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Taking Vows — and Meaning It
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Senate moving ahead on Kavanaugh
confirmation, first vote on Friday morning
by Susan Ferrechio.
Malpractice? Appears Ford’s Attorneys
May Have Misled Her About Testimony
by BENJAMIN ARIE
{westernjournal.com} ~ Thursday’s nationally televised examination of Christine Blasey Ford, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser... had many strange moments, but one in particular stood out. Around the same time during the Senate hearing that Ford admitted she had been dishonest about being unable to fly to Washington to face the Senate Judiciary Committee, another startling revelation was exposed. It seems that even though senators offered to travel to Blasey Ford’s home state of California to meet with her, the anti-Kavanaugh accuser was completely unaware of this possibility … and either dummycrats-Democrats or the woman’s own attorneys may have never told her this was an option. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had publicly extended an offer for an inquiry into the Palo Alto University professor’s claims to take place near her home location, which would eliminate the need for her to fly across the country — something that she said was difficult because of an apparently non-existent fear of flying. But strangely, Ford seemed surprised when she was reminded of the offer, and her attorneys quickly pushed themselves in front of the microphone to stop her from talking about it. “Dr. Ford now saying it wasn’t clear to her that Grassley was willing to send staff to California so she didn’t have to fly,” wrote journalist Katie Pavlich on Twitter. “When asked to explain, her attorneys dummycrats-Democrat operatives cut in a cited privilege.” “It appears her attorneys may have never told Dr. Ford about the offer from Grassley,” the reporter continued... .
Medicaid Expansion and Fiscal Irresponsibility
by Eric Rozenman
{Iamericanthinker.com} ~ n May, Virginia's Republican-controlled General Assembly passed legislation, which was then signed by dummycrats-Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, to provide Medicaid health insurance for up to an additional 400,000 Virginians... Income limits for a family of three rose from $6,900 to $28,700. As a result, up to 1.4 million of the Old Dominion's 8.5 million residents – nearly 16.5 percent – will qualify. The federal government reportedly will fund 90 percent of the increased costs, a state tax on hospitals the remainder. Virginia's Medicaid expansion often was described as a humanitarian move to help the poorest. Virginia joined 33 other states and the District of Columbia that so far have enlarged Medicaid coverage. But little attention was given to affordability – not affordability for the poor receiving coverage, but of Medicaid, Medicare federal health insurance for the elderly and Social Security – for taxpayers and the states. Local, state, and federal government budgets sit on a growing debt bubble. Federal government debt tops $21 trillion. That's $1.5 trillion more than U.S. gross national product (GDP) for 2017....
Unbelievable: Little Chucky scumbag/clown-Schumer
Demands An Apology LASHES Out In The Most Idiotic Way
by DAPHNE MOON
{redrightvideos.com} ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer insisted Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issue an apology to Christine Blasey Ford... the woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct more than 35 years ago, according to The Daily Caller. “Leader McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for labeling her allegations ‘a smear job’ and he should apologize to her immediately,” scumbag/clown-Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. “It is galling for the Republican leader who has done more than maybe anyone else to politicize the Supreme Court nomination process to make these trumped-up, hyperbolic charges of partisanship by dummycrats-Democrats.” Looks like little scumbag/clown-Chucky forgot about the many women’s lives destroyed by the liar-Clintons and the dummycrats-Democrats who wanted them silenced. He’s also ignoring the fact that dummycrats-Democrats used Ford’s story as a political pawn. Waiting until the 11-hour to release its existence. What exactly have the dummycrats-Democrats ever done for victims? Especially women? Sit Down, scumbag/clown-Chuck!....
Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh
by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ After yesterday’s tortuous hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the latter’s future just took a huge step forward... Yesterday’s testimony was, in many ways, unnecessary. We learned nothing new, other than Ford changed her story multiple times. With a dearth of evidence confirming Ford’s testimony, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving forward.The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh! The vote was done along party lines, with 11 Republicans voting in the affirmative and all 10 dummycrats-Democrats voting no or abstaining.That was a close call. Just hours before the vote, Senator rino-Jeff Flake confirmed that he would be voting to confirm Kavanaugh on the Committee. He was questionable beforehand. And just before the vote, there were rumors he may flip under pressure from dummycrats-Democrats. But he stuck by his guns and voted to confirm. rino-Flake has, however, demanded an FBI investigation before the floor vote... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/kavanaugh-confirmed-senate-judiciary-committee/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_9_28_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI.
Why Would the Pentagon Give
Amazon SJWs the Keys to the Kingdom?
by W. Bruce DelValle
{americanthinker.com} ~ Our men and women in uniform need all the tools we can give them. It is the expected exchange from us to those who are willing to give that last full measure of devotion to preserve our nation... But being in favor of military spending doesn't mean being in favor of wasteful military spending. When the Pentagon engages in bad behavior, such as the infamous $400 hammers of the 1980s, it's actually cheating people in uniform. It's refreshing whenever Congress learns from the past and tries to control a potentially wasteful long-term military contract. The agreement in question intends to move all of the Pentagon's data – everything from weapon systems information to subcontractor phone numbers – to the cloud. Right now, all that information is stored on hard drives. The idea to use cloud computing makes perfect sense. The plan itself does not. The Defense Department wants to give a sole-source single cloud provider a long-term contract worth up to $10 billion. "We are looking for an industry partner who will learn with us and help us find the best ways to bring foundational commercial capabilities to our warfighters," the Pentagon's chief information officer says...
Taking Vows — and Meaning It
This is according to University of Maryland sociology professor Philip N. Cohen, who noted in his recent research paper on “The Coming Divorce Decline” that marriage is becoming “more selective, and more stable, even as attitudes toward divorce are becoming more permissive, and cohabitation has grown less stable.” Cohen’s research found that divorce rates declined a remarkable 18% between 2008 and 2016, and even adjusting for an aging population (divorce rates decrease as couples age) the difference was still statistically significant enough to lead to Cohen’s assertion.
Prevailing analysis of Cohen’s research has picked out two good reasons for this trend. First of all, Millennials are postponing marriage until they are more established, have better jobs, and so forth. Obviously some portion of this factor stems from the economic reality of that 2008-16 era, which encompasses most of the Great Recession. People who are once bitten by job loss may be twice shy about making lifetime commitments, but that also means those getting married are more mature and have learned that life is more than participation trophies.
But on the flip side, you have those on the lower end of the social ladder who are eschewing marriage altogether. “Marriage is more and more an achievement of status, rather than something that people do regardless of how they’re doing,” continued Cohen. It seems that marriage comes in most cases after a period of cohabitation, which separates prospective couples into two groups: those who get married are those who decide they finally have the means to make a more permanent go of it, even if it’s considered to be a “transactional marriage,” as Virginia Commonwealth University assistant professor of sociology Victor Tan Chen argued last year in The Atlantic. He noted that marriage rates have plummeted dramatically among middle-aged women without a bachelor’s degree over the last 40 years, to a point where just over half that cohort is married compared to three-quarters of those with a degree.
More prominent are those who can’t pull the trigger on commitment because of the worry about the cost of divorce — especially for men. “I grew up during that period [when divorce rates surged] and still recall any number of guys from my age group who swore off the idea of getting hitched,” wrote Jazz Shaw at Hot Air, “because they’d seen too many guys before them go from a house in the suburbs with a wife and two kids to a crappy apartment and alimony payments that sucked up more than half of their income.”
Since the divorce rate peaked in the early 1980s and had remained high until the last decade, Shaw’s experience was also the reality in which Millennials lived as kids. Almost every one of them have been touched by divorce and its strain on kids, whether observing friends or relatives being drawn through the emotional wringer of separation, divorce, and remarriage or living through it themselves. Seeing this, it’s no wonder they want to do something different and get it right. “The characteristics of young married couples today signal a sustained [divorce rate] decline in the coming years,” pronounced fellow sociology professor Susan Brown of Bowling Green State University.
This theory of lasting marriage may get a bit of a test in the near future. With the better economy of late, though, it’s possible more of those who were cohabitating for a long period may finally decide to make things legal, so to speak. Whether that brings the divorce rate back up is hard to say, but hopefully Millennials have learned through painful experience that they should look before they leap so they can keep the commitments they make.
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