Needless Deaths At Phoenix VA Hospital

[From article]
At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.
The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.
[. . .]
 top management at the VA hospital in Arizona knew about the practice and even defended it.
[. . .]
There's an "official" list that's shared with officials in Washington and shows the VA has been providing timely appointments, which Foote calls a sham list. And then there's the real list that's hidden from outsiders, where wait times can last more than a year
[. . .]
the elaborate scheme in Phoenix involved shredding evidence to hide the long list of veterans waiting for appointments and care.
[. . .]
"So the only record that you have ever been there requesting care was on that secret list," he said. "And they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in fact they were not."
[. . .]
Foote adds that when veterans waiting on the secret list die, they are simply removed.
"They could just remove you from that list, and there's no record that you ever came to the VA and presented for care. ... It's pretty sad."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/index.html

A fatal wait: Veterans languish and die on a VA hospital's secret list
By Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin

CNN Investigations
updated 9:15 AM EDT, Thu April 24, 2014

Infantile President

[From article]
Adolescents also try to truncate arguments by saying that nothing remains of any arguments against their arguments. Regarding the ACA, Obama said the debate is “settled” and “over.” Progressives also say the debate about catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change is “over,” so everyone should pipe down. And they say the debates about the efficacy of universal preschool, and the cost-benefit balance of a minimum-wage increase, are over. Declaring an argument over is so much more restful than engaging with evidence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-barack-obama-the-adolescent-president/2014/04/23/a835f872-ca3e-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html

Barack Obama, the adolescent president
By George F. Will

Published: April 23, 2014

Washington Post

Do Liars Exhibit Tells?

[From article]
People lie all the time. According to the psychologist Robert Feldman, who has spent more than four decades studying the phenomenon, we lie, on average, three times during a routine ten-minute conversation with a stranger or casual acquaintance. Hardly anyone refrains from lying altogether, and some people report lying up to twelve times within that time span.
[. . .]
Their success rate at identifying honesty has been approximately fifty-five per cent. The nature of the lie—or truth—doesn’t even matter.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/04/how-to-tell-when-someone-is-lying.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter

APRIL 23, 2014
HOW TO TELL WHEN SOMEONE IS LYING
POSTED BY MARIA KONNIKOVA

New Yorker

Connecticut Demands Power to Decide Who Your Daughter Dates

Connecticut leads the way in activist government intruding into private lives obliterating freedom. Not only will government dictate the size of your soft drink, but if and where you can smoke, who can use guns for self defense, now the state also wants to decide who your daughter should be allowed to date.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/24/connecticut-teen-seeks-ok-for-21-year-old-prom-date/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Connecticut school seeks to break senior's prom date with 21-year-old beau
Published April 24, 2014

FoxNews.com

Alan Dershowitz Begins New Career

[From article]
According to the biographical statement on his website, he has litigated 38 homicide cases and authored 30 fiction and non-fiction works. He has won over 100 court cases and lectured to over a million people across the globe.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/24/fifty-years-retired-alan-dershowitz/

Fifty Years of Alan Dershowitz
By MOLLY E. WHARTON

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
April 24, 2014

Central Park Five Sues New York City

[From article]
Liberals are opposed to rape in the abstract, but when it comes to actual rapists, they’re all for them.
[. . .]
Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have done.
The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack — given on videotape, in the presence of his father — and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Oh, also — the crotch of the underwear from the night of the attack was stained with semen, grass, dirt and debris.
Contrary to media reports, there was hair, blood or semen on all five of the defendants.
In the opposite of a rush to judgment, two multi-ethnic juries deliberated for 10 days and 11 days, respectively, before convicting the five defendants of rape or sexual abuse — as well as the other assaults that night, mysteriously vacated by Justice Tejada — and acquitting all but one on the most serious charge, attempted murder.
But now de Blasio wants to hold down our legs while the “Central Park Five” rape us, again.

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/04/23/what-you-wont-read-in-the-papers-about-the-central-park-five/

WHAT YOU WON’T READ IN THE PAPERS ABOUT THE ‘CENTRAL PARK FIVE’
By: Ann Coulter
4/23/2014 06:32 PM
Human Events

Japanese Raw Fish Green Tea Diet Adds Longevity

[From article]
A new study has revealed their diets rich in raw fish and green tea are helping them to live considerably longer than British women.
Eschewing the Western staples of dairy and bread sees Japanese women live to the ripe old age of 86.4 years on average, much more than British women who live to just 82.7 years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612822/Japanese-womens-diet-green-tea-raw-fish-key-healthy-long-life-British-women-look-East-want-live-longer-study-says.html

Japanese women's diet of green tea and raw fish is 'key to healthy, long life': British women should look to the East if they want to live longer, study says
Eschewing dairy and bread sees Japanese women live to average of 86.4
It is four years more than British women who live to just 82.7 years
Japanese diet is rich in wholegrains, vegetables and soy, with less calories
By AMANDA WILLIAMS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 02:12 EST, 25 April 2014 | UPDATED: 06:42 EST, 25 April 2014

Palestinian Activists Prank Jewish Students At NYU

[From article]
A pro-Palestinian NYU group targeted Jewish classmates with threatening “eviction” notices that were slid under dorm-room doors in the dead of night, students said Thursday.
“If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014 we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings. We cannot be held responsible for property or persons remaining inside the premises,” read the notices, which were delivered by members of the Students for Justice in Palestine.
[. . .]
Similar hate pranks have been pulled at other universities in recent months, including Rutgers, Michigan and Northeastern.

http://nypost.com/2014/04/24/jewish-nyu-students-targeted-by-pro-palestine-activists-report/

Pro-Palestinian activists leave ‘eviction’ notices for Jewish NYU students
By Erin Calabrese and Bob Fredericks
April 24, 2014 | 3:04pm
New York Post

Homeland Security Watchdog Placed On Leave

[From article]
In 2010, The Associated Press obtained nearly 1,000 pages of internal emails that revealed that for at least a year Homeland Security officials detoured requests for federal records to senior political advisers for unusual scrutiny, looking for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive.
In 2012, the chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement was accused in a lawsuit of sexual discrimination and retaliation. She was granted a leave of absence and later resigned.
And last year, the department spent weeks dealing with the fallout from the release of thousands of immigrants being held in immigration jails.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DHS_INSPECTOR_GENERAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-04-25-04-22-04

Apr 25, 4:22 AM EDT
EX-DHS WATCHDOG PUT ON LEAVE AFTER CRITICAL REPORT
BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ACT For America Responds to CAIR's Challenge

Great Idea, Ibrahim Hooper!

IPT News

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4352/great-idea-ibrahim-hooper

In a heated exchange last week, Ibrahim Hooper – national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – issued a put up or shut up kind of challenge to his organization's critics.

Hooper was pressed by Fox News host Megyn Kelly about CAIR's record of failing to condemn terrorist groups like Hamas and Hizballah and other questionable positions. Hooper tried to deflect, blaming "Internet hate sites" for fueling "hate-filled smears against CAIR, which was founded in 1994.

"Please find something that CAIR has done or said in those 20 years that you find either extreme, objectionable, intolerant, whatever," Hooper said.

Don't mind if we do.

We've documented CAIR's dubious record for years, noting in a 2009 report that the group responds to the very kind of specific examples Hooper demands to see by issuing ad hominem attacks against the messenger.

So, in a decidedly-less funny tribute to Late Show host David Letterman's pending retirement, here are the IPT's top 10 examples of "extreme, objectionable, intolerant, whatever" actions by CAIR. Together, they undermine CAIR's credibility as a mainstream, reliable arbiter in the debate about terrorism, extremism and the treatment of Muslims in America:

You'll have to provide your own drumroll.

10. Using civil rights instruction to scare the daylights out of Muslims and drive a wedge between the community and the FBI.

CAIR officials say their "Know Your Rights" seminars simply are meant to educate people that they have a right to have counsel present for questioning if the FBI approaches.

That would be fine if that's all they were. But CAIR's message is wrapped in paranoia, casting the FBI as an out-of-control monster whose agents will do everything and anything to set up innocent Muslims.

"They will do anything, anything within their power and oftentimes beyond their power to get you to talk," CAIR-New York board member Lamis Deek said at a 2011 seminar. "They will threaten you. OK? I've had one case where they tried to blackmail my client, I mean blackmail, seriously blackmail; that's illegal. But they'll do it."

This came two months after CAIR's San Francisco chapter posted a flyer online urging Muslims to "Build a Wall of Resistance. Don't Talk to the FBI." In response, Hooper tried to minimize the incident as a misinterpretation. The problem wasn't the flyer and its message. Instead, he told Fox News – surprise! – it was an "attack by the Islamophobic hate machine."

9. False Accusations of FBI Shootings

It has not happened often, but FBI agents have shot and killed Muslim suspects in separate episodes. In each case, CAIR immediately cast the shooting as unjustified, and demanded independent investigations. In each case, those wishes were granted. But when the reviews reached the opposite conclusion, that the shootings were justified based upon the suspect's actions, CAIR refused to accept that the suspect may have escalated the situation. This emphasis on blaming law enforcement no matter what should be viewed in the context of CAIR's campaign against the FBI illustrated in #10 above.

In 2009, agents shot and killed Detroit Imam Luqman Abdullah. Abdullah fired first as agents moved in to arrest him for conspiracy and weapons charges. A Justice Department Civil Rights Division investigation concluded that agents opened fire "only after Imam Abdullah brandished a concealed handgun and shot toward them and that they legitimately feared that Imam Abdullah was in a position to cause death or significant injury to another."

Even though the report made a point of showing that audio recordings, ballistics and other evidence all corroborated the agents' accounts, and even though "[a] Glock 9mm handgun was found next to Imam Abdullah after the shooting and it had been fired," CAIR officials continued to cast the shooting as "an overblown military type raid." CAIR dismissed the findings, along with similar conclusions from the Dearborn Police Department and Michigan attorney general, as "superficial and incomplete."

Last month, CAIR again took issue with an independent investigation for failing to agree with their spin. Ibragim Todashev, a friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by an FBI agent after hours of questioning in his Florida apartment. Todashev, a "skilled mixed-martial arts fighter," implicated himself in a triple murder in Massachusetts. Witnesses say he grew anxious and agitated before heaving a coffee table at the FBI agent, hitting him in the head. He grabbed a five-foot-long metal pole over his head "with the end of the pole pointed toward [the FBI agent] as if intended to be used to impale rather than strike," the investigation found.

CAIR's Tampa director said the report raised "several concerns and key inconsistencies and ... many important unanswered questions." The failure to bring charges hurts the FBI's credibility, he wrote on Twitter.

8. Refusing to Condemn Hamas and Hizballah as Terrorist Groups.

CAIR officials are great about condemning "all forms of terrorism and religious extremism." But try to drill down and ask about specific terrorist groups and CAIR does everything but give a straight answer. They'll stick with the universal rejection of anyone who engages in political violence as spokesman Corey Saylor did in 2008. Or, they'll refuse on principle, as Hooper did in 2002 when he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that "We're not in the business of condemning."

That's consistent with Hooper's dodge in the weeks after 9/11. Challenged by journalist Jake Tapper, Hooper hedged when it came to Osama bin Laden, saying "If Osama bin Laden was behind it, we condemn him by name." Tapper was surprised — "why qualify the response?" he asked.

"Hooper said he resented the question."

Or, they'll go to bluster.

In that 2001 interview with Tapper, Hooper rejected the question about Hamas as "word games from the pro-Israel lobby."

This past November, CAIR-Los Angeles chief Hussam Ayloush reacted angrily to the very question. Simply being asked to condemn Hamas was "not acceptable," he said, and "proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you."

The group had no reservations condemning Israel, however, especially after it struck Hamas targets. CAIR condemned the killing of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin. The statement didn't mention his role in Hamas, but cast him as "a 67-year-old quadriplegic and the most prominent Palestinian Islamic figure."

In 2008, CAIR called reporters to a news conference to condemn Israel's 2008 "Cast Lead" incursion into Gaza aimed at stopping rampant Hamas rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians. CAIR co-founder and Executive Director Nihad Awad demanded "that our government, the U.S. government, take immediate steps to end the immoral and illegal Israeli bombardment of Gaza and its population."

He said nothing about the Hamas rocket fire.

For CAIR officials, attacks on Israeli civilians may not be seen as terrorism, but as a form of "resistance."

7. Lying About it to Megyn Kelly and Fox viewers.

In his appearance on Fox last week, Hooper misled the audience.

"We've condemned Hamas, we've condemned every Hezbollah, we've condemned -- we've condemned every organization that's on the list of terrorist designated by the U.S. government," he said.

6. Standing by Accused Terrorists and Terror Supporters

Our 2008 dossier on CAIR featured an entire section devoted to CAIR's consistent behavior in casting doubt on terrorist and terror financing prosecutions. In each case, it was more than reminding people that, in our system, a person is innocent until proven guilty. To CAIR, these cases were inherently flawed, driven by politics, and unfair to Muslim Americans.

Among the examples:

The conspiracy case against 11 Northern Virginia men who trained and planned to travel to wage jihad against American troops in Afghanistan after 9/11 was draconian and an example of "selective prosecution of Muslims since the 9/11 terror attacks." The 2008 conviction of five men tied to the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) "was based more on fear-mongering than on the facts," CAIR said in a statement. "It is particularly troubling that the government chose to use testimony from an anonymous witness, which deprives the defendants of their full right to confront their accusers. We expect the defendants to appeal this verdict and believe that it will eventually be overturned."

It wasn't.

The 2011 arrest of Mansssor Arbabsiar for plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, which was tied to elements inside the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force was dismissed by key CAIR leaders as a trumped up entrapment case.

A year later, Arbabsiar pleaded guilty, admitting that "he conspired with officials in the Iranian military who were based in Iran, to cause the assassination of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador while the Ambassador was in the United States." CAIR said nothing about that.

But that position is consistent for CAIR, which casts virtually all arrests of terror suspects in FBI sting operations as inherently suspect. CAIR-San Francisco representative Zahra Billoo told a local television "that the FBI was looking for a sensational story" rather than stopping a threat when it arrested a man who believed he was about to blow up a packed Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore. Walid, the Michigan director mentioned earlier, has said that the FBI "has recruited more so-called extremist Muslims than al-Qaida themselves."

CAIR officials also have claimed that the war on terrorism had become a war on Islam, a statement considered significant in radicalizing young Muslims. When we wrote about it in 2011, Hooper demanded a correction. CAIR officials, he argued, merely said there was a perception. Their emphasis on this issue, he argued, somehow had nothing to do with accepting or reinforcing that perception.

5. Working to silence/marginalize critics, especially fellow Muslims

This one is fresh from the headlines. CAIR helped pressure Brandeis University last week into withdrawing plans to bestow an honorary degree on author Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She renounced Islam, and is dedicated to combating abuse of women in Muslim societies, especially the incidents of female genital mutilation. It is driven from her personal experiences.

But CAIR likened the original Brandeis plan to honor Hirsi Ali "to promoting the work of white supremacists and anti-Semites."

CAIR has twice failed in attempts to get Zuhdi Jasser, a fellow Muslim who opposes CAIR's Islamist political agenda, removed from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Most recently, CAIR believed Jasser should be disqualified because they don't like people who have supported his work financially. Jasser was appointed to a new term a week ago.

CAIR even tried to intimidate Somali Americans who were trying to stem the flow of young men in the Minneapolis area who returned to Somalia to fight with the al-Shabaab terrorist group. It called two men "anti-Muslim" for participating in a seminar which included a discussion about al-Shabaab.

4. Trying to stifle any discussion radical Islam plays in terror attacks and plots.

When Army psychiatrist Nidal Hassan opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, CAIR argued that Hassan's religious motivation should not be part of the ensuing debate. Hassan, however, self-identified as a "Soldier of Allah" on his business card and gave a presentationcalled, "Why the War on Terror is a War on Islam." But Hooper went on a radio show to speculate that perhaps Hassan "just snapped ... when these things happen and the guy's name is John Smith nobody says well what about his religious beliefs? But when it is a Muslim sounding name that automatically comes into it."

CAIR officials downplay religious motivation in other terror plots and say terms like jihad and radical Islam should not be used in discussing terrorist plots and attacks by Muslims. In that vein, CAIR conspired with a political scientist in 2010 to gin up sales of a book which claimed that religious extremism was a minimal factor in suicide bombings.

3. Soliciting dictators for donations.

CAIR directly asked the late-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to underwrite a program to distribute Qurans. Awad praised Gaddafi as "the world Islamic popular leader." Law enforcement sources told the IPT that Awad met with officials representing Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in November 2009, months after Bashir was charged with crimes against humanity.

State Department records show that a CAIR delegation sought millions of dollars during trips toSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in 2006.

2. Appearing on Iranian and Hamas television to criticize the treatment of Muslims in the United States.

Though the practice has waned, CAIR officials from throughout the country have proven more than happy to appear on Iran's Press TV and Hamas's Al-Quds television. The CAIR representatives rarely spoke about the freedom Muslims enjoy in America. Rather, they painted pictures of Muslims being demonized in America and unfairly targeted by law enforcement. The one time Hooper did say something positive, he followed it by saying, "there is also a sense of being under siege from these hate mongers that are constantly trying to demonize our faith."

When violent, anti-American protests broke out in Muslim countries in 2012, a CAIR official toldPress TV that, "People have had enough of what is seen by them, what looks to them like America's war on Islam."

And the No. 1 example of CAIR being "extreme, objectionable, intolerant, whatever..."

The Palestine Committee.

Although it is a Muslim advocacy organization, CAIR was born from an original sin. It was part of something called the Palestine Committee, a Muslim Brotherhood umbrella organization created to support Hamas politically and financially. The evidence for this comes not from "Internet hate sites," as Hooper is fond of saying, but from internal documents seized by the FBI and admitted into evidence in the HLF trial.

Here's a Palestine Committee meeting agenda listing CAIR among its member organizations. Here's the committee's telephone list, including CAIR founders Awad and Ahmad (listed as Omar Yehya). Here's a federal judge's opinion that the government produced "ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR .... with Hamas."

CAIR has never acknowledged this history. They even tried to argue that the Palestine Committee never existed.

It didn't work.

This evidence is the reason that the FBI cut off relations with CAIR outside of official investigations in 2008.

"[U] ntil we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner," an FBI assistant director explained in a 2009 letter. [Emphasis added]

The policy remains in effect, meaning the question has not been resolved.

Yet, in his interview with Kelly, Hooper tried to make relations between CAIR and the FBI seem fine, saying "we have relations, we're on a daily contact with the FBI on civil rights issues –on a variety of things."

Rather than acknowledge their record and try to claim things have changed, Hooper and CAIR engage in denial and deflection. Read through this Top 10 again. The examples cited come from the mouths of CAIR officials themselves or from court documents.

CAIR must fear what would happen if the broader public understands that, thus the emphasis on "Internet hate sites."

Ibrahim Hooper issued a challenge. We thank him for it. 

NY Rape Suspect Caught In UK After Fleeing to Africa

[From article]
After his $10,000 bail was posted, Bowen fled to his native Liberia, where he was administrator of a government hospital.
After Bowen disappeared, sheriff's detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force whereupon investigators were able to track his travels to Liberia and the United Kingdom.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2610225/Police-Man-wanted-NY-rape-case-caught-UK.html

Man wanted in 2010 on charges of child rape in New York caught in Britain after he first fled to Africa and began leading one of Liberia's largest public hospitals
Tobias A. Bowen, 47, was arrested on Saturday at an airport in London airport
He fled the U.S. four years earlier in 2010 four years after he fled the United States after he was indicted on child sex charges
He talked his way into becoming an administrator of one of the Redemption hospital in Liberia
U.S. and British agencies worked to capture him when it was known he would be arriving in the UK
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 05:58 EST, 22 April 2014 | UPDATED: 13:11 EST, 22 April 2014

Black Detroit Teens Beat White Motorist Almost To Death

[From article]
Utash, 54, of Macomb County's Clinton Township, is a tree trimmer who was familiar with the east side Detroit neighborhood where a boy darted out in front of his pickup. He spent days in a coma after the beating.
Utash's family sat in the front row of the courtroom, while relatives of the accused men sat directly behind them in three rows. There were deep sighs, sobbing and muffled utterances of 'liar' during the testimony. Some spectators were ejected by sheriff's deputies.
Jackson noted that the legal threshold to keep the case moving at this stage is low. Defense attorneys said Utash's injuries were awful but an attempted murder charge was too severe.
'One or two may not be enough to kill anyone,' the judge said of punches and kicks, 'but a combination may be enough to cause one's death.'
Separately, a 16-year-old boy is charged in Juvenile Court with assault and ethnic intimidation in the case. He and the other defendants are black; Utash is white.
'In the case of the 16-year-old charged as a juvenile we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crimes of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and ethnic intimidation,' Kym Worthy, Wayne County's prosecutor, said.
'In the case of the four adult defendants that have been charged, the facts and the evidence does not support a charge of ethnic intimidation.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2610008/Detroit-men-court-ordered-trial-beating-white-motorist-accidentally-hit-black-child.html

Youths who beat white motorist to within an inch of his life after he accidentally hit child with pick-up truck face court
Four men have been ordered to stand trial on attempted murder charges
Stephen Utash, 54, was attacked as he pulled over to check on a child he accidentally struck on April 2
Utash remains in a serious condition in hospital
Latrez Cummings, 19, James Davis, 24, Wonzey Saffold, 30, and Bruce Wimbush Jr., 17 were all ordered to trial
A fifth defendant, a 16-year-old boy, is charged in Juvenile Court with assault and ethnic intimidation in the case
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:39 EST, 21 April 2014 | UPDATED: 07:40 EST, 22 April 2014

Liberals Ignore Human Nature Worship of Power

[From article]
Liberals do not think about the real meat of political philosophy, which is not to design a perfect political system with perfect justice, but to deal with the real problem: rulers and their appetite for power. Liberals worry instead about how to flush out the racists, sexists, and homophobes that are lurking in the woods waiting their chance to turn back the clock on glorious progressive achievements. Their concern is that the ruling class of liberals doesn't have enough power to do good.
[. . .]
Liberals are convinced that they represent a noble cause of the evolved and the educated called by History to right the wrongs of the wretched and the marginalized of the Earth.
[. . .]
That's why I don't think that our all-American liberals have really thought through their sophomoric ideas about striking a “balance between free speech in a democracy and protection against racial abuse in a multicultural society” and the use of the IRS to punish their enemies. One repression leads with iron logic to the next, and each injustice provokes its own head of rebellion. At some point, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), you and your fellow House Democrats may have to embarrass yourselves and walk back your partisan insouciance, and admit that your opponents were right about the IRS and True the Vote.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/04/liberals_digging_their_political_graves_.html

April 22, 2014
Liberals Digging Their Political Graves
By Christopher Chantrill

American Thinker 

Obama's War On Individualism

[From article]
Obama and his followers are too clever by far to be so blatantly obvious in their ultimate intentions. Consequently, their euphemistic language constantly morphs. Obama never actually makes any outrageous comments about Jews and Christians; no Hitler is he. He will simply ignore their plight around the world and support those factions – e.g., Muslim Brotherhood who commit atrocities against these respective groups. Obama hides behind his "useful idiots" who do the bidding for him, and that way he remains aloof and untouched.
[. . .]
But Kenneth Minogue asserts that the true indicator of totalitarianism is actually the destruction of individualism. With this in mind, recall that our trajectory toward totalitarianism has only begun, and already we can see the diminution of our rights and individual decision-making options. Thus, Obama and the Democrats maintain a constant assault on capitalism, which has allowed the middle class to be so successful. Constant stonewalling of the flow of information was the first indicator of their true evil intentions.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/04/individualism_vs_obama.html

April 22, 2014
Individualism vs. Obama
By Eileen F. Toplansky

American Thinker 

NY Meals On Wheels Delivery Man Mugs 103-year-old Woman

[From article]
The suspect somehow got past the lobby of the woman's West 94th Street apartment building and ended up at her door, on the 14th floor.
He posed as the worker and talked his way into her apartment, according to the Daily News.
He asked to use her restroom, and then took $250, according to the News.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Meals-on-Wheels-Robber-103-Year-Old-Woman-256171711.html

103-Year-Old Woman Robbed by Man Posing as Meals on Wheels Worker
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2014 | Updated 3:25 PM EDT

NBC News New York NY

Proposal to Lower Drinking Age To Reduce Harms to Teens

[From article]
Congress was stampeded into this puritanical law by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), who with all good intentions were wrongly intruding into an area of personal choice exactly as did the hymn-singing 19th-century Temperance crusaders, typified by Carrie Nation smashing beer barrels with her hatchet. Temperance fanaticism eventually triumphed and gave us 14 years of Prohibition. That in turn spawned the crime syndicates for booze smuggling, laying the groundwork for today’s global drug trade. Thanks a lot, Carrie!
[. . .]
deadening pills, such as today’s massively overprescribed anti-depressants, linger in body and brain and may have unrecognized long-term side effects. Those toxic chemicals, often manufactured by shadowy firms abroad, have been worrisomely present in a recent uptick of unexplained suicides and massacres. Half of the urban professional class in the U.S. seems doped on meds these days.

http://time.com/72546/drinking-age-alcohol-repeal/

The Drinking Age Is Past Its Prime
Camille Paglia

7:31 AM ET

Time Magazine

Drug Resistant Illnesses Travel from Hospitals to Homes

[From article]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that in communities outside of health care settings, most MRSA strains are skin infections that are spread by physical contact, such as the sharing of towels or razors. Athletes, military barracks, prisons and other close-quarter living areas are at an increased risk of contracting and spreading the bug.
In medical facilities, MRSA causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical infections.
But the new study shows that the MRSA has spread into average U.S. homes.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/22/study-antibiotic-resistant-mrsa-superbug-found-in-us-homes/

Study: Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA ‘Superbug’ Found In US Homes
April 22, 2014 8:32 AM

CBS News Atlanta GA

Obama's Lies Having an International Effect

[From article]

As a young reporter, I once expressed shock at how routinely and reflexively government officials lied to the press. A savvy newspaper vet who overheard me just smiled and told me not to take it personally.
“Why shouldn’t they lie to you?” the late, great Murray Kempton asked. “They lie to themselves all the time.”
His observation came back to me as I read about President Obama’s trip to Asia. He’s going, the White House says, to tell our allies face to face that America is committed more than ever to their security and prosperity.

http://nypost.com/2014/04/23/obamas-lies-have-led-to-global-mistrust/

Obama’s lies have led to global mistrust
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
April 23, 2014 | 2:08am

New York Communists Rejoin Harassment Campaign

Around Patriot's day in Massachusetts, the day of the marathon, April 21, 2014, a group of Communists from New York re-joined the 43 year program of harassment led by a thoughtful graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School. This elitist psychologist once told me, "I own you." They conduct the same campaign as the previous hundreds, if not thousands, of misguided psychopaths who harassed me since 1970.

They began with surveillance by psychiatrists treating me as a mental patient, trying to provoke anger, violence and speech from me through intentionally outrageous behavior. At a university library they talked loudly sitting next to me for about one hour. It was not the first time that groups of police employees did that. On one occasion a psychiatrist pulled a newspaper out of my hands to see what my reaction was. When that did not work they use young women as bait. Over and over, again and again, the same lame provocations. Perhaps the Harvard University police group of an attorney, a campus cop and a psychologist ran out of useful idiots from Massachusetts. There is a larger group of psychopaths from New York who enjoy attacking an elder white man and tormenting him as they say to everyone, "He's crazy." It is a lot of fun humiliating an elder white man, ridiculing, provoking, insulting and assassinating his character.

These are homosexuals employed by the Kennedy cult, the state government of Massachusetts and the U.S. government. For 34 years they said "He's a racist." stirring up racial animosity and isolating me. They add "He's crazy." in order to discourage any state or U.S. police agency from stopping the abuse. It also prevents me from obtaining an attorney to stop the abuse and to get any compensation for 43 years of character assassination. Now they say "He's a black Communist." in order to continue to isolate me from others who have been harassed by black racists and their useful idiots.

Like criminals in local, state and US government in and around Cambridge and at Harvard University the New York teams employ police psychologists, and psychiatrists to perform evaluations contrary to law. They continue 43 years of FBI character assassination telling everyone "He's a homosexual." in order to continue their criminal project of behavior conditioning trying to make me into a homosexual. Here's more evidence that the Massachusetts state government is run by organized crime. They allow this to continue after 20 years of written and oral complaints to appropriate state and local agencies.

The criminal police employees from New York, arrived as part of a team which includes an attorney and a local police employee (Cambridge, Somerville or Harvard University campus police), a psychologist, or psychiatrist, currently the graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School. Protective agencies ignored my complaints for 20 years because "He's crazy." And if "He's crazy." police and psychiatrists and psychologists can do whatever they want to do according to the Obama-Holder doctrine of law enforcement. Under that official policy inconvenient laws may be ignored. In Massachusetts, for public officials, for psychiatrists, psychologists, Harvard University students, faculty and employees, laws are optional. In addition, under Obama-Holder white heterosexual males are not entitled to police protection, from criminal acts by black actors.

Continuing is relentless computer intrusions to cause my computer to crash every one or two minutes for 45 minutes at a time, daily sleep disturbances every one or two hours, and 24/7 surveillance and threats.

Detroit, Other Cities Slow To Process Rape Kits; Criminals Continue Committing Crimes

[From article]
Nearly five years after the discovery of 11,000 abandoned rape evidence kits in a Detroit police warehouse sparked outrage, only about 2,000 of the kits have undergone DNA testing, allowing serial rapists to remain free and in some cases commit more attacks.
[. . .]
The problem in Detroit is aggravated because the Detroit Police Department, which mishandled the rape kits to begin with, wants to help clear the backlog, but Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy doesn’t want them involved. She says rape victims whose kits were lost don’t trust the DPD and that makes their work counterproductive.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140421/NEWS06/304210022/old-rape-kits-not-tested-Detroit-police

As Detroit rape kits sit untested, justice for victims is denied
7:40 AM, April 21, 2014
By Paul Egan and Gina Damron
Detroit Free Press Staff

Chicago Police Accused of Falsifying Crime Statistics

[From article]
A new investigative report by Chicago Magazine claims that Mayor Emanuel and Superintendent McCarthy are cooking the stats to make it appear that crime is falling when in fact it is not.
The magazine says that murders and violent crimes are being reported in ways that hide them from accumulated statistics.
In one case, for instance, a woman was murdered but because her corpse had so many different injuries the coroner couldn't determine exactly which one killed her. But instead of classifying the death as a murder, the Chicago police classified the death as a "noncriminal death." How could a clear murder be called a "noncriminal death"?
[. . .]
In another case a man was found severely beaten. He died a few days after being taken to the hospital. Instead of classifying his death as a result of a criminal act, police classified the cause of his death as “diabetes.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/19/Chicago-Police-Accused-of-Cooking-Lower-Crime-Stats

CHICAGO POLICE ACCUSED OF COOKING LOWER CRIME STATS
by WARNER TODD HUSTON 

20 Apr 2014

Breitbart

Chicago Schools Require Black History In All Courses

[From article]
The curriculum covers kindergarten through tenth grade and is designed to align with Common Core. It includes a web link to TheAfrican.com, a website whose publisher decries “fake-Jews” and calls the United States a “Zionist-occupied enemy territory.”
The site also claims that the world will end sometime this year and that President Barack Obama is “merely another trick of [the beast of the 4th Kingdom].”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/see-what-theyll-be-teaching-in-the-chicago-public-schools/

See what they’ll be teaching in the Chicago public schools
2:09 AM 04/21/2014
Chuck Ross Reporter

Daily Caller News Foundation

Meet The Press Host, Friends, Relatives Being Psychologically Evaluated

[From article]
Friends of Gregory and even his wife were interviewed by a psychologist commissioned by NBC to find out how the host of the flagship Sunday morning show might relate to audiences better.
The Washington Post reported, “Last year, the network undertook an unusual assessment of the 43-year-old journalist, commissioning a psychological consultant to interview his friends and even his wife.

This indicates the therapeutic state has taken control of NBC news. 

http://pagesix.com/2014/04/21/david-gregory-undergoes-psychological-evaluation-to-combat-low-ratings/?_ga=1.204044304.1293864602.1397313014

NBC orders psychological testing for David Gregory
By Emily Smith
April 21, 2014 | 10:35am

New York Post 

Page Six

Government Abuse of Power in Nevada

[From article]
The new head of the BLM is a former Reid staffer. Presumably he was placed in his current position on Reid’s recommendation. Harry Reid is known to be a corrupt politician, one who has gotten wealthy on a public employee’s salary, in part, at least, by benefiting from sweetheart real estate deals. Does Harry Reid now control more than 80% of the territory of Nevada? If you need federal authority to conduct business in Nevada–which is overwhelmingly probable–do you need to pay a bribe to Harry Reid or a member of his family to get that permission? Why is it that the BLM is deeply concerned about desert tortoises when it comes to ranchers, but couldn’t care less when the solar power developers from China come calling? Environmentalists have asked this question. Does the difference lie in the fact that Cliven Bundy has never contributed to an Obama or Reid campaign, or paid a bribe to Reid or a member of his family?
[. . .]
So let’s have some sympathy for Cliven Bundy and his family. They don’t have a chance on the law, because under the Endangered Species Act and many other federal statutes, the agencies are always in the right. And their way of life is one that, frankly, is on the outs. They don’t develop apps. They don’t ask for food stamps. It probably has never occurred to them to bribe a politician. They don’t subsist by virtue of government subsidies or regulations that hamstring competitors. They aren’t illegal immigrants. They have never even gone to law school. So what possible place is there for the Bundys in the Age of Obama?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/why-you-should-be-sympathetic-toward-cliven-bundy.php

POSTED ON APRIL 14, 2014 

BY JOHN HINDERAKER

WHY YOU SHOULD BE SYMPATHETIC TOWARD CLIVEN BUNDY

Electronic Media Use Inhibits Ordinary Abilities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10767878/Infants-unable-to-use-toy-building-blocks-due-to-iPad-addiction.html

Infants 'unable to use toy building blocks' due to iPad addiction
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers warn that rising numbers of children are unable to perform simple tasks such as using building blocks because of overexposure to iPads

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor
3:38PM BST 15 Apr 2014

University Advocates Smaller White Population

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5549

University calls the amount of white people on campus a ‘failure,’ asks for ideas on how to have fewer



Kaitlyn Schallhorn
Reporter
@katie0509
on Apr 15, 2014 at 11:43 AM EDT

Cocaine Seized in Miami, $92 million

[From article]
According to Fajardo, there have been 14,000 kilos of cocaine seized since the beginning of the fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2013. That’s about $92 million in wholesale value. The previous year, 53,200 kilos of cocaine were seized, worth potentially $1.8 billion on the street.

And the police and the FBI harass me and keep me under 24/7 surveillance. Ahem! Priorities askew? 

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/15/4060916/coast-guard-unloads-110-million.html#storylink=cpy

MIAMI BEACH
Coast Guard in Miami Beach unloads bales of cocaine with a street value of about $350 million
Posted on Tuesday, 04.15.14
BY CARLI TEPROFF
CTEPROFF@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Tea Party Sues IRS Over Abuses of Power, Felonies

[From article]
Confusion may arise over the 501(c)(4) designation because the IRS calls such groups “social welfare organizations,” which may conjure images of neighborhood watches or volunteer fire departments.
In fact, on March 12, 2012, Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Al Franken, D-Minn., and five other
Democrats signed a letter demanding the IRS target conservative groupsand impose tighter restrictions on 501(c)(4) groups affiliated with the tea parties because, they claimed, the groups were “masquerading as social welfare organizations.”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/tea-party-powerhouse-sues-obama/

TEA-PARTY POWERHOUSE SUES OBAMA ADMIN
'IRS has to follow letter of the law, just like we do'
Garth Kant
April 15, 2014

Obama's Brother Works With Texas Cult

[From article]
WND reported in May that funds contributed in the United States to the Barack H. Obama Foundation may have been diverted to support his multiple wives in Kenya.
Questioned about the distribution of funds, Malik positioned himself as a philanthropist.
“I am a peace activist and my organization is registered as a peace-making philanthropy in Kenya,” Malik said. “As head of the Obama clan, I do my part in spreading world peace and human development through the Barack H. Obama Foundation that we established in Kenya.”
WND reported in 2011 that Lois Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division who is under congressional investigation for discriminating against tea party and other conservative groups, signed the letter approving tax-exempt status for Malik’s foundation.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/obama-brother-works-with-koresh-style-cult-leader/

OBAMA BROTHER WORKS WITH 'KORESH-STYLE' CULT LEADER
Best man at president's wedding featured at Texas conference
Jerome R. Corsi
April 15, 2014

NYPD Disbands Muslim Surveillance Unit

http://nypost.com/2014/04/15/nypd-disbanding-muslim-spying-unit/

NYPD disbanding Muslim spying unit
By Jamie Schram and Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
April 15, 2014 | 6:05pm

Were Boston Police, FBI Negligent Investigating Marathon Bombers?

[From article]
And the owner of a restaurant where Mess was a regular and brought Tamerlan and another victim along with him a few times says police never interviewed him.
[. . .]
The FBI didn't find any derogatory information on Tsarnaev, and a criminal case was not opened.
[. . .]
Gerry Leone, the county prosecutor at the time of the killings, has declined to comment.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140415/NEWS/140417454

Could police have averted the Boston bombings?
It was a shocking slaying in a Boston suburb that sometimes goes years without one homicide, let alone three at once. The victims' throats had been sliced in a home on a tree-lined street, marijuana and cash strewn over their bodies.
By Denise Lavoie

Associated Press
Cambridge Chronicle

Posted Apr. 15, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
Updated at 5:47 PM

Justina Pelletier Still Held From Parents, By Massachusetts Bureaucrats

The following is adapted from the "About" section of A Miracle for Justina on Facebook:

**Justina's Story**

On February 10, 2013 Justina's doctors sent her to Boston Children"s Hospital to receive their prescribed treatment for symptoms of Mitochondrial Disease, which had evolved following a flu-like illness. Justina's GI specialist had transferred from Tufts to Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) and was expecting to admit her under his care,




Instead, a BCH neurologist intercepted the direct admission, asserting "Mitochondrial Disease does not exist", and supporting a young psychologist's premature diagnosis: "Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder", meaning it was psychosomatic or "all in her head."

When Justina's parents disagreed with the 'new' diagnosis and treatment plan presented to them on day 3 of Justina's hospital admission, the admitting physician ignored their concerns and asserted himself as the ultimate authority on Justina, The Pelletiers were instructed in writing that they could not be in contact with any of Justina's doctors, nor could they seek the medical care they trusted prior to coming to BCH.

On February 14, day 4, Justina's parents formally requested a transfer for their daughter- asserting their parental right to make medical decisions for their daughter, including discharge from BCH. Rather than acknowledge parental rights and demonstrate respect for parents dealing with their daughter's long standing medical problems, BCH petitioned for the Department of Children & Families (DCF) to seize custody of Justina, which was granted in court the next day.

Since February 15th, BCH has exerted control over all aspects of Justina's health care and her life-- BCH executed the traumatic separation of Justina from her family, friends and trusted doctors and continues to use coercion and force to treat Justina -- against her will.

Now in addition they have only let her family see her for an hour a week and only two people can visit her and they are supervised. There are only two twenty minute phone calls a week which are supervised as well. She has even had her rights taken away by not even allowing her to talk to any of her friends. She cannot speak out for what she wants and how she feels! To this point there has been no investigation by Mass DCF of her family. Now they have been threatening her and the family that she will never go home and will be put in foster care. Her health has gone downhill without her medical treatment and where she was skating before she is now not able to walk and in a wheelchair. She is scared and wants to come home!

Justina's supportive community is expanding to meet the daunting challenge of exposing the egregious human rights violations committed by world renowned BCH and their cohorts, the Department of Children and Families in MA. This costly battle is fueled by the love and commitment of Justina's family , friends and those who have been inspired to fight against this injustice through close connection to their story.

Only through exposure and accountability of BCH and DCF for the pain and suffering they have caused Justina and her family can we hope to secure protection of our own rights!!

Tax deductible donations to support Justina's parents' efforts to rescue her can be made at www.freejustina.com.

Also, PsychRights is selling #FreeJustina T-Shirts with the profits to go to the Free Justina nonprofit.
The Twitter hastag for the Free Justina effort is #FreeJustina.

Black Teen Gang Attacks Random Victims in Boston

[From article]
When the victim got up and tried to break away from his attackers, McNamara said, the assailants followed him as he crossed back and forth across Arch Street in search of a safe place to stop. He described the flow of attackers as “like a swarm. It actually enveloped me at one point.’’
“It was weird. They would follow him, this whole swarm,’’ McNamara said. “At one point, they just came up to me, but they were totally focused on this guy. I was right there, I could have touched him. [But] I didn’t like the odds at all. I was just standing there motionless.’’

http://mobile.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/04/10/boston-police-probe-series-unprovoked-attacks-downtown-involving-group-males-and-females/yJjIji3CfinyKw6syEXAVI/story.html

Boston police probe series of unprovoked attacks in downtown involving group of up to 20 males and females
By John R. Ellement
Boston Globe Staff
APRIL 10, 2014 2:00 PM

Media Denial, Misguided Journalism Misleads Public

[From article]
One member of a local news site said there is no difference in the level of violence among racial groups. But black mob violence gets more attention:
“The difference is the demographic involved in them and the disproportionate media coverage. Any given night you can see the same demographic beating the crap out of each other,” said a person identified only as Quacker Bearel. Anything else is just “white hysteria.”[

http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/black-mob-violence-at-carnivals-and-fairs/

Black mob violence at carnivals and fairs.
June 5, 2013
Colin Flaherty

Burning Out Teachers

[From article]
in Paterson, NJ, a first-grade teacher became the focus of a witch hunt for using a social network as a coping mechanism. While decompressing, she vented on her Facebook page, "I'm not a teacher -- I'm a warden for future criminals!" Despite her forewarning being statistically credible, the blatant disrespect to the PC gods resulted in her termination. Political correctness is another untaught skill that must be mastered by teachers who want to survive inner-city schools.
[. . .]
Coincidentally, these numbers are comparable to the incarceration rates between Blacks and Whites, but I digress. The Obama administration created the African-American Education Initiative, which illogically wants public schools to reduce disciplinary actions against Black students. Overall, disciplining Black students is really a slippery slope, especially if the teacher is White. Whenever a White teacher disciplines a black student, the unspoken burden of proof is on the White teacher to prove that he/she isn't racist.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/the_other_dropout_problem_in_urban_schools.html

September 23, 2013
The Other Dropout Problem in Urban Schools
By Taleeb Starkes

Violence Is Taught In Some Homes

[From article]
In 2012, the city of Omaha unfathomably accounted for nearly 80% of Nebraska's homicides. Over the years, that harrowing statistic has remained consistent, with most of the murders disproportionately occurring in north Omaha, which is primarily black.
[. . .]
When Omaha's police chief, Todd Schmaderer, was asked to speculate on why an overwhelming majority of Nebraska's homicides were clustered in north Omaha, he responded, "I don't see what purpose that serves." In other words, political correctness trumps public safety. The Grievance Industry would be proud of him.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/thuggin_101_thug_caregivers_teach_toddler_to_keep_it_real.html

January 11, 2014
Thuggin' 101: Thug Caregivers Teach Toddler To 'Keep It Real'
By Taleeb Starkes

Media, Politicians Focus on Selected Abuses

[From article]
Unlike Trayvon Martin's parents, no mainstream American publication will feature Chris Lane's parents and siblings on its cover with the caption "We Are Chris." Nor will any mainstream publication with a majority White readership use his death to launch a "Save our Sons" campaign, despite the statistical fact that more Whites are killed annually by Blacks than Blacks are killed by Whites. Opportunistic celebrities will not elevate Chris Lane to cultural icon status and the Smithsonian Institution will not consider incorporating any of his jogging apparel from the murder scene into its historic catalogue. Even Oklahoma's Stand Your Ground laws have escaped Florida-like scrutiny because Chris Lane never had a chance to stand his ground.
[. . .]
"Six teens were arrested Sunday after beating a man unconscious in a Cincinnati suburb - because they were bored and looking for something to do. Pat Mahaney, 45, of North College Hill, landed in the hospital after a vicious attack that left him with a black eye and severe internal injuries. He was hurt so badly that his stomach filled with blood that required a tube down his throat to drain."
[. . .]
America had better realize that this cavalier behavior isn't an anomaly. These sociopathic tendencies are religiously embraced by a criminal subculture within the Black community whose idea of recreation is to wreck-creation. Sadistic activities such as "Knock-out King," "Polar Bear Hunting," "Apple Picking" etc. are favorite pastimes in urban America. Unfortunately, the destructive tenets of this dysfunctional subculture have now manifested in Duncan, Oklahoma, where Blacks are a mere three-percent of its population.

http://www.americanthinker.com/article/2013/08/if_gw_bush_had_a_son_hed_look_like_christopher_lane.html

August 22, 2013
If G.W. Bush Had a Son, He'd Look Like Christopher Lane
By Taleeb Starkes

Race Mongers Need Racism For Their Income

[From article]
Even in Booker T. Washington's day, when claims of institutional racism had legitimacy, the "Grievance Gurus" exploitative mission was a reality. Washington recognized, "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
[. . .]
IJreview.com reported that in the 503 days between the Trayvon shooting and Zimmerman verdict, 10,865 Blacks were murdered by other Blacks. Even so, there were no hoodie marches, boycotts, or calls to repeal Stand Your Ground in any state because thousands of Black-on-Black homicides aren't as profitable as one White-on-Black homicide. Moreover, this harrowing statistic remains unmentioned by the Grievance Gurus because the shooters were Black. Inconvenient truths, such as these, reflect the race-based hypocrisy that's practiced in the Black community

http://www.americanthinker.com/article/2013/07/zimmerman_verdict_revives_grievance_guru_industry.html

July 23, 2013
Zimmerman Verdict Revives 'Grievance Guru' Industry
By Taleeb Starkes

Preventing Police From Preventing Crime

[From article]
Blacks commit nearly 80 percent of all shootings in New York, though they are 23 percent of the population, and blacks and Hispanics combined commit almost 98 percent of all shootings—while whites are responsible for about 2 percent of gun violence, though they are 34 percent of the city’s population.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0415hm.html

HEATHER MAC DONALD
De Blasio’s Policing Test
Will the mayor stand up for the NYPD—and public housing residents?
15 April 2014

IRS Suspected of Felony Violations

[From article]
WND reported that those small exempt organizations are directed by the IRS itself to file confidential tax information through the Urban Institute, whose chief is linked to the Center for American Progress, the source for many of Barack Obama’s ultra-progressive agenda items as president.
Cleta Mitchell, a top Washington attorney, told WND: “If true, this is a violation of federal law. And since most of the tea-party groups have annual revenues of [$50,000] or less, this would redirect their filings to a group whose mission is fundamentally at odds with tea-party organizations.”
Mitchell said federal law “strictly prohibits the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information to persons outside the IRS.”
“It is a felony to disseminate the information,” she said.
“Surely this cannot be happening. Surely,” said Mitchell. “This would be well more than a ‘smidgen’ of corruption.”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/lerner-emails-plotted-prosecuting-conservatives/

LERNER EMAILS PLOTTED PROSECUTING CONSERVATIVES
'Department of Justice is now implicated and conflicted in the IRS scandal'
Bob Unruh
April 16, 2014

Venezuelan Tribes' Lives Contradict Dominant Paradigm, Book Review

Book Review
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists, by Napoleon A. Chagnon

(Simon & Schuster, 544 pp., $32.50)

[From review]
Their language is unwritten and unrelated to any others spoken in South America, a testament to their long isolation. They didn’t even have a clear sense or delineation of individual words when Chagnon began working with them. He struggled to find symbols for sounds in the Yanomamo language that had no equivalent in English. Math was an issue, too. Chagnon was conducting a detailed study that included compiling extensive demographic data to understand how Yanomamo culture operated. But the Yanomamo have no numbers past two, and they don’t use calendars, so they have little idea how old they are, or how far in any unit of measure one village might be from another. Compiling a census of a single village was a time-consuming chore.
[. . .]
He determined that as many as 30 percent of all Yanomamo men died in violent confrontations, often over women. Abductions and raids were common, and Chagnon estimated that as many as 20 percent of women in some villages had been captured in attacks.
[. . .]
In a 1988 Science article, he estimated that 45 percent of living Yanomamo adult males had participated in the killing of at least one person. He then compared the reproductive success of these Yanomamo men to others who had never killed. The unokais—those who had participated in killings—produced three times as many children, on average, as the others. Chagnon suggested that this was because unokais, who earned a certain prestige in their society, were more successful at acquiring wives in the polygamous Yanomamo culture.
[. . .]
protestors attacked the eminent Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson when he rose to speak, knocking him down and dousing him with cold water. Critics, meanwhile, charged Chagnon with faking his data and branded him a racist.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/bc0413sm.html

STEVEN MALANGA
Welcome to the Jungle
Napoleon Chagnon’s study of human nature in the Amazon—and the academy
13 April 2014

CAIR Masquerades as Civil Rights Organization Censoring Speech

[From article]
CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood creation, conceived as the primo American public-relations firm for Islamic supremacists, particularly Hamas — a task CAIR pulls off by masquerading as a “civil rights” organization.
[. . .]
Hamas, as I recounted in The Grand Jihad, is a formally designated terrorist organization under federal law. It is also the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. In the early Nineties, the Brotherhood established a “Palestine Committee” to promote Hamas in the United States,

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/375098/cairs-jihad-against-honor-diaries-andrew-c-mccarthy

APRIL 5, 2014 4:00 AM
CAIR’s Jihad against Honor Diaries
The “civil rights” group hides Islam’s denial of civil rights to Muslim women.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

Liberal Economist Awarded $225 K at Public NY University

[From article]
So this publicly-funded university offered Paul Krugman $225k over nine months to essentially preside as a public face of its in-house institute that studies -- ahem -- income inequality. In exchange for the money, Krugman will provide his presence, play a "modest" role in CUNY public events, and "contribute to the build-up" of the initiative to combat -- ahem -- income inequality. Oh, and he'll host one solitary seminar. On top of his salary, the university will furnish the left-wing columnist and economist with $20,000 in fringe benefits, including travel expenses.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/04/16/income-inequality-institute-to-pay-infamous-class-warrior-25000-per-month-to-do-basically-nothing-n1825386?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Income Inequality Institute to Pay Infamous Class Warrior $25,000 per Month to Do Basically Nothing
Guy Benson

April 16, 2014

Misguided Elitist Liberal Politicians

[From article]
Parts of the public, not necessarily on the right, have caught on to Obama’s double game, in which his administration has been rhetorically egalitarian and operationally elitist. The economic winners of the Obama years have been, in Joel Kotkin’s terms, the “oligarchs of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.” The losers have come not only from the private-sector middle class, but also from heavily Democratic minority groups.
[. . .]
The other great liberal political success story has been the rise of public-sector unions, which fueled both Obama’s reelection and Bill de Blasio’s victory in New York City’s mayoral race. They are now a key component of the liberal coalition. The upshot of Obama’s policies is that he has, Chicago-style, fed the top-bottom alliance of crony capitalists and the social-service state—the government-worker providers and the recipients of aid. This has left the private-sector middle class out in the cold

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0411fs.html

FRED SIEGEL
A Glimpse into the Political Future
Jonathan Chait’s advance apologia for the Democrats’ defeat in November
11 April 2014

Squatters Evicted In Rome

[From article]
Rome city council said around 90 properties in the city are currently occupied by squatters. The number of evictions in the capital is on the rise as families struggle to pay rent amid record-high unemployment.
The council carried out 3,346 evictions in the first six months of 2013 -- a 10-percent increase from the first six months of 2012, according to the latest data.
A steady increase since 2008 "shows just how grave the impact of the economic crisis has been, dragging ever greater swaths of the population into the emergency housing phenomenon," a council official told AFP.
The squatters were a mix of Italians and immigrants, many of whom lost their jobs in the economic crisis.

http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-mass-eviction-rome-crisis-bites-161831141.html;_ylt=AwrSyCNGsE5T0HAADuzQtDMD

Clashes at mass eviction in Rome as crisis bites
 

By Ella IDE
April 16, 2014

Bacteria Thrive In Kitchens

[From article]
According to the World Health Organization, 75 percent of antibiotics sold are destined for use in animals.
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Ten of the 154 cutting boards taken from the hospital kitchen tested positive for a type of drug-resistant E. coli bacteria, compared to five of the 144 boards taken from homes, according to results published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
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Half of the used gloves from the hospital also tested positive for drug-resistant bacteria, indicating that gloves and cutting boards could be sources of bacteria transmission, the authors write.

http://news.yahoo.com/kitchens-could-sources-drug-resistant-bacteria-182928397.html;_ylt=AwrBEiKY0E5TMTwAt5zQtDMD

Kitchens could be sources of drug-resistant bacteria
Reuters
By Kathryn Doyle
April 16, 2014

Misguided Attacks On Condoleeza Rice

[From article]
When the University of Minnesota invited her to give a lecture Thursday as part of a series marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the herd of independent minds that is the school’s faculty roused itself.
Roughly 200 of them demanded that the invitation be revoked, mostly for her association with George W. Bush’s interrogation and detention policies, but also because she is unfit to be part of a civil-rights lecture series.
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The Minnesota professors say that it is in a “spirit of free expression” that they ask for the reversal of Rice’s invitation. Because nothing says free expression like shutting down someone’s lecture.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/condi-rice-stupid-hounding-105771.html?ml=m_t3_2h#.U0-xWt0--yN

The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice
By RICH LOWRY
Politico
April 16, 2014

Ukraine Orders Jews To Register, Pay Fee

[From article]
People's Republic of Donetsk, (the interim government) has decided that all citizens of Jewish descent, over 16 years of age and residing within the republic's territory are required to report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and register."
The leaflet detailed what type of documents the Jewish citizens would need to supply: "ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles."
If the message was not made clear enough, the leaflet further stipulated the consequences that would come to those who failed to abide by the new demands: "Evasion of registration will result in citizenship revoke and you will be forced outside the country with a confiscation of property."
To add insult to injury, the leaflet demanded the Jews pay a registration fee of $50.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510688,00.html

Donetsk leaflet: Jews must register or face deportation
Fear replaced communal atmosphere in Donetsk's Jewish community as armed men handed out a leaflet Passover eve calling on Jews register their religion and property with the interim pro-Russian government or face deportation and loss of citizenship.
Michal Margalit
Published: 04.16.14, 23:48

Three Questions Regarding Obama's Murky Past

[From article]
Meanwhile, we can all enjoy watching the formerly-mainstream media twist themselves into pretzels trying to ignore the big scam of a forged "birth certificate" of a U.S. president covering up a minor detail in this president's birth history which has already been revealed and which is now becoming widely known.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/were_ann_dunham_and_barack_obama_really_married.html

July 7, 2012
Were Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Really Married?
By Nick Chase

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[From article]
Or, was he a kindergartener preparing for college -- genius supreme that he incontrovertibly is?
Or not. Of course Soebarkah himself did not fold time and space; of course he is not a genius supreme. The genuine, non-conspiratorial explanation is much more mundane.
Soebarkah lived in Indonesia, then appeared in Hawaii for a very brief spell, then moved right back to Indonesia, and then back to Hawaii again.
We can confirm this by consulting Department of Education records.
Except we can't, of course, because by mere happenstance the Department of Education "has been unable to find his records."
Perhaps instead we could simply examine the 1965 passport of Stanley Ann Dunham? Nope; the State Department informs us that Dunham's passport materials were destroyed as a matter of routine.
Clearly, these sorts of thing often happen.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/barack_hussein_soebarkah_in_two_places_at_the_same_time.html

February 3, 2014
Barack Hussein Soebarkah: In Two Places at the Same Time?
By Jason Kissner

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[From article]
Let’s just give Obama the benefit of the doubt here. A mistake was made. Beyond question, there are, by now, probably thousands of people wandering around Hawaiian zip code 96814 who are possessed of Connecticut-routed SSN’s associated with Danbury’s 06814 zip code.
So just banish it from your mind, because there is more interesting ID related material to attend to.
But what about the “cross-indexing” of the name Bounel with Obama’s name, his home address, and his SSN -- all of which Snopes admits happened?
The above Snopes quote claims that “this type of error is common in [personal information] databases.”
They supply no data whatsoever in support of this claim, but, once again, never mind.
Clearly, questions about Obama’s identity have nothing to do with data and shouldn’t.
We already know the answers, and the answers are that everything’s A-OK.
And yet, there remain pesky questions such as “just how common is it for names to be mistakenly linked to other names, addresses, and SSN’s in “personal information databases”?

http://americanthinker.com/2014/04/_barack_hussein_obama_and_harrison_j_bounel.html

April 17, 2014
Barack Hussein Obama and Harrison J. Bounel
By Jason Kissner

Pro-Life Teen Called 'Domestic Terrorist'

Posted April 10, 2014 10:03 PM ET; Last Updated April 17, 2014 9:55 PM ET


[From article]
The one backing the professor, who has been charged with battery and vandalism, has more than 2,000 signatures, while the one in support of Short has 150, according to The College Fix.
“The last thing we need are these people invading our community,” UCSB sophomore Katherine Wehler, a theater and feminist studies major, told the site.
She said pro-lifers with graphic images of aborted fetuses such as Short and her sister carried are like “domestic terrorists.”
However, another petition making its way around the student body calls for Miller-Young’s termination.
“This is about someone who violated the law in several ways, disregarded the idea of freedom of speech, and tarnished the image of the UCSB,” it reads, before emphasizing that it is not a petition in support of the pro-life movement, but one advocating freedom of speech.
“They talk about prioritizing the safety of our campus involving activists, yet it’s our professor that attacks somebody,” UCSB student Katie Devlin told The College Fix. “I think it’s just the contrast that she is a feminist professor and stands for protecting women, yet she attacks a young girl.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/08/pro-life-teen-called-domestic-terrorist-in-petition-supporting-professor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Pro-life teen called 'domestic terrorist' in petition supporting professor of feminism
Published April 08, 2014

FoxNews.com

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[From article]
The word “feminist” sounds as though it concerns the well-being of all girls and women. Just the opposite is true. As defined by academia, “feminism” insults the beliefs and degrades the humanity and dignity of all girls and women. Miller-Young teaches pornography in a department that focuses on undergraduate and graduate degrees in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies. The values and aspirations of the majority of women are disrespected, while the aberrant is emphasized.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/04/the_four_idols_of_mireille_milleryoung.html

April 17, 2014
The Four Idols of Mireille Miller-Young
American Thinker
By Deborah C. Tyler

Options For Citizens Under Corrupt Government

[From article]
The U.S. Constitution – and Founders who designed it – assumed a modicum of integrity and commitment to the Constitutional Oath they insisted high officers swear. They assumed a degree of honor. The President and Attorney General take an Oath to uphold the Constitution in Article II, Section 1, the Majority Leader from Article VI, Section 3. Yet today, the very officials meant to check each other appear to be covering for each other.
So, what is the answer? The only answer is, for better and worse, found in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. House of Representatives can – with reluctance– commence impeachment proceedings against the U.S. Attorney General, pressuring the Senate to step forward.
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Probably, however, the only way “We the People” will restore accountability is at the ballot box. Thus, we must resolve to vote out this Senate leadership, and vote in a new U.S. Senate, one that cares about fidelity to law and the U.S. Constitution. This November, we will have that chance – and we must not forget.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/04/the_new_iron_triangle.html

April 17, 2014
The New Iron Triangle
American Thinker
By Robert Charles

Woman Rape Victim In Iran, Sentenced to Death

[From article]
In Iran, after spending seven years in prison, 26-year-old former interior designer Rayhaneh Jabbari is due to be hanged for defending herself against a rapist.
Rayhaneh stabbed Iranian physician Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi with a pocketknife, after she said he attempted to drug and rape her.
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Under Iran’s harsh judicial system, 500 people were executed in 2013 – a record that is slated to be broken in 2014. Jabbari is likely to be part of that record. “You must realize that the laws in Iran are medieval laws of retribution, revenge and punishment
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on behalf of the “war on women,” while Sandra Fluke was on Capitol Hill begging for free contraceptives, Iranian women defending themselves against rape were being found guilty of a crime. And while Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) was accusing Republicans of allowing women to “die on the floor” for lack of Obamacare abortion funding, in Iran, for their gender alone, Iranian rape victims were being sentenced to death, raped again, and swiftly hanged.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/iran_to_execute_woman_for_fending_off_a_rapist.html

April 17, 2014
Iran to Execute Woman for Fending Off a Rapist
American Thinker
Jeannie DeAngelis

Fire At Cambridge Residential Building Displaces 100 Persons

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/04/cambridge_apartment_complex_ravaged_by_blaze

Cambridge apartment complex ravaged by blaze
Thursday, April 17, 2014
By: Antonio Planas, Mark Garfinkel
Boston Herald

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http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140417/NEWS/140416704

Minor injuries reported after 6-alarm blaze in Cambridge apartment building
By WCVB
Posted Apr. 17, 2014 @ 8:14 am
Updated at 8:56 AM

Psychiatry Blamed For Misguided Expression By Boston Artist

[From article]
her plight is an important reminder of one of our biggest social problems.
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Mental illness can claim any of us, and even those who avoid it suffer its costs. Think of how often the crimes that horrify us the most, or the homelessness and drug abuse that appall us, involve untreated or mistreated mental illness.
we seem so intent on ignoring the problem.

Boston's most rational political reporter lost his skepticism exhibiting obedience to the misguided psychiatric industry. 90 years of propaganda fools a lot of people. A mother reveals her son's medical records. Keller repeats this because? Who needs psychiatrists? They make up illnesses by consensus, while masquerading as scientists and doctors. These charlatans treat constitutionally protected speech and behavior, and medicalize human emotions. Au contraire Mr. Keller, we do not ignore the problem. We fund it with taxpayer money to make psychiatrists and human services corporations rich. See e.g., Justina Pelletier. MA State Rep. Marie Parente called it the Human Services Industrial Complex.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/17/keller-large-mental-illness-too-big-to-ignore/

Jon Keller
Keller @ Large: Mental Illness Too Big To Ignore
April 17, 2014 8:00 AM

CBS News Boston MA

Weapons That Changed The World

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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/08/15/12-Weapons-That-Changed-Everything

12 Weapons That Changed Everything
JOSH HERR
The Fiscal Times
August 15, 2013

College Student Leaps From Building After Eating Marijuana Cookie

[From article]
Pongi, a native of the Republic of Congo, jumped from the 4th floor of a motel balcony on March 11.
The coroner ruled marijuana intoxication as a significant contributing factor to his death.
Pongi ate six servings of a marijuana edible cookie manufactured by Sweet Grass Kitchen.
His friends were interviewed by police and said as far as they knew Pongi had never tried marijuana before the night he died.
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Before the end of the night his friends said Pongi began to act strangely and paranoid and then began to destroy things in their hotel room.
One friend told police he “tried to grab Levi because Levi was getting ‘crazy’ destroying lamps and TV. Levi ran out of the room and jumped off the balcony.”

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/college-student-ate-6-times-recommended-amount-of-pot-cookie-before-jumping-to-death/

CBS News Denver CO
College Student Ate 6 Times Recommended Amount Of Pot Cookie Before Jumping To Death
April 16, 2014 9:59 PM

Boston Implements Total Surveillance of Entire City

[From article]
Though BRS Labs states it’s ”concerned about the privacy rights of individuals everywhere,” its easy to imagine the potential for abuse such systems could create, especially following the year-long leaks of highly classified bulk surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency.
Such programs were also justified and staunchly defended in the name of national security and born out of terrorist attacks like the Boston Bombing. Furthermore numerous government officials, congressional representatives, national security experts and even the White House have alleged and admitted such surveillance has done little to nothing to prevent potential terrorist incidents.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/17/creepy-autonomous-surveillance-network-watches-all-of-boston/

Creepy autonomous AI CCTV surveillance network watches all of Boston
2:11 PM 04/17/2014

Daily Caller