Identity Politics & Race Are Ripping Us Apart RL May 20 16

Justice Reform

• Republican Sen Has Perfect Response To Obama Admin Refusing To Call Criminals ‘Felons’
• GOP Sen RIPS Criminal Justice Reform: ‘We Have An UNDER-Incarceration Problem’ [VIDEO]
• Sen. Tom Cotton Condemns ‘Rush to Demonize Law Enforcement’ in Criminal Justice Reform Debate
• Lawmakers Introduce Bill Making it Harder for Police to Take Innocent Americans’ Property
• 'Ferguson Effect' Is Real, and It Threatens to Harm Black Americans Most
• History is clear: Juries were supposed to be able to overturn laws - The Washington Post

Islam

• Muslim Nations Block LGBT Groups From Attending a United Nations Conference on AIDS
• Dissolving Victims In Acid Is The Newest ISIS Execution Method
• FBI Investigating Number of U.S. Leads on Illegal Female Genital Mutilation
• Islamist London

Freedom of

• California Gun Control Measures Pretty Much Bans Rifles, Imposes Background Checks On Ammunition
• Tom Brokaw to Ole Miss Grads: More Guns Mean More Homegrown Terror
• Facebook Now Lets Users Flag Gun-Sales Posts
• Exhibit A: Facebook characterizes Patricia Heaton’s pro-life message as ‘anti-abortion’
• EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Censors Critic Of FDA’s E-Cigarette Crackdown
• Here's How Free Speech Is Dying in America

thinks

• What America’s Founders Could Teach The European Union
• Affordable Housing, Jane Jacobs, And New Challenges In Urban Planning
• Strengthen Families Against Political Bullies
• A Totally Different Head
• Are We Really That Exceptional?
• “Trump the Madman” and the Sword of Damocles
• Who Are the Real Deniers of Science?
• Thinking about Microaggressions

Gender

• If Title IX Covers Trans Students, It Has No Reason To Exist
• Identity Politics & Race Are Ripping Us Apart | National Review
• It's Official. America Has Been Consumed By Identity Politics
• Obama Appoints Transgender Leader to Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
• The Revolution Is Being Televised: Bathroom Wars Continue
• Transgender Extremism -- Two Videos Show How Quickly the Absurd Became Accepted, then Mandatory | National Review
• 3 Things Texas Is Doing to ‘Defy’ Obama’s Transgender Directive

BtF: the mess, econ., Clinton, foreign, the left, congress, 2016, and the others

TSA Spending Millions on Advertising, PR, Holograms While Travelers Suffer Random Links May 18 16

gender

• Democrats Demand Transgender Bathroom Access On Capitol Hill
• 3 Ways Conservative Lawmakers Could Respond to Obama’s Bathroom Directive
• Our Constitutional Right to Privacy Is Missing From Bathroom Debate
• Sorry, Liberals, But Gender Is Not a “Social Construct”
• Trans insanity a powerful weapon
• It’s Now Considered Sexist to Tell a Woman, ‘You Look Tired’
• Sex and State Power — What’s Behind Obama’s Transgender Push
• [MEME] Obama’s Title IX edict turns real life into a bad joke
• Woman Finds Man In Female Dressing Room, Which Is Totally Fine With The Store [VIDEO]
• NC Lawmaker Blames Media, Activists Groups for Bathroom Bill ‘Falsehoods’

thinks

• We Don’t Need A ‘New National Story,’ David Brooks
• The Faceberg Six
• The Left’s Jihad against American energy
• Fighting the Leftist Revolution
• Liberalism's Descent into Madness
• A Choice between Truth and Repose
• New Defense Bill Will Boost War and Tyranny
• Criminal Justice: The Real Reasons for Reform
• The Three Abrahamic Faiths
• Mind the Gap

defense

• 6 Facts Highlight Why We Need to Rebuild Our Military
• Ex-NATO Commander Warns: Left Unchecked, War With Russia Is Likely
• Defense Stakeholders Concerned About Size of National Security Council
• Criminal complaint to ICC re: Iran's mistreatment of U.S. sailors
• Bowe Bergdahl court-martial won't happen until after November election
• Eric Fanning, First Openly Gay Army Secretary Finally Confirmed By Senate

security

• TSA Spending Millions on Advertising, PR, Holograms While Travelers Suffer
• TSA's Union Power Grab: Thousands Slowing Down Airports
• National Intel Director: U.S. Sees Indications That Hackers Possibly Working for Foreign Governments Spying on Presidential Candidates
• China’s Challenge to International Cybersecurity

BtF: exec., gun, edu., Clinton, EPA, politic, foreign

Can Bruce Springsteen Refuse to Play a Gay Wedding? RL April 22 16

Islam

• We Can’t Beat Jihadists Unless We’re Real About Their Motivations
• Islamism Is The World’s War On Women
• Noted Catholic Scholar Calls for Westerners to Wake Up to Islam’s Violent Nature
• As Islamism Marches West, Pluralist Muslims Must Stop Its Advance
• Patience and Containment Are the Best Policies Against ISIS - The Atlantic

• Kurdish Opposition Leader: Turkey’s Erdogan ‘Wants a Caliphate’
• Islamist Turkey seizes ALL Christian churches in city and declares them 'state property' | World | News | Daily Express
• Child brides sometimes tolerated in Nordic asylum centers despite bans | Reuters

• Europe: Sharia-Compliant Fashion Goes Mainstream
• French Students Wear Solidarity Veils for ‘Hijab Day’

• Muslim Politician ‘Retires’ From Politics After Refusing To Shake Hands With Woman On Television
• Proposal: Raise ‘Muslim Tax’ to Counter Radical Mosques

media

• News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles - Bloomberg
• The Guardian Launches Online Safe Space: Claims ‘Breitbart Is Lousy, But Big and Cheap’
• ‘BBC Trending’ Takes Aim At Right Wing Twitter Users, Reveals Personal Details

• Top Execs Shuffled at Fox News as Outlet Creates New Division
• ‘You Have the World at Your Feet’: Glenn Beck Offers Megyn Kelly His Thoughts About Leaving Fox News

• Stacey Dash: 'I Am Not a Liberal and I Am Not a Feminist Because I Am Not a Coward'
• ‘You’re Sounding a Little Defensive’: Fox Host Challenges Obamacare Architect on Major Insurer’s Exit from Exchanges

Tubman

• What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Problematic Now, Too
• Obama Administration Moves to Add Women, Blacks to $5 and $10 Bills
• These People Don’t Like the ‘Tubman Twenty’
• Dishonoring General Jackson
• Van Susteren: Obama “needlessly dividing the country” by putting Tubman on the $20 bill

thinks

• Conscientious Objectors
• Can Bruce Springsteen Refuse to Play a Gay Wedding?
• Hands Off the Ladies' Rooms

• Know-Nothings in College
• Why does the government hate innovation?
• The FDA Is Turning Away from Science
• Healthy skepticism

• Breakdown In NYC
• Why do liberals want the Bible out of public libraries?
• Expert: Kim Kardashian Posting Nude Photos Is Bad For Young Girls

 

Below the fold: politic, econ., foreign, SCOTUS, congress, freedom of, executive, climate, Clinton, campus, defense, the left, the mess, 2016, and the other

How Rejecting Heroes Makes Us Psycho RL April 21 16

money

• Hamilton Officially Staying on the $10; Harriet Tubman To Be Put On The $20
• Brother, Can You Spare A Tubby?
• The Media Have It Wrong: Andrew Jackson’s Legacy Was Fighting Crony Capitalism
• Nobody Should Care If We Replace Jacksons With Tubmans
• Niece of Rosa Parks Rips Ben Carson for His Comments on Harriet Tubman Replacing Jackson on $20 Bill

gender

• ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for Sharing Controversial Meme on Transgender Bathroom Laws
• Transgender Promoting Council Asks Children Aged 4 To Choose ‘Gender Identity’
• Schumer Won’t Say If Biological Males Should Use Women’s Restroom – Calls for Repeal of NC Bathroom Law

thinks

• How Rejecting Heroes Makes Us Psycho
• Get Ready To Ditch The SAT And ACT
• A Liberal Magazine Just Spilled the Beans about K-12 Education

• The Horrors of Hiroshima in Context
• Why It's Too Late to Scrap the Iran Deal
• The Minimum Wage and the Dangers of Government-by-Decree

• Push the TSA Out
• The Intellectual Case For Trump II: Trump Is The Culture Warrior We Need
• What We Sow in Spring, We Shall Reap in Fall
• Where are America’s Drowned Cities?

 BtF: executive, the left, freedom of, congress, defense, campus, the mess, 2016, and the other

Russian Jet Performs ‘Simulated Attack,’ Buzzing Just 30 Feet Over USS Donald Cook RL April 14 16

freedom of

• Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study 
• Comedian Ricky Gervais Champions ‘Offense’ as a Pillar of Free Speech
• Dems on FEC Target Corporations in Attempt to ‘Blunt’ First Amendment
• Obama to track federal employees’ social media

• New Balance claims Obama administration promised shoe contract for silence on TPP.
• FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone 
• First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the roadside police “textalyzer”

• Missouri Attempts to Send Religious Liberty Bill Straight to the People
• Maine Gov. Signs Bill Prohibiting Gun Bans in Public Housing
• Taxing $1,000 per Gun Became a Reality in One U.S. Territory — and Some Worry It Could Spread

climate

• Eco-Activists Met ‘Behind Closed Doors’ To Push RICO Investigation Into Exxon
• UN Secretary-General: I’m Glad Obama Is Ignoring Congress On Global Warming
• Promise Kept: Barack Obama Breaks the Coal Industry
• Treasury Dept. sitting on solar scandal far worse than Solyndra
• Liberal Energy Insider Says Dem Candidates Should Embrace Fracking

economic

• Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First Half of FY 2016
• Ex-Im Is Back In Business, Boeing Cuts 4,000 Jobs Anyway
• US’s Largest Utility CEO Warns Of A Future Without Coal Plants
• World’s Largest Coal Company Files Chapter 11
• Boeing Visits Iran to Discuss Jetliner Sales

defense

• "Aggressive" Russian Fighter Jets Buzz US Warship; Navy Releases Videos
• Russia says its fighter jets only buzzed US Navy ship because it was ‘in proximity’ of Baltic base | Daily Mail Online
• Russian Jet Performs ‘Simulated Attack,’ Buzzing Just 30 Feet Over USS Donald Cook [VIDEO]
• China’s Militarized Island Building Is Killing The Environment
• China Outlines Plan for Military Buildup on Disputed Island
• China Moves More Fighter Jets into South China Sea as Ashton Carter Lands in Philippines
• Military May Force Commanders To Interview More Women For Promotions
• SecNavy Just Told Marines Women In Combat Is As Irreversible As Blacks In Military
• Navy Secretary Bends Rules About Ship Naming to Honor Democratic Politician
• Administration snubs Medal of Honor recipients in naming Navy warships
•  Former Top US General In Iraq Says Beating ISIS Would Require 50,000 Troops
• As ISIS Expands, President Obama Gets Libya Wrong
• Former Army General Completely Dismantles Claim Global Warming Causes War
• Congress’ Fiscal Straightjacket Continues Putting Our Nations Security At Risk
• Intelligence agencies consider striking 'confidential' label
• US Looks to Improve Defense Ties With India

race

• ‘We Are Working Hard to Eradicate the Disease’: Why Group of Iowa State Students Are Advising White Peers to ‘Head to the Doctor’
• Hillary: ‘America’s Long Struggle With Racism Far From Finished’
• Speaker Stands Up Against Hisses and Boos to Speak His Mind at Sharpton-Led Convention: ‘Everything in America Is Not Always About Race’
• Rahm Emanuel Had A Task Force Investigate Chicago, Turns Out The Police Force Is Racist

 BtF: thinks, campus, media, gender, foreign, 2016, the lrft, the mess, and the others

Don’t Let Cultural Freeloaders Steal The Seeds Of Western Civilization RL Dec 29 15

the Left

• Oregon Bakery Owners Pay Damages in Gay Wedding Cake CaseOregon Bakery Owners Pay Damages in Gay Wedding Cake Case
• Massachusetts Private Catholic School Ordered to Hire Gay Married Man

• Sharpton: Rahm Emanuel Should Resign as Chicago Mayor…
• POWDER KEG: Rahm Emanuel Cuts Short Cuban Holiday After Chicago Cops Kill Two More

Thinks

• Royal Presidency -- When Presidents Act Like Kings
• The Year Ahead: A Changing of the Guard Amidst A Brave New World
• Don’t Let Cultural Freeloaders Steal The Seeds Of Western Civilization

• "Political Correctness" Is About Control, Not Etiquette
• Techno-Narcissism - Hard Questions & Ignored Answers
• The foolish ‘theism’ of government enthusiasts:
• America Isn’t Growing More Liberal; It’s Growing More Polarized by David French

• How To Stop Sexualizing Everything
• 'I'm Not Ready to Get Married'
• The Right Needs To Stop Idolizing Wunderkinds
• How Polls Manipulate Voters, No Matter The Results
• For the Christ-curious: Jesus was not born to give TED talks about ethics

Freedom of

• What's In Store For Our Freedoms In 2016? More Of Everything We Don't Want
• Voluntary Enslavement
• Justice Department Halts Program Allowing Law Enforcement to Split Proceeds of Seized Cash, Property

• Online Database Holding 191 Million Voters’ Information Exposed, Researcher Reports
• Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Equate Facebook-Run ‘Free Basics’ to Net Neutrality

BtF: the mess, 2016, Islam, executive, foreign, and the others

DOJ Can Shut Down Bank Accounts of Businesses Based on Political Ideology RL Nov 05 15

Gun

• The New York Times Keeps Getting Its Gun Facts Shockingly Wrong | The Daily Caller
• Kerry signs UN arms treaty, senators threaten to block it | Fox News
• New Clinton Ad Highlights Changing Approach to Guns
• Leftist in Congress Proposes Draconian Gun Control Law

Freedom of

• DOJ Can Shut Down Bank Accounts of Businesses Based on Political Ideology
• Details of UK website visits 'to be stored for year' - BBC News
• Nonprofit Asks Supreme Court to Protect Donors from California Regulator
• Will the Supreme Court Rebuke California’s Assault on the First Amendment? George Will 

Media

• Why Yes, The Media Has A Liberal Bias–And How Conservatives Might Not Understand Its Roots
• In Rare Op-Ed, Rush Limbaugh Tells Story of the ‘Conservative-Media Revolution’ and What It’s Forced ‘Liberal Media’ to Do
• The Conservative-Media Revolution Has Forced the Liberal Media to Abandon Any Pretense of Objectivity Rush Limbaugh

Gender ish

• Feminist Blog: Ask for Consent Before Every Social Interaction Katherine Timpf 
• New York Students Baffled By ‘Affirmative Consent’ Sex Regulations

• Hillary Says Gender Is a Social Construct, But We MUST Have a Female President…
• Go West, Young Single Women

• The DOE is now in the High School Girls' Shower
• Megyn Kelly Confronts School Superintendent on New Ruling Giving Transgender Student Full Access to Locker Room, Shower

Economic

• NY Fed's $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail
• Yellen Says Negative Rates On The Table "If Outlook Worsened"
• Publicly Funded Pensions Now Rival Those of Top CEOs
• Middle-aged white Americans are dying of despair

Executive

• EPA accused of rigging reports, colluding with Greens...
• GAO: 1.4 Million Kids Ditch Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program
• White House Hints at Executive Move to Close Gitmo ‘if Congress Continues to Refuse’

BtF: Refugee, Think, Education, Election, the Left, Congress, Foreign, the Mess, Defense, 2016, and the Other

RL Nov 04 15 (Feminization of America Is Bad for the World)

Immigration

• Obama’s Secret Migration Plan: Work-Permits For Millions of Foreigners
• Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction | TheHill
• BOMBSHELL: Obama Will Violate a Court Order to Legalize Any and All Illegal Immigrants
• Newly Leaked Memo Reveals Obama's Secret Plan That Could Have Major Impact On America

Islam

• Muslim Inmates Extorting 'Infidel Tax' From Non-Muslims In UK’s Toughest Jails
• How Academic Standards Promoting Islam Have Invaded America’s Classrooms - Breitbart
• U.S. Attorney Chases ‘Islamophobia’ in Minnesota
• Congress Moves to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

Freedom Of

• Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws - Telegraph
• ‘You Guys Can Leave, but You Can’t Take Your Daughter’: New Parents Living Through Post-Delivery Nightmare
• Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Require a Warrant for Authorities to Use Cellphone Trackers
• Lawmakers Need to Kill EPA and Corps’ Water Rule: Property Rights Are at Stake
• CRUZ TO DOJ: Preserve Every Record Related to the IRS Scandal, Eh, For the Next Administration. Or Else.

Gender

• Feminization of America Is Bad for the World
• Gender Differences Denied: Feminization of America Is Bad for the World
• GPS And The Turn-By-Turn War On Men

Executive

• State Department Won’t Say Whether Iran Will Face Consequences for Detaining Americans
• Veterans Unable to Pay College Tuition Because Of VA Computer ‘Hiccups’
• HARSH: Obama Official Who Pled Guilty to Espionage Gets... $250 Fine
• In EPA’s War on Air Conditioning, They Will Mandate Flammable Substitutes

 BtF:Election, Economic, Foreign, Education, Refugee, Food, Gun, the Mess, Think, Climate, 2016, and the Other