Last night and early this morning, before the actual December jobs report was released, almost every political and media pundit was proclaiming “good news ahead”….

However, against the backdrop of Congress debating yet another unemployment extension; and knowing strong gains would undermine the liberal position to extend; and knowing the statistics are heavily manipulated in favor of political optics – it really was a no brainer to expect poor results.

USA TODAY –  Bad weather helped the labor market close out 2013 in disappointing fashion as employers added just 74,000 jobs after several months of solid gains.

That’s the smallest number of new jobs since January 2011. The unemployment rate fell from 7% to 6.7%, lowest since October 2008, the Labor Department said Friday. (more…)

For over three years we have been tracking this new federal protocol of qualifying school punishment for misbehavior around the race of the offender.    The origin of the approach actually stems from Miami-Dade, Florida, and a diversionary tolerance program initiated by School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

Carvalho is a close ally, and political affiliate, of both Barack and Michelle Obama.   Carvalho also turned down a position inside the Dept of Education which would have placed him second only to Education Secretary Arnie Duncan.

Carvalho’s program within the Miami-Dade school district actually preceded the Executive Order given by Barack Obama which initiated the new DOJ directives around “Disparate Impact”, establishing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans.  Effectively placing “quotas” on school discipline based on race.

It  was also Carvalho’s widely heralded program which led to the Miami-Dade School Police Department putting Trayvon Martin into diversionary programs using School Discipline to replace Criminal Justice in an effort to avoid a criminal record. (more…)

A blogger in New York -Davy V-  first outlined the attack.   Then we posted the assault, then Chuck Ross posted it via The Daily Caller, then WHAMMO !  Fox News picked up the story and it just ran on Megyn Kelly show and Sean Hannity has picked it up.

Sunlight is indeed the BEST disinfectant.   Previously the Rochester Police Department stated:

“Rochester Police Department Sgt. Elena Correia  told Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper that she DOES NOT consider the incident an assault, but rather a “simple case of harassment”!  (link)

The Daily Caller News Foundation followed up with Correia. “At this time  there are no updates,” she said.

“Based on the video itself and on New York penal law, it constitutes  harassment.”

The DCNF asked Correia if investigators saw that “True Goon” had hit the woman  with his fist.

“Yes, we saw that,” she said, but clarified that an assault charge would  require the victim to suffer “substantial pain”.  (link)

What a difference a few days of sunlight and increasing publicity makes.   Today: (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – In a brief speech on the House floor about safety nets that touches on all manner of government assistance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee suggested that the term “welfare” is no longer politically correct, and like all masters of doublespeak, wants Congress to change its name to a “transitional living fund.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the “safety net has to be something for all of us.”

“Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, ‘a transitional living fund.’ For that is what it is — for people to be able to live,” she said.  (link)

NEW JERSEY – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie publicly apologized Thursday for controversial lane closures last year that were arranged by his associates as an apparent act of political revenge, and fired a top aide who was at the center of the scandal.

“I come out here to apologize to the people of New Jersey,” he said. ”I am embarrassed and humiliated.”

The governor added: “I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here.”

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COLORADO (Via CNN) […]  while marijuana use is not completely legal in 48 states, according to the poll Americans remain firmly in favor of medical marijuana laws, and continue to believe that a fine, not jail time, is the appropriate penalty for the possession of small amounts of marijuana in states other than Colorado and Washington State, which has also voted to legalize pot.

How do Americans feel about the new system in Colorado, the first state in the country to allow anyone over the age of 21 to buy small quantities of marijuana from state-licensed businesses?

One-third of those questioned in the poll say the state’s new law is a good idea and 29% say it’s a bad idea. But a 37% plurality say that they want to see what happens in Colorado and other states that legalize marijuana before the decide how they feel about this matter.

Given the fact that federal law still outlaws the sale or possession of marijuana, how should the federal government handle pot in Colorado? (more…)

I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya, shocked !!   It’s hilarious to watch the left scream how petty Governor Chris Christie’s office was after an explosive controversy surrounding the George Washington Bridge, yet simultaneously forget the pettiness of President Obama closing “Open Air” monuments and attempts to stop people from looking at Mount Rushmore – Both of which were petty, ridiculous and politically motivated.

“Brother, how’d ya like me now?….  You don’t even live in New Jersey and yet the sheeple elected you as our Senator.  Meanwhile my staff closed a few lanes on a bridge and all hell breaks loose…..  fughetaboutit” !!

NEW JERSEY – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has acknowledged that the New Jersey bridge closing scandal has reached his office.

In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, Christie responded to the revelation that one of his close aides discussed plans to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge last year.

“What I’ve seen today for the first time is unacceptable,” Christie said. “I am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was I misled by a member of my staff, but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge.”

The lane closures led to a massive, multi-day traffic jam in the town of Fort Lee, N.J. — a traffic jam Democrats have argued was intended as a form of retaliation against Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor. Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the bridge, have maintained that the lanes were closed as a result of a traffic study. (more…)

To actually understand what Jesse Jackson’s primary point was – we turn to the South African Interpreter Guy (more…)

More evidence of what the media calls “the myth of knock out assaults”.

Washington Post […]  The State Department is expected to tie Qumu’s group to the Benghazi attack when it designates three branches of Ansar al-Sharia, in Darnah, Benghazi and Tunisia, as foreign terrorist organizations in the coming days.  (link)

When (Muslim-Brotherhood-Aligned) Mohammed al-Zawahiri, brother to CORE al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, was released from Egyptian prison in March 2011, he began to construct a network between Egypt and Eastern-Libya radical Islamist affiliates.   Part of that structure was contact with a Libyan islamist called Abu Bin Qumu.  As a consequence CORE al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri sent experienced jihadists to help in Libya.

Today the U.S. State Department claims CORE al-Qaeda has no connection to the Benghazi 9/11/12 attack carried out by Ansar al-Sharia.  While simultaneously saying:

“Militiamen under the command of Abu Sufian bin Qumu, the leader of Ansar al-Sharia in the Libyan city of Darnah, participated in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans”.(link)

Can you see the propaganda ?

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