[American Thinker] A truth that the left seeks to deny made it through the editors at BET television, which ran a website article, and I presume some broadcast segments. The headline and subhead tells the story:
Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises
Two labor economists report that when the minimum wage increases, Black teens suffer disproportionate dismissals.
I doubt that many AT readers would be surprised at the information that follows, because it makes perfect sense.
I wonder if this study made it through because it reinforces the victim perspective? Ethnicity, in this case, trumps progressive solidarity. But unless I am mistaken, I don’t think BET devotes a lot of attention to the impact of illegal immigration on blacks,which uses the same supply and demand logic. I am not a regular viewer, so I could be wrong, but in general, the black racial grievance industry embraces solidarity over the interests of its own constituents.
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Read, write, articulate something like standard English. Asians have mastered that. Probably around a million Chinese are doing that while we converse. The Donks and their Teachers Unions seem to figure in there. Get a clue. Keep voting Donk, reap the 'benefits'.
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BET began intending to show uplifting programs about black cultural and business and sports achievements. It turned out that musical videos and shows about entertainers getting divorced, being arrested, etc. were the ones that got good ratings. Since they show about 5 times as much of the latter as the former, a lot of blacks have criticized them constantly. BET, instead of folding and doing what would be PC basically kept doing what they were doing and making money.
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It turned out that musical videos and shows about entertainers getting divorced, being arrested, etc. were the ones that got good ratings.
[Breitbart] The editors of the Washington Post are finally admitting that high levels of legal immigration drive down wages for American workers, as President Donald Trump has asserted.
In an editorial by the Washington Post, the argument that immigration patriots and President Trump have made for some time now that current legal immigration levels ‐ where the U.S. takes in more than one million immigrants in a year ‐ is confirmed by the WaPo editors at the very bottom of the piece.
While fresh immigrants do depress wages for some low-skill and minority workers, as Mr. Trump argued, they act as rocket fuel for the overall economy. By cutting their numbers, Mr. Trump would undercut the nation’s prospects.
Still, the admission that American workers are hurt by current legal immigration levels, the undercutting of U.S. wages for blue-collar workers is not enough for the WaPo editors to oppose mass immigration.
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If existing levels of LEGAL immigration depress wages for low-skill and minority workers, what do the intellectual giants at the WaPo have to say about existing levels of ILLEGAL immigration? Very little, I'm guessing.
Additionally, if unfettered immigration-- both legal and illegal-- is good because it acts "as rocket fuel for the overall economy," then surely the intellectual giants at the WaPo would favor across the board tax cuts for the same reason.
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Agree but a quick correction. There is no thing as an 'illegal immigrant'. Immigrant status is a legal state granted by the Government and immigrants are, in fact, legal. If you overstay your visa or violate the border you do not become a 'illegal immigrant' but an 'illegal alien'. Its possible to overstay an immigrant visa (for example a K-1 visa where the immigrant does not get married in the timeframe) where you lose your 'immigrant' status (and become 'alien'). And of course if you violate the borders you never had immigrant status.
Of course the left loves to play with words and mix in the illegal aliens with the legal immigrants so they can claim 'we are a nation of immigrants' or 'your against immigration which made us great!' when talking about illegal aliens.
Don't get me started on calling the violation of our borders a 'immigration' issue - it is not. it is a border security issue and the violators should not be given the same rights as 'immigrants'.
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Happened to me once - had to go all the way to El Paso/Juarez (from Los Alamos) to get a stamp.
Actually it was very educational:
(i) Texas doesn't look anything like New Mexico - except for underlying geography.
(ii) Learned why McDonald is so popular (ate in some Moms & Pops on the way, had runs for several days - ever try driving with runs?).
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Learned why McDonald is so popular (ate in some Moms & Pops on the way
One of my Czech au pairs drove her American friends crazy in exactly that way when they were driving across Western Europe. They wanted to eat at all the cozy local restaurants, while she insisted on only MacDonalds until they got to their destination. But she had the advantage of having worked diring her summer vacations a tour guide across the same territory, and had similar stories to tell. Driving with the runs is one thing; leading a tour bus full of the same is quite another level of misery.
[Townhall] President Trump slammed Sen. Richard Blumenthal Monday on Twitter for lying about serving in Vietnam, calling him a "phony Vietnam con artist."
The comment came after Blumenthal expressed his concern that the president is trying to "politicize" the Justice Department.
"Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!" Trump tweeted.
"Never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal," he added. "He told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie."
"He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child," Trump continued. "Now he judges collusion?"
This is not the first time Trump has gone after Blumenthal for falsely claiming he served in Vietnam, when in reality he received five military deferments. He brought up Blumenthal’s Vietnam "record" in February, after the senator told reporters then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch called the president’s attacks on federal judges "demoralizing." He also called for an investigation into the Connecticut senator in May after he criticized Trump’s firing of then-FBI Director James Comey.
Blumenthal said Monday on CNN’s "New Day" that he was "concerned" the president is "weaponizing...laws" after the crackdown of leaks was announced.
h/t Instapundit
H.R. McMaster, currently under attack from conservative critics, is best known for writing a book about the Vietnam War in which he put the blame primarily on the Johnson administration officials, but also excoriated military leaders for failing to challenge policies they knew, or should have known, were misguided. So no one should be surprised that the national security adviser is not inclined to salute and carry out instructions from the Oval Office, but challenges President Trump on matters ranging from personnel decisions to Iran policy.
The two categories are closely linked, since personnel IS policy, and the ongoing purge of NSC officials clearly contains a political dimension, which has been extensively documented. McMaster has recently fired several senior NSC officials--Rich Higgins, Ezra Cohen and Derek Harvey--who reportedly favored a tougher line on Iran than McMaster does. Their replacements come from the CIA, which traditionally has taken a pessimistic view of chances for changing the nature of the Tehran regime.
The political conflict extends well beyond the narrow issue of Iran policy. McMaster has instructed his staff to avoid using the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," and tried to remove it from the president’s recent speech in Warsaw, Poland (Trump put it back in). According to a recent rumor, the NSC declined to schedule a talk on radical Islamic terrorism by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the country’s most respected authorities, reportedly because one of McMaster’s appointees, Mustafa Javed Ali, accused her of "Islamophobia." McMaster’s predecessor, General Mike Flynn, advocated waging ideological war against "radical Islamists," supporting moderate Muslims, and putting the United States firmly behind Muslim governments, such as Indonesia and Egypt, that fought the jihadis. McMaster does not agree. Could be that Trump's sojourn in New York Military Academy left him with a bit of inferiority complex toward military men - and that impairs his judgment?
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..or senior military personnel who have limited experience in being fired. Too many hold overs till the next tour of duty rather than cashiered. Lincoln went through a lot in his civil war experience.
#2
Dems McCane and Schiff are strong McMaster supporters. McMaster chose NSC replacements from the Klingon pool, told Susan Rice in a personal letter she could keep her security clearance, and administration leaks continue. There should be no need for further evidence.
[Michelle Malkin] When President Trump said he’s going to be good for business, he wasn’t joking:
This room is called The Love Dome and hosts events including yoga, dance and private parties. Every Wednesday and Saturday night, The Love Dome is host to Cuddle Sanctuary, an organization that leads group cuddle events, professional cuddling and training for professionals. This is one of their group cuddle sanctuaries.
Fun fact: Bill Clinton used to refer to the Oval Office as "The Love Dome," but I digress:
Fei Wyatt, the iPad-toting host, is Cuddle Sanctuary’s Chief People Officer, a professional cuddler and certification program leader and the facilitator for tonight’s cuddle. In an hour’s time, she’ll be chaperoning a room full of strangers spooning each other on the floor.
The elephant in the room during some of these sessions, though, is the current state of the country’s affairs. Since November ‐ and the election of Donald Trump ‐ professional cuddling services have seen a spike in client interest.
[Breitbart] TEL AVIV ‐ If the Islamic State is destroyed, the situation in the Middle East could end up being even more dire with the emergence of an "Iranian radical empire" in its wake, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned in an article published by CapX this week.
Kissinger cautioned that in the case of IS and Iran, the old aphorism "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" no longer holds water, since driving out the Sunni terror group would leave a "territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut" that Iranian-trained Shia forces could occupy.
Across large areas of Iraq and Syria, an ideologically radical religious army, Isis, has declared itself a relentless foe of modern civilisation, seeking violently to replace the international system’s multiplicity of states with a single Islamic empire governed by Sharia law. In these circumstances, the traditional adage that the enemy of your enemy can be regarded as your friend no longer applies. In the contemporary Middle East, the enemy of your enemy may also be your enemy. The Middle East affects the world by the volatility of its ideologies as much as by its specific actions.
The outside world’s war with Isis can serve as an illustration. Most non-Isis powers -- including Shia Iran and the leading Sunni states -- agree on the need to destroy it. But which entity is supposed to inherit its territory? A coalition of Sunnis? Or a sphere of influence dominated by Iran? The answer is elusive because Russia and the Nato countries support opposing factions. If the Isis territory is occupied by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or Shia forces trained and directed by it, the result could be a territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut, which could mark the emergence of an Iranian radical empire.
The 94-year-old former secretary of state has in the past warned that the Middle East will "explode" if the "domination of the region by an Iran that is both imperial and jihadist" is allowed to continue.
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The 94-year-old former secretary of state has in the past warned that the Middle East will "explode" if the "domination of the region by an Iran that is both imperial and jihadist" is allowed to continue.
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The Middle East will not explode. There will be peace at last.
What will explode is the globalists desire to control the Middle East. This must be prevented at all costs, even if it means continuous war for the next 100 years.
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Can't trust Henry. But I remain an advocate of disengagement with the Middle East. We don't go there and they don't come here. Sell 'em guns if they wanna fight each other but stay the hell out of it. The history of our meddling in that part of the world is not good.
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a territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut, which could mark the emergence of an Iranian radical empire.
IIRC this is the same "belt" which the Shiite Assassins controlled until the Mongols kicked butt and took names. More Shiite v. Sunni battles might be a good thing.
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If the Islamic State is destroyed, the situation in the Middle East could end up being even more dire with the emergence of an “Iranian radical empire”
There's been a Iranian radical empire in place since 1979. More recently, they were aided and abetted by our boy wonder, Obumble.
h/t Instapundit
...The author claims that Google’s diversity efforts are coming up short because the company misdiagnoses the problems that lead to a gender gap in tech. Discrimination may be part of it, but it is also true that men and women differ, on average, in ways that might affect their representation in the field (and indeed in different departments within Google). To wit: Men are more likely than women to find it rewarding to work with things rather than people; men are more aggressive and status-seeking than women and thus more likely to climb the corporate ladder and ask for raises; women rate higher on other psychological traits such as anxiety. These differences are all well-documented and will not shock anyone familiar with the research on them. And while there’s some debate about the extent to which these gaps are cultural instead of biological, there’s good evidence that biology does play a role at least some of the time. As the memo’s author writes, gaps like these are found across cultures, and for some of them we’ve identified specific biological underpinnings such as testosterone. IMO, the biggest problem with "affirmative action" that they don't
use the same type of criteria used for hiring female opera singers.
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Coding is one of those activities where the difference between good, average and poor is very large. I recall the best coders are 6 times more productive than the average, and I am willing to bet they are disproportionately men.
Anyway, it is an issue of fact. Men are either better coders on average or they are not. Any and all opinions on the subject are irrelevant.
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I think the author (and you) are just sprouting opinion yourselves when you attribute this difference wholly to biology.
The left likes people like you, it lets them off the hook for the way they've run society, in particular the whole k-12 education system being fucked up in such a way as to disproportionately affect women and minorities.
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I think go-ogle knows there are around (and a big guess here) 80 top IT architects. If they start to eject from the SJW infected corpse it's not going to take long for go-ogle to crash.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] A truth that the left seeks to deny made it through the editors at BET television, which ran a website article, and I presume some broadcast segments. The headline and subhead tells the story:
[Breitbart] The editors of the Washington Post are finally admitting that high levels of legal immigration drive down wages for American workers, as President Donald Trump has asserted.
