Do Speed Cameras Actually Make Roads Safer?- A
new study by the non-profit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is
shedding light on the effectiveness of pesky speed cameras.
The Media and Criminal Justice - When discussing criminal justice issues, the
media often distorts reality.
Is it police brutality to treat male transvestite
prostitutes like men? - Male transvestite prostitutes and armed
robbers don't want to be called men.
Transgender sensitivity training for police officers
- The look on the faces of these police officers says it all as they face a
special diversity training in how to appropriately (PC) identify deceased
“transgender” individuals.
Democrats
Joe Biden woos Big Labor, ponders 2016 bid - Biden traveled to
Pittsburgh Monday to address a strongly union crowd at the Allegheny County
Labor Day Parade.
Biden on slow
wage growth: 'Something's wrong, folks' - Vice President Joe Biden
gave a labor-focused speech on Labor Day Monday in Pennsylvania. "It used
to be when productivity went up in America, everyone got a share," Biden
said. "Productivity went up 73 percent, but wages only went up 9 percent
... something's wrong, folks."
Joe Biden’s
yuck factor- With Biden in command, America will have a hands-on
president. That is not a good thing...
Joe Biden’s
mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! (Labor Day open thread) - There are only
about five days a year that I regret not having air conditioning in the house,
and this is one of them, so here’s an open thread while I float around in the
pool with a daiquiri lamenting the lack of ice and snow global warming hath
wrought...
Agency She
Headed Said No Problem - Hillary explains:
I don't need to apologize for private email server. Hillary Clinton said
in an interview with the Associated Press that her use of a private email
account was allowed by the State Department and the agency has confirmed that
to be true. She also continued to insist that she had neither received nor sent
classified information despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Hacker Claims
to Have 32,000 Hillary Emails and Will Sell for $500,000 - If this
is real, it's huge.
How one man has impacted the 2016 presidential election - The chairman of the House Select Committee on
Benghazi is altering the public's perception of Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state but takes no credit.
"What I will take credit for is we did something none of these other
exhaustive congressional investigations were able to do," Rep. Trey Gowdy,
South Carolina Republican, said. "But think for a second how sad that is.
Seven congressional investigations into Benghazi and not a one of them bothered
to ask for her emails?"
Consumers against Consumption - Jonathan David
CarsonThe moral superiority of people in poor countries is an old trick of
liberal hypocrites. They can think well of people as long as they are far away.
Education
The Idiocy of the ACLU's Lawsuit Against a New School
Choice Option - The ACLU lawsuit alleges that Nevada's new school
choice program "violates the Nevada Constitution's prohibition against the
use of public money for sectarian (religious) purposes."
Study: Kids Are Tossing Out the Government's Healthy
Lunch Program - A study published last week in Public Health Reports
found that while kids may be piling more fruits and vegetables onto their
plates as federal guidelines require, most are just tossing the healthy
additions into the trash.
Hiding Common
Core’s Damage: New SAT Won’t Allow Comparison To Prior Years’ Scores-
College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make
comparisons with past results impossible.
Terrible News
About 2015 SAT Results - The 2016 SAT will be totally aligned with
the Common Core, and there will be even less emphasis on grammar/usage.
Suggested
Common Core book stirs controversy - “Omnivore’s Dilemma” paints
farming very negatively, according to the New York Farm Bureau.
First Amendment
Teacher-blogger
cannot sue on free speech grounds, remains fired - ...she had
written a blog describing her students as “ratlike,” “lazy,” and “the devil’s
spawn,” to name a few examples.
Government Waste
Weekly Waste:
Does Mom Love the Dog More Than Me? - Ever wonder if mom loves the
kids or the dog more? Well the federal government was curious so they wasted
your tax money trying to find out. In our first, weekly waste post we examine
the study and point out the lunacy of funding such a study.
Health and Medicine
The GrowingMedicaid Expansion Bubble- The
majority of controversial issues involving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have
stemmed from its mandate that all people have health insurance or else face a
fine (or is it a tax?) and its transformation of the U.S. health insurance
system from a largely private marketplace to a government-manipulated,
exchange-based market. While both issues are tremendously important, one of the
most damaging Obamacare provisions – the expansion of Medicaid – has largely
gone unnoticed by the general public. Despite the lack of attention the issue
is getting, the growing Medicaid population could lead to state government
meltdowns around the country and a national health care crisis for which most
Americans are completely unprepared
New Jersey Caught Improperly Billing Medicaid to the
Tuenof 32.2 Million Dollars - The state improperly billed $32.2
million for home health services it could not document over a 3-1/2-year-period
and should return the money to the federal government, according to a U.S.
Office of Inspector General report released Monday. A random audit of 100
claims submitted from 2008 to 2011 found 17 to be in error because they did not
contain proper documentation, according to the report. The deficiencies
included nurses not making required visits, companies using untrained home
health aides, and failing to maintain patient files. Based on this error rate,
investigators estimated the state Department of Human Services would have
improperly overbilled for $32.2 million, or about 8 percent of the $393 million
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services paid New Jersey to provide
home care to elderly and disabled homebound residents, according to the audit
Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Gilead Is
Being Demonized - But They're Saving Lives - Of the 673 HIV-negative
gay men in San Francisco who participated in a study of the prophylactic
efficacy of Gilead's Truvada, all 673 remained uninfected two years later,
despite lower condom use by gay men. Gilead also came up with the first cure
for hepatitis C. Yet, the company is routinely demonized.
First
Biosimilar Launched - So Where Is The Savings? - Novartis has
ushered in "a new era in U.S. medicine" with the launch of the first
biosimilar, a copy of a drug approved in the United States called Neupogen,
which is a white blood cell booster for chemotherapy patients that was invented
by Amgen.
Gluten
sensitivity: Real condition or nocebo? - People with celiac disease
must avoid gluten—a complex protein in wheat, barley and rye, but what about
those without the disease who say gluten affects their health? Do they have a
real condition or are their symptoms just nocebos? A new study supports the
reality of the condition.
Homosexuality
Like No-Fault Divorce, Gay Marriage Will Change Our
Relationships Culture - First, children's needs will become more
easily set aside or redefined.
Immigration
‘Just wait…’ Islamic State reveals it has smuggled
THOUSANDS of Jihadis into Europe - In February, the Islamic State threatened
to send hundreds of thousands Muslim migrants in a “psychological” attack
against the West. Soft jihad — and then hard jihad. Europe, then America.
Obama’s“junior varsity team” — and we are going to believe him on Iran’s
nuclear weapons program? In July
2014, the caliph (leader) of the Islamic State vowed that Rome would be
conquered next. Muslims were called to flock to the Islamic State to gather for
a battle against non-believers throughout the world. Lest we forget,back
in May, I reported that the Islamic State was making a fortune smuggling
Muslim “migrants” into Europe….
Bill Required
700 Miles of Double Layer Fencing- DHS: Only 36 miles of the
1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border has effective fencing.
In answers to Senate questions, the Department of
Homeland Security revealed just how little fencing has been erected on the
southern border despite a congressional bank account of $2.5 billion, writes
the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard.
Middle East
Plight Ignored
By An Indifferent West - Christianity
predates Islam by hundreds of years. Yet as Islamic fanatics continue to wreak
havoc across the region, killing Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Christians face
genocide or "religious cleansing" in the land of their religion's
birthplace.
Obama Plays Political Games While the Kurds Face
Destruction - It would seem only logical that those who have done
the most with the lease would eventually receive more support. When we are
sending millions of dollars’ worth of equipment and ammunition to Iraq and the
Iraqi army will not stand. You would imagine we would demand that some of that
equipment would go to the army in Iraq that has inflicted the most damage on
ISIS. But, this is not the case. It seems that everyone in the Middle East is
pulling against the only force taking the fight to ISIS. Washington Times reports
Is Davis Just
the Beginning? Democrat Leader Turns Her Back on Israel to Support Obama-
Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is a raging liberal ideologue who
only speaks in talking points, so it shouldn’t have surprised us when she
announced that she would be turning her back on her fellow Jews in order to
support Obama’s fairytale foreign policy. Wasserman Schultz told CNN’s Jake
Tapper that she would be “casting my vote to support the deal and if
necessary to sustain the president’s veto. As a Jewish mother… there is nothing
more important to me as a Jew than to ensure Israel’s existence throughout the
generations and I am confident that the process I have gone through is one that
will ensure that Israel will be there forever.” Her Jewish constituents
should repay her traitorous vote by voting her out of office the next time she
comes up for election.
Planned Parenthood
Report: Planned Parenthood Has Failed to Report Sexual
Abuse - Alliance Defending Freedom compiled a report that chronicles
"decades" of failure by Planned Parenthood to report sexual abuse.
Political Correctness
America’s Toxic Brew: “Diversity” -
...destruction of our once great nation through the insidious evil known as
“political correctness”.
Hiring more minority teachers in schools
gives fairer perception of discipline - ...schools with a higher number of
minority teachers are more likely to believe discipline from school
Republicans
Will Boehner's Leadership Be Challenged? Conservative
Lawmaker Says It Depends on Budget, Planned Parenthood - When the
last vote for House speaker was held in January, 25 Republicans did not cast
votes for John Boehner. Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., said he believes that more
Republicans—and their constituents—are now unhappy with leadership’s actions.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying that there
will be no effort to force a government shutdown over funding for Planned
Parenthood or anything else.”
Budget
Bacchanal 2015 - There is $650
billion in annual documented waste that could guide budget cuts.
If Republicans
can’t get at least 20 ads out of this Hillary sound bite they’re doing it wrong
-Just imagine how bad the truth must be for a
SmartestInTheWorld™ Clinton running for president to realize that “I wasn’t
thinking”is the best approach to fielding questions about her homebrew server,
as well as the “pleading the Fifth” IT helper who set it up...
Turns Out The
Base Doesn't Mind His Heresies -
N.Y. Times' Krugman defends Trump-onomics. Liberal columnist Paul Krugman has
written to reinforce some Donald Trump tenets that break from Republican
orthodoxy. Unlike his fellow GOP contenders, Trump has shown a willingness to
raise taxes on the wealthy. "Mr. Trump, who is self-financing, didn't need
to genuflect to the big money," Krugman wrote.
Trump Doing
Better With Minorities Than Expected-
Trump leads Hillary Clinton in poll and gets 25 percent among blacks - A new
national poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton 45 to 40 percent.
"Clearly even as Clinton's unfavorables are going up, Trump's are going
down," writes the Washington Examiner's Michael Barone. "But the
biggest news in the SurveyUSA poll is its results for the 'non-white' or
'people of color' bloc."
Is Trumpism supplanting Reaganism? - He leads in all the polls — there’s no
point linking them all because it isn’t very close in any of them. And neither
his opponents’ attacks nor his own obnoxious behavior have proven capable of
stopping him. So the question this week: Can Donald
Trump be stopped? Can the GOP stop him? Can the Democrats stop
him? And for the long haul, can conservatives prevent Trumpism from eclipsing
and dismantling the Reagan coalition? This is going to be a very important
question going forward.
Carson and Fiorina Surging in New National
Poll - They're in prime position for the next debate.
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