“The transgender movement is feminism’s worst nightmare.
The latest iteration of this truism comes in the form of the transgender bathroom controversy now swirling in North Carolina. Transgender advocates – and leftists including myopic feminists – insist that men who believe they are women should be allowed to use women’s bathrooms in any business. This, of course, disadvantages women who may be uncomfortable being in close quarters with men as they drop their panties.
But there’s another, bigger problem: using Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as an excuse to destroy traditional gender-specific bathrooms actually destroys Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. That means an end to women’s athletics on campus.”
If the brief message in a tweet is any indication whether the Republican establishment can get behind the party’s presumptive nominee, the first of Donald Trump’s three Thursday morning meetings in the shadow of the Capitol was a “great” step toward unity.
“The meeting was great. It was a very positive step toward party unity,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted.
One source inside the meeting provided an unvarnished assessment to Fox News: “No B.S. Very helpful.”
The accounts were the first indication of how the high-stakes trio of meetings among Trump and GOP leaders was going, with much at stake for the presumptive nominee, for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for the party itself.
… The source inside the first meeting also described it as “very positive” and a “good step toward achieving party unity.” According to the source, Trump and Ryan discussed a range of policy issues. The source would not characterize whether Ryan, who last week declined to endorse the presumptive nominee, was “there” yet on that issue.
On Wednesday, Ryan said he wanted to pursue “real unification” among Republicans after a hotly contested primary campaign. …
Tychicus, If my Thunder can not beat your Spurs, I think they would be strong favorites if they switched leagues and competed in the WNBA.
This will also help the U.S. Olympic team. The top three men in each event would compete as men. The next three could just declare themselves to be Bruce Jenner Jrs. and compete as women.
By all means, let the U.S. expose itself to be the laughingstock of the entire world, and we have just the new president to be the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae of idiocy, mental illness and perversion.
Three days after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, dropped out of the Republican presidential primary following a resounding defeat in Indiana, WORLD asked several dozen evangelical insiders to share their thoughts on billionaire businessman Donald Trump’s seemingly clear path to the GOP nomination.
The results: They’re split down the middle, but two-thirds of the “never Trump” participants remain committed to that position. …
About half of the latest survey’s respondents (51 percent) said they would never vote for Trump “no matter what.” The other half could be open to voting for Trump depending on certain conditions, chiefly the candidate’s choice of a Supreme Court nominee or a vice presidential running mate. …
… Respondents also identified the top three issues they consider when choosing a candidate: abortion, religious freedom in the United States, and Supreme Court nominations.
Notably, all three issues have a direct relation to the Supreme Court makeup, and they are not among the top issues Trump supporters often cite: the economy and immigration.
What about a third-party candidate? When asked if they would support a third-party candidate in a Clinton/Trump contest, 46 percent of respondents said, “Yes, on principle, even if the candidate had no chance to win.” Nearly 29 percent said, “Yes, but only if the candidate had a chance to win.” Twenty-one percent said they would vote for Trump, and 1 percent said they would vote for Clinton. Those numbers were close to survey results on the same question in mid-March.
Though some conservative pundits and at least one conservative lawmaker, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., have pushed for a third-party option, no organized effort to mount such a long-shot bid has emerged yet in public. Still, the GOP faces an urgent task to push Republican voters dissatisfied with Trump to turn out and vote in other contests that will determine whether Congress remains in GOP hands. ..
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” In the middle of a legal fight with North Carolina over transgender rights, the Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping decree telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The letter to school districts that will go out Friday describing what they should do to ensure that none of their students are discriminated against, signed by officials of the Justice Department and Department of Education, does not have the force of law. But it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.
The move is certain to draw fresh criticism, particularly from Republicans, that the federal government is wading into local matters and imposing its own values on communities across the country that may not agree. It represents the latest example of the Obama administration using a combination of policies, lawsuits and public statements to change the civil rights landscape for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people.
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The freak show that is Obama’s presidency can’t end soon enough.
Shouldn’t we call this the “Black Lives Matter Effect?”
“The director of the F.B.I. reignited the factious debate over a so-called “Ferguson effect” on Wednesday, saying that he believed less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in murders in many cities.
James Comey, the director, said that while he could offer no statistical proof, he believed after speaking with a number of police officials that a “viral video effect” — with officers wary of confronting suspects for fear of ending up on a video — “could well be at the heart” of a spike in violent crime in some cities.
“There’s a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime — the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, ‘Hey, what are you doing here?’” he told reporters.
Mr. Comey was wading back into a dispute from last fall that pitted him against some of his bosses at the White House and the Justice Department and one that roiled racial tensions over confrontations between police officers and minorities.
He first raised the idea in October that a “chill wind” had deterred aggressive policing. But Obama administration officials distanced themselves from Mr. Comey at the time. They said they had seen no evidence to support the idea of a “Ferguson effect,” named after the 2014 shooting by a police officer of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., which sparked widespread protests.”
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rw: Well, the officiating in this WCF series was reminiscent of the 2012 series, only worse. Having said that, the Thunder played very hard, and very well after the Game 1 blowout. Congratulations, and I hope that they are able to take out the Warriors!
Wandering Views 
Obama DOJ Cracks Down On Women’s Bathrooms. They Just Accidentally Destroyed Women’s Sports, Too.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/5648/obama-doj-cracks-down-womens-bathrooms-they-just-ben-shapiro?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051016-news-title&utm_campaign=dwbrand
“The transgender movement is feminism’s worst nightmare.
The latest iteration of this truism comes in the form of the transgender bathroom controversy now swirling in North Carolina. Transgender advocates – and leftists including myopic feminists – insist that men who believe they are women should be allowed to use women’s bathrooms in any business. This, of course, disadvantages women who may be uncomfortable being in close quarters with men as they drop their panties.
But there’s another, bigger problem: using Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as an excuse to destroy traditional gender-specific bathrooms actually destroys Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. That means an end to women’s athletics on campus.”
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“…leftists including myopic feminists…”Title VII v. Title IX Do I smell a case for SCOTUS? Is there such a thing as common sense?
Who cares about the poor snowflakes’ “feelings”? Facts should prevail.
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First reports dribbling out about “the meetings” from today (between Trump/Ryan and others):
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/12/trump-ryan-meet-amid-growing-republican-calls-to-unify.html
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If the brief message in a tweet is any indication whether the Republican establishment can get behind the party’s presumptive nominee, the first of Donald Trump’s three Thursday morning meetings in the shadow of the Capitol was a “great” step toward unity.
“The meeting was great. It was a very positive step toward party unity,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted.
One source inside the meeting provided an unvarnished assessment to Fox News: “No B.S. Very helpful.”
The accounts were the first indication of how the high-stakes trio of meetings among Trump and GOP leaders was going, with much at stake for the presumptive nominee, for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for the party itself.
… The source inside the first meeting also described it as “very positive” and a “good step toward achieving party unity.” According to the source, Trump and Ryan discussed a range of policy issues. The source would not characterize whether Ryan, who last week declined to endorse the presumptive nominee, was “there” yet on that issue.
On Wednesday, Ryan said he wanted to pursue “real unification” among Republicans after a hotly contested primary campaign. …
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Tychicus, If my Thunder can not beat your Spurs, I think they would be strong favorites if they switched leagues and competed in the WNBA.
This will also help the U.S. Olympic team. The top three men in each event would compete as men. The next three could just declare themselves to be Bruce Jenner Jrs. and compete as women.
By all means, let the U.S. expose itself to be the laughingstock of the entire world, and we have just the new president to be the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae of idiocy, mental illness and perversion.
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Who are you talking about, though, Trump or Clinton? 🙂
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From World:
http://www.worldmag.com/2016/05/no_and_maybe
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Three days after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, dropped out of the Republican presidential primary following a resounding defeat in Indiana, WORLD asked several dozen evangelical insiders to share their thoughts on billionaire businessman Donald Trump’s seemingly clear path to the GOP nomination.
The results: They’re split down the middle, but two-thirds of the “never Trump” participants remain committed to that position. …
About half of the latest survey’s respondents (51 percent) said they would never vote for Trump “no matter what.” The other half could be open to voting for Trump depending on certain conditions, chiefly the candidate’s choice of a Supreme Court nominee or a vice presidential running mate. …
… Respondents also identified the top three issues they consider when choosing a candidate: abortion, religious freedom in the United States, and Supreme Court nominations.
Notably, all three issues have a direct relation to the Supreme Court makeup, and they are not among the top issues Trump supporters often cite: the economy and immigration.
What about a third-party candidate? When asked if they would support a third-party candidate in a Clinton/Trump contest, 46 percent of respondents said, “Yes, on principle, even if the candidate had no chance to win.” Nearly 29 percent said, “Yes, but only if the candidate had a chance to win.” Twenty-one percent said they would vote for Trump, and 1 percent said they would vote for Clinton. Those numbers were close to survey results on the same question in mid-March.
Though some conservative pundits and at least one conservative lawmaker, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., have pushed for a third-party option, no organized effort to mount such a long-shot bid has emerged yet in public. Still, the GOP faces an urgent task to push Republican voters dissatisfied with Trump to turn out and vote in other contests that will determine whether Congress remains in GOP hands. ..
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Looks like the king is issuing a new edict. With the threat of funding loss as well, to force compliance.
‘Cuz you know, the greatest problem in public education is this one. 🙄
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/obama-administration-to-issue-decree-on-transgender-access-to-school-restrooms/ar-BBsZoch?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U142DHP
” In the middle of a legal fight with North Carolina over transgender rights, the Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping decree telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The letter to school districts that will go out Friday describing what they should do to ensure that none of their students are discriminated against, signed by officials of the Justice Department and Department of Education, does not have the force of law. But it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.
The move is certain to draw fresh criticism, particularly from Republicans, that the federal government is wading into local matters and imposing its own values on communities across the country that may not agree. It represents the latest example of the Obama administration using a combination of policies, lawsuits and public statements to change the civil rights landscape for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people.
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The freak show that is Obama’s presidency can’t end soon enough.
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Shouldn’t we call this the “Black Lives Matter Effect?”
“The director of the F.B.I. reignited the factious debate over a so-called “Ferguson effect” on Wednesday, saying that he believed less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in murders in many cities.
James Comey, the director, said that while he could offer no statistical proof, he believed after speaking with a number of police officials that a “viral video effect” — with officers wary of confronting suspects for fear of ending up on a video — “could well be at the heart” of a spike in violent crime in some cities.
“There’s a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime — the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, ‘Hey, what are you doing here?’” he told reporters.
Mr. Comey was wading back into a dispute from last fall that pitted him against some of his bosses at the White House and the Justice Department and one that roiled racial tensions over confrontations between police officers and minorities.
He first raised the idea in October that a “chill wind” had deterred aggressive policing. But Obama administration officials distanced themselves from Mr. Comey at the time. They said they had seen no evidence to support the idea of a “Ferguson effect,” named after the 2014 shooting by a police officer of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., which sparked widespread protests.”
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They built this.
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rw: Well, the officiating in this WCF series was reminiscent of the 2012 series, only worse. Having said that, the Thunder played very hard, and very well after the Game 1 blowout. Congratulations, and I hope that they are able to take out the Warriors!
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