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Townhall…
Fightin'
Words, by Kevin Glass
Sep 28, 2013 - In 2009, Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez of California
introduced the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, a piece of
legislation designed to protect children from online harassment but
which, in reality, had more sinister consequences. The legislation
would have criminalized speech that could “cause substantial emotional
distress to a person” through different means of communication,
including but not limited to “e-mail, instant messaging, blogs,
websites, telephones and text messages...
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Redstate…
Government
by demand, By John Hayward
September 26th, 2013 - The laws of supply and demand are beautiful
things – expressions of logic as elementary as the basic laws of
physics, which govern everything except the more unruly subatomic
particles, which thumb their noses at laws, dress like slobs, and
listen to the kind of music that drives their parent atoms crazy.
Supply and demand even applies to the use of government power, although
the highest imperative of socialism is to pretend...
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@BarackObama kills Big Bird’s
health care,
By Moe Lane
September 26th, 2013 - You know, a competent administration would have
someone on staff whose job it would be to keep track of potentially
awkward symbolic moments, in order to keep them from exploding in their
boss’s face. Apparently not: In a letter sent last week to President
Obama, U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick contended that the Affordable Care
Act had caused Sesame Place, one of Bucks County’s biggest tourist
attractions, to terminate health benefits for its part-time employees...
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Townhall…
Education's
Shiny Toy Syndrome,
by Michelle Malkin
Sep 27, 2013 - It's elementary. Public education bureaucrats do the
darnedest, stupidest things. Clever kids are ready, willing and able to
capitalize on that costly stupidity in a heartbeat. Within days of
rolling out a $30 million Common Core iPad program in Los Angeles, for
example, students had already hacked the supposedly secure devices. The
Los Angeles Times reports that the disastrous initiative has been
suspended after students from at least...
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Heritage Network Debt…Ceiling
Raised Seven Times Under Obama, Costing $43,000 Per Household,
By Amy Payne
September 26, 2013 Did you know that since President Obama came into
office, the debt limit has been raised seven times? With those
increases, Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American
household in just the last four years. And now the debt limit deadline
is looming again. Treasury will run out of tricks to keep paying the
bills on October 17, Secretary...
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Redstate…The
Disconnect, By Erick Erickson
September 25th, 2013 There is a real and genuine disconnect between
grassroots conservatives and many in Washington. Let’s first concede
that, like with many politicians, a cult of personality has started
developing around Ted Cruz, though from my vantage point it is not
nearly as virulent as among some. But, there are some who, should Cruz
fall flat on his face, would declare it all part of the plan and attack
anyone who pointed out he ...
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Heritage
Network… Morning
Bell: This
Fight Is for You, by Jim DeMint
September 24, 2013 - The Heritage Foundation has been talking about
defunding Obamacare for some time now, and people may be wondering why.
Why did we put up a billboard in Times Square warning Americans that
Obamacare will be hazardous to their health? Why won’t we give up this
fight? Because we are fighting for you. We’re fighting for the
grandmother who is counting on her trusted physician to guide her
through the challenges of aging. Because Obamacare means you can’t
necessarily keep your...
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Redstate…
Finger
Lickin’ Frauds, By
Erick Erickson
September 24th, 2013 - Within hours of Liz Cheney, now a candidate for
the Senate in Wyoming, announcing her support of Ted Cruz’s filibuster,
Senator Mike Enzi, who Cheney is primarying, took to the floor of the
United States Senate and declared he stood with Ted Cruz. Pat Roberts,
the elderly Senator from Kansas who may soon be getting a stiff primary
challenge, stiffly stood on the floor of the United States Senate to
show he too stood with Ted Cruz...
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Townhall…
5
Reasons
Defunding Obamacare Is Smart Politics, by John
Hawkins
Sep 23, 2013 - Defunding Obamacare is a great idea and I'm not just
saying that because I was the first one to promote the concept in March
of 2010. Back then, the GOP Leadership agreed with me with no arm
twisting required. John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Cathy McMorris Rodgers
all vowed to defund Obamacare if the GOP took back the House. Today,
it's finally going to happen, but only because Ted Cruz and Mike Lee
have forced the GOP to stand up and fight. That being said, it is
admittedly...
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Townhall…
Pelosi
on Government Spending: We Have
Nothing Left To Cut, Michael Schaus
Sep 25, 2013 - Congratulations Obama, Pelosi, and the Democrat Senate.
. . We now have the most efficient government in the history of
governments. Not a single dime has been wasted, not a single dollar
misspent, and not a single entitlement promised imprudently. At least,
that’s the message the former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-
Republic of California), conveyed to Candy Crowley in a recent
interview. When asked about...
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Wall
Street Journal…Taking the Fight to the
Democrats,
By Kimberley A. Strassel
In Virginia's gubernatorial race, opponents of Terry McAuliffe may have
cracked the playbook Democrats have used to win in states that ought to
go Republican. Democrats used the 2012 election to fine-tune a strategy
for beating conservatives in conservative-friendly states. A handful of
GOP players are now using Virginia's off-year gubernatorial race to
trial-run a strategy for defeating that Democratic tactic. Virginia so
far has been a carbon copy of what Democrats did so successfully in
last year's Senate...
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Heritage
Network…Morning
Bell: 6 Reasons Why the National Debt Keeps Rising,
By
Josh Shepherd
September 23, 2013 Out-of-control spending by Congress and the Obama
Administration has once again maxed out the latest debt limit—a nearly
$17 trillion burden that harms job growth, gives special interests a
pass, and lowers American families’ personal income. Inspired by Dave
Ramsey’s recent post “6 ...
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Breitbart…
Bombs
away on
Obamacare; Cruz is over the target, By Sarah
Palin
Sept. 21, 2013 - Americans who are fed up with Obamacare won a victory
yesterday. The House voted to defund Obamacare while still funding the
federal government to avoid a “devastating” shutdown. (I shall not
digress, but it’s beyond distressing to hear liberals try to convince
Americans that any government slowdown is comparable to “terrorism.”)
Now the battle goes to the Senate, and we’ll find out if Harry Reid is
so committed to the horrendous “Un-affordable Care Act” that he’ll be
the one to shut down the...
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Santorum Responds To Obama's War
On Coal
Verona, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum issued the following statement
in response to the Obama Administration's latest attempt to destroy the
American coal industry through overreaching carbon regulations. Rick
Santorum said: "President Obama's newly proposed regulations are a sad
continuation of this Administration's War on Coal. At a time
when
many of the World's energy rich regions...
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Heritage
Network… Morning
Bell: The
Obamacare Scams Are Already Starting
By Amy Payne and Chris Jacobs - September 20, 2013 - Heritage warned
that the new Obamacare insurance exchanges could threaten your
privacy—and it’s already happening, before the exchanges are even open.
In a new report, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
presented these shocking findings: There are already numerous reports
of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of
people’s confusion about ObamaCare. According to recent news...
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The
Blaze… Parent
manhandled,
arrested while speaking out against common core
Sep. 20, 2013 - A parent in Towson, Md., was arrested Thursday night at
a public forum after vocally expressing his concerns about the
Baltimore County School District’s plan to use Common Core standards in
its curriculum. Robert Small, a concerned father, was forcefully
removed from the meeting by a police officer after he interrupted
Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the
question-and-answer portion of the forum...
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WND… Obama’s DHS
seizing local power; Administration
building 'de facto domestic military'
NEW YORK – The Department of Homeland Security under President Obama is
demonstrating troubling signs the agency is shifting the balance of
power away from local and state municipalities toward a centralized
federal authority, charges a recently released book. In “Impeachable
Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office,” New York Times
bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott document the DHS
has likely violated the Posse Comitatus Act. The law expressly forbids
direct...
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Us1.me… Thomas Sowell
on: The Left’s Central Delusion, By Thomas
Sowell
The fundamental problem of the political Left seems to be that the real
world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real
world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently
their preconceptions cannot be wrong. A never-ending source of
grievances for the Left is the fact that some groups are
“over-represented” in desirable occupations, institutions, and income
brackets, while other groups are “under-represented...
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The
lazy
gun, From a CNO reader
Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 870 right
in the doorway. I left 5 shells next to it, then left it alone and went
about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the
neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog
down the street, and a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front
of our house. After a few hours, I checked on the gun. It was still
sitting there, right where...
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Townhall…Obama:
Raising Debt Ceiling Won’t Lead to More Debt,
By Michael
Schaus
Sep 19, 2013 While reading from the teleprompter in front of the
Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington DC, President Obama
suggested that raising the National Debt Limit would not increase the
Nation’s Debt. Well – actually – he didn’t suggest that. . . He simply
said it: "Now, this debt ceiling -- I just want to remind people in
case you haven't been keeping up -- raising the debt ceiling, which has
been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt.” Um. . .
Ok. I mean, well, it has...
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Ohio
Republican Party…Federal Bureau of
Investigation:
Harvest Time for Ohio Democrats
September 16, 2013 Federal Bureau of Investigation: Harvest Time for
Ohio Democrats It’s almost autumn in Ohio, which means football,
foliage, and harvest time. Ohio Democrats are ripe for the pickin’, and
are being harvested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Ohio
Democrats planted the seeds of corruption and scandal with former State
Representatives Clayton Lucke and W. Carlton Weddington, who were
gathered up by the FBI last year in a massive corruption probe.
Luckie...
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Heritage
Network…A
Real Vote to Defund Obamacare, by Amy Payne
September 13, 2013 One of the disillusioning facts about Washington is
that Congress can vote on something and that vote won’t mean a thing.
It would seem that a congressional vote should be a meaningful
occasion, with Members weighing the costs and benefits of voting for
the particular measure at hand. Unfortunately, political gamesmanship
often leads them to create voting opportunities that have no real
impact, but will allow them to tell...
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Townhall…
CBO
Warns:
Long-term Debt Threatens to 'Overwhelm' Federal Budget,
by
Guy Benson
Sep 17, 2013 - The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is out with
new debt and deficit projections, and has concluded that America's
fiscal house remains in a state of dire disrepair. Despite
some
marginally positive news on medium-term deficits -- Kevin has more here
-- our long-term debts and obligations are dangerously
unsustainable. The Associated Presssummarizes CBO's core
findings: A new government study says federal health care and
retirement programs are threatening to overwhelm the...
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Townhall…
What
a
Disaster: Obamacare Shows the Dangers of High Capacity Legislation
By John Ransom - Sep 17, 2013 - Floods! Shootings! Fire! Hurricanes!
Obamacare! As my home state of Colorado rocks under the worst floods in
100 years, Obama has declared the state’s flooded areas a disaster
area. “Obama’s declaration makes federal aid available to supplement
state and local recovery efforts in Boulder County,” reports The Hill.
“That aid can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs or
low-cost loans to cover...
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Heritage
Network…Morning Bell: Will Unions Want to
Repeal
Obamacare? By Chris Jacobs
September 16, 2013 In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the
Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for
another special Obamacare break. This time, unions had lobbied the
Administration to let union-run, multi-employer plans receive
taxpayer-funded insurance subsidies on the new exchanges. These
subsidies would be in addition to the tax break that multi-employer
plans, like health plans offered by all employers, already receive.
Union leaders wrote to Senate Majority ...
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Townhall…Burping
John Kerry, By Katie Kieffer
Sep 16, 2013 John Kerry burped. Excuse him. That’s how he does foreign
policy. Don a burping pad before asking him questions; you never know
whether he will spit out war or peace. Last Monday, Secretary of State
John Kerry held a press conference. CBS reporter Margaret Brennan asked
Kerry how Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid a U.S. air
strike on Syria. MARGARET BRENNAN: “…is there anything at this point
that his government...
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Fast
& Furious: Libyan Edition, By streiff
September 12th, 2013 - If you were a big fan of Operation Fast
&
Furious, that stroke of genius masterminded by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives which sought to ensnare Mexican drug
lords in a violation of the law (think about that for a second) by
letting them buy weapons in selected states in the American Southwest
and use them to kill their opponents, innocent bystanders, and the
occasional U.S. Border Patrol agent, you are going to love what the
Obama administration has...
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Townhall…
EPA
to De Facto
Ban All Construction of New Coal Power Plants,
by Katie
Pavlich
Sep 12, 2013 - According to the Wall Street Journal, the Environmental
Protection Agency will propose new rules next week banning the
construction of new coal power plants in the United States that do not
meet expensive new and ridiculous efficiency standards. The new
standards will force power plants underground, literally. The Obama
administration plans to block the construction of new coal-fired power
plants unless they are built with novel...
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Townhall…
An
Unthinkable 9/11: War in Support of al
Qaeda, by Diana West
Sep 13, 2013 - Back in 2004, when a NYFD chief reminded the 9/11
Commission that it was never in "anyone's consciousness" that the Twin
Towers would fall, he underscored a terrible truth. After 9/11, we
entered the Age of the Unthinkable. Seared into our collective
consciousness is that the Twin Towers could and did fall. So could the
U.S. Capitol, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Superdome. Our children
know that which we as children never before imagined -- passenger
planes may become...
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Redstate…
Why
the Media
Will Never Treat Conservatives Fairly, By
Erick Erickson
September 13th, 2013 - I have written a number of pieces in the past
year about conservatives having a “poor little ole me” attitude when it
comes to the media. Conservatives are convinced the media is out to get
them. They are convinced the media is covering up stories and covering
for the Obama Administration. Often, conservatives are flat out wrong.
They are so convinced the media is out to get them they do not even
make their case to the media. They...
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Net
Right Daily… House
Republicans all set to fund Obamacare,
By Robert Romano
Sometimes you have to wonder why they even bother. A new proposal by
House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that purports to defund
Obamacare will do exactly the opposite. It will guarantee that it is
funded, meanwhile providing political cover to elected leaders who can
claim they did everything they could to stop implementation of the law.
The plan calls for passing a clean continuing resolution as soon as
this Thursday, and then passing a separate resolution that would
“defund” the health...
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Redstate…
Illegitimate
states, dubious wars, and diplomacy by gaffe,
By John
Hayward
September 9th, 2013 - Let’s see if I’ve got this right: our headlong
rush to war in Syria was so important that not even the U.S.
Constitution could be allowed to stand in its way. But at the
eleventh hour, President Obama decided he needed some accomplices in
case it turns into a fiasco, and the British Parliament vote against
was in Syria made unilateral cowboy aggression by Obama politically
difficult, so he decided to let Congress weigh in after all.
No...
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Heritage
Network…Why This Doctor Fears Obamacare,
By Kelsey Harris
September 12, 2013 Dr. Tim Shepherd talks about his patients like
they’re his own family. He gets emotional when he thinks about a
patient he’s been treating for 20 years, and talks about a new patient
who’s making progress like it’s his first grandchild. He says his
favorite part about being a doctor isn’t having specialized knowledge
or the power to “save lives.” It’s the opportunity to take care of
people. “It makes it difficult to take care of the whole person if you
don’t have the environment where you are...
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Townhall
Finance…Wrong
and Liars Too: 6 Tricks God Has Played on Liberals Since November,
By John Ransom
Sep 11, 2013 The last year has been highly informative for Americans
who have been looking for information on hypocrisy, shabby
intellectualism, broken promises, opportunism, populist dreck, and
IPhones. Since almost the moment Obama celebrated his re-election with
Republican leader John Boehner by proposing ...
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Washington
Post… Obama
lifted his Syria speech from Bush,
By Marc A. Thiessen
September 11 - President Obama never misses a chance to “blame it on
Bush,” and last night’s address to the nation on Syria was no
exception. The reason Obama has failed to win support military action
in Syria, the president declared last night, is not because he has
failed to lay out a coherent strategy — it’s because of “the terrible
toll of Iraq and Afghanistan.” Obama further slammed former president
George W. Bush for presiding over “a decade that put more and more
war-making power in the hands...
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Kids
on Love and Marriage
Nothing really to be said… just read and enjoy! WHAT EXACTLY IS
MARRIAGE? "Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to
give her back to her parents!" -Eric, 6; HOW DOES A PERSON DECIDE WHOM
TO MARRY?? "You flip a nickel, and heads means you stay with him and
tails means you try the next one.” -Kally, 9; "My mother says to look
for a man who is kind....That's what I'll do....I'll find somebody
who's kinda...
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Townhall…
When
Is a War not a War? by
Mona Charen
Sep 10, 2013 - Barack Obama accelerated his political ascent in 2002 by
positioning himself firmly as the voice of anti-war Democrats. Unlike
Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Edwards and John Kerry, then-Illinois
state Sen. Obama announced that he opposed the effort to topple Saddam
Hussein, not because he opposed all wars, but because he resisted what
he called "dumb wars." What was "dumb" about the Iraq War? Sen. Obama
didn't say precisely, but he inveighed against "the cynical...
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Redstate…
House
GOP Leaders Prepare “Hug It Out”
Strategy to Fund Obamacare
By Erick Erickson - September 10th, 2013 - Eric Cantor is always
looking for new and imaginative ways to screw conservatives. He has
Pete Sessions (R-TX), as Rules Chairman, helping him with his latest
creative way to screw conservatives. I’ve already well documented Pete
Sessions’s increasingly bitter attitude toward Ted Cruz and staggering
contempt of his own constituents who want to defund Obamacare. Cantor
and Sessions’ latest idea tops...
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Senator
Feinstein to Homeland Security: Stop Enforcing Immigration Law,
By Jessica Zuckerman
September 6, 2013 In a letter to Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, Senator Diane Feinstein
(D–CA) has asked that DHS stop enforcing immigration law regarding farm
workers: Immigration and Customs Enforcement has wisely used its
prosecutorial discretion to defer removal of young people who arrived
in the United States without documentation as children.… I respectfully
suggest that you adopt a similar policy of exercising prosecutorial
discretion... read
more |
Townhall…
Empty
Moralism on Syria, By Steve Chapman
Sep 08, 2013 The advocates of war against Syria have taken Theodore
Roosevelt's advice and turned it upside down. They believe that in
confronting Bashar al-Assad, the United States should speak loudly and
carry a tiny stick. Some liberals like nothing better than the chance
to thunder righteously against evil incarnate, and Syria brings out the
moralist in them. Sen. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, asked Tuesday... read
more |
Redstate…
Organizing
for
Action acting to avoid organizing over Syria,
By Moe Lane
September 5th, 2013 - This should not surprise. The awkward position in
which progressive allies of President Barack Obama find themselves can
be seen clearly in the actions of his former political arm, now called
Organizing for Action, which despite the need for activists to lobby
Congress to support the president’s call for military strikes, is
essentially voting “present.” Capitol Hill is all but singularly
focused on Obama’s push for congressional authorization to use force in
Syria, and the president has...
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Human
Events… The
American Workforce Shrinks again,
By John Hayward
Another month of Obamanomics, another horrifying job report... the
official, and increasingly meaningless, U-3 unemployment rate ticked
down to 7.3 percent, because 312,000 people gave up looking for work
and dropped out of the job market completely. Anemic job creation for
August was driven almost entirely by low-wage, part-time, and temporary
work. Astonishing downward revisions for July and August put the pace
of job creation considerably slower...
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Obamacare’s
Impact on Campus: Students Lose Health Coverage When Premiums Rise
By Alicia Cohn - September 7, 2013 - When Obamacare hits campus,
students lose options. Obamacare mandates are already forcing many
colleges and universities to drop student insurance completely or
reduce benefits extended to employee spouses, as the University of
Virginia recently did. A letter sent to parents of students at
Indiana’s Taylor University this summer explains the school had to
choose between dropping student insurance coverage completely or
raising premiums by about 110...
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Townhall
Finance… Obama
About to Suffer Glorious Defeat in
Congress? By Mike Shedlock
Sep 08, 2013 - The coalition of the willing is now down to the US alone
as France now wants to wait for more data on alleged gas usage. Yet,
President Obama rejects G20 pressure to abandon Syria air
strike
plan. Obama Plans Full Court Press… Inquiring minds note that Obama
plans a 'full-court press' to sway Congress and a speech to
US
citizens on September 10. Obama's address to the nation from the White
House on Tuesday will be part of a...
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Heritage
Network… 5
Immigration
Falsehoods from the White House, by Jessica
Zuckerman and
Ken McIntyre
September 6, 2013 - Congress gets back to its regularly scheduled work
on Monday—and there’s plenty of immigration propaganda greeting them.
The falsehoods from the White House just keep on coming, and Catholic
leaders have called for clergy to preach in support of the
Senate-passed immigration overhaul this Sunday. On the White House
blog, Cecilia Muñoz, assistant to the President and director of the
Domestic Policy Council, laid out the Obama Administration’s take on
the benefits of...
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Santorum Comments On
Disappointing Jobs
Report
Verona, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum issued the following statement
on today's disappointing jobs report. Rick Santorum said: "The release
of yet another set of monthly employment figures that did not meet even
modest estimates is a reminder that our economy is at best puttering
along. Even more concerning were reports issued yesterday
that
showed a drop in factory...
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Mercer
County Liberty Group…Ohio Republican Party
Goes to
War With Itself, Leaving 2016 in Doubt, by
David
Freedlander
Sep 4, 2013 Republicans in the presidential bellwether state have
slipped into open conflict, with Tea Partiers threatening to break away
from the Ohio GOP machinery. David Freedlander on what it means for
2016… At least that’s how every presidential election has gone since
1964, as both Democrats and Republicans have fiercely fought over this
purplest of the purple...
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It
is 1955…Sent
by a CNO reader
Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to
mail a letter? If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be
able to hire outside help at the store. When I first started driving,
who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon? Guess
we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage. I'm afraid to send my
kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by
with saying DAMN in ...
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Columbus
Dispatch…Bad program, bad solution…Obama
ignores Constitution while tweaking ill-conceived health law
Monday September 2, 2013 5:16 AM It’s no wonder that a new Kaiser
Family Foundation poll found that 44 percent of Americans still are
unsure about whether the Affordable Care Act remains the law: President
Barack Obama continues to selectively enforce and change the
health-care overhaul’s rules and mandates at will, without the advice
or consent of the bothersome legislative branch of the federal
government. This week, the Internal Revenue Service — aka the
staffed-up, designated enforcers …
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Chicago
Lunacy and More…From Mike Huckabee
"Chicago Lunacy" Some of us are old enough to remember the outrage over
sex ed classes coming to high schools. Parents protested that schools
were trying to make kids grow up too fast. Well, what would those
parents think about this? This year, Chicago public schools are
introducing mandatory sexual and health education for all kindergarten
classes. Yes, you heard right: kindergarten. The administrators insist
that it uses language...
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Heritage
Network… Morning
Bell: Countdown
to Obamacare Exchanges, by Amy Payne
September 3, 2013 - While America was resting from its labors, the
countdown to Obamacare began. In just 27 days, the Obamacare exchanges
are scheduled to open, and people who don’t get health insurance
through their employers (or through the government already) will start
buying coverage. Sixteen states are doing their own insurance
exchanges, while the federal government is running exchanges in 34
states. Many states have been aggressively advertising and promoting
their...
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Townhall…
Beware
Warrior
Cops, By John Stossel
Aug 21, 2013 - We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men,
and so we give them special power -- the power to use force on others.
Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over
accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses -- and often do it with
tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect on battlefields. In his
book "Rise of the Warrior Cop," Radley Balko recounts the rise of
police SWAT teams (SWAT stands for Special...
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Freedom
Outpost…Who Benefits From A US War With Syria?
by Michael Snyder
August 31, 2013 Someone wants to get the United States into a war with
Syria very, very badly. Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still
commonly used, and it roughly means "to whose benefit?" The key to
figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who
will benefit from that war. If a full-blown war erupts between the
United States and Syria, it will not be good for the United States, it
will not be good for Israel, it will not be good for Syria, it will not
be good for Iran and it will not be good...
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Townhall
Finance…QE
Has Failed, Long Live QE, By John Ransom Sep
02, 2013
The market got more bad news that’s good news- but not good in the
sense that it actually helps you, me or anyone else- when the new jobs
reports came out on Friday. This "good news is bad news is good news"
thing is getting tiresome. It's part of what our friend Mike Shedlock
calls the Obamcare Effect. (Editor's Note: In honor of Labor Day, I'm
not laboring. Please enjoy this timely column from last month) First
the barely good news...
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Heritage
Network… Reporters
Should Get
Their “PolitiFacts” Straight on Obamacare, by
Mike Gonzalez
August 26, 2013 - Does calling a reporter a “fact checker” make him or
her more even-handed? Hardly. PolitiFact is a case in point. It is a
website of the Tampa Bay Times, manned by journalists and editors. It
purports to rule from on high on the veracity of political statements,
assigning “Truth-O-Meter” ratings that range from True to “Pants on
Fire.” It is all very droll, or painfully sophomoric, depending on
where you stand politically. Studies by George Mason University and the
University of Minnesota have...
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Townhall
Finance… Colorado
Governor Goes
Far Left in Nationwide Appeal to Gun-Grabbers
By Michael Schaus - Sep 02, 2013 - It never fails. Paint a Democrat
into a corner (or let him do it to himself) and his true colors will
start to show. The “moderate” and “reasonable” Democrat Governor of
New-New-York (AKA: Colorado) has finally come out forcefully against
the recall elections of some anti-gun members of the State Legislature.
The two Democrat State Senators are facing recall attempts after they
supported the recent slew of gun-control...
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Heritage
Network… Obama
Grants Amnesty to
Illegal Immigrants Without Congress
By Jessica Zuckerman - August 30, 2013 - Congress hasn’t passed
immigration legislation, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama from
issuing directives that grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Last week,
the Obama Administration issued the latest in a line of policy
directives granting amnesty by default. This latest directive instructs
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials not to enforce
immigration laws in cases where an illegal alien is the primary
provider for any minor child...
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Townhall
Finance… Judge
Says San
Bernardino Bankruptcy Can Continue, By Mike
Shedlock
Aug 31, 2013 - In a common sense ruling sure to have union advocates
howling, a Federal judge says San Bernardino, California eligible for
bankruptcy. Judge Meredith Jury of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Central District of California, said the city of 210,000, located 60
miles east of Los Angeles, was eligible for bankruptcy protection "as a
matter of law based on incontrovertible facts." The tentative ruling
came despite objections by the California Public...
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