DOCUMENTS: ‘HILLARY CLINTON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM’ TRANSFORMED INTO NURSING SCHOOL

A former Clinton fundraiser committed $6 million dollars to the founding of the Hillary Clinton School of Journalism, made under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation — but the project was renamed”Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School” with no explanation a few years later.

Members of the Clinton Global Initiative are asked to make specific “commitments to action” around the world. In 2007, a charity run by former Clinton fundraiser and InfoUSA CEO Vinod Gupta committed to create a school of journalism named after Hillary Clinton in rural India. An explanation of the purpose of the school reads, “This program is expected to have a direct impact upon the lives of approximately 500 students graduating every year from the institute. The goal is to overcome the rural bias against educating young females.”

According to a description on the Clinton Global Initiative website, the journalism school commitment was for $6,000,000 over two years. Much of the money appears to have been directed toward the construction of a new building. A progress update from September 2007 reads, “Phase I of building construction started and targeted to be completed by July 31, 2008.”

A 2011 archive of the Vinod Gupta Charitable Foundation website shows the “Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Mass Communication” as one of the facilities being funded by the charity. However, later in 2011 the same building appears under the new heading, “Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School.” No explanation of the transition from school of mass communication to school of nursing is offered.

The Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School has its own website and is continuing to enroll students.

According to the site the school features up-to-date classrooms, a laboratory, a well-stocked library and a residence designed to host up to 200 students including a kitchen and dining hall. 

Here’s the class of 2013-2014:

Via: Breitbart

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The First 100 Days: Your GOP-led Congress

During the 2014 election, our Republican candidates presented solid, sensible solutions — to create jobs, strengthen the economy, gain energy independence, end the Washington gridlock and restore government accountability.

Now 100 days in, the new GOP-led Congress is delivering on these promises. As noted by USA Today, the first three months of the 114th Congress have seen significant bipartisan accomplishments.

For the first time in six years under Obama, both the House and the Senate passed a budget that BALANCES.

The GOP-led Congress also accomplished a feat rarely seen in Washington: passing the first real reform to strengthen Medicare in nearly two decades.

More than that, GOP leaders successfully passed reforms that will begin addressing the problems at the VA, fight the tragedy of human trafficking and protect hardworking taxpayers from government abuse and overreach. Just yesterday, the committee investigating Benghazi uncovered thousands of new pages of documentsdespite Democrats’ claims that there were no more questions to answer and no more information to uncover.

Finally, Congress listened to the 2/3 of Americans who support building the Keystone XL pipeline to boost American energy and job creation. Unlike Harry Reid’s Senate, the new Congress did its job and sent legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline to the president's desk. 

Unfortunately, Obama chose to ignore the American people, cave to environment extremists, and veto the bill. And now it looks like Hillary Clinton is cozying up to the same people, like billionaire fundraiser Tom Steyer.

While Obama and the Democrats will continue to do everything they can to stand in our way, Republicans will continue to work to move America in the right direction. To do that, we need your input to help set our priorities for the next 100 days and beyond.

Let us know what Congress should tackle next. Take the GOP Leadership Survey.

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White House Blames “AWOL” Republicans In Congress For Islamic State Seizing Ramadi…

Because nothing is Obama’s fault… ever.

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Los Angeles poised to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour

Following the lead of other west coast cities, the Los Angeles city council appears ready to raise the minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 an hour by 2020.
LA Times:

Workers are currently supposed to earn at least the California state minimum wage of $9 an hour, which will rise to $10 an hour in January. Under a plan endorsed by a key panel of City Council members last week, Los Angeles would increase its required wage year-by-year to reach a minimum of $15 hourly by July 2020 

Small businesses -- those with 25 workers or fewer -- would get an additional year to phase in the increases. Nonprofits that meet certain requirements could ask permission to do the same.
Under the plan, the wage requirements would continue to rise automatically every year starting in July 2022, based on the average increase in the consumer price index over the previous two decades. 

The wage proposal would hike pay more slowly than some activists wanted. But leaders in the Raise the Wage Coalition nonetheless heralded it last week as a sound plan to improve the standard of living for low-income workers and their families.

Via: American Thinker

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White House Says ISIS Strategy Is A SUCCESS!!??

The Right Scoop

I’m not sure how more insane the White House response can get to the news that the key city of Ramadi has fallen to ISIS.

Via: Fox News

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Chelsea’s difficult personality chasing out Clinton Foundation staffers, sources reveal

Chelsea’s chasing them out!

Sources near the Clinton Foundation are divulging inside secrets and attributing the organization’s high turnover rate to Chelsea Clinton’s difficult personality.

“A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there,” a source told The New York Post’s Page Six.

“She is very difficult.”

Chelsea reportedly manipulates  top staffers like pieces on a checker board, prompting many to quit in disgust.

Previous CEO Bruce Lindsey was pushed to the position of chairman of the board two years ago so Chelsea could bring in an old colleague, Eric Braverman, according to the Post.

But even that didn’t last long.

“[Braverman] was her boy, but he tried to hire his own communications professional and actually tried to run the place,” an insider told the Post.

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“He didn’t understand that that wasn’t what he was supposed to be doing. He was pushed out.

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Chelsea has embraced living high-on-the-hog as a corporate CEO and employs a personal staff almost as big as her father’s, according to the Post.

Chelsea who once commanded a $600,000 per year salary from NBC for doing virtually nothing, was apparently no easier to work with while working there, and co-workers allegedly called her “unapproachable.”

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“If someone wanted to talk to Chelsea about something, they had to go through a producer,” an NBC source told the Post.

According to the Post, the high turnover rate at the Clinton Foundation also includes Matt McKenna, Chelsea’s ex-spokesman, and Ginny Ehrlich, founding CEO of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, who now works for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Amidst growing scandals revolving around allegations that the Clinton Foundation has become a giant slush fund for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea, foundation loyalists are disheartened.

“The operational planning has gone downhill,” a source told the Post.

“It’s sad to see what’s happening.”

Via: BIZPAC Review
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House GOPers demand IRS investigate Clinton Foundation

House Republicans on Tuesday demanded the IRS open an investigation into the Clinton Foundation’s tax-exempt status, questioning whether the organization has broken faith with its charitable mission by hiding some donations.

The foundation, associated with former President Bill Clinton, his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, has been in the news as Mrs. Clinton’s campaign ramps up.

Foundation officials have admitted they made an “error” in inaccurately reporting certain types of grants, and have had to correct their filings.

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“Media reports containing specific allegations have cast a cloud over the Clinton Foundation and call into question whether it is acting within the scope of its charitable mission for which it was originally granted tax-exempt status,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, who led the letter, signed by 51 other House lawmakers.

The letter was to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, and accused the foundation of using “the cloak of philanthropy” to facilitate major business deals for Clinton pals — including during the time Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state in the Obama administration.

The Clinton Foundation didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Via: Washington Times
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NURTURED BY CLINTON NETWORK, O'MALLEY NOW BECOMES 2016 RIVAL

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, Bill Clinton spotted a political star in the making, someone he predicted would go from a big-city mayor to a national leader - maybe even to the White House. "I won't be surprised if you go all the way," Clinton wrote in a 2002 letter to Baltimore's mayor, Martin O'Malley.

In the years that followed, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton showed up time and again as their young ally gained stature as governor of Maryland, hosting fundraisers, headlining rallies and connecting him to their sprawling network of political donors.

Now, O'Malley is just days away from walking down the path Clinton laid out for him more than a decade ago, as he prepares to announce his presidential campaign in Baltimore on May 30. And that means transforming himself from one of Hillary Clinton's most loyal supporters into her chief adversary for the Democratic nomination.

"It's certainly been a long and friendly relationship," said Steve Kearney, a former O'Malley aide. "Times change. He clearly thought she was the best candidate in 2008. We'll find out whether that remains true today."

Via: AP

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31M Left Underinsured by High Healthcare Costs: Report

Roughly one-quarter of people with health insurance are paying deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses that are so high they are considered underinsured, a new study has found.

The 2014 national health insurance survey by the Commonwealth Fund estimates that 31 million insured people are not sufficiently protected against high healthcare costs, a figure that has doubled since 2003, The Hill reported. 

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The report said that rising deductibles is the biggest problem for those considered underinsured, even with the advent of Obamacare.

"The steady growth in the proliferation and size of deductibles threatens to increase underinsurance in the years ahead," the report warns, according to The Hill.

The survey also found that people who purchase the lowest quality health coverage are also less likely to see a doctor when sick or injured because they fear high out-of-pocket costs.

"People who have high deductibles do tend to skimp on healthcare," the study's lead author, Sara Collins, told reporters, according to The Hill.

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According to the report, half of underinsured adults and 41 percent of privately insured adults with deductibles of at least $1,000 had medical bills totaling $4,000 or more. 

Via: Newsmax

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Dem. Congressman With Millions in Legal Bills Demands Pay Raise

Alcee Hastings / AP

     

BY: Lachlan Markay
May 19, 2015 3:50 pm

A Democratic congressman who still owes millions of dollars in legal bills racked up while fighting corruption allegations said on Monday that members of Congress need a raise in order to cope with the District of  A Democratic congressman who still owes millions of dollars in legal bills racked up while fighting corruption allegations said on Monday that members of Congress need a raise in order to cope with the District of Columbia’s rising cost of living.

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) said at a Monday Rules Committee hearing that members of Congress, who make an average of $174,000 per year, “aren’t being paid properly.”

“Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution,” he said.

Observers scoffed at the comments, saying congressional pay and benefits are quite generous.

“Aside from access to subsidized travel, gym memberships, haircuts, and the like, congressmen have a retirement plan which averages about $40,000 a year for retired members,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog.

The average D.C. resident makes just under $60,000 per year, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Unlike most D.C. residents, members of Congress “have an automatic cost-of-living raise each year unless there is a vote to decline the raise,” Boehm noted.

Hastings is far from wealthy: he has the second-lowest net worth of any member of Congress. However, his own financial troubles may have less to do with the cost of living in D.C. than the exorbitant legal fees he amassed since the 1980s.

According to his most recent personal financial disclosures, Hastings is as much as $7.5 million in debt. With the exception of a 2009 mortgage on which he owes up to $250,000, all of those debts are legal fees stemming from decades-old corruption charges.

Via: WFB

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CNN Panel Explodes over Media Calling Baltimore Rioters ‘Thugs,’ but Not Waco Bikers

A CNN panel earlier this afternoon really went off over the media referring to the Baltimore rioters as “thugs,” but avoiding that label in talking about the Waco biker gangs. Charles Blow and Sally Kohn agreed there’s a big double standard, while ex-NYPD detective Harry Houck said the comparison’s tremendously unfair.

Blow said it’s not just about white people, since President Obama and the mayor of Baltimore used the t-word to describe the rioters, but about “a culture that looks at blackness and says it sounds like a certain thing.”

Kohn added that no one ever notes the race of white shooters or talks about a “whiteness” problem when it comes to certain acts of violence.

Houck rejected the comparison and said that of course the bikers are thugs. As for the term itself, he said that he mean[s] ‘bad guy’ when I use the word,” and the reason it’s ascribed more to blacks is because it was embraced by the rap community. Blow told him he was way off on that one.

The second segment involved a lot more crosstalk and shouting, as Houck scolded Kohn and Blow for their “talking points” and them insisting there’s a serious problem with the pathologizing of the black community. Houck just told them to “quit looking at the past” and coming up with “excuses

Via: Mediaite

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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary hides from reporters with SECOND secret party of the day as her security forces race across Iowa at 95 MPH to dodge pursuing journalists

For reporters trying to cover the opening months of Hillary Rodham Clinton's second presidential campaign, Waterloo, Iowa might be her Waterloo.

On Monday night the Clinton camp held a private campaign party at the home of a wealthy pharmacist in the central Iowa town – a longtime Democratic Party figure – and Daily Mail Online was the only media outlet to make it to the address.

Other press outlets can't be faulted, however: Clinton's aides kept the existence of the party a secret, leaving it off of the schedule circulated to reporters who cover her events in a rotating 'pool.'

Daily Mail Online only found the location after trailing the candidate's motorcade at a distance for an 85 miles trek, at speeds reaching 95 mph.

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SCENE OF THE DODGE: Hillary Clinton's motorcade cruised from Mason City, Iowa to Waterloo, Iowa at speeds topping 95 MPH, arriving at a secret party hosted by Bob and Cheryl Greenwood in their palatial home

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Bob Greenwood, pictured with his wife Cheryl, is a pharmacist who unsuccessfully ran for the Iowa state legislature in 2012 and served three terms on the Waterloo, Iowa city council. The Greenwoods hosted a Monday night party for Hillary Clinton that was hidden from reporters

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IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES: Clinton laughed with local campaign organizer Sara Marino at an earlier campaign stop, the only Monday event that the campaign told journalists about

Clinton's motorcade arrived at the 5,000-square-foot Waterloo home of Bob and Cheryl Greenwood at 6:30 pm, with five escort vehicles accompanying her maroon minivan.

The ordinary Chrysler rental was a surprising stand-in for Scooby, the black custom conversion van that had previously ferried Hillary through Iowa and New Hampshire.

The Greenwoods' neighbors were expecting traffic in their upscale cul-de-sac subdivision. 

'This has been in the works for weeks,' one elderly attendee said as she walked down Muirfield Street. 'We've been counting the days.'

She followed two middle school-age children at a distance up the tree-swept street. They carried copies of books for Clinton to autograph.

It's a scene that might have done Clinton a world of good to have preserved on video: cars lining up on a neighbor's lawn like a summer concert parking lot, kids in their Sunday Best on a Monday and locals arriving with 'Hillary 2016' buttons already pinned and stickers neatly pressed on.

A middle-aged woman said as she left and walked toward a nearby church parking lot that there were 'about 75 people' inside. 'We had a blast. A grand time,' she crowed. 'You should have seen it!' 

Almost no one did. The press corps wasn't welcome.

Hillary's motorcade hits 95 mph to get to dinner party on time

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MAROON SCOOBY, UNLOADED: Clinton and her entourage bedded down for the night at the Hilton Garden Inn in Waterloo, Iowa, racing to the back entrance so the candidate could sneak in without interacting with hotel guests

An earlier afternoon event in Mason City, Iowa, managed to attract a swarm of photographers and cable news correspondents who grabbed images of the arriving motorcade even though the location was a tightly held secret.

'Hillary will attend a grassroots-organizing event at a Mason City home,' the campaign's press schedule read, noting its location only as 'Mason City, IA.'

It was the only item on Clinton's agenda – officially. Reporters shouted questions as Clinton left, but she acknowledged no one.

In Waterloo, they didn't have the chance to be actively ignored. 

'It's maddening,' a print journalist who was in Mason City for Monday's earlier event said in the evening, asking to remain anonymous for the sake of her career.

Via: Daily Mail

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