Latest Idea From Social Justice Warriors: Ban Salary Negotiation

Such is the idea from Laura J. Kray, who stops short of saying that these bans should be enforcement by government. It’s just implied The best way to way to eliminate the gender pay gap? Ban salary negotiations. Ellen Pao, interim chief executive of Reddit, announced last month a ban on salary negotiations at the […]

 

Good News: Ferguson Plans Permanent Memorial To Criminal

Now that the memorial to Michael Brown has been knocked down multiple times, being that it is in the middle of the road, Ferguson has decided to go a different route (The Hill) The mayor of Ferguson, Mo., announced on Wednesday that his city would construct a permanent memorial to Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager […]

 

California Looks To “Necessarily” Skyrocket Electricity Rates, ‘Cause Climate Change

Can you guess who will be hurt by this idea, as being pushed mostly by White Liberals? (USA Today) How much Californians pay for electricity could soon depend on when they use it — and some could see their summer bills go up substantially. The California Public Utilities Commission could soon ask Southern California Edison […]

 

Man Who Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flights To Play Golf To Lecture On Climate Change At Coast Guard Graduation

He’ll also be taking a long, fossil fueled flight, followed by a fossil fueled trip in a limo, part of a large fossil fueled caravan, in order to give this speech that proclaims “climate change” a national security threat (USA Today) President Obama will use a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Wednesday […]

 

Moderate Biker Totally Feels Compelled To Condemn Biker Violence

There’s actually a bit of misdirection in this NY Times op-ed. Let’s see if you quickly pick it up. Clue: the writer’s name is Wajahat Ali, a journalist at Al Jazeera America I’m a Moderate Biker Gang Member Compelled to Condemn This Violence On Sunday, a biker gang meeting at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in […]

 

Washington Post Editorial Board Blames Fall Of Ramadi On Obama’s Weak Policy

But, they attempt to soft-pedal the blame The fall of Ramadi exposes Obama’s weak Islamic State strategy IT HAS been apparent for some time that the United States lacks a strategy to fulfill President Obama’s pledge to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State since it has no plan to root out the terrorists’ base […]

 

Surprise: Obama Admin Knew Benghazi Attack Was Pre-Planned

Hillary would say “at this point, what difference does it make?” It makes a big difference, when the President, his staff, and those who he appointed (Hillary Clinton) straight up lied to the American People. Worse, they came up with an Official Story, and went after a US citizens for making a (crummy) movie (Judicial […]

 

Doom: NASA Predicts Loss Of Larsen B Ice Shelf By 2020

Will we be able to place this in the long list of failed Warmist/Enviroweenie prognostications? Will NASA post a “whoops! We were wrong” press release if it doesn’t come to pass? (note: the 2020 date is contained in the CNN headline, while the study says this will “likely” happen by the end of the decade) […]

 

Obama Changes Policy On Military Equipment To Police Departments

This is actually a good idea, one which I suspect most can agree with (AP) In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and […]

 

NY Times Is Very Concerned Over The Housing Apartheid In Big Cities

Interestingly, the NY Times Editorial Board forgets to mention which political Party is currently in charge of most Big Cities, and has been for most of the time since the 1960’s. Housing Apartheid, American Style The riots that erupted in Baltimore last month were reminiscent of those that consumed cities all over the country during […]

 

Are The Seas Really Rising Faster Than Ever?

Or, could it really have more to do with adjusted data? Here’s Jo Nova at Climate Change Dispatch The Scandal Of Sea Levels — Rising Trends, Acceleration — Largely Created By Adjustments Headlines across Australia yesterday told us the dire news that a new study finds that “Sea level rising faster in past 20 years than in […]

 

Was The Derailed Amtrak Train Hit By An Object?

Another potential nail in the disgusting Blamestorming from Democrats (WRAL/AP) The Amtrak train that derailed along the nation’s busiest tracks may have been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators said Friday, raising new questions about the deadly accident. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said an assistant conductor aboard […]

 

We Face A Mad Max World Unless We Tackle “Climate Change” Or Something

So says Charlize Theron. And, yes, she’s serious (UK Guardian) The actor Charlize Theron, who takes a leading role in the new Mad Max movie as a one-armed warrior driving five sex slaves to safety, has expressed her fears that a bleak future awaits the planet unless global warming is addressed. The film is set […]

 

NY Times: Stop Illegal Alien Detention

Things that are Super Important In Liberal World (NY Times) Of all the malfunctioning parts in the country’s broken-down immigration machinery, probably the most indefensible is the detention system. This is the vast network of jails and prisons where suspected immigration violators are held while awaiting a hearing and possible deportation. Immigrant detainees are not […]

 

Columbia U Snowflakes Want Trigger Warnings For Greek Mythology

The cost to attend Columbia University is over $60,000 a year, including the required fees beyond tuition. Not to mention the cost of food, books, etc. This is what parents are getting for their money Columbia students claim Greek mythology needs a trigger warning “Not far from the walls of Enna, there is a deep […]

 

Washington Post Editorial Board: Pour More Money Into Infrastructure To Prevent Next Train Tragedy

You might be aware of Liberals blaming a supposed lack of infrastructure spending for the crash of the AMTRAK train in Philly (say, whatever happened to the $800 billion Stimulus, as well as all the smaller stimulus packages during the first few years of Obama’s reign?), as well as attempting to blame Republicans in multiple […]

 

Ruth Marcus: Carly Fiorina’s Candidacy Offends Me

And, apparently, the only reason her candidacy is still going is sexism. A bit of CDS (Carly Derangement Syndrome) from Ruth The sexism that propels Carly Fiorina’s candidacy How depressing is it that, out of the more than a dozen announced or prospective Republican candidates for president in 2016, only one, Carly Fiorina, is a […]

 

Obama Accused Of Sexism Towards Elizabeth Warren

Barack is learning about the kind of treatment Conservatives/Republicans typically receive from Liberals (The Hill) National Organization for Women (NOW) president Terry O’Neill on Wednesday called President Obama’s critique of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sexist. O’Neill told The Hill she took issue with Obama calling Warren by her first name during an interview with Yahoo […]

 

Senator Warren To Obama: Declassify The Trade Agreement

I strangely find myself in agreement with Senator Warren (Reuters) U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren hit back at President Barack Obama in their tussle over “fast-track” authorization to negotiate a Pacific Rim trade treaty, a power she says could be used in the future to weaken Wall Street reforms. The president, who wants expedited negotiating power […]

 

Salon: Progressives Must Face Reality Of Hardcore Islam

Salon is typically a hotbed of Leftist insanity, which very much exposes the true mindset of Leftists, one that typically takes the side of those calling anyone who points out the problems in hardcore Islam an “Islamophobe”, which makes this article by Jeffrey Tyler all that more important The left has Islam all wrong: Bill […]

 

Carly Fiorina Continues To Impress While Facing The Press

An interesting article by Mediaites’ Joe Concha Carly Fiorina May Not Win, But Facing the Press Isn’t the Issue It is for Hillary Clinton The candidacy of Carly Fiorina is a fascinating one from a media perspective. She’s a former CEO and political candidate…with both of those pursuits ending with her being dismissed. The easy […]

 

NY Times: Don’t Blame Obama For Not Fixing Race Relations

NY Times columnist Charles Blow is Very Upset that people, especially Rush Limbaugh, are criticizing Michelle Obama Of Museums and Racial Relics Recently, Rush Limbaugh lambasted the first lady, Michelle Obama, for bringing up the idea of diversity among museum visitors at the opening of the new Whitney Museum in New York. According to Limbaugh, […]

 

Did You Buy Flowers For Mother Day? Well, That’s Bad For “Climate Change”

The Cult of Climastrology is renowned for linking virtually everything, including holidays, to “climate change”. Up till now, I don’t recollect them linking the mostly/solely political issue to Mother’s Day. Till now, as brought to us by Jennifer Grayson at the Washington Post (BTW, there are some actual ecological/environmental issues involved, beyond “climate change”) Flowers […]

 

Know What We Really Need To Solve “Climate Change”? A New Song!

It’s a Love-a-lution! UNFCCC Newsroom presents a new entry in our special section Climate Song for Paris COP 21 which was kindly submitted by Diana Lindley. The song Love-a-lution- RIGHT NOW! was written and recorded to mark last September’s events in New York around the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit and the Global Day of Action on Climate Change when more than 300.000 people […]

 

Kathleen Parker: Pam Geller Totally Abused Free Speech

Over the course of time, you’ve had those that defended Pam Geller’s free speech, and those who are wringing their hands. Even some Republicans, such as Bill O’Reilly (who gets schooled here) went squishy. Of course, Replica Republican Kathleen Parker had to chime in Pamela Geller’s abuse of free speech The recent spectacle of Pamela […]

 

SJWs: Having A Loving Family Is Apparently An Unfair Advantage

Which can lead to all sorts of Bad Things, like your kids doing well in school and life, but, some other kid may not do so well Reading to children at bedtime: ABC questions value of time-honoured practice “Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?” asks a story on the ABC’s website. (WT note: that’s […]

 

Good News: Secret Service Installing More Spikes On White House Fence

Gotta keep the peasants away from the aristocracy, ya know (Fox News) The Secret Service is adding a second layer of steel spikes to the top of the White House fence to keep would-be intruders at bay, according to a proposal submitted to the National Capitol Planning Commission. The steel “pencil point” spikes will be […]

 

March Sees CO2 At Over 400ppm, World Doesn’t End

NOAA breathlessly reports Greenhouse gas benchmark reached Global carbon dioxide concentrations surpass 400 parts per million for the first month since measurements began For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015,  according to NOAA’s latest […]

 

Students Take Picture With Confederate Battle Flag, People Freak And Want Something Done

Offended. I see that Memeorandum has a big pull from ABC11 here in the Triangle. entitled “CONFEDERATE FLAG PHOTO UPSETS CHAPEL HILL STUDENTS” (love the all caps), but, I like the WRAL article better Chapel Hill man says daughter’s controversial photo taken ‘out of context’ The father of a student at East Chapel Hill High […]

 

Mother Jones Unintentionally Explains How Liberalism Fails Blacks

Let’s recap: many on the Right simply blame Liberalism overall for the failure of big cities. There are those that the Southern Poverty Law Center refers to as “White Nationalists” (which is apparently a Bad Thing, but not a Bad Thing when people are Black Nationalists and Hispanic Nationalists) who simply blame Blacks, saying they […]