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OVERSIGHT ARCHIVE, APR-JUN 2014

NEWS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GLEANED FROM THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA

IF YOU LIKE YOUR TEA PARTY YOU CAN KEEP YOUR TEA PARTY•

Compiled by Ed. Wolff – Updated July 6, 2014

As more recent OVERSIGHT posts preempt older posts, those older posts are moved here to serve as a searchable resource.

The Palm Beach County Tea Party (PBCTP) Oversight Function helps members understand current events. Below is a copy of what was sent out in the weekly email. The text beneath each link is a synopsis of the material. A visit to the link provides more detail.

Items in this report generally satisfy the following four criteria:
Underreported: Not likely to be seen or heard elsewhere by the reader
Timely: Occurred since the previous report was issued.
Germaine: Deals with Tea Party precepts and/or Constitutional issues.
Non-Fiction: Not just on someone’s wish list.

This report does not represent any official positions of the PBCTP.

OVERSIGHT CONTRIBUTORS

The people involved in the oversight activities and the initials used to identify their contributions are:
Marion Frank – M.F., Barbara, Mel Grossman – B.M.G.

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Please send any comments you have to: oversight@palmbeachcountyteaparty.org.

The more recent archived information, reported first, includes:

Posted 6/29/2014

1. What You Are Not Being Told About the Invasion of America
2. Arrested For Anti-Obama Posts
3. Man says apartment complex called his US flag a ‘threat to Muslim community’
4. Who will stop this imposter?
5. Bird conversancy group sues U.S. over 30-year permits to legally kill eagles
6. Kerry: US to share information with Iran about the Sunni jihadists in Iraq
7. Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
8. City Shuts Down Kid’s Free Library Lending Box
9. Eric Holder’s DOJ Sets Up ‘Terrorism Committee’ to Investigate ‘Anti-Government’ Extremism
10. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Grants Itself Authority to Shut Down Any Business at Anytime
11. Martial law: the regime’s end game?
12. Defund HUD’s Affirmative-Action Zoning
13. Stunning: DHS solicited bids for vendor to handle 65,000 unaccompanied minors — IN JANUARY!
14. House Republicans elected a new Majority Leader who is even more liberal than Eric Cantor.
15. Another American Company Goes Abroad, Escaping High Tax Rates
16. New EPA Regs Issued Under Obama Are 38 Times as Long as Bible
17. Global Warming ‘Fabricated’ By NASA And NOAA
18. Outrageous Video: DHS Trashes Couple’s Home, Strips Woman Naked at Gunpoint, Offers No Explanation
19. UN Accelerates Plan For Global Gun Confiscation After Collapse
20. More Pushback: Tennessee Quits Common Core Aligned Test
21. The Bill of No Rights
22. US military personnel forced to submit to the sharia during Ramadan
23. 6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds
24. Shocking! Obama Announces New World Order 2014 Speech
25. Trey Gowdy’s hilarious dream about fellow politicians

1.
What You Are Not Being Told About the Invasion of America
. Rome burned as Nero fiddled. Today, the American-Mexican border is going up in smoke. America is being invaded and successfully occupied. Obama is fanning the flames of border violence and artificially contrived human destitution through his unyielding attitude of corporate servitude resulting in providing the globalists with an endless supply of cheap, illegal alien labor regardless of the cost to the American people and their safety as well as the safety of the immigrants themselves. And on a more grand scale, this crisis is one more nail in the coffin in America and Obama knows exactly what he is doing.

2.
Arrested For Anti-Obama Posts
. People across America are getting arrested for posting non-violent criticisms of Barak Obama. In the case you are about to see, one Marine veteran was sent to psychiatric training and diagnosed with ODD (Opposition Defiance Disorder) for his criticism of the way the government is being run.

3.
Man says apartment complex called his US flag a ‘threat to Muslim community’
. A Webster man says his apartment complex manager told him his American flag was a “threat to the Muslim community,” and that he has to take it down. But he’s not giving up without a fight. Stepping onto Duy Tran’s balcony in Webster, one thing is clear: “It means a lot to me,” he said. He’s talking about his American flag that he proudly put up when he moved in just a few days ago. But then an apartment manager at the Lodge on El Dorado told him he had to take it down. “What really stunned me is that she said it’s a threat towards the Muslim community,” said Tran. “I’m not a threat toward anybody.” We tried to ask a manager if that’s exactly what was said, but she just handed us a statement, refused to answer any questions, and called an officer to escort us off the property, before we could press any further:

4.
Who will stop this imposter?
. When the bull is escorted from the china shop after all the pieces are broken, it’s hard to put things back together. The United States is the china shop…guess who’s the bull. I suggest that the horns are the president and the body belongs to the Democratic party. For those who haven’t listened; didn’t care; belittled the soothsayers; sloughed off the radicals and ridiculed the lovers of this country, what you’re seeing now is the beginning of the end. The illegitimate president of this once great land has been running rampant with nothing to stop him. From left-wing Supreme Court justices to Benghazi to Solyndra to disregard of limitations on presidential powers to borders wide open to illegals, drug traffickers and open invitations to hundreds of thousands of illegal children from everywhere south to house- feed-educate in camps and border cities.

5.
Bird conversancy group sues U.S. over 30-year permits to legally kill eagles
. A bird advocacy group sued the U.S. government on Thursday over rules it says loosen protections for eagles killed by wind turbines, arguing they threaten decades of protection that saved the bald eagle, America’s national emblem, from extinction. The American Bird Conservancy filed suit in federal court in California to challenge the authorization of 30-year permits to renewable energy developers to accidentally kill protected bald and golden eagles, which may die as a result of collisions with towering wind turbines.

6.
Kerry: US to share information with Iran about the Sunni jihadists in Iraq
. “We are interested in communicating with Iran. That the Iranians know what we’re thinking, that we know what they’re thinking and there is a sharing of information so people aren’t making mistakes,” Kerry said. Actually, the Iranians do know what Kerry and Obama are thinking. But do Kerry and Obama know what they’re thinking? Absolutely not. What the Iranian mullahs are thinking is, Let’s see how much of our dirty work in Iraq we can get the foolish kuffar to do for us, weakening them and making it easier for us to ultimately destroy them.” They’re thinking, “Kerry and Obama keep surprising us about how stupid they really are.”

7.
Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
. Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2%1 of world trade in services. The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most joint changes, which also covers cross-border data flow. In a significant anti-transparency manoeuvre by the parties, the draft has been classified to keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force.

8.
City Shuts Down Kid’s Free Library Lending Box
. In Leawood, Kansas, 9-year-old Spencer Collin’s attempts to share free books lasted a week before being shut down by city ordinance. Not too much bigger than a mail box, what started as a Mother’s Day gift to also help the neighborhood, is now relegated to the garage as of Wednesday. Spencer’s vision for his little free library was for people to “get into reading, get to know your neighbors, and just make new, meet new people, make friends.” But the city warned the family with a notice to stop, actually claiming that “the little house” is an accessory structure, buildings that aren’t attached to the house. A building? Would it help if it was shaped like a shoe? Poor Spencer thought he could get around the law by attaching a rope from the house to the box.

9.
Eric Holder’s DOJ Sets Up ‘Terrorism Committee’ to Investigate ‘Anti-Government’ Extremism
. It is not a controversial claim to state that Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the Department of Justice. In the past, this politicization has amounted to stonewalling, monitoring journalists, or dropping ideologically inconvenient cases. But now the Department of Justice is shifting gears into overdrive and is intent on finding the roots of “anti-government” animus (as if it’s a condition of citizenship to support the government no matter what).

10.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Grants Itself Authority to Shut Down Any Business at Anytime
. Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, through the power of Dodd-Frank, passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes through a cease-and-desist order. Further, the rule puts businesses at the mercy of the CFPB and they cannot go back into operation until government approval or a court ruling is made over an issue. Subsequently because bureaucratic decisions and court rulings take a substantial amount of time to happen, businesses cannot survive during those waiting periods.

11.
Martial law: the regime’s end game?
. “Soft tyranny,” was first coined by Alexander de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America” as: “Whenever the social conditions of a particular community hinder any prospect of hope among its members.” Some differentiate “soft” tyranny from “hard” or Stalin-esque tyranny as being bloodless. But life can be extinguished without a drop of blood being spilled. There is no quicker way to consign an idea to ignominy than to posit what could be construed as a conspiracy theory. But, when six years of presidential policies alone results in the unprecedented grinding of an entire nation into the dirt, perhaps it’s time for wishful thinkers to stop pretending that the Emperor is swathed in sartorial splendor and that he is, instead, naked. Preferably before our soft tyranny gets very, very hard. Then it will be too late.

12.
Defund HUD’s Affirmative-Action Zoning
. Using its power of the purse, Congress can stop what might be the most disturbing social-engineering project ever undertaken by the federal government. Will it? Last week, House Republicans pushed through an amendment to a HUD spending bill that defunds enforcement of the agency’s new “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule. The Orwellian-sounding regulation, set for final OK in October, would force some 1,200 municipalities to redraw zoning maps to racially diversify suburban neighborhoods. Now it’s up to Senate Republicans to tie up this local power grab by the Obama administration. Under the scheme, HUD plans to map every U.S. neighborhood by race and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances. Areas deemed overly segregated will be forced to change their zoning laws to allow construction of subsidized and other affordable housing to bring more low-income minorities into “white suburbs.” HUD’s maps will be used to select affordable housing sites. It’s part of an ambitious agenda to eliminate “racial segregation,” ZIP code by ZIP code, block by block, through the systematic dismantling of allegedly “exclusionary” building ordinances. In effect, federal bureaucrats will have the power to rezone your neighborhood.

13.
Stunning: DHS solicited bids for vendor to handle 65,000 unaccompanied minors — IN JANUARY!
. The Obama administration’s claim to have been surprised by the wave of children flooding over out borders may turn out to be another political lie of the year. Sundance of Conservative Treehouse noticed a very peculiar advertisement: On January 29th of this year, the federal government posted an advertisement seeking bids for a vendor contract to handle “Unaccompanied Alien Children“.

14.
House Republicans elected a new Majority Leader who is even more liberal than Eric Cantor.
. When given an opportunity to change direction, House Republicans elected a leader who is even more liberal than Eric Cantor. House Republicans replaced House Majority Leader Eric Cantor with his lackluster 52% conservative rating with Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who has an abominable 42% rating! If that wasn’t bad enough, they also promoted Steve Scalise (R-LA) to Majority Whip. Scalise is known for weakening the once formidable conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC). He even fired Dr. Paul Teller, the RSC’s Executive Director, for working too closely with conservative groups.

15.
Another American Company Goes Abroad, Escaping High Tax Rates
. The world’s largest medical technology company, Medtronic, has announced plans to move its corporate headquarters from Minneapolis to Dublin, Ireland. With U.S. corporate tax rate at a mighty 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, it is no wonder Medtronic would rather operate from Ireland, where the tax rate is only 12.5 percent.

16.
New EPA Regs Issued Under Obama Are 38 Times as Long as Bible
. Since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued 2,827 new final regulations, equaling 24,915 pages in the Federal Register, totaling approximately 24,915,000 words. The Gutenberg Bible is only 1,282 pages and 646,128 words. Thus, the new EPA regulations issued by the Obama Administration contain 19 times as many pages as the Bible and 38 times as many words.

17.
Global Warming ‘Fabricated’ By NASA And NOAA
. Scientists at two of the world’s leading climate centres – NASA and NOAA – have been caught out manipulating temperature data to overstate the extent of the 20th century “global warming”. The evidence of their tinkering can clearly be seen at Real Science, where blogger Steven Goddard has posted a series of graphs which show “climate change” before and after the adjustments. When the raw data is used, there is little if any evidence of global warming and some evidence of global cooling. However, once the data has been adjusted – ie fabricated by computer models – 20th century ‘global warming’ suddenly looks much more dramatic.

18.
Outrageous Video: DHS Trashes Couple’s Home, Strips Woman Naked at Gunpoint, Offers No Explanation
. In America, we have certain rights. Central to our civil liberties is a presumption of innocence until having been found guilty in a court of law and the right of citizens to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. One Florida couple found out the hard way that though these rights exist in theory, the modern federal government feels free to play fast-and-loose with these concepts. At approximately 6:16 am on June 10th, 2014, Kari Edwards and her live-in boyfriend were seized upon by a SWAT team who smashed in the door and using flashbangs and armed to the teeth, swarmed upon the couple and even stripped Ms. Edwards naked in the process.

19.
UN Accelerates Plan For Global Gun Confiscation After Collapse
. The United Nations is gearing up for gun confiscation in the event of a societal collapse in numerous countries by hiring “disarmament, demobilization and reintegration” officers who will be trained to seize guns “from the civilian population.” A posting on the United Nations Career Opportunities page announces a vacancy for the position of “Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Officer” under the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations based out of New York. The UN’s page on DDR operations explains what role the DDR officer will be expected to undertake; Disarmament is the collection, documentation, control and disposal of small arms, ammunition, explosives and light and heavy weapons from combatants and often from the civilian population.

20.
More Pushback: Tennessee Quits Common Core Aligned Test
. Tennessee has removed itself from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing consortium aligned to the Common Core national education standards, joining the ranks of 18 other states pushing back against Common Core. Gov. Bill Haslam, Commissioner of Education Kevin Huffman and the chair of the state board of education, Fielding Rolston, sent a letter to PARCC CEO Laura Slover announcing the state’s decision to exit PARCC and re-adopt the old state exam, the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program. This letter follows legislation passed by the state legislature and signed by Haslam in May.

21.
The Bill of No Rights
. it was written in 1993 by Lewis Napper, who ran for a Senate seat from Mississippi in 2000 as a libertarian. As he recounts: In the first days of the Clinton presidency, as taxes increased and the administration plotted a takeover of the nation’s health care system, Napper grew sick of watching as “our true rights were eroded, always in the name of giving everyone some new imaginary ‘right.’ “ One day in 1993, after hearing a Hillary Clinton speech on the radio, Napper had had enough. He skipped his lunch break at a computer consulting job, and sat down at his keyboard to bang out a response. In less than an hour, he had written the “Bill of No Rights,” which became “the e-mail heard ’round the world.”

22.
US military personnel forced to submit to the sharia during Ramadan
. Our troops must adhere to the sharia during the Islamic month of Ramadanin Bahrain and outher Muslim countries. Subjected to dawah (proselytizing) by an a base Islamic cultural adviser at the Naval Support Activity, soldiers are forced to sit through lessons on Islam. No eating, drinking, alcohol, smoking during the month of Ramadan. This is what the Obama administration and the US military are obsessed with as armies of jihad tear through the Middle East.

23.
6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds
. Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org. “Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote. “Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage,” she said. The latest interstate voter cross check tallied 6,951,484 overlapping voter registrations, and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.

24.
Shocking! Obama Announces New World Order 2014 Speech
. Nineteen seconds that tell all one needs to know about our President’s governing philosophy.

25.
Trey Gowdy’s hilarious dream about fellow politicians
. A joke that starts with three politicians died on the same day and went to Heaven, you just know will be funny.

Posted 6/22/2014

1. Georgia To Seize Dormant Bank Accounts: “Government is Going to Grab it”
2. Integrity Florida statement on Gov. Scott signing inspectors general reform bill
3. Wind Turbines Causing Mothers to Eat Their Own Babies, Says Mink Farmer
4. Al Qaeda/ISIS leader: ‘See You in New York’
5. Liberal groups angry with SC pols over order to teach Constitution
6. Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no children died
7. Louisiana gov. Bobby Jindal vetoes controversial common core bill
8. Obama Quietly Releases 12 Jihad Terrorists From US Military Prison in Afghanistan
9. The Freedom Mask
10. The United States of Debt: Total Debt In America Hits A New Record High Of Nearly 60 Trillion Dollars
11. Florida’s Economy is An $800 Billion Powerhouse
12. Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles
13. Bill Signing Makes Florida 22nd State to Pass Medical Marijuana Legislation
14. Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High
15. IRS Head Koskinen Lied About ‘Lost’ Lerner Emails
16. Obama Unilaterally Puts Huge Swaths Of Pacific Ocean Off-Limits To Development
17. IRS Was Required By Law to Print Out Lois Lerner’s Emails
18. Company That Created Obamacare Website LINKED To Benghazi Video
19. The Death Of The Rust Belt
20. The First Organism with Artificial DNA
21. Jindal order would make Louisiana latest state to pull out of Common Core
22. High School In Woodbury Blocks Students From Accessing Conservative Sites
23. U.S. Military blocks infowars.com
24. DHS to pay for illegal immigrants to be escorted into U.S.
25. Pat Sajak finds missing Lois Lerner emails, wins the Internet

1.
Georgia To Seize Dormant Bank Accounts: “Government is Going to Grab it”
. According to Simon Black at Sovereign Man, the State of Georgia has taken the unprecedented step of lowering the threshold on inactive or dormant bank accounts to just twelve months. What that means to average Georgians is that if you fail to utilize your account within one year your deposited funds will be confiscated by the state. Though all 50 states have regulations pertaining to dormant bank accounts, Black says that Georgia takes the grand prize in how swiftly they’re prepared to go after your money.

2.
Integrity Florida statement on Gov. Scott signing inspectors general reform bill
. “Inspectors general are the public’s watchdogs within state government but they need more independence to do their jobs effectively,” said Dan Krassner, executive director of the nonpartisan research institute and government watchdog group Integrity Florida. “This law should reduce the influence of state agency heads over the internal government watchdogs who audit and investigate their agencies.

3.
Wind Turbines Causing Mothers to Eat Their Own Babies, Says Mink Farmer
. The owner of a Danish mink farm at the centre of a controversy over nearby wind turbines has reported more casualties among his animals. Breitbart London reported on Tuesday that the turbines have been linked to a series of miscarriages and deformities among the mink, as well as increasingly aggressive behaviour, but the farmer now says that things have got worse, with healthy pups having to be put down. The farmer reports having to separate the mothers from their young after they became aggressive and started attacking them. This happened at the same time that the wind changed to the south, bringing the noise from the turbines directly over the farm.

4.
Al Qaeda/ISIS leader: ‘See You in New York’
. When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island. The Islamist extremist some are now calling the most dangerous man in the world had a few parting words to his captors as he was released from the biggest U.S. detention camp in Iraq in 2009.“He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’” recalls Army Col. Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca.

5.
Liberal groups angry with SC pols over order to teach Constitution
. The South Carolina legislature has rankled liberal groups after requiring that a pair of public schools use state funds to teach the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents — on the heels of a budget fight over gay-themed books in the curriculum. State House lawmakers previously had cut funds from two public universities in retaliation for required-reading material containing homosexual themes. A revised budget passed by both the House and the Senate earlier this month, though, restored the money — but dictated that exact amount be spent “for instruction in the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers, including the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals.”

6.
Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no children died
. Sofia Smallstorm, who produced and directed the documentary, “Unraveling Sandy Hook”, which many regard as the best video study of the Sandy Hook event, recently interviewed a Los Angeles school expert, Paul Preston, about Sandy Hook and his knowledge of what had transpired. Remarkably, we now have confirmation from an unexpected source. Paul Preston had obtained information from officials in the U.S. Department of Education of the Barack Obama administration, who confirmed to him on the basis of their own personal knowledge that: (1) it had been a drill; (2) no children had been killed; and, (3) it had been done to promote an anti-gun agenda.

7.
Louisiana gov. Bobby Jindal vetoes controversial common core bill – B.M.G.
. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed Friday a controversial bill that many critics of the Common Core standards said would bind the state further both to the nationalized standards and the PARCC tests aligned to them. According to The Advocate, the measure, House Bill 953, which was sponsored by state Rep. Walt Leger (D), would give students, teachers, and schools one more year to prepare for the Common Core standards. “Given the widespread opposition and the gravity of any decision that affects our children, I have vetoed House Bill 953 and hereby return it to the House of Representatives,” Jindal wrote. The governor added that the measure “would significantly impair parents’ ability to have clear information about the performance of their child’s school and teachers’ ability to have meaningful feedback.”

8.
Obama Quietly Releases 12 Jihad Terrorists From US Military Prison in Afghanistan
. First it was the five top Taliban commanders traded for the traitor Bowe Bergdahl. Now this. The traitor in the White House seems determined to endanger Americans by releasing as many jihadis as he can. It’s no wonder that these releases were not publicly announced. But no worries: the Pakistanis say they’ll monitor these jihadis to make sure they don’t have any “militant ties.” That’s right: the pro-jihad Pakistani government will make sure that everything is fine.

9.
The Freedom Mask
. America, the land of the free… or is it? Home of the brave, land of the free. That is what we are supposed to believe. What we are conditioned to believe. Consider this: A rat born in captivity doesn’t know anything else. We could label that captivity “freedom” and the rat would know no difference. We who were born in America have been told time and time again that we are free and that other countries hate us for our freedom and that we must spread that freedom throughout the world. We are taught to believe that our troops are sent to kill and die to protect us from those that hate us, and that if they didn’t, we would live in captivity, slavery, and authoritarian rule. But what if it’s all a lie? What if the freedom that we cherish is actually a carefully constructed mask designed to fool those within and without the nation, disguising the true nature of the beast system that we live under? A system created by those who would be king? A system of slavery so complete that we, like the rat, cannot tell the difference because the cage is all we know? What if the freedom that we imagine ourselves to have is all an illusion? Poof! Gone like the wind. Out the door like yesterday’s trash.

10.
The United States of Debt: Total Debt In America Hits A New Record High Of Nearly 60 Trillion Dollars
. What would you say if I told you that Americans are nearly 60 TRILLION dollars in debt? Well, it is true. When you total up all forms of debt including government debt, business debt, mortgage debt and consumer debt, we are 59.4 trillion dollars in debt. That is an amount of money so large that it is difficult to describe it with words. For example, if you were alive when Jesus Christ was born and you had spent 80 million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent 59.4 trillion dollars by now. And most of this debt has been accumulated in recent decades. If you go back 40 years ago, total debt in America was sitting at about 2.2 trillion dollars. Somehow over the past four decades we have allowed the total amount of debt in the United States to get approximately 27 times larger. This is utter insanity, and anyone that thinks this is sustainable is completely deluded. We are living in the greatest debt bubble of all time, and there is no way that this is going to end well. Just check out the chart…

11.
Florida’s Economy is An $800 Billion Powerhouse
. If the Sunshine State was a country, Florida’s economy would be the 18th largest in the world – larger than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Chile and Argentina. Florida’s economy can be measured any number of ways. From employment and unemployment rates to education rankings and income metrics- there are a number of ways to examine how Florida is moving toward a prosperous future. One important economic measure we will focus on in this Scorecard Did You Know is Florida’s gross domestic product (GDP).

12.
Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles
. Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some cars. The apps are also a gray area when it comes to laws banning the use of cellphones or texting while driving. The Transportation Department wants to enter the argument. The department is intensifying its battle against distracted driving by seeking explicit authority from Congress to regulate navigation aids of all types, including apps on smartphones. The measure, included in the Obama administration’s proposed transportation bill, would specify that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has the authority to set restrictions on the apps and later order changes if they are deemed dangerous, much the way it currently regulates mechanical features of cars.

13.
Bill Signing Makes Florida 22nd State to Pass Medical Marijuana Legislation
. With the governor’s signature Monday on the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, Florida became the 22nd state in the nation — not counting the District of Columbia, which is also on board — to pass legislation supporting the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

14.
Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High
. The seasonally-adjusted price index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs hit an all-time high in May, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In January 1967, when the BLS started tracking this measure, the index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs was 38.1. As of last May, it was 234.572. By this January, it hit 240.006. By April, it hit 249.362. And, in May, it climbed to a record 252.832. “The index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs has risen 7.7 percent over the span [last year],” says the BLS. “The index for food at home increased 0.7 percent, its largest increase since July 2011. Five of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased in May. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 1.4 percent in May after a 1.5 increase in April, with virtually all its major components increasing,”

15.
IRS Head Koskinen Lied About ‘Lost’ Lerner Emails
. In testimony last March, the IRS chief told Congress that the now-allegedly irretrievable emails were not immediately available because they were safely stored offline. Maybe the NSA can help find them? Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to testify June 23 about Lois Lerner’s suddenly lost emails. One of the topics is expected to be his prior contradictory congressional testimony. Koskinen testified about the emails at an Oversight hearing in March and, as investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson notes, gave quite the opposite impression from the current storyline that has every computer nerd in America rolling on the floor laughing.

16.
Obama Unilaterally Puts Huge Swaths Of Pacific Ocean Off-Limits To Development
. President Barack Obama announced new executive orders Tuesday to make huge swaths of the Pacific Ocean off limits to fishing, energy exploration and other economic activities. The move would create the world’s largest marine sanctuary, and is part of a broader push to tackle global warming and halt offshore energy development. This effort will be led by Secretary of State John Kerry and White House adviser John Podesta Obama’s new executive orders would expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 87,000 square miles to 782,000 square miles. All the waters being put off-limits would are located near U.S.-controlled islands and atolls, and the designation includes waters up to 200 nautical miles within U.S. holdings.

17.
IRS Was Required By Law to Print Out Lois Lerner’s Emails
. The Internal Revenue Service is required by federal law to keep records of all agency emails and to print out hard copies of the emails to make sure they get saved in the event of a computer glitch. The IRS recently claimed that it lost 24,000 of 67,000 emails that ex-official Lois Lerner sent between 2009 and 2011, due to a computer crash. The IRS, which agreed to turn over all of Lerner’s emails to the House Committee on Ways and Means, specifically lost emails Lerner sent to other Obama administration agencies and the White House. Lerner is a major figure in the targeting scandal that has hit the IRS.

18.
Company That Created Obamacare Website LINKED To Benghazi Video
. In a SHOCKING discovery, CGI Federal – the Canadian Company that built the Obamacare website – appears to have a connection to the “Innocence of Muslims” video the Obama administration blamed for the Benghazi attacks. And here’s how it was done: The evidence is well established that in 2010, CGI acquired Stanley Associates, which “provides services to the U.S. federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies”. [1] When the crudely produced video “Innocence of Muslims” was posted to a YouTube it needed a boost, especially since it was posted by someone no one had ever heard of and who had only uploaded two videos – that were basically the same. Well, a YouTube channel known as NewsPoliticsNow3 (NPN3) has been connected to Stanley Associates, the service provider for U.S. defense and “intelligence”. On September 11, 2012, NewsPoliticsNow3 (NPN3) uploaded a short version of the video (only 1:32 of it). It was in fact NPN3 (see screenshot below taken 19 hours after video uploaded) which gave the crude movie a new title “Innocence of Muslims”, instead of the name given previously.

19.
The Death Of The Rust Belt
. Their names are familiar to all of us: Cleveland, Flint, Youngstown, Saginaw, Gary, Toledo, Reading, Akron, Flint and Buffalo were all once booming manufacturing cities that were absolutely packed with thriving middle class families. But now most of the manufacturing jobs are gone and all of those cities are just shadows of their former selves. When you drive through many of these communities, you will notice that a lot of people have a really hollow look in their eyes. Decades of slow, steady economic decline have really taken a toll, and even the architecture in these cities looks depressed. But despite all of the decay, there is still evidence that there was once something truly great about these communities. Will we be able to recapture that greatness before it is too late?

20.
The First Organism with Artificial DNA
. Synthetic biologists have been trying to expand the natural code of DNA, which provides the genetic instructions for all life using just four nucleosides. However, researchers haven’t been able to make the artificial DNA work in a living organism until recently. A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA letters not found in nature. The advance could one day lead to the development of new antibiotics and other products that cells with the natural genetic code cannot make.

21.
Jindal order would make Louisiana latest state to pull out of Common Core
. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an executive order that would effectively make the Bayou State the fourth to withdraw from Common Core this year, but a top education official vowed to implement the national education standards anyway. Jindal, used the order to defy state lawmakers who support the national education standard by requiring competitive bidding for tests tied to education standards. The move would likely block Common Core-tied testing program, known as PARCC for students in third through eighth grades. The tests administered by PARCC, an acronym for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, have not been purchased yet, and Jindal noted they are among the most expensive available.

22.
High School In Woodbury Blocks Students From Accessing Conservative Sites
. A Woodbury High Schooler claims he uncovered political bias in the implementation of a firewall blocking some political Web sites at his school. 18-year-old Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School, said he made the discovery when he was doing research for a classroom debate on gun control in May. Lampart said he first noticed that he could not get on the web site for the National Rifle Association. “So, I went over to the other side. And I went over on sites such as Moms Demand Action or Newtown Action Alliance and I could get on these Web sites but not the others,” Lampart said. Lampart investigated further, by broadening his search terms to Connecticut’s political parties. “I immediately found out that the State Democrat web site was unblocked but the State GOP web site was blocked.”

23.
U.S. Military blocks infowars.com
. Website censored for over 700,000 active duty servicemembers worldwide. A servicemember forwarded the above print out which shows that the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), which serves “more than 707,000 Sailors, Marines and civilians in 620 locations in the continental United States, Hawaii, and Japan, making it the largest internal computer network in the world,” is censoring Infowars.com in order to “safeguard the security posture and/or to maintain the operational integrity of the NMCI.”

24.
DHS to pay for illegal immigrants to be escorted into U.S.
. Minors up to age of 17 to be brought in “with dignity and respect” at taxpayer expense. The Department of Homeland Security is set to pay for illegal minors up to the age of 17 to be escorted into the United States, according to a new solicitation posted at FedBizOpps.. The post does not explain how ICE arrived at the figure of 65,000 children, nor does it clear up why 50% of the illegal minors are arriving via commercial air. The DHS intends to award the chosen vendor(s) 5 year fix priced contracts.

25.
Pat Sajak finds missing Lois Lerner emails, wins the Internet
. Everyone has an opinion on Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner’s missing emails — including “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak. The game show host tweeted this on Saturday: Weird. Hundreds of emails to & from someone named Lerner just showed up in my spam. Must be British. Lots of tea talk.

Posted 6/15/2014

1. A Clueless President That Wears His Incompetence With Pride
2. Personal data on ObamaCare enrollees may be compromised
3. Feds to Spend $2.5M for Juvenile Justice Reform — in Central America
4. Arrogant Obama: ‘My government’ didn’t need Congress for exchange, and we will do it again
5. Bolton slams administration: ‘Children are wonderful, but I don’t think they should be in charge of foreign policy’
6. NYC Council to Walmart: Stop sending your “dangerous dollars” to our city’s charities
7. SHOCK: Obama Forming “Hitler Youth” Under Common Core
8. Obama Hires Lawyers to Aid New Wave of Illegals
9. General Jerry Boykin spells out the Obama plan
10. Obama’s death penalty review risks backlash from the states
11. Opposition to Common Core Mounts As Two More States Pull Out
12. Florida to School Districts: No More Biometric Scanning of Our Kids
13. Scott calls for 90-day comment period on federal All Aboard Florida environmental survey
14. Cloward-Piven At The Border
15. Gov. Scott Signs Bill To Grant In-State Tuition Benefits To Illegal Immigrants
16. Hamas Reveals: Abbas Told Us He is “Tricking the Americans”
17. IRS Sent Sensitive Info of Tax-Exempt Groups to FBI Before 2010 Elections
18. Watch: Megyn Kelly’s jolted by under-reported, Obama-caused crisis that’s ‘going to transform this country’
19. Obama Admin Wasn’t the only One behind the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups – Complaint Claims US Senators as Complicit
20. Obama Endorses Australian-Style Gun Confiscation
21. Obamacare’s Medicare ‘Reforms’ Result in Little Savings
22. Joe Biden: U.S. needs ‘constant, unrelenting stream’ of immigrants
23. Obama Midwifes The Birth Of The Islamic Caliphate
24. Obama To Let Feds Trawl Personal Financial Data For ‘Crimes’
25. Expert says EPA regulations are gigantic ‘transfer of wealth’

1.
A Clueless President That Wears His Incompetence With Pride
. President Obama was completely surprised by the IRS scandal. Dumbfounded, in fact, that government workers would help his 2012 re-election campaign. And the NSA scandal. Who could possibly anticipate citizen outrage over government monitoring all their communications? Obama was clueless about the ObamaCare debacle, even days after its botched rollout dominated national news. Months after staff warnings of fundamental tech troubles within his namesake legislation.

2.
Personal data on ObamaCare enrollees may be compromised
. Connecticut’s health insurance exchange acknowledged Friday that the personal information of some enrollees may have been compromised. In a statement, Access Health CT CEO Kevin Counihan said that an individual discovered a backpack on a Hartford street containing the personal information of about 400 people.

3.
Feds to Spend $2.5M for Juvenile Justice Reform — in Central America
. The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has announced a $2.5 million grant for juvenile justice reform and pre-trial detention in Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama. “Corrections systems in these countries suffer from acute overcrowding and inefficiencies which contribute to poor conditions and, at worst, active criminal recruiting and leadership of criminal activities from within prisons,” the grant announcement said.

4.
Arrogant Obama: ‘My government’ didn’t need Congress for exchange, and we will do it again
. In the scripted softball interview Obama showed no shame or hesitation in answering why Congress was kept in the dark. It was a “unanimous decision” by “my government,” Obama said, in his arrogant response. “I make no apologies for it,” he began, following his familiar “leave no man behind” mantra. ” It was a unanimous decision by my principals in my government . . . ” “This is something that I would do again, and I will continue to do wherever I have an opportunity, if I have a member of our military who’s in captivity.”

5.
Bolton slams administration: ‘Children are wonderful, but I don’t think they should be in charge of foreign policy’
. America’s former United Nations ambassador slammed the Obama administration over the Taliban prisoner exchange controversy Friday, telling Fox Business Channel that children shouldn’t be “in charge of foreign policy.”

6.
NYC Council to Walmart: Stop sending your “dangerous dollars” to our city’s charities
. I don’t even know what to say. Via the New York Post (hat tip to NRO), more than half of the members of the New York City Council have served Walmart with a letter demanding that the company stop making millions of dollars in charitable donations to local groups: Twenty-six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world’s biggest retailer’s support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here. “We know how desperate you are to find a foothold in New York City to buy influence and support here,” says the letter, obtained by The Post and addressed to Walmart and the Walton Family Foundation. “Stop spending your dangerous dollars in our city,” the testy letter demands. “That’s right: this is a cease-and-desist letter.” Last week, Walmart announced that it distributed $3 million last year to charities here, including $1 million to the New York Women’s Foundation, which offers job training, and $30,000 to Bailey House, which distributes groceries to low-income residents.

7.
SHOCK: Obama Forming “Hitler Youth” Under Common Core
. Video

8.
Obama Hires Lawyers to Aid New Wave of Illegals
. The administration will use tax dollars to pay roughly 100 American lawyers to help a growing wave of young illegal immigrants settle in the United States. The new group, dubbed “justice AmericaCorps,” will “protect the rights of the most vulnerable members of society … particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings,” said Attorney General Eric Holder in a Friday afternoon announcement. “AmeriCorps members will provide critical support for these [border crossing] children, many of whom are escaping abuse, persecution or violence,” according to Wendy Spencer, head of AmeriCorps’ parent group, the Corporation for National and Community Service. Officials expect up to 60,000 foreign youths, children, mothers and fathers to cross the border in the 12 months up to October. In the same period in 2011, roughly 6,000 youths crossed the border.

9.
General Jerry Boykin spells out the Obama plan
. Special Forces Lt. Gen. W.G. Boykin Warns of Engineered Economic Collapse, Martial Law, Dictatorship. General Boykin is one of the original members of the elite Delta Force. He has been a student of enemy tactics, and here explains how Obama is following a step by step plan to turn America into a dictatorship.

10.
Obama’s death penalty review risks backlash from the states
. The generations-old debate over capital punishment has shifted to Washington, where President Obama’s Justice Department has launched a national review of the death penalty. Attorney General Eric Holder’s inquiry, initiated last month following a mishandled execution in Oklahoma, is still in its early stages. The effort includes a look at state death penalty protocols, though its scope and ultimate implications are not yet clear. But by ordering up the review, Obama is raising questions about what role, if any, the federal government should have on an issue that is traditionally the province of the states.

11.
Opposition to Common Core Mounts As Two More States Pull Out
. Oklahoma and South Carolina have now joined Indiana in rejecting the controversial Common Core Standards in favor of new state-developed education standards.

12.
Florida to School Districts: No More Biometric Scanning of Our Kids
. Florida became the first state in the U.S. to ban the scanning of students for biometric information when Gov. Rick Scott signed the Education Data Privacy Act into law May 12th The sweeping new privacy law prohibits any K-12 institutions from “collecting or retaining information regarding the political affiliation, voting history, religious affiliation, or biometric information of a student, parent, or sibling of a student.”

13.
Scott calls for 90-day comment period on federal All Aboard Florida environmental survey
. Gov. Rick Scott on Monday sent a letter to Michael Reininger, All Aboard Florida president and chief development officer, listing several concerns and encouraging community input on the planned passenger rail service. In his letter, Scott calls for extending the public comment period for a forthcoming report from the Federal Railroad Administration to 90 days from the already extended 75-day period All Aboard Florida has agreed to. “This additional time will allow communities more opportunity to have their specific concerns addressed,” Scott wrote to the company, which is set to connect Miami and Orlando with stops in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

14.
Cloward-Piven At The Border
. Back in the Sixties, Marxists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven came up with a great strategy for overloading and collapsing democratic welfare states, paving the way for socialist tyranny. Basically, the idea was to hit the system with a tidal wave of demands it couldn’t refuse, and couldn’t possibly fulfill. The Left would then insist that the moral argument for the system remained intact, so the only way to meet those impossible demands was to scrap every vestige of Constitutional restraint and republican self-government, instituting a totalitarian system that in theory would forcibly restructure society to promote “fairness” and give all those government dependents what they “deserve.” (In practice, of course, what you actually get is an iron-fisted dictatorship that cooks up reports to make itself look good, or simply tells the unhappy citizens to shut up and obey when things deteriorate to the point that no volume of phony reports can paper over the problems – say, when the glorious worker’s paradise of Venezuela runs out of tap water.) Cloward and Piven were specifically interested in replacing welfare programs with a government-guaranteed annual income for everyone – an idea that still emerges from the more absurd quarters of the Left occasionally – but the basic idea of overloading the republican system and replacing it with centrally-planned tyranny can be applied in many different ways. Take a look at the humanitarian crisis on the southern border.

15.
Gov. Scott Signs Bill To Grant In-State Tuition Benefits To Illegal Immigrants
. The Florida state legislature approved a measure to extend in-state tuition benefits to illegal immigrants over a month ago, and Monday, it got the signature of approval from Republican Gov. Rick Scott.

16.
Hamas Reveals: Abbas Told Us He is “Tricking the Americans”
. “The spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein, wrote on Facebook that ‘behind closed doors,’ Abbas had said ‘when I go out and say that the government is my government and it recognizes “Israel” and so on, fine – these words are meant to trick the Americans.’” And since this is just what the anti-Israel Obama administration wants to hear: the President of the “Palestinian” Authority lies about recognizing Israel, and that is enough for Obama to strong-arm and pressure Israel to make disastrous concessions to the “Palestinians.” And it never enters their minds that Abbas, like Arafat before him, might be lying to fool the kuffar (as per quran 3:28). Abbas is a Muslim! It’s a religion of peace! Obama say, “respect it”!

17.
IRS Sent Sensitive Info of Tax-Exempt Groups to FBI Before 2010 Elections
. The IRS sent a 1.1-million page database containing legally protected taxpayer information of tax-exempt organizations to the FBI several weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, according to new information from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “The IRS’s transmittal of this information to the FBI shows that the IRS took affirmative steps to provide sensitive evidentiary material to law-enforcement officials about the political speech of nonprofits,” said Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a letter to the IRS Commissioner John Koskinen demanding more information.

18.
Watch: Megyn Kelly’s jolted by under-reported, Obama-caused crisis that’s ‘going to transform this country’
. The illegal alien surge that’s dumped thousands of children into overcrowded facilities in in American border states is only the “tip of the iceberg” of a crisis that’s going to get worse in the next few weeks, and it was “personally and directly” caused by President Obama’s defiance of Congress on immigration. That was the message of documentary film maker Dennis Michael Lynch and Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano speaking on a segment of “The Kelly File” Monday night that explored the reasons for the immigration wave of the past month. “Entire villages are emptying out and coming from Central America through Mexico to the United States,” said Lynch, who has made two films about illegal immigration and studied the issue extensively. “We are not going to be able to handle this. We can’t handle it now.”

19.
Obama Admin Wasn’t the only One behind the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups – Complaint Claims US Senators as Complicit
. Much has been made, and rightly so, about the Obama administration’s targeting of Conservatives and Tea Party groups. There is no doubt that with the information that has come out that the White House and the Internal Revenue Service were orchestrating the targeting of conservative groups. However, now the Center for Competitive Politics has filed a complaint, which claims that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) along with other Democrat senators sought to deny the free speech of their political opponents by using the IRS.

20.
Obama Endorses Australian-Style Gun Confiscation
. During a live discussion on student loan debt Tuesday President Barack Obama claimed that American gun violence was “off the charts.” “Levels of gun violence are off the charts,” Obama said. ” There is no advanced developed country on Earth that would put up with this.” Obama argued that Americans should be “ashamed,” using the opportunity to bemoan his inability to pass gun control legislation. “We’re the only country in the world where this happens and it happens once a week,” Obama said. Obama went on to refute any link between mass shootings and mental health as well, instead blaming the ability of Americans to collect ammunition. “It’s not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else,” Obama said. ” What’s the difference? The difference is these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses.” Invoking his role as parent, Obama also pushed the notion that American gun owners are collectively responsible for mass shootings. “This country has to do a lot of soul searching,” Obama said. “This is becoming the norm. And we take it for granted in ways that, as a parent, are terrifying to me.” The President even went as far as praising Australia’s gun confiscation program, claiming that “very severe” gun laws have helped the country. “Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown,” Obama said. “And Australia just said, well, that’s it, we’re not doing, we’re not seeing that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven’t had a mass shooting since.”

21.
Obamacare’s Medicare ‘Reforms’ Result in Little Savings
. Promoted as a way to move away from an outdated payment structure in Medicare, Accountable Care Organizations were expected to deliver better care at lower costs. But, two years later, like many of Obamacare’s promised savings, this experiment is falling short. As part of the “Medicare Shared Savings” program under Obamacare, ACOs join together doctors and hospitals to manage the care of Medicare beneficiaries. If an ACO can lower spending and meet performance and quality standards, the providers share in the savings with the Medicare program.

22.
Joe Biden: U.S. needs ‘constant, unrelenting stream’ of immigrants
. Vice President Joseph R. Biden told a National Association of Manufacturers’ crowd this week that what the United States needed was more, not fewer, immigrants. Specifically, he called for a “constant, unrelenting stream” of new immigrants — “not dribbling [but] significant flows,” to bolster the national economy,

23.
Obama Midwifes The Birth Of The Islamic Caliphate
. From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan, the jihadist dream of a caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalayas is taking shape. It’s aided by a feckless foreign policy not seen since Neville Chamberlain. As President Obama learns about it in the newspapers, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is dismembering Iraq, adding Saddam Hussein’s birthplace of Tikrit to the list of cities once liberated by the U.S. that are now flying jihadist flags. The war on terrorism is over all right, and Obama lost it.

24.
Obama To Let Feds Trawl Personal Financial Data For ‘Crimes’
. Big Brother: The Obama regime plans to let law enforcement agencies sift through Americans’ most sensitive private financial information once it collects it as part of a vast new database. Your privacy is under threat. It was bad enough that the proposed National Mortgage Database Project could expose millions of Americans to identity theft, hacking and fraud. Now we learn it could also expose them to prosecution. Created and maintained jointly by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the database will store vast amounts of personally identifiable information, as well as extremely sensitive personal and financial information that even the IRS doesn’t collect.

25.
Expert says EPA regulations are gigantic ‘transfer of wealth’
. New regulations released last week by the Environmental Protection Agency governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could be one of the largest transfers of wealth in history. Jason Hayes, the assistant director of the American Coal Council, said the bill for climate change is being handed to the U.S. ratepayer as developing nations like China and India increase their greenhouse gas emissions in the face of U.S. cuts. China and India are two of the nations Hayes said are benefiting from U.S. policies on energy. “Essentially, it’s a gigantic transfer of wealth to the developing world,” Hayes said. “They considered it to be immoral to not raise themselves up out of poverty. They said you can’t ask us not to do that.”

Posted 6/8/2014

1. Forget the Unemployment Rate â€“ Look at the Labor Force Participation
2. Salaries of VA hospital employees in Phoenix â€“ B.M.G.
3. 1 in 8 American Men Between Ages 25-54 Are Not Working
4. African comedian: Kenyan Obama puts one over America
5. Edward Snowden Censored Segment: â€œWe Had All Info Needed To Detect 9/11 Plot
6. States Move To Blunt Obama Carbon Plan
7. NSA steps up digital image harvesting to feed its facial recognition program
8. TEN Terrorists for One Traitor: The Prisoner Release You Didnâ€™t Hear About
9. Tea Party hits Reid with ethics charge over Koch brothers
10. Are you ready for the government war on booze?
11. Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
12. DHS Stonewalls Congress on â€˜Hands Offâ€™ Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S.
13. The Police State we’ve all feared but never thought would happen in America is already here
14. Expert: Pinellas light rail plan an expensive, low capacity mistake
15. Holder Revives Domestic Terror Panel
16. The Twenty Fifth Amendment & Barack Obamaâ€™s Mental Illness
17. Feds Treated Black Friday Boycott As Terrorist Threat
18. Can we Talk? Politically Correct Liberals are Intellectual Cowards
19. America In Retreat As Russia Advances
20. Psychologist worries â€˜irrational, erraticâ€™ behavior may seriously indicate Obama is not sane
21. California county votes to secede from the state
22. Poverty Up 30.5% for Americans 18 to 64 Since LBJ Declared War on Poverty
23. Why Is Obama Stockpiling Your Personal Financial Records?
24. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Signs Bill to Repeal, Replace Common Core Standards
25. Surprise! The Government Now Canâ€™t Even Guess How Much Obamacare Will Ultimately Cost

1.
Forget the Unemployment Rate â€“ Look at the Labor Force Participation
. The American public tends to think that a declining unemployment rate means that more people are finding jobs. This is not necessarily the case. It can also mean and does currently mean that: 1) unemployed people have become so frustrated with their fruitless job search that they have given up and are no longer counted in the statistics reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and 2) people have found jobs but these jobs are part-time or a step-down from the jobs they lost. In other words, they are under-employed. The Labor Department is aware of these two possibilities and even collects data on them. These data are used to produce what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the U6 unemployment rate. While President Obama proudly extols the nationâ€™s 6.7 percent unemployment rate, he studiously avoids revealing that the U6 unemployment rate is more than 14 percent (I think it actually exceeds 20 percent).

2.
Salaries of VA hospital employees in Phoenix â€“ B.M.G.
. Start at $357,528.00

3.
1 in 8 American Men Between Ages 25-54 Are Not Working
. “There are currently 61.1 million American men in their prime working years, age 25â€“54. A staggering 1 in 8 such men are not in the labor force at all, meaning they are neither working nor looking for work. This is an all-time high dating back to when records were first kept in 1955. An additional 2.9 million men are in the labor force but not employed (i.e., they would work if they could find a job). A total of 10.2 million individuals in this cohort, therefore, are not holding jobs in the U.S. economy today. There are also nearly 3 million more men in this age group not working today than there were before the recession began,” the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee claim.

4.
African comedian: Kenyan Obama puts one over America
. Ugandan stand-up comedian Kenneth Kimuli, aka Pablo, makes fun of Obama, born a Kenyan, fooling all of America: â€œOBAMA is an acronym for Original Black African Managing America.â€ â€œBARACK is an acronym of Born African, Raised American, Complete Kenyan.â€

5.
Edward Snowden Censored Segment: â€œWe Had All Info Needed To Detect 9/11 Plot
. In an unaired clip of NBC News’ interview with Edward Snowden, he explains that mass surveillance isn’t making us safer and is just taking our rights and privacy away. “I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do. I think it’s really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don’t need to give up and that our Constitution says we should not give up.” In the allegedly censored clip, Snowden also reveals that the U.S. had all of the intelligence regarding the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 but we unable to connect the dots. “You know this is a key question that the 9/11 commission considered, and what they found in the postmortem when they looked at all the classified intelligence from all the different intelligence agencies, they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community, as a classified sector, as the national defense of the United States, to detect this plot,” Snowden said. “We actually had records of the phone calls from the United States and out. The CIA knew who these guys were. The problem was not that we weren’t collecting information, it wasn’t that we didn’t have enough dots, it wasn’t that we didn’t have a haystack, it was that we did not understand the haystack that we had.”

6.
States Move To Blunt Obama Carbon Plan
. As President Barack Obama prepares to announce tougher new air quality standards, lawmakers in several states already are trying to blunt the impact on aging coal-fired power plants that feed electricity to millions of consumers. It remains to be seen whether new measures passed by the states will amount to mere political symbolism or actually temper what’s expected to be an aggressive federal effort to reduce the country’s reliance on coal. But either way, states likely will play a pivotal role, because federal clean air laws leave it up to each state to come up its own plan for complying with the emission guidelines. Without waiting to see what Obama proposes, governors in Kansas, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia have signed laws directing their environmental agencies to develop their own carbon emission plans that consider the costs of compliance at individual power plants. Similar measures recently passed in Missouri and are pending in the Louisiana and Ohio legislatures.

7.
NSA steps up digital image harvesting to feed its facial recognition program
. The National Security Agency is, through its global surveillance program, increasingly gathering electronic images for its facial-recognition program, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The spy agency has relied more on facial-recognition technology in the past four years as a result of new software that can process the flood of digital communications such as emails, text messages and even video conferences, according to the documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

8.
TEN Terrorists for One Traitor: The Prisoner Release You Didnâ€™t Hear About
. Back in August of 2013 there was a release of 5 Guantanamo detainees as a good will gesture to the Taliban. In other words, they got five of their people back and we got the right to open peace talks with them. Do you find that the least bit submissive? It was not widely reported, because compared to the news of that time it seemed relatively insignificant.

9.
Tea Party hits Reid with ethics charge over Koch brothers
. Tea Party Patriots has filed a complaint against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) with the Senate Ethics Committee to protest his repeated attacks against Charles and David Koch. Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, filed the complaint, charging Reid with â€œunlawfully and unethically targeting private citizens.â€ The complaint further states that Reid â€œhas misused Senate staff or resources to engage in partisan campaign activity in violation of federal laws and Senate rules.â€

10.
Are you ready for the government war on booze?
. Everything old is new again in the era of expanding government regulations, so why limit yourself to only trying new things? Letâ€™s dredge up some golden oldies and take them out for a fresh spin. This seems to be part of the thinking of Reihan Salam, writing at Salon this week. As far as a new war on alcohol is concerned, Salam isnâ€™t calling for a renewal of prohibitionâ€¦ we tried that before. But he will settle for just taxing it out of this world.

11.
Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
. Video

12.
DHS Stonewalls Congress on â€˜Hands Offâ€™ Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S.
. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to answer Congressâ€™ questions about the existence of a secret terrorist â€œhands offâ€ list that is said to have permitted individuals with terrorist ties easy entrance into the United States. The existence of the hands-off list was first publicized earlier this month by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who released a cache of internal DHS emails detailing the listâ€™s existence and a discussion about permitting an alleged member of the Muslim Brotherhood to enter the United States.

13.
The Police State we’ve all feared but never thought would happen in America is already here
. Everyone these days is talking about the United States of America “becoming a police state,” but it’s already happened. In this new era of supposed “tolerance and understanding,” an individual can now be either fined, jailed or publicly ostracized for pursuing their right to free speech, or even their private thoughts, or personal beliefs. If you make a stupid movie that “offends” someone in a country 5000 miles away (or a certain religion, not Christianity though), you can be thrown in jail and never heard from again. If you have a telephone conversation where you express your private beliefs about race, you can be publicly vilified, fined (not by a civil authority), banned from attending a basketball game and even FORCED to sell your private property. All this can be and has already been done without even involving the local civil authorities. Just rat somebody out that you don’t like and sit back and watch the fireworks.

14.
Expert: Pinellas light rail plan an expensive, low capacity mistake
. High costs and low passenger capacity. Thatâ€™s the diagnosis one transit expert has of Pinellas Countyâ€™s $1.7 billion light rail project, a plan that depends on raising the local sales tax to the highest rate in Florida.

15.
Holder Revives Domestic Terror Panel
. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday announced the reestablishment of a committee to fight terror threats posed by groups within U.S. borders. The Justice Departmentâ€™s Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee was originally empaneled by then-Attorney General Janet Reno almost two decades ago in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. But the panel was disbanded after the 9/11 attacks led the government to focus its attention on threats overseas. Holder maintained that the United States remains vigilant against foreign terror groups, including al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and al-Shabaab in Somalia.

16.
The Twenty Fifth Amendment & Barack Obamaâ€™s Mental Illness
. Every person in Congress, the Obama administration and the alphabet agency department heads all have a mental disorder. The mental disorders vary, but it is evident in their very actions these people epitomize the phrase, “the patients are running the asylum.” The main mental disorder coming from the piece of straw occupying the Oval Office is none other than mythomania or psuedological fanstastica. Those are fancy names for habitual pathological liars. According to much of the literature, this disorder, also known as Pathological Lying Disorder, is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). However, many psychiatrists and psychologists consider this problem a distinct mental disorder. While mythomania can be a symptom of other mental illnesses, the defining characteristic of mythomania as a separate mental illness is the person cannot help lying even when the lie causes harm. This type of lying is more than a habit, as in compulsive lying, or a “white lie” told to spare someone’s feelings. It is a regular type of lying, without compunction, to achieve a desired goal or outcome.

17.
Feds Treated Black Friday Boycott As Terrorist Threat
. Newly revealed documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund show that the federal government treats consumer boycotts and anti-Black Friday activism as a terrorist threat. A leaked email reveals that Tom Wilkins, who serves as Executive Director of the Intelligence Fusion Division, Homeland Security Bureau, and is on the FBI-WFO Joint Terrorism Task Force, directed staff at the Washington DC fusion center to create a document notifying District Commanders of the â€œpotential threatâ€ posed by groups that planned to â€œdisrupt retail activityâ€ on Black Friday in 2011.

18.
Can we Talk? Politically Correct Liberals are Intellectual Cowards
. Liberals have a love-hate relationship with the concept of free speech. They love it when it works on their behalf, but they hate it when it applies to people who disagree with them. To a liberal, free speech means the freedom to say what they want you to say and nothing else. Agree with a liberal and you will enjoy unimpeded free speech. Disagree with a liberal and you will wonder what ever happened to free speech. Because of the broad-based expectation of free speech by American society, liberals have had to come up with another way to suppress speech that runs counter to their nefarious agenda. That tactic is political correctness, a concept that is indeed political but hardly correct.

19.
America In Retreat As Russia Advances
. The U.S. hands over control of its only central Asia base to Russia’s old ally, Kyrgyzstan, continuing our retreat from the world stage as Vladimir Putin patiently reassembles the “evil empire.” In something of an ironic trip, President Obama is in Poland, one of the countries he betrayed in 2009, along with the Czech Republic, by scuttling missile-defense plans in Europe to celebrate the country’s 25th anniversary of its break from communism.

20.
Psychologist worries â€˜irrational, erraticâ€™ behavior may seriously indicate Obama is not sane
. Psychologist Dr. Gina Loudon told host Lou Dobbs that she is â€œvery, very concernedâ€ about President Obamaâ€™s mental stability Tuesday on Fox Biz. I am very, very concerned about the mental stability of this President at this point. Some of his behavior seems irrational to me. It seems beyond that of just a typical narcissistic, arrogant, sort of, â€˜Iâ€™m a leader of a big country and I feel tyrannical at the momentâ€™ kind of attitude. It really seems to me like this President is demonstrating behavior that is not only anti-American, but irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane.

21.
California county votes to secede from the state
. Residents of a northern California county on Tuesday voted in favor of a measure that will now force local officials to consider a plan to secede from the state and form a new entity named Jefferson.

22.
Poverty Up 30.5% for Americans 18 to 64 Since LBJ Declared War on Poverty
. The percentage of 18- to 64-year olds who live below the poverty level has increased 30.5% since 1966, two years after Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau. â€œWe have declared unconditional war on poverty. Our objective is total victory. I believe that 30 years from now Americans will look back upon these 1960s as the time of the great American Breakthrough toward the victory of prosperity over poverty,â€ said then-President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

23.
Why Is Obama Stockpiling Your Personal Financial Records?
. Republicans are scratching their heads over the Obama regime’s privacy-invading “National Mortgage Database Project.” What’s it for? That’s easy: redistribution of wealth. In an unprecedented federal intrusion, the president’s most radical financial regulators â€” Mel Watt of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Richard Cordray of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau â€” are creating a massive discrimination database on as many as 230 million Americans. It will encompass a mortgage holder’s entire credit history â€” including credit scores and account balances â€” and all credit lines, from credit cards to student and car loans.

24.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Signs Bill to Repeal, Replace Common Core Standards
. Gov. Mary Fallin (R) of Oklahoma has signed a bill that will repeal the Common Core education standards in her state and replace them with standards to be developed by the state of Oklahoma. The new standards must be proven to be sufficiently unlike the Common Core standards. Fallin signed HB 3399, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. The new law repeals the adoption of the Common Core standards and directs the State Board of Education to create new, more rigorous standards by August of 2016.

25.
Surprise! The Government Now Canâ€™t Even Guess How Much Obamacare Will Ultimately Cost
. Itâ€™s no secret Obamacare is unaffordable. But now we also know that even the Congressional Budget Office canâ€™t predict how much more this disastrous law will cost. According to a footnote from a Congressional Budget Office report released in April but reported this week by Roll Call, the lawâ€™s true costs and long-term fiscal impact are simply impossible to track.

Posted 6/1/2014

1. LBJ’s Great Society Changed America for the Worse
2. More e-mails…another thorn in Obama’s side
3. Confidential source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi
4. Nate Silver Is Half Right About the Tea Party
5. Oil companies say new federal regulations on Southwest bird have halted drilling in Kansas
6. Boston Globe, La Times Declare Obama Incompetent
7. EPA’s next target in fight against climate change: cooking stoves
8. WH rules employers can’t dump workers into health care exchanges
9. The Size Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The Global Economy Hits A Record High
10. The Smallest Victims of Obama’s Immigration Policy
11. Obama Administration Seeks Race-Based Government In Hawaii
12. Obama Phones Become Obama Net – FCC To Create Fund To Subsidize High Speed Internet
13. Blame Socialism, Not Shinseki
14. Why Does Washington Still Suffer From Fatal Conceit Of Central Planning?
15. Justice dept. Chokes out ‘undesirable’ businesses
16. Tea Party Surges In Texas, Grassroots Focus Could Target Congressional Race In Florida
17. Obama’s Bid for U.N. Secretary-General Has Begun
18. Has The Next Recession Already Begun For America’s Middle Class?
19. Investigation launched into scabies outbreak at Border Patrol station – B.M.G.
20. Inside the Ring: Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens
21. Sectors Dominated By Nonprofits Have Highest Prices
22. Potato Council Debunks First Lady’s ‘Science’ Claims
23. GDP Report Confirms We Now Have a $2 Trillion Obama Growth Deficit
24. The Federal Reserve Explained in 7 Minutes
25. Obama’s Affordable Golf Ball Act – B.M.G.

1.
LBJ’s Great Society Changed America for the Worse
. Fifty years ago last Thursday, at the University of Michigan, Johnson had proposed legislating into existence a Great Society. It would end poverty and racial injustice, “but that is just the beginning.” It would “rebuild the entire urban United States” while fending off “boredom and restlessness,” slaking “the hunger for community” and enhancing “the meaning of our lives” — all by assembling “the best thought and the broadest knowledge.” In 1964, 76% of Americans trusted government to do the right thing “just about always or most of the time”; today, 19% do. The former number is one reason Johnson did so much; the latter is one consequence of his doing so.

2.
More e-mails…another thorn in Obama’s side
. And so the clouds of Benghazi gather yet again over the White House as e-mails have surfaced showing that Barack HUSSEIN Obama…this most traitorous of men…contacted YouTube about the infamous ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video while the attacks at Benghazi were ongoing. This is serious stuff folks as it shows that while Obama did NOT send troops to help our people under attack at the mission…saying there was NOT enough time to save them (and how did he know the time frame while the attack was ongoing unless he helped plan it)…but he did have time to call YouTube and lay the foundation for the LIE that the attack was caused by said video.

3.
Confidential source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi
. Today as I returned from Detroit, I had a moment that I truly felt was God sent, as I don’t believe in coincidences. It happened on one of my flights, and it was two hours I will never forget. I was seated beside someone who personally knew one of the men who was there on the roof in Benghazi. This person was excited to share with me the “ground truth” of what happened September 11, 2012. My seat mate drew schematics to orient me to the “time and spacing” and the direction of the attack. I learned about the repeated orders to the men at the CIA annex to stand down and do nothing — thank God two of them, Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods, lived up to their code of honor and ran to the sound of the guns, resulting in their loss of life — but the preservation of life for others, their fellow Americans. I learned about the proximity of the staging area of the attack to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, and the attackers were indeed Ansar al-Sharia, a group affiliated with al-Qaida. I came to understand why Ambassador Chris Stevens was there in the first place and that he had in fact requested better security but was denied – the question is, by whom? And I learned that the Martyrs of 17 February Brigade were in charge of security and were the ones who opened the gates, then fled. I learned there are those who are being threatened with their pensions being cut off if they come forth to speak. And I learned, as I presumed, that there was a covert weapons scheme going on in Libya, Benghazi. We had been supplying radical Islamists with weapons against Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, effectively supplying the enemy and destabilizing that country. And it seems that there was a CIA weapons buy-back program, the aim of which was to ship the retrieved weapons out of Libya through Turkey, and to the Islamist forces in Syria.

4.
Nate Silver Is Half Right About the Tea Party
. The resounding victory that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell scored over “tea party” businessman Matt Bevin this past week has thrown the media into a tizzy. Is the “tea party” dead? Did the GOP establishment kill it? Or did the GOP subsume the tea party, taking its candidates, its issues, and its ideology for the GOP? What is the tea party, exactly? That’s not so clear. There are a constellation of groups, like Tea Party Patriots, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, who sometimes associate themselves with the movement or are associated with it. But their agendas can range from libertarian to populist and do not always align. As in Missouri, they often do not endorse the same candidate. Nor do they always endorse the candidate who self-identifies as member of the tea party.

5.
Oil companies say new federal regulations on Southwest bird have halted drilling in Kansas
. Oil companies say a weeks-old Obama administration ruling that protects a Southwestern prairie bird has already halted oil-drilling operations in Kansas and is costing the U.S. economy tens of millions of dollars, as a GOP congressmen suggests the move is another job-killing attack on fossil fuel.

6.
Boston Globe, La Times Declare Obama Incompetent
. The scandal at the Veteran’s Administration is rocking the Obama regime and may yet be one of the worst scandals of the Obama era. Already two major newspapers are starting to accuse the Obama administration of utter incompetence.

7.
EPA’s next target in fight against climate change: cooking stoves
. The Obama administration’s war on climate change may soon be moving inside the kitchen. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is set to unveil on Tuesday six federal grants to universities to fund research on clean cookstove technology. The announcement will put the EPA’s resources squarely behind a United Nations’ quest for cleaner burning stoves and an end to deadly cooking pollution.

8.
WH rules employers can’t dump workers into health care exchanges
. It figures the Obama administration would wait for a three-day weekend to announce its latest executive rule change to Obamacare (aka the “law of the land”). This one is a doozy. The implications are so far-reaching that the official White House newspaper, the New York Times, buried the story by Robert Pear on page A12 of the New York edition. Here’s the gist of it: Many employers had thought they could shift health costs to the government by sending their employees to a health insurance exchange with a tax-free contribution of cash to help pay premiums, but the Obama administration has squelched the idea in a new ruling. Such arrangements do not satisfy the health care law, the administration said, and employers may be subject to a tax penalty of $100 a day — or $36,500 a year — for each employee who goes into the individual marketplace. Diverting employees into established alternative insurance policies does “not satisfy the health care law”? How so, Mr. President? That action is precisely in keeping with the law that you signed on March 23, 2010. The out-clause for employers that you are now trying to wriggle out of was added expressly to give employers a choice.

9.
The Size Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The Global Economy Hits A Record High
. The global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the planet. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total notional value of derivatives contracts around the world has ballooned to an astounding 710 trillion dollars ($710,000,000,000,000). Other estimates put the grand total well over a quadrillion dollars. If that sounds like a lot of money, that is because it is. For example, U.S. GDP is projected to be in the neighborhood of around 17 trillion dollars for 2014. So 710 trillion dollars is an amount of money that is almost incomprehensible. Instead of actually doing something about the insanely reckless behavior of the big banks, our leaders have allowed the derivatives bubble and these banks to get larger than ever. In fact, as I have written about previously, the big Wall Street banks are collectively 37 percent larger than they were just prior to the last recession. “Too big to fail” is a far more massive problem than it was the last time around, and at some point this derivatives bubble is going to burst and start taking those banks down. When that day arrives, we are going to be facing a crisis that is going to make 2008 look like a Sunday picnic.

10.
The Smallest Victims of Obama’s Immigration Policy
. There has been a lot of talk from the Obama administration about having more “humane” immigration policies — but the sad fact is that on President Obama’s watch, one of the most inhumane realities of illegal immigration has skyrocketed. Children are crossing the border – and they’re doing it without their parents. The number of minor children crossing or attempting to cross the U.S. southern border unaccompanied by a parent or other adult relative has exploded from 6,560 in 2011 to an estimated 60,000 for fiscal year 2014. Border patrol agents in South Texas reported over 1,000 such children were apprehended by officials earlier this month, including a 3-year-old boy from Honduras.

11.
Obama Administration Seeks Race-Based Government In Hawaii
. President Barack Obama’s administration has quietly suggested it is willing to create a two-tier race-based legal system in Hawaii, where one set of taxes, spending and law enforcement will govern one race, and the second set of laws will govern every other race. The diversity proposal is portrayed as an effort to create a separate in-state government for people who are “native Hawaiians.” If Obama succeeds, “what’s to prevent creating similar [self-governing racial] groups out of say, Cajuns, or Orthodox Jews or Amish?” said Gail Heriot, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

12.
Obama Phones Become Obama Net – FCC To Create Fund To Subsidize High Speed Internet
. The FCC got a shot in its arm when the federal court on Friday upheld the FCC decision to convert the $4.5 billion program which paid for telephone service in rural areas into a fund which will subsidize high-speed Internet service in high-cost areas.

13.
Blame Socialism, Not Shinseki
. The VA problem is not Shinseki; it’s socialism. The Veterans Affairs health care system is completely government run. It is a pure single-payer program. National Review editor Rich Lowry calls it “an island of socialism in American health care.” He is right. I’ve been arguing this all week.

14.
Why Does Washington Still Suffer From Fatal Conceit Of Central Planning?
. F.A. Hayek won the Nobel prize in economics in part because of his prescient warning about what he called “the fatal conceit,” of intellectuals, who tend to believe that they are capable of centrally planning life for everyone. The bankruptcy of that model was evident with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the move toward capitalism in China, and the tragic deprivation in places like Cuba and North Korea. So why does Washington keep thinking that it can micromanage entire industries?

15.
Justice dept. Chokes out ‘undesirable’ businesses
. Writing at USA Today, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit describes “Operation Choke Point,” a Justice Department program that might be one of the most disturbing tales of abused power in this whole “Tales From the Crypt of Liberty” Administration. This might not be as egregious as illegally rewriting laws on the fly to help the Democrat Party survive ObamaCare, but it’s insidious: Where do we go to vote against the Commissar of Undesirable Businesses, if we decide we disagree with his or her judgments… once we penetrate the veil of secrecy and discover those judgments have been rendered?

16.
Tea Party Surges In Texas, Grassroots Focus Could Target Congressional Race In Florida
. Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) could be looked upon as the new political “kingmaker” as more and more of tea party and Ted Cruz supported candidates, like Nebraska’s Ben Sasse are winning their respective primary elections over incumbent and establishment Republican rivals. Tuesday’s primary election in Texas saw several more Cruz-backed candidates win the GOP nomination over their establishment rivals. While Cruz’s picks appear to be winning their races, and the tea party seems to be surging, will this trend continue in other grassroots versus establishment primary races around the country?

17.
Obama’s Bid for U.N. Secretary-General Has Begun
. It is commonly observed that President Obama never started governing because he never stopped campaigning. He campaigned in his West Point speech all right — for United Nations secretary-general. We’ve got a president who has unblushingly told us he’s “a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” knows “more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors” and is “a better political director than my political director.” Not to mention that “like any politician at this level, I’ve got a healthy ego.” Uh, no kidding. An intellect that enormous must feel confined by merely leading the free world (or, more accurately, not leading). Such boundless cerebral prowess deserves a real challenge, such as running the whole world. The president obviously agrees; his address to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Wednesday sounded much like the launch of a campaign for still-higher office: presiding over the hopelessly corrupt, tyrant-dominated United Nations.

18.
Has The Next Recession Already Begun For America’s Middle Class?
. Has the next major economic downturn already started? The way that you would answer that question would probably depend on where you live. If you live in New York City, or the suburbs of Washington D.C., or you work for one of the big tech firms in the San Francisco area, you would probably respond to such a question by saying of course not. In those areas, the economy is doing great and prices for high end homes are still booming. But in most of the rest of the nation, evidence continues to mount that the next recession has already begun for the poor and the middle class. As you will read about below, major retailers had an absolutely dreadful start to 2014 and home sales are declining just as they did back in 2007 before the last financial crisis. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy continues to lose more good jobs and 20 percent of all U.S. families do not have a single member that is employed at this point. 2014 is turning out to be eerily similar to 2007 in so many ways, but most people are not paying attention.

19.
Investigation launched into scabies outbreak at Border Patrol station – B.M.G.
. Diseases can easily pass from one country to the next according to Hidalgo County Health Department director Eddie Olivarez. “Believe it or not we also have illnesses that go from the U.S. south so it’s very fluid both ways,” he said. A skin disease coming into the Rio Grande Valley concerns Chris Cabrera, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council. He told Action 4 News about 10-25 percent of undocumented immigrants agents catch have scabies and now agents are concerned for their health and well-being. “A lot of people (are) coming in with the disease, and it seems to be spreading, not just within the McAllen station, but throughout the Valley and to some of our agents,” he said.

20.
Inside the Ring: Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens
. A 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration’s potential use of military force against Americans. The directive contains noncontroversial provisions on support to civilian fire and emergency services, special events and the domestic use of the Army Corps of Engineers. The troubling aspect of the directive outlines presidential authority for the use of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, in operations against domestic unrest.

21.
Sectors Dominated By Nonprofits Have Highest Prices
. Before there was ObamaCare, there was runaway price inflation in health care.For example, last summer my wife went to a private clinic to get a simple cortisone injection in her foot. She’d had this done four and a half years earlier. Same clinic, same doctor, same $1 medication, but a very different bill — from $146 in 2009 to $987 in 2013! Why the difference? The for-profit clinic had been purchased by a nonprofit hospital. Surprisingly, the industries that have the most rampant price-inflation problems — health care and higher education — are dominated by nonprofit providers. Could it be that they are just as profit-driven as big, for-profit corporations?

22.
Potato Council Debunks First Lady’s ‘Science’ Claims
. Today, the National Potato Council praised the House for considering a bill to include the potato in its WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) food nutrition (“food stamp”) program. The Council also debunked First Lady Michelle Obama’s claims that including the potato would “override science” and that Americans are already eating enough of them. The Potato Council notes that the First Lady’s science is based on old data – not the latest government reports:

23.
GDP Report Confirms We Now Have a $2 Trillion Obama Growth Deficit
. This morning’s depressing revised calculation of the growth of the economy in the first quarter of 2014 (-1.0 percent) makes it official: The Obama expansion is now $2 trillion short of where we would be if growth in this recovery had matched the Reagan recovery that started in 1982. That is to say the average family would have about $5,000 more income each year to spend if it were not for this slow recovery. The Census Bureau reports that median household income is down by $1,800 since this so-called recovery began. Worse, investment plummeted in the first quarter of 2014 by 11.7 percent from the same period in 2013. That was the biggest decline since the recession ended in 2009. Without investment, businesses can’t grow and wages won’t rise. Capital investment by businesses is a strong leading indicator of future prosperity.

24.
The Federal Reserve Explained in 7 Minutes
. Have you ever caught yourself wondering how nearly every country on earth can be in debt to outside sources? In my world, if I owe a friend $10 and he owes me $5 then I simply give him $5 and we call it “even.” But that’s not how the world of international banking works. If you have a minute, Wikipedia tries to keep an updated National Debt List. Looking at the chart is very eye-opening. Yes America, we are still unfortunately #1 and no one is really challenging our indebtedness. The reason that nearly every nation on earth has external debt is simple. We don’t owe that money to other countries, even though many of those countries “own” our debt. Countries that hold debt are simply like “middle men.” It is all somehow owed to the world banking elite. The elite, of course, would like to keep it that way.

25.
Obama’s Affordable Golf Ball Act – B.M.G.
. Obama’s affordable care act. If Obama Care was a golf ball company since we know how much he loves to golf.

Posted 5/25/2014

1. Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view
2. Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool
3. Five Times Obama Officials Expressed Outrage At Their Own Incompetence
4. Obamacare’s penalties on hospital readmissions will kill off the sick and elderly
5. 2014 Best & Worst States For Business
6. Sagebrush Rebellion Redivivus
7. The Political Equality Amendments: S.J.Res. 19 & H.J.Res. 20
8. Michelle Obama to High-School Grads: Monitor Your Parents For Thoughtcrime
9. The Federal Government Hasn’t Improved Education After Trying for 50 Years
10. D’Souza Plea: Real Crime Is Government Limit on Speech
11. Obama’s National Climate Assessment Fails Basic Science
12. Federal ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access to Americans’ Private Medical Records
13. Some People Will Have to Pay Back Their Obamacare Subsidies
14. Mass Fish Deaths: Millions Have Been Found Dead All Over The World In The Past Month
15. 27 Huge Red Flags For The U.S. Economy
16. VA Supervisor: Older Veterans Should Be “Shot In the Head” To Save Money
17. Local officials blast move by Obama to set aside 500,000 acres in NM
18. Tax Chauvinism: Who Cares Where a Firm is Incorporated?
19. Is The Tea Party Dead?
20. Primary Aftermath
21. CFPB Finally Yields, Opens Secret Meetings To Public
22. Japan Begins Purposely Dumping 100s of Tons of Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into The Pacific
23. Congress reaffirms indefinite detention of Americans under NDAA
24. Don’t be fooled: McConnell’s victory in Kentucky is also a Tea Party win
25. Watch Creepy Uncle Sam make it rain for “glitchy IT contractors”

1.
Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view
. Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was “less than helpful” to their cause, it was claimed last night. In an echo of the infamous “Climategate” scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world’s top academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a reviewer privately denounced it as “harmful”.

2.
Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool
. The most damning aspersion that can be lobbed against any person, or the exposure of “secret government activity,” overwhelmingly is “Conspiracy Theorist.” That pejorative ‘handle’ is equated with imbecile mind-activity with aspersions often suggested as ‘tin hat wearers’. Well, step aside all you doubters and listen up carefully to what took place in the halls of Congress on May 14, 2014 regarding the weather modification system known as HAARP.

3.
Five Times Obama Officials Expressed Outrage At Their Own Incompetence
. President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It’s an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence. Here, then, are the top five times that Obama officials have expressed outrage, sadness, and anger over actions within their purview:

4.
Obamacare’s penalties on hospital readmissions will kill off the sick and elderly
. If you have an aging parent or other elderly relative who is currently hospitalized with chronic heart or lung disease, the good news is he is coming home. The bad news is that he is likely coming home to die. That’s thanks to a strong disincentive for hospitals to readmit chronically ill Medicare patients under a provision of Obamacare. Called the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act added section 1886(q)), the provision took effect on October 1, 2012 and penalizes hospitals for readmitting patients with one of several high-maintenance conditions — heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia — within 30 days of discharge. Two additional expensive-to-manage illnesses, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and follow-up treatment for coronary bypass surgery, are scheduled to be phased in this year.

5.
2014 Best & Worst States For Business
. In the 10th annual survey of CEOs concerning their views of the best and worst states for business, over 500 CEOs across the U.S. responded, grading states with which they were familiar on measures including tax and regulatory regime, the quality of the workforce, and the quality of the living environment.

6.
Sagebrush Rebellion Redivivus
. For many or maybe even most Americans, reports that a rancher in Clark County, Nevada, was at odds with federal land bureaucrats, that scores of federal lawyers were litigating against him, and that SWAT-garbed and heavily armed federal law-enforcement officers had surrounded his place might have come as a surprise. They might have been even more surprised, in the wake of this standoff—which ended short of deadly escalation thanks in part to negotiations by a local sheriff—to hear that over 50 elected officials from nine Western states had gathered in Utah to discuss a state takeover of a significant portion of federally owned land in the American West. But Westerners—especially rural Westerners who make a living on the federal lands that predominate beyond the hundredth meridian, by logging, mining, ranching, or developing energy resources—were not surprised at all.

7.
The Political Equality Amendments: S.J.Res. 19 & H.J.Res. 20
. Democrats are trying to curb our first amendments rights by calling it “free speech” and “Political Equality’.

8.
Michelle Obama to High-School Grads: Monitor Your Parents For Thoughtcrime
. There can be no aspect of your daily life that’s removed from politics. Now you will be monitored by your own children for expressing unapproved opinions. You’d better watch what you say at the dinner table, Mom and Dad.

9.
The Federal Government Hasn’t Improved Education After Trying for 50 Years
. The federal government has been trying to improve educational outcomes for 50 years, but according to a recent study, we have little to show for it — and in some areas, it is getting worse. year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiatives, the goal of which was to help low-income Americans move toward self-sufficiency. Among the measures enacted under Johnson’s “War on Poverty” was the first major federal intervention in education: the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. The anniversary adds context to this month’s release of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) “Report Card,” which detailed the academic achievement levels of high school seniors. The results weren’t promising – which has been true for the last five years the report card assessed and the last 50 years of federal intervention in education.

10.
D’Souza Plea: Real Crime Is Government Limit on Speech
. First Amendment: So anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza pleads guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. The real crime here, though, is the government deciding how much free speech Americans can exercise. D’Souza, the widely recognized conservative who made “2016: Obama’s America,” the 2012 documentary that took an unfavorable look at the president, has cut a deal with prosecutors, admitting to one count of making an illegal political donation. He would have gone to trial this week had he not agreed to the plea. D’Souza was indicted in January on charges that he had asked friends to donate to a Republican House candidate’s campaign with the promise that he would later reimburse them for their contributions. Clearly, such an effort is an attempt to skirt federal law that allows an individual to give no more than $2,600 to a candidate per election cycle. Why should contributing more than that be a crime? After all, no one’s life, liberty or property is violated in the giving of money to office seekers. And why $2,600? How was it determined that political corruption begins at the $2,601 mark?

11.
Obama’s National Climate Assessment Fails Basic Science
. The Obama administration’s National Climate Assessment fails miserably on even the most basic science, Heartland Institute senior fellow Peter Ferrara explains on Forbes.com.

12.
Federal ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access to Americans’ Private Medical Records
. The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is currently seeking public comment on a 52-page draft of the proposed “National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018” (NHSS).

13.
Some People Will Have to Pay Back Their Obamacare Subsidies
. Obamacare offers subsidies to help pay for health insurance – if you are buying insurance through the federal exchange and your income qualifies. if a person’s income fluctuates, which happens more frequently than many realize, the subsidy amount will change from month to month. Thus, when it comes time to file taxes in April, the amount of subsidy received over the past year must be reconciled with the final calculation of the total subsidy for which the individual was eligible—based on actual income for the entire tax year. So if you qualify for more subsidy help than you receive during the year, you’ll get a tax refund. But if you were given more subsidy than your income qualifies you for, you will be required to repay the excess subsidy.

14.
Mass Fish Deaths: Millions Have Been Found Dead All Over The World In The Past Month
. Millions of fish are suddenly dying all over the planet. In fact, there have been dozens of mass fish death events reported in the past month alone. So why is this happening? Why are fish dying in unprecedented numbers all over the world? When more than six tons of fish died in Marina Del Ray over the weekend, it made headlines all over the United States. But the truth is that what just happened off the southern California coast is just the tip of the iceberg. In 2014, mass fish die-offs have pretty much become a daily event globally. Individually, each event could perhaps be dismissed as an anomaly, but as you will see below when they are all put together into one list it truly is rather stunning. So is there a reason why so many fish are dying? Is there something that connects these mass fish death events? Has something about our environment changed? The following are just a few examples of the mass fish death reports that have been coming in day after day from all over the globe…

15.
27 Huge Red Flags For The U.S. Economy
. If you believe that the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction, you really need to read this article. As we look toward the second half of 2014, there are economic red flags all over the place. Industrial production is down. Home sales are way down. Retail stores are closing at the fastest pace since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. U.S. household debt is up substantially, and in 20 percent of all U.S. families everyone is unemployed. In so many ways, what we are witnessing right now is so similar to what we experienced during the build up to the last great financial crisis. We are making so many of the very same mistakes that we made the last time, and yet our “leaders” seem completely oblivious to what is happening. But the warning signs are very clear. All you have to do is open your eyes and look at them. The following are 27 huge red flags for the U.S. economy…

16.
VA Supervisor: Older Veterans Should Be “Shot In the Head” To Save Money
. A Veterans Affairs whistleblower has exclusively revealed to Infowars that the facility at which he works has engaged in a of cover-up in response to the VA hospital scandal, while also relating the story of how one supervisor expressed his desire to see older veterans “taken outside and shot in the head.”

17.
Local officials blast move by Obama to set aside 500,000 acres in NM
. Local officials in New Mexico warn a move by the Obama administration to designate nearly a half-million acres as a national monument could open up a crime corridor making it easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border and for drug cartels to operate undetected.

18.
Tax Chauvinism: Who Cares Where a Firm is Incorporated?
. Following the recent offer by U.S drugmaker Pfizer to acquire British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, congressional Democrats are proposing new limits on the ability of U.S.-based firms to establish foreign residence and thus cut their U.S. corporate tax bill. Even before this latest flap, the Obama Administration proposed curbs on this practice, known as an inversion. But why does it matter where a multinational corporation is headquartered? Certainly, it would affect U.S. tax receipts. By some estimates, Pfizer alone would pay $1.4 billion less in annual taxes by moving its corporate residence to London—though its offer has so far been spurned. But beyond the revenue question, should we really care? After all, changing the corporate address of a firm has no real economic impact. There is no reason to believe the company would move production offshore if it shifts the address of its headquarters. After all, firms will produce goods and services wherever it is most cost-effective, after figuring regulatory, labor, and transportation costs.

19.
Is The Tea Party Dead?
. Do you remember when the pundits were talking about how the Tea Party movement was going to transform American politics? Do you remember when establishment Republicans in Congress were scared to death of having Tea Party challengers come after their seats? Well, those days are over. In primary after primary in 2014, it has become abundantly clear that the establishment is in full control of the Republican Party once again. And recent polling data also supports the theory that the Tea Party movement is losing steam. Back in 2010, 31 percent of all Americans supported the Tea Party. Today, an all-time low 15 percent of all Americans do. So is the Tea Party dead? Perhaps not yet, but without a doubt it is on the ropes.

20.
Primary Aftermath
. The first full-fledged primary night with the Republican Party establishment and its liberty-loving base going head-to-head is now in the books. And there’s no spinning it – it was a bad night for the good guys. Daniel Horowitz at Red State has a good summary of what happened: Kentucky: Horowitz notes Matt Bevin did very well in GOP strongholds in the northern part of the state, where Ditch McConnell needs a large turnout to win this fall. Thus, he is going to have to reach out to Bevin’s base. McConnell’s re-elect numbers are probably the worst for any incumbent Republican in a very pro-GOP cycle. For example, over 90,000 more people voted in Kentucky’s uncontested Democrat primary than voted in the hotly-contested Republican primary McConnell won. That is a bad sign for McConnell this fall. As is the the fact he got the lowest percentage of the vote in a primary of any Kentucky incumbent U.S. Senator since 1938.

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CFPB Finally Yields, Opens Secret Meetings To Public
. The ultrasecretive Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will end its closed-door meeting policy and open talks with its radical advisers to the public starting next month. While a victory for transparency, the move doesn’t go far enough. “Starting with our June 18 meeting” in Reno, Nev., it added, “the public may attend (or watch online) the full Consumer Advisory Board and council meetings, the same way most other agencies allow under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.”

22.
Japan Begins Purposely Dumping 100s of Tons of Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into The Pacific
. How do you get rid of hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water? You dump it into the Pacific Ocean of course! In Japan, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. has made the “painful decision” to begin purposely dumping massive amounts of radioactive water currently being stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility directly into the Pacific. This is being done even though water radiation levels near Fukushima spiked to a brand new all-time record high just a few days ago. The radioactive material that is being released will enter our food chain and will potentially stay with us for decades to come. Fukushima is an environmental nightmare that never seems to end, but the mainstream media in the United States decided to pretty much stop talking about it long ago. So don’t expect the big news networks to make a big deal out of the fact that Japan is choosing to use the Pacific Ocean as a toilet for their nuclear waste. But even though they aren’t talking about it, that doesn’t mean that radioactive material from Fukushima is not seriously affecting the health of millions of people all over the planet.

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Congress reaffirms indefinite detention of Americans under NDAA
. The US House of Representatives approved an annual defense spending bill early Thursday after rejecting a proposed amendment that would have prevented the United States government from indefinitely detaining American citizens.

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Don’t be fooled: McConnell’s victory in Kentucky is also a Tea Party win
. The top Senate Republican beat his conservative primary opponent, but it came at a price for the GOP. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s primary victory on Tuesday night in Kentucky will undoubtedly tempt many a pundit to write the Tea Party’s eulogy. But the Tea Party will achieve in electoral death what it could never achieve in life: lasting control of the GOP agenda. McConnell won because he’s got a familiar name, a lot of money and the kind of political clout that makes up for occasional lapses from orthodoxy. That might not be enough next time – as a local Kentucky Republican leader told the National Journal last week, the state party is “still McConnell’s Republican Party, but it’s edging toward being Rand [Paul]’s Republican Party”. But, it was enough to keep it from being challenger Matt Bevin’s Republican party – especially after his unforced errors and willingness to prize ideological purity over more pragmatic concerns (like the $2bn in pork McConnell brought home for agreeing to end the government shutdown).

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Watch Creepy Uncle Sam make it rain for “glitchy IT contractors”

Posted 5/18/2014

1. Davy Crockett’s Lesson For Liberals
2. Obama Caught Between A Big Labor Rock, And A Solar Panel Hard Place
3. Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, Allen B. West considering run for President
4. White House’s $17 billion helicopter fleet
5. Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property
6. 400 US mercenaries ‘deployed on ground’ in Ukraine military op
7. The Red Line and the Rat Line
8. Dept. Of Education erects obstacles to keep states in common core
9. Blind Squirrel Finds a Supreme Court Nut
10. DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
11. Washington Post calls for Sharia limits on speech
12. Media Marxists Persuading the Government To Execute Its Hugest Internet Power Grab Yet
13. Former CIA / NSA Director Michael Hayden: “We Kill People Based on Metadata”
14. Common Core vanishes from state law
15. Appeals Court Says ‘Islamization’ Trademark is Too Offensive
16. De-Dollarization: Russia Is On The Verge Of Dealing A Massive Blow To The Petrodollar
17. How the West Won the Great Hashtag War of 2014
18.. The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military
19. Fla. Gov. OKs bill to prohibit use of foreign law
20. Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram
21. Operation American Spring: Militias promise to oust Obama, Boehner on Friday
22. Valerie Jarrett reveals Boehner’s ‘commitment’ on immigration reform
23. WATCH: George Will Demolishes Arguments for Common Core in Under Two Minutes
24. 7 Ways to Make A Liberal Cry Like A Little Girl
25. Creating Obama One Photo at a Time

1.
Davy Crockett’s Lesson For Liberals
. Liberal advocates of big government view your money as their money. Since the United States Congress was first established there have been Congressmen who want to spend your money on their projects. In fact, the authority to spend other people’s money has long been too great a temptation for many who serve in Congress; especially those of the liberal persuasion. But one Congressman learned the hard way that spending other people’s money can backfire on an elected official. Congressman Davy Crockett learned this lesson many years ago just in time to save his seat in Congress.

2.
Obama Caught Between A Big Labor Rock, And A Solar Panel Hard Place
. One of the problems with Barack Obama’s brand of ultra-divisive crony politics is that eventually you come to a moment where two of your cronies strongly disagree with each other, and you’ve got to pick which one to bestow your royal favor upon. In this case, it’s labor unions versus “green energy,” as Obama infuriated labor unions by congratulating their arch-enemy Wal-Mart for making a big commitment to solar panels.

3.
Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, Allen B. West considering run for President
. Many are asking me to consider a huge undertaking. If God had not placed a challenge before me and closed one door, perhaps a new mission would not be possible. Here I am, traveling along the same path I took in December 2003. I am traveling with my “Band of Brothers” and meeting my beloved countrymen and women along the way, sharing my perspectives as well. A new door has opened and faithfully I walked through it.

4.
White House’s $17 billion helicopter fleet
. The Pentagon has awarded a contract to begin development of the most expensive helicopters ever made. Each helicopter will probably cost at least $400 million. The entire project, to build at least 23 helicopters, has been estimated to eventually cost between $10 billion to $17 billion. By comparison, the project could pay the combined defense budgets of Finland, Norway, and Sweden for one year ($16.9 billion).

5.
Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property
. Motel owner Russell Caswell wasn’t expecting to find himself at the center of a national controversy when FBI agents came knocking on his door. They said they wanted his Tewksbury, Mass., business – and the land it was on – because they suspected it was a hotbed for drug-dealing and prostitution. The agents, who were working with state and local authorities, told a disbelieving Caswell they had the right to take the property, valued at as much as $1.5 million, through a legal process known as civil forfeiture. Caswell, 70, fought back, and the case turned into one of the nation’s most contentious civil forfeiture fights ever – and one that legal experts say sheds light on a little-known practice that, when abused, is tantamount to policing for profit.

6.
400 US mercenaries ‘deployed on ground’ in Ukraine military op
. About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in southeastern regions of the country, German media reports. The Bild am Sonntag newspaper, citing a source in intelligence circles, wrote Sunday that Academi employees are involved in the Kiev military crackdown on pro-autonomy activists in near the town of Slavyansk, in the Donetsk region.

7.
The Red Line and the Rat Line
. The Manipulation of the American Military by the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons.＊ Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention. The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous.

8.
Dept. Of Education erects obstacles to keep states in common core
. When someone hears bureaucratic terms like “compliance, mandates and penalties,” they might think of the EPA, the IRS, or these days, the Department of Health and Human Services. But another federal government department is fast adopting the language of strict and onerous regulation. Annoyed that Indiana wants to extricate themselves from the Common Core education standards, the U.S. Department of Education is erecting procedural obstacles to make this as difficult possible. At stake for Hoosiers is $200 million in federal education funds. The Obama Administration is using “No Child Left Behind” waivers to warn Indiana officials of the penalties they face for non-compliance with Common Core. In a political scheme that could only be hatched in Washington, one federal program enacted under George W. Bush and widely derided for undermining local school authority, is pitted against another federal program even more derided for the same reasons.

9.
Blind Squirrel Finds a Supreme Court Nut
. Article III, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority to “check” judicial activism, up to and including when justices illegitimately legislate from the highest bench in the land: “[T]he Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” That’s huge. Unfortunately, to date, Congress has been either unwilling or unable to enact such regulations.

10.
DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
. The Obama administration appears to have a terrorist “hands off” list that permits individuals with extremist ties to enter the country, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents obtained by a United States Senator. It’s unimaginable that any government would do this, but it seems like the Obama administration is constantly breaking new ground. The disturbing details of this secret initiative were made public this week by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has obtained DHS electronic mail discussing what could be a terrorist “hands off” list. The exchange includes a 2012 email chain between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) asking whether to admit an individual with ties to various terrorist groups. The individual had scheduled an upcoming flight into the U.S., according to an announcement issued by the senator.

11.
Washington Post calls for Sharia limits on speech
. The Washington Post argued for Sharia restrictions on free speech in a wildly dishonest, silly and illogical Religion News Service article that ran in Wednesday’s religion section, headlined “Internet hate speech can lead to acts of violence.”

12.
Media Marxists Persuading the Government To Execute Its Hugest Internet Power Grab Yet
. Allow me to (re)introduce you to the hardcore Leftists rabble rousing for a full-on government takeover of the World Wide Web. Theirs is now an all-out push to have the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Reclassify” the Internet – so as to then impose the utterly unpopular Network Neutrality. Reclassification” means unilaterally shoving the Web out from under the existing light-touch Title I rules the 1996 Telecommunications Actplaced upon it – which have allowed it to blossom into the free speech-free market Xanadu we all know and love. And then slamming it into the Title II heavy-regulatory uber-structure that has for the last seventy-plus years crushed with regs and taxes landline telephones – that well-known bastion of technological and economic innovation. Does the FCC have the authority to Reclassify? Of course not. But this is the Barack Obama Administration – when has that ever stopped them?

13.
Former CIA / NSA Director Michael Hayden: “We Kill People Based on Metadata”
. Former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden admitted that the agency has often used metadata for killing people. The claim came during a recent debate at John Hopkins University on the NSA’s untethered surveillance programs, which came to light via the revelations of Edward Snowden.

14.
Common Core vanishes from state law
. Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law Monday three education bills. SB 864 allows parents to object to school textbooks. The governor also signed a bill that would bar school districts from being able to collect student data like fingerprints. SB 188 also bars the collection of information on the political or religious affiliation of students and parents. Scott also signed a bill prompted by opposition to Common Core academic standards. HB 7031 eliminates all references to the Common Core standards in Florida law. It repeals more than 30 mentions of the standards which were placed into state law a year ago.

15.
Appeals Court Says ‘Islamization’ Trademark is Too Offensive
. A federal appeals court has rejected a controversial blogger’s attempt to trademark the name of a group she founded called “Stop Islamization of America,” ruling that the name is too offensive to Muslims to qualify for protection.

16.
De-Dollarization: Russia Is On The Verge Of Dealing A Massive Blow To The Petrodollar
. Is the petrodollar monopoly about to be shattered? When U.S. politicians started slapping economic sanctions on Russia, they probably never even imagined that there might be serious consequences for the United States. But now the Russian media is reporting that the Russian Ministry of Finance is getting ready to pull the trigger on a “de-dollarization” plan. For decades, virtually all oil and natural gas around the world has been bought and sold for U.S. dollars. As I will explain below, this has been a massive advantage for the U.S. economy. In recent years, there have been rumblings by nations such as Russia and China about the need to change to a new system, but nobody has really had a big reason to upset the status quo. However, that has now changed. The struggle over Ukraine has caused Russia to completely reevaluate the financial relationship that it has with the United States. If it starts trading a lot of oil and natural gas for currencies other than the U.S. dollar, that will be a massive blow for the petrodollar, and it could end up dramatically changing the global economic landscape.

17.
How the West Won the Great Hashtag War of 2014
. This week, a picture emerged of Islamist terror group Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau holding a machine gun in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. On that paper was scrawled: “#WeSurrender.” Thus came to an end the Great Hashtag War of 2014. Led by the bravery of First Lady Michelle Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Democratic women of the United States Senate, the West tweeted Boko Haram into submission. When Obama released the H-bomb of twitter — a sad duck-faced picture of herself in an empty room holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls — total victory was achieved: 276 Nigerian girls who had been kidnapped and converted to Islam avoided sale into sex slavery, and the 150 Nigerians murdered by Boko Haram just last week suddenly sprang back to life.

18..
The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military
. By the end of this decade, the U.S. Army will be the smallest that it has been since World War II, the U.S. Navy will be the smallest that it has been since World War I, and the U.S. Air Force will have gotten nearly 500 planes smaller. Without a doubt, the U.S. military has not been used wisely in recent years, but the world is not becoming a more stable place. The threat of war appears to be greater than it has been in a very long time, and yet the Obama administration seems obsessed with gutting our national defenses. So exactly what is Obama’s agenda anyway? In a world that is getting crazier with each passing day, why would he want to steadily shrink the size of the U.S. military?

19.
Fla. Gov. OKs bill to prohibit use of foreign law
. Florida is becoming the eighth state to outlaw the use of foreign law in the state’s courts under a bill signed by Gov. Rick Scott. Scott signed the measure (SB 386) on Monday. It would prohibit judges from applying from applying foreign laws in cases involving family law, including divorce, alimony, child support and child custody. It would also prevent some judgments from foreign courts to be considered in state courts. The measure does not single out specific religions but critics said the law is intended to target a specific form of law called Shariah that is practiced in courts in some Muslim countries.

20.
Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram
. Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years. Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation.

21.
Operation American Spring: Militias promise to oust Obama, Boehner on Friday
. A retired United States Army colonel expects as many as 30 million like-minded individuals will descend on Washington, DC this week and demand that President Barack Obama and other members of his administration be booted from office. Those are just some of the demands that Col. Harry Riley, founder of “Operation American Spring,” said he’ll ask the Obama administration to adhere to when militia members and patriots of all sorts arrive in the nation’s capital on Friday and begin demonstrating against a government the group considers to be in violation of the principles established by the founders of the country.

22.
Valerie Jarrett reveals Boehner’s ‘commitment’ on immigration reform
. Did Valerie Jarrett just disclose every conservatives worst fear; a disheartened Speaker John Boehner commiserating behind the scenes with President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party on the difficulties he faces from his own party in the pursuit of amnesty? Speaking at the elite invitation-only SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas, the president’s senior adviser said a “frustrated” Boehner pledged to help “get something done” this year on immigration reform.

23.
WATCH: George Will Demolishes Arguments for Common Core in Under Two Minutes
. Conservative pundit George Will delivered a fierce attack on Common Core, characterizing the educational standards as a way for progressives to further promote their political views.

24.
7 Ways to Make A Liberal Cry Like A Little Girl
. This is your surefire way to make liberals weep an ocean of tears.

25.
Creating Obama One Photo at a Time
. I thought you might want to see this excellent mini-documentary by ReasonTV revealing how the White House uses photography to craft President Obama’s image, employing Canon-wielding propagandist Pete Souza instead of the White House press corps to present the president to the public. In the video, news image analyst Michael Shaw, publisher of Bagnewsnotes.com, describes how important the exclusion of press photographers is to the White House and how effectively Obama’s public relations outfit uses social media to disseminate the desired image – literally and figuratively – of the president.

Posted 5/11/2014

1. Political Fraud about Voter Fraud
2. Legitimacy of Obama Re-Election At Stake In Benghazi
3. Pfizer Develops a Cure for Taxes
4. ‘Bigger than Bundy’: Land agency’s battles go beyond rancher dispute
5. Too Big To Audit? Large Partnerships Escape IRS Scrutiny, GAO Reports
6. Scientists Race to Develop Farm Animals That Can Survive Global Warming
7. Fed won’t consider rate raise until October: Fisher
8. America Today Parallels NAZI Germany
9. California school district defends writing assignment on confirming or denying Holocaust
10. 10 Examples of How “Big Brother” Is Steadily Creeping Into Our Daily Lives
11. Vladimir Putin Has the Upper Hand. Here’s Why.
12. Federal Debt Not Only Liability Taxpayers on Hook For
13. Government Will Control You before It Controls Climate
14. The “Economic Recovery” Continues: Businesses Are Being Destroyed Faster Than They Are Being Created
15. Who Really Owns America’s Land?
16. New White House Video Actually Brags about Obama’s Imperial Presidency!
17. Report: One Obamacare Tax Could Cost Up To 286,000 Jobs
18. Liberal Study Finds Entrepreneurs Dying Under Obama
19. Who Owns One-Third of American Land — And How It’s Holding Us Back
20. John Podesta – Obama’s Hit Man for the Global Warming Scam
21. Not Working: U.S. Labor Force Participation Lowest in 36 Years
22. Fed Chair: ‘Deficits Will Rise to Unsustainable Levels’
23. Washington Post calls for Islamic restrictions on internet free speech
24. Feds Threaten States for Failing to Comply with Common Core Standards
25 . Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi

1.
Political Fraud about Voter Fraud
. The president’s selective statistics are red meat to supporters, but still bogus. The Obama administration has been ramping up its rhetoric about the evil of voter identification as part of the run-up to the midterm elections. In January, Attorney General Eric Holder told MSNBC that voter fraud “simply does not exist to the extent that would warrant” voter ID laws, adding that many who favor such measures do so in order to “depress the vote.” Vice President Joe Biden claimed in February that new voter ID laws in North Carolina, Alabama and Texas were motivated by “hatred” and “zealotry.”

2.
Legitimacy of Obama Re-Election At Stake In Benghazi
. Probing coordinated lying on the 2012 terrorist killings of an ambassador and three other U.S. personnel is no “diversion,” as Nancy Pelosi claims. The legitimacy of a president’s re-election is at stake.

3.
Pfizer Develops a Cure for Taxes
. Viagra, Lipitor, Celebrex, Zoloft and even good old Preparation H are as American as cheeseburgers. So is Pfizer, which makes these ubiquitous remedies. But the New York-based pharmaceutical giant is reportedly brewing plans to skip the country, via a $106 billion bid for London-based drug maker AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca rejected the bid on Friday, but that’s probably not the end of this dance. Even if it is, what’s important here is Pfizer’s objective: to merge the two concerns into a holding company with a U.K. tax domicile, allowing it to avoid millions of dollars in U.S. taxes.

4.
‘Bigger than Bundy’: Land agency’s battles go beyond rancher dispute
. It’s the most powerful agency you’ve never heard of — at least, until recently. The Bureau of Land Management, the nation’s biggest landlord, found itself in the spotlight after a high-profile brawl with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and another dispute with state officials over the Texas-Oklahoma borderlands. But the seemingly obscure agency, which is in charge of millions of acres of public land, is no stranger to controversy. History shows the power struggle over property rights and land use is one that’s been fought — fiercely — ever since the bureau was created. In the nearly seven decades of its existence, the BLM has struggled to find its footing and exert its power, pitted against a vocal states’ rights movement.

5.
Too Big To Audit? Large Partnerships Escape IRS Scrutiny, GAO Reports
. In 2011, while the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was busy scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of 100 percent of Tea Party groups and other conservative non-profits, the tax agency did not audit a single high-value electing large partnership (ELP) with more than $100 million in assets. That’s according to a preliminary report released to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) April 17th.

6.
Scientists Race to Develop Farm Animals That Can Survive Global Warming
. Thousands of cattle perished in a freak snowstorm during the first weekend in October 2013 in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. That’s an incredible number, and yet the story received surprisingly little attention. Researchers were in the vanguard of food scientists, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming.

7.
Fed won’t consider rate raise until October: Fisher
. The Federal Reserve will likely bring its massive bond-buying program to an end in October, and only after that will it consider when to raise U.S. interest rates, a top Fed official said on Sunday. “I personally expect us to end that program in October,” Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in an interview on Fox News. “Then we have to see how the economy is doing, including these broader measures of unemployment and where we stand before we can talk about how we might move the short-term rate.”

8.
America Today Parallels NAZI Germany
. The resemblance of America, today, parallels that of NAZI Germany in almost every way. We got to this point beginning with the George H. W. Bush Administration’s vision of a New World Order. Shortly after the unnecessary first Gulf War, in the guise of liberating Kuwait from the evil Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein, who was previously considered a friend to the US during the Reagan Administration. Immediately after the war, George H. W. Bush proclaimed his vision of a New World Order and signed the United Nations’ Agenda 21 which literally gave away any form of sovereignty as an independent country the US had to the UN.

9.
California school district defends writing assignment on confirming or denying Holocaust
. Holocaust denial is being explored in our nation’s public school districts. Now we see how low the public school system has sunk … to the depths of hell. Reality is being debated in the public school. Truth is murdered, reason is a thought-crime, morality an unspeakable evil. Recognizing reality is subject to a club of destroyers bent on imposing their subversive, evil agenda.

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10 Examples of How “Big Brother” Is Steadily Creeping Into Our Daily Lives
. Virtually everything that you do is being watched. Do you drive a car? Do you watch television? Do you use a cell phone? As you do any of those things, information about you is being recorded and tracked. We live at a time when personal privacy is dying. And it is not just governments that are doing this. In fact, sometimes private companies are the biggest offenders. It turns out that gathering information about all of us is very, very profitable. And both government entities and private companies are going to continue to push the envelope when it comes to high tech surveillance until people start objecting to what they are trying to do. If we continue down the path that we are currently on, it is inevitable that we will end up living in an extremely restrictive “Big Brother” police state where basically everything that we do is very closely watched, monitored, tracked and controlled. And such a day may be much closer than you think. The following are 10 examples of how “Big Brother” is steadily creeping into our daily lives…

11.
Vladimir Putin Has the Upper Hand. Here’s Why.
. Could it be that Putin has grasped the meaning of the strategic standoff with the West better than we have? Has he figured out an approach — do we dare call it a strategy? — that minimizes our strengths and his weaknesses to achieve his objectives?

12.
Federal Debt Not Only Liability Taxpayers on Hook For
. It is no secret that Washington’s finances are in a dire state. What might come as a shock, however, is that the American people are on the hook for a lot more than just our national debt. Today, nine of 10 new mortgages are insured by you, the taxpayers. That’s right — 90% of all mortgages are backed by the U.S. government. This point becomes even more ominous when you find out that most of the fees that should be saved to protect taxpayers against future losses on these loans are being spent by Congress. When the next housing downturn comes — and it will — we will have another multi-billion-dollar bailout on our hands. To this day, many Americans are completely unaware of the costs of this bailout and the dangers it poses for America.

13.
Government Will Control You before It Controls Climate
. Ultimately, it will not matter if people in government cynically promote the theory that human activity is destroying the global climate as a means of taking control of your life, or if they take control of your life because they sincerely believe human activity is destroying the global climate. Either way, government will control of your life.

14.
The “Economic Recovery” Continues: Businesses Are Being Destroyed Faster Than They Are Being Created
. What would you say about an economy where businesses are shutting down faster than they are opening? Well, a shocking new study released by the Brookings Institution indicates that this is exactly what is happening in the United States. We are absolutely killing small businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit in this country, and as you will see below, the number of self-employed Americans has been on a downward trend for a decade even though our population has been steadily growing. Traditionally, small businesses have been the primary engine of job growth in this nation, so the fact that study after study has found that small business creation is being crippled in the United States is a really bad sign for our economic future.

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Who Really Owns America’s Land?
. Under English common law, a most unique significance was attached to the unalienable right of possessing, developing, and disposing of property. Land and the products of the earth, in their natural state, were considered a gift of God to man, but then man was commanded individually to cultivate, beautify, and subdue it and bring it under his dominion. This is the root of private property ownership, for without a certain exclusiveness, one cannot fulfill the command to “subdue” and gain “dominion” over property. America’s Founders took this Biblical injunction literally and believed that no government official has a right to interfere with this God-given, unalienable right and mandate. Their belief that the land belonged to the people, not the king, was the impetus for including the grievances in the Declaration of Independence that, 1) “He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States;… and rais[ed] the conditions of new Appropriations of Land, and, 2) the “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” King George also attempted to prevent the colonists from possessing the new lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Land belongs to the people, not the Government or the King

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New White House Video Actually Brags about Obama’s Imperial Presidency!
. In a sickening display of hubris, the White House released a video on Monday proudly touting the president’s “accomplishments” with his “year of action” that centers on Unconstitutional power grabs. Like a propaganda video touting a modern day Great Leap Forward, the video repeatedly harps on President Obama’s willingness to act unilaterally, without Congress.

17.
Report: One Obamacare Tax Could Cost Up To 286,000 Jobs
. Just one of Obamacare’s many taxes could cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade, according to an industry report published Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Business projects that between 152,000 and 286,000 jobs will be lost by 2023 due to Obamacare’s health insurance tax. NFIB, a nonprofit association of business owners, actively supports the repeal of the tax.

18.
Liberal Study Finds Entrepreneurs Dying Under Obama
. Mitt Romney was right. In 2012, he said President Obama’s policies were costing a record 100,000 business start-ups a year. Now a liberal think tank backs him up. Only it’s worse. The Brookings Institution found that for the first time on record U.S. businesses are being destroyed faster than they’re being created. In fact, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades.

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Who Owns One-Third of American Land — And How It’s Holding Us Back
. Did you know that the federal government owns nearly one-third of U.S. land? What are they doing with it, you might ask. And the answer is certainly not making the most of it. In fact, true to form, the federal government is getting in the way of domestic energy and American jobs. “Inaccessibility and unnecessary regulations inhibit economic growth in various parts of the country,” says Heritage expert Nicolas Loris, the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow. He points to a recent study showing that “opening up offshore areas for drilling in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf — just one region where offshore drilling is possible but not permitted — would create 280,000 jobs in that region alone.”

20.
John Podesta – Obama’s Hit Man for the Global Warming Scam
. John Podesta is now the man in control of the energy policies in the United States. Some will question just who John Podesta is and that is a very good question and we will reveal the man who has “forced’ the challenge of destroying the very Constitution our nation has loved so dearly. John Podesta has been working to circumvent the Constitution of the United States since he began his career working with Senator Patrick Leahy from 1981 to 1988. It was John Podesta, who advocated smearing those who did not agree with the ideas that Senator Leahy produced.

21.
Not Working: U.S. Labor Force Participation Lowest in 36 Years
. It’s yet another sad, sorry statistic in the history of the slowly sinking ship that is the American economy. The latest Senate Budget Committee analysis shows that over half a million less people have jobs now than before President Obama took office, even though there are 8 million more people in the working-age population. Total employment has declined from 146.3 million to 145.7 million. Worse, the labor force participation rate hit a record low last month, while the number of Americans who could work but don’t work between the ages of 25 and 29 hit a record high — nearly 4.3 million. That last number has increased 13.6% since Obama took office.

22.
Fed Chair: ‘Deficits Will Rise to Unsustainable Levels’
. Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, referencing the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections, told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress today that under current policies the federal government’s deficits “will rise to unsustainable levels.”

23.
Washington Post calls for Islamic restrictions on internet free speech
. The Washington Post is arguing for sharia restrictions on free speech in a wildly dishonest, silly, and illogical article that ran in yesterday’s WaPo Religion section, entitled “Internet hate speech can lead to acts of violence,”

24.
Feds Threaten States for Failing to Comply with Common Core Standards
. Since the Constitution does not grant the federal government the power to determine educational requirements or standards for our children, that power is reserved to the States or the people. However, the federal government usurped that power with the establishment of the Department of Education. Now, with their mandates of “no child left behind” and the dreaded Common Core, the federal government has taken control of the power of education away from the States and the people. In fact, any State that does not follow the “rules” set forth by the federal government through the Department of Education will be threatened with loss of their federal funding.

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Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi

Posted 5/4/2014

1. General Electric to investors: Obamacare is hurting our medical business
2. Feds Cannot Own Land
3. Department of Energy wants bulk explosives for nuclear weapons transport
4. Another university stops students from handing out Constitution
5. The Health Care Compact is Gaining Momentum
6. The NDAA: What They Don’t Want You To Know
7. State Department Launches Hashtag Strike on Russia
8. 12 Step Program to Liberty
9. Passage of Special Districts Accountability Legislation
10. Markets Would Solve California’s Water Shortage
11. The Real Unemployment Rate: In 20% Of American Families, EVERYONE Is Unemployed
12. Obama hires a CRIMINAL defense attorney to be his new White House counsel
13. Senate approves ban on foreign law in Florida courts
14. Men Who Work Full-Time Earn Less Than 40 Years Ago
15. Senators call proposed EPA rule a ‘terrifying power grab’
16. Toyota Trades California for No-Tax, Low-Regulation Texas
17. ‘One Nation Under Allah’: The Islamization Of American Public Schools
18. VA Hospital Facilities Turn Away State Healthcare Inspectors In Florida
19. 17 Facts to Show To Anyone That Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine
20. U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
21. EMS Worker Tells Mom “We’re Agents of the State” During Home Inspection
22. Sharia Advisors – Barack Obama’s Muslim Appointees in High Security Positions
23. Not Even Your McDonald’s Happy Meal is Safe From Ridiculous Politically Correct Attacks
24. Fall of Britain’s Conservatives Is Warning To GOP
25. 92,594,000: Americans Not in Labor Force Hits All-Time Record; Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low

1.
General Electric to investors: Obamacare is hurting our medical business
. General Electric is telling its investors that Obamacare is to blame for recent losses in the company’s health care division, The Daily Caller has learned. “Hospitals and clinics appear to be delaying purchases and responses to the ACA [Affordable Care Act],” stated GE senior vice president and CFO Jeffrey S. Bornstein in the company’s first-quarter earnings call. General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, an outside economic adviser to President Obama, confirmed at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that the health sector is experiencing uncertainty.

2.
Feds Cannot Own Land
. Last night on the Sean Hannity show, Judge Napolitano said what I’ve been saying. The federal government has no constitutional authority to own land. Check it out; watch a recording of the show. Any such claim to federal land ownership (except federal enclaves) lack constitutional authority, and is therefore null and void. The federal government does not own the public lands. The People do. The issue is not land transfer. The issue is not even legislative authority, because the Constitution and Eisenhower Report are both consistent in saying the legislative authority over the lands within the states belongs to the states (except the federal enclaves). The states just have to exercise it.

3.
Department of Energy wants bulk explosives for nuclear weapons transport
. The Government buying explosives is not new. But when they do something new – that’s why we should pay attention. In a new solicitation posted 22 April 2014, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Contracts and Procurement Division (CPD) is searching for a small capable of providing Integral Firing Devices and Breacher Strip Assemblies that meet specific characteristics in support of the NNSA’s Office of Secure Transportation (OST). The mission of OST is the safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons, special nuclear materials, selected non-nuclear weapons components, limited-life components, and various other materials.

4.
Another university stops students from handing out Constitution
. Two students are suing the University of Hawaii for violating their First Amendment rights after administrator prevented them from distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution — demonstrating a frightening lack of knowledge about the very legal document they were attempting to censor.

5.
The Health Care Compact is Gaining Momentum
. Republicans and Democrats in Washington DC deeply disagree about what to do on health care. But amidst all of the partisan bickering and deadlock, both groups agree on one thing: Washington DC should decide for everyone. There is another way to fix health care: give states a way out of the centrally controlled system designed, built, and operated by Washington DC bureaucrats, lobbyists, and policy wonks. It’s called the Health Care Compact. It is a grassroots-led, bottom-up reform that will allow the repeal of Obamacare on a state-by-state basis, cut up to $3.6 trillion out of federal spending over the next 10 years, and rebalance our system of federalism by allowing control over health care to move from the federal to the state level. And it is a strategy that can be replicated in other policy areas, from education to campaign finance.

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The NDAA: What They Don’t Want You To Know
. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Sections 1021 and 1022, authorizes the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of any person, including an American citizen, and applies the “Law of War,” to U.S. soil, making the United States legally a battlefield.

7.
State Department Launches Hashtag Strike on Russia
. Just when you thought the Obama Administration’s foreign policy couldn’t get any more ridiculous, the State Department sallies forth with a bracing challenge for Russia to respect the lame-o Twitter hashtag they touted last month:

8.
12 Step Program to Liberty
. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over the bureaucracy – that it had become unmanageable. You need to admit you have a problem; the system is not only broken but actively working against you on both sides of the aisle….

9.
Passage of Special Districts Accountability Legislation
. Today, the Florida House of Representatives passed accountability legislation for special districts (SB 1632) unanimously by a vote of 115-0. The legislation amends the definition of agency in the state code of ethics to specifically include special districts. Under the proposal, special districts would also be required to put their budgets, taxes assessed and audits online for the public. The Florida Senate approved the measure unanimously by a vote of 38-0 on April 25. The bill now goes to Governor Rick Scott.

10.
Markets Would Solve California’s Water Shortage
. It’s so dry in California that gangs of water police are roving freely through neighborhoods and the governor is trying to manage restaurants. Here’s a far better idea for conservation — the power of markets. The solution to the drought need not be so complex. By simply letting water cost what it actually costs, Californians would conserve on their own without the heavy hand of government hovering over their heads.

11.
The Real Unemployment Rate: In 20% Of American Families, EVERYONE Is Unemployed
. According to shocking new numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of American families do not have a single person that is working. So when someone tries to tell you that the unemployment rate in the United States is about 7 percent, you should just laugh. A number that I find much more useful is the employment-population ratio. According to the employment-population ratio, the percentage of working age Americans that actually have a job has been below 59 percent for more than four years in a row. That means that more than 41 percent of all working age Americans do not have a job.

12.
Obama hires a CRIMINAL defense attorney to be his new White House counsel
. A week ago on April 21, 2014, the White House announced that W. Neil Eggleston, a well-known criminal defense attorney, will be Obama’s new White House counsel upon the May 2014 departure of Kathryn Ruemmler. Keith Koffler of whitehousedossier.com says Eggleston is the kind of guy you go to when someone tells you, “time to lawyer up.”

13.
Senate approves ban on foreign law in Florida courts
. The Florida Senate voted to forbid application of foreign law in Florida courts Monday despite arguments that no such legislative ban is needed.

14.
Men Who Work Full-Time Earn Less Than 40 Years Ago
. The real median income of American men who work full-time, year-round peaked forty years ago in 1973, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1973, median earnings for men who worked full-time, year-round were $51,670 in inflation-adjusted 2012 dollars. The median earnings of men who work full-time year-round never have been that high again.

15.
Senators call proposed EPA rule a ‘terrifying power grab’
. The American Farm Bureau Federation is warning farmers and ranchers that a proposed EPA rule could mean that “ordinary fieldwork, fence construction or even planting could require a federal permit.”

16.
Toyota Trades California for No-Tax, Low-Regulation Texas
. Texas Gov. Rick Perry keeps coming back to California to lure companies to the income-tax-free Lone Star State. Apparently he’s succeeding. Toyota Motor Corp. will relocate “substantial parts” of its U.S. headquarters in Torrance, Calif., to suburban Dallas. The impetus for the move: cutting costs. This could lead to as many as 5,000 jobs transplanted from California to Big D, as they call it in Texas. This is the 50th major employer to make the trek to the Lone Star State from California this year alone.

17.
‘One Nation Under Allah’: The Islamization Of American Public Schools
. Endless concessions and accommodations to Islamic demands only give way to more demands for even more Islam, as shown in the recent blockbuster revelations of an Islamic takeover of UK public schools. What is less well known is the same kinds of things are happening here in the United States.

18.
VA Hospital Facilities Turn Away State Healthcare Inspectors In Florida
. During a medal awards ceremony in honor of Florida veterans at the National Guard Armory in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Governor Rick Scott was asked about the ongoing Department of Veterans Affairs scandal, where numerous American veterans have fallen ill or have died, because of the VA’s neglect at several of the department’s facilities, including the hospital in Miami. Incredibly, Scott said he has asked VA facilities in the state about veteran healthcare neglect, but the facilities have not come forward and responded to his request. Scott also said that the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration, who is tasked to do inspections of VA facilities, have been turned away.

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17 Facts to Show To Anyone That Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine
. No, the economy is most definitely not “recovering”. Despite what you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last recession. In fact, we are still pretty much where we were at when the last recession finally ended. When the financial crisis of 2008 struck, it took us down to a much lower level economically. Thankfully, things have at least stabilized at this much lower level. For example, the percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed remarkably flat for the past four years. We should be grateful that things have not continued to get even worse. It is almost as if someone has hit the “pause button” on the U.S. economy. But things are definitely not getting better, and there are a whole host of signs that this bubble of false stability will soon come to an end and that our economic decline will accelerate once again. The following are 17 facts to show to anyone that believes that the U.S. economy is just fine…

20.
U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
. After years of rapid growth during the Obama administration, the cost of federal regulations is now bigger than the entire economies of all but nine countries in the world. That’s according to the latest annual report on the regulatory state issued by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.”

21.
EMS Worker Tells Mom “We’re Agents of the State” During Home Inspection
. After a concerned mother called 911 fearing her son was choking, an EMS worker proceeded to conduct an inspection of her house on the premise that she homeschooled, telling the woman “we’re agents of the state”.

22.
Sharia Advisors – Barack Obama’s Muslim Appointees in High Security Positions
. Just how does one even begin to understand how the President would place people into positions that seem like placing the proverbial Fox in the Chicken Coop? Barack Obama has placed individuals who represent, or are a part of, the Muslim Brotherhood into high security positions. Is this due to the fact that Obama is a Muslim? Is this due to the fact that Obama may think that showing the Muslim community he has placed Muslims in high positions will stop them from hating the United States? Could this be due to his Marxist ideology he developed while at Occidental College? Maybe, just maybe, it is because Obama just does not wish for the United States to be strong and he wants to show the world the United States is not the leader it once was. One thing Obama has shown to the world is that he is not a world leader nor is he an American leader.

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Not Even Your McDonald’s Happy Meal is Safe From Ridiculous Politically Correct Attacks
. you’ve often thought that McDonald’s Happy Meals were a main obstacle preventing the coming of a glorious future where human beings have progressed beyond artificial heteronormative standards of gender imposed by the patriarchy on our girls and boys, you’d be absolutely right. But thankfully, in mankind’s darkest hour of need, there are harridans of histrionic hysteria that are waiting in the woodwork to protect our children from nature’s imperialist gender constraints. Connecticut high school student Antonia Ayres-Brown wrote about her heroic struggle at Slate. The budding liberal child declared victory when it was reported that a McDonald’s posted this sign: “When a customer orders a happy meal you must ask ‘will that be a My Little Pony toy? Or a Skylanders toy?’. We will no longer refer to them as ‘boy or girl toys.’ ”

24.
Fall of Britain’s Conservatives Is Warning To GOP
. Nationally UKIP is the direct beneficiary of collapsing support for both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. Why? UKIP is calling for British withdrawal from the European Union and has surged under Nigel Farage’s leadership since 2010, when the European sovereign-debt crisis began. That, coupled with high unemployment and the economy still sagging after the global financial crisis, is why the political establishment in London is having a hard time accounting for its own failures.

25.
92,594,000: Americans Not in Labor Force Hits All-Time Record; Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low
. A record 92,594,000 Americans were not in the labor force in April as the labor force participation rate matched a 36-year low of 62.8 percent, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Posted 4/27/2014

1.
Electricity Price Surged to All-Time Record for March
. The average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity hit a March record of 13.5 cents, according data released yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was up about 5.5 percent from 12.8 cents per KWH in March 2013.

2.
Western states hold summit on controling federal land, say ‘It’s time’
. Lawmakers from Western states said Friday that the time has come for them to take control of federal lands within their borders and suggested the standoff this month between a Nevada rancher and the federal government was a problem waiting to happen.

3.
Computer Tech Shows The DHS Just How Easy It Is To Breach The Security Of The Power Grid
. Again, the vulnerability of our power grid is in the news. This time, the threat is hackers. The LA Times published an article highlighting how alarmingly simple it was for a guy in North Carolina to breach the online security of American power stations. Adam Crain assumed that tapping into the computer networks used by power companies to keep electricity zipping through transmission lines would be nearly impossible in these days of heightened vigilance over cybersecurity. When he discovered how wrong he was, his work sent Homeland Security Department officials into a scramble.

4.
Scalia to students on high taxes: At a certain point, ‘perhaps you should revolt’
. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a group of law students that it might be a good idea to revolt if taxes become too high in the future. While speaking at the University of Tennessee College of Law on Tuesday, Justice Scalia was asked by a student about his interpretation of the constitutionality of the income tax, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported

5.
Oregon jihad training camp showed “how to properly slice someone’s throat”
. This is in America. This is on a ranch in rural Oregon. A Muslim holding a dagger with a curved blade yanked back the head of a kneeling young man and brought the metal to his neck. “He said he was going to show us how to properly slice someone’s throat,” the kneeling man’s sister testified Thursday as prosecutors began presenting their case against an Egyptian-born imam known as Abu Hamza Masri, the latest terrorism case to unfold in a New York federal court.

6.
Prepare for outrage: Far left judges allow destruction of college debate clubs because RACISM
. Several college debate clubs that feature members preoccupied with minority issues have decided the traditional tournament format promotes white privilege. They have responded by refusing to play by the official rules, ignoring time limits and rebutting their opponents with rap and spoken-word poetry. Fawning, sympathetic, liberal judges have of course rewarded such antics.

7.
GAO Report Details Obamacare Shakedown
. While Tea Party and pro-life groups were getting dragged into spider holes and cocooned with red tape by the politicized Internal Revenue Service, Sebelius was making phone calls to corporations she had make-or-break regulatory power over, and encouraging them to slip some money to the Obama-allied nonprofit group Enroll America. On Sunday, the New York Times reported on new details emerging from a government report on this unusual arrangement:

8.
Study Shows Ethanol Produces Worse ‘Global Warming’ Pollution Than Gasoline
. Well, this is going to be a heartbreaker for the hysterical global warming crowd. According to a new study, emissions from burning corn are worse for the environment and produce more CO2 or ‘global warming’ gases than the burning of traditional gasoline. A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.

9.
Conservatives Threatened For Opposing Pro-Illegal Immigration Bill in Florida
. The Florida Senator Jack Latvala’s pro-illegal immigration law, SB1400, which would grant in-state tuition to illegal aliens, would pass if it made it to the Senate floor for a vote, but the Senate’s budget chairman has said that he would block the bill. This bill is causing some of its supporters to act more like liberal AFL-CIO thugs, as threats are now being levied against some Conservatives who do not support Latvala’s pro-amnesty for illegal aliens bill. The threats are said to be carried out through third parties, by supporters of Latvala, and are warning these Conservatives, that if they openly oppose the SB1400, they can expect to be attacked by paid liberal bloggers, and quite possibly some main street reporters, who would implement character assignations against them and their families.

10.
Calif. tax preparers paid bounty for every Obamacare sign-up
. Tax-preparing companies are getting paid by an Obamacare exchange to enroll people in Obamacare plans. At least 79 tax service providers, including offices of major companies like Liberty Tax Service and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, are listed as certified Obamacare enrollment entities in the state of California, according to state exchange records.

11.
HHS Spends $123.2 Million Per Year on ‘Email Services’
. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spends roughly $123.2 million per year to provide “email services” for its 70,000 employees, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

12.
‘Hacking the Constitution’: States Quietly Plan to Ditch Electoral College
. Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to effectively ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to the candidate that wins the popular vote. The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes all commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.

13.
How the West Will Be Won? Utah & 8 Other States form Summit to Wrest Land from Feds
. Lawmakers from 9 western states gathered in Utah to have joint talks about taking control of federal lands within their borders. More than 50 political leaders, including lawmakers and county commissioners, convened at the Legislative Summit on the Transfer for Public Lands to speak about a common goal: wresting control of lands within their states, rich with oil, timber and minerals from the federal government. The nine western states were Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

14.
The Constitution is not a living organism
. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia recently said, “The Constitution is not a living organism” “It is a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn’t say what it does not say”. Well said Justice Scalia. The Founding Fathers who sought Gods’ wisdom were indeed led by Gods wisdom. Ask, and you shall receive. Other court justices, attorneys, this administration, and other progressives and liberals refer to the Constitution as a “living organism”. That sounds good, if one does not know what that term means. So why is that bad for our Constitution, and the American people?

15.
Obama Calls for Highest Sustained Taxation in U.S. History
. In the budget proposal he presented to Congress last month, President Barack Obama called for what would be the highest level of sustained taxation ever imposed on the American people, according to the analysis published last week by the Congressional Budget Office. Under Obama’s proposal, taxes would rise from 17.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2014 to 19.2 percent in 2024. During the ten years from 2015 to 2024, federal taxation would average 18.7 percent GDP.

16.
AFL-CIO demands deportation exemption to promote worker safety
. The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, is calling on the Obama administration to give illegal immigrants a reprieve from deportation proceedings, in order to encourage these immigrants to report unsafe working conditions and other workplace violations.

17.
Benghazi attack could have been prevented if US hadn’t ‘switched sides in the War on Terror’.
. Citizens Committee on Benghazi claims the US government allowed $500 MILLION of arms to flow to al-Qaeda-linked militants who opposed Muammar Gaddafi

18.
Agenda 21: The BLM Land Grabbing Endgame
. Why is the federal government so obsessed with grabbing more land? After all, the federal government already owns more than 40 percent of the land in 9 different U.S. states. Why are federal bureaucrats so determined to grab even more? Well, the truth is that this all becomes much clearer once you understand that there is a very twisted philosophy behind what they are doing. It is commonly known as “Agenda 21?, although many names and labels are used for this particular philosophy.

19.
Florida and Alaska Officially Pass Convention of States Application
. I’m pleased to announce that Florida and Alaska have both officially passed the Convention of States application to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. The Alaska Senate passed the Convention of States application (HJR 22) on Saturday by a vote of 12-8, and the Florida House passed the Convention of States application (SM 476) yesterday by a voice vote.

20.
Illinois House Committee Wants Taxpayers to Spend $100 Million on Barack Obama Library
. Illinois passed massive “temporary” tax hikes to fix the pension problem, but that did not make a dent in the problem. An Illinois House Committee wants taxpayers to pay $100 million for a Barack Obama library. Somehow, House Speaker Michael Madigan thinks this is an appropriate use of funds despite the state’s more than $100 billion pension crisis and $6.6 billion in unpaid bills. In accepting hefty taxpayer dollars for this venture, President Barack Obama is setting himself apart from his recent predecessors, former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

21.
The Middle Class In Canada Is Now Doing Better Than The Middle Class In America
. For most of Canada’s existence, it has been regarded as the weak neighbor to the north by most Americans. Well, that has changed dramatically over the past decade or so. Back in the year 2000, middle class Canadians were earning much less than middle class Americans, but since then there has been a dramatic shift. At this point, middle class Canadians are actually earning more than middle class Americans are. The Canadian economy has been booming thanks to a rapidly growing oil industry, and meanwhile the U.S. middle class has been steadily shrinking. If current trends continue, a whole bunch of other countries are going to start passing us too. The era of the “great U.S. middle class” is rapidly coming to a bitter end.

22.
Four Counties in Alabama Have More Registered Voters than Adult Residents
. Four counties in Alabama have more registered and active voters than the number of voting-age adults in the county. An active voter means the person has voted within the last four years. As of March, Greene, Hale, Lowndes and Macon counties had more active, registered voters than what the census estimated as their 18-and-older population in 2012.

23.
Dodd-Frank Inc. And The Rise Of The Fat Cat Bank Regulator
. Thanks to new financial “reform” rules — made possible through the demonization of “greedy” Wall Street — the average bank regulator now makes more than the average “fat cat” banker. Since the 2010 enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, federal bank regulator jobs have expanded and pay has climbed with them. Last year, according to Labor Department data, the average worker at a federal bank regulatory agency got 2.7 times the average pay of a private banker.

24.
Obama’s Ideology-Driven ‘Dumb War’ Is A New Cold War
. Remember President Obama’s 2012 debate zinger, “the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”? But under his failed diplomacy, Moscow is a bigger menace than at any time since the Cold War. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday was pining for the good old days. Speaking at the State Department, he lamented how “it was easier than it is today; simpler is maybe a way to put it.”

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Louisiana Creates Database of Citizens Who Represent “A Risk to the State”
. Authorities in Louisiana are compiling a database of information on every citizen in order to identify people who are “a risk to the state,” as well as pinpointing future criminals in an effort to allow the state to “intervene in that person’s life”.

Posted 4/20/2014

1. Sheriffs warn of violence from Mexican cartels deep into interior of U.S.
2. TSA rules mute woman can’t board flight unless she speaks
3. EPA coal rules leaving US vulnerable to power blackouts?
4. IRS Seizing Tax Refunds of Children, Grandchildren Over Parents’ Decades-Old Debts
5. Tensions over money flows bode poorly for global economy
6. Solar companies take govt. to court over not getting enough grant money or something
7. UN panel: Greenhouse gas emissions doubled despite climate action
8. Federal dietary guidelines bring new nanny-state concerns
9. The Communist Chinese Takeover of All US Energy
10. Obama’s budget proposal brings him up to 442 proposed tax hikes in office
11. Flashback: Sen. Reid Breaks Ground for Nevada Solar Farm Near Bundy Ranch
12. Regulation Nation: Breweries fight back against new government grain rules
13. GAO: Delays in issuing annual RFS hurt refiners
14. Checkout Lanes with No Checkers; another Result of Minimum Wage
15. Obamacare coming to vending machines, next to the chips and nuts
16. Putin’s Russia And America’s Export-Import Bank
17. How Obama’s Justice Department Selectively Blocks Mergers By Republican CEOs
18. Martial law: Obama confiscates National Guard helicopters from all 50 states
19. CBO Dire Debt Warnings Show Nation’s Democrat Future
20. Debt Collections Latest Front In Obama’s Race Battle
21. Manipulating Information To Overstate Global Warming
22. Is your home’s energy meter spying on you?
23. Obama administration begins stealth bailout of Detroit
24. Common core, the Fordham institute, and the D.C. Edu-blob
25. 18 Stats That Prove That Government Dependence Has Reached Epidemic Levels

1.
Sheriffs warn of violence from Mexican cartels deep into interior of U.S.
. Outmanned and outgunned, local law enforcement officers are alarmed by the drug and human trafficking, prostitution, kidnapping and money laundering that Mexican drug cartels are conducting in the U.S. far from the border. U.S. sheriffs say that securing the border is a growing concern to law enforcement agencies throughout the country, not just those near the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

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TSA rules mute woman can’t board flight unless she speaks
. The Transportation Security Administration should really go into faith healing. Last year the agency ordered a Marine who had lost both legs in combat to stand up and walk. This week, they were at it again. Agents at a security checkpoint refused to greenlight a woman who has been unable to speak or write since she suffered a stroke a decade ago.

3.
EPA coal rules leaving US vulnerable to power blackouts?
. Facing the Obama administration’s so-called “war on coal,” some utility officials are warning that fewer coal-fired power plants could leave the U.S. power system vulnerable to blackouts in the near future. The officials warn that intense summer heat or extreme winter cold could soon be too much for the system to handle.

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IRS Seizing Tax Refunds of Children, Grandchildren Over Parents’ Decades-Old Debts
. Some 400,000 Americans may see their tax refund checks grabbed by the government after Congress quietly lifted the 10-year statute of limitations in 2011 on money owed to Uncle Sam. Now, debts going back decades are considered fair game for the IRS, and the government is coming after the children and grandchildren of the original debtors for the repayment.

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Tensions over money flows bode poorly for global economy
. For a bunch of people who just agreed the global economy is doing better, top officials from the world’s rich and poor nations sound rather worried. For poor nations, the easy monetary policies in advanced economies are leading to big swings in capital flows that could destabilize emerging markets. For rich countries, the hoarding of currency by developing nations is blocking progress toward a more stable global economy. Those tensions, which have been brewing for years, seemed to be rising as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 economies gathered last week in Washington, as evidenced by harsh words from Washington and Delhi.

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Solar companies take govt. to court over not getting enough grant money or something
. Generally, when we hear stories about the federal government ripping off the businessman, we tend to think of tales of tax increases or burdensome regulations. But a different type of story crosses our desk this weekend, as a solar power consortium – who already received a quarter billion in grants and tax incentives – takes Uncle Sam to the courthouse because they feel they should have gotten millions more.

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UN panel: Greenhouse gas emissions doubled despite climate action
. Global greenhouse gas emissions accelerated to drastic levels at the start of the century despite an increased number of policies directed at mitigating global warming, the United Nations’ top panel on climate change says.

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Federal dietary guidelines bring new nanny-state concerns
. New federal dietary guidelines are due to come out next year, and critics say early drafts suggest they may represent a new nanny-state intrusion – calling for Internet-based “weigh-ins” and government text messages to overweight people meant to help them shed the pounds. Critics also fear the guidelines, which are subject to revision every five years, may go well beyond nutrition to address the planet’s health, too. At a March 14 meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, committee member Miriam Nelson of Tufts University said: “The question that we’re spending the most time on right now is really, what is the relationship between population level dietary patterns as a whole and long-term food sustainability and related food security?” Phrases like “sustainability,” “climate change,” “organic,” and “locally grown” are a part of the guideline discussions, much to the consternation of some critics.

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The Communist Chinese Takeover of All US Energy
. The Bundy affair affirmed the fact that Chinese are being handed control of solar energy inside the United States and that this is being facilitated by Senator Harry Reid. The takeover of American energy is being manifested on many fronts, but in particular, it is being concentrated on the takeover of the solar industry in the new Agenda 21 designation with the so-called “Solar Energy Zones”. These Solar Energy Zones are appearing in multiple locations in such places as Southwestern Arizona, Barstow, CA. and Victorville, CA., and now I am receiving on te ground reports from Colorado and Utah as well. These designated Solar Energy Zones have very similar variables in common. The following chart indicates that the debt compensation will consist of complete control of the solar industry and will be expanded to other energy sources (e.g. hydroelectric and nuclear power). Again, here is a chart which demonstrates the commonalities shared by these Solar Energy Zones.

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Obama’s budget proposal brings him up to 442 proposed tax hikes in office
. President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal includes 93 new tax increases, which brings the total number of tax hikes Obama has proposed in office up to 442.

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Flashback: Sen. Reid Breaks Ground for Nevada Solar Farm Near Bundy Ranch
. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who was exposed last Friday as the mastermind behind the Bureau of Land Management’s persecution of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, can be seen in this March 2014 photo breaking ground for a new solar farm near the Bundy Ranch, emphasizing that the senator’s plan for solar projects in Nevada wasn’t just limited to the shelved solar farm near Laughlin.

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Regulation Nation: Breweries fight back against new government grain rules
. A fight is brewing between American beer makers and the federal government over happy hour … for cows. For centuries, brewers have given or sold the leftover grain from the brewing process to local ranchers and dairy farmers for cattle feed. But new regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration threaten to end that relationship. “The whole brewing community was shocked about it,” said Josh Deth, co-owner of Revolution Brewing in Chicago, Ill.

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GAO: Delays in issuing annual RFS hurt refiners
. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Monday said when the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) is late in issuing its annual Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) it increases costs for refiners. The RFS each year sets the amount of biofuels refiners must blend into the nation’s fuel supply. The standards have contributed to declining petroleum consumption while increasing costs, according to the report.

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Checkout Lanes with No Checkers; another Result of Minimum Wage
. So my wife and I are out running errands, and we stop at a big grocery store. As we go through checkout, I see probably the biggest argument against raising the minimum wage I can think of: no cashier. I look up and down the checkout lanes. Most are self-checkout and bag-your-own. It gets me thinking. When I was a kid, self-serve gasoline was unheard of. You pulled up at a gas pump, rolled over a hose that would “ding-ding” for an attendant, and out would come someone to pump the gas for you, clean your car’s windows, and offer to check your car’s oil level. Today, gas station attendants are almost extinct. It’s almost all self-serve gas now. Also gone are our local movie theater ushers, and our bowling alley pin setters. I’m not old enough to remember elevator operators, but I’ve seen them in old movies. They’re gone too.

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Obamacare coming to vending machines, next to the chips and nuts
. It’s already disrupted the health-care marketplace. Now, the Affordable Care Act is infiltrating vending machines. Yep, a provision in the Affordable Care Act requires vending machines to display the calorie content of all food items. The FDA finalized the regulations April 3.

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Putin’s Russia And America’s Export-Import Bank
. Even as Americans sour on Russia their financial activity in the country has soared through a little known credit export agency called the U.S. Export-Import (ExIm) Bank. According to the Bank’s 2013 annual report, it guaranteed more than $580 million in export funding during the last fiscal year — up 177-percent from fiscal year 2012. As is typical with the ExIm Bank, the bulk of fiscal year 2013 activity centers around Boeing — 85-percent of the Russian guarantees, to be precise. As we’ve written before, even though Boeing can arrange its own financing, the $93 billion company “receives upwards of 80-percent of the Ex-Im Bank’s taxpayer-backed loan guarantees.”

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How Obama’s Justice Department Selectively Blocks Mergers By Republican CEOs
. Like all mergers, the proposed $45.2 billion Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable —the largest and second largest cable providers in the nation—has its advocates and critics. There are certainly important questions about what impact the merger would have on consumers—but there are equally significant issues associated with the highly politicized approval process. The Obama Department of Justice, led by Eric Holder, must review the merger and decide whether to approve or block it. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration and Justice Department have a long track record of pushing the rule of law aside and making decisions based on politics. Will the proposed Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable receive the scrutiny it deserves, or simply be fast-tracked for approval based on politics?

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Martial law: Obama confiscates National Guard helicopters from all 50 states
. As if the Obama administration’s purchase of more than 2 billion rounds of ammunition, and nearly 3,000 urban tanks, along with their unprecedented (and highly illegal) domestic spying program was not enough to convince you that the federal government is about to suspend the Constitution once and for all, the man who once vowed to run “the most transparent administration in history” has just rather inexplicably, ordered the U.S. Army to seize every Apache attack helicopter currently in use by the National Guard. In all, the Defense Department will confiscate 192 Apaches from National Guard units around the country and give them to the active duty Army. In exchange for the heavily armed and highly maneuverable choppers, Guard units will receive 111 UH-60 Blackhawk transport helicopters from the Army, Defense One reports.

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CBO Dire Debt Warnings Show Nation’s Democrat Future
. The Congressional Budget Office warns of a terrifying, unprecedented level of national debt in the coming decade. That fits nicely with Democrats’ objectives, but not with our nation’s founding principles.

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Debt Collections Latest Front In Obama’s Race Battle
. No one likes bill collectors, but this administration is framing them as racists to run them out of business. It’s even giving deadbeats tips on dodging collections. It does neither lenders nor borrowers any favors. The Obama administration’s powerful new credit watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is in effect criminalizing debt collections by arguing they have a “disparate impact” on black Americans.

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Manipulating Information To Overstate Global Warming
. Exaggerating the degree and impact of climate change has been part of the global warming alarmists’ strategy. Now it seems even academics are doing it, publishing a paper that provides a “rationale” for lying.

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Is your home’s energy meter spying on you?
. Utility companies across the U.S. are installing smart meters in customers’ homes, touting the technology’s energy-saving ways, but opponents argue that the meters are opening a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns. The smart energy meters read electric or gas usage, and enable a power company to collect detailed usage data on a particular home or building. But the readings also gather personal information that some critics argue is too intrusive. The information gathered from smart meters includes unencrypted data that can, among other details, reveal when a homeowner is away from their residence for long periods of time. The electric wattage readings can even decipher what type of activities a customer is engaged in, such as watching TV, using a computer or even how long someone spends cooking.

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Obama administration begins stealth bailout of Detroit
. President Barack Obama is using $100 million taxpayers’ dollars to help keep Detroit’s pension funds afloat, contradicting his administration’s commitment to avoid a bailout. The federal $100 million is being described as “blight remediation,” but it allows the city’s new managers to reshuffle more cash into the city employees’ pension funds, which were looted by city and union officials for several decades.

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Common core, the Fordham institute, and the D.C. Edu-blob
. If Congress… may establish teachers in every State, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public Treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union… I would venture to declare it as my opinion… it would subvert the very foundation and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America…James Madison, 1792

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18 Stats That Prove That Government Dependence Has Reached Epidemic Levels
. The number of Americans getting benefits from the federal government each month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million? In other words, the number of people that are taking money out of the system is far greater than the number of people that are putting money into the system.

Posted 4/13/2014

1. Shocking Facts about the Deindustrialization Of America That Everyone Should Know
2. State Senate passes budget including $10 million for All Aboard Florida quiet zones
3. State Department Misplaced $6B Under Hillary Clinton
4. Little-noticed provision would dramatically expand DOJ’s authority at the polls
5. Conservative Leaders: Tea Party vs. Establishment Is Part of GOP ‘Civil War’
6. Obama Ordering Federal Contractors to Provide Pay Info by Race and Gender
7. The dangers of over-federalization in America’s criminal law system
8. Ron Paul: Wake Up! The Bank Is Empty! Full Interview
9. Joke’s on Us: Charles Rangel Just Cost NY Taxpayers $87K Because He Wouldn’t Pay His Rent
10. Obama dismissed by Saudi King Abdullah?
11. Insider Corporations Exempt From Obamacare
12. Obama Disarms, Cuts Deployed Nuke Force By 50
13. Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee
14. Report: CO2 Is Not a Pollutant, Provides ‘Beneficial Impacts’ to Planet
15. Inside the Ring: Hagel releases cyber warfare plans to China
16. 100 Facts about the Moral Collapse of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
17. Consumer beware: regulators ‘on steroids’
18. The Charts Obama Doesn’t Want You to See
19. Facts show IRS targeting limited to Tea Party groups
20. Medical marijuana could be good for business in Florida
21. Five ways to fix the Highway Trust Fund
22. Census of Agriculture shows fewer US farms
23. EPA Concedes: We Can’t Produce All the Data Justifying Clean Air Rules
24. G20 gives U.S. year-end deadline for IMF reforms
25. Getting Your Neighbor’s Mortgage Off Your Lawn

1.
Shocking Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Everyone Should Know
. How long can America continue to burn up wealth? How long can this nation continue to consume far more wealth than it produces? The trade deficit is one of the biggest reasons for the steady decline of the U.S. economy, but many Americans don’t even understand what it is. Basically, we are buying far more stuff from the rest of the world than they are buying from us. That means that far more money is constantly leaving the country than is coming into the country. In order to keep the game going, we have to go to the people that we bought all of that stuff from and ask them to lend our money back to us. Or lately, we just have the Federal Reserve create new money out of thin air. This is called “quantitative easing”. Our current debt-fueled lifestyle is dependent on this cycle continuing. In order to live like we do, we must consume far more wealth than we produce. If someday we are forced to only live on the wealth that we create, it will require a massive adjustment in our standard of living. We have become great at consuming wealth but not so great at creating it. But as a result of running gigantic trade deficits year after year, we have lost tens of thousands of businesses, millions upon millions of jobs, and America is being deindustrialized at a staggering pace.

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State Senate passes budget including $10 million for All Aboard Florida quiet zones
. The Senate approved its budget Thursday along with an amendment that would allow the Florida Department of Transportation to create a grant program to fund up to 50 percent of the local cost of quiet zones.

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State Department Misplaced $6B Under Hillary Clinton
. The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.

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Little-noticed provision would dramatically expand DOJ’s authority at the polls
. In early February, Republican and Democratic sponsors introduced the “Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014,” ostensibly to repair the provisions of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the Supreme Court last June in Shelby County v. Holder. What has escaped comment so far, however, is the fact that a little-noticed provision of the bill would abolish the longstanding legal principle that the U.S. Attorney General has no authority to sue directly for certain violations of the Constitution. An amendment buried deep in the final pages of the bill alters the Voting Rights Act to allow the Attorney General to seek an injunction against “any act prohibited by the 14th or 15th Amendment” of the Constitution. Under current law, the Attorney General is only authorized to bring civil rights claims under specific statutes, typically those prohibiting discrimination. Private plaintiffs can, and do, allege violations of the Constitution, but the Justice Department does not.

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Conservative Leaders: Tea Party vs. Establishment Is Part of GOP ‘Civil War’
. The increasingly open “civil war” now raging between a Republican establishment that favors big government and members of the Tea Party is a necessary evil that will eventually force the GOP back to its limited government principles, conservative leaders say. “This is part of a literally 102-year-old civil war that’s been going on in the Republican Party since 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt leaves the Republican Party, splits the party, starts the Bull Moose Party, which leads directly to Woodrow Wilson’s election with less than 42 percent of the vote,” Conservative HQ chairman Richard Viguerie told CNSNews.com.

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Obama Ordering Federal Contractors to Provide Pay Info by Race and Gender
. Sidestepping Congress, President Barack Obama is using the federal government’s vast array of contractors to impose rules on wages, pay disparities and hiring on a segment of the private sector that gets taxpayer money and falls under his control.

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The dangers of over-federalization in America’s criminal law system
. Criminal law experts warned a House panel late last week about the dangers of over-federalization in the nation’s criminal law system. Today, there are more than 4,500 crimes in federal statutes, according to a study by Louisiana State University law professor John S. Baker. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) noted that many of these statutes cover the same areas as state laws, and that part of the problem with over-federalization is that Congress establishes about 50 new federal crimes every year.

8.
Ron Paul: Wake Up! The Bank Is Empty! Full Interview
. Ron Paul explains how Congress’s $1 billion aid package to Ukraine will impoverish Ukrainian citizens at the expense of American taxpayers.

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Joke’s on Us: Charles Rangel Just Cost NY Taxpayers $87K Because He Wouldn’t Pay His Rent
. New York taxpayers just bailed out Rep. Charles Rangel, thanks to a deal in which the state covered at least $87,000 in unpaid rent for his district office: Rangel paid $7,253 in monthly rent on the 125th Street office he has rented since 2000, expense reports from 2012 show. But the payments stopped for all of 2013. Incredibly, instead of demanding payment of the back rent and late fees from its deadbeat legislative tenant, the state cut him a huge rent break. The state comptroller approved a $101,000 lease between Rangel and OGS on Dec. 26, 2013, retroactively covering the period back to April 2013 and future months through December 2014, records show. The 21-month deal resulted in a deeply reduced rent of $4,809 a month.

10.
Obama dismissed by Saudi King Abdullah?
. Obama was scheduled to have what was described as an “intimate” dinner with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia over the weekend, and stay the night in the Kingdom. Howvever the dinner abruptly ended, and Obama left Saudi Arabia after only two hours. The objective of the visit was to mend fences, and get the relationship between America and the Saudi’s back on track, so why the abrupt end? Although the White House denies there was dinner scheduled, apparently scrubbing all references to the soiree; there is some evidence still out there. It is rumored that the Obama administration has even demanded the return of all materials related to the event from the media, like copies of the printed schedule. The White House has even deleted a tweet about the “intimate” dinner.

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Insider Corporations Exempt From Obamacare
. Small businesses will soon feel the vice-grip of Obamacare forcing them to pay hefty insurance costs, or cut workers hours. Meanwhile huge corporations are exempt from the “law” thanks to their lobbying power.

12.
Obama Disarms, Cuts Deployed Nuke Force By 50
. The U.S. has announced plans to place 50 nuclear missiles in storage as part of its commitment to the New START Treaty signed with Russia, ignoring Moscow’s violation of another arms treaty.

13.
Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee
. The recent Supreme Court decision overruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the high court rules that the First Amendment means what it says — free speech for everybody. When the Supreme Court declared in 2010 that both unions and corporations had a right to buy political ads, that was considered outrageous by the left. President Obama called the decision “devastating” and said it “will open the floodgates for special interests.”

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Report: CO2 Is Not a Pollutant, Provides ‘Beneficial Impacts’ to Planet
. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring chemical compound that benefits plants and thus, the planet and its inhabitants, according to a lengthy report released Wednesday by the free-market Heartland Institute

15.
Inside the Ring: Hagel releases cyber warfare plans to China
. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced in China this week that he had authorized releasing details of the U.S. cyber warfare doctrine unilaterally to China in a bid to win similar cooperation from Beijing. So far, China has not reciprocated in discussing one of its most secret operations — military cyber warfare programs to attack foreign computer networks for spying and sabotage, U.S. officials said.

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100 Facts about the Moral Collapse of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
. The collection of facts and statistics that you are about to read is highly controversial. A lot of people are going to be greatly upset by it. Why? Because they don’t like to be confronted with the truth about America. Most people tend to believe that we can “fix this country” by getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or social reforms. But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far deeper than that.

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Consumer beware: regulators ‘on steroids’
. Financial regulations imposed after the 2008 Wall Street crash are backfiring on consumers and pose a “compliance nightmare” for lenders. “What we have are policymakers on steroids,” U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett charged Tuesday. “They have contempt for the public,” said the New Jersey Republican, who complained that the Federal Reserve Board has yet to provide an unredacted report of events leading up to the financial meltdown six years ago.

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The Charts Obama Doesn’t Want You to See
. Talking about Obamacare’s effects is one thing; seeing hard data is another. Heritage’s newly updated Obamacare in Pictures has 15 charts that show the law’s effects on Americans—from canceled insurance policies to new taxes, Medicare cuts, reduced choice for plans, and more. Here’s a quick look at just three of these charts and how Obamacare is hitting three groups.

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Facts show IRS targeting limited to Tea Party groups
. House Republicans have released another report that sheds some much-needed sunlight on the early stages of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative groups. The report starts by identifying the first three cases that were tagged for special review in 2010: the Prescott, AZ Tea Party; the Albuquerque, NM Tea Party; and the American Junto in Cincinnati. Of those three, two dropped their applications in the wake of IRS questioning, while the third has yet to have their case resolved.

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Medical marijuana could be good for business in Florida
. The medical marijuana industrial-complex is in full swing in Florida. With the question of legalizing medical marijuana apparently heading to voters on the Nov. 4 ballot, entrepreneurs are popping up in an effort to get in on the ground floor of the movement. Eighteen medical marijuana companies have registered with the state this year. Medical Marijuana of Brevard LLC, Medical Marijuana Business Lawyers LLC and Medical Marijuana Centers of Florida Inc., are among the first positioning to take advantage of a boom, should Florida voters approve the referendum by a 60 percent margin.

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Five ways to fix the Highway Trust Fund
. Lawmakers are scrambling to find ways to plug a $20 billion hole in the Highway Trust Fund before a projected bankruptcy this fall. The trust fund’s coffers have traditionally been filled by revenue that is collected from the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax. But with expenses outpacing receipts by about $20 billion in recent years as cars become more fuel-efficient and people drive less, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts the fund will run dry well before the Sept. 30 deadline for reauthorizing the gas tax. The fund could go bankrupt as early as August. The CBO says lawmakers will have to find an extra $100 billion to cover federal highway costs over the next six years in addition to the approximately $34 billion per year that is brought in by the gas tax.

22.
Census of Agriculture shows fewer US farms
. A study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has found that the number of U.S. farms has decreased in the past seven years. According to data from the Census of Agriculture, in 2012 the U.S. had 2.1 million farms, a 4.3 percent drop from the previous census in 2007. Between 2007 and 2012, acreage also diminished from 922 million acres to 915 million.

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EPA Concedes: We Can’t Produce All the Data Justifying Clean Air Rules
. Seven months after being subpoenaed by Congress, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy conceded that her agency does not have – and cannot produce – all of the scientific data used for decades to justify numerous rules and regulations under the Clean Air Act.

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G20 gives U.S. year-end deadline for IMF reforms
. Finance chiefs from around the globe on Friday gave the United States until year-end to ratify long-delayed reforms to the International Monetary Fund and threatened to move forward without it if it fails to do so. The inability to proceed with giving emerging markets a more powerful voice at the IMF and shoring up the lender’s resources appeared the most contentious issue for officials from the Group of 20 leading economies and the representatives for all IMF member nations who met with them.

25.
Getting Your Neighbor’s Mortgage Off Your Lawn
. Did you know you are probably responsible for your neighbors’ mortgage payments? Heritage expert Norbert Michel explained: Nearly all new residential mortgages are currently being guaranteed by Fannie [Mae] or Freddie [Mac] because these companies buy mortgages from banks and then sell investments backed by the mortgages. And because the Federal government guarantees these investments, taxpayers foot the bill when people default on their mortgages. And what good have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—and all their taxpayer backing—done? “The U.S. does more to promote homeownership than most countries, but we’ve barely increased ownership, and total costs of owning a home have spiked,” Michel said.

Posted 4/6/2014

1. Obama Disarms, Leaving U.S. Exposed To Its Enemies
2. Auto Insurance Co. Tracks Drivers by GPS & Charges Per Mile Driven
3. Florida cops keep spy technology docs secret
4. White House looks to regulate cow flatulence as part of climate agenda
5. Obamacare exchange sends couple voter registration form pre-marked as Democrat
6. Why Does New Jersey Have Bridgegate, but There’s No Judgegate in Florida?
7. Republican senator says administration has ‘cooked the books’ on ObamaCare numbers
8. Feds The Purple-Suit President
9. Power Play: Political Influence of Florida’s Top Energy Corporations
10. How Minimum Wage Increased Unemployment and Reduced Job Creation in 2013
11. This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day
12. Putin Is Militarily Encircling the United States Red Dawn Style
13. Selling out the Constitution…selling out America
14. The Chinese Are Acquiring Large Chunks Of Land In Communities All Over America
15. Obama administration spending $400,000 on camel sculpture in Pakistan
16. Durbin Criticizes Free Enterprise: ‘Created Unfairness and Injustice’
17. Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals
18. Buried in UN Report: $100 Billion More Needed to Adapt to ‘Global Warming’
19. Puerto Rico’s statehood would boost federal spending on public aid
20. Export-Import Bank: A Microcosm of Washington’s Cronyism
21. Obama Wants to Pay 33% More to U.N. and Other Int’l Groups
22. A Common Core lesson in simple division
23. By Surrendering Control Of Internet, Obama Surrenders Our Freedoms
24. EPA Blasted for Dangerous Human Experiments to Advance Agenda – B.M.G.
25. Massive 2012 Voter Fraud: 35,750 with same name & DOB voted in 2 states

1.
Obama Disarms, Leaving U.S. Exposed To Its Enemies
. Two more weapons systems, including the Navy’s premier attack missile, have been targeted for elimination by the administration years before their usefulness ends or replacements are ready. How ironic that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama used the Tomahawk missile he now seeks to scrap as his weapon of choice when on March 19, 2011, he launched Operation Odyssey Dawn and fired 112 Tomahawks at Libyan targets to enforce a U.N.-backed no fly-zone in support of Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi.

2.
Auto Insurance Co. Tracks Drivers by GPS & Charges Per Mile Driven
. A California auto insurance company is rolling out a car tracking device which allows the company to locate policyholders by GPS and charge them insurance rates per mile driven. Developed by San Francisco-based MetroMile, the Metronome device plugs into a vehicle’s OBD-II port and wirelessly sends mileage data to the insurance company, which charges a base rate plus 2 to 5 cents per mile, and can even record the route driven by the policyholder.

3.
Florida cops keep spy technology docs secret
. Disburse, there’s nothing to see here! That seems to be the message from Florida law enforcement agencies when it comes to the controversial practice of using national security technology designed to spy on cell phone users. After getting busted by reporters and the American Civil Liberties Union for using surveillance devices known as Stingrays, answers relating to their use have been hard to come by. A recent ACLU blog post goes as far as to charge public officials in Sunrise, Fla., and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement of violating the state’s open government laws for failing to sufficiently respond to the civil liberties group’s public records requests.

4.
White House looks to regulate cow flatulence as part of climate agenda
. As part of its plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is targeting the dairy industry to reduce methane emissions in their operations. This comes despite falling methane emission levels across the economy since 1990.

5.
Obamacare exchange sends couple voter registration form pre-marked as Democrat
. Last October, LU staff reported that Obamacare exchanges offered visitors an option to register to vote. Brian Cook, a spokesman for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was quoted as saying the exchanges were required to include that option under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). But does that law also empower the exchanges to automatically register enrollees and, if so, as Democrats? That’s what happened to a La Mesa, Calif., couple. ABC News 10 reports that the couple, who asked not to be identified, received an envelope from Covered California, the state’s Obamacare exchange. Inside was a registration card pre-marked with an “x” in the box next to Democratic Party.

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Why Does New Jersey Have Bridgegate, but There’s No Judgegate in Florida?
. In New Jersey, when there was cause to suspect a breach of ethics in the governor’s office, the state Legislature was on it like a kid on a cupcake. But for some unknown reason, it doesn’t work like that in the Florida Legislature. Less than three days after Gov. Chris Christie was accused of sanctioning a payback plot that saw one of his aides order traffic jams at the on-ramps to the George Washington Bridge, the New Jersey Legislature had convened its Special Committee on Investigations. A week after that, the committee issued 20 subpoenas. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Florida are treating a possible ethics breach by former Gov. Charlie Crist — the selling of judgeships for campaign contributions and/or other special favors — as if it’s none of their business. If they could care less, it doesn’t show.

7.
Republican senator says administration has ‘cooked the books’ on ObamaCare numbers
. A Republican senator said on Sunday that the lack of details about ObamaCare enrollment numbers suggests the Obama administration has “cooked the books.”

8.
The Purple-Suit President
. About forty years ago there was a clothing merchant up on Broadway at Third Street who was doing a pretty fair business with well-heeled local clientele. He had a little trouble with inventory, however, and the problem perplexed him to no end. There seemed to be a bright purple suit hanging on the rack far too long and really was more of a distraction than an asset. So, as he was getting ready to take a vacation, he told his salesmen that there was a $50 bonus for anyone who sold the suit while he was gone. He kept thinking about this offer all the while he was supposed to be enjoying a time away from work. Bosses are like that

9.
Power Play: Political Influence of Florida’s Top Energy Corporations
. Nonpartisan government watchdog group Integrity Florida released a research report titled “Power Play: Political influence of Florida’s top energy corporations” on March 31, 2014. The findings conclude that, increasingly, the Florida Legislature sets its agenda and policy outcomes based on the needs of large political donors rather than the public interest. In one recent example, the sitting state senate president openly explained his position on a public policy issue as supporting whatever one major campaign donor tells him to support. A large Budweiser distributor contributed nearly $300,000 to political candidates and committees aligned with Senate President Don Gaetz and had the edge on its smaller craft beer industry competitors.

10.
How Minimum Wage Increased Unemployment and Reduced Job Creation in 2013
. The variety amongst state minimum wages provides a natural experiment from which to learn. Nineteen states enforced minimum wages above the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour and thirty-one had minimum wages equal to $7.25 in 2013.[1] This paper uses recent data to analyze the impact of raising the minimum wage on employment among the 50 states. As shown in the following charts, the analysis finds that in 2013, a $1 increase in the minimum wage was associated with a 1.48 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, a 0.18 percentage point decrease in the net job growth rate, a 4.67 percentage point increase in the teenage unemployment rate, and a 4.01 percentage point decrease in the teenage net job growth rate. Consequently, high state minimum wages increased unemployment by 747,700 workers and reduced job growth by 83,300 jobs.

11.
This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day
. The litany of frighteningly stupid Common Core math worksheets never ends. Perhaps now, though, kids are starting to fight back in satisfyingly creative ways.

12.
Putin Is Militarily Encircling the United States Red Dawn Style
. The year is 1942 and America finds itself cutoff from its allies, yet, America persevered through the harnessing of its vast manufacturing capacity. As America finds itself increasingly isolated by a devastatingly effective Putin foreign policy, the United States does not have the industrial capacity to respond to the economic and military threats which are challenging our very existence. Putin has set up a scenario in which he will harness the collective forces in Latin America, who will one day invade the United States. Latin America has forsaken the United States both economically and militarily.

13.
Selling out the Constitution…selling out America
. After a visit to Amsterdam to attend a G7 meeting to discuss how to punish Vladimir Putin for his ‘supposed’ nationalistic annexing of Crimea, and after attending a two-day Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, Barack HUSSEIN Obama then visited Brussels (a city whose population is a shocking 40% muslim…guess he felt right at home there) where he cost the city $10.4 million for the additional 350 security people needed to keep him safe. And he brought with him an entourage of 900 people and three cargo planes carrying 45 vehicles…and God only knows how much that cost we taxpayers…all to stand before the EU and NATO summits to say that “Our Constitution is outdated and international law is supreme.”

14.
The Chinese Are Acquiring Large Chunks Of Land In 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?

15.
Obama administration spending $400,000 on camel sculpture in Pakistan
. The Obama administration wants to spend $400,000 on a camel sculpture for a new embassy building in Pakistan, according to a report Monday. BuzzFeed broke the news that the State Department has plans to commission the camel sculpture from John Baldessari, an American artist. The art is called, “Camel Contemplating Needle.”

16.
Durbin Criticizes Free Enterprise: ‘Created Unfairness and Injustice’
. In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said free enterprise isn’t always best. Government must step in. “The free enterprise system is a strong system,” he said, but it “created unfairness and injustice when it came to health care, which we are addressing with this Affordable Care Act.”

17.
Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals
. Authorities in Long Island have launched a crackdown on homeowners who rent their house out to tenants who have not been registered under a “zero tolerance” program that will see police conduct home inspections without notice.

18.
Buried in UN Report: $100 Billion More Needed to Adapt to ‘Global Warming’
. The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report estimates it will cost developed nations an additional $100 billion each year to help poorer countries adapt to the devastating effects of “unequivocal” global warming, including food shortages, infrastructure breakdown, and civil violence.

19.
Puerto Rico’s statehood would boost federal spending on public aid
. A new report from the Government Accountability Office confirmed what fiscally conservative critics had assumed: If Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. state, federal spending will soar on public aid like Medicaid, Medicare and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Federal spending would likely increase by at least $5 billion.

20.
Export-Import Bank: A Microcosm of Washington’s Cronyism
. The United States Export-Import Bank is essentially a microcosm of some of Washington’s biggest problems, from the corruption it encourages, to putting taxpayers at risk, to the cronyism it facilitates. The alleged purpose of the Bank is to “facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States and other Nations.” That sounds harmless, perhaps even helpful, until the Bank’s actual operations are exposed. For proof of the Bank existing in part to advance political ideologies, look no further than the Bank’s backing of the failed solar panel company, Solyndra, which was the recipient of an Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee of $10.3 million. American taxpayers shouldn’t be used as pawns in this ongoing game of political correctness and corporate cronyism, while free-market principles are trampled.

21.
Obama Wants to Pay 33% More to U.N. and Other Int’l Groups
. When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s, including a 43 percent hike in U.S. contributions to peacekeeping missions.

22.
A Common Core lesson in simple division
. Let’s focus on a website that was expressly created with an eye toward meeting the Common Core Standards. The site, UClass, is a collection of “vetted resources created by teachers.” Each lesson plan, worksheet and assessment has passed our Common Core inspection with flying colors, making it easier than ever to teach any standard effectively in your classroom. Skimming the wealth of teaching ops on the math page, I couldn’t help but notice that one of the lessons, by a Mrs. Noland, is titled “Where My Tens At?” It’s hard to know whether the use of “ebonics” is also permitted in the teaching of language arts, but we’re drifting away from the main point. Our lesson for today is “Real World Division” by Maureen Devlin. The task in the UClass video that follows is to divide 52 by 4. Now you probably think the best way to solve this is to divide the first number in the dividend (that’s 52) by the divisor (4) and write the result (1) in the tens place of the quotient. You’d be wrong. Here’s the Common Core way:

23.
By Surrendering Control Of Internet, Obama Surrenders Our Freedoms
. Kowtowing to global pressure, President Obama has unilaterally decided America should give up its oversight of the Internet’s most vital infrastructure. Specifically, Obama’s Commerce Department is making plans to surrender protection of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) and the vital Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to some unknown international bureaucrats — a dangerous abdication of authority that could take place as early as next fall. These functions are the lifeblood to the free flow of information online — linking easy-to-remember domain names to numerical Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. This is why the federal government has so zealously safeguarded its independence.

24.
EPA Blasted for Dangerous Human Experiments to Advance Agenda – B.M.G.
. The Environmental Protection Agency is under attack from all sides yet again, this time for conducting dangerous and potentially even deadly experiments on unwitting human test subjects in what analysts say was a transparent bid to advance the Obama administration’s radical agenda by executive decree. The explosive findings, unveiled in a recently released internal EPA report, show that the increasingly out-of-control agency exposed vulnerable people to wildly high levels of possibly fatal pollutants without even warning them of the risks. The purpose: justifying more regulations.

25.
Massive 2012 Voter Fraud: 35,750 with same name & DOB voted in 2 states
. More evidence that Obama and the Dems stole the 2012 elections. More evidence that the United State of America has devolved into a Third World and third rate country. 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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OVERSIGHT ARCHIVE, JAN-MAR 2014

NEWS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GLEANED FROM THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA

IF YOU LIKE YOUR TEA PARTY YOU CAN KEEP YOUR TEA PARTY•

Compiled by Ed. Wolff – Updated April 6, 2014

As more recent OVERSIGHT posts preempt older posts, those older posts are moved here to serve as a searchable resource.

This report does not represent any official positions of the PBCTP.

OVERSIGHT CONTRIBUTORS

The people involved in the oversight activities and the initials used to identify their contributions are:
Marion Frank – M.F., Barbara, Mel Grossman – B.M.G.

For the most recent Post Go to OVERSIGHT.

Please send any comments you have to: oversight@palmbeachcountyteaparty.org.

The more recent archived information, reported first, includes:

Posted 3/30/2014

1. Putin’s quiet Latin America play
2. Nation’s elite cancer hospitals off-limits under Obamacare
3. Union representatives join federal government safety inspectors on site visits to nonunion businesses
4. Pa: 28th Senate District Write-In Candidate Scott Wagner Wins Special Election
5. Libs demand removal of Rush Limbaugh from Children’s Choice Book Award contest
6. Stop All aboard Florida from using the FEC train tracks.
7. Deep freeze means rare rise in Great Lakes water levels
8. Arne Duncan: ‘Worth Considering’ Giving Athletes Free Grad School Education
9. When terrorists become pharmacists
10. Homeland Security Exercise Targets “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny”
11. DOJ: We Have No ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Investigating IRS Targeting of Tea Party
12. Scientists say ‘californium’ could revolutionize radioactive waste storage and recycling
13. Indiana becomes first state to officially reject Common Core
14. What Would Happen If A Giant Tsunami Hit Florida?
15. EPA, Corps propose expanded Clean Water Act authority
16. Dispatches from the War against Vote Fraud
17. Paint Thinner in Children’s Cereal Exposed
18. Report: great majority of illegal immigrants immune from deportation due to Obama’s ‘priorities’
19. Rep. Patrick Murphy Refuses To Face Constituents, Opponents At Town Hall Meeting – B.M.G.
20. Boehner Won’t Attend Anti-Tea Party PAC’s Ritzy Florida Retreat But top two lieutenants are speakers.
21. This Common Core math problem asks kids to write the ‘friendly’ answer, instead of the correct one!
22. Obamacare Navigators Helping People Enroll At Mexican Consulates
23. Obama’s “Kantian” decision to kill Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles
24. State expected to suspend all efforts to ‘purge’ non-citizen voters
25. New study ranks Obama as 5th best President in history.

1.
Putin’s quiet Latin America play
. Away from the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly seeking a foothold in Latin America, military officials warn. To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending navy ships and long-range bombers to the region for the first time in years. Russia’s defense minister says the country is planning bases in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and just last week, Putin’s national security team met to discuss increasing military ties in the region.

2.
Nation’s elite cancer hospitals off-limits under Obamacare
. Cancer patients relieved that they can get insurance coverage because of the new health care law may be disappointed to learn that some of the nation’s best cancer hospitals are off-limits. An Associated Press survey found examples coast to coast. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is excluded by five out of eight insurers in Washington state’s insurance exchange. MD Anderson Cancer Center says it’s in less than half of the plans in the Houston area. Memorial Sloan-Kettering is included by two of nine insurers in New York City and has out-of-network agreements with two more.

3.
Union representatives join federal government safety inspectors on site visits to nonunion businesses
. SEIU and other labor unions can accompany the government inspectors on site visits due to a quiet and contested Obama administration rule clarification issued last year in response to a request from a union representative.

4.
Pa: 28th Senate District Write-In Candidate Scott Wagner Wins Special Election
. Businessman Scott Wagner was elected March 18 to represent York County in the 28th Senate District. Voters picked Wagner, an upset victory over Republican-establishment nominee Rep. Ron Miller, and Democrat nominee Linda Small.

5.
Libs demand removal of Rush Limbaugh from Children’s Choice Book Award contest
. A contest among children’s book authors has sparked a firestorm of complaints from liberals after conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was named among the contestants for author of the year. The Children’s Book Council holds the contest each year , selecting the top authors based on book sales. Limbaugh has seen tremendous success with last year’s, “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans,” and he recently released a sequel, “Rush Revere and the First Patriots” – which already hit No. 5 on The New York Times bestseller list.

6.
Stop All aboard Florida from using the FEC train tracks.
. They should build new tracks or use existing rail tracks west of our towns. If AAF is allowed to utilize the coastal rail tracks as planned, there will be an additional run of 32 passenger trains per day through our coastal towns and over our old bridges. How will the noise affect residents living near the rail tracks? How congested will traffic become? What about safey concerns in our coastal towns? This will cause longer commutes to work, it could affect emergency response times. The train bridge in Stuart, for example, spans the intracoastal waterway. If this bridge is down an average of 20 minutes per train as it is today at a minimum, the bridge could be down 15-18 hours per day! The projected number of trains is up to 50 freight and passenger trains per day! How can the Coast Guard respond to emergencies in a timely manner? How can commerce utilize the intracoastal? What will happen to the waterfront home and business values that have been affected by the railroad along the East Coast? AAF needs to change their course from Miami to Orlando!

7.
Deep freeze means rare rise in Great Lakes water levels
. It looks as if there will be at least one positive from the deep freeze the Midwest endured this winter, and sportsmen, farmers, fish and the shipping industry all stand to benefit. Water levels in the Great Lakes are expected to rise, and it isn’t just because of all the melting snow. The ice that nearly covered all five lakes for the first time since 1978 has also trapped water below, preventing the evaporation that has seen the enormous bodies of water slowly shrinking for decades. But even with the estimated rise of 13-15 inches, the levels are still well below historic levels.

8.
Arne Duncan: ‘Worth Considering’ Giving Athletes Free Grad School Education
. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday said it was “worth considering” giving student athletes a free graduate school education in addition to the free ride they already get for undergrad.

9.
When terrorists become pharmacists
. Do you know where your medications come from? It might be from an international terrorist drug ring. A new study from the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism finds that terror group Hezbollah is “already involved in manufacturing and distributing counterfeit medications.” Institute director Boaz Ganor says that “Hezbollah is liable to use its production centers, international smuggling and distribution networks, and ties to international crime syndicates to insert deadly fake drugs into the pharmaceuticals market.”

10.
Homeland Security Exercise Targets “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny”
. Leaked Homeland Security documents obtained by Infowars reveal details of a joint DHS/FEMA national exercise set to take place this week, one of the components of which revolves around an effort to counter online dissent by a group called “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny,” which is disgruntled at the imposition of martial law after an earthquake in Alaska.

11.
DOJ: We Have No ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Investigating IRS Targeting of Tea Party
. The Department of Justice said in a letter sent this month to Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) that Attorney General Eric Holder has determined that his department has no “conflict of interest” in investigating the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups and that Holder, therefore, will not name a special prosecutor in the case.

12.
Scientists say ‘californium’ could revolutionize radioactive waste storage and recycling
. Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt calls “californium,” or Cf on the Periodic Table of Elements, “wicked stuff” because of its incredible ability to bond and separate other materials along with its resistance to radiation damage. Albrecht-Schmitt’s research could lead to new types of storage containers for radioactive waste and separate radioactive fuel — meaning fuel could be recycled.

13.
Indiana becomes first state to officially reject Common Core
. Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., signed a bill into law Monday requiring the state to adopt its own standards, according to a statement from his office. “I believe our students are best served when decisions about education are made at the state and local level. By signing this legislation, Indiana has taken an important step forward in developing academic standards that are written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, and are uncommonly high, and I commend members of the General Assembly for their support.

14.
What Would Happen If A Giant Tsunami Hit Florida?
. Can you imagine the devastation that would be caused if a massive wall of water several hundred feet high slammed into Florida at more than 100 miles an hour? To many people such a scenario is impossible, but that is what people living along the Indian Ocean thought before the 2004 tsunami and that is what people living in Japan thought before the 2011 tsunami. Throughout history, giant tsunamis have been relatively rare events, but they do happen. Scientists tell us that a mega-tsunami can race across the open ocean at up to 500 miles an hour, and when they reach shore they can produce waves that are hundreds of feet high. And even though authorities claim that the threat to Florida is “remote”, it might surprise you to learn that there are “Tsunami Hazard Zone” signs on Florida beaches. If a highly unusual event (such as a giant meteor hitting the Atlantic Ocean) caused a giant tsunami that hit Florida, the devastation would be absolutely unimaginable
.

15.
EPA, Corps propose expanded Clean Water Act authority
. The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers applied a narrow Supreme Court opinion from 2006 to propose a rule Tuesday that would expand federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waters. Once published in the Federal Register, the agencies will accept public comment for 90 days. The agencies say the proposed rule is based on a reported titled Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters: A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Evidence. The report, at the time the rule was proposed, has not been finalized and is still undergoing peer review. Agricultural groups have questioned how the agency can purport to base a proposed rule on a report that has not been finalized.

16.
Dispatches from the War against Vote Fraud
. To the extent that anything resembling a logical argument against common-sense voter ID requirements exists at all, it’s predicated on the idea that vote fraud hardly ever happens. The idea that we should indulge relatively rare crimes by making things easy for the criminals is novel; I can’t think of too many other examples. And really, the “vote fraud is incredibly rare” mantra is only a minor sideshow act Democrats perform to make themselves look reasonable. The main strategic thrust of the war against voter ID is to use it as an excuse to smear its proponents as racist vote suppressors, while keeping a certain level of dubious ballots on standby for close races.

17.
Paint Thinner in Children’s Cereal Exposed
. Nick Brannigan and Vicky LePage return to the Las Vegas Strip to educate people of painter thinner aka trisodium phosphate in children’s cereal with a live food demo!

18.
Report: great majority of illegal immigrants immune from deportation due to Obama’s ‘priorities’
. The Obama administration’s immigration polities have provided a de facto amnesty for most of the illegal immigrants living in the United States, according to Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions. “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,”

19.
Rep. Patrick Murphy Refuses To Face Constituents, Opponents At Town Hall Meeting – B.M.G.
. Even as the Obamacare Tax Collection law he voted for begins, U. S. Representative Patrick Murphy (D) is refusing to face his constituents at the May 15 Town Hall of the St. Lucie West, Florida Taxpayers organization while all of his opponents graciously will appear.

20.
Boehner Won’t Attend Anti-Tea Party PAC’s Ritzy Florida Retreat But top two lieutenants are speakers.
. House Speaker John Boehner will not be attending a weekend retreat hosted by The Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC — whose goal is to elect moderate GOP candidates and protect Republican incumbents from Tea Party challengers — because of a scheduling conflict, a GOP aide told CNSNews.com.

21.
This Common Core math problem asks kids to write the ‘friendly’ answer, instead of the correct one!
. A second grader’s answers to a Common Core-aligned math worksheet were marked as incorrect because they weren’t “friendly” enough… even though they were the right answers. The teacher wanted the student to solve “530 – 270 = ?” in the following manner: First, add 30 to both numbers, changing the problem to “560 – 300 = ?”. These numbers are the “friendly” numbers, because they are supposedly easier to work with. The student, however, simply subtracted 270 from 530 the good old-fashioned way, arriving at the same answer. Unfortunately, this is not a Common Core-approved technique.

22.
Obamacare Navigators Helping People Enroll At Mexican Consulates
. The Obama administration has been helping to facilitate a series of events nationwide at Mexican Consulate offices to enroll people in Obamacare – and a key activist says the efforts are “our responsibility” regardless of citizenship. “Whether they’re Mexican nationals or whether they’re United States citizens or whether they’re in transition– and if they’re there it is our responsibility within all of America to educate on the Affordable Care Act,” Enroll America Field Organizer Jose Medrano told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

23.
Obama’s “Kantian” decision to kill Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles
. Two different schools of thought clearly define the ideological separation between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. Obama follows the school of philosophy of Immanuel Kant who believed that experience is purely subjective without first being processed by pure reason. He also said that using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions — in Obama’s case delusions. Putin, well, he certainly follows Niccolo Machiavelli and his beliefs, as articulated in The Prince, that violence may be necessary for the successful stabilization of power and introduction of new legal institutions. Force may be used to eliminate political rivals, to coerce resistant populations, and to purge the community of other men strong enough of character to rule, who will inevitably attempt to replace the ruler.

24.
State expected to suspend all efforts to ‘purge’ non-citizen voters
. Facing overwhelming resistance from county election supervisors in a busy election year, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is expected to suspend all efforts in 2014 to comb the Florida voter rolls of suspected non-citizens.

25.
New study ranks Obama as 5th best President in history.
. Texas A&M did the math, and even Senator Ted Cruz agrees: These are the results according to Texas A&M: 1. Reagan and Lincoln tied for first; 2. Seventeen presidents tied for second; 3. Twenty-three other presidents tied for third; 4. Jimmy Carter came in fourth; 5. Obama was fifth .

Posted 3/23/2014

1. Obama Seeks Executive Options To Aid Illegal Aliens
2. Studies: dailycaller Increased CO2 emissions are greening the planet
3. Russia suspected of pulling billions of dollars out of the US Fed’s grasp
4. House Report Traces IRS Scandal to Obama
5. Fla. TV Station Exposes Voter Fraud, DOJ Sues State to Stop Purging Rolls
6. Ukraine’s Gold Reserves Secretely Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?
7. Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
8. How to Hide Billions in Taxpayer Money and Get Away With It
9. Hiding Behind ‘Global Internet Community’ the ravening United Nations Wolf
10. If Spying on Senate is So Bad, Why is it OK For Them To Spy On Us?
11. The Hidden Rot in the Jobs Numbers
12. Beijing’s breakneck defense spending poses a challenge to the U.S.
13. Court Ruling Allows Republicans in Congress to Sue Obama for Corruption
14. Virginia Honors 9/11 Mosque
15. Justice Scalia: ‘Constitution is not a living organism’
16. State touted as Obama’s health-care reform model fires its Obamacare website contractor
17. Philly AG’s abrupt shutdown of bribery sting operation saves fellow Dems allegedly busted
18. Too Many Security Clearances? DOD Protecting Itself From Its Own Employees and Contractors
19. Report: EPA fraudster wrote the ‘EPA’s Playbook’ on regulations
20. US agency rejects ‘Washington Redskin Potatoes’ trademark
21. 38% of Employers Will Lay Off Workers if Minimum Wage is Increased
22. LA Police: ALL Cars Under Criminal Investigation As Part Of License Plate Reader Surveillance
23. Second Amendment Advocates Fear UN Could Ban Gun Websites
24. Obamacare Provider Knows When Clients Visit the Bathroom
25. Federal ruling, ‘huge victory,’ paves way for states to ensure only US citizens can vote

1.
Obama Seeks Executive Options To Aid Illegal Aliens
. President Barack Obama has launched an internal review on how he can provide additional leniency to illegal aliens inside the United States of America, the White House announced on Thursday evening. Obama “has asked Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to do an inventory of the Department’s current practices to see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law,” the White House said in a Thursday press release.

2.
Studies: dailycaller Increased CO2 emissions are greening the planet
. Will emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere cause tornadoes in Los Angeles and massive floods in the Himalayas? A growing body of research suggests it may just spur plant growth and green planet Earth.

3.
Russia suspected of pulling billions of dollars out of the US Fed’s grasp
. Billions of dollars in foreign owned currency holdings have been pulled out of the United States and there’s growing suspicion that the culprit is Russia attempting to circumvent any sanctions that the US may levy against the nation over the intensifying Ukrainian situation.

4.
House Report Traces IRS Scandal to Obama
. A House committee investigating the IRS scandal has found a link between President Obama’s criticism of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and subsequent steps taken by IRS official Lois Lerner to discriminate against conservative groups. Lerner was responding to political pressure in her efforts to clamp down on conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status in the wake of the 2012 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, concluded a 141-page report released last Tuesday by the Republican-majority staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

5.
Fla. TV Station Exposes Voter Fraud, DOJ Sues State to Stop Purging Rolls
. While the Obama Justice Department mounts a legal challenge against Florida for purging ineligible voters from its rolls, a television news station broadcasts an unbelievable segment that proves non U.S. citizens living in the Sunshine State vote regularly in elections.

6.
Ukraine’s Gold Reserves Secretely Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?
. A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that “Ukraine’s gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from Borispol Airport east of Kiev”. This alleged airlift and confiscation of Ukraine’s gold reserves by the New York Federal Reserve has not been confirmed by the Western media.

7.
Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
. An assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has proposed a bold plan to settle the debate on Global Warming. Lawrence Torcello wrote an essay suggesting that scientists who fail to fall in line with global warming alarmists should be charged with criminal negligence, and possibly even be thrown in jail. Nothing screams academic freedom like a little intellectual Fascism. Right?

8.
How to Hide Billions in Taxpayer Money and Get Away With It
. The Treasury is keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-backed loan guarantee giants, off the federal budget. In 2008, the government took control of Fannie and Freddie and agreed to shield the entities from bankruptcy. Now that the country has recovered from that housing crisis, and money is coming back in through these government-sponsored entities (GSEs), their true cost remains hidden. “The GSEs’ off-budget status excludes them from federal budget rules and processes, and hides the real cost to taxpayers from federal control over Fannie and Freddie,” explains Heritage’s Romina Boccia in a new report.

9.
Hiding Behind ‘Global Internet Community’ the ravening United Nations Wolf
. Like the bully taking candy away from the proverbial baby, high-handed President Barack Hussein Obama is giving away the Internet that is in no way his to give. His latest act of out-and-out thievery graduates him from the most unpopular American president of all time, to Enemy of the Free World Numero Uno.

10.
If Spying on Senate is So Bad, Why is it OK For Them To Spy On Us?
. The reaction of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to last week’s revelations that the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers reveals much about what the elites in government think about the rest of us. “Spy on thee, but not on me!” The hypocrisy of Sen. Feinstein is astounding. She is the biggest backer of the NSA spying on the rest of us, but when the tables are turned and her staff is the target she becomes irate. But there is more to it than that. There is an attitude in Washington that the laws Congress passes do not apply to Members. They can trample our civil liberties, they believe, but it should never affect their own freedom.

11.
The Hidden Rot in the Jobs Numbers
. Most commentators viewed the February jobs report released on March 7 as good news, indicating that the labor market is on a favorable growth path. A more careful reading shows that employment actually fell—as it has in four out of the past six months and in more than one-third of the months during the past two years. Although it is often overlooked, a key statistic for understanding the labor market is the length of the average workweek. Small changes in the average workweek imply large changes in total hours worked. The average workweek in the U.S. has fallen to 34.2 hours in February from 34.5 hours in September 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That decline, coupled with mediocre job creation, implies that the total hours of employment have decreased over the period.

12.
Beijing’s breakneck defense spending poses a challenge to the U.S.
. China presents the rest of the world with a puzzle when it announces, each year, another big leap in defense spending. On March 5, it revealed a 12.2?percent increase over last year, to almost $132 billion, the second-largest military budget in the world after the United States (which remains far larger at $526.8 billion). The puzzle is not whether China can afford such a budget — clearly it can — but what does it need it for? What are China’s intentions and capabilities?

13.
Court Ruling Allows Republicans in Congress to Sue Obama for Corruption
. Until this week, Republicans had their hands tied on suing Obama to force him to quit ruling by executive action, but a three judge panel has removed that roadblock. The three judges, appointed by Carter and Clinton ruled that the democratic legislature had standing to sue the state government because they have :standing.” And here’s the best part. It doesn’t require a vote or a majority. A group of any number of members of the House or Senate or a combination of both can sue Obama over his use of his “pen.”

14.
Virginia Honors 9/11 Mosque
. The only thing more revolting than building a mosque next to the World Trade Center would be honoring the mosque that helped the 9/11 hijackers. Yet that’s just what Virginia has done. Outrageously, the Virginia state legislature has passed a Democrat-sponsored resolution “commending” the notorious 9/11 mosque — Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center — “as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration for the” center. The Saudi Embassy-funded, Muslim Brotherhood-owned mosque is universally known by federal and local law enforcement — and even the media — as a turnstile for terrorists. Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan once worshipped there, and the 9/11 hijackers who led the Pentagon attack got help there with housing and IDs.

15.
Justice Scalia: ‘Constitution is not a living organism’
. During a speech in Atlanta Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday defended interpreting the Constitution as it was originally written and intended. Scalia delivered a speech titled “Interpreting the Constitution: A View From the High Court,” as part of a constitutional symposium hosted by the State Bar of Georgia. Originalism and trying to figure out precisely what the ratified document means is the only option, otherwise you’re just telling judges to govern, Scalia argued.

16.
State touted as Obama’s health-care reform model fires its Obamacare website contractor
. The state of Massachusetts — touted by President Obama as the model for national health-care reform — is firing the company that designed both its failed state Obamacare enrollment website and also the Obama administration’s federal enrollment site.

17.
Philly AG’s abrupt shutdown of bribery sting operation saves fellow Dems allegedly busted
. A sting operation designed to nab dishonest politicians in the act of accepting bribes was abruptly shut down by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane. The only politicians caught were Democrats; Kane is a Democrat.

18.
Too Many Security Clearances? DOD Protecting Itself From Its Own Employees and Contractors
. Six months after a mentally deranged gunman killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday announced what his department will do to “close troubling gaps” in DOD’s ability to prevent a government employee, a member of the military, or a contractor from inflicting harm on other Defense Department employees. Much of the focus is on the 2.5 million individuals who currently hold active security clearances. Hagel said the Defense Department will begin to continuously evaluate people with security clearances, setting up “automated reviews” that will continuously pull information from law enforcement and other government databases.

19.
Report: EPA fraudster wrote the ‘EPA’s Playbook’ on regulations
. A report by Senate Republicans contends that the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory “playbook” was written by known agency fraudster John Beale, who put into place major air quality regulations that set the stage for “the exponential growth of the agency’s power over the American economy.” According to Republican senators, Beale used “Machiavellian” tactics to change the role of the EPA from protecting the environment to pushing an ideological political agenda aimed at expanding agency control over the economy.

20.
US agency rejects ‘Washington Redskin Potatoes’ trademark
. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a ruling denying a trademark application for the phrase “Washington Redskin Potatoes,” in part because it was deemed to be disparaging of Native Americans.

21.
38% of Employers Will Lay Off Workers if Minimum Wage is Increased
. A new survey of 1,213 business owners found that unemployment would increase as would prices of goods and services. 54% said they would reduce hiring and 65% said they would be increasing the prices of their good or service. Additionally, the survey found that 38% of those employers would lay off workers if they had to follow a minimum wage increase. 213 of the survey’s respondents currently pay their employees minimum wage.

22.
LA Police: ALL Cars Under Criminal Investigation As Part Of License Plate Reader Surveillance
. Police in LA have attempted to justify an Automatic License Plate Reader surveillance program by claiming that every single car in the city is part of a criminal investigation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently acquired documents under the Freedom Of Information Act that show the Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department in LA argued that “All [license plate] data is investigatory.” The law enforcement departments also stated that the fact that the data will likely never be connected to any specific crime is insignificant.

23.
Second Amendment Advocates Fear UN Could Ban Gun Websites
. Could the United Nations ban gun websites? That’s the fear being expressed by some second amendment advocates after the announcement that control over key aspects of the Internet would be transferred over to the “global community”. Last week it was announced that the Los Angeles-based nonprofit the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would relinquish control over domain names and other aspects of Internet architecture in favor of a new “global” governing structure that would involve multiple “stakeholders.”

24.
Obamacare Provider Knows When Clients Visit the Bathroom
. Obamacare provider Humana knows when its clients visit the bathroom, sleep, walk, open the medicine cabinet or use the fridge under a new “telemedicine” program that allows constant monitoring of individuals in their home.

25.
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.

Posted 3/16/2014

CONTENTS

1. The Tea Party, Conservatism, and the Constitution
2. New Ways of War Should Inform Our Defense Planning
3. Obamacare designer tells Americans ‘kiss your insurance company good-bye, forever’
4. Obama IRS Hires Al-Qaida Spy
5. Homeland Security Used Intercepted Emails to Quiz Woman About Her Sex Life
6. Common Core problem for kindergartners: ‘I’ve read this 3 times and I still have no idea’
7. DHS tells American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling rocks at them, fleeing in vehicles
8. One week after Russia’s Crimean invasion, us imposes travel sanctions…against Israelis
9. Rick Perry shaken up by Obama’s disturbing threat to governors in meeting
10. Mitch McConnell is ready to “crush” the Tea Party
11. California Seeks Obamacare Funding for Voter Registration
12. Obama Admin to Insert Global Warming Activism into New Dietary Guidelines, Will Favor Food With “Smaller Carbon Footprint”
13. Government bans calling terrorists ‘Jihadis’
14. You Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned: The Communist Influence & Infiltration of the United States
15. Obamanomics Is Ticking Time Bomb For Millennial Generation
16. Labor Force Participation Hits Record Low for Americans in Their 20s
17. No ruckus from opponents as county commission ends debate on Seven50 plan
18. Minneapolis City Hall declares “Hijab Day”, dhimmitude ensues
19. Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama – The complete interview
20. Dr. Ben Carson: our government is like ‘Nazi Germany’
21. Forget Ukraine: Gay rights are Obama’s foreign policy priority
22. Another Government Coverup To Protect GM?
23. Midwest could face ‘brownouts’ due to federal environmental regulators
24. Kerry makes climate change a ‘top-tier diplomatic priority’
25. INTOLERABLE! The truth about the Tea Party

1.
The Tea Party, Conservatism, and the Constitution
. Today’s Tea Party has ambitions to become an ongoing force—maybe even the major force—in American conservatism. And it strives for a revolution of its own, a return to a more limited, more constitutional form of government. If I had to judge its performance so far, I would say that it has been courageous and right in its diagnosis of the problems facing American politics, but somewhat off in its prescriptions.

2.
New Ways of War Should Inform Our Defense Planning
. ‘We march backwards into the future” is a line written by mass media theorist Marshall McLuhan. He wrote it 50 years ago, but his words describe exactly how present-day media analysts, academicians and elected officials are approaching national security issues. And that’s no way to prepare for the fearsome threats on or not far over the horizon. There is a way, however, to break out of that dangerous situation: Take a thoughtful look at the new ways we are fighting wars, including both new weapons systems and the shifting geostrategic environment in which we operate.

3.
Obamacare designer tells Americans ‘kiss your insurance company good-bye, forever’
. The man who helped design Obamacare is telling Americans to get ready to “kiss your insurance company good-bye, forever.” It’s going the way of the dodo bird. “The good news is you won’t have insurance companies to kick around much longer,” bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the guiding lights behind Obamacare and author of “Reinventing American Health Care,” wrote in an op-ed column published in The New Republic. “The system is changing.”

4.
Obama IRS Hires Al-Qaida Spy
. The IRS is diligent to a fault when it comes to vetting conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. But it’s out to lunch when vetting employees posing security risks. While the Internal Revenue Service was investigating Tea Party patriots in the run-up to last year’s presidential election, it dispensed with basic background checks and hired a convicted Islamist traitor as a high-level official. Mohammad Weiss Rasool, whom the FBI busted last decade for tipping off an al-Qaida terrorist suspect, reportedly now works for the deputy IRS chief financial officer as a financial management analyst, drawing a lucrative salary at taxpayer expense.

5.
Homeland Security Used Intercepted Emails to Quiz Woman About Her Sex Life
. A woman who was detained without cause at Indianapolis International Airport has filed suit saying federal officials violated her constitutional rights. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of Christine Von Der Haar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. In June of 2012, Von Der Haar accompanied a friend to the airport’s office of Customs and Border Protection to pick up computer equipment he had shipped separately when he flew to Indianapolis a few days earlier. The customs agent, after asking the couple if they were planning to marry, questioned them separately about email communications and the nature of their relationship, and confined Dr. Von Der Haar in a guarded room for more than 20 minutes.

6.
Common Core problem for kindergartners: ‘I’ve read this 3 times and I still have no idea’
. Identified as “kindergarten math homework,” the problem reads: In each cube stick , color some cubes blue and the rest of the cubes red. Draw the cubes you colored in the number bond. Show the hidden partners on your fingers to an adult. Color the fingers you showed. As indicated, the problem references “cube sticks,” “number bonds” and “hidden partners” — terms that leave many a grown adult dumbfounded.

7.
DHS tells American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling rocks at them, fleeing in vehicles
. Top administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them, and to avoid getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers’ vehicles as they head north with their drug shipments.

8.
One week after Russia’s Crimean invasion, us imposes travel sanctions…against Israelis
. At the same time the US State Department is relaxing entry requirements to visa applicants with Islamist terrorist connections, and reassuring President Putin of Russia that any sanctions against travel to the US placed upon those responsible for Russia’s invasion Ukraine will be limited to no more than a “few dozen” named individuals, it is dramatically increasing its rejection rate of Israelis seeking visas to visit the US.

9.
Rick Perry shaken up by Obama’s disturbing threat to governors in meeting
. Texas Gov. Rick Perry revealed a disturbing threat coming from the White House directed at several governors — Republican and Democrat alike. Perry was describing a meeting at the White House earlier that day between several governors and President Obama. When you have governors, and we all compete against each other — we are the laboratories of innovation — and for the President of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and say, ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure,’ — and that is really troubling,” he said. “As a matter of fact, he [Obama] said at that meeting, he said, ‘If I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you’ll hear from me,” he said, adding, “I’m highly offended by that.”

10.
Mitch McConnell is ready to “crush” the Tea Party
. Doing an interview with the New York Times, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the issue of three high profile Republican senators who are facing primary challenges from the Right. His conclusion? We’re going to crush you like the worms that you are, peasants.

11.
California Seeks Obamacare Funding for Voter Registration
. California has added voter registration to its Obamacare enrollment process and now they want Obamacare funding to cover those costs.

12.
Obama Admin to Insert Global Warming Activism into New Dietary Guidelines, Will Favor Food With “Smaller Carbon Footprint”
. At a closed-door meeting Friday, administration officials and their advisers will plot to insert the global warming agenda into dietary guidelines mandated by Congress. The Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments are updating the guidelines for publication next year. By favoring foods activists think have a smaller carbon footprint, the new guidelines will increase the prices you pay for what you eat. It will also increase the cost to all taxpayers, since the dietary guidelines are used to set policy for food stamps and military diets.

13.
Government bans calling terrorists ‘Jihadis’
. A federal appeals court is being asked to reverse a lower court decision that banned the American Freedom Defense Initiative from featuring in a bus ad the faces of men already identified by the U.S. government as suspected terrorists. “This case is a classic articulation of political correctness as a form of tyranny, which violates our fundamental right to freedom [of] speech guaranteed by the First Amendment,” said Robert Muise, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center, which is working on the AFDI case.

14.
You Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned: The Communist Influence & Infiltration of the United States
. In his book “Rules for Radicals,” Saul Alinsky writes on the power tactics to be used against a political opponent for the purpose of breaking them down and destroying their reputation. One of these tactics characterizes nearly everything we have experienced since Barack Obama has been inaugurated as he and his administration have successfully used it to blame republicans for everything.

15.
Obamanomics Is Ticking Time Bomb For Millennial Generation
. The economic purgatory into which millennials have been cast by Father Government is one of constant turmoil and statistical roadblock. The unemployment rate for all Americans ticked up to 6.7% in February. But when it comes to millennials, the jobless numbers are far different. Youth unemployment now stands at a staggering 15.8%, and this doesn’t even give the whole picture. According to the Department of Labor, some 1.7 million young adults have given up and are not actively seeking employment. Being in your mid-20s, having no job and no hope for a job is demoralizing. My generation is losing hope, and fast. In fact, the economy is so debilitating that some 22.6% of us still live with our parents.

16.
Labor Force Participation Hits Record Low for Americans in Their 20s
. The labor force participation rate in 2013 for Americans in their twenties hit the lowest level recorded since 1981, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started releasing employment data on people in the full age bracket of 20 through 29. The labor force participation rate for people ages 20 through 24—which BLS has been tracking since 1948—hit a 42-year low in 2013.

17.
No ruckus from opponents as county commission ends debate on Seven50 plan
. Palm Beach County commissioners voted this morning to receive and file a county attorney’s memo regarding Seven50, essentially ending any more debate on the regional planning blueprint. County commissioner Steven Abrams voted against the motion. He had suggested the county consider “opting out” as a symbolic gesture to appease residents who oppose the plan. But commissioners abided by the advice of assistant county attorney Bob Banks, who told them the county cannot legally delegate away its authority by participating in Seven50. A group of about 20 opponents, including six who spoke against the plan, quietly left the commission chambers after the vote. The leader of the Palm Beach County tea Party had asked the county to hold a Town Hall meeting on Seven50 before taking any action.

18.
Minneapolis City Hall declares “Hijab Day”, dhimmitude ensues
. According to a Facebook post, Somali staffers that work at Minneapolis City Hall declared February 28 “Hijab Day” at City Hall and convinced the police chief and female city council reps to wear hijabs on the job. Pictures include: Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau (who recently married her favorite female sergeant – not very hijab like), city council members Elizabeth Glidden and Lisa Bender as well as other staffers.

19.
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama – The complete interview
. With President Barack Obama, Zach Galifianakis, Scott Aukerman, Funny or Die, Between Two Ferns, Episode 18: President Barack Obama sits down with Zach Galifianakis for his most memorable interview yet.

20.
Dr. Ben Carson: our government is like ‘Nazi Germany’
. Dr. Ben Carson said that the current state of our government and institutions are “very much like Nazi Germany.” Carson says, “You had the government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.” Carson warns that our country is in a precarious position, and that political correctness coupled with government intimidation prevents open and honest dialogue. He went on to say that this state of our culture is “creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation.”

21.
Forget Ukraine: Gay rights are Obama’s foreign policy priority
. The Russian military takeover of the Crimea shows that national power doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun, but from the “capacity to inspire,” according to President Barack Obama’s national security advisor. And that power of inspiration must be used by American diplomats “to decry laws that would lock people up because of who they love and to find new ways to protect vulnerable members of the [worldwide] LGBT community,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told an assembly of U.S. diplomats on Tuesday.

22.
Another Government Coverup To Protect GM?
. Are auto recalls nothing more than political tools now? The Obama administration’s failure to act on reports of GM accelerator defects as the bodies piled up suggests that safety took a back seat to politics.

23.
Midwest could face ‘brownouts’ due to federal environmental regulators
. The Midwest may see booming oil and natural gas production, but a lack of power lines taking electricity to where it needs to go is making it harder for utilities to satisfy the country’s growing appetite for power. To complicate things, federal environmental regulators have been unwilling to allow power providers to build transmission lines across portions of federal lands. The oil and gas boom in the Bakken shale region of the U.S., including Montana and North Dakota, has fueled a 6 percent growth in power demand in the region. The problem is that power companies may not be able to keep up with the demand growth in the near future.

24.
Kerry makes climate change a ‘top-tier diplomatic priority’
. Secretary of State John Kerry, deeming climate change a “top-tier diplomatic priority,” has decided to make the controversial topic the subject of his first policy initiative and is instructing U.S. emissaries worldwide to push the agenda.

25.
INTOLERABLE! The truth about the Tea Party
. Intolerable! explores the rise of the Tea Party. It answers questions like; Who is behind it? What’s the real motivation? Where does it go now? DEBUTS MAY 6th! Enjoy Intolerable for FREE but donations are appreciated!

Posted 3/9/2014

1. Twin Bills in Florida Legislature Attempt to Halt Common Core
2. Scientists Already Disputing UN’s Soon-To-Be-Released Global Warming Report
3. France’s Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State
4. British Intelligence Advisor: CIA Conducted DNA Test on Obama – Found No Match to Alleged Grandparents
5. U.S. General: Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated Pentagon in “high security clearance” positions
6. Rogers: Putin ‘running circles’ around US
7. Obama’s World Without America Looks A Lot Like Ukraine
8. Police Dept. Covers Up Its NSA-Style, Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking
9. Obama’s Strategy Of Fomenting Revolution In Ukraine Is Backfiring Dramatically
10. Why Is The Mainstream Media Ignoring The Rabid Anti-Semitism In The New Ukraine Government?
11. How Close are We to World War III? A Closer Look at the Budapest Memorandum
12. Obama: US won’t be able to defend Israel if peace talks fail
13. The grand scheme – it’s in motion; look around you!
14. New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
15. Interest Payments on Debt to Exceed Defense Budget in 5 Years
16. A Quick Guide to Obama’s 2015 Budget
17. Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
18. If You Want to See What Liberal Paradise Looks Like – Go to Prison
19. Middle East Replaces America With Russia
20. Radical Obama Arms Negotiator Negotiates Away Nuclear Deterrent Vs. Russia
21. Belligerent Russia Could Deny U.S. Access To Space
22. Fisher warns Fed’s bond buying could be distorting U.S. financial markets
23 Top 10 Abusive Executive Actions by the Obama Administration
24. N.J. Education commissioner Chris Cerf will benefit financially from his school reform efforts
25. Call Me Senator

1.
Twin Bills in Florida Legislature Attempt to Halt Common Core
. The State Board of Education may have unanimously passed nearly 100 proposed changes to Common Core State Standards last week, but Florida legislators in both chambers have bills that would stop the implementation of the new standards entirely.

2.
Scientists Already Disputing UN’s Soon-To-Be-Released Global Warming Report
. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is scheduled to be released in Stockholm on Friday. But a draft of the report has been leaked to the media, and some climate scientists are already scoffing at its finding that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” and that “globally, CO2 is the strongest driver of climate change.”

3.
France’s Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State
. Is the U.S. heading down the same welfare state path?

4.
British Intelligence Advisor: CIA Conducted DNA Test on Obama – Found No Match to Alleged Grandparents
. The CIA performed a covert DNA testing on Obama during a fundraising dinner using a glass of water. Apparently, the CIA was able to grab a few glasses of water with both saliva and fingerprints to conduct their testing, and according to Shrimpton, the test came back that Barack Obama is not related to his alleged grandparents.

5.
U.S. General: Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated Pentagon in “high security clearance” positions
. General Boykin said in an interview recently that not only has the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated our government in general, but even “high security clearance” positions in the Pentagon.

6.
Rogers: Putin ‘running circles’ around US
. “I think Putin is playing chess, and I think we’re playing marbles. It’s not even close,” the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), said on “Fox News Sunday.”

7.
Obama’s World Without America Looks A Lot Like Ukraine
. The brazen seizure of Crimea by Putin’s Russia has brought into bold relief how the world would look if America is unable or unwilling to project power and influence. Is this what our diplomatic president wanted?

8.
Police Dept. Covers Up Its NSA-Style, Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking
. Through a recent motion for public access, the ACLU determined that at least one Florida police department never told judges about its use of the cell phone tracking device, known as a “stingray,” because the department signed a non-disclosure agreement with the stingray’s manufacturer to keep its use from being publicly known.

9.
Obama’s Strategy Of Fomenting Revolution In Ukraine Is Backfiring Dramatically
. When the Obama administration was plotting to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, what in the world did they expect to happen in the aftermath? Did they just expect Russia to roll over and play dead as the U.S. and the EU installed a rabidly anti-Russian government in Kiev? Over the past few years, the U.S. government has chosen to foment violent political revolutions all over the globe. We have seen violent revolutions overthrow governments all across the Middle East and Africa, but when the U.S. government decided to do the same thing in Ukraine they went way too far. When you mess with Ukraine, and when you mess with Crimea in particular, you are crossing a huge red line as far as the Russians are concerned. By crossing that red line, the Obama administration has ensured that the relationship between the United States and Russia will never be friendly again.

10.
Why Is The Mainstream Media Ignoring The Rabid Anti-Semitism In The New Ukraine Government?
. In World War II, the United States fought against rabidly anti-Semitic fascists. In 2014, the United States helps them overthrow democratically-elected governments. And the sick thing is that the mainstream media is acting an an accomplice because it is purposely ignoring or greatly playing down the rabid anti-Semitism in Ukraine. The anti-Semitism of many of the “reformers” that have seized power in Kiev does not fit with the narrative that the U.S. government is trying to push, so the mainstream media conveniently turns a blind eye to the fact that the United States is essentially helping neo-Nazis take power.

11.
How Close are We to World War III? A Closer Look at the Budapest Memorandum
. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is an international treaty signed on 5 December 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories in connection to Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear-powers, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom.

12.
Obama: US won’t be able to defend Israel if peace talks fail
. Israel can expect to face international isolation and possible sanctions from countries and companies across the world if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to endorse a framework agreement with the Palestinians, US President Barack Obama cautioned on Sunday ahead of a meeting with the Israeli prime minister.

13.
The grand scheme – it’s in motion; look around you!
. Lucifer: Here’s the deal: We are going to destroy this country. We will start with filling all the cabinet posts with our hand- picked degenerates so there will be no recourse for anyone’s complaints. The buck won’t stop anywhere. We will staff the Justice Department with the most slippery attorney that we can find so there can be no “just” action to prevail against us. And with any action that may actually slip by, we will drag our feet until they give up. But, what about the Democratic Party? Won’t there be someone there who will see through this? They’re like the rest of the proletariat: useful idiots; they’ll go along with anything. We’ll couch the rhetoric is such terms that they will think they are really helping. Give them enough weak power so they think they’re important.

14.
New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
. Is there a code for that? Starting this October, your doctor will be required to record precisely whether you were bitten or struck by a parrot, macaw, chicken, turkey, or any “other psittacines,” or encountered any one of 140,000 other specific medical conditions, injuries or diseases. This will be a significant and disruptive change to the health sector.

15.
Interest Payments on Debt to Exceed Defense Budget in 5 Years
. New analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff finds that, under President Obama’s proposed budget, interest payments on debt will exceed the defense budget in just 5 years.

16.
A Quick Guide to Obama’s 2015 Budget
. Yesterday, Heritage experts dove into President Obama’s new budget proposal. Check out our infographic to see just a few of the disturbing things they found.

17.
Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
. The Obama administration and the hotheads in Congress are threatening to hit Russia with “economic sanctions” for moving troops into Crimea. Yes, those sanctions would sting a little bit, but what our politicians should be made aware of is the fact that Russian officials are promising “to respond” if economic sanctions are imposed on them. As you will read about below, one top Kremlin adviser is even suggesting that Russia could abandon the U.S. dollar and start dumping U.S. debt. In addition, he is also suggesting that if sanctions are imposed that Russian companies would not repay the debts that they owe U.S. banks. Needless to say, Russia could do far more economic damage to the United States than the United States could do to Russia. The U.S. financial system relies on the fact that the rest of the planet is going to use our currency to trade with one another and lend gigantic piles of it back to us at super low interest rates. If the rest of the world starts changing their behavior, we are going to be in a massive amount of trouble. Those that believe that the United States is “economically independent” are being quite delusional.

18.
If You Want to See What Liberal Paradise Looks Like – Go to Prison
. Here’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s description of a liberal paradise. “A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not, such a place does, indeed, exist. “It’s called prison. In prison everything is free except the prisoners.

19.
Middle East Replaces America With Russia
. The fracturing relations between America and its Arabic allies have been highlighted by a recent arms deal for Egypt. The Egyptians, who have looked to America for weapons since the Camp David Peace Accords, now look for arms from the new dominant power in the region—Russia. The price tag attached to the military hardware is more than the ailing Egyptian economy can handle, but thankfully for Egypt, its Saudi neighbors have offered to foot the bill.

20.
Radical Obama Arms Negotiator Negotiates Away Nuclear Deterrent Vs. Russia
. As Russia test-fires new, updated ICBMs on the heels of its Ukraine invasion, Obama’s top arms negotiator is busy downsizing and mothballing America’s nuclear arsenal and destroying our deterrent. Thanks to Undersecretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, a left-wing peacenik and old Soviet apologist, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is inching dangerously closer to first-strike capability. Gottemoeller, a longtime anti-nuke activist, is the architect of the disastrously one-sided 2010 U.S.-Russia New Start deal that slashes America’s nuclear arsenal from 5,000 deployable warheads to just 1,550.

21.
Belligerent Russia Could Deny U.S. Access To Space
. Putting an economic and political squeeze on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis could bring another Obama chicken home to roost — our president killed the U.S. space program and made us dependent on Putin. 2011, when America’s space shuttle fleet was retired and our space program was dispersed to various museums, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which proudly put the first human beings, Americans, on the moon some 45 years ago, has largely been fixated on things like monitoring nonexistent climate change and Muslim outreach.

22.
Fisher warns Fed’s bond buying could be distorting U.S. financial markets
. A U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker who has long criticized its bond-buying stimulus said on Wednesday the program has lasted too long, and there are signs it is now distorting financial markets and encouraging risk-taking. In a speech in Mexico City, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher amplified some lingering concerns that the central bank’s policy stimulus is stoking asset-price bubbles that “may result in tears” for investors acting on bad incentives.

23.
Top 10 Abusive Executive Actions by the Obama Administration
. A System of Divided Government: Ours is a government of laws and not of men; thus, all are subject to the law and not above it. Instead of placing the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in one person, the Constitution divides federal power among three distinct but coordinate branches. The Founders devised a system of checks and balances that divided the powers of government to protect the liberties of Americans from encroachment by the federal government.

24.
N.J. Education commissioner Chris Cerf will benefit financially from his school reform efforts
. A company located at 55 Washington Street in Brooklyn will benefit financially from the new initiatives that were mandated over the last three years by the Governor’s office and the Department of Education for the New Jersey Public Schools. The Company, called “AMPLIFY”, will provide many of the assessment and curriculum tools that the public schools and classroom teachers will be required to implement.

25.
Call Me Senator
. I worked so hard to get that title.

Posted 3/2/2014

1. Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be “Proportionate”
2. “Government Failure” What Should We Do?
3. The Audacity of Obama’s Austerity Claim
4. More Cuts To Medicare Benefits On The Way
5. Electricity Price Index Soars to New Record at Start of 2014; U.S. Electricity Production Declining
6. Once the Obamacare model, Massachusetts now the law’s disaster
7. The Routine Use of Fake Images and Video Footage by the Western Media
8. EPA Wood-Stove Proposal Prompts Rural Backlash
9. 34 Questions On Sandy Hook Shooting That Have Never Been
10. Florida Session Outlook 2014: Ethics and Elections
11. Robert Malley and the Shift to Appeasement
12. Obama’s rush to regulate
13. Obamacare: “a call to die and die quickly.”
14. Michigan Democrat Threatens to Shut Down TV Stations Airing Anti-Obamacare Ad
15. U.S. ranks 19th in world for retirement security
16. Black ‘Moorish Nation’ claiming ‘squatter’s rights’ to homes across the nation
17. What Is Obama’s Consumer Credit Agency Hiding?
18. Jihad Entitlements: Somali Muslim Migrants Protest Welfare Reform in Maine
19. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) refused to support conservative candidates against Democrats in the Fall.
20. They hid George Washington’s statue at MLK rally in SC
21. Law professor: Americans are rising up against government
22. IG: SSA Sent Estimated $1 Million in Improper Payments to Prisoners
23. Crushing People into Tight Housing Won’t Cut CO2 Levels
24. How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
25. Tennessee Football Coach fired for making Obama song

1.
Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be “Proportionate”
. Barack Obama has wrapped himself in egalitarianism all his political career and now that dissatisfaction with his goal of “transforming” America is growing, he’s pushing equality more relentlessly than ever. Last fall, he declared income equality to be the “defining challenge of our time.“ That’s laughable, but in January, his administration – specifically the Departments of Justice and Education – went even further with a “guidance” letter that demands a group equality approach to student discipline in America’s public schools.

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“Government Failure” What Should We Do?
. What do you do when government fails? I mean, when government Really Fails? Which is the present situation in which we are immersed. But wait, as so many TV ads tell us, it keeps getting worse. We are not only seeing the federal government failing in what it should be doing, but also involved in the most egregious actions which speak directly of tyranny. How else would one describe swarms of swat troops – 30 strong – battering down a homeowner’s door to arrest him for possessing a dud 12 gauge shotgun shell? Or constantly harassing a woman for giving speeches encouraging “legal” voting practices? Or cutting off agricultural water for the sake of a minnow? Or shutting down hundreds of coal-fired electric plants which will eventually double, triple or quadruple the price of keeping our inane government-forced expensive squiggly light bulbs lit. Ah, the questions are too many…and no answers are forthcoming.

3.
The Audacity of Obama’s Austerity Claim
. President Obama says his new budget will finally end the dreary “era of austerity.” If Obama thinks record-high spending, massive deficits and a doubling of the debt are austere, what does he consider indulgent? Let’s take a look at some of the overall budget numbers. It’s true that federal spending declined in the past two years, but that’s only because it reached fantastic heights in Obama’s first two years, thanks to the massive stimulus program.

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More Cuts To Medicare Benefits On The Way
. Get ready for more cuts to private Medicare plans, and more fired doctors, as insurers are forced to cheapen provider networks, and benefits. That’s the upshot from the announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that 2015 Medicare Advantage rates will be cut a whopping 8%, once new reductions get baked into the program’s baseline.

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Electricity Price Index Soars to New Record at Start of 2014; U.S. Electricity Production Declining
. The electricity price index soared to a new high in January 2014 with the largest month-to-month increase in almost four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, data from the Energy Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, indicates that electricity production in the United States has declined since 2007, when it hit its all-time peak.

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Once the Obamacare model, Massachusetts now the law’s disaster
. Obamacare is an absolute mess in Massachusetts. Nearly eight years ago, surrounded by legislative leaders and Senator Ted Kennedy, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed historic health legislation into law. Starting in 2007 — over a period of three years — Massachusetts spent $3,449,520 developing a first-in-the-nation online health exchange, which allowed the state’s citizens to purchase health coverage. And when President Obama campaigned for the passage of his own federal health law, he leaned on the Massachusetts experiment as a model for the nation. But the changes mandated by Obama’s Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, have actually gutted the effectiveness of Massachusetts’ once-working model.

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The Routine Use of Fake Images and Video Footage by the Western Media
. It has become routine for the mainstream media including network TV to present fake images and footage of protest movements. This process of manipulating the truth and presenting fake images is nothing new. When it is discovered, CNN or the BBC will invariably apologize for having used the “wrong image”, from the “wrong country” from its extensive archives. The February anti-government riots in Venezuela were “documented” by numerous fake images.

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EPA Wood-Stove Proposal Prompts Rural Backlash
. A federal proposal to clean up the smoke wafting from wood-burning stoves has sparked a backlash from some rural residents, lawmakers and manufacturers who fear it could close the damper on one of the oldest ways of warming homes on cold winter days.

9.
34 Questions On Sandy Hook Shooting That Have Never Been
. Why were no “Life-Flight” or “Life-Star” helicopters called in to assist victims at Sandy Hook? Why were paramedics and EMTs denied access to victims? Why did the medical examiner not allow families to see the bodies of their dead children? Why was such an effort made to tie both Adam and Nancy Lanza to the Sandy Hook school, when later it was found that those reports were false?

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Florida Session Outlook 2014: Ethics and Elections
. This year, the leadership has agreed to put up a joint rule on residency — already the subject of pending bills in both chambers — to make legislators actually live in their districts. Most do already, but after a redistricting session that realigns political boundaries, there are always a few members who wind up barely outside of the House and Senate districts where they need to run.

11.
Robert Malley and the Shift to Appeasement
. Back in 2008 when Barack Obama first ran for president, one of the many signals he sent to Jewish groups to reassure them of his good will toward Israel and his foreign-policy bona fides was to sever ties with Robert Malley. Malley, a Clinton-era National Security Council staffer, is best known for his stand blaming Israel rather than Yasir Arafat for the collapse of the 2000 Camp David peace summit. Now well into his second term, the president is finally rewarding Malley for falling on his sword for him during his first campaign. Malley is heading back to the White House to serve as a senior director at the National Security Council where he will be tasked with managing relations between the U.S. and its Persian Gulf allies.

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Obama’s rush to regulate
. President Obama has ordered his officials to step on the gas and clear as much of his regulatory agenda as possible during the twilight of his time in office. The clock is ticking, creating a sense of urgency in the administration to crank out his new rules without delay. Just a year into the president’s second term, experts and former administration officials say it is do-or-die time for scores of regulatory initiatives across the federal government that could shape his legacy. So Obama is spurring agencies on.

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Obamacare: “a call to die and die quickly.”
. Alan Grayson (D Fla, 9 ) famously said that the Republican health care plan amounted to a call to “die, and die quickly” if one were to get sick. After two years of the Affordable Care Act, we now know that Grayson had the right facts, but the wrong plan. Of course, dialysis patients should not be surprised, for any plan billed as “Affordable” must necessarily eliminate dialysis patients. They are a small part of the disabled population, but a large part of Medicare and Medicaid costs. And that is what is going to happen over the next few months, thanks in large part to changes in CMS’s funding of dialysis treatment in the US.

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Michigan Democrat Threatens to Shut Down TV Stations Airing Anti-Obamacare Ad
. Anti-Obamacare ad draws ire of Democrat anxious to violate the First Amendment. Rep. Gary Peters of Dexter, Michigan is threatening to bring the FCC down on the operator of a television station playing an anti-Obamacare advertisement. The Americans for Prosperity ad features Julie Boonstra. Her insurance was cancelled as a result of Obamacare.

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U.S. ranks 19th in world for retirement security
. U.S. retirees are facing worse conditions for their golden years than retired workers in many other developed countries — from Canada and the United Kingdom to South Korea.

16.
Black ‘Moorish Nation’ claiming ‘squatter’s rights’ to homes across the nation
. You may have missed this chapter in Black History Month: In 1787, a bunch of people signed a bunch of agreements — secret and otherwise — that say black people are not required to obey American laws because they are not really citizens of the United States. Today, descendants of this group, who call themselves the Moorish Nation, claim that their heritage entitles them and all black people to move into empty houses (don’t call it squatting!), create their own license plates, issue their own drivers licenses, print their own property titles and claim sovereign immunity when they get arrested.

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What Is Obama’s Consumer Credit Agency Hiding?
. Even after a Mississippi businessman last year was bounced from what should have been an open meeting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency again is making itself closed to the public. On Wednesday and Thursday, CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other top bureau officials will meet behind closed doors with a group of radical advisers who are having undue influence over financial regulatory policy. Both the public and the press again are barred from covering the private discussions.

18.
Jihad Entitlements: Somali Muslim Migrants Protest Welfare Reform in Maine
. While Obama decimates the military, we, the American taxpayers, are forced to support these hostile invaders in the homeland.

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) refused to support conservative candidates against Democrats in the Fall.
. The NRSC has historically supported all Republican nominees regardless of their ideology as part of the committee’s goal of electing Republicans. The NRSC was asked this week if they would commit to supporting conservative Dr. Milton Wolf (R-KS) in the general election. They refused.

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They hid George Washington’s statue at MLK rally in SC
. This is the State House of South Carolina, in Columbia. That bronze statue in front of the steps is a statue of George Washington. On Jan. 17, 2011, the NAACP sponsored a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally before the State House in Columbia, SC. and hid the statue of the father of our country in a box.

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Law professor: Americans are rising up against government
. In his op/ed for USA Today, Feb. 23, 2014, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds cites three pieces of evidence that the American people have had enough of increasingly tyrannical government and are pushing back.

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IG: SSA Sent Estimated $1 Million in Improper Payments to Prisoners
. The Social Security Administration (SSA) issued an estimated $1 million in improper payments between 2000 and 2010 to people who were in prison, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report entitled Special Disability Workload Payments Made to Incarcerated Beneficiaries.

23.
Crushing People into Tight Housing Won’t Cut CO2 Levels
. ‘Smart growth” projects across the country aim to jam people into high-density housing near mass transit systems. Proponents think this will make people abandon their automobiles, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But new research shows “stack-and-pack” housing is an ineffective way to reduce carbon dioxide levels.

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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
. One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.

25.
Tennessee Football Coach fired for making Obama song
. When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

Posted 2/23/2014

1. Report: Obama offers UN climate agreement that doesn’t need congressional approval
2. As Lies Turn Into ‘Truth,’ America Becomes Orwellian
3. Colorado city caught running secret video surveillance program
4. Obamacare: the death knell for people with cancer
5. Fourteen Ways to Feed A Tyranny
6. Ted Cruz and Debt Ceiling Gamesmanship
7. Local Police Train with Special Forces To Raid Farm Houses, Conduct Domestic Raids
8. Food Prices Soar As U.S. Government Says There’s No Inflation
9. How to Free the Housing Market from Government – and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
10. The signs of a dictatorship on the rise!
11. General Motors is becoming China Motors – B.M.G.
12. Union Vote in Chattanooga Shows Danger Of Card Check
13. Uproar over Obamacare’s menu rules
14. Health industry group: Yes, we’ve suffered massive Obamacare job losses
15. +106%: Obama Has More Than Doubled Marketable U.S. Debt
16. New Terror Compound Found In Heart of Texas
17. O’Keefe busts illegal voter scheme to ‘turn Texas blue’
18. Is the Tea Party Helpful or Not?
19. Fourth Georgia hospital closes due to Obamacare payment cuts
20. Dumbing Down: Florida Schools Ban Low Grades
21. DHS Contracted to Purchase 704 Million Rounds of Ammo Over Next 4 Years: 2,500 Rounds Per Officer
22. Obama: Ukraine, Syria Are Not ‘Some Cold War Chessboard’
23. Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom Escalates
24. “Hundreds” of Syrian “refugees” arriving in North Jersey, thousands more expected
25. Fifteen Cartoons from Foreign Newspapers

1.
Report: Obama offers UN climate agreement that doesn’t need congressional approval
. The Obama administration is quietly forging ahead with plans to offer up an international commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming — without congressional approval. Reuters reports that the U.S. submitted its vision for a new international global warming agreement to the United Nations on Wednesday, suggesting a “bifurcated approach” of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol — placing different emissions targets for rich and poor countries.

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As Lies Turn Into ‘Truth,’ America Becomes Orwellian
. The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” gave us the word “Orwellian.” That adjective reflects a vast government’s efforts not just to deceive and control the people, but also to do so by reinventing the meaning of ordinary words while rewriting the past itself.

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Colorado city caught running secret video surveillance program
. For weeks, police in Boulder, Colo., have been secretly using video cameras to spy on a group of troublemakers that one city councilman suggested be banished from city limits when they commit petty crimes.

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Obamacare: the death knell for people with cancer
. ObamaCare…passed before it was read by the very same Democrats who are now trying to distance themselves from it. ObamaCare…a law conceived in the bowels of hell by a man who plays footsie with the devil for only a man of pure evil would willingly and knowingly hurt and punish the most vulnerable amongst us. ObamaCare…a health care plan whose dictatorial monetary blood-sucking will disproportionately fall on those with serious medical conditions, especially those with cancer. What most people do NOT realize is that ObamaCare contains provisions buried deeply within its thousands of pages that directly zero-in on cancer patients whose treatments self-anointed Dr.Barack HUSSEIN Obama perceives as being too costly.

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Fourteen Ways to Feed A Tyranny
. With the American people, the collective mind and memory has been overwhelmed like a freight train bearing down on a penny. The weight and frequency of each segment of the train and cars warp the penny into a small pile of unrecognizable bit of copper. Oh, the penny can be reconstituted, but to do so would be re-smelting the metal, pouring back into the die, and making the penny whole. If we allow ourselves the opportunity to review the account of the past 12 months and ask ourselves at every opportunity: “Is this right and just?” We can then begin to see that our rich history as a Representative Republic has been replaced with a Tyranny of the ugliest order. And each of us has to ask ourselves the only question that can be asked:

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Ted Cruz and Debt Ceiling Gamesmanship
. Once again, bitter feelings are being cast in the direction of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz With the House passing the “clean” debt ceiling bill and sending it to the Democrat controlled Senate, it was clear that this was the bill that was going to get passed and sent to the president. But Cruz didn’t want to let Senate Republicans, including Minority leader Mitch McConnell, off the hook and give President Obama a blank check to once again increase the debt ceiling as we are drowning in red ink. He didn’t want Republicans to simply vote against the bill, hiding behind the Democrat majority who were sure to pass it.

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Local Police Train with Special Forces To Raid Farm Houses, Conduct Domestic Raids
. The official Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s press release stated that “Citizens may see military and departmental vehicles traveling in and around rural and metropolitan areas and may hear ordinance being set off or fired which will be simulated/ blanks and controlled by trained personnel.” The release also stated that the exercise was being held “Due to Sheriff Leon Lott’s longstanding commitment to making sure that deputies are trained and prepared for every event and potential threat and his desire to assist the military to ensure their preparations.”

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Food Prices Soar As U.S. Government Says There’s No Inflation
. Food prices are soaring across the country. The government would have us think otherwise, touting their ‘no inflation’ line at every opportunity. This is going to get worse, much worse. As weather disasters around the globe reduce the food supply prices are only going to go in one direction. A year from now we will be looking at the prices we pay today and wishes things were still so affordable!

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How to Free the Housing Market from Government – and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
. No one wants another housing crisis, and taxpayers certainly shouldn’t be on the hook for it. So, what should Congress do? The answer: Eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) that have been distorting the housing market for years AND costing taxpayers trillions of dollars. Taxpayers remain responsible for approximately $4 trillion in GSE guarantees.

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The signs of a dictatorship on the rise!
. The IRS Is About To Become The Arbiter Of Your 1st Amendment Rights By Obama Regime Decree. The same IRS that was recently caught red-handed targeting conservative organizations, and the same IRS that is going to administer your personal healthcare under ObamaCare, is about to grant itself broad powers to muzzle your 1st Amendment rights through the tax code.

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General Motors is becoming China Motors – B.M.G.
. General Motors is becoming China Motors. Forget the spin. The evidence is clear and convincing. Did U.S. taxpayers save GM for China? Listen to the candid comments of GM’s CEO.

12.
Union Vote in Chattanooga Shows Danger Of Card Check
. Union bosses have contended for some time that a secret ballot isn’t needed to unionize a workplace. All that’s needed, they said, was employees’ signatures on cards. But Chattanooga proved them wrong. For months the United Auto Workers have said a majority of workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee had signed cards expressing their interest in unionizing. Why bother with a secret ballot when the workers had already spoken through the “card check” approval process? As it turned out, the union’s claim of majority support was wrong. Workers at the Chattanooga plant used secret ballots to reject union representation 53-47.

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Uproar over Obamacare’s menu rules
. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is close to finalizing a rule requiring calorie labels on vending machines and at restaurants and “similar retail food establishments.” Proposed in 2011, the regulations stem from the Affordable Care Act and are designed to combat obesity by helping consumers make healthier choices.

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Health industry group: Yes, we’ve suffered massive Obamacare job losses
. A new report from a top health care industry trade organization contradicts Kathleen Sebelius’ recent claim that no job loss will occur under Obamacare. Obamacare’s medical device tax has already created a job loss of 33,000 in the medical device industry and 132,0o0 more job losses are expected, according to a new report from the industry trade group the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), obtained by the Daily Caller.

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+106%: Obama Has More Than Doubled Marketable U.S. Debt
. The marketable debt of the U.S. government has more than doubled–climbing by 106 percent–while President Barack Obama has been in office, increasing from $5,749,916,000,000 at the end of January 2009 to $11,825,322,000,000 at the end of January 2014, according to the U.S. Treasury’s latest Monthly Statement of the Public Debt.

16.
New Terror Compound Found In Heart of Texas
. Muslims shoot firearms ‘without interference from law enforcement’. Declassified FBI documents confirm the existence of an Islamic jihadist enclave in Texas that is part of a network in the U.S. identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a terrorist organization. The enclave belongs to the network of Muslims of the Americas, which is linked to the Pakistani-based militant group Jamaat al-Fuqra, according to an investigation by the Clarion Project and ACT! For America Houston.

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O’Keefe busts illegal voter scheme to ‘turn Texas blue’
. In an apparent violation of state law, Battleground Texas officials are exploiting legally protected information to turn voters out to the polls as part of the Democratic party’s quest to paint the Lone Star State blue, a new undercover video from James O’Keefe reveals. The footage shows Battleground Texas volunteer Jennifer Longoria saying the group uses the phone numbers from voter registration forms in later efforts to boost turnout on election day. Texas Election Code prohibits the use of, or even the copying of, phone numbers provided by individuals registering to vote.

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Is the Tea Party Helpful or Not?
. As it happens, “likely Republican voters” are almost evenly divided on this question: 38 percent say the Tea Party movement helps Republicans. Conversely, 32 percent say the opposite. Twenty percent are undecided:

19.
Fourth Georgia hospital closes due to Obamacare payment cuts
. The fourth Georgia hospital in two years is closing its doors due to severe financial difficulties caused by Obamacare’s payment cuts for emergency services.

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Dumbing Down: Florida Schools Ban Low Grades
. America’s already sub-par educational standards continue to be lowered in districts across the nation. Along with the introduction of federal Common Core curriculum, teachers are becoming far more interested in dispensing leftist propaganda than instilling actual knowledge. Nowhere is this depressing trend more apparent than in Lake County, Florida. According to a recent local report, at least one school in the district, Gray Middle School, has banned any educator from issuing a grade lower than a 50.

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DHS Contracted to Purchase 704 Million Rounds of Ammo Over Next 4 Years: 2,500 Rounds Per Officer
. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is contracted to purchase 704,390,250 rounds of ammunition over the next four years, which is equal to a total of about 2,500 rounds per DHS agent per year, according to a January 2014 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

22.
Obama: Ukraine, Syria Are Not ‘Some Cold War Chessboard’
. The United States does not view the crises in Ukraine and Syria as a “Cold War chessboard” in which the U.S. and Russia are vying for influence, President Obama said on Wednesday night.

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Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom Escalates
. Last week, Reporters Without Borders dropped America in the World Press Freedom Index 2014 from 33rd to 46th. James Risen of The New York Times rightly explained, “I think 2013 will go down in history as the worst year for press freedom in the United States’ modern history.” And he’s right. The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

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“Hundreds” of Syrian “refugees” arriving in North Jersey, thousands more expected
. The only Syrians we should be allowing into this country are the Christian Syrians who are being slaughtered en masse by jihadist forces. Who is vetting these Syrian Muslims? Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood picks at the DoS? How many of these “refugees” are battle-hardened jihadists? Hostile invaders?

25.
Fifteen Cartoons from Foreign Newspapers
. Benghazi cartoons in foreign papers mostly British newspapers. Doesn’t it make you proud of what they think of our “leader”?

Posted 2/16/2014

1. The 10 Most Outrageous Government Boondoggles I Ever Saw
2. 221 Percent Increase In One Year? Why Are So Many People Renouncing American Citizenship?
3. Obamacare Leaves Gaping Cavity in Adults’ Dental Health
4. DARPA Continues To Push “Black Box” Brain Chip
5. Hayek, Von Mises, And The Road To Government Paralysis
6. The Edward Snowden Interview the US Media Blacked Out But You Need To See
7. Tea Party Leader Is Harassed While Testifying About Being Harassed by the IRS
8. Judicial Watch Uncovers Email Revealing Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos
9. Companies Must Justify Their Workforce Decisions Under Obama’s Latest Rewrite
10. Smoking Gun in IRS Political Targeting
11. Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorism
12. Eric Holder exposes himself in Sweden
13. Contractor Hired to Fix ObamaCare Site was So Bad the Post Office Tried To Fire It Last Year
14. Ann coulter asks if Obama had set out to destroy America, what would he be doing differently?
15. Former Obama labor secretary did not report union-funded private jet trips to the FEC
16. We’re Having The Wrong Debate On Economic Inequality
17. ‘Winter in jeopardy’ say Olympians pressing for climate change action
18. Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
19. The Tea Party, Conservatism, and the Constitution
20. Health Care Is Already Being Rationed
21. The FCC Plan to Police The Newsrooms
22. Vulnerable Senate Dems Ask IRS to Save Them From Tea Party
23. Tom Perkins’ big idea: The rich should get more votes
24. Navy releases map showing location of fleet positions during Benghazi attacks
25. Government Lays Groundwork to Confiscate Your 401k and IRA: “This Is Happening”

1.
The 10 Most Outrageous Government Boondoggles I Ever Saw
. When I first came to Washington nearly 20 years ago, I didn’t set out to become known as a budget hawk—and I didn’t plan to earn nicknames like “Dr. No”—simply by adopting a skeptical approach toward spending taxpayer money. I was merely taking seriously the basic responsibility of a member of Congress: the unglamorous duty of oversight.

2.
221 Percent Increase In One Year? Why Are So Many People Renouncing American Citizenship?
. The number of Americans that renounced their citizenship was 221 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 2012. That is a staggering figure, and it is symptomatic of a larger trend. In recent years, a lot of really good people with very deep roots in this country have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to the United States permanently. A few actually go to the trouble to renounce their citizenship, and that is mostly done for tax purposes. But most willingly choose to leave America for other reasons. Some were very serious when they said they would leave the U.S. if Barack Obama got a second term, some (such as Jesse Ventura) are dismayed at how our freedoms and liberties are eroding and are alarmed at the rise of the Big Brother police state, some are absolutely disgusted by the social and moral decay that is eating away at the foundations of our society, and there are yet others that consider “the grass to be greener” on the other side of the planet. Personally, I have a number of friends that have made the very hard decision to relocate their families thousands of miles away because they see what is coming to America and they believe that there isn’t any hope of turning things around at this point. I also have a lot of friends that are determined to stay in the United States no matter what. When it comes to the future of America, almost everyone has a very strong opinion, and these are discussions that we need to start having.

3.
Obamacare Leaves Gaping Cavity in Adults’ Dental Health
. In the Obamacare conversation, dental health care flies under the radar — a scary reality, say many dentists, who fear the new federal law will trigger an oral health crisis. They say Obamacare looks good for children, but disastrous for adults — particularly middle class adults, because it provides nothing for them. Those who currently have dental health insurance through their employers will lose it when they are forced into an Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, exchange plan.

4.
DARPA Continues To Push “Black Box” Brain Chip
. Pentagon wants to “help” soldiers and seniors by implanting devices to trigger memories. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the military, is continuing to develop implantable brain chips, according to documents newly posted as part of the agency’s increased “transparency” policy. The agency is seeking to develop a portable, wireless device that “must incorporate implantable probes” to record and stimulate brain activity – in effect, a memory triggering ‘black box’ device. The process would entail placing wires inside the brain, and under the scalp, with electrical impulses fired up through a transmitter placed under the skin of the chest area.

5.
Hayek, Von Mises, And The Road To Government Paralysis
. One of my favorite moments during the 2012 Republican presidential contest came when Ron Paul, fresh from his strong showing in Iowa, triumphantly told his supporters: “We’re all Austrians now!” I imagined many Americans scratching their heads and wondering: Why do we want to be Austrians? They live in a nice country with stunning mountains and all that, but aren’t we perfectly happy to be Americans? Of course those in the know, particularly Paul’s enthusiasts, understood the libertarian presidential candidate’s reference: that Americans were rejecting the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes that encouraged government intervention and provided intellectual ballast for the New Deal. Instead, they were coming around to the principles of the anti-government economics of Austrians Friedrich A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises.

6.
The Edward Snowden Interview the US Media Blacked Out But You Need To See
. One week ago, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden was interviewed on the German television network ARD. What many Americans may be unaware of is that the Edward Snowden interview was intentionally blocked from the US public with none of the major new outlets covering the interview or its contents. YouTube has even taken steps to remove the post as soon as it is reposted. The video got a wide viewing in Europe and it is not only an important interview when it comes to the vast surveillance state that is currently constructed, but is also still future. Snowden explained to German television (oh the irony here is rich) how tyrannical surveillance programs erode human rights and individual liberty and freedom.

7.
Tea Party Leader Is Harassed While Testifying About Being Harassed by the IRS
. During a House Oversight And Government Reform Committee hearing on the IRS harassment of conservative groups last week, a Tea Party leader was, ironically, harassed.

8.
Judicial Watch Uncovers Email Revealing Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos
. Judicial Watch announced today that on January 31, 2014, it received documents from the Department of Defense (Pentagon) revealing that within hours of its filing a May 13, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking photos of the deceased Osama bin Laden, U.S. Special Operations Commander, Admiral William McRaven ordered his subordinates to “destroy” any photos they may have had “immediately.” Judicial Watch had filed a FOIA request for the photos 11 days earlier.

9.
Companies Must Justify Their Workforce Decisions Under Obama’s Latest Rewrite
. Once again acting without Congress, President Obama has unilaterally changed his signature health insurance law, delaying its employer mandate – the second time he’s done this — to 2016, after the mid-term elections. BUT: To be eligible for the additional delay, the Obama administration says an employer “may not reduce the size of its workforce or the overall hours of service of its employees” unless it can justify those reductions to the Internal Revenue Service

10.
Smoking Gun in IRS Political Targeting
. Though President Obama insists the Internal Revenue Service is not guilty of the political targeting of nonprofits, WND has learned the agency contracts with an avowedly “progressive” organization supported by George Soros to process data filed by smaller tax-exempt groups. The federal agency process sends details contained in the annual filings for organizations with $50,000 in annual receipts or less to the Urban Institute, which is funded at least partly by government payments as well as contributions from far-left activist George Soros.

11.
Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorism
. Documents from an Ohio National Guard (ONG) training drill conducted last January reveal the details of a mock disaster where Second Amendment supporters with “anti-government” opinions were portrayed as domestic terrorists.

12.
Eric Holder exposes himself in Sweden
. Attorney General Eric Holder used a Feb. 4 speech in Sweden to promote a big government goal — redistributing social status towards social groups favored by progressive lawyers and judges. The fundamental truth [is] that no matter where you live, who you love, or who you are… every human being is, and must be, free and equal in both dignity and [legal] rights,” he told the Swedes. The political goal of equal dignity — just like the socialists’ failed goal of equal wealth — is being used to justify intense federal intrusion in every aspect of Americans’ social lives, such as in the workplace and schoolyards, Facebook pages and sporting events.

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Contractor Hired to Fix ObamaCare Site was So Bad the Post Office Tried To Fire It Last Year
. Consider the irony: the company hired to fix the ObamaCare website following its disastrous rollout in October not only has a history of customer complaints; the U.S. Postal Service wanted to fire it last June. According to a recently published report, Accenture, the contractor hired by the Obama administration to fix the infamous “glitches” in the HealthCare.gov website, had been heavily criticized by multiple clients, including several federal agencies, prior to signing on to fix the site:

14.
Ann coulter asks if Obama had set out to destroy America, what would he be doing differently?
. If Obama were born in another country, had no love for this country and had set out to destroy America — what would he be doing differently?”

15.
Former Obama labor secretary did not report union-funded private jet trips to the FEC
. Former Obama administration Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis took thousands of dollars of free trips on a union’s jet to “avoid freeway traffic” and did not report the trips as required by federal law, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against union leaders.

16.
We’re Having The Wrong Debate On Economic Inequality
. The trouble with blaming economic inequality for many of our economic ills is that the theory doesn’t fit the facts. The theory (or one popular version) is that growing inequality caused many low- and middle-income Americans to overborrow so they could keep up with wealthier Americans. This borrowing allegedly led to the credit bubble and the Great Recession. Blaming inequality for the credit bubble fails a rudimentary test of logic. Even if most Americans were aware of growing inequality a decade ago — doubtful, because the subject is highly technical and wasn’t widely discussed — it doesn’t follow that they could automatically borrow whatever they wanted. The crucial link between credit growth and the economic collapse stemmed more from the enthusiasm of lenders than from the eagerness of borrowers.

17.
‘Winter in jeopardy’ say Olympians pressing for climate change action
. Olympians are speaking out on climate change at the Sochi games. U.S. cross-country skier Andrew Newell, who competed in his event on Tuesday, posted a letter addressed to world leaders calling for action on climate change. Roughly 105 athletes from 10 countries have signed the letter, including 85 from the United States. “Winter is in jeopardy,” the letter states. “Inconsistent weather patterns caused by a changing climate are causing destruction around the world, and the economic impact is being felt in both large cities and small mountain communities.”

18.
Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
. UK version of spy system was used to target political activists. The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”.

19.
The Tea Party, Conservatism, and the Constitution
. Today’s Tea Party has ambitions to become an ongoing force—maybe even the major force—in American conservatism. And it strives for a revolution of its own, a return to a more limited, more constitutional form of government. If I had to judge its performance so far, I would say that it has been courageous and right in its diagnosis of the problems facing American politics, but somewhat off in its prescriptions.

20.
Health Care Is Already Being Rationed
. Those signed up for Obamacare are already seeing longer waiting times and limited access to doctors. The benefits promised under the Affordable Care Act are now limiting the availability of healthcare providers, and causing patients to travel long distances to get care.

21.
The FCC Plan to Police The Newsrooms
. The FCC has cooked up a plan to place “researchers” in U.S. newsrooms, supposedly to learn all about how editorial decisions are made. Any questions as to why the U.S. is falling in the free press rankings? As if illegal seizures of Associated Press phone records and the shadowy tailing of the mother of a Fox News reporter weren’t menacing enough, the Obama administration is going out of its way to institute a new intrusive surveillance of the press, as if the press wasn’t supine enough.

22.
Vulnerable Senate Dems Ask IRS to Save Them From Tea Party
. Senate Democrats who voted for ObamaCare and parroted President Obama’s lie of the year are asking the IRS to ensure that if they like their Senate seats they can keep their Senate seats. They want the IRS to be a campaign wing of the Democratic Party. Leading the IRS call is Sen. Charles Schumer, N.Y., the Senate Democrats’ chief political strategist.

23.
Tom Perkins’ big idea: The rich should get more votes
. Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote — and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes.

24.
Navy releases map showing location of fleet positions during Benghazi attacks
. The Navy has released a map showing the locations of its fleet positions near Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 — when terrorists killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. The unclassified map — which was obtained by a retired Air Force veteran investigating the attacks through a public records request and published online by the group Judicial Watch — shows that there were dozens of vessels in the region during the attacks.

25.
Government Lays Groundwork to Confiscate Your 401k and IRA: “This Is Happening”
. This morning Reuters obtained a leaked proposal disclosing that European Union officials are looking for new and innovative ways to fund their immense debt levels. As noted by Zero Hedge, they’re no longer turning exclusively to central bankers to simply print more money as needed. Because last year’s bank bail-in forcing the confiscation of funds from average depositors in Cyprus worked so well, EU regulators and bankers have determined that they’ll use a similar method to fund their future endeavors. This is what happens when governments run out of money. But if you think this is limited to just Europe, then consider the words of President Barack Obama in his recent State of the Union address. For all intents and purposes, a similar groundwork is being laid right here in America. They’ve already taken over the health care industry… why not nationalize our retirement savings while they’re at it?

Posted 2/9/2014

1. Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics
2. Tea Party leader ejected from County Commission meeting
3. IRS Maneuvering to Regulate Tea Party Groups ‘Hidden From the Public’
4. Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants with ‘limited’ terror contact into US
5. Obama launches ‘climate hubs’ to help farmers and communities
6. The California Drought, As Seen From Space
7. “F**k the E.U.” -Victoria Nuland recorded in alleged phone chat regarding Ukraine
8. You Can’t Trust Washington on Immigration
9. 1,154,000 Fewer Americans Working Today Than 6 Years Ago
10. Six states put inmates on Obamacare plans
11. Obama Administration Withholds Key Benghazi Emails
12. Eighteen states cut taxes in the 2013 legislative year
13. The Deficit News Isn’t All Good News
14. TSA Agents Interrogate Jewish Author for Reading Conservative Newspaper
15. EPA piles up billions
16. Congressional Democrats Warn Boehner of Tax Refund Delay if Debt Ceiling Isn’t Lifted
17. Struggling With Nullification
18. The ultimate arbiter of checks and balances
19. House GOP looks to shed light on EPA secret datasets
20. Obama’s Plan to Bankrupt Coal Continues Without Congress
21. Fl: Commissioner Misuses Campaign Funds – Becomes FBI Watchdog
22. Energy regs come with $70M price tag
23. ABC to State Dept.: How much do you have to donate to Obama to become an ambassador?
24. Refugee Resettlement: The quiet Jihad tsunami
25. Farm bill clears the way for hemp production

1.
Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics
. The media aren’t paying much attention, but in recent weeks Europe has decided to run, not walk, as fast as it can away from the economic menace of green energy. That’s right, the same Europeans who used to chastise us for not signing the Kyoto climate change treaty, not passing a carbon tax and dooming the planet to catastrophic global warming. In Brussels last month, European leaders agreed to scrap per-nation caps on carbon emissions.

2.
Tea Party leader ejected from County Commission meeting
. The handcuffs came out and reinforcements were called in Tuesday afternoon when the head of the Palm Beach County Tea Party was kicked out of a County Commission meeting. A deputy providing security at the meeting decided that Palm Beach County Tea Party President Mel Grossman was talking too loudly in his seat. When the deputy told Grossman to stop, he objected and she told him that he would be removed.

3.
IRS Maneuvering to Regulate Tea Party Groups ‘Hidden From the Public’
. Documents obtained by the House Ways and Means Committee show that IRS officials first started flagging Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status in February 2010 because of “media attention,” and that Treasury and IRS officials had discussed potentially addressing the tax-exemption rules for such groups “off-plan,” meaning “hidden from the public,” said Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.).

4.
Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants with ‘limited’ terror contact into US
. The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

5.
Obama launches ‘climate hubs’ to help farmers and communities
. The Obama administration will announce the establishment of regional hubs focused on mitigating climate change on Wednesday. The hubs are the first-ever regional centers that will focus solely on risk adaptation and climate change solutions at seven locations across the country. “On the heels of passage of the farm bill, the administration will take executive action to help farmers, ranchers and rural communities combat climate change and adapt to extreme weather and other damage it causes,” a White House official said in an email ahead of Wednesday’s announcement

6.
The California Drought, As Seen From Space
. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released that photo to illustrate what a year of drought conditions (which have intensified recently) have wrought on the landscape. The amount of snow in California’s Sierra region is between 4 percent and 22 percent of normal. And a change that drastic is easily seen from space.

7.
“F**k the E.U.” -Victoria Nuland recorded in alleged phone chat regarding Ukraine
. A senior US State Department official has allegedly been caught giving an unexpected message to the EU while discussing Ukrainian opposition leaders’ roles in the country’s future government. The phone call was taped and posted on YouTube. “F**k the EU,” Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland allegedly said in a recent phone call with US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt, as the two were discussing a deal to end the crisis in Ukraine.

8.
You Can’t Trust Washington on Immigration
. President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said yesterday that this was proving to be a roadblock: Listen, there’s widespread doubt about whether this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws. And it’s going to be difficult to move any immigration legislation until that changes.

9.
1,154,000 Fewer Americans Working Today Than 6 Years Ago
. 1,154,000 fewer Americans are working today than six years ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January 2008, 146,378,000 Americans 16 and over were employed, and now in January 2014, 145,224,000 are employed, a difference of 1,154,000.

10.
Six states put inmates on Obamacare plans
. Taxpayers hit for MILLIONS (which also boosts enrollment numbers). Obamacare is fast becoming a tool to save counties money that they would otherwise spend on health care for inmates who have not yet been convicted of crimes. The Affordable Care Act excludes convicts, but opens a loophole for jail officials who want to avoid using their own budgets to help sick prisoners awaiting trial Taxpayers in all 50 states will cover the costs for county governments as Obamacare’s expenses spiral upward.

11.
Obama Administration Withholds Key Benghazi Emails
. Judicial Watch announced today that the Obama administration was seeking to withhold key emails about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, indicating what it terms “a continued cover-up of the deadly scandal.” The documents, released in December, include multiple emails, which are heavily redacted, about the controversial Benghazi talking points that falsely portray the attack as being the result of a spontaneous protest.

12.
Eighteen states cut taxes in the 2013 legislative year
. Some states enacted fundamental tax reform and others slightly modified their tax code, according to this report by the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform. The tax policy changes reflect an emphasis on pro-growth reforms that encourage economic expansion and competition.

13.
The Deficit News Isn’t All Good News
. The media has been trumpeting reports that Uncle Sam will only spend $500 billion more than it takes in this year. While it’s good news that we’re adding less to the debt than in past years, Heritage’s Steve Moore writes, the long-term picture has actually grown worse: But what hasn’t been advertised is the disgraceful longer-term outlook for our fiscal future, which took a turn for the worse. And Obamacare is the main culprit. In the long run, the budget deficit will be slightly more than $1.5 trillion WORSE than previously estimated.

14.
TSA Agents Interrogate Jewish Author for Reading Conservative Newspaper
. Award winning Jewish author Phyllis Chesler was questioned and had her bag searched at New York’s JFK Airport as a result of a TSA agent’s suspicions over the fact that she was reading a conservative newspaper. As soon as Chesler pulled out a copy of The Jewish Press, a popular English language weekly with a conservative political bent, a TSA agent eyed her with suspicion, approached the author and asked to see the newspaper.

15.
EPA piles up billions
. Environmental Protection Agency investigations yielded more than $5.6 billion in criminal and civil penalties over the past year, the agency said Friday. An annual report containing enforcement and compliance totals from fiscal 2013 shows roughly $4.5 billion worth of fines, restitution and court-ordered environmental projects linked to criminal cases. Civil penalties surpassed $1.1 billion, according to the report.

16.
Congressional Democrats Warn Boehner of Tax Refund Delay if Debt Ceiling Isn’t Lifted
. Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee have written to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, urging him to introduce legislation to raise the debt ceiling without pre-conditions, warning that the Treasury Department would not be able to pay tax refunds without a higher debt limit.

17.
Struggling With Nullification
. Does a state have the right to nullify federal statutes the state considers unconstitutional? This depends largely on how you define “nullification.” It also depends on what you mean by “right” and what kind of document you understand the Constitution to be. In other words, it depends on your premises. Historically, “nullification” was defined quite narrowly. It referred to a formal ordinance of a state legislature or state convention that declared a federal law void within the boundaries of the state. The state might or might not make the ordinance conditional, and it might or might not impose criminal or civil penalties on persons attempting to enforce the federal enactment. We can refer to this as the narrow, or historical, definition of nullification. It is traditionally credited to the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

18.
The ultimate arbiter of checks and balances
. Built into an open democratic system of government is the idea that too much power should not be invested in any one individual. Such a policy leads to dictatorship and the forcing of a community to comply to the demands of one person. Hence, the concept of checks and balances in which individuals in government invested with power are checked and balanced out by other individuals. Indeed checks and balances is a basic principal of the American political system. This idea is also found in the wisdom of the Torah. Each individual in Torah leadership has unique tasks and, in the end, limits and checks the power of the other.

19.
House GOP looks to shed light on EPA secret datasets
. House Republicans have introduced a bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from crafting regulations based on “secret” scientific data. The Secret Science Reform Act would prohibit the EPA from using data that is not publicly available or replicable. Despite President Barack Obama’s promise to have the most transparent administration in history, the EPA has used secret data sets to justify nearly every regulation proposed under Obama.

20.
Obama’s Plan to Bankrupt Coal Continues Without Congress
. Remember back during the 2008 presidential campaign when Barack Obama promised to bankrupt anyone who wanted to build a coal-fired power plant and essentially shut down the coal industry? For those not paying attention, despite his inability to get cap-and-trade passed, he is still pursuing this plan. Now, he’s doing it via EPA regulations known as New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)– which amount to a “cap” without the “trade.”

21.
Fl: Commissioner Misuses Campaign Funds – Becomes FBI Watchdog
. Although we won’t know exactly what information she turned over, we do know that former Lee County commissioner Tammy Hall made a deal with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation after she was caught illegally pilfering $33,000 in campaign donations. At issue is whether or not Hall violated state ethics laws, in addition to elections laws, when she spent the last two years as an undercover informant for the FBI. During the same time she was on the county payroll, she was also attending to county business, voting during commission meetings, as if nothing had ever happened.

22.
Energy regs come with $70M price tag
. The Obama administration is moving forward with tougher energy efficiency standards that would cost manufacturers more than $70 million, but save consumers billions of dollars in energy bills. The Department of Energy (DOE) said the new requirements for metal halide lamp fixtures and external power supplies will cut energy waste, save families money on their utility bills and reduce pollution. Metal halide lamp fixtures are big, bright lights that are commonly used at camp sites, parking lots, streets, warehouses, school gymnasiums and athletic facilities.

23.
ABC to State Dept.: How much do you have to donate to Obama to become an ambassador?
. The last couple of days have been devastating for the U.S. State Department because of one issue: the utter lack of qualifications of President Obama’s political appointees to diplomatic posts. It began Thursday, when Noah Mamet, the president’s pick for ambassador to Argentina, admitted he’d never been to the country, according to Fox News. “I haven’t had the opportunity yet to be there,” Mamet told U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at the confirmation hearing.

24.
Refugee Resettlement: The quiet Jihad tsunami
. Arabic is #1 language spoken by refugees admitted to US during Obama reign. “Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam, so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Jihad advances through the Arabic language. Arabic is not just another language like French or Italian, it is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States.

25.
Farm bill clears the way for hemp production
. Hemp advocates rejoiced at President Barack Obama’s signature on the new farm bill Friday, which includes an amendment allowing states that have legalized hemp farming to begin growing this useful crop for research purposes. “This is the first time in American history that industrial hemp has been legally defined by our federal government as distinct from drug varieties of Cannabis,” said Eric Steenstra, the president of advocacy group Vote Hemp, in a press release.

Posted 2/7/2014

1. Obama plagiarized GWB’s 2007 SOTU
2. Rep. Steve King: ‘Never Had a President With That Level of Audacity’
3. Republicans Are In Danger of Losing Their Tea Party Mojo
4. Legislative Leaders Offer Sneak Peek at 2014 Agenda
5. 17 California Towns Will Run Out of Water in the Next 60 to 120 days
6. State of the Union (2014 Political Remix Video)
7. 28 Points Of Comparison Between 1970s America And America Today – Which Do You Think Is Better?
8. Excerpt from Parallels of the Fall of Rome and America
9. TSA Harasses Police Chief – Placed On Administrative Leave – Told To Disband Entire Police Department
10. Holder Now Threatening To Lock Up Bankers
11. FAA slaps down beer-delivering drone after YouTube video goes viral
12. Gaetz: Amendment shifts too much land to state control – B.M.G.
13. U.S. Says Russia Tested Missile, Despite Treaty
14. Obama Will Take ‘Executive Action’ to Reduce Prison Population
15. Black activists scathing response to Obama’s speech: We’re better off without you, ‘just quit’
16. Hooray for ‘Irish Democracy’!
17. Former TSA agent: Your worst fears about us were true
18. The State of Our Nation: The Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms Is the Government
19. California Water Officials Cut Delivery as Drought Grows
20. New Legislation Passes the White House
21. Panelist at Podesta Think Tank on Common Core: ‘The Children Belong to All of Us’
22. CBO: O-Care will cost 2.5M workers
23. Extra deputies called, one ejected from Palm Beach County Commission meeting
24. Ray Stevens – Obama Budget Plan
25. Coffeecare: The Affordable Coffee Act

1.
Obama plagiarized GWB’s 2007 SOTU
. For one observer, even last night’s State of the Union address had an oddly familiar ring, sounding like something George W. Bush might have said. That’s because the words were something Bush did say. Mark Thiessen, the observer in question and lead Bush speechwriter, had written them for Bush’s 2007 SOTU. Appearing on “The Kelly File,” Thiessen said: It was eerily familiar. There were lines like, “Our job is to help Americans build a future of hope and opportunity. A future of hope and opportunity begins with a growing economy. A future of hope and opportunity requires our citizens have affordable and available health care.” “Extending opportunity and hope depends on a stable supply of energy.” All of that came from the 2007 State of the Union address by George W. Bush. So, Barack Obama has gone from blaming George W. bush to plagiarizing George W. Bush.

2.
Rep. Steve King: ‘Never Had a President With That Level of Audacity’
. President Obama’s promise that he intends to get things done in Washington without Congress is “outside the bounds” of his constitutional limitations, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told CNN on Wednesday morning. “This threat that the president’s going to run the government with an ink pen and executive orders, we’ve never had a president with that level of audacity and that level of contempt for his own oath of office,” King said. “We have a minimum wage. Congress has set it. For the president to simply declare, ‘I’m going to change this law that Congress has passed’ is unconstitutional. He’s outside the bounds of his Article Two limitations.”

3.
Republicans Are In Danger of Losing Their Tea Party Mojo
. Republicans look ready to throw in the towel on shrinking the nation’s gargantuan debt. With 10 months to go before midterm elections, it’s yet another slap in the face to the GOP’s most enthusiastic supporters. Nearly all political pundits agree Republicans have the inside track to winning this fall’s congressional elections — and perhaps even recapturing both houses of Congress. The GOP certainly seems to think so. But it might be taking such success for granted.

4.
Legislative Leaders Offer Sneak Peek at 2014 Agenda
. The leaders of the Florida Legislature offered a glimpse at the upcoming legislative session as Republicans and Democrats ready their proposals and bills. Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, and House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, spoke to the media in Tallahassee on Wednesday morning and insisted the two chambers will work together to pass their economic and education agendas.

5.
17 California Towns Will Run Out of Water in the Next 60 to 120 days
. State officials in California have said that 17 communities will be out of water within the next two to four months. Wells are starting to run dry and reservoir levels are low as the state faces the worst drought in almost a century.

6.
State of the Union (2014 Political Remix Video)
. “Run for the hills… You lose, I win…. Shut Up.”

7.
28 Points Of Comparison Between 1970s America And America Today – Which Do You Think Is Better?
. If you could go back and live in America during the 1970s would you do it? Has the United States become a better place to live over the past 40 years or have things gotten worse?

8.
Excerpt from Parallels of the Fall of Rome and America
. When Rome fell from a Republic into a dictatorship ruled by emperors, about 33% of Rome was receive public assistance from the government. Where is America? 81% of all federal revenue goes towards mandatory payments (like Social Security), or entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Women Infant Children programs, etc.

9.
TSA Harasses Police Chief – Placed On Administrative Leave – Told To Disband Entire Police Department
. Shane Harger, Police Chief, Jemez Springs, NM – Ordered To Disband Village Police Department – Because He Attended the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) Convention Harger returned from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention on Monday, January 27, 2014 with a sense of knowing that, he as well as 38 other peace officers, shared the commitment to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from enemies both foreign and domestic. He and the other 38 men and women signed the Resolution of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (see below).

10.
Holder Now Threatening To Lock Up Bankers
. Just when financial institutions were finally recovering from the subprime mess, and many thought Eric Holder was putting away his brass knuckles, the attorney general is making fresh threats against Wall Street execs. He’s no longer threatening them just with lawsuits. Now he’s threatening them with jail time. “Let me make this very clear,” he warned on MSNBC, “there are no institutions that are too big to indict (and) there are no individuals who are in such high-level positions that they cannot be indicted criminally.” He then bragged about shaking down some of Wall Street’s biggest banks, citing JPMorgan Chase as an example of things to come. He noted prosecutors reached a $13 billion settlement — the largest ever — without letting bank officials off the hook.

11.
FAA slaps down beer-delivering drone after YouTube video goes viral
. ‘I’m on the FAA blacklist’ says Lakemaid Beer president Jack Supple. After company posts commercial showing unmanned aircraft delivering brews to ice fishers, FAA calls and says knock it off.

12.
Gaetz: Amendment shifts too much land to state control – B.M.G.
. Florida voters will get to decide in November if funding for land conservation should be cemented into the state Constitution But don’t expect top lawmakers to support the proposed constitutional amendment, which will appear as Amendment No. 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot after getting final approval this week from the Florida Department of State. Asked if he would support the amendment, House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said in an email Friday that “Legislating via constitutional amendments doesn’t work in California and it won’t work here!”Meanwhile, Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, contends the amendment will shift too much land into state control.

13.
U.S. Says Russia Tested Missile, Despite Treaty
. The United States informed its NATO allies this month that Russia had tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, raising concerns about Moscow’s compliance with a landmark arms control accord. American officials believe Russia began conducting flight tests of the missile as early as 2008. Such tests are prohibited by the treaty banning medium-range missiles that was signed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time, and that has long been viewed as one of the bedrock accords that brought an end to the Cold War.

14.
Obama Will Take ‘Executive Action’ to Reduce Prison Population
. Congress can pass legislation giving judges more discretion in the sentencing of prisoners, but President Obama “also has the ability to take executive action” to commute the sentences of “low-level” drug offenders — and that’s just what he plans to do, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told the New York State Bar Association annual meeting on Thursday.

15.
Black activists scathing response to Obama’s speech: We’re better off without you, ‘just quit’
. A group of black Chicago activists, also known as community organizers, were asked for their opinion of the Obama presidency after he delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday. Their answers, unlike those from MSNBC, were brutally honest. “We’d be better off with you cutting off your presidency right now,” Mark Carter, an activist with Voices of the Ex-Offenders (VOTE) said. “Just quit.”

16.
Hooray for ‘Irish Democracy’!
. In his excellent book, Two Cheers For Anarchism, Professor James Scott writes: “One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.”

17.
Former TSA agent: Your worst fears about us were true
. A former Transportation Security Administration agent has stepped forward and is offering up more information about the nation’s airline security agency, sure to send a shiver up passengers’ spines. “Dear America, I saw you naked and yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent” Jason Edward Harrington, a former TSA agent (stationed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport) turned author, titles his article in Politico Magazine.

18.
The State of Our Nation: The Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms Is the Government
. What was striking about this year’s State of the Union address was not the sheer arrogance of the president’s remarks, the staged nature of the proceedings and interactions, or the predictable posturing of the rebuttals, but the extent to which the members of the various branches of government—President Obama, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the assorted government agencies—are just one big, brawling, noisy, semi-incestuous clan. Watching these bureaucrats, both elected and appointed, interact in the unguarded moments before the event, with their hugging and kissing and nudging and joking and hobnobbing and general high spirits, I was reminded anew that these people—Republicans and Democrats alike—are united in a common goal, and it is not to protect and defend the Constitution. No, as Orwell recognized in Animal Farm, their common goal is to maintain the status quo, a goal that is helped along by an unquestioning, easily mollified, corporate media.

19.
California Water Officials Cut Delivery as Drought Grows
. Officials in drought-stricken California said that for the first time in state history, they won’t be able to provide any water to contractors that supply two-thirds of the population and a million acres of farmland. The California Department of Water Resources, which earlier predicted it would supply about 5 percent of the amount requested, said today it now projects that it won’t be able to deliver any of the 4 million acre-feet of water sought by local agencies.

20.
New Legislation Passes the White House
. You’re not stuck on quaint notions like, Congress passes the laws, are you? Because there’s lots of good legislating being done in the White House and you – you are SO ungrateful – are hardly even noticing. Take the new MyRA savings account. Even I thought this might be a good idea. And it is a good idea. A GOOD IDEA FOR SUBVERTING THE CONSTITUTION. How does a president create a whole new program, one that costs cash money, without it being appropriated by Congress?

21.
Panelist at Podesta Think Tank on Common Core: ‘The Children Belong to All of Us’
. In addressing criticism of the Common Core national education standards, a panelist at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, said critics were a “tiny minority” who opposed standards altogether, which was unfair because “the children belong to all of us.”

22.
CBO: O-Care will cost 2.5M workers
. The new healthcare law will cost the nation the equivalent of 2.5 million workers in the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report released Tuesday. The nonpartisan agency found the reform law’s negative effects on the economy would be “substantially larger” than what it had previously anticipated. It said the equivalent of 2.3 million workers would be lost by 2021, compared to its previous estimate of 800,000, and that 2.5 million workers would be lost by 2024. It also projected that labor force compensation would be reduced by 1 percent from 2017 to 2024 — twice its previous estimate — and that declining economic growth would add $1 trillion more to deficits.

23.
Extra deputies called, one ejected from Palm Beach County Commission meeting
. Nearly 80 people, many wearing red shirts to show solidarity and some waving tiny American flags, packed the county commission chambers Tuesday to oppose a regional planning blueprint called Seven50. The planning item was not on the agenda. But the group, which included many senior citizens, showed up under the Matters by the Public section of the meeting to urge county commissioners to reject the plan.

24.
Ray Stevens – Obama Budget Plan
. Ray Stevens is able to show how great Obama is with our money. Somehow liberals think this is a good thing.

25.
Coffeecare: The Affordable Coffee Act
. While the video above seems like it is a joke, here are the actual quotes from the healthcare.gov website:

Posted 1/31/2014

1. Obama Executive Order Has Added $10.2 Billion in Costs to Economy
2. U.S. ranks behind Rwanda, Belarus, Azerbaijan in ease of creating new business, World Bank says
3. Ex-EPA official told lawmakers of project to ‘modify the DNA’ of capitalism
4. How Do the 50 States Rank in Fiscal Condition?
5. EPA to mine Twitter for tweets on diarrhea, vomiting, flu.
6. 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown
7. Flush with surplus, Scott wants to boost funds for favored programs
8. Whistleblower: Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations
9. Schumer Suggests ‘Electoral Reform’ As Way to ‘Lessen the Grip of the Tea Party’
10. U.S. Spends $2.7M to Study Impact of TV on Area of Vietnam That Lacks Electricity
11. It’s coming! Obama panel urges voting with IPad
12. Another unreported Obama end-run around congress!
13. Political ignorance and big government
14. Too old to be given cancer treatment: NHS is ‘writing off’ patients who are over 75
15. Backdoor Amnesty: Deportation Cases Closed By ‘Prosecutorial Discretion’ Up Almost 70%
16. Homeland Security Secretary: Illegals Have ‘Earned Right to be Citizens’
17. Obama’s Recessional
18. NY teachers union pulls its support from Common Core, urges removal of state Ed. Chief
19. Made-in-China home appliances contain spy chips
20. Angry Birds and ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data
21. Democrats scramble to block ‘new world order’
22. Obama Pivots from His War on Nuns to Burning Down Towns with Crude Oil
23. GOP Abandons Principle With Subsidy-Filled Farm Bill
24. Patsy Cline’s “She’s Got You”
25 . Falling Obama

1.
Obama Executive Order Has Added $10.2 Billion in Costs to Economy
. An executive order issued by President Barack Obama that was designed to “cut red tape” has added $10.2 billion in regulatory costs to the economy, according to a new report.

2.
U.S. ranks behind Rwanda, Belarus, Azerbaijan in ease of creating new business, World Bank says
. A new study by the World Bank and the International Finance Corp. found that the U.S. ranks well behind countries like Rwanda, Belarus and Azerbaijan in terms of how easy it is for an entrepreneur to start a new business. The U.S. did narrowly beat Uzbekistan, though. The rankings were included in the organizations’ joint study “Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses.”

3.
Ex-EPA official told lawmakers of project to ‘modify the DNA’ of capitalism
. A former high-ranking EPA official who recently was sentenced to prison for fraud told lawmakers last month that, before he left the agency, he was working on a “project” examining ways to “modify the DNA of the capitalist system.”

4.
How Do the 50 States Rank in Fiscal Condition?
. New research published by the Mercatus Center takes a look at the ability of each state to meet its obligations, both financial (such as state employee wages and pensions) and service-related (such as public safety and education), and ranks each state by its fiscal condition. Dr. Sarah Arnett weights four different indices – cash solvency, budget solvency, long-run solvency, and service-level solvency – in order to create an overall State Fiscal Condition Index. Here are some highlights from the study:

5.
EPA to mine Twitter for tweets on diarrhea, vomiting, flu.
. Showing that there is no end to what the Obama administration will spy on, the Environmental Protection Agency has developed a plan to chart the flu by mining the social website Twitter for tweets on diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and the bug.

6.
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? If you are like most Americans, you have not been. Most Americans don’t seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should. In major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence, shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks. We are not at a “global crisis” stage yet, but things are getting worse with each passing day. For a while, I have felt that 2014 would turn out to be a major “turning point” for the global economy, and so far that is exactly what it is turning out to be. The following are 20 early warning signs that we are rapidly approaching a global economic meltdown…

7.
Flush with surplus, Scott wants to boost funds for favored programs
. In a steady leak of budget proposals this month, Gov. Rick Scott looks prepared to push for a veritable spending spree this year. Compared to his budget slashing, tea party rhetoric upon taking office in 2011, Scott’s new emphasis on spending more on transportation, tourism, job training and environmental protection projects looks less than thrifty.

8.
Whistleblower: Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations
. A whistleblower who privately informed Google four months ago that their Chrome browser had the ability to record conversations without the user’s knowledge has gone public after the tech giant failed to fix the issue.

9.
Schumer Suggests ‘Electoral Reform’ As Way to ‘Lessen the Grip of the Tea Party’
. Although the tea party’s influence is “undeniable,” it is not inevitable — and it must be crushed for the good of the nation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued in a long political speech on Thursday. “They’ve won elections, stymied Democratic priorities and taken a sledgehammer to programs that are important to tens of millions of Americans,” he complained

10.
U.S. Spends $2.7M to Study Impact of TV on Area of Vietnam That Lacks Electricity
. The Department of Health and Human Services is spending $2,797,979 on a study that brings television to more than a dozen remote villages in Vietnam to study its impact on their culture and reproductive behavior.

11.
It’s coming! Obama panel urges voting with IPad
. In largely unreported text, President Obama’s special commission on election reform recommended tablet computers, such as iPads, be used to cast votes. Obama’s 10-person Presidential Commission on Election Administration released its recommendations Wednesday in a 99-page document available online. Much of the media coverage of the commission’s conclusions focused on a summary of key recommendations provided by the White House.

12.
Another unreported Obama end-run around congress!
. On Jan. 9, the White House announced a presidential memorandum establishing a Quadrennial Energy Review. The announcement said the new review will focus on how to implement new energy policy for the nation’s “infrastructure for transporting, transmitting, and delivering energy.” While Obama’s Quadrennial Energy Review was widely covered by news media, largely unmentioned is that the review apparently is executive implementation of legislation that twice failed to pass.

13.
Political ignorance and big government
. There are many good and sound reasons for limiting the size of government—efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness, cost, too many layers between officials elected to serve and those who are supposed to be served, and the burgeoning-bureaucracy syndrome. The burgeoning-bureaucracy syndrome is the tendency of a bureaucracy, once in place, to focus more on growing and staying in business than on doing the business it was established to do. Big government bureaucrats may be slow, inefficient, and uncaring in doing their jobs but they are experts at keeping their jobs. These are all good reasons for limiting the size of government, but there is another reason that gets little attention: the concept of political ignorance.

14.
Too old to be given cancer treatment: NHS is ‘writing off’ patients who are over 75
. Pensioners with cancer are being written off as too old to treat, campaigners said yesterday. They cited figures showing survival rates for British patients aged 75 and over are among the worst in Europe.

15.
Backdoor Amnesty: Deportation Cases Closed By ‘Prosecutorial Discretion’ Up Almost 70%
. More immigrants facing deportation in immigration courts across the nation are having their court cases closed because of Obama’s prosecutorial discretion policy, researchers at Syracuse University found. Meanwhile, the number of removal proceedings initiated in immigration courts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has dropped since the new policy was implemented.

16.
Homeland Security Secretary: Illegals Have ‘Earned Right to be Citizens’
. Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.” “An earned path to citizenship for those currently present in this country is a matter of, in my view, homeland security to encourage people to come out from the shadows,”

17.
Obama’s Recessional
. While Obama has never articulated strategic aims in the manner of Ronald Reagan or the two Bushes, it is not therefore true that there is no “Obama Doctrine.” Indeed, now that he has been in office five years, we can see an overarching common objective in otherwise baffling foreign-policy misadventures. Collate the following: large defense cuts, the president’s suspicions that he is being gamed by the military, the pullout from the anti-missile defense pact in Eastern Europe, the pressure on Israel to give new concessions to its neighbors, the sudden warming up with an increasingly Islamist Turkey, the failed reset with Russia, radical nuclear-arms-reduction talks, the abject withdrawal of all U.S. peacekeeping forces in Iraq, the timetable withdrawals in Afghanistan, the new worries of our Asian and Middle Eastern allies, the constant euphemisms on the war on terror, the stepped-up drone attacks, the lead-from-behind removal of Moammar Qaddafi, the pull away from Mubarak in Egypt, the support for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the pink lines in Syria, the Iranian missile deal, the declaration that al-Qaeda was on the run and the war on terror essentially ending, the Benghazi cover-up, and on and on.

18.
NY teachers union pulls its support from Common Core, urges removal of state Ed. Chief – B.M.G.
. The Board of Directors of the New York State United Teachers, a union with more than 600,000 members, has approved a resolution that withdraws its earlier support for the Common Core State Standards ”as implemented and interpreted” by the New York Education Department. It also declares ”no confidence” in the policies of State Education Commissioner John King and calls for a three-year moratorium on high-stakes consequences from standardized testing.

19.
Made-in-China home appliances contain spy chips
. Those cheap made-in-China home appliances you bought from Walmart, like electric irons and tea kettles, may contain computer chips that will infect your computer with viruses. The BBC News reports that Rossiya 24, the Russian state-owned TV channel, showed footage of a technician opening up an iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a “spy chip” with “a little microphone”.

20.
Angry Birds and ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data
. The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.

21.
Democrats scramble to block ‘new world order’
. Powerful groups in the Democratic Party base are organizing to oppose “fast track” authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping free-trade agreement the Obama administration is ready to push through Congress. an impressive group of 564 political analysts from labor, environmental, family-farm and community organizations sent Obama a strongly worded letter to the White House arguing that pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, undermines the president’s message on income inequality.

22.
Obama Pivots from His War on Nuns to Burning Down Towns with Crude Oil
. This is an administration that would rather have freight trains full of crude oil derailing in Midwestern towns, while burning barrels of crude force residents to evacuate, than approve the job creation measure known as the XL Pipeline. The pipeline would transport oil less expensively, more safely and help fuel the ongoing energy revolution that the administration is pretending isn’t happening.

23.
GOP Abandons Principle With Subsidy-Filled Farm Bill
. Former Indiana congressman (and now state governor) Mike Pence used to quip that he was 99% capitalist but 1% socialist, and that turns socialist “when it comes time to vote on a farm bill.” At least he was honest. Just what is it about farm bills that make Republicans abandon their principles of limited government and fiscal restraint? The sad answer: Farm bills are classic examples of Republican pork delivered to their own voters.

24.
Patsy Cline’s “She’s Got You”
. Gale Leach singing during the 2008 Sun City Grand Celebration of Music. Enjoy

25 .
Falling Obama – B.M.G.
. This is therapeutic…would make a great screen saver. If he gets stuck between the balls, click and drag him til he is moving and falling again, like he is in all the polls.

Posted 1/29/2014

8 RULES FOR RADICALS BY SAUL ALINSKY

REFERENCE

Compare the rules defined by Alinsky with recent American government activity.

LOOKS LIKE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS WELL ON ITS WAY TO SUCCESS FOR A SOCIAL STATE RUN BY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS!

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was born in Chicago and was drawn into the world of Chicago gangsters in the 1930s. He held society responsible for creating criminals because criminality was a result of social environment (particularly the system of private property and individual rights), not a character problem. He believed a revolutionary’s purpose should be to undermine society by taking power from the Haves and giving it to the Have-nots. To accomplish this, the ends justify the means, without exception. Since his book, Rules for Radicals, was published in 1971, it has served as an effective recipe to change our country in ways we would have never expected.

How to Create a Social State, by Saul Alinsky

There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.

1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).

6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

We expect that you can all find examples of Alinsky’s success in recent developments in our country.

Posted 1/24/2014

1. Holder Shakes Down ‘Racist’ Banks For Nearly $1 Bil
2. Tax Dollars Funding The Promotion Of Food Stamps To Illegal Immigrants
3. UN climate chief declares communism best for fighting global warming
4. Why Obama Won’t Admit Fukushima Radiation is Poisoning Americans…Connecting the Dots
5. Why Are Dozens Of High Ranking Officers Being Purged From The U.S. Military?
6. Obama crowns himself king
7. NSA collects millions of text messages globally: Guardian
8. EPA chief unable to say if the world has gotten warmer
9. Think Tank: “Extraordinary Crisis” Needed to Preserve “New World Order”
10. Seven Devastating Economic Facts
11. Obama Administration under Fire For Allegedly Smuggling Illegal Immigrants’ Kids
12. Federal Government Has Declared War On Work
13. States have $5 trillion in debts taxpayers will have to pay
14. Omnibus Budget Bill Cuts Funding For Jailing Illegal Alien Criminals
15. Foreign leaders openly scorn US President Obama
16. Teachers ‘instructed’ to teach ‘all right wing extremist groups’ are fascist
17. DHS Gave Muslim Brotherhood VIP Treatment, No TSA Pat Downs
18. New Trendy RFID Bracelets Will Track Your Child’s Every Move
19. Federal appeals court says bloggers have same 1st Amendment rights as journalists
20. Food Stamps: The Ultimate In Buying Votes
21. Indiana Makes Move to Nullify Obamacare
22. Report: Obama can advance climate agenda without Congress
23. Fed’s Dirty Little Secret: “The Gold Isn’t There… Exists as Paper IOU’s”
24. Congress Promotes Foreign Jobs
25. Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years

1.
Holder Shakes Down ‘Racist’ Banks For Nearly $1 Bil
. Attorney General Eric Holder has opened up a new front against car lenders and has forged an alliance with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to frame them for racism, too.We don’t use the term “frame” capriciously, certainly not like Holder uses the charge of racism.

2.
Tax Dollars Funding The Promotion Of Food Stamps To Illegal Immigrants
. President Obama’s Department Of Agriculture (USDA) continues to spend tax money to promote food stamps to illegal immigrants living in and entering the United States. The government agency has done this for over a decade despite the fact that federal law requires individuals entering the US to be financially independent.

3.
UN climate chief declares communism best for fighting global warming
. United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.

4.
Why Obama Won’t Admit Fukushima Radiation is Poisoning Americans…Connecting the Dots
. I suggest that the United States government know only too well that the West Coast is polluted with radiation and that the situation is getting worse by the day. I suggest that the United States government and General Electric knew that Fukushima was a disaster waiting to happen, and they did nothing to prevent it. I suggest that they know that the many of nuclear reactors in the United States are also prone to catastrophic meltdown, and they are doing nothing about it.

5.
Why Are Dozens Of High Ranking Officers Being Purged From The U.S. Military?
. Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented. Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the “purge” of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place.

6.
Obama crowns himself king
. President Lucifer has been behaving like a king, unchecked and unbalanced by other supposedly democratic institutions (like Congress, the Supreme Court, and the “free” press) in our supposed republic. But now he’s made it official. The Associated Press reports that yesterday, Jan. 15, 2014, Obama arrogantly and peremptorily told Democrats, “I’ll act with or without Congress”:

7.
NSA collects millions of text messages globally: Guardian
. The U.S. National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday. Code-named “Dishfire,” the NSA program collects “pretty much everything it can,” the Guardian said, citing a joint investigation with the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material from fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

8.
EPA chief unable to say if the world has gotten warmer
. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy wasn’t able to definitively say whether the world has gotten warmer in Senate testimony. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions asked McCarthy to confirm a statement made by President Obama last year that global temperatures were increasing faster in the last five or ten years than climate scientists had predicted. McCarthy couldn’t answer the question, saying that she only repeats what the climate scientists tell her. Sessions was not satisfied with her response.

9.
Think Tank: “Extraordinary Crisis” Needed to Preserve “New World Order”
. Writing for the Atlantic Council, a prominent think tank based in Washington DC, Harlan K. Ullman warns that an “extraordinary crisis” is needed to preserve the “new world order,” which is under threat of being derailed by non-state actors like Edward Snowden. In an article entitled War on Terror Is not the Only Threat, Ullman asserts that, “tectonic changes are reshaping the international geostrategic system,” arguing that it’s not military superpowers like China but “non-state actors” like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and anonymous hackers who pose the biggest threat to the “365 year-old Westphalian system” because they are encouraging individuals to become self-empowered, eviscerating state control. “Very few have taken note and fewer have acted on this realization,” notes Ullman, lamenting that “information revolution and instantaneous global communications” are thwarting the “new world order” announced by U.S. President George H.W. Bush more than two decades ago.

10.
Seven Devastating Economic Facts
. U.S. economic conditions in 2014 continue to languish, as millions of Americans remain jobless. Seven economic facts underscore America’s increasingly dire economic outlook.

11.
Obama Administration Under Fire For Allegedly Smuggling Illegal Immigrants’ Kids
. Last month, a federal judge in Texas, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, stated that immigration agents were catching smugglers trying to bring children of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, and then the immigration agents were delivering the children to their parents. Hanen said the actions of the agents aided human traffickers and the drug cartels.

12.
Federal Government Has Declared War On Work
. The government increasingly is using its coercive powers to punish people who want to work, creating a vast class of able-bodied Americans dependent on the government — and politicians — for their daily bread.

13.
States have $5 trillion in debts taxpayers will have to pay
. A new report released this week says state governments have more than $5.1 trillion in debt, largely because of pension obligations to former and current state employees, which states now lack the assets to pay off.

14.
Omnibus Budget Bill Cuts Funding For Jailing Illegal Alien Criminals
. “A massive 2014 federal spending bill passed this week by Congress would cut nearly $60 million–or about 25 percent–from a federal program that reimburses states and local governments for the cost of incarcerating undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes,” the Arizona Republic’s Erin Kelly wrote.

15.
Foreign leaders openly scorn US President Obama
. Along with his plummeting approval ratings in the United States (a new Gallup Poll low of 39% approval vs. 53% disapproval), those outside of America also are increasingly disenthralled. More seriously, leaders of other countries have begun openly mocking Obama and his administration and, by extension, the United States.

16.
Teachers ‘instructed’ to teach ‘all right wing extremist groups’ are fascist
. Hillsdale professor Terrence Moore, author of “Story Killers: A Common Sense Case Against Common Core,” exposed some of the more distressing aspects of the controversial Common Core education standards program, saying that all teachers must tell young students that all right-wing groups are fascist.

17.
DHS Gave Muslim Brotherhood VIP Treatment, No TSA Pat Downs
. A newly released document obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request confirms that the State Department ordered the Department of Homeland Security to spare members of the Muslim Brotherhood traveling to the US in 2012 a TSA pat down or any kind of secondary screening.

18.
New Trendy RFID Bracelets Will Track Your Child’s Every Move
. Because we’re living in that oh-so-trendy technocratic age where everything needs to be traced and tracked, why not chip your children with a trendy new RFID bracelet?

19.
Federal appeals court says bloggers have same 1st Amendment rights as journalists
. A federal appeals court ruled that bloggers and the public have the same First Amendment protections as journalists when sued for defamation: If the issue is of public concern, plaintiffs have to prove negligence to win damages.

20.
Food Stamps: The Ultimate In Buying Votes
. The epitome of a government entitlement program that is out of control is the Food Stamp program. When Barack Obama was first elected president, one in ten Americans received food stamps. Today the number is one in seven, and it is rapidly increasing. In spite of improvements to the economy—such as they are—the number of people receiving food stamps is going up when it should be coming down. The reason for this anomaly is simple: the Obama administration and its minions in Congress are doing everything in their power to increase the size of the food stamp rolls.

21.
Indiana Makes Move to Nullify Obamacare
. So far we’ve seen several states push forward legislation to nullify the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Among those are Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. Following the filing of a lawsuit by Indiana school districts in October, Indiana has introduced legislation to nullify the monstrous healthcare law.

22.
Report: Obama can advance climate agenda without Congress
. Despite meeting fierce opposition from the GOP in 2013, a group of clean energy experts, business leaders and former government officials believe President Obama’s climate agenda has been and will continue to be successful in the coming year. Obama can advance key measures in the battle against climate change with or without Congress, according to a report released Tuesday — spearheaded by former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter.

23.
Fed’s Dirty Little Secret: “The Gold Isn’t There… Exists as Paper IOU’s”
. The assumption by global depositors who have entrusted their national savings with the Federal Reserve and US Government has always been that when they request to repatriate their holdings the Fed would simply open the vault, access said assets and ship them back to where they belong. That’s exactly what Germany expected would happen last year when the country requested that the Federal Reserve return about one-fifth of their gold reserves. But that’s when things got really dicey. The Fed announced that Germany’s gold would be returned… but it would take seven years to get back home.

24.
Congress Promotes Foreign Jobs – B.M.G.
. Congress is about to consider a massive attack on the U.S. Constitution, on the constitutional powers of Congress and the 50 states, and on U.S. sovereignty. This attack is marketed to the public as “free trade,” but it is really a devious plan to make us kowtow to international tribunals under the pretense of “harmonizing” our laws with global trade. This plan was hatched and worked out in secret, and even members of Congress were denied access to the negotiations and documents. President Barack Obama was obviously lying when he boasted that his is “the most transparent administration in history.” The formal titles of this upcoming travesty are the two trade treaties called the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. hahaThey are cozily wrapped in a Richard Nixon-era procedure known as Fast Track, which authorizes the president to make foreign deals in secret, and then demand that Congress take a quick vote approving many thousands of pages without debate or amendment.

25.
Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years
. Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true “Misery Index.” Because, according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud. In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.

Posted 1/17/2014

1. Federal law says you can opt out of Obamace, and you cannot be penalized if you do
2. DOJ Wants to Know ‘Race, Sex, Disability, Age and English-Learner Status’ of Misbehaving Students
3. EPA overrides Congress, hands over town to Indian tribes
4. Florida Police Have a New Toy: “If you see my SWAT team roll up in this, it’s over, so just give up”
5. Fukushima failure: Decontamination system stops functioning
6. Florida Breaks into Top 10 Nationally in K-12 Student Achievement
7. Members of Congress Won’t Read This Bill
8. Dem senator intimidated state officials to cook books on Obamacare numbers
9. How Bad Is Obama’s Jobs Record? Let’s Count the Ways
10. Debate over Minimum Wage Hike Is Obscured By Myths
11. Carrier Pigeons Eyed As Way to Foil Hackers, Government Snoops
12. 504 Documented Examples of Obama’s Lies, Law-breaking, Corruption, and Cronyism
13. Ford Vice President Publicly Admits They Know Everything You Do In Your Car
14. House Democrats: Climate Change Turns Women into Prostitutes
15. Boehner Twisting Arms For Amnesty Votes… He Must be Stopped
16. IRS about to quietly adopt new rules that will legally muzzle tea party groups
17. Bailing Out Health Insurers and Helping Obamacare
18. The Future of Charter Schools: Politics Vs. Education
19. This Is Not a Ranking We Should Be Proud Of
20. US government struck deal with Mexican drug cartel in exchange for info – report
21. Obama plot: black out ‘40% of U.S. Power supply’
22. Obama on Executive Actions: ‘I’ve Got A Pen And I’ve Got A Phone’
23. An FBI Just As Tainted And Untrustworthy As The IRS
24. Court ruling overturns Net Neutrality, threatens online access, experts warn
25. Mr. Scam Man – B.M.G.

1.
Federal law says you can opt out of Obamace, and you cannot be penalized if you do
. Ever heard of a federal law 42 USC § 18115: Freedom Not to Participate in Federal Health Insurance Programs? This is how Cornell University Law School’s website describes 42 USC § 18115: No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act (or any amendments made by this Act), or in any Federal health insurance program expanded by this Act (or any such amendments), and there shall be no penalty or fine imposed upon any such issuer for choosing not to participate in such programs. The website further explains that the Act referred to in 42 USC § 18115 is Obamacare:

2.
DOJ Wants to Know ‘Race, Sex, Disability, Age and English-Learner Status’ of Misbehaving Students
. (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration, concerned that “zero tolerance” policies are sending too many students to court instead of the principal’s office, on Wednesday urged schools to back off — particularly in the case of minority students and other federally protected groups. While the guidance is “voluntary,” it encourages schools to set up a “recordkeeping system” that tracks demographic information on misbehaving students, including their “race, sex, disability, age and English-learner status” along with the infraction, the discipline imposed, who imposed it.

3.
EPA overrides Congress, hands over town to Indian tribes
. Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law passed by Congress and angering state officials.

4.
Florida Police Have a New Toy: “If you see my SWAT team roll up in this, it’s over, so just give up”
. A Florida police department has a new toy – a U.S. military surplus battle wagon. The six wheel, 30-ton armored Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (or MRAP) is in “lightly used condition” and only has 5,000 miles on it. It is worth $700,000, but the department got it for $2,000. What a deal! Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin told WPTV that he hopes the vehicle remains parked:

5.
Fukushima failure: Decontamination system stops functioning
. The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) has stopped using its systems to decontaminate radioactive water at the facility, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.

6.
Florida Breaks into Top 10 Nationally in K-12 Student Achievement
. Florida is making its mark — and making improvements — in K-12 student achievement, according to the 2014 Quality Counts report released Thursday by Education Week. Florida improved its national K-12 achievement ranking to 7th in the country, an increase from 12th last year.

7.
Members of Congress Won’t Read This Bill
. Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014. It’s going to be big, and it’s going to be rushed. And few members of Congress (if any) are going to read it all. Government budgeting isn’t supposed to be done this way. It takes 12 spending bills to fund the entire government. But in an omnibus—the type of bill experts are expecting—Congress throws all of those together and just votes once on the whole thing.

8.
Dem senator intimidated state officials to cook books on Obamacare numbers
. In an effort to make the rollout of Obamacare less of a disaster than it was, a U.S. Senator pressured his state insurance division to either fudge the number of people who lost their insurance after the rollout, or to redefine the term “cancellation.”

9.
How Bad Is Obama’s Jobs Record? Let’s Count the Ways
. December’s disappointing job numbers came in below expectations, again dampening hopes for sustained economic growth. But the latest data just scratch the surface of Obama’s dismal failure on jobs.

10.
Debate over Minimum Wage Hike Is Obscured By Myths
. Most people who earn the minimum wage or slightly more are the only earners in their households and therefore are poor, right? And so, if the federal government or state governments raise the minimum wage, that will be a nicely targeted way of helping poor people, right? Well, no. Wrong on both counts. Most workers earning at or close to the minimum wage are not the sole earners in a household, and most of them are not in poor households.

11.
Carrier Pigeons Eyed As Way to Foil Hackers, Government Snoops
. Internet security breaches and government surveillance is reviving interest in the use of carrier pigeons to circumvent hackers and snoops. There’s plenty of historical precedence for “pigeonets.” The ancient Egyptians were the first to train pigeons to relay messages as far back as 2900 B.C., and Julius Caesar used them to communicate over his far-flung empire.

12.
504 Documented Examples of Obama’s Lies, Law-breaking, Corruption, and Cronyism
. Editor’s Note: Our previous article from Dan, citing 252 Documented Examples of Barack Obama’s Lying, Lawbreaking, Corruption, Cronyism, etc., has been updated to 504 documented examples. The update is below.

13.
Ford Vice President Publicly Admits They Know Everything You Do In Your Car
. If you own a new Ford you are being monitored, you are being tracked, and all that data is stored every time you use you vehicle. This was the stunning admission made by Ford vice president Jim Farley at the CES electronic trade show in Las Vegas.

14.
House Democrats: Climate Change Turns Women into Prostitutes
. The Democratic party has found a new consequence of climate change: prostitution. Rep. Barbara Lee and twelve other House Democrats issued a resolution stating that climate change can cause food and water shortages, which could lead impoverished women to turn to prostitution as a means of income:

15.
Boehner Twisting Arms For Amnesty Votes… He Must be Stopped
. It’s Now Official: GOP Leaders Are Pushing House Republicans To Move Full Steam Ahead On Amnesty For Millions Of Illegal Aliens. International just reported that during a recent “closed door” meeting, Speaker John Boehner instructed House Republicans that “a Republican plan for immigration reform is in development.” Boehner warned that the “issue was one that would not go away.” And several sources are indicating that the House GOP plan WILL in fact include AMNESTY for millions of illegal aliens.

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IRS about to quietly adopt new rules that will legally muzzle tea party groups
. The IRS has proposed new rules for 501(c)(4) organizations that strike at the the heart of the tea party’s very existence — political activism. The rules propose “regulations that provide guidance to tax-exempt social welfare organizations on political activities related to candidates that will not be considered to promote social welfare,” according to a document detailing the suggested changes.

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Bailing Out Health Insurers and Helping Obamacare
. Robert Laszewski—a prominent consultant to health insurance companies—recently wrote in a remarkably candid blog post that, while Obamacare is almost certain to cause insurance costs to skyrocket even higher than it already has, “insurers won’t be losing a lot of sleep over it.” How can this be? Because insurance companies won’t bear the cost of their own losses—at least not more than about a quarter of them. The other three-quarters will be borne by American taxpayers.

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The Future of Charter Schools: Politics Vs. Education
. When the state of Louisiana decided to greatly expand the number of schools available to students by parental choice, rather than by the rigidities of the usual public school system, Holder’s Justice Department objected on grounds that this was at cross-purposes with the federal government’s racial integration goals for the schools.

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This Is Not a Ranking We Should Be Proud Of
. The 20th anniversary edition of the Index of Economic Freedom reveals that the United States has dropped out of the top 10 freest economies in the world. When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.

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US government struck deal with Mexican drug cartel in exchange for info – report
. Between 2000 and 2012, the US government had a deal with Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa that allowed the group to smuggle billion of dollars of drugs in return for information on its rival cartels, according to court documents published by El Universal.

21.
Obama plot: black out ‘40% of U.S. Power supply’
. A new Environmental Protection Agency rule on power plants requires a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and threatens to block any new coal-fired energy facilities because they cannot hope to meet the new standards without using unproven and cost-prohibitive technology.

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Obama on Executive Actions: ‘I’ve Got A Pen And I’ve Got A Phone’
. “We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” Obama said Tuesday as he convened his first Cabinet meeting of the year.

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An FBI Just As Tainted And Untrustworthy As The IRS
. The FBI says it won’t prosecute anyone at the IRS for its admitted targeting of the president’s political foes. This just as the agency claims the law is no longer its main mission. So it’s a political goon squad now.

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Court ruling overturns Net Neutrality, threatens online access, experts warn
. Thanks for watching that YouTube video! That will be 50 cents, please. Sound unrealistic? It’s actually a distinct possibility, after a Federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down an FCC ruling meant to prevent an Internet service provider — the company you pay for online access — from prioritizing some website traffic over others. And because that rule was wiped off the books, those ISPs are suddenly able to do just that. With service providers suddenly able to charge based on the type of content you watch or the sites you visit, it’s easy to imagine a system like that of today’s cable television market. Want HBO? It’s an extra $5. Want our streaming video package, with YouTube, Hulu, TV.com, and more? That’s $5 too.

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Mr. Scam Man – B.M.G.

Posted 1/10/2014

1.
More New Taxes and Fees: How You’ll Pay for Obamacare in 2014
2.
Wasserman Schultz Anti-Tea Party New Year’s Resolution
3.
John Roberts, $6 Million Man, Laments Judiciary’s Lack of Funding
4.
Canada’s Top Ten List of America’s Stupidity – B.M.G.
5.
Uprising as Obama plans to skirt congress on ‘new world order’
6.
A Sleeping Giant: The Hidden Side Effect of Medicaid
7.
We Are Not SUBJECTS (and Other Observations About Obamacare)
8.
Taxpayers Losers In Fiat-Chrysler Deal
9.
Obama’s Presidency Sinking In Sea Of Misstatements, Fibs and Hoaxes
10.
As Big Government Gets Bigger, Voters Know Much Less
11.
California court permits undocumented immigrant to practice law in unprecedented ruling
12.
OSHA assailed for regulatory ‘overreach’ on family farms
13.
FL Legislators Propose Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
14.
Fifty States of Obamacare Confusion, Stress, and Aggravation
15.
New Insurance Era Begins in Florida
16.
Obamacare won’t even let policy holders automatically update their health insurance to include a new BABY
17.
‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’: Obamacare confusion reigns as frustrated patients walk out of hospitals without treatment
18.
U.S. Spent $7.45 B in 3 Years Helping Other Countries Deal With ‘Climate Change’
19.
Bill Whittle: “Let’s Run These Marxists into the River”
20.
The Conscience of Capitalism Is Honesty
21.
Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians Of 2013
22.
Where Lawmakers Can Cut from the Omnibus Spending Bill and Save Taxpayers Money
23.
11 Nasty Trends That Will Test America’s Resilience
24.
Congress Should Revoke ObamaCare’s Hidden Bailouts For Insurers
25.
What You Need to Know About the Left’s Big Issue for 2014
26.
The Tea Party is an attitude, and establishment Republicans can’t squash it – B.M.G.
27.
White House ‘We the People’ petitions unanswered two years later
28.
Government SWAT Teams Target “Rugged Individuals” Who Grow Their Own Food, Produce Their Own Electricity
29.
EPA unveils new furnace, boiler standards
30.
Say It With Shrubs? EPA Wants You to Love the Earth on Valentine’s Day
31.
Uncle Sam’s New Year’s Binge: Borrows $1,088 Per Household in 1 Day
32.
University developing technology to vote on your tablet, smartphone
33.
The Truth is Far Worse than Any of Us Care to Admit
34.
Dudley: Unclear exactly how Fed bond buying works
35.
Portion control — how the government plans to dictate what’s on your dinner table in 2014
36.
5 Ways the Liberal Obsession With Income Inequality Hurts the Poor
37.
Strategists to Republicans: Restrain yourselves on debt-ceiling negotiations
38.
USDA-Approved Agent Orange: It’s Coming to a Farm near You
39.
Muslim Cannibalism: Jewish Soldiers Lynched and Thrown to Blood Thirsty Masses Who Ripped Them Apart and Ate Their Organs
40.
Singer Charlie Daniels: Only people with guts to face down Obama is a group of nuns
41.
Coercing Conformity
42.
Putting Judges in Charge of National Security
43.
The Consequences of A Lawless President
44.
Funny money: How student loan profits make Obamacare look good
45.
Nearly Two Thirds of 2013 Government Waste, Fraud Came From HHS
46.
The Federal Reserve is Hiring Lots of New Armed Police Officers
47.
IMF Paper: Debt-Ridden Western Nations May Resort to ‘Financial Repression’
48.
Executive Order: ‘Excessively High Temperatures’ ‘Already’ Harming Public Health
49.
Government Intrudes Into Virtually Every Aspect of Our Lives
50.
The Most Dangerous Secret Treaty In Human History – The Trans Pacific Partnership
51.
Of All The Left’s Big Lies, ‘Trickle Down’ May Be The Biggest
52.
Obamacare Puts Down Roots for the Long Haul
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Happy birthday Michelle from all of US! Taxpayers foot the bill for First Lady’s extended Hawaiian vacation… so she can celebrate her 50th in Oprah’s Maui home
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IRS chief says may face budget crunch on Obamacare rollout
55.
GOP Leadership: Benghazi Victims’ Families ‘Absurd And Inaccurate’ In Select Committee Demand
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Ten freshman governors who have shrunk their states’ bureaucracies
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Ex-DARPA Head Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips
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Fukishima fall-out fears as DOUBLE the normal amount of radiation is found in Missouri snow and San Francisco beach busts safety levels prompting investigation
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Medical Marijuana Petition Nears 1 Million Signatures
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Obama to Be ‘President’ Even When Term Ends
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Obama: False Hope, False Messiah

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More New Taxes and Fees: How You’ll Pay for Obamacare in 2014
. Obamacare contains 18 specific tax hikes, mandates, or penalties that cost Americans money, and three new ones take effect in 2014. This is only the beginning—watch how two of these taxes get worse in the years to come.

2.
Wasserman Schultz Anti-Tea Party New Year’s Resolution
. As far as New Year’s resolutions go, Congresswoman Debbie Wassserman Schultz (D) has openly stated the funniest, yet disturbing resolution of them all. Her resolution is disturbing because of its sheer blind ignorance, but could, and probably will be the basis of the Republican line of attack moving into this year mid-term elections.

3.
John Roberts, $6 Million Man, Laments Judiciary’s Lack of Funding
. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who used his authority to permit the implementation of Obamacare, robbing Americans of their freedom and their money, used his end-of-the-year report to lament the effect of sequestration on the judicial system.

4.
Canada’s Top Ten List of America’s Stupidity – B.M.G.
. 10) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund-raising event. …

5.
Uprising as Obama plans to skirt congress on ‘new world order’
. Very quietly, opposition is building on the Internet to oppose legislation that may be introduced as soon as Jan. 8. The measure would grant President Obama what is known as “fast track authority” to ram through Congress the Trans-Pacific Partnership with limited debate and no opportunity to propose amendments. The international trade agreement, negotiated largely in secret by the Obama administration, is regarded by globalist free traders as a cornerstone of the emerging “New World Order.”

6.
A Sleeping Giant: The Hidden Side Effect of Medicaid
. As Medicaid enrollments increase due to people signing up for Obamacare there is a little known consequence lurking and the public will be caught unaware and unprepared. It is a sleeping giant called MERP. Do you know what the Federal MERP laws are and how they can affect you and those around you? The Federal Medicaid laws which are in effect in most states require each state to have a Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP).

7.
We Are Not SUBJECTS (and Other Observations About Obamacare)
. The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by while this man, his minions in Congress and his cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms.

8.
Taxpayers Losers In Fiat-Chrysler Deal
. Italian carmaker Fiat is going to buy the rest of Chrysler it doesn’t already own. Is this what U.S. taxpayers bought when they were forced to keep the Big Three automaker alive? Fiat said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire “the 41.4616% of Chrysler Group” that it does not currently hold. A day later Reuters reported that Fiat will now “gain full control of Chrysler” after a previous deal engineered by the Obama administration that let Fiat acquire a 58.5% stake in the soon-to-be-former Big Three automaker. The final shares will be sold by a United Auto Workers union-controlled trust fund, which was given its stake after the White House stepped into the process. The deal is expected to close by the end of January. But it won’t end for U.S. taxpayers, who have already lost $10 billion on the General Motors bailout and will continue to lose money in future bailouts until Washington’s klepto culture is changed by the ballot box.

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Obama’s Presidency Sinking In Sea Of Misstatements, Fibs and Hoaxes
. Lots of things that should have happened in 2013 did not. We were supposed to have long ago reached “peak oil” and an age of always-higher gas prices. Wind and solar power — and a reduced lifestyle — were our dismal future. But someone or something did not cooperate with gloomy government predictions. After all the failed subsidized green companies, the postponement of the Keystone Pipeline, the radical restrictions of new gas and oil leasing on federal lands, and the promises for radical climate-change legislation curtailing carbon energy use, the United States nevertheless seems awash in old energy.

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As Big Government Gets Bigger, Voters Know Much Less
. It was naughty of Winston Churchill to say, if he really did, that “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Nevertheless, many voters’ paucity of information about politics and government, although arguably rational, raises awkward questions about concepts central to democratic theory, including consent, representation, public opinion, electoral mandates and officials’ accountability.

11.
California court permits undocumented immigrant to practice law in unprecedented ruling
. The California Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented Mexican immigrant should be authorized to the State Bar and practice law, a decision already hailed as a major victory for immigrants trying to win more rights in the US. The court ruled unanimously in favor of Sergio Garcia, who can now begin practicing law immediately despite his status as a non-US citizen. He had challenged a 1996 federal law meant to prohibit people living in the US illegally from being granted a professional license from federal agencies.

12.
OSHA assailed for regulatory ‘overreach’ on family farms
. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) decision to enforce regulations on certain small farms amounts to “blatant overreach” that unfairly targets small farmers, a pair of Senate Republicans argues. For decades, Congress has inserted language in appropriations bills prohibiting OSHA – an arm of the Labor Department – from enforcing provisions of the 1976 Occupational Safety and Health Act at farming operations with 10 or fewer employees. But in recent months, the agency has begun issuing thousands of dollars in fines under the statute, saying that it has jurisdiction over non-farming operations – including grain storage – on farms, the lawmakers said.

13.
FL Legislators Propose Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
. It appears that children suffering from chronic seizures could gain legal access to medical marijuana in an oral form under a landmark bi-partisan legislation co- sponsored by Democrat State Representative Katie Edwards and Republican State Representative .Matt Gaetz. This form of marijuana doesn’t get you high, but provides relief to kids with serious medical problems in other states.

14.
Fifty States of Obamacare Confusion, Stress, and Aggravation
. No matter where you live in the United States, Obamacare is causing headaches, stress, and aggravation for someone near you.

15.
New Insurance Era Begins in Florida
. Quiet relief is what a Santa Rosa Beach couple, artist David Hart and his wife Karen, a marketing consultant, are yearning for. As the Washington Post reported on Sunday, the Harts signed up for a plan through the federal Marketplace and paid by phone on Dec. 19. But they got worried when the check to Florida Blue hadn’t been cashed by Dec. 27, and began making calls. On Wednesday, Karen Hart told Health News Florida that their problem has not yet been resolved. Their application shows up as complete and paid on Healthcare.gov, she said, and they even have a payment confirmation number, but they haven’t been able to get Florida Blue to fix the problem. “We’re now stuck in the middle,” Karen Hart says. “It’s been an absolute nightmare.”

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Obamacare won’t even let policy holders automatically update their health insurance to include a new BABY
. The problem stems from the HealthCare.gov website being unable to handle such requests. Such changes affect financial assistance available under the law, so the government has to be involved

17.
‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’: Obamacare confusion reigns as frustrated patients walk out of hospitals without treatment
. Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect. Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it. In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford.

18.
U.S. Spent $7.45 B in 3 Years Helping Other Countries Deal With ‘Climate Change’
. American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.”

19.
Bill Whittle: “Let’s Run These Marxists into the River”
. Social Proof, used to be called ‘Peer-pressure,’ is essentially a type of mob mentality that convinces people to go along with the herd. President Obama is really President Social Proof–he convinced a slew of voters that to question him was to be racist. Now, several voices are crying out that the Emperor…President…is wearing no clothes, and all that’s left to do is run the hollow people into the river.

20.
The Conscience of Capitalism Is Honesty
. Although not spelled out in any rulebook regarding Capitalism, fundamental honesty, the most outspoken virtue of American culture, was its conscience, and it remains the basis of all true capitalist enterprise. The honesty of the system is kept in check by competition, which is also a fundamental part of American Capitalism. But that earlier understanding of American Capitalism has gradually eroded. What was once a virtue is now often scoffed at with such expressions as, “nice guys finish last.” With the rampant excesses of corporate raiding, with government interference in regulation and corporate welfare which enables certain businesses to flourish in an atmosphere of government favoritism, the natural enzymes of honest Capitalism have diminished.

21.
Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians Of 2013
. Judicial Watch (JW) has released its list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2013, and it’s bipartisan in nature.

22.
Where Lawmakers Can Cut from the Omnibus Spending Bill and Save Taxpayers Money
. Lawmakers are adding the final touches to a gigantic $1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill that they are expected to release next week. The bill would spend vastly more than allowed under the sequestration spending caps.

23.
11 Nasty Trends That Will Test America’s Resilience
. Five years into the Obama presidency, the economy is grossly underperforming. Contrary to the dominant media narrative, it’s not bad luck or the financial crisis to blame, but bad policies — from the $860 billion “stimulus” that didn’t stimulate to the Dodd-Frank financial reform that killed lending. Last year was a challenging one for entrepreneurs and other productive Americans. No fewer than 13 new taxes were put into place. Big government now consumes one of every four dollars of our GDP and is getting bigger. Entering 2014, we face problems, including taxes and spending, that neither the White House nor Congress is addressing. In the following charts, we look at a few of the more alarming and intractable ones.

24.
Congress Should Revoke ObamaCare’s Hidden Bailouts For Insurers
. First order of business for the returning Congress: The No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act of 2014. Make it one line long: “Sections 1341 and 1342 of the Affordable Care Act are hereby repealed.” End of bill. End of bailout. End of story. Why do we need it? On Dec. 18, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers was asked what was the administration’s Plan B if, because of adverse selection (enrolling too few young and healthies), the insurance companies face financial difficulty. Jason Furman wouldn’t bite. “There’s a Plan A,” he replied. Enroll the young. But of course there’s a Plan B. It’s a government bailout.

25.
What You Need to Know About the Left’s Big Issue for 2014
. Do a Google News search for “income inequality” and it will remove any doubt that this is already the political issue of 2014. The left has been gearing up for months. The liberal Center for American Progress launched a new center devoted to the subject, and President Obama has been making it a centerpiece of his speeches. Get ready to hear about “fairness”—because some people make more money than others, and this isn’t fair. How can you sit by and watch this happen? What is the government going to do about it?

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The Tea Party is an attitude, and establishment Republicans can’t squash it – B.M.G.
. Establishment Republicans have to get off the idea that they can squash the Tea Party. Scott Reed, who was Bob Dole’s campaign manager when he ran for president, now works for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is putting lots of money into establishment-type Republican candidates. But here is the reason they can’t squash the Tea Party. The Tea Party is an attitude – an attitude of the working class that goes against the political class. The Tea Party’s attitude says live within your means and stop taking away our liberties. The political class is just the opposite. They want to settle for what they can get, like this last budget they want along with. They’re more worried about being blamed for stuff than they are accomplishing stuff.

27.
White House ‘We the People’ petitions unanswered two years later
. The Obama administration has touted the White House website’s ‘We the People’ section as a powerful platform for the American public to petition their government. According to a new report, however, those solicitations are all too rarely acknowledged.

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Government SWAT Teams Target “Rugged Individuals” Who Grow Their Own Food, Produce Their Own Electricity
. The dream of many Americans is to get out of the hustle and bustle of the daily city grind. And what better dream to have then to move your family outside of city limits to the countryside so that you can grow your own food, produce your own electricity with solar power, and live outside the purview of an ever expanding government apparatus?

29.
EPA unveils new furnace, boiler standards
. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new standards Friday for harmful emissions from new woodstoves and heaters, saying the rules could yield as much as $2.4 billion in annual public health benefits.

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Say It With Shrubs? EPA Wants You to Love the Earth on Valentine’s Day
. Why say it with flowers, when you could send your love a shrub? On one of the busiest days of the year for florists, the EPA says Americans should consider buying long-lasting silk flowers, potted plants, or live bushes, shrubs, or trees that can be planted in the spring.

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Uncle Sam’s New Year’s Binge: Borrows $1,088 Per Household in 1 Day
. Uncle Sam—AKA the federal government—went on a New Year’s Eve binge, adding a net of $125,202,709,546.99 to its total debt in just the one day of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals approximately $1,088.60 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census Bureau currently estimates there are in the United States.

32.
University developing technology to vote on your tablet, smartphone
. A Clemson University professor is developing a new electronic voting system that will allow voters to cast their ballots from home computers, tablets and smartphones. As Clemson’s chair of human-centered computing, Juan Gilbert has lead teams of students over the last 10 years to create an online voting system accessible at home or on the go that will be more accurate, have increased verification and make voting more accessible to people with disabilities by offering mobile and voice-command options.

33.
The Truth is Far Worse than Any of Us Care to Admit
. There is a story, that should be the story of the decade, and people are afraid to share it and afraid to accept it. Some won’t even read it. They are like I was at one time. I wanted to believe that Ronald Reagan and both Bush’s walked on water. I still find it hard to look at these men and think that they could have done anything wrong. It comes from that conservative republican bias that I grew up with. To this day it is hard to let go of that. But only a few weeks ago it was revealed that Saudi Arabia was the primary state sponsor of the 9/11 attacks.. Saudi Arabia financed the murder of thousands of Americans and we kept supporting them? We continue to run to their aid whenever they need us? Tell me it is not all about money and oil and I will call you crazy. People want to feel that there is hope and they want to feel like the republicans will save them I suppose. But there is no being saved by any of these political leaders.

34.
Dudley: Unclear exactly how Fed bond buying works
. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Saturday some key aspects of how the central bank’s bond-buying stimulus effort works remain mysterious.

35.
Portion control — how the government plans to dictate what’s on your dinner table in 2014
. Would you rather sip on unpasteurized milk or a cold glass of soda? Do you prefer Saturday lunch at a fast food joint or a farmers market? Regardless of your choices, your food freedom — your right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want — is under attack. Here are ten food freedom issues to keep an eye on in 2014.

36.
5 Ways the Liberal Obsession With Income Inequality Hurts the Poor
. After the last century, it shouldn’t even be controversial to assert that the more a nation focuses on income inequality, the more it hurts the poor. After all, there have been whole societies formed around the slogan Marx popularized, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” — and they’ve universally been lousy places to be poor. Would you rather be poor in America or Cuba, Vietnam or the old Soviet Union?

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Strategists to Republicans: Restrain yourselves on debt-ceiling negotiations
. GOP strategists are urging restraint in the upcoming debt-ceiling fight. They are excited by the prospect of reclaiming the Senate in November’s midterm elections but anxious about the party’s capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as amply illustrated in recent campaign cycles. Congress must vote to raise the $17 trillion debt ceiling sometime in February or March. In the past, Republicans have looked to extract major concessions, such as dollar-for-dollar spending cuts. The strategy bore fruit in 2011 when President Obama, with an eye toward securing reelection, signed the Budget Control Act, which included $2 trillion in cuts. But now the president is refusing to negotiate on the debt ceiling and the GOP is still feeling the reverberations from a 16-day government shutdown in October that wreaked havoc on the party’s public approval while reaping almost nothing in exchange.

38.
USDA-Approved Agent Orange: It’s Coming to a Farm near You
. Ah, the sweet smell of Agent Orange in the morning. Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient in the infamously deadly Agent Orange. Now we get to be the unwilling guinea pigs while USDA-approved test fields are planted. It seems that our government did not learn its lesson from the millions of people gruesomely affected by the ingredients of Agent Orange the first time around.

39.
Muslim Cannibalism: Jewish Soldiers Lynched and Thrown to Blood Thirsty Masses Who Ripped Them Apart and Ate Their Organs
. In 2000, two IDF reservists were lynched in Ramallah by a mob of Palestinian savages. New info has been revealed: after they were hanged, their bodies were tossed to a pack of bloodthirsty rioters, who proceeded to tear their bodies apart with their bare hands and eat their organs. The Israeli government freed the Muslim terrorist who gleefully waved his bloody hands after the lynching of the two Israeli soldiers. Another release for “peace.”

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Singer Charlie Daniels: Only people with guts to face down Obama is a group of nuns
. Most freedom-loving Americans celebrated the recently reported news that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an order on Dec. 31 to temporarily halt the Obamacare mandate requiring the Little Sisters of the Poor to offer contraception.

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Coercing Conformity
. A government that creates the climate for bullying is the worst of the bullies. In “protecting the rights of all people to worship the way they choose,” then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton vowed “to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”

42.
Putting Judges in Charge of National Security
. The president’s one-sided panel arrives at a predictable result. I’m not big on bipartisanship. Too often for conservatives in Washington, it’s a euphemism for surrender, or at least the indulgence of ever-expanding government. But there are a few things we need a central government for, none more vital than national security. Because a political community’s most important decisions are the ones made about its defense, it is essential that there be broad public buy-in. Compromise is essential. President Obama, however, seems poised to challenge that premise. A report released this week by his hand-picked panel of progressive academics and pliant intelligence veterans recommends turning the clock back to pre-9/11 counterterrorism and turning control of intelligence-gathering over to the courts.

43.
The Consequences of A Lawless President
. I’m not sure why I’m ever surprised anymore about anything this administration does, but I just have a hard time coming to grips with the fact that we have a President who cannot be believed or trusted and who thrives on bringing chaos and discontent wherever he can. I am too old, really, to be jumping, shouting, muttering and sputtering while pacing back and forth like someone who just escaped from the nearest looney bin! This ‘consequence’ of one of his previous actions really hit me in the face as I read:

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Funny money: How student loan profits make Obamacare look good
. Cato education scholar Neal McCluskey revealed how a little-reported feature of the Affordable Care Act uses shady accounting to hide its overall cost. “The change in student loans was part of Obamacare — and why was it part of Obamacare?” McCluskey said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller. “So that the profit they were supposedly making from the student loans could then be plugged into how much money would come from Obamacare, so it didn’t look like it cost as much.” In the last days of Obamacare’s formulation, the projections had student loans folded into them to make them not seem so expensive.

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Nearly Two Thirds of 2013 Government Waste, Fraud Came From HHS
. The estimated amount of taxpayer-funded payments that the federal government doled out through fraud, waste, and errors slightly decreased in 2013 to $106 billion from $108 billion the previous year, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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The Federal Reserve is Hiring Lots of New Armed Police Officers
. Mirroring a trend seen across the federal government, the Federal Reserve is hiring a raft of new police officers and security guards, developments that some see as preparation for civil unrest.

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IMF Paper: Debt-Ridden Western Nations May Resort to ‘Financial Repression’
. The highest debt-to-GDP levels in 200 years could force advanced Western nations to adopt “financial repression” measures typically reserved for economically unstable debtor nations, including mass write-offs and a tax on savings, warns a working paper published last week by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Executive Order: ‘Excessively High Temperatures’ ‘Already’ Harming Public Health
. “Excessively high temperatures” are “already” harming public health nationwide, Pres. Obama declared on Nov. 1, 2013, two months before today’s assault by record low temperatures. In his executive order on climate change, Obama warned that too much rain – and not enough rain – also dictated that executive action against climate fluctuations:

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Government Intrudes Into Virtually Every Aspect of Our Lives
. No matter how we label ourselves — conservative, liberal, moderate or none of the above — we all must grapple with the ever-expanding size and scope of government. America has reached a tipping point. The federal government has grown exponentially, not just in spending, but in its reach. Government intrudes into virtually every aspect of our daily lives, from the type of toilet we can buy, to the mix of fuel we put in our cars, to the kind of light bulb we can use.

50.
The Most Dangerous Secret Treaty In Human History – The Trans Pacific Partnership
. The Trans Pacfic Partnership Agreement is the most dangerous secret document formed by an unelected shadow government. If it is allowed to be implemented, humans can kiss their internet rights goodbye. If you read through the TPP, please keep this example in mind that corporations and goverments will put a stanglehold on any name, idea, concept, etc., and will have the authority to shut down a website, business or entity unpon demand. This is what we can call “intellectual property rights” on steroids. The corporatocracy will have total control of everything we trade, speak, write, express, etc. Essentially, if we condone, comply or accept this illegally formed alliance, we will be submitting to corporate slavery enforced by government.

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Of All The Left’s Big Lies, ‘Trickle Down’ May Be The Biggest
. New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his inaugural speech denounced people “on the far right” who “continue to preach the virtue of trickle-down economics.” According to Mayor de Blasio: “They believe that the way to move forward is to give more to the most fortunate, and that somehow the benefits will work their way down to everyone else.” If there is ever a contest for the biggest lie in politics, this one should be a top contender.

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Obamacare Puts Down Roots for the Long Haul
. Yes, Obamacare has raised premiums, caused people to lose their health coverage, raised taxes, and more. But on January 1, Obamacare started digging in for the long haul: putting down the deep roots of entitlement programs. Entitlements—like the big three of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—are the biggest causes of America’s spending and debt crisis. And Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another.

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Happy birthday Michelle from all of US! Taxpayers foot the bill for First Lady’s extended Hawaiian vacation… so she can celebrate her 50th in Oprah’s Maui home
. The first lady remained behind in Hawaii following a 15-day family vacation, and will stay at the 12-bedroom island home of Oprah Winfrey. Mrs. Obama will be flown home on a separate aircraft, with tax dollars covering the cost. The White House insists she will be responsible for her own ‘personal expenses’. Secret Service protection and dedicated vehicles will add significantly to the price tag of what the president described as an early birthday gift.

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IRS chief says may face budget crunch on Obamacare rollout
. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service may need to spend money on its Obamacare implementation at the expense of other agency programs due to budget constraints, its new commissioner said on Monday.

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GOP Leadership: Benghazi Victims’ Families ‘Absurd And Inaccurate’ In Select Committee Demand
. An anonymous aide for House GOP leadership told the Washington Examiner Monday it believes three family members of the victims of the Benghazi terrorist attack and other conservative movement and military community leaders are being untruthful in their demand for a select committee investigation into Benghazi.

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Ten freshman governors who have shrunk their states’ bureaucracies
. In 2010, Americans went to the polls and elected a whole crop of new governors — 26 in all, if you count the election of governors who had previously served non-consecutive terms in Iowa and Oregon. Election results varied from state to state, but the overall voice of the people that year — the great Tea Party midterm — was calling for a more limited and less intrusive government. So which of those new governors have delivered in their first term?

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Ex-DARPA Head Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips
. Former DARPA director and now Google executive Regina Dugan is pushing an edible “authentication microchip” along with an electronic tattoo that can read your mind. No this isn’t a movie script about a futuristic scientific dictatorship, it’s trendy and cool!

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Fukishima fall-out fears as DOUBLE the normal amount of radiation is found in Missouri snow and San Francisco beach busts safety levels prompting investigation
. A San Francisco beach has five times the safe level fueling concerns over Fukushima’s impact. Snow in Missouri has been found to contain double the normal radiation amount

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Medical Marijuana Petition Nears 1 Million Signatures
. As the clock ticks down to the Feb. 1 deadline, the petition to get medical marijuana on the ballot in November has hit nearly 1 million signatures, according to Ben Pollara, the man running the People United for Medical Marijuana campaign, United For Care.

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Obama to Be ‘President’ Even When Term Ends
. Will President Obama be treated as if he’s still running America even after his term expires? The answer is a guaranteed yes, according to Rush Limbaugh, the nation’s most-listened-to radio broadcaster. Obama’s announcement that he plans to continue to reside in Washington, D.C., when his term ends was mostly ignored during the Christmas news cycle. But Limbaugh heard the statement loud and clear, and offered his listeners Tuesday his opinion about Obama’s unusual decision. “Most presidents go back home,” Limbaugh pointed out.

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Obama: False Hope, False Messiah
You may think this a fairy tale , but it’s not. It’s happening RIGHT NOW. And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America, having lost their morals , their initiative , and their Will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that Person known as “The One.” He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He Hypnotized the people telling them , “I am sent to save you.”

Posted 1/3/2014

1.
The Irony of Global Warming Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice
2.
Is this Obama’s Monica Lewinsky?
3.
Egypt Does What Washington Won’t: Declares Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
4.
The Dream Act By Executive Order Draws In New Wave Of Illegal Immigrants
5.
US secretly sends Hellfire missiles, drones to Iraq
6.
Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
7.
Chamber Of Commerce To Spend $50 Million To Crush Tea Party
8.
Who Will Speak For The Long-Neglected Middle Class?
9.
Intriguing Year-End Data Show A Nation In Flux
10.
Just for Fun, a Pack of Hundreds of Wild Teens Destroy a Shopping Mall
11.
Where the Super Rich Go to Avoid Estate Taxes
12.
Can GOP avoid Obamacare trap?
13.
U.S. Has the Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World
14.
China rejects 546K tons of US GMO corn
15.
Texas lt. Governor: we shut down the border ourselves
16.
Michigan Nullifies NDAA Indefinite Detention
17.
Obama’s NSA Watchdog: ‘Reasonable’ To Track Cars
18.
Traditional Danish pastries threatened by EU cinnamon ban
19.
Lie To Government to Get $19 Million Grant, Get Caught, Don’t Go To Jail
20.
Arizona Sheriffs Smack Down Feds Over Unconstitutional Demands regarding Public Land
21.
The World Braces for Retirement Crisis
22.
Popularity of ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ plates in Virginia suggests Tea Party still strong
23.
Climate change debate ready to heat up
24.
The Federal Hand Behind Common Core – B.M.G.
25.
Obummercare Enrollment Experience! – B.M.G.
26.
The spying Scotsman who hunted the Nazis of New York: The amazing story of Britain’s clandestine war on Hitler’s agents… and his big-money backers in the US – B.M.G.>
27.
FBI Implicated in Death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry
28.
US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq. – M.G.
29.
NSA Hijacks Computer Shipments, Installs Spyware in ‘Secret Workshops’
30.
Thousands Scramble To Get Medical Procedures Before Obamacare Begins
31.
Florida Neighborhood Bans Kids From Playing In Street
32.
Judging the parties
33.
‘Military-Style’ Raid on California Power Station Spooks U.S.
34.
Chinese President Orders PLA to Prepare For War
35.
Obama Lawlessness Spreads to Supreme Court
36.
ObamaCare Misreporting Underscored Mainstream Media’s Malfeasance
37.
Conservative Lesson for 2013: Progressive Rule Is Misrule
38.
Why are 8 Democrats sponsoring a bill to eliminate the death penalty for treason?
39.
New Hampshire Moves toward Nullifying NDAA
40.
State Dept. whistleblower’s emails hacked, deleted
41.
FAA announces locations for future drone testing sites
42.
Soft Killing the American People Using Toxic Food, Toxic Water and Toxic Vaccines
43.
At 20 years, NAFTA didn’t close Mexico wage gap
44.
NSA can hack WiFi networks from miles away
45.
Drones: Coming to a public university near you
46.
Florida consumer confidence remains flat for December
47.
Three Key Foreign Policy Deadlines Await in 2014
48.
Dems’ ‘Don’t Impeach Obama’ Email Backfires
49.
The Left’s Misplaced Nostalgia Debunked in One Chart
50.
Top 10 Major Media Cover-Ups Of 2013
51.
No drugs necessary: Driver arrested for having empty compartment
52.
Constitution ‘exemption’ zone spans 100 miles inland of US border– judge
53.
Tea Party faces 2014 challenge
54.
US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide
55.
World: U.S. Greatest threat to peace under Obama
56.
Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters
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Medicaid Estate Recovery + ACA: Unintended Consequences?
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Raising Saving
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Lech Walesa: Obama Has Failed, ‘America no Longer Leads the World’
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Kansas farmer releases ag parody of Miley’s “Party in the USA”

1.
The Irony of Global Warming Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice
. Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice. If you missed the irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity. The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.” It seems they found out what the “environmental changes taking place in the south.” are.

2.
Is this Obama’s Monica Lewinsky?
. Now President Obama has a major credibility issue that is sure to forever taint his legacy. Obama’s credibility will be difficult to regain after the failure of his core Obamacare promise, and the disastrous roll-out of the health-care law rescued the Republicans from a public relations nightmare following the government shutdown, according to one of the nation’s leading political scientists.

3.
Egypt Does What Washington Won’t: Declares Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
. Egypt’s military-backed interim government on Wednesday declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalizing all its activities, its financing and even membership to the group from which the country’s ousted president hails.

4.
The Dream Act By Executive Order Draws In New Wave Of Illegal Immigrants
. The Border Patrol and other agencies report a “surge” of unaccompanied minors coming across our border. It coincides with the White House’s de facto amnesty via the Dream Act to reward such law-breaking. The Office of Refugee Resettlement noted a “surge” in unaccompanied alien children in its year-end report last week, pointing out that 24,668 foreign minors in the country illegally were placed in the care of a federal de facto baby-sitting service because no parents were around to care for them.

5.
US secretly sends Hellfire missiles, drones to Iraq
. In an attempt to beat back gains by Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, the United States is moving “dozens” of Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones into Iraq.

6.
Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
. 5. What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? 4. Obamacare’s Barrage of Tax Hikes. 3. Sequestration Cuts Only 2.5 Percent of Spending. 2. Where Did Your Tax Dollar Go? 1. Each American’s Share of Publicly Held Debt

7.
Chamber Of Commerce To Spend $50 Million To Crush Tea Party
. “Our No. 1 focus is to make sure, when it comes to the Senate, that we have no loser candidates,” said U.S. Chamber of Commerce top political strategist Scott Reed. “That will be our mantra: No fools on our ticket.” GOP establishment officials hope to elide Tea Party challenges by shrinking the nomination process down to a tight four-month window replete with penalties for states that shirk the rules.

8.
Who Will Speak For The Long-Neglected Middle Class?
. On almost every left-right issue that divides Democrats and Republicans — as well as Republicans themselves — there is a neglected populist constituency. The result is that populist politics are largely caricatured as Tea Party extremism — and a voice for the middle class is largely absent.

9.
Intriguing Year-End Data Show A Nation In Flux
. It’s a journalistic ritual. At the end of the year, we do lists and rankings. There’s the year’s biggest news stories, the best photos, the most notable deaths, the best books, the funniest cartoons, the best (and worst) movies. Now let me add another item: the year’s most interesting statistics.

10.
Just for Fun, a Pack of Hundreds of Wild Teens Destroy a Shopping Mall
. Like a riot scene out of a post-apocalyptic movie, a horde of teenagers descended on a Brooklyn mall yesterday and destroyed it…all for fun. Social media was used to plan the psychotic soiree, where the bored young people involved vowed to put the shopping center “on tilt”.

11.
Where the Super Rich Go to Avoid Estate Taxes
. Bloomberg’s Zach Mider reports on the tax shelter in South Dakota that will shield the super rich from estate taxes. He speaks to Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.”

12.
Can GOP avoid Obamacare trap?
. 2014 will be the year Republicans are forced to deal with the Obamacare Trap, helpfully set for them by the Democratic authors of the Affordable Care Act. In 2009 and 2010, President Obama and his party took a health care system in which 85 percent had insurance coverage, and blew it up. Now, with Obamacare causing misery right and left, those same Democrats are screaming, “You can’t go back!”

13.
U.S. Has the Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World
. Over the last 25 years, every country in the developed world has made significant strides in lowering the corporate tax rate – except for the United States. The good people at Economics 21 put together a handy chart to illustrate this:

14.
China rejects 546K tons of US GMO corn
. China has turned away two batches — roughly 546,000 tons — of U.S. dried distillers’ grains due to its genetically modified contents, state media reported on Friday. China’s food-quality regulator rejected the two batches of corn byproduct because it contained MIR162, an insect-resistant strain made of maize developed by Syngenta, a Swiss company that makes seeds and pesticides.

15.
Texas lt. Governor: we shut down the border ourselves
. Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst announced a Texas-led three-week effort that he says reduced illegal immigration, smuggling, and human trafficking to a standstill in the Rio Grande River section of the U.S./Mexico border.

16.
Michigan Nullifies NDAA Indefinite Detention
. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) signed bill SB0094 into law yesterday. The bill nullifies Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is the indefinite detention clause.

17.
Obama’s NSA Watchdog: ‘Reasonable’ To Track Cars
. It is “reasonable” for law enforcement officials to decide whether to place a tracking device on the car of a private citizen, one of the five members of President Obama’s NSA review group charged with recommending surveillance policy has argued.

18.
Traditional Danish pastries threatened by EU cinnamon ban
. Proposals for an EU ban on cinnamon rolls have put a dampener on Denmark’s Christmas festivities. The proposed ban followed plans by Denmark’s food safety agency to implement EU regulations aimed at limiting the amount of coumarin, a naturally occurring toxic chemical found in the most commonly used type of cinnamon, cassia. Under Danish interpretation of the EU legislation the amount of cinnamon in “everyday fine baked goods” will be limited to 15mg per kilo meaning a ban on Kanelsnegler pastries, a winter favourite in all Nordic countries, which take their name from their coiled snail shape.

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Lie To Government to Get $19 Million Grant, Get Caught, Don’t Go To Jail
. In a case the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is calling the biggest instance of research fraud in more than 20 years, an Iowa State University researcher has admitted to lying about a breakthrough AIDS vaccine that, he falsely claimed, could utilize rabbit blood’s disease-fighting properties to cure human patients. His punishment? Well, he resigned from his job. That’s a consequence, not a punishment. And he had to agree not to seek out any more government contracts…for three years. Critics are calling the kid-gloves handling of what amounts to outright theft a shining example of how the American ruling class protects its own, while holding rank-and-file citizens to the letter of the law.

20.
Arizona Sheriffs Smack Down Feds Over Unconstitutional Demands regarding Public Land
. What many people are unaware of is that your sheriff is the top law enforcement official in your county. He or She has jurisdiction, even over the Feds. When the Feds “ruled by decree” that any trailers left in the National Forest in AZ would be towed if left more than 72 hours, the ASA shot back. The Arizona Sheriffs are opposed to the policies of the Coconino, Kaibab, and Prescott National Forests limiting the parking of trailers on National Forests limiting the parking of trailers on National Forests to a 72 hours period during hunting season and will not enforce any federal government regulation imposed on our citizens depriving them of their right to utilize their public lands.

21.
The World Braces for Retirement Crisis
. A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. Many people will be forced to work well past the traditional retirement age of 65 — to 70 or even longer. Living standards will fall, and poverty rates will rise for the elderly in wealthy countries that built safety nets for seniors after World War II. In developing countries, people’s rising expectations will be frustrated if governments can’t afford retirement systems to replace the tradition of children caring for aging parents.

22.
Popularity of ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ plates in Virginia suggests Tea Party still strong
. A Virginia license plate with the Tea Party-embraced “Don’t Tread on Me” logo is a big seller, suggesting the movement remains popular, at least in the state, even after a tough loss in this year’s gubernatorial election. At least five other states also sell the specialty plates: Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. But in Virginia, the tag ranks No. 2 among such plates approved in the past five years and ninth among more than 200 total. The tag was issued to roughly 21,800 Virginia-registered vehicles in just the first 20 months of sales, according to state figures reported by The Virginian-Pilot newspaper.

23.
Climate change debate ready to heat up
. Policies surrounding climate change are poised to heat up in 2014 as major aspects of President Obama’s climate plan come to fruition. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce historic final standards aimed at curbing carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants in June, but not before lawmakers and industry groups give their two cents on the issue. Next year, Republicans are expected to continue the crusade against the administration’s climate regulations, which they have dubbed the “war on coal.”

24.
The Federal Hand Behind Common Core – B.M.G.
. “Common Core is a state-led initiative.” This sentence is among the most repeated pitch lines of those selling Common Core. It is an effective sales pitch, but is it true? The answer lies in the maze of money and regulation tying federal and state departments of education together. Let’s start with the money. The money is always the carrot that the federal government offers the states.

25.
Obummercare Enrollment Experience! – B.M.G.
. Posted by: Jim Meier OSP project engineer ,369 Horizon Dr N. Fort Myers FL. 33903 (This guy exists so anyone can confirm this. I did) RE: OBAMACARE- A comment posted on the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare FB page: ”I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 AM. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually. I chose tier 2 “Silver Plan” and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I “opt-out” and chose to continue along with no insurance. I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. Informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the “REPERCUSSIONS PORTION” for “non-payment” of yearly fine. First, your driver’s license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with “Non-Payment” and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy “Automatically withdraw” your “penalties” weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is “Free” or even “Affordable.” Kinda sheds a lot of light on all of the arming and beefing up of arms for all of the domestic departments INCLUDING the IRS now doesn’t it?

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The spying Scotsman who hunted the Nazis of New York: The amazing story of Britain’s clandestine war on Hitler’s agents… and his big-money backers in the US – B.M.G.>
. In the summer of 1940, as British pilots fought desperately for the skies of southern England, the battle was joined on a very different front, thousands of miles from the coast of Kent. It was fought through the political salons of Washington DC, the boardrooms and the smoky nightclubs of New York. The protagonists had no uniform save that of a well-tailored suit; their weapons were native cunning, a plausible manner, and, from time to time, a concealed revolver. This was the secret battle for America, ordered by Winston Churchill himself, and the fate of the free world hung upon it. Today, we can reveal the untold story of how British agents went to war on Wall Street, a story pieced together from a remarkable collection of secret intelligence reports lying untouched for decades.

27.
FBI Implicated in Death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry
. Operation Fast & Furious, the U.S. government’s program to run guns to Mexican drug cartels, has a major new development. According to ATF whistleblower John Dodson, the FBI was involved in the drug snatch operation that led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

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US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq. – M.G.
. With the Geneva Nuclear Accord still far from implementation a month after it was signed in Geneva, the United States and Iran are moving into stage two of their rapprochement: They are now fighting together to crush Al Qaeda terror in Iraq,

29.
NSA Hijacks Computer Shipments, Installs Spyware in ‘Secret Workshops’
. Yesterday, Spiegel Online revealed details about an elite hacking unit at the National Security Agency called Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The Agency not only uses fancy high-tech tricks to get information from it’s targets on the digital front, it also uses more traditional spying methods. “If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops.”

30.
Thousands Scramble To Get Medical Procedures Before Obamacare Begins
. With Obamacare coverage beginning in earnest on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports that thousands of people for which Obamacare plans will block some health care access are rushing to get medical tests and procedures done before their pre-ACA coverage is eliminated.

31.
Florida Neighborhood Bans Kids From Playing In Street
. A new rule in the Miramar neighborhood of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., banning children from playing in the streets, is causing disagreement among residents.

32.
Judging the parties
. Why did Senate Democrats take the unprecedented step of ending filibusters for presidential appointments, including nominations to the judiciary? According to President Obama and his cheerleaders, it’s a matter of desperate times calling for desperate measures. In a speech before the Senate vote, Obama said that “over the past five years, we’ve seen an unprecedented pattern of obstruction in Congress that’s prevented too much of the American people’s business from getting done. If President Obama’s story were correct, we would expect the data to show that filibustering tea partiers had pushed delays through the roof relative to earlier periods. But the data do not bear this out.

33.
‘Military-Style’ Raid on California Power Station Spooks U.S.
. When U.S. officials warn about “attacks” on electric power facilities these days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a computer hacker trying to shut the lights off in a city with malware. But a more traditional attack on a power station in California has U.S. officials puzzled and worried about the physical security of the electrical grid–from attackers who come in with guns blazing.

34.
Chinese President Orders PLA to Prepare For War
. The recent spate of bellicose militaristic rhetoric emanating out of Chinese state media has continued in the form of a 7,500 word Xinhua editorial which outlines how Chinese president Xi Jinping has ordered the People’s Liberation Army to prepare for war.

35.
Obama Lawlessness Spreads to Supreme Court
. Obama race-mongers first mugged mortgage bankers, then went gunning for car lenders. Now they’re trying to block the Supreme Court from taking away their main weapon: disparate impact. For the second time in 12 months, the administration has sabotaged a Supreme Court case challenging its disparate-impact discrimination claims, which rely on statistics rather than actual acts of racism to “prove” discrimination in housing and lending. Its diversity police have been using the dubious civil rights theory as a cudgel to shake down lenders for billions in race-bias settlements.

36.
ObamaCare Misreporting Underscored Mainstream Media’s Malfeasance
. All the mainstream media love to trumpet the winning of the now sadly tainted and greatly devalued Pulitzer Prize, given almost exclusively to left-leaning journalists from a left-leaning committee. While we know how they like to celebrate suspect accolades, how do these same mainstream media admonish themselves when they make an egregious error of epic proportions? How do the mainstream media come clean to the American people and let them know that purely because of their own political and personal bias, they went out of their way to deliberately deceive their readers and viewers as they ignored, under-reported or flat-out misrepresented the “facts” surrounding the most important story in years, a story that directly affects every single American.

37.
Conservative Lesson for 2013: Progressive Rule Is Misrule
. This report on the State of Conservatism comes at the end of an annus mirabilis for conservatives. In 2013, they learned that they may have been wasting much time and effort. Hitherto, they have thought that the most efficient method to evangelize the unconverted was to write and speak, exhorting those still shrouded in darkness to read conservatism’s most light-shedding texts. Now they know that a quicker, surer way is to have progressives wield power for a few years.

38.
Why are 8 Democrats sponsoring a bill to eliminate the death penalty for treason?
. Nearly a year ago, on January 2, 2012, eight Democrats in the House introduced a curious piece of legislation – H.R. 3741: Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2013, which seeks to abolish the death penalty under federal law. But the bill has only just been discovered by the media, notably The Hill on Dec. 16, 2013.

39.
New Hampshire Moves toward Nullifying NDAA
. As the National Defense Authorization Act 2014 heads to Obama’s desk as an even more draconian piece of legislation than it was previously, states have taken notice and are beginning to intensify their efforts to nullify it. Michigan was the latest to opt for full nullification after Governor Rick Snyder (R) signed bill SB0094 into law. New Hampshire has now taken a critical step toward nullification with the introduction of their bill HB1279, scheduled to be formally presented on January 8th, 2014.

40.
State Dept. whistleblower’s emails hacked, deleted
. A US State Department whistleblower whose personal email files contained allegations of abuse and wrongdoing has had his account hacked. Four years of potential evidence has been deleted, his lawyer announced.

41.
FAA announces locations for future drone testing sites
. Drones are coming to America – the Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday the six states chosen to develop test sites for unmanned aerial vehicles. Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia were chosen by the FAA as the agency moves towards integrating commercial drones into American skies.

42.
Soft Killing the American People Using Toxic Food, Toxic Water and Toxic Vaccines
. Have you noticed that there has been an absolute explosion in the number of people developing chronic illnesses, heart disease, diabetes and cancer? If you are like most Americans, you probably have quite a few family members and friends that are seriously ill right now. Sadly, most Americans have absolutely no idea why this is happening. Most of them just assume that all of this sickness is just “normal”. But that is not the case at all. The truth is that we are slowly killing ourselves by what we eat, by what we drink and by what we allow to be injected into our bodies. The vast majority of people out there have never even heard about the dangers posed by aspartame, fluoride, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high fructose corn syrup, pharmaceutical drugs, cell phones and toxic vaccines.

43.
At 20 years, NAFTA didn’t close Mexico wage gap
. With the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement twenty years ago, many North American and international companies have moved their manufacturing to Mexico at a lower cost and while a majority of Mexicans have seen little benefit in income. While there is undoubtedly a larger middle class today, Mexico is the only major Latin American country where poverty also has grown in recent years.

44.
NSA can hack WiFi networks from miles away
. Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum co-wrote a Der Spiegel article published Sunday detailing how the NSA intercepts newly-purchased computer products mid-shipment to install surveillance malware before reaching the buyer. While onstage in Berlin, Appelbaum went into further detail about the agency’s unknown capabilities — including installing surveillance and remote-control malware and spyware into unsuspecting devices via WiFi from almost 10 miles out. According to Appelbaum, agency surveillance vans and even drones could be used to get within hackable range and wirelessly deliver the software packages.

45.
Drones: Coming to a public university near you
. Unmanned aerial drone research is coming to several public universities, according to a recent announcement from the Federal Aviation Administration. The University of Alaska, Texas A&M — Corpus Christi and Virginia Tech are among the locations that were chosen for new research on the U.S. government’s unmanned aerial vehicle project.

46.
Florida consumer confidence remains flat for December
. According to a University of Florida survey, Florida consumer confidence levels remained unchanged in December at 77.

47.
Three Key Foreign Policy Deadlines Await in 2014
. The coming year holds three critical foreign policy deadlines in western Asia for the Obama administration, which hopes that by the time 2014 ends some of the region’s most intractable disputes will be well on their way to being settled.

48.
Dems’ ‘Don’t Impeach Obama’ Email Backfires
. A long-time strategy of the political left has been to take its most threatening opponents – and those enemies’ most damaging arguments – and mock them, as though they’re ludicrous to even consider. But sometimes, it backfires. A recent Democratic National Committee email to supporters, for example, attempted to blackball four Republican congressmen for daring to suggest President Obama could be impeached for repeated violations of the Constitution. “Republicans are actually excited about the idea,” the email scoffed. “Show these Republicans they are way, way off-base.” But the email may have gotten more attention than the DNC intended.

49.
The Left’s Misplaced Nostalgia Debunked in One Chart
. The President apparently believes that consumer spending, rather than savings and investment, drives economic growth. But, as this chart shows, personal consumption is at a post-war high as a share of national expenditure. If consumer spending really did drive the economy, it would be booming.

50.
Top 10 Major Media Cover-Ups Of 2013
. In an administration known for its dissembling, deciding which lies are its biggest is a challenge. At the end of each year, many news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months. WND’s editors, however, long have considered it more newsworthy to publicize the most underreported or unreported news events of the year – to shine a spotlight on those issues that the establishment media successfully “spiked.”

51.
No drugs necessary: Driver arrested for having empty compartment
. Civil libertarians are criticizing Ohio police for arresting a driver because his car contained a compartment that could theoretically store illegal drugs, though no drugs were found at that time.

52.
Constitution ‘exemption’ zone spans 100 miles inland of US border– judge
. A US federal judge has reaffirmed an Obama administration policy granting officials the authority to search Americans’ laptops, citing a controversial premise that makes citizens within 100 miles of the border eligible for a police check.

53.
Tea Party faces 2014 challenge
. The Tea Party is facing a huge test in 2014 as establishment Republicans and business groups try to wrestle back control of the GOP.

54.
US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide
. The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.

55.
World: U.S. Greatest threat to peace under Obama
. The dirty little secret is out; under Obama’s reign, the world now believes the U.S. is the world’s greatest threat to peace. Our image is so bad that the runner-up, Pakistan, only received 8% of the total aggregate vote for world’s most dangerous country, far behind the 24% of respondents vilifying the United States. China was third at 6%, followed by North Korea, Iran and Israel which all got 5%.

56.
Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters
. Illinois passed a new state law that set back the efforts of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), making the use of drones to interfere with hunters and fishermen prohibited.

57.
Medicaid Estate Recovery + ACA: Unintended Consequences?
. People pushed into being Medicaid enrollees by the Affordable Care Act of 2010 risk losing their assets. Estate recovery will be forced on millions of people who might have otherwise gone without insurance. The plan is that millions more Americans have health insurance. That would be accomplished by expanding Medicaid and implementing premium assistance (subsidies). When a person is found to be eligible for Medicaid, they will be automatically enrolled into their state’s Medicaid program. Those forced into Medicaid will, due to the federal law, also be forced into estate recovery. Their estates will be partly or fully taken over by the federal or state government when they die. The death of the first spouse could leave the remaining spouse homeless.

58.
Raising Saving
. The alternative is a much larger entitlement state. Americans don’t save enough. In 1960, the personal-saving rate — the share of people’s after-tax income that they save — was 11 percent. By 2007, it was under 3 percent. Saving rebounded following the recession, but not by much: In August 2013, the saving rate was just 4.6 percent. A 2009 survey conducted by market-research firm TNS found that nearly half of Americans don’t believe they could come up with $2,000 in 30 days if they had to.

59.
Lech Walesa: Obama Has Failed, ‘America no Longer Leads the World’
. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, says President Obama has failed to reclaim America’s role as a world leader.

60.
Kansas farmer releases ag parody of Miley’s “Party in the USA”
. Even with the biggest party night of the year approaching, there’s work to be done on the farm, but Kansas farmer Derek Klingenberg and his cows enjoy the work as seen in a new ag parody.

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OVERSIGHT ARCHIVE, JAN-JUN 2013

NEWS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GLEANED FROM THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA

IF YOU LIKE YOUR TEA PARTY YOU CAN KEEP YOUR TEA PARTY•

Compiled by Ed. Wolff – Updated November 17, 2013

As more recent OVERSIGHT posts preempt older posts, those older posts are moved here to serve as a searchable resource.
Please send any comments you have to: oversight@palmbeachcountyteaparty.org.

OVERSIGHT CONTRIBUTORS

The people involved in the oversight activities and the initials used to identify their contributions are:
Joe Burge – J.B.; Marion Frank – M.F.; Mickey Gallagher – M.G.; Barbara, Mel Grossman – B.M.G.; Sally Schmiedl – S.S.; Carol Wagner – C.W.

This report does not represent any official positions of the Palm Beach County Tea Party

For Later Posts Go to OVERSIGHT.

The more recent archived information, reported first, includes:

Posted 6/28/2013
1.
Fed’s Vow To End QE May Run Aground On Economic Reality
. Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke says the central bank is getting ready to end its experiment in quantitative easing, perhaps beginning as early as September. To which we say: good riddance. Financial markets plunged and interest rates spiked after Bernanke all but announced he’ll begin tapering the Fed’s $85 billion a month debt-buying binge, or “quantitative easing.”
. Based on other Fed comments, the central bank wants to “moderate the monthly pace of purchases” of U.S. Treasury and agency debt to about $65 billion a month starting in September. That’s a net loss of $20 billion a month in Fed “stimulus.”And the stimulus, we’re told, might end entirely next year if, as expected, unemployment drops below 7%. This isn’t a bad thing. True, the Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) and zero-interest-rate policies have been the only game in town, but they’ve also distorted markets, making it harder for investors, homeowners and entrepreneurs to make rational economic decisions

2.
World Food Prize, GMO Crops and An End To Hunger
. The winners of the 2013 World Food Prize are sure to upset the anti-science political left. All are in the biotech field and one works at Monsanto, a multinational corporation and maker of genetically modified crops. Biotech scientists Marc Van Montagu of Belgium, Mary-Dell Chilton and fellow American Robert Fraley, an executive vice president, chief technology officer and scientist at the oft-demonized Monsanto Co., are this year’s winners. Like all previous recipients, they were chosen based on their having “advanced human development by increasing the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world,” says the World Food Prize Foundation.

3.
Chicago Teachers Union Prez Blames ‘Rich White People’
. The president of the Chicago Teachers Union charges that racism and “rich white people” are to blame for the immense financial and educational crisis facing the Chicago Public Schools. Tbe Chicago Public Schools (CPS) represent everything that is wrong with public education in America. They are in thrall to the unions that run the system and bankrupt it through bloated salaries and pensions while too many of the students trapped inside graduate as functional illiterates, if they graduate at all.

4.
Florida leads nation in vacated foreclosures — and it’s not even close
. Florida has more vacant homes in foreclosure than any other state in the nation, easily beating out other large states with troubled housing markets, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac, a California company that tracks distressed properties. There are 55,503 housing units in foreclosure in Florida that are vacant. That’s 33 percent of the 167,680 vacated foreclosures in the country. Florida’s vacated foreclosures are more than the next five highest states combined — Illinois, California, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. The vacated properties are a drag on property values because many are left neglected, although some cities in Florida have passed ordinances requiring banks to pay for the upkeep of foreclosed homes.

5.
Obama Unleashes ‘Insider Threat Program’
. Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions. President Barack Obama’s unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of “insider threat” give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.
. Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.

6.
FBI Hides Drone Details
. The FBI has received clearance from federal aviation officials to conduct drone surveillance operations in the United States on at least four occasions since 2010, according to public records and U.S. officials. The FBI began seeking permission in 2009 from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones domestically and received authorization for its first operations a year later, according to documents released Thursday by the FAA.
. The documents provide virtually no detail on where the FBI has operated drones in U.S. airspace, for what purpose or how long the missions lasted. But they shed some additional light on the origins and extent of the FBI’s secretive drone program, which FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III revealed Wednesday in Senate testimony. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI uses drones “in a very, very minimal way and very seldom.” He gave no other details, except to say that the agency has “very few” drones and “that our footprint is very small.” The FBI, he added, is working to develop privacy-protection guidelines, a major concern for lawmakers who worry that drones could be used by the government or private companies to revolutionize spying in the United States.

7.
Democrats Aren’t The Only Problem
. Many conservatives believe the tipping point has tipped – that a majority of Americans are either ill-informed, uneducated, delusional, foolish, feel entitled or are just plain lazy to the point where they will continue to vote for the Party or candidate they feel will give them more and more free stuff. Young kids espousing socialism over capitalism; rich liberals with their guilt and hypocrisy about how and why we got where we are; minority groups who have been convinced they’ll never survive without help from the government; and rabid, single issue pro-abortion voters have been organized and motivated to keep the Federal pig trough flowing.
. But it wasn’t without the help of Republicans. Remember it was not that long ago that George W. Bush was in the White House with a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate. Did they eliminate the departments of Education, Energy, Agriculture, anything? How about the budget – was it cut? Did we reduce the deficit, even when you put the cost of the wars aside, did we do anything about spending or reforming entitlements? The answer is a big fat no. In fact, Republicans in the House, Senate and White House spent like there was no tomorrow and actually created new entitlements!

8.
More evidence of slain U.S. Ambassador’s secret activities
. A Libyan weapons dealer from a group hired to provide security to the U.S. mission in Benghazi told Reuters he has helped ship weapons from Benghazi to the rebels fighting in Syria. The detailed account may provide more circumstantial evidence the U.S. Benghazi mission was secretly involved in procuring and shipping weapons to the Syrian opposition before the deadly attack last September that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

9.
Supreme Court’s Authority Faces Stunning Challenge
. A coalition of Christian organizations is warning that the U.S. Supreme Court does not have the power to redefine the institution of marriage, which predates government, churches and even religion.

10.
Alabama Adopts First Official State Ban on UN Agenda 21 – B.M.G.
. Alabama became the first state to adopt a tough law protecting private property and due process by prohibiting any government involvement with or participation in a controversial United Nations scheme known as Agenda 21. Activists from across the political spectrum celebrated the measure’s approval as a significant victory against the UN “sustainability” plot, expressing hope that similar sovereignty-preserving measures would be adopted in other states as the nationwide battle heats up.
. The Alabama Senate Bill (SB) 477 legislation, known unofficially among some supporters as the “Due Process for Property Rights” Act, was approved unanimously by both the state House and Senate. After hesitating for a few days, late last month Republican Governor Robert Bentley finally signed into law the wildly popular measure — but only after heavy pressure from activists forced his hand.

11.
Palm Beach Tea Party to Challenge School Board on Common Core Education Standards – B.M.G
. Ever vigilant, Florida’s Tea Party stalwarts have (metaphor alert) a new target in their crosshairs: Common Core. Depending on whom you believe, Common Core is either 1) “a set of standards that stops the regurgitation of facts and starts the critical analysis and problem solving in our classrooms” or 2) a “United Nations Takeover of K12 Education in America!” that’s “communist in origin and Progressive in its ideology and implementation.”
. Option one is the language of state Education Commissioner Tony Bennett. Option two is that of Jim Kelly, of Global Governance Watch, and Diane Kepus, of Floridians Against Common Core Education. Firmly on the side of the latter two, the Palm Beach County Tea Party is rallying the troops for a June 19 meeting of the PBC school board, to speak on behalf of Freedom!

12.
Why Rubio’s aides are dissing America’s workers – B.M.G.
. Remember the Time magazine cover that touted Marco Rubio as the new voice and savior of the GOP? Now his complicity in the Gang of 8’s betrayal of America’s sovereignty is forcing conservatives to admit what Time magazine’s stamp of approval should have proven to them already. Marco Rubio is just another deceitful figurehead of the elitist faction forces working to overthrow constitutional self-government in the United States. I warned people about this back in March in an article that analyzed the specious pro-life rhetoric Rubio used in his CPAC speech. Of course, if reasoning were enough to convince the people still wasting time, money, and morale on the GOP wing of the elitist faction, a new and truly conservative political vehicle would by now have displaced the treacherous so-called Republican Party.

13.
How Liberals Twist Language
. Throughout history, language has been used to manipulate, to help, to inspire and to control. In the political arena, language and communication are crucial to shaping a message and winning elections.
. In the 20th and 21st centuries, we’ve seen the Left hijack and manipulate language to win their battles. Saul Alinsky dedicated an entire chapter in his “Rules for Radicals” to communication. He wrote about how communication is the most important tool a radical activist must possess to be successful. “It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people,” Alinsky wrote.
Alinsky taught his followers to focus on human experiences and how to twist words to achieve that focus.

14.
Brazil’s Woes Are the Wages Of Socialism
. Brazil’s rulers have been taken aback by the millions of countrymen surging up against them, venting their fury. What we have here is a fresh example of why socialism fails. Up until now, a million Brazilians in the streets usually had something to do with a soccer match or, perhaps, a samba festival.
. This time, it wasn’t about festivities. What started as a protest against a 9-cent fare hike on public transport fireballed into a gigantic public protest against political corruption, high taxes and lousy public services — and the government itself.

15.
G-8 Countries Find America Under Obama No Longer Matters
. Descending from the heavens for the G-8 summit at beautiful Lough Erne this week, President Obama caused some amusement to his British hosts. The chancellor of the Exchequer had been invited to give a presentation to the assembled heads of government on the matter of tax avoidance (one of the big items on the agenda, for those of you who think what the IRS could really use right now is even more enforcement powers). The president evidently enjoyed it. Thrice, he piped up to say how much he agreed with Jeffrey, eventually concluding the presentation with the words, “Thank you, Jeffrey.” Unfortunately, the chancellor of the Exchequer

16.
The President’s League Of Liars Is Disabling Democracy
. Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble. If the Internal Revenue Service acts unlawfully, our voluntary system of citizens computing their own taxes implodes. Yet Lois Lerner, one of the IRS’ top officials, would not answer simple questions about her agency’s conduct during congressional testimony, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment. Any taxpayer who tried that with an IRS auditor would end up fined and in court.

17.
Columbine student’s father 12 years later – B.M.G.
. Guess our national leaders didn’t expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

18.
Unions Ask Judges to Rule Cities Can’t Declare ‘Financial Urgency’ Until They Go Bankrupt
. If several unions have their way, cities will have to go bankrupt before they can declare “financial urgency” and renegotiate their contracts with public-sector employees.
. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel at Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal heard oral arguments by lawyers litigating Broward County Police Benevolent Association v. City of Hollywood, the latest in a series of legal challenges being brought by public employee unions against local governments which have modified labor contracts after declaring a state of “financial urgency.”

19.
Drunk on Amnesty
. There’s a storm gathering around one of the provisions in the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, but it needs to gather faster, because the amnesty shill are ramming this thing through Congress faster than they’d ever consider moving on a bill that would actually help American citizens – say, by reducing the tax and regulatory burden on the private sector to spur job growth. Anyone who thought Congress was a lumbering dinosaur incapable of swift, decisive action can only marvel at the speed they’re moving on amnesty.
. One of the reasons for that speed is that Gang of Eight proponents don’t want the American people to know what’s in the bill – the same way they didn’t want us to read the last bill they passed in a blind haste, ObamaCare. (And look how that’s working out.) If we have time to study the bill, we’ll notice things like the provision that waves drunk-driving illegal aliens right to the head of the line for legalization, ahead of all those poor chumps who have been struggling to legally comply with America’s immigration laws.

20.
Climate scientist: Global warming models could be ‘fundamentally wrong’
. In an interview with the German news publication Der Spiegel, meteorologist Hans von Storch said that scientists are so puzzled by the 15-year standstill in global warming that if the trend continues their models could be “fundamentally wrong.” “If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models,” Storch told Der Spiegel. “A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.”

21.
Texas denied access to Okla. Water
. While the water department that serves the Fort Worth area claimed it has the right to the water under the Red River Compact, an agreement that allocates water rights among states where the river flows, Oklahoma argued that its state law prevents the transfer of water to out-of-state applicants. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court concluded that Texas has rights to water under the compact but cannot draw the water from Oklahoma.

22.
US troops to be deployed to — Egypt?
. U.S. troops are wrapping up training for a future 9-month deployment to Egypt for a peacekeeping and riot control mission. More than 400 American soldiers will soon join a multinational peacekeeping force comprised of military forces from 13 nations, according to The Washington Times.

23.
To Obama, there’s no such thing as ‘citizenship’
. Reflecting on the untimely death of Sopranos star James Gandolfini, Dr. Savage mused about America’s endless fascination with Mafia culture
. I’m on the side of the lawman, not the bad man,” Savage said. “But the truth is, we know that police and judges and politicians can be corrupted. That’s why there’s a part of us that sometimes wishes there was a ‘godfather’ we could go to, like the one in the movie, who could get us some justice another way.” Savage also mocked the president’s use of the phrase “American persons” to describe those who supposedly don’t have to worry about being spied on by the NSA (FREE audio). “Notice he didn’t say, ‘If you’re an America citizen,’” Savage pointed out. “To Obama, a man of the world, there is no such thing as citizenship. He said, ‘If you’re a U.S. person,’ but what he really meant was, ‘If you’re a U.S. number.’”

24.
Obama Presents the United States: Friend Of Cannibals
. In the history of warfare and international politics, it has often been the case that civilized nations have been obliged to align themselves with allies of convenience — nations or groups of a morally objectionable nature but strategic importance.
. But what goal could be so important for the United States to achieve in Syria that we ally ourselves with groups whose leaders practice cannibalism? This point was raised at the G-8 summit by Vladimir Putin, and it was raised recently in a speech by Glenn Beck in Washington, D.C. It’s not mere rhetoric. Putin and Beck are correct. Although any mention of the video has been blacked out of the mainstream media, even the Huffington Post acknowledged a month ago that Syrian rebels made a video that shows rebel leader Abu Sakkar, a founder of the Omar al-Farouq Brigade, cutting out and eating the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier.

25.
Obama Solves Mass-Layoff Problem by Laying Off Mass-Layoff Statistics Guys at BLS
. On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the-board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all “measuring green jobs” products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.

26.
Calif. working to put illegals under Obamacare coverage
. the countdown continues to Obamacare taking full effect in 2014, and while senators wrestle with details of an immigration overhaul that seem to change daily, California officials are having their own meetings. They’re figuring out how to break the key promise that Obamacare would not be used to pay for the health care of millions of people living in the country illegally.

27.
Lies Subvert Democracy
. Obama and his team have subverted the government they pledged to serve. Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble.

28.
“Fascism” Is the Best Way To Implement Seven50: SE Florida Prosperity Plan
. June 19-21, 2013 there were dueling Seven50 Summits at the Palm Beach Conference Center, West Palm Beach, Florida. The Seven50 plan is an effort by the Southeast Florida Regional Partnership, funded by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with the mission to,”[C]reate and implement the Seven50: SE Florida Prosperity Plan, a blueprint for a vibrant and resilient economy; socially inclusive, sustainable, and affordable communities; and environmental sustainability.”
. The City of Vero Beach, FL has pulled out of the plan. Mayor Craig Fletcher attended a briefing given by proponents of Seven50 and reported that: city and county government would be less important, only “mega regions” are important as in the EU, the seven Florida counties that are part of the partnership “would have someone to control them”, they (the EU) are not going to put up with the American education system and “Fascism is the best form of government to implement these changes”.

29.
Allen West editorial ‘sophomoric tripe’
. By Mort Kuff, June 22, 2013. A Palm Beach County Tea Party member’s opinion.

30.
How some states are addressing doctor shortages
. FLORIDA: Florida funded an additional 700 residency slots this year, but Florida will still need additional residencies and fellowships just to bring the state up to the national average per capita.
. CALIFORNIA: Proposed legislation would allow nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to expand the types of services they can provide patients.
. DELAWARE Has a loan repayment program for primary care providers who commit to work in underserved areas.

31.
10 to watch on ObamaCare rollout
. Federal and state officials are preparing to launch the health law’s insurance exchanges on Oct.1. But while most attention is trained on federal Health secretary Kathleen Sebelius, there are many others behind the scenes playing important roles in setting up the health exchanges, preparing for the Medicaid expansion and trying to get the public on board. Here are 10 key players to watch as the law is implemented.

32.
NSA Has Total Access Via Microsoft Windows
. The National Security Agency has backdoor access to all Windows software since the release of Windows 95, according to informed sources, a development which follows the insistence by the agency and federal law enforcement for backdoor “keys” to any encryption, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin
. Computer security specialists say that the Windows software driver used for security and encryption functions contains unusual features which give NSA that backdoor access.

33.
Smile! FBI scanning driver’s license images
. The FBI has gained access to driver’s license photos for residents of Nebraska, Illinois, South Carolina, Utah, North Carolina, Delaware, Texas and other states to hunt for suspects in criminal investigations. In memorandums obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the FBI is authorized to search state databases, which include images and personal information.

34.
The National-Security Right Goes Silent
. The jihad rages on, but the War on Terror is over. There is no longer a national-security consensus — no longer the political support for wartime defense measures, much less offensive combat operations. While the enemy continues to fight, our will to break the enemy’s will has vanished. After a contentious week, that much is clear. The controversy swirling around shadowy intelligence programs hasn’t gotten to the bottom of those programs, but it tells us everything we need to know about . . . us.
. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s dog that did not bark is a metaphor worn out by journalists. This week, though, the lack of a bark was loud and clear: The bark of the national-security Right defending the wartime powers of the presidency. For a variety of reasons, many of the protagonists have developed amnesia about how we came to have the programs now provoking all the cavil: the debates over the PATRIOT Act and FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act).

35.
On the Hill this week – P.W.
. Senate Cloakroom: June 24–28 and House Cloakroom: June 24–28. What to expect in Congress this week.

36.
World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve – B.M.G.
. A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.

37.
Mr. Rubio goes to Washington and is Washingtonized
. In 1939, Frank Capra made the quintessential American Political comedy-drama film Mr. Smith goes to Washington. This was a box-office hit and won an Academy Award. The hero, Jefferson Smith, was played by the famous actor James Stewart (1908ñ1997). Unlike most Hollywood stars, Stewart was a true American patriot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his gallantry as a bomber pilot in WW2, and later was a staunch Republican.
. Like many of Stewart’s roles, Mr. Smith was a fairly naive but very honorable man, and in this film, he was appointed to the US Senate. His special-interest backers hoped that his innocence would allow him to be manipulated. But Mr. Smith turned out to be too honest to go along with the corruption. So the power-brokers and the newspapers turned on him and savaged his reputation. Eventually Mr. Smith launched a 24-hour filibuster exposing the corruption, defending his innocence, and affirming American ideals. This was naturally exhausting. Eventually, Mr. Smith collapses. But by that time, the corrupt Senator Paine has repented, bursts into the Senate chamber, confesses his guilt, and affirms Smith,s innocence.

38.
President Obama’s ‘surrealpolitik’. Is Norway running U.S. foreign policy?
. The consensus in 2009 was that the Norwegian Nobel Committee had done something bizarre and stupid by awarding the Peace Prize to President Obama, who clearly had done nothing to merit it. “So far, the Right, Left and media all seem to agree that the Nobel Peace Prize committee just beclowned itself,” wrote political strategist Jon Henke at the time. But it turns out the joke was on us.

39.
Suspicious Activist and Whistleblower Deaths on the Rise
. In this year so far, we have seen a sharp increase in suspicious deaths of whistleblowers, activists, and anyone who is highly effective at trying to preserve the citizens’ rights and keep government in check.

40.
So Much For Obama ‘Transparency’ At CFPB
. In breach of federal law, the “most open and transparent administration” has shut out industry and press from critical meetings crafting new federal financial rules. A bank trade group has complained in a letter to President Obama’s powerful new credit watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that it’s been denied access to otherwise public sessions with the agency’s shadowy Consumer Advisory Board.

41.
Water official equates complaints with terrorism
. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A state water official told members of a Tennessee environmental group that their water quality complaints could be considered an act of terrorism. The comments came at a meeting between Department of Environment and Conservation officials and Mount Pleasant residents who are members of Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment.
. TDEC Deputy Director of the Division of Water Resources Sherwin Smith says, “…you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered, under homeland security, an act of terrorism.”

42.
Unexpected reaction as Mick Jagger takes a jab at Obama
. Mick Jagger got the crowd started up Monday night at the Rolling Stones concert in DC with a little jab at President Obama. “I don’t think President Obama is here tonight. But I’m sure he’s listening in,” Jagger said to the satisfaction of concertgoers critical of the NSA spying scandal. Most fascinating is that the crowd reportedly booed as soon as Jagger mentioned Obama’s name. In DC? Wow!

43.
Clawbacks: Another way to pry money out of private sector
. Generally, clawbacks are defined as policies to pursue the repayment or recovery of compensation paid to business executives when accounting mistakes are discovered, contracts are broken, or fraud has occurred. Government has stumbled onto clawbacks in recent years as a way to penalize private executives, raising the concept to a political science. Some forms of government clawback laws are legitimate, such as requiring a private company to uphold its end of a contract so government has protection when a company fails to perform
. Government began to bastardize the clawback concept when the U.S. House and Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, later signed into law by Obama. One of its provisions was that compensation to current or former company officers could be seized if an accounting restatement was triggered, regardless of fault. It’s only a small step for government to turn this law into a class warfare weapon to confiscate large sums of money as “penalties,” even when executives are faultless.
. But let’s not whine about mistreatment. Let’s put the shoe on the other foot. Since a clawback is a recapture provision saying that taxpayers should have money-back protection when business executives make bad decisions, let’s turn the tables and impose this obligation on politicians.

44.
Florida DEP says it has saved $8.8 million through staff reductions and improved efficiency
. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection says it has reduced operating expenses in its regulatory program by $8.8 million this fiscal year and it’s asking to keep some of it for employee bonuses. DEP says it cut spending through initiatives that led to reductions in the numbers of staff and layers of management and other savings including reduced travel costs, leased office space and use of office supplies and equipment.
. The Florida Chapter of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility last December questioned the cost-savings of employee layoffs saying the agency was cutting muscle and bone and that any fat was long gone. Jerry Phillips, a former DEP attorney who now is director of the Florida chapter, said taxpayers are not getting a bargain if there is less enforcement and fewer fines. “I think there’s no question there has been this — what they consider — to be increased accountability,” he said. “From what I hear it’s not increased accountability, it’s increased threat levels to the employees if they do their jobs. Enforcement has fallen through the floor.”

45.
Florida 2013 Economic Freedom Scorecard
. The 2013 Economic Freedom Scorecard grades more than 3,000 individual votes on twenty legislative issues. Each of our 2013 legislative priorities is included on this scorecard, as well as any additional issues that we communicated support or opposition for during the 2013 session. Our 2013 legislative priorities were based on the Five for Florida plan, which focuses on the principle of economic freedom and outlines policies that make a state more economically free. 53 legislators received A+ scores, designating them Champions of Economic Freedom. Additionally, there were 9 As, 23 Bs, 12 Cs, 8 Ds, and 54 Fs.

46.
Supreme Court Rules against Florida Taking Excessive Property Rights – B.M.G.
. Our decisions in Nollan v. California Coastal Comm’n… provide important protection against the misuse of the power of land-use regulation. In those cases, we held that a unit of government may not condition the approval of a land-use permit on the owner’s relinquishment of a portion of his property unless there is a “nexus” and “rough proportionality” between the government’s demand and the effects of the proposed land use.
. We hold that the government’s demand for property from a land-use permit applicant must satisfy the requirements of Nollan and Dolan even when the government denies the permit and even when its demand is for money.

47.
A Nation Turning Into Hell
. The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.” –Psalms 9:17
. If it’s not this unconstitutional and godless administration advocating criminal activity in one form or another (Amnesty for illegals, IRS scandal, NSA spying, Benghazi, Obamacare, abortion, homosexuality, Fast and Furious, etc.), then they are funding the crime through taxpayers money.
. In some ways it is not so much what the American people are sowing, but it is what they are letting this godless administration sow by force into a field they want everyone to harvest with them – like it or not. And if the American people are to stand back and allow this totalitarianism, then they are guilty of perpetuating this evil by refusing to stand against it.

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Taxpayers, Rockefellers Fund “Sustainable” Plot to Undermine Market
. The Rockefeller Foundation, mega-banks, and even taxpayers via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have provided millions of dollars toward pushing a new type of “socially responsible” corporate structure known as the “benefit corporation.” More than 15 states have already signed on. Critics, however, say the scheme will further undermine what remains of the market system while promoting deeply controversial United Nations Agenda 21-linked notions of “sustainable development.”
. Under the “benefit-corporation” agenda, companies would no longer be just responsible for producing shareholder profits. Instead, a firm that becomes a benefit corporation would also have to pursue other goals that appear noble at first glance — sustainability, social justice, environmentalism, social responsibility, and other alleged “public benefits.” Apparently, creating jobs for workers and profits for shareholders, as well as goods and services that consumers want to purchase, is no longer enough.

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“Absolute Power” America vs. Government – Intellectual Frog Legs Season 2, Episode 1
. The founders would kick our prissy politically-correct rear-ends, six ways to Sunday. We’ve allowed our federal government to all but destroy the constitution. If they were creeping before—they are marching now. The only remaining peaceful solution that I see, is for the states to exercise the 10th Amendment. The Federal Government is so broken, it cannot be repaired…even if it would allow itself to be repaired. And the Feds AIN’T going to voluntarily let go.

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Irish Parliamentarian: Is Obama ‘Going for the Hypocrite of the Century Award?’
. Clare Daly, a liberal deputy in the Irish Parliament, criticized President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Ireland, noting that the media coverage constituted “sycophantic fawning” over the Obamas and that the president, in permitting weapons to go to Syrian rebels, was arming “jihadists” and reversing women’s rights, thus potentially qualifying him for “the hypocrite of the century award.”

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Putin’s Cheatin’ Heart: Russia Snubs ’87 Missile Pact
. As the commander in chief calls for a one-third reduction in our nuclear arsenal, Russia builds new midrange missile banned under a 1987 arms treaty. How’s that “reset” button working out, Mr. President?
. Trust but verify, said the president who won the Cold War. Ronald Reagan’s “peace through strength” philosophy has been replaced with the “peace through parchment” strategy of Barack Obama. It emphasizes flexibility, not resolve, and relies on pacts such as the New Start Treaty and the pressing of imaginary reset buttons.

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Cheap Money Doesn’t Solve Underlying Economic Problems, Central Banks Find
. For more than four years, central banks around the world — led by the Federal Reserve — have aggressively pumped money into their economies to stimulate faster revival. These infusions are huge. From 2007 to today, the assets of major central banks nearly doubled from $10.4 trillion to $20.5 trillion, reports the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its just-released annual report.
. When these assets (bonds, mortgages and other financial instruments) are purchased, the sellers receive cash. The outpouring of cash aims to lower interest rates, push up stock prices and real estate values, and restore confidence and stronger economic growth.The most charitable verdict on this massive monetary experiment is that it’s done modest good. In the United States, it did reduce long-term interest rates and, to some extent, bolster stocks. Even so, the speed of the U.S. recovery (about 2% annually) is roughly half the average of all recoveries from 1960 to 2007.

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Fake border crossing attraction offered at Mexican amusement park
. A central Mexican amusement park offers a unique, hair-raising, heart-pounding attraction you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else — a fake, illegal border crossing from Mexico into the United States. Complete with fake coyotes — or human traffickers — drug smugglers and realistic-looking U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, the attraction, called “Night Walks,” was ostensibly set up to frighten people out of entering the United States illegally, according to PBS.org.

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Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub
. The Health and Human Services Department earlier this year exposed just how vast the government’s data collection efforts will be on millions of Americans as a result of ObamaCare. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., asked HHS to provide “a complete list of agencies that will interact with the Federal Data Services Hub.” The Hub is a central feature of ObamaCare, since it will be used by the new insurance exchanges to determine eligibility for benefits, exemptions from the federal mandate, and how much to grant in federal insurance subsidies.
. In response, the HHS said the ObamaCare data hub will “interact” with seven other federal agencies: Social Security Administration, the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Defense and — believe it or not — the Peace Corps. Plus the Hub will plug into state Medicaid databases.

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Palin Throws Down Gauntlet On Primary Challenges To Rubio, Ayotte
. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has the most influence among conservative voters in Republican primaries, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) should be primaried for their support of the Senate’s immigration bill.
. “Conservatives are getting ready for the 2014 and 2016 primaries. We have long memories, and there will be consequences for those who break campaign promises and vote for this amnesty bill,” Palin told Breitbart News. “Competition makes everyone work harder, be better, and be held accountable. This applies to politics, too. No one is ‘entitled’ to anything.”

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Note to Republicans: Tea Party Patriots Are Not The Enemy
. This column is going to be tough medicine for some Republicans to swallow—especially those who think the best strategy for taking back the White House is to water down the party’s traditional conservative values. I write specifically of Republicans who consider themselves moderates on social issues. In the old days we called moderates Rockefeller Republicans—they were sort of conservative on economic issues but indistinguishable from Democrats on social issues. This, by the way, is just one reason Nelson Rockefeller—namesake of Rockefeller Republicans—never became president. Today we have a more accurate and enduring term for so-called moderates: RINOs.
. Republicans call their party the party of Lincoln. Perhaps leaders in the national Republican Party should heed the words of old Abe who once said: “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Republican leaders should heed Lincoln’s advice as they struggle with the divisions that are growing up between grassroots conservative movements and the Republican Party. Bridging the growing gap between the Republican Party and grassroots conservative movements such as the TEA Party will require leadership and hard work. But the work must be done or George W. Bush will be the last Republican to serve as president.

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White House Rolls Out Red Carpet For Terror-Supporting Cleric
. Betrayal: In a new low for an administration that courts U.S. enemies, the White House has met secretly with the deputy of a Muslim cleric who has called for the killing of U.S. troops. On June 13, of all things the National Security Council hosted Sheik Abdullah bin Bayyah for a West Wing chat, where the radical Islamist asked for more support for Hamas and Syrian “rebels,” i.e. al-Qaida terrorists.

58.
The Top 5 Lies Of Obama’s Climate Change Speech
. False Witness: President Obama is being lauded for his plans to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. But the scheme looks more like the last refuge of a desperate movement, because the speech he gave in its defense was full of lies. His text was laden with myths, fables, distortions and outright lies. Here are the top five:

59.
Teachers Prepping for Common Core Implementation
. School may be out for summer, but that doesn’t mean teachers in Florida will be taking a break. The Florida Department of Education isn’t wasting any time making sure teachers are familiar with the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The DOE has scheduled seven seminars during the summer to make sure teachers are prepared to implement the CCSS in the 2014-2015 school year, when the learning initiative will become mandatory for schools all over the state.

60.
Obama to U.S. Military: Stand Down
. In closed door hearings on Capitol Hill today, Congress will ask military commanders with responsibility for forces in and around Benghazi who exactly relayed that order and why. But a closer look at this administration’s record reveals that standing down is a recurring theme. It is an implicit order that is given to the military every day in the Obama administration. It is part of a decade-long dream by the left to neuter our military and ensure that they are no longer able to be the shock troops for a nation that they believe is at the root of the world’s ills.

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Coming Next, an Obama-Corps for America’s Youth
. Universal national service for Americans 18-28 is the goal of the most prestigious gathering of the Establishment so far this year, an invitation-only “Summit” presently taking place at the Aspen Institute in Colorado (June 24-25). Two hundred of the shiniest names in philanthropy, government, business, and media — including a sprinkling of Republican notables — will be there to make a year of national service “a common expectation…for all young people.”
. In the midst of rising public distrust of government and, especially, distrust of the Obama Administration, Administration backers and their allies are launching yet another plan for major expansion of government and Washington’s control over people’s lives.

62.
The Glue Holding America Together
. By A.D. 200, the Roman Republic was a distant memory. Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors like Scipio or Cicero. Millions no longer spoke Latin. Italian emperors were a rarity. There were no national elections. Yet Rome endured as a global power for three more centuries. What held it together?
. Something likewise both depressing and encouraging is happening to the United States. Few Americans seem to worry that our present leaders have lied to or misled Congress and the American people without consequences.

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WH Touts Kenyan Program to Obtain National ID Cards for Voter Registration – B.M.G
. As President Obama and his family continue their tour of Africa, the White House put out a Fact Sheet entitled “U.S. Support for Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Rule of Law, and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.” One of the first items highlighted by the White House is a $53 million program in Kenya that helps young people “obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration.”
. And on the voter ID case, I can tell you that, as you know, this administration believes it should be easier for eligible citizens to vote — to register and vote. We should not be imposing unnecessary obstacles or barriers to voter participation.

Posted 6/21/2013

1.
Teacher Writes Legislator after Retiring Due to Common Core – B.M.G.
. “There is much more involved here, than just a list of standards… if all the facts were known, it would be more than obvious that the legislature would make the move to abandon Common Core.”

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Outrage As High School Recites Pledge in Arabic Saying ‘One Nation Under Allah’ – B.M.G.
. Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic – replacing ‘one nation under God’ with ‘one nation under Allah’.
. Following Monday’s pledge, Principal Tom Lopez has been inundated with complaints from outraged parents concerned that saying the Pledge in any language other than English is unpatriotic. Standing by his controversial decision, Principal Lopez has said that despite the irate telephone calls and emails, he is not in any way or form trying to push an Islamic agenda at the Fort Collins school.

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Four Words to Watch in the Immigration Debate
. The Senate will begin debate on the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal next week. Here are four words to watch out for as the Senators make their case—and warnings about what they might mean: 1. COST; 2. BORDER; 3. AMNESTY; 4. “COMPREHENSIVE”

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Clean-Energy Fuel Cell Gets Inventor a Jail Cell
. Krister Evertson is the kind of person all good conservationists should honor. He spent his life’s work in pursuit of an economical, clean-energy fuel cell that could generate power without polluting the air. However, that endeavor lead to two prosecutions and 13 months in federal prison.
. To help fund his research, Krister sold excess sodium on eBay from his Alaska home. Because of the explosive nature of sodium, federal regulations require that it be shipped by ground rather than air. Krister packaged the sodium appropriately and shipped it “ground delivery” to the buyer. He was unaware that, given Alaska’s unique location, even “ground delivery” from Alaska travels by air and that a special label was required to keep the shipment from flying to its destination.
. On May 27, 2004, federal agents in two black SUVs, waving assault rifles, forced Krister’s car off the road. Manhandling him as if he were a terrorist, they arrested, interrogated, and jailed him. For what? Putting the wrong shipping label—with the correct instructions, mind you—on a box of raw sodium that he sold on eBay. A jury saw that it was an honest mistake and found Krister “not guilty.” But while Krister was on trial, sodium from his experiments sat in steel drums at an industrial warehouse. The Environmental Protection Agency learned of the additional sodium, determined that Krister had “abandoned” it, and charged him with a federal crime.

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How to Put a Thrill Into Saving Money
. To move up the economic ladder in America, you need to save money. Savings allow people to get over bumps in the road without a disaster. Like when you get really sick and can’t work for a month. Or when you need to cover moving expenses to take a better job in another city. Or when you want to take a night class in bookkeeping to qualify for a promotion. But about a third of Americans save nothing, especially those starting out nearer the bottom of the economic ladder. In most cases, that’s not because a family truly lacks any resources to save. Indeed, one study showed that American households with annual incomes of less than $12,500 actually put an average of about $650 each year into a rainy-day fund. The problem is that their rainy-day investment instruments were lottery tickets.

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White House Defends Potential $100 Million Africa Sequestration Trip as “Great Bang for Our Buck”
. “There will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa because when you travel to regions like Africa that don’t get a lot of presidential attention, you tend to have very longstanding and long-running impact from the visit,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Obama.

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Documents Reveal DHS Abandoned Illegal Alien Background Checks to Meet Amnesty Requests Following Obama’s DACA
. Judicial Watch announced today that documents obtained recently through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) abandoned required background checks late last year, adopting, instead, costly “lean and lite” procedures in effort to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications spurred by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) directive, which grants illegal aliens a two-year deferment from deportation.
. Acting on a tip from a whistleblower at a federal law enforcement agency, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with DHS, for “all communications, memoranda, emails, policy guidance, directives, initiatives, and any other correspondence respecting the scope and extent of background checks to be performed (or not) on aliens applying to the Obama administration’s DACA program.” The FOIA was filed on October 26, 2012. The Immigration and National Security Act (INA) mandates a “coordinated, uniform, and efficient,” system of background checks. Instead, the FOIA documents reveal a costly, haphazard process, with only cursory review for the backgrounds of illegal aliens seeking “deferred status.”

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Obamacare? We were just leaving …
. Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.

9.
Nothing to Fear…Except our Government
. When it comes to the government monitoring and ultimately STEALING your data, it’s good to keep things in perspective. And in doing so, it’s not a stretch to compare it to the Nazis. Many of us believe, “If I’m doing nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear.” But I’ve watched enough spy thrillers to know that data can be manipulated, especially if I’m the one with the data.

10.
Scores for Current Votes Online Now
. You can enter your ZIP code to see how your representatives have voted.

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CBS probe finds computer of lead Benghazi reporter was hacked
. A probe commissioned by CBS News has confirmed the suspicions of reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who said last month amid revelations the Justice Department snooped on Associated Press and Fox News reporters that she believed her own computer had been hacked, the network said.
. The network said it has not determined who was behind the breach of Attkisson’s computer, but said the hacker “used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.”

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White House attempts to remove ‘Father’ from ‘Founding Fathers’
. Attempts at gender neutrality and political correctness can lead to hilarious results, but none more so than the White House blog announcing that “The papers of the Founding Founders are now online.”
. In an apparent effort to make sure the names of Dolly Madison, Martha Washington and Abigail Adams weren’t disparaged, Keith Donohue announced Thursday in the White House blog that papers written by our country’s founders were now available, according to The Daily Caller. However, either Donohue or a higher-up had a real problem with the term “founding fathers,” and decided to change the word “fathers” with “founders,” thus ending up with the term, “founding founders.”

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The IRS, The NSA and Comprehensive Amnesty Reform All Tie Together In a Very Nasty Way.
. Keeping You Down Is Way More Important Than Keeping You Safe
. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide believe it is likely the NSA data will be used by other government agencies to harass political opponents. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 30% consider it unlikely and 14% are not sure.

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CBS News Compares Iranian Candidates To Tea Party
. On Saturday, CBS News reported on the elections in Iran – by comparing the mullahs to the Tea Party. Reporter Elizabeth Palmer said, discussing the new president, Hassan Rahjani, “Well, he was seen as the most reform-minded of all the candidates who ran this time, that being said, they were all very conservative. In US terms it was as if all the candidates for the presidency came from the Tea Party.”

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Palin on Syria: ‘let Allah sort it out’
. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said until the United States has a Commander-in-Chief who knows what he is doing, America should stay out of the mess in the Middle East. Palin asked, “Militarily, where is our Commander-in-Chief?”

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Feds To Grab $130 B In Fines From Employers Thanks To Obamacare
. The federal government is set to pick up $130 billion in penalties over the next decade from companies once Obamacare kicks in, according to estimates provided by the government. Those penalties will land on companies that either don’t provide employees health insurance or what the government considers to be “inadequate” health insurance.
. Here’s how it works. If you’re a company with 50 or more full-time employees, and one of your employees is spotted getting a tax credit for coverage in a state-based health insurance exchange, you’ll pay $2,000 per employee past 30. In other words, if just one of your workers receives a tax credit, you’ll shell out $40,000 minimum. The fine maxes out at $140,000 for a company with 100 employees in 2014.

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Admission: Special Forces Were Only Hours From Benghazi
. In a bombshell admission that has until now gone unreported, Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded that highly trained Special Forces were stationed just a few hours away from Benghazi on the night of the attacks but were not told to deploy to Libya.
. In comments that may warrant further investigation, Dempsey stated at a Senate hearing Wednesday that on the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, command of the Special Forces – known as C-110, or the EUCOM CIF – was transferred from the military’s European command to AFRICOM, or the United States Africa Command.

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Navy judge rules Obama exerted ‘unlawful command influence’ in pending cases
. A Navy Judge Advocate General Corps officer serving as judge ruled that President Barack Obama exerted “unlawful command influence” in two pending cases, which severely limited the sentence he was able to mete out in each. Well played, Mr. President, well played.
. Cmdr. Marcus Fulton ruled at pre-trial hearings in Hawaii this week that two defendants accused of sexual assault cannot be dishonorably discharged from the service if convicted because of remarks the president had made as commander-in-chief, according to Stars and Stripes.

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South African Muslim lawyers call for Obama’s arrest
. Johannesburg based Muslim Lawyers Association today lodged a Complaint with the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) and the South African Police Services (SAPS) in terms of international customary law as well as the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Act 2002 (the ICC Act) calling for USA President Barack Obama to be investigated, charged, arrested and tried in a South African Court for War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and Genocide. This comes shortly after the announcement that Obama will be visiting South Africa on an official trip, his first since taking up a second term in office.

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Pork-painted bullets sure to offend Muslims
. In a move that is certain to anger some Muslims, an Idaho company has begun producing bullets coated with “pork-infused paint.” Jihawg Ammunition’s company slogan is “Peace through Pork,” as stated on its web site, which says it “is the only ammunition in the world that provides a peaceful and natural deterrent to radical Islam.”

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Dem. lawmaker cries foul that he must come under Obamacare
. Now that 2014 is fast approaching and everyone will have to come under Obamacare — including members of Congress and their staff — one Democratic lawmaker is crying foul, claiming it’s “not fair” they should have to be subjected to it like the rest of us. Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., is finding it impossible yo keep staff members — they’re leaving his office in droves to avoid Obamacare. He summed up his dilemma by saying “this is simply not fair,” according to Forbes.

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Backdoor Bailouts Begin
. The Treasury Department’s release of $100 million from the Hardest Hit Fund last week amounts to a federal bailout of five Michigan cities without congressional oversight or approval. The Hardest Hit Fund, part of the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program, was intended to provide assistance to homeowners in states particularly hard hit by the economic recession and housing market downturn. Treasury released the $100 million in the name of fighting blight, but local officials will actually use the funds to demolish homes and buildings.

23.
STOP National ID
. The so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” proposal being touted by Senators Chuck Schumer and John McCain includes a de facto National ID system that would be required for all U.S. citizens in order to hold a job legally. A National Database with biometric information would also be created allowing government bureaucrats to track an American’s every move.

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House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records
. Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.
. “(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider’s corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” members of the committee wrote in a letter Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.

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8th Grader Suspended Over Nra T-Shirt Could Get Jail Time
. In April Breitbart News reported that West Virginia 8th grader Jared Marcum was suspended for refusing to take off an NRA t-shirt he wore to school. And details now indicate the 8th grader could face a $500 fine and up to a year in jail for obstruction charges. Fox News reports that on June 13 Marcum appeared before a judge “and was officially charged with obstructing an officer.” Moreover, the judge has allowed “the prosecution to move forward” with its case against Marcum. Logan City Police officer James Adkins says that Marcum refused to quit talking when asked to remove the shirt. The officer said this hindered his ability to do his job.

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Obamacare Loophole to Hammer Low-Wage Workers
. The predictable hits just keep on coming as the Obamacare clock ticks down toward full implementation. Liberals have shifted gears from arguing the law will lower costs and reduce premiums for everyone — which is how the unpopular overhaul was dishonestly marketed — to shrugging that hey, at least many uninsured and lower-income citizens will get affordable coverage. But even that’s not universally true, as many American workers are about to painfully discover. Behold, the “Affordable” Care Act in action (via the Associated Press):
. It’s called the Affordable Care Act, but President Barack Obama’s health care law may turn out to be unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores and hotels. That might seem strange since the law requires medium-sized and large employers to offer “affordable” coverage or face fines. But what’s reasonable? Because of a wrinkle in the law, companies can meet their legal obligations by offering policies that would be too expensive for many low-wage workers. For the employee, it’s like a mirage — attractive but out of reach.

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President Obama and his daughter play with toy guns
. Wishing Americans a happy Father’s Day, the White House tweeted a picture of President Obama and one of his daughters playing with toy water pistols.

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Palin’s comedic rant: NSA ‘couldn’t find two pot-smoking deadbeat Bostonians’
. Sarah Palin could take her outstanding speech from the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference Saturday on the road and do stand-up comedy while educating Americans on the disasters in DC. She was on a roll Saturday in DC with her wise and witty slamming of Obama voters, her critics, and the scandal plagued Obama administration.

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Governor signs 60 new laws
. Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Friday to speed executions in Florida, despite warnings that innocent prisoners will die. Scott also signed a bill that stops cities and counties from telling employers how much sick leave they must provide their workers. He vetoed a public-records exemption that would have blocked disclosure of voters’ e-mail addresses, which are contained on registration forms.

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Scott on mission to Paris
. Gov. Rick Scott is headed to Paris to look for jobs. He left Friday for the eponymous international air show that begins Monday and is considered the world’s leading aviation and space event. Florida is home to more than 2,000 aerospace and aviation companies and Scott leads a delegation of about 100 people in an effort to urge companies to relocate to Florida or to do business with Florida-based companies.

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Supreme Court: Arizona law requiring citizenship proof for voters is illegal
. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.

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What the Supreme Court Did and Didn’t Say in Arizona Citizenship Voter Ruling
. The U.S. Supreme Court this morning struck down an Arizona law that requires people to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote at their local DMV, but conservatives upset at the ruling should understand what the justices did and didn’t say.
— The ruling has nothing whatsoever to do with Voter ID laws, which require voters to provide identification before receiving or casting a ballot. Arizona’s Voter ID law was not before the court.
— The ruling does not affect any proof-of-citizenship requirements Arizona has for allowing people to vote in state and local elections.

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3 Things You Should Know About the Supreme Court and Voter ID
. Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down one of its first major decisions of this term, striking down Arizona’s measure requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. Media reports are already off base in interpreting this decision, says Heritage legal expert Hans von Spakovsky. Here are three things to know about the decision. This is not a voter ID decision. This decision has to do with voter registration, not the act of voting.

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FBI Accused of Aiding Muslim Brotherhood
. On the House floor on Friday, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert accused various federal agencies of aiding Islamic terrorists organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America in their attempts to enact Sharia Law.
. “We need to address the political correctness that is blinding our agencies and blinding our military of its ability to see who the enemy is, because it’s getting people killed,” Gohmert said.

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Obama runs immigration bill from White House, according to new report
. The White House is playing a larger role in developing the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill than its supporters publicly admit, according to a forthcoming article in The New Yorker. “‘No decisions are being made without talking to us about it,’ the official said of the Gang of Eight negotiations … ‘This does not fly if we’re not O.K. with it,’” a senior Obama official told author Ryan Lizza for the pending article.

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17 Reasons the $17 Trillion Debt Is Still a Big Deal…
. 1. $53,769 – Your share of the national debt. 2. Personal income will be lower. 3. Fewer jobs and lower salaries.

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National Labor Relations Board Smacked Down in Court Once Again
. This week, a federal appellate court struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “poster rule,” finding that the agency does not have the authority to issue such a rule. The poster rule requires more than 6 million employers to post notices at work informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, undercutting employers’ free speech rights to engage in noncoercive speech about unionization. The NLRB threatened to make the failure to comply with the poster rule an unfair labor practice and evidence of an employer’s “antiunion animus” for claims before the NLRB.

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What the Russians recognized—and the FBI ignored
. A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating confirmed yesterday — raising questions about whether Tsarnaev’s direct link to the known militant was ever passed on to the FBI or local authorities.

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27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine – B.M.G.
. Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn’t any privacy. He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine. Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us.

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Federal government has new group in its sights
. This week the US House of Representatives considers the 2013 Farm Bill — the agriculture policy tool for the federal government. Of all of the amendments that will be debated, there is one in particular that has conservatives fuming. If passed, the “Egg Bill” amendment will result in an unfunded government mandate on thousands of American family farmers. The amendment calls for federal requirements on the size and structure of egg producing facilities. This mandate could have significant consequences for farmers — especially the smaller, familyrun businesses. It would likely force farmers to shut down their operations or significantly increase their production costs, which will inevitably be passed on to consumers at the grocery stores and at restaurants. This complete overhaul of our nation’s egg producing facilities is expected to increase the price of eggs and any food containing eggs, such as baked goods.

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Obama disappoints world: How do you say ‘miss me yet’ in French?
. This just in from the Washington Post: There are countries where people are deeply worried about the economy and distrustful of the Obama administration’s seemingly dishonest and occasionally faltering leadership. And some of the people there even speak English. Those countries are in Europe, according to a long article in Sunday’s Washington Post, which details the price Obama is paying “for recent controversies that have dogged his administration.”

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AT&T to force Obama alerts for iPhones with no way to opt out
. Not only is Big Brother President Obama watching you, he’s going to start messaging you if you own an iPhone with AT&T service. AT&T subscribers with an iPhone 4S or 5 using iOS 6.1 or higher are going to start getting presidential alerts on matters of “national importance” whether you want them or not, the Inquisitr reported.

43.
Whistleblower: Obama Used NSA For Politics
. The IRS may have utilized surveillance data collected by the National Security Agency to harass political opponents of the Obama administration, including the tea party, charged NSA whistleblower William Binney in a radio interview. After working in the intelligence community for more than 30 years, Binney retired from the NSA in 2001. He co-founded a unit on automating NSA signals intelligence and served as technical leader for NSA intelligence in 2001. Binney is credited with helping to modernize the NSA’s worldwide eavesdropping network.
. Asked on Aaron Klein’s WABC radio show Sunday whether he believes data collected on millions of Americans was used by the government against political enemies, Binney replied in the affirmative. “That’s exactly the danger about letting the government have all this kind of information about its citizens,” the ex-NSA official stated.

44.
Clinton: Israel Must Make Peace or Disappear
. In a speech that will no doubt incentivize Palestinians to continue their campaign of terror and warfare against Israel, former President Bill Clinton told Israel that it would have to make peace with the Palestinians if it wanted to remain Jewish and democratic. He said that thanks to demographic changes, Israel will have to separate from the Palestinian population in order to maintain its majority.

45.
Tea Party Group Announces Alternative Reform Plan to Senate Immigration Bill
. Yet another Tea Party group has come out publicly against the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, as TheTeaParty.net has announced its opposition to the legislation and published online an alternative plan for immigration reform.
. “The granting of citizenship is the most solemn honor this country can confer,” TheTeaParty.Net founder Todd Cefaratti said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News. “It is not something that ought to be used to score political points or to win the next election.”

46.
Congress’s Docket
. Coming Up This Week. 2 bills and resolutions are on the House and Senate calendars for the coming days. Once bills are scheduled for floor action, they typically have enough support to pass.

47.
In Northern Ireland, Obama Pushes A Stale Leftist Canard About Religion
. In Northern Ireland, President Obama repeated an old canard about religious schools being at the root of division there and elsewhere. In reality, hatred comes from state power and poisonous political ideologies. Sticking his nose in Northern Ireland’s internal affairs at the Group of Eight summit in Belfast, the president pretty much told the Irish to dismantle their Catholic and Protestant schools, on the grounds they’re hotbeds of hatred.

48.
Memo To G-8: Problem Isn’t Tax Dodging; It’s Spending
. The world economy is a shambles due in large part to governments in Europe, Japan and the U.S. continuing to spend beyond their means. So what was topic No. 1 at the just-concluded G-8 summit? Corporate tax avoidance! Of all the world’s financial and economic ills, corporate tax avoidance is probably the least pressing. But for G-8 nations, it has one big advantage: It lets feckless leaders who refuse to address their nations’ real problems posture as “doing something” about a phony crisis.

49.
Do Progressives, Liberals And Racists Belong Together?
. Grutter v. Bollinger was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s racial admissions policy. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the majority, said the U.S. Constitution “does not prohibit the Law School’s narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.” But what are the educational benefits of a diverse student body? Intellectuals argue that diversity is necessary for academic excellence, but what’s the evidence? For example, Japan is a nation bereft of diversity in any activity. Close to 99% of its population is of one race. Whose students do you think have higher academic achievement — theirs or ours?

50.
Auditing Cicero
. When will you stop testing our patience? How long will you mock us? How long must we endure that famous audacity of yours? The people are alarmed — doesn’t that mean anything to you? Even the Senate feels the need to defend itself against you. Don’t the worried faces in this august assembly worry you? Don’t you know that your plans already have been found out? Everyone here knows what you are up to. We know where you were last night, and the night before that, where you met, whom you met with, the schemes you hatched. Didn’t you think we’d find out?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam

51.
Scott, Florida Keep Racking Up Successes at Paris Air Show
. High-flying Florida is flashing its colors and its famous sunshine this week at the world’s premier commercial and military aviation and space trade fair, and it’s paying off for Gov. Rick Scott and the nearly 80 Florida-based companies, educational institutions and state agencies he’s taken to Paris with him.
. The Sunshine State has the largest of the United States’ 34 state pavilions at the 50th annual International Paris Air Show, and even in the second day the effort is paying off measurably. On Tuesday, Scott and president and CEO of Vision Systems, Carl Putman, announced that Vision Systems, a Lyon, France-based tier one supplier for the aeronautics, marine, and automotive industries, will open its first U.S. subsidiary on the Space Coast.

52.
Ted Cruz: Anyone know if Obama is going to perform background checks on Syria rebels?
. Background checks are required for Americans before they can purchase a weapon. Does an American have to have a background check before he/she can receive a weapon as a gift?

53.
FBI director admits domestic use of drones for surveillance
. The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use of the controversial aircraft.

54.
Capitol Hill Police Block Tea Party Activists from Immigration Rally
. Capitol Hill police are trying to block activists attending Wednesday’s “Audit the IRS” rally from also attending a nearly day-long press conference on immigration, hosted by Reps. Steve King and Louie Gohmert. The IRS rally is on the west side of the Capitol, while the immigration event is on the east side. Organizers for the IRS event were told by Hill police that “your people” can only assemble on the west side. Organizers were told to remove the activists from the immigration event.

55.
In Afghanistan, Obama Repeating Big Vietnam Mistake
. President Obama is practically engineering a silent coup against flawed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, with whom we replaced the Taliban in 2001. He’s copying America’s worst mistake of the Vietnam War.
. A perfect comparison it may not be, but disturbing similarities exist between the Obama administration’s unfolding abandonment of Afghanistan’s corrupt President Karzai and the Kennedy administration’s betrayal of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem 50 years ago.

56.
Audit Finds ObamaCare Train Wreck Ahead
. After months of reassurances that the ObamaCare exchanges would be running by Oct. 1, it turns out they’re well behind schedule. Truth becomes an even rarer commodity in the Obama administration. ‘Yes, we will be ready,” said Gary Cohen, who is spearheading ObamaCare implementation at the Department of Health and Human Services. That was in January. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has since repeatedly insisted that “we will launch the health insurance exchanges on time.” She was so confident, she said, there was no need for a contingency plan.
. But the HHS put up a stone wall whenever Sen. Max Baucus pushed for details on progress made against specific deadlines. “You’ve never given me any data, you just give me concepts,” Baucus complained in April, before issuing his now-famous warning of an ObamaCare “train wreck” come October. Turns out Baucus was right to be concerned. Two Government Accountability Office reports released on Wednesday show that the administration and the states are well behind schedule on several fronts, leading the GAO to warn that they might not actually be ready in time.

57.
Obama Rhetoric Matches That Of Old Soviet Leaders
. President Obama insists his policies are driven by a “common sense” approach. He also speaks in terms of “we the people” and “the government is us.” Such declarations are reminiscent of old Soviet posters displayed for all to see: “ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE” and “PEOPLE AND COMMUNIST PARTY ARE ONE.”
. But the real power in the USSR was in the hands of Communist Party leaders. They, in the name of the people, defined foes of centralized government as “enemies of the people.” Similarly, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security has defined right-wing extremists as “those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority.”

58.
Embarrassing Photo Compares Obama’s Berlin Crowds – B.M.G
. Courtesy of Fox News, here is a photo comparing the crowd size at Obama’s 2008 speech in Berlin, and the crowd size at his speech today. In 2008, then-Senator Obama had no record and our corrupt media had no interest in vetting him. Therefore, he was a cipher; a thing upon which the world could gaze and pour their hopes and dreams into. With his empty prose and sketchy rhetoric about hope and change, Obama positioned himself to be whatever you wanted him to be. And our compliant, biased, irresponsible, and dangerous media willfully aided and abetted that deception.
. In 2008, The Cipher brought in a crowd estimated at 200,000. Wednesday, The Reality pulled in only around 4,500.

59.
The EPA: Agency of Regulation or Agency of Restriction? – B.M.G
. In late April, a federal court decision was reached that should attract the attention of anyone wishing to develop property. In a unanimous decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the EPA has the power to veto permits, even after they have been approved.

60.
Michigan Think Tank High on Florida Education Reform
. A policy analyst from Michigan’s Mackinac Center is sky-high on Florida education, particularly its reform model, insisting the Sunshine State has plenty to be proud of. A new study by the state-based think tank compares the Wolverine State’s student achievement and education policies with the Sunshine State’s. The conclusion: Michigan would be a top performer if it had enacted similar education reforms during the past 15 years.

61.
Audit The IRS Rally
. If you missed seeing the Tea Party Patriots rally on June 19th on CSPAN3, here it is

62.
Obama greeted with mocking ‘Yes We Scan’ signs in Berlin
. President Barack Obama didn’t receive quite as warm a reception as he may have expected when he addressed an audience in Berlin Wednesday.

63.
America should learn from Europe on wind power
. As the Department of Energy considers a loan guarantee for the Cape Wind Project in Massachusetts, it should learn from Europe’s failed wind energy experiments – and from its own troubled experiences with renewable energy projects. Germany and Spain are waking up to the inevitable truth about renewable energy, especially offshore wind. They are now realizing the projects cannot survive without subsidies and that they make energy much more expensive to households and businesses. In an age of austerity, they are a luxury even Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, cannot fully afford any more.

64.
DHS hopes to get same cyber-spying powers as NSA
. Domestic spying capabilities used by the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens could soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security — a bureaucracy with the power to arrest citizens that is not subject to limitations imposed on the NSA.
. Unlike the DHS, the NSA is an intelligence agency, not a domestic law enforcement agency. It cannot arrest those suspected of wrongdoing. That power of the federal government lies with agencies under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, the Treasury, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.

Posted 6/14/2013

1.
Why the gov’t source leaked PRISM
The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies — Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple — and “extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”

Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed “PRISM,” to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I’ve read to date about U.S. government surveillance: Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

2.
This Won’t Turn Out Well
The IRS prepares to enforce Obamacare’s contraception mandate. On August 1, the one-year “safe harbor” for religious charities objecting to provisions of Obamacare will end. Starting then, these nonprofit employers will be forced to violate their religious beliefs or pay large fines. In charge of collecting the fines will be our recently newsworthy friends at the Internal Revenue Service.

To recap how we got here: In 2010 a panel created by the new health care law determined that all health insurance policies provided by employers must cover contraception, sterilization, and abortion drugs free of charge. Employers not complying with this Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate will be fined up to $100 per employee, per day. For some, that could mount to millions of dollars a year.

3.
Obama Fails to Commemorate D-Day
Yesterday was the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion and President Obama failed to say anything about it. There is no released statement on WhiteHouse.gov and nothing on the White House or Barack Obama twitter feeds about the anniversary. President Obama did not make any public remarks about the anniversary yesterday, either.

However, Obama has taken the time to release a statement about Rep. John Dingell becoming the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history.

4.
Rising Red tide: China encircles U.S. by sailing warships in American waters, arming neighbors
China has been quietly taking steps to encircle the United States by arming western hemisphere states, seeking closer military, economic, and diplomatic ties to U.S. neighbors, and sailing warships into U.S. maritime zones.

The strategy is a Chinese version of what Beijing has charged is a U.S. strategy designed to encircle and “contain” China. It is also directed at countering the Obama administration’s new strategy called the pivot to Asia. The pivot calls for closer economic, diplomatic, and military ties to Asian states that are increasingly concerned about Chinese encroachment throughout that region.

5
School cut off Valedictorian’s microphone during speech
A North Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech, prompting questions over his free speech rights. Students attending the Joshua High School graduation say Remington Reimer’s microphone was cut off, right when he began to talk about the Constitution.

6.
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals. The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year but never published, states that what it calls Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) “can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national objectives around the world with little or no warning to the adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to severely damaging”.

7.
Ricin Suspect Was Tracked Via Mail Scanners
Postal Service photographs every piece of mail it processes. A high-tech computer system that captures images of “every mail piece that is processed” by the United State Postal Service was critical in helping federal agents track the Texas woman arrested today for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

8.
Eight Colorado counties want to leave the state
As a sign of just how divisive the recently ended Colorado legislative session has been, it may very well result in a literal division of the state. As many as eight counties composing the rural, oil and gas-rich northeast corner of the state are pursuing a plan to cut ties with a capital city they no longer feel represents their interests and come together as the 51st state in the country: North Colorado.

9.
DHS insider: It’s about to get very ugly
Seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security. felt like I was part of a spy movie set in our nation’s capital. A chill rose up my spine as I waited in the dark of a chilly, misty and foggy pre-dawn morning. I was to meet with my DHS insider source at a time when most of the nation is asleep, at a place I could swear was featured in the movie All the President’s Men. No one and I mean no one knows I’m here, I thought, as I could see one of the most recognizable national landmarks in the distance. My source appeared out of nowhere, or so it seemed, and handed me a cup of coffee with the astute observation that I looked like I needed it. So tell me, I asked impatiently, why do we have to meet at this time, at this location, and under such specific circumstances? ‘Because this might be our last meeting,’ he stated.

“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cahones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal,’” he said.

10.
Climate change causing Pentagon planning shift, says DOD strategist
One of the Pentagon’s top strategists said climate change is fundamentally altering how the Defense Department (DOD) evaluates future conflict areas. Daniel Chiu, the deputy assistant secretary of DOD strategy, said climate change has the Pentagon thinking about impacts on global food and water scarcity, mass migration and the potential for those issues to ignite clashes around the world.

11.
Air Force Removes Video that Mentions God
The Pentagon directed an Air Force Base to remove a video tribute to First Sergeants because it mentioned the word ‘God’ and might be offensive to atheists or Muslims, Fox News has learned.

12.
Where’s Obama as IRS, EPA compete for most bizarre scandal in Washington?
Fake employees who win awards. Workers building comfy warehouse hideaways. Big bucks shelled out for for pricey “happiness experts.” And professionally produced office dance videos. No, it’s not the plot of a “Seinfeld” episode. It’s just the daily goings-on at the U.S. federal government.

13.
California Elementary School Holds Toy Gun Buyback
HAYWARD — An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turn in their play weapons. Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill maintains that children who play with toy guns may not take real guns seriously.

14.
Reporters say there’s a chill in the air
President Barack Obama said recently that the Department of Justice’s monitoring of reporters as part of national security leak investigations could “chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.” As far as many journalists are concerned, the president couldn’t have been more right – despite last week’s leaks to the media about secret NSA surveillance programs.

In conversations with POLITICO, national security reporters and watchdogs said they already have seen increased caution from government sources following revelations that the DOJ had subpoenaed Associated Press reporters’ phone records and tracked the comings and goings of Fox News reporter James Rosen at the State Department.

15.
You’ve never seen Neil Cavuto this angry: ‘Cut his damn mic!’
In years and years of watching Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, I’ve never seen him as angry as he was Saturday morning. Cavuto flipped out on Democratic strategist Julian Epstein over what Cavuto called the growing pattern of actual invasion and attempted invasion of privacy by the Obama administration.

16.
Phone Record Gathering Story Blown Out of Proportion
Now, we begin to see the wages of having an administration that abuses its awesome powers, then, as night follows day, stonewalls and misleads Congress and the public. Crucial national security measures, which operate on the forgiving assumption that government officials will conduct themselves honorably, are put at risk. The Washington Post publishes a wildly exaggerated report this morning about the government’s collection of telephone records for national security purposes. Mind you, I said collection of telephone records, not wiretapping of telephone conversations, a critical distinction.

17.
Obama’s Ethical Gymnastics
His morality is to be judged by his professed aims, not his means of achieving them.. Presidential ethics are now situational. Obama is calling for a shield law to protect reporters from the sort of harassment that his attorney general, Eric Holder, and the FBI practiced against Fox News and the Associated Press. Through such rhetoric, he remains a staunch champion of the First Amendment — even though he now has the ability to peek into the private phone records of millions of Americans.

The president is outraged that the IRS went after those deemed politically suspicious. So he sacked the acting head of the IRS, Steven Miller, who was scheduled to step down soon anyway. The administration remains opposed to any partisanship of the sort that might deny tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, founded by the president’s half-brother Malik, but would indefinitely delay almost all the applications from those suspected of tea-party sympathies. Consequently, Lois Lerner granted the former’s request in 30 days, but took the Fifth Amendment when asked the reasons for obstructing the applications of the latter.

18.
Islamists & Leftists Chase College Republicans Out of Their Own Movie Screening (Video) – b.m.g.
Welcome to the indoctrination – where abuse and harassment are accepted on college campuses. Portland State University College Republicans screened the film “Obsession” this week at a campus event. The film focuses radical Islam’s fascination and war with western civilization. During the screening a large contingent of socialists and Muslims stormed into the room and interrupted the show. The Islamo-leftists intimidate and shout down the College Republicans, effectively bullying them out of their own campus event.

19.
Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster Than Public School Enrollment
As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.

A recent report in Education News states that, since 1999, the number of children who are homeschooled has increased by 75%. Though homeschooled children represent only 4% of all school-age children nationwide, the number of children whose parents choose to educate them at home rather than a traditional academic setting is growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K-12 every year.

20.
USA spends $80 billion year on secret information gathering
Now we know Obama uses most of this to spy on fellow citizens. The US spends at least $80bn a year on intelligence alone, which is more than the defence budgets of all but a handful of countries.

Every day, 854,000 US civil servants, military personnel and private contractors are scanned into high-security government offices to do intelligence work, according to the Washington Post’s 2011 “Top Secret America” report. Up to 55,000 of these work for the National Security Agency, the vast eavesdropping centre that collects “metadata” on billions of US domestic telephone calls. Most are data analysts. Distributed across an archipelago of high security federal buildings in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC, they toil anonymously in might be labelled America’s data-intelligence complex. The tools and abilities are exponentially different to anything that Eisenhower could have imagined. In his day spies would tap individual phones.

21.
NSA whistleblower speaks, flees to Hong Kong
The man who leaked details of the secret National Security Agency’s Prism program monitoring the electronic communications of American citizens says he’s no Bradley Manning – that he was more discrete about what he released. The source of last week’s stories in the British-based Guardian, which broke the news of the program as well as the Washington Post, was identified as Edward Joseph Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-undercover employee with the CIA making $200,000 a year for intelligence and defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, an NSA contractor.

“I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest,” he said in the Guardian report. “There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn’t turn over, because harming people isn’t my goal. Transparency is.” The Washington Post reported Sunday that Snowden said he acted because President Obama has failed to keep his pledge of conducting “the most transparent administration in history.”

22.
Florida’s Graduation Rate Soars
Florida has made leaps and bounds in high school graduation rates over the last decade, and it has the numbers to prove it. A new study released last week by Education Today shows Florida ranks second in the nation in boosting graduation rates over the past decade, trailing Tennessee by only 8 percent.

The 2013 Diplomas Count study uses the Cumulative Promotion Index (CPI) to measure the graduation rate index for states around the country. The CPI takes four key steps into consideration to factor its graduation rates: three grade-to-grade promotions (9 to 10, 10 to 11, and 11 to 12) and ultimately earning a diploma (grade 12 to graduation).

In 2000, Florida’s graduation rates sat at 49.9 percent — almost 20 percent below the 2000 national average of 66.8 percent. Over the past 10 years, that percentage has consistently gone up and has risen to 72.9 percent. Florida’s graduation rates are still slightly below the national average (74.7 percent), but the education system that was once at the bottom of the pack now falls short of the national average by only 1.8 percent.

23.
After Sandy, a new threat: Feds rewrite flood maps, boosting flood insurance
George Kasimos has almost finished repairing flood damage to his waterfront home, but his Superstorm Sandy nightmare is far from over. Like thousands of others in the hardest-hit coastal stretches of New Jersey and New York, his life is in limbo as he waits to see if tough new coastal rebuilding rules make it just too expensive for him to stay. That’s because the federal government’s newly released advisory flood maps have put his Toms River home in the most vulnerable area — the “velocity zone.” If that sticks, he’d have to jack his house up 14 feet on stilts at a cost of $150,000 or face up to $30,000 a year in flood insurance premiums.

24.
Jeff Atwater, Adam Putnam and Will Weatherford Roll the Dice on Immigration
Florida’s next crop of Republican leaders could be falling into the same trap that ensnared a prominent Sunshine State politician who pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory. State CFO Jeff Atwater, Florida Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam and state House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, have all generated buzz as potential candidates for higher office down the road. While none of them is expected to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in the 2014 Republican primary, all three of them have been mentioned as possible candidates for future gubernatorial elections. There’s also the possibility that one or more of them could run for the U.S. Senate in future election cycles.

All three joined former Gov. Jeb Bush in endorsing the immigration reform bill which is being shaped in Congress. The four Florida Republicans joined almost 50 business and state leaders signing a letter urging Congress to pass immigration reform which Crossroads GPS ran in publications across the nation on Monday.

25.
Florida Leads in Hispanic Graduation Improvement
Florida may take second place for the fastest-growing boost in graduation rates over the last decade, but the Sunshine State places first in the entire country for the highest graduation index for Hispanic students. The 2013 “Diplomas Count” study uses the Cumulative Promotion Index (CPI) to measure the graduation rate index for states around the country. The CPI takes four key steps into consideration to factor its graduation rates: three grade-to-grade promotions (9 to 10, 10 to 11, and 11 to 12) and ultimately earning a diploma (grade 12 to graduation). The study, released last week, showed Florida having the highest graduation index for Hispanic students at 77.1 percent — higher than the national average of of 68.1 percent.

26.
Unprepared Students Told to Fend For Themselves
What were they thinking? Legislators this year enacted a law that essentially replaced “college preparatory” instruction with “developmental education.” The term has nothing to do with special education, as a lot of people assume. Developmental education is the process used in colleges to provide lagging students with education they are supposed to get but often don’t in 13 years of public schooling.

Wonderful – except it then makes the whole effort rather moot. Currently, colleges test incoming students to see what they know. They have been finding out that a majority of incoming students – many of them returning to school after a long break – lack the skills needed to do college work. Currently, they can place those students in developmental education to acquire those skills so they can have a better chance of completion. But the new law says colleges can’t test recent graduates beginning next year and can’t require them to get developmental education

27.
Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks
Off-duty cops in two counties in Alabama spent the weekend collecting saliva and blood samples from drivers at roadblocks. According to Lt. Freddie Turrentine with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, drivers were asked to voluntarily offer samples of their saliva and blood for a study being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. The drivers were compensated for their samples.

28.
Obamacare To Increase Premiums By 88% In Ohio
Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. But on Thursday, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent” relative to 2013. “We have warned of these increases,” said Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor in a statement. “Consumers will have fewer choices and pay much higher premiums for their health insurance starting in 2014.”

29.
There are four separate scandals going on at EPA right now
1) The EPA gave an ethics award to fake employee, “Richard Windsor,” who was already just an unethically created e-mail alias for the agency’s former head, Lisa P. Jackson.

2) The EPA makes conservatives pay a fortune for FOIAs to be granted while waiving fees for liberal groups.

3) EPA contractors are basically Gym, Tan, Laundrying in new, swanky rec rooms thanks to your tax money.

4) The EPA leaked confidential information on farmers and cattle facilities to environmental groups. No bigs.

30.
IRS’ mysterious urgent purchase order for spying equipment
The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden cameras in coffee trays, plants and clock radios. The IRS wants to secure the surveillance equipment quickly – it posted a solicitation on June 6 and is looking to close the deal by Monday, June 10. The agency already has a company lined up for the order but is not commenting on the details.

31.
Allen West’s blunt response to Bill Cosby over ‘we should all be more like [Muslims]‘ remark
Comedian Bill Cosby over the weekend penned an op-ed for the New York Post, in which he argues everyone should be more like Muslims. Former Congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) took exception to this characterization, issuing a blunt rebuttal to Cosby via his official Twitter account. “Bill Cosby said we should [be] more like Muslims,” West wrote. “[You] mean honor killings, beheadings, suicide bombings? Hope [you’re] kidding sir.”

32.
State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations
CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide

33.
Don’t Take the Money and Run
Medicaid—which is supposed to be the federal-state partnership that serves low-income children, disabled Americans, pregnant women, and some seniors.

Medicaid, which is not quality health care and is losing doctors every year.

Medicaid, which is already so overloaded that the number of people on the program exceeds the population of France, Britain, or Italy.

But Obamacare presents states with alluring federal money… and governors are under pressure to take the money and run. Unfortunately, giving in now doesn’t mean their financial pictures will be better later. Byron Schlomach, director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Goldwater Institute, lays out the scenario

34.
American Patriot News – June 10, 2013
The latest issue of this newsletter.

35.
From G8 to G20 to G-Zero: Why no one wants to take charge in the new global order – J.C.
There are three big unfolding geopolitical stories: China’s rise, Middle East turmoil and the redesign of Europe. The three countries with most to lose from these trends are Britain, Japan and Israel. This is not a G7, G8 or a G20 world. This is the era of G-Zero.

36.
‘Crazy’ ants spread in Florida
The spread of the so-called “crazy ant” is showing no signs of slowing in Florida, according to a new study by the University of Texas at Austin. Researchers say the ants have invaded at least 20 counties in Florida. The “Tawny crazy ants” originated in South America and were first spotted in the United States in 2002. According to the study published in Biological Invasions, the ants invade people’s homes, nest in crawl spaces and walls and feast on electrical equipment. “Tawny crazy ants” chew through wiring in homes and get electrocuted. However, when the ants die, they give off a distinct scent and attract more ants to the home. The ants will continue to spread throughout the United States because there are no natural enemies and no natural ways to control the population.

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E.W. Jackson’s Convention Speech – May 18th, 2013 – B.M.G.
On may 18th, 2013, EW Jackson inspired Richmond and rocked Virginia! Join the campaign to inspire and unite all Virginians as we rally around our shared values and toward victory in November!

38.
Climate Models Predict Heat That Hasn’t Occurred
The New York Times is wondering, as are other mainstream media outlets, “What to Make of a Warming Plateau.” If the media had a more critical eye, they’d see what they’ve been expecting is wrong. The Times reported Monday that “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.”The reporter admits the break in temperature increases “highlights important gaps in our knowledge of the climate system” and says the lack of warming “is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists. “It shouldn’t be. As many of us have known for some time, the models that have been forecasting doom are deeply flawed.

39.
Big Government Doesn’t Just Happen
There are many who complain that big government is the root of all our problems. If we could but rid ourselves of its intrusive presence in our lives, things would be much better. Everyone complains about the effects of big government but few look at its cause. Big government does not just happen. In fact, big government should not happen. After all, most modern states are protected by constitutions which are supposed to restrain the powers and growth of government. But everywhere we look, we see that these limits have not been respected and ballooning bureaucracies thrive.

factors at work that make big government possible. And if we are to resolve the problem of unrestrained big government, we must look for and address these causes. The great conservative writer Russell Kirk makes a very interesting observation that gives us a clue as to what these causes are and how we might return to limited government. He says that “beneath any formal constitution — even beneath our Constitution,… — lies an unwritten constitution much more difficult to define, but really more powerful:” This unwritten constitution consists of “the body of institutions, customs, manners, conventions, and voluntary associations which may not even be mentioned in the formal constitution, but which nevertheless form the fabric of social reality and sustain the formal constitution.”

40.
Nepotism is an ‘open and widely accepted’ practice at the Energy Department
A report released last week by the Energy Department’s inspector general found that nepotism within the department has become an “open and widely accepted” practice, which has resulted in the relatives of department officials getting their relatives employment at the DOE.

41.
New Fla. conservative group ‘ICAN’ hosts Gov. Scott in Boca
Florida Gov. Rick Scott arrived in Boca Raton Monday for an intimate breakfast of about 70 to meet with members of the Independent Conservative Action Network , a new organization poised to have a powerful impact on South Florida and the rest of the sunshine state. The governor greeted the crowd and posed for photos before giving a brief speech and answering a few questions on hot button issues like the health care exchange and immigration. ICAN President Margi Helschien said this would be the first of many events educating the public and reaching out to fellow conservatives. Boca Mayor Constance Scott and Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie joined the breakfast, as did state Republican Committeewoman Cindy Tindell and national party Committeeman Peter Feaman, both of whom are ICAN board members. Former Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman Sid Dinerstein was also on hand. The group’s Facebook page says it is “dedicated to spreading the conservative message through education, outreach and community involvement.” Its board members are experienced business and community leaders from all over the state:

42.
A former tea party leader wins Florida Panhandle House race
A former tea party leader with strong support from the Republican Party of Florida coasted to a lopsided victory Tuesday in a special election for a state House seat in the far west Panhandle. Mike Hill, a State Farm insurance agent in Pensacola, easily outpolled Democrat Jeremy Lau, an airplane mechanic and Navy veteran who ran with strong union support. Hill, 55, will fulfill the 17 months remaining in the term of the late Rep. Clay Ford, R-Gulf Breeze, who died during the 2013 legislative session.

43.
Obama admin considering resettling Syrian refugees in U.S. and these are the states where they may go
The Obama administration is considering resettling some refugees who have escaped war-torn Syria in the United States, a development first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday and later confirmed by the State Department.

The State Department is “ready to consider the idea,” an official from the department said, if the administration receives a formal request from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which is the usual procedure. The United States usually accepts about half the refugees that the U.N. agency proposes for resettlement. California has historically taken the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are also popular destinations.

44.
Obama’s Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
Who makes up this body, and how do they decide requests? Nobody knows; the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret.

45.
Educators Split on Common Core Standards
The new Common Core State Standards educational initiative is causing controversy that’s bleeding across political lines and affecting American families, and Florida is no different. The heart of the angst lies with the purposes behind this new system. Is it better education or a dastardly plan for more government control?

Posted 6/7/2013
1.
It’s a Hat Trick for Florida’s Leading Economic Indicators
The numbers keep rolling in, and it continues to look good for Florida’s economic prospects. On the heels of positive reports on consumer confidence and median home prices, we have another optimistic stat to report today…

2.
Kindergartener interrogated over cap gun until he pees his pants, then suspended 10 days
In the latest incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in a school setting, a kindergarten boy has been suspended from school for 10 days because he showed a friend his cowboy-style cap gun on the way to school. The incident happened on Wednesday morning at about 8:30 a.m. on a school bus in Calvert County, Maryland, reports The Washington Post.

3.
Shale Oil Boom Rattles OPEC
At a critical Friday meeting in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will set production policy. For the first time, they will be grappling with the challenges of shale oil, even none of the member states are major shale oil producers.The shale boom began in the U.S. as a ripple in North Dakota and Texas. Some thought its impact would be limited and regional, not global. Now that uptick on our domestic production curve has triggered a tsunami with geopolitical implications.

4.
Obama to Muslims: Tell Me What You Want
A series of Muslim Outreach Summits are planned coast-to-coast by the Obama administration to get feedback from Muslims on how the government can better serve them and their specific desires.

5.
DOJ: Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims May Violate Civil Rights
In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights. The move comes a few years after the administration became the first in history to dispatch a U.S. Attorney General to personally reassure Muslims that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is dedicated to protecting them. In the unprecedented event, Attorney General Eric Holder assured a San Francisco-based organization (Muslim Advocates) that urges members not to cooperate in federal terrorism investigations that the “us versus them” environment created by the U.S. government, law enforcement agents and fellow citizens is unacceptable and inconsistent with what America is all about.

6.
Federally funded anti-terrorist centers branded ‘pools of ineptitude’
On the heels of a scathing U.S. Senate investigation, 77 federally funded anti-terrorist centers are being branded “pools of ineptitude.”
And it’s a costly pool at that. In a book scheduled for release on June 25, Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead writes: “Virtually every state has a ‘fusion center’ monitoring everything from Internet activity and web searches to text messages, phone calls and emails. This data is then fed to government agencies, which are now interconnected: the CIA to the FBI, the FBI to local police.”

7.
Country’s first atheist monument to go up at North Fla. courthouse
The Bradford County Courthouse in north Florida will soon be home to the first atheist monument in the country to be located on government property. It began on May 3, 2012, the National Day of Prayer, when the Christian group Community Men’s Fellowship installed a 6-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments near the courthouse on public property known as the “Free Speech Forum.”

8.
Less is more in Florida education spending
When it comes to education spending in Florida, the age old expression that “you get what you pay for” simply does not apply. A recent U.S. Census report ranked Florida 42 out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in per pupil spending for elementary and secondary education.

But the low funding does not mean the Sunshine State has the 42nd worst K-12 education system in the nation. On the contrary.
Education Week, a national research nonprofit, reports Florida consistently ranks near the top in education quality and student progress, largely debunking the idea that more spending equals better results. Education Week ranked Florida 11 out of 50 in its 2011 Quality Counts list, and sixth among states last year despite factoring an “F” grade for low spending.

9.
Obamacare’s Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy
A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants.

10.
72,600,000: Record Number on Medicaid in 2012; Outnumbers Populations of France and UK
A record 72,600,000 were enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month in fiscal 2012, up from 71,700,000 in fiscal 2011, according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), The 72,600,000 enrolled in Medicaid in the United States in 2012 was more than the 65,630,692 people who lived in France last year, according to data published by the Census Bureau, or the 63,047,162 people who lived in the United Kingdom.

11.
IRS collects docs from 88 employees in investigation
The Internal Revenue Service has told House GOP investigators they have identified 88 IRS employees who may have documents relevant to the congressional investigation into targeting of conservative groups, according to a congressional source familiar with the investigation.

12.
The Munk Debate On Taxing The Rich
On Thursday, May 30 the Munk Debate on Taxing the Rich took place at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall in front of a sold out audience. The motion before the house was: be it resolved tax the rich (more). The debate participants were George Papandreou, Paul Krugman, Newt Gingrich and Arthur B. Laffer. At the start of the evening 58% of the audience was in favor of the motion, 28% opposed and 14% undecided.

By the conclusion of the debate public opinion had shifted with 30% opposed to the motion and 70% in favor. The result was a decisive “win” for George Papandreou and Paul Krugman.

13.
Pro-homeless pols give street people the bum’s rush
A 6-minute hidden camera video investigation highlights the hypocrisy of California legislators’ views on homelessness and the growing threat to the Fourth Amendment from the Department of Homeland Security. In the first half of the video by Project Veritas, journalists posing as homeless people rest out in front of home of Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, one of the California legislators who backed the so-called “Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act.”

Minutes after a car driven by Dickson left his driveway in the tony Woodlake neighborhood of Sacramento, the police showed up and told undercover journalist Christian Hartsock and his crew to move along.

14.
U.S. Military: We Could Have Saved Ambassador Stevens
Elite U.S. troops were completely capable of saving Ambassador Chris Stevens during the Benghazi Consulate attacks on September 11, 2012. Elements of the highly specialized Combatant Commanders In-Extremis (CIF) units are always on alert, on forward deployment, ready to respond. Their job description is to hit the ground in 3 to 5 hours. CIF elements are ready to engage in active combat anywhere in their region, 3 to 5 hours after the call.

15.
Westchester County is being bullied by the federal government.
Agenda 21 at work: HUD wants Westchester to change its zoning to allow affordable housing in expensive neighborhoods.

16.
Professor calls for NRA members to be shot by firing squad for treason
A professor in West Virginia provides yet another example of the inescapable reality that the real threat to America, beyond a complicit media, is likely to be found in college classrooms. Christopher Swindell, journalism professor at Marshall University, is calling on National Rifle Association members to be shot before a firing squad.

In an op/ed published in the Charleston Gazette on Thursday, Swindell offered his version of the “final solution” for supporters of the Second Amendment, as Independent Journal Review’s Michael Miller characterized his vile rhetoric.

17.
Dem congressman’s chief staffers busted in voter fraud scheme
Top staffers of U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia of Miami Beach have been implicated in an elaborate and massive voter fraud scheme that reportedly occurred during the 2012 primary election. Garcia is a Democrat. Jeffery Garcia, the congressman’s chief of staff allegedly participated in a “sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year’s primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests,” the Miami Herald reported.

The chief of staff, who is not related to the congressman, also worked on the campaign of Rep. Patrick Murphy, another Democrat who narrowly defeated incumbent Allen West last year in a controversial election.

18.
EPA mandated device forces ambulance to shut down on the way to the hospital
A vehicle emissions reduction device, which is mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency, forced an ambulance to shut down while carrying a suspect who was shot by Washington, D.C., police.

The EPA mandated device is meant to reduce diesel emissions and is required to be placed on all newer model diesel vehicles. The device can burn off diesel toxins automatically or manually, but if neither of those happen during the “re-generating cycle,” warning lights pop on and the vehicle is eventually forced to shut down.

19.
France shows United States what not to do on tax policy
In 2011, 8,000 French households’ tax bills topped 100 percent. It is so shocking that it is worth repeating: The French government was taxing some of its citizens at a rate that exceeded their income. These were not the super-wealthy; the tax hit families that had household assets (not necessarily income) that exceeded $1.67 million.

This type of tax burden is really only the most egregious part of the approach. The rate for thousands of other French people was set at 75 percent. According to the governing elite, those folks were fortunate that they got to keep 25 percent of what they worked to earn instead of having it all taxed away.

20.
Evangelical Group Pushing Immigration Reform Doesn’t Legally Exist
Late last week, The Huffington Post reported that the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of evangelicals supporting the Senate immigration bill, had announced a $250,000 ad buy in support of the legislation. It was part of the Table’s 92-day Pray for Reform campaign that also included newspaper and radio ads. Curiously, however, the Evangelical Immigration Table doesn’t legally exist as an incorporated political entity or non-profit organization.

On Thursday, Breitbart News contacted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), asking about the organization’s structure, how it is governed and where it receives funding. The organization responded Friday in an email to Breitbart News: The Evangelical Immigration Table functions as a coalition of partners and does not exist as its own non-profit.

So, the EIT is made up of a coalition of (c)3’s and (c)4’s but isn’t itself a legal non-profit organization or corporation. How did it launch the ad campaign reported in the Huffington Post? Loose, informal coalitions cannot purchase advertising. There are also strict limitations on what activities (c)3’s and (c)4’s can undertake, and clear prohibitions on them coordinating on an issue campaign.

21.
Virginia’s Tax Reform: A Model For The Nation?
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, nominated as the Republican candidate for governor in this fall’s off-year Virginia state elections, has proposed in that campaign the most advanced, sweeping, state tax reform plan in the nation. What makes the plan truly revolutionary is that the sweeping, pro-growth, tax rate cuts in the plan are financed in large measure by a cap on the growth of state spending, rather than by adopting or increasing another tax.

22.
Million Muslim March on 9/11/13:
We at AMPAC (American Political Action Committee) are planning an historic event for 9.11.13 where one million Muslims will march to Washington D.C. and demand that our civil rights be protected by our government. We are demanding that laws be enacted protecting our 1st amendment . We are asking President Obama to fulfill his promise from his first campaign for Presidency of a transparent government. Lastly we are asking for the release of the 9/11 commission report to the American people.

23.
Putnam gives dire warning about Fla. citrus-greening crisis
Citrus greening poses an “existential crisis” for a Florida’s iconic citrus industry, and there is no solution on the horizon, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said Monday. In the 2013 session, the Legislature appropriated $9.5 million to study the threat to agriculture in Florida, the state’s second largest industry after tourism.

24.
Gitmo Offers ‘Resume Writing’ Class for Terrorists
The 166 terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay are offered a course in “interviewing and resume writing” as part of their indefinite stay at the prison camp. Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) lists the variety of classes and activities it offers to the terrorist trainers, financiers, bomb makers, recruiters and facilitators who are housed at Gitmo.

25.
Obama punts on signing UN arms trade pact opposed by NRA
President Obama will not immediately sign a United Nations arms trade treaty opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) but is committed to doing so shortly, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday. Advocates for the pact had hoped the president would sign the treaty as soon as it became open for signatures on Monday, arguing that such a public display of support would create pressure on major arms dealers, such as Russia and China, to get on board.

26.
Obama Betrays Israel: Secret Base Revealed
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests. The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.

“If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire facility,” said an Israeli military official who commented on the publication of the proposal but declined to be named because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the facility. He declined to say whether plans for the facility have been altered as a result of the disclosure.

27.
Obama’s Christmas Tree Tax is Back
It’s never too early for Washington, D.C., politicians to dampen the holiday spirit. The House Agriculture Committee approved an amendment to its farm bill that would lift the stay blocking implementation of Obama’s Christmas tree tax. We should be thankful the Agriculture Committee doesn’t have jurisdiction over toys.

On November 8, 2011, the Obama Administration issued a final rule that approved a new program to help promote Christmas trees. The government would set up a Christmas Tree Promotion Board, with one of its goals being “to enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States.” It isn’t clear why Christmas trees need help with their pristine and festive image—unless they are hiding something.

28.
Obama Aides Use Secret Email
Some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press. The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees’ email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

29.
The Obama Crime Family
Have you seen the headlines? Obama’s IRS is ruthless. They want to know what you say in your Facebook posts, what you are thinking, what you are reading – they even want to know the content of your prayers. Amazing – even the mafia doesn’t ask these kind of personal questions.

30.
Stephanie Cutter Attended WH Meetings With IRS Chief
The president’s deputy campaign manager attended the “nonpolitical” ObamaCare implementation meetings with the former IRS commissioner at the White House. She wasn’t there to discuss the Easter Egg Roll. A clue as to whether the targeting by the IRS of Tea Party and other conservative groups was discussed at the 157 meetings that former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman had at the White House may be found in remarks by Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, in a recent appearance on Jake Tapper’s show “The Lead” on CNN. As reported by Gateway Pundit, Cutter attempted to dismiss charges they were political meetings but admitted she had attended meetings with Shulman at the White House. “I was in them with him,” Cutter said. “So there was nothing nefarious going on.” Well, if they were not political meetings, why was she there at all? Was she there to offer her health care or tax code expertise?

31.
Tea party leader’s emotional testimony to Congress: ‘You’ve forgotten your place’
During a hearing on how the IRS allegedly targeted her organization, Gerritson spoke of the inappropriate demands asked of her “tiny group,” the Wetumpka Tea Party, and surprised the committee when she said her group received an inquiry letter bearing Lois Lerner’s signature.

While fighting back tears, Gerritson said: “In Wetumpka, we are patriotic Americans; we peacefully assemble; we petition our government; we exercise our right to free speech. We don’t understand why the government tried to stop us. I’m not here as a serf or a vassal. I’m not begging my lord for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen, and I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.”

32.
Glenn Beck compiles history of Obama lies you may have forgotten
From comments made by President Obama on how he got his start in life, his stance on hiring lobbyists once he became president, to the promises behind healthcare reform, Glenn Beck has compiled audio and video clips that show two very different sides of Barack Obama and his administration. “It’s important that you understand the lies that have been told thus far, because they’re only getting worse, and they’re only getting much more dangerous,” Beck warned.

Beck said the Obama administration has employed a “three-step process” that begins with lies, then revises history to fit the desired story, and ends by attacking anyone who tries to speak out. “The only way for them to maintain absolute power is for them to always be lying,” Beck said. “To keep this illusion that they can never be wrong, they must silence or attack their opponents who prove them wrong time and time again.”

33.
Florida Gov. Scott vetoes bill to give illegals driver’s licenses
Florida Gov. Rick Scott sounded a bell for conservatism late Tuesday afternoon when he vetoed a bill that would have approved the issuance of drivers licenses to certain undocumented immigrants. The bill, which passed the House on Apr. 25 and the Senate the following day, would have allowed immigrants who have obtained deferred status under a presidential executive order to legally obtain a Florida driver’s license.

34.
Palm Beach County 2014 Budget Proposal
On Tuesday, county staff unveiled their FY2014 budget proposal – $25M in new taxes and an increase in millage, in spite of rising valuations. Administrator Bob Weisman blames the increase on the Sheriff, and there is some truth to that. Ric Bradshaw intends to spend $38M more than last year, much of it on cost of living increases above and beyond the step and longevity raises already built into the contracts. Yet Mr. Weisman plans to give county employees 3% – similar to the already booked raises at the Solid Waste Authority.

35.
FBI expert: Quran is ‘revealed word of god’
The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency “expert” insisted the Quran “is the revealed word of God.”

36.
Angela Graham-West Bounced from FAU Board
Angela Graham-West, wife of former U.S. Rep. Allen West, has been removed from her position as a trustee at Florida Atlantic University. Graham-West was absent from the FAU board of trustees meeting Tuesday, prompting chairman Anthony Barbar to announce her term had actually ended in May. Graham-West, meanwhile, blamed a Senate paperwork mishap as the reason for her removal.

The Senate failed to confirm Graham-West for two years after her nomination as a trustee by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011. An individual cannot serve on the board or even be considered for renomination for a year if they are not confirmed by the Senate, according to Florida law.

37.
NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama. The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries. The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

38.
Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling

39.
Boy Suspended For Merely Saying ‘Gun’
An 11-year-old boy who hopes to become a Navy SEAL was suspended from a Maryland school after he used the word ‘gun’ in a conversation on board a school bus. The sixth-grader at Northern Middle School in Owings was talking with a group of friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre when the bus driver overheard the conversation.

“He said, ‘I wish I had a gun to protect everyone from the bad guys,’’ said Bruce Henkelman, the boy’s father. “He wanted to be the hero.” Henkelman told Fox News that his son was interrogated by the principal and a deputy sheriff – without their knowledge or permission.

40.
MoveOn.org to sue Florida over new bill
It’s a great law for the economy, banks and bargain hunters. But it may be a raw deal for homeowners struggling to hang on to their homes. The proposal sponsored by Florida State Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, and Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, looks to speed up the foreclosure process by reducing the number of hearings, easing up on the paperwork and hoops lenders must jump through to reclaim a property, ultimately reducing the wait time from five years to one.

Opponents like MoveOn.org, a liberal nonprofit political action committee, say the law is unconstitutional. The group is threatening to sue if the proposal is passed and is collecting signatures demanding that the governor veto the bill.

41.
Harry Reid’s Ploy to Plow through the Farm Bill
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this morning on a measure that will effectively end debate on the misnamed “farm” bill, cutting off opportunities to fix the deeply flawed legislation. At a cost of a nearly $1 trillion — 80 percent of which goes to the food-stamp program — American taxpayers deserve a robust debate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) won’t let that happen.

42.
Scott’s jobs agency bites back, calls for investigation of federal Labor department over jobless benefits
Even as it’s working to comply with U.S. Department of Labor findings of discrimination in the unemployment compensation system, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity is calling for an investigation of those findings, alleging they were “politicized” with a predetermined outcome.

DEO general counsel Robert Sechen sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, asking his panel to investigate the Department of Labor for its politicized inquiry into Florida’s unemployment compensation system. The letter was also sent to Daniel Petrole, the acting inspector general for the Department of Labor.

“Rather than serve as a neutral arbiter, USDOL (Department of Labor) appears to have collaborated with the political group that filed the complaint. Accordingly, DEO respectfully requests that Congress exercise its oversight authority over what appear to be several instances of investigative misconduct,” the letter states.

43.
Now FBI Wants Back Door To All Software But leading security experts say strategy would help enemies.
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept and wants to require that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they desire. But a team of technology experts warns the move would hand over to the nation’s enemies abilities they are not capable of developing for themselves.

44.
Army Smacks Soldier for Serving Chick-Fil-A
The Pentagon apparently has little liking for Chick-fil-A sandwiches and the Defense of Marriage Act. The U.S. Army has reportedly punished a master sergeant for hosting a party to celebrate both his personal promotion and the legislation supporting traditional heterosexual marriages.

According to the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, the unidentified soldier was investigated, reprimanded, threatened with judicial action and given a bad efficiency report. “They say he is no longer a team player and was not performing up to standards,” Chaplain Alliance Executive Director Ron Crews told Fox News. “This is just one little example of a case of a soldier just wanting to express his views and now he’s been jumped on by the military.”

45.
Online ‘Fairness’ Tax Could Hit Your 401(k)
Financial transaction tax proposals have prompted much debate over the past year, both in the U.S. and internationally. In February, the European Union proposed allowing its member countries to levy taxes on the trading of stock, bonds and derivatives. Supporters argue that in addition to raising revenue, the tax would act as a “speed limit” that reduces volatility in the markets. Opponents counter with studies showing that the revenue estimates are overstated, and that the tax could actually increase volatility.

Additional concerns include the indirect impact on middle-class investors — the tax would hit trades done by mutual funds and retirement plans such as 401(k) accounts — and the competitive effects on particular jurisdictions, as the tax creates incentives for such transactions to move across borders.

46.
Some youths unlikely to pay for ObamaCare Coverage – M.F.
Virtually all Americans will be required to have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act starting in 2014, and President Barack Obama especially wants young, healthy people to sign up. About two-thirds of the uninsured are younger than 40. They use fewer health services, and their premiums are needed to help keep insurance costs down for everyone else.

Yet the incentive structures in the law work at cross-purposes with this goal and could well undermine its success. It will all come down to costs. Four out of 5 people younger than 30 will face higher premiums than without the Affordable Care Act even with the subsidies many can receive.

47.
Muslim group CAIR has hijacked Michigan school system
How is the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations bending public school policy to its will? Two stories from Michigan tell the tale.

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) said today that a Detroit-area school district has apologized for handing out permission slips for Bible study classes to elementary school students. CAIR-MI sent a letter to Roseville Public Schools after receiving a complaint from two parents of children who attend Huron Park Elementary School about distribution by teachers of permission slips for the Bible classes at a local Baptist church.
But that’s precisely what CAIR sought in the nearby Dearborn district. The Arab American News reported that CAIR staff “recently met with Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston to discuss concerns from some parents regarding prayer accommodations in Dearborn Public Schools. “Dearborn Public Schools has implemented a policy which fully accommodates student-led prayer in all the schools, as well as unexcused absences for students who leave early on Fridays for Jumu’ah prayers. CAIR-MI is currently in discussion with Melvindale Public Schools to get similar accommodations for students that are now in place for Dearborn Public Schools.”

Posted 5/31/2013
1.
California under Obamacare: Bare-bones coverage will cost twice as much for some
So let’s say you’re a healthy 40-year-old single man in California. You make roughly $55,000 per year, but your employer doesn’t offer health insurance — or if he has been offering it, he’s just told you he’s scrapping it next year because it costs him a fortune and you can purchase a better plan anyway through Covered California, the new Obamacare health insurance exchange.

You’re healthy, and your income is average. You can’t afford huge premiums for a top-flight insurance plan you know you probably don’t really need anyway. But Obamacare says you can’t buy a “catastrophic” plan at your age. So you decide to buy a “Bronze” plan, defined under Obamacare as a plan that would pay 60 percent of the average person’s medical bills after you take things like the deductible and coinsurance into account.

2.
2007: Obama Demanded Atty. Gen Resign for Carrying Out ‘Political Vendettas’ Of Admin
On Larry King Live in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama attacked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and called on him to resign for carrying out the President’s “political vendettas.”

3.
Obama Surrenders Just As Islamic Jihad Intensifies
As jihadists bomb Boston, behead a soldier in London and firebomb police in Sweden, President Obama has decided America’s actions have offended them and it’s time to retreat. In arguably the weakest national security speech by a commander in chief, Obama denied Thursday that our terrorist enemy is inspired by Islam — while at the same time appeasing Islamic critics by apologizing for drone strikes and agreeing to throttle back on such precision bombings, and close down the terrorist prison at Guantanamo.

4.
The Dots Already Lead To Obama in the IRS Scandal
Abuse Of Power: Any scandal investigation that expects a “Eureka!” moment, a White House e-mail, or Oval Office smoking gun will be misguided. In fact, the dots are already connected directly to the president.

As the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reminds us, Obama’s 2008 campaign was demanding the Justice Department criminally prosecute conservative groups with 501(c)4 tax-exempt status. Then, last year, President Obama’s re-election campaign “targeted private citizens who had donated to Romney groups.”

5.
Obama Says Don’t Fear Gov’t; Tell That to Fox News
Even Barack Obama’s cheerleaders are gagging at the latest news of spying on reporters. But will they also understand that this is just part of a much broader attack on freedom? The president told Ohio State graduates three weeks ago to tune out those who warn that “tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.” Since then — pardon our paranoia — the news has been thick with warnings.

6.
Hacking a Soldier to Death In Name Of Peaceful Islam
On Wednesday, drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a man who had served Queen and country honorably in the hell of Helmand province in Afghanistan, emerged from his barracks on Wellington Street, named after the Duke thereof, in southeast London.

As grotesque as this act of savagery was, the aftermath was even more unsettling. The perpetrators did not, as the Tsarnaev brothers did in Boston, attempt to escape. Instead, they held court in the street gloating over their trophy, and flagged down a London bus to demand the passengers record their triumph on film. As the crowd of bystanders swelled, the remarkably urbane savages posed for photographs with the remains of their victim while discoursing on the iniquities of Britain toward the Muslim world.

7.
Obama and Democrats Set Tone for IRS Harassment of Conservatives
President Obama may or may not have known that his own IRS officials were signaling out conservative groups for harassment and intimidation, but that campaign was entirely consistent with the political culture actively fostered by Obama and Democratic officialdom. Wall Street Journal editor Kimberly Strassel published a revealing column on Friday, reminding us that the IRS scandals have a recent lineage that goes straight back to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, when the then-senator had his campaign general counsel Bob Bauer write open letters to the Justice Department and the Federal Elections Commission, demanding investigation of various conservative and liberal organizations (in the latter case, those which supported his Democratic primary opponents).

8.
Oops! Obama’s commerce secretary nominee failed to report $80 million income
While clerical errors are common, $80 million seems like a big chunk to overlook when preparing a financial statement. But apparently that’s what happened to President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce in preparation for her Senate Confirmation Hearing last Thursday.

In response to the missing income, Pritzker’s lawyer, Robert Rizzi, said in a letter to a Commerce Department attorney that the income was not in original filings “because of a clerical error and through no fault of Ms. Pritzker.”

9.
Governor Pence Pauses Indiana Common Core Standards
Indiana has just given every state that agreed to adopt Common Core national education standards and tests a lesson in prudent governance. On Saturday, Governor Mike Pence (R) signed the Common Core “Pause” bill into law, halting implementation of Common Core until state agencies, teachers, and taxpayers better understand the implications of Common Core adoption.

10.
80% Solutions and 20% Investigations
With all these scandals breaking out, House Republicans are faced with a great opportunity and a serious danger. The opportunity is to show that Republicans are committed to a better future. The danger is that the scandals will absorb all the political energy. Both Speaker John Boehner and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus have warned the GOP to remain steady and balanced in its response to the scandals which seem to be unfolding on multiple fronts.

11.
Elementary mom furious over cross-dressing ‘Transgender Day’
With the reelection of Barack Obama, the most liberal U.S. president in history, there’s little argument that the far-left is as emboldened as ever in pushing its agenda on the country. Case in point is the Tippecanoe School for the Arts and Humanities in Milwaukee, which dubbed Friday “Switch It Up Day” – a time for students to come dressed as members of the opposite sex, according to EAGnews.

12.
The Problem with Socks
A Celebration of Reading in Houston.

13.
Allen West plans his comeback for 2016
Former Florida GOP Congressman Allen West appeared on the Tammy Bruce radio show Friday and announced, among other things, that although he’ll be sitting out midterm elections, “there’s no doubt” that he’ll be throwing his hat back into the political ring in 2016.

14.
The Obama Medicare Agenda: Why Seniors Will Fare Worse
Today’s seniors are facing higher Medicare costs. Over the next five years, current law, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known as Obamacare), already guarantees higher out-of-pocket costs for today’s seniors. Beyond the current law, the President’s latest budget proposal would increase seniors’ costs even more. So, notwithstanding “progressive” politicians’ rhetorical promise to “keep Medicare as we know it,” the Obama Administration is formally committed to increasing seniors’ out-of pocket costs, while the President and his allies in Congress have already enacted major Medicare payment reductions that threaten their access to care. Beyond the payment reductions to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health care agencies, many seniors will also experience a reduction in their Medicare Advantage benefits or even a loss of their existing plan.

15.
CAIR pushes for ‘hijab-friendly’ uniform policy in all US prisons
An Islamic activist group is trying to force all U.S. jails and prisons to allow Muslim female inmates to wear the hijab head covering, according to a report. Never mind looking out for the safety of guards and other inmates. The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the U.S. Justice Department to institute a “hijab-friendly” uniform policy that would allow Muslim women to keep their heads covered in photographs and while in detention in all local and federal U.S. prisons.

16.
Reporter tries to pin tragedies on climate change, gets surprise answer
The left continues to cling to the idea not only of manmade global warming, but also that it has resulted in increased storm activity. The evidence says otherwise, and this was illustrated last week when a government weather scientist corrected a member of the liberal media on the subject.

17.
Pension bomb ticks away
TICK TOCK. TICK TOCK. A time bomb is ticking away, sneaking up on you on little cat feet. This bomb won’t kill you, but taxpayers will pay a fortune when it explodes.

Florida’s Retirement System, for example, has a $19.2 billion deficit in its plan, which would fund the budgets of 19 other states. Florida’s plan is only 86 percent funded, which, believe it or not, isn’t bad compared to other states. Eighty percent or higher apparently is acceptable on actuarial bright-line tests.

Miami is among the metropolitan cities in danger of defaulting on its pension debt. Pension costs in West Palm Beach have risen from $9 million to over $16 million in the last four years, and the city now faces an $8.4 million shortfall. Tampa and Jacksonville are functionally bankrupt because of their pensions, which are now only about 50 percent funded. Cities in California, Alabama, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania have filed bankruptcy because they can’t afford their pension expenses. One Alabama city stopped sending pension checks to city retirees.

18.
What Is The Debt Ceiling?
Over the next few weeks, Members of Congress will be deciding what their priorities for spending reduction will be in connection with any vote to increase the debt ceiling sometime this fall. The debt ceiling vote likely presents the best opportunity for real spending restraint this year.

Anyone following the shocking IRS scandal has fresh and frightening evidence of the dangers of a massive, over-reaching, highly intrusive federal government. This is yet another reason to cut spending: Washington has a problem respecting fiscal sense and citizens’ freedoms.

19.
Horror Clinics Elsewhere
The grisly dealings of a Florida abortion enterprise. Kermit Gosnell’s sensational trial has brought to public attention the ugly operations of a Philadelphia abortion clinic where the spines of live newborns were snipped with scissors and female patients suffered internal injuries and infections. On May 13, Gosnell was convicted of the first-degree murder of three babies born alive and killed in his clinic, and of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who overdosed after being administered repeat doses of Demerol. He may face the death penalty.

The case prompts the question of how common those and similar practices are. National Review has investigated three Florida abortion clinics, located in Miami, Hialeah, and Miramar. They offer a troubling portrait of America’s abortion industry.

20.
John Boehner’s shrinking power
House Speaker John Boehner, who by title and position should be the second most powerful person in Washington, sure doesn’t seem or sound like it. He has little ability to work his will with fellow House Republicans. He has quit for good his solo efforts to craft a grand bargain on taxes and spending. And he hasn’t bothered to initiate a substantive conversation with President Barack Obama in this calendar year.

So, yes, Boehner by recent historic standards and measures is a relatively weak speaker right now. But, in fairness, it’s not clear a more bullying or forceful leader would fare much better with this gang of Republicans or in this dysfunctional Congress.

21.
The London Terror Attack Was More Than ‘Unforgivable’
How many ignored warnings does it take? That is one question that should hang over Britain after the horror of the daytime murder of a British soldier on the streets of south London. On Wednesday afternoon, Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich by two men wielding large knives and shouting “Allahu akbar”—God is great. Islamists have been saying for years they would do this. They have planned to do it. And now they have done it.

The attack itself is not surprising. What is surprising is that British society remains so utterly unwilling not just to deal with this threat, but even to admit its existence. Politicians have called the Woolwich killing “unforgivable” and “barbarous.” But expressions of anger should not really be enough.

22.
ObamaCare’s War on Men
ObamaCare institutes several types of price controls on insurance premiums. The elimination of gender-based ratings forces young men to subsidize the substantially higher claims of young women, ending claims-based differentials of up to 70 percent under age 40. The 3:1 age rating limit requires younger people to subsidize older people, ending the roughly 6:1 rating that was based on actual costs. The elimination of health status as a rating factor forces those in good health to subsidize those in poor health, whether or not good health is due to self-control or lucky genetics.

23.
Summers’ Record Shows He Shouldn’t Be Next Fed Chief
With Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the way out, speculation centers on economist and long-time Washington fixture Lawrence Summers as his replacement. Americans have reason to be concerned. Bernanke’s term expires at the end of January, and most political observers agree President Obama isn’t likely to reappoint him. A lot of names have come up as possible replacements, including current Fed Vice Chairperson Janet Yellen and former Fed No. 2 Alan Blinder, among others.

But Summers, who has a reputation for brilliance, looks to have the inside track. Unfortunately, as a leading neo-Keynesian economist — a group that believes strongly in government intervention in the economy — he could be a disaster at the Fed.

24.
ObamaCare Health Insurance Exchanges Are A Downgrade
If you live in California and purchase health insurance on the newly created exchange called Covered California, don’t expect care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the prestigious academic hospital in Los Angeles. That top-drawer care won’t be covered by exchange plans. Many Californians will have to give up doctors and hospitals they currently use if they want subsidized coverage. That’s one of the truths omitted from last Thursday’s fanfare when Covered California unveiled the plans it will offer starting Oct. 1.

25.
Federal Government Exercises Its Bullying Pulpit
We have truly entered the world of “Alice in Wonderland” when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a congressional subcommittee to be denounced on national TV for not paying more. Apple CEO Tim Cook was denounced for contributing to “a worrisome federal deficit,” according to Sen. Carl Levin — one of the big-spending liberals in Congress who has had a lot more to do with creating that deficit than any private citizen has.

26.
Has The U.S. Dollar, Once A Blessing, Become A Curse?
For years, the dollar’s role as the major global currency has been termed an “exorbitant privilege” — a phrase coined by French Finance Minister and later President Valery Giscard d’Estaing. Now it may be turning into an extravagant curse.

The U.S. wants export-led growth. So do most other countries. Not all can succeed; one country’s export surplus must be others’ deficits. But the dollar’s global role puts the U.S. at a special disadvantage. It’s one cause of slow American growth and high joblessness.

27.
Student suspended after tweeting suggested school budget cuts
A senior at an upstate New York high school was suspended for inciting “a social media riot” when he had his classmates tweet their suggestions for what budget cuts his school could make in order to get the school’s failed budget passed. Patrick Brown told the Syracuse Post-Standard that he created the Twitter hashtag, #sh*tCNSshoudcut, as a joke because students were discussing the failed budget and were also speculating about what activities or sports might be cut the following year.

The students tweeted their suggestions throughout the day and Brown expressed his opinion that the district cut the school principal’s job. The school wasn’t amused with Brown’s opinion, and he was hauled into the office.

28.
People sign giant ‘thank you’ card to IRS for targeting conservatives
There is nothing that scares me more than a “man (woman) on the street” video. The level of ignorance that a camera can capture coming from seemingly normal people never ceases to amaze me. Conservative comedian Caleb Bonham (@CalebBonham), on behalf of the Centennial Institute, asked people to sign his giant card thanking the IRS for targeting tea party, conservative and religious organizations

29.
Fla. sugar farmers celebrate historic Everglades legislation
The final phase of Everglades restoration has been codified by Gov. Rick Scott’s signature and the Florida sugar farmers are celebrating the new law. The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Matt Caldwell and Sen. Wilton Simpson, and received unanimous passage in both the Florida House and Senate. Florida Crystals Corp., U.S. Sugar Corp., and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida celebrated the change to Florida law which aligns it the bipartisan federal Everglades plan agreed upon by farmers, policymakers, and environmental advocates last year.

An explanation was provided by the sugar farmers: There will now be a framework and necessary funding of ecosystem restoration project construction. The law calls for Florida’s sugar farmers to continue their successful on-farm Best Management Practices (BMPs), paid for entirely by farmers, and recognizes their success as has been demonstrated by a reduction of phosphorus of 55 percent over the past 17 years. It also extends the Agriculture Privilege tax, an additional payment made by Everglades Agriculture Area (EAA) farmers, until 2035.

30.
Join the Fight Against Common Core
Two competing forces are pushing on America’s K–12 education system today. One is an effort to infuse education choice into a long-stagnant system, empowering parents with the ability to send their child to a school that meets her unique learning needs. The other is an effort to further centralize education through Common Core national standards and tests.

Across the country, education choice options have been proliferating rapidly, including vouchers, tuition tax credits, special needs scholarships, and education savings accounts. Educational choice is a revolution because it funds children instead of physical school buildings and allows dollars to follow children to any school—or education option—that meets their unique learning needs.

COMMON CORE IS an effort to centralize education by dictating the standards and assessments that will determine the content taught in every public school across the country. COMMON CORE HAS NO EVIDENCE that it will improve academic outcomes or boost international competitiveness. But the Obama Administration has pushed states to adopt national standards and assessments in exchange for offers of billions of dollars in federal funding and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

31.
Hold on to your wallets: farm bill incoming!
Mark up week for the $1 trillion food stamp and farm bill has finally arrived and with it the ominous prospect of self-styled conservatives and Republicans rubberstamping President Obama’s big-government agenda. Both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released the draft text of their respective bills last week and the contempt for the American taxpayer could not be more evident.

The bills look remarkably similar to last year’s legislation: chock full of special interest handouts, market-distorting subsidies, taxpayer-funded shallow loss crop insurance, and of course hundreds of billions of dollars in food stamps. Whether it’s the consumer-crushing sugar program or a dairy program with a Soviet-style flare, the farm bill is an American taxpayer’s worst nightmare.

32.
Rand Paul on Obamacare
Senator*Rand Paul (R-KY) was the keynote speaker at the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner at The Hotel at Kirkwood Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 10, 2013

33.
Frack-ture: Obama tries to kill U.S. Energy
The Interior Department is proposing new federal rules for hydraulic fracturing, but the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee warns they’re unnecessary and will only limit energy production and economic growth.

34.
New Class of People Identified As Irs Enemies
It is no secret that the IRS watches certain groups of taxpayers with increased scrutiny. For instance, millionaires have about a one-in-eight chance of being audited. There is another segment of American taxpayers who face approximately six times those odds of a visit from the IRS: adoptive parents.

Adoptions are expensive. The average cost of adoption is $30,000. In response to those costs, and the millions of children in the U.S. and abroad waiting to be adopted, Congress passed Adoption Tax Credits. States then began to match those credits. New information from the Taxpayer Advocate Service says that 90 percent of those who filed for the adoption tax credits in 2012 were asked for “additional information.”

35.
Florida High School Online Class: Terrorists Lack Self-Esteem
A high school online class in Florida has not only compared Christianity and Islam as fundamentalist groups, but apparently claims that terrorists act the way they do because of low self-esteem. The Florida Virtual Online Class (FLVS) in World History stated: “Common traits that psychologists have found in terrorists are that they are often risk-takers and many suffer from low self-esteem. Sometimes joining a terrorist group provides these individuals with a sense of belonging.”

36.
John Kerry: Israel’s ‘Prosperity’ May Be Blocking Peace Process With Palestinians
Is it possible that the many accomplishments and economic prosperity of Israel is preventing the peace process from moving ahead in the Middle East? That seems to be what our Secretary of State thinks. Before last week’s meetings with Israel’s leadership, Secretary Kerry made the following statement to reporters (via the official State Department transcript): “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of prosperity.”

37.
Teacher faces dismissal for teaching Bill of Rights
Just days after IRS executive Lois Lerner improperly invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions about Tea Party intimidation, the often misunderstood amendment is reportedly facing another attack at an Illinois high school.

Social Studies teacher John Dryden said he checked his inbox shortly before class recently and noticed a stack of surveys with each of his students’ names printed on them. After looking over the questions contained therein, he realized recipients might feel compelled to affirm illegal drug or alcohol use.

He said he thought “somebody needs to remind them they have the ability not to incriminate themselves” and felt compelled to inform the class about their rights. “”I made a judgment call. There was no time to ask anyone.” Had he received the surveys earlier, he explained, there would have been time to discuss his concerns via more appropriate channels. Instead, he was due in class and simply engaged in a quick lesson about the Fifth Amendment, he said. As a result, administrators threatened him with a “letter of remedy,” which can result in discipline up to and including dismissal

38.
Dem: Republicans throwing infrastructure ‘under the bus’
A Washington state Democrat is accusing Republicans of “throwing American infrastructure … under the bus” after a bridge collapse there this week. The portion of Interstate 5 in Washington that runs over the Skagit River collapsed on Thursday after a truck hit an overhead support structure, but Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the incident in an interview as proof Republicans were blocking infrastructure investment to hurt President Obama politically.

39.
Rubio Can’t Defend His Own Immigration Bill
Senator Marco Rubio appeared on a special edition of the Hannity show last night on behalf of the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, otherwise known as Schumer-Rubio. His case for the bill was unpersuasive and, at times, incoherent. You can see substantial portions of the show in three online videos.

40.
Jihadists Working in the IRS
Whether it’s a homegrown terrorist with Nigerian heritage butchering a UK serviceman, or an IRS operative targeting the First Amendment, if the reason for bloodshed – be it literal or political – is rooted in religious-like fervor, Jihadists will defend their “Holy War.”

41.
Overview of the NIMBY Decision Tree – B.M.G.
Welcome to HUD’s NIMBY Decision Tree. This is a resource developed to give housing advocates and developers strategies to combat community opposition–NIMBYism (Not In My BackYard)?during the process of developing/offering housing and services for homeless individuals. Another example of the government against the citizens.

42.
Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune from U.S. taxpayers – B.M.G.
The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these properties will fetch billions of dollars and a handsome 6% commission to the company handling the sales. That company belongs to Richard Blum, the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune. His firm, CBRE will be making a 6% commission on the sale of each and of these postal properties. All of these properties that are being sold are all fully paid for.

They were purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars, and they are owned free and clear by the U.S.P.S. The only cost to keep them is the cost to actually keep the doors open and the heat and lights on. The United States Postal Service doesn’t even have to pay property taxes on these subject properties. Would you sell your house just because you couldn’t afford to pay the electric bill? Well, the Post Office is.

How does a powerful U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away with such a sweet deal? A powerful United States Senator’s husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise.

43.
Obama Plan To Tax Muni Bonds Would Destroy State, City Finances
Buried in the Obama administration’s budget is a proposal that would destroy state and municipal finances. Overturning a provision that has been central to the Revenue Code since 1913, it would impose for the first time a federal tax on municipal bond income. The result would be irreparable harm to the market for tax-exempt bonds and higher taxes for everyone. The law itself could be unconstitutional.

44.
‘Robin Hood’ Tax Will Not Make Markets More Stable And Might Hurt Economic Growth
The Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), which is to be adopted in 2014 by 11 Eurozone countries, has come under a lot of flak lately. Most recently, Sir Mervyn King said he could not “find anyone in the central banking community who thinks it’s a good idea.” Even the Italian government, initially committed to adopting an FTT, is now having second thoughts — particularly because the tax will affect secondary trading in government bonds. In stark contrast, Algirdas Šemeta, the European Commissioner for taxes, claims that the levy of 0.1% on equity and fixed income transactions and 0.01% on derivatives is a response “to the persistent demands of their citizens, who have long called for a harmonized FTT in Europe. The levy will ensure that the under-taxed financial sector finally makes a fair contribution to the public purse.”

45.
Toy Gun Causes Disturbance On Palmer Elementary School Bus
A plastic Lego sized gun caused a disturbance on a Old Mill Pond Elementary School bus Friday morning. Mieke Crane is the mother of the six-year-old kindergarten student who brought the gun on the bus. “I think they over-reacted totally. I totally do,” said Crane. Another student on the bus saw the toy and yelled to the driver. “She said he caused quite a disturbance on the bus and that the children were traumatized,” said Crane.

The school sent home a letter to parents of students who take the bus explaining what happened. It stressed no gun was on the bus and there was never any danger. The letter also has photo of the toy showing it’s actual size, which is slightly larger than a quarter. “I could see if it was you know, an air soft gun or some sort of pistol or live bullets or something. This is just a toy,” said Crane. She is upset with how her son is being disciplined. She says he had to write an apology letter to the driver, has detention on Tuesday and could be temporarily suspended from the bus. The other student, who yelled about seeing the gun, also had to apologize. Crane and that student’s mother, who did not go on camera, think this is sending the wrong message. The two agree speaking up is what the students are trained to do if they see something wrong like a gun.

46.
Obama’s SEAL Team 6 Coverup – B.M.G.
On August 6, 2011, a military helicopter— Extortion 17— carrying thirty-eight men (including twenty-five of the elite SEAL Team 6, five National Guard and Army Reserve, and eight Afghan commandos) was shot down over Taliban-controlled territory in eastern Afghanistan. They had been on a top secret mission to take out a high-value target.

Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents of Navy SEAL Aaron C. Vaughn, started poking around at the “official” story and found not a rat, but a stinking swamp, a coverup that went all the way to the top.
When the Vaughns began trying to drain the swamp, they received what the Obama administration is famous for: the shakedown. None other than one of the highest ranking officers in the nation—Admiral William McRaven, commander at U.S. Special Operations Command—paid the Vaughns a little visit, in essence telling them to keep their mouths shut

Posted 5/24/13
1.
We’ve Seen the Effect of “Amnesty” Before
Experts can’t always predict exactly how public policy will affect the nation, despite our best efforts. But when it comes to immigration policy, we have tried many of the types of reforms advocated by today’s Gang of Eight—so we should consider the effects these reforms had in the past.

In the mid-’80s, many Members of Congress advocated amnesty for long-settled illegal immigrants. President Reagan considered it reasonable to adjust the status of what was then a relatively small population, and as his attorney general, I supported his decision. The path to citizenship was not automatic. Immigrants had to pay application fees, learn to speak English, understand American civics, pass a medical exam, and register for military selective service. Those with convictions for a felony or three misdemeanors were ineligible.

This should sound familiar, as it’s quite close to the path and provisions set forth by the Gang of Eight. Today they call it a “roadmap to citizenship.” Ronald Reagan called it “amnesty.” And he was right.

The 1986 reform did not solve our immigration problem—in fact, the population of illegal immigrants has nearly quadrupled since that “comprehensive” bill. Why didn’t it work? Well, one reason is that everything else the 1986 bill promised—from border security to law enforcement—was to come later. It never did. Only amnesty prevailed, and that encouraged more illegal immigration.

2.
‘It made him look like a butler’: Retired general blasts President Obama for ordering U.S. Marine to break military rules by holding an umbrella
According to Marine Corps regulations, not even the President of the United States can request a Marine to carry an umbrella without the express permission of the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The Marine Corp Manual, which is the bible for all soldiers serving, specifically states that a soldier’s uniform dress code does not allow the carrying of an umbrella and ‘no officer or official shall issue instructions which conflict with, alter, or amend any provision without the approval of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.’

3.
Judge Upholds AZ Denying Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
A judge has refused to halt Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s policy denying driver’s licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy. The decision Thursday by U.S. District Judge David Campbell rejects the argument by immigrant rights advocates who say her policy is unconstitutional because it’s trumped by federal law.

4.
Regulations Create Third Ruling Class
The Federal bureaucracy should serve, not rule the people. While regulations are needed to protect the environment and ensure clean air and water, the Obama Administration has abused its position to create a third ruling class of mostly appointed bureaucrats who impose costly regulations on the nation. New regulations enacted during President Obama’s first term alone cost Americans $70 billion, and much of it is to influence behavior, reward “good” industries and punish ones not considered to be friendly to the Obama agenda of hope and change. Just another way to pick winners and losers.

5.
Finally, A Bi-Partisan Solution on Term Limits
It does not prescribe the number of terms a member can serve; rather, it gives Congress the constitutional authority to pass and implement term limits. The reason for this structure is that by taking away the details from the amendment process, the likelihood of passage increases. We believe that even members who are philosophically opposed to term limits would support a constitutional amendment providing the legislative branch with the ability to debate and vote on the issue.

6.
The Liberal Union behind the IRS
The President couldn’t even bring himself to breathe a word of the truth. He could fire some hapless Acting Commissioner, but last night Mr. Obama never came close to discussing that which must never be discussed. The IRS?

It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment). It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party.

And the recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General? You will not find a single reference to the NTEU. Whose members are both player and referee in the exploding controversy over the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Which raises the obvious question: how many NTEU members were involved in the writing of the Inspector General’s report?

7.
4 Reasons Why the Obama Doctrine is Making Us Weaker
It’s no secret American leadership in the world is growing weaker. Our decreasing influence can be traced to the Obama Doctrine. With his goal to make the United States “an equal partner” rather than an “exceptional” nation, President Obama has sought to remake American foreign policy. For years, The Heritage Foundation has explored and tracked the Obama Doctrine. Heritage’s Helle Dale explains the four main tenets identified by authors Kim Holmes and James Carafano. They are:
Ratification of more treaties and reliance on international organizations more often to deal with global crises and security concerns like nuclear weapons, often before turning to our traditional friends and allies;
Emphasis on diplomacy and “soft power” instruments such as summits and foreign aid to promote its aims and downplay military might;
Adoption of a more humble attitude in state-to-state relations; and
Playing a more restrained role on the international stage.

8.
What is the real number of illegal border crossings?
A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations could have a significant effect on the conversation — and cast real doubt on whether the government’s border security statistics are reliable. If the report is correct, more illegal immigrants are making it past U.S. authorities than officials say. And just as important, the report suggests it is nearly impossible to have an informed debate about border security because the government does not reveal the most basic information about illegal border crossings.

9.
2013 Commencement: Liberals Dominate Conservatives Again
Young America’s Foundation’s 20th annual “Commencement Speakers Survey” reveals that 62 liberal speakers-and only 17 conservatives-are scheduled to speak or have already spoken at the 2012 commencement ceremonies for the top 100 universities as listed by U.S. News and World Report.

10.
Pope Francis Ignores Power Of Free Market To End Poverty
Pope Francis seemed to have an economic blind spot, to say the least, when he urged more “state control” to cut global poverty Thursday. On the contrary — the biggest poverty-killer in history is free enterprise.Before we go further, let us say that we know that the pope does seem to have the best intentions and his devotion to the poor is indisputable.

But it appears he has been infected by the local economic pathologies of his homeland, Argentina, and its liberation theology among the Jesuits, at least when he warned ambassadors about “the tyranny of money” and called for countries to impose more control over their economies to prevent “absolute autonomy” and foster the “common good.”

11.
Why Pam Bondi Has a Strong Damages Suit Against BP
At first blush, it may seem that proving our state’s damages would be difficult. After all, there was very little evidence of oil reaching the shores of the Sunshine State during the 87 days the oil leak went uncapped.

While the exact amount of damages incurred by our state as a result of the oil spill will be difficult to calculate, there is no doubt that Florida’s economy — as well as our state budget — was hit hard by the perception that our beaches were covered in oil. Therefore, It is entirely appropriate for the attorney general to try to recover those damages.

12.
Florida Outperformed Nation in April in Getting People Back to Work
Florida’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.2 percent in April — lowest it has been since September 2008, Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday. In fact, Florida outperformed the national unemployment rate for last month, which stands at 7.5 percent. April is the first month in five years in which no county had above 10 percent unemployment in Florida.

13.
Voter Fraud in Missouri: Wrong Candidate Was Elected
On Monday, John C. Moretina pleaded guilty to a federal felony count of voter fraud in the August 2010 Democratic primary in Missouri’s 40th legislative district. Moretina falsely claimed he was living in the 40th district just so he could vote in the primary. This is a Democratic district where the winner of the primary, John J. Rizzo, was highly likely to become the district representative in the state house and, in fact, was elected. But Rizzo beat his Democratic opponent, Will Royster, by only one vote: 664 to 663.

14.
Benghazi: The anatomy of a scandal; how the story of a U.S. tragedy unfolded — and then fell apart
The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department’s mission in eastern Libya. From President Obama on down, the recap was simple: A crowd of demonstrators angry over an obscure YouTube video that denigrated Islam’s Prophet Muhammad spontaneously stormed the complex.

The State Department’s top spokeswoman assured the public that security for fallen Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and his aide Sean Smith was “robust.” Pentagon chieftains likewise said the military did all it could in the ensuing eight-plus hours of the attacks, during which two former Navy SEALs — security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — were killed by mortar fire while trying to protect a nearby CIA annex.

Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false. They were uttered with less than two months to go in a presidential election campaign in which Mr. Obama declared al Qaeda on its heels.

15.
CBO: Obama budget for fiscal 2014 adds $5.2 trillion in deficits
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on Friday said President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal would add $5.2 trillion in deficits over 10 years.The agency said that compared to its baseline scenario, the Obama budget would reduce projected deficits by $1.1 trillion over 10 years. The White House had claimed $1.8 trillion in savings using its own analysis.

16.
NYT: Obama Administration Knew Of IRS Scandal 5 Months Before Election
In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General confirmed that he told senior Treasury officials in June of 2012, a full five months before Election Day.

17.
Benghazi Dot One, Why The Video And Why AP – B.G.
There was more than one reason and we need to understand them all which isn’t easy,(and even less easy to explain,) because there are details long forgotten as if each ‘thing’ was in a box of its own separate from each other ‘thing’. In reality, they are connected in a myriad of ways. So this is going to have to be a series. Step by step. Inch by inch. Slowly we turn.

18.
IRS Chief Apparently Lied During Testimony
In House testimony Friday, former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller explained that the IRS mistakes in handling applications for non-profit status from tea party groups were due, in large part, to a flood of applications following the Citizens United decision. Miller said the targeting was a botched attempt to centralize the process to account for the increased workload. There were fewer applications in 2010, when the IRS began targeting conservative groups, than the year before, however.

In 2009, before IRS began targeting tea party organizations, 1,751 groups applied for 501 (c)4 status. That number dropped in 2010 to 1,735. In fact, applications were down across all areas in the Tax Exempt division’s jurisdiction. So, they had more staff available for processing. While the number of applications did increase in 2011 and 2012, there was no increase in applications when the IRS began isolating tea party groups.

19.
Strassel: The IRS Scandal Started at the Top
Was the White House involved in the IRS’s targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was. President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an “independent” agency and that they knew nothing about its abuse. The media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and sicced the tax dogs on his enemies.

But that’s not how things work in post-Watergate Washington. Mr. Obama didn’t need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he’d like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action. Mr. Obama now professes shock and outrage that bureaucrats at the IRS did exactly what the president of the United States said was the right and honorable thing to do. “He put a target on our backs, and he’s now going to blame the people who are shooting at us?” asks Idaho businessman and longtime Republican donor Frank VanderSloot

20.
Major BS Alert: IRS Says Leaking Of Conservative Groups’ Materials To Liberal ProPublica Was “Inadvertent And Unintentional”

21.
Let the greens gripe, the Keystone XL pipeline is a lock
In Baltimore Friday — a helicopter hop away from all-scandal-all-the-time D.C. — President Obama announced he is “directing agencies across the government to do what it takes to cut timelines for breaking ground on major infrastructure projects in half.” Obama never mentioned Keystone by name, but at 1,700 miles long and expected to create about 16,000 jobs, the pipeline to carry Canadian oil to the Gulf Coast is about as “major” as infrastructure gets. And the only agency “across the federal government” standing in its way is the Obama State Department.

It will do what it takes. On Friday, congressional Republicans noted that the president made the speech at a Baltimore company — Ellicott Dredges – that’s run by a man who testified before Congress on Thursday about how important the pipeline is to the economy.

22.
News anchor speaks out about IRS, gagged by station
A St. Louis TV anchorman alleged on his Facebook page earlier this month that after conducting a fair, but hard-hitting interview with President Barack Obama, his troubles with the Internal Revenue Service exacerbated. From the moment he made that assertion, he’s also received flak from his employer. On the same day newsman Larry Conners, who works for CBS affiliate station KMOV, made his Facebook entry, he was supposed to have been interviewed by CNN and Fox News contributor Dana Loesch on her radio program. Instead, he deleted his Facebook posting, abruptly cancelled his interview and, according to Loesch, read the following statement on the air:

Those were my personal views, not those of KMOV TV, second to be fair, I should disclose that my issues with the IRS preceded that interview by several years. As a journalist I understand the importance of keeping my personal matters separate from my professional work, sometimes you have to do that to retain your independence as a news man. Those lines might have been unintentionally crossed yesterday by my post.

23.
Woman Who Asked IRS’s Lois Lerner Scandal-Breaking Question Details Was a Plant
The woman whose question prompted a top Internal Revenue Service official to admit the agency was inappropriately targeting conservative groups says she was contacted prior to the event that elicited the admission and was directed to ask the question. Celia Roady, a prominent tax lawyer in the firm of Morgan Lewis, said she was called personally by Lois Lerner, the IRS head of the tax exempt division, on May 9.

“I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the [American Bar Association] Tax Section’s Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks,” Roady said in a statement to U.S. News and World Report. “I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question.”

24.
Flashback: Schumer, Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012
Long before the Internal Revenue Service revealed it had improperly targeted conservative 501(c)(4) groups, a group of Democratic senators led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the IRS to do just that.

The IRS’s admission last Friday that it had singled out tea party and other groups for extra audits and delays has raised concerns that President Barack Obama’s administration quietly attempted to stymy opponents through intimidation. But many prominent Democrats — including Montana Sen.Max
Baucus
, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the New York Times editorial board — had been publicly calling for tighter restrictions on 501(c)(4) groups affiliated with the tea party and conservatives.

Last year, Schumer, along with Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken, penned a letter calling on the agency to cap the amount of the political spending by groups masquerading as “social welfare organizations.”

25.
God Pees on Liberal Media and Tells Them It’s Just a Tea Party
For those of you who hate the Tea Party, I have a one word reply to you: Ha! Because they were right, and you were very, very wrong. They were right about the IRS, right about Boston, right about Benghazi.

They were right about Eric Holder and the threat that our top law enforcement officer posed to the Bill of Rights; they were right about Obama and his smarmy, made-up, intellectual know-it-all-ism; they were right about the press being active advocates for partisan purposes while ignoring Obama’s smarmy, made-up, intellectual know-it-all-ism; they were right about the GOP being wrong on taxes and spending; they were right on Obamacare and Mitt Romney and the constitutional limits of government, as well as the limits placed on government by natural law.

26.
The Larger Implications of the AP Affair
Of all the scandals, mini-scandals, and scandals-in-waiting circling the White House these days, the one that should set off the most alarms in the Oval Office is the AP phone records affair. It’s not so much its relative placement on the egregious overreach scale; it’s the fact that it involves the mainstream press. This is an assemblage of men and women that has been vital to the political success of the President. This is the group that collectively decides whether an event, or series of events, constitutes a scandal or, for that matter, even a story.

When scandal engulfs an administration, it’s generally not about one isolated occurrence, but rather a confluence of events that forms a narrative and paints an unsavory picture. Until now, that dynamic has been lacking in the coverage—or lack thereof—of stories such as Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the IRS. Now, however, this administration has provided a linchpin to the scandal process with its peek into AP’s virtual Rolodex. The press is now angry, and that’s not a good thing for Obama, Inc.

27.
Judge Goes Off Deep End To Shut Up Christians
A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message.

The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought by a team of Christians who were badgered, bullied and targeted with garbage thrown by Muslims who disliked their message at last year’s Arab Fest in Dearborn, Mich.

Officials with American Freedom Law Center, who have been arguing the case on behalf of the Christians, also said the judge denied AFLC’s motion requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting the Christian evangelists from displaying their banners and signs on the public sidewalks outside of this year’s Arab Festival.

28.
Perez Framed Lenders As Racist In $600 Mil Shakedown
New evidence has emerged that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez may have improperly prosecuted Wells Fargo, Bank of America and dozens of other banks for lending discrimination by using deficient mortgage data in investigations. IBD has learned the special prosecutor spearheading Perez’s record number of statistics-based cases of racism against lenders told federal bank regulators in 2010 he lacked key home loan data needed to conduct the kind of iron-clad “regression analyses” that would hold up in court.

Still, Perez’s civil-rights division used the shaky data to force bank defendants into a record $600 million in settlements, including loan set-asides and cash payouts for minority borrowers.

29.
Swarthmore Farce Shows Results Of Barbarian Takeover
An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4 to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.
As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object.

Although professors and administrators — including the college president — were in the room, apparently nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm trooper tactics. Nor is it likely there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires above the rights of others. On the contrary, these students went on to demand mandatory campus teach-ins, and the administration caved. Among their other demands are that courses on ethnic studies, and on gender and sexuality, be made a requirement for graduation.

30.
Florida Voices: 2013-2014 Families First Budget
Praise isn’t universal, but Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature are receiving accolades from various sectors for the $74.1 billion 2013-2014 Florida Families First Budget the governor signed into law Monday. Scott nevertheless vetoed nearly $370 million worth of appropriations.

Here’s what the Sunshine State’s politicos and interest groups are saying:

31.
Megyn Kelly reports DOJ has been secretly targeting Fox News reporters
In what started last week with the discovery that the Department of Justice had targeted the phone records of Associated Press reporters has now erupted into a disturbing pattern of behavior by administration officials exhibiting total disregard for constitutional constraints.

The Washington Post reported Sunday evening that DOJ officials not only secured the phone records of Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, but they also obtained a search warrant for his private email account. This is an important distinction, because a warrant requires an independent judge’s review, and may only be issued upon a showing of probable cause.

Fox News has since learned that Rosen wasn’t the only one of its employees targeted by DOJ. “America Live” host Megyn Kelly reported Monday afternoon that correspondent William La Jeunesse and DOJ and national-security senior producer Mike Levine can also be added to the Obama administration’s list of targeted news gatherers — so far.

32.
Palm Beach County watchdog mess could have been avoided if Sharon Bock was IG
What should we make of this squabble between Palm Beach County Administrator Bob Weisman and Inspector General Sheryl Steckler? For starters, no one who’s followed the issue from the start should be surprised about this sticky mess. The Office of Inspector General wasn’t set up properly from the start. But it’s hard to get the toothpaste back into the tube. Competing political interests are now entrenched.

33.
Fla. Gov. Scott vetoes sheriff’s $1 million ‘snitch on your neighbor’ program
Gov. Rick Scott on Monday vetoed almost $368 million in state spending before signing the budget for next year, including $1 million for a violence prevention and mental health initiative sought by the Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

34.
Farm Bill: Ripe for Reform
Time to Free Farmers and End Costly Depression-Era Subsidies With budget deficits soaring, Congress should reduce unnecessary spending in the farm bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that direct spending under the Senate and House 2013 farm bills would be $955 billion and $940 billion for the 2014-2023 period, respectively. Farm subsidies shift the costs of agricultural risk to taxpayers and entice farmers to take even greater risks.

35.
Hillary’s Benghazi ‘Scapegoat’ Speaks Out
Raymond Maxwell, the only official at the State Department’s bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the attacks, tells Josh Rogin that he’s been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton’s team.

Following the attack in Benghazi, Libya, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a midlevel official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the failures that led to the death of four Americans last year.

Raymond Maxwell was placed on forced “administrative leave” after the State Department’s own internal investigation, conducted by an Administrative Review Board (ARB) led by former State Department official Tom Pickering. Five months after he was told to clean out his desk and leave the building, Maxwell remains in professional and legal limbo, having been associated publicly with the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American for reasons that remain unclear.

36.
Under ObamaCare, IRS Is Creating Chaos For Doctors, Patients
IRS Illegally Usurps Congress with New Law in Obamacare As an internist, I have dedicated my 30-year career to advancing the long-term health of all of my patients, one patient at a time.

Unfortunately, the greatest barrier to this goal is government intervention into my professional judgment, my office management and my patient care. This has been increasingly true long before enactment of the onerous Affordable Care Act (ACA), but it’s especially true now.

ObamaCare is being increasingly recognized as a “train wreck.” Trust me: it is demoralizing doctors, distracting providers toward bureaucracy and away from patient care. It is disrupting quality and access, and damaging health.

37.
Florida Tea Parties Mull Joining IRS Lawsuits
More than 200 Florida tea party groups will soon decide if they are eligible and willing to join either of at least two nationwide class-action lawsuits alleging harassment, intimidation, and discrimination by the Obama administration’s IRS. On Tuesday morning, Citizens for Self-Government (CSG), a grassroots conservative organization based in Washington, D.C., announced that NorCal [i.e., Northern California] Tea Party Patriots had filed a lawsuit against the IRS in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The court’s jurisdiction includes Cincinnati, home of the IRS office where the anti-conservative and anti-libertarian discrimination campaign is believed to have originated. “We believe it’s imperative that citizens make a frontal assault on the federal government,” Mark Meckler, CSG’s founder and president, told Sunshine State News shortly after the press conference announcing the suit. “The federal government shows no indication that it’s interested in policing itself.”

38.
Senate panel weighs DC abortion bill – S.S.
A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold a hearing Thursday on legislation to ban late-term abortions in the District of Columbia. The measure’s sponsor, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), has declared his intent to revise the bill to apply nationwide in light of the recent murder conviction of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell was recently convicted of killing three infants born alive after failed abortions.

39.
Republicans target ObamaCare outreach – S.S.
Efforts to boost enrollment and raise awareness of President Obama’s healthcare law are the next target for House Republicans. Lawmakers zeroed in Tuesday on the reform law’s “navigators,” questioning whether part of the program might be illegal and raising questions about the possibility that criminals could gain access to personal healthcare information.

40.
More Unions Have Second Thoughts about Health Care Law
First it was the roofers union who had second thoughts about the health care law. Now other unions are expressing major concerns over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Hill reports: The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) — a 1.3 million-member labor group that twice endorsed Obama for president — is very worried about how the reform law will affect its members’ healthcare plans. Last month, the president of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers released a statement calling “for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act.”

41.
Inflation Begins to Niggle American Consumers, Says Rasmussen
Americans say they’re shelling out more for groceries this year, and it’s starting to raise concerns about the effect of inflation on their everyday lives. A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows around 83 percent of respondents believe they’re coughing up more cash for groceries this year compared to how much they spent in 2012. Almost three-quarters of them said they anticipated spending even more on groceries in 2014.

42.
It’s all her fault! White House pins both scandals on one lady
It may be the Obama administration’s version of “off with her head” for White House Counsel chief Kathryn Ruemmler who is being properly set-up to take the fall for the White House’s disastrous handling of Benghazi and the IRS scandal.

BuzzFeed reported that “two administration sources” said it was the office of the White House Counsel who advised top Obama officials to keep quiet about Benghazi in the days after the attack and the weeks leading up to the 2012 election.

43.
‘JournoList’ revived: Liberal reporters quietly summoned to White House
In a development that brings to mind the short-lived “JournoList” controversy, several liberal reporters are said to have been quietly summoned to the White House on Tuesday. NPR reporter Ari Shapiro “tweeted” that Washington Post columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ezra Klein, and Talking Point Memo’s Josh Marshall were spotted entering the West Wing.

Klein is credited with creating the private journalistic list-serv JournoList, which gave members of the media a platform to communicate, resulting in charges of collusion by many who claimed the group was trying to corral press coverage and skew it to a particular outcome. The Daily Caller reported in 2010 that members of JournoList plotted to protect then-Sen. Barack Obama from the swirling Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy in 2008 that threatened to derail his presidential campaign.

44.
U.S. Gov’t: Radical Muslims Approved, Moderates Shunned
Counterterrorism trainers are told that U.S. Brotherhood groups’ are not tied to terrorism. Yet the federal gov’t has proved they are. A 2011 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document released by The Daily Caller advises government agencies against training about the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and to shun “Muslim reformers.” Shockingly, the advisory committee that likely influenced these guidelines includes numerous individuals affiliated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

45.
Florida Ranked 9th in Economic Outlook
With Congress locked in perpetual gridlock and the U.S. economy stuck in a lackluster recovery, state governments around the country are seeking their own solutions to the country’s economic woes. However, the paths that states are pursuing to achieve economic prosperity are not all the same. Some have seen magnificent success in achieving real economic recovery while others continue to struggle.

In this 6th edition of Rich States, Poor States, Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams highlight the policies throughout the 50 states that have led some states to economic prosperity and others to prolonged real economic recovery.

46.
Number of Floridians Receiving SNAP Benefits Doubles In Five Years
In spite of the Sunshine State’s declining unemployment rate, the number of Floridians on food stamps — now called SNAP benefits — has risen in alarming numbers, actually doubling in five years. In 2008,1.45 million people were signed up in Florida; today more than 3.5 million people are enrolled

Posted 5/17/13
1.
Abortion’s Underside in Florida
Sycloria Williams was recovering from a botched abortion at her Pompano, Fla., home on July 21, 2006, when two homicide detectives knocked on her door. They asked if she knew why they were there. “Yes,” Williams said immediately. “Because the baby was born alive.”

It took investigators one week and three separate searches to find the corpse of Williams’s infant, which was hidden away in the abortion clinic in Hialeah, Fla. It was a tiny black girl, only 25.5 centimeters from head to toe, born prematurely on July 20. Her body was badly decomposed, discolored and infested with maggots, but the autopsy report and an expert physician’s review both suggested she had drawn breath on her own before she died.

2.
The Heartless Bureaucracy
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. —Bill Clinton in an August 12, 1993 speech.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are. —Elena Kagan

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. —Karl Marx

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.” —Katherine Graham, Publisher of the Washington Post, in a speech to CIA recruits, 1988

3.
Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges
At least a dozen former members of domestic terrorist organizations are college professors, a guest blog on The Other McCain reports.

“Members of the Weather Underground make up half of this list; some are well known, like Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers is now retired from the University of Illinois, while Dohrn is still teaching at Northwestern Law,” writes Ryan James Girdusky in a guest blog post Wednesday about the dozen or so former members of domestic terrorist organizations who are now college professors.

4.
Liberal Defined: Someone Who Is So Open-Minded His Brain Falls Out
Liberals pride themselves on being open-minded or, better said, what they think of as being open-minded. Correspondingly, they deride conservatives for being closed to new ideas that might require them to change their minds. Of course, this is a mischaracterization of conservatives. For liberals, being open-minded means to be open to their beliefs and only their beliefs; not to a wide range of possibilities. In reality, an open-minded person is one who is willing to consider different points of view, listen to differing opinions, and attempt different solutions. A true liberal will, of course, do all three of these things but herein can be observed the gist of the issue.

Few people who call themselves liberals in today’s toxic political environment actually fit the traditional definition of the term. In fact, today’s liberals are the most intellectually intolerant people on the planet. Differ with a liberal in the current environment and you are immediately subjected to ridicule, degradation, and character assassination. Evidence of this claim is so pervasive that I will not waste column space proving the obvious. Rather, for the sake of argument I am going to give “liberals” the benefit of the doubt and accept that they are, indeed, open-minded—so open-minded in fact that their brains have fallen out. So-called liberal open-mindedness has led to some of the most ironic, ridiculous, and nonsensical anomalies imaginable. Here are just a few:

5.
Red Tape Rising: Regulation in Obama’s First Term
Regulatory burdens on Americans increased by nearly $70 billion during President Obama’s first term in office, during which federal agencies imposed 131 new major regulations. In 2012 alone, the Administration issued a total of $23.5 billion in new regulatory costs from 25 major rulemakings. Only two rules last year decreased burdens. Much more regulation is on the way, with another 131 major rules on the Administration’s agenda, including dozens more implementing Dodd–Frank and Obamacare. Action is needed by Congress, including requiring congressional approval of each new major regulation before it may take effect.

6.
Obama Has Won! Is Civil War Inevitable?
Some of you are already shaking your head and arguing with my headline. I can hear the conservative craniums rattling all across America’s fruited plains, her mountain’s majesty, and from sea to shining sea. Let me clarify my title. Let’s start with the first half: Obama Has Won! But you scream back angrily at me, “NO he hasn’t! He didn’t win! We’ll never admit defeat!” Good for you. I appreciate and respect your patriotism and tenacity.

Unfortunately, you’re wrong. There’s no denying that one. He was re-elected, and he’s achieved every goal he set out to win short of disarming the American people. Obama’s primary objective (his mission statement if you will) is “To fundamentally change America.” Many argue that he’s already done that. I would argue that America was already fundamentally changed years before he was voted into office.

7.
Why You Are Being Governed By Your Inferiors
I wrote this article in response to all the people I meet who tell me they refuse to watch the news, read it, or make any effort to gain knowledge about what is going on in this country. They don’t want to hear about the negative developments and certainly are not getting involved in the process to repair the damage.

Living in a state of blissful ignorance is not only foolish, it is irresponsible and inexcusable. The growing number of people who live in this state of blissful ignorance, are the reason America is being destroyed from within.

The penalty of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Jefferson said, all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to remain silent.
I say, “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to remain IGNORANT AND SILENT

8.
10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
The Internal Revenue Service admitted to improperly targeting conservative groups for aggressive applications processes for tax exempt status in 2012, using the terms “Tea Party” and “patriot” as flags. Here are some of the things they wanted to know about those groups.

1. We’re gonna need all your direct and indirect communication. “‘Direct and indirect communications’ is profoundly chilling of First Amendment rights, ” said David French, senior counsel for American Center for Law & Justice, which has been representing 27 conservative organizations met with IRS inquisitions. “It’s so vague as to be impossible to comply with.”

9.
Confiscation!!!
An astute person listening to the official audio recording of yesterday’s Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing noticed that the official recording continued following conclusion of the hearing. The discussion that was caught, apparently among several senators and staff, is outrageous, and reveals legislators’ true view of gun owners.

A YouTube video with an excerpt of that recording has been posted here. The following lines can be heard in the recording:

“We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.”

They [gun owners] want to keep the guns out of the hands of the bad guys, but they don’t have any regulations to do it.”

“They don’t care about the bad guys. All they want to do is have their little guns and do whatever they want with them.”

“That’s the line they’ve developed.”

The discussion appears to be among Senator Loretta Weinberg (D37), Senator Sandra Cunningham (D31), Senator Linda Greenstein (D14), and at least one member of Senate Democratic staff.

10.
The Art of Death
Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood’s epigrammatic founder, was never at a loss for the chilling turn of phrase. His rally cry, the Brotherhood’s signature pledge that “Jihad is our way” and “Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope,” is the soundtrack of the “Arab Spring.” It speaks for a region over two-thirds of whose putative liberty lovers prefer to kill apostates than to abide freedom of conscience. Their embrace of the very sharia chauvinism that ties together Banna, bin Laden, the Saudi royals, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev explodes the Western myth of the moderate Muslim majority.

Yet the United States government clings to the myth. Even as Boston buries its dead, just as they must do from Cairo to Thailand, Americans are instructed not to notice the inevitable progression from Islamic-supremacist ideology to aggression and murder. The See No Islam campaign entails such inanities as portrayal of the Brotherhood as a “largely secular” outfit. Thus, few of us have heard of Banna’s odes to “the art of death.” To know them is to see the farce in President Obama’s sudden angst over hunger-striking jihadists, and in the renewed vigor of his quest to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

11.
Ideology Trumps Character in South Carolina
Liberals are probably astounded that voters in South Carolina would prefer a candidate who misled and lied to them to conduct an affair over another whose personal life was, in comparison, spotless. Conservatives felt about the same astonishment over the Massachusetts senate race, when Elizabeth Warren, who had been serially untruthful about claiming a phony Native American heritage that has been quite advantageous in her career trajectory, beat Scott Brown, an upfront, honest guy. The lesson seems to be that red states are red and prefer conservatives, blue states are blue and loyal to liberals, and in these divided times ideology and politics can easily trump considerations about character.

12.
Illegal Immigration: Who Benefits?
Why are over 11 million foreign nationals residing illegally in the United States? If we can answer that question, then we can fathom the purpose of “comprehensive immigration reform,” and understand why special-interest groups mostly favor what the majority of Americans oppose. Illegal immigration goes on because, in the Roman sense, it serves the interest (cui bono?) of tens of millions of people. In practical terms, “comprehensive immigration reform” is a way not to end the present chaos but to legitimize it.

13.
The Baffling Logic of Barack Obama
When President Obama virtually ceases all new federal oil and gas leasing on public property, why would he then brag that despite his efforts, private companies on private land increased U.S. oil and gas production to new highs? Is the logic something like, “Thank God, my opponents ignored my efforts and therefore lessened the country’s dependence on energy imports”? When he embraced or expanded almost all the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism protocols he once blasted as unnecessary or unlawful, did his logic run thusly: “Guantanamo, renditions, detentions, drones, tribunals, and the Patriot Act were so bad that I was obligated to keep them in force”? Or why would he boast that illegal entries into the United States had at one point dipped to new lows — obviously not due to his various orders limiting deportations, but rather due to the static American economy. Is that logic, “Thanks to my near-record long economic slowdown, illegal aliens now prefer to stay home”? Now in Mexico he is assailing his domestic opponents while on foreign soil, describing the Second Amendment as a sort of quaint oddity, while blaming his own country for the gun violence in Mexico. Is the logic here, “I know very well that American guns find their way into the hands of Mexican killers, because my administration took elaborate efforts to sell such weapons to such criminals”? Is Joe Biden writing these speeches?

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How Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Led Fight against IRS Abuses
When accusations first emerged in 2010 that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny, it was unclear how widespread the problem was, or how to respond.

It took the efforts of Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation to find a strategy that would yield answers. Levin, who is also one of the most popular conservative talk radio hosts in the nation, decided to approach the Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury rather than the IRS itself, which is typically opaque in its responses.

In a letter dated March 23, 2012, Levin cited reports of unfair targeting, and reported: “The information demanded [of Tea Party groups] in many cases goes far beyond the appropriate level of inquiry [for tax-exempt status].”

Levin’s letter may have been what triggered the investigation that ultimately yielded last Friday’s extraordinary apology–ahead of next week’s report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

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Immigration Bill Creates Giant Database on All Americans
The days of Big Brother may be here already, thanks to a provision in the immigration reform measure being considered in the Senate, Wired magazine reports. Within the 800 pages of the legislation under consideration is a passage outlining the creation of a federal database so large it would contain photographs, names, ages, and Social Security numbers of every American who has a driver’s license or state-issued photo ID. This database is referred to as the “photo-tool.”

Within the 800 pages of the legislation under consideration is a passage outlining the creation of a federal database so large it would contain photographs, names, ages, and Social Security numbers of every American who has a driver’s license or state-issued photo ID. This database is referred to as the “photo-tool.”

The ostensible purpose of the “photo-tool” would be to aid employers in checking any prospective employee against the photo, thus ensuring that employers don’t hire illegal immigrants.

The problem is that although supporters of the tool claim it would only be used for employment purposes, there is a real risk the “photo-tool” could be extended to cover far more than was originally intended. One example is the Social Security card, which was originally intended to track retirement benefits. Now it has become a ubiquitous form of identification, being used for other purposes, such as buying health insurance.

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ICE Agent Union President Claims White House Inflates Deportation Numbers
Chris Crane, president of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers union, spoke to Mark Levin on The Mark Levin Show Thursday evening. Crane recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the immigration bill working through Congress.

Crane explained how President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano have, since the administration’s start, “attempted to shut down” border enforcement and “absolutely” tied law enforcement’s hands.

When Levin asked how their hands are tied, Crane explained, as an example, that ICE agents are not allowed (despite having the vested authority to do so by Congress) to arrest an individual they suspect to be an illegal alien, an illegal alien gang member, or illegal alien criminal. Instead, they are reportedly under orders to wait until the individual commits a crime, is arrested by another law enforcement agency (such as local police), jailed, and only then may an immigration agent speak with the individual.

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Obama Admin Spent $70k to Run Overseas Ads Apologizing For Youtube Video
The Obama administration spent $70,000 in taxpayer funds airing an ad on Pakistani television. At the time, the administration was making the claim that the Benghazi terrorist attacks were caused by protests against an obscure anti-Islam film released on YouTube.

18.
Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to finance Obamacare
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone, hat in hand, to health industry officials, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama’s landmark health-care law, two people familiar with the outreach said.

Her unusual fundraising push comes after Congress repeatedly rejected the Obama administration’s requests for additional funds to set up the Affordable Care Act, leaving HHS to implement the president’s signature legislative accomplishment on what officials have described as a shoestring budget.

Over the past three months, Sebelius has made multiple phone calls to health industry executives, community organizations and church groups and asked that they contribute whatever they can to nonprofit groups that are working to enroll uninsured Americans and increase awareness of the law, according to an HHS official and an industry person familiar with the secretary’s activities. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk openly about private discussions.

19.
It’s Us vs. Them
Democrats act all outraged at the suggestion that Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton would ever do anything to endanger the lives of personnel stationed overseas in order to win re-election. Well guess what – that’s exactly what happened. They lied, gave orders to stand-down, didn’t send help, failed to act, changed the facts, covered-up, lied some more, went to Vegas, lied again, got help from Candy Crowley, got some other people to lie, intimidated witnesses and are now going after the folks testifying to the truth.

Since they took office the Administration has been holding a gun to the head of nearly every American in its quest to exact maximum pain on each of us to achieve Barack Obama’s political objectives. First, printing and spreading money around to their supporters, then bribing members of Congress to pass legislation, and now engaging in activity and cover-ups such as Fast & Furious, the Sequester and now the murders in Benghazi.

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20.
Arcade Owner Brandon Michael Cannon Files to Challenge Sen. Joe Negron
Brandon Michael Cannon, 26, owner of a now-shuttered Port St. Lucie senior arcade, has filed to run against state Sen. Joe Negron of Palm City in the 2014 Republican primary.

Cannon told Sunshine State News he is well aware that if his grassroots campaign should pull off an upset next year, he would be interrupting Negron’s ambitions. Negron is scheduled to become president of the Florida Senate in 2016.

Cannon said his decision to run is based on his and other District 32 constituents’ observations of Negron. He said they feel underserved by their senator, who literally ran from them during this past session’s HB 155 debate — “Prohibition of Electronic Gambling Devices.”

21.
Are Florida’s Law Schools in Trouble?
Thousands of students flock to the doors of Florida’s 12 law schools each year, chasing the dreams of a respectable, well-paying job as an attorney. But the unfortunate reality for many of these young hopefuls is they may not leave law school with a job as a lawyer at all. Paired with with poor employment outcomes is the staggering cost to attend law school, leaving many students in a bind that can take years to get out of.

22.
Siblings of ABC, CBS presidents work for Obama on Benghazi directly
In an appearance Saturday on “Fox News Watch,” political consultant and media commentator Richard Grenell notes that when it comes to Benghazi, “the media’s becoming the story.”

“CBS News President David Rhodes and ABC News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have siblings that not only work at the White House, that not only work for President Obama, but they work at the National Security Council on foreign policy issues directly related to Benghazi.”

Grenell also shares that CNN deputy bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is married to Hillary Clinton’s deputy, Tom Nides.

As NewsBusters reports, Sherwood’s sister, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, is a Special Assistant to President Obama and Rhodes’ brother, Ben Rhodes, is Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication.

Ben Rhodes played a key role in revising the White House’s Benghazi talking points, when all references to al Qaeda and to the security warnings prior to the attack where deleted, according to ABC News.

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Department of Education to Eliminate ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ From Federal Student Aid Forms
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that it will no longer use the terms “mother” and “father” when collecting information about a student’s legal parents when those parents apply for federal student aid. Instead of using the words “mother” and “father,” the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) will use “Parent 1” and “Parent 2.”

The announcement states that the changes to the 2014-2015 federal student aid form “more accurately and fairly assess students’ need for aid” and that “Gender-specific terms fail to capture income and other information from one parent when a student’s parents are in a same-sex marriage under state law but not federally recognized under the Defense of Marriage Act.”

24.
Boehner and Small Business Owners Agree, Internet Sales Tax Is Bad for Everyone
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told Bloomberg Television Wednesday he would “probably not” support the Marketplace Fairness Act, an Internet sales tax bill that passed through the Senate this week by a 69–27 margin.

“Moving this bill where you’ve got 50 different sales tax codes, it’s a mess out there,” Boehner said. “You’re going to make it much more difficult for online retailers to be able to comply.”

Small business owners all over the country agree—and they’re speaking out.

Not only would it charge a new sales tax to many consumers shopping online, but it fails to do what its proponents say—achieve “fairness” for stores.

The MFA is anything but fair, because instead of leveling the playing field, it would tilt it decidedly against online retailers, particularly small ones. Brick-and-mortar stores would still have to collect sales taxes only where they are physically present. Online retailers would have to collect sales taxes from the nearly 10,000 sales tax jurisdictions around the country where their customers live. That is not an equal burden.

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Common Core GED textbook: “9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis”
Adult basic education and GED programs, with about 800,000 students taking GED tests each year, serve a segment of society that escaped government schools, including many homeschoolers. But the national propaganda effort called the Common Core Curriculum is spreading its tentacles to them.

While many may not take the GED seriously, calling it the “Good Enough Diploma,” consider that quite a few homeschoolers take GED tests as a way to cancel out high school attendance requirements and lessen the record-keeping burden on home educators caused by compulsory attendance laws in every state.

You can run but you can’t hide from the omnipresent Big Brother: The new GED workbooks and requirements will still drag many of their children through the biased Common Core curriculum.

In March 2013, New Readers Press, a publishing division of ProLiteracy — the world’s largest organization of adult basic education and literacy programs — released a revised edition of its bestselling Scoreboost series for the 2014 GED test. With eight supplemental workbooks on the mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies tests, the new series is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and has been expanded, according to the publisher, “to cover the complexities of the new math test as well as the analytic writing required by the extended-response items.”

Below is an excerpt from a larger Social Studies Extended Response, found on page 52 from Writing Across the Tests: Responding to Text on the Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Test, entitled, “Does Foreign Aid Really Help?”
“Those who support sending aid to poor countries do so because poor countries often have high levels of poverty, poor educational systems, an ineffective police and judicial force, and limited public services such as healthcare, transportation networks, and banking systems. They believe that when living conditions are this poor, crime levels tend to be higher. Poorer countries, because they have weak governments, often have areas that attract terrorist groups because no one is there to stop them from pursuing those types of activities. Thus, poor countries are often home to terrorist groups that are free to plan and carry out attacks on the rich, industrialized nations, without fear of being stopped. This is in fact what happened on 9/11 when terrorists from Afghanistan hijacked planes and carried out attacks on the United States. In this case, the terrorists originated in a country that had received large amounts of foreign aid from rich countries. Apparently, it didn’t work.”

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Forget Benghazi: Think Progress has the skinny on ‘Cargo Pants-gate’
The attack on the whistleblowers begins: During the aftermath of Benghazi, Hicks showed a lack of diplomatic protocol that both staffers found extremely questionable given the tense times. This includes going to a meeting with the Libyan Prime Minister Mohammed Magarief in a t-shirt, cargo pants, and baseball cap. “I’m too upset to wear a suit,” Hicks allegedly told a staffer. “I want the Libyans to know how upset I am about this attack.”

27.
Black Obama critic dumped as baccalaureate speaker
It’s not easy to criticize liberalism while black in America. Not even if you’re a liberal.

Reverend Kevin R. Johnson is the latest in a series of African-Americans critical of the current administration to feel the liberal backlash. He wrote an editorial in the Philly Tribune titled “A President for Everyone, Except Black People.” He argued that President Obama has not kept his promise to stand for diversity – and that in fact his administration has gone backwards in this area compared to his predecessors.

Given that he is a supporter of President Obama, Dr. Johnson was perhaps surprised when he was asked by his alma mater, Morehouse College, to resign as baccalaureate speaker because of his “untimely” editorial. Morehouse alumni,

28.
Obamacare means you can finally divorce that dope
But in defense of Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., this is not the most unrealistic promise I’ve seen made by Obamacare’s supporters — not even close: “I had a friend who got married to the wrong person just so she could have health insurance. So, we’ll also have a lot of — less bad marriages as a result of this.”

29.
The Big Amnesty/ Social Security Lie
It looks like we’ve discovered the panacea for all of our economic and social ills. We’ve found the solution to the entitlement crisis as well. We’re going to find the poorest countries in the world and import as many of their people as possible within a short period of time. That way we will have millions of people paying into Social Security, purveying the “trust fund” with endless bounty. This is what passes for sane analysis from the Social Security Administration’s chief actuary.

In an effort to buttress the Democrat Voting Act of 2013 aka the gang’s amnesty bill, Stephen Goss, Social Security’s independent chief actuary, released an analysis last week opining that amnesty will solve the Social Security deficit and *prevent*future waves of illegal immigration. Goss finds that by 2024, this bill will have created 3.22 million jobs, and grow GDP by 1.63%. With regards to Social Security, Goss concluded, “overall, we anticipate that the net effect of this bill on the long-range OASDI actuarial balance will be positive.”

Wow – why didn’t we think of importing mass poverty to save Social Security before? Oh wait…that’s exactly what we’ve been doing for the past few decades.

30.
Obama Is an Aberration, Not The New Face Of American Politics
Losing two presidential elections in a row has put leaders of the mainstream Republican Party in panic mode. As a result, they are rushing ahead in an attempt to re-define themselves. The strategy being debated among party professionals for 2016 involves becoming a kinder, gentler party that adopts Democrat principles in an attempt to win back the White House. Republican Party professionals remind me of a tennis player who focuses on the scoreboard instead of the ball, a strategy for certain failure. Before diluting their conservative principles and changing the party’s name to Dempublicans, leaders of the Republican Party should investigate the causes of their losses to Barack Obama a little closer.

A careful examination of the presidential campaigns of 2007 and 2011 will reveal that Barack Obama is an aberration. He is not the new face of American politics the mainstream media portrays him to be.

31.
Dems Shoot Themselves in the Foot Again On Guns
Despite suffering the most humiliating rejection of his presidency, President Obama and the liberal establishment are determined to revive their failed gun control scheme. That’s a good thing. The Republicans should remember Napoleon’s warning that you should never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake. This mistake will cost the Democrats dearly in 2014.

We need to understand that the motivation behind the gun grabbing campaign has always been more than just naked political calculation. Certainly, liberals think it will help motivate their base and maybe shore up the squishy suburban mom demographic for 2014, but this is really a campaign fueled by emotion. That emotion is hate.

This isn’t about dead children. If saving kids was their real motivation, liberals would have long ago allowed the police to end the daily slaughter in Democrat-owned war zones like Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C. No, this campaign is driven by elitist hatred for regular Americans who refuse to bend to their will, who defiantly live life on their own terms, and who stubbornly resist accepting the moral supremacy of the urban liberals who would rule them.

32.
Pentagon plans to share missile secrets with Russia opposed by Republicans
The Pentagon held internal talks on declassifying sensitive missile defense technology that it plans to share with Russia as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to assuage Moscow’s opposition to European defenses.

Republicans in both the House and Senate plan to block any technology declassification for missile defense technology in the current defense authorization bill and other legislation. Legislative mark up on the authorization bill begins this week.

Critics say giving Russia classified data would undermine the effectiveness of missile defenses, which have cost taxpayers more than $100 billion since the 1980s.

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Obamacare to Increase Premiums Nearly 100 Percent
A new report released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveals Obamacare will increase health insurance premiums by an average of nearly 100 percent. Some premiums could rise by 400 percent.

“The average yearly cost for a new customer in the individual market grows from $1,896 to $3,708—a $1,812 cost increase,” according to the report.

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CA Frogs & Toads
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife service plans to close off an additional 2 million acres of California’s forests, spanning 14 counties along the eastern spine of California. Food, energy, timber, mineral, and building material production will be impacted, as well as recreation, hiking, camping, fishing, rafting, roads, off-road vehicles, and more.

35.
Common Core Forcing Marxism/Nazism on America’s Children
Christina: Common Core is a Nationalized Federal government takeover of our Education system which of course is against the law, as the Federal Government is not allowed to set any educational curriculum standards—a right reserved to the States. Least of all do they have the power to create a one size fits all complete take over of education on all levels. This is a States rights issue. The Federal Government has standardized the education curriculum that will apply to all public schools, charter schools, private schools, Christian schools and homeschooling. No one is safe from this new mandate. Common Core Standards are being mandated and implemented by the Federal Government via organizations such as National Governors Association, Achieve, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

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GOP boss to grass-roots Republicans: ‘Don’t get in the race’
Grassroots Republican candidates who want to run in the primary for Florida’s Congressional District 18 say they are being told to stay out of the race by the new chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.

Calvin Turnquest, a former village councilman and vice-mayor of Tequesta is extremely popular among grass-roots conservatives, and when he spoke to Ira Sabin about his plans to run, he said the new GOP leader told him, “There will be a candidate in the race with better name recognition and the ability to self-fund. Don’t get in the race.”

Contacted Sunday, Sabin denied telling Turnquest not to enter the contest and characterized his statements to him as nothing more than “advice.”

When asked to identify the bigger-name candidates, Sabin said, “Carl Domino can self-fund, and Adam Hasner is making noises.”

Beverly Hires, a Republican attorney from Jupiter who served as an Election Day lawyer for the Romney campaign and was a tireless watchdog during the Allen West recount, said Sabin gave her the cold shoulder, too. Hires said she contacted Sabin to tell him she was considering a run, and he referred her to Keith Sonderling, who heads up candidate recruitment for the local GOP party.

37.
Businessmen lament terrifying decline of free-market capitalism
Some of my friends in national politics are terrified. Several sources tell me there’s a growing fear that the institutional pillars holding the republic together are starting to destabilize – and that the center may not hold.

Free-market innovation fueled growth for the 20 years before the recent recession. But no more. Growth covers up a lot of problems. But when it drops as low as it is now and the future is unpredictable, large potholes begin eroding the road ahead. Investment in innovation and diagnostics is done for, and too many investors are heading for the hills. People become infatuated with fashions and fads. Most central banks in the world have gone stark, raving mad, printing money by the trainload to promote the illusion of prosperity.

38.
Beware of Shariah: Australian jailed in Dubai for reporting her own gang rape
Even though the United Arab Emirates is considered the most Westernized of all Muslim countries, travelers should nonetheless beware. Run afoul of Shariah law and you’ll end up on a world of hurt. Just ask Alicia Gali.

Gali is a young, beautiful Australian woman who accepted what she thought was a dream position managing the beauty salon at the Le Méridien Al Aqah hotel, a member of the Starwood hotel chain. The hotel complex was located on the beach in Dubai, a gleaming, high-rise desert oasis of a city. Gali was embarking on what she thought was the adventure of a lifetime.

One evening, she was working on her notebook computer in the hotel’s staff bar when she was delivered a spiked drink. She awoke the following afternoon to a nightmare.

She had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.

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Iran-Contra-like health care scandal means trouble for Sebelius
Could there be a fourth scandal brewing in the Obama administration? Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., thinks so and is asking Congress to investigate.

Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius has been soliciting contributions from private companies in order to fund Enroll America, a nonprofit formed to implement Obamacare, and Alexander says the action is illegal. Congress has turned down HHS requests for additional funds to assist with implementation, according to the Daily Caller.

“Such private fundraising circumvents the constitutional requirement that only Congress may appropriate funds,” Alexander said. “If the secretary or others in her department are closely coordinating the activities of Enroll America, which is headed by a former White House aide, then those actions may be in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act.”

40.
Obama hopes for extended crisis atmosphere
President Barack Obama says he wants to “see if we can institutionalize” in Washington the community spirit that sometimes emerges after a terror attack or an industrial explosion.

The president made the comments during a fund-raising trip to New York, shortly after leaving Washington, D.C. in an uproar over an explosion of scandals, including last week’s revelations of politically motivated IRS investigations and the White House’s editing of reports on the lethal terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

“More than anything, what I will be striving for over the next three and a half years is to see if that spirit we saw in Boston and West Texas, to see if we can institutionalize that [and] if we can create a framework where everybody’s working together and moving this country forward,” he told the community of wealthy donors, according to the pool report.

41.
Major Reversal: Food Stamps Blocking Long-Term Farm Bill – P.W.
As the House and Senate prepare to move their separate versions of the trillion-dollar farm bill through committee next week, it’s important to consider how folks’ perspectives on food stamps have recently changed. After all, food stamps comprise 80 percent of the spending in the bill.

Last year Heritage Action CEO Mike Needham and Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) explained (sub. req’d) there is an “unholy Washington alliance… between rural lawmakers and their urban and suburban colleagues.” This alliance “has caused exponential growth in spending by combining farm policy and food stamps in one huge legislative package.”

This needs to change. Instead of combining farm policy, food stamps, telecommunications, energy, forestry and conservation into a single legislative vehicle, we must begin advancing one issue at a time. Even Americans with differing views on the role of the federal government in U.S. agriculture should agree that any farm bill passed by Congress be a farm-only bill.

42.
Geraldo Rivera: My Sources Tell Me Benghazi Was About Running Missiles To Syrian Rebels
Geraldo Rivera said Friday that his sources tell him the U.S. was involved in a secret mission in Libya to arm the Syrian rebels, which was the reason for the initial secrecy about the attack in Benghazi.

Rivera said on “Fox & Friends” that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney may have been briefed by then-CIA Director David Petraeus “to suggest that there was a secret mission going on there, that we can’t go there, we can’t talk about it.”

“I believe, and my sources tell me, they were there to round up those shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, they were going to hand those missiles over to the Turks and the Turks were going to give them to the rebels in Syria,” Rivera said. “It was like Iran-Contra, I think it merits gigantic investigation, it will all become clear.”

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Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration Report on Tax-Exempt Application Scandal
Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to. Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review. May 14, 2013. Reference Number: 2013-10-053

Early in Calendar Year 2010, the IRS began using inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status to review for indications of significant political campaign intervention. Although the IRS has taken some action, it will need to do more so that the public has reasonable assurance that applications are processed without unreasonable delay in a fair and impartial manner in the future.

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Report: EPA Waivers for ‘Green’ Groups, Denies Conservative, Watchdog Groups
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has routinely charged conservative and watchdog groups fees that the agency has waived for the mainstream media and “green” groups, according to a new report.

According to the Washington Examiner, a Conservative Enterprise Institute review found that while “government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit,” the EPA denied such requests from the Conservative Enterprise Institute in addition to other groups like Judicial Watch and the Franklin Center that hold Obama administration accountable. The EPA granted requests for waivers to groups like the National Resources Defense Council and EarthJustice. The report found that the EPA waived fees for “green” groups 92% of the time.

45.
Meet Florida Conservatives Targeted by Obama’s IRS
Several Florida activists claim they or their organizations are victims of the IRS’ gone-wild, anti-conservative harassment campaign — citing everything from individual audits to being burdened with probing, invasive questionnaires and being forced to disclose political beliefs, even seeing unpublished web pages unearthed.

46.
‘No’ to Budgeting Through the Constitution
Want a blatant example of fuzzy math? It’s right here with ringing clarity in the outlandish proposed constitutional amendment known as Florida’s Land and Legacy. Some of the petition-signers who jumped on the Legacy bandwagon might want to jump off after they absorb an honest financial analysis of this misleading amendment. They’ve been duped.

The Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment (that’s its real name) would embed in the Florida Constitution for 20 years 33 percent of net revenues from the existing excise tax on documents.

But, hey, no sweat. Eric Draper, executive director of Florida Audubon, promises the people of Florida the amendment will dedicate only 1 percent of the state budget to buying conservation land, no programs will get cut as a result, no one will get hurt, it’s all tax free. And, oh yes, all it does is replace the minimum $300 million a year the Florida Forever program provided from 1990 through 2008. What’s not to like?

I asked the expert. As a matter of fact, so did Eric Draper. At different times we both approached Mark Hendrickson, president of the Hendrickson Company, asking about the amendment. Draper wanted his support, I wanted his analysis.

Hendrickson explained in steps why this amendment might sound pretty, but it has crushing ramifications.

47.
Three Words To End The IRS
If you want a simple three-word term that could end IRS abuses of power for good, try this: “The Fair Tax.”

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Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.” For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military.

The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.

The most objectionable aspect of the regulatory change is the inclusion of vague language that permits military intervention in the event of “civil disturbances.” According to the rule:

Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.

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IRS Told Pro-Life Group Not to Picket Planned Parenthood
The Internal Revenue Service allegedly told an Iowa pro-life group they had to sign documents promising not to protest or picket Planned Parenthood and they told a Texas pro-life organization they had to promote abortion, according to documents obtained by Fox News.

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Obama Calls It ‘a Cliche’ to Say We’re ‘the Greatest Country on Earth’
It’s “a cliché” to say that America “is the greatest country on Earth,” Pres. Obama told a DNC event in New York City on Monday.

51.
Soros Gave $6.1 Million to Groups Linked to Pressure on IRS to Target Conservative Nonprofits
As IRS efforts targeting politically-conservative groups gained momentum, George Soros-funded liberal groups repeatedly called on the IRS to investigate conservative nonprofit organizations.

While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year – following the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

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Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.

‘Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,’ the IRS demanded. ‘Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.’

That question was part of the tax collection agency’s February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey. founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.

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17 years later, ‘It Takes A Village’ becomes a federal program
It’s been over 17 years since former first lady Hillary Clinton urged a new community spirit in her book “It Takes A Village.” Now President Obama’s administration is doing something even her husband didn’t–turning it into a $600,000, three-year federal program.

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Government report finds regulations have spiked under Obama
The number of regulations from Washington has spiked since President Obama took office, according to a new government report. The Obama administration published more “major” final rules in its first term than the George W. Bush administration did in its second, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

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More Infringement On Privacy: The FBI’S Proposal For Backdoor Surveillance Via A Wiretap-Ready Internet
The FBI is proposing a plan to force backdoor surveillance on social networks, VoIP and Web e-mail providers. The bureau is also requesting that Internet companies support this effort, even though passage of the law would make their participation mandatory. Impacted would be companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and Google.

Senior FBI officials, the White House and various U.S. senators have argued that the gradual move from telephone systems to the Internet has made it significantly more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities. Because of that, the FBI general counsel’s office has drafted proposed legislation deemed to be the best solution. The proposed law would require social-networking websites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging and Web e-mail to alter their code so that their products are wiretap-friendly.

56.
IRS Targeting Pushed By Democrats Aided Obama Campaign
Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign donor

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Using the Citizens United case as a pretext, retiring Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., on July 27, 2012, wrote IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to investigate 12 conservative groups he accused of violating their tax-exempt status and engaging in coordinated political activity. The groups Levin asked to be targeted for special scrutiny were Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, Priorities U.S.A., Americans Elect, American Action Network, Americans for Prosperity, American Future Fund, Americans for Tax Reform, 60 Plus Association, Patriot Majority USA, Club for Growth, Citizens for a Working America Inc. and the Susan B. Anthony List.

57.
Closer Look at Hertz’s Golden Deal in the Sunshine State
Besides being a state with no personal income tax, one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the country, and a huge tourism and car rental market, Scott and Lee County officials greased the slide with about $85 million in taxpayer incentives. At face value that exceeds the company’s own investment in the move, leaving questions about whether the amount was necessary.

The company initially will receive $14.4 million directly from the state and another $4 million from Lee County. The remaining stimulus reportedly will be tax credits, tax refunds and workforce training reimbursement grants. The Florida Power & Light utility company also will provide electricity at a discounted rate for at least the next four years, and Hertz will have the option to buy the 34 acres of prime real estate for the project. The 700 jobs, however, won’t all be filled by Floridians, at least not until out-of-state employees officially become Florida residents.

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Senators struggle with tech industry concerns on U.S. immigration bill
Senate supporters of a broad U.S. immigration bill struggled on Wednesday to satisfy technology companies that want greater leeway to hire high-skilled foreign workers.

Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York took the lead in trying to broker a compromise on a visa program for skilled workers known as H-1B that has divided business groups and organized labor. The two sides are at odds over requirements that companies first seek Americans for any job openings and a prohibition on displacing U.S. workers.

59.
DOJ Seized House of Representatives Phone Records
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA), who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee, dropped a bombshell on Hugh Hewitt’s Show, Wednesday night. Nunes was on the show to talk about his committee’s upcoming hearing Friday into IRS-gate. The congressman broke news when he alleged that the Justice Department seized phone records from the House of Representatives as part of their investigation of the AP.

60.
Did state dept. hide this dramatic evacuation?
Did the State Department scrub information about a dramatic incident the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack in which U.S. Embassy staff 400 miles away in Tripoli evacuated their residential compound under possible terror threat? The threat was taken so seriously that, according to a key embassy staffer, communications equipment was dismantled and hard drives were smashed with an ax.

61.
Terrorist super-axis to strike within U.S.
Iran has given the go-ahead to operatives of three terrorist groups that have infiltrated the United States to carry out missions, including what is expected to be a Mumbai-style attack on a hotel where innocent bystanders would be killed, WND has learned. A full report with many details of the missions has been passed on to U.S. officials.
Three targets have been chosen within America for imminent attack, and the terror teams have now cut communications with the operational center in Iran, a sign that they are moving ahead with the attacks, according to a high-level intelligence officer within the Islamic regime.

62.
IRS Intimidation Forced Founder to Shut Down Tea Party Group
Jennifer Stefano of Philadelphia was so intimidated by the IRS that she closed her Tea Party down: “In the documents that were sent to me, if you did not tell the whole truth by not putting all your personal information out there by Facebook, by Twitter, of your personal relationship with candidates and parties … it could be considered perjury and perjury carried jail time,” Stefano, 39, told ABC News.
“That was frightening and that’s why I shut it down. I shut my group down.”

63.
Washington Post Points To Barack Obama – You Sir Are A LIAR
While appreciative of the Mainstream Media’s seemingly new found interest in the myriad of scandals that surround the Obama White House, it remains somewhat puzzling what took them so long to get here. That said, this latest round of accusations against Barack Obama coming from the Washington Post, is a welcome addition to the “what a stinking pile of crap” realization that is now being focused on Obama by a growing number of the American public.

64.
Obama Fired 3 Generals, Admiral To Cover Up Benghazi…
There are reports that two high-ranking military officers, Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette and General Carter Ham, were fired by Obama for wanting to come to the assistance of the beleaguered U.S. missions in Benghazi.

65.
Did IRS Target Wisconsin Tea Party and Verify the Recall Effort?
Why was the IRS interested in efforts to ensure the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was legitimate? As the Obama Administration seeks to pivot to a new explanation for their activist Internal Revenue Service (IRS), we find out they took particular interest in the Verify the Recall effort which took place in Wisconsin during 2012. Two of the three groups involved in Verify the Recall experienced delays in receiving their non-profit status. More ominously, the IRS asked at least one other conservative organization, in another state, about their relationship with the effort.

66.
IRS seizes 60 million medical records without a warrant
The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.

According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data. “This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents,” the complaint reads. “No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records,” it continued.

67.
Obamacare Is About Power– S.S.
Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have questioned the need for another repeal vote. However, the scandals coming to light over the last week perfectly make the case for why Congress must eradicate the law from the statute books.

68.
ObamaCare’s Unfair Treatment of Middle Class Families – S.S.
Middle income families are about to encounter some real surprises as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). For example, many workers will soon discover that when they earn more money, they end up with less take-home pay. Others will discover that they are worse off if their employer offers them “affordable coverage” than if there is no health insurance offer.

69.
DOJ placed terrorists in witness protection, then lost them
Two alleged terrorists were provided new identities as members of the witness protection program, but that those new identities were not updated into the federal no-fly list. The two individuals then left the program without notice, according to Fox News.

“Therefore, it was possible for known or suspected terrorists to fly on commercial airplanes in or over the United States and evade one of the government’s primary means of identifying and tracking terrorists’ movements and actions,” the report said, adding that “some” did exactly that

Posted 5/10/13
1.
Why states should not expand Medicaid
While several high-profile governors have agreed to expand this broken program, many others governors and state legislators are cautious. They are correct to be concerned.

They don’t want to deny people access to health care. But they do want to halt expansion of a program that provides limited access to quality care while devouring state budgets.

2.
Obama nominates subprime lender whose bank failed, costing depositors millions
President Obama has often denounced “fat-cat bankers” for their role in the 2008 financial collapse, the subsequent bailouts and the recession

His strong words on the topic suggest that he would have little sympathy, say, the former chairman of her family’s bank, whose collapse caused 1,400 depositors to lose millions at the time. You’d expect him to have even less sympathy if said bank had collapsed because it had adopted an aggressive subprime lending strategy; if it had tried to sell itself and its subprime packages to low-income borrowers as their only hope of getting loans; if it had fixed them up in loans with interest rates north of 10, 12 or even 16 percent; if it had liberally employed balloon loans and other gimmicky products characteristic of the recent gilded age of mortgages.

But no, you’d be wrong. Obama has just nominated Penny Pritzker, the billionaire former chairwoman of just such a bank (until 1994) and later a director for its holding company (with an active role in its operations, according to Crain’s, from 1999 until its failure in 2001) as his new secretary of Commerce.

3.
High school track team disqualified for making religious gesture
Some people are outraged after a high school track team is disqualified from competing in state finals because one runner made a religious gesture. In just a few seconds the boys Columbus High School 4 X 100 relay team went from winning the regional meet, heading to state championships to having it all stripped away. How did the “W” so quickly become “DQ”? Well. when the anchor of the relay team crossed the finish line, he won the race, raised his finger to the sky and that gesture caused the winning regional’s relay team to be disqualified.

4.
Rick Scott to Sign Major Elections Overhaul
By a vote of 27-13, the Florida Senate has passed an election reform bill that now heads to Gov. Rick Scott for approval and signature. HB 7013 (“Florida Election Code”) will substantially increase the hours and days allowed for early voting, impose word limits on ballot summaries for Legislature-proposed constitutional amendments, and allow voters to correct absentee ballots that contain missing signatures.

Earlier today, the House rejected a Senate amendment that would have given the Department of State authority to discipline noncompliant elections supervisors. Scott was quick to indicate he would sign the bill.

5.
Sarah Palin’s fiery NRA speech: ‘Don’t make me do it’
In her typical manner, Palin takes on the media and President Obama. She spoke of Obama using the parents of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting to push his gun control agenda, saying he is “a president who writes the book on exploiting tragedies.”

6.
Floridians Encouraged to Report Neighbors Who “Hate Government”
A new $1 million dollar program led by Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw aimed at “violence prevention” is encouraging Floridians to report their neighbors for making hateful comments about the government, a chilling reminder of how dissent is being characterized as an extremist threat.

“Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed,” reports the Palm Beach Post.

Bradshaw makes it clear that the kind of behavior which could prompt a visit from the authorities includes anti-government political statements that may be deemed a prelude to violent action.

7.
2013 Legislative Summary Report
End of Session Results: 8 Bills Passed

8.
Duke hikes fees to provide sex-change surgery to students
The private university, located in North Carolina, follows Brown and other universities in offering coverage for the controversial operation.

Administrators say they will cover the cost of the reassignment surgery up to $50,000 that will be covered with a 0.3 percent increase to overall student fees.

9.
Sequester: Head Start Officials Cancel School Days, Attend Expensive Conference
The Head Start program, a favorite of President Barack Obama, had an interesting solution for the problems caused by sequestration: low-income children in the program were sent home ten days early. At the same time, 2,800 Head Start leaders spent a total of $752,059 attending a three-day conference in National Harbor, MD.

10.
Left boils as Obama floats major change to Medicare
The left is lashing out at a proposal to reform Medicare that President Obama said he would consider as a way to reduce the deficit.

Left-leaning groups and liberal lawmakers say that combining Medicare’s doctor and hospital coverage would saddle beneficiaries with higher costs. The idea has attracted support from leading Republicans, and given Obama’s receptiveness, the policy could receive significant attention in the next round of deficit-reduction talks.

11.
The Benghazi Talking Points. How they were changed to obscure the truth
Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom.

As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle of events unfolding in Libya, they concluded even before the assaults had ended that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved. Senior administration officials, however, sought to obscure the emerging picture and downplay the significance of attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The frantic process that produced the changes to the talking points took place over a 24-hour period just one day before Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made her now-famous appearances on the Sunday television talk shows. The discussions involved senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the White House.

12.
Russia Warns Americans: Barack Hussein Obama has been shipping arms to al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria for over a year
Russia delivered to the Obama administration a list of the names of Syrian rebels who are members of al-Qaeda groups and who are receiving arms shipments coordinated by the U.S.

13.
Immigration Tax Fraud That’s illegally Paying Billions
There is a loop hole that Mexican immigrants have figured out.

14.
Huge Flaw in Pew Survey on Muslim Views about Sharia
Of course, such revelations as the approval by upwards of two-thirds of Middle Eastern Muslims of the death penalty for apostates, and by one-third of suicide bombings, are depressing — though not at all surprising for anyone who has been paying attention. But what is striking is that the depressing state of affairs is manifest despite Pew’s best efforts to make things seem better than they are. Principally, the survey is about Muslim views about sharia, Islam’s legal system and framework for society. It is intimated that Pew’s study is exhaustive, involving interviews with 38,000 Muslims across 39 countries. But, as Andy Bostom pointed out, countries not included in the survey are Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan — perhaps the three most sharia compliant countries in the world, home to nearly 150 million Muslims.

15.
Obama’s National-Security Fraud
Unlike you, federal government officials are immune from charges of fraud. The executive branch, vested with all of the government’s prosecutorial authority and discretion, is not going to investigate its own operatives for carrying out its own mendacious policies.

The Times Square non-attack is quite interesting. The specter of it, projected in the immediate wake of the Marathon murders and maimings, is horrific . . . so horrific that the government, in leaking this tidbit from its botched interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, knew that news media were certain to lead their broadcasts with it. The press would never wonder why they, and thus we, were being told about it.

The airwaves are now full of startling revelations from his Miranda-aborted 16-hour post-arrest interview, including not least his confession, and, of course, his assurance, as Allah is his witness, that no one other than he and his Svengali older brother — and certainly no foreign Islamic terrorist organization — had anything to do with their terror spree.

Strange, isn’t it? We are governed by leftists given to finger-wagging about their commitment to due process and the rule of law — they’re not like those bad old warmongering Bushies. Still, here we are in the post-arrest phase of the civilian prosecution the administration was hell-bent on commencing — the phase when due process obliges government officials to remain mum about non-public investigative information that could taint the jury pool and undermine the defendant’s right to a fair trial — and we’re being inundated with stunning confession evidence.

Remember, this is the same crowd that labels the Fort Hood massacre “workplace violence” and won’t honor its victims with Purple Heart medals. To do so, they sniff, might prejudice the objectivity of the trial of a jihadist mass murderer who has publicly announced he’d like to plead guilty. Now, though, in Tsarnaev’s case, government agencies are leaking like sieves.

Why? Because you are being softened up. Steered by its Gitmo Bar veterans and Lawyer Left compass, the Obama administration is executing a massive national-security fraud: the farce that the jihad against America can be judicialized, that civilian-court processes are a better answer to enemy warfare than are combat protocols.

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The Obama Admin’s blatant disdain for US Military who teach truth about Islam. LTC Dooley needs our help
Lt. Col Matthew Dooley, a West Point graduate and highly decorated combat veteran, was an instructor at the Joint Forces Staff College at the National Defense University. He had 19 years of service and experience, and was considered one of the most highly qualified military instructors on Radical Islam & Terrorism.

He taught military students about the situations they would encounter, how to react, about Islamic culture, traditions, and explained the mindset of Islamic extremists. Passing down first hand knowledge and experience, and teaching courses that were suggested (and approved) by the Joint Forces Staff College. The course “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” ,which was suggested and approved by the Joint Forces Staff College, caught the attention of several Islamic Groups, and they wanted to make an example of him.

They collectively wrote a letter expressing their outrage, and the Pro-Islamic Obama Administration was all too happy to assist. The letter was passed to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Martin Dempsey. Dempsey publicly degraded and reprimanded Dooley, and Dooley received a negative Officer Evaluation Report almost immediately (which he had aced for the past 5 years). He was relieved of teaching duties, and his career has been red-flagged.

17.
Radicalizing the Military
There have been few sanctuaries of American values as steadfast as the American armed forces. “Duty, Honor, Country”. “Semper Fidelis”. “Service Before Self”. “Honor, Courage, Commitment”. “This We’ll Defend”. “Semper Paratus”. These are words that denote selfless dedication to a higher calling than the gratification of one’s own desires. The men and women who have served our country in the past, and who serve now, are without a doubt the finest of us. They are the face of America around the world, and we are blessed beyond measure that they serve our country with such grace and courage under the worst of external conditions.

Presently, however, they are under threat from within, and one cannot help but notice that our military is being forced, against centuries of American tradition, morals and example, to become a reflection of the left. This appears to be part of the plan to fundamentally transform the United States, and it carries dire consequences for our long-term survival.

18.
DHS Seeks Millions More Rounds of Ammunition
The Department of Homeland Security has released a market survey asking companies if they are able to provide 2 million rounds of ammunition within a short time period, increasing concerns that the federal agency is continuing its arms build up in preparation for domestic unrest.

With the DHS already having committed to purchasing over 1.6 billion bullets over the course of the last year, a “request for information” on “reduced hazard training ammunition” posted on the FedBizOpps website quizzes bullet manufacturers on how fast they can supply large quantities of ammo.

19.
Federal Prisons Plan to Release More Inmates on ‘Compassionate’ Grounds
To reduce the growing prison population and escalating prison costs, the U.S Bureau of Prisons says it is now revising its “compassionate release” rules so more ailing and aging inmates can be freed.

A report from the Justice Department’s inspector general says the revised rules will expand the compassionate release program by making inmates with a life expectancy of up to 18 months eligible for consideration (versus the current 12 months).

20.
Union spends teachers’ money on politics, says suit
A group of teachers is suing to stop the California teachers union from collecting mandatory agency fees from non-members and spending the money on political activity.

The 10 teachers named in the lawsuit are not members of union. But they still pay agency fees to the California Teachers Association, which they claim uses the money to lobby for political causes, allegedly violating the teachers’ First Amendment rights.

21.
California Delivers Free Condoms To 12-Year-Olds
Middle-school California kids, now you can be as sexually profligate as you want to be–and your parents don’t even have to know about it! The California Condom Access Project, run by the California Health Council, which is making condoms available for kids as young as 12 in an online, taxpayer-funded condom delivery service, has expanded their service to include San Diego and Fresno counties.

But it gets better if you keep secrets from your parents. If you visit this website, as many as 10 free condoms can be delivered in confidential packaging, along with lubricant and educational materials. And in California, teens don’t need parental consent to buy contraceptives.

Among 15-19 year-olds, San Diego County ranks second in chlamydia cases in California, and ranks sixth in gonorrhea cases. The state is rampant with STDs; syphilis cases zoomed 18% from 2010 to 2011, Chlamydia rose 5% and gonorrhea rose 1.5%.

22.
Libertarian lawmaker blocks international tax treaties, making strange bedfellows
Sen. Rand Paul’s efforts to block international tax treaties are making some strange bedfellows between business groups and anti-tax evasion crusaders.

Paul (R-Ky.) has been holding up treaties with Hungary, Luxembourg and Switzerland in the Senate for well over a year now, a turn of events that has angered business interests that have called approval of those sorts of agreements routine.

Paul’s office did not respond to a request for comment about the senator’s concerns about the agreements, and what changes might make the treaties acceptable to him.

But a Senate aide told The Hill in 2012 that Paul had privacy concerns about the treaties, which the aide said would “allow the government to obtain a wide array of records without evidence that people may be hiding money.”

23.
Top Legislative Losses of the Florida 2013 Session
As legislators return to their districts, priding themselves on a job well done, doubtless many of them are putting on a bright face, smarting over the losses of the 2013 Florida legislative session. Here are some of the bills that didn’t make it — but likely will return in one form or another after some tweaking:

24.
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of just how vast and invasive these surveillance activities are.

Over the past couple days, cable news tabloid shows such as CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett have been excitingly focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. As part of their relentless stream of leaks uncritically disseminated by our Adversarial Press Corps, anonymous government officials are claiming that they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way.

25.
Number Six: Nbc News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video
Thanks to NRO’s Andrew Johnson, we learned that on Friday MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts used selective clips from a speech by Vice President Joe Biden to make it look as though Biden was making a push for gun control. Biden’s speech had nothing to do with guns.

26.
Cantor promises House vote to repeal ObamaCare soon
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told House Republicans on Friday that they will soon get a chance to vote a full repeal of ObamaCare.

“While we have not locked in the timing, I expect that the House will vote on full repeal of ObamaCare in the near future,” he told members in a memo.

27.
2013 session: Which bills passed, which bills failed – P.W.

28.
Jim Demint On The Immigration Bill’s Crushing $6.3 Trillion Tab
The cost over a fifty year lifespan of an amnesty for unlawful immigrants is $6.3 trillion to the American taxpayer. And we know over time that this is going to increase more debt, increase taxes. That has a depressing effect on our economy, and we know that unlawful immigrants, once they have amnesty, are to replace the jobs of many Americans and depress their salaries.

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29.
Farmers consider using drones on crops
Universities are using unmanned aircrafts to monitor crops, taking detailed pictures of high-value commodities to see things unseen by the naked eye. On top of the improved details, farmers can use the aircrafts at a much cheaper price point than aircrafts requiring a pilot.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Oregon State University is one of several universities using drones for nonmilitary purposes on the farm. The technology is part of the growing interest in precision agriculture, using new tools like iPads and GPS to monitor crops. Information gathered by precision agriculture can show crop conditions and help a producer determine which fields need more water, additional fertilizer, or protection from insects.

Currently, only farms working with universities conducting the research can use the unmanned aircrafts, but the technology will be more available once the Federal Aviation Administration established guidelines, expected by September 2015.

30.
Open Carry March In Washington Seeks To Put ‘Government On Notice’ With Loaded Rifles
Pro-gun activists are planning to march from Virginia into Washington, D.C., on July 4 as part of an open carry demonstration that could bring thousands of illegally displayed weapons into the nation’s capital.

The event, coordinated by libertarian radio host Adam Kokesh and advertised as an “Open Carry March on Washington,” is hoping to bring upward of 10,000 demonstrators ready to say “in the SUBTLEST way possible that we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”

31.
AZ Governor Signs Bill Authorizing State Militia To Be Formed
At a time when militias may be needed more than ever, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona has signed a bill creating a state militia that she could deploy at any time, and for any reason.

32.
Is This Real Reason For DHS Ammo Hoarding? Look Who Claims Obama Intentionally Undermining 2nd Amendment
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., says he believes open purchase orders from the Department of Homeland Security to buy over 1 billion rounds of ammunition are part of an “intentional” effort by the Obama administration to “dry up the market” for gun-owning citizens.

33.
Violent criminals released by ICE if they are ‘Obama Dreamers’
National ICE Council president Chris Crane explained what President Obama’s actions on immigration and blind eye to illegal immigration has made it nearly impossible for ICE agents to enforce the law.

“We can’t have Presidents of the United States picking and choosing which laws will and will not be enforced.” Crane said.

Crane went on to explain how President Obama’s de facto repeal of immigration enforcement has led to serious and dangerous criminals being set free. “What the Obama Administration has ICE agents now doing is we now go into jails and prisons looking for illegal aliens inside of those facilities who have committed and been convicted of crimes. So we apply the Dream Act not to kids, in schools, but to adult inmates and have to ask them basically ‘Do you qualify for President Obama’s Dream Act?’ When they tell us ‘Yes we qualify’ we can’t even require them to give us any kind of proof, a transcript, or anything like that. We can’t detain them for investigation to substantiate the claims, we simply have to release them to the street. They walk out the back door of the jail as ‘Dreamers.’ There is nothing we can do about that.

34.
Europe’s Bureaucracy Warns That Resistance Is Futile
“European union” was originally sold as independent nations cooperating. Europeans actually joined a socialist mafia they can’t unjoin, with a bureaucratically authoritarian megastate as the inevitable outcome.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has news for euro skeptics as they grow in popularity. An “intensified political union” for the European Union’s 27 member states “may sound like political science fiction today,” but it “will be reality in a few years’ time.”

Plans for a European federation will be unveiled in about a year, he announced. What timing, considering the monetary union in recent months has been exposed as an unmitigated fiasco for the EU.

35.
#StopCommonCore Rally Draws 9.7 Million
Parent Led Reform, in collaboration with Truth in American Education, hosted a second rally via Twitter Thursday May 2nd to stop the implementation of Common Core standards. Common Core standards are national, top-down K-12 education ideology imposed by federal and state government. The #Stopcommoncore Twitter rally reached of nearly 9.8 million Twitter users. The traffic was so heavy and the complaints from liberals so loud that Twitter temporarily suspended the Twitter account of Parent Led Reform.

“The response to our second #stopcommoncore Twitter rally was amazing,” says Shane Vanderhart, spokesperson for Truth in American Education. ”Parents and concerned citizens are awakening to this previously unknown revolution in education called the Common Core State Standards. ‘We the people’ are starting to have our voices heard. Last night we sent a strong message that education policy can not be decided by a handful of elites. ‘We the people’ through our elected representatives must have a say. Our kids deserve real reform, not a data-less, untested fad.”

So prepare ye the way for the final federalization of primary education in the USA- hereafter known as Common Core- and don’t worry so much about relics written by old, white men like the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Tenth Amendment only helps ensure local control of those things like education policy. It only ensures that we have a big, diverse, vibrant country full of lots of good ideas. And lots of really great ideas too.

36.
Congressman Patrick Murphy Draws Two GOP Challengers in One Day
On Tuesday, Juno Beach City Commissioner Ellen Andel announced her intention to challenge the Port St. Lucie auditor and vice president of his family’s construction business. In her kick-off event on Tuesday, Andel stressed her commitment to conservative principles, promising to fight for “fiscal responsibility” and a strong national defense.

But even as Andel entered the race, another Republican candidate filed the paperwork to launch his own bid. Attorney Alan Schlesinger, a former Connecticut state representative who served as mayor of Derby, is also seeking the Republican nomination. Schlesinger is no stranger to congressional bids, having run three times for the U.S. House before winning the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in 2006. Lieberman had lost the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont but continued his bid as an independent. With national Republicans, including then-President George W. Bush, refusing to support his bid, Schlesinger flopped in the general election, taking less than 10 percent and finishing far behind Lieberman, who won the race with most Connecticut Republicans supporting him, and Lamont

37.
Hertz Rental Cars Moves to Florida, Business Community Credits Rick Scott
Hertz Corp., a rental car company, announced it was moving its international headquarters from New Jersey to the Sunshine State.

The Fortune 500 rental car company plans on building a $50.5 million corporate office in Estero. The 300,000-square-foot facility will ultimately create 1,704 jobs and have a $190.2 million annual economic impact to Lee County by 2017, Florida Gold Coast University economist Gary Jackson said.

38.
Emperor, Mysterious Florida Company, Bilked Feds out of $750,000
The Emperor Organization, a Florida nonprofit company supposedly set up to offer educational and charitable help to businesses, received three-quarters of a million dollars in federal money three and four years ago — but now it’s disappeared off the map and may have been nothing more than an illusion.

Florida Watchdog traveled from Miami to Tallahassee in an attempt to find clues as to the whereabouts of the firm and its president, Derron Bennett, who, according to records, received a grant of $200,000 in August 2009 and another $550,000 in April 2010.

Uncertainty has been growing since the organization appeared on the “deadbeat” list of the federal Internet site Recovery.gov, a website — formed after the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — that tracks federal grant money doled out to companies that promise to create or retain jobs.

According to Recovery.org records, Emperor failed to submit required reports detailing and justifying its use of the federal handout.

39.
Nation’s CEOs: Florida No. 2 Best State to Do Business in
From Chief Executive Magazine on Tuesday comes the announcement that Florida is now the No. 2 state in the nation to do business in.
Gov. Rick Scott has said he’s rubbing his hands, anticipating the Sunshine State edging closer to knocking Texas off the top spot.

According to the latest edition of chiefexecutive.net, more than 730 CEOs from across the U.S. voted in the survey of chief executive officers – the highest response on record. The survey asked CEOs to rank the best states for business based on a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment.

40.
True the vote wins in settlement with St. Lucie county FL elections supervisor
HOUSTON, TX. May 7, 2013 – True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights organization, today announced its settlement with the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections regarding records inspection rights under federal law and the Florida Constitution. The agreement provides True the Vote access to all ballots, registrations, and other election related data necessary to conduct an audit of a federal election in Florida’s 18th congressional district. The audit will be led not by government entities or political parties, but by concerned citizens.

“True the Vote can now begin reconstruction and review of the 18th Congressional District election race between Colonel Allen West and Patrick Murphy,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. “We must stop this scandalous cycle of ignoring failures in our electoral process when the campaigns and cameras go home. Understanding how failures in administration can effect elections, as we saw in St. Lucie County, will help prevent them from occurring in the future. We cannot allow slipshod standards to become pandemic across our country’s election processes – citizens can and will stand up in defense of election integrity.”

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Boston Bomber to be buried at Arlington?
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, aka: The Islamic jihadist scumbag, aka: the dead Boston Bomber will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery if one US Air Force Veteran has her way.
Yes, you heard that right. The murdering, older brother who killed three and maimed hundreds more innocent people at the Boston Marathon, including an eight-year-old blown to bits has been offered a National Cemetery burial plot by a USAF veteran named Julie Frein. What?

You heard right – Julie Frein served two years of a four-year commitment some time ago and was discharged honorably. Well, something went very, very wrong because this biat-shiite crazy woman has made a teary-eyed request to give her burial plot bequeathed to her by America to her fellow biat-shiite crazy traveler Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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PB County Administrator Weisman: ‘I’m not going to live with Ms. Steckler’
A sometimes-heated meeting of the county commission about the future of the office and Inspector General Cheryl Steckler ended Tuesday without a formal vote. But commissioners plan to discuss funding the office through direct taxation, a new referendum to clarify its powers, and the possibility of settling a lawsuit over who pays for it.

As the commissioner with second-highest seniority, she said, she took office after the series of corruption prosecutions beginning in 2006 rocked the county and sent five former commissioners to prison.

When the public speaking ended, Commissioner Shelley Vana turned the tables, appearing to question the motives of some of the speakers. “I have supported the inspector general since Day 1,” she said.

The meeting also included a sharp exchange between Weisman and Commissioner Jess Santamaria, who accused Weisman of failing to support Streckler’s office and foot-dragging on its funding. Weisman in turn defended the county’s treatment of Streckler. The problem, he said, is not that the inspector general’s office doesn’t have enough independence. It’s how Streckler is handling the independence she does have. “She can’t point to a single thing where the county got in her way,” he said. “She’s saying there’s a problem where there is no problem.”

And he made it clear he had no plans to continue in office if a committee made up of the county’s Ethics Commission, the state attorney’s office and the public defender’s office decides to renew her four-year contract, up at the end of the year.

43.
Allen West “The Duplicitous Hypocrisy: Don’t Fight the Left with Fairness”
Col. Allen West has firsthand experience fighting with the left, especially on issues like race. The left has subjected Col. West to horrible libels over the years, but he has resolved to keep fighting for his values. Hear how he does it, and how you can too.

44.
Religion and Public Life in America
Religious liberty is being redefined in America, or at least many would like it to be. Our secular establishment wants to reduce the autonomy of religious institutions and limit the influence of faith in the public square. The reason is not hard to grasp. In America, “religion” largely means Christianity, and today our secular culture views orthodox Christian churches as troublesome, retrograde, and reactionary forces. They’re seen as anti-science, anti-gay, and anti-women—which is to say anti-progress as the Left defines progress. Not surprisingly, then, the Left believes society will be best served if Christians are limited in their influence on public life. And in the short run this view is likely to succeed. There will be many arguments urging Christians to keep their religion strictly religious rather than “political.” And there won’t just be arguments; there will be laws as well. We’re in the midst of climate change—one that’s getting colder and colder toward religion.

45.
DOJ Won’t Require Warrants For Email, Chat Seizures
In blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, the Department of Justice has apparently declared that they do not require warrants for grabbing Americans’ emails and Facebook chats. The ACLU has gotten hold of the documents from the FBI and DOJ that show that a subpoena, which comes from a prosecutor, is all that is necessary to seize emails and chats.

46.
Gang of Eight Members Vote Against Amendment Securing Borders Before Amnesty
An amendment submitted by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley requiring the security of the Nation’s borders before granting amnesty to more than 11 million illegal immigrants, has been voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-12. Every Democrat on the Committee voted against the amendment.

The amendment: Purpose: To prohibit the granting of registered provisional immigrant status until the Secretary has maintained effective control of the borders for 6 months and to apply border security strategies to all border sectors.

Gang of Eight Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham sit on the Committee and voted against the amendment. Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer, also Gang of Eight and Committee members, voted against the amendment.

47.
Obama Pursues Gun Control via Executive Action After Senate Blow
In the wake of a humiliating defeat for gun-control advocates in the Senate last month, President Obama and a coalition of allied anti-Second Amendment extremists vowed not to give up the fight. Unlike its failure in keeping many promises, however, the administration is already making good on that particular lawless threat, seeking to bypass Congress and use “executive actions” to impose a controversial assault on gun rights and healthcare privacy through Kathleen Sebelius’ Department of Health and Human Services.

If approved, the new “regulation” would — by executive decree — shred remaining federal privacy-protection laws keeping patient data confidential. The HHS’s proposed rule would also, among other radical changes, encourage psychiatrists to report their clients to the FBI’s background check system by waiving the legal prohibition on sharing private healthcare information contained in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Redistricting: Will Justices Open Door to Endless Litigation?
Lawyers for the Florida Legislature and a coalition of left-wing voters’ groups battled it out before the state Supreme Court Thursday morning, as at least three of the seven Justices made it all-but-clear how they intend to rule on the challenge to the 2012 Senate redistricting map.

“Under your theory of the way this operates, there can be a succession of clients, maybe with different plaintiffs, and it could go on and on and on and we could be litigating this redistricting plan for the next decade,” an exasperated Justice Charles T. Canady told attorney Adam Schachter, who’s representing a Democrat-leaning coalition called “Fair Districts Now” (made up of the League of Women Voters of Florida, the National Council of La Raza, and Common Cause Florida).

Posted 5/3/13
1.
Scott’s concerns spamming Internet sales tax bill, sponsors say.
Newfound concerns from Gov. Rick Scott are holding up legislation that would prompt the collection of a sales tax on goods purchased online, sponsors of the measure said this week.

Scott has stated previously that he would sign a bill that calls on Internet retailers like Amazon to collect the 6 percent state sales tax, provided the bill is “revenue neutral,” or contains offsetting tax cuts.

However, according to Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, chairman of the House Finance and Tax Subcommittee, Scott now wants any Internet sales tax measure to be “family neutral” and have a neutral impact on all households in the state.

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Imagine if egalitarians were in charge of the NFL draft? Well, they’re in charge of our nation and economy
Congrats to those who made first round selection in the NFL draft. Sometimes the greatest pro football players are selected lots later in the draft, so a hearty hat tip to all who enter the draft and will make it as a walk-on. Reminds me of those days back on the streets of Atlanta where one person called ‘game’ and was allowed to pick his team. We Americans love to win and all want a winning team, so there were some not picked because they did not display the requisite skills and talents for victory. Now, imagine if social egalitarians were in charge of the NFL draft? Well, they’re in charge of our nation and economy touting rhetoric like fairness, fair share, shared sacrifice, and economic equality. They’re playing a distorted game of social equality and engineering with our military. Our nation has a draft every four years in 2008 and 2012, picked the kids who never got picked to play. Now we’re on a losing team. The most important team is Team America, next time our national draft comes along, I pray we’ll choose better.

3.
Bachmann’s House Tea Party Caucus is back
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s long-dormant House Tea Party Caucus is revving up again today, with the Minnesota Republican scheduled to take part in a Capitol Hill reception co-hosted by TheTeaParty.net, her office confirmed.

According to a report in Roll Call, about a dozen other representatives and senators are expected at the event, which signifies that the caucus intends to stay engaged in the new 113th Congress.

The Tea Party Caucus has not been much in evidence since last year, while Bachmann was defending her House seat in what turned out to be a surprisingly close challenge from DFL businessman Jim Graves.

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Even Big Labor Unions Drop Support For Obamacare
As ObamaCare rolls out, some of its biggest backers from labor to D.C. lawmakers are having second thoughts. It’s a sign that the idea of ending this national nightmare isn’t about to go away.

Late last week, the 22,000-member United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers dropped a bombshell on the Obama administration, not only withdrawing its support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but also demanding its repeal.

The reason: ObamaCare subsidizes low-paid non-union workers in small companies that don’t insure their employees, while leaving union shops with ObamaCare’s higher health care costs and a 40% tax on Cadillac plans by 2018. That’s a “death warrant” for unions, as the Atlantic’s Megan McArdle noted.

5.
Girls forced to role play as lesbians in front of class
Parents were incensed when they discovered that their 13 and 14-year-old daughters were compelled to pretend they were lesbians and ask one another for a kiss in a bizarre session of role-playing, purportedly done in the name of anti-bullying.

The girls were taught words like “pansexual” and “genderqueer” at a workshop at the Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York. Although the purpose was anti-bullying, it zeroed in on homosexuality and gender identity according to CBNNews.com.

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FBI informant: Taliban already in U.S.
A man who describes himself as an FBI informant and says he worked to infiltrate the world of terror sympathizers has told a Miami television station that members of the Taliban already are in the United States.

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USDA Flyer: We Don’t Check Immigration Status For Food Stamps
A government watchdog group has discovered that the United States government is advising Spanish-speaking residents that they need not declare their immigration status to qualify for food stamps.
Judicial Watch obtained the Spanish-language flyers through a Freedom of Information Act request and announced on Thursday that the “promotion of the food stamp program, now known as ‘SNAP’ (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA.

A statement on the flyer—emphasized in bold and underlined—reads, “You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.”

8.
Paying the Jizya to Welfare Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Charles, the invaluable Raymond Ibrahim had an illuminating column on this very topic about a month ago. Ray recounts how a Salafi sheikh has explained that U.S. aid to Egypt is considered jizya. That is the tax the Koran requires non-Muslims to pay for the privilege of living in a sharia state. As Allah directs in sura 9:29, it is not enough for conquered infidels (usually referred to by the dehumanizing term, kuffar) merely to pay this tribute; they must do so “with willing submission” in a manner that makes them “feel themselves subdued” — the humiliating condition of dhimmitude. The same reasoning applies to social welfare payments — they, too, are jizya.

“Wait a second,” you may say, ”I’m not crazy about foreign aid to countries that hate us and welfare for slackers, but paying it hardly means we’ve been conquered.” Well, as I’ve been trying to stress, to understand what we’re up against, you have to see the world through their eyes. As Ray elaborates, the process of conquering is a gradual humiliation: Islamic supremacists make life as dificult as possible for the sugar daddy kuffar while demanding to be paid for the privilege — and the payment itself is symbolic of the conquest.

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Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals.

Despite the Obama administration’s politically driven and cyclical claims of deporting either a lot more or a lot fewer non-citizens, no one knows how many are really being sent home — for a variety of reasons.

There are not any accurate statistics on how many people are living in the United States illegally. And how does one define deportation? If someone from Latin America is detained by authorities an hour after illegally crossing the border and sent back, does he count as “apprehended” or “deported”?

Deportation is now politically incorrect, sort of like the T-word — terrorism — which the administration also seeks to avoid. The current government emphasis is on increasing legal immigration and granting amnesties; by no means is Washington as interested in clarifying deportation.

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Jihad Will Not Be Wished Away. But willful blindness remains the order of the day.
Outlook: Islam.” So reads the personal webpage of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who ravaged Boston this week, along with his now-deceased brother and fellow jihadist, Tamerlan — namesake of a 14th-century Muslim warrior whose campaigns through Asia Minor are legendary for their brutalization of non-Muslims.

Brutalizing our own non-Muslim country has been the principal objective of jihadists for the last 20 years. This week marks a new and chilling chapter: the introduction on our shores of the tactics the self-styled mujahideen have used to great, gory effect for the past decade in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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CA Assembly Considers Jury Duty For Non-Citizens
California would allow noncitizens to serve on juries under a proposal being considered by state lawmakers, potentially expanding a fundamental obligation of American life to millions more people.

The measure, which would apply only to legal residents, would make California the only state to open the jury box to noncitizens who meet all other requirements of service, according to legal experts. The proposal raises the question of what it means to be judged by peers in a state where more than one in seven residents is not a citizen. One of the bill’s authors, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), said the proposal would help ensure an adequate pool of jurors, help immigrants integrate into American society and make juries more representative of California.

Juries “should reflect our community, and our community is always changing,” Wieckowski said. “It’s time for California to be a leader on this.” The Assembly passed the bill this week on a party-line vote, with most Democrats lining up in favor and Republicans standing in opposition.

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One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, cheap energy
An idyllic hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has become the site of an ambitious attempt to harness the nuclear power of the sun and stars.

It is the place where 34 nations representing more than half the world’s population have joined forces in the biggest scientific collaboration on the planet – only the International Space Station is bigger.

The international nuclear fusion project – known as Iter, meaning “the way” in Latin – is designed to demonstrate a new kind of nuclear reactor capable of producing unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and sustainable electricity from atomic fusion.

If Iter demonstrates that it is possible to build commercially-viable fusion reactors then it could become the experiment that saved the world in a century threatened by climate change and an expected three-fold increase in global energy demand.

This week the project gained final approval for the design of the most technically challenging component – the fusion reactor’s “blanket” that will handle the super-heated nuclear fuel.

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Army chief smacks down junior congressman
What happens when a 37-year career Army veteran now serving as its chief of staff has had enough of the political posturing of a California congressman just starting his third term? World War III, that’s what.

Gen. Ray Odierno and Army Secretary John McHugh appeared before the House Armed Services Committee Thursday and were bombarded by a string of attacks from Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr., R-Calif. At issue was Distributed Common Ground System, a computer intelligence system, according to Business Insider.

“We’ve talked in the past … about this Distributed Common Ground System, it’s the Army’s intelligence gathering software product that is out there,” Hunter said. ” … you still have units that are requesting the … product that are not getting it.”
Hunter criticized the current system and pushed to have it replaced by “off-the-shelf products” currently available in the private sector.

Being dressed down by civilian authority is nothing new to career military officers — it happens every day. But what really fried the general’s shorts was the total disrespect Hunter displayed by getting up to leave after finishing his harangue.

That’s when another snoozer of a committee hearing turned into the Fourth of July.

“May we respond? I think I heard a question,” McHugh asked the chairman.

“Well, I don’t want to respond if the gentleman’s [Hunter] going to leave. Would you care to hear a brief response?” asked the committee chair.

Not waiting for Hunter’s answer, Odierno let loose.

“First off, I object to this,” the chief of staff said. “I’m tired of somebody telling me I don’t care about our soldiers, and we don’t respond. Everybody on my staff cares about it, and they do all they can to help.”

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry demands apology over disgusting political cartoon
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is disgusted with the Sacramento Bee for publishing a political cartoon linking his push for fewer regulations to the recent fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 and he’s demanding an apology.

“The Sacramento Bee published a disgusting ‘cartoon’ mocking the deadly explosion in West. While I will always welcome healthy policy debate, I won’t stand for someone mocking the tragic deaths of my fellow Texans and our fellow Americans. I have written the editor and asked that they apologize to the citizens of West,”

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Financial Gun Control: Obama-Funded Corporations Targeting Gun Sellers
Corporations close to the Obama administration have implemented policies targeting gun sellers in the months since the Sandy Hook shooting, leading some to wonder if anti-Second Amendment liberals are trying to accomplish through political pressure what they’ve been unable to do through legislation.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that General Electric (GE) Capital is cutting off all financial services with retailers whose primary business is the sale of firearms. That news comes a little over a week after Comcast announced it will no longer be selling ads to Florida’s gun retailers.

“These are very discriminatory and unfair moves against the firearms industry,” Lake County Property Appraiser Carey Baker, a former state senator and longtime owner of A.W. Peterson Gun Shop in Mount Dora, the nation’s oldest continuously-operating gun shop, tells Sunshine State News. “I believe these companies have succumbed to [Obama] administration pressure. … This is all coming to a head in what I think is a concerted effort to discriminate, to marginalize, and eventually eliminate the firearms industry. And I believe it’s politically motivated.”

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It’s official: Obama spends more time on recreation than economy
A report released by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), has concluded that President Barack Obama has spent twice as much time on vacation and golf as he has in economic meetings throughout his entire term in office.

That may come as no surprise to some, but the nonpartisan GAI actually conducted an analysis which found Obama spent 976 hours on vacation and golf, compared to economic meetings which rated a mere 474.7 hours.

17.
Chuck Todd: Obama hates new media
A growing number of people obtain their news via the internet these days, and Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News, Chuck Todd, was very blunt about the fact that President Obama has no love for new media.

Todd spoke Sunday on Meet the Press about Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the way Obama took a shot at the media.

“There’s always this part at the end where they get serious for a minute. And it’s usually the part where presidents say, “You know, I think the press has a good job to do and I understand what they have to do,” Todd said. “He didn’t say that. He wasn’t very complimentary of the press.”

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Immigration Bill Doesn’t Secure the Border
Must Washington fix our broken southern border? You bet.

Will the comprehensive immigration reform bill help? You bet it won’t.

The number one flaw of the bill is it starts by giving amnesty to the unlawfully present population in the United States. As soon as the bill passes, those in the country contrary to U.S. immigration law are granted status to stay.

Amnesty immediately creates an incentive for illegal border crossings and overstays. Thus, the bill’s strategy would drive up the cost of securing the border. To make matters worse, the draft law states that anyone who was present in the U.S. before 2012 qualifies—creating massive opportunity for fraud, since there is no proof required that applicants have been here for several years.

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Obama sequestration strategy backfires by illustrating government’s backward priorities
Last night, I was reading Joe Weisenthal’s contrarian piece on why President Obama should veto the deal the Senate passed last night to return to work the air traffic controllers who had been furloughed in connection with (I hesitate to say “due to”) sequestration. I found it too clever by half.

First of all, it’s an endorsement of bad behavior by career bureaucrats looking to maximize their budgets permanently, and of political appointees trying to support Obama’s 2014 election strategy. The FAA actually has a larger budget under sequestration than Obama’s administration originally requested

20.
In Illinois, public pensions already gobbling up education funding
From the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board yesterday:

Indiana lawmakers are proposing huge increases in state education funding this year. Ditto those in Wisconsin.

Here in Illinois, The Deadbeat State? Just the opposite. Education funding is being strangled by the same python that is strangling the rest of state government’s finances: pension obligations. Every day that the Legislature delays the enactment of pension reform, the unfunded liability of the state’s five pension funds grows by $17 million, according to Gov. Pat Quinn’s office.

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Pearson Forced to Reprint Islam-Biased Textbook in Florida
Dr. William Saxton, Chairman of Citizens for National Security (CFNS) told The Report Card that as result of CFNS efforts – and for the first time as far as anyone related to these K-12 textbook issues knows – a major publisher, Pearson Prentice Hall, had to correct the content of an already printed flawed textbook that it intended to sell to a huge school district in Florida, and reprint it, before it could be purchased. Dr. Saxton earned his doctorate in Applied Physics from Harvard and spent much of his career in the United States Intelligence community. He founded CFNS as a result of concerns that Islamic terror organizations Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood were spreading misinformation and indoctrinating students in American schools.

The new 2013 high-school history book, “World History,” was slated for delivery to Palm Beach County (PBC) students for use at the beginning of the current school year. CFNS documented Islam bias and misinformation in a report co-authored by Dr. Saxton and Report Card Publisher William Korach. That 92-page report, published February 2012 documented Islam-biased errors and misinformation in 25 textbooks in Florida. CFNS participated in a marathon meeting with PBC curriculum specialists and a Pearson representative to delineate their concerns and recommend corrections. Following that, Dr. Saxton testified about the book’s bias before the PBC School Board. After further review, the Board concurred with the CFNS position, and determined that much of the textbook’s contentious language be revised, consistent with CFNS’s recommendations, as a condition for purchase.

22.
Americans Fear Government More than Terror
According to a pair of recent polls, for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist hijackings, Americans are more fearful their government will abuse constitutional liberties than fail to keep its citizens safe.

Even in the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing – in which a pair of Islamic radicals are accused of planting explosives that took the lives of 3 and wounded over 280 – the polls suggest Americans are hesitant to give up any further freedoms in exchange for increased “security.”

23.
Internet Sales Tax: Here Come the Auditors
Internet sales tax legislation could subject small online businesses to up to 46 state audits.

And since sales taxes vary among thousands of tax jurisdictions across the country, the chances that auditors will find mistakes—and slap the business owners with penalties—are very good. If truth-in-advertising requirements applied to legislation, says Heritage Action’s Dan Holler, the Marketplace Fairness Act would be renamed the Tax Audits from Hell Act of 2013.

Here’s how the bill works: Online businesses would be required to figure the sales tax each customer owes based on where the customer lives—even though the businesses themselves have no other dealings with that state or local government.

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U.S. Delivers strong warning to Israel
According to informed Middle Eastern security officials, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a strongly worded message to Israel – do not attack Iran.

The officials told WND that Hagel informed the Israeli government the Obama administration will not accept any unilateral Israeli attack against Iran and that Israel must not strike Tehran without coordination with the U.S.

Hagel further told Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot decide alone whether Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold, or the so-called Red Line previously outlined by the Israeli leader.

25.
Tea Party Senators Prep For Immigration Battle
Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) now each appear to be positioning themselves in the fight against the push for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in much the same way the Senate’s Tea Party triumvirate knocked down the left’s push for new gun control legislation.

The three are joining Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in questioning every painstaking detail of the bill, and reframing the narrative that those in favor of the legislation have driven including the need for a “path to citizenship” for America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants and that the bill is tough on securing the border. Together, the group is using every tool at its disposal in the Senate–public pressure, process disputes and aggressive oversight procedures, among others–to fight against the legislation.

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U.S. Illicit drug use 2009-11 highest since 2002
Illicit drug use rates among Americans age 12 and older from 2009 through 2011 were among the highest since data became available in 2002, U.S. officials say.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported an estimated 22.5 million Americans age 12 or older — representing 8.7 percent of the population age 12 or older — were illicit drug users in 2011.

27.
Democrats ask: What debt crisis?
Call them the debt crisis dissenters.

The two parties are miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to slash spending even more. Democrats want to raise revenue.

And then there are the other Democrats — the ones who reject the entire premise of the current high-stakes fiscal fight. There’s no short-term deficit problem, they say, and there isn’t even an urgent debt crisis that requires immediate attention. This group could make it even harder for President Barack Obama to strike a grand bargain because they increasingly see no immediate need for either new spending cuts or significantly more revenue, both of which they say could further slow the economy.

These Democrats and their intellectual allies once occupied the political fringes, pushed aside by more moderate members who supported both immediate spending cuts and long-term entitlement reforms along with higher taxes.

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Health Care Report from the States: Florida Medicaid Expansion
As action to stop Obamacare languishes in Washington, the debate continues at the state level. Heritage is hosting a series of health care reports from our allies in the states to provide an up-close view of state-level action regarding Obamacare.

The states play an important role in protecting citizens against this flawed federal health care law–from challenging the health care law before the Supreme Court, to resisting efforts to establish Obamacare exchanges or expand a failing Medicaid program, to offering alternative proposals that will ensure citizens are not left abandoned when the federal law collapses.

Today, Tarren Bragdon—CEO at Florida Foundation for Government Accountability—updates Foundry readers on developments in Florida

When Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) gave Medicaid expansion a metaphorical bear hug last February, he flip-flopped on a years-long record of opposition to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Many argue that the grassroots army he built during his national anti-Obamacare tour in 2009 provided him the jolt of support he needed to win a close race for governor in 2010. But with his expansion flip-flop, it’s unlikely that army will fight passionately for him again.

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Rick Scott Needs to Be Wary of Republican Primary Challenge
Riding the tea party tide to the governor’s mansion in 2010, Rick Scott stressed private-sector job creation and getting the state government’s fiscal house in order. Now, poised to sign the largest budget in Florida’s history that provides across-the-board pay raises to teachers and state employees, Scott is leaving himself open to a primary challenge despite the unemployment rate dropping under his watch.

Scott won a bruising primary against Bill McCollum back in 2010 — so bruising, in fact, that McCollum did not endorse his Republican rival in what turned out to be the closest gubernatorial election in Florida’s history. The wounds from that primary still haven’t fully healed. A poll taken by Quinnipiac University last month showed that 28 percent of Republicans in Florida don’t think Scott deserves a second term.

Even if 20 percent of Republicans abandon Scott in 2014, the governor’s re-election bid would be in serious jeopardy. Former Gov. Charlie Crist won several statewide general and primary elections as a Republican before abandoning the GOP in 2010 to run partyless for the U.S. Senate. Crist eventually joined the Democrats at the end of 2012 and is that party’s front-runner to challenge Scott in 2014. It’s certainly not inconceivable that Crist could win a quarter of the Republican vote against Scott.

30.
Rick Scott’s Signature Gives School Districts Relief from Excessive, Unnecessary Regulations
Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 1096 Monday — a bill giving Florida school districts relief from excessive and unnecessary state regulations.

Said Scott, “Last fall, I traveled the state and listened to parents, students and teachers to hear their ideas about how we can improve Florida’s education system. We heard many great suggestions … on how we can make changes at the state level to reduce unnecessary requirements and regulations so they can spend more time in the classroom teaching.

“Many teachers and administrators I spoke with expressed the need for flexibility, which led me to convene a group of superintendents from around the state to review and recommend red-tape rules and regulations we should cut in order to increase teachers’ time in the classroom. This legislation is a direct result of recommendations provided from the work group and we appreciate the input received from superintendents from across the state.”

Scott continued, “This legislation removes unnecessary hurdles to preparing our students for college and careers and puts more control and flexibility into local districts hands so teachers can be where they belong – in the classroom, educating our students.

31.
Remember the Economy? It’s Still Bad
According to a poll earlier this year, voters have a higher opinion of cockroaches than Congressmen. President Obama’s personal popularity remains solid, but his job approval rating is going down. Why are our elected officials unpopular?

It might just be because they are not listening. In poll after poll, the American people continue to tell Washington that their top priority is the economy. A recent Fox News poll asked participants what is the most important issue facing the nation. The results: the economy got 42 percent, deficit 17 percent, guns 5 percent, and immigration 4 percent.

President Obama inherited a weak economy, to be sure, but his policies, including Obamacare with its costly expected mandates on businesses and the Dodd-Frank financial services regulations have made the situation worse. Even when we see some economic growth, the jobs growth has been feeble. People have been leaving the workforce. Heritage’s James Sherk noted recently, “Labor force participation dropped to 63.3 percent, the lowest rate since 1979..” America needs to get its people back to productive work, not recruit Americans to start taking food stamps.

32.
Joe Biden To Lindsey Graham: ‘I Will Rip Your Skin Off,’ ‘And I Expect A Thank-You Note’
In an April 26 forum at The McCain Institute for International Leadership, Vice President Joe Biden expressed his admiration for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in his own irreverent fashion. In a conversation with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Biden said that he would do whatever he could to help Graham win his reelection bid next year. The vice president said he would be happy to campaign for him or against him, promising Graham that he would “rip your skin off” if that would cement his reputation as an enemy of the Obama administration among South Carolina’s Republican primary voters.

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Glenn Beck, Fox News openly feud about why he left
It looks as if Fox News chief Roger Ailes is more than ready to ramp up any underlying differences he may have with former host Glenn Beck.

In responding to comments Beck made about why he left Fox News, a network spokesman didn’t pull any punches in saying Beck left because he was “trying to save his own ass.”

In a live interview Friday at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Beck said of his decision to leave Fox News: “I remember feeling, ‘If you do not leave now, you won’t leave with your soul intact.’”

Beck also suggested that Ailes actually urged him to stay. “At the end, when we were leaving, it was a long process,” Beck said. “Roger said to me, ‘You’re not going to leave.’ And I said, ‘I am.’ And he said, ‘Nobody does,’ meaning leave television… And I said, ‘I’m fortunate because I haven’t been in it that long.’ I knew what this big, huge Fox empire brought to the table, and I had to leave before I became too enamored of that.”

A Fox News spokesperson responded Monday to Beck’s comment, as reported by Politico:

Glenn Beck wasn’t trying to save his soul; he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished.”

34.
Solution to terror? ‘Shut down mosques’
A “human rights” organization is calling on government authorities to shut down three U.S. mosques it claims are not merely religious centers, but political entities and “breeding grounds for jihad terror.”

The American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, explains its demands are part of an 18-point plan to protect the nation from Islamic terror in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

35.
Obama: ‘Kids Just Got Kicked Out Of Head Start’ Due To GOP Sequester Cuts
President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to blast Republicans for relieving air-traffic delays from sequester-related furloughs while “inflicting pain on the public” by imperiling poor children, hungry seniors, and workers.

“They may not feel the pain felt by kids kicked off Head Start, or the 750,000 Americans projected to lose their jobs because of these cuts, or the long-term unemployed who will be further hurt by them,” said Obama. “But that pain is real.”

Obama added: “Because of these reckless cuts, there are parents whose kids just got kicked out of Head Start programs scrambling for a solution. There are seniors who depend on programs like Meals on Wheels to live independently looking for help…. Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect, and now they’ve decided it was a bad idea all along.”

Republicans hit back, pointing out that sequestration was Obama’s idea and that the Administration’s implementation of the cuts unnecessarily targeted places most likely to inflict the maximum pain on the public.

36.
Teacher Suspended for Showing Gardening Tools to Class
Doug Bartlett, a veteran teacher with an upstanding record of 17 years, has filed a lawsuit against the school district of Chicago for suspending him without pay after giving a lesson on gardening tools to his second grade students.

The incident took place on August 8, 2011 at Washington Irving Elementary School.

Mr. Bartlett recently filed suit on April 17, 2013 saying that he suffered humiliation and embarrassment as a result of his reprimand.

The “hazardous” tools in question were pliers, screwdrivers and wrenches that only the teacher handled. The tools were kept in a locked toolbox high on a shelf out of reach before and after the gardening lesson.

37.
Credible Sources Say Rick Scott Killed Parent Empowerment Bill
Florida Gov. Rick Scott was the mastermind behind Tuesday’s slaughter of Parent Empowerment legislation in the state Senate, according to highly placed sources who disclosed the behind-the-scenes machinations on deep background.

“Governor’s Office staff communicated with specific [legislatsors], sharing that the governor did not want this bill to reach his desk,” one of the sources has told Sunshine State News.

The governor’s staff apparently “was working the halls” — even visiting offices — looking for senators who would agree to vote “no” on SB 862.

“It’s a calculus going into an election year: [Scott] doesn’t want to sign the bill and destroy some of the inroads he’s trying to make with the PTA , the unions, and other status quo groups,” the source continued. “Yet, he did not want to veto the bill and further anger conservatives, education reformers, business groups, and parents who supported this bill.”

Scott’s office did not return comment before this story went to press.

38.
New Pacific Trade Deal with Japan Is Game Changer
For anybody disheartened about years of disappointing economic news, Japan’s recent announcement that it intends to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) offers a real reason to celebrate.

Free trade agreements (FTAs) historically are some of the most surefire ways to open up new markets to U.S. exporters while enhancing American interests abroad. They create economic growth by fostering innovation and efficiency and, as a bonus, they generally produce invaluable political benefits.

As FTAs go, Japan’s participation in TPP makes this trade pact the Super Bowl and the World Cup of trade agreements wrapped into one. It’s a game changer.

It will give American exporters increased access to Japan, a $5.4 trillion economy — the third largest in the world — and one with which the U.S. now has no FTA in place. TPP will eliminate tariff and nontariff barriers inside Japan, letting more U.S. industries export goods and services to Japan.

39.
No More Sequester Delays: Privatize Air Traffic Control
The sequester taught us two lessons. One, government can get by with less. Two, it can get by with much less. Drawing on that second lesson, we suggest Washington let go of its air traffic control monopoly.

Why does air traffic control have to be a government responsibility? It’s not at all self-evident that it should be.

Indeed, the fact that government caused air travel delays so troubling last week that Congress jumped in with a fix is a clear indicator that government should get out of air traffic control. The politically concocted, fully avoidable delays never would have happened in the private sector.

Canada privatized its air traffic control system in 1996 and its friendly skies have not fallen in the ensuing years. The private company Nav Canada has won the IATA Eagle Award — which means it is the world’s best air navigation service provider — three times during the era of privatization.

40.
California Finding Way to Borrow More Without Voters
In a rare act of fiscal responsibility, the California Assembly voted 73-0 earlier this month to place stricter limits on a high-yield, long-term bond that was used primarily by desperate local school districts.

This being California, however, even as lawmakers were reining in the use of “capital-appreciation bonds” — which became notorious when one San Diego-area district revealed that it was making a $1 billion interest payment on a $105 million debt — the state Senate advanced an ill-defined new “bond” plan to provide schools with a fresh source of cash.

The Dropout Reduction and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2013 is based on social-impact bonds, a creative financing mechanism popularized first in Britain as part of the Conservative Party’s “Big Society” effort to use market discipline to improve public services.

Typically, financing for social-intervention projects is obtained from investors, not taxpayers, and government contracts with nonprofit institutions to do the work.

Government gets to borrow money for social programs and shift the risks to investors, who get paid back only if the programs reach certain performance and cost-saving goals.

But leave it to California’s dominant Democrats to turn a concept designed to apply some measurable standards to hard-to-measure social programs into a shameless effort to grab more money for existing government agencies.

41.
Allen West “The Obama administration is indeed aiding, enabling, and abetting our enemy, radical Islamic jihadists”
“What kind of country have we become when we allow Islamic organizations with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to ruin the career of an Army officer with 6 combat deployments, decorated for Valor? The fact that these groups went to now CIA Director John Brennan with their complaint when he was our counter-terrorism adviser warrants investigation. We are giving domestic Islamic jihadists welfare. We cease interrogations of domestic Islamic jihadists to read them Miranda rights. We are calling treasonous domestic Islamic jihadists perpetrators of “workplace violence.” The Attorney General is lecturing Americans about reprisals. Enough! I believe this Obama administration is indeed aiding, enabling, and abetting our enemy, radical Islamic jihadists. The evidence is certainly mounting and I am sick of the progressive socialists who just want to excuse this away and try to silence us as “Islamophobes.” You progressives are all complicit in this as well! I want Lt. Col. Dooley back on the list for consideration of Battalion Command, anyone not agreeing is in the camp of the enemy. Read and share this article. Call and write the Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and President Obama…ask them whose doggone side are they on?”

42.
Florida Democrats Torpedo 2013 Session’s Bipartisan Spirit, Hold Election Reform Hostage
As Florida House Democrats wrapped up day one of their quasi-filibuster, the reaction among the Republican leadership was less one of anger as it was of disappointment that the minority party would shatter the spirit of bipartisan friendliness that had characterized the session up till now.

And the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVF) – usually a reliable Democratic constituency – is begging legislators not to let a key election reform bill fall victim to the minority party’s partisanship.

43.
Want to See Black Racism?
In the Liberal black community–the tribe–there is only ONE right way: TOTAL submission to the tribal leader. It doesn’t matter if Obama is wrong, which is MOST of the time, the role of a tribe member is to follow the chief, off the cliff if ordered.

Rev. Kevin Johnson, senior pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church in North Philadelphia and alumni of the famed Morehouse College has been uninvited to speak at his alma mater after criticizing Obama in an opinion column.

Rev. Johnson, a prominent black pastor wrote, ”A President for Everyone, Except Black People,” in the Philadelphia Tribune. In the column he rightfully criticized Obama for failing to appoint members of the black community to cabinet positions in his administration, and for his failure to address issues of poverty in the community. There is certainly plenty of evidence that blacks have made no gains under the black president, and in fact have fared far words.

44.
Team Rubio’s ‘no welfare for illegal immigrants’ claim takes another hit
That’s Cesar Conda, Sen. Marco Rubio’s chief of staff, repeatedly reassuring conservatives that the Gang of Eight amnesty bill won’t allow illegal aliens who obtain provisional legal status to obtain welfare benefits.

Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York, discovered that the no-welfare claim doesn’t hold up to scrutiny:

Expanding legal immigration will push up spending on food stamps, Head Start, housing subsidies, and other benefits legal immigrants are eligible for upon arrival. Though Section 212(a)(4) of the U.S. Code says no immigrant who’s at risk of becoming a “public charge” can get a green card, it is never enforced. Half of green card holders have household incomes below 138% of the federal poverty line, and they’re also largely uninsured.

Insuring these legal newcomers will add $100 billion over the next decade to the ever rising cost of Obamacare. The health law makes legal immigrants eligible for subsidized private health insurance as soon as they arrive. Half of these newcomers will qualify for maximum assistance, costing $9,000 per enrollee, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

45.
Feds Pushing Proposal To Penalize Companies For Refusing To Wiretap
Just last week, documents released through a FIOA request revealed the Department of Justice gave tech companies immunity from breaking federal wiretapping laws in exchange for allowing law enforcement to intercept online communications. Now, it is being revealed that the feds are seeking not only to obtain information voluntarily from Internet Service Providers but want to penalize those who don’t cooperate with their requests for this information.

46.
Obama Puts Fox In Charge Of Fannie, Freddie Henhouse
President Obama has named Democrat Rep. Mel Watt to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If he gets his choice, we might as well have ACORN in charge of mortgages.

Watt is a big reason the government-sponsored mortgage giants needed a bailout in the first place

In the years leading up to the subprime mortgage crisis, Watt worked closely with Rep. Barney Frank on the House Financial Services Committee to pressure Fannie and Freddie to underwrite more risky loans for low-income homebuyers — despite warning from Bush officials that they were overexposed to subprime loans.

47.
Just How Ignorant Is Obama About ObamaCare?
Asked about increasing Democratic concern over what Sen. Max Baucus called a looming ObamaCare “train wreck,” Obama claimed that it’s all much ado about very little. But almost nothing he said in defense of ObamaCare was accurate. Among his statements:

“A huge chunk of it’s already been implemented.” In fact, all that’s been implemented so far are a few PR-friendly changes like a mandate to cover children up to age 26 and a more generous Medicare drug benefit.

“For the 85% to 90% of Americans who already have health insurance … they don’t have to worry about anything else.”. Really? The Congressional Budget Office expects 7 million workers — and possibly as many as 20 million — will lose their employer coverage because of ObamaCare. That’s plenty to worry about. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said millions of seniors will get dumped from their private Medicare Advantage plans by 2017 thanks to sharp payment cuts required by the law. And small businesses now providing coverage face huge rate hikes thanks to ObamaCare’s many market regulations and benefit mandates. Maryland’s biggest insurer, nonprofit CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, said ObamaCare will force rates up by 15% next year.

“The other stuff’s been implemented and it’s working fine.” That’s only true if you ignore the fact that ObamaCare’s high-risk pools have been a disaster, attracting a third as many people as predicted while costing far more than the administration budgeted. Or the fact that Obama had to issue more than 1,200 waivers to companies who said the law’s initial insurance market rules would have forced them to cancel coverage for millions of workers. The overly complicated small-business tax credit has also been a bust, with only about 5% of eligible firms taking advantage of it.

“We’re going to be able to drive down costs … and that will save the country money as a whole over the long term.” Except, Obama’s own health care number crunchers say ObamaCare will force national health spending up 7.4% in 2014, and add billions in costs over the next decade. The Congressional Budget Office says it will add massively to federal health spending. And the architects of Obama’s reform wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about how, despite ObamaCare, “health costs remain a major challenge.”

48.
Military Scours Ranks For Christian ‘Haters’
When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently appeared before Congress, he was grilled by Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., about an email sent by an officer at Fort Campbell, Ky., to three dozen subordinates, warning them to be on the lookout for soldiers connected with “domestic hate groups.”

Among the groups listed in the 14-page email by Lt. Col. Frank Rich, the Second Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment Commander at Fort Campbell, were Christian organizations such as the American Family Association and Family Research Council (FRC), immigration reform groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Atlas Shrugs, run by Pamela Geller and monitoring global jihadist activity.

49.
Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…”.

So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime–possibly resulting in imprisonment–for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)–whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.

50.
Atheist groups to distribute materials in Orange County Florida schools
The school district, led by moderate Republican and board Chairman Bill Sublette, has agreed to allow atheist groups on high school campuses to distribute material on atheism, agnosticism and secular humanism.

Representatives from the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Central Florida Freethought Community will be “passively” distributing the following articles and papers to students, according to WKMG Local 6:

51.
Questionable House vote gives Gov. Scott his tax break … for now
Lawmakers passed Gov. Rick Scott’s top legislative priority to eliminate the sales tax on machinery and equipment for manufacturers Wednesday – or did they?

House Democrats are questioning whether the vote approving the measure is constitutional and are vowing swift legal action. House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said he consulted with House attorneys who think the vote on the bill was constitutional, although he did not cite a formal legal opinion.

Under Article 7, Section 18 of the state constitution, bills affecting local tax revenue require a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate to pass. The manufacturing tax cut brings in $141 million each year, with about $20 million going to local governments.

“It does not, it does not (require two-thirds). We looked into that very closely, we spoke with our attorneys and our staff we do not believe it requires the two-thirds vote,” Weatherford said.

House Minority Leader Perry Thurston of Plantation declared there would be a lawsuit coming soon.

52.
Relax, Democrats: The House Manufacturing Tax Cut Is (Probably) Constitutional
Before they force Florida taxpayers to spend millions of their hard-earned tax dollars defending against a lawsuit, House Democrats should take a breather: their case against the constitutionality of Tuesday evening’s passage of a sales tax exemption on manufacturing equipment is no slam-dunk

At the heart of the dispute is Article VII, Section 18(b) of the Florida Constitution, which reads: “Except upon approval of each house of the legislature by two-thirds of the membership, the legislature may not enact, amend, or repeal any general law if the anticipated effect of doing so would be to reduce the authority that municipalities or counties have to raise revenues in the aggregate, as such authority exists on February 1, 1989.” (Emphasis added.)

The key to House leadership’s passage of the bill is probably the expression “in the aggregate”: If taken to court, Weatherford’s lawyers will likely argue that HB 7007 does not reduce the overall (or “aggregate”) authority of local governments to raise revenue, because:

53.
Immigration Bill Contains Slush Funds for Pro-Amnesty Groups
The pro-amnesty lobbyists who helped craft the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill included within the bill two “slush funds” amounting to $150 million that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer dollars for years to come. Slush fund grantees are “public or private, non-profit organizations” described in the bill as including “a community, faith-based, or other immigrant-serving organization whose staff has demonstrated qualifications, experience, and expertise in providing quality services to immigrants, refugees, persons granted asylum, or persons applying for such statuses.” In other words, the grantees would include many of the groups involved in writing and promoting the amnesty.

Section 2537 of the Schumer-Rubio bill provides “Initial Entry, Adjustment, and Citizenship Assistance” grants to public and private, non-profit organizations that promise to help illegal immigrants apply for the amnesty (p. 384). For example, this includes help with “completing applications”, “gathering proof of identification”, and “applying for any waivers”. But the recipients of these funds are given a lot of discretion, as the funds can also be used for “any other assistance” that the grantee “considers useful” to aliens applying for amnesty.

54.
Former members of Congress to hear week of testimony about space aliens
Six former members of Congress have signed up for a week of congressional-style testimony on the existence of space aliens.

The hearings, which will occur this week at the National Press Club, will feature some 30 hours of testimony on the possible existence of extraterrestrials and be recorded for a documentary film. Around three dozen researchers and academics are expected to testify.

Participants will include ex-Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and ex-Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Merrill Cook (R-Utah).

55.
Mexico ends open access for US security agencies
Mexico is ending its unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.

All contact for U.S. law enforcement will now go through “a single window,” the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcocer, deputy foreign secretary for North American affairs.

The new policy is a dramatic shift from the direct sharing of resources and intelligence between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement under former President Felipe Calderon, who was lauded by the U.S. repeatedly for increasing cooperation between the two countries. FBI, CIA, DEA and border patrol agents had direct access to units of Mexico’s Federal Police, army and navy and worked closely with Mexican authorities in major offensives against drug cartels, including the U.S.-backed strategy of killing or arresting top kingpins.

56.
America’s Class and Race Conscious Society Sadly Looks Just Like the USSR
At the doctor’s office this year I had to fill out newly required paperwork that included questions about my race and ethnicity. I chose the “refused to answer” option.

I had been classified by ethnicity before in the Soviet Union, where every official document required indication of it. Our ethnicity, in turn, plus connections to the government, determined the level of our security and dignity.

We found our dignity in the United States.

“We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity,” President Obama declared in his second inaugural address. “We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.”

57.
U.S. Taxpayers Spend $355,825 to Reduce Stigmatization of India’s Transgenders
The federal government is spending $355,825 in taxpayer dollars to develop a “culturally relevant stigma-reducing intervention” program for the transgender population in India.

The National Institutes of Health issued a two-phase grant to the Ohio-based Baldwin-Wallace College to conduct the study. The first phase cost $173,221. The second phase cost $182,604. The reason given for the study is “HIV prevalence is disproportionately high among Male-to-female transgenders (Hijra) in India.”

58.
‘Smoking’ gun nets 60G fine. 60G fine for cig lighter
The owner of a Midtown tourist shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters shaped like small pistols

59.
Heritage study finds $70 billion in Obama regulatory costs
New regulations enacted during President Obama’s first term cost Americans an additional $70 billion, and the price tag is only expected to rise, according to a study issued by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The total represents more than 130 major rules – those that carry an economic impact of at least $100 million, the group’s study finds. It identifies 25 such rules in 2012 alone, mostly stemming form the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, and places last year’s cost of new regulations at $23.5 billion.

60.
Living the Regulated Life in America
Did you ever think there would come a time when the government would dictate what size soft drink you could buy? Did you ever think the efficiency of your dishwasher and washing machine would be regulated by the federal government? Did you ever think that the flushing capacity of your toilet would be dictated by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.? If you answered “no” to these questions, welcome to the crowd. Americans are finally waking up to the fact that no aspect of their lives is beyond the reach of big brother. They are also beginning to realize that government regulation is not a benign enterprise.

61.
Technicality kills ‘Anti-Sharia bill’ in Florida Senate?
The “Anti-Sharia” law came one vote short.

After a long debate Thursday, opponents of a bill sponsored in the House by Rep. Larry Metz, R-Groveland, and Sen. Larry Hays, R-Umatilla, likely died in the Senate for this session after failing to get the two-thirds vote necessary in the Senate to get it out of committee up for a vote. The vote all but assures the effort is dead for the 2013 session, which ends Friday.

Before the procedural vote – normally a formality – survived series of amendments that appeared aimed sending it back to the House on the last day of the session

Posted 4/26/13
01. Obama shamelessly uses Bush Center dedication to push immigration reform
02. Republican bill takes aim at agency ammunition stockpiling
03. Immigration Reform Becomes A Welfare Welcome Wagon
04. Judge says no to DHS ruling over immigration by executive order
05. Comcast anti-gun policy smacks of political intimidation
06. Scott’s concerns spamming Internet sales tax bill, sponsors say.
07. Imagine if egalitarians were in charge of the NFL draft? Well, they’re in charge of our nation and economy
08. Bachmann’s House Tea Party Caucus is back
09. Malkin: A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio
10. Even Big Labor Unions Drop Support For Obamacare

Posted 4/25/13
01. Big Sis: Obama Admin Can Pick Which Laws To Enforce
02. At America’s worst university, a professor calls Boston Bombings ‘mass casualty drill’
03. Government spending almost $900k a year for empty bank accounts
04. DCCC Targets Florida to Give Pelosi House Control
05. Trade-Off Time: Campaign Finance Reform for Ethics Reform
06. Eye-opening events in Boston caused shift in gun control support
07. GE Capital pulls plug on financing for gun retailers
08. School board in Fla. votes to resume paddling of students
09. Common Core opponents trying to turn up heat on Scott in Florida
10. American Families Cannot Afford the Cost of Amnesty
11. Religion and Public Life in America
12. Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
13. 5 More Reasons The Gang Of Eight’s Immigration Bill Is A Bad Idea
14. Florida’s Unemployment Rate Drops below National Rate

Posted 4/24/13
01. ‘I Can’t Expand’: Florida’s Small-Business Victims of Obamacare Mandate
02. RPOF Slams Obama and Democrats: ‘Had Ability to Stop Flight Delays, but Did Nothing’
03. Eyewitness video of Boston home search: Greater good or Gestapo tactics?
04. New House report on Benghazi: Clinton knew, Obama covered up
05. U.S. House of Representatives Libya Progress Report Final 1
06. Late in session, Gov. Scott makes aggressive push for agenda
07. The Lessons of History. Our enemies take notice when we scale back our military.
08. Latest threat to the Independence of the Inspector General
09. Allen West on Ronald Reagan and American Entrepreneurship
10. Political ploy masked as gratitude? No thank you
11. Incoming ISON to be Dazzling Daytime Comet?
12. Florida lawmakers are beginning the process of cleaning up the government and restoring trust
13. Florida is a Zero-Tolerance State for Human Trafficking
14. Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
15. Maximum Pain for Political Gain in America’s Airports

Posted 4/23/13
01. I Saw Something, So I’m Saying Something
02. Florida Senate Budget: ‘Political Game’ Jeopardizing State’s Domestic Security?
03. Virtually all physicians walked out of Obamacare session at national conference
04. Rubio spokesman compares plight of illegal immigrants to slavery
05. Bombing suspect’s imam affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood front group
06. Top 5 Problems with the “Comprehensive” Immigration Bill
07. Florida Lawmakers grow skeptical of tax breaks, incentives
08. The Senate after Dark
09. Mayor Bloomberg: interpretation of U.S. Constitution will ‘have to change’ following Boston bombings
10. Video: Disgusted ICE head finally faces down Gang of 8
11. sWhy the Internet Sales Tax Is a Terrible Idea

Posted 4/22/13
01. Black conservative leaders discuss how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves
02. Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: Tax That Pushes More People into HSAs
03. Should Florida Change the Way Judges Are Appointed?
04. Florida House Appropriations Passes No-Federal-Money Health Plan
05. Rubio’s PAC Spends $47,484 on Water Bottles, Hauls in More Than $650,000
06. Tea Party Network steaming over ‘anti-Sharia law’ snub in Florida Senate
07. What they’re fighting over: Main conference issues between Florida House and Senate
08. The Everglades
09. How Drugs Pollute Our Drinking Water
10. On farm subsidies, conservatives must practice what they preach

Posted 4/21/13
01. 1984 + 29. As Orwell knew, taking over the culture starts with corrupting the language
02. The Importance of Training in Terrorism
03. Boston bomber’s politics too ‘complicated’ for New York Times
04. Study: Majority of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens
05. Next Week’s School Shooting Victims Thank Senate for Failing to Pass Gun Bill
06. A Big Government Is a Bankrupt Government
07. Save our schools and stop Common Core in your state.
08. Down With the Marketplace (Un)Fairness Act
09. Immigration Bill Gives New Legals $3,000 Hiring Edge

Posted 4/20/13
01. FEC Summarizes Campaign Activity of the 2011-2012 Election Cycle
02. Obama taking action on gun background check system
03. Lobbyists v. Sick People
04. Public pessimism on economy is increasing
05. Black Caucus troubled by Senate plan to replace ‘diversity’ visas
06. Immigration Bill Contains 400 Waivers And Exemptions
07. Health Actuaries: Obamacare Rates Will Soar as much as 80%
08. The terrorist-in-chief; whose side is he on?
09. Religious Freedom & ‘Gay Marriage’ Cannot Coexist
10. Boston bomber an Obama supporter!
11. NY Governor Cuomo Likens Boston Bombing To Climate Change
12. Obama warns ‘not to rush to judgment about ‘groups’

Posted 4/19/13
01. Insider Trading For Me, But Not For Thee
02. Democrats and the Governor’s Office: It’s All About What Bill Nelson Will Do
03. Immigration Myth Buster: Poor Immigrants Use Less Welfare
04. Biden Pledges More Executive Action On Guns “Later This Week”
05. Kerry to Congress on Benghazi: Get over it!
06. Florida first to fight drone intrusion with newly passed bill
07. House votes to forbid use of foreign laws
08. PAUL: An ill-advised Internet tax mandate
09. Phrase ‘master bedroom’ now deemed racist, sexist
10. PROOF! Boston Marathon Bombing is Staged Terror Attack
11. Lieutenant Colonel Potter
12. Photo surfaces of ‘The Craft’ mobile communications van at Boston marathon
13. County opposes BLM restrictions – Biggest issue is Moneta Divide development

Posted 4/18/13
01. Bombardier signs $195M contract for SunRail
02. Three Parallels: Allen West on the Boston Marathon Bombing
03. Special Needs Kids: Another Middle-Class Target of Obamacare Tax Increases
04. Fla. Dems continue to question need for anti-Sharia law bill
05. Saudi National Once Considered ‘Person Of Interest’ May Be Deported On ‘Security’ Grounds — And How It’s Supposed To Be Framed
06. Baucus warns of ‘huge train wreck’ enacting ObamaCare provisions
07. Negron expands his health plan to include House ideas
08. Federal Takeover of the Internet
09. Rep. Lamar Smith: Immigration Bill ‘Worse Than We Thought,’ Legalizes Relatives and Previously Deported
10. Welfare Programs Now One-Sixth Of Federal Budget
11. Meet the Democratic Party: “Bribery isn’t what it once was”
12. US troops sent to Jordan to counter Syrian attack on kingdom – M.G.
13. Florida college fires professor who forced students to sign pledge to vote for Obama
14. Immigration bill calls for slew of regulations, new bureaucracy
15. Two dozen IRS employees ‘received more than $250,000 in food stamps, welfare, and housing vouchers after lying about being unemployed’

Posted 4/17/13
01. Common Core Quietly Nationalizing Education
02. Did Obama’s stimulus bill really work? Not even the government knows
03. Background checks amount to ‘new tax on guns,’ Coburn insists
04. Election Reform Bill With Controversial Amendment Advances in Florida Senate
05. Coal, cattle are most damaging to the environment, UN study says
06. Bethesda Mental Health Clinic By Rob Long
07. GOP fast tracks bill to fortify ObamaCare’s high-risk pools
08. Slate: ‘Marriage Equality’ Includes Polygamy
09. Huge Upset in Gainesville, FL as Tea Party Candidate Wins Mayoral Race
10. The Epic Failure Of The Intel Agencies On The Boston Bombing

Posted 4/16/13
01. Schumer-Toomey-Manchin Gun Control Bill: Feel Free to Run a Secret FBI Check on Job Applicants
02. Thousands of Tea Party activists will gather Monday at rallies across the nation to mark Tax Day, April 15–and to re-ignite a movement that had been written off as dormant by the media and the political classes.
03. Tea party attempting to remake itself
04. Obamacare: Penalizing Middle Class Families that Have High Medical Expenses
05. Florida’s visionary state insurance plan: ‘If we build this, they will come’
06. Maryland’s Second Amendment Nightmare: Coming Soon to a State Near You?
07. The Freedom To Hate
08. House committee rejects Fasano plan and goes with Health Choices Plus
09. Election integrity – Voting machine certification based on corruption, payoffs, and bid-rigging.
10. We The People Stimulus Package
11. From Quantitative Easing To Quantitative Looting And Beyond
12. DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Law Enforcement

Posted 4/15/13
01. Advocates wield new EU disclosure plan in defense of SEC oil mandate
02. Gun manufacturer decides to flee Connecticut; Rick Perry issues an open invitation
03. The President’s self-created trap on Keystone XL
04. Take Two Aspirin and Call the Authorities
05. Government report: Historic drought not caused by global warming
06. Violating the Constitution Is Not the Way to Safeguard Constitutional Rights
07. The War against the Young
08. Why Are the Feds Trying to Identify All Gun Owners in Missouri?
09. 1,500 page immigration bill to drop one day before only hearing?
10. Surveillance state: Fox News watched by NSA, questioned by FBI
11. Fla. House Speaker Weatherford stands tall against Obamacare
12. White House Sits In On ‘Gang of Eight’; Law Enforcement Excluded
13. Some states dropping GED as test price spikes
14. Election-Fix Bill Could Disenfranchise 100,000 Florida Voters
15. Senator slips up: ‘You’re not going to disenfranchise the NRA overnight’
16. Obama’s eight-lane road to socialism
17. Howard Stern fan interrupts Tucker Carlson fishing in Central Park
18. Bergstein’s ‘Wooden Block of Soap’ award
19. Florida House passes $74.4 billion budget
20. Florida House ban on growth referendums cedes control to cities, developer activist says

Posted 4/14/13
01. Police, ‘anti-gun’ prosecutor clash with soldiers in area around Fort Hood
02. ICE union head calls on Sen. Rubio to leave ‘Gang of Eight’
03. World food plentiful, but politics and policies interfere
04. Obama defies Putin, publishes list of 18 blacklisted Russians
05. Ron Paul Launching Think Tank to Promote Civil Liberties, Non-Interventionism
06. McDonald’s ‘edgy’ parody ad prompts PC police to force apology
07. ‘Evangelicals could be put on watch list, denied guns’
08. Congresswoman: Tax Code 4 Times Longer Than the Bible
09. Obamacare architect: affordable care act ‘beyond comprehension’
10. Canadian burlesque dancer beat scientists and athletes to win U.S. green card only awarded to people of ‘extraordinary ability’
11. Is there no one who will lead?

Posted 4/13/13
01. ABC, CBS, NBC ‘Deliberately Censoring’ Bad News on Obamacare
02. DHS Orders Bagpipes? So Much for Sequester Cuts
03. Making the Moral Argument: Fairness
04. Making the Moral Argument: School Choice
05. Rick Scott Opposes, Business Community Divided on, House Medicaid Alternative
06. Fla. Gov. Scott signs 19 bills into law
07. Obama’s Fake Budget Marketing Exposed
08. Conservatives look to remake electorate for 2014 election
09. House offers a bare-bones alternative to Medicaid expansion
10. Florida Internet Sales Tax
11. Why Rick Scott Must Go
12. U.N. Report covers up Obama role in arming terrorists
13. Airplanes can be hijacked using an Android smartphone
14. Boehner: I Don’t Need Gop To Pass Gun Law
15. NY Town Removes Veterans’ Gadsden Flag For Being An Offensive Tea Party Symbol
16. Dad furious after finding this crayon-written paper in florida 4th-grader’s backpack: ‘i am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights…to be safer’
17. Students Asked To ‘Argue That Jews Are Evil’ And Prove Nazi Loyalty In Assignment Linked To Common Core
18. Illegal immigrant apprehended at border: ‘Obama’s gonna let me go’

Posted 4/12/13
01. Next Move For The Toxic Tea Party
02. Gun Registry Has Already Started
03. IRS: We can read emails without warrant
04. White House budget funds Gore climate change satellite
05. Obamacare Exchanges Will Cost Double
06. Maryland Governor Taxes Rain
07. Why Every American Parent Should Follow the Romeike Case
08. Biden calls for ‘new world order’
09. The Physics Of Gun Control
10. Progressive Activist Group Behind Secret McConnell Recording

Posted 4/11/13
01. Florida Elections bills set for Senate debate
02. Bill Posey’s ‘REAL Space Act’ Would Shoot for the Moon, Set NASA Alight Again
03. The Toomey-Manchin Proposal Will Allow Doctors to Block Your Right to Guns
04. Feminism: Weakening The World Since The 1960’S
05. Schools Teaching Americans Do NOT Have A Right To Bear Arms
06. Boy’s Water Pistol Threat Leads To Confiscation Of Father’s Guns, License
07. New Obama program targets unemployed youth—in Pakistan!
08. Amish Bishop Gets 15 Years In Prison For Beard-Cutting Attacks
09. Top Supreme Court Smackdowns of Obama

Posted 4/10/13
01. Rubio to Obama: Who else have you allowed to frolic around Cuba?
02. Blunder prone Biden calls gun filibuster embarrassing for America
03. Kim Jong-Un Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage: ‘I’m Not A Monster’
04. North Korea’s War Preparations
05. Veteran Teacher’s Witheringly Scornful Resignation Letter: ‘I Am Not Leaving My Profession…It No Longer Exists
06. USPS shelves plan to cut Saturday mail deliveries
07. Public university art students forced to design anti-gun propaganda
08. Blockbuster Immigration Report Could Derail Gang Of Eight
09. Fox Television Threatens To Go Off The Air

Posted 4/9/13
01. Guns Responsible for Global Warming
02. Barack Obama blames US Navy for increased North Korean tensions.
03. Federal Taxpayers Get Billed for $1 Million Bus Stop
04. Bill Ayers Confirms What Obama Has Denied
05. “The Moral Foundations of Society” by Margaret Thatcher
06. ObamaCare takes friendly fire
07. Idiocies in the Gun Control Debate
08. U.S. Ready to Spend Up to $300,000 for ‘Workforce Development’–In Serbia
09. Ron Paul Announces New K-12 Homeschool Curriculum, First Six Years Free
10. Suspect Robs Family at Miami Burger King, Then Man Shoots Him: Police
11. Sick-leave preemption bill clears final Senate committee
12. Top Senate Republican Asks Feds to Investigate Possible Illegal Wiretap
13. Why the left resents good parents

Posted 4/8/13
01. Does Obama’s Election Commission Signal Federal Takeover of Elections?
02. The United Nations, Modern-Day Trojan Horse
03. Maryland lawmakers pass bill forcing teachers to pay union fees, reversing right to work trend
04. White House Scraps Jewish Heritage Month Reception
05. Unreal – One of Bloomberg’s ‘Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ Arrested For Trying to Force Man to Have Sex With Him … at Gunpoint
06. Wisconsin public sector unions report drastic membership declines
07. The “scientist-in-chief”
08. I Wish I Were Amish
09. International Topless Jihad Day:‘Our boobs stronger than their stones’
10. Democrats Get Caught ‘Fixing’ Redistricting Maps in Florida – C.W.
11. Porkulus: Obama spent $2.4M to study the immunological effects of racism – C.W.
12. Obama’s Spends $712K To Study Ethnic Pain Differences – C.W.
13. Video – Cornhuskers make a wish come true
14. Local grassroots leaders to RNC: ‘join us or get the hell out of the way’
15. Undernews of the week: TPS extension for immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua
16. Corporations ‘Incentivized’ To Maximize Food Stamps Transactions

Posted 4/7/13
01. Obama Lie: Newtown children killed with ‘fully automatic weapon’
02. The Great DHS Ammunition Stockpile Myth
03. The Vagina Vote
04. It is Now Easier to Apply for a Green-Card Than Obamacare
05. Foreign Policy Calls Ted Cruz Most Hated Man In The Senate, And That’s A Good Thing
06. PETA Headquarters A Giant Puppy And Kitten Slaughterhouse, 96% Of The Animals They Took In Were Killed
07. Michelle Obama, Busy Single Mother
08. Economists: Obamacare, Not Sequestration, a Factor in “Awful” March Jobs Numbers
09. Lowry: Meet the new climate deniers
10. US Army labels Evangelicals, Catholics religious extremists
11. Liberal host touts Communism: Kids don’t belong to their parents
12. Obama Budget To Cap Retirement Accounts At $3 Million
13. IRS move means more tax dollars for wind power
14. Taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on ‘war on poverty’
15. Conservatives Hit Rnc For ‘Professional Right’ Comment
16. Loose Language in Reid’s Gun Control Bill Allows the Beginnings of a National Gun Registry

Posted 4/6/13
01. Sheriff’s powers clamped in ruling – C.W.
02. After Obama?
03. Cut It Out with the Concessions
04. Vassar Loses Its Compass
05. HHS resurrects ‘acorn’ through Obamacare
06. Store owner arrested for using food stamps to stock shelves
07. Ronald Reagan’s Boyhood Home Being Demolished by University of Chicago
08. $423,500 Stimulus Program on ‘Correct Condom Use’ Yields Zero Jobs
09. Miami-Dade GOP Opposes Sun Life Stadium Funding, Rebukes Miami GOP Sponsors
10. Six Florida Counties Named Disaster Areas by USDA
11. Christian Family Coalition Descends on Capital, Opposes Sharia Law and Defends Right to Life
12. DHS excuse for buying billions of rounds of ammo exposed as yet another blatant lie
13. Media Can’t Blame Dismal Jobs Report On The Sequester
14. Bank of Japan to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus
15. Weak: Economy Adds Just 88k Jobs In March
16. Revenge of The Consultant Class
17. Jennifer Carroll speaks publicly, first time since resignation

Posted 4/5/13
01. Rep. Maloney says she received death threats after introducing gun legislation
02. Greens get billionaire ally, money
03. Obamacare ‘Medicine Cabinet Tax’: Another Hike on the Middle Class
04. Florida Companies, Workers Already Feeling Negative Impact of Obamacare
05. Florida Legislature has the Chance to Finally Get Information Technology Governance Right
06. FAU incident exposes dark side of American universities
07. Florida K-12 Education Budget
08. Failed Obama Policies Put More Americans In Poverty
09. Obama: government tyranny impossible because ‘government is us’
10. Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.
11. City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim
12. “I need a gun to protect myself from the govt” – Obama mocks gun owner concerns as ‘ginned-up fears’
13. Federal Govt. Spends $2.1 Million to Study ‘What Animals Really Think’
14. Kuwait Parliament Approves Death Penalty For Those Who Insult Allah
15. The Second Amendment as an Expression of First Principles

Posted 4/4/13
01. By The Numbers: March 2013
02. Stockton’s Racket — And Ours. Now that cities are going bankrupt, the scam of government finances is being revealed.
03. Queer Gardens, Pocahontas, and Prostitutes
04. Is Disability the New Welfare?
05. Damage at the CIA
06. Perez, the Progressive Warrior
07. The Truth about Common Core
08. U.N. Arms Treaty: Unloading a Pack of Wolves in a Sheep Meadow
09. Public School Bans Cub Scout Pack
10. Obama administration to banks: Why aren’t you making higher-risk loans?
11. Washington Bill Would Allow Employers To Seek Workers’ Facebook Passwords
12. Ga. city council votes to require gun ownership
13. ICE Council President: Administration and Congress Doing Nothing to Address Cartels, Criminal Aliens in Immigration Debate
14. EPA Settlement: Company Must Spend $76,952 to Replace Light Bulbs

Posted 4/3/13
01. U.S. On alert for nuclear blast overhead
02. Illegal Border Crossings More Than Double Since Amnesty Talks Started
03. Obama’s Religious Freedom Appointee Involved in Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech
04. Obama’s continued use of the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack background checks
05. Airline to Implement ‘Pay as You Weigh’ Policy
06. Attorney General Eric Holder named top ‘facilitator of porn’ in ‘Dirty Dozen List’
07. Sequester axe falls in Washington — but not on lawmaker salaries
08. House Democrats pushing a bill requiring mandatory gun insurance
09. Two-thirds back Keystone pipeline, belief in global warming trends upward
10. Cruz: Obama pushing path to citizenship as ‘poison pill’ to kill immigration reform
11. Las Vegas Sands Urges Lawmakers to Let Destination Casinos ‘Go Big’ in Florida
12. Internet Cafes
13. Florida House panel OKs state regulators to work with federal health plan
14. Turkey gold exports to Iran resume despite tough US sanctions
15. 15 year old girl leaves anti-gun politicians speechless

Posted 4/2/13
01. Immigration Fight Stirs Debate Over Federal Benefits
02. Manufacturing Cools in U.S. as Government Cuts Loom: Economy
03. Why Obama Will Probably Kill The Keystone Pipeline
04. Obama administration claims progress on trade despite no new deals
05. Watch Rick Santorum: He Isn’t Going Away
06. State to audit Delray Beach CRA
07. Hypocrisy 101: Obama deems April National Financial Capability Month
08. 15 Year Old Wisconsin Conservative Meets Bullying From Teachers
09. What Immigration Reform Must Do
10. Outdoor Channel Cancels Filming in Colorado & Hunters Boycott the State; Magpul Still Poised to Leave – M.G.
11. Florida Economic Incentives
12. Florida Internet Sales Tax
13. Look who’s running the White House show -M.G.
14. Sixteen Best Quotes of Gen. James “Mad Dog” Matti -M.G.
15. How America Lost Its Four Great Generals

Posted 4/1/13
01. Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
02. Local tea party group to march on FAU over ‘Stomp Jesus’
03. Video: What Comcast/Xfinity commercials should say
04. Sequester Impact Remains Elusive
05. Three Reasons the U.N.’s Arms Treaty Is Useless
06. Thank you very mooch, NYC! Out-of-towners live large at free shelters
07. Where Will the Money Go?
08. The pro-growth Fed needs a partner in Congress; so far, it doesn’t have one.
09. Our Growing Security Risks. From China to Korea to Iran to al-Qaeda, unfriendly eyes are watching our strength diminish.
10. China-Australia To Ditch Us Dollar
11. Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward

Posted 3/31/13
01. Easter Eggs Redistributed By Obama Bunny
02. Texas Wants Its Gold Back From the Feds
03. In shift, Medicare would pay for sex-change operations
04. Chinese Chevrolet
05. The ‘Racist’ and the Unknown Man
06. Obama Eligibility Appeal In Roy Moore’s Court
07. OBAMA SERMON: ‘It drives me crazy when captains of religious right are always calling us back, for blacks to be in back of bus’
08. Rubio Dissents From Gang Of Eight On Pace Of Immigration Reform Passage
09. Confederate Flag Display At North Carolina State Capitol Outrages NAACP
10. Conservatives, Christians, Fox News Bashed at Annual Taxpayer-Sponsored LGBT Youth Event

Posted 3/30/13
01. Pat Buchanan reveals how America will end
02. Terrorist Linked To 9/11 Before Dining At Pentagon
03. Wrong Again: Obama Claims 40% Of Gun Sales Done Without Background Check
04. How Public Schools are Like the Wizard of Oz
05. White House Scrubs First Daughters Ski Trip Report
06. College Offers Course Devoted Entirely To Pornography
07. How the Monsanto Protection Act snuck into law
08. Obama admin looking to set aside millions of acres for habitat preservation
09. Federal plan aims to help wildlife adapt to climate change
10. EPA illegally collects personal farm data, then releases it to environmental extremist groups
11. Feds withhold mineral royalties to states, citing sequester
12. Airports suing FAA over planned tower shutdowns
13. Florida Marijuana Bills Going Up in Smoke … This Year
14. Feds want $18 million back from timber counties
15. Ships Costing U.S. $37 Billion Lack Firepower
16. CAIR-FL fights to run ‘My Jihad’ bus ads
17. Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
18. Disability: Enmeshed in the Safety Net
19. State Grants Secret Service Vast New Powers
20. Time: your child’s religion may be ‘mental illness’
21. New K-12 education standards to mandate climate change instruction

Posted 3/29/13
1. The Truth about Bob Woodward
2. Did Hillary commit perjury?
3. Drones in the US, States Rights & The 10% Civilian Death Rate
4. Big Sis Ignores Congressman’s Demand For Briefing on Bullet Buys
5. Obama creates panel to recommend state election law changes
6. Yes, liberal friends, the government is ‘protecting’ you from delicious, local food
7. Tucson Man Raises Money to Get Residents Free Shotguns
8. Senate budget panel approves FRS changes
9. Teachers Will Fight New Pensions for New Public Employees
10. The future of ObamaCare: 36DD breasts
11. Elimination of insurance tax credit, vehicle fee cuts pass Senate panel
12. Florida Drone Aircraft
13. McConnell: A Hatch Not a Lugar
14. Inside the GOP’s Filibuster Plot
15. N.H. School Bans Dodgeball, ‘Human Target’ Games
16. How Obama Decided God Was OK With Marriage Equality

Posted 3/28/13
1. Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
2. Wealth Inequality in America
3. Wealth and Inequality on YouTube
4. ‘Me Too’ Republicans
5. Why do black Americans worship Abraham Lincoln?
6. Eagle death at Nevada wind farm brings federal scrutiny
7. Are we a nation of crybabies?
8. White House Warns GOP Senators: Don’t Filibuster Gun Control
9. Government Forces a Citizen to Turn a Lake Into a Dump
10. Alabama lawmaker sends insane racist email to white constituent
11. Pelosi flubs attempt to bash Republicans on gay marriage
12. The Left’s Continuing War On Women

Posted 3/27/13
1. Redistricting: Judges Skeptical of Liberals Forcing Legislators to Testify
2. Bad-Idea Bills Could Be Calamitous for Florida’s High School Athletes
3. Correctional Re-entry Treatment Facilities
4. Florida’s consumer confidence jumps after 2-month slide
5. Three Years of Broken Promises
6. CBO: America Will Never See Full Employment Under Obama
7. Health overhaul to raise claims cost 32 pct
8. ‘We are above the law of the land’.
9. Native U.S. tribes seek federal bailouts to offset casino losses

Posted 3/26/13
1. Cyprus: Can It Happen Here?
2. Biggest Fears About Big Brother Coming True
3. More than a Vacation a Month for Obamas
4. ObamaCare To Cost Small Businesses $30.8B
5. School Teaches 9-11 Was United States Fault (watch video)
6. Florida Atlantic U., Left-Wing Seminary
7. The Uninformed Voter-Ignorance Runs Deep And Wide
8. Fla. Gov. Scott reprimands FAU, requests incident report on Jesus stomping
9. Handful of states begin to fend off generational theft
10. Crazed Gunman Critically Injures 4
11. Photo Of Masked Gunman Released

Posted 3/25/13
1. Al Qaeda brigade captures Syrian-Israeli-Jordanian border junction
2. Florida Gun Control
3. Conversion Of Commercial Fleets To Natural Gas
4. “The greatest nation in the world is begging for respect and has become a laughing stock in the Middle East.”
5. Three Years of Obamacare: $31 Billion in Regulation Costs, 71.5 Million Hours in Compliance
6. T.R. and T.B.T.F.
7. Are you America’s greatest threat?
8. Drone Lobbyist Objects to Word “Drone”
9. Oklahoma House Passes Bill to Ban UN Agenda 21
10. An Order From Obama Puts Another Boot On The Economy. Obama orders assessment of global warming before major projects can be approved.
11. Colorado Sheriffs Refused Pay Unless Support State Gun Control Legislation
12. FAU moves to punish ‘Stomp Jesus’ student for speaking out

Posted 3/24/13
1. DHS refuses to answer Congress about bullets, weapons
2. Proof That Obama Is Stark Raving Mad
3. Obamacare threatens 3.2 million small business jobs
4. The Great Divide
5. Sequester, Bigfoot, Unicorns and Other Horror Stories Politicians Tell
6. NRA gains upper hand on Obama
7. Outrage as Department of Education quotes notorious Chinese leader Mao Zedong on its website
8. Ex Secret Service Agent Gives Powerful Gun Control Speech
9. US quietly frees up frozen $500 million to Palestinian Authority
10. Agriculture disputes threaten new US-EU talks
11. White House move to let Pentagon take over CIA armed drones sparks concern
12. Barack Obama’s Arafat blunder is an embarrassment for the leader of the free world

Posted 3/23/13
1. 80% of NYC Graduates Can’t Read
2. US companies seek final approval to start slaughtering horses for food
3. Marijuana Legalization Could Help Charlie Crist
4. A Bit of Florida Goes to Live in Israel: Jewish Community Applauds Rick Scott
5. Media fail: Stomp Jesus FAU professor is a Dem. Party official
6. Without Representation
7. The 50 Percent Solution
8. Joe Biden’s Pricey Hotel Stay in London
9. America’s Fast Pass for Saudi Arabia
10. Obama’s Middle East policy in tatters: Column
11. 6 in 10 Doctors to Retire Early Due to ObamaCare

Posted 3/22/13
1. Cyber Attack On Florida Election, First Known Case In U.S.
2. ‘Heck No!’: Matt Hudson, Will Weatherford Rebuke Federal Interference at Tea Party Rally
3. Wasserman Schultz, Nan Rich, Rod Smith Tried to Gerrymander; Blamed GOP for Doing Same
4. Atwater digs into state contracts, wants greater review
5. Now Obama Targets Your Fedex, Ups Packages
6. Obama Aide: ObamaCare Debut Will Be ‘Messy’
7. Obama is now giving awards for Koran Sensitivity
8. 1771–2013: The Era of the Free Press in Britain
9. Tea Partiers Express Concerns Over Rnc ‘Autopsy’ Report
10. Wisconsin teacher program treats Thanksgiving like alien invasion, undermines American history
11. ‘Reset’: How Netanyahu Stood Up To Obama–And Won
12. Revealed! Evidence iran crossed nuclear ‘red line’

Posted 3/19/13
1. Coming Up in the Florida Senate: Four Business-Backed Bills to Improve Florida’s Legal Climate
2. Patrick Murphy, Please Get the Tin Cup Out of My Face
3. Muslim Brothers present: 10 things we hate about women’s rights
4. House takes first step to ban internet sweepstakes cafés; Senate not far behind
5. Thurston: Foot-dragging on Medicaid will cost state money and lives
6. What We Still Don’t Know About Benghazi
7. Obamacare’s Medicaid Trap
8. Elizabeth Warren: Hike Minimum Wage to $22 an Hour
9. Americans Get Serious About Impeachment
10. Americans Footing Bill For USDA Commercials Teaching Students To Use Microwaves
11. Reining In the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
12. A Bad Quarter for the U.N.- The international body has embarrassed itself plenty already in 2013, and it’s only March.
13. Is global warming destabilizing the Middle East?
14. Obama’s Plans for the Suburbs: And How to Stop Them
15. Oklahoma House Passes Obamacare Nullification Bill

Posted 3/18/13
1. Obama Signals He Will Support UN Treaty To Restrict Arms
2. Growing Number Of States Eye Bills To Defy Federal Gun Laws
3. Doctor With Cash Business: Obamacare Will Be Great For My Busines
4. Paedophilia is an illness NOT a crime, says cardinal just days after papal conclave
5. Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change
6. Osborne vows to protect Britain’s armed forces in Cyprus as cash machines are EMPTIED and 60,000 British savers face losing millions in 10% bank account tax
7. Saxo Bank CEO: “This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can’t Believe It Happened”
8. As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Abroad
9. Dirty bomb material secured at site in Philadelphia, thousands of sites remain in U.S.
10. Oregon Company to Sell Drone Defense Technology to Public
11. Obama Takes Carbon-Spewing Air Force One Flight To Illinois To Deliver Speech Lecturing Us On The Evils Of Fossil Fuel…
12. Feds Recapture 4 Immigrants Released During Sequester Terror Dump

Posted 3/17/13
1. U.N. bodies want to tackle drought to avert food crisis
2. Feds fund ecoATM, Robo-squirrel despite warnings about chronic disease research cuts
3. House panel tells judge: Justice’s offer in Fast & Furious settlement a ‘grave disappointment’
4. Supporters rally to defense of ‘Obama phone’ program
5. Fla. bill would ban using food stamps for stripper, casino tabs
6. Sympathy for Israel highest in 25 years, Palestine unpopular

Posted 3/16/13
1. EPA looking to stall on those new power plant regulations?
2. Court orders CIA to acknowledge drones
3. Business-labor talks on immigration reform hit skids at worker visas
4. Obama Administration Plans to Cut Medicare Advantage Reimbursements
5. Democrats Start Clearing the Decks for Charlie Crist
6. Feds, Florida Attempt to Tighten Mental-Health Registry to Combat Gun Violence
7. Nutrient Criteria Battle: Florida, Not EPA, Knows Best How to Care for Its Waters
8. House Gaming Committee Reflects on Internet Cafe Shutdown Vote
9. Company to Sell Drone Defense Technology to Public

Posted 3/15/13
1. A New World Order
2. Another Charlie Crist donor headed for slammer
3. All Eyes on Drones in Tallahassee and D.C.
4. President Obama: I’m no Dick Cheney on drones
5. Parental rights shredded by wolves
6. Illinois Sunday school holds Pop Tart gun-biting contest
7. Why We Don’t Need Universal Preschool
8. Former Agent Blasts Obama Administration for ‘Throwing Secret Service Under the Bus’
9. Debt limit – a guide to american federal debt made easy.
10. Biden’s office apologizes for demanding that student reporter delete photos
11. A Kildee Comeuppance? Or More Obama Aloofness?
12. Obamacare: Higher Premiums; Less Privacy
13. Want Obamacare? Here’s the 21-page draft application.
14. House, Senate take differing pension paths
15. Fasano calls for public engagement on Medicaid expansion
16. Common Core State Standards. An effort to take curriculum from parents and local schools.
17. The Anointed One’s Ten Commandments

Posted 3/14/13
1. Move Over, Health Care: Florida’s Biggest Future Challenge is Water
2. Who Makes the Most Sense to Replace Jennifer Carroll?
3. California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
4. Fla. lawmaker tries to extend Daylight Savings Time: Are you in?
5. In light of federal probe lawmakers push for Internet sweepstakes café ban
6. Reagan Vs. Obama – Social Economics 101
7. ‘Give Back’ Is One of the World’s Most Impoverishing Commands
8. Flammable Ice: The Next Big Thing?
9. Likely Labor Secretary pick Perez oversaw Justice Department unit with racially charged divisions
10. Hundreds of family pets, protected species killed by little known federal agency
11. Allen West’s Fiery CPAC Speech

Posted 3/13/13
1. More Scrutiny of Taxpayer-Incentivized Private Projects Moves Forward
2. Big-spending Obamas cost 23 times more than British royal family
3. Number of kids receiving ‘free lunch’ explodes under Obama
4. Calvin Coolidge and the Moral Case for Economy
5. Tracking the States’ Responses to Obamacare
6. President Obama’s likely secretary-of-labor appointee has a dishonest and radically liberal record.
7. GOP filibuster blocks key Obama judicial nominee
8. Bean Counters vs. History. Achievement differences have always been the rule, not the exception.
9. Federal court slaps down Big Green land grab

Posted 3/12/13
1. Will Florida State Lawmakers Allow Drone Legislation to Crash and Burn?
2. Legislative Side Turns Rick Scott’s Monday Blue
3. Florida Chamber: Medicaid Requires Repair not Expansion
4. Migration to well-run states a smart new trend
5. Incestuous media: ‘Recovering Obamaholic’ hired by CBS
6. Six months after Benghazi, terrorists and bureaucrats avoid punishment
7. First Look at the 2014 Ryan Budget
8. Congressman: ‘We are going from catastrophe to catastrophe, and that’s really how this President operates’
9. Senate Budget Chair’s Memo Hopes For Tax Hikes Up To $1.2 Trillion

Posted 3/11/13
1. Student Says Teacher Made Her Perform Lap Dances On Male Students During Class
2. 67 Billion Obama Could Have Cut Instead of Closing the People’s House
3. Obama Keeps it Real: Fake Plant for Fake Products for Fake Cars
4. Living Large in the Obama White House
5. New problem for House GOP leaders: Rank-and-file may vote against rules
6. N.J. Mother Arrested, Guns Confiscated- By Attending Property Tax Dispute Forum
7. CO Sheriff Alleges Extortion By CO Dem Leadership Over The Gun Bills
8. Pew makes it official: Republicans are smarter than Democrats
9. Senators hush-hush as they craft immigration bill
10. 6 Things the Next U.S. Budget Should Do
11. The Florida Week Ahead for March 11 to March 15
12. Spokesman: ‘Senator Cruz is a U.S. citizen by birth’
13. George Will Irks Debbie Wasserman Schultz With Florida Is God’s Waiting Room Jab
14. NIH funded a shoddy paper purporting to link the Tea Party with “corporate interests.”
15. US citing security to censor more public records, analysis finds
16. House GOP Leaders: We Can Pass Gun Control, Immigration, Without Republican Support
17. Commander Of U.S. Pacific Forces Says Global Warming Is Our Top Threat.

Posted 3/10/13
1. Has the Reality Train Left the Station or Are We Just That Stupid?
2. Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning
3. Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
4. Obama Proposed Vaccine Cuts, But White House Blamed Sequestration
5. Record 89,304,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ — 296,000 Fewer Employed Since January
6. Senate Key Votes: “yes” on the Cruz amendment – P.W.
7. CA State Senator Trying To Shut Down “Largest Gun Show in Country”
8. Colorado House Approves Lowering Tuition For Illegal Immigrant Students, While Army Cuts Tuition Assistance To Soldiers
9. ‘Slaughtered in the USA’: Labeling rule burns meat industry

Posted 3/9/13
1. Keep an Eye on the Hawkeye State
2. What Are 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage?
3. What Will Be the Impact of Hugo Chavez’s Death?
4. Did the Obama Administration Bury Good News on Keystone Pipeline?
5. Leaked Email Reveals George Soros Plot
6. U.S. Congressmen join Sean Penn at Chavez’s funeral
7. Prof forces students to lobby government to ban soda
8. Tell Obama To Put Up Or Shut Up On The Budget
9. School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers
10. Boehner-Obama Deals Produce $2.5T New Debt in 2 Years; $21,817 Per Household
11. CA Lawmaker Proposes ‘E-Mail Tax’ to Fund Postal Service
12. Kids vaccines cut – even when CDC director says other cuts could have been made
13. Another Tax-the-Rich Plan Introduced in Congress

Posted 3/8/13
1. Boehner-Obama Deals Produce $2.5T New Debt in 2 Years; $21,817 Per Household
2. Florida Democrat Files Bill To Criminalize Purchase Of Ammunition Without Taking A Program On Anger Management
3. Rising beef and pork prices will impact restaurant purchases
4. Pelosi: ‘Tax Cuts Are Spending’
5. Oil production on federal lands falls, again
6. Florida Justices Pariente, Quince Gave $30,000 to Liberal Group Opposing Conservative Colleagues
7. Charter Schools Post Higher Scores than Traditional Public Schools in Florida
8. Welfare Reform Is Back
9. CDC confirms White House caught in sequester lie on child vaccinations
10. ‘Proxy marriages’ via Skype used to gain US citizenship

Posted 3/7/13
1. Is Rick Scott Being Pressured to Appoint Activist Judges?
2. Everglades Foundation’s Bogus Stats Unworthy of Florida Audubon
3. Repeal of tax break for international banking tacked onto Dolphins bill
4. House speaker calculates pension savings in billions
5. Once Again, Obama Suggests That Laws Don’t Apply to Him
6. GOP senators introduce amendment to CR to defund Obamacare
7. Rick Scott Foils Liberal Activists, Appoints Alan Forst to 4th District Court of Appeal
8. Everglades Bill Gets Strong Bipartisan Support from House Committee
9. The Ryan Plan, Take Three. The GOP’s budgeteer has a better option for Medicare reform, Obamacare exchanges.
10. Secret Obama Group Won’t Disclose Secret Meeting Location

Posted 3/6/13
1. Obama Admin Spending $400k On Oil Paintings For Obscure Officials
2. ‘Freedom’ license plate banned in Washington D.C.
3. Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised
4. We Have Ted Cruz’s List: Harvard Law Really Is Littered with Communists
5. The banker who shaped the modern financial world after WWII was a Soviet spy who wanted America to become communist
6. Report: ‘Surprising’ amount of Islamist terrorism in the US has been homegrown
7. ‘We are above the law of the land’ – Muslim leader’s stunning claim
8. Six Million To Pay ObamaCare Penalty
9. Legislator: Don Gaetz Wanted to Expand Medicaid, Will Weatherford Ruined It
10. Florida Senate Passes Most Comprehensive Ethics Reform in 30 Years
11. Fla. House passes election reform on opening day of session

Posted 3/5/13
1. $253.5B—Obama Borrowed Nearly 6x as Much in February as Sequester Cuts All Year
2. Creepy: Domestic DHS Predator Drones to Detect Whether Civilians Are Armed
3. AIF, Florida Chamber Divided on Casino Gambling, Taxes for Online Travel Companies, and Obamacare?
4. DOJ: Children Do Not Need—and Have No Right to—Mothers
5. Rand Paul: Obama in guns-to-jihadists cover-up?
6. Another Obama Ally Sells Access To Administration Officials
7. Scott explains his support for Medicaid expansion
8. Weatherford: ‘Florida Work Plan’ Calls for Fixing Elections, Pension, Education
9. The sequester gives Democrats the public outcry they need for the 2014 elections.

Posted 3/4/13
1. U.S. Aid to Syrian Rebels Takes Congress by Surprise
2. Unionized Federal Workers: We’ll Get Our Pay Despite Sequester
3. The White House Joins the Cash Grab
4. Sequestration, Tea Party conspiracy?
5. Pro-Life Student Sanctioned At Depaul University For Exposing Vandals
6. Sotomayor, Kagan Browbeat Scalia Over Voting Rights Act Argument
7. China Deal Benefits Obama Donors
8. North Carolina 2013 Legislative Strategy: DRAFT NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
9. 2013 Session Outlook: Economic Development

Posted 3/3/13
1. Obama, his team struggling with accuracy when explaining impact of sequester cuts
2. Sequestration Could Delay Tax Refunds
3. Armed Services Chair: Never Seen Such Lack of ‘Truth-Telling’ from Commander in Chief
4. Obama trading Keystone XL for a carbon tax?
5. Report: Chinese Third-Graders Falling Behind U.S. High School Students in Math, Science
6. NH Gun Store Names Obama Salesman of the Year
7. Boy, 7, suspended for shaping pastry into gun, dad says
8. Video: ‘Screaming goat’ version of Obama’s grim ‘cuts’ warning
9. Peter King on Marco Rubio: ‘We screwed you, now make us president’

Posted 3/2/13
1. State Department: Keystone pipeline won’t hurt the environment
2. Will former Republican Roger Stone run for Gov. of Florida?
3. Bloomberg: America can borrow ‘infinite amount of money’
4. Personal Income Collapses In January
5. Gop Leaders Get Seven-Minute-Meeting With Obama On Sequestration
6. If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight?
7. Ignoring American History
8. WAPO Busts Obama…Again: Four Pinnochios For ‘Janitor Pay Cut’ Claim
9. Poll: Democratic Support for Obamacare Falls 15 Points

Posted 3/1/13
1. 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World’s highest resolution video surveillance platform
2. The latest on Florida’s 2014 governor’s race
3. The natural gas boom isn’t going anywhere for awhile
4. The White House Must Make Sequestration Cuts as Nasty as Possible
5. Harvard to scheming conservatives: Don’t apply to Harvard
6. Sec. Kerry: iran is like us, government is elected
7. Rodman tells kim jong un he has ‘friend for life’
8. The Comedy of Cultural Deformity. You can judge the health of a civilization by the culture it creates and consumes.
9. New Poll: Clinton, Benghazi and Conservatives
10. College Activists Excited To Add Powerless Voices To Gun Control Debates

Posted 2/28/13
1. US imam calls on Muslims in US to wage jihad
2. Why Obama wins: democrats purge moderates, republicans purge conservatives
3. American Student Punished for Refusing to Cite the Mexican Pledge
4. GOP boss: Don’t talk about Allen West voter fraud or other ‘oddball issues’
5. Dems’ unbelievable demand to stop debt clock from running in Capitol
6. NC progressives accidentally expose national strategy in leaked memo
7. Rick Scott Pitches $5 Million-a-Year Contract for Spring Training
8. Business lobby lays out session goals
9. Florida Session Outlook: Health Care
10. Unprecedented: Spoiled-Brat President Does Intentional Harm to the Country in Order to Beat Republicans on Sequester Cuts
11. Democrat proposes Department of Peacebuilding
12. Conservatives, Not Liberals, Are the Problem

Posted 2/27/13
1. DHS releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants, blaming budget cuts
2. Obama Has Failed To Fill Key Government Watchdog Posts
3. Haley, GOP governors blast Obama after sequester meeting
4. Green-energy subsidy recipient a toxic waste problem
5. Students Told to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters”. Students were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as Genocide – instead they were told to use the term “ethnic cleansing.”
6. Five Things That Surprised the Heck Out of Me at the Florida Gaming Congress
7. DOJ to Federal Judge: We Can Force Your Wife to Violate Her Religion
8. Fla. online openings for STEM-related jobs up more than 15 percent
9. Voting Rights at the Supreme Court Today
10. Coal ash waste would be exempt from hazardous waste ban under bills
11. Florida’s consumer confidence drops again
12. Florida Readers Poll: Ground the drones
13. Inspector General: Treasury has created incentive for companies to seek bailouts
14. Left-wing group urges Obama to shut down campaign apparatus
15. How the Supreme Court brought Sex to the Schoolyard
16. Russian Meteor Likely An Apollo Asteroid Chunk
17. Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling
18. Global cooling predicted for the next 30 years
19. Global Cooling Since 1997 – The IPCC Global Warming Prediction Due To CO2 Emissions Was Wrong, Spectacularly
20. Rick Scott Is Wrong

Posted 2/26/13
1. House GOP rips Obama as ‘road show president’ without a plan for sequester
2. Obama’s Paycheck Exempted from ‘Sequester’
3. Pet Food Stamps are now a Thing?!
4. Rick Scott Tells Obama, Congress to ‘Stop Playing Chicken’ on Sequestration
5. Florida Gaming Congress Wide Open for All Stakeholders, All Ideas
6. Don Gaetz, Will Weatherford Envision Session of Amicable Tension
7. Federal spending cuts could close 20 Florida airport facilities
8. Obama using fake Twitter messages in fight over gun control
9. Allen West To Obama ‘Get The Hell Out Of The United States of America’
10. Jimmy Carter Unloads On Obama
11. GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit
12. “The continuous propaganda rallies are a shameless display of a shallow campaigner who is incapable of leading”
13. Shepherds and Sheep. History shows the folly of letting the government make our mistakes for us.

Posted 2/25/13
1. Is the Obama Administration Committing Sedition or Treason?
2. Florida doesn’t have enough doctors for Medicaid expansion, lobby group says
3. Secret energy lab spawns million dollar govt employee
4. Both Parties Agree: Sequestration Is Bad, but Better Than The Alternatives
5. Real Federal Spending Up $822.90 Per American Since 2008
6. Sen. Jim DeMint Among Conservative Celebs Set for JMI’s 25th Anniversary Gala
7. Florida Congressional Races in 2014: Early Look at Where the Fur Will Fly
8. 2013 Florida Session Outlook: Education
9. Students made to wear burqas – in Texas
10. Farrakhan Recruits Chicago Gangs to Serve as ‘Natural Soldiers’ for Nation of Islam

Posted 2/24/13
1. Chicago Union Head: Let Us Carry Guns, Get Paid Like Cops
2. Black Leaders: ‘Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control’
3. Obama’s lies about the origin of the sequester
4. Unintended Consequence of Females in the Infantry?
5. Cameron bans Obama from bringing Michelle to G8 as he decrees summit will be WAG free zone
6. New BSE status should boost exports
7. ‘The State Of The Union Is Strong,’ Says Man Responsible For Shielding Nation From Truth

Posted 2/23/13
1. Revealed: al-Qaeda’s 22 tips for dodging drones
2. Obama skirting congress in globalist plan?
3. Whole Foods Apologizes For ‘Racist’ Sign Showing Obama Selling Chicken
4. Restoring Limited Government: Chipping Away at Obamacare
5. As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned
6. Task Force Backs Stand Your Ground Law
7. The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
8. Twelve Reasons to Say No. Virginia got it right; Florida got it wrong.

Posted 2/22/13
1. Gilded Class Warriors
2. What Kind of Cuts Grow the Economy?
3. Graham: A National I.D. Card ‘Is the Public’s Way of Contributing’
4. Shotgun Joe Inspires a Great Idea: Free AR-15!
5. Front-runner to lead EPA vows more action on climate change
6. GOP senators in flap over prairie chicken as endangered species
7. Will Weatherford: Rick Scott’s Medicaid Embrace Isn’t an Obama Hug
8. Environmental Experts Find Everglades Foundation Report ‘Grossly Inaccurate’
9. Contract Tracking Tops CFO Jeff Atwater’s 2013 Legislative Agenda
10. House GOP Leaders Remain Skeptical of Scott’s Medicaid Acceptance
11. Fla. natl. committeeman’s message to Gov. Scott: ‘We’re watching closely, convince us’
12. New Jersey: Muslim beheads two Coptic Christians in Koranic ritual
13. Obama and the Seuss-quester

Posted 2/21/13
1. Al Gore’s $500 Million Trojan Horse
2. WE Demonizes Tea Party With Racist ‘Real American’ Villainous Character, Generates Outrage
3. Obama, the puppet master
4. Once Again, U.S. Lawmakers Move to Head Off Helium Crisis
5. Andrew Cuomo’s Radical Abortion Regime
6. Losing the States
7. Daily news reporter admits: Breitbart ‘friends of Hamas’ story ‘accurate’
8. Obama hands out free health care to Pakistanis
9. Broken Justice
10. Number of U.S. farm operations continues to decline
11. Kerry: ‘Be Ready to Join Us’ in Fight against Climate Change
12. Having Added Record $5.9T to Debt, Obama Claims He’s Cut Deficit $2.5T

Posted 2/20/13
1. Obama admits: ‘energy is going to be a little more expensive’
2. Mo. House Bill Makes Proposing Gun Control Illegal
3. 5 Energy Policy Solutions To Grow Economy
4. Video: Obama Angrily Denounces His Own Idea
5. Biden: ‘Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun.’
6. Money chase by Obama circle ripe for corruption, say government watchdogs
7. Elite Chinese unit accused of waging cyber war against US
8. Florida Lobbying Ban Expansion Won’t Impact Current Legislature
9. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: I am a freed slave
10. Gaetz says Florida education bill is ‘going to make history’
11. Florida ethanol bill clears committee by a single vote
12. Florida domestic partnership bill stalls in committee

Posted 2/19/13
1. Americans For Prosperity Set To Clash Against Rove’s Super Pac
2. Hunt for endangered species: Conservative professor targeted for post at liberal college
3. Feds buying enough bullets for ’24-year war’
4. Kasich Administration Presents a False Choice on Medicaid Expansion
5. A look at USDA’s long-range forecast
6. Axelrod on Immigration Leak: WH Would Probably ‘Take it Back’ If They Could
7. After Obamacare health exchange deadline passes, 26 states opt in with feds
8. Florida Senators Say No to State Run Health Care Exchange
9. Florida Tourists at Record 89.3 Million
10. Who will beat the nation’s ‘most vulnerable Democrat’?
11. Washington gun bill includes annual home inspections
12. Florida Lawmakers zeroing in on Obamacare cost
13. Nancy Pelosi says drone strikes on Americans can stay secret
14. Mexico to Ask US Senate to Create Gun Registry in Border States
15. Broken Justice
16. College: Fire professor who forced students to vote for Obama
17. AFP’s Congressional Scorecard

Posted 2/18/13
1. Florida hit by ‘tsunami’ of tax identity fraud
2. US pays high price for Obama’s cheap talk
3. 3D printers and ‘Cuomo Clip’ head off gun laws at pass
4. Europe nixes green energy as Obama doubles down
5. Big state pension change analyzed by actuaries
5. Lobbyists report earnings of $121 million for 2012
6. Study panel urges that PSC be allowed to fine private water utilities for bad water quality
7. Photojournalist Spends Month In Oval Office Blind To Capture Images Of Obama In Natural Habitat

Posted 2/17/13
1. 3 GOP governors say they won’t work with feds on ‘ObamaCare’
2. Gun Companies Refuse Sales To State Governments With Strict Gun Laws
3. Far-left call Herman Cain ‘Uncle Tom,’ ‘house n**ger’
4. American Citizens Split On DOJ Memo Authorizing Government To Kill Them

Posted 2/16/13
1. “Government Can’t Change Weather”
2. Taxpayer dollars used to fund study tying Tea Party to tobacco lobby
3. Funds run low for health insurance in state ‘high-risk pools’
4. Dems Predict No More CA Wine And VT Skiing, MD Destroyed
5. Internal Walmart email: ‘sales are a total disaster’
6. Obama Theory Validated
7. John Kerry Threatens Cuts To Israel
8. The Founding Of Our Idiocracy

Posted 2/14/13
1. Booking Hotels Online? Court Ruling Could Make Your Rates Go Up
2. Fasano: Why Do Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola Land Incentives to Expand in Florida?
3. Senators Cold to Sales Tax Hike to Ward Off Dip in Communications Revenue
4. Scalia: State of the Union “has turned into a childish spectacle”
5. British Hospital Patients Dying in Droves From Lack of Care
6. Muslim Infiltration In Public Education
7. Congress Passes Americans With No Abilities Act
8. Miami the New Wall Street? Preview of FOX Business Network’s ‘Tax Flight to Florida’
9. Another university sponsors campaign teaching students it is ‘unfair’ to be white
10. Senate Bill Prohibits Police Searching Cell Phones, iPads Without Warrant
11. Voter Fraud Proves Democracy Is Over
12. House panel approves election-law changes
13. U.S. Cost of U.N. “Rule of Law” Project: $500 million
14. Sen. Burr: CIA Has ‘Flatly Refused’ to Give Intel Committee Some Benghazi-Related Documents
15. Why is the Department of Homeland Security buying so many bullets?
16. Colorado School Bans White Students From After-School Tutoring Programs
17. South Florida delegations urged to recognize reality of sea level rise

Posted 2/13/13
1. The Theory is Now a Conspiracy And Facts Don’t Lie
2. Obama’s Hypocritic Oath, The startling disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality
3. Obama’s uncuttable spending: $325k to create ‘robosquirrel’
4. 65.4 Million Gun Purchases Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush’s First-Term Total
5. Food Stamp Rolls in America Now Surpass the Population of Spain
6. Polls: Obama Approval Rating Slumps
7. Pentagon leaders detail ‘lasting and irreversible’ damage from sequestration
8. Obama Accuses His Treasury Pick of ‘Biggest Tax Scam on Record’
9. While You Slept They Moved Your Coffin
10. The president and his policymakers do not understand war.
11. TSA starts stopping people on US highways without warrants or probable cause
12. Obama Administration Demanding All Americans Must Have “Healthy Housing”
13. The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration
14. Highly anticipated executive order on cybersecurity signed

Posted 2/12/13
1. Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21, Club of Rome
2. Beware Metro And Regional Government!
3. Ron Paul Calls on United Nations to Confiscate Domain Names of His Supporters
4. 100,000+ Join Conservative-Alternative to Facebook
5. California’s “Solution” To Its Doctor Shortage
6. Gov. Kasich Enlists Socialized Medicine Lobbyists to Help Implement Obamacare
7. Obama: Budget Cuts Could Force Small Businesses to Close Doors
8. Kerry Took More Security on Trip to Arlington, Va., Than State Dept. Posted in Benghazi
9. Florida Tea Party Faithful Alive and Well, Anticipating Shining Victories from 2013 Legislature
10. Progressive left plots Florida takeover
11. If Only We Were Swedenizing
12. Islamist Censorship Charges On
13. And Your Little Dog, Too
14. Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US
15. Millions Improperly Claimed U.S. Phone Subsidies
16. Democratic House chairwoman Wasserman Schultz caught in deception with reporters
17. Celebs Demand Obama Follow Through On His ‘Heal The Planet’ Pledge
18. 10 Reasons to Avoid Regional Plans

Posted 2/11/13
1. Sweating Obama Admits Drone Strikes Have Been Happening On Their Own
2. Is The NDAA Lawsuit Headed To The Supreme Court?
3. Iran gives stealth drone secrets to Russia
4. A Walk for the President
5. Why is bipartisanship a one-way street?
6. Obama’s poker face is getting better.
7. Obama Administration Touts 38 Million Acre Lease Sale, But It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
8. Allen West’s One Million Reasons to Run For Higher Office
9. Gov. Scott’s Budget By The Numbers
10. Another brutal Islamist activity at FAU condoned by officials
11. Aggressive regulation is government’s money tree
12. Tea party exposed as agent of Big Tobacco?
13. Liberal’s letter to the editor goes viral for stupidity
14. Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business

Posted 2/10/13
1. Navy: Lincoln Refueling Delayed, Will Hurt Carrier Readiness
2. Vanguard’s 2013 economic outlook
3. A Perfect Contrast
4. Against the Ghetto Plantation
5. Getting Past Liberal Bullying: Conservatism Post-2012
6. Now States Cutting Employee Hours To Avoid Obamacare Costs
7. Eric Holder: Obama Decides Who’s ‘Entitled’ To Second Amendment Rights
8. China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation Measured in Goods
9. Second family accuses Disneyland of racism after Donald Duck refuses to hug their son
10. David Brooks: Tea party has lost the will to fight, establishment is taking over [VIDEO]
11. Obama’s new Interior Secretary nominee received Obamacare waiver for her company
12. Tea Party Changes Tack to Hit McConnell
13. Tea Party Patriots launches super PAC

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Posted 2/9/13
1. e4 Sustainability Summit/Green Schools National Conference in WPB
2. Dereliction Of Duty: Obama Did Nothing To Save American Lives In Benghazi–And Lied About It
3. A tea party response to karl rove’s appearance on ‘hannity’
4. Obama’s Lawyers Officially Admit Birth Certificate is Fake
5. Dr. Benjamin Carson’s Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama Present
6. Biden: Obama ‘Doesn’t Want to Go’ to Iraq and Afghanistan
7. The Virtual Inaugural 2013
8. Dem Rep: 2nd Amendment Leads To People Owning Nukes, Submarines
9. Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out
10. The Broken Window Fallacy
11. DOR group to propose communications tax repeal, sales tax increase
12. Trump hosts GOP at Mar-A-Lago, shows big love for tea party
13. 3 Social Security Shockers From the CBO’s Latest Report
14. Egyptian Activist Tells Allen West Why the Arab Spring Revolution Was Not A Success
15. Maxine Waters: Obama Has a Database on Everything About Every Individual
16. The Truth About the Arms Trade Treaty
17. White House set to cut nuclear arsenal by one-third
18. Chicago Muslim Outreach Campaign Spreads Across Country
19. The president’s left-wing network continues to expand

Posted 2/8/13
1. Obama’s Inauguration Prayers Featured Three of Soros’ Anti-Israel Rabbis
2. Bozell: Karl Rove vs. the ‘Far Right’
3. House Civil Justice Subcommittee Approves Foreclosure Reform, Anti-Sharia Bills
4. Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Rep. Patrick Murphy ‘Most Vulnerable Democrat’
5. Sweeping ethics reforms expected to reach Fla. Senate floor early
6. Ohio issues dozens of subpoenas in mass voter fraud investigation
7. Scott budget’s land-buying, springs and cleanup items draw lawmaker interest
8.Progressive groups set up health care act info website
9. Getting a Meddling Government Out of Our Lives
10. Dick Cheney’s Revenge
11. Call Obama’s Sequester Bluff
12. Weekly Update from Allen West

Posted 2/7/13
1. League of Women Voters Wants More Election Changes than Proposed
2. MaryLynn Magar: ‘Softball Mom’ Looking to Relieve Businesses, Expand Grandparent Visitation Rights
3. Brooklyn College professors dodge on sponsorship of vile anti-Israel conference
4. Hospitals say they had no input on Medicaid payment plan
5. Bills filed to fix glitch caused by 2012 growth management ‘glitch bill’

Posted 2/6/13
1. Florida Grassroots Groups form coalition to make an impact
2. Tax Watchdog Backs Bulk of Scott’s Budget
3. Putnam: U.S.-Mexico Tomato War Near End
4. New College, Four Other Florida Universities Education Bargains
5. Rhetoric can’t disguise emptiness at heart of Obama’s presidency
6. Internet sales tax, incentives reporting, Dolphins tax break bills clear Senate panel
7. DEP moving on adopting water quality rules implementation document
8. Senators go to ethics school
9. ALF proposal clears committee
10. Why the CBO’s predictions are consistently unreliable

Posted 2/5/13
1. Thank God for American Crossroads and the Conservative Victory Project
2. True the Vote Files Lawsuit Against Supervisor of Elections Over Mishandling of Allen West Recount
3. Against Black History Month
4. Watch Out, Speaker Boehner
5. The Senate and the GOP Establishment
6. Why is government stockpiling guns, ammo?
7. Secretive House group close to immigration-reform agreement
8. A Sign Of The Things To Come? Hospital Chain Gives Obama’s NLRB & SEIU The Finger
9. Fighting Government Cronyism with an Opportunity Agenda
10. Enterprise Florida: Economic Development or Corporate Welfare?
11. Obama Reported to be Dismissing Military Leaders Who Will Not Fire on Civilians if Ordered
12. State Dept. Recruits Jihadists to Join Foreign Service
13. Climate Change to Next Cold Era Accelerates with Colder North Atlantic
14. Why Are Gas Prices Going Up When Demand Is Going Down?
15. Surrender: Ohio Gov. Kasich spurns tea party, backs Obamacare Medicaid expansion; left celebrates
16. Corzine’s Crime of the Century
17. Texas 6th graders design flags for a new socialist nation

Posted 2/4/13
1. Why Obamacare Should Pay For My Gun
2. Only 5.2% of Highway Funds Used to Build New Roads
3. Hundreds of thousands of Master’s degree holders, PhDs on food stamps
4. South Carolina Bill Exempts Unorganized Militia From Federal Gun Grab
5. Computer Hackers Take Over Government Website
6. Experts Refuse to Join Obama Administration’s IPAB Death Panel
7. DHS Raids Gun Collector – Confiscates Nearly 1,500 Guns – No Charges Filed
8. Atwater calls for pre-auditing of state contracts
9. Survey Shows Godlessness in Same Areas as Violent Crime and Democratic Voting
10. New York State Resistance – “… prime for something like that.” 1/29/13
11. “Liberals With Guns!”
12. Amazon Users Pen Sarcastic Drone ‘Reviews’ For Children’s Unmanned Aircraft Toy
13. Advancing Liberty in 2013: Ten Rules of Thumb
14. Boondoggle sinks $20M in Florida funds

Posted 2/3/13
1. Obama Eliminates Breakfast for US Troops in Afghanistan, Stuffs Own Face
2. The key to the meaning of Keystone XL
3. The farm bill and environmental sustainability
4. Will: The Price Of Moral Grandstanding
5. Rove Declares War on Tea Party

Posted 2/2/13
1. Mikulski’s ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ Would Allow Employees to Discuss Salaries
2. Revealed: How immigrants in America are sending $120 BILLION to their struggling families back home
3. Drones now in place over america!
4. Not For Taxes, For Control
5. DHS revamping immigrant welcome materials, set to include Obamacare
6. Wyoming House Seeks to Block Proposed Federal Gun Restrictions
7. Study: New E15 gas can ruin auto engines
8. California Tax Hike Sparks Millionaire Migration
9. Alabama, North Dakota, Wyoming Most Conservative States
10. Majority Says the Federal Government Threatens Their Personal Rights
11. Study: Almost Half Of Americans On Financial Brink
12. Obama Shrunk Private Sector by 8.5M Jobs

Posted 2/1/13
1. Thanks to Democrats, poor families getting squeezed on Obamacare exchanges.
2. 67 Percent of Texas Republicans Want Obama Impeached
3. IRS: Parents Must Pay Federal Fine for Uninsured Kids
4. IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
5. Left blames Chicago’s out-of-control gun violence on global warming
6. Obama regulations nearly double those of Bush, Clinton combined

Posted 1/31/13
1. How To Take Our Country Back
2. Rick Scott’s 2013 Agenda: $1.2 billion More for Education
3. Out of control: 47 new regs for every new law
4. Reagan’s home could become a parking lot for Obama’s library
5. MSNBC Libs Agree: The Federal Government Needs To Regulate Football
6. EPA moves to pull rat poison from shelves
7. Obama Admin Approves Sale Of Sensitive Military Technology To China
8. The EPA vs. Reality
9. Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors

Posted 1/30/13
1. Leaked Video of Obama Skeet Shooting at Camp David
2. US approves A123 sale to Chinese firm despite security concerns
3. Shouting Louder: Hillary’s Testimony
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Colorado Energy Office Can’t Account for $252 Million In Last Six Years
6. Brookings Cheers Florida’s ‘Smart’ Port Investments
7. Immigration Reform Needs Problem-Solving Approach, Not Comprehensive Legislation
8. Students Taught Cannibalism Allowed
9. US debt headed toward 200 percent of GDP even after ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
10. Sierra Club Will Break Law at DC Protest to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted 1/29/13
1. Holder Moves Unilaterally On Gun Control
2. San Diego Police Chief: We Can Disarm Americans Within A Generation
3. Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn
4. “The Most Ridiculous Law of 2013”
5. Statewide tea party gathering looks to the future
6. Freshman Rep. Ron DeSantis rejects congressional perks
7. OWS is exposed: Rich, white, educated and working
8. Antonin Scalia: The Constitution is ‘dead’
9. China: let the U.S. Pay for our pollution
10. Conservative Sentinels Stand Guard For Freedom
11. DeMint to GOP elders: Game over, pals. Insists conservatives must drive agenda
12. Apes, Pigs, and F-16s

Posted 1/28/13
1. Congressman: “Obama Only Upholds The Soviet Constitution”
2. Navy chief calls for sharp spending cuts
3. Navy admiral hints at jettisoning F-35 fighter
4. By The Numbers: January, 2013
5. Anti-Science Bills Weighed in Four States
6. EPA Email Scandal Is Worse Than Originally Thought
7. Obama Secretly Pledges To Divide Jerusalem
8. Confirmed? Massive explosion at iran nuclear facility
9. Breaking Monopolies is One of Government’s Most Important Responsibilities

Posted 1/27/13
1. Republicans in Virginia, other states seeking electoral college changes
2. Large Supply of Elementary Teachers Waiting to Be “Underpaid”
3. Liberal Drone Hypocrisy
4. ‘No budget, no pay’ is a powerful bumper sticker.
5. New Intensive Budget Review Florida Senate Website

Posted 1/24/13
1. The IBM 5 in 5
2. Florida Lands Three Cities Among America’s Worst Run
3. Florida businesses optimistic about the year ahead
4. S&P and Moody’s sees FL Supreme Court’s pension ruling as positive
5. As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected
6. Malicious virus shuttered power plant: DHS
7. The Urgent Danger in the Senate

Posted 1/23/13
1. Arrogance and Overreach
2. Brits Ban Guns at America’s LargestGun Show
3. Moody’s: Employee Pension Ruling is ‘Credit Positive’ for Florida
4. Senate Committee Unanimously Approves Major State Ethics Overhaul
5. Florida Casinos Clock Dialed for 2014 Session
6. Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (America)

Posted 1/22/13
1. Insurance Reform Group Argues for Citizens Board
2. Gambling Issue Continues to Hover in Legislature
3. DHS Says Gun Owners Are Terrorists

Posted 1/21/13
1. The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law
2. An Opinion On Gun Control
3. Think Tank Warns of ‘Far Right’ Terrorism

Posted 1/20/13
1. Bill Clinton: Gun Control Push Bringing Back The Tea Party
2. Reload: Second Amendment Rallies Highlight Conservative Potential In Obama’s Second Term
3. The Democracy Initiative: a Coup in Plain Sight

Posted 1/19/13
1. Outrageous Video: Democratic Lawmaker Joe Morrissey Brings AK-47 to Virginia State Capitol
2. Ron Paul Slams America’s ‘King Of The World’ Foreign Policy On Fox, Following Guest Fires Back
3. Here’s Why The Rnc Has Been So Silent About Rampant Voter Fraud
4. Biden: We need more gun laws because we don’t have time to enforce the ones we have
5. New Jersey Town Considering Ban On Flying American Flags
6. Racial Preferences in College Admissions: Another Example of Liberal Pandering
7. Gun Control in Australia
8. Tax dollars for gun control – Sneaky executive order bankrolls anti-Second Amendment propaganda
9. Bipartisan agreement to withhold senators’ salaries if they fail to pass budget
10. Chuck Woolery – Let’s Tax The Amish
11. Obama’s private domestic military force
12. Are Property Rights Sustainable, Too?

Posted 1/18/13
1. The Allure of Moving On
2. Liberals Don’t Need Revenue To Grow Government Anymore
3. Senate Asked to Cut Overtime from Police, Firefighter Pension Calculations
4. Florida TaxWatch to Legislators: Enforce Internet Sales Tax, Privatize State Lands
5. Governor Rick Scott Statement on Election Reforms
6. US taxpayers giving $4B to foreign firms for green energy projects, study says
7. Rangel: Southern States “Have Cultures That We Have To Overcome”
8. Revenge on the Bitter Clingers
9. The Newtown Tragedy: Complex Causes Require Thoughtful Analysis and Responses
10. A New Strategy for the GOP
11. Ten Takeaways from the GOP Retreat
12. Wake Up, Socially Liberal Fiscal Conservatives
13. Who’s a Coward?: Obama and Netanyahu
14. Chris Christie Slams ‘Reprehensible’ NRA For ‘Dragging People’s Children’ Into Gun Control Debate
15. How Obama’s Gun ‘Order’ Will Backfire
16. Cruz: Obama ‘High on His Own Power’
17. Obama bypasses Congress, attempts to force companies to reveal political donations through SEC
18. Public School Bans Religious Visitors

Posted 1/17/13
1. Rubio: President Obama is abusing his executive powers
2. Obama Asks Doctors to Help Deal With Guns
3. Portman: Obama ‘Misleading’ Americans by Saying We Ought to Pay Our Bills
4. Florida GOP Rep. says Obama impeachment should be ‘on the table’
5. ATTN Gun Owners: McConnell & Reid Cutting Deal on the Filibuster
6. Sierra Club Targets Colorado Springs, Scrubber Technology In War On Coal
7. Military leaders warn Congress of ‘hollow’ force
8. More ObamaCare Unintended Consequences
9. Obamacare to Boost Costs for State Insurance Plan
10. The Florida Chamber Of Commerce 2013 Business Agenda Focuses On Making Florida More Competitive
11. It’s Not The GOP’s Fault It Is Useless But It Is Useless
12. Brewer’s Price
13. Gun Sales and Background Checks: Obama’s Bogus 40 Percent Stat
14. The War Against Black Men
15. No Labels Defines Its Brand
16. House Republicans Prefer Slices to Whole Pie on Immigration Reform
17. Obama’s Religious Freedom Proclamation
18. Florida’s Broken Campaign Finance System
19. 4 Reasons Local And State Elections Matter
20. Making Islamic sense of free speech
21. The Media’s Favorite Fake Republicans
22. Pelosi Misquotes Congressional Oath Of Office
23. Nation’s biggest gun store calls for revolt

Posted 1/16/13
1. Chrysler CEO announces plans to build more Jeeps in China
2. Shale Gas Will Fuel a US Manufacturing Boom
3. Walker to let state know Monday how she’ll tweak St. Lucie office to address concerns
4. Presidential Sincerity And Senior Citizens
5. Rand Paul vs. King Barack I
6. Federal agents ordered delay in Senate intern’s arrest, documents show
7. Facebook Censorship Of Conservatives
8. Obama Looks to Overload GOP Opponents
9. What is a liberal?
10. The Purpose of the Second Amendment – Protect Us From Our Government
11. PETA Wants Obama To Include Hunting Ban In His Anti-Gun Measures
12. Long Term Unemployment at Highest Level Since WWII
13. Released EPA Administrator’s Non-Public Emails Called ‘Deeply Troubling’
14. Sen. Joe Negron Scores Early Victory for ‘Top Priority’ Anti-Drone Bill
15. Don’t Raise Debt Ceiling Without Balancing the Budget
16. Walmart Responds To ‘Suspended Ammo’ Story
17. California’s Demographic Dilemma: Where Are The Kids?
18. Inspector General: Postal Service Will ‘Cease To Exist’ Without Bailout This Year
19. $518 Billion In Regulations Since Obama Took Office
20. GOP Doesn’t Have the Will to Stand Up to Obama on the Debt Limit

Posted 1/15/13
1. Conservative ideas need a new message
2. Our Sort-of War on Terror
3. In Tim Scott’s Wake. The newest senator wows tea partiers, and contenders line up for his congressional seat.
4. Is the Entitlement Era Winding Down?
5. Party Wages War on GOP Voters
6. New pay-per-mile scheme would boost taxes 250 percent
7. Wyoming Bill Would Nullify Obama Gun Control, Jail Feds
8. BRAC the Budget
9. So, you think your Right-To-Work state is safe from unions?
10. Obama on Congress: ‘They Order Me to Spend’
11. GOP congressman threatens impeachment if Obama uses executive action for gun control
12. Debt Limit: What Does It Mean to Raise It? (VIDEO)

Posted 1/14/13
1. Catholic League’s Bill Donohue Suggests Obama Should Swear In On Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’
2. U.S. states flirt with major tax changes
3. Member Of Biden’s Gun Control Task Force Has Son Convicted Of Columbine-Style Plot
4. Egyptian Press Confirms Washington Infiltrated By Islamists
5. Indiana, South Carolina Join Fight to Nullify ObamaCare
6. Patriotic Group To Build Armed ‘Defensible’ Neighborhood Fortress
7. Obama Blueprint For Disarming Americans
8. Detention Prevention Strategy Goes National
9. White House Responds To Secession Petitions
10. Major General: Why Are Domestic Government Agencies Purchasing Enough Lethal Ammunition to Put 5 Rounds In Every American?
11. Rhonda Swan: Why not a Republican? Here’s why – C.W.
12. Post-Mortem by Laura Hollis – C.W.
13. When the Government Fails Completely
14. Al-Qaeda Leader Calls For Muslims To Kidnap Westerners In Exchange For Imprisoned Jihadists
15. A Cheap Shot From Sotomayor
16. Bill Clinton’s over-the-top ‘fact’ on mass shootings
17. Palm Beach Gardens Municipal Election on March 12
18. PBG Legislative Agenda Discussed at January Council Meeting

Posted 1/13/13
1. “The International Debt Crisis” – A Hillsdale College Free Market Forum
2. Ryan asks if Obama will meet deadline to submit a budget request this year
3. About That Overpopulation Problem
4. The Slow Dismantling of Obamacare
5. Molon labe
6. Bloomberg Strikes Again: No Painkillers for You
7. Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study
8. Reid to Obama: OK to skip Congress on debt ceiling
9. Riot Erupts As Thousands Fight For Housing Vouchers in Michigan
10. Treasury Says It Balanced Budget in December—But Borrowed $96B on Dec. 31 to Hit Debt Limit During Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
11. Yet Another Scandal for Harry Reid?
12. Sen. Rubio: Obama has ‘poisoned the well for people’ on immigration reform

Posted 1/12/13
1. MLB Writer Blames HOF Vote on Tea Party!
2. Chinese Investment in the U.S. Shatters Records
3. New Fossils Help Bring Hobbit Humans to Life
4. Money for Nothin’ – Writing Checks for Free
5. It’s Not the ‘Doctor Shortage,’ Stupid
6. Wyoming Threatens Arrests For Federal Gun Grabbers
7. Obama EPA regulations kill 15 power plants, 480 jobs in Georgia
8. Democrat plan lets Obama run for 3rd term
9. Moving Company Reports People Fleeing Illinois & New Jersey
10. The Allen West “Chronicles” by Ryan Dean
11. Vero Beach Council Votes To Withdraw From Southeast Florida Regional Partnership
12. Smart Guns Can’t Kill in the Wrong Hands

Posted 1/11/13
1. When Big Deficits Became Good
2. Getting To Know Jack
3. A Bogus Immigration-Enforcement Factoid – A respected think tank makes a phony claim.
4. Under the Green Hammer
5. Welshing on the Deal Before It’s Even Reached
6. The disaster that is California
7. A Russian View – Americans Never Give Up Your Guns
8. Politically Speaking, Florida in 2013 Will Be All About 2014
9. Legislators to Focus on Health Care, Budget and the Three E’s: Education, Elections and Ethics
10. On the Docket: Legal Issues to Keep an Eye On in 2013
11. Florida Voices on the New Year that Marks Florida’s 500th
12. Groan Alert: Obama Admin Funds $100,000 Video Game Featuring Female “Superhero” Who Fights Global Warming
13. Jindal Proposes Eliminating Louisiana Income And Corporate Taxes
14. White House Pretends Taxes Haven’t Gone Up on Middle Class After Fiscal Cliff Deal
15. Libyan Gun Control Policies Left Guards Unarmed at U.S. Compound in Benghazi

Posted 1/10/13
1. Cary Pigman: Emergency Room Doctor Prepared to Take a Scalpel to Obamacare Exchanges – P.W.
2. 2013 Index of Economic Freedom – U.S. is #10
3. Union Hypocrisy: Local Teamsters Bosses Try Union Busting On Their Office Workers Seeking A Union

Posted 1/9/13
1. Starve the Beast…Protect the middle class
2. The Saudis’ PR ‘Roads’ Show
3. FreedomWorks’ Foes, Inside and Out
4. God, the Founders, and George Will
5. Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of Local Communities All Over America
6. ‘Killing Lincoln’ TV Producer: John Wilkes Booth ‘Could Be a Poster Child for the Tea Party’
7. The Role of ‘Educators’

Posted 1/8/13
1. Google accused of ‘self censorship’ after it concedes defeat in China search row
2. Libs Believe Their Own Tea Party Definition
3. Doctor Shortage Becoming Crisis Under ObamaCare
4. Liz Warren won’t beat drum
5. EPA Finds a New Pollutant: Water
6. The War against U.N. Agenda 21 Just Got Hotter
7. Obama’s NLRB Gives Unions License To Intimidate & Retaliate Against Witnesses
8. Conservatives Tapped for Top Committee Posts
9. Dodd-Frank’s Problems — and Potential Solutions
10. How to Listen to the Radio: The ill-covered crisis at an American institution

Posted 1/7/13
1. Gov. Rick Scott: Working for affordable health care for Floridians
2. Nations prepare for cyber war
3. Treasury Mulls Coining $1 Trillion Loophole
4. Tom Rooney: Florida Can’t Afford Obamacare Mandates

Posted 1/6/13
1. Corporate Welfare for Energy Companies Should Have Gone Off the Cliff
2. Moody’s tells 113th Congress to get to work or else
3. Election report: Palm Beach’s Bucher responded properly to ballot flaws but St. Lucie tally flawed
4. UP NEXT: THE HEALTH CARE CLIFF
5. An Appeal for Dictatorship Comes Out of the Closet at the New York Times
6. Judicial Watch releases its list of Washington’s ‘most corrupt’ politicians
7. Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration
8. More evidence of ‘death panels’ in Obamacare
9. WHITE HOUSE PREPARES TO DEFEAT NRA WITH SPEEDY LEGISLATION

Posted 1/5/13:
1. The 10 Worst Regulations of 2012
2. Adam Putnam to Expand Energy Sources, Produce Markets, Protect Waterways in Second Half of Term
3. Inadequate Procedures, Checks Found in St. Lucie, Palm Beach Elections Offices
4. NEXT 9/11: IRAN’S DEATH SQUAD IS HERE
5. Rubio: Why I Voted ‘No’
Election Cycle Political Donations, As Reported By The Center For Responsive Politics

Posted 1/3/13
1. Bill O’Reilly: There’s ‘No Question’ President Obama Wants to Redistribute Income
2. Obama Bypasses Congress, Shifts Rules On Immigration Again
3. Democrats Raise Taxes on Poor to Subsidize Millionaires
4. Rubio, Nelson come together on warrantless wiretapping
5. The Latest Florida Scorecard

September 2, 2013 | Filed Under blog | Leave a Comment

Obama’s Legacy?

It looks like the major legacy of our decide-nothing, do-nothing President will be the chemical weapons acquired by the jihadists in Syria, carried by them across our unsecure southern border, and released by them in populated areas of the United States. And the liberal media will refuse to call it a scandal.

August 26, 2013 | Filed Under blog | Leave a Comment

I will no Longer be Taken for Granted

This blog has partisan political overtones and is therefore not to be construed as the opinion of the organization or any of its members other than myself.

For the last several presidential election cycles the Republican Party has nominated liberal presidential candidates and assumed they would get the votes of the conservatives who, while they disliked the Republican Candidate, disliked the Democrat candidate more and had no place else to go.

I hereby serve notice that I, for one, will no longer succumb to that logic. I will no longer vote for a non-conservative, regardless of party affiliation. The previous liberal candidates were losers, and there is nothing gained by voting for another loser.

Any political party desiring this conservative’s vote will need to produce a conservative candidate.

August 22, 2013 | Filed Under blog | 1 Comment

OVERSIGHT

WEEKLY OVERSIGHT REPORT

NEWS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GLEANED FROM THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA

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The Palm Beach County Tea Party (PBCTP) Oversight Function helps members understand current events. Below is a copy of what was sent out in the weekly email. The text beneath each link is a synopsis of the material. A visit to the link provides more detail.

Items in this report generally satisfy the following four criteria:
Underreported: Not likely to be seen or heard elsewhere by the reader
Timely: Occurred since the previous report was issued.
Germaine: Deals with Tea Party precepts and/or Constitutional issues.
Non-Fiction: Not just on someone’s wish list.

Previous reports are available at: Archives.

This report does not represent any official positions of the PBCTP.

Oversight Contributors and the initials used to identify their contributions are: Marion Frank – M.F., Barbara & Mel Grossman – B.M.G.

Please send any comments you have to Oversight.

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The day for the Oversight Report release has been moved from Friday to Sunday to better accommodate the work schedule of the bureaucrats and politicians generating nefarious laws and regulations that enlarge the size and reach of government and pile up unsustainable levels of debt.

When this email was drafted the U.S. Debt was over $18,920,000,000,000.

June 29, 2013 | Filed Under oversight | 3 Comments

The Immigration Bill and Other Useless Legislation

Full disclosure: this is the blog of a cynic.

The immigration bill and other legislation of its ilk are not worth the paper they are printed on.

The reason is we have a Federal Government Executive Branch that only enforces the legislation it likes and only the provisions of that legislation it likes.

Congress needs to be creative and craft legislation that contains enforceable penalties for non-enforcement of the legislation.

Without such penalties, Congress is just frittering away its time and posturing for future votes.

June 21, 2013 | Filed Under blog | Leave a Comment

Stupid Spy Scandal Subterfuge

The government claims it had to seize the phone records of a multitude of Associated Press (AP) employees to learn the identity of a spy that was leaking secrets. It sounds more like a ‘Keystone Kops’ scenario.

How stupid do they think we are? Did they find the spy that way?

If you read the books documenting previous spy cases you learn that spies do not call journalists and negotiate prices over the telephone. They usually have a third party arrange a clandestine meeting.

So why did the government use such a broad dragnet for journalists’ records? It seems more like the government is trying to intimidate the media even more.

May 15, 2013 | Filed Under blog | Leave a Comment

WEAPONS REGISTRATION

It has been a week and the extreme left wing liberal progressives have yet to demand federal registration of all pressure cooker owners.

The hypocrites have not even demanded the issuing of licenses to carry one concealed in a backpack.

April 22, 2013 | Filed Under blog | Leave a Comment

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