Study: Obama issued $743B in regulations

The Hill

"Since President Obama took office in 2009, the federal government has issued 600 major regulations totaling $743 billion, according to a new study from the conservative American Action Forum.

"The Obama administration issues an average of 81 major rules, those with an economic impact of at least $100 million, on a yearly basis, the study found.

"That’s about one major rule every four to five days, or, as the American Action Forum puts it, one rule for every three days that the federal government is open.

“ 'It is a $2,294 regulatory imposition on every person in the United States,” wrote Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, who conducted the study.

"At the current pace of rulemaking, the American Action Forum estimates the Obama administration will issue a total 641 major rules before the president leaves office, bringing the nation’s regulatory bill to $813 billion.

"By contrast, President George W. Bush issued 426 major rules during his tenure in the White House.

Public interest groups often dispute studies from the American Action Forum, which they say do not accurately take into account the economic benefits of regulations.

Hillary's health and mental state

Roger L. Simon: A Hillary Clinton Presidency Would Be An American Tragedy

. . . "Many do not think Clinton is even a moral human being. Any person who could lie to the parents of the dead over the fresh caskets of their sons, as Clinton has apparently done with the Benghazi victims--if you believe the testimony of the parents themselves as many of us do--has lost contact with basic human values.' . . .

The Cost of Trump’s Letting Hillary Get Away with Repeated Mistakes

Michael Barone  "Opportunity cost. That’s an economist’s term for what you lose out on when you divert your investments and attention to something less profitable. It’s also a good term for the losses Donald 

"Trump has incurred in the last six days — more than 6 percent of the 94 days between the close of the Democratic National Convention and the election in November. Trump has spent much of that time attacking the father and mother of a Muslim U.S. serviceman killed in Iraq. He has made a point of refusing to support Paul Ryan or John McCain in their upcoming primaries. He accepted someone else’s Purple Heart and said that his business investments amounted to “sacrifices.”
. . . 
"In other words, the nominee of the challenger has a target-rich environment here. But instead he launches a Hatfield vs. McCoy–type feud against two Gold Star parents. 

"So Trump is strengthening rather than weakening Democrats’ argument that he is too erratic, impulsive, and ignorant (doesn’t he know Russia annexed Crimea?) to be president." . . .

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If you are surprised #BlackLivesMatter joined war on Israel, you haven’t been paying attention

Also here:  Black Lives Matter Keeps Getting More Radical — Will the Media Care?

Legal Insurrection

"Anti-Israel activists played an active role in stoking violence in Ferguson, as I documented inIntifada Missouri – Anti-Israel activists may push Ferguson over the edge and Anti-Israel activist still stoking fires in #Ferguson.

"A good history also is in How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged.

"No other country except Israel is used as pervasively as the connector for intersectionality. It’s a seedy tactic meant to exploit domestic U.S. racial tensions having nothing to do with Israel, and to turn those tensions into racial hatred of the supposedly “white” Israel. Underlying it all are anti-Semitic stereotypes of omnipresent Jewish manipulation, such as those spread by Oberlin College professor Joy Karega.

"There have been successes at the campus level, such as at Oberlin, of inserting anti-Israel language into list of Demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.

"Many of the leading Black Lives Matters leaders are also anti-Israel activists. They receive encouragement and support from people like Marc Lamont Hill for linking Israel to problems of black in the U.S.:" . . .

VIDEO: ABC CUTS LIVE STREAM WHEN TRUMP STARTS TALKING ABOUT HILLARY’S SUPPORT FOR ISIS

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Infowars   "Video from Donald Trump’s speech last week in Daytona Beach shows ABC News cutting the live fed as Trump begins to talk about Hillary Clinton’s connection to ISIS."

“ 'Take a look at Orlando, take a look at San Bernardino, take a look at the World Trade Center,” states Trump, before adding, “And we let ISIS take this position, it was Hillary Clinton that….she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS. That’s what it…”

"ABC News’ live stream coverage then immediately cuts out and goes to background music.

"The video comes back in but with Trump muted before returning to full coverage.

"That may be about to change however, with Julian Assange’s promise that soon to be released Wikileaks emails will prove Clinton had a role in arming ISIS.

"This is not the first time in recent weeks that a major network has mysteriously cut the feed when negative revelations about Clinton are being discussed.

"Last month, CNN reporter Brianna Keilar began talking about Hillary’s support for anti-crime legislation in the 90’s which contributed to the “mass incarceration” of black people before the video was immediately cut.

Obama: Israel loves the Iran deal now! Israel: Say what?

Hot Air  "Alternate headline: Dr. Strangepresident, or How Israel Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Iranian Bomb. In his haste to defend himself from allegations that he paid a $400 million ransom to Iran in exchange for American hostages, Barack Obama made a curious counter-claim. After arguing that the payment to Iran had been disclosed at the time and was not connected to the release of Americans by Tehran, Obama then claimed that Israel had shifted its position on the Iran deal and was now supporting it . . .
Here comes the appropriate comparison to Munich in 1938:

The Defense Ministry made the Munich argument explicit:

“The Munich Agreement didn’t prevent the Second World War and the Holocaust precisely because its basis, according to which Nazi Germany could be a partner for some sort of agreement, was flawed, and because the leaders of the world then ignored the explicit statements of [Adolf] Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany’s leaders,” the ministry said.

“These things are also true about Iran, which also clearly states openly that its aim is to destroy the state of Israel,” it said, pointing to a recent State Department report that determined that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism worldwide.

Netanyahu rejects Obama’s assertion that Israel now supports Iran accord

A top minister close to Netanyahu, meanwhile, directly contradicted Obama’s assertion that Israeli security officials now back the accord. “I don’t know to which Israelis he (Obama) spoke recently. But I can promise you that the position of the prime minister, the defense minister and of most senior officials in the defense establishment has not changed,” Tzachi Hanegbi told The Times of Israel.

Obama Has 'Secret' 55th Birthday With Celebs

NewsMax

"Guests invited to President Barack Obama's 55th birthday party in the White House reportedly included a star-studded roster from Hollywood, and the sports and music worlds — secret details that were leaked out via social media.

"Guests were asked not to tweet any pictures or spill any details when formal word of the Friday night party was announced, but "some did anyway," the New York Times reports.

"Magic Johnson tweeted a picture of he and his wife ahead of the party and the Rev. Al Sharpton took to Twitter to announce his departure at 1:10 a.m. Saturday from Obama's "last birthday as President."

"The Times reports others spotted at the event included the talk show host Ellen DeGeneres; former NBC star Grant Hill; and "Star Wars" creator George Lucas. Singer-songwriter Nick Jonas gushed in a tweet that he'd "never forget" the evening, while the Times said Paul McCartney was a guest and performed for the 55-year-old president and First Lady Michelle Obama. The Times didn't report its source."