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News/Politics 2-24-14

What’s interesting in the news today?

Open thread, with a few to start things off.

1. That didn’t take long. 🙂

From Breitbart  “Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst issued a letter to Secretary of State Nandita Berry today urging her office to immediately turn over all complaints of Battleground Texas’ violations of election law to Attorney General Greg Abbott. The scandal was revealed after Breitbart Texas released the latest James O’Keefe undercover video on what appeared to be a Battleground Texas illegal voter data-mining operation to help elect Wendy Davis.”

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2. Good. Answers for these families is long overdue.

From TheHill  “A congressional panel on Thursday will hold a hearing on a mysterious helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit.

Many questions about the Aug. 6, 2011 attack, which killed 30 Americans, will be asked during the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who heads the panel, told The Hill that the hearing is aimed at getting answers from the Pentagon and “honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.””

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3. Why am I not shocked? 🙄

From CNSNews  “The FCC may have suspended its invasion into American newsrooms, but the controversial “Critical Information Needs” study also has George Soros’ fingerprints all over it.

While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros’ gave more than $52 million to media organizations from 2000-2010.

Two schools were working with FCC on the project, according to Byron York of The Washington Examiner. The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy, were tasked by the FCC with coming up with criteria for what information is “critical” for Americans to have. The FCC study would have covered newspapers, websites, radio and television, according to The Washington Post.

On top of the 1st Amendment problems with this proposal, the schools involved have strong ties to liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and have gotten more than $1.8 million from since 2000.”

All the usual suspects.

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4. If the Democrats really wanna stop “income inequality”, perhaps they should stop causing it. 😯

From TruthRevolt  “The Brookings Institution used 2012 Census data to determine the most income unequal cities in America — and their study found that from LA to Atlanta, cities with liberal governments are also the ones with the largest divide between the poor and the rich. Alan Barube, the report’s author, found that cities with vast income differences will have issues with education, job creation and middle class families leaving. He also points out that with President Obama and other Democrats pushing the agenda of an increased minimum wage and President Obama directly addressing income inequality, these statistics could have a political impact.

Los Angeles is one of the top 10 cities in America for income inequality, with the top 5% earning 12 times more than the bottom 20% of residents. New York City (which has largely been governed by liberals, with the exception of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani), Oakland (known for its high crime rates), Washington (which has had issues with bad public education and strict gun laws), and Chicago (run by the Daleys and then Rahm Emanuel) ranked alongside LA. 

The data shows that the income disparity is even greater in San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston and Miami. Miami, FL has had a mix of Republican and Democratic mayors — but San Francisco, Atlanta and Boston have historically had Democrats at the helm.”

More here from TheSpokesman-Review

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5. This would be funny, if it were satire. But it’s not….

From TheNYPost  “These kids should learn write from wrong.

Earlier this month, The Post exposed a scheme at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers in which failing students could get full credit without attending class, but instead watch video lessons and take tests online. One social-studies teacher had a roster of 475 students in all grades and subjects.

Red-faced administrators encouraged a student letter-writing campaign to attack The Post and defend its “blended learning” program. Eighteen kids e-mailed to argue that their alma mater got a bad rap. Almost every letter was filled with spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.”

“A junior wrote: “What do you get of giving false accusations im one of the students that has blended learning I had a course of English and I passed and and it helped a lot you’re a reported your support to get truth information other than starting rumors . . .”

As another student pointed out, these kids are the future of NY City and the country. Oh boy.

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19 thoughts on “News/Politics 2-24-14”

  1. The truth will never be published becsuse all the evidence leads to a betrayal of Afghan troops. We can’t work with people who hate us, no matter what color the uniform.

    They always want income equality for those other guys.
    They want to equalize everyhone’s income line AlGore wants to reduce carbon emission.
    That is, for other people.

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  2. Well, if USC was behind it, no wonder there was a purge of UCLA stories . . . [joke]
    No joke. 😦

    I cannot comment on SEAL situations. I’ve been monitored by Naval intelligence for two years.

    It’s important to remember that LA incorporates an enormous swatch of area–lots of people–so you’d statistically see a wide disparity in income. Remember, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Malibu are considered part of Los Angeles.

    The others cities listed have large populations as well.

    San Francisco, BTW, has never in my adulthood been an affordable place to live. The people who live there, however, feel guilty about it.

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  3. I’m just glad to see a list of bad places where the South doesn’t occupy most of the top ten. There is only Miami. which doesn’t count because everyone knows south Florida is not Southern and Atlanta, which is where southern young people go to live until they get over their liberal phase.

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  5. Interesting piece about the efforts via petition & Twitter campaign to persuade newspapers not to run Krauthammer’s recent column on global warming.

    Why the rush to silence anyone who disagrees with the accepted (PC) position? Seems illiberal to me.

    From Howard Kurtz: “(Krauthammer challenges) the notion that the science on climate change is settled and says those who insist otherwise are engaged in ‘a crude attempt to silence critics and delegitimize debate.’

    “How ironic, then, that some environmental activists launched a petition urging the Post not to publish Krauthammer’s column on Friday.

    “Their response to opinions they disagree with is to suppress the speech. …”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/24/heating-up-climate-change-advocates-try-to-silence-krauthammer/

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  9. The Same-sex wedding cake issue is not about refusing to serve certain clients. It is about not wishing to provide certain services. If a gay person came in and asked for a dozen cupcakes they would get them. But a Christian business person should have the right to say “We don’t make same-sex wedding cakes.” The same way a Jewish deli can refuse to sell someone a ham sandwich. A Christian caterer should no more be forced to do a gay wedding than they should be forced to carter a bachelor party with a stripper. Should a black photographer have to photograph a KKK meeting?

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  10. hwesseli from 2-22-2014

    “The MSM (including FOX) are corporate entities and they report what makes their corporations happy, advertisers happy and draws the highest ratings. In both politics and media, local sells.”

    How can anyone think MSNBC can be happy about their ratings or that the corporation is pleased with their advertising income? The only thing left is that their content is more important than ratings or income. Evidently not much sells on MSNBC.

    So yes, FOX is more “Fair and Balanced.”

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  11. FOX has had some sponsors boycotted away. That’s what got Glen Beck cancelled despite his ratings. Just part of the left’s campaign to silence dissent.

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  14. I may be just another conspiracist but, it seems to me that Obama and like-minded friends don’t really care if ObamaCare fails. If it does they think that they will be able to get government funded and controlled health care for all, you know, socialist health care. They have aimed for this all along.

    Everything that Democrats/liberals/socialists do is like a tug of war. They pull things a little their way, move their hands forward on the rope, move the middle a little their way and then claim the center of the rope has changed. Things never change back closer to the way things were. Change is always a one-way street. “Their way or the highway.”

    Most conservatives I know are willing to bargain, to meet in the middle, to give a little. Democrats/liberals/socialists not at all. They just move the middle. I despise them and their hypocrisy. They are liars and cheats. Republicans/conservatives occasionally lie and cheat but it is not who we are.

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  15. The problem is that conservatives have been willing to move to the middle. If you keep moving the middle left, you get into the situation we are now in.
    G.W. Bush was willing to go along with the Democrat Congress. See what happened to him.
    And to us.

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  16. Donna J, Thanks for the good article from first things.

    Chas, You lived many years when America was a great nation. I got to experience a few. I am home sick from work today and saw two great old movies on TCM: Test Pilot (1938) and Mighty Joe Young (1949). I always liked Ben Johnson. He kept the same wife his entire life and never went “Hollywood”.

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  17. 1. Afghan nation building was a failure a long time ago. NATO was much better off to just go in and out with a limited mission, ie Powell doctrine. The minute the US took their ball to Iraq the opposition became embolden and ever the so-called allies (Karazai) became more independent.

    4. Large urban areas generally have large income inequality partially due to their large populations. Party gov’t has very little to do with it.

    5. The problem for many boards is the pressure to have everyone graduate and thus all sorts of remedial programs are created so everyone is successful … in my board we are told every child should succeed. Eventually, it gets ridiculous.

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  18. MSNBC’ has a parent network to provide most of the raw news thus the actual network would be incredible cheap to produce and profit easy to achieve. NBC isn’t going to give up their cable slot until they come up with a better idea and so you can look forward to more MSNBC.

    bob and chas — Obamacare was a compromise. And if it doesn’t work, perhaps the gov’t will be more reluctantly to adopt ideas from the AEI, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney. And yes, single payer or a public option would be cheaper and probably more efficient (but that of course would be socialism)

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