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Americans like Melania: 54% approval rating, up 17 points since January

Julia Manchester
The Hill
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:59 UTC
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A majority of Americans have favorable views of first lady Melania Trump 11 months after President Trump took office, according to a new Gallup poll.

Fifty-four percent of Americans polled said they viewed the first lady favorably, up 17 points from January when only 37 percent of Americans viewed her favorably.

By comparison, President Trump is viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans in the poll. Fifty-six percent view the president unfavorably, while 41 percent view him favorably.

While the first lady's popularity has climbed by double digits in the poll, the president's has stayed relatively the same from his 40 percent to 55 percent favorable-unfavorable rating from January.

The first lady got a later start in Washington than her husband. While the president took office in January, the first lady didn't move into the White House until June, after her son finished the school year.

Comment: So Melania is pretty much on par with Hillary Clinton's first year as FLOTUS, taking into account the margin of error. Considering the uphill battle the Trumps have had to face since entering the White House, that's something of an accomplishment. If you also take into account the people who like the Trumps, but are still afraid to admit it publicly, her numbers may be even higher. It's people like that who got Trump elected after all. And with PR like this, it'll be a surprise if the number of Americans who think similarly doesn't keep rising: Child visiting Christmas White House says Melania "like an angel" - inside view of First Lady's Christmas decorations

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Question

Hunting warlocks: Why?

Rod Dreher
The American Conservative
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 23:51 UTC
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A lot of you have sent me a link to Claire Berlinski's powerful essay denouncing what she calls "The Warlock Hunt". It really is as good as you say.

Berlinski starts by recounting some of the accusations women have made against men for sexual harassment in recent weeks. Then:

Comment: Burn the warlock: #MeToo has morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men

The Trials of Masculinity, Feminism and the Modern Male

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Propaganda

It's not only Russian outlets being censored in the 'free web'

Suliman Mulhem
Sputnik
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:59 UTC
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Despite RT conceding to US demands to register as foreign agents, Google has announced its intention to "de-rank" their articles, in a bid to reduce the exposure and reach of content published on both sites. Russia's foreign ministry subsequently warned such a move would constitute censorship.

At this point, it's unclear if other US search engines are also considering similar measures.

Given Google's market monopoly - some sources suggest the tech giant accounts for over 90 percent of all search engine traffic - the restriction of Sputnik and RT content in its search results is undoubtedly a major blow to net neutrality.

As free and unimpaired access to information is a cornerstone of democracy, and since the internet is contemporarily the largest, most-readily available hub of information, it's unsurprising Google's announcement has been dubbed an attack on democracy, and triggered an outcry.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised concerns over the economic implications of weakening net neutrality, while vowing to defend it.

Comment: While it's true that there is already widespread censorship ongoing, now that net neutrality in the US has been repealed, even alternatives like the above suggested might not be an option anymore.

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Dollars

CBO calculates legalization of 2M 'dreamers' would cost $26B

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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Legalizing 2 million illegal immigrant "Dreamers" would cost the government $25.9 billion over the next decade, as those now-legal people would claim more tax, education and other benefits they haven't been able to get before, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.

The CBO also said newly legalized Dreamers would sponsor 80,000 more immigrants to enter the country as part of "chain migration."

Immigrant-rights activists have argued that legalizing Dreamers would be a financial boon to the country, but the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation suggested otherwise, saying that while they would pay somewhat higher taxes in to the government, they would take far more out of it.

The findings could be a blow to activists who have demanded the bill be included in any year-end spending deal. Congress already struggles to find offsets for other spending, and digging a hole more than $25 billion deeper could be difficult.
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Better Earth

Russia, not America, is building a compassionate civilization and as a nation has retained her humanity

Valeria Z. Nollan
Russia Insider
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:25 UTC
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In a speech on 3 May 2017 to the employees of the U.S. Department of State, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson made a statement that might surprise observers of the U.S.'s military actions abroad since the 1960s:
Now, I think it's important to also remember that guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. Those are our values.(1)
Tillerson's words were no doubt well-intentioned, but in uttering them he ignored the troubled socio-political history of the country whose government he represents.

The question arises: Are the above-mentioned values reserved only for Anglo-Saxon white-skinned people, and not for the people of color in the Middle East, Asia, and other predominantly non-white parts of the world? Starting from the post-World War II period, when that cataclysm produced a world order favoring the United States, this superpower's values were increasingly subsumed by its political interests. It is a sad fact that even before the 1950s most of the U.S.'s history manifests a will to subjugate peoples whose traditions or very existence stood in the way of American expansion. The tragedies of the Native American tribes, Cuba, and Puerto Rico provide examples of this mindset. Closer to the present time, the U.S.'s military interventions in El Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, and Honduras continue a foreign policy gone awry. So much for the practicing of the values "around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated."

Comment: America needs desperately a leader like President Putin, a true statesman for his people and countries around the globe.

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Study conducted finds minimum wage hike will axe 400k jobs in California


RT
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:23 UTC
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A study conducted by the Employment Policies Institute states that a hike to a $15/hr minimum wage will cost California 400,000 private sector jobs. Workers in two industries in particular are purportedly the most vulnerable.

On January 1, California's minimum wage will increase to $11 per hour, up from the current level of $10.50 per hour for businesses with 26 employees or more. After 2018, the Golden State will increase the minimum wage by $1 every year until 2022, when it will reach $15 per hour.
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Camcorder

Family finds spy camera hidden in their cruise ship stateroom

Chabeli Herrera
Miami Herald
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:55 UTC
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The camera and transmitter a Florida family found behind their TV on the Carnival Fantasy in October.
It's the kind of thing you hear about happening in hotel rooms, changing rooms and, most recently, Airbnb rentals: Hosts placing cameras inside rooms to secretly record guests for what often are nefarious reasons.

Video voyeurism has now gone to sea - on a cruise ship.

One Florida family claims it found a video camera hidden in its stateroom aboard a three-night Carnival Cruise Line voyage from Mobile, Alabama to Mexico.

The Pensacola couple and their 10-year-old son were searching for dusty areas in their cabin, No. 160 on the Carnival Fantasy, after the father suffered an allergy attack on the second night of their voyage. In the process, they uncovered a small camera hidden in the cables behind their stateroom TV, the father said.

The lens was poking out, pointing at the bed.
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Kansas woman accused of sexual harassment quits US House race, blames Democrats "zero tolerance" policy


RT
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 08:20 UTC
Andrea Ramsey
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A Kansas woman who quit a run for Congress blames her own party's "zero tolerance" policy on sexual harassment. The Democrat was named in a 2005 lawsuit claiming she retaliated against a subordinate who rejected her advances.

Despite denying sexual harassment allegations, Andrea Ramsey announced on Facebook she would drop out of the race for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District on Friday morning.

"In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero tolerance standard," Ramsey, 56, wrote. She added that her campaign lost all support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

At the heart of the matter is a 2005 lawsuit filed against LabOne, in which a former male employee named Ramsey, an executive vice president of human resources at the time, accused her of sexually pursuing him on a business trip and ultimately firing him over his lack of interest in her. According to the Kansas City Star, citing multiple sources, LabOne settled with the man, Gary Funkhouser, in 2006.
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2 + 2 = 4

Feminists want women to be liberated from men, marriage and children

Suzanne Venker
Fox News
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:51 UTC
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Merriam-Webster has just announced its "word of the year" for 2017. Drum roll, please...it's feminism!

The word peaked as an online search after various events occurred this past year, beginning with the Women's March in January, then again when the film Wonder Woman was released, and now it has spiked yet again as a result of the #MeToo movement, which Time magazine has recognized as its "Person of the Year."

Comment:
Reconsidering the radical feminist slogan "The personal is political"

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Family

An Entire Arizona Family is Transgender


The Daily Caller
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:24 UTC
Daniel Harrott
Trans man Daniel Harrott, 41, is seen here with fiancee and trans woman, Shirley Austin, 62
An entire family in Arizona says every member now identifies as transgender.

"It feels like you're getting to live for the first time," said Daniel Harrott, who lived most of her life as a woman and is now transitioning to male, according to KJZZ. "And my children are getting to be who they've always wanted to be," she added, explaining that her family of four is happier now that they are all living according to the identities of their choice.

Comment: There are a few sane voices who disagree with the relentless transgender propaganda. Dr. Paul R. McHugh, a former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital said that transgenderism is a "mental disorder" that merits treatment, that sex change is "biologically impossible," and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
"This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken - it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes."

The transgendered person's disorder, said Dr. McHugh, is in the person's "assumption" that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a "dangerously thin" person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are "overweight."
Considering at most 0.6% of the population in the US identify as transgender, either this family is a statistical anomaly or there are some serious deleterious psychological effects coming from the parents. Reports on gender dysphoria show that a huge proportion of those who pursue reassignment surgery regret the decision later in life, with increased risk of depression and even suicide.

This modern mania of propagandising children with suggestions that they're also in the 'wrong body' will probably only lead to an increase in victims:

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