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Awesome Poll: 'Overwhelming Majority of College Students Want Government ... Out of Their Lives'

Via Hyscience:

Via Katie Pavlich, a new poll shows the vast majority of college-age students want's the government to stay out of their lives.

From Adam Tragone:

In a survey launched by Young America's Foundation and conducted by the polling company, Kellyanne Conway, Inc., more than 60 percent of college-age students feel that government should not take an active role in their day-to-day-lives, and half of respondents believe that the federal government is mostly hurting economic recovery.

President Ronald Reagan said "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States." And, as the poll suggests, young people share this belief: 66 percent of the students polled had a positive opinion of "entrepreneurship," 44 percent found "free markets" positive, and 42 percent believe the federal government is an opponent rather than a partner in the pursuit of the American Dream.

Given the results of this poll, yo've got to be asking yourself just why in the hell did the majority of college-age students vote for Barack Obama? Katie Pavlch suggests that there were several reasons ... and here are two of them:

1. Barack Obama sold this age demographic a false bill of goods. He used rhetoric that made it seem like conservatives are interested in controlling their lives through government, while he is actually the one who supports policies that require big government intervention (and like gullible sheep ... they fell for it).

2. Conservatives and Republicans aren't explaining or selling freedom in the right way.

(continue reading at Hyscience)

 

What good are immigration laws anyway?

One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, ...

The government acknowledged that U.S. Customs and Border Protection was unaware that the student was no longer in school when he was let back into the United States.

The disclosure was another instance of possible lapses by the federal government in the months before the Boston bombings. The Obama administration earlier this week announced an internal review of how U.S. intelligence agencies shared sensitive information and whether the government could have disrupted the attack. Republicans in Congress have promised oversight hearings starting next week.

Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested three college friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a bombing suspect, including Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend and classmate of Tsarnaev's at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Tazhayakov left the U.S. in December and returned Jan. 20. But in early January, his student-visa status was terminated because he was academically dismissed from the university, the official told the AP.

(continue at CNS News)

 

Boston’s Little-Known History of Jihad and Terrorism

 

The Boston Marathon bombings last month illustrated that the homegrown terrorist threat in this country is very real. While this was the largest and most deadly terrorist attack in Boston’s history, a new report from the Henry Jackson Society reveals that the Boston area actually has 20 years of ties to Islamic radicalism.

 

At least 26 individuals with links to Massachusetts were found to be connected to Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda inspired terrorism, according to the report. Residents of Massachusetts were involved with in-state fundraising, recruiting and planning for jihad, and several traveled abroad to receive extremist training.

 

The organization Care International was founded in Boston in April 1993 and for years solicited money that was funneled to terrorist causes. The cell distributed a newsletter and published information online encouraging American Muslims to abandon their jobs and families for extremist Islam. One article entitled “Boston Offers More Martyrs” highlighted a Boston recruit who left America to fight for the cause of jihad in Afghanistan.

 

The new report from the U.K.-based think tank The Henry Jackson Society also cites the case of Abdel Ghani Meskini, who moved back and forth between Boston and New York before being captured by U.S. security officials because of his involvement in trying to bomb LAX Airport on New Year’s Eve in 1999.

 

It is also noteworthy that the two flights which crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 both departed from Boston Logan International Airport, and 11 of the hijackers used the Boston area as a temporary base in the days prior to the 9/11 attacks. While there is no specific reason for Boston’s high-rates of jihadism, its proximity to New York City seem to have made the city attractive to terrorists in the run-up to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

 

This look into Massachusetts’ history of Islamic radicalism by the Henry Jackson Society comes on the heels of a February report entitled Al-Qaeda in the United States: A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Offenses. The most comprehensive study ever conducted on the topic, the report provides a full analysis of all al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-inspired terror strikes which took place on U.S. soil between 1997 and 2011.

 

In the wake of the Boston bombings, authorities are still attempting to determine exactly what connections, if any, the Tsarnaev brothers had to al-Qaeda or other foreign terrorist organizations. In the meantime, this new report from the Henry Jackson Society sheds light on growing U.S. threat from within our own borders, and Boston’s long history of ties to al-Qaeda and homegrown terrorism.

 

 

Duke Raises Student Fees to Pay for Sex Change Surgery

When I saw the news article about Duke University raising their student fees to pay for the sex change surgeries of students and employees, I had to wonder -- just how many sex change operations are going on at that institute of education?

The College Fix reports:

College costs are on the rise–having increased at a rate that outpaces inflation for more than two decades, contributing to record levels of student debt. Nevertheless, Duke University saw fit to raise the cost of its program even more. This week Campus Reform reports that Duke has raised student fees in order to pay for sex change operations for any student who wants one.

Administrators say they will cover the cost of the reassignment surgery up to $50,000 that will be covered with a cause a 0.3 percent increase to overall student fees.  LGBT advocates on campus immediately celebrated the university’s decision.

“The addition of sexual reassignment surgery with a $50,000 cap makes Duke’s student health care plan one of the most, if not the most, transgender-inclusive plans in the country,” Sunny Frothingham, the outreach chair for Blue Devils United told the Duke Chronicle last week…

Read the full story at Campus Reform.  (hat tip Drudge)

 

Duke isn't alone in deciding to pay for sex change operations.

Yale is considering joining Brown, Penn, Harvard and Cornell universities by picking up the tab for Ivy League students who want sex changes. ...

At least 36 colleges and universities nationwide cover sex-change surgeries in their student health plans. It's not known how many students have the surgery, ...

The American Medical Association has since 2008 classified gender identity disorder as a “serious medical condition” characterized as a persistent discomfort with one’s assigned sex and with one’s primary and secondary sex characteristics. Victims may suffer severe depression and may be at risk for suicide.  (Fox News)

 

So with all these insurance policies going up in price, how many people actually have this surgery?

Reliable statistics are extremely difficult to obtain. Many sexual reassignment procedures are conducted in private facilities that are not subject to reporting requirements. Sexual reassignment surgery is often conducted outside of the United States. The number of gender reassignment procedures conducted in the United States each year is estimated at between 100 and 500. The number worldwide is estimated to be two to five times larger.

So out of those 100 - 500 in the United States who have sex change surgery, how many are students in universities or employees in universities?  We have no way of knowing.

What we do know is that the cost of education for the students and the debt they will owe will increase.  And for what?  So that a small minority of people can have a major surgery for a so-called serious medical condition - which condition's legitimacy is being questioned by some physicians as to whether it even exists.

The plan is to have Medicare and Medicaid cover sex change operations here in the United States.

Interesting:  Trinidad, Colorado is known as the "sex-change capital of the United States." 

LGBTQ is turning into a religion-like movement, just as the hoax of global warming did.  And for what? 

 

The Coyote Principle: Texas vs. California

 

By Susan North

Twenty years ago I lived in California. It is really a lovely place, but I was young and clueless and today think before moving somewhere. Along with sunshine I look for common sense and fiscal responsibility in a state. True California has a lot to offer, but what it offers is offset by the insanity of it all. 

I once heard that if you open a business in Los Angeles, it could require as many as 80 (yes, I said 80) inspectors prior to opening.  For example if you have an awning the awning inspector has to approve it, and the list goes on. Of course the owner of the awning has to pay for this, and he in turn passes the cost on to his customers. I once met a woman who could not leave the state because of custody issues but she was having a hard time finding work in her field, despite many years of experience, because companies in her field were leaving as quickly as they could.  And this was 20 years ago – things have only gotten worse. So recently I moved to Texas, and this is why:

Of all the new U.S. jobs created since 2008 70% were n Texas

Texas has no state income tax

Texs is a right to work state

Texas has the world’s 12th largest economy

Recently the governor announced that Texas has a $13 Billion (with a B) surplus, and that he would like to use 1.3 Billion on one-time only infrastructure improvements and return the rest to the taxpayers.  Yes, I said Billion. And yes he wants to return the rest, the problem is that state has no mechanism for doing this, therefore he has asked the state legislature to pass a bill which will make it possible.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation has published a good run-down with a lot more details on the reasons why Texas is better off than California. You can view it here www.sfgate.com/blogs/opinionshop. Or for a condensed version see here http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Texas-vs-California-myth-busting-time-4257744.php  The condensed version was published by the San Francisco Chronicle (amazing, but maybe they didn’t understand that California doesn’t come out well in this – LOL!).

And here is a little story, which explains it all:

THE COYOTE PRINCIPLE

CALIFORNIA

The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.

1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie 'Bambi' and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.

2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.

3. He calls a veterinarian....the vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.

4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.

5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now safe.

6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a 'coyote awareness program' for residents of the area.

7. The State Legislature spends $ 2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.

8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The State spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.

9. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the State.

TEXAS:

The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.

1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $ 0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.

2. The buzzards eat the dead coyote.

And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not!!

Seersucker. Seriously.

Susan North

 

What is it with Democrats?  Thanks to The Daily Caller (4/26/2013), I just learned that Missouri state senator Ryan McKenna has submitted a handwritten (how quaint) amendment to a higher education bill which would ban Missourians over the age of 8 from wearing seersucker suits.  Seersucker.  Seriously. What business is it of the government to ban a type of fabric?  Who does Ryan McKenna think he is, Senator Patty Murray from  Washington State perhaps? (Ann Coulter once devoted an entire column to her called the “Stupidest Woman in America.”)

 

Now for whose lacking textile expertise seersucker is staple of the Southern wardrobe. It is generally made in two colors by a slack-tension weave, i.e. the stripes of one color are woven slackly, while those of the other color are woven tightly (the variables are endless, for example only one color might be used). When removed from the loom some of the warp (lengthwise) yarns crinkle while others do not due to the tension they received in the weaving.  It is a low profit, high cost fabric due to the slow weaving process.  This thin, cotton fabric is ideal for spring and summer wear. It is easily confused with pelisse fabric which is created by a chemical, not a woven method, but looks very similar.  Both men and women wear seersucker. 

 

It seems according to McKenna that about half of the Missouri state senate wear seersucker suits and not infrequently wear them on Wednesday due to some coordinated effort.  According to McKenna children are cute wearing the crinkly fabric while adults look ridiculous, hence his efforts to ban it.  He now has claimed that it was not ‘germaine” (sic) to the bill on higher education and was done as a joke.  A “joke?”  If this is a joke it is one that only little boys under the age of 8 would find funny.   

 

How did this lame brain get elected to anything?  Well, I checked his website and his biography explains it all. His father and his grandfather were both elected to the Massachusetts Missouri legislature.  His biography also explains that he has a degree in education (everywhere the easiest possible subject to study, for example Patty Murray studied education) at a Missouri university where, if he took English composition he didn’t learn very much.  Not only is his biography grammatically incorrect, but we are now at the end of April 2013 and his “goals for the 2010 legislative session” are included so it clearly hasn’t been updated in a while.

 

McKenna may think that adults look ridiculous in seersucker, but to my way of thinking Democrats look ridiculous, perhaps not for what they wear but for what they do and say.  While I oppose banning Democrats, the voters ought to ban voting for someone so completely silly as to wish to ban seersucker. The last time I checked state legislatures were elected to deal with real problems, not issues of style. Now excuse me, it is time to get out my summer wardrobe – I think I’ll wear a seersucker suit this week. 

 

On Real War

On Real War

By

R.J. Godlewski

© April 24, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

“I’ve seen nice middle-class kids go through shock training. These nice young people experience that total immersion, then emerge to slit throats with ease, enthusiasm, and great expertise. They have become warriors.” MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER by Paul Balor (Paladin Press, 1988), Page 84

************

Total immersion, “shock training” is what separates warriors from soldiers. A form of ‘real world’ training that has not existed within the Western world since the beginning of the industrial age. It may, however, represent what the terrorists who perpetrated the Boston marathon bombing experienced, especially that involving Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While the media and the public exhaled over the thought of yet other “boy next doors” turning violent, I did not bat an eyelash. Warriors emerge from a literal overnight transformation that shatters their civility and conditions their entire life for the struggle. Even the greatest American “warrior” generally compartmentalizes his life; able to rear a family, attends church, and even appears as a consultant upon the evening news. To compound matters, our warriors rarely enter the field of combat without a vast array of technical support from a highly networked sphere of modern communications, hierarchical orders, and, more often than not, close air support as needed. In the reality of war, America fields soldiers. Little more.

Most of this problem remains our fault. America simply does not desire to turn cold-blooded killing machines lose on the planet, unable to extract them from their “kill or be killed” mentality. Unfortunately, this also means that we cannot understand others, such as the Boston bombers, who can kill without the slightest remorse. The FBI, within its criminal filings against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suggested that the terrorist and his brother did not look in the direction of the explosions, as had the thousands of other individuals in attendance. They suggested that this illustrates the pair’s expectation of events. I noticed something even more disturbing. The terrorists did not even flinch. All soldiers flinch whenever an explosion happens, no matter their experience and training. Even practiced gun owners do so despite, perhaps, having had fired thousands of rounds throughout their life. It represents a basic human reaction. I suspect, for instance, that I could take my Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum^® revolver to any gun range tomorrow and cause everyone to flinch, even if only momentarily.

Sins cast long shadows

By Tabitha Korol

 

An Open Letter to the Members of the Teachers Union of Ireland:

In the words of Kevin O’Neill, “Kindliness combined with unique native wit and the courage to go and do business with the world have been the trademarks of the Irish character. The Irish have never been known, like so many other nations, to retire from the world, to withdraw, to hide.”  Yet this is the process you have begun.    

As the Teacher’s Union has relinquished its freedoms of thought, learning, research and growth in the interest of healing illusory Islamic wounds, are you aware that you are also a collaborator in the destruction of Ireland?  While violent jihadists pursue the Koranic dictates to kill the unbelievers, stealth is facilely implemented within Europe and the Americas.  Stealth, aka civilizational jihad, is a system of lies (taqiyyah), persuasion and incremental restrictions that the invading entity imposes on the host culture by claiming victimization. By insisting that words or expressions are offensive – the very vehicles of thought and ideas – freedom of speech is purloined and societies transformed. 

By “ceasing all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, and the cooperation in research programs,” you have taken a step backward in time to the 7^th century of Mohammed and the evil decrees set forth in their Koran.  Perhaps you do bear a deep-seated desire to assist in the Islamic effort to destroy Israel with a fallacious “apartheid” label.  Israel, the only Jewish homeland on the planet is, in point of fact, home to citizens of every race, religion, and national origin, yet no one addresses the Islamic regimes where Jews and Christians are either expelled, converted by force, enslaved or killed – or the communist regimes of China and Cuba where freedoms are considerably limited.   

With this boycott, did you also intend to betray your teachers’ and students’ rights to a more complete education and their desire to be part of Ireland’s progress in the 21^st century?  Ireland’s history shows your ancestors fought bravely for their right to exist, yet you have joined a war whose goal is to thwart Israel’s right to exist as a tiny, sovereign, dynamic nation amid two dozen hostile Islamic states’ covering more than six million square miles (plus 80% of what was originally mandated for Israel). 

Despite Israel’s having to defend its ~eight million citizens within her borders legally designated in 1948 and later winning a defensive battle against seven invading Arab armies, this unique global leader in innovation and entrepreneurship has managed to excel in all fields of endeavor that give purpose to life – science, technology, medicine; has more museums, orchestra and publications per capita than anywhere else in the world (whose publications are shared with other nations that are dedicated to their own development and progress).

As a leader in offering international humanitarian aid to such as Sri Lanka, Armenia, Turkey, Kosovo, Haiti, hurricans Katrina and Sandee, Israel has already rushed to Boston’s victims of the terrorist bombing.  Israel is, by virtue of her morality and medical proficiency, a country that should be protected.  Palestinians have excelled as the leading producer of suicide bombers and terrorists in the world (note the PLO terrorist movement in Ireland in the link).

By complying with this initial Islamic agenda, it will become increasingly difficult to defend your position later because you are losing your grip on democracy.  From this one agreement will come forced subjugation and revisionism, until your culture and laws fail to protect you, and Ireland will experience what is already prevalent throughout Europe – violence, riots and bloodshed, changes in the school systems, more mosque construction, burning synagogues, desecration of churches; and danger for your citizens, yourselves, and your progeny.

Wherever Islam is allowed a toehold, freedoms are sacrificed.  Sweden and Norway have the highest percentage of rapes in Europe.  From Asia to Africa, worshippers are burned in their churches.  In Mali, children are kidnapped and sold into slavery. In France, attacks against Jews are increasing.   In England, Muslims are patrolling the streets, enforcing Sharia law.  In Israel, residents live in constant fear of bus explosions and suicide bombers.  Now, in Boston, it may be perils in a crowd or event.  This begs the question of whether the Teachers Union complied because of sufficient recompense or fear of reprisal, and will it be worth the sacrifice of freedom to learn and thrive as a nation. Is it worth trading one’s civilization, culture, advancements, ethics and morality – even national character – for tyranny’s domination, the worship of death, the abandonment of the creativity and poetry of the Irish soul?   Your forefathers knew, “Sins cast long shadows.”

In the words of our John Adams to Thomas Jefferson: “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.”  If Adams were here today, he might add that the Muslims have done more to destroy man than any other nation.”  They have already destroyed most of the cultures in the Middle East and 300 million inhabitants since the emergence of Mohammed, and they have now come to destroy our democracies.  Rather than defend your academic freedom and independent thinking, you have succumbed to their demands –  surrendered your independence, free will, and access to Israeli ingenuity and progress to the hate-driven, supercessionist culture of Islam.  This will be but the first of many concessions.  You have sold out the lives of your children to the inevitable cult of death and destruction. From here on in, the grip of Sharia will only get tighter.   

How long before you adjust to calls of prayer five times a day, and limit your lives to the highly restrictive edicts of Islam.  How long before your Saints and Scholars – Patrick, Columba, Brendan, Aidan – are identified by Islam as true Muslims, just as they are now saying that Jesus was a Palestinian Muslim.  How long before the Book of Kells is labeled idolatrous?  How long before you can no longer teach true history because it is antithetical to the teachings of Allah?  What one loses is always more than the gain when the pact is with the Devil. 

Is Ireland not up to the task of preservation for herself and for Israel?  Are the Irish people not in step with their own courageous history and survival that they cannot or will not stand against tyranny’s domination? 

Before another book is boycotted and rejected, know this: “The disappearance of the sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching conquest of submission to authority.” – Stanley Milgram, social psychologist.

 

Tabitha Korol

 

Texas: After Man Goes On Stabbing Rampage Inside College, Student Laments, “We Wish We Could Protect Ourselves With Guns”…

Notice exactly what the young man says, emphasis mine, my comment below:

Weasel Zippers,   Via Washington Times:

In the chaotic aftermath of a Houston campus mass stabbing Tuesday, a Lone Star Community College student gave a brutally honest interview with Fox News, lamenting the fact that students can’t carry firearms to protect themselves and others.

“God protected us in our classroom,” he said. “We wish we could protect ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we’re legal adults, [to] carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far all we have to rely on is God. But we would love to have God and the law on our side.”

The young man told the account of when he and roughly 50 other students barricaded themselves inside a classroom when they heard a lot of loud banging noises, “like a rock concert.” He told Fox News that none of the students in the classroom received the school’s text message alert until about an hour after the incident.

 

Does the law actually keep adult students from carrying their legal personal weapons?  Or is this simply a rule set forth by the particular educational institution?  And if this is a rule of the institution, it can certainly be changed, if the students organize (Obama loves organizers doesn't he?).

 

School in Conneticut Teaching Students 'Americans Don't Have Right to Bear Arms'

Via Hyscience:

Leave it to liberal teachers in a liberal state to teach untruths and outright lies to students.

According to a Northeast Middle School worksheet, "The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms, and "The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional."

The worksheet, published by Instructional Fair, goes on to say that the Second Amendment is not incorporated against the states.

"This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states," the worksheet reads. "So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws."

According to the document, the Second Amendment "only provides the right of a state to keep an armed National Guard."

A teacher also told students that the Constitution is a "living document." And as you might expect, at least one parent is royally pissed off!

As a commenter at the link points out, obviously the school is either unaware and/or chooses to ignore of two important cases of SCOTUS within the past 5 years. The Heller case which did affirm the individual right to keep and bear arms; and the McDonald case which did say the second amendment is incorporated upon ever state and municipality.

(continue reading at Hyscience)