it would better to create safe havens with no fly zones and humanitarian aid for Syrians to receive in their own country?'   Americans embraced it wholeheartedly.   The poll revealed that three-quarters, 74%, of Americans approve of creating safe havens with no fly zones and humanitarian aid for Syrians to receive in their own country rather than processing them as 'refugees'.   Only 14% disapprove, with another 12% saying they don't know.   There exists strong bi-partisan approval for this measure as Republicans (77%), Democrats (70%) and Independents (74%) approve..."
The trouble is that we don't know which ones are from Syria and which ones are from Sudan or Somalia or Morocco or or Libya or Liberia or Iran/Persia or Afghanistan or Pakistan or Bangladesh; nor do we know which ones are "economic immigrants", which are "refugees", which are "asylum seekers", which are foreign spies, which are foreign operatives, which are terrorists, and which are already bright, industrious, creative Americans in every way but government recognition, and neither the Obummer regime nor the rest of the USA government want to try very hard to investigate and sort them out. Meanwhile, Europe and Israel have been hammered by terrorist attacks and sectarian violent crimes for decades from the Muslim "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals since the 1940s.

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2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
weak, confused, and unable to grasp what's going on and why: Obummer
Washington DC Times
"Many bad things happen when a leader is weak, confused and forever in search of a credible reason to do nothing.   For all his softness on Islam, [Barack Hussein Obummer] has little insight into the men who send out mobs to cry 'death to America'.   He can't imagine that men can listen to the call to evening Muslim prayer, which so captivated him as a boy growing up in Indonesia -- 'the prettiest sound on Earth' -- and be inspired to dream of bringing down death on America.   The international order so carefully put together, and guarded so faithfully, by American presidents, Democrats and Republicans, after the Cold War was won, has unraveled under this president to the consternation of America's most faithful allies and to the unexpected delight of the nation's considerable enemies.   The anarchy that will follow this unraveling will be the legacy he leaves behind him.   'When [Obummer] came to office in 2009,' [wrote] Alexander Woolfson in Standpoint magazine, a London political journal, 'it would have been unimaginable that a caliphate could be allowed to thrive in the midst of the Middle East, or that a U.S. president would be foolish enough to exploit ancient Persian and Arab enmity for the purposes of American retrenchment.   [Obummer's] now familiar refrain is to counsel 'strategic patience' while suggesting that America cannot solve every world problem, it can't be policeman to the world.   He remains oblivious to the fact that his worldview is the problem.   ISIS has created a vision of the future, which [Obummer] appears unable to grasp.   Its caliphate is being sustained through the mass murder and repression of those who do not belong.'..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Charles Lane _Jewish World Review_
can we agree on ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate?
"...the defining feature of the current American scene is the sheer speed and ferocity with which every issue, even a seemingly indisputable one like the need to respond to the Paris attacks, becomes a source of partisan conflict -- and, increasingly, intra-partisan conflict...   [The Republican party] holds a majority in congress and, therefore, could [if it were not split among left-leaning RINOs and non-leftists] pass a declaration of war against ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate tomorrow, if [a majority of each house] wanted..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
the blind West
"'Act of war, Hollande says', blared the front-page headline -- even before the attacks on Paris had ceased.   It was all a revelation to France's president, as if the West had not been at war for some time against this latest wave of jihadists to sweep out the Middle East -- just as Islam itself had swept out of Arabia's sands and conquered much of the known world centuries ago.   Now the great conquest continues, this time via the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL/the Caliphate or whatever Islamic fundamentalism calls its latest historic manifestation of so many.   Yet it's all breaking news, not history, to the West.   Such is [the ignorance of many so-called 'leaders'], for we have long ignored the first rule of war and survival in this world: Know Thy Enemy -- and [many of us] don't.   On the contrary, [many of us] scarcely suspect its existence.   Till one day it appears in the very heart of the West to over-run our defenses and turn the City of Light into a city of horrors..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
grateful for what they hate
"The Paris attacks have occasioned a wide-ranging debate about what they mean and how to respond, involving Islam and its role, military strategy and, oddly enough, how Muslims in New Jersey reacted to Sept. 11 (thanks, Donald Trump).   It's all very interesting and, for the most part, quite important.   At bottom, though, the import of the Paris attacks is not complicated: ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate terrorists are enemies of our civilization.   In Paris, they chose their target well.   They assaulted a city that dates back thousands of years and has been a leading Western capital going back to the Capetians, a site of soaring endeavor (Notre Dame) and extraordinary learning (University of Paris) since the 12th century, a place representing geological layers of Western civilization, and its glories and conflicts and follies.   Paris has seen its share of sectarian hatred (the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre), violent upheavals (too many to count), and authoritarians (Napoleon Bonaparte, most notably) but it is synonymous with an appreciation for the finest things wrought by human talent and discernment.   You don't have to be fond of France's centralizing political culture or its statist economics (I'm not) to recognize its achievements or honored place in the West.   To simplify crudely, the Western story began in the 5th century Before the Common Era on an Athenian hillside where people sat and voted on public questions and, over the course of millennia -- and with multiple, often clashing sources, from the Romans to the Catholic Church to the Enlightenment -- produced our current liberal dispensation.   The West respects the rule of law, which protects the individual from the caprice and degradations of the powerful.   It divides church and state.   It governs by the consent of the governed.   It honors the dignity -- and the conscience and the rights -- of the individual.   It celebrates reason, discovery and creativity, and gives a wide berth to commerce and entrepreneurial energy.   Obviously, this hasn't always been true, and the road to the adoption of these norms has been winding and bloody..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Suzanne Fields _Jewish World Review_
finding more than faults on the All-American holiday
Washington DC Times
"Has anybody seen Norman Rockwell? We gather together for the Thanksgiving holiday and a few days of family togetherness.   The tables are groaning under time-honored dishes of our pilgrim forefathers, or so we like to think.   We tell innocent stories about them and their Native American guests (or 'Indians', as the first settlers called them [or 'earlier immigrants' as we think of them today]).   We draw inspiration from rough times, when families came to find freedom to worship in a new land, forging the first chapter of our history.   On Thanksgiving we share our generational perspectives about what happened after that, in stories both uplifting and challenging.   The challenging part accelerates these days through harsh words of the politically correct who see only the faults and flaws of those who brought civilization to these shores.   Harmless myths have smoothed over a multitude of differences to call us to unifying pride of country, but many of the privileged young men and women now in college focus only on what they can raise their voices about.   Every school-boy knows that the term 'Indian' was based on a navigational mistake by Christopher Columbus, who thought he had landed in India..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Mona Charen _Jewish World Review_
things for which I am grateful

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Greg Crosby _Jewish World Review_
the war against personal, private cars (part 1)
"We've had the war on poverty, the war on drugs, and the war on women.   Politicians and their marketing consultants for purely selfish political interests have invented every single one of these 'wars'.   None of these so-called 'wars' can ever be won because they are bogus.   The poverty and drug 'wars' have had billions in federal funds poured into slogans, ad campaigns, and bureaucratic committees and programs for decades.   The 'war on women' is totally made up, invented by the Democrats as a way of rallying their base by vilifying Republicans as the party who hate women and want to keep them down.   But we have a new political 'war' quietly going on across our country and this one is for real.   I call it the 'war on cars'.   This war is being waged by a coalition of liberal opportunistic politicians and radical environmentalists.   To borrow the [Obummer] phrase, they want to 'fundamentally transform the United States' from a car-centric nation to a country dependent on public transportation, bicycles, and walking.   The difference between those other bogus political wars and this one is, this is one they are winning.   After having returned from a 3-week road trip all over California I can honestly say that our highways and streets are being taken over by bicyclists (not sweet little families happily jingling their bicycle bells as they peddle their Schwinn's around the Leave to Beaver neighborhood, I'm talking nasty, radical bike Nazis).   These bicyclists with major attitudes and an elite sense of entitlement purposely ride 2 and 3 abreast and do anything they can to frustrate motorists, like riding in the middle of a lane on a mountain road where there's no place to go around them..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Megan McArdle _Jewish World Review_
warning to the convinced: sure, college can pay off, but to varying degrees
"In a new working paper, Sang Yoon Lee, Yongseok Shin and Donghoon Lee write: 'In the early 1980s, American men with at least 4 years of college education earned about 40% more on average than those whose education ended with high school.   By 2005, this college wage premium rose to above 90%.   During the same time period, the fraction of men with a 4-year college degree in the working-age population all but remained constant.'   This is a bit of a mystery.   College tuition has gone up, to be sure, but financing that tuition is easier than it used to be, what with the panoply of repayment options for government-sponsored student loans.   Moreover, more people start college than did in 1985; it's just that they don't finish...   There are good jobs out there that are available only to folks with a college diploma.   But not everyone with a college diploma gets one.   You can also end up under-employed.   As the college wage premium has risen, the variance in graduate earnings has also risen, meaning that there is a much bigger difference between the top and the bottom than there was 25 years ago.   College folks doing jobs that don't require a college degree have earnings that look more like people with a few years of college and less like the average earnings of a college graduate.   Of course, it's not exactly like a lottery ticket, because the distribution of the rewards isn't random.   Not every college graduate is entered in the 'investment banker' [in NYC where housing, over-crowding, over-population, over-regulation, over-taxation and housing costs create a humongous burden] or 'Silicon Valley software engineer' draws [with similar over-population, over-crowding, over-taxation, over-regulation and extremely high housing costs]..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Justin Fox _Jewish World Review_
sorry, you just lost the right to have your day in court
"Big-dollar civil damage lawsuits are a terrible way to discipline corporate misbehavior.   They put complex decisions in the hands of ill-informed juries, reward litigious ninnies who spill hot coffee on themselves, deliver most of the rewards even in worthy cases to plaintiffs' attorneys, and are so lottery-like and thus unpredictable that they don't seem to do much to deter misbehavior.   But if you get rid of them, what's left? The New York Times has been exploring this question with its 'Beware the Fine Print' series, which describes how arbitration has replaced the class-action law-suit as the only real recourse consumers and employees have for many grievances against corporations.   To buy a mobile phone or get a credit card or take a new job, Americans now increasingly find themselves having to agree to an arbitration clause that prevents them from taking the seller or employer to court..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Lenore Skenazy _Jewish World Review_
up with germs
"...a fascinating new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York is doing.   'The Secret World Inside You' is a paean to the trillions of microbes that live on and in each of us.   Until just recently, says genomic scientist Robert DeSalle, co-curator of the exhibit, most people thought of microbes only in terms of illness.   Today researchers are realizing we let a few bad apples influence our outlook.   'There are so few bad bacteria in our bodies relative to the good ones that it gives all microbes a bad rap.', says DeSalle.   Consider this: Mice bred to have guts completely bereft of bacteria -- sterile -- 'are much happier when you put some microbes into them', DeSalle says.   It is normal for us all to be crawling with microscopic critters.   Many of those critters are on display at the museum, magnified a zillion times, and just be glad they're normally microscopic.   Attractive, they aren't.   But scientists are actually starting to think of them sort of like genes.   We each have our own 'microbiome' -- a set of microbes that lives on and in us.   No 2 people's microbiomes are the same, and our microbiomes change depending on what we eat, where we live and even our age..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Conservative HQ_
Ted Cruz & Donald Trump head into nomination finals

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Carl Jackson _WND_
3 Rs of leftist media
"When conservatives speak about the three “Rs” of education, we’re referring to reading, writing and arithmetic. When leftists speak of them, they’re referring to racism, rhetoric and redistribution. And, if you don't succumb to the demands of protesting spoiled brats like we’ve seen recently at the University of Missouri, Yale, Ithaca College and others, you’re likely to invoke an additional “R” for bonus points – rioting..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Craige McMillan _WND_
USA citizenry knows there is no second chance
"Before we start, let's clarify something.   Those who live and work in Washington, DC, aren't in [the USA].   DC is not a state...   The rest of us are required to pay taxes to meet your needs, which [many decades ago became], shall we say, excessive.   You don't live in [the USA].   You live somewhere else.   There are 2 political parties only in the minds of those who live inside the DC bubble.   Every national election time, there is a series of ghastly contests stretching out two years where the 2 District of Columbia parties conduct hand-to-hand combat for the remaining colosseum spectators.   The winner vanquishes the loser (until the next election), wins the contest and then spends the money for the next 2 or 4 years.   During that time, the winner hands out the money collected across the nation to grease the hands of his friends and relatives, and to repay political debts.   Two political parties do exist in America, but they're not the donkeys and the elephants.   The Establishment Party is comprised of old family monied interests and brash young tech founder wannabes.   The old money goal is to hang onto what they have and elect one of their own.   The wannabes 'wanna' disrupt the old money and usher in the new world they are creating.   Either will put forward the best figurehead that money can buy during the primaries.   Neither will come out themselves and say they want the job.   A figurehead must orate well but say nothing meaningful.   Thus was born the professional political class..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
_WOAI_
Texas Republicans strongly support governor Greg Abbott & TEA parties
"'He has a 70% favorable rating among non Tea Party Republicans, and an 82% favorable rating among Tea Party Republicans, and that puts him in a very strong position.', said Jim Henson of the University of Texas.   He runs the Texas Poll, which is done by the University's Policy Project...   Rick Perry, who was always met with suspicion by Tea Party members for what they considered to be 'big government' ideas like the scuttled Trans Texas Corridor, never came close to the sorts of favorability ratings that Abbott has received.   Lieutenant-governor David Dewhurst also has strong ratings among Tea Party Republicans, but no statewide office-holder, with the possible exception of senator Ted Cruz, who is Abbott's former employee, can match the strong numbers that the governor is grabbing..."

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Bill Devlin _Washington DC Times_
the persecuted church: faith & works

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
L. Todd Wood _Washington DC Times_
could France align with Russia?

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
L. Todd Wood _Washington DC Times_
Red China prepares for world war
"[Red China] is preparing to project power around the world.   The communist dictatorship announced Thursday the establishment of its first offshore military outpost in the African nation of Djibouti.   In addition, [Red China] directed a sweeping new re-organization of its military to stream-line operations and prepare the armed forces for further power projection abroad..."

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2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Arkady Bukh
similarities between the Jim Jones cult and the cult of climate hysteria

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Anthony Watts
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: increased carbon dioxide enhances plankton growth (contrary to expectations)

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Tim Ball
an important lesson on the anniversary of disclosure of e-mail evidence of warmist hysterics' conspiring and data-perverting

2015-11-27 (5776 Kislev 15)
Rick McKee _WND_
leftists panic over "terrorism threat"

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  "People who spend more time in flow generally report higher self-esteem.   In addition, directly after a person has been in flow, his or her self-esteem is higher than at other times.   After being in flow people report being more successful, they feel better about themselves, & they feel that they are living up more to their own & others' expectations." --- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1993 _The Evolving Self_ pg 194  

 
 

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2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Michael W. _Cybercast News Service_
Denzel Washington: there has never been a time when God didn't direct, protect, and correct me

2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Mark J. FitzGibbons _American Thinker_
Federal Trade Commission goes "Star Chamber" on warrant transparency
"Intrepid reporter Kathryn Watson at The Daily Caller News Foundation just wanted to get copies of administrative sub-poenas issued by the Federal Trade Commission.   The FTC replied to her Freedom of Information Act request with obstruction.   Nobody knows how many administrative sub-poenas are issued by government agencies.   Administrative sub-poenas are warrants for records such as private 'papers' and e-mails.   They are issued unilaterally by government bureaucrats and are impossible to reconcile with the Fourth Amendment's requirements of 'oath and affirmation' of 'probable cause' before neutral judges.   Watson and The Daily Caller News Foundation have been doing the work that congress has failed to do in its oversight functions and have issued multiple FOIA requests to various government agencies to get a sense of how many of these sub-poenas are issued [and under what circumstances]..."

2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
L. Todd Wood _Washington DC Times_
Russia ready to fight Turkey

2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Kellan Howell _Washington DC Times_
supremes to hear case of US Marine punished for displaying Bible verse at her work-station: "No weapon formed against me shall prosper"
"No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you must condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of HaShem, and their due reward from Me, says HaShem."

2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Janine Turner _Washington DC Times_
Florida owner of "Muslim-free" arms store wins in court

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2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Tim Ball
Dept. of Energy: can Paris pledges avert severe climate change?

2015-11-28 (5776 Kislev 16)
Eric Worrall
are Australian teachers putting watermelon (red on inside, green on outside) indoctrination ahead of education

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  "I practice because I want to play better.   I've never been terribly interested in technique, but I'm interested in facility.   To feel comfortable, so when the idea shoots out of my head I can finger it, manipulate it.   Something interesting happens.   You'll hear a phrase and all of a sudden you're thrown into a whole new inspiration.   It doesn't happen every night." --- Bud Freeman (quoted in Studs Terkel 1972 _Working_ pg 599)  

 
 

 



 
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