I have an idea. How about a carbon tax for NPR. If there's any amount of hot air that ought to be taxed, it's National Public Radio. Instead NPR would like to carbon tax parents for having kids.

NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden reported that Professor Travis Rieder presented “moral” arguments to James Madison University students, claiming the best way to protect future generations from the threat of climate change is “by not having them.”

According to the article, Rieder and his Georgetown University colleagues, Colin Hickey and Jake Earl, have a plan to save the earth which was described as “carrots for the poor, sticks for the rich.”

They are asking richer nations to “do away with tax breaks for having children and actually penalize new parents.”

Rieder described his strategy as a “carbon tax, on kids,” and said it should be “based on income” and raised for “each additional child.” He claimed that punishing people in wealthier nations for having large families is “not like China’s abusive one-child policy” because it targets the rich rather than the poor.

It's not punching down. It's genocide that punches up.

Rieder claimed to have the moral high ground, saying, “It's not the childless who must justify their lifestyle. It's the rest of us.” In the radio program, he said his family is “one and done” even though his wife Sadiye formerly wanted a “big” family.

But living him apparently convinced her that there were enough people with his DNA walking the earth.

This is the left. It's evil in ways you can't even begin to comprehend. And it's determined to destroy you in every way possible.

The New York Daily News is best known these days for its desperate trolling stories and covers trying to make some headway on Twitter. Their piece on the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom in which the Dinkins administration's tolerance for racist black activism led to sustained racist attacks on the Jewish community in Crown Heights is more like old-fashioned media sleaziness.

The opening frame is the Cato family. The implicit worldview here is that of the anti-Semitic rioters. And the rest of the story reeks of the same dishonesty.

Here's how the disturbingly biased piece by the Daily News' Rich Shapiro and Ginger Adams Otis describes the racist mob attacks on the Jewish parts of the area. 

"Twenty-five years after the tragic car accident that sparked the Crown Heights riots — three days of unremitting turmoil that pitted angry Hasidic Jews against outraged African-American and Caribbean residents — elements of that question still linger in the neighborhood."

The "turmoil" were race riots. And generally the group invading someone else's neighborhood while chanting racist slogans would be the one listed first. The "angry Hasidic Jews" (what were they angry about? Being beaten and murdered?) did not invade a black neighborhood while throwing rocks and stabbing the locals.

The same bizarre lies fill Shapiro and Adams' screed.

"By 9:07 p.m., 911 was getting calls about a riot at President St. and Utica Ave. Bottles, objects and racial slurs were hurled with equal venom. Chants of “The Jews killed the kids!” filled the street.

Shots rang out along Utica Ave., and roving gangs of Jewish and black youth started attacking each other and random pedestrians."

Notice how the second paragraph doesn't jibe too well with the first. There are anti-Semitic chants and yet somehow the Jews are just as responsible and just as eager to attack... their attackers.

Over the next three days, Crown Heights was roiled in riots. Blacks and Lubavitcher Jews faced off again and again in clashes, mostly in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Lubavitcher headquarters, and at President St. and Utica Ave.

So these clashes occurred mostly in front of the most Jewish area in Crown Heights. These marauding Jews were invading... their own headquarters. 

This is what a vile disgusting bag of lies the New York Daily News, Rich Shapiro and Ginger Adams Otis have dumped in their screed.

Gun violence is everywhere. The only way to address it is with "sentencing reform" that sets criminals free and gun control reform that bans guns. The guns that shoot people of their own accord. Then when a whole bunch of people are killed, we'll have another memorial to the victims of inanimate gun violence who were rendered further inanimate by it.

A man who was attending a memorial for victims of gun violence was fatally shot at a Brooklyn park early Sunday, authorities and witnesses said.

Daquan Spencer, 30, was at the event inside Scarangella Park near Stillwell Ave. and Avenue V when someone started shooting around 1:30 a.m.

The man was struck multiple times, including in the head and torso, cops said. He died at Coney Island Hospital.

Witnesses said Spencer was attending a candlelight memorial in remembrance of several people who died from gun violence — all of whom were under the age of 27.

Why were these people dying of gun violence and who was shooting them? Was it the guns? Or was it perhaps drug dealers. You know, the drug dealers who would be the chief beneficiaries of sentencing reform? Ask no questions. Just hold another memorial and hope no one gets shot at this one by the packs of roving guns.

Hillary's best excuse for her illegal email use is to try to pin it on a black man? That seems kind of racist to me.

When asked by the FBI about her email use at the State Department, Clinton reportedly told investigators that former Secretary of State Powell had advised her to use a personal email account at a private dinner.

But Powell, who had said last week in a statement that he had no recollection of the conversation, told Page Six at Saturday’s Apollo in the Hamptons event, “The truth is she was using it (her personal email) for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did [during my term as Secretary of State].

“Her people have been trying to pin it on me.”

When asked why Clinton’s team were attempting to blame him, he responded, “Why do you think?”

Despite appearing angered by the situation, he added, “It doesn’t bother me. It’s okay, I’m free.”

Hillary's bizarre compulsive lying habits lead her to not just tell a lie, but a lie that creates an even bigger problem than the one she was trying to solve.

Why drag Colin Powell into this? Not only is Hillary's story about him advising her to use private email not very plausible, but it's also irrelevant in every sense of the word. Claiming that someone else told you to do something does not in any way excuse your actions. Especially if the person is not your superior. 

Why drag Powell into this? It's senseless unless you understand that Hillary Clinton has a self-destructive streak and that her terrible lies are a symptom of this. The only thing she accomplished was to take a guy who had switched to her team, potentially, and then blame him for your email use, forcing him to come forward and attack you.

When that guy is also a prominent black figure, then your plan is just stupid and self-destructive. 

The question to be asked after every such incident is, "How much more of this do we want?" It's a simple question. The more Muslim immigration we have, the more such incidents we'll have. It's that simple.

Our latest Religion of Peace murder attempt comes to us from Virginia where the joyful sound of "Allahu Akbar" was heard in Roanoke. Along with screams.

A man stabbed two people Saturday in what Roanoke County Police say is a random attack.

A man and woman told police they were attacked at The Pines Apartments just before 8 p.m. as they entered the apartment building. Both were seriously hurt and taken to the hospital.

Police have charged Wasil Farooqui, 20, of Roanoke County in connection to the stabbing. He has been charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding. He is being held without bond at the Western Virginia Regional Jail.

Investigators believe that this was a random attack, and Farooqui had no connection to the two victims.

Let's hit the pause button on that random attack.

The FBI is now involved in a stabbing investigation in Roanoke County.

Wasil Farooqui is charged in the incident that seriously hurt a man and woman at the The Pines Apartments on Saturday.

Witnesses told police that during the attack Farooqui was yelling "Allah Akbar."

He remains in jail tonight without bond.

Just random non-Muslims.

They say that there's no problem in the world that can't be solved with a hug. Islam however says there's no problem that can't be solved with violence. And that includes the problem of hugs

A Muslim 'bully' grabbed a schoolboy by the throat and threw him to the ground because he saw him hugging a girl in the street, a court heard today.

That sounds about right.

He allegedly confronted the pair, demanding to know if they were Muslims, before calling the girl a 'whore'

At least he checked their Muslim creds first.

Coe was said to have grabbed the boy by the throat, causing him to black out, before he woke up bleeding on the floor.

When passing schoolteacher Boutho Siwela tried to come to the couple's aid, Coe then allegedly attacked him.

Coe allegedly demanded to know if the teenagers were Muslim and when they lied and said that they were not, he replied: 'Why am I wasting my time with you if you're not Muslim?'

Why does the UK continue importing Saudi problems would be a better question.

If nothing else, it would be a very picturesque fence. 

An MEP has proposed putting pigs' heads on Hungary’s border fences to deter refugees trying to enter the country.

The country’s right-wing government has been criticised internationally following its perceived harsh attitude towards refugees. As part of measures to block refugees seeking to enter the country, Hungary erected a vast border fence in the hopes of stopping movement into their borders.

It recently emerged security forces have begun making scarecrowsin crude attempts to deter refugees trying to enter. In response to criticism over the tactic, Hungarian MEP for the Christian Democratic European Peoples’ Party Gyorgy Schopflin tweeted: “Human images are haram… pig’s head would deter more effectively.”

It probably would at that. Hungary is being criticized for trying to hold back the invasion.

Of 177,135 asylum applicants to Hungary in 2015, just 146 were approved, according to government statistics.

One suspects that the assault rates in Hungary also look better than in Germany.

Hillary Clinton has a real genius for taking a basic lie and somehow turning it into a major scandal by just making it worse for no good reason. Case in point, trying to blame Colin Powell for her email operation.

Not only did this drag in Colin Powell. It dragged in Condoleezza Rice. And it's unclear why Hillary thought it would be a good idea to have two former black secretaries of state calling her a liar. Not that they are directly doing that. Instead they're just not remembering the crazy lie that Hillary Clinton made up. Which is a polite way of saying, this never happened.

Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice has no recollection of a conversation at a 2009 dinner party where Hillary Clinton reportedly claims that Gen. Colin Powell advised her to use a personal email account.

Rice’s inability to recall the conversation makes her the second person to publicly undercut Clinton’s claim.

Both NBC News and The New York Times reported last week that Clinton told the FBI that Powell offered her the email advice during a dinner party at former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright’s home.

Rice and another Henry Kissinger, another former secretary of state, were present at the dinner party, where the former diplomats were asked to provide Clinton with advice to help her tackle her new job.

So I guess that leaves Henry Kissinger. 

Trump is crazy. He's a loose cannon. He's such a crazy loose cannon that he probably wouldn't take $400 million in foreign currency, load it on cargo pallets, put it on an unmarked plane and then have no idea who actually got the money. Only sensible experts in diplomacy like Obama and his cohort would do something like that.

The State Department revealed in a press briefing Monday that they do not know who in Iran picked up the $400 million that the Obama administration airlifted to Iran as leverage to get American hostages released.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that while he did not know who picked up the $400 million that was flown to Iran, he said that the Obama administration does.

“Do you know who picked up the money?” Associated Press reporter Bradley Klapper asked.

“I don’t,” Toner said, triggering some confusion between him and Klapper.

“Who’d you pay?” Klapper asked.

“I believe it was Iranian officials and Iranian government officials, but I don’t know particularly who individually it was,” Toner said.

“Do you know from which part of the Iranian government you paid?” Klapper asked.

“I don’t have that information, no,” Toner said.

“Does the administration know who it paid?” Klapper asked.

“I’m certain they would, yes,” Toner said.

Really, this is the sort of thing that should be settled once and for all with a criminal investigation and hefty jail time.

Gun control works. Unfortunately irrational gun-loving Americans refuse to recognize that we should be more like Europe. Take Sweden for example.

A few weeks ago, Vox ran a story boasting, "Sweden may have the answer to America’s gun problem". 

How's that answer working out? Great.

Muslims in Sweden have so much trouble getting guns that they have to settle for throwing around grenades.

An eight-year-old killed after a grenade exploded in an apartment in Sweden was reportedly a schoolboy from Birmingham.

The boy was visiting family in Gothenburg when the blast - linked to a gangland feud - hit their third-floor apartment around 3am on Monday, Swedish police said. He died of his injuries on the way to hospital.

The youngster was named in reports as Yuusuf Warsame, a pupil at Nelson Mandela Primary School in Sparkhill, Birmingham.

His father, Abdiwahid Warsame, confirmed his son had died in the grenade attack, which is being treated as murder by Swedish police

But it turns out that they can get guns too.

Two people died and eight were injured in the shooting at a restaurant at the Vårväderstorget square in the Biskopsgården area of Gothenburg in the evening of March 18th last year.

Customers had gathered at the pub called 'Vår Krog Och Bar' to watch a Champions League game when masked gunmen burst in at around 10.20pm firing automatic weapons.

"It was a pure massacre," prosecutor Johan Udén told the court on the final day of the two-month trial.

Five men had been charged with murder, but only 28-year-old Adam Abdulahi and 25-year-old Ahmed Warsame were handed a lifetime sentence at Gothenburg District Court on Monday morning.

Gun control. It works.

Who are we to object to a few more undocumented immigrants? Let's make sure they have ObamaCare and tax refunds so they'll know how much we welcome them.

Sunni extremists are infiltrating the United States with the help of alien smugglers in South America and are crossing U.S. borders with ease, according to a U.S. South Command intelligence report.

The Command’s J-2 intelligence directorate reported recently in internal channels that “special interest aliens” are working with a known alien smuggling network in Latin America to reach the United States. The smuggling network was not identified.

“In 2015, we saw a total of 331,000 migrants enter the southwestern border between the U.S. and Mexico, of that we estimate more than 30,000 of those were from countries of terrorist concern,” she said.

Don't worry. I'm sure they're mostly unaccompanied minors of under forty. Let's not do anything crazy like actually closing and securing the border.

The Clintons don't do charity. They find more exotic ways to launder bribes. That's all this was. 

More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

This should come as no surprise considering the Clinton era in the White House. Selling influence is how the Clintons get ahead. Nothing has changed, Only the game board has grown bigger.

Islamic theology tends to triumph with the sword and the spear. The bomb and the bullet. And when that fails, there's always a metal pipe.

This latest tale of interfaith relations comes to us from Jamaica, of all places.

A Muslim landlord who attacked his Christian tenant with a metal pipe and broke her leg during a discussion about their religion, which had escalated into an argument, was remanded for sentencing after he was denied bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week.

A surprising turn of events.

According to the police, on May 28 the complainant and Lazarus were at home have a discussion pertaining to Christianity and Islam when it turned into an argument.

During the argument, Lazarus threw a metal pipe and hit the complainant in her head and on her leg, causing the leg to break.

Last Wednesday when the matter was mentioned, Attorney Davorna Wilson tried to get bail for Lazarus.

But the prosecutor objected on the grounds that Lazarus has been involved in a number of violent incidents in his community.

Again, totally unexpected. The Jihad, now in Jamaica.

The media is describing the Muslim terrorist as a French man. Because if it's anything the French are known for, it's shouting "Allahu Akbar". and stabbing random non-Muslims.

A French national allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar” during and after a stabbing attack that left a British woman dead and another Briton fighting for his life at a backpackers hostel outside of Townsville last night.

Possible extremist motivations for the attack are now being investigated by Queensland Police and the Australian Federal Police, with the man yet to be questioned by investigators.

Queensland Police Service Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the 29 -year-old French man shouted the phrase following the attack at the hostel at Home Hill, south of Townsville, but police had not determined whether the incident was terror related.

Who knows. Maybe the "French" stabber was expressing his Francophonic distaste of Brits by shouting Allahu Akbar. 

“While this information will be factored into the investigation, we are not ruling out any motivations at this stage, whether they be political or criminal,” he told reporters in Brisbane.

“Investigators will also consider whether mental health or drug misuse factors are involved in this incident.”

Yes, no possible excuses will be ruled out here.

Queensland Police Minister Bill Byrne described the stabbing attack as “tragic and disturbing”.

“Right now our thoughts are with the victims’ family and friends and the close knit community of Home Hill,” Mr Byrne said.

“I have been briefed by the Police Commissioner on the incident and I remain in contact with him as the investigation unfolds

“As said by Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski today, the investigation is still in its early stages and more details are expected to become clear as it progresses.

“It is important that the public understand this is not about race or religion. It is individual criminal behaviour.

Absolutely. It has nothing to do with religion. Not a thing. Allahu Akbar is the sort of thing secular people say when stabbing someone in the name of Allah.

Gotta keep up the wealth redistribution.

First, some background from my piece, The Great Bernie Sanders Scam.

Obama recently praised Bernie’s fundraising, saying, “You’ve got to give Bernie Sanders, for example, credit — building off some of the work I did; I, in turn, built off the work that Howard Dean did — for smaller donations, grassroots donors.” That’s literally true since Bernie’s digital fundraising comes from Revolution Messaging run by Obama campaign veterans. And it’s cashing on Bernie in a big way.

When Revolution came on board, it was with boasts of raising $3 million in four days. Its founder declared, “We were looking for a candidate with a track record of doing the right thing - even if it meant taking on Wall Street billionaires and other powerful interests.” 

And they had been looking for that candidate anywhere they could. Before Bernie, Revolution had been trying toget Elizabeth Warren to run with the Run Warren Run campaign. 

What we think of now as the Bernie Sanders campaign needed a candidate who would open up left-wing wallets. Hillary Clinton was the perfect foil against which to run a doomed, but very profitable, progressive campaign. When Elizabeth Warren proved too savvy to be roped in, Bernie Sanders was the next best thing. And Bernie, with no commission cap and hipster appeal, brought in the big bucks.

That’s how the Great Bernie Sanders scam was pulled off.

Now fast forward to today.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will address supporters on Aug. 24 to tout "Our Revolution," a new organization intended to harness the energy of his supporters and help progressive political candidates across the country.

Sanders will speak from Ripley Manor in Washington, D.C., and Our Revolution’s launch will also air live at more than 2,000 organizing meetings nationwide, Sanders said in a press release issued Thursday.

“During our campaign we assembled a movement of millions of people ready to fight for the country we know we can become,” Sanders said in an email to supporters.

“Now it’s time for all of us to get to work. At this meeting, I and others will lay out some of the next steps we can take as a movement to empower a wave of progressive candidates this November and win the major upcoming fights for the values we share.”

Give money. More money.

The same technology that helped propel the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is being employed to help some down-ballot candidates that the Vermont senator has endorsed.

Revolution Messaging, the digital marketing firm that worked for Mr. Sanders and helped him build name recognition and draw thousands of crowds to rallies through online advertising, is now helping House candidates that are using Mr. Sanders’s progressive message.

Mr. Sanders has endorsed both Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Canova, and launched Our Revolution, “a new organization to support progressive candidates and ideas” to help support candidates with Mr. Sanders’s ideals elected for local, state and national office, said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs.

The ad platform, called Revere Exchange, allows campaigns to buy ads via a self-service tool on multiple sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube at once. The ad platform seeks to maximize the impact of each dollar spent, so nascent campaigns with small pocketbooks can make the most out of their budgets.

Wealth redistribution. Establishment style.

Remember when Bernie Sanders was complaining about the impact of money on politics. Now he's built a very dubious political operation operating in a dark money area.

As a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders put campaign finance reform at the center of his campaign agenda.

But a new organization formed by the Vermont independent to continue his political revolution across the country may be venturing into uncharted legal territory, according to campaign finance experts.

The group, called “Our Revolution,” will support progressive policy proposals and politicians across the country. According to its website, the group is operating as a 501(c)(4) organization, a tax status that will allow it to accept unlimited contributions without having to reveal its donors.

That's a very problematic formula and it only gets worse.

As a sitting senator, Sanders can’t ask donors to contribute more than $2,700 each to a campaign committee per election, or more than $5,000 to a Super PAC, which can raise unlimited amounts of money but are barred from coordinating with campaigns.

Our Revolution's connection to a federal officeholder could require the group to disclose its donors and cap the amount of money it can accept from contributors under the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, Ryan said.

“It’s a bit unusual,” Kenneth Gross, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who runs the firm’s political law practice, said of Sanders’ new organization. “I’ve not seen something constructed like this before. That doesn’t mean it’s impermissible.”

Gross, who said organizations typically pursue 501(c)(4) status to avoid disclosing their donors, said officials would have to review Our Revolution’s activities throughout the year to determine any violations.

A representative for Sanders and Our Revolution did not immediately respond to questions about whether the group plans to reveal its donors and cap contributions. Sources close to Sanders have said that the former presidential candidate wanted to keep as many options as possible open to him in the future.

This is a dark money machine and Sanders people are admitting as much. Bernie started out by complaining about the influence of money on politics. Then he built his very own dark money machine.

Hillary Clinton has always been her own worst attack ad. Quotes like this are an example of how she does more damage to herself than anyone else could.

"My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces. I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right," Clinton said. "I know there's a lot of smoke and there's no fire."

Of course the most popular version of that quote is, Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Hillary Clinton is conceding that she has the appearance of wrongdoing while insisting, contrary to public impression, that there's no actual wrongdoing. That's a bad position for a presidential candidate to be in. And yet Hillary made the admission of her own free will.

She's reduced to arguing that even if she looks crooked, she isn't. 

Iran has been very consistent in its approach all along. Every time Obama makes a concession, Iran views that as a sign of weakness and pushes harder. Since Obama has been consistently retreating, Iran has been pushing harder. And so we're now getting incidents like this.

Four Iranian boats approached a U.S. destroyer in the Persian Gulf in a dangerous stunt Tuesday, according to a Navy official. 

The small Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy craft drove within within 300 yards of the destroyer Nitze, deployed with the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, near the Strait of Hormuz, said the official who was not authorized to speak on the record about the incident. 

The Navy is calling the incident "unsafe and unprofessional," he said. 

The destroyer tried various methods to communicate with the incoming four boats, he added. Radio calls, the ship's whistle, firing flares -- all to no response. 

Considering that Iran has been playing with suicide attacks, this incident may be more serious than it sounds. 

But that's not really the point. The point is that Iran is now acting like a world power and feels free to attack and pressure is because it knows that it will score points around the world while suferiing no consequences. 

Clinton's people have been denying that Huma Abedin was an editor at a Muslim journal which named her as an editor. And considering the content, you can easily see why.

An Islamic journal where Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide, was assistant editor published an article accusing Jews of 'working the American political system'– and being aided by the 'memory of the Holocaust'.

Abedin, who is vice-chair of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, spent 12 years as an assistant editor for Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs.

Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is the journal's editor-in-chief and has been accused of espousing the views of the Muslim Brotherhood through the publication. 

Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, is an associate editor and her sister, Heba, is an assistant editor.

So it was very much a family business. A family business spreading hate.

Considering that Hillary Clinton is as telegenic as last week's baked mackerel. this should come as no surprise whatsoever. The Kimmel interview was widely played up in the media, but it cratered in the ratings, losing to Friends reruns...

 The Democratic presidential nominee's Monday night appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" registered just a 0.4 rating in the key 18-49 demographic advertisers covet most. 
 
In comparison, NBC’s “Late Night” with Seth Meyers tied it in the ratings, despite starting an hour later. Monday’s “Late Night” guests were Henry Winkler of "Happy Days" fame and actress Grace Gummer.
 
Kimmel's 0.4 rating with Clinton lost to a Nick At Nite rerun of "Friends"— a program that went off the air more than a decade ago — and "Teen Mom Season 6" on MTV. 
 
Republican nominee Donald Trump's last appearance on Kimmel on May 25 registered an 0.6 rating — 33 percent higher than Clinton's.
 

I'm surprised it scored that much. Kimmel rented out his show to promote Hillary Clinton. And who deliberately tunes in to an infomercial?