(Video) White House press sec'y claimed in January payments to Iran NOT a coincidence

Watch as White House press secretary Josh "No-So" Earnest claim in January that the $400 million sent to Iran as our four hostages were being released is not a ransom payment.

Now the White House is telling a different story.

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Ransom payment: Obama sent $400 million in cash to Iran as 4 hostages were released

No free speech at DePaul: College cancels appearance by conservative

DePaul University's Student Center

Three months ago Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to cut short his address at Chicago's DePaul University because Black Lives Matter radicals and other leftists stormed the stage Milo, who also goes by Nero, was speaking.

It was an anti-conservative riot.

All but admitting that it can't restrain its leftist students, the nominally Catholic college, which has been an anti-free speech zone for more than a decade, gave another conservative the heave-ho.

From Fox News:

Conservative writer Ben Shapiro lashed out after DePaul University canceled a proposed speaking appearance, telling Fox News on Monday the school seemed to suggest it couldn't control its own angry students.

DePaul was the latest university to try nixing one of his speaking gigs. In December, officials at Cal State LA moved to cancel an event featuring Shapiro after some students reportedly compared it to an "underground KKK meeting." Shapiro wound up appearing anyway, sparking protests.

In a post that appeared on Shapiro's blog Monday, DePaul's Young Americans for Freedom chapter explained it invited the pundit to speak when the university stepped in.

DePaul Vice President of Facilities Operations Bob Janis wrote to the chapter in an email, "Given the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time."

Here's an idea: Instead, why not peacefully protest Shapiro outside? Or ignore him?

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From my post at Da Tech Guy:

• Totalitarianism on the rise and free speech under attack at DePaul

Ransom payment: Obama sent $400 million in cash to Iran as 4 hostages were released

Barack Obama  once called Republican leaders "hostage takers" during a budget dispute.

But Obama rewards Iranian hostage takers.

It will be interesting to see if the mainstream media pursues this story with the same vigor as it has with the Muslim dad and crying baby Trump attacks.

From the Wall Street Journal:

The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.

Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.

The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.

If rewarding genuine hostage takers represents the America you like, then vote for Hillary Clinton in Novemver. If you prefer a strong America that doesn't cower to radical regimes, then Donald Trump is your candidate.

One of the four hostages had been a captor of Iran for eight years. Of course, if the amateurs who negotiated the deeply flawed nuclear deal had any smarts the release of these hostages should have occurred before any talks began.

Longtime state senator Obama not qualified to be president

Today Barack Obama said that Donald Trump, who runs a real estate empire, is not qualified to be president, calling him "unfit."

Let's look at Obama. Prior to being a US senator, Obama was a state senator for eight years--a part time job. During that time Illinois unfunded pension debacle quietly festered. Where was Obama? From 2005 until 2007 Obama was the senator with the least seniority representing the minority party. When the Dems gained control of the Senate in 2007, Obama began his presidential run and performed essentially no work as a senator.

Yet Dear Leader was still elected president.

For the past seven-and-half years Obama has governed with a philosophy that is far to the left of where most Americans are. His signature achievement, ObamaCare, is something the president should be ashamed of--the promised $2,500 premium savings per family were an Obama lie, as was his vow that Americans would be able to keep the same health care plan they had prior to the enactment of ObamaCare, as was his promise that Americans would be able to keep their own doctor.

The Islamic State caliphate didn't exist when George W. Bush was commander-in-chief.

Barack Obama is not qualified to be president.

Trump Autumn is coming.

Only in ILL-inois: State college layoffs will be very expensive

Illinois law needs to be changed to municipalities, government agencies, and public universities can declare bankruptcy. Over burdened taxpayers can no longer afford such largess in regards to lucrative layoff packages.

Here is another only in ILL-nois story courtesy of the Chicago Tribune:

Facing an unprecedented budget crisis, Chicago State University has laid off nearly 400 employees since the beginning of the year — an astounding 40 percent of staff at a school that serves mostly minority and low-income students from the city.

The mass layoffs, unusual in higher education, came with a cost: $2.2 million, the bulk of it in severance pay mandated by a long-standing school policy that requires up to a year's notice of being terminated or a payout for the time. It's a policy common at Illinois public universities but generous compared with what is provided by most schools in other states.

Chicago State spent nearly $1.6 million on severance for about 50 administrators who were provided lump-sum payments in June equal to the salaries they would have received if they had not been terminated. The university spent another $650,000 to pay out unused vacation time for about 130 administrators and civil service employees. It was a significant sum considering the university had only $7.3 million in cash at the end of April, according to records obtained by the Tribune.

The university, however, provided no severance to the 10 faculty members laid off last month, saying a provision in the faculty contract that would have required a year's notice did not apply because the school has declared financial exigency.

Donald Trump is right. The system is rigged against taxpayers. Especially in Illinois.

I have a better suggestion for CSU as you will read below.

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Close it down now: Chicago State may lose accreditation because of funding issues

Illinois ObamaCare insurer asking for premium hikes of up to 45 percent

Barack Obama said ObamaCare, which is formally known as the Affordable Care Act, would bring down the coast of health insurance by $2,500 annually.

Obama lied. Again.

But the mainstream media, Obama and Hillary Clinton's protectors, want you to talk about Donald Trump and the Muslim captain's family instead.

From AP:

Health insurance premiums for Illinois residents who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act's marketplace could increase by as much as 45 percent according to proposals submitted by insurers and made public Monday.

The leading insurer on Illinois’ exchange, Blue Cross Blue Shield, is proposing increases for 2017 ranging from 23 percent to 45 percent for individual health care plans, according to proposals posted by Healthcare.gov. Another insurer, Coventry Health Care of Illinois, proposed rate increases as high as 21 percent.

Chiraq: Deadliest July in 10 years

Sixty-five people were murdered in Chicago last month--making it the deadliest July in ten years there. So far there have been 400 murders in the city in 2016--490 were slain last last year.

And yes, the Obama family will not be returning to Chicago when the president's term expires in January.

(CNN video) Chalian: Hillary's trustworthiness among voters is "a very ingrained deficiency"

Earlier today on CNN's David Chalian said that the lack of trust among voters in regards to Hillary Clinton is "a very ingrained deficiency."

In short, voters won't be trusting her ever.

(Video) Clinton campaign mgr ripped by Morning Joe panel over Hillary's latest email lie

Yesterday Hillary Clinton lied on Fox News when she told Chris Wallace that she never sent classified emails over her flimsy private server.

Today the panel on Morning Joe excoriated her campaign manager, Robby Mook, over her the latest dishonesty from her boss.

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Chiraq: 7 dead and at least 44 wounded over weekend

Abandoned home in Austin

The final weekend of July was another bloody one in Chicago--seven people were murdered at least 44 others were wounded. All of the murders took place on either the South or West Sides, including two in the Austin neighborhood.

There were 65 homicides in Chiraq last month. While that is fewer than the totals for May and June, murders are up 44 percent in 2016 over last year.