2017 April, week 2 - jgo economic news bits

2017 April, week 2 -- jgo economic news bits

1st month of the 2nd quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

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"Here is the roster of activities discovered in a survey of 112 Protestant churches in Manhattan and the Bronx: 48 industrial schools, 45 libraries or reading rooms, 44 sewing schools, 40 kindergartens, 29 small-sum savings banks and loan associations, 21 employment offices, 20 gymnasia and swimming pools, 8 medical dispensaries, 7 full-day nurseries, and 4 lodging houses." --- Charles Murray 2006 _In Our Hands: A Plan to [Eradicate or Entrench the Illfare] State_ pg114 (citing Marvin N. Olasky 1992 _The Tragedy of American Compassion_ pg86)

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"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow." --- G.D. Boardman

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2017 March, week 2 - jgo economic news bits

3rd month of the 1st quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

Sunday

Sonntag

Yom Rishon

Domenica

2017-04-02 (5777 Adar 06)

2017-04-02 (5777 Adar 06)
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2017-04-02 (5777 Adar 06)
Patrick Poole _PJMedia_
Turkey government opened $100M mosque in Washington DC as other Turkish mosques all over Europe were caught spying
Turkish mosques spying for Turkey government in Germany prompt raids
2016-10-06: Robert Jones: Turkey built 6K mosques, banned Orthodox Christian liturgy

2017-04-02 (5777 Adar 06)
Eric Worrall
geo-engineering claim: cancelling all anthropogenic warming would "only" cost $1G-$10G/year

2017-04-02 (5777 Adar 06)
Eric Worrall
why John Christie's missing hot-spot matters

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"As I have tried to show, the crisis that has over-taken [USA] family life since 1960 cannot be reduced to any single cause, being the outcome, rather, of a whole congeries of elements that have mutually re-inforced and built on each other to bring us to our present calamitous pass." --- William John Bennett 2001, 2002 _The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family_ pg19

Monday

Montag

Yom Sheni

Lunedi

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Leonid Bershidsky _Jewish World Review_
tech execs & government under-estimate the demand for privacy: privacy protection may be Sili Valley's next hot play

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
huge missed opportunity, but don't panic over continued lack of H-1B reform (even though positive effects will only begin to be seen 6-18 months after reform)

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
John Binder _Breitbart_
DoJ: employers seeking to sponsor H-1B guest-workers should not discriminate against USA citizens
graphs

year	general allocation issued	H-1B1 set aside for those from Chile and Singapore	Total issued	year
The numbers of new/initial H-1B visas actually issued, OTOH, is what matters. These numbers are available in the State Department's annual reports:
1996	58,327	- - -	58,327	1996
1997	80,547	- - -	80,547	1997
1998	91,360	- - -	91,360	1998
1999	116,513	- - -	116,513	1999
2000	133,290	- - -	133,290	2000
2001	161,643	- - -	161,643	2001
2002	118,352	- - -	118,352	2002
2003	107,196	- - -	107,196	2003
2004	138,965	72	139,037	2004
2005	124,099	275	124,374	2005
2006	135,421	440	135,861	2006
2007	154,053	639	154,692	2007
2008	129,464	719	130,183	2008
2009	110,367	621	110,988	2009
2010	117,409	419	117,828	2010
2011	129,134	418	129,552	2011
2012	135,530	461	135,991	2012
2013	153,223	571	153,794	2013
2014	161,369	870	162,239	2014
2015	172,748	1,051	173,799	2015
year	general allocation issued	H-1B1 set aside for those from Chile and Singapore	Total issued	year

State Dapartment
FY2004-2008 pdf
FY2006 table 16A pdf, table 16B pdf
FY2007 table 16A pdf, table 16B pdf
FY2008 table16A pdf, table 16B pdf
FY2009 table 16A pdf, table 16B pdf
FY2010 table 16A pdf, table 16B pdf
FY2011 Annual Report
FY2012 Annual Report
FY2013 Annual Report
FY2013 NIV Workload by Visa Category (pdf)
FY2014 Annual Report
FY2014 NIV Workload by Visa Category (pdf)
FY2015 NIV Workload by Visa Category table xviA (pdf)
FY2015 NIV Workload by Visa Category table xviB (pdf)
Note: These numbers leave out visas issued after an initial rejection and subsequent successful appeal or waiver. In some cases these amount to tens or hundreds of thousands of additional visas, and 26,802 more H-1B visas in FY2008, as an example. This brings the actual total H-1B visas initially issued, renewed and extended in FY2008 up to 156,985.

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Bob Price _Breitbart_
3 WMI managers sentenced to federal prison for recruiting illegal aliens

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Ildefonso Ortiz & Brandon Darby _Breitbart_
gang syndicate murder of 3 reporters, including Miroslava Breach, silences El Norte de Ciudad Juarez

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Biulio Meotti _WND_
Gatestone Institute on culture jihad: in London, 423 new mosques have been built, 500 churches have been closed
Breitbart

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
James Brooks _WND_
more evil afoot in Sweden: Epicenter employees injected with tracking chips
AP

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Patrick Thibodeau _"IT" News_/_IDG_
DoJ may bring law-suits against firms which replace USA citizens &/or green card holders with H-1B guest-workers
ComputerWorld

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
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2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Penny Starr _Breitbart_
Veterans Affairs has 45K job openings; where are the quarter-page print ads, radio ads?

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Chris Pandolfo _Classical Liberal Review_
Texas TEA partiers send clear message to president Trump: Freedom Caucus is the cure for ObummerDoesn'tCare, federal government budget, border security, immigration...
* repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare
* block RyanAndMcConnellDon'tCare
* repeal Medicaid
* repeal Medicare
* repeal the Socialist Insecurity Abomination
* repeal regressive income extortion
* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Mordechai Schiller _Jewish World Review_
the elephant in the kids' room
"...writing for children is clear and tight; the vocabulary is basic. The alliteration and rhythms are playful and audible. And the humor is actually funny...

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Daniel Shapiro _Jewish World Review_
how the USA can prepare for the next Gaza/Palestine/Hamas vs. Egypt &/or Israel war

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Glenn Harlan Reynolds _Jewish World Review_
the suicide of expertise

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
30 years of "varsity academics" at the Concord Review

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Penny Starr _Breitbart_
Yemen: rescuing children kidnapped and being trained to become terrorists is very emotionally moving

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Charles Krauthammer: filibuster of Gorsuch nomination would be totally illogical

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Katherine Rodriguez _Breitbart_
Clarence Thomas is on track to become the longest-serving supreme court justice

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Matt O'Brien _CNS_
recovery: more states have schools teaching children about USA's founding documents; HS students should know at least as much about the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers as immigrants passing a citizenship test

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Nicholas Fondacaro _Media Research Center News Busters_
abc, NBC try to cover-up that Susan Rice ordered unethical snooping on Trump aides; CBS trying to defend it

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Joseph Farah _WND_
Obummer protection-racket leaps into action

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Arnold Ahlert _Patriot Post_
California: criminalizing the truth to protect cultural degeneracy

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Heather Sells _CBN_
the anti-religion bias that might catch you by surprise

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
_Patriot Post_
7 things every child needs to hear on a regular basis

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Anthony Watts
UK Hadley Meteorology center claim: more draconian emission reductions would make for earlier/faster glaciation, more humans freezing to death in the dark

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
David Middleton
abuse of asthma as rationalization for more draconian EPA regulations

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Anthony Watts
2017 March jiggered projected estimated aggregate world tamperature "anomalies" report

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Leo Goldstein
House hearing on "climate science" eye-witness report and thoughtss

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Melanie Arter _CNS_
ending the Carter+GHWBush+Clinton+Shrub+Obummer regimes' war against USA citizens' use of coal is necessary, for environmental, job market, and national security

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Tim Ball, PhD
we have won several battles but are not winning war watermelons are waging against climate science

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"After retirement, [Charles Proteus Steinmetz] still consulted for GE on difficult problems. Once, he pains-takingly traced the problem in a non-functioning apparatus to the element that wasn't working and then marked it with chalk. When he submitted a bill for $10K, [someone at] GE asked him to itemize the charges. He sent this invoice: 'Making chalk mark: $1; Knowing where to place it: $9,999'." --- Randy Alfred 2012 _Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made our World_ pg29

Tuesday

Dienstag

Yom Shlishi

Martedi

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Joseph J. Kolb _Center for Immigration Studies_
tsunami of unaccompanied "minor" illegal aliens may be nearing an end

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
absurd statements of "sanctuary jurisdiction" perpetrators after DHS meeting
8 U.S.C. § 1373
8 U.S.C. § 1644

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
corrupt Tennessee legislators want to cut tuition and fees... for illegal alien students, not native Tennesseeans, not USA citizens

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Chris Tomlinson _Breitbart_
anti-Semitism in Germany, as Muslim bullies launch verbal and physical assaults

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Simon Kent _Breitbart_
Singapore fined and will return imam to India who made offensive remarks about Jews & Christians

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
president Trump to USA citizens: I am not, and I do not want to be president of the world; I am the president of the United States of America, and from now on it's going to be USA first; the era of economic surrender is over

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
John Carney _Breitbart_
trade deficit fell by 10% as USA factories benefit from economic stability around the world

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Neil Munro _Breitbart_
DHS John F. Kelly: illegal immigration in March was lowest in 17 years
Alicia A. Caldwell: AP

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
reasonable, conscientious screening of visa applicants (and those from "visa waiver" countries) may include accessing "social media", cellular phone contacts, financial records, and/or questions about personal ideology and values

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
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2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Salena Zito _Jewish World Review_
this is what constitutionally limited representative democracy looks like

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Alvaro Bedoyan _Jewish World Review_
who owns your face, your X-ray images, your finger-prints, your statements of opinion...?

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Dennis Prager _Jewish World Review_
is it time for classical liberals to celebrate this president or gird our defenses against the Dems/Reds/Leftists plus the RINOs plus president Trump

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Eli Lake _Jewish World Review_
corrupt Obummer regime targeted Trump associates, abusing government intelligence operations for political purposes

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Jeff Poor _Breitbart_
Rand Paul: Susan Rice (& Valerie Jarrett & HitleryRottenClinton) should be under sub-poena while being questioned about Obummer regime spying on Trump campaign & transition
Joel B. Pollak: 7 highlights of Susan Rice interview with MSLSD Angrea Mitchell
Joel B. Pollak: Susan Rice ordered spread-sheets of Trump campaign calls
John Howard: Scott Uehlinger discussed Susan Rice abuse of power
WND: Tom Cotton: Susan Rice has a long history of lying in order to cover for Barack Hussein Obummer
Ann Coulter: Breitbart: Obummer should testify under oath about surveillance/snooping on Trump campaign and transition
Jeff Poor: Breitbart: Joe Scarborough asks what if Dick Cheney had done this rather than Susan Rice?
Jordan Schachtel: Classical Liberal Review: Mark Levin fries Benghazi investigation obstructor Susan Rice
A.F. Branco: WND: un-masked!

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
president Trump promises massive cuts in regulation and $1T in infrastructure spending (how much will be genuine infrastructure maintenance and building, and how much crony socialism?)

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Thomas D. Williams, PhD _Breitbart_
Red China installed surveillance cameras in churches to spy on Christians
Breitbart/UPI: Christians in Red China hospitalized after opposing government surveillance

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Thomas D. Williams, PhD _Breitbart_
St. Petersburg suicide bomber tied to other Muslim terrorists
Oliver J.J. Lane: death toll 14

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Kristina Wong _Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ IS/ Daesh/ caliphate car-bomb killed civilians in Mosul

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group put the death toll between 58 & 100, saying there were 11 children among the dead in gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun/Khan Shaykhun, Idlib province, Maarrat al-Numan district, Syria (at M5=M45 & ??; NNE of Zellaqiyate; c. 23 miles NNW of Hamah; S of Idlib; 42 miles S of Idlib; SE of Yayladagi, Turkey; c. 75 miles from Latakia/Laodicea)

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Melanie Arter _CNS_
president Trump condemns chemical attack in Syria as reprehensible

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Michelle Moons _Breitbart_
president Trump admin: heinous chemical attack in Syria a result of Obummer regime weakness and lack of resolution; has so far killed 100 and injured 400

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Ken Klukowski _Breitbart_
senator Susan Collins (R-ME) favoring majority call for floor vote on Neil Gorsuch

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Shmuley Boteach _Breitbart_
senator Susan Collins (R-ME) favoring majority call for floor vote on Neil Gorsuch
"...In the late 1970s, while Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar Sadat debated the return of Sinai [to Egypt] in exchange for peace, the Rebbe predicted 3 outcomes for Israel forfeiting territory: '1. The world would develop an insatiable appetite for Jewish land. Rather than the return of Sinai satisfying the world's lust for diminishing the Jewish state in size, the message to them would be that the Jews themselves had conceded to the claim that they were occupiers [rather than theevident fact that the Palestinians/Arabs were occupying Israel]. 2. Jews would be attacked. The return of land would compromise Israel's security and embolden its enemies to strike. Terrorism would increase rather than decrease. 3. Israel would be demonized. Rather than receiving a windfall of positive publicity and international goodwill for making peace, surrendering land would be used a PR baseball-bat to bludgeon Israel with deligitimization and international boycotts.' All 3 of the Rebbe's predictions were unfortunately proven true. After Israel surrendered Sinai, pressure immediately began to build for Israel to return the Golan Heights and Gaza=Palestine. [Eastern Israel] followed in the cross-hairs... The Palestinians are my brothers and sisters [or at least cousins], and Jason Greenblatt's recent mission to Mahmoud Abbas -— which strongly encouraged economic development, self-sufficiency, and opportunity for the Palestinians of [Eastern Israel] -- was a noble and inspiring effort. The Palestinians deserve the same experience of human dignity and standard of living as do the people of Israel. It will not come, however, through their subjugation to the dictatorship of yet another Arab 'leader'..."
Discover the Networks: Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen
Discover the Networks: al-Fatah/Fatah
Discover the Networks: Palestinian Authority
Discover the Networks: Hezbollah/ Hizbollah/ Hizbullah/ Hazballah
Investigative Project: CAIR-Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood links
Discover the Networks: Hamas
The Religion of Peace

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Martin Gottesfeld _WND_
questions House committee should ask Sally Yates

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Joseph Farah _WND_
media running protection for Obummer and other leftists

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Daniel Nussbaum _Breitbart_
law-suit against racial discrimination at CNN expanding

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Linda Harvey _WND_
leftists' perverted priorities cause injuries & other harm

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Star Parker _WND_
retreat!??! we are just getting warmed up

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Star Parker _WND_
PassOver sacrifice re-commenced in Jerusalem near Temple Mount
A draft of the resolution, states that 'any action taken by Palestinians/ PLO/ PLA/ Fatah/ Hamas, i.e. the Occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration on the City of Jerusalem, are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever'. Gaza is the capital of Palestine; Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
_Breitbart_/_AFP_
USA military confirms that crazy fat kid of North Korea fired more medium-range missiles into Sea of Japan

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Edwin Mora _Breitbart_
general John Hyten of USA Strategic Command (StratCom): USA military struggling with timely responses to threats

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Katherine Rodriguez _Breitbart_
AFTimes: readiness down; only 7 out of 10 USA Air Force planes are capable of deployment; shortage of maintenance people

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Bob Unruh _WND_
president Trump praised for cutting funds for UN's forced abortions

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Michael Morris _WND_
Mark Levin: regressivism, totalism, collectivism, statism, socialism, fascism, illiberal leftism is poisonous power-madness

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Robert Eno _Classical Liberal Review_
who is in the House Freedom Caucus, and why it is important

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Daniel Horowitz _Classical Liberal Review_
so much for serious negotiating: president Trump and RINO losership are ready to surrender to Reds/Dems/Leftists on budget -- let the red ink drown them, the first things that should be eliminated are their benefits packages

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Susan Berry, MD _Breitbart_
president Trump at "CEO Business Town Hall": we have to end Communist Corpse

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
John Carney _Breitbart_
Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker resigned because he had confirmed confidential Fed info to financial analyst in 2012

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Nate Church _Breitbart_
Cambridge Mobile Telematics: 52% of vehicle crashes involve drivers distracted by cellular phones; traffic deaths up 14% since 2014

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Don Feder _WND_
*** 9 deceptions/delusions from arrogant leftist media ***
GrassTopsUSA

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Jack Cashill _WND_
Obummer conferring with ghost-writer(s) in the tropics

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Erik Rush _WND_
president Donald Trump, a world-class negotiator?

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Barry Farber _WND_
swearing soldiers to constitutional scholars?

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Joseph Farah _WND_
recovering the USA

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2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
_Breitbart_
Bigz & Kate: Breitbart loses member of extended family to cancer

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Anthony Watts
Donald Trump is no more (and no less) of a planet-wrecker than Barack Hussein Obummer

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Anthony Watts
Little Ice Age vs. warmist hysterics

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Andrew Follett
illiberal Dems/Reds/Leftists in congress urge teachers to destroy books written by climate scientists
WND

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Anthony Watts
House tells NOAA in new bill to focus more on weather research

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Eric Worrall
APA claim: more communist transport helps reduce climate hysteria

2017-04-04 (5777 Nisan 08)
Willis Eschenbach
killer cold (freezing to death in the dark)

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"While making their decisions, the participants' brains were being scanned by positron emission tomography (PET) [not functional NMR/fNMR/fMRI?!?]. This way, the experimenters could observe participants' brain activity while they were making their decisions. The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward. IOW, according to the PET scan, it looked as though the decision to punish [apparent wrong-doers] was related to a feeling of pleasure. What's more, those who had a high level of striatum activation punished others to a greater degree. All of this suggests that punishing betrayal, even when it costs us something, has biological [evolutionarily stable strategy] under-pinnings." --- Dan Ariely 2010 _The UpSide of Irrationality: The UnExpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home_ pg126

Wednesday

Mittwoch

Yom Rebiai

Mercoledi

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
H-1B disclosure data show compensation shaving
"CNBC just posted a story in which the CEO of Vectra Networks promotes the H-1B visa program. He states that the company seeks to hire the 'best and brightest' and the H-1B is a 'crucial program'. This is where the H-1B disclosure data ought to be the reporter's best friend. Sadly very few in the media do such a check. Vectra Network's CEO stated the company currently has 4 H-1B workers. Last year, the company filed 8 labor condition applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers. As with the case of most companies not in the bodyshopping business, Vectra's LCA data is not completely lopsided -- but it is telling nonetheless. Three of the LCAs list a wage higher than the average for the occupation and location, but the remaining LCAs list a wage substantially lower than average. In fact, Vectra's average wage savings over the market rate comes out to $11,475 per H-1B worker. (You can download the full Vectra H-1B data (in evil MSFT xls format) here.) The first seven jobs listed are in Santa Clara, CA, and the last one is in New Jersey. The 'prevailing' wages are based on the job code supplied by Vectra, not the job title. This is why the prevailing wage for 'senior data scientist' is lower than that for 'data scientist'. If Vectra's claim that they seek to hire 'best and brightest' were true, one would expect all of the company's LCAs to have a [much] higher than average wage. The great mystery in this analysis is that, due to the H-1B quotas and lottery, it is unlikely that Vectra received visas for workers that correspond to all of these LCAs. Hopefully president Trump will start making public the actual H-1B visa data so that we can see which LCAs translated into actual visas and remove all doubt as to what is going on in H-1B (and other guest-worker programs). This data shows that it is not just the Indian bodyshops that can save big money by going H-1B. [And it is not only the Indian bodies shopped who lose big by going H-1B.]"

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
more evidence of disingenuousness by Charlie Beck & Eric Garcetti

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
John Binder _Breitbart_
Trump administration USCIS has created a tool for reporting H-1B abuse
USCIS press release on measures to detect H-1B visa fraud and abuse

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Stephen Dinan _WND_
DHS John F. Kelly backs away from fencing even a significant fraction of USA-Mexico border, let alone securing all 6,500+ miles
Washington DC Times
Susan Jones: CNS

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Craig Bannister _CNS_
USCBP: SW border arrests plummeted 61% from January

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ken Blackwell _CNS_
president Trump can make USA safer through smart missile defense (together with smart border security)

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ben Kew _Breitbart_
slashing Obummer regulations alone will save $10G over 20 years

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ian Mason _Breitbart_
attorney-general Jeff Sessions gets congressional back-up on withholding federal funds from scofflaw "sanctuary" jurisdictions

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
Brandon Darby: USACBP officers feel betrayed at being stuck with Obummer hold-over as commissioner

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Tim Donnelly _Breitbart_
border fence/wall contractors fear being attacked, want to carry arms at work

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Breitbart_/_AFP_
Germany (finally!) moves to ban child marriages

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Breitbart_
former deputy-chief of the USA Border Patrol, Ronald Colburn: section of border wall near Yuma, AZ reduced illegal invasions 94%; robberies, assaults on USCBP officers declined by a couple orders of magnitude

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Nate Madden _Classical Liberal Review_
the delicious desperation in Claire McCaskill's raving border fence/wall phobia

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Barry Shaw _WND_
the horror felt in Israel over a group disingenuously calling themselves "Jewish Voice for Peace" hosting in Chicago a convicted Palestinian terrorist guilty of murdering and injuring Jews in crowded Jerusalem grocery is palpable
"...Odeh was sentenced to imprisonment for a year and a half and then to be deported by a Detroit court for hiding her terrorist past. The incursion of terrorists into [the USA] is currently a hot topic in [the USA]. Odeh is one example of a convicted terrorist slipping through the cracks. She was freed on bail pending an appeal, but on March 23 she accepted a plea bargain in which she will serve no jail time, be stripped of the [USA] citizenship and be deported... JVP is an avid pro-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) group. BDS, like Odeh and the PFLP, shamelessly campaigns for a world without the Jewish state..."

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Patriot Post_
twisted
should the pope fly to Syria and Iraq and Iran to tell Muslims to love Christians?

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
Muslim "refugees" pled guilty to sexual assault of 5-year-old

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
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2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
profiling
WND

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
L. Brent Bozell iii _Jewish World Review_
Susan Rice is still lying
Garth Kant: WND: what she did is 1,000 times as bad as the break-in of the DNC office in the Watergate office building
Craig Bannister: CNS: Lamar Smith (R-TX): the Obummer regime wrongfully asked the IRS to attack non-leftist organizations, so anything is possible
Washington DC Examiner: Susan Rice must testify under oath to congress

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
president Trump said he thinks Susan Rice may have committed a crime

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Aaron Klein _Breitbart_
former Obummer staffer Evelyn Farkas, who advocated spying on Trump & associates, wanted to do more to combat USA-constitution, patriotism, democracy, liberty

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jeff Poor _Breitbart_
Sebastian Gorka: Watergate burglary was a little spat in thesand-box compared with what Susan Rice & the Obummer regime apparently did

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
George Rasley _Classical Liberal HQ_
the Susan Rice-Clinton connection: Dem/Red/Leftist claims about their spying on Trump campaign & transition team do not add up

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ann Coulter _Breitbart_
the Russian emperor's new clothes
WND

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Nate Madden _Classical Liberal Review_
** Mark Levin: president Trump is not the first victim of Obummer police state tactics **

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Thomas Gallatin _Patriot Post_
anatomy of a leftist smear
* repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare
* block RyanAndMcConnellDon'tCare
* repeal Medicaid
* repeal Medicare
* repeal the Socialist Insecurity Abomination
* repeal regressive income extortion
* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Patriot Post_
high government extortion rates and government debt go hand in hand

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Elizabeth Harrington _WND_
leftist, anti-USA, anti-classical-liberal sabotage school opening at Harvard
Washington DC Free Beacon

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jordan Schachter _Classical Liberal Review_
Boeing signed multi-billion dollar deal with former Iranian "Revolutionary Guard" commander

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Adam Kredo _WND_
Trump administration to review Boeing sales to Muslim theocratic dictatorship of Iran
Washington DC Free Beacon

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Terence P. Jeffrey _CNS_
Jeremiah Denton and the point of no return: oath-keepers and oath-breakers
"Then-senate Judiciary chairman Joe Biden administers the oath to supreme court nominee Anthony Kennedy, 1987 December 14. The chairman told the witness to stand. 'Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?' The witness said: 'I do so swear.' It was 11 days before Christmas 1987. The chairman was senator Joe Biden; the witness, supreme court nominee Anthony Kennedy. Biden was demanding Kennedy swear to God -- not his god, or a god, but the God -- to tell the truth. Kennedy did not hesitate. About 30 minutes passed before this aspiring justice, as recorded by CSPAN, argued that the God he had just sworn to in the senate Judiciary committee had no place in America's court-rooms [i.e. until Kennedy broke his oath]... Supreme court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor came before the same committee 6 years earlier -- when senator Jeremiah Denton was still there. Denton, a retired Navy pilot and admiral, had been imprisoned by the North Vietnamese communists from 1965 to 1973. While they held him, they made the mistake of putting him on television, hoping it would advance their propaganda aims. Denton demolished that plan by using the opportunity to blink -- in Morse code -- the word 'torture'. When Denton questioned O'Connor in 1981, he simply wanted direct answers on a fundamental question. 'While respecting the differing views of others', Denton told her, 'I would consider the establishment by our government of a disposition amounting to a permanent decision not to protect the life of an unborn human being to be a point of no return in a recently accelerated, alarming trend way from the principles upon which our government was founded and by which this nation achieved greatness... In my understanding', Denton said, 'that greatness derives from the consensual definition of humankind as possessing infinite dignity and worth by virtue of being a form of life created in the image and likeness of God, with the inalienable rights of man, the prerogatives for those rights being endowed by that same Creator... Under what conditions do you now feel abortion is not offensive?', Denton asked..."

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Samuel Gregg _CNS_
it is surprising that widespread & vehement popular objection against global government did not come sooner
"Global governance projects don't just foster unaccountable bureaucracies and rule by experts. They are increasingly corrupting the idea of human rights. 2016 was not a happy year for globalism. In different ways, Donald Trump's election and Britain's decision to exit the European Union represented a rejection of those who view nation-states as a relic of the past and believe that the future belongs to supranational and global institutions. To be sure, people voted for Trump and Brexit for many reasons..."

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Ed Feulner _CNS_
USA citizens are losing independence, liberty, responsibility, self-reliance; we must stop governments' power-madness & violations of rights

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Kristina Wong _Breitbart_
USA Special Ops: USA just short of a heavier military commitment in the Middle East

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jordan Schachtel _Classical Liberal Review_
Kerry lied, Syrians died, Iran rages

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Charlie Spiering _Breitbart_
president Trump: I'm not going to tell you what I will do in Syria

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Edwin Mora _Breitbart_
Christian & Yazidi in Iraq: we just want a chance to survive
"...'It's just from genocide to genocide to genocide. We've lost a lot Christians. We've lost a lot of Yazidis. We have lost even a lot of Sunnis. We've lost a lot of Shias, but we're still the victims as minorities.'..."

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
5 delicate problems president Trump trusts Jared Kushner to solve

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Adelle Nazarian _Breitbart_
Turkey foreign-minister Metlut Cavusoglu: we don't have any problem with the Kurds, but oppose a separate Kurdish nation/government/state

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Breitbart_/_UPI_
illegal trade in "corpse brides" (to bury with unmarried male relatives) surges in Red China; some offer over $26K

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Daniel Horowitz _Classical Liberal Review_
7th circuit illegally tries to transform 1964 Civil Rights act in support of LGBTQIP privilege

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Chelsea Schilling _WND_
Rush Limbaugh: oath-breaking Dems/Reds/Leftists operate like force-initiating Muslims: they want to destroy all non-leftists, pure and simple; there is no compromise

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
lieutenant-colonel James Zumwalt _WND_
Islam has an implicit warning label, which media and leftists strive to ignore

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_WND_
PassOver: how church tradition has overcome the biblical record

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Art Moore _WND_
CAIR targets USA Air Force instructor, veteran terrorism expert, who explains shariah
Investigative Project: CAIR-Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood links
Discover the Networks: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
anti-CAIR

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Conrac Hackett & David McClendon _WND_
demographic jihad: Christianity being killed off in Europe, Islam expanding
Pew
Michael Morris: CNS

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_WND_
Omdurman: mob killed Christian church elder in Sudan, government helping Muslims take over property
Morning Star News

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Tom Ciccotta _Breitbart_
Treasury inspector-general: 2012-2015 Koskinen IRS robbed millions from innocent USA citizens, owners of small businesses... because it was easier than going after crooks & terrorists (especially, one suspects, extreme leftist crooks)

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
_Classical Liberal HQ_
it is time to openly designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Classical Liberal HQ_
100 days of Donald Trump: Tuesday Group members are not friends to president Trump

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Mark Alexander _Patriot Post_
media malpractice, betraying the first amendment

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jordan Candler _Patriot Post_
the left continues to try to hijack history

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Jim Steele
falling sea level was the critical factor in 2016 bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
John Stossel _Jewish World Review_
enough protection already
WND

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
David Middleton
an almost really good article from BBC: America's pronghorn Giraffoidea are survivors of wave of mass extinctions... and theny they swoop away from reality

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Anthony Watts
NOAA GeoPhysical Fluid Dynamics Lab: no measurable link between hurricanes and climate

2017-04-05 (5777 Nisan 09)
Anthony Watts
U of California at Merced: increase in CO₂ over last 200 years increased photosynthesis 30%

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"...anything that is in doubt should be tested whenever possible. It is often cheaper to spend a little money on test footage than it is to pay for having a day's or a week's work re-done." --- J. Kris Malkiewicz, Robert E. Rogers & Jim Fletcher 1973 _Cinematography: A Guide for Film Makers and Film Teachers_ pg57

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2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
Save Jobs USA vs. USA DHS
"An update is in order on the H-4 ([children under 21 years of age & spouses] of H-1B visa holders) work authorization case: Save Jobs USA v. USA Dep't of Homeland Security [DHS]. While the case got little attention initially, over the past few weeks there has been a surge of coverage, consisting largely of misleading plant pieces and mindless hysteria. A little bit of history is in order first. Administrative abuse has been a constant problem with the immigration system. Congress authorizes the executive to do certain things and then the president does whatever he wants. One recurring problem has been the executive authorizing alien employment on improper visas. In fact, the H-1B program was created in response to such abuse. In the past, this kind of agency abuse was justified with a song and a dance. Obummer was the first president to claim that he had the unlimited authority to allow any alien to work. Obummer's administration made the laughable claim that this unlimited authority came from 8 USC § 1103(a) and 8 USC § 1324a(h)(3). Like a child with a brand new toy, Obummer took many administrative actions authorizing aliens to be employed where there is no statutory authorization. The most famous of these are [his unconstitutional and illegal amnesties of illegal aliens]. The rule at issue in the H-4 case authorized certain spouses of H-1B workers to be employed, even though there is no statute authorizing such employment. The scope of presidential power in such cases is defined by what congress delegates; not by what it withholds. Save Jobs USA, a group of American citizens who were replaced by H-1B workers at Southern California Edison, filed a law-suit challenging this work authorization because it was in excess of DHS's statutory authority. In the district court, Save Jobs USA lost on 2 fronts: The court held they lacked standing and that the president has the unlimited authority to allow aliens to work in the United States of America. Save Jobs USA then appealed to the DC Circuit. You are at a much better advantage in the appeals court when you win in the district court. I have written before about standing. Plaintiffs face 2 major problems in regard to standing. First, the rules of standing that justice Scalia invented out of thin air are non-sensical (if anyone tells you Scalia was an originalist, respond with the word 'standing'). Second, the precedent applying those rules is inconsistent. Finally and most importantly, the courts invent new rules at will to allow plaintiffs entry or to keep them out. One of the latest examples was in the Washington v. Trump case where judge Robarts addressed the plaintiff's obvious standing problems by simply declaring the law of standing to be 'murky'. Standing is not law. It is strictly politics. The problem for the court of appeals is how to make standing look like law. In the Save Jobs USA opinion, the district court invented several new rules to deny standing. For example, the DC Circuit has repeatedly held that a party has standing when a government action allows competition with the plaintiff. The district court noted that the H-4 rule allows aliens to work anywhere (thus they are allowed to work in competition with Save Jobs USA members). However, the district court then created a new standard using the rules for injunctive relief that says something else must be shown beyond allowing competition. The DC Circuit would have to abandon much precedent to adopt the district court's new rule -- and that is just the start of the new rules that were created to deny Save Jobs USA standing. As such, we do not believe standing is as big an issue on appeal as it might otherwise be. The more interesting question is the scope of presidential authority. Here there has been a major change in the dynamics of the case. In the district court, the basic merits question was 'Does president Obummer have the unfettered authority to do whatever the hell he wants on immigration?' On appeal that question becomes 'Does president Trump have the unfettered authority to do whatever the hell he wants on immigration?' In theory, that should not make a difference in law. In practice, it is a major difference. Just look at how the [9th Circus] responded to president Trump exercising authority to deny entry to aliens that is explicitly in the statutes. The [9th Circus] dared not even mention that statutory provision is at issue. I dare say that we will not see 225 Dem/Red/Leftist members of congress filing an amicus brief saying: 'Congress understands that the Executive is often better positioned to determine how to adjust quickly to changing circumstances in complex fields, particularly ones involving law-enforcement and national-security concerns. Congress therefore regularly gives the executive broad discretion to determine how to enforce such statutes. Rarely has it done so more clearly than in the Nation's immigration laws.' At least not while president Trump is in office (pdf). Undoubtedly, the scope of presidential power on immigration changed when president Trump took office. Oral argument in the case was set for March 31 and Save Jobs USA had filed its opening brief. However, shortly after the election, DHS asked for a 60-day delay to allow the incoming administration to study the case. Save Jobs USA consented and the court granted the motion. That DHS motion started wild rumors in the [media based in India] that DHS was not going to defend the case. People ignored that, even if president Trump opposes the H-4 rule, he may not oppose having the power to make the H-4 rule. This week was the time for the parties to decide what to do next. DHS asked for an additional 180-day extension. This time Save Jobs USA opposed and moved the court to put the case back on schedule. This motion, too, has produced all kinds of wild speculation. One newspaper chain wrote of these opposing (and undecided motions): 'An effort to restrict immigrant visas for the spouses of foreign workers has suffered a set-back in the courts.' This is yet another example of why you should not believe what you read in the newspaper. I have no inside knowledge of what goes on at DHS, but my own interpretation of events is that DHS wants to preserve the power to make such rules yet wants the H-4 Rule to go away. I base that on these statements in their motion: '...the Department of Homeland Security has concluded that it is appropriate to actively reconsider whether to revise the H-4 rule through notice-and-comment rule-making... If the Department elects to promulgate a new rule that is different from the rule at issue in this appeal, that may obviate the need for judicial review of the current rule.' It looks to me like the H-4 rule is going away, even if Save Jobs USA loses in court. In any event, the surge of publicity in this case illustrates that most people think the courts will view the scope of president Trump's power on immigration as less than that of president Obummer's.

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
kill filibuster or restore filibuster, to reform border security, visas, immigration
Fred Bauer: National Review: rule 19
What is senate rule 22?
Jake Flanagin: Quartz: how the USA senate nuked USA bipartisanship with rule 22
wikipedia: rule 22
2017-02-07: Sean Davis: Federalist: confirming nominees, adopting budgets, etc. in the face of filibusters and rule 19 & 22 pseudo-filibusters
2017-02-08: Guy Benson: Town Hall: does rule 19 hold the key to overcoming filibusters & pseudo-filibusters?
2017-02-08: Betsy McCaughey: USA Spectator: end the fake filibuster!
2017-01-23: James Wallner & Ed Corrigan: Heritage: rules-based strategy for overcoming Dem/Red/Leftist obstruction
If they want to debate, let them debate, but as soon as they stop, as soon as they go off topic, call the vote.

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Andrew R. Arthur _Center for Immigration Studies_
Pepsi and USA DHS ICE? Who cares?

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
Chinese Americans, again, fleece Red Chinese in $50M EB-5 scam

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Stephen Dinan _WND_
Dana Rohrabacher has money-maker plan to pay for border fence/wall (if not for all the corruption in existing similar visa programs)

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Bob Price _Breitbart_
February 11-17: scofflaw "sanctuary jurisdictions" released 65 illegal aliens who had committed additional crimes & were wanted by USA DHS ICE

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
_Breitbart_/_AFP_
illegal immigration dropped to 16,600 in March, down 30% from February and 64% from a year ago

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
_Breitbart_/_AP_
San Fransicko: naturalized USA citizen murder suspect with ties in Red China posted $35M bail: $4M cash, $61M collateral property in Bay area

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Chris Tomlinson _Breitbart_
leftists fling racist insults at black supporter of Alternative fuer Deutschland political party which has agenda opposing excessive and low-standards/no-standards immigration

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Arnold Ahlert _Patriot Post_
lawful Texas, lawless California

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Kausha Luna _Center for Immigration Studies_
as enforcement of USA immigration laws improves, Hondurans choose other destinations

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Patrick Thibodeau _"IT" News_/_IDG_
Trump administration seeks curbs on use/abuse of H-1B visas for novice programmers; need to show that the job requires high-level specialized skills
ComputerWorld
"...[in 2011] USA GAO found that 54% of all H-1B guest-workers were paid entry-level wages, and 29% were paid the nextstep up, the level 2. The mean prevailing wage is level 3..."
GAO (pdf)

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
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2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
ancient laws, modern wars
"...Rightly or wrongly, Red China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Middle East-based terrorists concluded after 2009 that the USA saw itself in decline and preferred a recession from world affairs. In that void, rival states were emboldened..."

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
** a hole in the USA constitution? or simply blatant violation of it? **
"...Beginning in 1978 and continuing up to the present, congress has passed statutes that purport to confine domestic spying to foreign people communicating with anyone in [the USA]. Yet that confinement is a myth -- a myth accepted even by the congresses that have authorized and re-authorized it. In theory, spying in America is done pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and subsequent statutes that provide for the intervention of judges who issue warrants. In practice, the warrants are [unconstitutional] general warrants. They are not based on suspicion. They do not identify the person whose communications are to be intercepted. They permit the NSA to search where it wishes..."

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Robert Emmett Tyrrell ii _Jewish World Review_
they were obviously snooping on your people, president Trump

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Deroy Murdock _Jewish World Review_
Kremlin-crazed Trumpophobes snored as Clintons made Russia great again

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
John Kass _Jewish World Review_
Susan Rice is stuck in the rabbit hole

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
_Patriot Post_
how do I know the reports about Susan Rice and Obummer spying on Trump is true? because CNN told me it was none of my business

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Rand Paul: it looks like Susan Rice committed a crime by taking top secret information without a warrant, did something that is devastating

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Neil W. McCabe _Breitbart_
father of fallen Benghazi hero: perhaps Susan Rice should take a lie detector test

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
George Neumayr _USA Spectator_
Obummer/Rice spying on Trump truth is stranger than Orwell's fiction

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Stan Greer _CNS_
manufacturing employment rising in right-to-work Indiana

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
don't nuke the filibuster -- restore it; require them to debate or vote

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
Dianne Feinstein, Benjamin Disraeli, Valerie Jarrett, Tim Kaine, Joaquin Castro, Robert Emmett Tyrrell ii & Jimmy Fallon _Patriot Post_
filibuster, tyranny, BIG lies, non compos mentis, defense lawyers, twits

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Laura Hollis _Jewish World Review_
what does the illiberal Dem/Leftist/Red party stand for? certainly not for the USA

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Stephen Dinan _WND_
Republicans call for corrupt John Koskinen to be fired, then...
Washington DC Times
* repeal regressive income extortion
* repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare
* block RyanAndMcConnellDon'tCare
* repeal Medicaid
* repeal Medicare
* repeal the Socialist Insecurity Abomination
* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
_Classical Liberal HQ_
ObummerDoesn'tCare and the limits of corrupt RINO "do-nothing show-vote" government
* repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare
* block RyanAndMcConnellDon'tCare
* repeal Medicaid
* repeal Medicare
* repeal the Socialist Insecurity Abomination
* repeal regressive income extortion
* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
W. James Antle iii _Washington DC Examiner_
VP Mike Pence leading repeal of ObummerDoesn'tCare; RINOs still aiming to perpetuate socialist ratchet
* repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare
* block RyanAndMcConnellDon'tCare
* repeal Medicaid
* repeal Medicare
* repeal the Socialist Insecurity Abomination
* repeal regressive income extortion
* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
_WND_
LBGTQIP agenda imposition: 26-year USA Air Force veteran is battling an official admonishment from his commanding officer over allegedly disparaging remarks he made about homosexuality more than 4 years ago
WNG

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Susan Jones _CNS_
senator James Lankford: the big issue with Syria is Iran

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Craig Bannister _CNS_
Jodey Arrington provided great example of why the citizenry have lost confidence in media

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Govah Lazaroff & Anna Ahronheim _Breitbart_
terrorist murdered IDF soldier, injured civilian in vehicular homicide at Ofra bus stop in Eastern Israel
Jerusalem Israel Post

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Steve Emerson _News Max_
Iran-sponsored shiite militia to attack Israeli Golan Heights

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Chriss W. Street _Breitbart_
zika infections in all 50 USA states

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Jeffrey A. Rendall _Classical Liberal HQ_
no reason for "nerves" in vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch, today

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Daniel Pipes _News Max_
a return visit to academia shows continued leftist-driven decay
"...My first impression was one of intellectual coziness. A broad consensus on a common base of liberal assumptions crowds out dissenting opinions. A series of hierarchies exists [in the minds of today's academia]: Modern bests old. Non-American bests American. Female bests male. Dark skin bests white skin. Muslim bests non-Muslim. The word 'Islamophobia' is used as though a normal English-language word rather than a propagandistic tool to shut down criticism. A prominent nineteenth century missionary, Henry Jessup, was anachronistically called a 'pre-eminent Muslim-basher'... A frisson rippled through the audience at mention of 'Trump'; in contrast, invoking Edward Said won the predictable approval. My second impression concerns jargon. No person outside academe uses words like 'problematize', 'racialize', and 'relativize', much less would he 'historicize the notion of imagination'. (What's with all this turning nouns into verbs with –ize?) Use of the word 'and' in the conference title spawned considerable debate (does it imply America and the Muslim world are completely different or does it allow for overlap?) to the point that this came to be known as 'the and problem'... The third and strongest impression concerns triviality, the historians' tendency to avoid big, meaningful analyses in favor of trifling micro-topics. They answer questions no one asks... In contrast, compelling and useful issues barely surfaced... the repeated order that the conference not be recorded on audio or video... It's an odd demand from an academic institution, which by its nature wants to reach a wider public... I grew up around a university (my father Richard is a professor emeritus) and went on to earn a PhD in medieval history, so I initially expected the campus ever to be central in my life. Then, because it radicalized and I did not, my connection to the academy withered. Now, on occasional returns visits to it, I invariably feel alienated by the left-wingery, the jargon, and the arrogant irrelevance. While glad I escaped its clutches, I worry about the future of [USA] higher education..."

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
David Middleton
resurgence of USA coal industry

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Jay Ambrose _Jewish World Review_
president Trump, the alert environmentalist

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Katie Brown, PhD
blindingly stupid propaganda: watermelons spread false claim that "global warming" caused Exxon-Valdez spill in 1989

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Leo Goldstein
RICO law-suit against "Climate Action Network" moves forward

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Anthony Watts
way fewer hurricanes hit USA over the last decades, and those have been weaker

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Anthony Watts
NCAR/UCAR: California droughts & floods linked with atmospheric waves

2017-04-06 (5777 Nisan 10)
Willis Eschenbach
the watermelons' march against science

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"One study estimates that from 1150 to 1300, Jews made up about 15% of the educated world's top scientists, although they represented only about 0.5% of the world's population. Jewish scholars wrote noted poetry on love, nature, war, and other secular works comparing the great religions. Jewish thinkers, like the moral theologian Bahya ibn Pakuda, referred warmly in their writings to their Sufi Muslim friends, whom they called hasidim [chasidim/chassidim], pious men." --- Jon Entine & Les Pockell 2007 _Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People_ pp175-176

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Yom Shishi

Venerdi

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Michael Patrick Leahy _Breitbart_
Obummer hold-over at DHS is influencing refugee screening

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Chris Tomlinson _Breitbart_
stolen beer truck plowed into store in Stockholm, Sweden; 5 dead, shots fired, suspect arrested

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Virginia Hale _Breitbart_
recently arrived "migrant" stabbed to death a 52-year-old USA citizen woman taking photographs in eastern sub-urb of Paris

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Victoria Friedman _Breitbart_
Poland prime-minister Beata Szydlo noted EU "migrant policy" is bad for Europe

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
news on "sanctuaries" and remittances

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
leftists trying to re-define the word "police" in the cause of opposition to border security and opposition to reasonable & constitutional visa & immigration law enforcement

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
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2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
Israel and Obummer's political war: there are several aspects of the story of Obummer's abuse of power, and the fact that Israel and its USA allies were key targets of that abuse that are important beyond the domestic discourse in the USA
"...during the course of the USA presidential elections, and with steadily rising intensity after president Donald Trump won the 2016 November elections, Rice [abused] her access to intercepted communications of foreign intelligence targets to gather information on Donald Trump's advisers. Some of those reports were then leaked, injuriously to the media in [apparently blatant] violation of USA criminal statute..."

2017-04-03 (5777 Nisan 07)
David Harsanyi _Patriot Post_
more questions Susan Rice must answer under oath

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
epidemic of derangement in the Marx Bros. media

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
_Australia Broadcasting_
in response to chemical weapons attack in northern Syria president Trump ordered cruise missile strikes on Bashar al-Assad's Sayrat Air Force Base in Syria
Tom van den Brook & Gregory Korte: USA Today/Gannett
Gordon Lubold & Dion Nissenbaum: WSJ
CBC/AP
Phil Stewart & Idrees Ali: Reuters
Toluse Olorunnipa, Ting Shi & Margaret Talev: Jewish World Review
Courtney Kube, Alex Johnson, Hallie Jackson & Alexander Smith: NBC
Jennifer Griffin & Lucas Tomlinson: Fox
Mike Murphy: MarketWatch
News Max
Tawfik Hamid: News Max
John Hayward: Breitbart: Russian frigate headed toward USA Navy destroyers in Mediterranean from which missiles were launched, with scheduled stop at Tartus

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Suzanne Fields _Jewish World Review_
Nikki Haley: the new sheriff at the UN

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Charles Krauthammer _Jewish World Review_
karma, precedent, and rules changes at the USA senate
Patriot Post

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Anna Priore _Patriot Post_
non-leftist students live in fear

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
_Patriot Post_
IRS abuses forfeiture law

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Ian Mason _Breitbart_
senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to supreme court

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Herb Keinon _Breitbart_
Russia recognizes only western portions of Jerusalem to be Israel capital city; asserts that Eastern Israel should be designated as yet another Palestinian "state", with eastern portions of Jerusalem as its capital
Jerusalem Israel Post

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
"Federale" _Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIRCO)_
too many Obummer deep-staters in management at DHS are blocking border security, visa/immigration reforms

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Anthony Watts
California doubles down on stupid: judges uphold cap-and-trade program, new fuel tax coming
Joel B. Pollak: Breitbart: $0.12/gallon gasoline tax increase

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Warren Blair
the art of deception by watermelons: about those record temperatures in Antarctica

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Robert Balic
questions on CO₂

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Berel Wein _Jewish World Review_
living the commanded life as a means to fulfilling our ultimate life's purpose

2017-04-07 (5777 Nisan 11)
Va Yiqra/Leviticus/ו יקרא/and called Tzev/צו/Tzav/command 6:1-8:36 & Malachi/מלאכי/Melaki/My messenger 3
VaYiqra/Leviticus/ו יקרא/and called (Sefaria.org)
(Torah.org)
10 commandments/ aseret/asereth ha dibrot
613 mitzvoth/taryag mitzvot
ChaBaD: 613 mitzvoth/taryag mitzvot
7 laws of Noah
Natural Law
Golden Rule and similar brief ethical rules of thumb
Natural Rights vs. legal privileges
The Libertarian Principle: No individual or group of individuals may morally initiate physical force or fraud against others. Anyone who does initiate the use of physical force or fraud is unethical and criminal.
Objectivist tree
Existence

Consciousness Identity

Reason Purpose Self-Esteem

Rationality Independence Integrity Honesty Justice Productiveness Pride

13 attributes of mercy
"Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel; remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from My people, saith the Lord GOD. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah..." --- Ezekiel/ יחזקאל/ Yechezqal 45:9-

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Consciousness		Identity
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Rationality	Independence	Integrity	Honesty	Justice	Productiveness	Pride

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"[Pharmaceutical firms] must obtain the approval of the Food and Drug Administration, which requires randomized controlled testing [and credentialated chemists, statisticians...]; they must also convince the doctors to prescribe their pills [and elixirs and powders and injectibles]." --- George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller 2015 _Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception_ pg xiv

Saturday

Samstag

Yom Shabbat

Sabato

2017-04-08 (5777 Nisan 12)

2017-04-08 (5777 Nisan 12)
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2017-04-08 (5777 Nisan 12)
Eric Worrall
"African Development Bank" "study": climate might be a tool the West uses/abuses to boost their economic well-being... by admitting the most knowledgeable, educated, and skilled as refugees, and rejecting the rest

2017-04-08 (5777 Nisan 12)
Anthony Watts
amidst repeated flooding governor moon-beam Brown declares California drought emergency officially ended (after declaring in 2016 May that droughts would continue for decades)

2017-04-08 (5777 Nisan 12)
Paul Driessen
Ryan Zinke off to funbling start at DoI

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"These include such Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) [a kind of quasi-non-governmental organization (quango)] as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, and the National Passenger RailRoad Corporation. One important form of quasi is the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), a type of private entity 'organized' at the government's initiative to provide contract services to the government. The oldest and best-known FFRDC is the Rand Corporation, created in 1948 to undertake research for the USA military. Possibly USA's most important quasis are the several GSEs that play key roles in the nation's financial services industry. The best known of these GSEs are Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Corporation) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation). The others are the Student Loan Marketing Association, known as Sallie Mae, the Farm Credit System (FCS), the Federal Home Loan Bank System (FHLBS) and the Federal Agricultural Credit Corporation (Farmer Mac). The GSEs are among the nation's largest banking institutions, collectively controlling assets of nearly $3T. Fannie Mae alone is currently the nation's 26th largest business enterprise in terms of revenues and ranks 3rd in total assets. Each of these 6 GSEs was originally established [allegedly] to overcome perceived flas in credit markets." --- Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg, Steven L. Mitchell & Laura Shelley 2016 _What Washington DC Gets Wrong: The UnElected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their MisConceptions [about and hostility to] the USA People_ pp41-43

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"The daring brick dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, first built in 537CE and one of the largest domes of antiquity, fell twice before it finally stood. It stands to this day. The exceptionally high vault of the Gothic cathedral at Beauvais collapsed twice before the master masons of the 14th and 16th centuries understood the real potential and limitations of this type of construction." --- Mario Salvadori, Saralinda Hooker & Christopher Ragus 1980, 1990 _Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture_ pg19

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