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Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. -George Orwell

Saturday, May 31, 2014

YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES TODAY - VOL. 325



Dear Leader's V.A. Nonsense

Hillary's Failed Benghazi Spin

Why the blame-Bush effort on V.A. will backfire

Chris Matthews: ObamaCare Rollout and V.A. Scandal Show Obama's 'Lack of Alertness'

Points of Departure: Obama's 'offshore balancing' is a recipe for conflict

What Happens When You Challenge 'Rape Culture' Orthodoxy

Linda Greenhouse Accidentally Proves Conservatives Right

Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman

The true villains behind the Gibson Guitar raid are revealed

The data-mining body monitors in our schools

THIS DAY IN TWITCHY: MAY 30, 2014



'Dude!' Team Hillary reportedly hires Tommy Vietor for Benghazi spin control - yes, that dude




Obama: I have accepted Eric Shinseki's resignation


'Unreal': Obama blames 'old' computers for V.A. scheduling abuses



'That is really offensive': WaPo's Greg Sargent lambasted for trivializing V.A. scandal to 'snipe at GOP'




Court Jester Jay Carney bidding farewell to the White House; Replacement named




'Hold me closer, tiny dancer': Obama-Carney embrace breaks new awkwardness mold




Priceless! Dan Pfeiffer's tribute to Jay Carney is 'contender for joke of the year'




'Obaaama sheep herder': Let the speculation begin for #JayCarneysNextJob




'Ignored' calls and emails: Sharyl Attkisson describes what to expect from new WH press secretary


'Flip Newscycle': Iowahawk names possible replacements for Jay Carney






TRIFECTA: FOUNDING DOCS VS. GENDER STUDIES





RED EYE - MAY 21, 2014 FULL EPISODE



Gavin McInnes hosts and welcomes guests Eric Metaxas and Ambassador John Bolton.

Feds Spend $194,788 to Study How Transwomen Use Facebook
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $200,000 to study how transgender women use social networking sites like Facebook and how their use affects their chances of getting HIV.
The Friends Research Institute, based in Maryland, received $194,788 last month to begin the project operating on the premise that due to "transphobia" transgendered women are forced to use social media as an outlet, often leading to risky sexual behaviors.
Facebook recently added more than 50 gender options for its users to choose from to accommodate transgendered individuals. Users can now identify as "Agender," "Androgynous," "Cis," "Two-spirit," or over 20 variations of "trans."
The grant will fund focus groups and "iPad Social Network Interviews" with about 300 transwomen in order to define their "egocentric social networks."
One of the project's aims is to determine how the "behavior of other people" on social media influences transwomen to engage in "HIV risk" or "protective behaviors."
Also read: RuPaul on LGBT Speech Police: 'Bitch, You Need to Get Stronger'

Friday, May 30, 2014

EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY: MAY 30, 2014



EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. President Obama accepts the resignation of Secretary Eric Shinseki -- Wyatt Goolsby reports and Brian speaks with Joseph Violante of the Disabled American Veteran's. It's been a violent year for some American cities -- Jason Calvi reports on this alarming trend. Plus, Brian is joined by The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway and CNSNews.com's Terence Jeffrey to wrap up this week's top headlines.



YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES TODAY - VOL. 324



WaPo, NYT, WSJ agree: Obama speech "ludicrous... uninspiring... disturbing"

Obama's Absurd West Point Speech

Obama's Fantasy World

False Choices: Obama's Ad Hoc Foreign Policy

Why the Q1 Economic Contraction Matters Politically

The Misogyny of ObamaCare

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations: A Hammer in Search of a Nail

How the Asians became white

Temple University Will Not Condemn Anti-Semitic Professor for Questioning Holocaust

A Clockwork Killer

THIS DAY IN TWITCHY: MAY 29, 2014



Former 'Ghost Hunter' Kris Williams sees V.A. scandal as peek at future of Obamacare


'Aggressively ignorant': Rep. Corrine Brown wigs out, says Florida V.A. is 'doing fine'; Truth begs to differ

'You're out of your mind': Joan Walsh's race-laced take on Elliot Rodger is truly 'beyond parody'




Nancy Pelosi: GOP's 'anti-nutrition bill' rejects science, hurts children

One more what? Julianne Moore joins #NotOneMore hashtag campaign

Selective secrecy? WaPo reporter busts WH for covering up Obama-Hillary lunch

'JOKE OF THE DAY!' Jen Psaki's claim about humility of Obama leaves citizens in stitches


Michael Bloomberg: Liberal academic censorship is just 'modern-day McCarthyism'


'One solution, always': Dems to push for increased V.A. funding

Happy 140th birthday to G.K. Chesterton







Thursday, May 29, 2014

FIREWALL: THE WOLF, THE BEAR & THE LAMBS



EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY: MAY 29, 2014



EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. Jason Calvi reports on American bishops in Washington D.C., who are speaking up for immigration reform. Wyatt Goolsby reports on the continuing V.A. scandal from Capitol Hill. Brian talks to the Heritage Foundation's Daniel Kochis about President Obama's recent foreign policy statements. Brian is also joined by the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez and National Black Pro-Life Union's Dr. Day Gardner to discuss Maya Angelou's pro-life decisions. And the State of Homelessness in America report has been released -- Steve Berg of the National Alliance to End Homelessness provides analysis.



THREE MARTINI LUNCH: MAY 29, 2014

Guest host Brett Winterble and NRO's Jim Geraghty discuss Eric Shinseki's fate, $3 million in prizes awarded by the V.A. for a 2013 contest to develop an appointment scheduling app, and men who drink human breast milk as a nutritional supplement.



Emails Track How V.A. Officials Conspired to Manipulate Wait Times
Despite years of repeated complaints and evidence showing patient wait-time fraud at the Central Texas VA, the inspector general never held anyone accountable and even bestowed the Robert W. Carey Performance Excellence Award on the facility, The Daily Beast reports.
A Texas whistleblower provided the publication with emails and internal memos detailing "how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system" by doing things like entering the next available appointment date instead of a patient's desired appointment date into the computer system, according to The Daily Beast, which was often a difference of weeks and months.
Fifty percent of VA executives' "field bonus" pay hinged on wait times, according to the whistleblower.
This "low-risk, high-reward form of cheating" was pervasive throughout the VA, the whistleblower said, yet the outcome of a 2011 inspector general investigation that found "significant delays" and "widespread manipulation" of appointments didn't result in disciplinary action against any VA officials.
"Every doctor, nurse, and clerk in the hospital knows it's true, but the VA's investigative team wasn't able to find any evidence," the whistleblower said. "They didn't interview any of us or really try to find out what was going on. This was reported in 2011 and it's still not fixed today."
Also read:

V.A. Investigation Confirms Phoenix Abuses, Whistleblower Describes 'Crime Syndicate' Attitude

Say, where's Hillary on the V.A. scandal?

YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES TODAY - VOL. 323



U.S. warns all Americans to get out of Libya — and expands evac force

Venezuela Sanctions Bill Pressures Obama Administration to Act

Hillary's Chinese Espionage Problem

War Of The Magnolias: The Trial-By-Media Of Chris McDaniel

Dem fundraisers hosted at home where GOP senator rents apartment from top aide

The Mann/Ornstein Thesis Is Even Worse Than It Looks

No, Supreme Court Justices Don't Need Term Limits

Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights

The Muslim Brotherhood's "Peaceful Conquest"

One Day in Geneva With Felice Gaer

THIS DAY IN TWITCHY: MAY 28, 2014



'Who says that?' Obama busts out the straw men for West Point commencement speech




'With every fiber of my being': Obama tells grads he embraces American exceptionalism


'Of course': You'll never guess how @BarackObama marked Maya Angelou's death



'Wow!' How ludicrous is Dem Gov. Martin O'Malley? This ludicrous


TPM's Josh Marshall accuses 'wingers' of 'pimp-concerning' about the Holocaust




'Turncoat ass bitch': Stacey Dash's new Fox News gig draws out lefty venom



Stacey Dash laughs at the haters, thanks fans




'Righteous anger'! Proud vet Montel Williams shreds gov't over V.A. scandal



'Work of art': Reply to feminist hashtag #YesAllWomen deemed side-splitting '#ExpertLevelTrolling'




Which redundant hashtag are you? I got #SadBuzzFeedQuizzes!






TRIFECTA: LAND OF THE CRAZED





Wednesday, May 28, 2014

EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY: MAY 28, 2014



EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. Live Action is releasing an explosive report on Planned Parenthood today. Jason Calvi speaks with Lila Rose and Brian is joined by Alison Howard of Concerned Women for America and Anna Franzonello of Americans United for Life for further analysis. Pope Francis will be meeting with sex abuse victims next month -- Brian talks to clinical psychologist Monsignor Stephen Rossetti to discuss the significance of this announcement. Plus, the National Organization for Marriage files a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court -- Brian is joined by NOM President Brian Brown to discuss it.



THREE MARTINI LUNCH: MAY 28, 2014

Brett Winterble and Jim Geraghty discuss WaPo's stinging criticism of Obama's foreign policy, a whistleblower's description of the V.A. as an "organized crime syndicate," and CNN's Carol Costello ignorantly crediting FLOTUS with signing a bill into law.



Obama leads America to glorious victory over straw men at West Point
There are those who believe military action is always the answer and there are those who believe military action is never the answer, but the president — wait a minute. No one believes either of those things! All right, granted, maybe John McCain does, but who else's foreign-policy views can fairly be reduced to one of those two positions? Even Ron Paul voted to invade Afghanistan. You know how it goes, though, with the Adult-in-the-Room-in-Chief: His position, by definition, is the sensible, pragmatic one, and therefore his critics on either side are necessarily out on the fringe. Ben Shapiro translates:
So shopworn has this gimmick become that it's now practically a drinking game on Twitter during O's speeches to spot the straw men as they arrive. I do think there's a strategic component to it, though, not just some knee-jerk impulse on Obama's part to reassure the world that he's Mr. Reasonable. It's not quite true that McCain supports military intervention everywhere, but given his high media profile and his eternal belief that the U.S. should be doing more abroad, no matter how much the U.S. is already doing, I think he's become a useful proxy for that position to the White House. McCain is, after all, the closest thing the GOP currently has to a spokesman for George W. Bush's foreign policy (I think he's even more gung ho about interventionism than Dubya was, but never mind that) and running against Bush's foreign policy has always paid off for Obama.
As one person on Twitter said, read today's speech and you'll see that chunks of it seem to be aimed directly at McCain — which is to say, aimed directly at Bush. The same was true the last time he spoke up in defense of his foreign policy, slightly less than a month ago. Setting up that contrast, passivity abroad or another Iraq war, is good for O.
Also read:

Dear Leader vs. His Imagined Critics

Dear Leader fiddles with foreign policy speeches while Libya burns

YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES TODAY - VOL. 322



CNN, Clarion-Ledger: Beltway Barnacle Thad Cochran hides, does 'bait-and-switch' on reporters

Is the GOP Midterm Tsunami on Its Way?

Flailing Obama Blames Media for...Failing To Bash Republicans As Stubborn Extremists?

This Time, They Really Are Our Girls: Bring Them Back!

Butchers: Syria's ISIS Crucifying Opponents, Justifying Horror with Quran Passages

The New York Times' propaganda war on Egypt

A Call To Reparations Is A Dangerous Call To Victimhood

Could Therapy Culture Help Explain Elliot Rodger's Rampage?

Gun Control Won't Stop the Next Elliot Rodger

Why we should privatize the V.A.

THIS DAY IN TWITCHY: MAY 27, 2014



'SHOTS FIRED!' This Mia Farrow #YesAllWomen Woody Allen subtweet lacks self-awareness

'Are you kidding me?' Today's Google doodle earns a hearty 'screw you'




Geraldo Rivera: NRA's definition of Second Amendment is stupid


FLOTUS rallies against GOP changes to school lunch program




'This even an apology?' Touré 'very sorry' his 'power of whiteness' crap too 'nuanced' for Twitter




'#ToureShaming is awesome'! Touré's iffy 'apology' prompts facepalm-worthy flashbacks



Doctor cites MLK to explain how 'compassionate' late term abortion is



President seeks cover behind child from science fair catapult

'This is humbling': Adam Baldwin honored by Army pilots with flag


Dan Patrick defeats Dave Dewhurst in runoff for Texas lieutenant governor nod