The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Old Lies
by Thomas Sowell
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A Gold Star Meeting for Trump
The controversy over Donald Trump's comments about the Gold Star family who spoke at the Democrat Convention has dominated the media all week. What did not get much coverage, however, was the fact that Trump met with six Gold Star families Wednesday evening in Jacksonville. Karen Vaughn, whose son was a Navy SEAL killed in action, organized the gathering. "It was really a chance to tell our stories, but also talk about problems with the rules of engagement [for troops in war zones] and the failed policies of the current administration," Vaughn said later. "I walked out feeling like I understood where his heart is, regardless of the comments that he made that may seem insensitive to some." Vaughn also spoke at the GOP convention, but again, she didn't get much media coverage.
We have noted how poorly Trump handled the situation with the DNC speakers. But this was a good move on his part to show solidarity with these families and to support — including monetarily — their cause. And that's why you may not hear this story on the evening news. As Gary Bauer notes, "Don't lose sight of the role that the media play in perpetuating stories that hurt Trump and stifling those that might help him." -The Patriot Post
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Another Judicial Rebuke for the IRS
Normally when someone is caught in a blatant violation of the rules and they are given the option to cease or be punished, the choice would seem an obvious one. For those leading the IRS it would seem that they are loathe to cease their discriminating behavior. On Friday, the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court ruling now allowing those conservative groups who were targeted by the IRS to continue their suit against the agency.
The court found that the IRS had committed "unconstitutional acts against at least a portion of the plaintiffs ... [who] were subjected to extended delay" and "were not receiving the same processing as those of other organizations." The court added that it was "absurd" for the IRS to suggest that they had eradicated the behavior "when two of the appellant-plaintiffs' applications remain pending."
Upon hearing the ruling, True the Vote, Inc., one of the plaintiffs in the case, said it "welcomed the ruling as a positive step toward justice after its First Amendment rights were violated by the IRS, dating back to 2010." This ruling is separate from the Justice Department's investigation that ended in October of last year, with no charges brought against the IRS. At least some avenue for justice is still available for those who were targeted by the IRS, but at the same time, the institutional corruption is going to be extremely difficult to eradicate. -The Patriot Post
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Is the Iran Ransom Payment
an Impeachable Offense?
by Keith Koffler
{whitehousedossier.com} ~ In an excellent piece for National Review, Andrew McCarthy makes a compelling case that President nObama’s payment of $400 million to Iran was not just wrong, it was ILLEGAL... In fact, a violation of the the statute in question is a felony punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment, according to McCarthy. And we do impeach presidents for breaking the law, right? nObama has claimed that his secret transfer of money in foreign-denominated bills — gosh, this sounds like something out of the Sopranos, doesn’t it? — was done because the United States lacks “a banking relationship” with Iran...
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Hizballah Uses Attack Drone As
Offensive Capabilities Grow
{investigativeproject.org} ~ New video reportedly shows Hizballah conducting drone airstrikes targeting radical Sunni Islamist positions in southern Aleppo... Though it appears that Hizballah failed to inflict significant damage, the bombings illustrate the terrorist organization's growing capabilities and ability to utilize sophisticate technologies for offensive operations. This is not the first time Hizballah reportedly used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to conduct an attack. In 2014, the terrorist organization deployed an attack drone to kill at least 23 fighters from the al-Qaeda linked group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5563/hizballah-uses-attack-drone-as-offensive#
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liar-Hillary's latest
'brain freeze' stumps doctors
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Two prominent physicians sounded an alarm about Democratic presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton’s suspect health just as a video of her appeared revealing what the Drudge Report labeled “another brain freeze.”... There long have been questions about liar-Clinton’s health, from her tripping and falling, to reports of blood clots, to special glasses that she used during the Benghazi congressional hearings. But those incidents happened before she formally entered the presidential race. Now that she is running, the “seizures,” the “brain freeze” and the fact she was helped up steps are raising red flags, according to Fox News “Medical A-Team.” Appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Dr. Marc Seigel and Dr. David Samadi both insisted liar-Clinton’s health is a campaign issue...
VIDEO: at the site
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Wikileaks to Release ‘Proof
of liar-Hillary Rigging Elections’
by MIchael DePinto
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ In the video and article below, you’ll learn that Julian Assange is claiming that the next Wikileaks dump will contain incriminating evidence that proves liar-Hillary Clinton and the DNC are going to great lengths to rig the 2016 presidential election... Considering recent stories like the ones listed below, it’s no surprise that Team liar-Hillary is trying to rig the election… however what WILL be surprising is if they really did leave a trail of their crimes behind them. As DAHBOO777 rightly points out in the video below, so far everything Julian Assange has promised to deliver… he has! What’s unconscionable, is that the President of the United States and the Department of Injustice could care less how many crimes liar-Hillary and the DNC commit, the mainstream media lays cover for liar-Hillary on each new scandal that breaks, and her base of woefully uninformed and ignorant voters don’t care either. Where does all this end? Sadly, in a very bad place for Americans I think… including the fools who pull the lever for her… http://freedomoutpost.com/julian-assange-wikileaks-to-release-proof-of-hillary-rigging-elections/
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Dobbs – Public Has A Right To Know All
That’s Been Hidden From Them
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs comments on the ever-worsening email scandal of liar-Hillary Clinton, noting that now Judicial Watch has turned up some very interesting correspondence... The April 2009 communications involved a liar-Clinton Foundation official requesting government favors for one of their “clients” from the liar-Hillary Clinton State Department. Dobbs reports that “liar-Clinton Foundation official, Doug Band, asked liar-Clinton’s aides at the State Department to “take care” of an unnamed associate. Huma Abedin responded, ‘We have all had him on our radar. Personnel has been sending him options.’ Judicial Watch says those emails have not been previously turned over.” Dobbs notes, “A separate exchange shows the Foundation asking for a controversial Lebanese-Nigerian businessman and top liar-Clinton Foundation donor to be put in contact with department officials. All of this coming as State Department officials are trying to block a number of requests seeking President liar-Clinton’s schedule. Producing only heavily redacted documents so far with the releases, according to the State Department, well they’re going to be stretched out until 2018, if you can imagine that being allowed under law.” Come on Lou, you know this government doesn’t operate under the rule of law...
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Marines Now Training to Battle Drones,
Fight Without Comms
by Megan Eckstein
by Megan Eckstein
{usni.org} ~ The Marine Corps must train for the environment it expects to face going forward, which means a near-peer adversary with a capable air force, a savvy web presence, the ability to leverage unmanned systems, and cyber and electronic warfare capabilities, the commandant said today... Gen. Robert Neller said the Marines haven’t faced a near-peer fight in recent memory, putting the onus on the training community to challenge Marines to work in a communication-denied environment, or under the watchful eye of enemy drones, or other emerging potential threats. “We’ve developed a system of warfighting that is very dependent on the Internet, the network, and space,” Neller said at an event co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the U.S. Naval Institute...
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Judicial Watch Uncovers New Batch of
liar-Hillary Clinton Emails
by JUDICIAL WATCH
by JUDICIAL WATCH
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Iran-Backed Rebels Use
Hospitals as Human Shields
by Con Coughlin
by Con Coughlin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are using hospitals as military command posts, thereby deliberately putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk, according to a new report into Yemen's long-running civil war... Hostilities in the Yemeni conflict resumed at the weekend following the collapse of peace talks in Kuwait. The talks came after Houthi fighters, who are backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, rejected a U.N.-sponsored peace plan and announced the establishment of a 10-member governing body to run the country. Within hours of the peace talks ending, the Saudi-led military coalition, which is backed by both the U.S. and Britain, had resumed air strikes against Houthi rebel positions in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. Initial reports said that at least 21 people, the majority of them civilians, had been killed, including a number of workers in a potato chip factory in Sana'a. In addition, the international airport at Sana'a was shut down by the airstrikes after Saudi coalition officials notified airlines that incoming flights would be barred for 72 hours... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8666/yemen-human-shields
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What’s Wrong with Honest Elections?
by J. Kenneth Blackwell
{theacru.org} ~Again state legislatures have approved new rules to prevent election fraud. Again federal courts have struck the laws down... Much of America’s political and legal establishment is resolutely opposed to election integrity. It makes you wonder what they believe democracy is all about. Obviously, there is no excuse for racial discrimination. But protecting elections against cheating has nothing to do with race. Democracy doesn’t work unless the votes are counted accurately. There has been election fraud as long as there have been elections. Great Britain was the fount of parliaments around the world, but it was infamous for such abuses as “rotten boroughs.” It took centuries to clean up the process, and even today many parliamentary districts are unfairly drawn... http://www.theacru.org/whats-wrong-with-honest-elections/
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nObama Admin Forced ICE to Free More Than
5,000 Illegals Jailed for 'Terrorist Threats'...
by Tiffany Gabbay
{truthrevolt.org} ~ More proof of the nObama administration's reckless policies concerning violent illegal aliens...The Washington Examiner reports that the nObama administration, forced to cut spending after the 2013 congressional sequester went into effect, demanded ICE release more than 5,000 violent illegal aliens jailed on charges of sexual assault, gun possession, "terroristic threats," and more. The gross misconduct was exposed by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) after it secured relevant administration emails via the Freedom of Information Act. The Examiner reports that IRLI's investigation portrayed the Department of Homeland Security's immigration agencies "scrambling to cut the number of jail beds it was filling in a cost-cutting move to slash some $84 million taken in the budget sequester.":..
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Old Lies
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ We expect to hear a lot of lies during an election year, and this year is certainly no exception. What is surprising is how old some of these lies are, and how often they have been shown to be lies, years ago or even decades ago.
One of the oldest of these lies is that women are paid less than men for doing the same work. Like many other politically successful lies, it contains just enough of the truth to fool the gullible.
Women as a group do get paid less than men as a group. But not for doing the same work. Women average fewer annual hours of work than men. They work continuously for fewer years than men, since only women get pregnant, and most women are not prepared to instantly dump the baby on somebody else to raise.
Being a mother is not an incidental sideline, and being a single mother can be a major restriction on how much time can be put into a job, either in a year or over the years.
People like liar-Hillary Clinton can simply grab a statistic about male-female income differences and run with it, since her purpose is not truth but votes. The real question however is whether, or to what extent, those income differences are due to employers paying women and men different wages for doing the very same jobs, for the very same amount of time.
We do not need to guess about such things. Many studies have been done over many years -- and they repeatedly show that women and men who work the very same hours in the very same jobs at the very same levels of skill and experience do not have the pay gaps that people like liar-Hillary Clinton loudly denounce.
As far back as 1971, single women in their thirties who had worked continuously since high school earned slightly more than men of the same description. As far back as 1969, academic women who had never married earned more than academic men who had never married.
People who are looking for grievances are not going to be stopped by facts, especially if they are in politics. But where are our media pundits and our academic scholars? Mostly silent, either out of fear of being denounced as anti-women or because they have chosen to take sides rather than convey facts.
Nevertheless, there are enough scholars, including women economists, who have done enough honest studies over the years that there is no excuse for continuing to repeat a discredited lie, based on comparing apples and oranges. A book written by two women and titled "Women's Figures" shows the results when you compare women and men with comparable qualifications.
It is much the same story with black-white comparisons. More than 40 years ago, my own research turned up statistics on black and white professors who had Ph.D.s from equally high-ranked institutions in the same fields, and who had published the same number of articles.
When all these things were held constant, the black professors earned somewhat more than white professors. But, since all these things are not the same among black and white professors in general, there is a racial gap in pay that allows some to loudly denounce racial discrimination among academics.
Those who wish to check out my statistics can get a copy of my 1975 monograph, "Affirmative Action Reconsidered." It has not been updated because not all the same statistics will be released now. This is not unusual. Statistics that might undermine some other popular conclusions -- whether on affirmative action, global warming or whatever -- have been kept under wraps when other researchers tried to get them.
Too many people in the media and in academia abandon their roles as conduits for facts and take on the role of filterers of facts to promote social and political agendas.
In all too many educational institutions, from kindergartens to postgraduate university programs, students may never hear any facts that contradict the prevailing groupthink.
How many students taught by Keynesian economists will ever learn about the 1921 recession, when the Harding administration did nothing -- and unemployment dropped steeply as the economy recovered on its own?
There are many reasons why old lies, refuted long ago, are still heard every election year, and in all too many other years.
One of the oldest of these lies is that women are paid less than men for doing the same work. Like many other politically successful lies, it contains just enough of the truth to fool the gullible.
Women as a group do get paid less than men as a group. But not for doing the same work. Women average fewer annual hours of work than men. They work continuously for fewer years than men, since only women get pregnant, and most women are not prepared to instantly dump the baby on somebody else to raise.
Being a mother is not an incidental sideline, and being a single mother can be a major restriction on how much time can be put into a job, either in a year or over the years.
People like liar-Hillary Clinton can simply grab a statistic about male-female income differences and run with it, since her purpose is not truth but votes. The real question however is whether, or to what extent, those income differences are due to employers paying women and men different wages for doing the very same jobs, for the very same amount of time.
We do not need to guess about such things. Many studies have been done over many years -- and they repeatedly show that women and men who work the very same hours in the very same jobs at the very same levels of skill and experience do not have the pay gaps that people like liar-Hillary Clinton loudly denounce.
As far back as 1971, single women in their thirties who had worked continuously since high school earned slightly more than men of the same description. As far back as 1969, academic women who had never married earned more than academic men who had never married.
People who are looking for grievances are not going to be stopped by facts, especially if they are in politics. But where are our media pundits and our academic scholars? Mostly silent, either out of fear of being denounced as anti-women or because they have chosen to take sides rather than convey facts.
Nevertheless, there are enough scholars, including women economists, who have done enough honest studies over the years that there is no excuse for continuing to repeat a discredited lie, based on comparing apples and oranges. A book written by two women and titled "Women's Figures" shows the results when you compare women and men with comparable qualifications.
It is much the same story with black-white comparisons. More than 40 years ago, my own research turned up statistics on black and white professors who had Ph.D.s from equally high-ranked institutions in the same fields, and who had published the same number of articles.
When all these things were held constant, the black professors earned somewhat more than white professors. But, since all these things are not the same among black and white professors in general, there is a racial gap in pay that allows some to loudly denounce racial discrimination among academics.
Those who wish to check out my statistics can get a copy of my 1975 monograph, "Affirmative Action Reconsidered." It has not been updated because not all the same statistics will be released now. This is not unusual. Statistics that might undermine some other popular conclusions -- whether on affirmative action, global warming or whatever -- have been kept under wraps when other researchers tried to get them.
Too many people in the media and in academia abandon their roles as conduits for facts and take on the role of filterers of facts to promote social and political agendas.
In all too many educational institutions, from kindergartens to postgraduate university programs, students may never hear any facts that contradict the prevailing groupthink.
How many students taught by Keynesian economists will ever learn about the 1921 recession, when the Harding administration did nothing -- and unemployment dropped steeply as the economy recovered on its own?
There are many reasons why old lies, refuted long ago, are still heard every election year, and in all too many other years.
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