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A landmark due process case that led to an appeals court ruling that students need to be able to cross-examine their accusers and witnesses against them has come to an end, with the university and the accused student reaching a settlement.
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After defending Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for months against Republican criticism over his office’s failed handling of the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the left-leaning Sun Sentinel editorial board published a lengthy editorial Wednesday on "the failed leadership of Broward Sheriff Scott Israel" that explains why they now agree
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Participation ribbons were also handed out.
Hempstead, New York, officials, citing concerns for the safety of children, not only warned parents off buying toy guns as gifts this Christmas — but also took the over-the-top step of hosting a toy gun buyback event.
Welcome to the new USA, home of the pansies. Summer camps, for crying out loud, used to provide BB guns to kids to fire at mounted balloons.
Now we’re confiscating squirt guns and foam-firing plastic rifles?
“We don’t want the kids playing with guns,” said Hempstead Village Trustee LaMont Jackson to WABC-TV. “Guns are dangerous.”
Yes. But toy guns are not. They’re, um, toys.
“Saying no to guns is important,” Hempstead Village Mayor Don Ryan chimed in, the Blaze reported. “Even toy guns.”
Well, if safety is a factor, then saying no to knives would seem important, too.
The FBI found 40 murders due to knives or cutting instruments occurred in Arizona in 2016; in California, that statistic stood at 280. Other states saw varying rates of murder-by-knife that year, ranging from 20 in Kentucky to 48 in Georgia to 52 in Maryland.
Death by bicycling is a biggie, too.
“In 2015,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported, “over 1,000 bicyclists died and there were almost 467,000 bicycle-related injuries.”
While adults between the ages of 50 to 59 suffer the highest death rate due to bicycling, children between the ages of 5 and 14, as well as young teens between the ages of 15 and 19, “have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle-related injuries,” the CDC reported.
Shouldn’t something be done here?
Surely, a bike buyback program is warranted.
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Some people want to put Christ back in Christmas.
Not Facebook.
They blurred out the image on the LifeSite Facebook page.
Facebook later allowed the “offensive” image to be seen following protest by Christians.
Of course, far left Snopes argues that the image was censored despite visual proof.
Saint Nicholas is a Catholic Saint born in the 3rd Century.
Lifesite News reported:
Facebook has covered over a posting of a picture of Santa Claus kneeling before the Baby Jesus, warning viewers that the photo “may show violent or graphic content.”
A second warning beneath the obscured image of Santa on bended knee, reverentially adoring the Christ Child states, “This photo was automatically covered so you can decide if you want to see it.”
Users can click on a button to uncover the photo.
Facebook explains on its site what it means by “Violence and graphic content:”
“We also know that people have different sensitivities with regard to graphic and violent content. For that reason, we add a warning label to especially graphic or violent content so that it is not available to people under the age of eighteen and so that people are aware of the graphic or violent nature before they click to see it,” the social media giant states.
“We err on the side of allowing content, even when some find it objectionable,” declares Facebook’s community standards, saying it does so in order to maintain a “safe environment” for its “Facebook community.”
It remains unclear why the image of Baby Jesus and Santa was deemed by Facebook to be “violent and graphic content.”
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President Trump has harshly criticized the Federal Reserve in recent weeks for inching up the standard interest rate to guard against rising inflation and threatening the four percent economic growth rate the billionaire likes to brag about.
Here’s another reason: The higher interest rates on your credit card balances and car loans also apply to the federal government’s borrowing.
That federal borrowing is huge, no, HUGE –about one million dollars every single minute of every single day.
By next Monday that adds up to about $955 billion this year. And another more than a trillion dollars each of the next two years, at least. Every time the Fed’s interest rate goes up a quarter-point, the government’s interest payments surge by millions.
Last year alone just the national debt’s interest costs of $263 billion consumed 6.6 percent of all government spending and 1.4 percent of the nation’s gross national product. That huge sum is actually below the historical average of recent decades.
But wait! There’s more. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the interest payments will surpass Medicaid costs within 18 months and that they will exceed all national defense spending by 2023.
By 2025, the CBO figures interest costs will surge past the combined totals of all non-defense discretionary programs together, including funding for national parks, scientific research, health care, education, the court system and infrastructure.
Between now and 2023 nearly three-quarters of the federal debt will mature and must be refinanced at whatever the presumably higher interest rates are in effect then.
Somebody needs credit counseling. And the outlook, sadly, is grim. Democrats take control of the House of Representatives next week. They have big spending plans, or at least big talk about big spending plans, for the 96-week-long propaganda run-up to the 2020 election.
Even if Donald Trump was a fiscal conservative, he might be tempted to sign some of those big spending ideas as bargaining sweeteners for Democrat agreement to his border wall and other political priorities. That’s another cost of the divided government Americans chose to elect last month.
Other than that, as you can see on the rapidly-spinning National Debt Clock here, everything seems completely under control.
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Venezuelan migrants travel aboard a truck in Tumbes, Peru, near the Ecuador border, on 1 November (AFP)
Venezuela’s economy desperately needs to be able to sell oil in order to survive. But Venezuela’s socialist dictators Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro have done what many might consider an almost impossible feat – turned the country with the largest oil reserves in the world into a country that cannot produce oil. Other “socialist paradise” countries – including China, Russia, East Germany, Cuba, and Sweden – have partially or completely turned to private markets as their economies spiraled into disaster, but only two countries in the world have not: Venezuela and North Korea. And both are economic disasters as a result.
In Venezuela, Maduro has fulfilled his socialist dreams by turning the country’s nationalized oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), over to army generals and other political cronies to run, lest some dirty capitalist make a profit on Venezuela’s oil. Well, Maduro has made sure that nobody is making money on Venezuela’s oil, including Venezuela.
Oil accounts for about 98 percent of Venezuela’s export revenue and, in November 2017, Maduro put Major General Manuel Quevedo in charge of PDVSA, in the hope of stopping its collapse.
Quevedo is a Maduro crony but knows nothing about the oil industry. In July, Quevedo joined his wife, a Catholic priest, and a gathering of oil workers in prayer to ask God to boost oil output. Prayer is a great management technique, but unfortunately, God was not listening this time. The collapse has continued, and production has dropped 20 percent since Quevedo took over, and is now at the lowest level in nearly 70 years.
And now there are reports that Maduro is thinking of firing Quevedo and replacing him with another army general who has no oil industry expertise. Ironically, Quevedo is scheduled in January to assume the rotating presidency of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for one year.
There is one subsidiary of PDVSA that that has increased oil production this year. Sinovensa is jointly owned by PDVSA and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), and it accounts for about 10 percent of Venezuela’s oil output.
China has lent over $50 billion to Venezuela through oil-for-loan agreements over the past decade. China has not been producing enough oil to make the debt repayments, and so this year China took over additional control of Sinovensa, and now owns 49 percent of the joint venture. The result is that oil production from Sinovensa increased 46 percent since April. Reuters and S&P Global and Hellenic Shipping and OilPrice.com
The problem of refugees fleeing from Venezuela into neighboring countries has become so massive that the United Nations refugee agency has created a Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) involving 95 organizations in 16 countries to respond to the humanitarian needs of the refugees and migrants from Venezuela.
Almost 3.3 million Venezuelans have fled into neighboring countries and beyond. This exodus is already the largest in the modern history of Latin America and the Caribbean and involves both refugees and migrants from Venezuela. UNHCR expects that another two million Venezuelans will flee in 2019, with the result that about 5.4 million Venezuelans, or 17 percent of the country’s total population, will be living abroad by the end of 2019.
The RMRP organizations are also asking for $738 million in financing in hopes of providing assistance to 2.2 million Venezuelans and 500,000 people in the host communities. The United States has earmarked more than $95 million in aid to Colombia, Brazil, and other host nations to deal with the Venezuelan crisis since fiscal year 2017.
It is interesting to compare Venezuela and North Korea. Both have devastated economies and enormous poverty. Both of them are supported by Russia and China. Both are international pariahs. There are some differences. Unlike North Korea, Venezuela does not have nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and people are permitted to leave the country without getting shot to death. Miami Herald and UNHCR and Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP, PDF)
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“And I am here because of you,” Trump replied.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders captured the moment. She tweeted after the visit:
“Powerful moment – Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded, ‘And I am here because of you.’ I met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. Incredible. #TrumpTroopsVisit”:
Powerful moment – Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded, “And I am here because of you.” I met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. Incredible. #TrumpTroopsVisit pic.twitter.com/WmQf3b2K8X
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 26, 2018
The soldier is unidentified, but according to the patch he gave Sanders, he serves with the 3rd Cavalry “Brave Rifles” Regiment from Fort Hood, Texas.
Trump’s visit to Al Asad was the first to a combat zone during his tenure. The first lady, Melania, visited the base with the president.
Troops greeted Trump with other expressions of appreciation. When he stepped on stage to address several hundreds of them, they broke out in applause, cheered, and chanted “USA!”
President @realDonaldTrump speaks to U.S. troops in Iraq. #TrumpTroopsVisit #USA pic.twitter.com/9CSdO8AwWD
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 26, 2018
Trump also visited the chow hall at Al Asad, where troops took selfies and photos with him:
🚨MOMENTS AGO: President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS Melania visiting troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq… pic.twitter.com/ZUPNZdbJ6w
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) December 26, 2018
.@FLOTUS Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! pic.twitter.com/rDlhITDvm1
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2018
Troops were all smiles as they posed with the president and first lady:
Al Asad Air Base, Iraq#TrumpTroopsVisit https://t.co/QiLAw3Ely4 pic.twitter.com/tA5IQagyYH
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) December 27, 2018
Trump next visited Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. There, some troops brought red “Make America Great Again” hats for the president to sign. One female service member brought a “Trump” banner to greet the president with, according to pictures that the White House press pool, who traveled with the president to both bases, shared on Twitter:
Trump flag (she dropped it after she saw me taking a photo) pic.twitter.com/LhPwUNdEK3
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 27, 2018
Dozens could be seen taking selfies with the president:
🚨Happening Now: President Trump and First Lady Melania visiting troops at Ramstein Air Base in Germany… pic.twitter.com/s04nQZ8bf4
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) December 27, 2018
And yet even more:
Presidential selfieswith troops at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. #TrumpTroopsVisit🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/wUUzC1gd0B
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) December 27, 2018
Trump concluded his visit by saying he was honored to visit the “incredible” troops at Al Asad and Germany:
.@FLOTUS Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! pic.twitter.com/rDlhITDvm1
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2018
Just returned from visiting our troops in Iraq and Germany. One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country – people that know how to win!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018
“One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country – people that know how to win!” he tweeted.
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All three are connected. The alternative media, which the public now relies on to debunk the hysteria of the establishment press, has faced a sustained attack by the masters of the universe in Silicon Valley, who have either banned them from their platforms or undercut their traffic with algorithm changes. Meanwhile, the tech titans pour money into the corporate press, propping up the old media elites even as they crush their competition.
Democrats, still determined to cast the President’s election as illegitimate two years after the fact, still harp on about Russia, even as more evidence reveals how minuscule and meaningless Putin’s election “influence operation” really was. Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently told Congress that his company discovered just $4,700 in ad spending from Russia-linked accounts in 2016.
Those same Democrats ridicule conservative complaints of tech censorship as a conspiracy theory, even when leaks from the tech companies themselves prove that it’s happening. “The Good Censor,” an internal Google briefing leaked to me earlier this year admits point-blank that the tech giants “shifted towards censorship” after 2016. It seems Google’s own researchers disagree with the Democrats’ defense of the company. That’s to be expected — Google pays its researchers to tell it the truth. It pays Congressional Democrats for other reasons.
You don’t need leaks to discern Silicon Valley’s bias, though. You can just look at the tech platform’s actions. In the past year alone, we saw the following blacklistings, representing only the most prominent of those to feel Silicon Valley’s wrath.:
The censorship wasn’t contained to just activists, the alternative media, and influencers. Even mainstream politicians felt the heat — Facebook and Google refused to carry campaign ads for Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn, echoing a similar decision by Twitter a year earlier. Facebook also temporarily blocked an anti-communist ad by Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng. Most egregious of all — the social network blocked a midterm ad by President Donald Trump just days before the November elections.
Midway through the year, top Republicans including GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and congressman Matt Gaetz also discovered that their account had been suppressed in Twitter’s search results. Axios reporter Jonathan Swan admitted that the revelation made him “rethink” his previously-held belief that tech censorship was just a “conspiracy theory.”
After 2018’s tidal wave of censorship, can anyone still believe that?
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to allumbokhari@protonmail.com.
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The 64-year-old actor will have his song “Out of the Box” featured in the upcoming crowdfunded film No Safe Spaces, produced by comedian Adam Carolla and conservative talk show host Dennis Prager. The film dives deep into the suppression of free speech on college campuses and other key institutions.
“It’s not just Hollywood. Our whole culture has become intolerant,” Quaid told The New York Post, explaining that his song is mainly about “being open to other points of view and not mindlessly giving yourself over to an ‘ism.’”
“I don’t give myself to any party or ism,” Quaid said. “I don’t march lock step with anything or anybody except for God and the values my mom taught me back in Texas. So if a president does great things I can acknowledge that no matter his party. I’ve voted for candidates from both parties and I’m a registered independent.”
Earlier this month, Quaid weighed in on the debate surrounding the film “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” which some progressives denounced as promoting rape and sexual harassment.
“It’s kind of innocent, really,” Quaid said of the controversy. “It was written in the ’40s, and there’s nothing predatory about it. It’s sort of just the relationship between men and women, you know? That’s all.”
No Safe Spaces, which features commentary from the commentators including Van Jones, Alan Dershowitz, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Cornel West, and Tim Allen, will be released in Spring 2019.
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