Here Comes the Obama/UN Refugee “Surge” — Rebranded as “Safe Alternative Pathways”

(Hat tip: KimR) - Across the United States, designated “Welcoming Communities” have begun receiving — or soon will be recipients of — Syrian “refugees” chosen by the United Nations and supposedly vetted by U.S. agencies. But only months ago top officials of these same agencies stated it would be impossible to vet the enormous pool of refugee applicants for terrorist and criminal backgrounds... Read more at the New American Read More......

Deny Aid, Visas to Countries That Won’t Accept Deported Illegal Aliens

(Hat tip: KimR) - Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that “recalcitrant countries” that refuse to take criminal aliens that are being deported should not get federal aid from the U.S. and the U.S. should not give those countries more visas. Read more at CNS News Read More......

FAIL: Busted Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment

(Hat tip: KimR) - From the “it’s OK, we used other people’s money” department and Andrew Follet at The Daily Caller: Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on campus, after the school got $987,697.20 in taxpayer support for wind power. Read more at Watts Up with That Read More......

Senate Democrats push climate change bond bill

(Hat tip: KimR) - Two Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to create a new climate change adaptation fund to be paid for through new federal bonds. --The bond program — from Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — would provide up to $200 million annually for a Commerce Department grant program to fund climate change adaptation work around the country. Read more at The Hill Read More......

ICE releases 19,723 criminal illegals, 208 convicted of murder, 900 of sex crimes

(Hat tip: KimR) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2015 decided not to deport but release 19,723 criminal illegal immigrants, including 208 convicted of murder, over 900 convicted of sex crimes and 12,307 of drunk driving, according to new government numbers. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

US advance Q1 GDP up 0.5% vs. 0.7% expected

(Hat tip: KimR) - U.S. economic growth braked sharply to its slowest pace in two years as consumer spending softened and a strong dollar continued to undercut exports, but a pick-up in activity is anticipated given a buoyant labor market. Gross domestic product increased at a 0.5 percent annual rate, the slowest since the first quarter of 2014... Read more at CNBC Read More......

Radisson Hotel Chain Is Latest U.S. Giant to Be Snapped Up By Chinese

(Hat tip: KimR) - A unit of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has agreed to buy Carlson Hotels, which owns brands including Radisson and Country Inns and Suites, the latest in a flurry of overseas investments by Chinese companies. HNA Tourism Group will acquire all of Carlson Hotels Inc., the companies said in a joint statement released late Wednesday that did not disclose the purchase price. Read more at NBC News Read More......

America's earnings recession just got worse

(Hat tip: KimR) - Weak global growth is closing consumers' wallets, while the strong dollar is only making iPhones and other American goods more expensive for foreign buyers. Add on still-low oil prices and Corporate America is facing major headwinds. Read more at CNN Read More......

Study: GDP Would Be 25% Bigger If Government Regulations Had Been Capped In 1980

(Hat tip: KimR) - Red Tape: Economists scratch their heads when asked to explain the economy’s tepid growth over the past several years. A new study gives a possible answer: the growing, cumulative burden of federal regulations. Read more at Investor's Business Daily Read More......

Norway offers to pay asylum seekers £1000 bonus to leave the country

(Hat tip: KimR) - Norwegian authorities are offering a "bonus" 10,000 kroner (£1,000) to asylum seekers willing to leave the country voluntarily. The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) says the measure is less expensive than keeping refugees in immigration centres in the country. Read more at the UK Telegraph Read More......

In Venezuela, Former Chavistas Risk Lives Fighting over a Bag of Onions

(Hat tip: KimR) - A disturbing video of a crowd physically beating each other to get at a select few bags of onions outside a supermarket in Venezuela highlights the struggle the average Venezuelan must endure to keep his or her family fed in the increasingly impoverished socialist nation. Read more at Breitbart.com Read More......

How the state of the economy is literally killing people

(Hat tip: KimR) - Middle-aged people laid off and unable to find work are taking another way out. They’re killing themselves. Suicide rates are soaring, according to federal data released last week. Especially in economically depressed states and job-starved upstate New York. People in need of work are twice as likely to take their own lives as employed people, and people fired in their 40s and 50s find it hardest to get hired again. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

Fridges go off as Venezuela power-rationing hits

(Hat tip: KimR) - Fridges zapped off in kitchens across Venezuela as the government turned off the electricity supply to help ease a power shortage that is worsening the country's economic crisis. --It is the latest drastic measure by the government in a crisis that already has Venezuelans queuing for hours to buy scarce supplies in shops. Read more at Yahoo News Read More......

US to give Israel 'largest military aid package in history'

(Hat tip: KimR) - The White House is reportedly planning to accept Israeli demands for increased military aid, following pressure by the US Senate to sign a new Memorandum of Understanding laying out US support to Israel for the next decade. Read more at Israel National News Read More......

Scientists Build a Better Incandescent Light Bulb… Six Years After Last US Factory Closes

(Hat tip: KimR) - Protoytpe of a new energy efficient incandescent light bulb. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). --Six years after the last incandescent light bulb factory in the U.S. shut down due to strict new federal energy conservation standards, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a technological breakthrough that could make incandescent bulbs twice as energy-efficient as their replacements. Read more at CNS News Read More......

Israeli Anti-Tunnel System Could Put End To Smugglers, Migrants From Mexico

(Hat tip: KimR) - The U.S. is cosponsoring an Israeli-invented tunnel detection system that could prevent drug smugglers and illegal migrants from cross-border passage with Mexico, ISRAEL21c reported. --The technology, which is being heralded as the underground Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, was behind the IDF’s recent discovery of a 1.5 mile-long Hamas terror tunnel from Gaza and into Israeli territory. Read more at Breitbart.com Read More......

Austrian government in shock as far-right triumphs

(Hat tip: KimR) - Austria's government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on May 22. Read more at France 24 Read More......

NYC: The mayor is going down!

(Hat tip: KimR) - Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

Turkey seizes all Christian churches in Diyarbakir

(Hat tip: KimR) - Here’s a less than sunny story to start off your Sunday, but since it involves churches I suppose it’s appropriate. We only recently discussed the rather difficult position Barack Obama finds himself in when dealing with the provocative nature of our supposed ally Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. His track record as a positive force for change has been questionable at best, and this week he adds another negative mark to his tally. Read more at Hotair.com Read More......

Beyond Obamacare: Colorado Considers Single-Payer Model

(Hat tip: KimR) - As Republican policymakers nationwide continue debating ways to replace Obamacare with patient-centered solutions, a Colorado group has landed a plan implementing a single-payer model of health care on November’s ballot. Coloradans are already bracing for its impact. Read more at the Read more at Daily Signal Read More......

U.S. Chamber critical of Obama overseas tax plans

“There is nothing ‘patriotic’ about politicians bullying America’s job creators for legally trying to level the playing field. Instead of focusing on soundbites, Washington should do its job and comprehensively reform the tax code.” Read more at Oregon Business Report Read More......

Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short by 60

Heavy marijuana use in the late teen years puts men at a higher risk for death by age 60, a new long-term study suggests. --Swedish researchers analyzed the records of more than 45,000 men beginning in 1969 and 1970. The scientists from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm reported that 4,000 died during the 42-year follow-up period, and men who'd used marijuana heavily at ages 18 and 19 were 40 percent more likely to die by age 60 compared to guys who hadn't used the drug. --The authors of the new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, said the findings contradict previous research involving the same group of men. --But this study was longer... Read more at CBS News Read More......

No One Works in 1 in 5 U.S. Families

There were one in five families in the United States in 2015, or 19.7 percent, in which no one in the family worked, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read more at Washington Free Beacon Read More......

Anita Hill: the Left’s Modern Alger Hiss

(Hat tip: KimR) - On Saturday night, HBO debuted its account of the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings. While it was billed as “meticulously researched” by the leftist screenwriters and Hollywood executives behind the film, Confirmation rewrites history to advance the myth that Anita Hill was a victim of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas. The fictional “docudrama” that twists and omits key facts, and in some cases, outright makes things up, is yet another attempt by the left to establish through persistence what could not be established through evidence. Read more at Townhall.com Read More......

Obama Slammed as 'Perverse' by London Mayor over 'Brexit'

(Hat tip: KimR) - President Barack Obama faced a furious backlash on his visit to the U.K. Friday, accused of hypocrisy by lawmakers — including the mayor of London — after intervening in Britain's national referendum on the European Union. --The president was accused of an "incoherent" and "perverse" intervention in the country's acrimonious debate after urging British voters to remain in the political bloc. Read more at NBC News Read More......

McAuliffe to sign order restoring rights to 206,000 felons

(Hat tip: KimR) - Gov. Terry McAuliffe this morning will sign an order that effectively restores the civil rights, including the right to vote, of more than 200,000 felons in Virginia. Read more at the Richmond Times-Dispatch Read More......

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for Facebook Comment

On Wednesday, ESPN announced that it was firing baseball analyst Curt Schilling for a comment he posted on his Facebook account. As reported on the Associated Press story running on Fox News, a picture of a cross-dressing man was shared on Schilling’s Facebook page with the caption: “Let him in! To the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!” --As Schilling notes in a blog post, “This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious. I didn’t post that ugly looking picture. I made a comment about the basic functionality of mens and womens restrooms, period.” --So what was Schilling’s comment? Read more at GOP USA... Read More......

The Most Dangerous Treaties You Know Nothing About

(Hat tip: KimR) - When you hear the phrase “tax treaties,” your first response (besides yawning) would be to assume that, out of all the treaties the United States is involved in, these would be the most harmless. Generally, you’d be right. When we talk about tax treaties, we usually mean agreements between countries to ease excessive taxation (usually double taxation) while promoting cooperation in tax compliance. But pending in the Senate right now are two tax treaties that are particularly dangerous to privacy, to U.S. sovereignty, and to the security of individuals and human rights. Read more at Conservative Review Read More......

Obama Administration Tells Supreme Court 'Lawfully' Doesn't Mean 'Legally'

(Hat tip: KimR) - “Lawfully” does not mean “legally.” Welcome to what Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Supreme Court on Monday is the “immigration world.” Or, more accurately, welcome to the new world President Barack Obama — through his solicitor — is asking the Supreme Court to join him in declaring. Read more at the Cybercast News Service Read More......

Five Things ACA Supporters Don't Want You To Know About UnitedHealth's Withdrawal From Obamacare

(Hat tip: KimR) - UnitedHealth is withdrawing from most of the 34 ObamaCare Exchanges in which it currently sells, citing losses of $650 million in 2016. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report indicates UnitedHealth’s departure will leave consumers on Oklahoma’s Exchange with only one choice of insurance carriers. Read more at Forbes Read More......

Former FBI agents to Director Comey: ‘Future of the Bureau’ rests on handling of Clinton email case

(Hat tip: KimR) - A group of former agents has written a letter to FBI Director Comey saying the “future of the bureau” hinges on what happens in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The letter from a group of retired agents in Long Island compares the Clinton email scandal to another famous FBI case known as ABSCAM. ABSCAM involved public corruption of politicians who were filmed taking bribes from a fictitious front company. Fox News published the letter over the weekend. Read more at HotAir.com Read More......

Charge: FEC Dems would ban Drudge, NYT, free media on election eve

(Hat tip: KimR) - The war between Republicans and Democrats on the politically splintered Federal Election Commission flared late Monday when a Republican commissioner and former chairman charged that the panel's Democrats want to regulate the press and end free election media. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

Kerry's Japan visit paves way for Obama apology tour

(Hat tip: KimR) - If John Kerry's remarks in Japan are any indication, you can be sure that President Barack Obama will apologize for the U.S.'s World War II atom bombing of Hiroshima. Obama seems bent on coming full circle by ending his two terms in office the way he began it --with an apology tour, Cuba lately, Japan next. Read more at the Lowell Sun Read More......

Obama Administration Makes Stunning Admission: "Seed Money For Al Qaeda Came From Saudi Arabia"

(Hat tip: KimR) - Following a dramatic deterioration in official diplomatic channels between the US and Saudi Arabia when over the weekend the Saudis threatened the U.S. with dumping billions in Treasuries if Congress were to pass a bill probing into their alleged support of Sept 11 terrorists in the aftermath of last weekend's 60 Minutes report on the classified "28 pages" from the Septemeber 11 commission, moments ago the Obama administration made a stunning admission, when for the first time it revealed on the record that the Saudis were the original source of funding for Al Qaeda. Read more at Zerohedge Read More......

The Sickening Hypocrisy of Starbucks and Apple

(Hat tip: KimR) - She was only 17 years-old when she died. Her father cut out her tongue and burned her alive. What was her crime, and why did this man kill his own daughter in the most horrific imaginable way? He was a Saudi Arabian official who worked with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – the religious police – and when his daughter became a Christian, he butchered and murdered her.What does this have to do with Starbucks and Apple? Read more at Townhall.com Read More......

Botched Doha deal undermines OPEC credibility, oil prices tumble

(Hat tip: KimR) - Oil prices tumbled on Monday after a meeting by major exporters in Qatar collapsed without an agreement to freeze output, leaving the credibility of the OPEC producer cartel in tatters and the world awash with unwanted fuel. Read more at Yahoo News Read More......

Big Science is broken

(Hat tip: KimR) - Science is broken. That's the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine, in which William A. Wilson accumulates evidence that a lot of published research is false. But that's not even the worst part. Advocates of the existing scientific research paradigm usually smugly declare that while some published conclusions are surely false, the scientific method has "self-correcting mechanisms" that ensure that, eventually, the truth will prevail. Unfortunately for all of us, Wilson makes a convincing argument that those self-correcting mechanisms are broken. The WeekRead more at The Week Read More......

Pending Bankruptcy of Largest Solar Company Puts Alternative Energy Industry Into Full Meltdown Mode

(Hat tip: KimR) - The darling industry of Sustainable Development is solar energy and wind turbines. The global policy of Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy) is to a) destroy carbon-based energy and b) replace the deficit with alternative energy. Read more at Technocracy News Read More......

It begins: In wake of California $15 minimum wage, garment firms moving out of Los Angeles

(Hat tip: KimR) - To the surprise of nobody but leftists, Governor Brown and the California State Legislature Democrats, jobs are beginning to evaporate visibly in the wake of California legislating a phased-in $15 an hour minimum wage. Even the Los Angeles Times can’t help but notice:  Last week American Apparel, the biggest clothing maker in Los Angeles, said it might outsource the making of some garments to another manufacturer in the U.S., and wiped out about 500 local jobs. Read more at American Thinker Read More......

Supremes weigh government grab of private land

(Hat tip: KimR) - Can a government define a piece of land as a building parcel, collect taxes on it from the owners for years, then abruptly tell them they can’t use it, sell it or be compensated for it? --The U.S. Supreme Court will answer that question when it rules this year on a case concerning a piece of land along the St. Croix River, near Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Read more at World Net Daily Read More......

Brussels terrorist starred in Muslim integration documentary

(Hat tip: KimR) - One of the Brussels bombing terrorists starred in a Swedish documentary about Muslim integration, a Swedish newspaper revealed Friday - before becoming a jihadist nearly 10 years later. Osama Krayem, 23, starred in the 2005 film when he was 11 about his successful integration into Malmo society. Read more at Arutz Sheva Read More......

Elizabeth Warren thinks the IRS should fill out your tax returns

(Hat tip: KimR) - With Monday’s tax filing deadline looming over many Americans’ weekends, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new bill may seem like a godsend. The Massachusetts Democrat introduced legislation Wednesday that would allow U.S. taxpayers to have the government do their taxes for them—for free. Read more at Boston.com Read More......

Report: Saudis vow to sell US assets if Congress decides gov was involved in 9/11

(Hat tip: KimR) - Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks. Read more at Fox News Read More......

Liberal ‘Dominionists’ Want to Eliminate Christianity From Society

Excerpt: Who runs the banks, Federal Reserve, pre-school through 12th, courts, most of the media, most law schools, the entertainment industry, and most colleges and universities? --The secular dominionists are heirs of communist theorist Antonio Gramsci who argued that to change a society “would require a ‘long march through the institutions’—the arts, cinema, theater, schools, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, magazines, and the new electronic medium [at the time], radio.” Read more at Constitution.com Read More......

Primary care physicians becoming extinct partly due to Obamacare

An alarming report from the Association of Medical Colleges says America will be short a million doctors by 2025 and that the shortage of primary care physicians makes up a third of that number. --We're already feeling the effects of the shortage today. Read more at American Thinker Read More......

U.S. Gives 680,000 Green Cards to Migrants from Muslim Nations

With Islamic terrorism on the rise in the United States and Western Europe, it’s worth mentioning that the Obama administration issued around 680,000 green cards to foreigners from Muslim countries during a five-year period, according to data published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). --Snip-- National security has never appeared to be a priority for the Obama administration, but this is downright alarming as the U.S. encounters burgeoning threats from radical Islamists. The president’s ongoing effort to befriend and protect Muslims in the U.S. hasn’t put a dent in these eminent threats. Read more at JudicialWatch Read More......

David Brooks: How to Fix Politics

In the middle of this depressing presidential campaign I sometimes wonder, How could we make our politics better? --It’s possible to imagine an elite solution. The next president could get together with the leaders of both parties in Congress and say: “We’re going to change the way we do business in Washington. We’re going to deliberate and negotiate. We’ll disagree and wrangle, but we will not treat this as good-versus-evil blood sport.” That kind of leadership might trickle down. --But it’s increasingly clear that the roots of political dysfunction lie deep in society. If there’s truly going to be improvement, there has to be improvement in the social context politics is embedded in. Read more at New York Times Read More......

What are Green Decoys?

(Hat tip: Oregon Lands Council, fb) -Environmental and left-wing foundations have poured millions into “sportsmen,” “hunting,” and “angling” groups, using them as cover to push their pet causes. See the evidence, and learn about the fringe agendas of these organizations. Watch Green Decoys (video) Read More......

The System Can Work as Intended

According to Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett (R-Klamath Falls), "One of the most important duties of the members of the Legislative Assembly is to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent to best benefit the public. This often involves making difficult choices regarding what our true spending priorities should be." He adds, "Sometimes those decisions are not so difficult and actually are extremely easy to make." Geologists have warned of the high probability that a very destructive earthquake will hit Oregon. So, for a case-in-point, Sen. Whitsett discusses the need to seismically retrofit the Oregon Capitol (including an extensive remodel) and at-risk schools throughout Oregon. Between the capitol and schools, what would your first priority be? See how our legislative Republicans have argued this issue... Read more at News from Doug Whitsett Read More......

Obama’s Gun-control Hypocrisy Called Out by Alabama Senator

(Hat tip: KimR) - On March 30, President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 62 criminals, 12 of whom were behind bars for gun-related drug crimes. This was just too much for Alabama’s senior Senator Richard Shelby (R), so the next day Shelby sent a stinging letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. He asked her about the president’s hypocrisy and demanded answers to questions that he posed to her during a committee hearing back in January. Wrote Shelby: Read more at the New American Read More......

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Threatens to Veto Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions

(Hat tip: KimR) - Abortion activists in Pennsylvania are putting up a fight against a new bill to ban painful late-term abortions and gruesome dismemberment abortion procedures in the state. Pennsylvania House Bill 1948, sponsored by state Rep. Kathy Rapp, would ban brutal dismemberment abortions that tear unborn babies limb from limb and prohibit abortions after 20 weeks when unborn babies can feel pain. Read more at LifeNews Read More......

Of Diapers and Dictators in Venezuela

(Hat tip: KimR) - “Welcome to the Maiquetia Simón Bolívar International Airport,” said the stewardess with a metallic voice as our plane touched down on Venezuelan soil. The excitement of a family reunion and anguish over the situation in the country shook me out of a brief sleep after eight hours flying from Paris. I was coming back to my country after three years of absence, in the company of my almost-2-year-old daughter and her father. Read more at the Daily Beast Read More......

This Delaware Address Is Home to 200,000 Shell Companies—Including Hillary Clinton’s

(Hat tip: KimR) - The address “1209 North Orange Street” in Wilmington, Del., has become known in recent years as the epicenter of U.S. corporate secrecy. The squat, split-level building is the official address of over 285,000 companies, many of which are looking to take advantage of Delaware’s Panama-like secrecy rules, tax incentives, and business-friendly case law. Read more at Washington Free Beacon Read More......

"Astonishing" two in three British Muslims would NOT give police terror tip-offs

(Hat tip: KimR) - Two thirds of British Muslims would not inform the police if they thought that somebody close to them had become involved with terrorist sympathisers, according to a poll. --This alarming revelation suggests that more than 100,000 British Muslims could sympathise with suicide bombers and people who commit terrorist acts. Read more at the UK Express Read More......

Suit: US grouse protections driven by politics, not science

(Hat tip: KimR) - Rural Nevadans suing to block the Obama administration's sage-grouse protections say a trail of internal government documents shows politics was the driving force behind a pre-determined policy that flies in the face of its experts' own best science. Read more at KTVZ.com Read More......

To fight ‘oppression,’ campus posters tell Christian students to check their privilege

(Hat tip: KimR) - A new group on campus who allegedly enjoy “privilege” has been identified — Christians. --A poster campaign recently seen at several universities across the nation lists “Christians” as a group of students who enjoy privilege along with the usual suspects: whites, males, heterosexuals, the “able-bodied,” and so on. Read more at The College Fix Read More......

UK Equalities Chief ’‘I Thought Muslims Would Blend into Britain… I Should Have Known Better’

(Hat tip: KimR) - Phillips, a former elected member of the Labour Party who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012 will present “What British Muslims Really Think” on Channel 4 on Wednesday. An ICM poll released to the Times ahead of the broadcast reveals: One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house... Read more at Breitbart.com Read More......

Barbara Kay: When Mark Steyn struck back

(Hat tip: KimR) - I was one of the lucky attendees last Friday at the Munk Debate in Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall. The motion before the house concerned refugee policy: “Be it resolved: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” On the pro side: Louise Arbour, former UN Human Rights commissioner and historian Simon Schama; on the con side journalist Mark Steyn and Britain’s UKIP party leader Nigel Farage. Read more at the National Post Read More......

George Will: The Battle to Save a Revolutionary War Battlefield

Princeton, N.J. — One of history’s most important battles happened here on a field you can walk across in less than half the 45 or so minutes the battle lasted. If George Washington’s audacity on January 3, 1777, had not reversed the patriots’ retreat and routed the advancing British, the American Revolution might have been extinguished. --Yet such is America’s neglect of some places that sustain its defining memories, the portion of the field over which Washington’s nation-saving charge passed is being bulldozed to make way for houses for faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). [And what do the academics have to say about it?] Read more at National Review Read More......

Climate forecasts may be flawed, says study

(Hat tip: KimR) - Predictions of unprecedented rainfall extremes in the 20th century driven by global warming turned out wrong, a study said Wednesday, casting doubt on methods used to project future trends. A massive trawl of Northern Hemisphere rainfall data for the last 1,200 years revealed there had been more dramatic wet-dry weather extremes in earlier, cooler centuries before humans set off fossil fuel-driven global warming. Read more at Yahoo News Read More......

Yes, Let’s Prosecute Climate-Change Fraud — and Start with the Scaremongers

(Hat tip: KimR) - If propounding pseudoscience in pursuit of self-serving goals is a crime, here are some hardened offenders. The attorneys general of New York and California are on the warpath. They’re fed up with dissent over the science and politics of global warming, and they’re ready to investigate the liars. Read more at National Review Read More......

Deep-Sixing Another Useful Climate Myth

(Hat tip: KimR) - By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President Obama, you most assuredly have seen it repeated everywhere as scientific fact. --The correct representation is “yes,” “some,” and “no.” Yes, climate change is real. There has never been a period in Earth’s history when the climate has not changed somewhere, in one way or another. Read more at Townhall.com Read More......

The 17th Amendment – A Mistake That Keeps on Giving

(Hat tip: KimR) - Our previously free republic continues to reel from a one hundred and three year old mistake: the 17^th Amendment. Pardon me if I don’t celebrate today’s anniversary. Read more at Article V Blog Read More......

China Tells Foreign Firms: Brace for Bigger Competitors

(Hat tip: KimR) - Foreign companies -- already with marginal access in industries -- are now up against mercantilist moves including a "Made in China" initiative. China Tells Foreign Firms: Brace for Bigger Competitors. Scouring China’s annual gathering of leaders for clues about business prospects, foreign companies got a clear message: Brace for bigger, stronger local competitors. Read more at Industry Week Read More......

Panama Papers Reveal Clinton’s Kremlin Connection

(Hat tip: KimR) - The revelations of the so-called Panama Papers that are roiling the world’s political and financial elites this week include important facts about Team Clinton. This unprecedented trove of documents purloined from a shady Panama law firm that arranged tax havens, and perhaps money laundering, for the globe’s super-rich includes juicy insights into how Russia’s elite hides its ill-gotten wealth. Read more at the New York Observer Read More......

Auditor: Government Will Owe More Money Than Entire Economy Produces

(Hat tip: KimR) - An auditor for the Government Accountability Office told lawmakers  Wednesday that in the next few years the federal government will owe more than our entire economy produces. Read more at the Washington Free Beacon Read More......

Obama Claims Power to Make Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Social Security, Disability

(Hat tip: KimR) - Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now, that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they are not currently eligible due to their unlawful status? Read more at CNS News Read More......

Senate Dem: National debt is not 'a threat to our country'

(Hat tip: KimR) - Senate Democrats on Wednesday couldn't agree that federal debt is a national security problem, in a hearing aimed at assessing the long-term strategic implications of the government's $19 trillion debt. --"A realistic discussion about it, and accepting expert opinion that this debt that we have is not actually right now a threat to our country, is I think a more realistic and honorable way of talking to the American people about it," Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

Mississippi Likely to Join Permitless "Constitutional" Carry Club

(Hat tip: KimR) - In a bill labelled a "Church Protection Act", the Mississippi legislature appears ready to join the permitless or "Constitutional" carry club.  If Governor Bryan signs the bill into law, Mississippi will become the third state this year to join the club, putting its members at 10, or 20 percent of the states. Read more at Gun Watch Read More......

It’s Time for a Moratorium on Chinese Investment

(Hat tip: KimR) - The Shanghai Chinese Tower, in the center of the financial district in Lujiazui, stands 2000 feet above a city of 24 million people and counting. Fittingly, an American firm designed that tower, now the tallest building in China, and itself a symbol of the country’s rise to greatness. As the drive to position Shanghai as one of the world’s leading financial center continues, one wonders why both the U.S. government and American businesses are actively working towards helping China become a global powerhouse that could eclipse the U.S. and undermine Washington’s own global influence. Read more at American Thinker Read More......

Syrian rebels have long wanted anti-aircraft missiles. Their wish may have been granted

(Hat tip: KimR) - Syrian rebels operating in the country’s northern region shot down a government warplane Tuesday, suggesting that they have been supplied with anti-aircraft weapons. Read more at the Los Angeles Times Read More......

Workers in NY, California Are Guinea Pigs in a Grand Experiment

(Hat tip: KimR) - In a less cynical age, the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that each of the 50 states that make up the U.S., "may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” These days, any reference to states as the “laboratories of Democracy” is as likely as not to be ironic — just Google the phrase plus the word “Kansas” if you need evidence. Read more at the Fiscal Times Read More......

Abortion Activist Claims Planned Parenthood Videos Caused Raid At His Home

(Hat tip: KimR) - An anti-abortion activist who made undercover videos at Planned Parenthood clinics said in a social media posting that California Department of Justice agents raided his home Tuesday. Agents seized all video footage from his apartment, along with his personal information, David Daleiden said in a Facebook post. Daleiden, the founder of a group called the Center for Medical Progress, said agents left behind documents that he contends implicate Planned Parenthood in illegal behavior related to the handling of fetal tissue. Read more at Read more at CBS Sacramento Read More......

Vehicular homicide not enough to detain illegal immigrants: DHS

(Hat tip: KimR) - Even being convicted of homicide isn’t enough to ensure illegal immigrants are detained by federal agents, the government’s top deportation official said in a letter to Congress released Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana said neither Obama administration policy nor federal law required her agency to detain Edwin Mejia, an illegal immigrant who arrived as part of the surge of unaccompanied children from Central America, after he was charged with vehicular homicide in Nebraska. Read more at the Read more at the Washington Times Read More......

Florida boldly moves to require criminal charges before the government can seize your property

(Hat tip: KimR) - The practice of law enforcement using the property of citizens who have not been convicted of a crime as a revenue source is a scourge which needs to be abolished in this country. Fortunately, much of the burden of making this needed change falls on the states and Florida has taken a step in the right direction. (Reason) Read more at Hotair.com Read More......

Obama Admin Tells Landlords They Can’t Refuse To House Criminals

(Hat tip: KimR) - The Obama administration released a warning Monday telling the nation’s landlords that it may be discriminatory for them to refuse to rent to those with criminal records. The Fair Housing Act doesn’t include criminals as a protected class, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says refusing to rent based on a criminal record is a form of racial discrimination, due to racial imbalances in the U.S. justice system. Read more at the Daily Caller Read More......

Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin

(Hat tip: KimR) - A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy. Though the president’s name does not appear in any of the records, the data reveals a pattern... Read more at the UK Guardian Read More......

Obama's Bizarre Iranian Love Affair Continues

(Hat tip: KimR) - The media -- only a very few of whom (like Bloomberg's Eli Lake and our own Michael Ledeen) seem even faintly interested in what is going on with Iran -- is equally complicit and even more culpable in this fascination with the tangential. What the supposed journalists are missing is a chance to solve the greatest mystery of our times -- why Barack Obama decided to sell out those Western interests to Iran... Read more at PJ Media Read More......

22 Texas lawmakers submit amicus brief in Red River land dispute

(Hat tip: KimR) - Twenty-two members of Texas’ congressional delegation filed an amicus brief Wednesday afternoon supporting landowners in a lawsuit against the federal government over disputed propertyalong the Red River. Read more at Trailblazers Blog Read More......

Climate Surprise: Why More CO2 is Good for the Earth

(Hat tip: KimR) - I had the good fortune to attend a talk by conservative author Mark Steyn at the Princeton Club in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, sponsored by Roger Kimball’s The New Criterion and co-sponsored by the newly formed CO₂ Coalition, founded by Princeton physicist Will Happer. Read more at Stream.org Read More......

Hundreds of thousands could lose food stamps as states restore limits

(Hat tip: KimR) - About 45 million people receive benefits in the food stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group, estimates that 500,000 to 1 million people will lose benefits this year. Read more at the Miami Herald Read More......

Scotus’ Unconstitutional Lawmaking and Article V

(Hat tip: KimR) - It is no secret that American courts have wandered far outside the business of adjudicating. Every summer, the nation holds its breath in anticipation of the latest batch of scotus opinions. Last June, the questions were: Will homosexual marriage become a right across the land? Is there an unconstitutional penalty within Obamacare, or is it a constitutional tax? Read more at Article V Blog Read More......

Free speech make way; here comes Obama-style regionalism

(Hat tip: KimR) - We have written about how “regionalism” and its handmaiden “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) are, in effect, an attempt by the left to dictate the way Americans will live. Now, we see that they also entail an attempt to tell elected officials what they must say. This has become apparent from efforts to muzzle Westchester Country Executive Rob Astorino. Read more at Powerline Read More......

Pregnancy Centers Win Battle After New York City Attempts to Force Them to Promote Abortion State

(Hat tip: KimR) - A settlement that a federal district court approved Wednesday protects the right of pro-life pregnancy care centers in New York City to serve women without being forced to speak or post messages that are contrary to their pro-life beliefs or that direct women away from the services the centers offer. Read more at Life News Read More......

Bad COPP: MT Commission on Political Practices Targets Ideological Opponents

(Hat tip: KimR) - The road trip from the Colorado statehouse to the Capitol building in Montana is about 800 miles, but the psychological distance from a Denver meth-house to the office of Helena’s Commissioner of Political Practices has to be greater than that. And that’s only the beginning of this bizarre story, and just the latest example of partisan public officials using government power to crush their political opponents. Read more at Fairfield Sun Times Read More......

Attorneys General Create Axis For Global Warming Shakedown

(Hat tip: KimR) - Inquisition: The top law enforcement officers in 16 states have formed a coalition to investigate and prosecute companies that don’t agree with them on climate change. In other words, those not practicing orthodoxy will be punished. Read more at Investor's Business Daily Read More......

Obama shares size of U.S. nuclear stockpile with the world

(Hat tip: KimR) - President Obama boasted Friday about his administration's exemplary record on transparency related to nuclear materials, and cited as an example his decision to share U.S. security protocols with the world, along with information about the size of the U.S.'s highly enriched uranium stockpile. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

Satanism is the perversion of a great religion; Islamism is not

(Hat tip: KimR) - Whenever public places in the United States or Europe become sticky with the blood of innocent people killed by Islamics, President Obama mindlessly regurgitates the cover story for these horrific acts of war: terrorism is a perversion of Islam. Read more at American Thinker Read More......

Marxism and Environmentalism: The Unholy Alliance

The Evil of the Scarcity Meme - In order to avoid misunderstanding, let us make clear from the outset that scarcity is an unavoidable fact of life – it is the very thing that impels economic activity. If all material human wants were satisfied and we were living as immortals in the Land of Cockaigne, there would no longer be a reason to plan for the future, to save and invest, and to weigh the opportunity costs of different choices. Read more at Acting Man Read More......

Van Hollen: Let’s ‘Look at Moving Forward’ on Slavery Reparations

(Hat tip: KimR) - Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., recently said Congress should “look at moving forward” on legislation to consider reparations for slavery. Though hardly a firm commitment to compensatory payments for African-Americans, the remark was nonetheless a striking election-year pronouncement from the U.S. Senate candidate and top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. Read more at Inside Sources Read More......

ISIS copying 19th century German tactics to wage war on the West: Operatives given a deadline to strike targets... then left to it so 'lone wolves' cannot be tied to commanders

(Hat tip: KimR) - Lone wolf jihadis operating in Europe are following a doctrine of 19th century warfare in which they are given a deadline and a target - then sent to attack it by any means necessary. Invoking the Germany Army's historical strategy of Auftragstaktik, the policy helps ISIS carry out attacks abroad when its chain of command is restricted by Western intelligence agencies. the Read more at UK Daily Mail Read More......

France: Exodus of 10,000 millionaires amid rising Muslim tensions

(Hat tip: KimR) - Rising tensions in France, especially in Paris following a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015, have spurred an exodus of its super-wealthy citizens, a new report on migration trends of millionaires and high-net worth individuals across the world reveals. The report warns that other European countries, including the UK, Belgium, Germany and Sweden "where religious tensions are starting to emerge", will also see similar trends. Read more at the International Business Times Read More......