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Trump complains about the media. The media complains that they are just providing objective coverage. Here's an article about Trump's first 100 days where I expected to see some coverage of the many significant actions he has taken that flew under the radar; things that I and the rest of his base are delighted about. Instead, I got this article that is so biased it ought to be in the editorial section or used in journalism school as an example of bad reporting.

Scott Adams analyzes Trumps first 100 days from a totally different perspective.

The end of an era: Genova closes their Oakland ravioli factory because ongoing vandalism makes it impossible to stay in business

Think that's an isolated situation? How about this gang of youths swarming on a Bart train to rob the passengers? Since they are not releasing the videos, because they are teenagers, we don't know the racial makeup.

A study in contrasts between Trump and Obama. There are many and significant.

Last week was the "March for Science", which of course was actually in support of liberal causes, not science. This author thinks Carl Sagan started the trend away from actual science toward activism.

While we're on the subject of science, how about a little article on why climate models do such a horrible job of predicting climate. 

Scott Adams analyses global warming from the cognitive dissonance perspective

Remember when Trump tweeted that Obama was wiretapping? The media went insane. Now some facts are coming out and all you hear is crickets.

Changing the tone, here's a fun list of things you should buy at Costco

Want to feel small? Take a look at this image of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. Not just millions of stars, but billions.

ESPN is hurting. This article discusses why, but the most avoidable and possibly significant reason is at the end of the article. ESPN has gone liberal, but not their viewers. Making your viewers angry about your politics in no way to build your customer base.

The climate models are wrong

The climate models have been notoriously wrong at predicting the temperature. This is well known to the average skeptic, but generally kept out of the public debate by the "alarmists" and the media. Here's a pretty good article about some of the math involved.

How big is the human-caused CO2 fingerprint compared to other uncertainties in our climate model? For tracking energy flows in our model, we use watts per square meter (Wm–2). The sun’s energy that reaches the Earth’s atmosphere provides 342 Wm–2—an average of day and night, poles and equator—keeping it warm enough for us to thrive. The estimated extra energy from excess CO2—the annual anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution—is far smaller, according to Frank, at 0.036 Wm–2, or 0.01 percent of the sun’s energy. If our estimate of the sun’s energy were off by more than 0.01 percent, that error would swamp the estimated extra energy from excess CO2. Unfortunately, the sun isn’t the only uncertainty we need to consider

Read the article for other problems with the model

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We all know the media is liberal, but they're supposed to pretend to be objective. Scott Pelley's ratings are declining in response to his blatant bias.

What happens when you try and prepare food at home for sale? In many places, the government comes knocking. When you legalize it, small businesses boom. See what happened in California.

Look at this picture of fully-armed Aircraft from the 18th Wing during a no-notice exercise April 12, 2017, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The formation is called the "elephant walk" where the entire wing takes off at once to get to war faster.

Mayor Bill De Blasio and the city council are inflicting pain on low-income New Yorkers by denying them access to one of the nation’s most effective anti-poverty programs: Walmart. The people are paying much higher prices for goods because the politicians are indebted to the unions.

Here's a article on how the quest for diversity is taking the professionalism out of teaching. Just one person's story about the decline of education.

Renewable energy update: Idaho spent $4.3 million on a solar project which generates enough electricity to power one microwave oven.

Eleven things the media won't tell you about Obama spying on Donald Trump

Scott Adams analyzes Trump's attack on the Syrian air base: more than meets the eye.

In 2015, the University of Missouri had some public protests by the "snowflakes"; students and others who wanted "safe spaces". Enrollment is going down, since parents understandably don't want to pay to send their kids to such a school.

The highly qualified jurist, Neil Gorsch, has been confirmed as Supreme Court Justice. There are some cases coming up where his conservative viewpoints may impact the results.

Why do Christians keep inviting you to church? Because Jesus told them to.

The oldest Christian church is in danger of disappearing because the (Muslim) Brotherhood has returned to kill the Christians in Egypt. 

How does geology affect the taste of beer? Just like Coors said, "it's the water." 

Famous Sunday-school teacher Jimmy Carter answers questions about his faith.

The "Left" has distorted the immigration debate. They don't seem to be in tune with most Americans or rational thought. 

The always insightful Victor Davis Hanson: Restoring Deterrence, One Bomb at a Time.

CIA head John Brennan used the power of his office to defeat Trump

John Brennan was head of the CIA under Obama, and he wanted to keep his job after Hillary was elected. He worked with foreign spies to gather intelligence which might harm the Trump campaign.

John Brennan’s CIA operated like a branch office of the Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s retinue of political radicals didn’t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with “Hillary for president cups” and other campaign paraphernalia.

A supporter of the American Communist Party at the height of the Cold War, Brennan brought into the CIA a raft of subversives and gave them plum positions from which to gather and leak political espionage on Trump. He bastardized standards so that these left-wing activists could burrow in and take career positions. Under the patina of that phony professionalism, they could then present their politicized judgments as “non-partisan. 

That's not all. Brennan was enthusiastic about Islam from his time in the Middle East. Read the whole article about this man who ought to go to prison.

Roe v. Wade is simply bad law

Regardless of your views on abortion, Roe v. Wade is bad law which has corrupted the judiciary and made the "nuclear option" necessary.

It is difficult to overstate the legal and moral consequences of the Supreme Court’s decisions, rendered inevitable in 1965, formalized in 1973, and reaffirmed in 1992, to dishonestly create and illegitimately protect a “constitutional” right to abortion. In a series of strokes, the Court declared that the text and history of the Constitution — even reason and logic itself — were inconsequential compared with the presumed social justice of the outcome. This was the “living constitution” turned into a child-devouring monster.

Harvard Law School’s Laurence Tribe famously said that “behind [Roe’s] own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.” Edward Lazarus, a former law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the Roe opinion, said, “As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible.” Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the “Notorious RBG” herself, once said the case was “heavy-handed judicial intervention [that] was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”

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Bernie almost won the nomination for President in the name of Socialism. Our young people are so ignorant and desirous of free stuff that they wanted him to succeed. Socialism leads to dictatorship.

Here's a fun video of the last five years of the snowpack in the Sierras.

You have certainly seen in the news a liberal outcry over Trump's claim that Obama was wiretapping him.  There has been almost no reporting of the recent revelation that Susan Rice has been looking at records of conversations between Trump and his staffers. Here's a discussion of her role. Rice is an established Trump operative and liar (remember Benghazi?).  More here 

A discussion on whether Christianity is still relevant, with some nice background.

Oil was first discovered in America 1627, but Somebody stole the sign.

Some guy gave up his seat in first class to a soldier. That's a good thing right? Not to this professor.
Of course the University is standing by his right to free speech. If only they did that for conservatives. Who hires these people anyway?

Have you heard the outrage about Trump cutting funding for "Meals on Wheels". The outrage seems to be misplaced, they get their money from lots of places and this particular budget item is used for pork projects.

No shock here: the media don't understand guns. Have they even seen one?

Liberals are in a snit about Mike Pence's standards

There is a terrific article in the Washington Post about Karen Pence and her marriage to Mike Pence, whom you recognize as the vice president. Christians in particular will enjoy reading about their values and practices to keep their marriage strong.

This very positive article, surprising in the Washington Post, had some elements that incensed liberals.

Here's what Jonah Goldberg had to say .

Jonah didn't like to the articles, but here they are so you can read the other side of the story:
Huffington Post
Salon
Cosmopolitan