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Mother Nature Network considers him a climate change hero, based on the fact that he killed lots of people (and people are a scourge upon the earth): "Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests." Not sure why they left out Stalin and Mao.

In 2004, a Hawaiian circuit court judge named Steven Alm launched a new program to ensure that his court dealt fairly and promptly with people on probation. Judge Alm found a simple solution to the shortcomings of the probation program. The problem was that the consequences for probation violations were ineffective. A probation violation drew only warnings, no actual discipline. And probation violations began piling up. Eventually frustrated probation agents, with left with no alternatives, sent probationers to court, where they would receive a disproportionately severe punishment. “What a crazy way to try to change anybody’s behavior,” said Judge Alm....

As you know, the Won has vacationed on Martha’s Vineyard every summer he’s been in office - with the exception of 2012 when he was busy appearing to care about your pain. Still, it’s uncanny how similar this summer resembles news stories from two years ago: another city in fly-over country is engulfed in race-based riots following a police-involved shooting of another thug.Look familiar? It’s Milwaukee. Could just as easily be Ferguson though. Or anywhere.So I thought “what the heck, if history is going to repeat itself every summer why shouldn’t I?” So here, a rerun of the Dancing Queens:...

The 10mm is becoming increasingly popular as a wilderness defense gun in Alaska.  Fully loaded it is as light, and a bit more powerful than a loaded, small frame .357 magnum. The Glock 20 holds 15 rounds versus five or six for a .44 or .41 magnum revolver.  In this case near Homer, Alaska, on the Kenai peninsula, it did the job in stopping a charging brown bear sow. It happened on 29 July, 2016, a Monday afternoon about 4 p.m.  From homernews.com: A Homer man shot and killed a charging sow brown bear at Humpy Creek last Friday....

A flier distributed by a Saginaw County township to residents advocating a “yes” vote on a millage question likely violates state campaign finance law. Despite what the Maple Grove Township officials claim is an error in the text, the flier is still illegal, according to one long-time Michigan expert on such issues. The flier states that the Maple Grove Fire Department asks for a “yes” vote in November on a three-year property tax millage that would cost the average household $84 per year per household for three years. The millage would give the department $252,000. Cheryl Bishop, the township treasurer,...

Less than a year after the coal industry was declared to be in terminal decline, the fossil fuel has staged its steepest price rally in over half a decade, making it one of the hottest major commodities. Cargo prices for Australian thermal coal from its Newcastle terminal, seen as the Asian benchmark, have soared over 35 percent since mid-June to more than one-year highs of almost $70 a tonne, pushed by surprise increases in Chinese imports. "Coal markets, after five years of declining prices, appear to have found a bottom in the first quarter," Australia's Whitehaven Coal said on Thursday,...

The current election is historic for many reasons: the Democrats have nominated a woman for the first time to run for the nation’s highest office and a blue collar billionaire has galvanized the Silent Majority and created a modern populist movement of patriots from every corner of society. Meanwhile, GOP Establishment pundits and politicians plot and scheme to sabotage the election without any thought of the consequences. Hillary Clinton has at least 75% of the media on her side, doing whatever they can to help her. The liberal media is collaborating with the Clinton Campaign in a grandiose Maskirovka, psy...

he Intercept recently began releasing batches of top secret internal newsletters from the most important division of the NSA, the Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SIGINT. This is basically the spy division. The internal newsletter, SIDtoday, was never meant to be read by anyone outside of the agency, but it trickled out with the Snowden leak and has been waiting for proper publication. The Intercept will release nine years worth

Dems Pouring Millions Into Black Lives Matter It’s a full-fledged political and terrorist machine. Trey Sanchez Chants of “black lives matter” have filled the streets since the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. But what once was a grassroots movement has swelled to a full-on political machine and its increasing terrorism has the full financial blessing of several liberal foundations. TruthRevolt previously reported on George Soros’s hefty donation of $33 million to ensure the Ferguson protests stayed in the spotlight for as long as possible. This funding helped bring in protesters by the busloads to Missouri and allowed them...

Two black teens, Deon Frasier, 17, and Michael Dupree-Tyler, 19, were arrested Monday and are being held without bond in a North Charleston jail after they shot a 45-year-old black man who stopped to help them pull their car out of a ditch. Al? Jesse? Mr. Obama? ….Anyone? Fox News reported the story Wednesday following a local report from WCSC-TV in North Charleston, S.C., which stated:

We heard last night that obama had signed EO banning the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools. Is this a hoax? is it true? I tried searching, but haven't had any luck here on FR.

Freefall Remember when Democrats, still in the midst of shoving ObamaCare down the throats of an unwilling nation, argued that it would actually be “market-based”? Democrats don’t know anything about how truly free markets work, of course, but their argument was that the ObamaCare exchanges were basically competitive marketplaces in which consumers could shop for the insurance that would make sense for them. OK, granted, it’s a marketplace operating under the artificially imposed and completely insane parameters imposed by the government. And OK, what we commonly call health “insurance” isn’t really anything like a real insurance product. And OK, the...

Does he feel the same way about Clinton's enabler? Once upon a time, the most powerful man in the world had an affair with a young intern. To this day, Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky represents precisely the collision between power, gender, and sexual politics that feminists are always carping about. A charismatic man abused his position and took advantage of an innocent. ...At least, that would be the story if Bill was a Republican. Since he’s a Democrat, feminists (and their allies in the media) excused the affair, the lies that followed, and his commission of perjury. He...

Hillary Clinton is running the first presidential campaign in the history of the United States based explicitly on the gutting of a core Constitutional and human right. Clinton has made attacking the human right of self-defense a key part of her 2016 campaign, and if she’s elected—and down-ballot Democrats manage to take control of the Senate and/or House—she’s poised to be able to destroy the gun rights of American citizens in three distinct ways. -Place progressive, anti-gun justices on the Supreme Court -Pass bans on a wide range of common firearms -repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms...

The Trump campaign’s relationship with the mainstream media is likely to get worse. Despite assurances from Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, that they were going to reasses the campaign's blacklist of reporters, the official hiring of Breitbart Chairman Stephen K. Bannon as CEO of the Trump campaign is a sign that the campaign is unlikely to change its combative way with the media. "If you thought that the relationship with Trump and the media was combative before this, pull any headline Breitbart has ever written about the media and you’ll get an idea of what tone and tenor you...

Did a search today on Godwin's law. You know, that one that says any disagreement online will eventually compare someone to the nazis or to Hitler. I just wanted to see the "official" definition. Here's what I got. Note that the law is thus proven, QED.

Donald Trump talks stamina, trusting the intelligence community and Hillary Clinton with classified intelligence, the presidential debates and more in an interview with FOX & Friends that was broadcasted Wednesday morning. Trump told the FOX News Channel that Clinton's greatest achievement will be dodging charges on her private server. (snip) Trump on whether he trusts the intelligence community: TRUMP: Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. I mean it's been catastrophic. .... (snip) Trump on Hillary Clinton...

Feminist Magazine: Bill Clinton Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Guy If He Raped Juanita Broaddrick 12:33 PM 08/17/2016 Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson An online feminist magazine recently featured an article that excused former President Bill Clinton’s alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick. A Wonkette article titled “Let’s Talk About Juanita Broaddrick” claimed that even if Clinton had raped Broaddrick in 1978 — he was running for Arkansas governor at the time — it does not necessarily mean he’s “an evil man.” “To sum up, I think Bill Clinton...

1. Michigan’s school retirement system has a $26.7 billion unfunded liability. Officials estimate that to pay the benefits promised to current and future school retirees, there needs to be $67.7 billion invested in the pension fund right now. But persistent underfunding means the actual amount is just $41.0 billion for the Michigan Public Schools Employees Retirement System (MPSERS). This leaves the system only 60.5 percent funded — the largest shortfall since it began. Unfunded liabilities increased $9.1 billion over the past five years. The problem is not limited to schools, though: Pension funds at Michigan’s counties and 100 largest cities...

During this past school year, the condition of the Detroit Public Schools’ buildings made national news. For example, Detroit teacher Shalon Miller wrote about her poor working conditions in an article published by The Washington Post. While the media coverage focused on the poor conditions of the schools, it did not mention that in November 2009, taxpayers approved a $500.5 million millage for DPS, specifically to improve the condition of the district's buildings. Miller wrote in The Washington Post: “I wonder why my students are left in the worst conditions possible.” And she said Wednesday that taxpayers should have the...