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December 2014
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Tuesday,
December 9, 2014 |
Beware of 2015 health insurance individual mandate penalty
The Obamacare law imposes a penalty on individuals who fail to have so-called minimum essential health insurance coverage for any month. This requirement is commonly called the individual mandate, and the penalty is the cost of noncompliance with the mandate. The bad news is the penalty can be considerably more expensive in 2015. If you are like me and had your health insurance cancelled (again), you must obtain coverage quickly to avoid getting socked with the penalty in 2015. Here’s what you need to know. Read more Health Care News... |
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Monday,
December 8, 2014 |
State lawmakers launch gun control coalition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State lawmakers have launched a nationwide non-partisan coalition to combat gun violence, in part because the Congress has failed to reform gun laws, members of the group said on Monday. Some 200 lawmakers from 50 states have joined the alliance, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, said the group's founder, Democratic New York State Assembly member Brian Kavanagh. Read more Gun Control news... |
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Monday,
December 8, 2014 |
California's Worst Drought Ever Is 1st Taste of Future
The drought now plaguing California is the worst to parch the central and southern parts of the state in the last 1,200 years, a new study finds. The 2012 to 2014 drought's lack of rain isn't remarkable on its own, according to tree-ring records reported in the study. There have been three-year periods when less rain and snow fell. But the current drought comes at a time of extreme heat. Record-high temperatures exacerbated the drought, creating the driest soil conditions since the 9th century, according to the study, published Dec. 3 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Precipitation is not the whole story for California drought," said lead study author Daniel Griffin, a tree-ring researcher at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. "When we factor in temperature, this drought really stands out as an extreme and unprecedented case for the past 1,200 years." [The 5 Worst Droughts in US History] Learn more about the California drought... |
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Sunday,
December 7, 2014 |
Exclusive: House GOP Leaders Trick 216 House Republicans into Accidentally Supporting Obama's Executive Amnesty
In a lengthy interview on Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposed how House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise strengthened President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty with procedural trickery former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber would envy—and they did it all in the name of pushing a bill that they told Republicans would block Obama’s executive amnesty. |
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Wednesday,
December 3, 2014 |
Ted Cruz’s Tough Message to House Republicans
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday called on House Republicans to pass a spending bill that defunds President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, and said failure to do so would be a failure of the GOP to live up to its campaign promises to fight Obama’s plan. “What I’m here urging my fellow Republicans to do is very, very simple,” Cruz said. “Do what you said you would do.” Learn more about Immigration... |
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Wednesday,
December 3, 2014 |
Utah to seize own land from government, challenge federal dominance of Western states
In three weeks, Utah intends to seize control of 31.2 million acres of its own land now under the control of the federal government. At least, that’s the plan. In an unprecedented challenge to federal dominance of Western state lands, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert in 2012 signed the “Transfer of Public Lands Act,” which demands that Washington relinquish its hold on the land, which represents more than half of the state’s 54.3 million acres, by Dec. 31. So far, however, the federal government hasn’t given any indication that it plans to cooperate. Still, state Rep. Ken Ivory, who sponsored the legislation, isn’t deterred. |
November 2014
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Monday,
November 24, 2014 |
White House threatens to put brakes on alternative fuels
California Gov. Jerry Brown is among several prominent politicians in the West who have personally appealed to the administration to drop the rollback plan championed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked the president to stop the EPA from proceeding, warning in a letter last month that the plan destabilizes state efforts to combat climate change and creates "loopholes for oil companies" to avoid reducing pollution. But the administration is balancing a robust agenda to fight climate change with an alternative fuels program hobbled by setbacks and the messy politics of ethanol. Read more... Learn more about Climate Change... |
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Sunday,
November 23, 2014 |
Immigration move roils Nevada
President Obama's executive actions on immigration threw gasoline on the fire of border politics — and nowhere is it burning hotter than in Nevada, where incoming Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is gearing up for a tough reelection. Obama chose the Silver State, which has proportionately more illegal immigrants than anywhere else in the country, to begin a tour aimed at winning support for his decision to stop deportations for as many as 5 million people. His first shout-out in a Friday speech at a heavily Hispanic Las Vegas high school went to Reid, who has been emphasizing his support for immigration reform in general and the president’s decision in particular, while at the same time eying a potential challenge from popular Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R).The election might be Reid’s toughest, especially if Sandoval is the opponent. Reid’s approval ratings are underwater, hovering in the low 40s in the few recent polls of Nevada. His best hope of winning reelection is to galvanize the state’s rapidly growing populations of Hispanics and Asian Americans. Immigration reform presents him with his best chance to do so. More... Read more Immigration News... |
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Sunday,
November 23, 2014 |
Sharyl Attkisson serves up proof WH tried to manipulate media and ‘fix Fox’; perjury for Holder?
Given a few more days to peruse the thousands of pages of newly released documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal, former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson said she has uncovered attempts by the Obama administration to manipulate news coverage. |
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Saturday,
November 22, 2014 |
This Sheriff Tells Obama Exactly What He Thinks About His Illegal Executive Amnesty
Barack Obama’s address on Thursday has brought a plethora of responses from various political pundits, including yours truly. Sheriffs from across the country preemptively determined to gather together on December 10 to urge representatives to stand against Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional disregard for the law. However, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott R. Jones had some straight forward words for Obama concerning what he thinks of Obama’s criminal actions to ignore the law and fail to secure the border while helping those who are violating the law. Specifically, Jones pointed to one of his deputies who was killed by an illegal alien. |
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Friday,
November 21, 2014 |
Pesky Fact Checks: Obama’s Statement On Illegal Immigration
OBAMA: “It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive – only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you.” THE FACTS: He’s saying, and doing, more than that. The changes also will make those covered eligible for work permits, allowing them to be employed in the country legally and compete with citizens and legal residents for better-paying jobs. |
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Friday,
November 21, 2014 |
Jeb Bush Not Backing Down on Common Core
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a potential 2016 Republican presidential contender, is doubling down on his support for the Common Core education standards, despite the objections of many conservatives. “In my view, the rigor of the Common Core State Standards must be the new minimum in classrooms,” Bush said Thursday in the keynote speech at the National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, the Washington Times reported. |
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Thursday,
November 20, 2014 |
In a 2,200-word speech, he didn't mention "work permits" or "work authorization" even once. Pres. Obama's huge prime-time TV speech about his big fix of the "broken immigration system" somehow left out the fact that he would be rewarding millions of unlawfully present foreign citizens with three-year work permits to compete directly with struggling American workers.
He hid the most consequential part of his big immigration "deal" from the American people. The President made it seem like the big change was that he was going to stop deporting illegal aliens who don't have a big felony record. But officials already have acknowledged that the average illegal alien has almost no chance of being deported, anyway. |
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Thursday,
November 20, 2014 |
Sheriff Joe Arpaio sues Obama over immigration executive order
(Washington, D.C., November 20, 2014) Today, in response to the executive order President Barack Obama has signed effectively granting amnesty to about a half of the illegal aliens currently in this country, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona filed a lawsuit to enjoin this unconstitutional act. This lawsuit can be found at www.freedomwatchusa.org. Sheriff Arpaio’s lawyer is Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, former federal prosecutor and founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. Mr. Klayman recently succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction against the National Security Agency for having unconstitutionally accessed the telephonic metadata of nearly all American citizens. See Klayman v. Obama, et al (Civil Action No. 13-cv-851), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Visit the "Immigration" page to learn more... |
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Monday,
November 17, 2014 |
High court allows delta water contracts to be challenged
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed environmentalists to challenge the government’s renewal of 41 long-term contracts for irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, in a lawsuit seeking greater protection for the endangered delta smelt. Water districts had asked the justices to review a ruling in April by a federal appeals court in San Francisco. That ruling reinstated a suit by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups claiming the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should have consulted with government biologists before renewing contracts with farms and water districts for as long as 40 years. The justices denied the districts’ request on Monday. The Bureau of Reclamation first granted long-term contracts in 1964 for water from the Sacramento River and the Delta-Mendota Canal. When the contracts came up for renewal in 2004, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists said the deliveries would not jeopardize the delta smelt, a 3-inch fish whose numbers are considered an indicator of the estuary’s health. The biologists re-examined the issue in 2008 and reached the opposite conclusion. The environmental groups argued that the Bureau of Reclamation should have consulted the scientists, regardless of their changing views, before renewing the irrigation contracts in 2004-05. Read more... Read more Water News... |
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Monday,
November 17, 2014 |
Obama in 2006: I've Stolen Ideas from Jonathan Gruber Liberally
President Obama dismissed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber yesterday as just some adviser who was never on his staff and with whom he doesn’t agree. In a 2006 speech, however, Obama said that he has stolen ideas liberally from Gruber. |
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Monday,
November 17, 2014 |
Another rude Obamacare surprise awaits
As the Affordable Care Act enters its second year of operability, a key and controversial element of the plan will begin to affect several million Americans for the first time. People who didn’t have health insurance during 2014 may soon have to pay a penalty fee that starts at $95 and goes up based on how much you earn. Some Americans know about the penalty, and they’ve budgeted for it or at least accepted its inevitability. But several million others could be in for a rude surprise when Washington assesses a fee they didn’t even know was coming. Learn more on the Health Care page... |
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Friday,
November 14, 2014 |
Your “Children Will Be Fined” If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare: People Are Going To Be In for A Shock
Free and affordable health care just gets better and better. In 2015 the government will be activating some new “incentives” embedded in the Affordable Care Act in an effort to get more people to sign up. But, as is often the case when the government says one thing, they mean exactly the opposite. In this case, when they say incentive what they really mean is that you are going to be penalized if you fail to acquire government mandated health insurance. But not just you. Your children, who apparently no longer belong to you anyway based on a recent court ruling, will be fined for your failure to get them on the insurance rolls. Learn more on the Health Care page... |
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Friday,
November 14, 2014 |
Climate Change: Science or Propaganda?
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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If this video and article don't make blood shoot from your eyes I don't know what will!
This video was just released about Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Obamacare..."Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage"..."stupidity of the American Voter"...“tortured way” the Affordable Care Act was written, in order for it to be approved by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 
Obamacare Architect Admits “Lack of Transparency is a Huge Political Advantage”
On Friday, a video of the original Architect for Obamacare revealing that in order for the Act to pass, it was written to appeal to the “stupidity of the American voter,” was released on YouTube by the group American Commitment. Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is under fire for comments he made on October 17, 2013, about the “tortured way” the Affordable Care Act was written, in order for it to be approved by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure that the CBO did not score the mandate as taxes,” said Gruber. “If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.” Gruber stated that in terms of “risk-rated subsidies,” if the law had been made to explicitly say that “healthy people pay in, and sick people get money,” then the law “would not have passed.”
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” said Gruber. “Call it the stupidity of the American voter, or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical in getting the thing to pass.“ Gruber said that although he wished they could “make it all transparent,” he would “rather have this law than not.”
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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The Angry GOP Backlash to Obama's Historic Climate Accord
The leaders of the incoming GOP Congress said the president had it out for the American energy consumer and vowed to stop his enhanced regulatory scheme come January. “This announcement is yet another sign that the president intends to double down on his job-crushing policies no matter how devastating the impact for America’s heartland and the country as a whole," House Speaker John Boehner said. "And it is the latest example of the president’s crusade against affordable, reliable energy that is already hurting jobs and squeezing middle-class families." For more information visit the Climate Change page... |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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Obamacare begins to unravel
Three things happened during the first 10 days of November that amount to a major downgrade in the prognosis for Obamacare. First, Republicans won a majority of seats in the Senate, giving them control of both houses of Congress. Second, the Obama administration sharply lowered its estimate for how many people will enroll in Obamacare in 2015. Third and probably most important, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a sleeper legal case that could have devastating consequences for Obamacare if the justices side with the plaintiffs. For more health care news go to the Health Care page... |
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Monday, November 2, 2014
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30,000 Indiana Residents To Lose Their Insurance Due To Obamacare [VIDEO]
Notifications have been sent out to 30,000 residents of Indiana informing them their health insurance plans no longer meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and will be cancelled at the end of this year. Indiana joins Virginia (the hardest hit with 250,000 cancellations), Kentucky, Colorado, North Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee and Maine, among the more than dozen states and the District of Columbia that are experiencing another round of health insurance cancellations this year. For more health care news go to the Health Care page. |
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Wednesday,
October 29, 2014 |
Non-citizen immigrants who voted in 2008 and 2010 may have swung elections
The professors, who provided glimpses of their findings in an article they authored for The Washington Post, said that data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study indicated more than 14 percent of non-citizens who took part in the CCES survey were registered to vote in 2008 and 2010. About 6 percent actually voted in 2008, and 2 percent did so in 2010, the professors said they estimated from the data. (Photo: LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 6: A woman enters a polling place in the heavily Latino East L.A. area during the U.S. presidential election on November 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. The election will decide whether Democrat Barack Obama serves a second term as president of the United States or is replaced by Republican rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) (2012 Getty Images)) |
October 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014
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‘Calibration issue’ pops up on Maryland voting machines
Published October 27, 2014watchdog.org Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland. “When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose — a Republican — but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” Donna Hamilton said. “This happened multiple times with multiple selections. Every time my choice flipped from Republican to Democrat. Sometimes it required four or five tries to get the ‘x’ to stay on my real selection,” the Frederick, Md., resident said last week. Queen Anne County Sheriff Gary Hofmann said he encountered the problem, too, personally. Learn more at Voting and Voter Fraud News. |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
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Chicago-area voting machine casts Republican candidate’s vote for Democratic foe
A Republican candidate for the Illinois state legislature was shocked to learn Monday that the vote he cast for himself at a Chicago-area library was erroneously cast for his Democratic opponent. “While early voting at the Schaumburg Public Library today, I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” Jim Moynihan said in a blog he linked to on Twitter. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.” Learn more at Voting and Voter Fraud News. |
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Monday,
October 20, 2014 |
Teacher Arrested: Fired Warning Shot At 9 Men Threatening To Gang Rape His Fiancee
Chris Harris is a Sunday School teacher (Ohio County, West Virginia) returning home from church on Sunday. On the way back home, he says nine men surrounded him and threatened to rape his fiancée, CC Roxby. They were looking for a fight. Both Chris and his fiancée called this experience the scariest moment of their lives. Feeling their lives were threatened, Chris used his concealed weapon to fire a warning shot. Police cruisers came by and arrested Chris for “wanton endangerment”. What about the gang of 9? Well, the police officers didn’t follow them. For more information visit "Gun Control News" page... |
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Wednesday,
October 8, 2014 |
Democrat Voters Confused: “I Didn’t Realize I Would Be The One Who Was Going to Pay For It Personally”
Back in 2008, when then-candidate Obama promised Joe the Plumber and the rest of America that he intended to spread the wealth around, most democrat and liberal voters embraced the notion of wealth redistribution under the guise of equality. A universal health care plan, that would be free for all Americans, was the promise from the candidate of hope and change. Tens of millions of Americans jumped on the bandwagon waving their flags, fainting at his appearances, and fawning over his every word. None ever thought about where the money would come from for all this new found wealth he promised to bestow upon them. But those who understand that socialism, communism and governance by the collective are failed experiments, warned where that money would come from. It would be taken by force from the toils of the middle class, and it’d impoverish them in the process. Now the myrmidons who once vehemently supported the policies of President Barack Obama without question are coming to the realization that when Obama spoke about spreading the wealth he actually meant their wealth too! |
September 2014
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Sunday, September 7, 2014
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What Happens When the Fed Stops Propping Up Stocks?
If you've followed the market and the economy over the last few years, you've probably got a rough understanding that the Federal Reserve is propping up stocks. Maybe you're not sure exactly how it works, but the idea is just sort of out there.Such is the benefit of holding short-term interest rates near 0 percent since 2008 and of growing the monetary base from $850 billion then to more than $4 trillion now. Technically, the Fed isn't directly helping the stock market. It's buying long-term government bonds and mortgage securities. But by lowering the cost of credit for corporations, it's helped dump trillions into stocks as CEOs have leveraged up their balance sheet by issuing debt cheaply and using that money to repurchase their own shares. The thing is, with the Fed's latest bond buying program on track to end next month and with corporations saddled with loads of debt, the dynamic is already slowing down. In other words, stocks are already starting to feel what it's like to lose the Fed's support. And it's set to get worse. Learn more at the Economy page... 
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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Study: The Lower Troposphere Has Not Warmed In The Last 26 Years
The nearly two-decade long pause in global warming may just be the tip of the iceberg for evidence against anthropogenic climate change. A new paper found that temperatures in the lower troposphere have not shown a warming trend in as many as 26 years. |
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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Justice Department: Texas voter ID discriminatory
Texas is the first test by the Justice Department to wring protections from a weaker Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court last year gutted the heart of the landmark 1965 civil rights law. A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the Obama administration in a trial that could threaten the polarizing law, although a decision isn't expected before the November election. |
August 2014
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
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How These Religious People Found a Way to Opt Out of Obamacare
The vice president of Samaritan Ministries, which provides health coverage for more than 37,000 families nationwide, said even though his organization applauds the decision, “it doesn’t have any effect on us.” Samaritan Ministries, and other health sharing groups like it, cater to a small-but-growing group of Americans who have chosen to opt out of the Affordable Care Act. Not only do these organizations ignore the contraception mandate, they also bypass nearly all the hallmark provisions of Obamacare. |
July 2014
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
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Federal appeals court deals blow to health law
The plaintiffs in the case argue the way the law was written does not allow for subsidies to be provided by the federal government, pointing to a statute that says subsidies should be issued to plans purchased "through an Exchange established by the State under Section 1311" of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1311 establishes the state-run exchanges. But plaintiffs say the law does not permit subsidies in federal exchanges, according to Section 1321 of the law. |
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Monday, July 21, 2014
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Gov. Rick Perry, shown over the weekend in Algona, Iowa, said Sunday that he would use his authority to send National Guard troops to the border if President Barack Obama won't. Photo By Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press
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Perry to send 1,000 Texas Guard troops to South Texas border
SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce Monday that he will activate up to 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley, state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, confirmed Sunday night. Perry wants these troops to bolster the work already being done with a surge of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, said Hinojosa's spokeswoman, Jennifer Saenz, who added that the governor gave the Valley legislative delegation notice before the planned 2 p.m. announcement on border security. Learn more at the Immigration page... |
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Friday,
July 11, 2014 |
Obama’s Law Professor: ‘I Wouldn’t Bet’ on Obamacare Surviving Next Legal Challenge
The IRS issued a regulation expanding the pool of enrollees who qualify for the subsidies. Opponents of the law, such as the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler, argue that the IRS does not have the authority to make that change. (Halbig v. Burwell, one of the lawsuits making this argument, is currently pending before the D.C. Circuit Court; the loser will likely appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.) For more health care news go to the Health Care page... |
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
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U.S. House Republicans to focus Obama lawsuit on Obamacare
(Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans said on Thursday they intend to make President Barack Obama's changes to his signature health insurance law the focus of a forthcoming lawsuit accusing him of overstepping his legal authorities. The House Rules Committee made public a "discussion draft" of legislation to authorize legal action against the president for misusing executive orders and other unilateral actions to advance his agenda. House Speaker John Boehner first announced plans for a House lawsuit against Obama late last month. For more health care news go to the Health Care page... |
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Wednesday, June 9, 2014
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Improper payments by federal government top $100B
WASHINGTON — Tax credits for families that don't qualify. Medicare payments for treatments that might not be necessary. Unemployment benefits for people who are secretly working. Federal agencies reported making $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them. Congressional investigators say the figure could be even higher. "The amounts here are absolutely staggering," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. "It's over $100 billion each of the last five years. That's a staggering half a trillion dollars in improper payments." |
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Wednesday, June 8, 2014
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"[T]hrough an Exchange established by the State under Section 1311." Alive and well, however, is a fresh and potentially far more damaging lawsuit — one that rivals 2012's challenge to the law's individual mandate in terms of its potential effect on Obamacare.
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Saturday, July 5,
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Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year
For years, computer simulations have predicted that sea ice should be disappearing from the Poles. Now, with the news that Antarctic sea-ice levels have hit new highs, comes yet another mishap to tarnish the credibility of climate science. Climatologists base their doom-laden predictions of the Earth’s climate on computer simulations. But these have long been the subject of ridicule because of their stunning failure to predict the pause in warming – nearly 18 years long on some measures – since the turn of the last century. It’s the same with sea ice. We hear a great deal about the decline in Arctic sea ice, in line with or even ahead of predictions. But why are environmentalists and scientists so much less keen to discuss the long-term increase in the southern hemisphere? In fact, across the globe, there are about one million square kilometres more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began. In recent days a new scandal over the integrity of temperature data has emerged, this time in America, where it has been revealed as much as 40 per cent of temperature data there are not real thermometer readings. Many temperature stations have closed, but rather than stop recording data from these posts, the authorities have taken the remarkable step of ‘estimating’ temperatures based on the records of surrounding stations. So vast swathes of the data are actually from ‘zombie’ stations that have long since disappeared. This is bad enough, but it has also been discovered that the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using estimates even when perfectly good raw data is available to it – and that it has adjusted historical records. Read more... |
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Friday,
July 4, 2014 |
Didn't like the Hobby Lobby decision? You're going to hate the Supreme Court's follow-up.
The Supreme Court on Thursday evening unveiled its latest ruling around birth control and religious freedom — and if you disliked the Hobby Lobby decision earlier this week, you're going to hate this one. The latest ruling allows Wheaton College to skirt ObamaCare's contraceptive provisions as long as the evangelical school informs the government of its religious objections to providing its staff and students with any type of birth control. Previously, the government required a non-profit with religious objections to sign a form handing over responsibility of providing contraceptive coverage to its insurer or health care plan administrator — now, presumably, the government would handle the hand off. She was joined in her dissent by the court's two other female justices. In fact, the decision broke down completely across gender lines — the court's male justices comprised the majority opinion — suggesting that the court's battle over religious freedom and reproductive rights is only going to get more contentious. |
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
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Breaking: Black Minister Admits Votes Were Bought And Sold To Defeat Tea Party
Angered by the fact that Thad Cochran’s camp stiffed him after he helped them commit a massive voter fraud in the GOP primary, a Black Mississippi minister, the Reverend Stevie Fielder of the First Union Missionary Baptist Church, has come forward to admit his part in the crimes–and he is naming names. Fielder says that, acting in concert with Saleem Baird of the Cochran camp, he agreed to pay $15.00 each to black Democrats who crossed over to vote for Cochran in last month’s runoff against Chris McDaniel. Fielder was to receive $16,000 in return. The conduct admitted to by Rev. Fielder constitutes violations of both federal and Mississippi State voting laws and could put all of the conspirators in prison. What makes this charge so believable is that just three years ago, the head of the Mississippi NAACP was sent to prison for voter fraud. Text messages and a recorded interview in the possession of Gotnews.com confirm that not only Baird, but Cochran Campaign Manager Kirk Sims, was also involved in the fraudulent scheme to buy black votes in a state where they are readily available for sale. |
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Thursday, July 3,
2014 |
Gov’t Scientists: Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing — Because Of Global Warming
Government scientists are not only blaming global warming for the centuries-long collapse of western Antarctic ice sheets, but global warming is also being blamed for record levels of sea ice in the South Pole. But past studies have shown the Antarctic glacier collapses are nothing new. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) put out two studies in the past year showing that Antarctica has gone through similar periods of glacier collapse in the past. A BAS study from February 2014 shows that 8,000 years ago Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier thinned just as quickly as it has in recent decades — thousands of years before massive amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions were released into the atmosphere. Not only did the Pine Island glacier melt rapidly in the past, it was also able to naturally reverse the melting. Another BAS study from last year argued the current melt in the western Antarctic is within the “natural range of climate variability” of the last 300 years. “The record shows that this region has warmed since the late 1950s, at a similar magnitude to that observed in the Antarctic Peninsula and central West Antarctica,” said a BAS study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, “however, this warming trend is not unique.” “More dramatic isotopic warming (and cooling) trends occurred in the mid-19th and 18th centuries, suggesting that at present the effect of anthropogenic climate drivers at this location has not exceeded the natural range of climate variability in the context of the past ~300 years,” the study continued. |
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Tuesday, July 1,
2014 |
Report: Health law sign-ups dogged by data flaws
WASHINGTON — Many of the 8 million Americans signed up under the new health care law now have to clear up questions about their personal information that could affect their coverage. A government watchdog said Tuesday the Obama administration faces a huge task resolving these "inconsistencies" and in some cases didn't follow its own procedures for verifying eligibility. Two reports from the Health and Human Services inspector general marked the first independent look at a festering behind-the-scenes issue that could turn into another health law headache for the White House. The inspector general found that key personal details submitted by many consumers — such as annual income and citizenship — do not match records the government has on file. Read more... |
June 2014
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Monday, June 30, 2014
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Obama: I'll act on my own on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conceding defeat on a top domestic priority, President Barack Obama blamed a Republican "year of obstruction" for the demise of sweeping immigration legislation on Monday and said he would take new steps without Congress to fix as much of the system as he can on his own. "The only thing I can't do is stand by and do nothing," the president said. But he gave few hints about what steps he might take by executive action. Even as he blamed House Republicans for frustrating him on immigration, Obama asked Congress for more money and additional authority to deal with the unexpected crisis of a surge of unaccompanied Central American youths arriving by the thousands at the Southern border. Obama wants flexibility to speed the youths' deportations and $2 billion in new money to hire more immigration judges and open more detention facilities, requests that got a cool reception from congressional Republicans and angered advocates. The twin announcements came as the administration confronted the tricky politics of immigration in a midterm election year with Democratic control of the Senate in jeopardy. The fast-developing humanitarian disaster on the border has provoked calls for a border crackdown at the same moment that immigration advocates are demanding Obama loosen deportation rules in the face of congressional inaction. Obama's announcement came almost a year to the day after the Senate passed a historic immigration bill that would have spent billions to secure the border and offered a path to citizenship for many of the 11.5 million people now here illegally. Despite the efforts of an extraordinary coalition of businesses, unions, religious leaders, law enforcement officials and others, the GOP-led House never acted. Read more... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment by Steve received 4.1k likes within 11 hours: "For decades, the governments of Mexico, El Salvador, & Guatemala, among others, have intentionally displaced their poor on to US tax payers and social services. Then, they reap a windfall of $Billions sent back in untaxed remittances annually. So, there is little incentive for the kleptocracies in those countries to fly straight and take care of their people. They would rather steal and let the poor flock to the US. US Citizens have absorbed the largest immigration tsunami in world history. It is the US Citizenry that deserves amnesty from mass immigration and we should not be forced to subsidize the corruption and incompetence of foreign governments forever. At a certain point, foreign governments must step up to the 21st century and take care of their people. It is the Mexican government that failed your parents, NOT US citizens." |
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Monday, June 30, 2014
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Justices: Can't make employers cover contraception
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. The justices' 5-4 decision is the first time that the high court has ruled that profit-seeking businesses can hold religious views under federal law. And it means the Obama administration must search for a different way of providing free contraception to women who are covered under objecting companies' health insurance plans. Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010 and the Supreme Court upheld two years later. Two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the pivotal vote that saved the health care law in the midst of Obama's campaign for re-election. On Monday, dealing with a small sliver of the law, Roberts sided with the four justices who would have struck down the law in its entirety. |
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Friday, June 27, 2014
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Legal questions abound on public pension payoffs
Payments on local public pension deficits are illegal. Instead of facing the real problem of hundreds of millions of dollars of local deficit spending, many local politicians in numerous counties, cities, school and water districts throughout California are voting to dump these illegal deficits on future taxpayers. These deficits are illegal because they were not approved in advance by a two-thirds vote of the local voters, as required by the “pay-as-you-go” requirement for local government budgets in Article XVI, Section 18a, of the California State Constitution and at least two dozen California Supreme Court cases. In interpreting this provision of our state constitution, the court decided that this clause clearly means that if there is not enough tax revenue for any given year for payment of government salaries, those deficits cannot be carried over and paid from tax revenue of later years, unless approved in advance by a two-thirds vote of local voters. |
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Friday, June 27, 2014
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Election year a drag on productivity in Senate
A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber's modest productivity this election season to a near halt. With control of the Senate at risk in November, leaders are going to remarkable lengths to protect endangered Democrats from casting tough votes and to deny Republicans legislative victories in the midst of the campaign. The phobia means even bipartisan legislation to boost energy efficiency, manufacturing, sportsmen's rights and more could be scuttled. The Senate's masters of process are finding a variety of ways to shut down debate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., now is requiring an elusive 60-vote supermajority to deal with amendments to spending bills, instead of the usual simple majority, a step that makes it much more difficult to put politically sensitive matters into contention. This was a flip from his approach to Obama administration nominees, when he decided most could be moved ahead with a straight majority instead of the 60 votes needed before. Reid's principal aim in setting the supermajority rule for spending amendments was to deny archrival Sen. Mitch McConnell a win on protecting his home state coal industry from new regulations limiting carbon emissions from existing power plants. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, faces a tough re-election in Kentucky. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Meet The Seven IRS Employees Whose Computers ‘Crashed’
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is currently claiming that seven different IRS officials experienced computer crashes that erased their emails and made it impossible for the IRS to cooperate with congressional investigations into the IRS targeting matter. The wave of computer crashes apparently struck both Washington, D.C. — where Lois Lerner oversaw the agency’s Exempt Organizations division — and also Cincinnati, Ohio — where agents processed tax-exempt applications. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Tea Party Group Claims It Has Found 800 Potentially Illegal Votes in One County Alone Following Controversial Mississippi Runoff Election
JACKSON, Miss. (TheBlaze/AP) — Tea party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel still isn’t conceding to six-term Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi Republican primary runoff, but some groups that spent millions supporting McDaniel are walking away. McDaniel supporters are examining poll books to try to find people who voted in a Democratic primary June 3 and the Republican runoff Tuesday. “This is being done to maintain the integrity of the election process and that a fair and honest election was held on behalf of all Mississippians,” McDaniel said in a written statement Thursday. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
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NC lawmaker: Pedophilia is like homosexuality
RALEIGH, NC (WBTV) - As North Carolina lawmakers debated a proposal to prevent charter schools from discriminating against applicants based on sexual orientation, one representative suggested Tuesday that adult sexual attraction to children is a sexual orientation like homosexuality. The amendment was tabled by Republicans, preventing a vote on it. But during the debate, Republican Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, said pedophilia, masochism and other illegal sexual practices are sexual orientations like homosexuality and he questioned the role adults who are sexually attracted to children might have in schools. Several lawmakers called those comments offensive. After the House session, Twitter lit up with criticism of Stam's comments from other lawmakers and left-leaning advocacy groups. The amendment from Rep. Susan Fisher, D-Buncombe, would "prohibit a charter school from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity." In response, Stam handed out a sheet listing what he said were 30 different sexual orientations. He argued the definition of sexual orientation must be narrowed, otherwise it would include masochism, sadism, pedophilia, along with homosexuality and heterosexuality. "Sexual orientation is not defined anywhere," he said. "Many, many sexual orientations are not the ones you want to have teaching kids in schools," he said. "You may think you know what you mean by this but you don't." |
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
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High court limits president's appointments power
Presidential recess appointments aren’t just a common practice; they’re a power specifically given to presidents in the Constitution. Article II, Section 2 reads, “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.” In practice, however, the use of this power is trickier than it might seem. A few years ago, President Obama nominated some qualified officials to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, only to have Senate Republicans block their confirmation votes. When lawmakers left town, the White House said the Congress was in recess, and gave the officials temporary recess appointments. Republicans balked – they weren’t really in recess, they said; they only looked like they were in recess because they’d stopped working for a few days. Today, the Supreme Court sided with Congress in a unanimous ruling, though the decision didn’t go quite as far as some lawmakers had hoped. |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
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Justices Limit Cellphone Searches After Arrests
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court said cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest. Because the phones contain so much information, police must get a warrant before looking through them, Chief Justice John Robert said. The Supreme Court previously had ruled that police could empty a suspect’s pockets and examine whatever they find to ensure officers’ safety and prevent the destruction of evidence. The Obama administration and the state of California, defending the cellphone searches, said cellphones should have no greater protection from a search than anything else police find. But the defendants in these cases, backed by civil libertarians, librarians and news media groups, argued that cellphones, especially smartphones, are increasingly powerful computers that can store troves of sensitive personal information. In the cases decided Wednesday, one defendant carried a smartphone, while the other carried an older flip phone. “Modern cellphones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans the privacies of life,” Roberts said. The court’s answer to what police must do before searching phones is simple: “Get a warrant,” he said. This is a victory for the 4th Amendment which protects "We the People" against unreasonable searches and seizures from a tyrannical government.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
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Viewpoints: Republican Party should be the rightful home for immigrants
When my father, Henry Nehring, became an American citizen in 1967, he joined the Republican Party. For him, it was an easy decision. He came to America in search of freedom and opportunity. Like many other immigrants he saw the GOP as the most committed to the principles that brought him here and that made America distinct from the “old country.” To earn the support of California’s immigrant communities, the Republican Party must now reassert its position as, first and foremost, the party of freedom and opportunity. |
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
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Detroit rolls out new model: A hybrid pension plan
In the face of Detroit’s tumultuous bankruptcy proceedings, in which multiple parties are quarreling to protect their interests, the city and its unions have quietly negotiated a scaled-back pension plan that could serve as a model for other troubled governments. The vested-rights doctrine is especially powerful in California, growing out of court decisions dating back to 1947. Unions in San Jose recently used it to keep the city from making its workers contribute more toward their pensions. Employees of four California counties argued in court last year that they had a vested right to pad their pensions by counting things like unused vacation time in their benefit calculations, despite laws prohibiting the practice. In March, Judge David B. Flinn of Contra Costa County Superior Court ruled that there was no such thing as a vested right to an illegal benefit — but the ruling applies only to current workers. Retirees are still receiving the padded pensions. California’s state pension system, Calpers, is a powerful proponent of the vested-rights doctrine, and many state and local governments follow its lead. In Detroit’s bankruptcy, however, the vested-rights doctrine does not appear to be an issue. The Michigan law for distressed cities gives emergency managers like Mr. Orr the power to set the terms of public employment. That means he can legally freeze Detroit’s existing pension plans and establish new ones for city workers, said Bill Nowling, a spokesman for Mr. Orr. |
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
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Rich Democrats go from challenging the status quo to embracing it
So you're a liberal member of the 1 percent, and you've decided to wrest control of the Democratic agenda from change-averse insiders. You want to free the capital from the grip of powerful interest groups. You want to inspire a new set of policies to help America meet the challenges of a fast-transforming economy. Where do you turn for leadership and innovation? To the teachers union, of course! Just last week, a California judge, in ruling against the union, condemned its age-old protections of incompetent teachers, saying the union's position not only was unconstitutional but also "shocks the conscience."Don't just listen to the judge on this, though. Heed the words of Nick Hanauer, a Seattle-based venture capitalist and school reform advocate, who wrote in a 2012 email that subsequently became public: "It is impossible to escape the painful reality that we Democrats are now on the wrong side of every education reform issue. … There can be no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that the leadership of our party and most of its elected members are stooges for the teachers union, the ring leaders in all this nonsense." |
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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Minimum wage across the United States
As the minimum wage debate in the U.S. rages on, states and cities across the country are voting on hikes that some say could lead to broad job losses and others claim will help narrow the income-inequality gap and boost the economy. |
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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President Barack Obama has seen support for his foreign policy plummet to an all-time low, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released Wednesday. According to the poll, just 37% of respondents said they approved of Obama's handling of foreign-policy issues, an all-time low. Meanwhile, 57% said they disapproved, an all-time high.
And the foreign-policy approval rating for Obama might be artificially high. The poll was conducted before the crisis in Iraq — a situation for which Obama has been roundly criticized — bubbled up and grabbed international attention. |
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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 Congressman Eric Cantor.
Eric Cantor's Pollster Blames Democrats For Stunning Loss
Less than a week before Cantor’s upset loss, the pollster, John McLaughlin, released a survey indicating Cantor had a 62% to 28% lead over his Republican opponent, Dave Brat. Brat would go on to win by 11% — a huge, 45-point shift that was far outside the poll’s margin of error. In an interview with the National Journal after Tuesday’s election, McLaughlin accused Democrats, especially “Dukes of Hazard” actor Ben Jones, of meddling in the race. In Virginia, voters can cast ballots in whatever primary they like. Jones, who once ran against Cantor himself, had reportedly called on Democrats to do exactly that and back Brat. |
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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Cortez McClinton, 33, and Terrell Johnson, 31, held a gun to the girl’s head and used her as a shield as they entered the family home, where a five-year old child was also present.
The girl’s father and mother witnessed the abduction, and both retrieved their guns. When McClinton and Johnson entered, the father fired several shots, hitting both men. The girl’s mother fired one shot but missed. Johnson died at the scene. McClinton was wounded but was able to scramble off. He had his brother take him to the hospital. |
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Monday, June 9, 2014
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 VA Health Care Center in Phoenix.
Audit: More than 57,000 await first VA appointment
WASHINGTON — More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks, never getting appointments after enrolling, the government said Monday in a report newly demonstrating how deep and widespread the problem is. It's not just a backlog issue, the wide-ranging Veterans Affairs review indicated. Thirteen percent of schedulers in the facility-by-facility report on 731 hospitals and outpatient clinics reported being told by supervisors to falsify appointment schedules to make patient waits appear shorter. |
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
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Relentless Incompetence: Americans Are Giving Up on Obama
Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama presidency, that moment has arrived. |
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
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The tea party is after Eric Cantor. Seriously.
In a lot of ways, Dave Brat is your typical tea party-style insurgent running in a Republican primary this year. He's an economics professor at a tiny college, a striped-tie, free market enthusiast who decries debt and immigration. He has the backing of the crankiest conservative bloggers and radio hosts, one of whom, Laura Ingraham, appeared with him at a rally this week. But Brat isn't running to unseat some mush-ball moderate or no-name state legislator backed by the local chamber of commerce. No, Brat's opponent in next Tuesday's primary is Eric Cantor, the congressman from Virginia's 7th District and the second most powerful Republican in the House. Which highlights a question that's becoming more germane as this season of Republican disunion drags on: Just how conservative do you have to be before these conservative activists will leave you alone? |
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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The Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia began erupting on May 30, vaulting ash, along with tiny particles known as volcanic sulfur aerosols, as high as 65,000 feet into the stratosphere. Dramatic images from the eruption show the mountain exploding like a mushroom cloud.
The ash grounded air traffic in northwest Australia and parts of Indonesia, since those aerosols are hazardous to modern high bypass turbofan engines and can cause them to shut down in mid-flight. Giant volcanic eruptions — the most famous being the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, also in Indonesia — are well-known for their ability to temporarily cool the Earth. But this eruption, even counted alongside a concurrent one in Alaska, are not large enough to make much of an impact on the planet's temperature trends on their own. The Sangeang Api volcano is located in the tropics, along the so-called Ring of Fire where the Earth's tectonic plates meet one another, leading to all sorts of geological hazards, from volcanoes to earthquakes. 
Ash cloud (brownish hues) seen billowing away from the Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia on May 31, 2014.
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Monday, June 2, 2014
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In 2008, Rand Paul called coal 'one of the least favorable forms of energy'
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul slammed the Obama administration Monday for announcing a plan to reduce carbon output from power plants — particularly coal — despite having himself heaved criticism at coal, calling it in 2008 “one of the least favorable forms of energy.” "This latest assault on our economy by President Obama will destroy jobs here in Kentucky and across the country, and will hurt middle class families by hiking their utility bills and straining their budgets,” Paul said in a statement Monday after the Environmental Protection Agency announced an aggressive plan to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The administration’s proposed rule is aimed at curbing the effects of global warming by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. “The excessive rule is an illegal use of executive power, and I will force a vote to repeal it,” Paul said. But comments the Kentuckian made six years ago may suggest he once shared views similar to Barack Obama's. While speaking at a rally for Ron Paul's first Republican presidential campaign in Chattanooga, Tenn., in February 2008, the younger Paul criticized coal for the pollution it causes and touted nuclear energy instead. The answer is Thorium (http://www.votefortheconstitution.com/thorium.html). Thorium is more abundant than uranium, far less expensive to produce than uranium, far safer than uranium, AND IN CANNOT BE USED TO MANUFACTURE NUCLEAR WEAPONS! ~ Rodney Spooner |
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Friday, May 30, 2014
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Israel solves water woes with desalination
While previous droughts have been accompanied by impassioned public service advertisements to conserve, this time around it has been greeted with a shrug — thanks in large part to an aggressive desalination program that has transformed this perennially parched land into perhaps the most well-hydrated country in the region. |
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Monday, May 26, 2014
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Blinded By The Sun: How Much Do Solar Panels Really Cost?
Nearly three years ago, a political controversy over the U.S. government’s loan guarantee supporting the once-promising but now bankrupt California solar start-up Solyndra seriously damaged support for clean energy in the United States. At the time, I speculated that financial forces similar to those that sunk Solyndra would sooner or later sink several of China’s major solar equipment manufacturers. A series of recent defaults at Chinese solar manufacturers suggest I was at least partially right. |
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
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Health law: Embrace, avoid or in between for Dems
ATLANTA (AP) - Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama's health care overhaul - or land somewhere in between. The president says his party shouldn't apologize or go on the defensive about the Affordable Care Act. Candidates aren't so sure. Two top recruits for Senate races - Michelle Nunn in Georgia and Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky - won't say how they would have voted when the Senate passed the bill in 2010. Their refusals are overshadowing their endorsements of individual parts of the law that are more popular than the law itself. |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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Sarah Palin: VA Scandal Future of Obamacare If Democrats Not Voted Out
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama's Veterans Administration scandal involving 40 veterans who reportedly died after they were put on secret waiting lists represents Obamacare's future if Democrats are not voted out of office. "Friends, that’s rationed care. That’s the VA today. That's what's got to change," she wrote Wednesday on Facebook. "That's why Congress has got to change because until we elect leaders who'll buck the march to socialized medicine known as Obamacare, America’s health care system will go the way of the VA." Palin had previously warned about the perils of socialized medicine and Obamacare before the law was enacted. “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost,” Palin wrote in 2009 while predicting "death panels." "And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.” Politifact deemed Palin's remarks to be its "Lie of the year," and Palin was mocked years before liberals like Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, and some of President Barack Obama's former advisers – like Steven Rattner – finally conceded she was right Palin said Wednesday that "Obama’s Democrat party must be defeated in the ballot box in November" so that America remains the strongest nation on earth. She posted a picture of Abraham Lincoln and referenced Lincoln's words about Americans having to guard their freedoms: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Last week, Palin sounded the alarm about the willingness of Democrats to use Obamacare's failures to push the country toward a single-payer healthcare system. "What happens next is the Left will subtly suggest moving America toward a single-payer system, which was their intention all along. Watch for this gradual, but driving, descent into statism," Palin warned. "So, are you still relying on Obamacare to help and not hurt you? On the Democrats' watch, health care in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats proves Reagan’s adage that government is not the solution; government is the problem." |
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Monday, May 19, 2014
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California drought will cost thousands of farm jobs: study
(Reuters) - California's drought will cause thousands of workers to lose their jobs and cost farmers in the state's Central Valley breadbasket $1.7 billion, researchers said in the first economic study of what may be the state's driest year on record. The most populous U.S. state is in its third year of what officials are calling a catastrophic drought, leaving some small communities at risk of running out of drinking water and leading farmers to leave fallow nearly a half-million acres of land. |
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Monday, May 19, 2014
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Asian-Americans Have Had the Sharpest Shift Toward Democrats
Asian-Americans make up the racial or ethnic group that has shifted most strongly toward the Democratic Party since 2000. They are also the country’s fastest-growing racial or ethnic group. Researchers at Gallup think part of the shift stems from many Asian-Americans’ affinity for President Obama, a fellow member of a minority group who spent part of his childhood in Asia. But Gallup says the move toward Democrats also reflects many Asian-Americans’ opposition to core tenets of the Republican party — which suggests major challenges for Republicans in winning over the group. In 2008, 62 percent of Asian-American voters backed Mr. Obama. In 2012, the number jumped to 73 percent, according to Edison Research exit poll data. |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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Charges filed against ex-City Hall manager of red-light camera program
The former head of Chicago's red light camera program was arrested Wednesday in a $2 million bribery scandal and charged by federal prosecutors with plotting to steer the contract to Redflex Traffic Systems before the first ticket was ever issued in 2003. John Bills, the former transportation official who managed the red light contract until 2011, coached Redflex officials in a series of clandestine meetings and helped them grow their program into the largest in the country, authorities alleged. In return, they said, Bills received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash spent on a vacation home, a boat and a Mercedes convertible, along with dozens of trips and a condominium near the company's Arizona headquarters. The single bribery charge against Bills puts him at the center of sweeping allegations in a scandal that by size alone ranks among the largest in Chicago's notorious history of corruption. The Tribune first disclosed the questionable relationship between Bills and Redflex in the fall of 2012, revealing a scandal that has shaken the foundation of the company and its Australian parent, Redflex Holdings Ltd. |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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Common Core Extortion of Parents to See Data Collected on Their Kids
Can schools use a parent’s opposition to Common Core against them? Is there an attempt to prevent parents from learning about the data collected on their children due to Common Core? In the case of a Nevada father, one or both of those scenarios seem to be exactly the case. John Eppolito is a former educator. He is now a real estate agent in Lake Tahoe by day and a very active Common Core opponent at night. He leads a group called Stop Common Core Nevada and is well known in his area for his fierce opposition to this federal takeover of the education system with national standards. Beyond that, he is very concerned about the collection of data regarding every student and exactly what happens to that data. Due to these concerns, he approached Nevada’s Department of Education about the data collected on his four children. Since there is nothing, at least right now, that can be done to stop collection of the data, he wanted to know exactly what data about his children the district is keeping. The state agreed to comply with his request, but said it would cost him a fee. They also told him there was no way to run custom reports on students, so in order to get the information he requested, he would have to pay for programming and the running of a custom report. The total amount, they said, would be $10,194. |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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 David Tran with his Sriracha Hot Sauce
Sriracha Hot Sauce CEO Says U.S. Now Resembling Communist Country
David Tran, CEO of the popular company that manufactures the popular Sriracha hot sauce, fled communist Vietnam in 1978. In 1980, he started his company, Huy Fong, which he named after the freighter that brought him to the U.S. Tran was living the American dream and enjoying the fruits of his labor in the at least somewhat free market, capitalist system, developing his own hot sauce, Sriracha which he named after its place of origin (Si Racha, Thailand). The product has become so popular as to almost have a cult following. Bon Appetit honored the product by calling it one if its favorite foods last year. But now Tran tells NPR in an interview that the U.S. is feeling more like the communist government he escaped because of the many government intrusions: “Today, I feel almost the same . Even now, we live in [the] USA, and my feeling, the government, not a big difference.” Tran’s company has been harassed by the Irwindale, California city council, which claims that the factory’s spicy smells harm its neighbors. Texas Governor Rick Perry has been courting Tran’s company with open arms, saying in the Lone Star State “we know a thing or two about hot food and even hotter business climates,” referring to the state’s business-friendly tax and regulatory environment: Texas’ low taxes, predictable regulations, fair courts and world-class workforce make our state the ideal place for any business looking to relocate or expand, and I trust our sriracha delegation will communicate that effectively. Beyond that, we’re Texas: we know a thing or two about hot food and even hotter business climates. |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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Rand Paul: Voter ID remarks ‘overblown’
Sen. Rand Paul is clarifying his recent comments that Republicans should lay off voter ID laws, saying now that there’s nothing wrong with tackling the issue. “There’s nothing wrong with it. … I don’t really object to having some rules with how we vote,” Paul said on the Sean Hannity radio show on Tuesday. The Kentucky Republican said his earlier comments “kind of got overblown in the wrong way.” (Earlier on POLITICO: Paul: Don't go 'crazy' on voter ID) Last week, Paul was quoted in The New York Times as critical of Republicans pursuing voter ID laws. “Everybody’s gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing,” he told the paper at the time. “I think it’s wrong for Republicans to go too crazy on this issue because it’s offending people.” |
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
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The Dreyfuss Initiative
May 11, 2014 - Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss announces his campaign to restore Civics Education and teach Americans WHY their country is the best on the earth. The reason? The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, of course. From the Huckabee show on Fox News. |
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Monday, May 5, 2014
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NC voting law to get first test in primary
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — During Tuesday's primary elections for one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country, voter advocacy groups will be trying to gauge the effects of a new state law that requires photo IDS at the polls, reduces the number of early-voting days, and eliminates same-day registration. Eight Republican candidates are competing to be the candidate who will challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan in November. The contest is an important one for the GOP, which is trying to regain control of the U.S. Senate in this year's midterm elections — and it is the first election in North Carolina held since the elections overhaul took effect. |
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Monday, May 5, 2014
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GOP establishment looks nervously at North Carolina Senate primary
The race has been cast as yet another skirmish in the ongoing GOP civil war, pitting the establishment-backed Tillis against seven tea party challengers. It's true that Tillis has the support of prominent national Republicans -- including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- and the Chamber of Commerce. |
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Monday, May 5, 2014
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Tea party, GOP establishment vie in NC primary
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The struggle for control of the Republican Party is getting an early voter test in North Carolina, where former presidential nominee Mitt Romney and tea party favorite Rand Paul on Monday pushed their own candidates for the right to challenge Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November. |
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Monday, May 5, 2014
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John McCain On NSA Spying: “Something You’ve Got To Accept”
While appearing on the Dan Patrick Show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that NSA spying is part of “the world we’re living in” and claimed that young Americans are bothered by NSA spying because their memories of the 9/11 attacks have faded. McCain has been an enthusiastic proponent of the NSA despite his acknowledgement that the agency has abused its power in the past. After discussion of sports, the conversation shifted to Donald Sterling and the subject of his phone conversations being recorded, and McCain explained that: “It’s the world we’re living in. You don’t like it, but everything I say I expect to be recorded,” McCain told Patrick. He went on to defend its place in the lives of American citizens: “It’s just the way we live. It is something you’ve got to accept. I don’t particularly like it, but it is what it is.” |
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
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George Will: Obamacare 'Doomed' Under Constitution's Origination Clause
This Thursday, the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals, the nation's second-most important court, will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act adheres to the Constitution's "origination clause," which declares that "all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills," Will writes in his column in The Washington Post Saturday. |
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May 2, 2014 |
The glory days of American manufacturing are not coming back: Steven Rattner
Steven Rattner, former Obama administration car czar and chairman of Willett Advisors, caused a stir in economic circles earlier this year when he rejected the popular belief that U.S. manufacturing was back on its feet. "We need to get real about the so-called [manufacturing] renaissance," he wrote in his January New York Times oped. "For all the hoopla, the United States has gained just 568,000 manufacturing positions since January 2010 — a small fraction of the nearly six million lost between 2000 and 2009. That’s a slower rate of recovery than for nonmanufacturing employment." Rattner reaffirmed his position at this week's Milken Institute Global Conference. "Manufacturing jobs are increasing more slowly than jobs in the economy as a whole," he says in the video above. There’s actually more of a renaissance in other kinds of jobs." Mr. Obama will no doubt revel in the recent news that the unemployment rate is down to 6.3%. Keep in mind that this is U3 that reports the number of people currently on unemployment. Remember that unemployment benefits were not extended after December 2013 so a lot of unemployed people were cut off at the economic knees beginning 2014. It was predictable that U3 numbers would go down. What IS important is U6 which includes not only people on unemployment benefits, but also people who are unemployed and looking for work, AND PEOPLE WHO TOOK JOBS AT LESS WAGES (UNDEREMPLOYED). So while unemployment may have hit a new low (6.3%), the truth is that workers are still underemployed which means that the underlying economy is still underperforming and still quite fragile. - Rodney Spooner |
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
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Fifth Grade Worksheet: Founders Wanted Government To Have ‘power Over The States’
A fifth grade worksheet in Florida declares that the Federalists were different than the anti-federalists because they “believed in a strong national government that would have power over the states.” The Federalists believed in a central government, but it was to be a “limited government.” The anti-federalists believed that there should be no central government, and pushed for full sovereignty of the states. The Federalists, according to the worksheet, included “John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton.” While it is true that the Federalists wanted a central, or a “general,” government, the worksheet does not stress how important it was to the Federalists to ensure that the government did not become too powerful. In fact, the worksheet explains, “The purpose of the convention was to discuss how to make the national government stronger.” Both the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists were dedicated to a system where government would not become tyrannical. This is evident to anyone who reads the words of the founding fathers. But in the worksheet, the phrases “checks and balances” and “separation of powers” are forgotten.
An attachment to the worksheet titled, “Federalist and Anti-Federalist Quotes,” quotes James Madison as saying, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary… You must first enable the government to control the governed..” – James Madison, Federalist Papers “Number 51” The actual quote:
“If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” The meaning is much different when the full quote is revealed.
Perhaps an even more egregious example is a quote from Benjamin Franklin. The worksheet quotes him as saying, “I agree to this Constitution, because I think a general government is necessary for us…. . . I hope … we shall act heartily and unanimously in recommending this constitution . . .” The actual quote is much different,
“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” Although Franklin indeed went on to endorse the Constitution, it is clear that he was well aware of the potential for tyranny in the government.
The worksheet is a part of Florida’s “sunshine standards,” which were established after Common Core state standards became politically toxic. The anti-Federalists eventually came around to the idea of a general government, and their input was pivotal in establishing the Bill of Rights. But it seems that some educators and others attempt to portray the Federalists as big government and the anti-Federalists as “anti-government,” which is grossly inaccurate, as both groups agonized about how America could prevent the inevitable tyranny that eventually occurs in all governments, everywhere. This truth is evident to anyone who reads the Federalist papers. As James Madison wrote, The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. –James Madison, Federalist 45, 1788 |
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Thursday,
May 1, 20014 |
Thanks to Obamacare, more companies are likely to dump health benefits
We may soon go back to a model in which employers provide healthcare more as a perk than as a routine benefit, requiring workers to get insurance from other sources. That could save big companies up to $700 billion by 2025, according to a new report from S&P Capital IQ. It’s hard to think of any other single change that could save companies that much money, indicating how powerful the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could become once it has fully impacted the U.S. healthcare system. S&P predicts that companies will do the math and find it irresistible to move more and more of their workers off company-run plans and into the exchanges established under Obamacare, as the ACA is known. Companies with more than 50 workers will have to pay a penalty if they don’t offer insurance, but it could still be cheaper when factoring in the savings on healthcare; that’s because insurance costs have skyrocketed during the last 20 years, making healthcare one of the costs companies find most difficult to control. |
April 2014
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Friday, April 25, 2014
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The future of Tea Party-GOP infighting
The conventional storyline about the GOP establishment/Tea Party split is that it is ideological – a battle between pragmatic Republicans and more doctrinaire conservatives. In reality, what’s happening now is that, in intra-Republican battles, ideology is losing relevance, as these squabbles are growing increasingly disconnected from policy realities. Paradoxically, this is why predictions of the Tea Party’s demise are premature — and the Tea Party is likely to be around for a long time to come, in some form or other. |
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Friday, April 25, 2014
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FALSELY ACCUSED, JONATHAN FLEMING GETS OUT OF PRISON AFTER 25 YEARS
Just a few weeks ago Jonathan Fleming was finally let out of prison after 25 years of hell for doing a crime he never committed. This week I interviewed on my national radio show the hero investigators Kim Anklin and Bob Rahn of Management Resources LTD of NY. They were the determined and brave ones who took this case on when the family approached them. They told me, though somewhat cynical at the start and not sure of Jonathan’s guilt or not they committed to find the truth. The more they dug, the more they exposed shoddy police and prosecution against Jonathan. |
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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Georgia governor signs 'unprecedented' bill expanding gun rights
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday signed legislation significantly expanding gun rights in the state. The bill, described by the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm as "the most comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation introduced in recent state history," expands the scope of public places where licensed owners are allowed to carry firearms. The bill makes several changes to state law. It allows those with a license to carry to bring a gun into a bar without restriction and into some government buildings that don't have certain security measures. It also allows religious leaders to decide whether it's OK for a person with a carry license to bring a gun into their place of worship. |
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
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Why Clive Bundy Isn't Wrong
In 1976 there were approximately 52 ranching permittees in this area of Nevada. Presently, there are 3. Most of these people lost their livelihoods because of the actions of the BLM. Clive Bundy was one of these people who received extremely unfair and unreasonable TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Keep in mind that Mr. Bundy was required to sign this contract before he was allowed to pay. Had Clive signed on the dotted line, he would have, in essence, signed his very livelihood away. And so Mr. Bundy took a stand, not only for himself, but for all of us. He refused to be destroyed by a tyrannical federal entity and to have his American liberties and freedoms taken away. |
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
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BLM Whistleblower Exposes the Clark County Land Grab… It’s Much Bigger than We Thought
Cliven Bundy's daughter, Shiree Bundy Cox, had previously explained that her father is simply the last man standing in an area that used to be dominated by family ranches. Neighboring ranchers were paying the BLM management fees and the BLM was providing no sort of land maintenance or improvement. This is the alleged purpose of those fees. Her claim is that the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) used those fees instead to buy out the other ranchers. Cliven Bundy refused this fate and many years later we have arrived at this point. We know that the BLM wants this land bad, for whatever reason, and we cannot assume that it has nothing to do with solar power. One deal, with the Chinese, that fell through does not negate the fact that the BLM mentions the impact of Bundy's cattle in relation to the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone. This is a screen shot from a document that has since been deleted from BLM.gov. Look at the last bullet point: So how do we make sense of all this? We probably won't for some time. The single Reid land deal that fell through was too easy. It seems to run much deeper than that. |
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
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Nevada range war: Western states move to take over federal land
The tussle over Cliven Bundy’s 400 cows – grazing on federal land, although he refuses to pay the required fees now amounting to more than $1 million – sharpens this debate, which has featured state legislators, county officials, environmentalists, and federal judges (all of whom have ruled against Mr. Bundy). |
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
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MARK LEVIN'S "LIBERTY" AMENDMENTS: LEGALIZING TYRANNY
Mark Levin begins “The Liberty Amendments” by saying he doesn’t believe the Constitution requires “modernization through amendments”. But he then proposes a series of amendments, six of which modernize our Constitution to delegate to the federal government most of the powers it has usurped during the last 100 years. |
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
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Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid as Alleged Recipient of Massive Bribe
A Utah businessman is rocking both state and national politics after claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped him broker a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into his company quietly disappear, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. |
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Waiting To Die? Man Says Insurance Rejected Due To Obamacare
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KMPH) - A Chowchilla man says he is in a life or death situation because of the 'Affordable Healthcare Act' or 'Obamacare'. Gary Ray, who is battling bone cancer, says it's because doctors are rejecting his health insurance. Ray says the health care plan he had for 20–years with 'Blue Cross' was eliminated by 'Obamacare' and he was bumped to what was supposed to be a similar one. However, the plans turned out to be very different. |
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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Give up meat, coal, oil, economic growth and national sovereignty - orders new IPCC climate report
The Working Group I report, released in September last year, admitted that there has been an inexplicable pause in global warming since 1997, which none of its computer models predicted. (In other words, the entire basis of man-made-global warming theory - which underpins Working Group III's demands for "decarbonisation" - may depend on a flawed assumption, unsupported by real-world evidence). |
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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Congressional Budget Office Says Obamacare Will Cost Less Than Projected
Still, there is a downside to the lower costs, according to the report: “The plans being offered through exchanges in 2014 appear to have, in general, lower payment rates for providers, narrower networks of providers, and tighter management of their subscribers’ use of health care than employment-based plans do. Those features allow insurers that offer plans through the exchanges to charge lower premiums (although they also make plans somewhat less attractive to potential enrollees).” |
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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Birmingham probes Muslim takeover of schools 'plot'
London (AFP) - Birmingham launched a probe Monday into an alleged hardline Muslim plot to take control of schools. The city council said it had appointed a chief adviser to examine at least 200 complaints as the investigation widened to 25 schools from an initial four. Concerns about how some of the 430 schools in the city were being run first emerged last year in a leaked anonymous letter which outlined how to implement what it called Operation Trojan Horse. |
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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Rand Paul has a plan to win over the country: But he needs to convince his own party first
For now, Sen. Paul’s focus is on expanding the appeal of his party, which has had branding problems of late, particularly among single women, minorities and young voters. He has taken a cue from his father, an unimposing little man in his 70s with a baffling knack for attracting university arenas full of students, by speaking at colleges across the country. In the wake of revelations of the federal government’s domestic spying program, he sees a unique opportunity for Republicans to reach young people who don’t want the feds snooping on their iPhones. “It’s an area where we can connect with people who haven’t been connecting. Obama won the youth vote 3 to 1, but he’s losing them now,” Paul told a gathering of New Hampshire Republicans in Dover on Friday. “Hillary Clinton’s as bad or worse on all of these issues. It’s a way we can transform and make the party bigger and win again. But we have to be as proud of the Fourth Amendment as much as we are the Second Amendment.” Other Republicans seem to be taking notice. On Saturday in Manchester at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit, a conference for conservative activists hosted by Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity where Paul, Cruz, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and several other well-known Republicans spoke, most speakers devoted sections of their remarks to the National Security Agency’s spying program. |
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Friday,
April 11, 2014 |
How former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens Would Amend the Constitution
The premise of the book is accurately captured by the title, which proposes six amendments to the Constitution. The one potential weakness of the genre is that the cumbersome amendment process set out by Article V (which has produced only 17 amendments, not all of them important, in more than 200 years since the ratification of the Bill of Rights) makes the amendment process generally unrealistic as a route to constitutional change. However, whether these amendments could obtain the 2/3rds of both houses of Congress and 3/4 of state legislatures necessary for ratification is not really the point. The purpose of the book instead is to show how recent Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution have reached questionable and sometimes indefensible results—and the good news is that we shouldn't need formal constitutional amendments to produce the sounder results suggested by Stevens. |
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Friday,
April 11, 2014 |
EB-5 Visas: A Source of Funding for US Businesses But Not Without Risk
Basically, in return for an investment of either $500,000 or $1,000,000, which can be shown to the satisfaction of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to create 10 US jobs per investment over a two year period, the investor and his family get green cards. Since it started in 1990, the EB-5 visa program has brought approximately $6.7 billion to the US and has created 95,000 jobs. In fact, the EB-5 visa program was not very popular until the 2008 financial crisis when traditional sources of financing became more difficult to obtain. Some projects have not produced the requisite number of jobs that would prompt US immigration authorities to withhold green cards - resulting in exposure to lawsuits from the investor against the developer or regional center that has solicited the investment. Approximately 31 investors, 15 from China, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the only thing they had to show for a $15.5 million investment was an undeveloped plot of land across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. In San Bruno, California, three Chinese investors alleged in a lawsuit filed last year that they lost $3 million when an EB-5 developer disappeared with his associates concocted a story about his death. The Canadian government has decided recently to halt its immigrant investor program due to the number of Chinese applications. This has left Chinese investors potentially turning their attention to the US equivalent as they seek a financially and politically stable haven for themselves and their families. |
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Friday,
April 11, 2014 |
Tax refund fraud is a big frustration for victims
Thieves have claimed billions of dollars in bogus tax refunds from the IRS by swiping the Social Security numbers and identities of schoolchildren in Florida, prisoners in Pennsylvania, teachers in Washington state and soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Sebelius Resigns After Troubles Over Health Site
Officials said Ms. Sebelius, 65, made the decision to resign and was not forced out. But the frustration at the White House over her performance had become increasingly clear, as administration aides worried that the crippling problems at HealthCare.gov, the website set up to enroll Americans in insurance exchanges, would result in lasting damage to the president’s legacy. Related Story 
Budget Chief Is Obama’s Choice as New Health Secretary
On Friday, President Obama is to nominate Ms. Burwell, currently director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to take over one of the largest and most unwieldy parts of the federal bureaucracy as secretary of health and human services. If confirmed, Ms. Burwell would replace Kathleen Sebelius, who is resigning. Ms. Burwell, who was confirmed in a 96-to-0 vote last year to lead the budget office, has spent much of the past year mired in Washington’s fiscal fights, including the standoff that led to a 15-day government shutdown in early October. She also handled health policy as part of her job as Mr. Obama’s budget chief. Related Story 
Sylvia Mathews Burwell: Six things to know about the new White House budget director (March 3, 2013)
1. She's a Bill Clinton/Bob Rubin Democrat. 2. She has experience fighting congressional Republicans on budget matters. 3. She's been in the foundation world ever since. 4. She may not be too independent of Wal-Mart's other efforts. 5. The position has been vacant for a year. 6. She's a female voice in an administration lacking them. |
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Feds Move Against Cattle Rancher Supposedly To “Protect” Desert Tortoise…Which They Themselves Have Been Euthanizing
In 1998, the federal government dedicated the land to the conservation of the desert tortoise which they claimed was endangered. They claim the grazing, which Mr. Bundy and his family have done since the 1880s, is damaging the desert tortoise population. A strange claim given that the federal government is probably endangering the desert tortoise more than Cliven Bundy ever could. Last year in the midst of budget cuts, the government decided they no longer had the funds to maintain the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center in Las Vegas. In response, federal officials decided to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises. |
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Political Ties of Top Billers for Medicare
MIAMI — Two Florida doctors who received the nation’s highest Medicare reimbursements in 2012 are both major contributors to Democratic Party causes, and they have turned to the political system in recent years to defend themselves against suspicions that they may have submitted fraudulent or excessive charges to the federal government. |
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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Why Three Teachers Are Taking a Stand Against Common Core: ‘We Need to Remove It’
Kimball added that the new standards are so controlled that — rather than just being given the material to teach — teachers are given “scripts” to read, as well. She said if a student responds to a lesson with a certain question, teachers are told to read a corresponding line from the script. She also said educators have no power to alter the curriculum to cater to the needs of students who learn differently. |
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Monday, April 7, 2014
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Survey: US sees sharpest health insurance premium increases in years
Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance brokers. The investment bank’s April survey of 148 brokers found that this quarter, the average premium increase for customers renewing an insurance plan is 12 percent in the small group market and 11 percent in the individual market, according to Forbes’ Scott Gottlieb. The hikes — the largest in the past three years, according to Morgan Stanley’s quarterly reports — are “largely due to changes under the [Affordable Care Act],” analysts concluded. Rates have been growing increasingly fast throughout all of 2013, after a period of drops in 2012. |
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
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The Coming Obamacare Shock for 170 Million Americans
Consider that presidential wish casting in a midterm cycle in which Democrats will have to constantly defend their support for the unpopular law. As Jimmy Fallon pointed out later the same evening, the numbers were neither impressive nor reliable. “It’s amazing what you can achieve when you make something mandatory,” Fallon told his laughing audience, “fine people if they don’t do it — and keep extending the deadline for months.” |
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
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ATF Director: 'Wish I Had Better Answers' About ATF Agents Probing a Tea Party Conservative
(CNSNews.com) - B. Todd Jones, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, couldn't tell Congress why his agents made two visits to a tea party conservative in a 13-month period -- but only after she requested tax-exempt status for her conservative group, True the Vote. |
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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Massive Voter Fraud Discovered in North Carolina’s 2012 Election
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has found thousands of instances of voter fraud in the state, thanks to a 28-state crosscheck of voter rolls. Initial findings suggest widespread election fraud.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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Constitutional Convention 2016?
Nevertheless, in such a convention, the ENTIRE Constitution is subject to review and can be altered and changed. This could be everything from installing “social justice” to the dissolution of the federal government. Everything is on the table as if we were back in 1776 Philadelphia. Could this be Obama's path to a 3rd term? |
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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3 things to watch as Obamacare deadline passes
Les Funtleyder, partner at Bluecloud Healthcare, says there’s three things to watch now that the deadline has passed. “We may not know if Obamacare is going to work for a couple of years actually,” Funtleyder says. Case in point, final prices for insurance premiums depending on individual specifics may not be known until the late fall, he claims. This is because insurers require a few months to see who’s signed up and determine initial rates. |
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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Chinese Buying Land In US Communities All Over America
Has the United States ever experienced a time when a foreign nation has attempted to buy up so much of our land all at once? As you will read about in this article, the Chinese are on a real estate buying spree all over America. In fact, in some cases large chunks of land are actually being given to them. Yes, you read that correctly. China is on the way to becoming the dominant land owner in the entire country, and that is starting to alarm a lot of people. Do we really want a foreign superpower to physically own so much of our territory? There are some that are playing down this threat by making a distinction between the Chinese government and Chinese corporations, but things work differently over in China than they do here. In China, the government is involved in everything. In fact, 43 percent of all corporate profits in China are produced by companies that the Chinese government controls. And all of the rest of the companies are very careful to follow the lead and direction of the Chinese government. |
March 2014
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
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LELAND YEE BLACKOUT: CNN MOCKS CITIZEN WHO WANTS COVERAGE OF ARMS TRAFFICKING SCANDAL
CNN dismissed complaints that the network was not covering last week's shocking arrest of Democrat Leland Yee, the California state senator who was arrested for alleged arms trafficking and bribery, and falsely asserted that it does not give attention to state senators. |
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
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Virginia Gay Marriage Ruling Usurped State's Authority, Lawyer Claims
"States have the right to define marriage, and if they choose to allow same-sex marriage or other non-traditional marriage, they are free to do so," he wrote. "However, the states cannot be compelled to alter the idea of marriage to include same-sex couples." He said clerks could be faced with lawsuits from other people who are prohibited to marry. "For example, if the definition of marriage is no longer based on procreation and the ability to procreate naturally, then what is the purpose in prohibiting marriage between persons of close kinship," Oakley wrote. |
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Friday, March 28, 2014
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The New Common Core American History (As Written By David Coleman)
I’m wondering when David Coleman, the man behind the Common Core curtain, has had the time to basically rewrite American History. He’s been a busy man; architect of the Common Core, president of the College Board, aligning the SAT to the Common Core. You know, if you’re going to ruin American education, you might as well go for the gold and reinvent history. And why not? If you’re David Coleman, the most prominent man in education that people all over still haven’t heard of, you have carte blanche! In the fall of 2014 close to a half million high school sophomores and juniors will be learning from a new set of AP history standards, Coleman-style. |
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Friday, March 28, 2014
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McCain to Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: I'll Fight for Amnesty as Long as 'I'm Alive and Breathing'
McCain, according to BuzzFeed, also said that if comprehensive immigration reform passes, he would "make sure it is forever called the Edward M. Kennedy immigration bill." McCain and the late Kennedy tried to pass the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill last decade, along with President George W. Bush. Conservatives halted the measure because it would have reduced the wages of American workers while not solving the illegal immigration problem. |
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
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More than 6 million Americans enrolled under the ACA, White House says
More than 6 million Americans have now signed up for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to the White House, with just four days to go until the end of its first open enrollment period. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Interim Ukrainian Government Orders Its Citizens Disarmed
Once in power, Yatsenyuk announced last week that all citizens were to be disarmed, in order, he said, to help maintain order and assure a peaceful transition to a new government once the elections were held. The deadline for turning in all weapons was set for the very next day, the same day Yatsenyuk was to sign an agreement with Brussels to obtain desperately needed financing. Part of that agreement is that the citizenry — the protesters who had forced the resignation of one dictator and unwittingly had replaced him with another — be disarmed. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Do you know who is behind Common Core State Standards? This may surprise you...
Contrary to what you may have heard, there are many organizations that are involved in Common Core that also stand to gain a lot financially with its implementation nationally. Of course, these groups will tell you that their involvement is simply to provide a great education platform that will increase the learning curve of all of our children. Nothing cold be farther from the truth. This is nothing more than a plot and ploy to amass more money and essentially, control and information on our children and push toward the UN and control internationally. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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MILLER: Exclusive — Shock verdict — Mark Witaschek guilty of possessing muzzleloader bullets in D.C.
In a surprising twist at the end of a long trial, a District of Columbia judge found Mark Witaschek guilty of “attempted possession of unlawful ammunition” for antique replica muzzleloader bullets. Judge Robert Morin sentenced Mr. Witaschek to time served, a $50 fine and required him to enroll with the Metropolitan Police Department’s firearm offenders’ registry within 48 hours. Mr. Witaschek’s attorney Howard X. McEachern shook his client’s hand and said, “We’re not done.” Mr. McEachern plans to appeal the decision. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Supreme Court upholds gun ban for domestic violence
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a federal law intended to keep guns away from domestic violence offenders can apply even if their crime was nothing more than "offensive touching." |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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THE LIST Democrats Do Not Want You to See: 27 Senate Democrats Who Lied To Americans About Keeping Their Health Plans Under Obamacare…
(Byron York via The Washington Examiner) -- How many Democrats made the promise? There's no comprehensive list of all of them, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office has compiled a list of 27 Democratic senators who pledged that Americans could keep their coverage under Obamacare. The list includes the entire Democratic leadership in the Senate as well as Democrats facing tough re-election races in 2014, like Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, and Kay Hagan. Here is that list, compiled by McConnell's office: |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Judging Obamacare state by state
Earlier this month the Department of Health and Human Services announced that more than five million people had selected plans on the public insurance exchanges, a sign that the pace of enrollments is quickening as the March 31 deadline for choosing a plan approaches. But a look at the exchanges during the last month of the sign-up period shows that the enrollment picture isn’t equal across the map. “A handful of states have done great,” says Katherine Hempstead, the senior program officer for the coverage team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to health care. “But there are some states that are really not getting much traction at all.” |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Rich Chinese overwhelm U.S. visa program
A dramatic surge in interest from wealthy Chinese is threatening to overwhelm a U.S. program offering investors green cards in exchange for cash. The number of applicants is now so great that the government might run out of permits. Any foreigner willing to commit at least $500,000 and create 10 jobs in America can apply for an investor immigrant visa -- also known as an EB-5. 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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Sessions Report Demolishes Obama 'Deporter In Chief' Myth
“The evidence reveals that the Administration has carried out a dramatic nullification of federal law,” Sessions said in a statement to Breitbart News. “Under the guise of setting ‘priorities’, the Administration has determined that almost anyone in the world who can enter the United States is free to illegally live, work and claim benefits here as long as they are not caught committing a felony or other serious crime. |
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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Read Dad's Facebook Response to 'Ridiculous' Common Core Math Homework
The parent’s note shows the elaborate Common Core formula for solving a math program (as opposed to simple strategy of subtracting the smaller number from the larger one) and includes instructions from the boy's teacher: “Jack used the number line below to solve 427 - 316. Find his error. Then write a letter to Jack telling him what he did right, and what he should do to fix his mistake.” |
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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U.S. Banks Enjoy 'Too-Big-To-Fail' Advantage: Fed Study
While the study did not pinpoint the reason big banks borrow more cheaply, Wall Street critics say it is because investors believe the U.S. government would again rescue them in a panic, despite new rules adopted in the wake of the 2007-2009 crisis and aimed at avoiding future bailouts. |
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Monday, March 24, 2014
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Latinos being left behind in health care overhaul
“The enrollment rate for Hispanic-Americans seems to be very low, and I would be really concerned about that,” says Brookings Institution health policy expert Mark McClellan. “It is a large population that has a lot to gain … but they don’t seem to be taking advantage.” McClellan oversaw the rollout of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit for President George W. Bush. |
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
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Massive Georgia gun-rights bill passes legislature at last minute (VIDEO)
House Bill 60 was introduced into the state House over a year ago before finally passing that body on Feb. 13, 2014 by a landslide 167-3 vote. Then followed a month of being passed back and forth between the Georgia House and Senate with various amendments clarifying the measure’s sections on legalizing suppressors and allowing guns in churches. The House, sending the bill to the governor’s desk, confirmed the final version, which passed the Senate on Mar. 18 by a 37-18 vote, Thursday. |
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
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California drought: So many water bonds, so little time
SACRAMENTO -- As California's drought drags on, more farmers are being forced to fallow fields and a growing number of small towns run out of water. So Republicans and Democrats here finally agree on something: They need to spend billions of dollars to fix California's broken water system. Republicans want to build new dams and reservoirs, Democrats want to fund conservation and recycling projects. And the Bay Area, Southern California and the Central Valley all have competing interests. If lawmakers do nothing, an $11.14 billion water bond previously scheduled for the ballot will go before voters and fail, a Public Policy Institute of California poll in November showed. That proposal was crafted with bipartisan support, but it's bloated with funding for projects, such as parks, that have little to do with water. It has already been pulled from the ballot twice because lawmakers thought it wouldn't pass. "If we don't start conserving and recycling, water is going to become the new oil, and only the rich will be able to afford it and have a good life," said Zamora, 48, an electromechanical engineer. |
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
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Rhode Island speaker to step down after FBI raids
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his Statehouse office and home as part of a criminal investigation that they would not detail. |
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Friday, March 21, 2014
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Feinstein pushes for import ban
It doesn’t matter that newly manufactured “assault weapons” haven’t been for sale to the general public since 1986 (thanks to President Reagan) nor that the 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with “sporting purposes”. Nope, she is going full steam ahead with her lies and misinformation to push for any ban, restriction or infringement of our 2nd Amendment rights that she can get. |
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
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Federal ruling, ‘huge victory,’ paves way for states to ensure only US citizens can vote
Heads in Washington exploded Wednesday when a federal court ruled that state-mandated proof-of-citizenship requirements must be included by the Election Assistance Commission in its federal voter registration forms. |
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
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Breaking: Judge rules on Obama eligibility
One of the last remaining court battles over Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility has gone down in flames in a 7-2 decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to render “no opinion.” However, the dissenting minority of Justice Tom Parker and Chief Justice Roy Moore concluded the case has serious constitutional significance, warranting an investigation of the qualifications of 2012 presidential candidates by Alabama’s secretary of state. |
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Tea Party Candidate Wins Historic Race For PA Senate As A Write-In
Update: Politicos and election officials are confirming Republican Scott Wagner's apparent victory in the 28th Senate as the first time a write-in candidate has won an election for state Senate in Pennsylvania. Only about 22,300 voters cast ballots in Tuesday's special election, for a turnout of 13.6 percent, according to unofficial numbers from the county's elections office. |
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Rand Paul gets standing ovation at Berkeley: ‘Your right to privacy is under assault’
BERKELEY, Calif. — Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and warning the students: “Your right to privacy is under assault.” |
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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Green scientists debunk climate change myths
Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, quit the activist environmental organization in 1986 after it strayed away from objective science and took a sharp turn to the political left. Testifying on February 25 before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Moore took issue with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim that, “Since the mid-20th century it is ‘extremely likely’ that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming.” Moore pointed out “There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” arguing that “perhaps the simplest way to expose the fallacy of extreme certainty is to look at the historical record.” |
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Tea Party Caucus at the California Republican Convention Spring 2014
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Friday, March 14,
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Conn. officials tell gun owners to relinquish or destroy banned assault weapons
HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut officials are urging owners of now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines to relinquish them to the police or make them permanently inoperable. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection announced Friday it had sent a letter to owners who had failed to register the items by a Jan. 1 deadline, part of last year's gun control law. Officials offered advice on what to do now with the weapons and magazines. The letter says gun owners are in compliance with the new state law if their items are no longer in Connecticut or were sold to an authorized gun dealer. Those who fail to comply face charges of possessing an unregistered assault weapon and/or high capacity magazine. Commissioner Dora Schriro denied rumors DESPP is confiscating weapons. |
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Friday, March 14, 2014
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Atomic Car Revisited: Thorium Could Power A Vehicle for 100 Years?
A car that could run for 100 years on one tank of fuel? It sounds like a far-fetched idea, but it is just what a company is apparently claiming possible with the use of an atomic fuel that was abandoned during the Nixon administration. We’re talking about the sounds-too-good-to-be-true substance called “Thorium.” Thorium is a naturally occurring radioactive element. It was discovered in 1828 by a Norwegian mineralogist and identified by a Swedish chemist, who then named it after the Norse god, Thor. |
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
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Mystery over how mummified Michigan woman who died six years ago managed to VOTE in 2010
The woman whose death went unnoticed for six years somehow voted in Michigan's 2010 gubernatorial election. Mummified remains were discovered in the Pontiac home belonging to 49-year-old Pia Farrenkopf last week, when a contractor was dispatched to the property when it went into foreclosure. The remains found in the backseat of a jeep parked in the home's garage have not been positively identified yet, but authorities believe the body belongs to Farrenkopf. Adding more mystery to the gruesome discovery is the fact that Farrenkopf registered to vote in 2006 and even cast a vote in the 2010 elections, though authorities believe she died at some point in 2008. |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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Minnesota: GOP endorses Somali Muslim for state house
The Republican Party of Minnesota is proud to announce that Abdimalik Askar is the endorsed Republican candidate running for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B in Minneapolis. Askar is the first Somali Minnesotan to be endorsed by Republicans to run for the state legislature. “Abdimalik Askar is a dynamic candidate, and we are so pleased that he stepped forward to run,” said Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman, Keith Downey. ”It is exciting for Republicans to endorse someone from the Somali community, but more importantly, he would represent his district so well. He is a very talented individual. And he stands strongly for the American Dream and the values of his community “ What are the values of his community? “Askar is basing his positive message of opportunity on conservative values including better schools and school choice, small businesses, family values, and promoting diversity within our communities.“ |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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Bootlegger to Congress: Meet the man who got members booze during Prohibition
During the days of Prohibition, there was perhaps no one with easier access to alcohol in the nation’s capital than the very people responsible for ratifying the constitutional amendment that banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol: members of Congress. |
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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Republican David Jolly beats Alex Sink in Florida special election
Republican David Jolly narrowly defeated Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday in a Tampa-area House race largely seen as a critical test for ObamaCare. |
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
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5 FACTS to Know On the 4-Year Anniversary of Nancy Pelosi’s Stupidest Quote Ever
It was four years ago today that Nancy Pelosi uttered this infamous line. The legislation was passed and at the very least we now we know the following 5 FACTS:
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
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HORRIBLE: Family Hospitalized by Eating Meat Laced with LSD From WALMART
A pregnant woman went into labor early and her young children were rushed to hospital after accidentally eating LSD in steak bought from a Florida WalMart. |
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
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The startling Obamacare fee you may soon have to pay
March 31 is the deadline for people to enroll in a health insurance plan for 2014 or pay a penalty fee. There are so many complex details in the ACA that it’s easy to lose track of what ordinary people are supposed to do. Plus, nobody knocks on your door or gives you a call to remind you of your civic duty. So it may come as an unhappy surprise to certain Americans that the penalty for foregoing health insurance in 2014 could be as high as $3,600 per person — and more for a family. |
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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These 9 States Have Outlawed Agenda 21 to Protect Property Rights
HB 2807, the Oklahoma Community Protection Act (OCPA), has been passed in order to shield Oklahoman’s rights to private property and due process within state borders. Last year, the Oklahoma State legislature passed HB 1412 through the Oklahoma State’s Rights Committee to halt implementation of Agenda 21 within state limits. HB 1412 was written to ensure that “the state or any political subdivision of the state shall not adopt or implement policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe upon or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to United Nations Agenda 21/Sustainable Development and any of its subsequent modifications, a resolution adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and commonly known as the Earth Summit and reconfirmed in its Rio+20 Conference held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the Constitution of the United States or the Oklahoma Constitution.” |
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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Cape Coral woman living "off the grid" may be heading to federal court
FORT MYERS, Fla.- A Cape Coral woman living off the grid may be getting some outside legal help in her battle with city code enforcement. The city says what Robin Speronis is doing is illegal. A national legal defense organization is now suggesting it's ready to take the City of Cape Coral to Federal court. 
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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WILLFUL IGNORANCE: Gun Control Lobby Continues to Ignore Facts About Background Checks
For example, in 2010, only 62 out of 72,659 NICS denials led to prosecutions by the federal government – and only 13 of those prosecutions resulted in a conviction. That’s .0001 percent. |
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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Blame The Bay State For Voter Registration
But by 1801, Massachusetts was growing — fast. And the Congress of the Commonwealth decided it needed a system to enforce the restrictions. So they passed a law requiring that officials in each town make a list of residents who met the requirements. If your name wasn’t on the list come election day, you couldn’t vote. It was the nation’s first voter registration law. |
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Obamacare Architect: ‘Be Prepared to Kiss Your Insurance Company Good-Bye Forever’
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects behind Obamacare, is now claiming that “insurance companies as we know them are about to die.” Critics of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law have long alleged that one of the real goals of the law was to put private insurance companies out of business. |
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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One in Three Say They’ve Been Personally Hurt by Obamacare
One-third of Americans say the Affordable Care Act has had a negative impact on them personally, while 14 percent say the law has helped them, according to a new Rasmussen survey. The poll finds that public dissatisfaction with Obamcare remains nearly as high as it was during the height of the website’s problems last year. |
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years
A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected. The virus only infects single-celled organisms and doesn't closely resemble any known pathogens that harm humans. Even so, the new discovery raises the possibility that as the climate warms and exploration expands in long-untouched regions of Siberia, humans could release ancient or eradicated viruses. These could include Neanderthal viruses or even smallpox that have lain dormant in the ice for thousands of years. "There is now a non-zero probability that the pathogenic microbes that bothered [ancient human populations] could be revived, and most likely infect us as well," study co-author Jean-Michel Claverie, a bioinformatics researcher at Aix-Marseille University in France, wrote in an email. "Those pathogens could be banal bacteria (curable with antibiotics) or resistant bacteria or nasty viruses. If they have been extinct for a long time, then our immune system is no longer prepared to respond to them." (A "non-zero" probability just means the chances of the event happening are not "impossible.") |
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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No climate change impact on insurance biz: Buffett
While the question of climate change "deserves lots of attention," Buffett said in a " Squawk Box " interview, "It has no effect ... [on] the prices we're charging this year versus five years ago. And I don't think it'll have an effect on what we're charging three years or five years from now." |
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
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California conservative group endorses Tim Donnelly for governor
Gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly received the imprimatur Sunday of a conservative group once deemed the "conscience" of the state GOP by Ronald Reagan. "I want my state back. I want my freedom back," Donnelly told hundreds of delegates and supporters at a California Republican Assembly convention in Buena Park. "You are going to be the key, because … you are the foot soldiers of freedom." |
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
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MARDI GRAS FLOATS MOCK OBAMA AND OBAMACARE!
At least three Mardi Gras floats mocking Obamacare have been spotted in New Orleans, according to pictures posted Saturday at Fire Andrea Mitchell. The first picture was posted to Twitter on Friday, and depicted store front-like edifices with slogans like “Keep your doctor,” and “Keep your plan,” a reference to promises repeatedly made by President Obama — one of which was named Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” for 2013. |
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
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Obamacare Architect: ‘Be Prepared to Kiss Your Insurance Company Good-Bye Forever’
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects behind Obamacare, is now claiming that “insurance companies as we know them are about to die.” Critics of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law have long alleged that one of the real goals of the law was to put private insurance companies out of business. |
February 2014
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Friday, February 28, 2014
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Fourth-quarter growth cut to 2.4 percent
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.4 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday. That was down sharply from the 3.2 percent pace reported last month and the 4.1 percent logged in the third quarter. |
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
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California Governor Jerry Brown says will seek re-election
Brown, 75, made the announcement by tweeting a picture of himself filling out his candidacy papers, along with a statement saying he was looking forward to another four years as governor. |
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Convicted international terrorist hired as Obamacare navigator in Chicago
Rasmieh Yousef Odeh’s navigator status was quietly revoked in November “based on an investigation which revealed that she had been convicted in Israel for her role in the bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem and failed to reveal the conviction on her application,” according to the National Review Online. |
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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Rand Paul: Obama’s surgeon general pick will use post to attack 2nd Amendment
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is objecting to President Obama’s nominee to be the next Surgeon General of the United States because of what he says is a history of political advocacy and push for gun controls. |
Florida woman living off solar power and rain water ordered to use city utilities
Robin Speronis, of Cape Coral, has drawn national attention for living without running water or electricity, which Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled Thursday violated city codes. The magistrate ruled that Speronis must pay for water service and ordered her sewer capped until she did so, reported The News-Press. “This resident provided testimony at the code compliance hearing that she has been living in the home for the past year and using the city’s wastewater system without paying for the service,” said Connie Barron, a spokeswoman for the city. But the magistrate also ruled that the city had overstepped its authority and may have violated due process procedures by failing to give Speronis proper notice of the alleged violations. (What do her property taxes pay for? ~ Rodney Spooner) |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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Climate engineering is not working: Researchers
This comes as a spanner in the works of those working night and day to evolve policies and mechanisms to arrest climate change. The implementation of climate engineering technologies as a last ditch effort to combat the escalating effects of climate change could, in fact, make things worse, assert a team of researchers. |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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Many big U.S. corporations pay very little in taxes: study
(Reuters) - Many of the most profitable U.S. corporations paid little or no federal income tax from 2008 to 2012, according to a five-year study issued on Tuesday by a left-leaning tax activist group. |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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California college student teaches school $50,000 lesson on Constitution
Robert Van Tuinen, 26, settled with Modesto Junior College just five months after his run-in with school officials on Sept. 17 – National Constitution Day. Van Tuinen said he’s more excited about getting the school to revise its speech codes, which previously confined the First Amendment to a small area students had to sign up to use. |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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California Sen. Rod Wright to take leave of absence
The announcement comes several weeks after a Los Angeles County jury found Wright, D-Baldwin Hills, guilty of eight counts of voter fraud and perjury stemming from charges that he lied about where he lived when he ran for the state Senate in 2008. |
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Monday, February 24, 2014
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Governors erupt in partisan dispute at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing. |
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Monday, February 24, 2014
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Sen. Ron Calderon expected to surrender on corruption charges
Los Angeles Time - State Sen. Ronald S. Calderon, who was indicted last week on corruption charges and accused of taking $100,000 in bribes, is expected to surrender Monday to federal authorities and appear for arraignment in federal court, his attorney said. For more information click on images below.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
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Proposed budget will reportedly shrink Army to pre-WWII numbers
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will reportedly propose a Pentagon budget that will shrink the U.S. Army to its smallest number since 1940 and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets. |
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Friday,
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U.S.Navy SEALS On Power Grid Attack: ‘A Carbon Copy’ Of How We Would Do It
The threat of a breakdown of our national power infrastructure has been a growing concern for the last decade. With the invention of “Super EMP” electro-magneticpulse weapons, the possibility of Carrington-class solar flares, and the potential for cyber attackers to remotely compromise our interconnected computer systems, there may come a time in our country’s future when our entire way of life is threatened because we no longer have access to the one thing that keeps it all moving – electricity. Outgoing Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano recently suggested that such a widespread outage is imminent and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke who is a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee concluded that the chance of a serious geo-magnetic event crippling our power grid is 100%. |
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Friday,
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Friday, February 21, 2014
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The right to bear arms doesn’t stop at the front door
Few people, if any, would dare suggest that any of the other Bill of Rights be limited to the privacy of one’s home. |
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Friday, February 21, 2014
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Plan to divide California into 6 states advances
California has reached the breaking point, says Tim Draper. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist is pushing a proposal to crack the nation's most populous state into smaller pieces — six of them. |
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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Foes from left, right, try to oust Ky.'s McConnell
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrats dream of driving U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell into retirement this year, ridding President Barack Obama of one of his fiercest opponents. Tea partyers have the same dream, but they say the Senate's Republican leader actually is too accommodating to Democrats. |
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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White House report on economic stimulus rekindles debate five years later
Many Americans remain doubtful about how helpful the stimulus was for an economy that still struggles to recover from a deep recession that took hold in 2008. |
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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Obama's Eligibility: The Final Word
What generated my recent exchange on the subject of presidential eligibility was an article in the January 31, 2014 edition of pegAlert, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Business Council. The article in question was titled, “SANTORUM PREPPING FOR ANOTHER RUN IN 2016.” |
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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Obama Wants To Kill American Citizen Without A Trial
The Obama administration’s unwavering support of automated drone strikes has grown into one of many issues that have caused great concern among millions of Americans. According to a recent Associated Press report, the White House is only compounding the controversy as officials decide whether to use a drone strike to kill a U.S. citizen. The Obama administration’s unwavering support of automated drone strikes has grown into one of many issues that have caused great concern among millions of Americans. According to a recent Associated Press report, the White House is only compounding the controversy as officials decide whether to use a drone strike to kill a U.S. citizen. Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-wants-kill-american-citizen-without-trial/#O1pld5fb06RR2PBM.99The Obama administration’s unwavering support of automated drone strikes has grown into one of many issues that have caused great concern among millions of Americans. According to a recent Associated Press report, the White House is only compounding the controversy as officials decide whether to use a drone strike to kill a U.S. citizen. Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-wants-kill-american-citizen-without-trial/#O1pld5fb06RR2PBM.99 |
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Monday, February 10, 2014
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Monday, February 10, 2014
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Holder’s same-sex marriage move heats up separation of powers debate
Attorney Eric Holder is making sweeping changes about how the federal government extends rights to legally married same-sex couples, in areas where the federal government has jurisdiction. The move should add more fuel to the debate over the roles of the executive, Congress and the states in deciding social issues. |
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
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No injuries in Illinois ammunition plant blaze
No one was injured during the Sunday morning blaze at Winchester Ammunition Plant in East Alton. Fire officials say the fire happened at a maintenance building. East Alton Fire Chief Randy Nelson says firefighters arrived to find "heavy smoke and fire." Nelson says the community isn't in any danger because the plant is in an isolated area. As many as seven local fire departments were called to help put out the fire. The cause is under investigation. |
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
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How U.S. flag bearer Todd Lodwick could break the law at Opening Ceremony
While marching into a stadium and parading a flag might seem like a relatively routine task – albeit with billions of eyes watching – flag bearers actually have several things to remember as they perform the honor at an Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Making sure the American flag is held high is considered the most important. |
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
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Climate hubs courtesy of Executive Order
With this week’s Senate passage of the ‘Farm Bill’ and now via Executive Order, Barack HUSSEIN Obama has created seven regional ‘so-called’ climate hubs claiming they will help farmers and rural communities respond more successfully to the risks and effects of climate change…including drought, invasive pests, climate related wildfires, and floods.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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Sheila Jackson Lee: Writing executive orders for Obama to sign ‘our number one agenda’
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said that the new Congressional Full Employment Caucus will “give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign.” Jackson Lee added that writing up executive orders “should be our number one agenda.” |
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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New Jersey's Rob Andrews to Resign From Congress, Per Report
Rep. Robert E. Andrews, D-N.J., will resign from Congress this month to take a job with a Philadelphia law firm, a Democratic aide confirmed to CQ Andrews, an ally of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is scheduled to host an 11:30 a.m. |
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Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is scheduled to host an 11:30 a.m. news conference in his southern New Jersey district, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which first reported the news.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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The Constitution Outside the Courts: President Obama
Many Americans, not just the courts, help shape the meaning of the Constitution in the nation’s life. This series explains the actual or potential contributions of these other individuals, groups, or institutions. Today’s Constitution-maker is President Obama. In his State of the Union message last week, the President declared a measure of independence from Congress, saying that he would not wait for the legislative process to take action that he believed was necessary. |
January 2014
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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How Rick Santorum is laying the groundwork for another presidential run
It’s at events like this gathering before the March for Life, which marked the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, that Santorum is conducting a presidential campaign in waiting. There were banners, aides, supporters, a stump speech — a whole campaign-style apparatus organized by Patriot Voices, a conservative advocacy group the former Republican presidential hopeful founded after ceding the field to Mitt Romney in April 2012. |
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
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20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown
Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China? |
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of 539 examples of his lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.
Every President, every politician, and every human being tells lies and engages in acts of hypocrisy. But Barack Obama does these things to a far greater degree than anyone else that I have ever known of. His campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else’s – no lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to make sure money isn’t being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals, ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it’s legal, high levels of transparency. Obama’s promises of these wonderful things sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises. |
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
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How can a body so majorly disdained, at least recently, almost assuredly punch its ticket for another two-year term? The answers, political scientists say, are complex. But if you need a simpler reason now, look locally at voters’ perspectives. ("The Myth of Sisyphus" by Flickr user Andrew Allingham.)
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Monday, January 1, 2014
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
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Rand Paul Backs Amnesty If Illegals Can’t Vote Immediately
"The problem is, is the sticking point going to be we have to have immediate voting privileges for those who came here illegally,” Paul added. “If the Democrats are willing to come halfway, I think we can pass some meaningful reform.” |
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
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My New Year's resolution...
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May your New Year be merrier
and more prosperous than last year!
