US Military in Bahrain, Required To Observe Ramadan

[From article]
While not required to fast during Ramadan, in Bahrain, Americans can be fined or detained by local authorities for eating, drinking or smoking in public when off-base during daylight hours.
Navy officials are requiring U.S. personnel to dress more conservatively off-base during Ramadan. Although not a requirement by Bahraini authorities, the Navy is demanding that men wear long-sleeved shirts and women wear sleeved blouses that cover their elbows. Also, men must wear long trousers, and women should wear pants or skirts that cover the knees.
Base cultural advisers have spent the last few weeks conducting Ramadan briefs to educate Americans about the holy month. Ali Hassan briefed about 150 personnel Tuesday about Islam, the lunar calendar and customs and traditions during Ramadan.
[. . .]
Most restaurants will be closed except those in 4- and 5-star hotels.
[. . .]
Arabs are good hosts and may offer you food or refreshments during daylight hours. Such offers should be declined.
All consumption of alcohol by U.S. military personnel is prohibited at any off base public venue in the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility during Ramadan.
It’s customary to say ‘Ramadan Kareem’ during Ramadan.

http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/us-personnel-in-bahrain-prepare-for-ramadan-1.290721

US personnel in Bahrain prepare for Ramadan
By Hendrick Simoes
Stars and Stripes
Published: June 26, 2014

Hillary Clinton Fired For Obstruction During Watergate Probe

[From article]
Clinton’s boss, Jerry Zeifman, the general counsel and chief of staff to the Watergate Committee, claims he fired her because she was working to impede the investigation and undermine Nixon’s defense.
“Hillary’s lies and unethical behavior goes back farther — and goes much deeper — than anyone realizes,” Zeifman told Fox News in 2008. When asked why he fired Clinton, Zeifman responded, “Because she is a liar.”
[. . .]
The book, from Skyhorse Publishing, also contains anecdotes about: How Nixon put the moves on Jackie Kennedy one night. How at least four of the Watergate burglars were on the ground in Dallas when JFK was killed. And why there is no Deep Throat.

http://pagesix.com/2014/06/27/clinton-was-fired-for-obstructing-nixon-probe-book/?_ga=1.242541058.1842008205.1370697823

Clinton was fired for obstructing Nixon probe: book
By Richard Johnson
June 27, 2014 | 6:44pm

New York Post

US Senator McConnell Wins One Over Obama

From article]
Republicans argued they were meeting during the recess — in so-called pro forma sessions every three days — and still maintained control over the confirmation process. But the administration said the pro forma sessions held by the Senate every three days during the intrasession break were only a sham designed to keep Obama from filling the posts.
At the meeting McConnell's team agreed they were left with two options to proceed, since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not authorize an institutional lawsuit on behalf of the Senate. Senate Republicans concerned about Obama's use of recess appointments could either sue as individual members, or they could join a private party case as a group.
[. . .]
The liberal Justice Breyer's implicit criticism of the move from Obama, who often touts his credentials as a former constitutional law professor, was particularly biting. Breyer wrote, simply, that only the Senate could decide when it was in recess — not the president.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nlrb-decision-obama-mcconnell-supreme-court-boehner-lawsuit-recess-appointments-2014-6

How Mitch McConnell Crushed Barack Obama At The Supreme Court

BRETT LOGIURATO
JUN. 28, 2014, 9:00 AM

Kansas Man Sues For Freedom From Nursing Home

[From article]
Flentie is upfront about taking numerous medications, including several for bipolar disorder, which he said he has managed well for 20 years. His prescriptions include Prozac, Elavil, Risperdal and Lamictal. He takes two other medications for prostate problems, one for blood pressure, and a battery of vitamins.
[. . .]
In late November 2011, he fell, followed within a few days by another fall in early December.
[. . .]
At St. Luke’s North Hospital, two doctors in quick course evaluated Flentie and diagnosed him with bipolar disorder with psychotic symptoms and dementia.
[. . .]
The next day, McNellis examined Flentie again and in court papers declared, “Mr. Flentie is not competent to care for himself.”
Nor did he think Flentie was competent to take care of his own finances.
Given the option to choose whether Flentie was “disabled” or “partially disabled,” McNellis wrote “Yes, disabled” by virtue of dementia and bipolar disorder. He recommended that Flentie be placed in “assisted living” as the most appropriate and least restrictive environment.
[. . .]
Flentie was placed under full guardianship, his assets under conservatorship, and never returned to his home.
From the hospital, he went directly to a residential care facility. At that point, he began his two-year battle for his freedom, aided by friends.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article640180.html

The saga of John Flentie: Platte County man fights against his guardianship
BY ERIC ADLER

THE KANSAS CITY STAR
06/28/2014 3:59 PM 06/28/2014 7:17 PM

Black Manager At Paint Store Sues For Naming Paint Colors About Him

[From article]
Clinton Tucker, who managed online sales for Benjamin Moore, which is owned by the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said that he was bothered by the names of several of the company’s paint colors, “Clinton Brown,” “Tucker Chocolate,” and “Confederate Red.”
“Being a black man named Clinton Tucker, the plaintiff found this to be extremely racially offensive,” reads the complaint, filed in Essex County Court.
[. . .]
On its website, Benjamin Moore describes “Tucker Chocolate” as “capturing the 1798 color requested by St. George Tucker for his home facing Courthouse Green, this deep brown is classic and understated.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/28/fired-black-employee-sues-paint-company-over-racist-paint-names/

Fired Black Employee Sues Paint Company Over Racist Paint Names
Chuck Ross Reporter
4:14 PM 06/28/2014

One DC Judge Unafraid of Obama, Holder, Johnson

[From article]
Earlier today, attorneys for Judicial Watch sought a courtroom status conference “as soon as possible to discuss the IRS’s failure to fulfill its duties to this court under the law, as well as other ramifications of this lawsuit.” It took Judge Sullivan just a few hours to grant the hearing.
Now the IRS will have to talk to Judge Sullivan about all this—and he has the power to do something about it.
Judge Sullivan is the judge who held federal prosecutors in contempt, dismissed an unjust indictment against a United States Senator, and publicly excoriated the Department of Justice. He also had the moral conviction, courage and gumption to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Justice Department and the individual prosecutors.

http://observer.com/2014/06/breaking-meet-emmet-sullivan-irs-judge-who-once-sicced-a-special-prosecutor-on-doj/

BREAKING: Meet Emmet Sullivan, IRS Judge Who Once Sicced a Special Prosecutor on DOJ
Lerner, Holder, Obama: Are You Packing Your Bags?
By Sidney Powell

06/27/14 8:44pm

Extremist Sunni ISIS Not Strong Enough To Control Iraq

[From article]
In locations wherein they’ve been able to raise their flags, it was primarily because of lack of interest and resistance on the part of the local population, which at times even assisted the organization because of the deep resentment against the administration of Nouri al-Maliki, who is perceived as a corrupt tyrant that blatantly discriminates against the Sunni citizens.
[. . .]
It is clear that a force such as this isn’t enough to conquer and administer Baghdad, which the Maliki administration, not to mention its residents, has a fundamental interest in protecting. Furthermore, in actuality, ISIS does not have the ability to fully control the other regions in Iraq, to say nothing of imposing upon the residents the traditional Islamic regime to which they aspire.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/ISIS-Beyond-the-regional-instability-360874

ISIS: Beyond the regional instability
By YORAM SCHWEITZER
06/28/2014 22:58
Since the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria organization, the media has been disseminating an apocalyptic portrayal of the situation.

Manchester NH Police Will Wear Cameras on Uniforms

[From article]
Two cases settled this month include a $57,500 lawsuit brought by Carla Gericke, president of the Free State Project, who was arrested in March 2010 for videotaping officers during a traffic stop, and a $300,000 settlement for the August 2013 killing of Alex Cora deJesus of Manchester during an undercover drug deal gone bad.
[. . .]
The small waterproof and rugged cameras are made by the Taser Company exclusively for law enforcement and are the Axon model. They come equipped with audio and can’t be manipulated. The video cannot be downloaded by the individual officers.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140627/NEWS07/140629163

June 26. 2014 9:50PM
Weare police officers to wear body cameras on patrol
By KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS
Union Leader Correspondent

Woman Prison Guard Charged With Having Sex With Inmates

[From article]
Calhoun says while this type of activity is not exactly uncommon in prisons, it also doesn't happen every day.
'We see it across the state and across the United States," Calhoun points out.
'Where you have individuals who are in charge of someone who they are in custody or in charge of. We see it with school teachers, we have seen it lately with that. We've seen it with correctional officers, law enforcement officers.'
Calhoun said Wedgeworth worked in the facility's educational services area. He did not know how long she worked there or her current employment status.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673204/Female-prison-worker-arrested-accused-having-sex-prisoner.html

Female prison worker arrested after being accused of having sex with prisoner
Autumn Wedgeworth has been charged with sexual battery
She worked in the prisons' educational facility
Her case will now be heard before a Grand Jury
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 08:32 EST, 28 June 2014 | UPDATED: 09:04 EST, 28 June 2014

White Woman Student Murdered by Former Black Lover, Who Owed Her Money

[From article]
A couple have been charged in connection to the savage murder of a Minnesota college student whose body bearing 22 knife wounds was found dumped in a field last fall.
Shavelle Chavez-Nelson, 32, and Ashley Marie Conrade, 24, were both charged Friday with second-degree intentional murder in the slaying of 20-year-old University of Minnesota student Anarae Schnuk.
The victim was reported missing September 23, 2013. A week later, her naked body turned up in a ditch next to a cornfield in Rice County.
[. . .]
The 32-year-old was brought before a judge from prison, where he is serving a nine-year sentence for an unrelated burglary.
[. . .]
Officials working on the case said they have found ample DNA evidence on items Nelson had brought to the home of his estranged wife in St Paul after the killing.
The recovered black plastic bags contained Schnuk's white UMN jacket covered in blood and bearing more than 20 holes in it and other items of clothing, which looked as if they had been cut off a body.
[. . .]
Ms Schnuk was last seen outside Nina's Grill with her ex-boyfriend and Conrade, 24, of Rosemount, in the early hours of September 22. Police believe she asked to meet with Nelson to talk about the $5,000 he owed her.
[. . .]
Anarae Schnuk, an accomplished chess player, met Nelson at a bus summer in the summer 2012. He lied to the college student that he was a stock broker.
When Schnuk learned the truth about his criminal past, she stuck by him, believing she could help him turn a new leaf.
She broke up with him a few months later when she discovered that Nelson had been living with a woman and the pair had a child together.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673394/Anarae-Schnuk-murder-Ex-convict-girlfriend-charged-murdering-college-student-nine-months-naked-body-bearing-22-knife-wounds-dumped-corn-field.html

Ex-convict and his girlfriend charged with murdering college student nine months after her naked body bearing 22 knife wounds was found dumped in a corn field
Shavelle Chavez-Nelson, 32, and Ashley Conrade, 24, both charged with second-degree intentional murder
Anarae Schunk, 20, was found dead in a ditch next to a cornfield in rural Minnesota last September a week after she went missing
Nelson, Schnuk's ex-boyfriend, also faces murder charges in the shooting death of Palagos Jobi the same night she was stabbed
Police say they found UMN student's bloody clothing, suspects' DNA evidence and 8-inch knife used as murder weapon
Autopsy showed Anarae likely died within 20 seconds of having her jugular vein and carotid artery slashed
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 12:51 EST, 28 June 2014 | UPDATED: 16:44 EST, 28 June 2014

Three Israelis, One U.S. Citizen Found Dead in West Bank, Palestinians Defile Ambulance

[From article]
The leader's angry words came hours after the search for Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and Naftali Frenkel, also 16, who were snatched while hitchhiking, ended in the West Bank, where Hamas operates. Sources said the bodies were found in a shallow grave in an open field in the West Bank village of Halhul, just north of Hebron.
[. . .]
The three youths disappeared as they were heading home from a West Bank religious school. Israeli officials said at the time that one of the teens called a police emergency line around 10:25 p.m. local time and said: "We've been kidnapped." They were not heard from again.
Frenkel holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship.
Obama remains silent, not wanting to alienate his Palestinian terrorist brothers.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/30/bodies-israeli-kidnapped-teens-found-government-confirms/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Netanyahu vows 'Hamas will pay' after bodies of 3 kidnapped Israeli teens found
Published June 30, 2014
AP
FoxNews.com

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[From article]
Palestinian Arabs attacked an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ambulance humvee on Monday that was transporting the recently discovered bodies of three murdered Israeli boys who were kidnapped on June 12, an Israeli source told The Algemeiner.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/30/report-arabs-attack-idf-ambulance-transporting-bodies-of-murdered-israeli-teens-photo/

Report: Arabs Attacked IDF Ambulance Transporting Bodies of Murdered Israeli Teens (PHOTO)
JUNE 30, 2014 3:23 PM

New York City Fights Against Safe City Image, Vies With Chicago

Posted June 29, 2014 8:29 PM ET; Last updated June 30, 2014 8:58 PM ET

http://nypost.com/2014/06/29/2-people-shot-dead-in-less-than-7-hours-in-nyc/

12 people shot in less than 7 hours in NYC
By Dana Sauchelli
New York Post
June 29, 2014 | 2:02pm

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[From article]
Four people were killed and another 19 were injured, including a 10-year-old boy walking home from the store, in a wave of shootings over the weekend that touched all five of New York City's boroughs.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/3-Dead-18-Shot-in-Rash-of-Weekend-Violence-in-NYC-265143411.html

4 Dead, 19 Wounded in NYC Weekend Shootings
The volume of shootings so far in 2014, however, is lower than it was last year, police say
By Michael George
Monday, Jun 30, 2014 | Updated 4:13 PM EDT

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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/1-dead-35-wounded-in-weekend-shootings-across-chicago/

1 Dead, 35 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
June 30, 2014 7:35 AM

Head Injuries to Bike Riders Most Prevalent

This article is about 18 months old. But the figured raise an issue of why the media and government focus on head injuries in professional football. If a person does not wear a helmet when riding his bike and gets injured he has only himself to blame. Can't sue oneself. But the NFL has a lot of money, especially the owners. They can be sued and are lucrative targets for hungry lawyers. It is a similar quandary why the focus on war deaths. Usually under 10,000. But every year in the U.S. 90,000 to 100,000 innocent persons die due to medical negligence. That is something that can a be fixed. So why so little media attention and interest from government? 

[From article]
According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, cycling accidents played a role in about 86,000 of the 447,000 sports-related head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009. Football accounted for 47,000 of those head injuries, and baseball played a role in 38,394.
Cycling was also the leading cause of sports-related head injuries in children under 14, causing 40,272 injuries, roughly double the number related to football (21,878).

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/really-the-claim-cycling-is-the-top-sport-for-head-injuries/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Really? Cycling Is the Top Sport for Head Injuries
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

JUNE 3, 2013 11:32 AM

US House Speaker Responds to Obama's Threats

It is just one outrage after another with this administration. A new scandal is necessary each week to divert attention from last week's scandal by any of the dumbed down journalists, voters and taxpayers who might have some memory still operating. Wait unto next week when Obama explains that every black vote will be the equivalent of two white votes in all national elections. Adding that this was approved by Eric "White people are cowards" Holder. Obama-Holder-Johnson Triumvirate sets the standards for lawlessness in the nation. Notice how local and state police agencies follow as best they can ignoring laws. Courts have relaxed standards too. Wait until ordinary citizens follow the lead of 11 to 40 million illegal aliens ignoring the laws of the land. It will be an exciting period to be alive. Something like the reign of terror during the French Revolution.

[From article]
"In our conversation last week, I told the president what I have been telling him for months: the American people and their elected officials don't trust him to enforce the law as written. Until that changes, it is going to be difficult to make progress on this issue. The crisis at our southern border reminds us all of the critical importance of fixing our broken immigration system. It is sad and disappointing that – faced with this challenge – President Obama won't work with us, but is instead intent on going it alone with executive orders that can't and won't fix these problems.
"The president’s own executive orders have led directly to the humanitarian crisis along the Southern border, giving false hope to children and their families that if they enter the country illegally they will be allowed to stay.

http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/speaker-boehner-presidents-immigration-announcement?Source=GovD

Speaker Boehner on the President's Immigration Announcement
June 30 2014
Speaker Boehner's Press Office

Shower Bus For Homeless In San Francisco

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/30/Homeless-People-Shower-on-New-Bus-in-San-Francisco

HOMELESS PEOPLE SHOWER ON NEW BUS IN SAN FRANCISCO
by JOEL B. POLLAK

30 Jun 2014, 6:41 AM PDT

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[From article]
Lava Mae, or “wash me” in Spanish, is a non-profit organization in San Francisco that is converting old city buses into showers for the homeless to use. They are hoping their initiative can help those most in need.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/24/san-francisco-startup-provides-mobile-showers-for-homeless/

San Francisco startup provides mobile showers for homeless

By Christopher Snyder

Published June 24, 2014

FoxNews.com

AZ Teacher Who Criticized Common Core, Cursed At Online By Education Officials

[From article]
Emails back and forth among high-ranking Arizona Department of Education officials show that state officials intimidated a Tucson fifth-grade teacher and, in one instance, called him “a f*cktard” because he criticized the state’s implementation of Common Core.
The emails are now public because of a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Arizona Daily Independent.
The teacher, Brad McQueen, originally raise the ire of state education officials in February when he penned an anti-Common Core op-ed in the Independent (that later went viral locally).
McQueen, a 10-year teaching veteran, had worked on the state’s Common Core-aligned standardized tests. In the op-ed, he criticized Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and state education bureaucrats for, among much else, “willingly handed over control” of educational standards in exchange for increased federal funding.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/30/arizona-education-officials-intimidated-anti-common-core-teacher/

Emails Show Arizona Education Officials Intimidated Anti-Common Core Teacher, CALLED HIM ‘F*CKTARD’
9:23 AM 06/30/2014
Eric Owens
Education Editor

Failure of Journalists and Universities

[From article]
America staggers from one contrived disaster to another, as Barack—god of chaos—cackles up his sleeve while pretending to be an icon of rectitude, restraint and moral probity. Meanwhile, the stable of mainstream journalists cheer as if Obama just cured cancer. The list of president-made debacles swells daily. Today it’s the sea of illegals surging across domestic borders, quickly whisked into the country, whereas overseas we’re informed the world’s first terror-state is being implemented between Iraq and Syria. Yesterday, it was the trading of 5 Taliban generals for an army deserter. Tomorrow it could be any number of currently unfathomable decisions by Barack, knowing full well the GOP does not have the stones to impeach him.

[. . .]

Judge Richard Posner, in Public Intellectuals, A Study in Decline, claims that a large problem in the failure of public intellectuals is their overspecialization at the university. But more important than this is Julien Benda’s claims that intellectuals must refrain from bias when disseminating information. Yet the most obvious aspect of most public intellectuals is their very obvious affection for Marx’s ideas.

[. . .]

Ben Knights, in The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century, outlines the foundation for the modern intellectual. In 19th century England developed the notion of a secular intellectual elite, or ‘clerisy’. These educated writers sought to be freed from former constrictions. Instead, like the members of a new, secular priesthood, they sought to find transcendent values and the very best in national culture and then pass it on to the society at large. 

[. . .]

How is it possible so many prominent intellectuals are ignorant or dismissive of history? No Marxist nation has ever prospered except in lawlessness and murders. Aron writes, “Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”

[. . .] Only if US journalists tell the truth, to the best of their abilities, can Americans have any hope of understanding the complex detail of current events. If not, they are merely mute canaries in a coal mine. [. . .]


For example, no real background study of Barack Obama’s life was ever commissioned by any liberal media group before his election. We still have many major holes in his story. 

[. . .]

Despite the incredible number of failures by Barack, we still have no real reporting out of the mainstream media. This is despite how much more dangerous the world has become since he took office. So the obvious question is what kind of failure would be enough for the mainstream media to abandon ship? Or is all failure which is seen as harming the US really acceptable [. . .] in past ages intellectuals (clercs) engaged in a disinterested search for universal truths; they searched for ideals that transcended the needs of the state or society in which they lived. In recent times, however, intellectuals have become more and more the handmaiden of political and national causes [. . .] Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity. Ever since these systems have been in existence, they have consisted in establishing for each passion that it is the agent of good in the world and that its enemy is the genius of evil. But today these passions desire to establish this not only politically, but morally, intellectually and aesthetically.”

[. . .]

So the unacceptable choice is either to avoid the news altogether or accept being misled in story after story.

[. . .]

The problem with literally the entire world of liberalism is that emotion has replaced logic, historical study, and common sense. In other words, entire lifetimes are wasted by these people arguing emotionally based beliefs which are utterly disprovable and disproved.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/64147

Humanistic Presidential Suicide Cult Protected by "Journalists" as US Torn Asunder
Obama’s Treason & the Disgraceful Intellectuals Obscuring his Anti-American Mission

By Kelly OConnell

June 29, 2014

IRS Fined For Earlier Abuses Revealing Same Sex Marriage Donors

[From article]
In all of this past week’s flurry IRS news: Lois Lerner and other IRS’ officials hard drives crashing, emails showing Lerner targeted Sen. Chuck Grassley, and the IRS Commissioner telling Congress they’ve done nothing wrong — some news got lost in the shuffle.
The IRS did do something very wrong, admitted it and paid a significant fine to resolve it.
[. . .]


Lois Lerner

This admission by the IRS goes back to the vicious fight over the Prop 8 vote in California where HRC and its allies resorted to releasing donation information of individuals and harassing those traditional marriage supporters at their homes and businesses.[. . .]
As a long-time vocal critic of the radical left-wing politics the Human Rights Campaign endorses in the name of gay and lesbian Americans, I am not surprised that HRC is knee-deep in Nixonian tactics of the Obama IRS. It is a shame that those who claim to have the high ground in “the new civil rights” movement don’t respect the basic privacy and free speech freedoms of all Americans.



http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/06/irs-admits-leaking-personal-information-in-prop-8-debate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le·gal+In·sur·rec·tion%29

Agency gave gay-rights group names and addresses of political opponents

IRS Admits Leaking Personal Information In Prop 8 Debate
Posted by Bruce Carroll

Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 5:41pm

Liberal Policies Harm Black Americans

[From article]
Good intentions aside, which efforts have facilitated black advancement, and which efforts have impeded it?
Many liberals today don’t seem particularly interested in asking this question, even though 50 years into the war on poverty the picture isn’t pretty.
[. . .]
Obama was doing exactly what liberals have been conditioning blacks to do since the 1960s, which is to blame black pathology on the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. And the president is conditioning the next generation of blacks to do the same.
[. . .]
Meanwhile, the civil-rights movement of King has become an industry that does little more than monetize white guilt.
[. . .]
Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims.
[. . .]
And black liberals are all too happy to hustle guilty whites. The result, manifest in everything from black studies programs to black media to black politics, is an obsession with racial slights real or imagined.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/how-liberals-make-it-harder-for-blacks-to-succeed/

Why liberals should stop trying to ‘help’ black Americans
By Jason L. Riley
New York Post
June 28, 2014 | 12:52pm

New York University Sells Its Soul For Sharia Money

[From article]
While UAE might appear relatively secular to outsiders, the truth is that the nation is still ruled by Sharia law. Don’t be fooled by the word “law.” The law of the US Constitution serves to protect individuals and their freedom, the law of Sharia serves to control individuals and limit their freedoms.
[. . .]
Mesmerized by the glory of having their institutions be the first to break into the Middle East, NYU and Guggenheim did little independent due diligence. They bought into the illusion that the UAE, with its man-made islands and skyscraper hotels, is a free country.
Of course, money is the primary motive for this ignorance.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/how-nyu-and-the-guggenheim-are-selling-out-to-sharia-law/

How NYU is selling out to Sharia law
By Joy Brighton
New York Post
June 28, 2014 | 12:17pm

White Kentucky Marine, 26, Shot Dead By Two Black Criminals

[From article]
One suspect was described as a black male with shoulder-length dreadlocks, wearing a white T-shirt, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.
He had a silver handgun, Roberts said. The second man was also black and wore blue jeans, white tennis shoes and a dark shirt with a six- to seven-inch script across the front.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2674021/Genuine-All-American-Marine-26-shot-dead-young-wife-injured-tragic-robbery.html

'Genuine all-American' Marine, 26, is shot dead and his young wife is injured in parking lot robbery
Jonathon Price was struck in the back as he was exiting Austin City Saloon in Lexington, Kentucky around 1:30a.m. June 21
His wife, Megan, was shot in the leg in the saloon's parking lot but survived
Authorities said the shooting was part of a robbery
The couple were approached by two people, one of whom had a gun, who demanded money, police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said
No arrests have been made in the case but police are appealing to the public for help
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:10 EST, 29 June 2014 | UPDATED: 12:20 EST, 29 June 2014

Stabbing At BET Awards Ceremony, I Dead Nearby

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2674094/1-dead-4-injured-LA-shooting-ahead-awards.html

One person killed, five injured in two separate attacks at BET Awards pre-show parties in LA
A man was killed and four people injured in a shooting at Monalizza Restaurant and Banquet Hall in East Hollywood about 5.15am Sunday
A man in his 20s was stabbed in the stomach at Lure Nightclub in Hollywood about 9pm Saturday
The Saturday night party was hosted by rapper Meek Mill
Both incidents are being investigated and there have been no arrests
BET organizers said the parties were not part of the official events
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 11:44 EST, 29 June 2014 | UPDATED: 15:43 EST, 29 June 2014

Wealthy People Share Delusions of Poverty

But it not just Democrats. Republicans and academics share the same delusions 

[From article]
Why do all these exceedingly well-off people keep trying to convince us we’ll see them at the dollar store?
It’s all part of the increasingly delusional myth Democrats tell themselves that they are the tribunes of the middle class.
[. . .]
Democrats earn their money in ways that aren’t available to most Americans. Yet even for Democrats, the Clintons got rich in an exotic way. They accumulated something like $100 million not by building a business or inventing something or even writing some hit songs. Their entire fortune came from political celebrity. (Their daughter has even accumulated $15 million by being the offspring of political celebrities. Or did you think NBC News paid her $600,000 a year because of her obvious broadcasting ability?)
[. . .]
Drug dealers create more middle-class jobs than these people do.
[. . .]
Swanning around the world staying in five-star hotels, reading speeches drafted by someone else and signing your name to books written by someone else is not exactly quarry labor.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/why-democrats-insist-on-lying-about-how-poor-they-are/

Why Democrats insist on lying about how ‘poor’ they are
By Kyle Smith
New York Post
June 28, 2014 | 10:22am

Las Vegas Running Out of Clean Water

[From article]
But, as with many things in Sin City, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion. America’s most decadent destination has been engaged in a potentially catastrophic gamble with nature and now, 14 years into a devastating drought, it is on the verge of losing it all.
“The situation is as bad as you can imagine,” said Tim Barnett, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly. Unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they’re still building, which is stupid.”
[. . .]
“The drought is like a slow spreading cancer across the desert. It’s not like a tornado or a tsunami, bang. The effects are playing out over decades. And as the water situation becomes more dire we are going to start having to talk about the removal of people (from Las Vegas).”
Mr Mrowka cited Lake Las Vegas, a mega-resort where stars including Celine Dion live, as one of the “most egregious examples” of wasting water.
[. . .]
But Mr Mrowka said: “The Colorado is essentially a dying river. Ultimately, Las Vegas and our civilisation in the American South West is going to disappear, like the Indians did before us.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10932785/The-race-to-stop-Las-Vegas-from-running-dry.html

The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry
Amid a brutal drought the reservoir that supplies 90 per cent of Las Vegas’s water is fast disappearing and desperate attempts to save Sin City are under way

By Nick Allen

Las Vegas
4:11PM BST 28 Jun 2014

Nigerian Muslims Burn Churches Shoot Christians, New Crusades?

[From article]
Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshippers and torched four churches Sunday in a village just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, witnesses said.

http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-torch-churches-kill-scores-nigeria-142926808.html

Gunmen torch churches, kill scores in Nigeria

By HARUNA UMAR and MICHELLE FAUL
June 29, 2014

Two Black Teen Girls Attack 79-year-old Hasidic Jewish Man

http://jpupdates.com/2014/06/29/williamsburg-79-year-old-assaulted-two-girls-perps-custody/

Williamsburg – 79-Year-Old Assaulted By Two Girls; Perps in Custody
Today 12:14 PM

by David Klien

* * *

[From article]
Cops said he had cuts to his hands from falling to the ground. Police said the motive wasn’t clear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/women-busted-attack-man-79-brooklyn-article-1.1848656

Two women busted in attack on man, 79, in Brooklyn
Raven Small, 20, and Tatyana Bone, 18, were arrested for the attack in Williamsburg, say cops.
BY TINA MOORE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, June 29, 2014, 3:39 PM

NY Assemblywoman Pleads Guilty To Immigration, Marriage Fraud

[From article]
Rosa admitted to committing the fraud between 1996 and December 2005, when she became a US citizen.
“I married the person, and it was not a real marriage,” she told Judge Denise Cote.
Her resignation was part of a plea deal and she is banned from ever again seeking office in the United States. The feds said that despite the fraud, they now consider Rosa a US citizen and will not deport her back to her native Dominican Republic.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/27/washington-heights-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-marriage-fraud/

Lawmaker pleads guilty to marriage fraud
By Rich Calder and Carl Campanile
New York Post
June 27, 2014 | 4:45pm

Second Atlantic City Casino Closes

[From article]
 Casino contraction hit Atlantic City for the second time this year, as the parent company of the Showboat Casino Hotel announced Friday it will close the Mardi Gras-themed casino on Aug. 31.
[. . .]
It will be the second casino to close this year in the nation's third-largest gambling market. The Atlantic Club closed in January, taken down in a bankruptcy sale by Caesars Entertainment and Tropicana Entertainment, who stripped it for parts and closed it to reduce competition.
And, Revel Casino Hotel has warned it might shut down if a buyer can't be found in bankruptcy court.

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2014/06/26/union-new-jersey-casino-warns-possible-closure/11437759/

Caesars says it will close Showboat Aug. 31
Associated Press

6:43 p.m. EDT June 27, 2014

Obama's Lawlessness Continues

[From article]
President Obama has demonstrated, time and again, that he has no respect for the Constitution's limitations on his power. Despite his oath of office, to see that the laws are faithfully executed, Barack Obama has unilaterally changed welfare reform laws, by eliminating the work requirement passed by Congress during the Clinton administration.
He has repeatedly and unilaterally changed or waived provisions of the ObamaCare law passed by Congress during his own administration.
President Obama has ordered Border Patrol agents not to carry out provisions of the immigration laws that he does not like. We see the results today in the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the country unimpeded.
President Obama's oath of office obviously means no more to him than his oft-repeated promise that "you can keep your own doctor" under ObamaCare.
Why do we have a Constitution of the United States if a president can ignore it without any consequences?
[. . .]
With neither the Constitution, nor the voters, nor the threat of impeachment to stop him, Barack Obama has clear sailing to use his powers however he chooses.
Far from seeing his power diminish in his last years, President Obama can extend his power even beyond the end of his administration by appointing federal judges who share his disregard of the Constitution and can enact his far-left agenda into law from the bench, when it cannot be enacted into law by the Congress.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell062414.php3#.U66Bsd0--yN

Jewish World Review

June 24, 2014 / 26 Sivan, 5774
A Lame Duck Country?
By Thomas Sowell

Lack of Historical Perspective Led to Misguided Middle East Policies

[From article]
Those who are ready to blame President George W. Bush for everything bad that has happened since he left office should at least acknowledge that he was a patriotic American president who did what he did for the good of the country — an assumption that we can no longer safely make about the current occupant of the White House.
[. . .]
We haven't yet announced when we are going to pull our troops out of Germany or Japan, and World War II was over more than 60 years ago. Turning those militaristic countries around was one of the great achievements in human history. Their neighboring countries have been able to enjoy a peace and security that they had not known for generations.
[. . .]
To hold elections for the sake of holding elections is to abdicate responsibility for the sake of appearances.
[. . .]
Today, with terrorists threatening to at least fragment Iraq, if not take it over, it is a sobering thought that Barack Obama and his key advisers have a track record of having been wrong about Iraq and other foreign policy issues for years, going back before they took office — and no track record of learning from their mistakes.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell061814.php3#.U65-SN0--yM

Jewish World Review

June 16, 2014 / 18 Sivan, 5774
A Bitter After-taste
By Thomas Sowell

Upside Down World Of Washington DC Immigration Priorities

[From article]
Amnesty is not some esoteric concept. It means that you are not going to be punished for breaking the law — and that simply brings laws into contempt. Denying citizenship is not a punishment because crossing the border illegally does not entitle you to citizenship. Providing a legal status short of citizenship is not punishment either.
There is no requirement for either amnesty or for citizenship that President Obama cannot ignore or dilute unilaterally, as he has ignored or diluted existing immigration laws, as well as other laws. Barack Obama is the biggest reason to pass no immigration "reform" laws until after he is gone.
[. . .]
It doesn't matter what immigration policies you believe in if you don't control your borders — and the vast numbers of minors flooding across our borders today show that the Obama administration has no intention of controlling the borders. They are more concerned with controlling the border guards and ordering them not to take pictures that show the public what is happening.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell061314.php3#.U658UN0--yN

Jewish World Review

June 13, 2014 / 15 Sivan, 5774
Amnesty Lite Is Still Amnesty
By Thomas Sowell

Obama's Weakness Encourages Foreign Power Abuses

[From article]
In 2012, in the wake of a well-planned military assault on sovereign US territory in Benghazi and the first murder of a US ambassador in a third of a century, the Obama Administration chose to pretend that it was something to do with an obscure YouTube video. The President of Libya blamed the attack on Ansar al-Sharia and linked them to al-Qaeda's Maghreb affiliate, but Obama, Mrs Clinton, Susan Rice and their court eunuchs in the media covered their ears and said, "Can't hear you." So the men who sacked the diplomatic mission and killed its staff are all still walking around, but back in California the maker of the unseen video was tossed in jail where he languishes to this day. Again, if you were in Teheran, Moscow, Kabul, Damascus, this seemingly perverse misdirection told you something more about how committed America was to that passivity: The superpower's preferred foreign-policy posture, even after a direct, bloody assault on its own territory, was to call "Check, please!" and head for the exit.
[. . .]
Obama has stayed consistently "unbelievably small" from Cairo to Benghazi to Damascus to Mosul, even as the dominoes are getting bigger. America is leaving from behind - going, going, gone.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0614/steyn062314.php3#.U650xd0--yM

Jewish World Review

June 23, 2014 / 25 Sivan, 5774
Leaving From Behind
By Mark Steyn

Obama's War Words Mislead

[From article]
The Afghan end of this thing is the nearest to a conventional war there is. A sovereign state was invaded and its government toppled. But the toppled party never quite went away, and they're assuredly going to be part of Afghanistan's post-US future. When Obama says this is how wars end, he's wrong. Wars end either by being won or lost or drawn.
[. . .]
One of the justifications offered for the Bergdahl trade is that his captors were threatening to kill him. So that's not a "prisoner exchange" between lawful combatants but a hostage negotiation with terrorists. Every civilized nation says it will not negotiate with terrorists, but sometimes, whatever their protestations to the contrary, governments wind up doing exactly that. And, when they do, terrorists wind up walking out of their cells as free men.
[. . .]
Watch that Rose Garden ceremony again and ask yourself Shannon Allen's question: Which guy is the hero? Pace Susan Rice, there are three dishonorable men in that short photo-op: a deserter who broke his oath, a father who sympathizes publicly with the enemy ...and a president lying before the nation, to make them complicit in that dishonor. Mr Obama is unworthy of the men who fight on "his" behalf.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0614/steyn061614.php3#.U65wot0--yM

Jewish World Review

June 16, 2014 18 Sivan, 5774
There is No 'Deal'
By Mark Steyn

U.S. Education Wildly Successful, Dumbing Down Population

[From article]
The National Assessment of Educational Progress tests students in grades four, eight and 12 on several broad subject areas every few years. Just 20 percent of fourth-graders, 17 percent of eighth-graders and 12 percent of 12th-graders were at grade-level proficiency in American history in the 2010 exams. Because students don't learn American history, they learn little about our founding principles and they fail to learn why America is an exceptional nation. But that's a part of the progressive/liberal agenda. If Americans knew and understood our founding principles and values, special interest groups and politicians couldn't run roughshod over our liberties.
[. . .]
I'd say that the education establishment has been successful beyond its wildest dreams in reducing Americans' ability to think and therefore causing them to have little knowledge of or love for our founding principles.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns062514.php3#.U65upd0--yM

Jewish World Review

June 25, 2014 / 27 Sivan, 5774
The Education Establishment's Success
By Walter Williams

Reparations Argument Is Specious

[From article]
One of the most ignored facts about slavery's tragic history — and it's virtually a secret today — is that slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years. It did not become a moral issue until the 18th century. Plus, the moral crusade against slavery started in the West, most notably England.
I think the call for slavery reparations is simply another hustle. Advocates are not demanding that government send checks to individual black people. They want taxpayer money to be put into some kind of reparations fund from which black leaders decide who receives how much and for what purpose.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns061814.php3#.U65sB90--yM

Jewish World Review

June 18, 2014 / 20 Sivan, 5774
Slavery Reparations
By Walter Williams

Should Ill Persons be Allowed To Try Unapproved-by-The FDA Drugs?

[From article]
The FDA's mission is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. In doing so, FDA officials can make two types of errors. They can approve a drug that has unanticipated dangerous side effects, or they can disapprove or delay a drug that is both safe and effective. FDA officials have unequal incentives to avoid these two types of errors. If the FDA official errs on the side of under-caution — approving a dangerous drug — the victims are visible, and he is held directly accountable. If he errs on the side of over-caution — holding up approval of a safe and effective drug — who's to know? The cost and the victims are invisible. Politicians and bureaucrats prefer invisible victims.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns061114.php3#.U65pxt0--yM

Jewish World Review

June 11, 2014 / 13 Sivan, 5774
Who Owns You?
By Walter Williams

Woman Billionaire Murdered, Daughter and Son-in-Law Held

Published June 24, 2014 9:25 PM ET; Last updated June 28, 2014 2:33 AM ET


[From article]
Janowski, who has been Poland's Honorary Consul in Monaco since 2007, has now admitted a role in the murder, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin has said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672104/Cambridge-graduate-admits-involvement-assassination-Monaco-billionaire-mother-law.html

Cambridge graduate 'admits his involvement' in assassination of his Monaco billionaire mother-in-law
Hélène Pastor was gunned down in hail of bullets in May in Nice, France
Wojciech Janowski has admitted a role in her murder, prosecutors say
His wife Sylvia Pastor has now been released without charge
Prince Albert II of Monaco has expressed 'deep support' for Pastor family
By JAMES RUSH and PETER ALLEN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 05:56 EST, 27 June 2014 | UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 27 June 2014

* * *

[From article]
Hélène Pastor, a 77-year-old socialite and businesswoman who was close to the royals who run the Mediterranean principality, was gunned down in a hail of bullets on May 6.
She and her chauffer both died of their wounds following the attack outside L'Archet hospital in the French city of Nice, which is a short drive from Monaco.
Now police believe that her daughter, Sylvia Pastor, 53, and her husband, Wojciech Janowski, 65, ordered the Mafia-style hit.
[. . .]
Investigators suspect two of Italy's most notorious crime syndicates, the 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra, of carrying out the double assassination.
Both crime gangs are said to be building property portfolios on the French Riviera as they expand their field of operations.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666640/Billionaire-Monaco-heiress-husband-custody-suspected-masterminding-assassination-mother.html

Billionaire Monaco heiress and Cambridge graduate husband in custody suspected of 'masterminding' Mafia-style assassination of her mother, 77, who died in a hail of bullets
Hélène Pastor was gunned down in hail of bullets in May in Nice, France
Now police believe her daughter, 53, and her husband, 65, ordered the hit
Sylvia Pastor and Cambridge graduate Wojciech Janowski are in custody
Prince Albert II of Monaco has expressed 'deep support' for Pastor family
By PETER ALLEN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 21:53 EST, 23 June 2014 | UPDATED: 22:53 EST, 23 June 2014

Palin, West, Santorum Encourage Tea Party To Victory

[From article]
In conversations with attendees, and from the stage as Former Governor Sarah Palin, Sen. Rick Santorum, and Rep. Allen West addressed the crowd of about 500, the anger about Cochran's controversial electoral tactics was palpable.
[. . .]
“That was a disgrace,” West said. “That was not standing on principal that’s not standing up for what you believe in, that was just a career politician that just wants to go back to Washington D.C. That was despicable, it’s immoral and it’s disgusting.”
Palin also disparaged the Republican party for their actions in Mississippi.
“Well shoot, our own party was proving this last week, to potentially manipulate and exterminate the integrity of a primary election,” she said, pointing out that the “the bloated political clash from both sides were trying to discourage people aligned with the Tea Party.
[. . .]
Palin reminded activists that the results should inspire them to redouble their efforts, pointing out that the establishment politicians would try to discourage them.
“It does make a difference,” she said. “What you are doing makes a difference and now more than ever we need to ramp it up. Don’t retreat, we gotta reload.”
In spite of their frustration, Palin soon had the crowd laughing as she peppered her speech with political jokes and taking shots against President Obama and his allies.
[. . .]
“Us bitter clingers and wingers, we ignored those yappin' little lapdogs in the media and with a new social media kind of reporting you know we were able to kick those little varmints away, we were able to ignore what it was that they were saying,” she said.
Palin held up Sen. Ted Cruz as an example of a Washington politician that was fighting for them, and explained that it was more important than ever to send him allies in his fight against the Washington establishment.
“He is there for a reason not a season, and that’s what we need more of,” she said. “We need to send the good guys reinforcements to take the battle to Capitol Hill for us.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/27/Don-t-Retreat-Reload-Sarah-Palin-Allen-West-Rick-Santorum-Encourage-Tea-Party-to-Keep-Fighting

DON'T RETREAT, RELOAD: SARAH PALIN, ALLEN WEST, RICK SANTORUM ENCOURAGE TEA PARTY TO KEEP FIGHTING
by CHARLIE SPIERING

27 Jun 2014, 2:41 PM PDT

NJ Man With Multiple Arrests in 3 States, Busted

Here is a hard-working thoughtful young man. He takes time from his busy schedule to relocate items for his clients. Unappreciative, and unconvinced they call it theft. Nonetheless, no one was watching this enterprising young man. He traveled to three states helping others lose their belongings, in order to help them get free from material wealth. No police, no crime families. No Communists and no Harvard University campus police were watching him. He was under the proverbial radar. How quaint and different the public safety priorities are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There on property owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, crime family associates, Communists, local police employees, FBI informants, take turns harassing an elder (70-year-old) white man about who they all say "He's crazy." They provoke, insult, intimidate, threaten, ridicule, humiliate, and broadcast relentless character assassination. For 43 years they keep him under 24/7 surveillance, disturb his sleep every one or two hours. They cause his computer to crash 30 to 40 times per hour. They say "He's unimportant." Harvard University lawyers repeatedly remind him, "No one reads your blog."Useful idiots for local politicians say "He's a coward." Is that Eric "White people are cowards" Holder's idea? 

[From article]
A Jersey City many with 77 prior arrests in three states has been charged with burglarizing a Newport Centre Mall store yesterday hours after the store had closed for the day, officials said.
[. . .]
Barton has been arrested 36 times in New Jersey, where he has 25 disorderly persons convictions and a criminal conviction for drug possession, court officials said.
He has been arrested 37 times in Florida and four times in Maryland, but court officials did not provide information on how the out state cases were adjudicated.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/06/man_with_77_prior_arrest_charged_with_burglarizing_store_in_jersey_city_mall.html

Jersey City man with 77 prior arrests charged with burglarizing Newport mall store
By Michaelangelo Conte

The Jersey Journal
on June 27, 2014 at 5:22 PM, updated June 27, 2014 at 5:24 PM

OK Candidate Says Incumbent Is A Body Double

[From article]
He says Lucas, who has served in Congress since 1994, was killed in Ukraine in 2011 and replaced with a lookalike, which he suggests could be some kind of robot.
“It is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a look alike (sic),” he said on his website, adding that “we know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements.”
[. . .]
“Many things have been said about me, said to me during course of my campaigns. This is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a body double or a robot,” he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/27/failed-congressional-candidate-says-oklahoma-rep-was-killed-years-ago-replaced/?

Failed congressional candidate says Oklahoma rep was killed years ago, replaced with lookalike
Published June 27, 2014
FoxNews.com

U. Of Calgary Jewish Professor Intimidated By Terrorist Supporters

[From article]
A former professor at the University of Calgary says he left his tenured position after colleagues refused to respond to his concerns with students spreading radical Muslim views.
Aaron Hughes, a prolific author on religion who holds a PhD on Islamic studies, said he once found a message scrawled in Arabic across his classroom’s chalkboard endorsing Islamic Jihad and Hamas, widely considered a terrorist group by western countries.
Hughes, who is Jewish, said he interpreted the message as anti-Semitic, but he said the university declined to remove the offending student from his class.
[. . .]
“Ultimately, the reason I left the University of Calgary is because my colleagues gave me no support.”
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Students+extremist+views+pushed+professor/9974866/story.html

Students' extremist views pushed professor out of U of C
BY REID SOUTHWICK

CALGARY HERALD

JUNE 25, 2014

Iraqi Muslims Rape Christian Mother and Daughter, Father Kills Himself

[From article]
A Christian father who watched his wife and daughter get brutally raped by members of the militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because he couldn't pay them a poll tax in Mosul, Iraq, killed himself under the weight of the trauma this past weekend.
[. . .]

Four Christian women were also reportedly shot dead by ISIS members because they were not wearing veils.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-father-commits-suicide-after-isis-members-rape-wife-and-daughter-in-front-of-him-because-he-couldnt-pay-poll-tax-122220/

Christian Father Commits Suicide After ISIS Members Rape Wife and Daughter in Front of Him Because He Couldn't Pay Poll Tax
BY LEONARDO BLAIR

CP REPORTER
June 25, 2014|3:08 pm

NYC Will Provide IDs and Lawyers for Illegal Aliens

[From article]
The vote was 43-3.
"The municipal ID is more than just a card -– it provides New Yorkers who are currently living in the shadows with dignity and peace of mind. My administration is fully ready to develop this plan and to swiftly implement a secure and accessible Municipal ID Card program, ” DiBlasio said.
The new ID program for all illegal aliens who live within New York's five boroughs -- an estimated 500,000 of them -- will allow them to open a bank account, sign a lease and get a library card. 

[. . .]

New York City also plans to use taxpayer money to keep illegal alien families together. The city is the first jurisdiction in the nation to provide public legal defenders at no charge to illegal aliens who are facing deportation.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that on Wednesday, June 25, the New York City Council allocated $4.9 million of its budget for the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), which launched as a pilot program in 2013 with $500,000 of taxpayer money.
“NYIFUP will now provide 100% coverage to eligible immigrants in the New York Immigration Court and will pilot an expansion of the project to cover New York City residents detained and facing deportation in the immigration court in Newark, N.J," the Center for Popular Democracy said

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/illegal-aliens-nyc-will-get-municipal-ids-free-legal-representation

Illegal Aliens in NYC Will Get Municipal IDs, Free Legal Representation
June 27, 2014 - 10:59 AM

By Penny Starr

VA Gave Bonuses to Negligent Executives, Spent $420 million on Solar Panels

[From article]
Veterans Administration hospitals have spent at least $420 million on solar panels and windmills while vets wait months — or even lay dying — to see a doctor.
In total, VA hospitals reported 23 deaths due to 76 instances of delayed care, anApril 2014 VA fact sheet said. Then on June 5, Acting Veteran Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson revealed that at least 18 Phoenix patients died while waiting for treatment on a secret list kept off the books. It is not clear if that number is in addition to the 23 deaths reported earlier. During the past month, the scandal has resulted in the resignations of both the VA secretary and the leaders of its health care component.
[. . .]
A 2012 audit by the VA’s Southwest Health Care Network revealed that VA administrators have known about the fabricated reports for two years. That audit went public only after the Arizona Republic received the document in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

http://watchdog.org/156746/va-hospitals/?utm_source=hoot&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=ss

VA hospitals fund solar panels while veterans wait for doctors
By Tori Richards

June 27, 2014
By Bre Payton and Tori Richards

Watchdog.org

EPA Spends $1.6 million on Conference to Save Energy

[From article]
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Office of Enforcement and Compliance, Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) intends to award a fixed-price Purchase Order … to the Renaissance Arlington Local Capital View Hotel,” the solicitation said. “The purpose of this acquisition is to cover the cost of 195 sleeping room nights from Sept. 9 [to] Oct 2, 2014, at government rate for the 50th public meeting of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), a federal advisory committee of the EPA.”
Rooms at the Renaissance Arlington run for roughly $349 a night. At 24 nights, the cost of 195 rooms will reach $1,633,320, or $8,376 per room.
The government per diem rate for lodging is $219 for September. If the EPA receives the per diem rate, the cost will come to $1,024,920 for the duration of their stay.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-spending-1-6-million-on-hotel-for-environmental-justice-conference/

EPA Spending $1.6 Million on Hotel for ‘Environmental Justice’ Conference
195 rooms for 24 nights

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
June 27, 2014 4:00 pm

Women Are Control Freaks

[From article]
Convention has it that women are the gentler sex.
But when it comes to relationships they are more likely than men to be controlling and aggressive, a study claims.
Increasing numbers of women can now be classed as ‘intimate terrorists’, meaning that they are verbally and physically violent towards a partner.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2669408/Rise-female-relationship-terrorists-Study-finds-women-controlling-aggressive-partners-men.html

Rise of the female 'relationship terrorists': Study finds women are more controlling and aggressive towards their partners than men
Psychologists found more women are verbally or physically abusive to partner
Within partner relationships, women are just as controlling as men
It suggests 'intimate partner violence' may not be motivated by patriarchal values, as previously thought
By EMINE SINMAZ and SARAH GRIFFITHS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:55 EST, 25 June 2014 | UPDATED: 08:08 EST, 26 June 2014

Woman Human Rights Lawyer Shot Dead In Her Home in Benghazi, Libya

[From article]
A leading Libyan human rights lawyer was gunned down inside her own home shortly after she had cast her vote in national elections.
Salwa Bugaighis was murdered on Wednesday evening after gunmen burst into her compound in Benghazi and shot her in the head.
Libyan state media reported that Ms Bugaighis was rushed to hospital but died of her wounds.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670556/Prominent-female-activist-killed-Libya.html

Gunmen assassinate Libyan female human rights lawyer inside her own home hours after she cast her vote in national elections
Salwa Bugaighis was shot in the head inside her home in Benghazi
The human rights activist had just returned after casting her vote in election
Ms Bugaighis spoke on TV hours before her death urging Libyans to vote
The interview was interrupted because of heavy fighting outside in the street
By DARREN BOYLE
Daily Mail (UK)

PUBLISHED: 08:09 EST, 26 June 2014 | UPDATED: 12:01 EST, 26 June 2014

Woman Free From Abusive Husband, Who Refuses Religious Divorce

[From article]
A young Orthodox Jewish mother claims today she bravely fled an abusive and controlling husband and reveals the years of physical torture and mind games she says she endured as she fights to free herself as an ‘Agunah’ - chained wife - from the bonds of their religious marriage.
Rivky discovered on her wedding night aged 18 that Yoel Weiss, the ‘charming and spiritual’ man she believed she had married, was a violent and malevolent force who took pleasure in watching her suffer.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Rivky Stein repeats claims made in court papers and explains how her naivety led her into her nightmare marriage.
At her home in Brooklyn, Rivky, now 24, said: ‘From the first night, I knew I was trapped. He changed to who he really was. He made it very clear to me that he owned me. His mentality was that I was his possession and that anything he said I had to do.'
Immediately the marriage turned into one of fear and control with Weiss monitoring Rivky’s every move, she claims.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663650/EXCLUSIVE-Raped-tormented-locked-room-starve-two-babies-The-shocking-claims-young-Jewish-mother-courage-flee-husband-chained-refuses-grant-religious-divorce.html

EXCLUSIVE - 'Raped, tormented and locked in a room to starve with her two babies': The shocking claims of a young Jewish mother who found the courage to flee her husband but is still 'chained' because he refuses to grant religious divorce
Rivky Stein was 18 when she wed Yoel Weiss, then 26, in an Orthodox Jewish ceremony. He promised a matchmaker $18,000 to arrange the marriage
She says was locked away in a room with her two children. 'We got roughly two meals a day, normally reused chicken soup'
during one alleged rape, Rivky told MailOnline: 'He comes in naked and said "let’s go". I said no, so he took my hands, twisted them behind my back and dragged me to our bedroom'
Weiss refuses to give Rivky a 'get,' or religious divorce
Refusal by husbands to grant their wives a get is a widespread issue in the Orthodox Jewish community
In the summer of 2012 Rivky escaped with the clothes on her back and her children and has obtained an order of protection against Weiss
Weiss tells MailOnline that there is no truth to Rivky's allegations
By LOUISE BOYLE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:40 EST, 26 June 2014 | UPDATED: 11:16 EST, 26 June 2014

Muslim Lobby Intimidates Television Production

[From article]
Before the show officially premiered, groups were already taking offense at its portrayal of the Middle East. After a pilot screening in Washington last week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) fired off a release asking TV reviewers to address the cliches.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/06/25/tyrant-fxs-middle-east-drama-draws-complaints-of-arab-and-muslim-stereotypes/
‘Tyrant,’ FX’s Middle East drama, draws complaints of Arab and Muslim stereotypes
BY EMILY YAHR 

June 25, 2014

US House Committee Reveals IRS Targeted Republican U.S. Senator

[From article]
Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.

“We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” said Camp. “At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights. We may never know the full extent of the abuse since the IRS conveniently lost two years of Lerner emails, not to mention those of other key figures in this scandal. The fact that DOJ refuses to investigate the IRS’s abuses or appoint a special counsel demonstrates, yet again, this Administration’s unwillingness to uphold the rule of law.”
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=385938

Sarah Swinehart (202) 226-4774
REVEALED: GOP Senator Targeted by Lerner
Ways and Means investigation uncovers push to audit Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Washington, Jun 25, 2014

Washington State Permits Illegal Aliens To Get Financial Aid Jeopardizing Others

[From article]
The form requires applicants to write “1” for “yes” or “2” for “no” if they accept the statement “I will file an application to become a permanent resident of the United States as soon as I am eligible to apply. I am also willing to engage in activities designed to prepare me for citizenship, including citizenship and civics review courses. I certify or declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the foregoing information is true and correct.”
“I think it’s important to remember that [the] State Need Grant follows the same rules that are used for determining in-state tuition, and so that process has been in place in this state since 2003, and that includes the affidavit process and the documentation of residency,” Sharp said.
Research shows that illegal aliens are three times more likely to drop out of college than other students, which may be partly attributed to finances.
However, legislators argued that this sudden toll on the state financial aid system from including these students would make it harder for all students to get financial aid.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5718&app=cro

1,600 illegal alien college students file for Washington State financial aid

The Washington legislature passed the Real Hope Act earlier this year, which grants illegal aliens the right to apply for state financial aid.
Eighteen states allow in-state tuition rates for undocumented students, including Washington.
Samantha Reinis

Campus Reform Intern

@samantha_reinis

Jun 25, 2014 at 12:04 PM EDT

NY Democratic US Rep. Charles Rangel Praises Use of Black Racism To Elect Mississippi Republican, NAACP, Other Black Officials Want Payback

Does Rangel approve using white racism for election strategies, too? 

[From article]

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who barely squeaked past his Democratic challenger in Tuesday’s primary, said there was nothing wrong with Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) strategy of getting Democratic-leaning African-Americans out to vote in the GOP primary.
“Of course not. My God, I think that’s what it’s all about,” Rangel told CNN. “Of course, this is unusual for states to allow people to join in their primaries regardless of their registration. 

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/06/26/rangel-to-cochran-great-strategy/?utm_term=%23tcot

Rangel to Cochran: Great Strategy

by BRIDGET JOHNSON
June 26, 2014 - 7:45 am

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Nothing works as well as buying votes.

[From article]
In an interview with HuffPost Live, Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said that Cochran could thank black voters by supporting efforts to re-establish protections in the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Courtstruck down last year.
"Our advocacy towards his office is to support amending the Voting Rights Act, free of any conditions such as voter ID," Johnson said. "I think this is an opportunity for him to show some reciprocity for African-Americans providing a strong level of support for him."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/african-americans-cochran-mississippi_n_5530851.html

NAACP Wants Thad Cochran To 'Show Some Reciprocity'
The Huffington Post
By Sam Levine
Posted: 06/25/2014 5:30 pm EDT Updated: 06/26/2014 11:59 am EDT

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381247/bennie-thompson-explains-how-thad-cochran-can-reward-black-voters-joel-gehrke

Bennie Thompson Explains How Thad Cochran Can Reward Black Voters
By Joel Gehrke
June 25, 2014 4:40 PM

Senator Thad Cochran (R., Miss.) needs to reward the black voters who crossed party lines to support him in his runoff against tea party challenger Chris McDaniel by backing some concrete policy initiatives, according the the state’s only member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Spike Lee, Poor Like Hillary Clinton

[From article]

“This country was founded on violence,” Lee told TheWrap. “Africans were brought here, to this land, and then the genocide of Native Americans, that's the foundation upon which this country was built. It's simple, not taught in schools. We're taught some other stuff, and particularly, how we're taught is through the media. And as African Americans, we were taught how barbaric Africa was, with the Tarzan movies and whatnot, and the savages of the Native Americans in the many, many John Ford, John Wayne films.”
Lee also thinks it's only getting worse.
“And the NRA is responsible for it,” he said. “These video games are not helping either.”

http://www.thewrap.com/spike-lee-says-america-is-addicted-to-violence/

Spike Lee Says America Is Addicted to Violence
By Jordan Zakarin

June 26, 2014 @ 2:07 pm

When Rich Become Poor; When Poor Become Rich

[From article]
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are worth between $10 and $50 million, according to their financial disclosure forms – but taxpayers will still pony up nearly $1 million this year to fund their post-White House lifestyle.
Like the three other living former presidents, Jimmy Carter and the two George Bushes, Clinton receives a $201,000 annual pension. But that just scratches the surface of the government benefits he shares with his wife Hillary.
The total for 2014 also includes $157,000 for staff salaries and benefits, $414,000 for office space and $9,000 for phone bills.
In all, The Washington Post first reported, taxpayers are providing Clinton with $944,000 in post-presidential pay and benefits.
That tab was $1.28 million in 2002, the year after he left office, according to a Congressional Research Service report cited by the Post and the Washington Free Beacon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2667949/Taxpayers-spend-944-000-support-multimillionaire-Bill-Clintons-post-presidential-lifestyle-2014.html

Taxpayers will spend $944,000 to support Bill Clinton's lifestyle in 2014 as he claims he and Hillary are not 'out of touch' because they 'talk to people in our town'
Bill Clinton said Tuesday his wife's claim that they were 'dead broke' after his presidency was 'factually true'
He and Hillary are not 'out of touch,' he insisted, because they go to the grocery store and 'talk to people in our town'
An April Congressional Research Service report found that the federal government has spent $15.9 million on Bill Clinton's retirement since 2001
He got $1.28 million in benefits the year after he left office
Clinton said Tuesday that attacking his wife as a wealthy elite in the run-up to the 2016 election is 'the wrong debate'
This year Clinton's costs include a $201,000 pension, $157,000 for staff salaries and benefits, $414,000 for office space and $9,000 for phone bills
Former president George W. Bush spends even more, costing taxpayers $1.28 million this year and averaging 4 per cent more per year than Clinton
The government inexplicably budgeted $102,000 for Bush's telephone expenses in 2014, and planned to spend $135,000 more on furniture, computers, office supplies and other miscellany
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:08 EST, 24 June 2014 | UPDATED: 17:00 EST, 24 June 2014

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[From article]
There are two sorts of stock human dramas that play out in every age of history. The first concerns people who were once rich but are now discovering they are poor. The second is their opposite; people who were once poor who suddenly realize they are rich.
[. . .]
The problem of course is what happens when the long-rich go broke. The once-rich-now-bankrupt become worse than bust, they become ridiculous. A modern example is John Kerry who is making a beggar’s tour of the Middle East.
[. . .]
Kerry is almost a central-casting perfect picture of a degenerate aristocrat. Just as Chelsea doesn’t do money, neither does Kerry do Foreign Policy. He at least does artistic gestures. Only the other day Kerry made an important announcement. Speaking at a the Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies Pride event at the State Department, he declared “I’m working hard to ensure that by the end of my tenure, we will have lesbian, bisexual and transgender ambassadors in our ranks as well.”
[. . .]
What Old Money and Power finds hardest to accept is that perhaps their scruffy, uncredentialed and coarse opponents might not only be their equals, but their superiors. One is beginning to suspect that the terror masters are better men — not better or more capable men than normal Americans — but better men than the aristocrats.
[. . .]
The men in the White House are like grifters who inherited a great fortune and have unexpectedly come into clothes, cars, houses and jets without the slightest clue how they were earned.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/06/24/our-ruling-class/

Our Ruling Class
June 24th, 2014 - 4:39 pm
By Richard Fernandez

Eating Fruits And Vegetables Is Really Good For You

[From article]
Eating plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables and whole grains helps prevent people from developing more than one chronic disease, new medical research shows.
The world-first research conducted by the University of Adelaide examined the link between diet and 11 chronic diseases, including anemia, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, arthritis, hepatitis, coronary heart disease, asthma, stroke, fracture and cancer.
It found that people who eat a higher amount of fruit are less likely to develop any chronic disease, while a high intake of vegetables helps prevent people with one chronic disease from developing a second.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2668720/Study-proves-gorging-fruit-vegetables-key-preventing-chronic-diseases-like-diabetes-asthma.html

Gorging on fruit and vegetables is the key to preventing chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma
People who eat lots of fruit are less likely to develop any chronic disease
High intake of vegetables helps prevent multiple chronic diseases
Healthier people eat lots of different grains, not just wheat and rice
The world-first research was conducted by the University of Adelaide
By SARAH MICHAEL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 22:24 EST, 24 June 2014 | UPDATED: 02:29 EST, 25 June 2014