One of these presidents is not like the other…‪♪‬
It’s okay. I’m sure he turns it off when he’s golfing, or at a White House party.

Media Research Center:

On Wednesday the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a devastating report that blamed the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.

While the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) networks covered the report for a day, they found another event far more compelling — the First Lady’s 50th birthday bash, spending twice as much time on the White House party than Benghazi.

But something interesting happened I’d say back in the 1960’s.
Journalism was no longer viewed by those who wished to participate in it as a:
vital and important piece of society that guarantees, protects, and defends freedom,
but as an
easy job, that avoided rigor, only required writing, but then also gave you the ego-boost that you were some kind of crusader, some kind of hero. It is why I hate journalism majors more than any other bar political science.
This ease and “glory” of the journalism field attracted not only the weakest of minds, but the most power hungry as well. People who didn’t care so much about intellectual honesty, intellectual temerity, or protecting freedom, but hacks, quasi-politicians, and egomaniacs who put their egos, careers, and pride above the American people.

“You’re five now, son. It’s time for you to start exploring your gender identity.”

The Toronto District School Boards Gender Independent Groups (GIG and GIG2) are groups where children and youth who are gender independent, trans*, or exploring their gender identity can come together in a supportive and affirming space. Our programs provide opportunities for parents/guardians of children who express gender independence to meet and discuss their experiences of navigating the gendered world in which we live. Children and youth are also provided with a safe space to meet and express themselves in an affirming and inclusive environment.

The first group, “GIG”, is for kids from Kindergarten to Grade 5.

Wuh-wuh-wuh..?

The U.S. military cannot hunt down and kill people responsible for the deadly 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as long as the terrorists are not officially deemed members or affiliates of al Qaeda, newly declassified transcripts from congressional hearings show.

Ezra Levant:

A left-wing lobby group in San Francisco wired $55,000 to the bank account of an Indian chief in Northern Alberta, paying him to oppose the oilsands. And sure enough, that chief – Allan Adam, from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation – earned his money. Last weekend, he flew to Toronto to sit on a stage next to Neil Young, the folk singer who was in town to demonize Canada’s oil industry.

The Tides Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable juggernaut that funds a veritable who’s-who of highly politicized leftist and radical environmental concerns, including ACORN, The Ruckus society, (“a group of environmental activists dedicated to the violent overthrow of America“), PETA, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations), and many, many more. It’s a complexly structured “shell game” of an organization that for tax purposes is only required to “document where its donations went – but not where they came from.”
Ezra:

How is it acceptable that a foreign lobby group can simply deposit cash into a bank account of a Canadian politician?..[…].. If a foreign oil company – say, ExxonMobil – was depositing secret payments in the bank accounts of MPs, it would be a scandal. Those MPs would face an RCMP investigation, Exxon would likely be charged with bribery, and the media on both sides of the border would have a field day.

Indeed. Here’s more recommended reading.

“This is a major concern I have with the economics industry. Since it is largely populated by academians and government economists, I don’t trust them to be honest and employ the best methodologies when measuring the economy. I do trust them, however, to lie and taint their methodologies to have a political bias to favor more socialism. ”

The newest collection of David Thompson’s Agonies of the Left.
Part of an ongoing series.

The otherwise highly astute Roger Kimball finds himself at a loss:

…(Obama) never seems to be held to account. I’m not saying there isn’t plenty of criticism. There is. I’ve tried to contribute my fair share in this column and elsewhere. But here’s the thing: the criticism never seems to get traction. It bounces around in the echo chamber of conservative angst but never seems to penetrate into the broader consciousness. To me, it is astounding that Obama has (so far) weathered the scandal of Benghazi with only minimal damage. I cannot understand how his deployment of the IRS as a political weapon can proceed without instigating widespread demonstrations, if not worse. How is it, I’ve wondered, that Obama can have blatantly lied about so many aspects of Obamacare without there being a serious backlash? I am really at something of a loss.

I’d always thought it was impossible for any conservative to not understand why the 44th president has been given a relative pass, starting with his CV, ever since the 2008 election campaign.

Former Harvard Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl, now back in Czechoslovakia, responds to the recent assertion by Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that democracy is a poor system for fighting global warming, and that China is “doing it right”:

The goal of these “people” is to stop democracy, freedom, and prosperity regardless of the fate of Nature, the temperatures, or the CO2 concentrations…Just to be sure, comrade Figueres, the “slow” negotiations in the U.S. Congress – known as democracy – are not detrimental at all. They are what keeps the society decent, what allows it to search and find a better solution among at least two, and what protects the society against power-thirsty individuals like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and yourself. The well-being of America is one of the arguments supporting the view that freedom and democracy are precious values that must be defended against false values and pseudosciences such as eugenics, Lysenkoism, the cultural revolution, and climate alarmism.

From an article at Salon (h/t) titled: “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media.”

Bye, Rush! If corporate media disappeared, and the people had their voice heard, here’s what it might look like..

Author Frank Herbert:

One of the things I noticed as a reporter — I was a journalist longer than I’ve been on this side of the table — is that in all the marching in the streets in the ’60s, the people who were shouting “Power to the People” didn’t mean power to the people. They meant “power to me and I’ll tell the people what to do.” When you questioned them it was confirmed at every turn.

Hillary on Jeopardy.

Your Saturday almost-laugh: Barry Sotero explains the Cloward-Piven Strategy.
Spooky.
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