Steve MacDonald

Monday the UK Independent published the following headline. “Global warming doubles size of forest fires in US West, study finds.”

Global warming has caused the area affected by forest fires in the western United States to double over the last 30 years – and the problem will continue to get worse until the trees start to run out, according to new research.

Well of course it did. The “study” (see the image above) cherry picked it’s starting point. Had the editors been honest they’d have accurately reported that forest fire acreage burned in the US is down roughly 400% in the age of Man-Made ‘Global Warming.’

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A law in Massachusetts meant to require the public to provide a broad range of access and accommodation to anyone claiming to be a transgender went into effect October 1st.

Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a suit to block the law.

The ADF contends in the lawsuit that churches would be forced to open changing rooms, shower facilities and restrooms based on perceived gender identity and not on biological sex. The group says because the law also prohibits covered entities from making statements intended to discriminate or to incite others to do so, Healey and the commission “also intend to force churches and pastors to refrain from religious expression regarding sexuality that conflicts with the government’s views.”

A few weeks ago I spoke with Dustin Siggins about the new law and the footnotes in the guidance issued by the state make it clear that churches could be in the crosshairs.

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Prager U’s videos have had over 70 million views. YouTube/Google, have decided a few of them should be restricted. Prager U released this press release today about the problem with a link to their petition to get the videos unrestricted. We’ve posted a good number of their videos here, so FYI…

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As Trump being Trump trumps Hillary being Hillary. As we traverse a media landscape where destroying the lives of women who have accused your husband of rape is less concerning than just badmouthing them. Republicans need only remember that US Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has already given you and Donald Trump out, assuming you want one.

While not exactly answering a Question about something Hillary Clinton did, Sen. Shaheen said,

“Look, it doesn’t matter whether you support that or not. The fact is, that’s in the past…”

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Concord, NH – Today, Senator Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) issued the following statement after learning there are $3.7 million in unspent funds for Developmental Disabilities Waitlist in FY 16, with 166 citizens still waiting for services according to the latest dashboard issued in July. This information came to light as part of the Agency Requests submitted last week.

“I can’t understand how nearly $3.7 million was unspent for developmental services out of an $8.7 million budget. It is truly disgraceful that the DD-waitlist still exists, considering it should have been eliminated altogether after Governor Hassan’s budget veto was overridden, and there were funds that went unspent in FY 16.The budget provided fully funded the amount the Department of Health and Human Services determined was necessary to eliminate the waitlist and provide services to all eligible individuals with developmental disabilities.”

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In a recent survey of warehouse workers,

An overwhelming 87.5% of respondents prefer PTO (Paid time Off) over the equivalent in pay increases—a reminder, if nothing else perhaps, of the importance of work/life balance.

Fight for Fifteen might want to consider fighting for days off instead of for higher hourly wages.

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The Duke Women’s Center has launched a 9-week course titled, The Duke Men’s Project, 

“”…for “male-identified” students that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, “the language of dominance,” rape culture, pornography, machismo and other topics.””

Clinton Family History is probably not included under “other topics” but would make an excellent edition under the heading: “Destroying the lives of women who have been sexually abused by your charismatic and well-connected husband so that you can ride his coattails to positions of political power.”

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Conservative commentator Rachel Alexander exposes an Obama double standard applied to protesters on federal land. Peaceful Ranchers, bad. Violent Environmentalists, good. Jerry Delemus sits in jail. These protesters are exercising their free speech rights. Listen now. (Audio 10 min. 27 sec.)

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Lawrence Schonbrun is a Lawyer working to educate people about Class Action Lawsuit abuse and how the courts and politicians are letting law firms milk generational wealth for themselves at the expense of those they claim to be representing.

*This is something of a programming change. I am going to try to post interviews the day after I do them, then compile them together each week into a single weekly podcast.

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