[VIDEO] Howard Dean Doubles Down On Bizarre Trump Cocaine Accusation, Morning Joe Roasts Dean, Calls for Apology
Posted: September 28, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Cocaine, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Howard Dean, Morning Joe 1 Comment
Finally, if Trump had used cocaine right before the debate… wouldn’t he have been a little more energetic?https://t.co/geNi0mNGLE
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 28, 2016
[VIDEO] James Comey Explains Cheryl Mills’ Immnuity, Why She Was Able to Sit in on Hillary Clinton’s Interview
Posted: September 28, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Cheryl Mills, Democratic Party (United States), Director of National Intelligence, Email investigation, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hillary Clinton, Immunity, James Comey, James R. Clapper, John O. Brennan, The Pantsuit Report, video, Washington Free Beacon Leave a comment
On Capitol Hill, Directors James Comey of the F.B.I., John O. Brennan of the C.I.A. and James R. Clapper Jr. of national intelligence. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images
[VIDEO] University of Houston Professor Agrees to Hand Out ‘Emotional First-Aid Kits,’ Balks at Pacifiers, Prefers Thumb-Sucking
Posted: September 27, 2016 Filed under: Education, Humor, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: African American Studies, Black Lives Matter, Black people, Colin Kaepernick, Fox News Channel, Gerald Horne, Houston, KTRK-TV, The Star-Spangled Banner, University of Houston Leave a comment
James O’Keefe gets professor to agree to help him hand out blankets, stuffed animals to college students.
Sydney Hutchison reports: An assistant professor at the University of Houston recently agreed to distribute “emotional first-aid kits” to students, apparently not realizing it was a satirical ploy by James O’Keefe.
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A University of Houston professor agreed to distribute “emotional first-aid kits” to students, apparently not realizing it was a satirical ploy by James O’Keefe.
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The emotional first-aid kits contain a baby blanket, chocolates, a plush kitten, a bag containing the smell of lavender, ear plugs, a genderless pastel teddy bear, hand written notes, and a pacifier.
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Prof. Schindler did, however, express reservations about the pacifiers, which she feared might be taken the wrong way, and suggested advising students to suck their thumbs instead.
The video features several prominent conservative movement opinion leaders, including VICE co-founder Gavin McInnes and Fox News contributor Guy Benson, who act out the roles and sarcastically repeat the quotes from the university officials to highlight the absurdities that students face on college campuses today.
O’Keefe, who is undercover in the Project Veritas video, claims he is a member of the “99.9 percent,” a group created for students who are “emotionally disturbed by opinions which differ from their own.” His correspondent, Philosophy department advisor Bobbie Sue Schindler, agreed without hesitation to the idea of “emotional first-aid kits,” even offering her assistance to help assemble them.
“The stress of school gets to them, like a bad grade, a missed class, being late, a microaggression, uh whatever…”
“The stress of school gets to them,” Schindler observed to O’Keefe regarding the emotional distress that students face, “like a bad grade, a missed class, being late, a microaggression, uh whatever…”
[Read the full text here, at campusreform.org]
To help students deal with such burdens, the emotional first-aid kits contain a baby blanket, chocolates, a plush kitten, a bag containing the smell of lavender, ear plugs, a genderless pastel teddy bear, hand written notes, and a pacifier. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Trump Says Miss Universe Gained a Massive Amount of Weight
Posted: September 27, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Debate, Donald Trump, Miss Universe, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Clinton: Everyone is Racist, Actually
Posted: September 27, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Debates, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, race, Racism, video, Washington Free Beacon 1 Comment
Northwestern University President Calls Faculty And Students Opposed To Safe Zones “Lunatics”
Posted: September 26, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere Leave a comment
I recently expressed unbridled pride in my alma mater, The University of Chicago, in taking a stand for free speech and rejecting the notion of sheltering students from opposing or disturbing views with “safe spaces” and speech codes. Now, across town, my other alma mater, Northwestern University, appears intent on embracing the opposing view. Northwestern President, Morton Schapiro, has called faculty and students who adhere to views underlying the “Chicago Principle” as nothing more than “lunatics.” Fortunately, I only went to Northwestern for graduate school and was able to secure my undergraduate degree at Chicago in a free and robust community of free thought and free expression. The contrast in the two schools on different sides of the city captures the deep division among academics. However, as one of those “lunatics” and “idiots” denounced by Schapiro, there is no question in my view where the better educational environment can…
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Jordanian Writer, On Trial For Insulting Islam, Murdered At Courthouse
Posted: September 25, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere Leave a comment
By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor.
Free-speech claimed another victim in the Middle-East after Jordanian Journalist Nahed Hattar, who is accused of sharing online an “anti-Islamic” cartoon, was assassinated outside a courthouse where he was facing trial for insulting Islam.
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[VIDEO] Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: ‘UN Is a Global Moral Farce’
Posted: September 25, 2016 Filed under: Diplomacy, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Israel, Netanyahu, UN, United Nations Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Trump and Conservatism: Constitution Day Celebration
Posted: September 24, 2016 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Donald Trump, Enrique Peña Nieto, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Hillary Clinton, Hillsdale College, Jeff Sessions, Jonah Goldberg, Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, United States Constitution Leave a comment
Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, National Review Senior Editor Jonah Goldberg, and Professor of Political Science John Marini discuss presidential candidate Donald J. Trump‘s role in conservatism in America.
Hillsdale College’s annual Constitution Day event celebrates the signing of the United States Constitution with lectures and panel discussions about the history of the Constitution and constitutional issues facing the nation today.
The 2016 event featured U.S. Senator from Alabama Jeff Sessions, Larry P. Arnn, Jonah Goldberg, John Marini, Todd Huizinga, Ronald J. Pestritto, Bradley Watson, F.H. Buckley, and Terry M. Moe.
[VIDEO] Washington Mall Shooting: Gunman Kills 5, Disappears #CascadeMallShooting
Posted: September 24, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere | Tags: Burlington, Cascade Mall, Century Theatres, Cinemark Theatres, gt. Mark Francis, KRON-TV, Macy's, Movie theater, Twitter, Washington State 1 CommentA man armed with a rifle entered a Macy’s store at a mall in Washington state, fatally shot five people and vanished into the night.
A man carrying a rifle entered a Macy’s store at a mall in Washington state, shot dead four women and a man, and vanished into the night, police said.
Authorities believe only one person fired the shots at Cascade Mall in Burlington on Friday night.
A search is underway for an armed man who headed toward Interstate 5 after the attack, said Sgt. Mark Francis, a spokesman for the state patrol.
5th victim has now died in #CascadeMallShooting according to @wspd7pio @KUOW https://t.co/kWXjge9zJi
— Gil Aegerter (@GilAegerter) September 24, 2016
Francis released a blurry surveillance picture of a man described as the suspect. His motive or relationship to the victims, if any, are unclear, he said.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Witnesses described chaotic scenes and confusion when the shooting started about 7 p.m. local time
Brandi Montreuil told CNN she was watching a movie at the mall when attendants suddenly told them to leave.
“I didn’t know anything,” she said. “The theater attendant came in and apologized for stopping the movie and said they were asked to have everyone leave immediately.”
At first, she thought it was a drill.
When they got outside, they saw numerous police vehicles, but no officers in sight, Montreuil said.
“We didn’t know if it was a fire so we were looking for smoke of some kind. Then a few officers started canvassing through the crowds asking if anybody saw anything.”
Law enforcement looking for single shooter. Please remain inside. Stay alert. Call 911 if you see anything suspicious. #CascadeMallShooting
— Skagit County DEM (@SkagitDEM) September 24, 2016
An officer “with a large gun started yelling for people to leave, and fast,” she said.
Armando Patino said he was working at a T-Mobile store near Macy’s when he heard the commotion.
“I hear one shot and and then stand kinda still and like two three other people start running out saying, ‘gun.’ ”
Some of the people dashed out of the Macy’s store, unsure of where to go. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday Night FBI Document Dump: Obama Used a Pseudonym in Emails with Clinton
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Anthony Weiner, attorney-client privilege, Clinton Foundation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton email controversy, Huma Abedin, Muslim Brotherhood, Pay to play, United States Department of State 2 Comments
The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents on Clinton’s email investigation.
President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday.
The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.”
In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.
“Once informed that the sender’s name is believed to be pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: ‘How is this not classified?'” the report says. “Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president’s use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email.”
The State Department has refused to make public that and other emails Clinton exchanged with Obama. Lawyers have cited the “presidential communications privilege,” a variation of executive privilege, in order to withhold the messages under the Freedom of Information Act.
The report doesn’t provide more details on the contents of that particular email exchange, but says it took place on June 28, 2012, and had the subject line: “Re: Congratulations.” It may refer to the Supreme Court’s ruling that day upholding a key portion of the Obamacare law.
A report on the FBI’s June 7, 2016 interview with “Guccifer” confirms FBI Director James Comey‘s claim that Lazar falsely asserted that he’d surreptitiously accessed Clinton’s server.
“Lazar began by stating that he had never claimed to hack the Clinton server. [An FBI agent] then advised that Fix News had recently published an article which reported that Lazar had claimed to have to Clinton server. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Ted Cruz’s Endorsement of Trump Is ‘Business as Usual’
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Free the Delegates, Hillary Clinton, Mark Levin, news, Presidential nominee, Republican Party (United States), Stop Trump movement, Ted Cruz, video 1 Comment
Affirming that Ted Cruz’s endorsement of Donald Trump helps the Republican candidate, Charles Krauthammer added that it is another example of normal politics.
“It does help but I think David is right; this is about Cruz much more than it is about Trump. And when he says it makes him a little cynical, I would have to say that that’s an understatement. It should make you very cynical.”
“I love the way Ted Cruz said ‘after searching his conscience.’ Whenever a politician says he is “searching his conscience,” you can assume it was a quick search of a very small space. I’m not saying anything personal about Cruz, but remember — he and Trump were the outsiders. And what was their calling card from the very beginning? “We don’t act like the Washington insiders. We don’t scratch each other’s back. We speak our conscience.”
“Well, it turns out in the end that they do what you’d expect of any other candidates, which is why — I mean, I don’t denounce them or deplore what they are doing here. This is business as usual. But weren’t they the candidates who were against the business as usual? Read the rest of this entry »
OH YES SHE DID: High School Cheerleading Coach Shelley Jo Duncan Got Nude With 14-Year-Old Male, Proposed Interesting Oral Act
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: cheerleading coach, KFOR-TV, lewd, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City, Oral sex, Sexual Misconduct, Shelley Jo Duncan, Tishomingo, Tishomingo High School 1 Comment
Is her husband the school district superintendent? YES!
Eric Owens reports: This week’s high school cheerleading coach arrested for allegedly getting undressed with a 14-year-old male and engaging in a festival of touching is Shelley Jo Duncan.
“Duncan called the teen ‘boo’ and ‘love’ in the romantic correspondence, according to police.”
For her full-time job, Duncan is an English teacher at an alternative high school in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, according to area CBS affiliate KXII-TV.
The very busy woman is also a reserve officer at the local community college in town — and married to Tishomingo Public Schools superintendent Kevin Duncan.
Agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation arrested Duncan, 48, on Friday morning in the alternative school 
parking lot.
“The 48-year-old Tishomingo High School cheerleading coach also described her plan to provide oral sex to the 14-year-old teen while simultaneously consuming a cough drop.”
Investigators began looking into Duncan’s extracurricular activities after the mother of the unidentified 14-year-old teen contacted Tishomingo police.
Did investigators find a large number of sexually explicit text messages? Yes!
Duncan called the teen “boo” and “love” in the romantic correspondence, according to police.
The 48-year-old Tishomingo High School cheerleading coach also described her plan to provide oral sex to the 14-year-old teen while simultaneously consuming a cough drop, police said.
The pair, separated in age by 34 years, used Snapchat to communicate — laboring under the apparent belief that their messages would eternally disappear into the Internet ether forever. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Shows Georgia Woman Shooting at Invaders During Home Invasion
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Atlanta, Burglary, Gun, Home invasion, Self-defense, WSB-TV Leave a commentGWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Police are hoping someone can help identify two home invaders. They were caught on camera as a woman in the house shot at them.
“She exercised her right to defend her livelihood and property,” Cpl. Deon Washington with the Gwinnett County Police Department told Channel 2’s Nicole Carr.
Surveillance video from inside the home shows the Gwinnett County woman rush from her bedroom and then unloads all her bullets on the three men who kicked in her front door.
The woman is a local restaurant manager who was staying in a housemate’s Spring Drive home for work-related reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Liberals Say Media is Failing
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Election Day (United States), Hillary Clinton, Joseph Stalin, Republican Party (United States), The New York Times, The Washington Post Leave a comment
…Because Public Still Supports Donald Trump
The press obviously is failing, they argue, because it isn’t convincing the American public that Mr. Trump is, indeed, Lucifer.
Apparently to liberals — who are fretting Hillary Clinton could lose this presidential contest to Donald Trump — the answer is yes.
How could a man who tells lies, and promotes conspiracy theories, even still be competitive, they ask. Isn’t it obvious he’s a know-nothing buffoon?
Apparently not. So they’ve turned against the one institution that’s always been on their side: The media. The press obviously is failing, they argue, because it isn’t convincing the American public that Mr. Trump is, indeed, Lucifer.
Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote the media shouldn’t be treating Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump the same — that there’s a so-called “false-equivalence.”
One you see, is a reasonable, but flawed politician. The other is a monster who will take down the Republic.
“Clearly, Clinton shades the truth — yet there’s no comparison with Trump,” he writes, arguing, the press should be clearer in its reporting that Mr. Trump, is indeed, a “clown” and a “crackpot.”
Richard Cohen, perhaps heeding Mr. Kristof’s advice, wrote a column this week in The Washington Post that compared Mr. Trump to Adolf Hitler. (A simple Lexis-Nexis search found 406 articles have appeared in the Post with the search terms “Trump” and “Hitler” since June 2015.)
For good measure, the paper, two days later, ran an editorial about Mr. Trump’s campaign dubbed: “This is how fascism comes to Amrica.”Still, liberal writer Paul Krugman, in The New York Times, thinks the media is objectively pro-Trump.
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From Hiroko to Susie: The Untold Stories of Japanese War Brides
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Health and Social Issues, History, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: Africa, African Americans, Apple Inc, Article One of the United States Constitution, Article Two of the United States Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Barack Obama, China, Federal government of the United States, United States Leave a comment
Who are these women and what do we, their children, know about them?
Kathryn Tolbert writes: I thought she was beautiful, although I never understood why she plucked her eyebrows off and penciled them on every morning an inch higher. She had been captain of her high school basketball team in Japan, and she ran circles around us kids on a dirt court in our small town in Upstate New York. I can still see this Japanese woman dribbling madly about, yelling “Kyash! Kyash!” That’s how she said Kath, or Kathy.
[Above: Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides.]
She married my American GI father barely knowing him. She moved from Tokyo to a small poultry farm just outside Elmira, N.Y., and from there she delivered eggs all over the county and into Pennsylvania. My sister describes her as having a “core of steel.” She raised us as determinedly as any mother could, and yet, looking back, I barely knew her.
Some people think the film I co-directed, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” is a paean to loving Japanese mothers. When one interviewer suggested as much to me and fellow director Karen Kasmauski, we exchanged a look that said, “Shall we tell him the truth?” The film, titled after a Japanese proverb, is about strong women, for sure. Warm and loving mothers? No.
So who are these women and what do we, their children, know about them?
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After World War II, tens of thousands of Japanese women moved with their new husbands, American soldiers, and assimilated into American culture.
They are sisters and daughters of the ferocious enemy that attacked Pearl Harbor in the “day of infamy,” an enemy that surrendered four years later after waves of firebombing on Japanese cities and the dropping of atomic bombs. They married men who occupied their country and came to the United States. And then? They disappeared into America. There were tens of thousands of them, yet they vanished from public awareness — Japanese women who were barely a blip in immigration history, who married into families of North Dakota farmers, Wisconsin loggers, Rhode Island general store owners.
[Read the full story here, at The Washington Post]
They either tried, or were pressured, to give up their Japanese identities to become more fully American. A first step was often adopting the American nicknames given them when their Japanese names were deemed too hard to pronounce or remember. Chikako became Peggy; Kiyoko became Barbara. Not too much thought went into those choices, names sometimes imposed in an instant by a U.S. officer organizing his pool of typists. My mother, Hiroko Furukawa, became Susie.
How did it feel to be renamed for someone in the man’s past, a distant relative or former girlfriend? My mother said she didn’t mind, and others said it made their lives easier to have an American name.
The brides, as many as 45,000, landed in the home towns of their husbands, places where Japanese people had been visible only on World War II propaganda posters. Was their skin really yellow? One war bride in South Carolina was asked to pull up her sleeve since no yellow was visible on her hands and wrists.
Hiroko Furukawa Tolbert, 85, mother of Kathryn Tolbert, arrived in Elmira, N.Y., in 1952. Her in-laws called her Susie. (Karen Kasmauski for The Washington Post)
My mother, once a daughter of privilege, came to her in-laws’ chicken farm. She has lived in the same two square miles of countryside ever since. It has been 64 years.
[Read the full text here, at The Washington Post]
I read and reread the transcripts from interviews I had recorded with my mother when I was pregnant with my own daughter more than 20 years ago, when I realized I didn’t have even a timeline of her life. Six hours of tapes and they didn’t tell me what I now wanted to know. So I went back to her recently to try to understand what she could possibly have been thinking when she made the choice to marry an American soldier she barely knew. “I wasn’t thinking. I just had to get out,” was one of her succinct responses.
I didn’t know other women like her, although I had two journalist friends who were also daughters of Japanese war brides. When they proposed making a film about our mothers, I readily agreed because I had always wanted to tell her story. And she’s such an excellent raconteur that, sitting beside her in the film as her interviewer, I’m almost an unnecessary prop.
[VIDEO] Hillary Clinton Won’t Stop Yelling!
Posted: September 22, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Hillary Clinton, news, The Washington Free Beacon, video 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Hillary Clinton: ‘Why Aren’t I 50 Points Ahead of Trump?’
Posted: September 22, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, news, Presidential nominee, Republican Party (United States), video Leave a comment
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke about foe Donald Trump during a video conference of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, saying, “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?”
