GOP FRONTRUNNER STEAMROLLS THROUGH “SEC PRIMARY”
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump scored a string of decisive victories over his “Republican” rivals on Super Tuesday – solidifying his lead in delegates and inducing further panic among party elites.
Trump won GOP races in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Virginia – the latter a state that establishment “Republican” Marco Rubio was supposed to capture.
Most of his wins were convincing, too – mirroring his diverse, double-digit victories in early-voting New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
“This has been an amazing evening,” Trump said.
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Pending home sales fall by the most in 2 years
Pending home sales fell 2.5% in January, the biggest monthly decline since January 2014.
Economists had estimated that signed contracts for existing single-family homes, condos and co-ops rose 0.5% according to Bloomberg. Last month, pending home sales increased 0.9% (revised from 0.1%).
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), only the South saw an increase in contract activity.
"While January’s blizzard possibly caused some of the pullback in the Northeast, the recent acceleration in home prices and minimal inventory throughout the country appears to be the primary obstacle holding back would-be buyers," wrote NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun in the release.
Yun added that while rising home prices could encourage home selling, affordability would not improve until inventory levels — especially of lower-priced homes — increase.
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Economists had estimated that signed contracts for existing single-family homes, condos and co-ops rose 0.5% according to Bloomberg. Last month, pending home sales increased 0.9% (revised from 0.1%).
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), only the South saw an increase in contract activity.
"While January’s blizzard possibly caused some of the pullback in the Northeast, the recent acceleration in home prices and minimal inventory throughout the country appears to be the primary obstacle holding back would-be buyers," wrote NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun in the release.
Yun added that while rising home prices could encourage home selling, affordability would not improve until inventory levels — especially of lower-priced homes — increase.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Thousands Of Americans Seeking Jobs – While NY Plans To Give Teaching Jobs To Illegal Aliens
This is illegal and simply insane. It’s meant to pad the voter roles with illegal alien votes and keep the Marxists in control of America indefinitely. It is the American equivalent to the English saying they will ‘breed us out’. New York is getting ready to allow illegal immigrants to teach in their public school system. Not only that, they can legally work as engineers, pharmacists, dentists and dozens of other professions. All of this is brought to you by Obama’s 2012 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” Executive Order.
From The Federalist Papers Project:
New York State is about to allow illegal immigrants to teach in their public schools.
Because they don’t want to “close the door” on the “dreams” of illegal aliens, the district plans to certify them to teach in the more than 700 school districts across the state serving 3.2 million children.
The licensing doesn’t stop with schools, though. They would also be allowed certification to become engineers, pharmacists, dentists and dozens of other professions, Fox News is reporting.
While federal law prohibits employers from hiring illegal aliens, Barack Obama’s 2012 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” Executive Order allows illegal aliens who meet specific criteria – like being here since childhood – to stay in the United States.
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From The Federalist Papers Project:
New York State is about to allow illegal immigrants to teach in their public schools.
Because they don’t want to “close the door” on the “dreams” of illegal aliens, the district plans to certify them to teach in the more than 700 school districts across the state serving 3.2 million children.
The licensing doesn’t stop with schools, though. They would also be allowed certification to become engineers, pharmacists, dentists and dozens of other professions, Fox News is reporting.
While federal law prohibits employers from hiring illegal aliens, Barack Obama’s 2012 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” Executive Order allows illegal aliens who meet specific criteria – like being here since childhood – to stay in the United States.
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Two Men Mocked A Judge On Facebook After They Got Suspended Sentences. Then She Called Them Back…
For instance, these drug dealing brothers mocked a judge after they got suspended sentence, but they never expected what happened next.
Two brothers hauled back to court for mocking a judge on Facebook after she decided not to send them to prison for drug dealing have now been jailed for two years.
Forty minutes after Daniel Sledden, 27, received a suspended jail term from Judge Beverley Lunt, he posted online: ‘Cannot believe my luck 2 year suspended sentance (sic) beats the 3 year jail yes pal! Beverly [sic] Lunt go suck my ****’.
Soon after, his brother, Samuel, 22, wrote: ‘What a day it’s been Burnley crown court! Up ur **** aha nice 2 year suspended…’
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Liberals Furious After White Man Is Cast To Play This White Super Hero
Apparently, white superheros can no longer be played by white actors because that’s just racist.
Typical liberals are up in arms over the dumbest of things. This week, they’re upset that a white superhero is going to be played by a white guy.
Social media users were in an uproar Thursday after it was reported that white Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones had been cast as the titular superhero in Marvel’s upcoming Netflix seriesIron Fist — despite the fact that the character is white in the comic books.
According to the New York Daily News, the announcement of Jones’s casting caused a social media storm among Twitter users, who criticized Marvel for casting a white actor, instead of an Asian actor, to play the martial arts expert superhero.
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Typical liberals are up in arms over the dumbest of things. This week, they’re upset that a white superhero is going to be played by a white guy.
Social media users were in an uproar Thursday after it was reported that white Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones had been cast as the titular superhero in Marvel’s upcoming Netflix seriesIron Fist — despite the fact that the character is white in the comic books.
According to the New York Daily News, the announcement of Jones’s casting caused a social media storm among Twitter users, who criticized Marvel for casting a white actor, instead of an Asian actor, to play the martial arts expert superhero.
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BEWARE! List of America’s WORST charities?
If you’re a generous person like I am, then you donate to charities that are meaningful to you whenever you’re able to. But that may change after you find out how little of your donation actually goes to the charity. It’s really sad to see this many people donate to a good cause only for the majority of their money to go to a corporation instead of those in need. It’s sickening to know corporations are taking this much advantage of the sick and needy. Here’s a list of the worst charities.
Hate Speech Or Free Speech?
Students displaying anti-LGBT stickers at a high school in Indio, California have touched off a debate: is that free speech or hate speech?
The stickers show a rainbow — the symbol of the gay community — with a line crossing through it. Officials said the stickers have increasingly shown up over the past two weeks on some students’ school ID badges at Shadow Hills High School, as well as on social media websites.
The increasing number of the stickers caused an outcry at the school among students and faculty. Many called it hate speech. Shadow Hills senior and vice president of the Gay Straight Alliance Michelle Bachman said on Twitter that the stickers were “definitely hate speech, but legally, we can’t do anything until these students start to physically harass us, which I believe is an injustice.”
School district administrators said the students have the right to display the stickers, just as pro-LGBT students would.
In an email sent to staff Wednesday, Desert Sands Unified School District administrators wrote, “After consulting with district level personnel and our legal counsel, it was determined that these students do have the protected right to freedom of speech, just as students portraying rainbows in support of the LGBT would.”
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The stickers show a rainbow — the symbol of the gay community — with a line crossing through it. Officials said the stickers have increasingly shown up over the past two weeks on some students’ school ID badges at Shadow Hills High School, as well as on social media websites.
The increasing number of the stickers caused an outcry at the school among students and faculty. Many called it hate speech. Shadow Hills senior and vice president of the Gay Straight Alliance Michelle Bachman said on Twitter that the stickers were “definitely hate speech, but legally, we can’t do anything until these students start to physically harass us, which I believe is an injustice.”
School district administrators said the students have the right to display the stickers, just as pro-LGBT students would.
In an email sent to staff Wednesday, Desert Sands Unified School District administrators wrote, “After consulting with district level personnel and our legal counsel, it was determined that these students do have the protected right to freedom of speech, just as students portraying rainbows in support of the LGBT would.”
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Here’s Where 76,000 Muslim Refugees Have Been Quietly Relocated, Is Your City On This List?
The Obama administration loves to just drop off Muslim refugees in cities and not inform the state or state government what’s going on.
A new list from 2015 shows just how many refugees have been dropped off across the country.
Obama’s Pro-Union Labor Board Trampled Union Members’ Rights
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal government’s top labor arbiter, was sanctioned by the Federal Labor Relations Authority for refusing to include its union in discussions about an office relocation. The union called for two days of bargaining over potential locations and office furniture, but labor officials found themselves ambushed with denials and counter-proposals from the agency’s negotiating team.
The union alleged that “the Agency unilaterally made decisions about the design and layout of the new headquarters” and refused to continue negotiations after the two-day session.
Administrative law Judge Richard Pearson ruled that the agency used “arbitrary” deadlines to bypass union input and refused mediation in bad faith.
The NLRB and union president John Mantz did not return requests for comment.
The National Labor Relations Board Union represents 122 employees who work for the agency, including 65 who were forced to relocate to the new headquarters. The unaffiliated union’s most recent filings with the Department of Labor revealed that it collected about $20,000 from its members last year and spent more than $50,000 on professional fees in 2014.
Labor watchdogs said that the punishment is poetic justice.
Since 2010 the NLRB has been staffed by a majority of pro-union Democratic appointees by the Obama administration. During that time the agency has overturned decades of precedents to allow for “ambush elections,” micro-unions, and liability for franchisers—all of which have been criticized by labor attorneys and Congress as hand outs to labor unions.
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The union alleged that “the Agency unilaterally made decisions about the design and layout of the new headquarters” and refused to continue negotiations after the two-day session.
Administrative law Judge Richard Pearson ruled that the agency used “arbitrary” deadlines to bypass union input and refused mediation in bad faith.
The NLRB and union president John Mantz did not return requests for comment.
The National Labor Relations Board Union represents 122 employees who work for the agency, including 65 who were forced to relocate to the new headquarters. The unaffiliated union’s most recent filings with the Department of Labor revealed that it collected about $20,000 from its members last year and spent more than $50,000 on professional fees in 2014.
Labor watchdogs said that the punishment is poetic justice.
Since 2010 the NLRB has been staffed by a majority of pro-union Democratic appointees by the Obama administration. During that time the agency has overturned decades of precedents to allow for “ambush elections,” micro-unions, and liability for franchisers—all of which have been criticized by labor attorneys and Congress as hand outs to labor unions.
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Police Involved Accident On Chesapeake Bay Bridge
The Officer was struck while conducting a traffic stop. He was flown to shock trauma.
Water Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Flint, Michigan
Caving into the demands of the open borders movement and pro-immigrant Spanish media, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will refrain from enforcing immigration laws in areas of Flint, Michigan affected by a water crisis. The water amnesty is the latest of many reprieves issued by the Obama administration to help illegal immigrants nationwide. Judicial Watch has reported on many of them, including recent hurricane, earthquake, Ebola and “severe weather” amnesties.
This one involves the widely reported water situation in Flint, which is located about 66 miles northwest of Detroit. Last year researchers discovered that the city’s drinking water was contaminated with lead from decaying old pipes. The problem arose after a switch in 2014 in the city’s water source to save money. Soon complaints mounted that the water smelled and looked strange and academic researchers discovered that it was toxic. This all occurred after a 7-1 vote by the Flint City Council to stop buying Detroit water and join a new pipeline project, according to a local news report.
Now there’s a state of emergency and the feds have stepped in, supplying the area with free bottled water and special filters to install at home until the local water supply is clean. For weeks immigrant rights groups complained that residents had to show identification to receive their free goods from the government and illegal aliens were being left out. National Spanish-language media outlets blasted the Obama administration for discriminating against illegal aliens.
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This one involves the widely reported water situation in Flint, which is located about 66 miles northwest of Detroit. Last year researchers discovered that the city’s drinking water was contaminated with lead from decaying old pipes. The problem arose after a switch in 2014 in the city’s water source to save money. Soon complaints mounted that the water smelled and looked strange and academic researchers discovered that it was toxic. This all occurred after a 7-1 vote by the Flint City Council to stop buying Detroit water and join a new pipeline project, according to a local news report.
Now there’s a state of emergency and the feds have stepped in, supplying the area with free bottled water and special filters to install at home until the local water supply is clean. For weeks immigrant rights groups complained that residents had to show identification to receive their free goods from the government and illegal aliens were being left out. National Spanish-language media outlets blasted the Obama administration for discriminating against illegal aliens.
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Special Counsel Says VA Sought to Attack, Discredit Whistleblowers
Oversight officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to properly investigate medical misconduct allegations at multiple VA hospitals and issued reports that attempted to discredit and attack whistleblowers, according to a review by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
In 2014, the Office of Special Counsel asked the VA inspector general’s office to look into claims of “secret waiting lists” at two veterans hospitals after receiving whistleblower complaints. Employees at the facilities claimed veterans would often be forced to wait months or longer for appointments, but this information was kept outside of the VA’s official electronic records system so that administrators could dodge federal requirements and take home cash bonuses.
The VA inspector general’s office conducted two investigations, one at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Louisiana and another at the Hines VA Hospital in Illinois. The office reported that it was not able to substantiate the allegations made by the whistleblower at Overton Brooks, and was only able to substantiate limited parts of the allegations at Hines.
But the Office of Special Counsel said Thursday that it found significant flaws in the inspector general’s reports after conducting a review.
“The OIG investigations that the VA submitted in response to both referrals are incomplete. They do not respond to the issues that the whistleblowers raised,” wrote Carolyn Lerner, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, in a letter to President Obama last Thursday.
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In 2014, the Office of Special Counsel asked the VA inspector general’s office to look into claims of “secret waiting lists” at two veterans hospitals after receiving whistleblower complaints. Employees at the facilities claimed veterans would often be forced to wait months or longer for appointments, but this information was kept outside of the VA’s official electronic records system so that administrators could dodge federal requirements and take home cash bonuses.
The VA inspector general’s office conducted two investigations, one at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Louisiana and another at the Hines VA Hospital in Illinois. The office reported that it was not able to substantiate the allegations made by the whistleblower at Overton Brooks, and was only able to substantiate limited parts of the allegations at Hines.
But the Office of Special Counsel said Thursday that it found significant flaws in the inspector general’s reports after conducting a review.
“The OIG investigations that the VA submitted in response to both referrals are incomplete. They do not respond to the issues that the whistleblowers raised,” wrote Carolyn Lerner, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, in a letter to President Obama last Thursday.
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Historic Italian City Bans ‘Ethnic’ Food To Protect Culture
The Italian city of Verona has put a ban on ethnic restaurants to protect its “typical culture.”
Verona has seen an explosion of kebab restaurants popping up in the city’s historic center. The aggressive development led officials to adopt a new ruling this week in which any new restaurants intending to sell certain “ethnic” food won’t be granted a license to operate.
“Thanks to this provision there will be no more openings of establishments that sell food prepared in a way that could impact the decorum of our city,” Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi said, according to The Telegraph. “This protects not only our historic and architectural patrimony of the city centre but also the tradition of typical culture of the Verona territory.”
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Verona has seen an explosion of kebab restaurants popping up in the city’s historic center. The aggressive development led officials to adopt a new ruling this week in which any new restaurants intending to sell certain “ethnic” food won’t be granted a license to operate.
“Thanks to this provision there will be no more openings of establishments that sell food prepared in a way that could impact the decorum of our city,” Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi said, according to The Telegraph. “This protects not only our historic and architectural patrimony of the city centre but also the tradition of typical culture of the Verona territory.”
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