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Life after Janus [compulsory union dues cast, USSC]
Post Date: 2018-05-02 10:02:22 by Tooconservative
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Government unions dodged a bullet in 2016 when an eight-member Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case that would have ended the right of labor groups to collect fees from workers who don’t want to be members. In late February 2018, with Justice Neil Gorsuch replacing the late Antonin Scalia, who died before the Court rendered the 2016 decision, the justices heard a new challenge to the compulsory fees in Janus v. AFSCME. Though the Court isn’t likely to render a decision on the case until late spring, worried labor leaders, anticipating that the ruling will go against them, are scrambling to prepare for the worst: a world in which they can no longer forcibly dun workers. ...
Smut Night at the Press Dinner
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:29:00 by Deckard
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Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who “speak truth to power,” has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps. Comedian Michelle Wolf, the guest speaker, recited one filthy joke after another at the expense of President Trump and his people, using words that would have gotten her kicked out of school not so long ago. Media critic Howard Kurtz said he had “never seen a performance like that,” adding that Wolf “was not only nasty but dropping F-bombs on live television.” Some of her stuff was grungier than that. The anti-Trump ...
"History lesson" from Mahmoud Abbas: You'll never guess who backed the creation of Israel
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:24:59 by Tooconservative
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Judenfrei today, Judenfrei tomorrow, Judenrein forever! As Philip Klein points out, it’s a good thing that this “history lesson” comes from the Left’s favorite Palestinian moderate. Lord knows how this would have unfolded with a less rational personage than Mahmoud “Abu Mazen” Abbas. The Palestinian leader opened the first Palestinian National Council in 22 years yesterday, hoping to firm up his credibility enough to establish his preferred line of succession as well as unite Palestinians under his leadership. And what better way to accomplish this than some unadulterated and absolutely bat-s*** crazy anti-Semitic conspiracy theories? In a long and ...
Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:23:27 by Deckard
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By John W. Whitehead April 30, 2018 “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much ...
Teen defends Chinese prom dress that sparked cultural appropriation debate: 'I would wear it again'
Post Date: 2018-05-02 08:24:22 by Deckard
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One Utah teenager's prom dress has sparked a heated debate on the controversial issue of cultural appropriation. Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old senior at Woods Cross High School, Utah, received backlash after she posted photos of her dressed in a red qipao, a traditional Chinese dress, on prom night. After she posted them online, many on Twitter were quick to criticize her choice of wardrobe, accusing her of appropriating the Chinese culture, given she is not of Chinese descent. One of the first criticisms came from a Chinese American student who shared Daum’s post on Twitter with the caption “My culture is NOT your g------ prom dress,” pointing out the origins of qipao ...
Dad in America Told His Son Had To Die Like Alfie—But He Resisted With Guns and His Son LIVED
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:29:01 by Deckard
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As the tragic story of baby Alfie begins fading from headlines, it is important to point out what allowed this situation to unfold like it did. Guns. Before throwing your arms in the air and screaming out, “how the hell does this child’s death have anything to do with guns?” consider the following truth: The majority of the United Kingdom is unarmed, leaving most guns in the hands of criminals and government. When only government has guns, they can make decisions—like kidnapping a baby and starving him to death—without fear of recourse from the citizens, or even the family. Officials in the UK sentenced baby Alfie to death this year when they denied his parents the ...
Police Cadets Quit, Expose Departmant for Training Cops to View Public as ‘Cockroaches’ They’re at War With
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:23:12 by Deckard
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Nearly a dozen police recruits quit their training program and are now calling out the department for trying to teach them aggressive tactics that do not serve or protect the public. It takes at least four years of college for an enlisted person in the military to become a military “officer,” which is quite a contrast from the mere nine months it takes for a police officer to earn the title. But according to a group of 10 former Austin Police Department recruits who wanted to become peace officers, just like the military, the Austin PD is training “warriors” instead of “guardians.” The former recruits are now blowing the whistle and claiming that the type ...
Why the NRA, Olympic shooter are suing California over Prop. 63 limits on ammo purchases
Post Date: 2018-05-01 23:19:48 by tpaine
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Why the NRA, Olympic shooter are suing California over Prop. 63 limits on ammo purchases By Luis Gomez Xavier Becerra National Rifle Association of America Parkland The NRA and an Olympic medal-winning shooter are taking California to federal court over a voter-approved measure that sets tight restrictions on purchases of ammunition, which the pro-gun group says violate the Second Amendment. The complaint, filed by the NRA on behalf of Kim Rhode and other plaintiffs on Thursday, comes against the backdrop of a national debate over gun control following the deadly mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school in February. This also marks the fourth lawsuit the NRA has brought up ...
Jerry Brown: Mike Pence Bigger ‘Problem’ than Migrant Caravan
Post Date: 2018-05-01 22:26:39 by buckeroo
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California Governor Jerry Brown (D) said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants in the migrant caravan who are seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I think Pence is a problem for the whole country,” Brown snapped when asked if he wanted to comment about Pence’s remarks about the migrant caravan. Brown made his comments while announcing that California and 17 other states were suing the Trump administration over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to roll back vehicle emissions standards.On Monday, Pence visited the border and said migrants in the caravan were victims being exploited by open-borders ...
65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math
Post Date: 2018-05-01 12:20:31 by misterwhite
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(CNSNews.com) - Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education. The results are far worse for students enrolled in some urban districts. Among the 27 large urban districts for which the Department of Education published 2017 NAEP test scores, the Detroit public schools had the lowest percentage of students who scored proficient or better in math and the lowest percentage who scored proficient or better in reading. Only 5 percent of Detroit ...
Device Detects Drug Use Through Fingerprints, Raising A Host Of Constitutional Questions
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:43:20 by Deckard
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from the defendant-has-indicated-gov't-will-receive-'two-fingers-while-he's-s dept If this tech becomes a routine part of law enforcement loadouts, judicial Fourth and Fifth Amendment findings are going to be upended. Or, at least, they should be. I guess citizens will just have to see how this all shakes out. A raft of sensitive new fingerprint-analysis techniques is proving to be a potentially powerful, and in some cases worrying, new avenue for extracting intimate personal information—including what drugs a person has used. [...] The new methods use biometrics to analyze biochemical traces in sweat found along the ridges of a fingerprint. And those trace ...
Appeals Court: Driving Attentively While Black Isn't Probable Cause For A Traffic Stop
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:41:07 by Deckard
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from the ends-still-not-a-justification-for-the-means dept The courts have allowed police officers to engage in pretextual traffic stops. Minor moving violations -- including some that aren't actually moving violations -- have been used to engage in fishing expeditions for drugs, cash, or evidence of some other criminal activity. The Supreme Court dialed this back a bit with its Rodriguez decision, allowing pretextual stops but forcing them to end once the stop's objective is complete. When an officer hands out a citation or warning, the person is free to go, no matter how much the officer may want to ask more questions or run a drug dog around the vehicle. This hasn't ...
What Leftists Stand For
Post Date: 2018-05-01 09:52:23 by Tooconservative
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Historically, both sides of the political spectrum in America have supported the rule of law and the Constitution. Additionally, other than the Democrats' longstanding racist oppression of black people, the positions held by both sides were generally differences that people of goodwill could hold. For example, good people can disagree on just what the tax rates should be. Since Roe v. Wade, that has changed, and the change has accelerated rapidly in the last eight years. The left in America has openly embraced evil, rejected the rule of law, and denied that Americans they disagree with have constitutional rights. That's why 2016 was a Flight 93 ...
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Says Slaughtering Kids in Yemen is Worth It Because It Creates Jobs
Post Date: 2018-05-01 06:04:39 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist The current conflict in Yemen, which was manufactured as a proxy war by Saudi Arabia, targeting its bitter enemy, Iran, is America’s dirty little secret which the media refuses to question. According to an analysis from Unicef, more than 5,000 children have been slaughtered in the war, with the death toll from violence alone surpassing 10,000—as millions teeter on the brink of starvation. The number of casualties has only continued to increase, as a report from the United Nations noted that the parties involved are conducting operations “heedless of their impact on civilians.” ...
Saudi prince: Maybe the Palestinians should've taken the deals they were offered [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-01 02:51:50 by Tooconservative
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Or maybe they should stop sucking up to Iran. That’s the real subtext of the surprising rhetoric coming from Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince of Saudi Arabia who’s rewriting the Middle East script after seizing power in a family feud last year. Barak Ravid reports for Axios that MBS, as he’s colloquially known, told representatives of Jewish groups last month that while Saudi Arabia still wants a just and lasting settlement for the Palestinians, they could have gotten that themselves. Now, MBS says, it’s time to make a deal or “shut up and stop complaining”: According to my sources, the Saudi Crown Prince told the Jewish leaders: “In the last ...
Trump weekly approval rating reaches 11 month high
Post Date: 2018-04-30 22:33:01 by buckeroo
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President Trump's weekly approval rating has hit an 11 month high, according to data compiled by Gallup on Monday. Forty-two percent of Americans said they approved of the job Trump was doing at the end of the week of April 29. Trump's approval rating was 38 percent the week before. The rating is the highest weekly rating for the president since May 7, 2017, when his approval rating also hit 42 percent. The poll came on the heels of an eventful week for the president. Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discussed the future of the U.S. in the Iran nuclear deal. He hinted last week he could end up pulling the U.S. from the ...
Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation over 'con job' tweet [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-30 15:31:33 by IbJensen
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Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Donald Trump for a tweet that said a forensic sketch of a man who allegedly threatened her in 2011 was "a total con job." Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and was warned by an unidentified man to keep quiet about it five years later, after she gave an interview to a gossip magazine. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan centers on an April 18 post on Trump's Twitter account in which he reacts to another person's tweet about the sketch. "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man," Trump's ...
Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies – Here's the Proof
Post Date: 2018-04-30 15:21:25 by IbJensen
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Trump: Netanyahu's speech on Iran deal proves that I was 100% right on Iran deal Netanyahu is 'famous for ridiculous shows,' Iran says, mocking 'propaganda' speech The Mossad ran a fake diving resort for tourists in Sudan. This is the incredible story behind it With Iran nuke deal hanging by a thread, Israel feels Syria's skies are open Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a cache of documents he says proves Iran lied to the world about its nuclear program for years, even after the 2015 nuclear deal with the world. "Iran did not come clean about its nuclear program," Netanyahu said in a prime time address in English. Iran, for its part, blased the ...
Teen was driving 106 mph when she crashed, killed best friend, prosecutors say
Post Date: 2018-04-30 13:43:56 by misterwhite
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Only Channel 2 Action News was in court Wednesday when a teenager learned she faces a felony vehicular homicide in the death of her best friend. Cristina Pavon-Baker, 17, crashed on Interstate 75 in Morrow during Senior Skip Day. The wreck killed Mikayla Penn, 18. Pavon-Baker's attorney asked the judge Wednesday not to take her passport since she had a cruise scheduled next month. That upset the victim's family and the district attorney. “She doesn't need to be on a cruise enjoying herself,” Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson told the court. Channel 2’s Tom Jones said Lawson was clearly irritated when Pavon-Baker’s ...
Slow Death of the Train to Nowhere
Post Date: 2018-04-30 13:14:33 by Hank Rearden
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Mounting problems may end high-speed-rail projects in California and Texas. A decade ago, high-speed rail was the new, new thing. In 2008, California voters narrowly approved initial bonds for a train that was supposed to go 220 miles an hour and deliver passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours and 40 minutes. The next year, the Obama administration’s stimulus bill allocated money for it and several other high-speed lines. But soon the push for trains slowed to a crawl, and now it appears to be on life support. In 2011, the new GOP governors of Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin turned down federal money for trains. Wisconsin’s Scott Walker told me: “Washington ...
Almost 2/3 Of Americans Have Given Up On Political Parties Citing Corruption In Government
Post Date: 2018-04-30 12:42:55 by Deckard
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Disillusioned by the promises of politicians and convinced that the entire political system is irreparably corrupt, many Americans will be staying out of the voting booth for the 2018 elections. This isn’t new, however, as many refused to vote in 2016 as well. Although that number may seem high, in 2016, faced with the prospect of having to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 46.9% of eligible voters didn’t even vote in the presidential election. Most of those who no longer vote have given up on the “lesser of two evils” fallacy and the irrational belief that somehow the government has our best interests in mind. Respondents of the told poll ...
China is mining data from workers’ brains to spot depressed employees
Post Date: 2018-04-30 11:48:49 by Willie Green
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China is mining data directly from workers' brains using mind-reading hats to spot emotional and depressed employeesChina is monitoring the brain activity of employees in its factories and militaryThe technology works by placing wireless sensors in workers' hats or capsWhen combined with AI, the gadgets can spot workplace rage and anxietyEmployers use this 'emotional surveillance technology' to boost productivity and profits by tweaking workflowsChina is monitoring the brain activity of employees in its factories, state-owned enterprises and military on an 'industrial scale'.The technology works by placing wireless sensors in workers' hats or caps that when ...
Man Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison After Flipping Off a Red Light Camera
Post Date: 2018-04-30 08:57:15 by Deckard
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Last Monday, the North Yorkshire Police department took to Twitter to harass and intimidate otherwise entirely innocent people by bragging about a man going to jail who had been caught on one of their traffic cameras flipping it off. “Top tip: If you want to stay out of trouble, don’t do what this driver did and swear at our mobile safety cameras while driving past in a car fitted with a laser jammer. Today he’s beginning 8 months in jail for perverting the course of justice,” tweeted the department. According to the police department, “perverting the course of justice” has nothing to do with kidnapping and caging a man who has caused harm to no one and ...
Good Drivers are Creating a Budget Shortfall, Proving Gov’t Needs You to Break the Law to Fund Itself
Post Date: 2018-04-30 08:44:39 by Deckard
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The state of California is finding that the business model of relying on drivers to break the law in order to fund the state budget, fails miserably when drivers fail to break the law and cannot be slapped with exorbitant fees and fines. California’s state budget currently relies on more than $450 million from penalties and fees collected from drivers who have been charged with both criminal and traffic violations. However, while trusting drivers to break the law at a rate that would sustain the state’s massive budget worked for a while, the strategy is now causing the state to go bankrupt. A summary from the California State Auditor, as reported by Courthouse News, revealed that ...
Military Industrial Complex Stocks Sent Crashing as North and South Korea Achieve Peace
Post Date: 2018-04-30 08:31:40 by Deckard
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North and South Korea reached a historic peace deal this week, and as the leaders from the two nations met in person for the first time and agreed to pursue an end to the Korean War, it signaled an incredible breakthrough in diplomacy and sent the stocks of defense contractors in the United States crashing. When North Korea’s Kim Jong-un shook hands with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in for the first time on Friday, they put thousands of people both at home and around the world at ease, as they agreed to a peace deal that has the power to break the tension that has been between the two countries for decades. However, while peace may seem like the best possible outcome to the average ...
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