Sunday, April 30, 2017

John Hawkins – 6 Questions Democrats Should Be Asking Themselves Right Now

John Hawkins – 6 Questions Democrats Should Be Asking Themselves Right Now:





It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

Read more at TownHall.com

Obamacare Regs Have Doctors Drowning in Paperwork

Obamacare Regs Have Doctors Drowning in Paperwork:





An increasing burden of paperwork, tied in part to healthcare reforms driven by Obamacare, now consumes about one-sixth of a typical America physician’s day — impinging on the time doctors can spend caring for patients.

That’s the upshot of a new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers who found the average doctor spends 16.6 percent of his or her working hours on non-patient-related paperwork.

The findings, which are based on a nationally representative survey of physicians, tied the trend to changes in U.S. health policy — including a shift to employment in large practices, the implementation of electronic medical records as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the increasing prevalence of financial risk sharing.

In a report on the study, published in the International Journal of Health Services, the researcher said the trend is likely to continue, increases doctors’ paperwork burdens, cutting into time spent with patients, and decreasing career satisfaction among those in the medical profession.

Lead researchers Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., and David Himmelstein, M.D., are internists in the South Bronx who serve as professors of public health at the City University of New York and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Their conclusions are based on an analysis of confidential data from the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey, which collected information from a nationally representative sample of 4,720 physicians who practiced at least 20 hours per week.

Read more at NewsMax.com

Symbolism & Stupidity…

Symbolism & Stupidity…:





USA Today—Since the election of President Donald Trump, the debate around Islamic dress has taken a new turn: The hijab has emerged as a symbol of resistance to Islamophobia amid policies from the Trump administration targeting Muslim immigrants.

Scores of non-Muslims have donned hijabs to express solidarity with Muslim women, too, though some criticized the move, arguing that the garment represents oppression of women.

The Federalist—The hijab and other head and body covering for women waxed and waned during the twentieth and thus far in the twenty-first century depending on the level of cultural secularization in the Arab world. In other words, when Muslim piety grew, even in minor pockets, the enforcement grew, and head and body covering grew as a result. In Iran today it is illegal for any woman (native or visitor) to be in public without a head covering.

For some Middle Eastern Christians, Muslim head and body covering in the West has become a trigger that reminds them of their life in the Arab world under an Islamic government. Those memories bring back all the harassment, prejudice, and discrimination they experienced. It sometimes even brings back bitterness that they had to leave their homeland because of the inhospitable environment. Even if in some places head and body covering wasn’t enforced on Christian women, the practice is tied to Islam, which in turn is tied to the state.

Like other religions, the clothing and covering aspect of Islam is an outward manifestation of the theology—only, unlike in other religions, it is not separated from the laws of the state. In other words, the politics or culture of some countries force their girls and women to wear the hijab or niqab, but that compulsion is not intrinsic to the religion.

Slavery to Abortion: Same argument, same people…

Slavery to Abortion: Same argument, same people…:





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‘Pure hatred’: Translator reveals how Muslim refugees want to ‘Islamize’ Germany

‘Pure hatred’: Translator reveals how Muslim refugees want to ‘Islamize’ Germany:





A translator at refugee camps in Germany has claimed Muslim migrants hate Christians and want to Islamize the country.

The woman, 39, from Eritrea, came to Germany as a refugee herself in 1991, before volunteering at asylum centers to “give something back.”

But the Arabic speaker said what she discovered when working with migrants over the last five years shocked her.

During her time at a number of centers across the country, she said she discovered Muslim refugees preaching “pure hatred” of Christians.

Muslim children were told by their parents not to play with Christian kids.

And she herself was told it was a sin for her to help feed and defend Christians.

She told German Catholic website Kath.net: “They want Germany to be Islamized. They despise our country and our values.”

She claimed many of the migrants showed their “true colors” only when they were away from people of other religions.

The translator explained: “Pure hatred against non-believers is preached, and children are brought here from an early age here in Germany.

“It’s very similar in asylum housing, where Muslim boys refuse to play with Christians.

“Some women told me, ‘We will multiply our numbers. We must have more children than the Christians because it’s the only way we can destroy them here.’”

Read more at FoxNews.com

Benghazi Commission: Obama Admin Gun-Running Scheme Armed Islamic State

Benghazi Commission: Obama Admin Gun-Running Scheme Armed Islamic State:





The Obama administration pursued a policy in Libya back in 2011 that ultimately allowed guns to walk into the hands of jihadists linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda (AQ) in Syria, according to a former CIA officer who co-authored a report on behalf of the Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi (CCB), detailing the gun running scheme.

In Congress, the then-bipartisan group known as the “Gang of Eight,” at a minimum, knew of the operation to aid and abet America’s jihadist enemies by providing them with material support. So says Clare Lopez, a former CIA officer and the primary author of CCB’s interim report, titled How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror, speaking with Breitbart News.

The ripple effects of the illegal policy to arm America’s enemies continue to be felt as the U.S. military is currently leading a war against ISIS and AQ terrorists in Iraq and Syria, according to Lopez.

In late October, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the U.S. would begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria who may have reaped the benefits from the gun-running scheme that started in Libya.

“The Obama administration effectively switched sides in what used to be called the Global War on Terror [GWOT] when it decided to overthrow the sovereign government of our Libyan ally, Muammar Qaddafi, who’d been helping in the fight against al-Qaeda, by actually teaming up with and facilitating gun-running to Libyan al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood [MB] elements there in 2011,” explained Lopez. “This U.S. gun-running policy in 2011 during the Libyan revolution was directed by [then] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and [the late Libya Ambassador] Christopher Stevens, who was her official envoy to the Libyan AQ rebels.”

To avoid having the funds tracked back to the Obama administration, the arms flow to Libya was financed thru the United Arab Emirates, while Qatar served as the logistical and shipping hub, she noted.

Read more at Breitbart.com

Obama shrugs off Russian hacking — until Donald Trump elected president

Obama shrugs off Russian hacking — until Donald Trump elected president:





Foreign governments have launched numerous cyberattacks on the U.S. government and sensitive industrial sites, but Republicans say President Obama has not responded in a forceful way to years of Russian hacking.

A more assertive response might have headed off the type of hacking Russia is accused of launching during the presidential election, they say.

Mr. Obama’s record on defeating hackers has come into focus during the transition as he orders a sweeping probe of Russia’s alleged hack on the president’s own Democratic Party.

His White House spokesman has joined Democratic politicians in issuing a blistering attack on Mr. Trump and his aides for ties to Russia, even as it was this administration that early on reached out to the Kremlin and asked for a “reset” in relations. In 2010 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped Moscow create a “Russian Silicon Valley.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest even seemingly questioned the patriotism of Trump supporters in Congress.

House intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes accused Mr. Obama of not taking Russia’s cyberthreat seriously until now, a month before he leave office, when Democratic Party politics are involved.

“Russia’s cyberattacks are no surprise to the House intelligence committee, which has been closely monitoring Russia’s belligerence for years,” Mr. Nunes said. “As I’ve said many times, the intelligence community has repeatedly failed to anticipate [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s hostile actions.

“Unfortunately, the Obama administration, dedicated to delusions of ‘resetting’ relations with Russia, ignored pleas by numerous intelligence committee members to take more forceful action against the Kremlin’s aggression. It appears, however, that after eight years the administration has suddenly awoken to the threat,” said Mr. Nunes, California Republican.

Read more at The Washington Times

Saturday, April 29, 2017

‘Make America Mexico Again’: Why Americans are fed up with illegals

‘Make America Mexico Again’: Why Americans are fed up with illegals:





There is something a bit unsettling about watching violent, foul-mouthed protesters waving the Mexican flag on American soil.

Over the weekend, Hispanic children lined the streets in Fort Wayne, Indiana – hurling filthy insults at Donald Trump supporters.

 “F*** you,” the youngsters shouted as they flipped off passerby. “F*** you.”

Video captured images of the angry protesters wearing sombreros and holding signs that read, “Brown Pride.”

What kind of a parent would allow their child to behave that way in public?

A similar protest turned violent last week in Southern California – as a horde of illegals and their supporters violently attacked Trump supporters, police and even a horse.

Yes, a horse.

Cole Bartiromo, identified by local media as a Trump supporter, needed a half-dozen stiches after the mob bashed open his head.

“Suddenly, out of nowhere I felt this thud in the front of my head,” Bartiromo told CBLA.com. “I started panicking – getting scared, thinking, ‘When are they going to stop? Are they going to kill me? I mean, these aren’t rational people.’”

The California mob spilled into the streets – blocking roadways and smashing police cars. They intended to shut down a Trump rally. They intended to silence Mr. Trump and his supporters.

They were angry about the wall he plans to build – to secure our border from the invading **horde** of illegals. They were angry about Mr. Trump speaking the truth – about how illegals are killing Americans – on American soil.

One of the most disturbing images in recent days came from California – a small child – holding a sign. It read, “Make America Mexico Again.”

Read more at FoxNews.com

New Reports: There Is No Global Warming

New Reports: There Is No Global Warming:





The liberal media machine has spent decades bulldozing anyone who tells you global warming is a sham.

They even came up with a clever little title — “deniers.”

Every time a heat wave hits, every time a picture of a lone polar bear gets taken . . . the left pounds the table for environmental reform, more policy, more money to combat climate change. But how much has the world really warmed?

Their message is simple: Get on the man-made global warming bandwagon . . . or you’re just ignorant.

But how much has the world really warmed?

It’s an important question, considering the U.S. government spends $22 billion a year to fight the global warming crisis (twice as much as it spends protecting our border).

To put that in perspective, that is $41,856 every minute going to global warming initiatives.

According to Forbes columnist Larry Bell, the ripple effect of global warming initiatives actually costs Americans $1.75 trillion . . . every year.

That’s three times larger than the entire U.S. federal budget deficit.

So, has anyone stopped to ask . . . how much has the globe actually warmed?

Well, we asked, and what we found was striking.

Read more at NewsMax.com

Why did NBC reportedly pay Chelsea Clinton $600,000 a year?

Why did NBC reportedly pay Chelsea Clinton $600,000 a year?:





NBC’s hiring of Chelsea Clinton as a “special correspondent” in its news division was widely recognized as an exercise in corporate cynicism when it was announced in November 2011.

Now a price tag has been hung on that scandal, with Politico’s reporting that Clinton has been paid a salary of $600,000. The network hasn’t confirmed the figure, but it hasn’t denied it either, and responded to Politico’s questions by asserting that it “continues to enjoy a wonderful working relationship with Chelsea, and we are proud of her work.”

It’s that last part that’s particularly head-scratching, for as a news correspondent for NBC, Clinton hasn’t done anything to be proud of. Quite the contrary. The disclosure raises the obvious question of NBC’s goal in giving a person without any measurable journalistic or broadcasting experience or any particular public following a high-profile job and apparently paying her a top-echelon salary.

The answer is equally obvious. Plainly, it was done to curry favor with the Clinton family.

Read more at the LA Times

Thursday, April 27, 2017

The Party of “Science™”…

The Party of “Science™”…:





The Real World vs. The Moslem World…

The Real World vs. The Moslem World…:





In Perspective…

In Perspective…:





…and yes, this is from her.

…and yes, this is from her.:





This statement was released by her office, and she has yet to denounce it, so in spite of Liberal “fact-checkers” claiming she never said it, she’s still owns it.

Which is why moderate Moslems are also being criticized…

Which is why moderate Moslems are also being criticized…:





Actually the number was closer to $12 billion, and some says it’s more than $33 billion…

Actually the number was closer to $12 billion, and some says it’s more than $33 billion…:





Choice & Timing…

Choice & Timing…:





Someone, some where, is laughing their heads off over what they’ve been able to con Feminist into doing…

Someone, some where, is laughing their heads off over what they’ve been able to con Feminist into doing…:



That's because they are slaves to liberalism.  ~Ness





Repeal the thing already!!…

Repeal the thing already!!…:





But airport users don’t all vote Democrat; Illegals do…

But airport users don’t all vote Democrat; Illegals do…:





Funny how that works…

Funny how that works…:





Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Yes, they really are that stupid…

Yes, they really are that stupid…:





Democrats Are Monsters…

Democrats Are Monsters…:





Some things never change…

Some things never change…:





So the state that tried to block Trump’s Executive Order, doesn’t take any refugees, anyway. Isn’t that convenient…

So the state that tried to block Trump’s Executive Order, doesn’t take any refugees, anyway. Isn’t that convenient…:





Cognitive Dissonance…

Cognitive Dissonance…:





A Political Primer…

A Political Primer…:





Even when the control the narrative, Liberals still can’t make sense…

Even when the control the narrative, Liberals still can’t make sense…:





Deliver us from Scripture-citers…

Deliver us from Scripture-citers…:





“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose,” says the wealthy Antonio to his young friend Bassanio in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.”

So can the politician, he might have added. And the party activist.

When the Trump administration released an outline recently of its forthcoming budget proposals, many on the left expressed dismay. The White House wants to reduce spending on the State Department, environmental programs, arts and broadcast subsidies, and housing initiatives, while significantly increasing outlays on defense, homeland security, and veterans’ health care.

Debating government spending is standard fare in Washington. Sanctimony is, too. But the posturing grows a little too pious when pundits and politicos, brandishing a line from the Bible, declare that Jesus would never reduce spending on X or that God must be in favor of budget hikes for Y — and imagine that that settles the debate.

Some of these Biblical invocations are just silly. The Tabernacle described in Exodus was not a “public art project”; it was religious infrastructure used for priestly sacrifices and to house the Ark of the Covenant.

Read more at The Boston Globe

Democrats run into trouble when the get to those darn confusing two-syllable words…

Democrats run into trouble when the get to those darn confusing two-syllable words…:





How “Stand Your Ground” works…

How “Stand Your Ground” works…: