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Skip The governor and GOP leadership also want to make it easier to get occupational licenses in fields ranging from athletic trainer to well pump installer, with a bill to create an agency with oversight of occupational licensing, now handled by a variety of state boards, commissions and departments. (H/T: Big Government)
Or just send in a bigger check as a “donation”. After all, hasn’t the Left said for years that bigger taxes is Patriotic? But I just don’t understand – they all clamor for higher taxes but just don’t voluntarily send it in themselves. What does it say about the mental stability of the Left that … Read more
Democrat donor to pump $30 million into winning U.S. House
Democrat Tom Steyer, who has spent millions on national ads calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, will spend $30 million this year trying to get members of his party elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to win control of the chamber from Republicans, he announced on Monday.
A great definition of “Social Justice”: “Social Justice” claims to be about fairness, which is a highly desirable outcome. But the term is a manipulative Newspeak euphemism for envy, revenge and oppression. What social justice actually does is crush people into group identities which have been assigned favored and non-favored status by power hungry establishment … Read more
Answers after the jump.
Data released by Wells Fargo — which surveyed 2,300 adults — in October sheds some light on four basic financial questions that people couldn’t answer.
Which of the following statements describes the main function of the stock market?
A) The stock market brings people who want to buy stocks together with people who want to sell stocks.
B) The stock market helps predict stock earnings
C) The stock market results in an increase in the price of stocks
D) None of the above
E) Not sureIf you had $100 in a savings account and the interest rate was 2 percent per year, after 5 years, how much do you think you would have in the account if you left the money to grow?
A) Exactly $102
B) Less than $102
C) More than $102
D) Not sure
SHOT: Romney about Russia
“This is without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world’s worst actors”
CHASER: Obama
And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.
HANGOVER: The CDC will brief the public on preparing for nuclear war
Next he’ll tell us that if the earth cools, it will cause hot weather —> https://t.co/SOOJZMjl7B — Brit Hume (@brithume) January 6, 2018 Hey Brit where did you get your climate science degree? — Nancy J (@nardwein) January 7, 2018 Same place Al Gore got his. https://t.co/F3nlGRCNRl — Brit Hume (@brithume) January 7, 2018 HEH! … Read more
Apparently, this is all bad news if you’re a member of the Democratic Party. The agenda of getting poorer together is getting upset by the Trump White House. (H/T: Townhall)
(H/T: Powerline)
https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/946490492354621445 (H/T: Powerline)
SHOT: Trump, during the campaign trail, asking black to vote for him “What the hell do you have to lose?” (e.g., what have the Democrats done for you lately?) CHASER: The alleged “Racist!” President has delivered for the black community Black unemployment fell to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest ever recorded by the U.S. … Read more
The problem is that I doubt this is an isolated incident:
If you are thinking of building a bridge, be careful if your engineer went to Purdue University. Donna Riley, the head of the engineering department at Purdue, has put the world on notice that “rigor” is a dirty word. In an article for Engineering Education called “Rigor/Us: Building Boundaries and Disciplining Diversity with Standards of Merit,” Professor Riley, who is also the author of Engineering and Social Justice, argues that academic “rigor” is merely a blind for “white male heterosexual privilege.” Yes, really. . . . Professor Riley’s gibberish is meant in earnest. Her essay appears not in a science fiction journal or a publication intended for the denizens of a sanatorium but a journal concerned with science. This woman is the head of a department of engineering in an institution of higher education. The moral is, we suppose, that things are always worse than they seem.
Once again, it goes back to measurement – surprise, surprise (after the jump):
SHOT: We need more diversity because MORE ADMINISTRATION!!!!
Read through the official DEI materials and you soon feel overwhelmed by inspiring platitudes and glossy pictures of smiling minorities. As I noted in an earlier Michigan Review article, the administration has a nasty habit of hiding potentially controversial policy decisions deep in a matrix of feel-good fluff and pages of meaningless drivel, such as:
Your passion for making us better, your belief that all individuals deserve an equal opportunity to succeed and your unwavering dedication to the highest aspirations of our university.
Whether DEI will accomplish that is questionable, but the plan certainly succeeded in adding new positions within the administration, including the vice provost for equity, inclusion, and academic affairs. According to UM Salary, the University of Michigan’s open salary database, the provost earned $385,000 during the 2016-2017 school year.
Read the rest – if you have even a passing interest in SJW disruption in higher education, you’ll at least want to speed read through this.
So which do you prefer: safe spaces or “Blazing Saddles”? (H/T: Powerline)
(H/T: Lucianne)
SHOT: uber-Progressive Keith Ellison, Democrat Congressman (D-MN) and DNC Deputy Chair endorses Antifa
https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/948657342308147202
Antifa is a far-left group that uses violence to achieve progressive political ends, including starting riots and fires at the University of California, Berkeley. While the group claims to be anti-Fascist, they routinely shut down the speech of people they disagree with. Antifa clashed with far-right protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year…According to Bray, it is acceptable to use violence against “fascism” because what he considers to be fascist ideas — like those shared by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous — aren’t worthy of debate.
CHASER: Antifa Website Posts Directions for Sabotaging ATMs After Anarchists ‘Wreck’ Nearly 20 in Portland
Yep, still unwinding the stack and will be for quite some time. Couldn’t let this one go by without a quick thought and glad to see that Chris Sununu put a stake into this gawd-awful idea that Republican (you know, the Party of LESSER and cheaper government??) Executive Councilor Russell Prescott wanted to raise the tolls simply to speed up already planned highway fixes (if you’d stop raiding the Highway fund* you’da been there by now):
Gov. Sununu says he won’t allow highway toll increase
This has been sitting in my stack of stuff since mid-December, so it’s time to FIFO the stack. Our Democrat Congressional Coven just can’t seem to let go of the idea that Government has to do everything for everybody at every time. Especially troubling to them is if Government ratchets up the regulatory environment, it can NEVER EVER be loosened.
Like with Net Neutrality.
Back from Dec 19th (updated based on the passage of the Federal Tax Reform bill): We no sooner get the Obamacare Individual Mandate jackboot off of our healthcare necks via the Tax Reform Act than this Republican Senate Jackal, US Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would be HAPPY to see the States turn around and put in their own Individual Mandates.
What the h*ll is he thinking, given that they promised to get rid of Obamacare.
This is a bit long at a little over 15 minutes – but who’da thunk of all these types of records: bizarre! Yes, an easy day for me today – just taking it easy and wiping up the Grandson’s upchucking (yeah, I forgot about having to have to do this 30 odd years ago for … Read more