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The Patriot Post's Jordan Candler writes:
The judicial system is obviously profoundly important — and also extremely susceptible. It’s under constant siege by those who abhor the Rule of Law, which is why Thomas Jefferson in 1819 wrote, “The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
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By Randy Rossi -
One of the critical foundations of civilization for thousands of years was the intact family unit with a mother and father raising their children. Both were needed to serve as role models for children and society reinforced and supported the intact family unit putting pressure on men and women to be married when they had children and to dedicate their lives to raising their children to insure that they became good citizens. Sadly today, many children are being raised without their fathers which is causing horrific pain to those children and society.
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Forbes dug into the details—examining financial disclosure statements, scouring local real estate records and calculating pension benefits—to figure out the finances of the 2020 candidates.
There were some surprises. Bernie is a millionaire. So is “middle-class Joe” Biden. Elizabeth Warren is richer than both of them, worth an estimated $12 million. But she’s a long way from John Delaney, whose $200 million fortune makes him twice as wealthy as every other Democratic candidate not named Tom Steyer. The hedge fund tycoon, who announced his candidacy in July 2019, is worth an estimated $1.6 billion.
The average net worth of the Democrat candidates is $12.9 million. The median net worth is $2 million.
More HERE
From 1960 to 1973, the U.S. economy grew by an average of 4.3 percent per year with a government share of 30 percent of GDP.
Long after today’s hot-button political controversies fade into obscurity, our country will face the consequences of how we answer a major question that divides the political parties: Are we to have a larger government providing more services from higher taxes, or a smaller government providing less services with fewer taxes?
Currently, the movement to expand government, inaccurately self-described as socialism, promotes a platform of government medicine, free college, generous welfare, strict regulation, and high taxes readily recognizable in Europe as social democratic policies.
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The goal of the Trump regulatory agenda is “to reduce costly regulation, while protecting workers, public health, safety, and the environment,” the report states.
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the burden on the U.S. economy from unnecessary federal regulations have met with success, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) reports.
The report analyzes 20 major deregulatory actions it says will save U.S. consumers and businesses about $220 billion per year after they go into full effect. These reforms will raise real incomes by $3,100 per household per year and increase U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 1.0 to 2.2 percent in the next decade, the CEA estimates.
The CEA issued an interim report on “The Economic Effects of Federal Deregulation since January 2017” on June 28.
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For decades now, Green Parties in Scandinavia and Western Europe have argued that, although capitalism lifts people out of poverty, it should be replaced with socialism, which they claim is more likely to protect the environment.
Convincing evidence that this is a huge mistake is provided by Dr. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, in his book Is Capitalism Bad For The Environment? He gives irrefutable examples:
Wouldn’t you think if someone had a problem with dodgeball being too rough for some kids, they would just say so? Talk it out. Let students have a say. Maybe offer alternative activities. Or maybe save dodgeball for young adults who want to show off their athletic prowess and let the little kids try, say, kickball.
Unfortunately, as happens all too often in academe, a team of cosmic thinkers in British Columbia reached far into the ether of political correctness to slam dodgeball as a “tool of oppression.” More than that, they wailed that the playground game activates not just one but the “five faces of oppression” (conjured by an icon of feminist political theory, the late Iris Marion Young): exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.
Does a game that entails throwing, dodging, or catching soft rubber balls deserve this much PC vitriol? Granted, if you are agility-challenged (as was I), you might have difficulty dodging a swift throw. However, if you are smarter than the average bear, you could stand your ground and learn how to catch the ball and thus put the smarty-pants flamethrower out of the game.
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CHICAGO — A convicted felon has been charged with a federal firearm violation for allegedly illegally possessing a semi-automatic rifle at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, the Northern Illinois FBI reports.
BERNARD HARVEY, JR., 40, of Indianapolis, Ind., is charged with one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Harvey illegally possessed the rifle on Aug. 12, 2019, at the medical center, 820 S. Damen Ave. in Chicago, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Harvey is scheduled to make an initial court appearance at 2:00 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox.
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El Paso WalMart killer
By Nancy Thorner and Al Boese -
Liberals could hardly contain their glee where there were two massacres over the first weekend of August, 2019, the first in El Paso, Texas, the second in Dayton, Ohio. For those vying for the presidential nomination, it was as if Christmas had arrived twice in August.
If you were watching cable news, you would have thought that nothing else had occurred anywhere else in the world for 48 hours. But unlike the shootings in Texas and Ohio, this was just a typical weekend in our Inner-cities, where in Chicago 53 people were shot over that same weekend, and 10 of them were killed. But, of course, all those people were only murdered with handguns, not with an AK-47, the favorite scapegoat of Leftists.
Posted on AFGE union's website
NEW YORK - There are just too many unanswered questions, bizarre coincidences and uncomfortable connections for Americans to swallow the story that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), polls say.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 29% of American Adults believe Epstein actually committed suicide while in jail. Forty-two percent (42%) think Epstein was murdered to prevent him from testifying against powerful people with whom he associated. A sizable 29% are undecided.
Wednesday, another question popped up as webbers found that the union representing the correctional officers at New York's MCC endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016. Documents reportedly show that Bill Clinton was acquainted with Epstein, and some say he visited Epstein's so-called "Orgy Island" on several occasions.
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WASHINGTON DC - The news site Project Veritas released an explosive video Wednesday morning featuring the Google employee that revealed how Google had been manipulating its worldwide platform against conservatives.
The eight-year Google senior software engineer, Zachary Vorhies, stepped out of the shadows because his lawyers suggested Google's reaction would be serious. "This is your first step to having your life ruined ..." Vorhies' lawyers told him.
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Socialism is inseparable from tyranny, and even if it were to work economically it would still be evil by nature, according to Justin Haskins with the Stopping Socialism Project at the Heartland Institute.
Haskins is the author of “Socialism Is Evil,” and as the book’s name suggests, he explains the moral problems that socialism unavoidably brings to a society. By its nature, he explained, socialism tramples on individual beliefs and values.
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It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians. After all, our federal government has accumulated a mindboggling $22 trillion debt and American students have borrowed more than $1.6 trillion just to attend college. In 2017, only 34 percent of eighth-grade students scored “proficient” in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. Even worse, the average American adult scored an abysmal 253 points out of a possible 500 on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2012 Survey of Adult Skills.
Continue reading "Do the Math: Vaping < Harmful Than Smoking" »
At a time when most U.S. citizens have benefited from the Trump tax cuts, the American Federation of Teachers joined up with a motley assemblage of leftwing organizations over the summer on what was billed as the “Tax the Rich Bus Tour.” The road show, which lasted 35 days and ended just last week, was replete with the usual tropes – including demands that “the rich and corporations pay their fair share” and other socialist-inspired class warfare twaddle.
What the unionistas don’t get or refuse to acknowledge is that the rich already pay their “fair share” and then some. According to the Tax Foundation, while the top 1 percent of taxpayers earned 19.7 percent of the income in 2016, they paid 37.3 percent of federal income taxes. Also, the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 26.9 percent individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.7 percent).
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WHEATON - A dispute arose last week over website URL's in the 6th CD GOP primary, and Monday the plot thickened. First, Republican candidate Jeanne Ives posted accusations on her Facebook page that her primary opponent Evelyn Sanguinetti's campaign had pulled a URL switch.
Evelyn Sanguinetti told Illinois Review her campaign wasn't guilty of Ives' accusation:
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COLORADO - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was spotted working out at the federal prison from which he's hoping to be released soon - and Reuters posted the video online. The video shows the governor fairly buff and with lots of his trademark hair - except it is silver, not dark brown as it was seven years ago.
The Blagojevich's have been trying every possible way to persuade President Trump to commute his 14 year prison for conspiring to commit fraud on the public when he discussed a plan to get money from potentials to replace former U.S. Senator Barack Obama when he was elected US president in 2008.
The IL GOP Chairman expressed outrage that the fallen governor's sentence could be shortened.
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CHICAGO - How a person has sex will now be a factor in whether Illinois public schools' history curriculum will cover him/her/it starting next year. Now Illinois students will know about Alexander the Great, Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci's supposed sexual preferences as a part of their importance to the world's history.
Governor JB Pritzker signed HB 246 into law last Friday. The bill's synopsis says the measure requires public schools to buy with taxpayer dollars only those textbooks that include non-discriminatory reviews of contributions made by persons protected in the Illinois Human Rights Act. The new policy is drawing national attention.
State Rep. Anna Moeller, D-Elgin, who introduced the bill in the Illinois House said Pritzker's actions made last Friday "an important and historic day for fairness and compassion in Illinois."
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WASHINGTON DC - Monday, President Trump announced reinforcing a rule first passed by Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996 that would keep non-citizens from receiving public welfare benefits.
In an announcement posted on the White House website the Administration says the requirement has been ignored for "many years," placing a burden on American taxpayers.
"To protect benefits for American citizens, immigrants must be financially self-sufficient," President Trump said.
The Trump policy will do as follows:
It was December 24, 2018. While other families were excitedly making final preparations for Christmas celebrations, one family had much sadder plans.
Even though it was Christmas Eve, a mom and dad escorted their minor daughter to the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Aurora, Illinois.
Once the girl was taken behind closed doors inside the clinic, the parents were left behind in the waiting room and in the dark about what was happening with their daughter.
That’s when the drama began.
According to 911 records provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, a Planned Parenthood worker phoned 911 to request an ambulance for the girl, who was expressing “suicidal tendencies.” Planned Parenthood wanted the girl transported to a hospital.
The redacted recording of the 911 call revealed something that is every parent’s nightmare.
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By Nancy Thorner -
We are all familiar with the three Congress members known as "The "Squad" that wish to change America into a Third World Socialist/Communist country. Recently I found out about a fourth Squad member, Ayanna Pressley, born in 1974, who has a Chicago connection. Her mother was a tenants’ rights advocate with the Urban League, so Ayanna comes by her Democratic Socialism naturally. Why do we not hear about Ayanna Pressley? Why are Alexandria Ocasio Cortex, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib getting all of the attention?
Ayanna Pressley worked as a senior aide for Democrat Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, and then as political director for Senator John Kerry. She is a member of the National Women’s Political Caucus founded by Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Eleanor Smeal, and Gloria Steinem. Pressley is also a member of the NAACP.
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By Randy Rossi -
When George Orwell wrote his famous book 1984, I am sure that he couldn’t imagine how willingly the people of the world would cooperate with “Big Brother” and the “Thought Police” to control their lives. No doubt Orwell could never have imagined over a billion people happily signing on to Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google to give away all of their personal information which they then sell for a profit. There is no way Orwell could have imagined millions of people inviting Apple’s “Siri” into their homes and bedrooms which listens to every word they say and sends it back to Apple who then sells that material to its customers who want to know everything about you to sell you more of their “stuff”.
An Irish High Court judge has ruled that unborn children have all the rights of “born” children under the Irish constitution and law.
Justice Richard Humphries made the ruling during a tangled deportation case made more complex by the unborn child fathered by the Nigerian man whom the Irish government is seeking to expel.
“The ruling is vitally important at a time when the status of unborn babies in Ireland is once again under grave threat from pro-abortion organizations and the media,” Patrick Buckley of the Dublin office of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said.
But in Illinois, children in the womb have absolutely no rights.
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California’s attempt to automate voter registration turned up some disturbing but unsurprising discrepancies.
From KTLA:
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Along with several dozen other prospective jurors, I recently was ushered into an Illinois state criminal courtroom. On our left sat the defendant, a young man, with his defense attorney. Seated directly in front of us, facing the judge, were two men and one woman from the state's attorney's office. Three state prosecutors? It looked like trouble to me.
Sure enough. The judge instructed us that we were to judge the guilt or innocence of the defendant on one count of first-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
It was grim. This was not television. One victim was dead, three injured (one paralyzed, one blinded). The life of the accused man might be over. I did feel pity for him; if found guilty, his could be a wasted young life, in a far country, estranged from our heavenly Father.
In reply to the judge's interview questions, I affirmed that a family member is a policeman, that I know other policemen, and that I have been a victim of armed robbery. While the judge accepted me as a juror, the defense objected, so I was sent home.
Continue reading "Patriarchy & the Violence of Fatherless Men" »
By Steve Cortes, CNN Contributor -
Lost in the war of words between President Trump and entrenched big city Democrats like Elijah Cummings is the real progress this administration is making to turn the tide in the war on urban blight.
Not just in Baltimore, but here in Chicago and in cities across the country, federal policy changes are making a real difference, bringing dignity and economic opportunity back to communities that had been driven to ruin by decades of dependency-inducing handouts and empty promises.
By Nancy Thorner -
As John Adam said: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
Last week Nancy Thorner was alerted to a very powerful and timely address by a Phyllis Schlafly Eagle friend who lives in Naples, Florida, presented by Rev. Michael Orsi to the Republican Executive Committee of Collier County, Florida, “God and Politics: What does the Bible Say?”. Father Michael Orsicurrently serves as parochial vicar at St. Agnes Parish in Naples, Florida. He is host of “Action for Life TV,” a weekly cable television series devoted to pro-life issues, and his writings appear in numerous publications and online journals.
Asked to promote Father Orsi's remarks through an article, Thorner consented without hesitation. As Father Orsi alluded to in his remarks: America has spent the last 50 years trying it without Him, and hell has filled the void, as we have allowed God and morality to become the enemy of popular culture.
Continue reading "Thorner: Religion and Politics are Inseparable" »
The Christian conservative advocacy group One Million Moms is calling on parents to boycott popular grocery store chain Whole Foods Market over the organization's sponsorship of a "Drag Queen Story Hour" event in Atlanta.
One Million Moms, which is known to launch boycotts against organizations that promote LGBT lifestyles, published a new campaign on Wednesday targetting "America's healthiest grocery store."
The boycott comes after the city of Atlanta tweeted about how the retailer was among the sponsors for its recent Drag Queen Story Hour event with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms at city hall. Drag queen events feature men who dress up in women's clothing who read to children. An event held in Seattle in July included a raffle for a breast binder, and featured a drag queen performing a strip-tease and another who got on his knees and howled during his performance.
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From Topeka the taxman cometh. Any retailer who sells anything online to Kansans must begin remitting sales taxes by October, says Kansas’s Department of Revenue. Kansas’s new requirements, writes Jared Walczak, are a “radical departure from the post-Wayfair consensus,” on how states may tax remote retailers:
Most states have [...] looked to South Dakota as a model, perhaps tweaking here and there, but largely hewing to the design of the South Dakota law since it appears to have the Court’s blessing. The provisions specifically praised in Wayfair have been replicated in state after state to give their laws a strong presumption of constitutionality. And it’s worth noting here that South Dakota’s law coming before the Court was no accident; proponents of remote sales tax collection authority from around the country had input into how that law was structured and designed it as the model legislation for a test case before the Court.
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A proposed law would allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits even though they have jobs at which they are not working.
The California State Senate is considering a bill passed by the State Assembly that would allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits even though they have jobs at which they are not working.
A.B. 1066, sponsored by Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), would allow workers to claim unemployment benefits after four weeks on the picket lines. It would also allow workers to receive unemployment benefits during lockouts, when employees are ordered to stay home by an employer. The State Assemblypassed the bill on May 22.
The striking workers could receive anywhere from $40 to $450 a week from the state Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, which is paid for by a payroll tax. As in many states, the California trust fund ran out of money in 2009 due to increased claims during the recession.
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Janus inspires another constitutional challenge. Jacob Huebert, James Baehr, and Dane Ciolino write:
[I]n Louisiana and 29 other states, some people—those who practice law—are being denied their rights not to speak, not to associate with a group against their will and not to pay for others’ political advocacy. In these states, the government forces lawyers to join and pay dues to bar associations to be allowed to pursue their chosen profession.
The bar associations these lawyers are forced to join and pay aren’t government regulatory bodies; they don’t just make sure attorneys are qualified and behave ethically, as one might expect. Instead, they’re trade associations, and all too often they use members’ mandatory dues to advocate for and against public policies, which may or may not have anything to do with the practice of law. This means lawyers in these states are being forced to pay for other people’s political and ideological speech—something the First Amendment virtually never allows.
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A lack of property rights is the real cause of the fires in Brazil. Webb Beard writes:
There is a blame game going on over the true cause of the fires. Some environmentalists and activists are blaming Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, whose administration is accused of not doing enough to combat deforestation. Bolsonaro, for his part, has suggested that non-governmental organizations and nonprofits are to blame, deliberately setting fire to the rainforest because they have lost money and want to embarrass his administration.
But the INPE claims the true cause of the unusual numbers of fires this year is ranchers and farmers using fires to clear land that they use for themselves. The INPE claimed up to 99 percent of the fires can be attributed to these people. However, this might suggest that only one thing may be to blame: the tragedy of the commons. [...]
Continue reading "How Property Rights Can Help Preserve the Amazon Rainforest" »
When it comes to public charter schools and any meaningful education reform, the teachers unions are staunch reactionaries.
In the political arena, teachers unions are far to the left. However, when it comes to serious education reform and any kind of school choice, they are committed to maintaining the all-too-often failing status quo. At its recent convention in early July, the National Education Association voted affirmatively to promote the concept of white fragility, reparations, open borders and abortion, while simultaneously nixing an attempt to have the union “re-dedicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America by putting a renewed emphasis on quality education.”
When it comes to progressive political bloviation, the bard is surely American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. In a July 21st New York Times column, she ran politically amok, accusing President Trump of racism, misogyny, being enamored of despots, voter suppression and likely to imprison political opponents. She went on to point out that schools should be a place where students “analyze problems in their communities, figure out potential solutions and advocate for change.” Not a word about learning math, science and language arts’ skills, or ways to improve the teaching profession.
More HERE
Are we living in the midst of a climate crisis? Is the world on the brink of ending? Are you contributing to the world’s demise if you drive a gasoline-powered car? The National Resources Defense Council says we only have 20 years to save the planet. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) declares that the world is going to end in 12 years. BBC News warns we only have 18 months to reverse the damage we’ve inflicted. It sure sounds like we’re entering into the apocalyptic era.
Policies surrounding climate issues are costly. One of the most recent and notable examples is AOC’s proposed Green New Deal. It would mandate clean energy and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, among other things. The Competitive Enterprise Institute calculated that the total cost of the program would be $51.1 trillion to $92.9 trillion, or $316,010 to $419,010 per household. Aside from this being impossible, this would clearly require a powerful government to enact; Americans would not be allowed to spend their money as they wish.
By John F. Di Leo -
Most people enter politics for one of two purposes: to solve problems or to acquire power.
The hope, of course, is that these are tied together: that the reason for acquiring power is only to solve problems. Unfortunately, many in politics desire power for its own sake. Still, we Americans cling to the hope that we can usually assume the best of intentions in our political candidates, so we hope that their desire is truly to solve the problems of the day.
Continue reading "Di Leo: The One Ring and the Red Flag Law" »
SPRINGFIELD - It was a year ago that an Illinois State Rifle Association's Victory PAC endorsed governor signed a bill into law making Illinois one of 17 "red flag" states - now a topic of discussion among gun control groups calling for federal legislation.
The measure, HB 2354, was signed into law last July by Governor Bruce Rauner. Also known as the Lethal Violence Order of Protection Act, the law authorizes a court to remove firearms, a FOID card and a CCW license from a person who poses “an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another" by having a gun in his or her possession.
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A younger Bobby Rush and Barack Obama reached the Chicago black community through WVON
By Nancy Thorner -
Some of us might remember the good old days when if someone was labeled a racist, there was a pretty good chance the person was a bigot, and perhaps even proud of it? However, among ineffective and dishonest politicians, racism has been used as a shield from criticism for half a century.
In certain locales, a man could carve out a pretty good career for himself by playing the race card. For a great many years southern Democrats had no problem winning gubernatorial and senate elections by presenting themselves as non-apologetic segregationists.
Continue reading "Thorner: The Left blames 'Racial Inequity' for rat-infested, dangerous cities" »
By Randy Rossi -
The latest tragic mass shootings of innocent people in Texas and Ohio are a predictable result of the accelerating decline of morality in America. Of course this will be controversial; but the problem is not guns, the problem is the accelerating decline of our culture.
Continue reading "Rossi: The Tragic Consequences of the Decline of Morality" »
By Mark Weyermuller -
The McHenry County Fair had its first sold out concert in the history of their annual event. Old time rocker and major Donald Trump supporter Ted Nugent performed last Saturday night in front of 6000 fans.
Nugent singing "Cat Scratch Fever" could be heard miles away. Between songs he spoke of a Pro-American theme. At one point the crowd standing chanting "USA USA USA."
One person commented to me that they didn’t recall anybody chanting "USA" at any Democrat events. In addition to Trump supporters, there was a large amount of Second Amendment supporters throughout the fair.
I spotted hundreds of people wearing Trump gear, including MAGA hats.
Continue reading "Where’s Weyermuller? With Ted Nugent at the McHenry County Fair 2019" »
A little over one week ago, Apple approved LifeSiteNews’ application to publish our news on their Apple News platform.
Today, without warning, Apple News abruptly reversed course, telling LifeSite that they had deleted our channel and all of our content from their platform.
Apple claimed that LifeSite’s channel “didn't comply with our Apple News guidelines.” Specifically, they stated that LifeSite’s “[c]hannel content shows intolerance towards a specific group.”
More HERE
Gillette ran an infamous “toxic” masculinity ad during the Super Bowl casting men as sexist bullies, followed by one in which a father teaches a daughter who is “transitioning to be a man” to shave.
The February ad prompted an immediate backlash, with many men vowing to stop using Gillette products, charging the ad assumes most men are misogynistic.
Now, P&G is reporting a net loss of about $5.24 billion for the second quarter due to an $8 billion non-cash write down of Gillette, according to Reuters.
For the same period last year, Reuters noted, P&G’s net income was $1.89 billion, or 72 cents per share.
More HERE
The Atlanta-based chain has grown rapidly over the last decade and now ranks as the fifth largest fast-food company in the US in terms of market share, up from the No. 23 spot in 2005, Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a research note citing data from Technomic.
And despite being closed on Sundays, Chick-fil-A restaurants generate more than double the revenue of McDonald's restaurants, according to the data.
More HERE
CHICAGO - Fewer states and municipalities have tighter gun restrictions than Chicago does, but the number of shootings and killings continue.
Over the weekend, when shooting tragedies in El Paso Texas and Dayton Ohio dominate the news, little coverage on national news about six Chicagoans that were shot and killed and 68 Chicagoans that were shot and wounded over the weekend.
The totals for 2019 are up to 278 Chicagoans killed in shootings and 1,364 wounded.
The question is, "What more firearms restrictions can lawmakers add that would end the devastation in the city of Chicago?" that won't tear away Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and life-respecting citizens?
More devastating stats at www.heyjackass.com.
VILLA PARK - A Democrat state senator that hails from once-very red DuPage County was indicted by federal officials Friday for allegedly taking hundreds of thousands from the Teamsters for an organizing job he never did.
State Senator Tom Cullerton of Villa Park is being charged by the feds with 39 counts of embezzlement and one count of conspiracy to embezzle a labor union based on claims by Teamster official John Coli. The indictment says Coli offered Cullerton the position of a fulltime organizer two months after Cullerton was sworn in as senator in 2013.
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For more than 20 years I’ve watched media outlets fail to accurately portray the debate surrounding climate change. Unfortunately, things are getting worse.
Over the past six months, news outlets including The Guardian, long a mouthpiece for leftist propaganda, and Telemundo announced they will now use the fear-invoking term “climate emergency” instead of the more descriptive phrase “climate change.” In Florida, rather than competing for news on climate matters, six news outlets — Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times, and WLRN Public Media — are collaborating on climate coverage under the moniker Florida Climate Reporting Network (FCRN). This means each news outlet that receives their climate stories from FCRN will be speaking with one voice on the issue.
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Section 230 is why political debate can take place on the internet. Some Republican lawmakers think internet platforms censor too much user content, especially conservative political content. Democratic lawmakers tend to say internet platforms should censor more content to combat fake news and other malicious behavior.
The Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute, a 35-year-old national free-market think tank, unanimously elected Frank Lasee as the third president in the organization’s history. Lasee is a former Wisconsin state legislator serving in the state Senate from 2011 to 2017 and the state Assembly from 1994 to 2008.
The Heartland Institute, based in Illinois, has long held that one of its core missions is to communicate sound, free-market policy to state legislators in every state across the country.
“I am excited about leading the Heartland Institute to greater influence,” Lasee said. “As a state legislator, I turned many times to Heartland for excellent, well researched, timely information on many public policy topics. Now with more than 500 policy experts to provide information to state and national decision makers, it is perfectly situated to make a greater impact for individual freedom, limited government, free market and American values.”
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People worry about rising inequality when inequality is actually falling.But those are also the times when wages are falling, too, observes Michael Strain:
The Harris Poll has asked respondents for several decades whether they “feel the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.” In 1980, 76% of respondents felt that way. By 1990, 82% agreed with the sentiment. But by 2000, the share of respondents who agreed dropped significantly, to 69%. That decrease of 13 percentage points during the 1990s amounts to a 16% drop, and a 9% decline over both decades.
Continue reading "Maybe Inequality Isn’t What’s Making People Mad" »
President Trump vowed to increase transparency concerning how federal agencies operate and impose rules.
Regulations should be based on the best-available scientific and economic analyses of any problem being addressed and the likely outcomes of rules proposed to solve it. And good government requires an informed citizenry. This means taxpayers, who foot the bill for much of the research used to justify regulations and fund the agencies charged with ensuring the public health and environmental quality, should have access to the information used to make regulatory decisions.
More HERE
