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Before the Supreme Court even heard oral arguments in the next big challenge to reproductive rights, National Review editor Rich Lowry was already misinforming about the facts of the case.
On March 25, the Supreme Court heard Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, a case that could grant the owners of for-profit, secular corporations the ability to deny their employees preventive services in employer-sponsored health insurance, contrary to federal law. The owners of Hobby Lobby, the Green family, incorrectly believe that some forms of contraception are "abortifacients" (even though they aren't). So, the Greens argue, because their religious beliefs prohibit any support of abortion, they cannot comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that requires American health insurance to cover preventive services, like birth control, at no cost.
Right-wing media has been all too happy to advance Hobby Lobby's arguments and ignore the scientific consensus disproving the corporate owners, framing the issue as evidence of President Obama's supposed hostility to religious freedom. National Review's Lowry, who is no stranger to misinforming about the contraceptive cases in front of the Supreme Court this term, was quick to join the pro-Hobby Lobby chorus.
In a recent post, Lowry portrayed the Greens as "law-abiding people running an arts-and-craft-chain," "minding their own business," until "Uncle Sam showed up to make an offer that the Greens couldn't refuse -- literally."
New research confirms that providing women access to free birth control does not result in women having sex with more partners -- a false claim that has been repeatedly pushed and promoted by conservative media, and which contributes to their efforts to stigmatize women's sexuality.
Providing women with no-cost contraception did not result in "riskier" sexual behavior (defined by the researchers as "sex with multiple partners") but did reduce unintended pregnancies and abortions, according to a comprehensive study from the Washington University School of Medicine.
As Amanda Duberman noted at the Huffington Post, having new empirical data to push back on the moralizing arguments against birth control is helpful, but raises the question: "why do we care?" The fact that researchers felt the need to study this particular claim about birth control at all reveals an "implicit stigmatization" of women's sexuality (emphasis added):
It is a small, pervasive set of voices that leads researchers to consider "multiple sexual partners" over the course of an entire year "risky sexual behavior."
The past decade of research has confirmed what women's health advocates already knew: the benefits of reducing barriers to birth control access far outweigh any subjectively determined adverse effects.
What's unfortunate is that making a case for something many women need relies on the implicit stigmatization of their sexuality. That researchers and health advocates need to presume harsh judgement of sexually active women to convince skeptics of birth control's utility just reminds us how far we have to go.
Duberman is right; it should not matter whether women have more or less sex when taking birth control pills. But it's not just a small set of conservative political voices pushing this offensive criticism of women's sexuality and inspiring scientific research. Conservative media have played a role in forcing this conversation, repeatedly slut-shaming women who use birth control and insisting that anyone who supports government funding for free contraceptives is equivalent to a prostitute.
National Review has established itself as a staunch proponent of allowing business owners refuse service to gay and lesbian customers. It's a position that unfortunately aligns with National Review's record of attacking defending discrimination against marginalized groups, including its shameful opposition to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's.
For months, National Review's staff has worked to invent bogus justifications for anti-gay business discrimination, condemning non-discrimination efforts as a form of government overreach. Long before states like Kansas and Arizona sought to pass laws allowing business to refuse service to gay and lesbian customers, National Review was championing business owners who had been sued for engaging in anti-gay discrimination.
In August, after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled unanimously that photographer Elaine Huguenin violated the state's Human Rights Act by refusing to photograph a same-sex couple's commitment ceremony, National Review joined other right-wing media outlets in their howls of outrage. At National Review Online, NRO contributor and Heritage Foundation fellow Ryan T. Anderson blasted the ruling as a sign that social conservatives had been "driven to the margins of culture," with "religious believers" and "the truth about marriage" under judicial assault.
NRO also took up the mantle of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple. In a one-sided interview published under the headline "Let Him Bake Cake in Freedom," NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Jean Lopez framed Phillips, whom a state judge ruled had violated Colorado's anti-discrimination law, as a victim of anti-Christian persecution. Lopez wondered what the "future of freedom" looked like in a world where businesses couldn't turn away LGBT customers.
Given its support for anti-gay businesses, it was unsurprising that National Review cheered the introduction of several state license-to-discriminate bills this winter.
After USA Today columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers penned a column denouncing Kansas' bill as an example of "homosexual Jim Crow laws," Anderson took to NRO to defend anti-gay business practices as protected under "freedom of association and freedom of contract." Anderson saw "religious liberty and the rights of conscience," not the rights and dignity of LGBT customers, at stake.
As national attention turned toward Arizona following the demise of the Kansas bill, support for anti-gay segregation measures became National Review's official editorial position. Following the Arizona legislature's passage of S.B. 1062 - which would have protected businesses from being sued for anti-gay discrimination - the National Review's editors published a February 24 editorial urging Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to sign the measure. The "necessary" bill, the editors wrote, simply affirmed the ethos of "live-and-let live."
The "potentially dangerous" implications of bills like S.B. 1062 were enough to cause even Fox News - with some notable exceptions - to backtrack on its baseless religious liberty crusade.
If the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is any indication, conservative media won't be abandoning their scandal-mongering about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi any time soon. Though conservatives' conspiracies about the assault on U.S. diplomatic facilities have fallen apart under scrutiny, many CPAC attendees are upset with mainstream outlets for not being aggressive enough on the story.
"I would say the media isn't pursuing information about Benghazi enough, including FOIAs, trying to interview people who ... the government doesn't want interviewed and has discouraged from being interviewed and not in general doing due diligence," said John Fund, a conservative columnist at National Review. "I would compare the lack of follow through unfavorably to scandals such as Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo."
Larry O'Connor, editor of Breitbart.com, offered a similar view when asked if Benghazi is being covered enough. "I see stories from Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News and Bret Baier's Special Report that I don't see other outlets covering."
Mainstream outlets have devoted significant coverage to the Benghazi story, if not always in the manner that those pushing the scandal would prefer. In December, The New York Times published an exhaustive six-part series on Benghazi which debunked several myths propagated by the conservative media. The fact-finding out of Congress also hasn't backed the scandal narrative; in January, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a bipartisan report stating that there was no attempt by the Obama administration to cover up the attacks and pointing out that no "stand down" order was given to the military.
Those facts aren't stopping the conservative media.
"We have still not gotten a great answer as to why the military did not respond when one of our embassies is attacked," said John Solomon, editor of The Washington Times. Regardless of what Solomon considers a "great answer," the various aspects of the military response the night of the attacks have been widely detailed.
TownHall.com editor and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich largely blamed the administration for reporters' difficulties covering the story, saying, "It is difficult for reporters to cover an issue when the government is not giving answers."
Support for more Benghazi investigations did not only come from media figures at CPAC. With former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton receiving massive attention over her potential run for the White House in 2016, conservatives clearly see Benghazi as a way to damage her possible candidacy.
During a speech, Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed media were "trying to fix Benghazi for Hillary" by not repeating the right-wing myths about the attacks.
There was also a Breitbart News-sponsored panel just a block away from the CPAC venue where participants claimed a cover-up exists, but offered few specifics.
Writers at National Review have whipped themselves into such an anti-gay fervor recently that they're oblivious to the plainly contradictory points they're trying to make as news of prominent gay athletes and discriminatory anti-gay laws continue to generate headlines this month.
The confused commentary resembles something of a last-ditch effort to salvage a small victory in the right wing's losing culture war over gay rights and marriage equality. Just ten years ago the Republican Party successfully used same-sex marriage as a wedge issue against Democrats in the 2004 campaign. Now, conservatives remain in retreat as public sentiment continues to shift (For the first time, a majority of Ohioans support marriage equality.)
"On this particular issue, the cultural wheel has spun so quickly," noted ESPN's Tony Kornheiser, while discussing the breaking news last week that Jason Collins was signing a contract with the Brooklyn Nets to become the first openly gay player in the NBA.
It was Collins' historic coming out story that helped set off a nasty National Review Online screed by contributing editor Quin Hilyer, who condemned "homosexual chic" and "gay mania" in his February 24 essay. Hilyer complained bitterly about how the "professional Left" is "going bonkers" hyping "active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof) as an absolute virtue."
"Enough already with the in-our-faceness from the homosexual activists and their aggressively enthusiastic cheerleaders," Hillyer complained. He was especially angry by the recent press attention University of Missouri star football play Michael Sam received as he stands poised to become the first openly gay NFL player. Hillyer was also upset about "attention-grabbing" Johnny Weir who made headlines and won praise for his astute commentary of Olympic ice-skating for NBC this year.
"The problem isn't homosexuality," Hillyer insisted. "But public sexuality. There was a time, a better time, when the sex lives of strangers were nobody's business," he wrote. "Most Americans assuredly don't much care what other people do."
The message to public gays like Sam and Weir: Tone it down!
But here's the contradiction: While claiming nobody really cares what gays do, Hillyer in the same column, and National Review editors the following day in an unsigned editorial, simultaneously applauded right-wing efforts to pass state-wide laws that discriminate against gays.
The editorial board of the National Review ripped into "organized homosexuality" for opposing a measure passed by the Arizona legislature that would allow businesses and individuals to deny services to gay couples on religious grounds, defending the bill as part of the "live-and-let-live" credo.
In an editorial published online on February 24, the conservative publication's editors defended the bill as "necessary," criticizing the "oppression envy" shown by LGBT activists who have opposed the law and rejecting comparisons of the legislation to Jim Crow laws (emphasis added):
It is perhaps unfortunate that it has come to this, but organized homosexuality, a phenomenon that is more about progressive pieties than gay rights per se, remains on the permanent offensive in the culture wars. Live-and-let-live is a creed that the gay lobby specifically rejects: The owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado was threatened with a year in jail for declining to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. New Mexico photographer Elaine Huguenin was similarly threatened for declining to photograph a same-sex wedding. It is worth noting that neither the baker nor the photographer categorically refuses services to homosexuals; birthday cakes and portrait photography were both on the menu. The business owners specifically objected to participating in a civic/religious ceremony that violated their own consciences.
Gay Americans, like many members of minority groups, are poorly served by their self-styled leadership. Like feminists and union bosses, the leaders of the nation's gay organizations suffer from oppression envy, likening their situation to that of black Americans -- as though having to find a gay-friendly wedding planner (pro tip: try swinging a dead cat) were the moral equivalent of having spent centuries in slavery and systematic oppression under Jim Crow. Their goal is not toleration or even equal rights but official victim-group status under law and in civil society, allowing them to use the courts and other means of official coercion to impose their own values upon those who hold different values.
Which is to say, what is regrettable here is not Arizona's law but the machinations that have made it necessary. It seems unlikely that those religious bakers and photographers were chosen at random, or that their antagonists will stop until such diversity of opinion as exists about the subject of gay marriage has been put under legal discipline.
The editors' assertion that the measure only targets services related to same-sex marriage has been debunked by experts. As constitutional law professor Kenji Yoshino of New York University has noted, the measure is written broadly enough that any individual or business owner would be allowed to refuse service to any gay person on the grounds that doing business with a gay person imposed a substantial burden on his or her religious beliefs.
While Fox News contributor and former Sen. Scott Brown ended his financial relationship with the conservative website Newsmax after the company sent his email list controversial solicitations, National Review and the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) tell Media Matters they will continue to let Newsmax send dubious ads to their own email lists.
Newsmax previously used both outlets' email lists to send advertisements plugging the same questionable doctor that caused Brown to sever relations with the company this week.
Brown cut ties with Newsmax on February 5, hours after the media began reporting on a missive the company had sent his political email list trumpeting the Alzheimer's disease cures of Dr. Russell Blaylock. In the email, Blaylock linked fluoridated water and flu vaccines to Alzheimer's and excessive exercise to Parkinson's disease.
In recent years, several prominent conservative outlets and personalities have sent Newsmax-sponsored emails to their followers pushing Blaylock's questionable medicine. In addition to Brown, National Review, and CBN, similar email ads have been sent through Newsmax from Dick Morris, Mike Huckabee, and Herman Cain. Newsmax frequently advertises for dubious health and financial products.
When asked about the questionable claims made in Blaylock's ads and the decision of Sen. Brown to terminate his relationship, National Review Publisher Jack Fowler told Media Matters he had no plans to end his magazine's Newsmax agreements.
"We have a relationship with Newsmax and that's all I'm going to say," Fowler said in an interview Thursday. "I can't speak for what Scott Brown does or doesn't do. I don't know who he has had a relationship with or whatever, but we have a relationship with Newsmax and that's it."
Asked if he had concerns given the questionable elements of Blaylock's claims, Fowler said, "Have a good day."
Chris Roslan, a spokesman for Christian Broadcasting Network, also defended the Newsmax/Blaylock email ads, describing Blaylock as a "qualified medical professional" and stating that "it is not uncommon for medical professionals to have differing points of view on medical conditions and their treatments." But he also pointed out that CBN includes a disclaimer in each email that states CBN does not endorse the products.
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Regarding Dr. Blaylock, he is a retired neurosurgeon and an author with a very large following. As an M.D. he is certainly qualified to weigh in on the tragic disease of Alzheimer's.
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Dick Morris and Mike Huckabee did not respond to inquiries from Media Matters, while a spokesman for Herman Cain declined comment via email.
The right-wing bubble seems impervious to both experts and fact-checkers when it comes to economic truth and the Affordable Care Act.
This week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated economic forecast for the years 2014 to 2024. Right-wing media quickly pounced on its projection that the supply of labor would voluntarily decline by about 2 million workers over the next three years due to the ACA, twisting the findings to accuse the ACA of destroying 2 million jobs. Such misinformation from the conservative bubble was predictable, as the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) put it on February 4:
Opponents of the ACA will try to paint these CBO estimates as evidence that the ACA has "killed jobs" or something like it. That's flat wrong. What the ACA has done is expand the menu of options available to Americans about how to obtain decent health insurance without having their income fall to poverty levels. That menu used to include one option--"go to work for a large employer."
Indeed, subsequent fact-checkers and experts discredited the right-wing media's spin -- As The Washington Post's FactChecker plainly said, "No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs," echoing Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Jason Furman who explained that "CBO's analysis itself is about the choices that workers are making in the face of new options afforded to them by the Affordable Care Act, not something about firms destroying jobs."
But it appears it will take more than facts and experts to penetrate the right-wing echo chamber.
Fox News doubled down on its misinformation on the February 6 edition of Fox & Friends, with an on-air graphic that framed the increased worker flexibility as "Obamacare to cut 2M jobs":
The Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed to "pars[e] this supply-of-labor reasoning" in a February 5 editorial by refusing to acknowledge the distinction between labor supply and job availability:
For years liberals have lamented the jobs crisis and underemployment to castigate Republicans as mean-spirited for opposing more "stimulus" and more weeks of unemployment benefits. But if pervasive joblessness is an economic and social scourge, why celebrate a program that is creating more of it?
Liberals are also trying to spin the CBO report as an endorsement of ObamaCare's alleged health security. Mr. Furman cited the phenomenon known as "job lock," in which people don't switch employers or start their own business to preserve fringe benefits. But job lock is really about employment flexibility, rather than the government extending subsidies so people don't need or want jobs.
A National Review editorial on February 6 characterized the fact-checks as "hilarious," claiming that the ACA was "taking a blowtorch to the work force" and creating a "crater" of lost economic value while mocking the administration:
But the administration still does not seem to be able to get its collective head around the fact that American workers are not just hungry mouths that have to be filled with paychecks: They are people who provide economically valuable goods and services. Those 2.5 million out of the work force may be happier at their leisure, but the economy as a whole will be substantially worse off without their contributions. We could, in theory, simply have the federal government deliver checks to every household and allow each and every one to follow his bliss as he sees fit, but the shelves of the grocery stores soon would be empty. The depth of the Obamacare crater in the labor force isn't some abstract unemployment rate, but the lost value of the work those Americans would have done.
Plugging their ears on the CBO's determination also blinded right-wing media to the CBO's suggestion that the projected changes in the labor supply would increase opportunity for unemployed workers:
If changes in incentives lead some workers to reduce the amount of hours they want to work or to leave the labor force altogether, many unemployed workers will be available to take those jobs--so the effect on overall employment of reductions in labor supply will be greatly dampened.
Right-wing media have persistently sidestepped the facts in order to attack health care reform, preferring instead to push myths and phony scandals to argue for its repeal.
Following an announcement that House Republican leaders will unveil a set of "principles" for guiding debate on immigration reform, conservative media urged Republicans to reject these and any attempts to pass immigration reform legislation this year. This is the latest in a series of conservative media attacks against the immigration reform effort that began in 2013.
If you are a woman, you no longer have the same rights you had 41 years ago.
January 22 is the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, in which the court ruled that women have a constitutional right to choose to have an abortion.
But in the intervening decades, that right has largely disappeared, a process helped by media outlets that have misinformed on these safe and legal health procedures.
Thanks to Supreme Court rulings that came after Roe, states are now free to regulate and restrict abortion so long as new laws do not impose an "undue burden" on a woman's right to choose. But state legislatures are currently testing what qualifies as an undue burden, and in 2013 alone 70 different anti-choice restrictions were adopted in 22 states across the U.S. In fact, according to the Guttmacher Institute, more abortion restrictions have been enacted in the past three years than in the entire previous decade.
In December, Ian Millhiser and Tara Culp-Ressler published a thoughtful piece about this process at ThinkProgress headlined, "The Greatest Trick The Supreme Court Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World Roe v. Wade Still Exists." They argued that while a woman's right to choose an abortion is still ostensibly covered by the constitution, the reality is that right is increasingly restricted to just wealthy women who happen to live in (or are able to travel to) one of the few states that will still permit them the opportunity to exercise that right.
This sustained attack on women's rights is fast becoming a key issue for politicians in the 2014 midterms. But the media have also played a sizeable role in this process, contributing to the vanishing power of Roe by allowing anti-choicers to control the conversation.
Bloomberg columnist and National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru picked up the repeatedly debunked right-wing media myth that President Barack Obama is "court-packing" because Senate Democrats are trying to hold up-or-down votes on nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In addition to the fact that filling vacant seats is not actually "pack[ing] the court," the term used to describe FDR's failed attempt to add more seats to the Supreme Court, Ponnuru includes a variety of discredited falsehoods in his column as reasons why Republicans should continue to block Obama's judicial nominees, regardless of their stellar qualifications and bipartisan endorsements.
From his November 12 Bloomberg column:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he intends to force a vote this week on the nomination of Cornelia Pillard to the court. Pillard's is one of three nominations Republicans are opposing. They say the Democrats are trying to pack the court. The Democrats say they're just trying to fill vacancies, and argue that the Republicans' behavior is so abusive they'll restrict the filibuster if it continues.
Republicans should remember what happened the last time we had such a fight, and they shouldn't give in.
Starting in 2003, the Democratic minority embarked on an unprecedented series of filibusters to stop President George W. Bush's appointments to appeals courts. Back then, Republicans said there was a crisis of judicial vacancies needing to be filled. Democrats replied that the courts, especially the D.C. Circuit, were underworked and that the Republicans were trying to pack the courts with like-minded judges. Now the sides are reversed, and so are the talking points.
As it happens, the Republicans have the better of the current argument. They aren't conducting a "blockade" that violates past norms. President Barack Obama's nominees are getting confirmed at a faster pace than Bush's were at the same point in his presidency. One of Obama's nominees, Sri Srinivasan, was unanimously confirmed in May.
And the D.C. Circuit now has even less work than it did when Democrats were blocking nominees. Merrick Garland, the court's chief judge and an appointee of President Bill Clinton, informed the Senate that the number of oral arguments per active judge has fallen over the past decade. So have the number of written decisions issued and appeals taken. Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, says that one judge on the circuit wrote to him to argue that "there wouldn't be enough work to go around" if more were appointed. Grassley has introduced a bill that would shrink the circuit by three seats, and urges the administration to fill vacancies in other circuits.
I'll let you in on a little secret: Nobody on either side of this debate actually cares about how big the circuit's caseload is. What they care about is the court's ideological balance.
Ponnuru goes on to assert that the D.C. Circuit "is actually balanced between Democratic and Republican appointees." This is not the first time right-wing media have trotted out faulty math to to try and argue that the D.C. Circuit is somehow ideologically balanced -- but it just isn't true. In fact, there are six judges on the court who have taken "senior status," a form of quasi-retirement that allows those judges to hear panel cases. Of the six judges who have taken senior status, five are Republican appointees. Far from being "balanced" ideologically, conservative justices outnumber their more liberal counterparts 9 to 5.
There's a growing movement of journalists and pundits who are rooting for the Republican-led impasse over government funding to result in a shutdown of government services. "I'm rooting for a shutdown and you should be too," writes Joshua Green in the Boston Globe. "Shut down the government!" cheers Todd Purdum in Politico. It's not that these writers are actually keen on causing economic disruption: they see it as the only recourse available to correcting the Republican political nihilism that keeps bringing us to the brink of crisis.
It's hard to begrudge them for what seems so cavalier a position -- we may have reached the point of political toxicity that drastic measures of this sort are the only remaining curatives. What is bothersome is the habit of conservative pundits who enable this political dynamic by recognizing the role people like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are playing in it, but brushing that aside and praising Cruz for exploiting it to achieve mundane, short-term political goals.
After Cruz's 21-hour non-filibuster in support of defunding Obamacare, there was widespread agreement on the left and (much of) the right that Cruz had done little beyond raising his own profile and raising the likelihood that the government would have to shut down.
Writing in Politico, National Review's Rich Lowry marveled at Cruz's speech: "After talking the talk, Ted Cruz wins." Lowry knows that Cruz's policy goals are unattainable ("farfetched to the point of absurdity") and that his politics are causing chaos in Congress at a time when it really needs to get work done, but he views that as secondary to Cruz's accomplishment of riling up conservative base voters:
The Cruz eye-rollers had plenty of occasions to roll their eyes -- perhaps no senator has caused so many colleagues to mutter under their breaths in his first eight months in the world's greatest deliberative body -- but the conservative grass roots stood up and cheered. They are desperate for gumption and imagination and, above all, fight, and Cruz delivered all three during his long, bleary-eyed hours holding forth on C-SPAN2.
We're on the precipice of shutdown because the Republicans can't get their act together, and Cruz's tactics are causing further disarray, and Cruz gets a cookie for making a small slice of the American electorate feel good about themselves?
National Review editor Rich Lowry declared that the civil rights dream of the 1960s has been "won," and thus assertions of ongoing discrimination are "imagined slights and manufactured controversies," a claim that dismisses the current reality of economic inequality and voting rights struggles.
August 28 marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, an event dedicated to calling for civil and economic rights for African-Americans. It was there in 1963 that Dr. King delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech, and the events helped bring about enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. For the anniversary celebration, tens of thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to hear President Obama and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) - a speaker at the 1963 march - give remarks.
In a Politico op-ed the next day, National Review editor Rich Lowry used the anniversary celebration as a vehicle to criticize today's civil rights movement as "an intellectually exhausted disgrace" with leaders who are a "degeneration" to the original effort. This is because, according to Lowry, Dr. King's dream "was a glorious triumph" and the fight for equal rights "is won," while today's movement "subsists largely on imagined slights and manufactured controversies unrelated to the welfare of real people."
As evidence of these "manufactured controversies," Lowry mocked the notion that recent voter ID laws are discriminatory and declared: "What the contemporary civil rights establishment can't bring itself to acknowledge is that cultural breakdown has more to do with the struggles of blacks than any officially sanctioned discrimination." He also ignored the continuing problem of economic inequality between whites and African-Americans.
Lowry's dismissal of the discriminatory nature of voter ID laws is illustrative of falsehoods he's pushed in the past. At least 11 percent of American citizens do not possess a government issued photo ID, and the percentage of African-Americans without a photo ID is even higher - one study estimated the number at 25 percent. Even if a state purports to issue an ID for "free," there are costs associated with obtaining one that amount to a poll tax. As the Brennan Center for Justice determined, voter ID laws "create more burdens for minority citizens."
National Review has published numerous articles this week marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s seminal "I have a dream" speech. Given its ugly history, the long-running conservative magazine is ill-suited for such transparent attempts to re-appropriate the civil rights movement. National Review opposed major civil rights legislation and published appallingly racist commentary during the height of the civil rights movement.
In an editorial published this morning, the editors of National Review invoke the March on Washington in order to attack the "decrepitude of today's civil-rights movement" and label the original civil rights movement "in a crucial sense conservative" because "it did not seek to invent rights, but to secure ones that the government already respected in principle."
In a nod to the magazine's own shameful history, the editors concede that "too many conservatives and libertarians, including the editors of this magazine" missed what it sees as the centrally conservative and theological arguments underpinning the movement:
Too many conservatives and libertarians, including the editors of this magazine, missed all of this at the time. They worried about the effects of the civil-rights movement on federalism and limited government. Those principles weren't wrong, exactly; they were tragically misapplied, given the moral and historical context. It is a mark of the success of King's movement that almost all Americans can now see its necessity.
It's commendable that the editors are acknowledging the magazine's role in opposing important facets of the civil rights movement. Nonetheless, claiming that National Review "worried about the effects of the civil-rights movement on federalism and limited government" glosses over the odious nature of some of the magazine's writing from the 50s and 60s, when that publication stood athwart history yelling stop as King and his allies fought to end a brutal regime of racial segregation and voter disenfranchisement.
After recent reports that the Syrian government may have used chemical weapons against civilians, media figures have begun to push for U.S. military intervention in the region. But senior military leaders say that engagement could produce a negative long-term outcome.
Last month, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detailed possible downsides to U.S. military involvement in Syria in a letter to Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI). In addition to possible collateral damage to civilians and the loss of U.S. aircraft, Dempsey notes that a poorly planned military incursion "could inadvertently empower extremists or unleash the very chemical weapons we seek to control." Additionally, Dempsey noted that military options could cost taxpayers between $500 million to $1 billion per month.


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South Dakota residents Lisa Lockhart and Nikki Steffes are in fourth and fifth place, respectively, in the barrel racing event at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nev., through seven go-rounds.
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Figure 2: Continuing on the wrong track – adding instructions.
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Retail loss prevention is a set of practices employed by retail companies to preserve profit. Profit preservation is any business activity specifically designed to reduce preventable losses. A preventable loss is any business cost caused by deliberate or inadvertent human actions, colloquially known as "shrinkage".[1] Deliberate human actions that cause loss to a retail company can be theft, fraud, vandalism, waste, abuse, or misconduct. Inadvertent human actions attributable to loss are purely poorly executed business processes, where employees fail to follow existing policies or procedures - or cases in which business polices and procedures are lacking. Loss prevention is mainly found within the retail sector but also can be found within other business environments.
Since retail loss prevention is geared towards the elimination of preventable loss[2] and the bulk of preventable loss in retail is caused by deliberate human activity, traditional approaches to retail loss prevention have been through visible security measures matched with technology such as CCTV and electronic sensor barriers. Most companies take this traditional approach by either having their own in house loss prevention team or they use external security agencies. Charles A. Sennewald and John H. Christman state "Four elements are necessary for a successful loss prevention plan: 1) Total support from top management, 2) A positive employee attitude, 3) Maximum use of all available resources, 4) A system which establishes both responsibility and accountability for loss prevention through evaluations that are consistent and progressive.".[3]
The development of electronic article surveillance (a magnetic device attached to the merchandise that would trigger an alarm if removed from the store, also called EAS) led to an increase in arrests; however, many cases have been dismissed due to lack of observation of the crime.[4] A later effort, called "benefit denial" by Read Hayes, was intended to reduce the incentives for people to take the items by destroying the usefulness of items that were improperly removed from stores through the use of measures such as exploding dye packs.[1]
Internal loss[edit]
Internal loss, as with other forms of shrinkage, can be classified as either "malicious" and "non-malicious".
Malicious internal loss is shrinkage caused by individuals from within the business such as staff members and cleaning staff and anyone else involved internally in the company. Internal shrink accounted for 35 percent of shrink to businesses in 2011.[5] Internal shrink is caused by methods such as staff members stealing products, cashiers not ringing sales through the tills and keeping the payment for themselves, package pilferage, staff selling products to friends and family at discounted prices, "sweethearting" by giving products for free to friends and family by staff, colluding with maintenance staff or external contractors to steal products, and under-ringing merchandise on the tills for friends or family so they end up paying less for the items. Internal theft traditionally causes more loss to a business than external theft due to the increased opportunity available to internal staff members. "A well-informed security superintendent of a nationwide chain of retail stores has estimated that it takes between forty and fifty shoplifting incidents to equal the annual loss caused by one dishonest individual inside an organization."[6]
Non-malicious shrinkage can result from a number of operational failures within the business structure. The processing of returned and/or damaged stock, for example, can cause articles to be removed from inventory and discarded (which contributes directly to shrinkage) rather than sold at a discount, donated, returned to vendors for credit, or otherwise removed from inventory in a manner that minimizes financial loss.
Civil recovery[edit]
The image of retail loss prevention has become linked with the controversial practice of civil recovery.
In the United States, laws were enacted in the 1970s allowing merchants to be awarded damages from those who removed merchandise without paying. Some say[who?] this law then began the development of departments that focused on retail loss prevention.[1] In more modern times, merchants expanded "recovery" to include larger monetary damage awards. The controversy surrounds large retailers suing thieves in civil court for up to ten times the replacement cost of the merchandise stolen. These recovery amounts, argued by merchants, are for the costs associated with the detection, prevention and prosecution of theft.[citation needed] In most cases, these recovery claims are secured voluntarily, in conjunction with criminal charges. Judges like to see a penitent thief repaying merchants for their crimes. The accused as it is more likely that people caught for stealing would voluntarily pay these claims rather than endure them appearing on their credit report as judgments.[7]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Charles A. Sennewald; John H. Christman (2008). Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-12-370529-7.
- ^ Retail Security and Loss Prevention Solutions By Alan Greggo, Millie Kresevic, 2011, Taylor & Francis pp. 228
- ^ Charles A. Sennewald and John H. Christman (2008). Retail crime, security and loss prevention. Oxford: Butterworth / Heinemann. 302
- ^ Donald J. Horan. The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security.
- ^ Centre for Retail Research, 2011. The Global Retail Theft Barometer 2011, Newark, Centre for Retail Research
- ^ Lawrence J. Fennelly (1999). Handbook of loss prevention and crime prevention. 3rd ed. Woburn: Butterworth / Heinemann. 55
- ^ Alan White (3 October 2012). "The £15m scandal our libel laws are silencing". New Statesman (London).
Further reading[edit]
- Rudolph C. Kimiecik; Chris Thomas (2005). Loss Prevention in the Retail Business. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72321-9.
- Read Hayes (2007). Retail Security and Loss Prevention (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-00681-2.
- Philip Purpura (2007). Security and Loss Prevention: An Introduction (5th ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-12-372525-7.
- Alan Greggo; Millie Kresevich (2009). Retail Loss Prevention: Problems and Solutions. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-9006-2.


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Osteology and evolutionary relationships of the Sternoptychidae, with a new classification of stomiatoid families. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 153, article 3
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"New primarily osteological evidence was collected for a reinterpretation of the phylogenetic interrelationships of the teleost fish suborder Stomiatoidei, especially the nominal families Sternoptychidae and Gonostomatidae. Basic differences were found dividing the suborder into two sister groups (proposed as new infraorders), the Gonostomata and the Photichthya. Evidence indicates that the Gonostomata consists of two sister-group families, the Gonostomatidae with six of the 20 genera formerly assigned to this family and the Sternoptychidae including seven genera formerly considered as maurolicin gonostomatids and the three hatchetfish genera, which previously constituted the Sternoptychidae. A hypothesis concerning the phylogenetic interrelationships of the 10 sternoptychid genera is proposed. The genera Thorophos and Araiophos are closely related and proposed as a sister group of the remaining eight genera. The relationships of Maurolicus are unclear, but apparently it forms a sister group of the remaining seven genera. Danaphos and Valenciennellus are closely related and form a sister group of the remaining five genera. Argyripnus and Sonoda form a sister group of the three hatchetfish genera, Polyipnus, Argyropelecus, and Sternoptyx. Argyropelecus and Sternoptyx form a sister group of Polyipnus. Of all the genera, Thorophos is the most primitive, Sternoptyx the most advanced. Evidence was also found demonstrating that the Photichthya consists of two sister groups (proposed as new superfamilies), the Photichthyoidea and the Stomiatoidea. The Photichthyoidea contains one family, the Photichthyidae, including seven of the genera formerly ascribed to the Gonostomatidae. The Stomiatoidea were not investigated in detail at the family or generic level, but it was found that the interrelationships, validity, and contents of the currently accepted families are questionable"--P. 331.
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Watch 'The Fault In Our Stars' live stream concert event with Ed Sheeran and more
"The Fault In Our Stars" won't be hitting theaters until June 6, but fans can get an early taste at the spirit of the movie with May 14's live concert event. 20th Century Fox is live streaming the concert, which means fans from all over the world can tune in.
The live stream will feature musical performances by Ed Sheeran, Grouplove and Charli XCX, which takes place at YouTube Space LA. The cast and creators of the film will be there as well, as Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, John Green and Nat Wolff are hosting a special Q&A.
The concert event kicks off at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT in the above video. "The Fault In Our Stars" will be released on June 6.
Photo/Video credit: 20th Century Fox


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By ALEX HOLLOWAY
Some of the Starkville Community Theatre's youngest performers will take to the stage this week.
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MABEN – Young and old fans alike were present at W.O. Shivers Park in Maben on Saturday to honor one of their own.
Former Mississippi State and East Webster High School football player Johnthan Banks was recognized with a special day all his own "Johnthan Banks Day."
By KAITLYN BYRNE
Although hunting and fishing certainly gathered much attention at Mississippi's inaugural WhiteTails Unlimited banquet on Saturday, the true focus was on the community.
OMAHA, Neb. – Hunter Renfroe hadn't hit one out of the ballpark in over a month.
That all changed on Friday.
OMAHA, Neb. – When Jonathan Holder enters a ballgame, Mississippi State fans feel a good bit better.
In his two seasons with the Bulldogs, the closer has been saving ballgames left and right.
On Friday, the sophomore right hander reached another milestone.
The Mississippi Bashers closed out Class A pool play of the United States Speciality Sports Association 11-Under State Tournament with a come-from-behind victory.
After taking a 9-2 lead with six runs in the second inning, the Bashers saw the Majors rally for nine runs in the third inning to gain a 11-9 advantage.
By STEVEN NALLEY
Mississippi State University is one step closer to adding two new sorority houses to its campus after the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees approved exterior designs for the houses at its meeting Thursday in Jackson.
Mississippi State University announced Thursday that it has opened the new four-lane Technology Boulevard at the Thad Cochran Research Park, and with it, more than 40 acres of additional land and utility infrastructure for new economic development.
While many summer camps focus on campfires and sing-alongs, Healthier You Summer Camp will offer kindergarten through eighth-grade campers life lessons on finances, health and etiquette July 15-19.
By MARY GARRISON


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We should note here that the Corvette team is at a disadvantage during refueling. Due to the poorer fuel mileage of the environmentally friendly cellulosic E85 used in the C6.R, it takes more fuel to cover the same distance as a car running on gasoline. The ALMS has attempted to address this disparity by allowing E85-fueled cars like the Corvette to carry 110 liters of fuel, as opposed to the mandated 90 liters for gas cars. However, the refueling rigs used by the Corvette team (and mandated by the ALMS) are incapable of dispensing 110 liters of E85 as quickly as the other teams can deliver 90 liters of gas. The result is that it takes the Corvette team longer to accomplish a complete refueling procedure. And since ALMS rules dictate that the crew cannot touch the car for a tire change until refueling is complete, the Corvettes' pit stops are effectively legislated to be longer. This unfair advantage allowed the Risi Ferrari to take over the class lead during the first pit session at Mosport.
Other than that, the cars picked up where they left off, circulating the Canadian circuit in tight formation. Though Beretta was finally able to pass Ferrari driver Pierre Kaffer, he couldn't put any meaningful distance between the two cars. Magnussen, meanwhile, was trying to figure out how to put his Corvette back into the mix. Mosport offers some pretty quick twists and bends, along with a back straight amenable to extended applications of full throttle. So while there are plenty of opportunities to pass, the problem is finding a logical place to do it without pushing another car off the track. Magnussen could only be patient and wait for an opening.
Because the ALMS field is made up of three different classes of cars, constant passing is the rule of the day. At one point, the No. 37 LMP1 prototype came up on the dueling pair of Kaffer and Beretta and passed them both. Unfortunately the move pushed Beretta off the racing line and into the "marbles" (spent rubber piled up on the outside of the racing surface), causing him to lose traction and skid off course. This bobble gave Kaffer a perfect opening to regain the lead, with Magnussen tucking in right behind him.
Coming in for the last pit stop, the Corvette only needed about 10 liters of fuel, allowing for an abbreviated refueling exercise. This allowed the Dan Binks-led crew to get Magnussen back out ahead of the Ferrari. Kaffer, trying to take advantage of his car's warm tires, tried hard to pass Magnussen, who was defending on cold rubber. Magnussen prevailed in a side-by-side, fender-rubbing Turn 3 struggle and squeaked out ahead of the Risi car.
The race fell to the checkers with Magnussen prevailing despite a few last-lap lunges by the Ferrari. Kaffer took Second, while Beretta filled out the podium with a well-driven-albeit slightly disappointing-Third. The Corvettes also picked up the Green Challenge win for the cars completing the most laps, at the fastest pace, while delivering the smallest carbon footprint.
As Magnussen crossed the finish line, the Corvette team erupted into joyous celebration at its first victory in GT2. The cars ran flawlessly, the drivers couldn't have piloted a better race, and the crews gave a command performance. Next up is Petit Le Mans-just the type of endurance battle the GM team has been training for-and winning at-for 10 years. Now that the rest of the GT2 field knows what to expect from the new Corvettes, things should be even more exciting.-GPJ


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Block Out Heat With Window Film And Open Envelope For Tampa Electric TECO Window Tinting Rebate
TECO Continues Energy Rebate Program Throughout 2014
Okay….the film looks awesome! That's quite obvious.
But what makes Huper so "super" and how does it almost pay for itself?
Huper Optik wins for many reasons:
- Hands down the most dynamic selection of films for every situation
- Ability to reject up to 80% of solar energy entering windows which dramatically reduces a/c load
- Monthly electric bills are lowered by 30% or more while views remain pristine
- 99.9% UV ultra-violet rejection protects occupants and furnishing from harmful radiation
- Offers the only true nano-ceramic films that outperforms traditional films lacking Huper's advanced German technology
- With no reflectivity, Huper is acceptable in deed restricted communities
- Huper Optik's films are not made with the dyes or metals found in traditional films so there's no degradation over time
The bay window on the left was untreated and the intensity of heat and eye-squinting glare was making it difficult, if not impossible for this room to be occupied during peak sun times of the day. We applied Huper Optik Sech on two of the three panels in this beautiful glass area and already the difference could be seen….and felt.
Huper Optik's patented nano-ceramic films offer unsurpassed durability without compromising views with the highest ratios of increased energy efficiency. This places them in a totally different class than traditional window films. As the #1 company window tinting Tampa, High Impact Glass Solutions has experienced such amazing results with our Huper Optik installations.
The only reflection you get from Huper Optik films is in your lower monthly energy costs. And our Huper Opik films also earn our clients a $2.00 per square foot TECO energy rebate on all windows we film that face east and west. Talk about a great return on one's investment. Between lower electric bills, prolonging the life of a/c systems, and being rewarded with handsome energy rebates, it is absolutely true that Huper Opik window films nearly pay for themselves over time.
Now you see why Huper is so "super" and saves you money!
Call us for a complimentary demonstration of Huper Optik on your windows and experience the Huper Optik difference!
Date: 10/23/2014
Categories: Commercial Window Tinting, Energy Rebates, Huper Optik USA, Residential Window Tinting, TECO Rebates


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Photo by Lisa Hubbard
YIELD: Makes 16
ACTIVE TIME: 20 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 50 minutes
Line baking sheet with foil. Using fingertips, mix sugar and citrus peels in small bowl until sugar is moist. Stir chocolate in small bowl set over saucepan of barely simmering water until melted and smooth. Remove from over water.
Holding 1 strawberry by stem end, dip 2/3 of berry into chocolate; shake excess back into bowl. Turn berry dipped end up and sprinkle with citrus sugar. Place on prepared sheet. Repeat with remaining berries, chocolate, and sugar. Chill until chocolate sets, about 30 minutes.
Per serving (1 dipped strawberry): 74.78 kcal calories, 46.1 % calories from fat, 3.83 g fat, 2.25 g saturated fat, 2.25 mg cholesterol, 9.66 g carbohydrates, 0.55 g dietary fiber, 8.88 g total sugars, 9.11 g net carbohydrates, 0.93 g protein
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit


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The horrific stories coming out of Syria one year after the events started to unfold spell civil war just a couple of hours drive from Tel-Aviv. Reporters claim Bashar Al-Assad's loyalists are massacring rebels, army defectors and even women and children. The regime of Al-Assad had even prevented the Red Cross from entering and providing humanitarian aid to the people of Homs.
No one should be surprised after witnessing what was called "The Arab Spring" in Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia & Yemen. No one should be surprised by the lack of inhibitions by the Al-Assad regime, an Alawite based regime, a minority in its nation, that will stop at nothing to preserve power. That is not unique to the Arab world but is reserved to all tyrants trying to hold on to the slipping power.
A couple of weeks ago Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama met in Washington and both attended the AIPAC conference. The main issue of their meeting and of the conference was a nuclear Iran.
The truth is Syria is actually a bigger concern to Israel. The Al-Assad regime will not be in power for much longer, the stability in this neighboring country is not likely be achieved for a while and the people who would take power are likely to take a more extremist line towards the west and Israel. Contrary to Iran, Syria is sharing a border with Israel and can easily become another Lebanon-Hezbollah like regime, government made.
Battalions of Israel advocators are sent into battle to explain & advocate Israels position, its security treats and its dealings with the Palestinians & why Israel's army is the must humane in the world. All the while we are still occupying the West Bank & controlling Gaza as behind the fence and safeguard roads for settlers in the West Bank that Palestinians are not allowed to drive on.
But this is a losing battle, as the world in the 21st century is not responsive to policy such as that. There is no way to advocate for pro-occupation in an age of new media, when everyone can collect real-time information by pressing a button. While trying to advocate for settlements & against a nuclear Iran we are missing a big chance.
The citizens of our neighboring Syria are under attack by their own regime. People are dying, starving, freezing and scared. Yes, even the winter is tougher than usual. People are in need of help, now. Israel's government can do a lot of good and gain an unprecedented amount of international credit by trying to help the people of its neighboring country.
Israel can turn to the Arab league of nations, to global relief agencies and offer any help necessary. It can offer the relief agencies to use Israel as a base of operation, it can open its border and allow refugees to seek shelter in the Golan Heights until calmer times. It can even consider a bold move of dropping food assistance in Syria while protecting its planes with our incredible air force fighters. If we can drop bombs there safely and come back, we can probably drop food supplies as well.
Acts like that are not only acts of a compassionate nation amongst nations, it can be a hand reaching out for peace to the Arab world. It can be an act of strength and showing we are a part of this neighborhood, of the Middle east, we are here to stay and we can also be helpful. It can also be the greatest advocacy act possible. Greater than all the advocacy ministries, diplomats, reps, organizations and advertising funds.
If the Israel will be sincere in its intentions, even if these offers of assistance are rejected, we can honestly say we tried to do the right thing and help. Although these deeds can serve as advocacy tools, they should be done as a part of Jewish moral standards. "Veahavta Le'reacha Kamocha", "Tikun Olam", being "Or lagoim" or "lo taamod al dam reeach"("Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbors), you choose the source you want to refer to. If Israel wants to show how great it is, and it is great, it needs to show it with actions that are in line with the current global value system, but actually are based on thousands of years of Jewish tradition.


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Mrs. Mildred E. Fitts, 87, formerly of 79 W. Johnson St., Washington, N.J., died Friday in Forest Manor Nursing Home, Hope, N.J. She was the widow of Lester Cole Fitts.
Born in Washington, she was a daughter of the late Garner and Rose (Barber) Cole.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, Washington.
Survivors: Daughter, Brenda Widenor of Washington, and two grandchildren.


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Heres My bike with all my gear on it . I coulda went to south american with all I carried.
Yellow bag carried my sleeping bag and a fleece and misc stuff for night time
Blue bag help my camp pad (Im not sure Ill bring it anymore) I always slide off it anyway)
Pannier on left carried food and water
Pannier on right held tent fabric and jacket liner, and small coffe pot with the stove inside
Box on back held tent poles,cloths,snacks,Spare tube,mini 12 volt air pump and hygiene products,Spare batteries charger and flashlight,
Tank pannier on the left held rain gear and the right side held bottle of water, bug spray and ? .
Tool tube on side of bike held the tools
Front tube strapped to front of bike.
Heres the camp site
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My view out the tent in the AM . Im making coffee
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