News of the Week for May 31st<\/sup>, 2015<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Appeals court deals blow to Obama amnesty<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Administration preps new gun regulations <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NOAA Caught Rewriting US Temperature History (Again)<\/a> EPA poised to issue landmark water regulations<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sticker Shock for Some Obamacare Customers<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bush did not lie about WMD in Iraq.<\/a> War with Isis: Meet the Kurdish women’s militia<\/a> US-China war “inevitable” unless Washington drops demands over South China Sea<\/a> Saudis “to get nuclear weapons”<\/a> Family shuns Yezidi teen impregnated by ISIS<\/a> Obama is Putting Our Nuclear Navy at Risk<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not Fooling Around: 71 Arrested During Protests After Cleveland Officer\u2019s Acquittal<\/a> The newest liberal idiocy: Segregating 3rd-graders<\/a> The House just passed a bill about space mining. The future is here.<\/a> Thad Cochran Marries Aide After Denying Their Alleged Affair<\/a> N.C. Schools Employ Radical Lesbian Who Called Marriage “Slavery” for Women<\/a> Marilyn Mosby, prosecutor in Freddie Gray case, made an early court appearance — on ‘Judge Judy’<\/a> Nebraska Gov. Ricketts vetoes death penalty repeal<\/a> Democrat Bernie Sanders: Don\u2019t Need 23 Choices of Deodorant, 18 Choices of Sneakers<\/a> New Evidence May Solve Mystery of America’s Huge Ancient City<\/a> Baltimore State\u2019s Attorney Marilyn Mosby Favorited Tweets Bashing Whitey & Calling Cops “THUGS”<\/a> Report: Baltimore Activists Are Working to Stack Jury to Get Cops Indicted (VIDEO)<\/a> More From Feminist Tumblr<\/a> Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert indicted on federal charges<\/a> Report: NYC Cops Arrested Men for “Manspreading” on the Subway<\/a> D.C. has taken a step to link Georgetown and Rosslyn via overhead gondola<\/a> Scott Walker to Sign Ban on Abortions for Rape, Incest<\/a> Senator Bernie Sanders, Democrat\/Socialist Candidate For President: All Men Dream Of Tying Up and Sexually Abusing Women, And All Women Fantasize of Being Raped By Three Men<\/a> Supreme Court to Consider Whether the Constitution Requires “One Person, One Vote” or “One Voter, One Vote”<\/a> White Privilege and White Supremacy: No White People Required<\/a> Feminists freak out over “Jurassic World”<\/a> Marco Rubio: We’re at the water’s edge of mainstream Christian teachings being branded “hate speech”<\/a> California’s Assault on Crisis Pregnancy Centers<\/a> The #GamerGate saga continues with assassins, expulsions, and bomb threats<\/a> Kenyan Lawyer Offers Obama 50 Cows, 70 Sheep, 30 Goats for Malia\u2019s Hand\tby Bridget Johnson<\/a> SEX and WOMEN: The reason ISIS wants to kill ALL westerners says gay Oxford theological historian<\/a> Bahar Mustafa: Goldsmiths Students’ Union diversity officer to keep her job after vote of no confidence petition fails <\/a> Sanders Hits Bottom in Rape Essay Controversy: Keeps Digging\t<\/a> Dem Lawmaker & Black Caucus Leader Who SHOT UP Girlfriend’s Car Returns to Work<\/a> White prof. publishes “Ten Cracka Commandments” for whites<\/a> Most Democrats Want Illegal Immigrants to Vote<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Economy Shrank in First Quarter as U.S. Trade Deficit Surged<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sheep stay silent in war of words over whether animals can suffer verbal abuse<\/a> Uncommon Smackdown in the Commons<\/a> Venezuela Circles the Drain<\/a> Bribes And Kickbacks: FIFA Officials Arrested As Part Of Massive Corruption Probe Covering 20 Years<\/a> Mexicans Discover Illegal Immigrants in Cancun, Not Amused<\/a> British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal to Consider Eliminating Gender from Birth Certificates<\/a> nbsp;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Fall of Mozilla, continued.<\/a> Memorializing Mattress Girl<\/a> The Boy Scouts Continue To Devolve Into A Garden Club<\/a> Study Shows Riots (Still) Make Americans More Conservative<\/a> http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2015\/05\/7-reasons-its-great-to-be-an-american\/7 reasons it’s great to be an American<\/a> Women Now Demanding To Be Treated As Eggshells, Not Equals<\/a> Behind Science Fraud, Chapter 3<\/a> Gay Marriage Goes Beyond ‘Bake Me a Cake’<\/a> The Dictatorship of Godless Perverts<\/a> Behind Science Fraud, Chapter 4<\/a> Behind Science Fraud, Chapter 5<\/a> When District Attorneys Attack<\/a> Fundamental Concepts – Seven deadly sins? I only need two to run the world.<\/a> The Ascension of Emma Sulkowicz<\/a> Where Would You Rather Live? Minneapolis or San Angelo?<\/a> Gender identity: Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?<\/a> The Push for Diversity is Killing Diversity<\/a> On Madness And Revolution<\/a> “Straight people don’t know they’re straight” \u2014 and that can be a problem for the gays<\/a> Behind Science Fraud, Chapter 6<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nA federal appeals court refused to lift an injunction against President Obama\u2019s deportation amnesty in a ruling Tuesday that delivers a second major legal setback to the administration and keeps millions of illegal immigrants on hold.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nWe have written a number of times about how government agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration here in the U.S., have systematically adjusted temperature history to make the past look colder. They apparently do this, usually surreptitiously and without explanation, in order to stoke global warming hysteria<\/p>\n
\nThe Obama administration is about to unveil an ambitious \u2014 and hotly disputed \u2014 plan to strengthen its authority over minor water bodies like wetlands, streams and ponds.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nSo the proposed 2016 Obamacare rates have been filed in many states, and in many states, the numbers are eye-popping. Market leaders are requesting double-digit increases in a lot of places. Some of the biggest are really double-digit: 51 percent in New Mexico, 36 percent in Tennessee, 30 percent in Maryland, 25 percent in Oregon. The reason? They say that with a full year of claims data under their belt for the first time since Obamacare went into effect, they’re finding the insurance pool was considerably older and sicker than expected.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nToday, on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Bob Woodward about the questions the GOP candidates have been getting about Iraq: Was the 2003 invasion a mistake?<\/p>\n
\nThe Kurdish soldiers relax half a mile behind the front line where they have been battling Isis forces west of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn. The women are in no doubt about why they are fighting.<\/p>\n
\nWarning from state-run China newspaper as Beijing reveals plans for development of disputed South China Sea islands<\/p>\n
\nSAUDI ARABIA has taken the “strategic decision” to acquire “off-the-shelf” atomic weapons from Pakistan, risking a new arms race in the Middle East, according to senior American officials.<\/p>\n
\nHarrowing accounts of the sexual abuse endured by women and girls at the hands of Islamic State fighters are being recorded by a young Swedish-Kurdish activist living in Kurdistan region named Delal Sindy.<\/p>\n
\nThe search for the next Chief of Naval Operations has not drawn much interest from the media, but there\u2019s good reason it should. By nominating Admiral John Richardson, the current head of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, President Obama is jeopardizing a tradition of excellence stretching back since America first developed nuclear submarines. John Lehman, who served as President Reagan\u2019s Secretary of the Navy for six years, does an excellent job explaining this in his Wall Street Journal editorial that ran this past Sunday. <\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nNumber of businesses looted and destroyed: Zero<\/p>\n
\n“Can racism be stopped in the third grade?” That\u2019s the question asked in this week\u2019s New York Magazine cover story by journalist Lisa Miller. The short answer, of course, is that it all depends on how you define racism.<\/p>\n
\nFor as long as we’ve existed, humans have looked up at the stars \u2014 and wondered. What is up there? Who is out there?<\/p>\n
\nSen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), 77, adamantly declared that there was no affair between him and top aide Kay Webber, 76, during his bid for re-election. His staff also insisted there was nothing to the rumors that surrounded the couple.<\/p>\n
\nA pioneering lesbian activist who called heterosexuality “the ideology of male supremacy” and condemned marriage as “slavery” for women is now working as a math teacher in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\nA neighbor trashed her apartment while she was away on summer break, knocking down the door, leaving cigarette burns on the walls, a “disgusting” mess in the bathtub.<\/p>\n
\nAs promised, Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska vetoed legislation that would repeal the death penalty for capital murder.<\/p>\n
\nThis week Democratic candidate for president and open Socialist Bernie Sanders lectured America for having too many choices in deodorant and sneakers.<\/p>\n
\nMississippi floods shaped the rise and fall of the prehistoric metropolis known as Cahokia.<\/p>\n
\nCrazed Baltimore City State\u2019s Attorney Marilyn Mosby favorited a tweet on May 6 calling the Baltimore police “THUGS.”<\/p>\n
\nBaltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six city police officers with murder and manslaughter in the death of serial criminal Freddie Gray.<\/p>\n
\nAutumn is a 24-year-old cisgender queer Muslim, who posted this: “Hands up if large groups of aggressively loud white boys in your vicinity freak you out.”<\/p>\n
\nFormer U.S. Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert was charged Thursday with attempting to evade banks’ reporting requirements and lying to the FBI about his actions.<\/p>\n
\nSmash the patriarchy! New York police allegedly arrested two men for \u201cmanspreading\u201d (sitting with their legs far apart) on the subway, according to a report entitled \u201cThat\u2019s How They Get You\u201d released by the Police Reform Organizing Project.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Joe Sternlieb first stumbled across a gondola in Portland seven years ago that was transporting passengers up a steep grade to a medical campus, he thought the unusual mode of transportation could be used in D.C. to carry people over the Potomac River between Georgetown and Rosslyn.<\/p>\n
\nPotentially complicating his 2016 bid, the Wisconsin governor has said he will sign a 20-week abortion bill that includes no exemption for rape or incest.<\/p>\n
\nMRC dug up Sanders’ 1972 essay, “Men-and-Women.” Why the headline has weird punctuation, you’d have to ask this old chicken-necked pervert.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to resolve a redistricting question that has been simmering for over fifty years: does the equal protection clause require that state voter districts be apportioned according to the number of residents or the number of eligible voters? States have, generally, been allowed to decide for themselves whether to use the total state population or some more restrictive population\u2014say, one that excludes temporary residents and aliens\u2014when drawing districts.<\/p>\n
\nCheck your privilege . . . in absentia?<\/p>\n
\nFeminists vs. Reality: Round 27,908<\/p>\n
\nVia the Brody File, hard to believe a country that’s 70 percent Christian would acquiesce in a legal regime like that, but then I look at this poll and remember we’ve already reached the point where Christian-owned businesses can be effectively shuttered by the state for politely declining to participate in a gay wedding. It’d be more accurate to say that the effort to brand Christian teachings that undermine progressivism as “hate speech” has already begun in the public sphere, with the fate of the private sphere still undetermined. Based on early indications, though, merely entertaining an opponent of same-sex marriage in your home has already risen to the level of a felony thoughtcrime, provided that he’s famous enough<\/p>\n
\nIf anything is a threat to the pro-abortion movement, it’s the existence of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) across the nation. Those who find themselves inside such a place believe options are limited and time is of the essence. No matter how they became pregnant, they are in need of and proactively seeking help for themselves and their unborn child. Compassion is key when dealing with women and young girls whose situations have left them scared, possibly financially incapable, and many times, alone.<\/p>\n
\nI mentioned #GamerGate briefly in my last post, and no doubt some readers were thinking “wait, that’s still going on?”<\/p>\n
\nA Kenyan lawyer is offering President Obama quite the livestock dowry to marry first daughter Malia.<\/p>\n
\nThe gay Oxford theological historian and presenter of the BBC\u2019s Sex and the Church said the hatred of western culture reaches far and wide and can be seen in Boko Haram in Africa, in the Middle East and in Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n
\nA student diversity officer caught in the centre of a racism row is to keep her job after a petition calling her for to be removed from her position failed.<\/p>\n
\nDemocratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, a Democratic candidate for president of the United States, can’t seem to figure out how to get himself out from under the controversy he generated by the discovery of an essay he wrote in 1972 that describes women’s rape fantasies.<\/p>\n
\nAnother shining moment in Democratic Party history…<\/p>\n
\nChristopher Driscoll is a visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Lehigh University and founder of the “Critical Approaches to Hip Hop and Religion” group within the American Academy of Religion.<\/p>\n
\nWho would benefit?<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThe world\u2019s largest economy hit a bigger ditch in the first quarter than initially estimated, held back by harsh winter weather, a strong dollar and delays at ports.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nA case of alleged animal abuse in the far west of New South Wales has led to debate about whether sheep can comprehend human speech.<\/p>\n
\nVery interesting first day of the new Parliament in Britain this morning, where some Labourites expressed their anger at the SNP\u2014the Scottish nationalists who crushed Labour\u2019s former stronghold up north and threaten to make Labour a permanent minority party\u2014but which culminated in the Speaker of the House upbraiding the new SNP members for not being ready for prime time.<\/p>\n
\nWe have chronicled the accelerating decline of Venezuela\u2019s economy under its narco-socialist rulers. When a country can neither produce nor buy toilet paper, you know the end is approaching. Now, Venezuela\u2019s international reserves are disappearing, as its currency implodes. <\/p>\n
\nAllegations of corruption within the senior ranks of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) have exploded once again following the arrest of several officials, including one Vice President of FIFA, in Switzerland. The suspects, alleged to have accepted bribes and kickbacks in exchange for media deals associated with major football tournaments totalling in excess of US$100 million (\u00a365 million), now face extradition to the United States where the crimes are alleged to have been organised.<\/p>\n
\n“The foreigners were taken to an INM office in Cancun to be identified and proceed to consular notifications before starting the administrative process for repatriation to their respective home countries.”<\/p>\n
\nBirth certificates are so not inclusive.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nLike it or not \u2013 probably not, in Mozilla\u2019s case \u2013 there is a rather large proportion of the population that does not like having social policy dripped on their technology. And a nontrivial percentage of techies are either social conservatives themselves, or have an actual problem with seeing social conservatives get defecated upon by the current in-crowd. This probably wouldn\u2019t have mattered, when it came to Mozilla: except that people who ragequit Firefox on principle were typically shocked to discover that it had become a raddled piece of bloatware while they weren\u2019t looking. Certainly I was. And I wasn\u2019t and am not shy about saying so.<\/p>\n
\nNow that her 15 minutes of fame are up, what is to become of “Mattress Girl,” the Columbia University student who became famous after accusing a man of rape?<\/p>\n
\nThe Boy Scouts have banned throwing water balloons and pointing water guns at each other. What\u2019s left for them to lose?<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s a good thing<\/p>\n
\nThe greatest country God gave man<\/p>\n
\nAnd if women are actually men’s equals, their response to language isn’t filing suit — or trying to bring down a man’s career through social media because he makes a joke.<\/p>\n
\nOur first installment in this series took note of the NY Times op-ed by Adam Marcus, managing editor of Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News, and Ivan Oransky, global editorial director of MedPage Today (both are co-founders of retractionwatch.com), but now they\u2019re back with another, longer piece at Nautilus that goes into more detail, and offers more shocking examples (such as the Japanese scientist who fabricated a whopping 183 papers that got published), about science fraud.<\/p>\n
\nOver the last few years, the gay marriage movement has transformed from “equality for all” to “bake me a cake.” As it picks up steam, the movement looks more and more totalitarian, both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
\n@GretaChristina is a middle-aged bisexual feminist cat lady atheist blogger. Wait \u2014 no, I have not verified that she and her wife Ingrid Nelson actually own cats, but what are the odds, right? However, there is no need to speculate about Greta Christina\u2019s feminism, her atheism or her role as “co-founder and co-organizer of Godless Perverts.”<\/p>\n
\nRichard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, the pre-eminent medical journal that was stung by one of the worst science frauds of the last decade (Andrew Wakefield\u2019s phony vaccine-autism link paper), has a fascinating note reporting on the conversations at a recent conference of scientists in the UK about the problems of scientific review.<\/p>\n
\nWe began this new occasional series with the story of the Science magazine study about how people changed their mind on gay marriage based on a short conversations with a real live gay people, but in which the data was faked by the graduate student co-author, Michael LaCour.<\/p>\n
\nThe GOP should turn its attention to prosecutorial misconduct.<\/p>\n
\nThe so- called “cardinal sins”, more colloquially know as the Seven Deadly Sins, have been used in a Christian setting as a cautionary tale for millenia now. These sins are Anger, Denial, Bargaining Depression and Acceptance. No wait, those are the stages of death from All That Jazz. The sins are Sh**, Piss, F***, See You Next Tuesday, Co******er, Mf-er and Tits. No, my mistake, those are the seven words you can’t say on TV. I’ve got it: Umoja, Kujichagulia,Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani. Darn it, those are the principles of Kwanza. Hmm. Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting and Pilgrimage? Nope, those would be the Pillars of Islam. Dag nab it, I’ve got look these up. Sins….sins…of commission…of omission….of the fathers….ah! Here we are: seven deadly. Greed, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth, Wrath and Pride. Gosh, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with those.<\/p>\n
\n“Mattress Girl” Symbolizes What Some Desperately Want To Be True<\/p>\n
\nAmericans voting with their feet.<\/p>\n
\nWe’ve seen it over and over again, as a movie clich\u00e9 or a silly cartoon: The man is caught in flagrante with another women and, defensively, says to his wronged spouse, \u201cWho are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?\u201d It is the ultimate definition of cognitive dissonance.<\/p>\n
\nJust a few more minutes and a few more clicks led me to piece after piece describing the “lack” of diversity in our country (from race to gender to weight and beyond), and the prevalence of some kind of privilege (usually white).<\/p>\n
\nI came across an interesting book review by Michael Jay in The London Review Of Books [tip of the fedora to Arts & Letters Daily] that inspired some reflections on the Madness in Revolutions.<\/p>\n
\nSitting with Jody Herman and Adam Romero before moderating them in a panel discussion on the importance of expanding data collection about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, Herman said something that was at once disturbing and hilarious. “Straight people don’t know they are straight,” she said.<\/p>\n
\nDid any readers take note of the recent stories appearing in the news media that eating chocolate is actually good for weight loss, such as the June issue of Shape magazine which ran an article entitled “Why You Must Eat Chocolate Daily”?<\/p>\n