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Feminist Barbie and ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | January 7, 2016 | 44 Comments

 

“Math class is tough!”

With that simple four-word phrase, Mattel’s “Teen Talk Barbie” became the focus of a feminist uproar in 1992. The prestige of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) was invoked in a successful crusade to make the talking doll shut up. The abundant research showing that, on average, boys actually do better at math, and that Teen Talk Barbie’s complaint was therefore something many girls could relate to, did not matter to feminist fanatics at the AAUW who targeted the Mattel toy in “a report on how schools shortchange girls.”

Of course, as with everything else feminists say, this was a lie. It is actually boys who are shortchanged in American schools, which now systematically discourage male academic achievement:

Statistically, boys drop out of high school at higher rates than girls. Boys get lower grades and report liking school less. Men enter college at lower rates than women, and are more likely to drop out once they get there. Women receive the majority of master’s and doctorate degrees. The suicide rate is about four times higher among men than women.

Anti-male discrimination in the American education system is part of what Christina Hoff Sommers calls The War Against Boys. (See also  The Decline of Males by Lionel Tiger and Men on Strike by Helen Smith.) Women are now 57% of college undergraduate enrollment and feminists have stirred up a phony “rape epidemic” hysteria to make it clear — if it was not already clear — that heterosexual males are not welcome on university campuses. Feminists seek to achieve “equality” by preventing male achievement; stigmatizing college men as rapists and mocking them as “nerds” is part of a deliberate campaign to reduce educational and employment opportunities for young males.

Creating an attitude of anti-male sexual paranoia (“Fear and Loathing of the Penis”) is essential to the success of this feminist effort. Promoting the false claim that 1-in-5 female college students are victims of rape was the centerpiece of a “rape culture” discourse used to deprive male students of due-process rights. More than 100 lawsuits have been filed by college men who say they were falsely accused of sexual assault and denied their constitutional rights in campus disciplinary procedures demanded by feminist activists and imposed by Obama administration officials (the infamous 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter).

 

Having enlisted Democrat politicians and the media in a nationwide campaign to create a climate of anti-male rage among female university students, however, feminists are now confronted by an absence of evidence (“The Campus Rape Shortage”) of the alleged epidemic of sexual assault. “Math class is tough,” like Barbie said, and the actual numbers don’t add up to anything remotely near the 1-in-5 claim that feminists have promoted. Mark J. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute has done the math:

In a January 2014 report titled “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action” (which led to the creation of the “White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault” headed by Vice-President Joe Biden), the White House made the following two claims:
White House Claim 1. Sexual assault is a particular problem on college campuses: 1 in 5 women has been sexually assaulted while in college (pages 1, 2, 10, 14).
White House Claim 2. Reporting rates for campus sexual assault are also very low: on average only 12% of student victims report the assault to law enforcement (page 14). . . .
I’ve done the math using: a) the actual number of reported sexual assaults for several major college campuses and b) the White House reporting percentage claim of only 12%, for the University of Florida, Ohio State University, the University of Texas-Austin, Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and UC-Berkeley, and found that the estimated number of college women who are sexually assaulted while in college is between 1 in 20 and 1 in 79. That’s still too high, but it’s nowhere near 1 in 5.
Let’s do some more math using recently updated crime statistics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for the four years from 2011-2014 (data are available here for 2012-2014 and here for 2011, and those data are summarized in the Table 1 above) and the White House’s reporting assumption of 12%. Over the most recent four-year period, there were 80 reports of “forcible sex offenses” at the University of Minnesota’s main Twin Cities campus. We’ll assume that 100% of the sexual assaults victims were female and 100% of the offenders were male. Using the White House claim that only 12% of campus sexual assaults get reported, there would have been approximately 587 unreported sexual assaults at UM during that period, bringing the total number of sexual assaults (reported + unreported) to 667. . . .
The University of Minnesota main campus has a total student population of 50,500, and about 26,000 of those students are female. Dividing the 667 estimated sexual assaults (80 reported + 587 unreported) over the most recent four-year period into the 26,000 Minnesota female students would mean that only 2.56% of University Minnesota women, or about 1 in 39, would be sexually assaulted while in college for four years. . . .

Read the whole thing and remember that Perry’s calculations are based on the assumption that 88% of campus sexual assaults are never reported, a generous concession to the ideologues who fomented this anti-male hoax with Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions.

Feminists lie about rape, because feminists lie about everything.




 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 01.07.16

Posted on | January 7, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hillary Hypnosis
Da Tech Guy: The Spy vs. Spy Vs. Spy Campaign Season
Michelle Malkin: Inside The Garden Of Political Town Hall Plants
Twitchy: Reminder About The President Who “Taught Constitutional Law”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Fallout From Pyongyang’s H-Bomb
American Thinker: I Want A President Who Loves America. Again.
Conservatives4Palin: Benghazi Family Member Challenges Clinton To Lie Detector Test
Don Surber: For Fourth Consecutive Day, Red China Halts Trading To Avoid Collapse
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Magic Touch – Twelve Shot, Four Dead In Chicago After Weepy Obama Whines About Guns
Joe For America: Stopping Obama With Civil Disobedience – Allen West’s Call To Action
JustOneMinute: Embrace Multiculturalism As It Embraces, Or Anyway Gropes, You
Pamela Geller: Mayor Of Cologne Blames The Victims For NYE Attacks By Muslim Rape Gangs
Shot In The Dark: A Pet Peeve
The Gateway Pundit: Chancellor Merkel Says “We Must Admit Migrants Are More Criminal” – After Admitting One Million Into Germany
The Jawa Report: Another Online Jihadi Gets TriCked
The Lonely Conservative: Of Course Hillary Can’t Say The Difference Between A Democrat And A Socialist
This Ain’t Hell: Post Fact-Checker On Obama’s Internet Gun Sales Claim
Weasel Zippers: Ted Cruz Responds To Donald Trump’s Raising Citizenship Question
Megan McArdle: Getting The Pill Without A Doctor – The Revolution Begins
Mark Steyn: “Somebody’s Lying. Who Is It?”


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Marriage Matters

Posted on | January 6, 2016 | 35 Comments

Melissa Braunstein (@slowhoneybee on Twitter) is one of the handful of conservatives — along with Christina Hoff Sommers and Ashe Schow — who work the feminism beat on a full-time basis. She has an excellent article at The Federalist about the A&E series “Married at First Sight”:

Jann Gumbiner, a licensed psychologist and clinical professor at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, watched her own parents divorce when she was young. She wrote on Psychology Today’s blog:

Psychological theory of the 70s was heavily influenced by Maslow and self-actualization theory. People believed that it was OK to get divorced for self-growth. It was OK for parents to leave families to pursue a dream of happiness.This is selfish, plain and simple.

It’s now-grown children like Gumbiner that we see on “Married at First Sight.” These 20- and 30-somethings may be professionally successful, but emotionally speaking, they are the walking wounded.
In recent decades, boys have been told that they must not be overtly masculine, let alone chivalrous, because that would be sexist. American girls, meanwhile, have been taught that they must be strong and assertive, and that they don’t need a man.
Now, a woman doesn’t need a man, but she might want one in her life. While assertiveness can be a net positive, there must be room for compromise, because most of us find long-term happiness in complementary, caring relationships. But when young people enact this guidance, it doesn’t always play out happily.
Consider the latest season of “Married at First Sight.” . . . The six current “Married at First Sight” participants — all millennials — were plucked from 2,500 Atlanta-area singles, underscoring the widespread appeal of reality TV participation. . . .
Notably, five of the six singles participating this season saw their parents split by the time they were in high school. Divorce can have a long-lasting impact on children,including on their health.

Dr. Beverly Rodgers, founder of Adult Children of Divorce Parents and counselor for married couples from divorced families, said that many of her clients explain they feel ‘an overwhelming sense of doom’ about their relationships. A major consequence of this, she said, these children often have trouble trusting romantic partners in their adult lives because ‘trust could leave them feeling duped or foolish, in the same way that one or both parents felt in their own divorce.’

Of course, many children of divorce grow up to be emotionally healthy. However, some of the newlyweds here are uneasy with vulnerability and trust. Whether that’s related to the toxicity of their parents’ marriage, fall-out from the divorce, or an X-factor isn’t clarified, but surely that history haunts these new unions.

Read the whole thing. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Distrust, hostility, fear of commitment — if you’ve ever encountered one of these “walking wounded” victims of parental divorce, you know exactly what she’s talking about.  The first generation of these victims were the so-called “Generation X” kids born in the late 1960s and ’70s. Many of them became parents in the 1990s, and divorced, and so now you have a lot of 20-somethings whose parents and grandparents are divorced. Breaking the cycle of marital failure may be very difficult for such people.

Related: Wednesday, I spent a lot of time researching Professor Sandra Bem, a pioneer of feminist gender theory and author of the widely cited 1993 book The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. I’ll write more about her later, but what is important to know is that, for decades, she and her husband, Professor Daryl Bem, were leading advocates of “egalitarian marriage” and “gender-neutral parenting.” After hours of researching, I came across a quote from Sandra Bem’s 1998 book An Unconventional Family.

This is significant, I think. What is suggested by the fact that this celebrated feminist “egalitarian marriage” ultimately failed, and that both spouses then entered homosexual relationships? And how do you suppose the experiment in gender-neutral parenting turned out?




 

Category: Culture, Feminism, Marriage, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 01.06.15

Posted on | January 6, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox, 01.06.15

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Had to be in the office bright and early this morning, so no Live At Five.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: #OccupyOregon Vs. The Feds
Da Tech Guy: The NFL Rookie Rule
American Irony: The Legacy of Obama’s Screwed-Up Priorities In Four Panels
Doug Powers: Michael Moore Gerrymanders Around Reality
Twitchy: Juanita Broddrick Speaks Out On Clinton Cockroaches


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Roots Of Ranchers’ Land Dispute Stretches Back Decades
American Thinker: Obama And The Insanity Of The Liberal Mind
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Cyclops Initiative By David Wellington
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Sarah Palin – Obama Wept
Don Surber: FBI Headed For A Showdown Over Hillary
Jammie Wearing Fools: You Had It Coming, Ladies
Joe For America: Does Anyone Know How Many Illegal Aliens Are In America?
JustOneMinute: NYT Editors Right On Guns!
Pamela Geller: German Police Hunt For 1,000 Muslims Who Raped Numerous Women, Threw Fireworks Into NYE Crowds In Cologne
Protein Wisdom: Invasion
Shot In The Dark: A Laughing Matter
STUMP: Borrowing For Operational Costs Is A Bad Idea – Detroit And Chicago Schools
The Gateway Pundit: Black Inner-City Pastor Endorses Trump, Says Trump Will Win Black Vote
The Jawa Report: Awesome! Norks Get H-Bomb
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Referred To Himself 76 Times During Gun Speech
This Ain’t Hell: Special Forces Surrounded In Marjah
Weasel Zippers: The View‘s Joy Behar – I’d Vote For A Proven Rapist As Long As They’re Liberal
Megan McArdle: Closing Tax “Loopholes” Would Choke The Middle Class
Mark Steyn: Bumpers And Grinders


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Muslim Rape Gangs Attack Women, and Feminists Won’t Say a Word About It

Posted on | January 5, 2016 | 87 Comments

Sexual savagery on the streets of Germany:

Roving packs of men sexually assaulted dozens of women on New Year’s Eve in western Germany’s city of Cologne, officials said, describing the attacks as unprecedented.
The spree suggested a “new dimension of organized criminality,” German justice minister Heiko Maas told a press conference on Tuesday.
Police said the attackers — who struck in pairs and groups of up to 20 men — appeared to be part of a larger, 1,000-strong group that had gathered in one of the city’s main plazas for New Year’s celebrations.
Cologne’s police spokesman Thomas Held told NBC News that authorities had fielded around 90 complaints of pick-pocketing, groping and at least one of rape.
Eye witnesses described getting groped multiple times near the city’s train station and its famed cathedral.
“It was horror. Although we shouted and hit around us, the guys did not stop. I was desperate,” a 28-year-old woman identified as Katja L. told Cologne’s Express newspaper, saying she was groped about 100 times while walking 600 feet.

(It was almost as bad as a University of Virginia frat party.)

Another woman, who did not give her name, told Bild newspaper that several men attacked her and her friend. “They had circled us and started to grope us. They were everywhere with their hands,” she said. . . .
Police on Monday had said the suspects appeared to be of “Arab or North African descent,” sparking fears on social media they were among around 1 million asylum seekers who have flooded Germany this year.

American feminists, who have incited irrational hysteria over a non-existent “rape epidemic” on U.S. college campuses, will ignore this news. American feminists never said a word about the Rotherham Horror, in which English girls as young as 11 were pimped out by Muslim predators. American feminists don’t want to call attention to certain crimes committed by certain criminals, and it is not just Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton that feminists demand that we ignore. The feminist movement in the United States is controlled by the Democrat Party, and therefore rape is just a talking-point to them, an “issue” that feminists help Democrats exploit for partisan purposes. Because feminists are dishonest partisans, their agenda requires a lot of deliberate falsification — the phony “1-in-5” statistic, the UVA rape hoax, etc. — and it also requires feminists to ignore a lot of actual rapes which do not fit the Democrat Party-approved propaganda narrative.

Feminists have expended enormous effort to create the impression that rape is a crime commonly committed by “privileged” college boys. This falsehood serves the interests of the Democrat Party in several ways, especially because demonizing “privileged” (i.e., white, middle-class, heterosexual) males is part of a message that helps Democrats mobilize female voters, minority voters and gay voters. This is a type of hate propaganda which masquerades as “progressivism.”

By an obverse principle, the Democrat Party propaganda machine (including feminists) ignore any news that would suggest either (a) mass immigration is harmful to American society, or (b) Islam is dangerous. No matter how many violent crimes against women in the U.S. are committed by illegal aliens, no America feminist will ever call attention to such a crime, because all immigrants are presumably part of the Democrat coalition, and it’s bad publicity to mention how much harm their party’s constituents inflict on innocent Americans. (This is why liberals ignore rampant crime in Chicago and other Democrat Party strongholds.) Similarly, because most Republicans believe that radical Islam poses an existential threat to American civilization, Democrats (including feminists) pretend that Muslims are less dangerous than Methodists, Mormons or Mennonites. For more than three decades, feminists have been shrieking about the theocratic menace posed by “the Religious Right” (i.e., any Christian who votes Republican) and yet at the same time, feminists demand that Americans believe Muslims are all harmless misunderstood victims of “Islamophobia.”

American feminists will tell any lie if it helps the Democrat Party, and you will be accused of “hate” if you dare to tell the truth about what unrestricted Muslim immigration will mean:

Just five arrests have been made by German police after central Cologne was transformed into a war-zone on New Year’s Eve, as an estimated 1,000 migrants celebrated by launching fireworks into crowds and sexually assaulting German women caught up in the chaos.
The sordid details of the horrifying sexual assaults and attacks made against ordinary Germans by large gangs of migrants in Cologne in the early hours of Friday morning are just now emerging. . . .
One woman had her tights and underwear torn off by the crowd, and a police source quoted said there had been “rapes” at the station that night.
So far, police have identified 80 victims of the gangs, 35 of which were subjected to sex attacks. Others were assaulted or robbed. Officers suspect there are many more as of yet unreported cases from the night, and are appealing for victims to come forward after their ordeals. . . .
In addition to the sex attacks, there were several brawls between migrant gangs at the railway station, and large numbers of fireworks were fired into the crowds and at the hapless police.

This violent mayhem is coming soon to an American city near you, thanks to the Democrat Party and their feminist propaganda squads.




 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Feminism, Islam, Sex Trouble

When Crazy Is Against the Law …

Posted on | January 5, 2016 | 59 Comments

. . . only outlaws will be crazy:

Delivering on its promise to deliver “common sense” gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.
The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence, but the rule was not published until today.
While the 1993 Brady law prohibits gun ownership by individuals who have been involuntarily committed, found incompetent to stand trial or otherwise deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others, federal health care privacy rules prohibited doctors and other providers from sharing information without the consent of their patients.
Under the rule, which takes effect next month, for the first time health providers can disclose the information to the background check system without legal repercussions.
“The disclosure is restricted to limited demographic and certain other information needed for NICS purposes,” the rule states.

So when you use your ObamaCare insurance to get free mental health treatment, the doctor will report you to the FBI.

This should work out nicely. Thanks, Big Government!

UPDATE: Apparatchiks in the Politburo have been busy, comrades:

The White House released a fact-sheet Jan. 4 which previews the executive gun control Obama will unveil Tuesday and one aspect of the new controls is the inclusion of “information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.” . . .
According to the White House executive order preview:

Current law prohibits individuals from buying a gun if, because of a mental health issue, they are either a danger to themselves or others or are unable to manage their own affairs. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to ensure that appropriate information in its records is reported to NICS. The reporting that SSA, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is expected to require will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year who have a documented mental health issue, receive disability benefits, and are unable to manage those benefits because of their mental impairment, or who have been found by a state or federal court to be legally incompetent.

Now, if only they could ban these kooks from Tumblr . . .

 

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LIVE AT FIVE: 01.05.16

Posted on | January 5, 2016 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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TOP NEWS
BURNS, OREGON RESIDENTS WANT THE MILITIA TO GO HOME

Harney County’s Sheriff Ward speaks to the media

Locals support imprisoned Hammonds, but unenthusiastic about Ammon Bundy and his militiamen

Bahrain, Sudan Join Saudis In Severing Relations With Iran
Fallout from Iranian sacking of Saudi embassy


Obama Executive Action On Guns Requires More Background Checks For More Sales
What he actually said, “without all the blather”
Expanded background checks wouldn’t have stopped recent mass murderers



POLITICS
SENIOR CHICAGO CITY LAWYER RESIGNS AFTER JUDGE RULES HE HID EVIDENCE

Sharon Fairley, acting head of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, speaks to reporters

U.S. Judge Chang accused Jordan Marsh of concealing evidence in the police shooting of Darius Pinex

Sen. Cruz Calls On Militia To Stand Down

Hundreds Of New Laws Go Into Effect In California


House To Open With Vote To Repeal Obamacare

Cuomo Misses Point, Street People Say

Federal Prosecutors Decline To Indict Former VA Execs

Ben Carson Calls For 14.9% Flat Tax

Field Poll: Cruz Surges Ahead Of Trump In California



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Edges Higher; Middle East Tension Offset By Ongoing Glut: Brent $37.44, WTI $37.04
Asia Stocks Retreat Again As China Rally Fizzles
Justice Department Sues Volkswagen For Rigging Diesels To Beat Emissions Tests
U.S. Manufacturing Shrinks In December At Fastest Rate In Six Years
Gun Makers Buck Tide, Post Gains Amid Wall Street Selloff
U.S. Construction Spending Falls 0.4% In November
Mysterious Faraday Rolls Out Super-Powered Electric Concept Car
NVIDIA Boosts IQ Of Self-Driving Cars
Everything You Need To Know From CES So Far
Activision Blizzard Beefs Up E-Sports Muscle



SPORTS
CHARGERS, RAMS, RAIDERS ALL FILE TO MOVE TO LA

The Chargers have played in San Diego since 1961.

League has already said they won’t allow more than two teams in LA; approval to move requires 24 of 32 owners to approve

Sens Edge Blues In OT 3-2

Sixers Humiliate Timbermutts 109-99

Oilers Blank Canes, 1-0 (OT)

Crowder Scores 25, Celts Beat Nyets 103-94

Coyotes Edge Canucks 3-2

Cousins Scores 33 As Kings Top Thunder

Nats Interested In Gerardo Parra Again?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
ASHLEY BENSON; WHY HER LIFE IS MORE NORMAL THAN YOU THINK

From child star to It Girl

“Pretty Little Liars” star dishes on hair color, crazy beauty ideals

NBC Stations Renew “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Through 2020

Gloria Allred Bashes OK! Magazine For Sexualizing 14-Year-Old

Country Singer Craig Strickland Found Dead After Being Missing For A Week


Emma Stone Brings Her Mom To Broadway

Leonardo DiCaprio, GF Kelly Rohrbach Split

James Caan Desperate For Cash Amid Messy Divorce

Warriors’ Andre Iguodala Doesn’t Want His Daughter Playing Basketball, Turning Lesbian

Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now

Sam Champion Heading Back To ABC?



FOREIGNERS
Kuwait Recalls Ambassador To Iran
Charlie Hebdo Widow Wants Probe Into Lax Security Measures
Bus Fire Kills 17 In Northern China, Arsonist Sought
Russian Orthodox Church Drives To Recover Its Political Clout
Hezbollah Attempts Bomb Attack On Israeli Forces, Israel Shells Southern Lebanon In Retaliation
Showdown Brews In Venezuela As Opposition Takes Over Legislature
After Sweden Tightens Border Controls, Denmark Follows Suit
Hilary Benn Safe As Corbyn’s Purge Turns To Farce
Islamic State Jihadis Target Libya’s Main Oil Terminals
U.S. Expects Pakistan To Act Against Terrorists Who Attacked Indian Air Base


BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Hillary And The Aliens
Da Tech Guy: Obama’s Useful Idiots In Oregon
The Political Hat: Private Preference, Public Punishment
Michelle Malkin: New Year, New Platform – Joining Conservative Review
Twitchy: Michael Moore Comes To Clintons’ Defense Against “Abused Women” Claims

American Power: Buzzfeed Gets Punked
American Thinker: What The Cultural And Political Establishments Can’t Grasp About Donald Trump
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Sarah Palin – Protect Those You Love!
Don Surber: House Of Saud About To Collapse
Joe For America: The New Face Of Louis Vuitton – I Hope You’re Ready
JustOneMinute: Rebooting 2016
Pamela Geller: Oslo Police – “We Have Lost The City”
Protein Wisdom: Senior Editor At HuffPo Preciously Brags She Won’t Read Any Books By -Gasp!- White People In 2016
Shot In The Dark: Top Secret
STUMP: What Governmental Bankruptcy Looks Like – Today Puerto Rico, Tomorrow Chicago!
The Gateway Pundit: Bill Clinton’s First Campaign Stop For Hillary Flops
The Jawa Report: Belgian Muslims Celebrate New Year – Burning Baby Jesus’ Tree, Christmas Tree, And 804 Cars
The Lonely Conservative: Obama’s Gun Grab Begins Again
This Ain’t Hell: The Burns, Oregon Standoff – You’re Known By The Company You Keep
Weasel Zippers: Michigan Muslima Says It’s Okay For Palestinian Muslims To Stab Jews
Megan McArdle: Why We Fear The IRS
Mark Steyn: Jeb Pitches The Woo


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LIVE AT FIVE: 01.04.16

Posted on | January 4, 2016 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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TOP NEWS
MILITIA TAKES OVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE HQ IN OREGON

Militiamen observe from a fire watch tower in Burns, Oregon

Out-of-state militia occupying Malheur NWR HQ in response to jailing of local ranchers
Background posted at The Conservative Treehouse

Iranian Mob Sacks Saudi Embassy
Attack follows Saudi’s execution of Shiite imam

Quake Hits India’s Northeast
Nine dead, about 200 injured; quake hit eighteen miles west of Imphal



POLITICS
Her Majesty Is Not Amused By Your Heckling, Peasant

GOP state rep Katherine O’Brien heckles Hillary about Bill’ sexual misdeeds

O’Brien assails Clinton’s hypocrisy on rape, shouted down by crowd
Democrat activists unsure Hillary can beat Trump in the general election

NY Governor Cuomo Orders Homeless Off The Street

Trump Brushes Off Jihadi Recruiting Video That Uses His Words

GOP Opens Fire On Obama’s Planned Background Check Executive Orders

Three Democrats Seeking Nod To Run Against Sen. Toomey

Oklahoma No Child Left Behind Waiver Revoked By Education Department



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Jumps As Saudis Cut Diplomatic Ties With Iran: Brent $37.89, WTI $37.52
Euro Stocks Drop As Traders Return To Market Amid China Rout
Shanghai Index Plunges Seven Percent, Trading Halted
India Manufacturing PMI Falls Below 50
Fiat Shares Fall By A Third After Ferrari Spinoff
Nokia Gains Control Of Alcatel-Lucent
Singapore Posts Surprising Q4 Growth
Zuckerberg Unveils Plans For AI Butler
Lenovo Tips New X1s, Updates Slew Of ThinkPads
Startups Taking Over CES
LG to Show Off Its Paper-Thin, Rollable OLED Screen
The BoomStick Makes Your Generic Earbuds Sound Like Beats



SPORTS
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS! HAIL VICTORY!

Skins humiliate Cowgirls 34-23

Redskins will face Packers in the first round of the playoffs Sunday

Vikings Hold Off Packers To Take NFC North

Ducks Snuff Jets 4-1

Williams Scores 30, Lakers Beat Suns Without Kobe

Blackhawks Blank Sens

Pats Stagger To #2 Seed With Loss To Dolphins

Heat Burn Wizards 97-75

Will Papelbon Remain The Nats’ Closer?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
MIRANDA LAMBERT: THE SNUGGLE IS REAL

Cuddling with new flame Anderson East

Instagram posting on new Year’s

Singer Natalie Cole Dies, 65

Prolific Character Actor Jason Wingreen Dies, 95; Provided Voice For Boba Fett

Chris Brown Denies Punching Woman At Vegas Hotel

Samuel L. Jackson Accuses The Donald Of Cheating At Golf

Johnny Depp Thanks Wife Amber Heard “For Putting Up with Me”

CBS Suing Crowd-Funded Star Trek Fan Movie Project

Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth Together Again?

Frankie Muniz To Auction Fast And Furious Car

Camille Cosby Livid At Humiliation Bill’s Put Her Through


FOREIGNERS
Iran Criticizes Saudi Severing Of Diplomatic Relations
Japan’s Abe Approaches Russia For Peace Deal
Hong Kong Says No Indication China Involved In Booksellers’ Disappearance
Afghan Special Forces Besiege Jihadis Near Indian Consulate
Charlie Hebdo Still Alive, Still Mocking Islam
Sweden Imposes Border Controls To Stop Influx Of Migrants
Saudi Foreign Minister Postpones Trip To Pakistan Until Thursday
Ukraine Bans Food Imports From Russia As Trade War Escalates
Suu Kyi: Incoming Government To Prioritize Peace In Burma



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Russia Names U.S. As National Security Threat, Obama Admin To Blame Climate Change (Sunday Open Thread)
Twitchy: “Dreaming Of A Bloodbath” Jonathan Chait Votes For Militia Members “To Be Killed If Necessary”

American Power: Angry Anti-Refugee Protest At Church World Service Building, Lancaster PA
American Thinker: Concerning “Dear White America” In The NYT
Conservatives4Palin: If You’re A Radical Gay, Black Thug, Or Nutty Muslim. You Get Special Privileges In Obamaland
Don Surber: Jennifer Rubin, Worst Pundit Of 2015
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Bill Clinton Effect – Behind The Left’s Sex Harassment Problem
Joe For America: Mosque Tied To Muslim Brotherhood Gets Millions In Federal Funds
JustOneMinute: Starting The New Year With A Broken Resolution
Pamela Geller: Muslims Set Over 800 Cars Ablaze In Paris On New Year’s Eve
Protein Wisdom: If The Hammonds Were Indians So Obviously Targeted By The Feds…
Shot In The Dark: Alondra Cano – Transparent As An Iron Curtain, Conversational As Rain Man
STUMP: Predictions For 2016 (Mostly Not Me)
The Gateway Pundit: Texas Governor Challenges Obama On His New Gun Control Orders – “Come And Take Them”
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Happy New Year
The Lonely Conservative: State Department New Years Eve E-Mail Dump Reveals Special Favors For Clinton Donor
This Ain’t Hell: Phonies Occupy BLM Building In Oregon
Weasel Zippers: Montel Williams Calls For National Guard To “Shoot To Kill” Militia Occupying Oregon Building
Mark Steyn: Unforgettable


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