Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him

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525148373_1280x720Donald Trump has claimed that the Republican party’s rules have been deliberately “stacked against” him as part of an establishment scheme to stop him winning the presidential nomination.

He made the accusation in a CNN town hall meeting on Tuesday ahead of next week’s Republican primary in New York which Mr Trump is expected to win easily, despite party grandees openly professing dismay at the prospect of him being the GOP candidate in November’s presidential election . . .

Mr Trump told Anderson Cooper, the CNN moderator, that the award was “very unfair” and happened because party leaders changed the rules to prevent him getting the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination – although he predicted he would still reach that figure, despite the “shenanigans” . . .

He dismissed suggestions that he had lost in Colorado because he was unfamiliar with the rules and that Mr Cruz had a better organisation on the ground.

“”I know the rules very well, but I know it’s stacked against me by the establishment,” he said. “They changed the rules a number of months ago. You know why they changed the rules? Because they saw how I was doing and they didn’t like it.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him” HERE)

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N.C. Governor Signs Order That Clarifies Controversial ‘Gender Identity’ Bill

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Public_toilet_in_JapanResponding to criticisms over his state’s controversial new law that voids cities’ anti-discrimination rules protecting members of the LGBT community, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has issued an executive order that “seeks legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination.”

The law, HB2, spawned a lawsuit by the ACLU and brought cancellations of high-profile events that were planned to take place in North Carolina — everything from a Bruce Springsteen concert to an expansion by PayPal.

The governor said he is acting “to protect the privacy and equality of all North Carolinians,” by both clarifying the law and adding new protections.

“I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion, a lot of passion and frankly, selective outrage and hypocrisy, especially against the great state of North Carolina,” McCrory said in a video address Tuesday, citing feedback about the bill.

The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is calling McCrory’s order “a poor effort to save face,” with Acting Executive Director Sarah Preston saying that the governor’s actions “fall far short of correcting the damage done” by the bill. She added that legal protections are still lacking and that “transgender people are still explicitly targeted by being forced to use the wrong restroom.” (Read more from “N.C. Governor Signs Order That Clarifies Controversial ‘Gender Identity’ Bill” HERE)

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$1.48 Trillion: Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First Half of FY 2016

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downloadInflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $1.48 trillion for the first half of fiscal year 2016, but the federal government still ran a $461 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.

Treasury receipts include tax revenue from individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, social insurance and retirement taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items.

In the first half of fiscal 2016, which included the months of October, November, December, January, February, and March, the amount of taxes collected by the federal government outpaced the first half of all previous fiscal years, even after adjusting for inflation. The 2016 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2015, and runs through Sept. 30, 2016.

The federal government collected $1,476,218,000,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2016. Most of the $1.48 trillion came from individual income taxes, which comprised almost half of that total, totaling $675 billion. (Read more from “$1.48 Trillion: Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First Half of FY 2016” HERE)

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The Revolutionary Project to ‘Solve’ Cancer

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERABillionaire Sean Parker, famous for his founding roles at Napster and Facebook, is backing an unconventional $250 million effort to attack cancer that involves persuading hundreds of the country’s top scientists — who often are in competition with each other — to join forces and unify their research targets.

The consortium, which will be formally announced Wednesday, focuses on immunotherapy, a relatively new area of research that seeks to mobilize the body’s own defense systems to fight mutant cancer cells. Many believe it represents the future of cancer therapy.

More than 300 scientists working at 40 labs in six institutions — Stanford, the University of California, San Francisco, and University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — have already signed on . . .

He describes the effort as a way to remove obstacles related to bureaucracy and personality that will allow scientists to borrow from each other’s labs unencumbered. The researchers will continue to be based at their home institutions but will receive additional funding and access to other resources, including specialized data scientists and genetic engineering equipment set to become part of the nonprofit Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco. (Read more from “The Revolutionary Project to ‘Solve’ Cancer” HERE)

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Equal Pay Day and the Pay Gap Deception

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22382224587_d4b8d6bfcf_bApril 12th was Equal Pay Day. You didn’t miss it, did you? That’s the day where we are all supposed to mourn the fact that women are paid seventy-six cents for every dollar a man earns for the same work. There’s only one little problem with this whole day of remembrance; it’s based on a total load of crap.

Most of you probably already know this, but for Pete’s sake, this same old lie has lived way past its prime. This weak, sickly, feeble argument has been surviving on scraps of encouragement from fibbers with an agenda, and it’s past time for this old lie to be taken out to the back yard and put out of its misery. If you don’t already know why the 76-Cent Pay Gap argument is bunk, let me explain, and if you do already know, I urge you to memorize the basic facts so you can correct people every time you hear them repeating this nonsense.

The studies that show that women earn seventy-six cents for every dollar men earn reach this figure by comparing the earnings of all men and women who work full-time. Sure enough, women do make about 24% less than men, but this stat does not take into account the work being done by the men and women. This isn’t unequal pay for unequal work but unequal pay for vastly different kinds of work.

One of the biggest causes of the wage gap is the fact that men and women tend to go into different fields. More men become doctors. More women become elementary school teachers. Doctors get paid more than elementary school teachers.

Another big factor is that women often choose to take time off from work to raise children. It’s not infrequent for mothers to take a couple of years or even a couple of decades off to focus on raising a family, and that’s perfectly fine, but you cannot work your way up the economic ladder when you’ve left the workforce. Plenty of women renew their careers in their fifties after raising several children and they find that they are once again starting at the bottom.

Studies that take into account these and other factors like the amount of hours worked, the number of sick and vacation days taken, aggressiveness in contract negotiation, education level, years of experience in the field, amount of time with a company and management status show that the Pay Gap all but disappears. When actually comparing apples to apples, studies have shown that women make 98% of what men make, and that’s pretty darn close to the margin of error for any statistical analysis, so the actual Pay Gap might even disappear completely.

The people perpetuating the Pay Gap myth don’t even have a defense for their views. The Huffington Post had several articles on the front page promoting, “Equal Pad Day,” but it also has an article posted four years ago where a feminist writer admitted the 76-Cents argument is nonsense. Even though they know Pay Gap story is untrue, leftist sites like Huff Po still promote the same old lie because they know if they can convince women that they are being abused they can get them to vote Democrat to combat this crisis which they’ve largely fabricated.

We have got to kill this lie. Every time somebody repeats it, we should quickly point out the truth. You can explain the way the data is being manipulated in thirty seconds, there are loads of articles from mainstream and even some leftist sites which admit the 76-cent Wage Gap is a lie and there’s no need to be confrontational about it. You share the info, mention a mainstream source that supports your case and let it go. If they care about the truth, they can learn it in a few minutes of Googling. If they don’t care about the truth, then there’s little hope for them, but maybe they’ll start to feel foolish promoting an obvious lie and stop indoctrinating women to feel victimized.

The United States provides an environment where both women and men can thrive. The only thing that will keep women from succeeding is the belief that the system is rigged against them.

Check out this video for the same basic argument and links to more sources:

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Parents Enraged by LGBTQ Week at School

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drapeau-arc-en-ciel-lgbtA controversial LGBTQ Appreciation Week at Windemere Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, [California] got underway Monday morning and it appears some students are choosing not to take part, even after the school modified the curriculum due to parental concerns.

More than 100 kids’ parents still don’t want their kids to hear the message, so they will go to the multi-purpose room during the lesson or will just go home early . . .

One mother said her daughter is on that leadership team but she will not be teaching the lessons with the rest of the team because of religious reasons.

“The teacher told me she had to teach to students about LGBT so I am not comfortable with that, because my daughter is a Christian, she grow up in a Christian environment, so we are not comfortable,” parent Cindy Seo said.

Other parents worried middle school kids are too young for the subject. “We talk about things pretty openly, I have my views. He’s going to develop his views. I kinda figure, well, I wish it was maybe a little later into high school period of time but it’s here, it’s what it is,” parent Phil Lim said. (Read more from “Parents Enraged by LGBTQ Week at School” HERE)

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John Kasich Trashes Mississippi Religious Liberty Law

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20177638393_fdae28e39d_bIn the ongoing debate over religious liberty in regard to same-sex marriage, John Kasich has continually been on the leftist side of the aisle.

Speaking at CNN town hall Monday, Kasich slammed Mississippi’s religious freedom law as big mistake, wrongfully characterizing it as a law that enables businesses to simply deny service to LGBT affiliates.

“I read about this thing they did in Mississippi where apparently you can deny somebody service because they’re gay. What the hell are we doing in this country?” he asked.

As stated by LifeSiteNews, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” signed into law by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, actually says that “the government cannot compel religious organizations to hire anyone whose conduct violates their religious beliefs, or force religious adoption agencies to place children in the homes of same-sex couples.” (Read more from “John Kasich Trashes Mississippi Religious Liberty Law” HERE)

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Hillary Confirms Trillion Dollar Tax Hike Plan

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hqdefaultDuring an interview with the editorial team of the New York Daily News, Hillary Clinton admitted her tax proposals will increase taxes on the American people by at least $1 trillion over the next ten years. Here is the key exchange from the meeting, according to a transcript released by the Daily News:

Clinton: I have connected up my proposals for the kind of investments I want to make with the taxes that I think have to be raised. So on individual pieces of my agenda, I try to demonstrate clearly that I have a way for paying for paid family leave, for example, for debt-free tuition. So I would spend about $100 billion a year. And I think it’s affordable, and I think it’s a smart way to make investments, to go back to our economic discussion, that will contribute to growing the economy.

Now I’m well aware that this is a heavy lift. I understand that. But I think connecting what I’m asking for to the programs, to the outcomes and results that I’m calling for give me a stronger hand, and that’s how I’m going to go at it.

Daily News: So if I understand you correctly, if you look at your proposals for college costs and for family leave, for infrastructure investments…

Clinton: Well, that’s a little bit different, because infrastructure investment, I’m still looking at how we fund the National Infrastructure Bank. It may be repatriation. That’s one theory, or something else. It’s about $100 billion a year.

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Pay Gap Alert: Clinton Foundation Male Execs Earn 38% More Than Women

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24505995061_371b856f39_bMale executives at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation earn 38 percent more than women executives, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the foundation’s latest IRS tax filings . . .

The numbers were in stark contrast to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign-oriented “Equal Pay Day” speech, which she delivered in Silicon Valley Tuesday. She charged that equal pay for women was “long overdue.”

Pay equity at The Clinton Foundation, however, doesn’t quite meet those standards.

The foundation’s highest paid executive is Frederick Post, director of “sponsor and marketing,” who has built the foundation’s assets to $247 million. He received $484,000 in annual compensation.

The highest paid woman is CEO Virginia Ehrlich. Her pay is only $201,000, less than half that of Post’s. (Read more from “Pay Gap Alert: Clinton Foundation Male Execs Earn 38% More Than Women” HERE)

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IRS Chief: Agency Encourages Illegal Alien Theft of SSNs to File Tax Returns

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Migrants_in_Hungary_2015_Aug_003The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency’s head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for “bad” reasons.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to a question from Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., during a session of the Senate Finance Committee about why the IRS appears to be collaborating with taxpayers who file tax returns using fraudulent information. Coats said that his staff had discovered the practice after looking into agency procedures.

“What we learned is that … the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that’s not really our job,” Coats said. “We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.”

Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, “What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they’re filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number].” What that means, he said, is that “they are undocumented aliens … . They’re paying taxes. It’s in everybody’s interest to have them pay the taxes they owe.” (Read more from “IRS Chief: Agency Encourages Illegal Alien Theft of SSNs to File Tax Returns” HERE)

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