By passing new fiduciary rules covering retirement accounts, the Obama administration is once again over-reaching while creating purposely vague rules inviting litigation and not providing any real value to investors. This is nothing more than wanting additional power and control.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433974/fiduciary-rule-obama-administration-power-grab

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433969/religious-liberty-tennessee-counselor-therapist-protections-hate

Full disclosure: I never liked Springsteen when he was just a musician, before he was an obnoxious leftist fraud, becoming a multi-multi-millionaire with all his working-class hero crap. I find his music inartful and his guitar-playing ham-handed at best. I never got the adulation. Now that he has become a SJW there is even less to like.

I love it when leftists go bonkers over things like this. Do they even read the bills, or are they just stupid? Hate, discrimination, bigotry, that’s all they can think of. Never mind that what NC had to codify is the law in most states. The risks to women and children if “gender neutrality” becomes the law of the land is well documented, but apparently old Brucey doesn’t care about that. I can only imagine the liability issues here as well if someone were to be assaulted in a gender-neutral facility.

https://stream.org/open-letter-bruce-springsteen-band/

Oh, it’s already happening:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/11/university-of-toronto-learns-why-mandatory-unisex-bathrooms-are-a-bad-idea/

Exit question: why do most/all of the SJW’s fighting for this seem to be men? Where are the women wanting to use men’s facilities?

The parallels between a fallen empire and a fading one:

http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2016/03/28/for-america-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-is-the-best-case-scenario-n2139579

The latest far-left cause de jour is equal access for LGBT people to the bathroom and locker facilities that they “identify” with. See Charlotte, NC. This is dangerously anti-women and anti-children and simply absurd. Notice that nobody is talking about people who are genetically women using men’s facilities, only men using women’s. This is where the obvious danger is but the left is too blinded by ideology to see. As I have said before, in the hierarchy of grievances LGBT trumps women almost every time.

“When he (Rahman) said Allah enjoined all Muslims to wage jihad until Islamic law was established throughout the world, the scriptures backed him up.

When he said Islam directed Muslims not to take Jews and Christians as their friends, the scriptures backed him up.

You could counter that there are other ways of construing the scriptures. You could contend that these exhortations to violence and hatred should be “contextualized”—i.e., that they were only meant for their time and place in the seventh century.  Again, I would caution that there are compelling arguments against this manner of interpreting Islamic scripture. The point, however, is that what you’d be arguing is an interpretation.

The fact that there are multiple ways of construing Islam hardly makes the Blind Sheikh’s literal construction wrong. The blunt fact of the matter is that, in this contest of competing interpretations, it is the jihadists who seem to be making sense because they have the words of scripture on their side—it is the others who seem to be dancing on the head of a pin. For our present purposes, however, the fact is that the Blind Sheikh’s summons to jihad was rooted in a coherent interpretation of Islamic doctrine. He was not perverting Islam—he was, if anything, shining a light on the need to reform it.”

Quite disturbing, to anyone with a brain:

http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/islam-facts-or-dreams/?utm_campaign=imprimis&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27422141&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Y7YdrXMqZjRuRfb_l6-7zuIBBwL7jz2HnCoT3jnkAgoK5gZbM3jNTpmHZGdGR6irm26sP4OVbyslsbbxQK7ceiFHRFQ&_hsmi=27422141

The fact is that radical Islam is a backward, medieval, and at times brutal belief system that needs to dramatically reform or be eradicated, and it is time that the liberal west woke up to that.

A fantastic video that everyone under 30 (including grade school kids) should be required to watch:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/21/video-remember-americas-first-experiment-with-socialism/

To leftist elites (Dems) and the left-wing media complex, leftists violence and unrest is good. But similar unrest coming from the right (Trump) is bad.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432831/donald-trump-political-violence-the-left-double-standard

Interesting comparison. I disagree, however, that Trump has done irreparable damage to the GOP given how feckless and incompetent the Republican establishment is. The establishment needs to go away. I agree that Trump is not the best choice, but many on our side feel they have no choice right now. A new national Republican Party is needed. Interestingly, I can make the case that the GOP at the state and local levels has never been stronger.