Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Free Speech Belongs To Everybody And Doesn’t Come With Qualifiers

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Nation

Free Speech Belongs To Everybody And Doesn’t Come With Qualifiers: Jay Caruso
The Other Muslim Shooter Is An Immigrant From Pakistan: James Fulford
Garland Gunman Elton Simpson Was Muslim Convert: R.S. McCain

Clinton appointee freed cartoon gunman; didn't know what 'Jihad' meant: FPM
Sometimes Violence is Apparently the Answer: Leon Wolf
Cartoon Shooter’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque Featured Terror Supporter: FPM

Race, Politics and Lies: Thomas Sowell
Bill Clinton Has Now Done More Interviews Than Hillary Since her Run Began: DC
Shocking news: Obamacare still degrading Emergency Room Care: Moe Lane

Here they Come: Erick Erickson
Socially liberal Jews go Republican over Israel: David M. Drucker
Want a lawless police force? Federalize it.: Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Economy

De Blasio’s Welfare-Reform Reversal: City Journal
Visa Abuse at Disney: Power Line
Ohio Budget Defunds Common Core Testing: Logan Albright

Scandal Central

Bill Clinton: Foundation didn’t do anything ‘knowingly inappropriate’: Noah Rothman
Hillary Clinton Refuses Two Benghazi Committee Appearances: Treehouse
Bill Clinton on Huge Speaking Fees: 'I Gotta Pay Our Bills,' You Know: Guy Benson

Climate & Energy

The Black Heart Of The Green Movement: Cove
We’re Saved: Logan Airport To Enact Major Protections From CO2: Cove
Myth of Arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show massive growth in icecap: Daily Mail

Media

What's Actually Going On: Erick Erickson
The kind of mockery only a failed MSNBC host deserves: Ace
New America-Hating Show Praised by USA Network President: Alatheia Larsen

Taking the Bait and Blaming the Victim: Joe Cunningham
Why the Left Won’t Call Rioters ‘Thugs’: Dennis Prager
Leftist Media See Conservative Goblins Everywhere: David Limbaugh

One Man's Message To Americans - "Start Giving A Damn!": ZH
‘Headlines Politico never writes about Dems’: Does only the GOP have ‘fringe’ candidates?: Twitchy
A Fox News Contributor On Being Gay, The GOP, And Religious Liberty: Chris Geidner

World

Obama’s Iran strategy continues to succeed: RS
CAIR: We condemn the Garland terror attack, but they had it coming: Katie Pavlich
Read the Pro-Bin Laden Terror Tweets of #GarlandShooting Wife: GotNews

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Then and Now: 8 Fun Examples of Exponential Change From the Last Decade: Peter Diamandis
Pay-TV operators get TKO'd with service interruptions during Mayweather-Pacquiao match: Daniel Frankel
The Sun Just Spat Out a Massive Solar Filament: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

Free Speech Monday: That’s Going to Cost You: MOTUS
Bit of a kerfluddle in Garland TX: Sondrakistan
Why We Must Unite Behind Ted Cruz: Trevor Loudon

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QOTD: "Mayor Bill de Blasio has tried to be cautious when it comes to policing. He worries that a crime spike will produce an angry citywide reaction that would threaten his political career. But when it comes to welfare reform, the other great advance of the Giuliani/Bloomberg years, de Blasio shows no such caution. He has turned the city’s massive Human Resources Administration over to former Legal Aid Society attorney Steven Banks, a leading “welfare rights” advocate, whose principal contribution over the years has been to tie up the city in litigation."

...De Blasio can be more aggressively liberal on welfare because most New Yorkers are barely aware of the policies that reduced the welfare rolls from 1.1 million, when Giuliani took over from de Blasio mentor David Dinkins, to the current 350,000. Giuliani’s reforms, devoted to getting people back to work, were so successful that 75 percent of those placed into jobs remained off welfare a year later...

...Now de Blasio proposes to replace these proven successes with policies that have already failed in the past. Reviving the hoary notion that entry-level work represents “dead-end jobs,” de Blasio suggests that people on welfare are owed more than an opportunity to work. Job training and “seat time” in a classroom will displace the current system of “rapid placement” into a job. The newly created Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development proposes a vast new program of job training and enhanced “education,” on the theory that a new version of the old failure will reduce inequality in New York. --City Journal

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