News of the Week for July 24th<\/sup>, 2016<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gary Johnson On the Verge of Appearing On the Debate Stage<\/a> Cleveland Is The End Of The GOP As We Know It <\/a> Welcome to Cleveland, Enjoy The Wake <\/a> Steve King gives the WORST RESPONSE possible to angry lib whining about diversity…<\/a> Melania’s Plagiarized Speech \u2013 CNN Previously Reported It Took 5-6 Weeks To Write With A Speechwriter!!<\/a> Ted Cruz Knew Exactly What He Was Doing <\/a> NATO Shmato?<\/a> DNC replaces two Vermont delegates – because they’re men<\/a> Ted Cruz Is Severus Snape <\/a> The GOP had a trainwreck in Cleveland. Is that a good thing?<\/a> BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great!<\/a> Trump Campaign Releases Mike Pence Hostage Video<\/a> Rep. Keith Ellison: Trump “Worst Republican Nominee Since George Wallace”<\/a> Are anarchists and radical leftists saving violent protests for #DemsInPhilly?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What if the fix was in for Hillary at the Obama Justice Department?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They’ve Started! Massachusetts Attorney General Bans-AR-15s, AKs <\/a> The strictest firearms laws in Europe but STILL four illegal guns for every registered weapon: Germany has 5.5 million guns belonging to 1.4 million people<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Global Warming Expedition Stopped In Its Tracks By Arctic Sea Ice<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obamacare’s New High Risk Pool<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is Russia Building a Nuclear Space Bomber?<\/a> German train “axe attack”: Many reported hurt<\/a> Deputy mayor in Istanbul dies from shooting injuries <\/a> Attacker in Nice had help, planned attack for months<\/a> Munich shooting: Live blog<\/a> Estonia, Newt Gingrich and Strategery <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n You Need 4 Different Licenses to Shine Shoes in DC. <\/a> UWM prof advocates “abolition of whiteness” <\/a> Julian Castro doesn’t seem terribly concerned that he violated federal law<\/a> Social justice on Mars<\/a> Ohio policeman served sandwich containing shards of glass <\/a> GQ writer apologizes for Patricia Smith tweet: “I would like to beat her to death”<\/a> Slate: There’s No Such Thing as A “Male Body”<\/a> 2 “Nearby” Exoplanets Confirmed to Be Rocky \u2014 and May Be Habitable<\/a> How did Elizabeth Warren earn $44,000 from Travelers Insurance?<\/a> New Human Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 Previously Unknown Areas In Cerebral Cortex<\/a> Officials detect THC, marijuana’s active ingredient, in Colorado town’s public water supply<\/a> Infants Prefer Toys Typed to Their Gender<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n UK unemployment rate falls to fresh 11-year low<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Turkey Coup: Rebel F-16s Had Erdogan’s Jet in Sights, Reuters Source Says<\/a> The beginning of the purge in Turkey didn’t take long at all<\/a> Turkey coup attempt: Government had list of arrests prepared before rebellion, EU commissioner says<\/a> Teachers In England Urged To Use “Zie” Pronoun For Transgenders <\/a> New U.K. leader Theresa May shuts climate change department<\/a> One woman, three girls STABBED for “wearing shorts and t-shirts” at French resort<\/a> Thousands of public employees suspended after failed coup attempt in Turkey<\/a> Erdogan’s power grab: Turkish president declares state of emergency after failed coup<\/a> Turkey declares a state of emergency for three months<\/a> Turkish Protesters Are Spray Painting “8.8.8.8” and “8.8.4.4.” On Walls – Here’s What It Means<\/a> Dark Days Ahead<\/a> Turkey to Suspend European Convention on Human Rights <\/a> Finland: Man Thrown in Prison For Using “Excessive Self-Defense” Against Home Invaders<\/a> Turkey’s Erdogan shuts schools, charities in first state of emergency decree<\/a> Erdogan to rid Turkish institutions of “separatist cancer” after coup attempt<\/a> Nicola Sturgeon takes political fantasy to new heights <\/a> Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners “raped, starved and hogtied” <\/a> Turkey: Hospitals, Schools, Unions Among Those Shut-down By Erdogan Crack-down<\/a> Brexit & British Party Politics <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Little Background And Commentary From Daniel Pipes On Erdogan And The Failed Coup <\/a> Is Free Speech on Life Support? Quite So! Terminally So! <\/a> The Ugly Truth Behind a College’s “Diversity” Requirement<\/a> The answer to DC statehood? Split Texas five ways<\/a> The genderfication of U.S. politics<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2016<\/h1>\n
\nJust 4 days ago, I reported that Johnson was at 12% approval after a steady rise in popularity due to the unprecedented unpopularity of both the Republican and Democrat nominees, Trump and Clinton.<\/p>\n
\nThe Republican leaders who show up to the convention and climb aboard the Trump train will be purged from whatever comes after the GOP.<\/p>\n
\nThe party of Lincoln comes to Cleveland this week to die.<\/p>\n
\nWell Steve King screwed us all over with this boneheaded answer to some angry liberal foaming at the mouth about diversity in the GOP.<\/p>\n
\nIf you tried to strain to understand the broken English of Melania Trump as she gave her speech today then you might have noticed that a lot of her speech sounded very familiar!! That\u2019s because significant portions were stolen from Michelle Obama’s DNC speech in 2008<\/p>\n
\nNot only did Ted Cruz refuse to endorse Trump, in a master stroke of rhetorical understatement he urged Republicans to “vote your conscience” in November.<\/p>\n
\nDonald Trump’s apparent rejection of the cornerstone of global security after World War II has stunned U.S. partners in the alliance.<\/p>\n
\nState Sen. Tim Ashe and party insider Ken Dean were ordered to be replaced by the DNC so that the party could achieve a gender balance. Dean and Ashe have filed a formal complaint with the DNC’s credentials committee, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
\nIngenious, calculating, cloaked men sometimes turn out to be bad. Yet cold, calculating men can also be judged unfairly.<\/p>\n
\nTraditionally speaking, the Republican national convention would look like a near-total debacle. In the era of television, major-party conventions have become tightly choreographed displays of party unity, bland speeches hailing the nominee, and almost entirely forgotten by everyone except the delegates after the usual polling bump recedes. By that measure, the GOP’s four-day event in Cleveland was a debacle: floor fights, a vanquished primary candidate telling the world from a prime-time main stage speaking slot that he didn’t support the nominee, and a plagiarism scandal that went on at least a day longer than necessary thanks to attempts to rationalize it away.<\/p>\n
\nOn Friday, website Wikileaks posted over 19,000 emails that were taken from the Democratic National Committee that show story manipulation and collusion with the MSM, internal attempts to sabotage Bernie Sanders during the primary, and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n
\nInstead, Trump went back to being Trump at a farewell gathering before leaving Cleveland on Friday. Sounding like a man who had been holding in an enormous bowel movement for four days, the GOP nominee let loose with an excremental mind dump, attacking Heidi Cruz and resurrecting his deranged Raphael Cruz\/JFK conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n
\nSmall Problem: Wallace Was a Democrat . . . Ruh-roh!<\/p>\n
\nThe usual suspects were mostly absent at the RNC in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nWhat if the folks who run the Department of Political Justice recently were told that the republic would suffer if Hillary Clinton were indicted for espionage because Donald Trump might succeed Barack Obama in the presidency? What if espionage is the failure to safeguard state secrets and the evidence that Clinton failed to safeguard them is unambiguous and overwhelming?<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nMassachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey penned an article for The Boston Globe stating that she is banning all new “assault weapons” which she also calls “weapons of war” in her ignorance.<\/p>\n
\nGermany has some of the strictest firearms laws in Europe, although there are four illegal guns on the streets for every properly registered weapon.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nA group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAnticipation of huge premium increases in the small employer market has been building since 2013. <\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nRussian state media is reporting that the country’s Defense Ministry is developing a nuclear-armed bomber than could launch attacks from space. A prototype aircraft is under development and will be ready for trials by 2020. <\/p>\n
\nMore than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report.<\/p>\n
\nThe deputy mayor of Istanbul’s Sisli district has died after being shot in the head by an unknown assailant on Monday, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported.<\/p>\n
\nMonday of this week the AP reported that the terrorist who murdered 84 people in Nice, France appeared to have self-radicalized in a matter of weeks. Today, the AP is reporting that Mohamed Bouhlel planned this for months and had help carrying it out<\/p>\n
\nGerman police say “several deaths” in Munich shopping center shooting.<\/p>\n
\nThere was a time when JFK went to West Berlin, a city surrounded by Soviet-occupied territory, and announced that he was a Berliner.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nSen. Ben Sasse Wants to Change That.<\/p>\n
\nA professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is calling for the complete “abolition of whiteness,” saying only then will America see an end to racism.<\/p>\n
\nOur Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, has been getting a lot of buzz as a potential VP selection for Hillary Clinton, but this week he’s making headlines of a different sort.<\/p>\n
\nAssuming NASA ever actually does take us to Mars, we can now rest easy knowing they will be prepared to establish a utopian society upon the blank Martian slate, free from the privileges and prejudices of Earth.<\/p>\n
\nPolice in Ohio’s capital city say an officer was served a sandwich containing glass shards at a restaurant, and an assault squad is investigating whether it was intentional.<\/p>\n
\n“Under no circumstances is it okay to invoke violence against women”<\/p>\n
\nHere’s the latest in biological news coming at you from liberal Slate magazine! According to Slate writer Chase Strangio, (yes, Strange-io), it’s “factually wrong and dangerous” to describe a person as being “anatomically male.”<\/p>\n
\nTwo Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star are now confirmed to be rocky, strengthening the case that they might be habitable, a new study finds.<\/p>\n
\nYes folks, it’s another one in my regular series of “bash Elizabeth Warren” posts.<\/p>\n
\nEvery field of scientific study has its own holy grail. For particle physicists, it\u2019s the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model; for astrophysicists, it is the hunt for the elusive dark matter and dark energy; and for neuroscientists, it is explaining how inanimate matter becomes conscious.<\/p>\n
\nOn Thursday afternoon, authorities notified the town of about 800 people that the water should not be drunk, used to cook with or even to bathe. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment later downgraded the warning \u2014 it was safe to shower, brush teeth and do laundry with the tap water. Ingestion remained inadvisable.<\/p>\n
\nChildren as young as 9 months-old prefer to play with toys specific to their own gender, according to a new study from academics at City University London London and UCL.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThe UK unemployment rate has fallen to 4.9%, the lowest since July 2005, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nAt the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Erdogan’s plane in their sights. And yet he was able to fly on.<\/p>\n
\nIt seems like only yesterday when we were pondering whether or not Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would use the recent, failed military coup as an excuse to begin a purge of dissidents who oppose his administration. <\/p>\n
\n“It is exactly what we feared,” Johannes Hahn says<\/p>\n
\nA new guidance written by the Boarding School Association urges teachers to address transgender students with the pronoun “zie” in an effort to “queer the education system.”<\/p>\n
\nBritish Prime Minister Theresa May has been facing criticism during her first few days in office over her decision to close the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change.<\/p>\n
\nA woman and her three daughters were all stabbed at a resort near Montpellier in southern France today.<\/p>\n
\nThousands of public employees have been suspended from their duties amid a nationwide move against those suspected of having links to the July 15 failed coup attempt.<\/p>\n
\nTURKISH president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency in the wake of last week’s failed coup.<\/p>\n
\nTurkey declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, a move that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said would enable the state to act faster against those who plotted a failed coup.<\/p>\n
\nAs hard as the Turkish government might try, shutting down Twitter isn’t as easy as it seems. At 11:30 p.m. Thursday the Turkish government officially blocked the country’s 33 million Internet users from Twitter, but clever, tech-savvy Turks are sharing a simple and effective method to help fellow citizens bypass the ban – and they’re sharing it everywhere.<\/p>\n
\nThe plot against Erdogan has laid bare dangerous undercurrents in Turkey.<\/p>\n
\nTurkey says it will suspend the European Convention on Human Rights during the three-month state of emergency it declared to purge perpetrators of last week’s failed coup.<\/p>\n
\nA homeowner in Finland has been sentenced to four years in jail and a hefty fine after fighting off three intruders who attempted to rob his house. The thieves, meanwhile, got lesser prison terms and are to be paid damages by their victim.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Tayyip Erdogan tightened his grip on Turkey on Saturday, ordering the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions in his first decree since imposing a state of emergency after the failed military coup.<\/p>\n
\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told FRANCE 24 that his country’s state of emergency, imposed in the wake of an attempted coup to oust him could be extended until he has rid Turkey’s “institutions of this cancer”.<\/p>\n
\nIt was courteous of our new Prime Minister, within hours of her coronation, to visit Edinburgh to see Scotland\u2019s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Mrs Sturgeon, who we are routinely assured is a consummate politician who positively demands our unequivocal admiration, did not repay that courtesy. Instead, she spent the ensuing days mendaciously implying that she had some sort of veto over the United Kingdom\u2019s decision to leave the European Union. When even her usual toadies in the mass media struggled to believe this fantasy, she started peddling the idea \u2013 also completely unsubstantiated \u2013 that the rest of the UK could leave the EU while Scotland remained in.<\/p>\n
\nAmnesty International says it has “credible evidence” Turkish police are holding detainees, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture<\/p>\n
\n“The decrees have the force of law and can\u2019t be appealed.”<\/p>\n
\nOne unexpected outcome to the Brexit vote has been the way that it has exposed gaping fissures inside three major political parties. It hasn\u2019t yet cracked the regional parties, the Liberal Democrats or the Greens but the fissures it has exposed are fascinating and suggest a fundamental realignment of voters to parties in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nRemember Daniel Pipes? He is the guy who thinks that ISIS will self-destruct from internal pressures within the year. I have my doubts about that, judging from the the pathetic response to its provocations (read: savage murders) in Europe and here at home. If we don’t exert significant pressure on them externally, they have the leisure time to fix what ails them internally.<\/p>\n
\nOn which side of the political line segment, sphere, figure eight, or however it is you view it, do control freaks live? Well, I view it as a line segment and can see without the aid of binoculars, the left taking out their trash waaay over there on that side.<\/p>\n
\nHamilton College has for years had an open curriculum, allowing students the freedom to shape their education as they think best. Whether that\u2019s a good idea is debatable, but the college is about to move in the opposite direction by instituting a “diversity requirement” for all students.<\/p>\n
\nThe Washington Post editorial board issued a rather scathing attack on the Republican Party this week (really?) over the party platform’s dim view of statehood for the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n
\nThe modern art world suffered another of its periodic embarrassments recently when a visiting high school student at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art set his glasses down on the floor against a bare wall and walked away, whereupon museum patrons took it to be the latest avant garde masterpiece, crowding around it while striking chin-pulling poses and snapping photos.<\/p>\n