Month: April 2020

MORNING MUSTER Posts @ 03:00 PDT ?

Armed Demonstrators Storm Michigan State House Over Stay-At-Home Order

Hundreds of angry demonstrators, some of them armed with rifles, stormed Michigan’s State House on Thursday to protest stay-at-home orders — terrifying lawmakers who wore bulletproof vests to protect themselves.

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Hate Pays: Scandal-Plagued Southern Poverty Law Center Has Millions In Offshore Accounts, And Half A Billion In Assets

The ALL NIGHTER Posts @ 19:00 PDT ?

According to the SPLC’s tax documents, the organization has $529,801,832 in its endowment, the second year it had more than half a billion dollars on hand. According to an accounting firm’s report first publicized by the Washington Free Beacon’s Joe Schoffstall, the SPLC has $570 million in assets, including the $41 million in its action fund launched just last year. Annual contributions in 2019 stood at $97 million, down from the $132 million it reported in October 2017.

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MORNING MUSTER Posts @ 03:00 PDT ?

Giving Financially Mismanaged States A Bailout Is Morally Reprehensible

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Those now infamous words ring as true, maybe truer, today than ever before and the current crisis is no exception. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are witnessing a new epidemic emerge—an epidemic of middle-class theft. Politicians in states that have been fiscally irresponsible for decades, amassing massive levels of debt and unfunded liabilities are coming hat in hand to the federal government—to you, the middle-class taxpayer—in an attempt to exploit our current health crisis to solve their financial mismanagement.  

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Joe Biden: Animal, Vegetable Or Mineral?

The ALL NIGHTER Posts @ 19:00 PDT ?

I know what you’re thinking.  He’s an animal, obviously.  He threw a young staffer up against a cold marble wall in an isolated chamber of the Capitol’s labyrinthine corridors and reached under her skirt.  When she struggled to free herself from the senator and managed to wriggle away, he angrily pointed a finger in her face and said accusingly and with a “tight” voice, “You’re nothing to me.  You’re nothing!” before leaving her disheveled and confused up against the wall and walking away.  What a monster!  What an animal!  

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh Cites Two Major Abortion-Related Decisions In Recent Opinion; Earlier “Erroneous Precedents” Should Be Overturned.

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in his concurring opinion, wrote that the Supreme Court has a long history of overturning previous rulings “the doctrine of stare decisis does not mean, of course, that the Court should never overrule erroneous precedents. All Justices now on this Court agree that it is sometimes appropriate for the Court to overrule erroneous decisions.”

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Herman Cain: Trump’s Immigration Limits Are The Necessary, Bold Move to Restore Our Economy

There’s absolutely no risk of a labor shortage — quite the opposite — so there’s no need to import foreigners who would compete with Americans for jobs once the economy gets going again.

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Stoicism In A Time Of Pandemic: How Marcus Aurelius Can Help

The ALL NIGHTER Posts @ 19:00 PDT ?

The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity. During the last 14 years of his life he faced one of the worst plagues in European history. The Antonine Plague, named after him, was probably caused by a strain of the smallpox virus. It’s estimated to have killed up to 5 million people, possibly including Marcus himself.

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