Monday, July 31, 2017

In the news, Thursday, July 20, 2017


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JUL 19      INDEX      JUL 21
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Celebrity Extremist Bill Nye: Just Wait for ‘Climate' 'Clowns' to ‘Die’ Off
Celebrity climate extremist Bill Nye thinks the solution to dealing with “climate deniers” might be to just wait for them to “die” out. Talking to the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, he mocked “people who are afraid in general” as older and added, “Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It’s generational. So we’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say.”

No, Algebra Isn't a 'Civil Rights Issue,' and Kids Aren't That Stupid
In the latest effort to dumb down society to the point where our brains can't function at all, one community college chancellor is now suggesting high schools and colleges nix algebra classes because they’re too hard. As a segue to their interview with California community college chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, NPR claims that “passing college algebra is a major barrier to graduation" for many students.

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from The Daily Caller
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Sen Rand Paul Slams Asset Forfeiture As ‘Unconstitutional’
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted out Thursday morning criticizing Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to revive the federal civil asset forfeiture program, calling it “unconstitutional.”

Al Gore Explains Why He Keeps Comparing Global Warming Activism To Freeing The Slaves
Former Vice President Al Gore explained why he routinely compares the fight against global warming to the civil rights, anti-apartheid and abolitionist movements during a live SiriusXM radio town hall Thursday.


from Freedom Daily
from Gateway Pundit

MUELLER CROSSES RED LINE: Special Counsel Investigating POTUS Business Dealings
Special counsel Robert Mueller just crossed President Trump’s red line, expanding his investigation to include transactions by the Trump Organization. As the President warned in a New York Times interview yesterday, Mueller might be making a fatal mistake in probing the Trump family’s finances.

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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Vice President Pence’s Trip: An Opportunity to Advance U.S. Leadership in Europe
Vice President’s trip to Estonia, Georgia, and Montenegro is the perfect follow-up to President Trump’s visit to Poland for the Three Seas conference. While each country faces threats from Russia, each also presents unique challenges, which demand robust attention. Vice President Pence should underscore U.S. commitment to NATO, Baltic security, and U.S. engagement in the Balkans and the Black Sea region.

Senate Health Care Bill Could Be Greatest Entitlement Reform in a Generation
Obamacare created higher payment for a new class of beneficiaries: able-bodied recipients. For them, federal taxpayers fund 95 percent of health care costs. Medicaid is an open-ended entitlement, meaning that if a state spends more, for whatever reason, bigger federal payments to the state are automatically increased. The Senate bill adopts a cap that would slow the growth of federal Medicaid payment over time and accounts for the wide differences among individuals in Medicaid.

This Conservative Budget Proposal Is a Real Solution to America’s Debt Situation
The Republican Study Committee's SAFE proposal would balance the budget in less than 10 years. The budget builds on President Trump’s proposal, making defense spending a top priority and fully paying for it by redefining the role of the federal bureaucracy. The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal path, and without immediate action from Congress it will continue to move closer to the brink of fiscal disaster.

Paid Family Leave: Avoiding a New National Entitlement
President Trump has proposed a federal paid family leave (PFL) law. This law would create a new national entitlement that would almost certainly inflate over time. A federal PFL law could minimize or dismantle existing private and state PFL provisions, and could cost federal taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars per year. To support families’ access to PFL, the federal government can reduce marginal taxes, encourage flexible work arrangements, and cut costly business regulations.

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from New York Times

President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List
We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

"I’m an anarchist. But when you actually look at what anarchism stands for...it’s almost boring."
Humans of FreedomFest, Part 2: Portraits from the largest annual gathering of libertarians

'I Teach How to Think, Not What to Think'
Humans of FreedomFest, Part 3: Portraits from the world's largest annual gathering of libertarians.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

White House Admits Defeat in Syria
President Trump's announcement this week to end the CIA's covert arming of militants in Syria is an admission of defeat. The US has lost its six-year war for regime change in the Arab country. It's time to wrap it up. It's not over yet, of course. It remains to be seen if Trump's decision can in fact be implemented. Can the CIA be reined in to obey orders? Will the US be able to stop regional client regimes, like Saudi Arabia, from stepping up their covert supply of American weapons to the militants in Syria?

A Welcome Step: Trump Ends Disastrous CIA Support for Syrian Islamist Rebels
US President Donald Trump's decision to stop arming Syrian rebels is a step in the right direction, but it's too soon to tell if Trump will be able to help bring peace to Syria given the opposition of US Senators to any kind of compromise with Russia.

How Kiev's Pursuit of Western Money is 'Adding Fuel' to Donbass War
Kiev is adding fuel to the fire of the Donbass conflict in a bid to get further aid from the West, a political analyst told Sputnik commenting on the latest events in the war in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region.

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from 100 Percent FED Up
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

NEW YORK TIMES REFUSES To Publish Op-Ed By Lifetime Democrat, Top Legal Scholar Alan Dershowitz Because It Defended Innocence Of President Trump
Alan Dershowitz has been a regular contributor to #FakeNews New York Times for decades. This time however, the New York Times, the publication that used to be the “gold standard” in journalism, has drawn the line, as the liberal Harvard law professor’s op-ed doesn’t jive with their relentless character assassination of our sitting president.

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