The Impeachment Inquiry “Witness” List

The Impeachment Inquiry “Witness” List

The people on this list are powerful and influential in their roles. They operate with a great deal of autonomy and are loyal to the Ambassador Core. Presidents and Secretary of States come and go. However, they are the permanent structure of U.S. Foreign Policy. What one does not do to powerful and influential people is make them appear or disrupt their power and influence. Trump did exactly that.

Some on this list were openly hostile about the actions taken in the Ukraine and spoke with that tenor. They all claimed to be unbiased, but immediately contradicted themselves during the hearings!

William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr., (born September 14, 1947) is an American diplomat, government official, former soldier, and, as of November 2019, the acting United States ambassador to Ukraine.

George P. Kent is an American diplomat serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs since September 4, 2018.

Marie Louise "Masha" Yovanovitch is an American diplomat and member of the senior ranks of the United States Foreign Service.

Jennifer Williams is an American United States Department of State official who has served as a special advisor to U.S. vice president Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs

Alexander Semyon Vindman is a United States Army lieutenant colonel who serves as the Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC).

Kurt Douglas Volker is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO.

Timothy Aaron Morrison is an American Republican political adviser. He was briefly the top U.S. adviser to President Trump on Russia and Europe.

Gordon David Sondland is an American diplomat and businessperson. He is the United States Ambassador to the European Union.

Laura Katherine Cooper is an American civil servant. She is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and a career member of the Senior Executive Service.

David Maclain Hale is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer, currently serving as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Fiona Hill  is a British-born American foreign affairs specialist. She is a former official at the National Security Council specializing in Soviet, Russian, and European affairs.

The Top 7 Ways Liberals Are Making War on Women

The Top 7 Ways Liberals Are Making War on Women

One of the weirdest accusations that liberals have made in the last few years is that there’s a conservative “war on women.” So apparently, women like Condi Rice, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Dana Loesch, S.E. Cupp and Nikki Haley are making war on themselves. Who knew?

If anybody is “waging a war on women,” it’s liberals. Of course, in the midst of their war on capitalism, Christianity, the military and the Constitution, it’s understandable that people may not have noticed how hateful liberals have become towards women who don’t share their views, but it’s not hard to see if you’re looking.

1) Disarming women: Unless you happen to be Ronda Rousey or some other female mixed martial arts fighter, a woman is not going to be able to stand up to a man in a fight. The average criminal man can rape, beat or slowly squeeze the life out of the average woman at will in a hand-to-hand fight. On the other hand, no matter how strong the man is, he’s not as dangerous as a trained woman with a gun. That’s why the best friend robbers, rapists and violent thugs have are, liberals who want to forcibly disarm law abiding women.

2) Infanticide: More than 25 million female babies have been killed via abortion. That’s more human beings than the Nazis killed during the Holocaust. Liberals have become so cynical about the mounds of human bodies their polices leave in their wake that they almost universally supported Planned Parenthood even after we found out that organization was literally selling the parts of the children they ripped to pieces.

3) They denigrate stay-at-home moms: As a general rule, conservative are fine with a woman staying home and taking care of the kids or having a career. On the other hand, liberals look down on women who choose to stay home and raise their children. They have the same attitude as liberal congressman Kyrsten Sinema who has said,: “These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they’re choosing to live that life. That’s bull****. I mean, what the f*** are we really talking about here?”

4) They’re pressuring the military to add women to the draft: It’s bad enough that our young men have to sign up for the draft in case there’s a national emergency, but why do liberals want to send 18 year old girls into a potentially violent situation overseas? To prove some kind of dumb point about equality or to spread that false that women are just as good at the sort of violent confrontations that go along with war as men have turned out to be?

5) Liberals are okay with even the vilest behavior towards non-liberal women: If you’re a liberal politician like Bill Clinton or a Hollywood director like Roman Polanski, liberals will even excuse a rape on your behalf. Ted Kennedy was loved by liberals even though he left a woman to drown to death and didn’t bother to get help until she was gone. Just in the last few days, rapper Azealia Banks called for Sarah Palin to be gang raped by black men. The price she’ll pay for that amongst liberals is zero because they are perfectly fine with the most disgusting, loathsome, violent and misogynistic threats being aimed at women they don’t like.

6) Their economic policies are horrible for women: As Stephen Moore has noted; Obama’s liberal policies have been disastrous for women.

During Mr. Obama’s six and a half years in office women have suffered steeper declines in take home pay than men have. Women have also experienced sharper declines in employment and a faster rise in poverty. The financial squeeze has been especially severe for single women.

...On Mr. Obama’s watch, 2 million more women have slipped into poverty. Wait a minute. This is supposed to be an economic recovery. The poverty rate among women is now 16.1 percent — the highest level in 20 years

...It’s well known that labor force participation has fallen to its lowest level since 1978. What’s lesser known is that the biggest decline in employment has been among women. The female labor force participation rate is now 56.4 percent, the lowest in more than 25 years.

Of course, the liberal solutions to their economic policies that have been so bad for women are even more liberal policies. Try the free market and less government for a change. It helps everybody including, women.

7) They want to force women to share their bathrooms with men: Who in their right mind thinks an 8 year old girl should be using the bathroom next to a grown man who “feels like a woman?” How do you say you care about women when you want to force them to undress next to some guy wearing a sundress? It’s ridiculous and it’s potentially dangerous because it gives perverts and sexual predators a free pass to use the women’s bathroom.

The true black tragedy

The true black tragedy

By Walter E. Williams

Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today’s black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black history. Let’s look at some of it.

Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black families were two-parent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.

Today’s black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75 percent is also entirely new. In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14 percent. It had risen to 25 percent by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action” and was widely condemned as a racist. By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56 percent, and it has been growing since. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.

Much of today’s pathology seen among many blacks is an outgrowth of the welfare state that has made self-destructive behavior less costly for the individual. Having children without the benefit of marriage is less burdensome if the mother receives housing subsidies, welfare payments and food stamps. Plus, the social stigma associated with unwed motherhood has vanished. Femaleheaded households, whether black or white, are a ticket for dependency and all of its associated problems. Ignored in all discussions is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.

Black youth unemployment in some cities is over 50 percent. But high black youth unemployment is also new. In 1948, the unemployment rate for black teens was slightly less than that of their white counterparts – 9.4 percent compared with 10.2. During that same period, black youths were either just as active in the labor force or more so than white youths. Since the 1960s, both the labor force participation rate and the employment rate of black youths have fallen to what they are today. Why? Are employers more racially discriminatory today than yesteryear? Were black youths of yesteryear more skilled than whites of yesteryear? The answer to both questions is a big fat no.

The minimum wage law and other labor regulations have cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Put yourself in the place of an employer, and ask: If I must pay $7.25 an hour – plus mandated fringes, such as Social Security and workers’ compensation – would it pay me to hire a worker who is so unfortunate as to possess skills that enable him to produce only $5 worth of value per hour? Most employers view that as a losing economic proposition. Thus, the minimum wage law discriminates against the employment of low-skilled workers, who are most often youths – particularly black youths.

The little bit of money a teenager can earn through after-school, weekend and summer employment is not nearly so important as the other things he gains from early work experiences. He acquires skills and develops good work habits, such as being prompt, following orders and respecting supervisors. In addition, there are the self-respect and pride that a youngster gains from being financially semiindependent. All of these gains from early work experiences are important for any teen but are even more important for black teens. If black teens are going to learn anything that will make them a more valuable employee in the future, they aren’t going to learn it from their rotten schools, their dysfunctional families or their crime-ridden neighborhoods. They must learn it on the job.

The bulk of today’s problems for many blacks are a result of politicians and civil rights organizations using government in the name of helping blacks when in fact they are serving the purposes of powerful interest groups.

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The Jobs scandal that no one is paying attention to: At Least 27 Million Americans 'Underemployed'

The Jobs scandal that no one is paying attention to: At Least 27 Million Americans 'Underemployed'

While unemployment numbers are of great concern, the greater concern is the number of underemployed Americans. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the underemployment rate in 2012 was 14.7 percent, amounting to 23.1 million people.

Underemployed Americans include those who are officially considered unemployed, plus involuntary part-time workers and "marginally attached" workers — those who have not looked for work within the last four weeks but have sought a job within the last year and are available for employment.

About 2.5 million people were marginally attached workers last year, and 8.1 million were involuntary part-time workers.

As troubling as that may be, the actual figures are likely much worse, according to a report by Wendell Cox for NewGeography.com.

For instance, Gallup estimated that the nation's underemployment rate stood at 17.4 percent in August, meaning that there are more than 27 million underemployed workers.  Also, economists at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity have estimated that 48 percent of college graduates who are employed hold jobs that do not require a college degree. These are not included in the underemployment figures. If they were, the underemployment rate would soar.

Nevada had the highest underemployment rate during the year ending on June 30, 19 percent, followed by California with 18.3 percent. The lowest rates were in North Dakota at 6.2 percent and South Dakota, 7.8 percent.

"The productivity gap that results from underemployment constrains the U.S. economy at a time of unusually severe financial challenges," observes Cox, visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the author of "War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life."

"College graduates face not only a grim employment market, but have student loan repayments that require good jobs," he adds.  "Yet things could get worse. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has a built-in incentive for employers to shift workers to part-time status" or to hire part-time workers to avoid the mandate to provide health insurance to full-time workers.

White Collar Recession

Just as the once-stable ranks of white-color and professional workers benefited from the economy, their wobbly foundation now works against it, according to employment experts.
When the U.S. labor market finally starts adding more jobs than it loses, we may find that some of our old jobs don’t exist anymore.
The economy lost over seven million jobs since the downturn started two years ago. The jobless rate is averaging around 8%, according to the Labor Department. The recession is reshaping the labor market. While some lost jobs will come back, others are gone forever.

• Many jobs created by the housing and credit market booms have likely been permanently erased. Tremendous amount of economic activity was associated with housing. It was considered a very unhealthy part of the economy. Unhealthy, but a boon for men without a college education. It is unlikely to come back any time soon.
• Manufacturing sector lost every third job or six million over the last 12 years. Though it gained some jobs last year due to improvement in construction.With 1.6 million jobs lost during the last two years, the construction sector has accounted for more than a fifth of the jobs lost since the recession began.
• The recession also gave companies an opportunity to cut jobs no longer as critical as they once were. For example, advances in information technologies have made the secretaries and mailroom clerks less necessary and reduced the number of administrative workers by 10+ percent since the recession began.

In other areas, the recession accelerated job losses that were probably coming in any case. This is due to the popularity of new technologies such as mp3, Internet, and digital photography:

• 36% fewer people working in record shops than two years earlier, according to the Labor Department.
• 23% fewer people working at directory and mailing list publishers
• 46% fewer at photofinishing establishments
• Also the financial sector may no longer offer as many high-paying jobs as it has in the past. It was estimated that its share of the economy was 20% larger than it should have been. Since the start of the recession it has already lost 6.6 percent of its work force.

Before 1990s job losses were essentially temporary and used to rebound quickly after recessions. Employers let workers go with the implicit expectation that they would be hiring them back once the downturn was over. In recent years, jobs have been much slower to recover.
New technologies and competition from low-wage countries like China and India made more job losses permanent. Now it takes more time for new jobs to be created and for workers to acquire the skills needed to do them.
In any case the permanent loss of jobs may keep the labor market from fully recovering for a long time to come.
Finding work (not just looking for a job) is going to require a complete transformation of what you do and how you do it to find work.