The
Stanford College Republicans Leader is...
Recognize
his mother?
John
David Rice-Cameron. Yeah, his mother was UN Ambassador and then
National Security Advisor under President Obama.
Hunh?
His
Dad used to listen to Limbaugh and got him hooked on the conservative
pundit. He then discovered Mark Levin who became his “ultimate
political hero.”
And,
no surprise, he and his mother disagree on “many substantive
issues.”
Rice-Cameron
told The College Fix he supports Trump. He said Republicans control
Congress, the executive branch, most state legislatures; there’s
been more constitutional judges appointed, and conservative media is
stronger than ever. Even Hollywood is starting to turn — look at
West’s endorsement of Owens, he said.
“So
college campuses are basically the last bastion of leftist
monopolization,” he said. “You have a campus Left who believe
they have the right to dictate who comes on campus, what gets to be
said, what gets taught, they control almost all student governments,
they have an almost complete monopolization on the campus press.”
“It’s
rammed down your throat since start of freshman year,” he said of
leftism. “We really are fighting for a marketplace of ideas, we are
fighting for our right to have our ideas be heard.”
GOP
MS-13 Ad
Every
GOP candidate should play this once per day until the midterms.
There
are some of us who know how far left the Democratic Party has become.
Some are seeing it right now, while others still in the dark
concerning how radical this party has become. Two weeks ago, Rep.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House Minority Leader, defended MS-13,
saying she was appalled over the president calling them “animals.”…
Reps
Forcing Speaker Ryan to Allow Floor Debate on Immigration Bills
No
more sitting on their hands doing nothing. It’s all a bit of
parliamentary maneuvering but in general, rebel GOP reps are on the
verge of passing something called a “discharge
petition.” That means 4 different bills will come to the floor
of the House for open debate and vote. The one receiving the most
will go to the Senate for consideration there. Speaker Ryan opposes
this because he has his own bill that lacks Democrat support, unlike
a couple of the four.
In
other words, Speaker Ryan and his fellow honchos want things their
way and are po’d because the rank and file are getting fed up with
the delays.
“Having
some kind of spectacle on the floor that results in a veto doesn’t
solve this problem,” Ryan said. “We never want to turn the floor
over to the minority. What I don’t want to do is have a process
that just ends up with a veto. We actually want to solve the DACA
problem.”
Much
more @
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/gop-control-of-house-threatened-by-discharge-petition/
Rep.
Denham: Immigration Reform Bill Does Not Give Amnesty to DACA
Recipients @
http://www.oann.com/rep-denham-immigration-reform-bill-does-not-give-amnesty-to-daca-recipients/
One
of the four bills included in the call
Teamsters
Fail in Pilot Vote but Plan to Fight Back
Will
this happen in the ranks of more unions? There’s only 600 of them
involved here but it might signal the feelings of other union
members.
Such
decertification votes can be incredibly difficult compared to voting
to join a labor organization. But the Flexjet vote is especially rare
because it is the only time a pilots’ union has been decertified in
the history of the Railway Labor Act, which was passed in 1924.
Airlines were added a short time later, in 1936.
“We
are very pleased with the outcome, although it was not a surprise as
our pilot group has been dissatisfied and disappointed with Teamsters
representation for years,” pilot Frank Woelke, who played a
critical role in the decertification effort, told LifeZette. The
pilots preferred working directly with management and believed the
union’s benefits were insufficient to justify the cost of
membership.
Trump
Puts an End to Taxpayer Subsidies for Unions
Goodness
gracious! Can you believe? President Trump signed an executive order
demanding that federal government employees who work full-time for
the public employee unions at taxpayer expense spend at least 75
percent of their paid time on the government’s business. 75%?
That’s atrocious. Intolerable.
This
measure is one of three executive orders the president signed on
Friday. Those orders
do not eliminate taxpayer subsidies for public employee unions
altogether—that is Congress’ job—but they do end the taxpayer
subsidy of travel for union business; mandate that unions be charged
fair market value for rents of government office space; streamline
the public employee appeals process so that bad apples can be fired
more rapidly; and force taxpayer-funded union workers to spend at
least three-quarters of their time doing the people’s business.
Most people are shocked to learn that taxpayers
have been footing the bill for public employee union salaries, but
they become incensed when they learn that in 2016, union employees
were paid $177
million by the federal government, not counting office space and
travel expenses.
Much
more of this good news @
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/29/trump-puts-an-end-to-taxpayer-subsidies-for-unions/
Bernie
Going to Run in 2020?
If
there’s any way to guarantee President Trump another term this is
it! Not just that he’ll be 78 but his radical followers will reduce
the numbers voting for any other DimocRAT.
“Nationally,
he is considering another run for the presidency and when the time
comes I think ill have an answer for that, but right now he’s still
considering it,” stated Weaver.
Lessons
learned from the U.S. experience in Afghanistan
I
was expecting a lot of gobbledygook out of this and was surprised to
discover the following:
Unfortunately,
SIGAR’s overall assessment is that despite some heroic efforts to
stabilize insecure and contested areas in Afghanistan between 2002
and 2017, the program mostly failed. This happened for a number of
reasons, including the establishment of a set of unrealistic
expectations about what could be achieved in just a few years’
time. The lack of capacity of U.S. government agencies to fully
support those accelerated efforts, and institutional rivalries and
bureaucratic hurdles compounded an already difficult task.
Every
organization and agency that worked on stabilization in
Afghanistan—from Department of Defense (DOD) civil affairs and
special operations forces to State and USAID—suffered from
personnel and programming deficits borne from rapid scaling, short
tours, and the pressure to make quick progress. No organization was
prepared for these challenges—and it showed.
In
other words, billions spent for NOTHING!
China
is secretly imprisoning close to 1 million people [Uighur Muslims]
Is
it that they are not going to tolerate the imposition of Sharia?
Hundreds
of thousands, and potentially more than one million, people have been
caught up in China's "re-education camps" over the last
year.
The
camps, which operate outside the courts, are designed to indoctrinate
ethnic minority Uighurs and force them to reject their religious
beliefs.
Bids
for constructing or renovating these centers, as well as staff job
ads, provide clear evidence of the purpose and scale of these
re-education programs.
Uighurs
face constant surveillance in Xinjiang, which experts consider a
testing ground for the a wider surveillance state.
Much
more @
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-people-are-imprisoned-in-xinjiang-china-government-documents-2018-5
Learning
about learning: Meaning matters
I
was not surprised at what this article contained – all sorts of
highfalutin words to make a simple point. The best way to learn is by
doing. But, here’s the opening paragraph to give you a sample:
A
3-year-old sits on the carpet of her preschool classroom building a
castle out of wooden blocks—exercising her spatial skills and
learning the basic physics concepts of stability and balance.
Meanwhile, an undergraduate is building a suspension bridge out of
toothpicks and string in her civil engineering course. These students
are both engaged in hands-on minds-on learning and are much more
likely to retain the content than their peers who were talked at or
lectured to. Irrespective of age, people learn best when learning
experiences are active, engaged, meaningful, and interactive.
If
you want to bother to read the rest, go to
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2018/05/30/learning-about-learning-meaning-matters/
[One
of my best learning experiences was at the Defense Language Institute
learning German. Not only did we speak nothing but German after the
first couple of weeks, but were taught about every day life along
with the history and culture.]
What
Really Happens to Children When They Reach the U.S. Border?
The
the heart-rending pictures and Leftist cacophony doesn’t come close
to telling the truth. They are not tossed into cages and forgotten.
This article tries to tell the truth and is worth reading.
Reports
President Donald Trump's administration had "lost" 1,500
migrant children went viral this weekend, resurfacing a debate on US
immigration policies for children.
But
that claim is misguided, and is being confused with a separate Trump
administration policy to separate migrant children from their
parents.
Here's
what actually happens when migrant children arrive at the US border,
with or without their parents.
A-10
Warthogs to Get New Wings
In
spite of all the reluctance, it appears the stalwart aircraft isn’t
yet ready for the boneyard.
The
U.S. Air Force has published its solicitation to defense companies to
re-wing more than 100 A-10 Thunderbolt II close-air support mission
aircraft.
The
proposal, released May 25, calls for 112 wing sets and 15 additional
kits over a five-year ordering period as part of the service’s A-10
Thunderbolt Advanced-Wing Continuation Kit or “ATTACK.”
The
contract award is expected in fiscal 2019, the documents said.
The
New Haute Cuisine MRE
Yum.
Yum. Only problem, won’t be ready for the field until 2023. And
they won’t replace current Meals Rejected by the Enemy.
A
sample menu for the ration includes the following, according to a May
25 Army press
release:
-
Tart cherry nut bar.
-
Cheddar cheese bar.
-
Mocha dessert bar.
-
Vacuum-dried strawberries.
-
Trail mix.
-
Korean barbeque stir fry packet.
-
Four teeny tiny spinach quiches.
-
Six little pieces of French toast.
-
And a banana that was “vacuum microwave dried” so it’s now about a third of its original size.
Just
can’t wait. More @
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-testing-fancy-new-mre/
Our
Sun Isn’t Burning So Hot
Read
this:
As
I mentioned in a
post earlier in May, there are indications that this
upcoming solar minimum could be particularly deep.
Hmmm.
“Solar minimum.” Am I getting the wrong impression?
