US exchange student gets stuck in vagina statue at German university

A US exchange student at Tubingen University in Germany had to be rescued from a stone statue of a vagina on Friday after he somehow managed to get stuck in it.

It took 22 firefighters to free the unnamed student from the piece, called Chacan-Pi (Making Love), the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.

Tubingen is located 240 km south of Frankfurt.

Mayor Boris Palmer told the newspaper that "even taking into account the biggest adolescent fantasies," it's hard to imagine what the exchange student was thinking.

and in other vagina-related news, a (funny) ad for New Zealand tampon maker Libra was labelled "transphobic"

The main thing the tacky, untalented "Rhythms of Resistance" are resisting is having any rhythm

A group of local idiots in Toronto who smash drums during street protests want Gay Pride to stay political. Most of these halfwits can't spell "political," which in part explains why they would join a radical crypto-Commie obedience-cult.

Rick McGinnis: Why I'd vote for Rob Ford again

“When Toronto voters chose Rob Ford to be their mayor on October 25, 2010, they knew full well they were electing a flawed man.” This is the sentence reporter Robyn Doolittle chose to begin the final, summary chapter of Crazy Town, her book on the rise and (apparent) fall of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, and to give her credit, it shows that she understands the people pejoratively dubbed “Ford Nation” better than many of her colleagues at either the Toronto Star – the paper where Doolittle made her reputation covering Ford – or the Globe & Mail, the paper that poached Doolittle just after Crazy Town hit the shelves. 

“Ford was,” Doolittle admits with candour rare among Canadian journalists, “the best candidate in the race. He ran the best campaign, he stayed on message, and he talked about issues people cared about.” This simple fact was almost impossible to explain to Ford’s opponents both before and after Ford’s 2010 victory. I know – I tried...

More HERE

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives may want to be a bit more progressive

My pal Mitch Wolfe argues that Ontario's PC's need to look back to the Bill Davis era in order to recapture political support in the province:

...the Ontario Tories should consider going back in time, figuratively speaking, to the party’s golden era — of “Brampton Bill” Davis and his “Big Blue Machine”. Pick and choose the successful and effective elements of the Davis government and try to modernize them, adapt them and apply them to today’s Ontario.

Davis was Ontario’s premier from 1971 to 1985 — one of Canada’s best premiers. He was a politically moderate conservative from the rapidly growing city of Brampton, who led and oversaw an ideologically diverse and inclusive cabinet that brought together Red Tories like McMurty and Grossman, centrists like Dr. Bette Stephenson and Dennis Timbrell, and right-wingers like Frank Miller.

In those days, the Tories were known as an urban/suburban party, with some rural roots, while the Liberal party was primarily rural-based. How times have changed.

The condescending leftist view of Palestinians as subhuman

The article by Alan Johnson in The Telegraph generously suggests that leftist apologists for Palestinian terrorism and intransigence effectively treat them as children. But the truth is that it's worse than that. By dismissing vile terrorism as endemic to their nature and condition, western liberals essentially consider Palestinians as subhumans who are incapable of anything but savagery.

The jubilant reaction of many Palestinians to the kidnapping of three Israeli teenage boys has been met in the West with a bit of a shrug. The official daily PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida has published cartoons mocking the three students and celebrating their capture. The Fatah Facebook page featured a cartoon of three rats dangling from a line.Sweets have been handed out on the streets (a traditional gesture of joy and celebration). Many children have been photographed by their parents, holding up three fingers and smiling. An internet campaign gathers pace and “popular support for the abduction has continued to proliferate on Palestinian social media” according to the journalist Elhanan Miller. Hamas, of course, is exultant. Yes, Abu Mazen has condemned the kidnap and there have been some brave Palestinian voices raised in defence of the three youngsters, but their voices are isolated; Palestinians calling for the return of the three students have been threatened.

And yet, despite all this whooping and cheering about the trauma and possible death of Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, the Palestinians will likely pay a very small price in the international community or global public opinion. Why?

In part, because an anti-Zionist mindset that has taken root in the West, and at its heart is unexamined assumption – that Israelis and Palestinians are different kinds of people. Israelis have agency, responsibility and choice, Palestinians do not. In short, the world treats the Palestinians as children...

 More HERE

h/t Kathy S.

Olivia Chow wins sweepstakes for mealy-mouthed statement about mentally unbalanced antisemites of "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid"

 Scaramouche has the low-down on the race to be the biggest moral equivocator.

Displaying her usual mental acuity, such as she has any, Olivia Chow wins by five lengths.

Canadian Jihadist warns of coming terror attacks in Toronto and Calgary

Extolling the recently killed Canadian terrorist Salman Ashrafi, a jihadist warns of impending terror attacks against Toronto and Calgary. Ashrafi had been heavily involved in his chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Muslim Student Association, which has branches at every major university in Canada.

"...it is only a matter of time that the aftershocks of a cluster bomb dropped on the innocent villagers in Afghanistan or a “signature” strike on the innocent civilians in the tribal areas of Pakistan will be felt heavily somewhere in Toronto or Calgary."

Jonathan Halevi has more on this here and the original source can be seen here.

Pat Condell: Why I support Israel

Matt Ridley: IPCC commissioned models to see if global warming would reach dangerous levels this century. Consensus is ‘no’

"Even if you pile crazy assumption upon crazy assumption, you cannot even manage to make climate change cause minor damage

The debate over climate change is horribly polarized. From the way it is conducted, you would think that only two positions are possible: that the whole thing is a hoax or that catastrophe is inevitable. In fact there is room for lots of intermediate positions, including the view I hold, which is that man-made climate change is real but not likely to do much harm, let alone prove to be the greatest crisis facing humankind this century.

After more than 25 years reporting and commenting on this topic for various media organizations, and having started out alarmed, that’s where I have ended up. But it is not just I that hold this view. I share it with a very large international organization, sponsored by the United Nations and supported by virtually all the world’s governments: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) itself..."

More at The Financial Post

h/t Mr. Bilderberg

Christopher Monckton made Toronto's Global Warming cultists have a hissy fit

Renowned for innovation, Moses Znaimer has never been afraid of hearing out ideas that run against the stream. So in character, one of the presenters Znaimer chose for his IdeaCity gathering currently happening on the cusp of Toronto's Annex neighborhood was the cantankerous and convincing Christopher Monckton. The United Kingdom Independence Party's chief spokesman on Climate Change, Monckton is one of the most prominent challengers of the prevailing Global Warming hysteria that embodies the current zeitgeist.

As many who have actually studied the issue know, the data on global warming provides, at the very least, ample ground for skepticism that current weather trends spell the end of life on earth as we know it. But with the media, the majority of the political class, and pop-figures like David Suzuki pushing junk science to the masses, a Global Warming cult has emerged that exhibits all the fanatical devotion that you would have found littered among the corpses at Jonestown. For them, anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact which can tolerate no challenge. It is, in the words of no less a personage than Barack Hussein Obama, "settled science," a term which, as Charles Krauthammer, who is a physician and psychiatrist noted, flouts the basic principles of genuine science. Tellingly, the Global Warming cult's response to Krauthammer's stating that was an attempt to launch an inquisition against him and have him censored.

Using cruel, eloquent sarcasm and biting wit, Monckton mocked the Global Warming cult at sheep who are caught up is a mass of groupthink. He backed it up with fact, such as that despite predictions and models from the International Panel on Climate Change that proved to be wrong, there has been no global warming for the last eighteen years. Monckton cited evidence that suggests that the environmental and economic methods being employed to fight global warming are actually causing more deaths than global warming ever will.

The reality of the science on Global Warming is that there are differing theories of the extent and what will be the outcome of mankind's effect on the environment. Not that most people know that, since huge swaths of the political class, mainstream media and even, as Monckton pointed out, scientific journals have colluded to bully and censor any dissenting opinions into silence.

The normally polite crowd at Znaimer's IdeaCity reflected that. While the responses to presenters can be noted by varied degrees of enthusiasm, something happened during Monckton's presentation that I've never observed at one of the Idea City presentations before. At various times, Monckton was actually hissed at by much of the downtown Toronto "progressive" crowd at IdeaCity, who felt threatened as their dogmatic beliefs were being challenged and ridiculed.

But there was another sceptic listening to Monckton who gave a strong indication that people are beginning to see through the hysteria of the Global Warming cult and its high priests like Al Gore and Suzuki who profit handsomely from the sale of their liturgic snake oil. Following Monckton's presentation, IdeaCity's host Moses Znaimer said that he sensed that the tide was turning about the belief in Global Warming and realizing that there are compelling facts to indicate, as has happened throughout the history of science, that what is now the majority belief may indeed be wrong.

A society of murderous ghouls: The Most Disturbing Of All Palestinian Reactions To Kidnapping

They've got their children celebrating the kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens by terrorists:

More HERE and HERE

h/t Meir W

Iran’s ‘anti-Canada rhetoric’ has officials on guard for possible Ottawa area terror attacks

Noting Iran’s rising “anti-Canada rhetoric,” intelligence officials have been monitoring the Islamic republic as a potential terrorist threat to the Ottawa area, newly declassified documents show.

While the diplomatic falling out between Ottawa and Tehran is well-known, the intelligence reports are the first indication the Canadian government is tracking the possibility it could lead to terrorism in the capital.

The reports, written by the Integrated Terrorist Assessment Centre, do not specify the exact nature of the threat Tehran may pose to the Ottawa region but in the past Iran has used its proxy force, Hezbollah, to attempt attacks internationally.

George Galloway, the repugnant Iranian lackey and terrorist-funder occupying a seat in the UK's House of Commons, has previously implicitly threatened terror attacks against Canada on Hezbollah's behalf. (Listen to the video below from the 5:36 point.)

Media whores, lies, and prostitutes

...One of the last thrills still permitted us normal folks (for now) is getting to watch one of these self-appointed activists and advocates endure an Icarian tumble. Take that recent Newsweek exposé of secular saint and “sex work” abolitionist Somaly Mam.

No, I’d never heard of her before, either. I didn’t realize how far removed I was from what the authorities have deemed reality until I read that, among other things, this woman had been feted by the White House and the State Department, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, made the “TIME 100” list, and declared one of Glamour’s “Women of the Year.” Plus she’d been named one of the “Women Who Shake the World” by, er, Newsweek.

Cambodian-born Somaly Mam began making claims she’d been sold into sexual slavery as a youngster. After a daring escape, she dedicated her life to rescuing other girls from the same fate, leading armed raids on brothels, then providing shelter, education, and vocational training to the former captives—with the help of Western donors, many of them celebrities.

Aaaaaaannnnnddddd … ? Oh, come on. Guess.

So some idiot put an ad on Craigslist trying to buy concealed weapons

And the response he got was hilarious!

"Peace Partners" or Ghoulish Monsters part 2: Palestinian Authority mocks kidnapped Jewish teens as "rats"

The official Facebook page of Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has posted a cartoon comparing the three kidnapped Israeli students to rats.

The post on the "Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah" / Central Page" shows three rats with Stars of David dangling from a fishing rod, accompanied by an Arabic caption in red reading "A Master Stroke"; its implications are unmistakable.

US Secretary of State Kerry seeks cooperation with the world's leading sponsor of terrorism

A number of outlets are reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry is opening talks on security cooperation with Iran, which is world's biggest state-sponsor of international terrorism.

For Example, at the Los Angeles Times, "U.S. may join Iran in effort to resolve crisis in Iraq"; at Politico, "John Kerry: U.S. open to talks with Iran over Iraq"; and the Wall Street Journal, "Iraq Loses Key City, as U.S. 'Open' to Iran Talks on Crisis."

It boggles the mind that the Obama administration would be seeking an entente with our greatest enemy in the region, or perhaps not, since the president and his treasonous cronies have been scheming to reduce U.S. global power from their first day in office.

Here's National Journal's report from 2011, "Record Number of U.S. Troops Killed by Iranian Weapons":

U.S. military commanders in Iraq say Iranian-made weaponry is killing American troops there at an unprecedented pace, posing new dangers to the remaining forces and highlighting Tehran’s intensifying push to gain influence over post-U.S. Iraq.

More at American Power

Czech president Miloš Zeman refuses to back down on linking Islam with violence

 

As well as being bluntly honest, the Czech president evidently has a sense of humor:  

Czech president Miloš Zeman, via his spokesman, stood by a speech made at the Israeli Embassy in Prague, where he quoted the Koran calling for Muslims to kill Jews, refusing to retract what he said or apologize for quoting from the holy book.

Czech media reported spokesman Jiří Ovčáček’s statement saying that Zeman would not be apologizing for his statements in which he linked Islamic ideology with violence.

“President Zeman definitely does not intend to apologize,” the spokesman said. “For the president would consider it blasphemy to apologize for the quotation of a sacred Islamic text.”

"Peace Partners" or ghoulish monsters? Palestinians pass out candy to celebrate kidnapping of 3 teenagers, including American

Isn't this lovely? Palestinian terrorists kidnapped 3 teenagers, including a 16 year old American citizen.

So in typical fashion, Palestinians passed out candy to celebrate that atrocity.

The joy they demonstrated at something that any decent society would find abhorrent may be understood in the context that Palestinians train their children to kidnap and kill Israelis from kindergarten age.

But seeing how they have been mocked and derided for their revolting behavior, Palestinian terror group Hamas, which forms the government in Gaza, is trying to justify their depraved celebration: (via Google translate) "the right of the Palestinians to rejoice operations families as the only language that is understood by the Jews"

Well, if literature isn't merit enough on its own, maybe this will get you into the library ;-)

TEWKSBURY (CBS) – A 20-year-old woman has been charged with prostitution at the Tewksbury Public Library.

Police say they got a tip Tuesday that someone was soliciting sex in the library, so they sent in an undercover officer.

The plain clothes detective claimed Brittany Macintyre of Nashua, New Hampshire approached him immediately and handed him a pen and a piece of paper.

The two passed notes back and forth until she allegedly asked for $60 in exchange for a sex act...

Bipartisan letter from US Senate warns of potential cut-off of aid to Palestinians

WASHINGTON -- The US Senate sent a united message of "grave concern" to US President Barack Obama on Thursday regarding the formation of a reconciliation government between Fatah and Hamas, and what the move might require of Congress in determining future US aid to the Palestinians.

88 senators from across party lines signed the letter sent to the White House, written by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Susan Collins (R-ME), which warns the new PA unity effort might "jeopardize direct negotiations with Israel to achieve a two-state solution."

"The recent formation of a Palestinian Authority unity government supported by Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization that has never publicly accepted the Quartet principles, represents a serious setback to efforts to achieve peace," the senators wrote.

Citing recent appropriations law, which calls for an end to assistance to the PA should Hamas share power in the government or exert "undue influence" over its government, the Senate said the law is clear and warned the president that the chamber would reconsider future aid.

"Any assistance should only be provided when we have confidence that this new government is in full compliance with the restrictions contained in current law," the letter reads.

More at The Jerusalem Post

Simply being Roma from Hungary is not proof of persecution, refugee judge rules

The Federal Court of Canada has rejected the refugee claim of a Hungarian man of Roma background by dismissing the portrayal of sweeping, generalized persecution against the Roma in his homeland.

The man’s credibility was also questioned over his reliance on a variation of a classic excuse: his dog ate his cellphone.

The case of Mario Gyula Varga is the latest clash over Canada’s reception of the diasporic Roma.

“What does it take to be a refugee? Is it enough to simply prove that one is a Hungarian Roma? Mr. Varga’s counsel came perilously close to making that submission,” Justice Sean Harrington began his stern ruling.

“It seems to me that [Mr. Varga’s lawyer’s] submission is that the only reasonable assessment of country conditions in Hungary is that each and every one of its 200,000 to 500,000 citizens of Roma background has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, and that on the balance of probabilities, each and every one’s life is at personal risk, or that each and every one is at risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

“If it be so, then Hungary is a failed state. Yet it is not,” Justice Harrington wrote in his ruling last week.

More at NATIONAL POST

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's warning to us from the past

They have already taken over our education system...

Scandal-Plagued Toronto District School Board Chair resigns

...Fellow trustee and supporter Sheila Cary-Meagher believes Bolton was driven out by a recent onslaught of criticism and negative emails from a faction of trustees who have a personal vendetta against him.

“I don’t like the sense that he’s being driven out,” she said. “There’s been a very powerful, constant pressure on him, criticism and pressure — it’s been a bit of a witch hunt and for me, unprecedented. I’ve never seen anything like this before.

“I think he might just have gotten tired of the constant, aggressive criticism of his behaviour — of his existence — and it’s unfortunate because he’s been an extremely good chair,” she added, noting he was re-elected as chair three times.

Director of Education Donna Quan said Bolton called her at 7 a.m. Friday and that it was “a very painful” two hours as they discussed his resignation after four decades as teacher, principal, trustee and chair.

“I said, ‘Is this the right time?’ And he said there is really no good or no bad time to make a personal move,” Quan said, and leaving before the final board meeting on June 18 gives trustees a chance to determine how to handle his departure...

Now if only we could get rid of everyone above the Superintendent level at the TDSB, we might get a half-decent public school system.

Below is the letter Bolton sent to his ward email list:

Don Rickles and Mr. T

For some reason, the king of insults and the man who pities fools seem like an appropriate choice for the day after Ontario reelected the unethical government of Kathleen Wynne

Ontario's voters choose to take the pathway to being the next Detroit

The reelection of Kathleen Wynne can be attributed to the convergence of a few factors that have kept Ontario's most unethical, incompetent government in power.

Money is one of the more apparent reasons the Liberals could hang on. Their campaign had a lot more of it to spend than either opposition party and that was reinforced by the special interests and unions effectively campaigning for the Liberals by taking out third-party ads viciously attacking PC leader Tim Hudak.

Then there's the obvious factor that half the population have below average intelligence. And there's no minimum IQ required to vote.

But there's more to it than that. Another significant factor is was the ineptitude of The Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, whose milquetoast personality,uninspiring leadership and campaign flip-flops reinforced the lack of confidence the province showed in him the last election. By keeping Hudak as leader after his loss to Dalton McGuinty, it almost looked like the PC's were telling Ontario they weren't planning on trying very hard in the next election. There was nothing about Hudak's campaign to dispel doubts about him and an even more disorganized NDP led by Andrea Horvath didn't provide a credible alternative. So Wynne's corrupt, scandal-plagued Liberals became the beneficiaries of the deficits of their opponents.

But beyond all that, the basic reason the Liberals came out ahead is because of the way that people tend to think when stepping into the poll. Voters usually pick the person they like the most (or at least dislike the least) on a personal level. Kathleen Wynne, as I experienced myself last month, is a very likable person. By contrast, the weird, plastered-on smile of Tim Hudak makes him comes off like an untrustworthy used car salesman.

The Liberals also had an advantage of running some pretty good individual candidates. And a silver lining to last night's election results is that at least some deadwood will have been cut from Queen's Park, like the creepy NDP legislator Jonah Schein in Davenport, who lost to Liberal Christina Martins.

Ontario's voters have sent the message that corruption, dishonesty and incompetence will be rewarded with impunity.  So get ready to see an education system and economy fall apart in the province. When that happens, the voters can try to blame the government, but they really have no one to blame other than themselves.

(election results can be seen here)

Scientific Breakthrough May Have Laid The Groundwork For Human Teleportation

Dutch scientists have unlocked the secret to the sci-fi phenomenon of teleportation, successfully causing an atom to vanish and reappear nearly 10 feet away.

The Irish Times reports that a team led by Professor Ronald Hanson of Delft University conducted a demonstration in which information encoded into sub-atomic particles was teleported between two points with 100 percent accuracy for the very first time.

Hanson says that, if a particle can be teleported, there’s no reason to believe the same cannot be done for a human being.

More HERE

Oklahoma Republicans run a Taliban candidate

It may only be the State Legislature in Oklahoma, but this is the kind of Christine O'Donnell crazy that helped tarnish Republicans all over America. The GOP can't afford to carry deadwood like this :

MOORE, Okla. – Scott Esk is running for House District 91 state representative.

...Esk had commented on a story about the pope saying “Who am I to judge?” on homosexuality.

Esk posted some old testament scripture that referred to homosexuality being punished.

Someone asked – “So just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”

Esk responds – “I think we would be totally in the right to do it. That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

Plus video HERE



h/t Skippy Stalin

Up for only an hour, my Progressive Conservative lawn sign was vandalized

It only went up at about 3 pm this afternoon, and by 4 pm, my lawn sign for Progressive Conservative candidate Justine Deluce was intentionally destroyed.

The riding where I live, St. Pauls', is dominated by Liberal cabinet Minister Eric Hoskins. Hoskins is a decent guy, but he's part of the most corrupt, incompetent government in Ontario's history. The backlash throughout the province is such that the predatory public service union bosses feel threatened by tomorrow's election in a way they haven't felt in years. Whatever the level of enthusiasm that Ontarians may or may not feel for PC leader Tim Hudak, the incompetent, corrupt and occasionally vile government of Kathleen Wynne has soured most of the public towards her. But the one segment that would like to see her reelected are the union bosses to whom she has made promises that would put Ontario in the poor house for decades.

So far, I have yet to meet anyone fooled by Wynne's "made-in-Ontario" pension proposal. Her scheme to have a provincial pension plan would drive taxes up by about a thousand dollars per year for each taxpayer. And most people expect that Wynne's completely inept government wouldn't be giving retirees more money, it would raid the fund to pay the interest on the massive, unprecedented Ontario government debt.

In tomorrow's election, the choices are either Andrea Horvath's socialist NDP,  Kathleen Wynne's less competent NDP that calls itself "Liberals," and Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives. I'm ready to take a chance on the devil I don't know. Because the devil I know is far too destructive to give her any more time in power.

Mann v. Steyn — Steyn goes his own way

In late 2012, climate scientist Michael Mann sued Mark Steyn, National Review, Rand Simberg and the Competitive Enterprise Institute for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.  Mann, creator of the infamous “hockey stick” climate temperature graph, objected to a blog post authored by Simberg on a CEI blog and quoted by Steyn on National Review Online.  So he took them to court.  The defendantsrefused to back down, and filed an anti-SLAPP motion seeking to dismiss Mann’s suit.

Those with an interest in climate policy have lined up on their respective sides — environmentalists supporting Mann, skeptics supporting Steyn, et al. — with some notable exceptions.  University of Berkeley law professor Dan Farber, for example, clearly shares Mann’s view of climate science and the urgency of climate change as a problem, but he nonetheless thinks Mann should lose his suit.  The offending blog comments, however tasteless or mistaken, represented the sincerely held beliefs of the authors, and the First Amendment protects even wrong-headed opinions.  This is even true when individuals wish to disagree with — or criticize — expert opinion...

...Steyn is again represented by legal counsel. That’s good for him.  But he has also decided to go his own way due to strategic differences with the other defendants.  Whereas NR and the others would like to see Mann’s suit dismissed, Steyn has decided to forgo procedural wrangling and would like a full trial on the merits as soon as possible.  As he recently explained:

I want to get to court as soon as possible, and put Michael E Mann, PhD (Doctor of Phraudology) on the stand under oath. I haven’t wasted two years on this guy to be denied my moment in court. That’s one reason I’ve countersued Mann. He thinks the DC Superior Court is competent to litigate his fraudulent “hockey stick”. Fine, let’s get it to a jury – before the sclerotic DC “justice” system’s procedural delays go on as long as the global-warming “pause”.

The remaining defendants – NR, CEI, and Simberg — have appealed the district court’s denial of their motion to dismiss the case under D.C.’s anti-SLAPP law, which was specifically enacted to make it easier to dismiss defamation suits, given their tendency to chill protected speech...

California judge rules statutes protecting incompetent teachers are unconstitutional

Is there a way we can get Judge Rolf Treu seconded to the Supreme Court of Canada...please!?!

California’s two biggest teacher unions lost the first round in the broadest court challenge yet to state laws protecting teachers’ jobs, setting the stage for what could be a lengthy appeal.

A state judge in Los Angeles yesterday ruled that statutes giving public school teachers lifetime employment after less than two years on the job and making it time-consuming and expensive to fire bad teachers are unconstitutional. The lawsuit was brought by a group of nine students backed by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu in his tentative ruling found that low-income and minority students are disproportionately stuck with “grossly” ineffective teachers, leading him to conclude the challenged laws violate the students’ fundamental right to equality of education.

In what should surprise no one, children born to mothers taking mind-altering drugs are more prone to mental defects

Almost one in five children born to mothers taking antidepressants during pregnancy have a brain defect – called a “Chiari type 1 malformation” – according to a groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

It turns out Rob Ford is actually the least embarrassing of Toronto's municipal politicians

Toronto City Council idiots vote to give welfare to illegal aliens.

A Tea Party Brat's defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor may also kill US immigration reform

...Cantor’s defeat to tea partier David Brat was so intertwined with immigration — “amnesty” and “illegal aliens” — that the few fence-sitters in the GOP-led House are going to flock back to the politically right side of the divide.

Regardless of what the polling says (and note that Cantor's pollster said he was winning big), Brat’s win and Cantor’s loss is now a powerful symbol, a rallying cry. That matters in politics...

Plus more at  The Washington Post

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/11/4171310/why-eric-cantors-shocking-loss.html#storylink=cpy