Monthly Archives: September 2015

Ayatollah Khamenei: Israel Gone Within 25 Years

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From Breitbart:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the theocratic dictator of Iran, tweeted Wednesday that Israel would not survive for 25 more years.

“Firstly, you will not see 25 years; God willing, there will be nothing as Zionist regime by next 25 years. Secondly, until then, struggling, heroic and jihadi morale will leave no moment of serenity for Zionists,” he tweeted.

Khamenei recently released a book detailing his plans for destroying Israel over time. The so-called “Supreme Leader” added a message for “The Great Satan,” which is how the regime refers to the United States. Contrary to the Obama administration’s assertions that the U.S. will be able to use nuclear inspections under the Iran deal to find out more about Iran’s nuclear programs, Khamenei said that Americans would remain barred from the country.

In Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered an address backing the Iran deal, warning that she would be willing to use war to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Democrats are celebrating the fact that they may be able to filibuster a vote on the Iran deal in the Senate.

Meanwhile, opponents of the Iran deal gathered for a rally against it.

The Truth About August Employment Numbers. 698,000 Native Born Americans Lose Their Jobs

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There is no secret that recent immigrants take the jobs of native born Americans. This is a major argument used to curtail illegal immigration. Read the numbers. Thanks to John Hinderaker at Powerline.

WHAT THE AUGUST JOBS NUMBER DIDN’T TELL YOU

The official jobs report said that the U.S. economy added 173,000 jobs in August. Here is what it didn’t say: at the end of August, there were 698,000 fewer native-born Americans with jobs than there were at the beginning of the month. ZeroHedge reports:

The one chart that matters more than ever…is the following, showing the cumulative addition of foreign-born and native-born workers added to US payrolls according to the BLS since December 2007, i.e., since the start of the recession/Second Great Depression.

domestic vs foreign cumulative

The chart is especially important because what it shows for just the month of August will be enough to provide the Trump – and every other – campaign with enough soundbites and pivot points to last it for weeks on end: namely, that in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August.

The number netted to a positive 173,000 due, I believe, to seasonal adjustment.

But the punchline: since December 2007, according to the Household Survey, only 790,000 native born American jobs have been added. Contrast that with the 2.1 million foreign-born Americans Ed.: Should be “foreign-born workers”]who have found a job over the same time period…

domestic vs foreign cumulative chart

Here are the BLS numbers, which are as ZeroHedge describes them:

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This is a big part of the reason why happy talk about the economy by the likes of Paul Krugman doesn’t fool anyone, and why even Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden don’t try to defend the economic record of the Obama administration. And it deserves to be a huge element in the debate over legal immigration.

Brady Wins, Why I Was Wrong

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Federal Judge Richard Berman has ruled that the four game suspension against Tom Brady is to be dismissed. This is a very important sports law case because this is a matter of a judge overturning an arbitrators decision. This rarely happens and is based on the Judge finding that the arbitration process was flawed. I didn’t think this would occur although I have thought all along that this Deflategate issue was much ado about nothing. Never in the history of the case did anyone show that 1. Brady deflated anything or ordered the deflating of footballs a pound or two under the suggested air pressure.  2.That he enjoyed an advantage because of this that had an impact on the game, and 3. Most importantly, did the Collective Bargaining Agreement give Goodell the authority to suspend the player.

Basically, the Judge overturned the Commissioners over reach. There was no reason to suspend Brady over this imagined issue and Goodell did not have the authority. This is Judging at its best. A minor, insignificant matter, blown into a major news story because it involved a famous quarterback and the NFL, has been relegated to its proper position- a non-story, by a federal judge who has better things to do.

I was worried that the judge would follow the time honored case history that called for judges to defer to arbitrators in such matters. The judge made the right decision. I wrote that he wouldn’t <a =”http://wwwclarkgriffithblog.com/2015/08/27″>here</a&gt; but am glad to have been wrong.

The article below says more:

Judge rules against NFL, drops Tom Brady’s four-game ban

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrived at federal court in New York on Monday.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrived at federal court in New York on Monday.

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 03, 2015
NEW YORK — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady can suit up for his team’s season opener after a judge erased his four-game suspension for ‘‘Deflategate.’’

The surprise ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman came Thursday after more than one month of failed settlement talks between the NFL and its players’ union. Many legal experts believed the judge was merely pressuring the sides to settle when he criticized the NFL’s handling of the case at two hearings in August.
But the judge wasn’t posturing.

He came out forcefully in Brady’s favor, maligning the NFL for its handling of the scandal that erupted after the AFC championship game in January, when officials discovered during the first half that Brady used underinflated footballs. New England beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 then won the Super Bowl two weeks later.

An NFL investigation led to Brady’s suspension, which Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld.