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Conservatives’
consolation prize. By George Will
Excerpt: Conservatives won
a substantial victory Thursday. The physics of American politics
— actions provoking reactions — continues to move the crucial debate, about the
nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. has served this cause.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The Court found a convoluted way to uphold the law.
That’s done, but the debate on whether ObamaCare’s provisions are good ideas
will continue. To date, this debate has been unable to shake off a lot of
mythology—things believed about healthcare and our healthcare system in
general, or ObamaCare specifically—that simply are not so.
Why John Roberts is
Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon. By John McCullough
Excerpt: I would caution my fellow conservatives on the
frustration they may be enticed to express at Supreme Court Chief Justice John
Roberts. It is unwarranted, and it is unwise. The reason I state such is that
it is my firm belief that the Roberts' decision on the Obamacare mandate will
without question bring about ultimate doom to the government control of healthcare,
and through the best means possible--not judicial activism--but through the
democratic process. (I love this and only pray it's actually right on the
money. --Del )
Conservative anger
growing over Obamacare decision. By Byron York
Excerpt: I ran into a prominent conservative member of
Congress Friday night just before the huge storms moved through Washington . He was, he
said, far angrier on the day after the Supreme Court Obamacare decision than he
had been the moment he learned Chief Justice John Roberts had joined the
Court’s liberal bloc to uphold the individual mandate at the heart of
Obamacare. He didn’t resort to histrionics or profanity, but he was spitting
mad — and his anger was growing, not diminishing.
Chief Justice Roberts
and His Apologists. Some conservatives see a silver lining in the ObamaCare
ruling. But it's exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be. By John
Yoo.
Excerpt: Since his appointment to the high court in 2005,
the most popular answer was Chief Justice John Roberts. But that won't remain
true after his ruling on Thursday in NFIB v. Sebelius, which upheld President
Barack Obama's signature health-care law. (I'm hoping that those who see the
Court decision as a good one for the long term are correct. But there's always
a second opinion, and here it is. I really hope Yoo is wrong, because if he's
right, we're in worse trouble than ever. --Del )
Obamacare and New
Taxes: Destroying Jobs and the Economy
Excerpt: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(PPACA)[1] imposes numerous tax hikes that transfer more than $500 billion over
10 years—and more in the future—from hardworking American families and
businesses to Congress for spending on new entitlements and subsidies. In
addition, higher tax rates on working and investing will discourage economic
growth both now and in the future, further lowering the standard of living.
(OK, here's a summary of what's really coming after us if ObamaCare isn't
stopped. "No new taxes".... sure. Telling the truth must make some
people violently ill, so they happily avoid it all the time. --Del )
Roberts did not
change. By Michael J. Fahy
Excerpt: Contrary to most that has been written since
Thursday's enactment of RobertsCare, Chief Justice John Roberts did not change.
He has always been that way. Eight years ago, when John Roberts was nominated,
we were warned that he was a liberal jurist appointed by a RINO president, just
as liberal David Souter was appointed by the previous RINO president.
Excerpt: When Barack Obama was a candidate for president, he
endorsed universal health insurance, but opposed forcing individuals to buy
their own insurance.
As president, he signed into law a bill that violates both
of these promises.
A Surgeon Cuts to the
Heart of the ObamaCare Nightmare. By Stella Paul
Excerpt: The day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of
ObamaCare, a friend called me. He's an extremely dedicated, much-loved surgeon,
and he was frustrated and livid in equal measure. "I've actually had a lot
of experience working in all different types of environments," he began. "I've
worked in a government-run socialized medical care system, and I saw the waste
and inefficiency.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal refuses to implement Obamacare despite Supreme Court ruling
Excerpt: The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's
health care law on Thursday, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a possible
Republican vice presidential contender who has refused to establish a federally
mandated health care exchange in his state, said Friday that he will continue
to ignore it.
Black Mobs Now Beating Jews In New York
Excerpt: “Anti-Jewish crime wave,” read the June headline
about a series of recent anti-Semitic attacks. “In the most disturbing
incident, a mob of six black teenagers shouting, ‘Dirty Jew!’ and ‘Dirty kike!’
repeatedly bashed Marc Heinberg, 61, as he walked home from temple in
Sheepshead Bay (in June.)”
15 Christians killed
in attacks on churches in northern Kenya
Excerpt: Shabaab and its affiliate in Kenya , the Muslim
Youth Center ,
appear to have taken a page out of Boko Haram's book and launched coordinated
attacks on churches in northern Kenya .
"Gunmen" killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 in separate
attacks on two churches in the town of Garissa ,
which is near the border with Somalia .
Supreme Court's
health care ruling imperial Clean Air Act
Excerpt: Within hours of yesterday's monumental Supreme
Court ruling upholding the 2010 health care reform law, environmental law
scholars were already pondering whether it could have an impact on the Clean
Air Act. Their answer? A qualified "yes." (Just like Americans didn't
see the massive tax program coming (AKA Obamacare). The lefties didn't see that
coming. --Chris)
Google Censors All
Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results
Excerpt: With Google being the major presence on the
internet and now seemingly having ties to the government and doing their
bidding in providing information and even censoring web sites, it should come
as no surprise that Google is now in the business of gun control. That’s right,
Google Shopping is now controlling guns, ammunition and gun accessories from
showing up in their search. They are censoring perfectly legal products.
New standards
highlight massive government retirement shortfalls
Excerpt: As if the housing market collapse and European debt
crisis weren’t bad enough, another fiscal disaster looms on the horizon. New
rules adopted last week by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
clarify the depth of mismanagement of state and local government pension
programs. When the bills come due, it’s going to be very, very expensive. (Yes.
One of the factors I talk about in Collapse.
~Bob.)
Darrell Issa Puts
Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record
Excerpt: In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt
proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government
Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into
the Congressional Record. The May 24 letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.),
ranking member on the panel, quotes from and describes in detail a secret
wiretap application that has become a point of debate in the GOP’s “Fast and
Furious” gun-walking probe.
White House Salaries
Jump. By Wynton Hall
Excerpt: White House salaries and hiring increased in
2012,according to an annual report released Friday by the White House. The
"Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff" reveals that White
House staff salaries jumped from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in
2012, with the total number of White House workers increasing from 454 in 2011
to 468 in 2012. (Memo to Obama. its not the "private Sector" that's
doing "fine." ~Bob.)
False arrest: Supreme
Court upholds the right for us to lie. By Noah Feldman
Excerpt: Three justices — Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and
Clarence Thomas — said the answer was, “none.” There was no reason, they said,
to stop Congress from criminalizing lies about military service. ... We don’t
need to tolerate the liar. In a free society, however, maybe we have to
shoulder the burden of condemning him ourselves — instead of lazily trusting
the government to do something about it.
Excerpt: Mangosuthu Buthelezi is right. It is tragic that he
is one of the few political leaders anywhere in the world willing to enunciate
this truth.
Excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Rasheda Begum didn't have the
slightest idea that she could be punished for acting in a play that highlighted
various social ills that are forbidden in Islam – usury, dowry, gambling, child marriage and corruption. Her participation came at a
painful cost, however. The 10th grade madrassa student
was caned in front of her classmates and expelled from indulging in
"un-Islamic activities" when she returned to her class on June 2nd
after the end of summer vacation.
Excerpt: An imam has been killed in a mosque in Russia 's southern Dagestan
region, police said on Friday. The four masked assailants also killed another
man and set the mosque on fire, before fleeing the scene in a stolen car. The
imam, Magomedkamil Gamzatov, was well-known for his rejection of "any form
of violence and openly condemned the extremist insurgency," the National
Anti-Terror Committee said in a statement. (In case you were wondering why more
"moderate Muslims" don't speak out against terror and violence.
~Bob.)
Pro-Taliban rapper gets taxpayer subsidies. By Daniel
Proussalidis
Excerpt: OTTAWA - A video
glorifying Taliban attacks in Afghanistan
and the slaughter of Canadian soldiers disappeared from YouTube and other sites
Friday, mere hours after QMI Agency began questioning taxpayer subsidies for
the francophone rapper who made it. "The enemy approaches," rapper
Manu Militari declared in the video. "I recognize Canada 's
colours."
Obama administration
considers turning Taliban detainees over to Afghanistan
Excerpt: The Obama administration is considering a new
gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan
that would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba ,
to a prison in Afghanistan , U.S. and Afghan
officials told The Associated Press. (The Audacity of Dope. ~Bob.)
Grassley: Politics in
US
Excerpt: "The Department has determined that the
Attorney General’s response to the subpoena issued by the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform does not constitute a crime, and therefore the
Department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand
jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General,” Cole wrote.
But in a letter to Machen, Grassley wrote Friday that the U.S. attorney
doesn’t appear to have personally made the decision not to prosecute. It
appears, he wrote, that Holder or some other political figure in the Obama
administration made it for him, and that the decision seems to lack even the
appearance of “independence.” (Ya think? ~Bob.)
Allen West: Black
caucus, liberals judged Holder ‘by color of his skin,’ not ‘content of his
character’ By Matthew Boyle
Excerpt: Florida Republican Rep. Allen West said liberal
Democrats in Congress — including many members of the Congressional Black
Caucus — who walked out on the bipartisan votes to hold Attorney General Eric
Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress did so because Holder is
black. 9ya think? And what kind of Congressman blurts out non-PC truth like
this? Geeze. ~Bob.)
Issa, Grassley
release details about Fast and Furious whistleblower retaliation, cover-up. By
Matthew Boyle
Excerpt: “We just learned that ATF senior management placed
two of the main whistleblowers who have testified before Congress about Fast
and Furious under the supervision of someone who vowed to retaliate against
them,” they wrote before describing how senior political figures have made
dangerous threats before. Grassley and Issa said that in early 2011, right
around the time Grassley first made public the whistleblowers’ allegations
about Fast and Furious, Scot Thomasson– then the chief of the ATF’s Public
Affairs Division – said, according to an eyewitness account: “We need to get
whatever dirt we canon these guys [the whistleblowers] and take them down.” (It's
The Chicago Way ."
~Bob.)
Michelle Obama
Compares Barack to Biblical Figures
Excerpt: Michelle Obama speaks at AME
Church conference in Nashville [And the point is? --Jer]
Obama To Military:
Pay Up
Excerpt: On Friday, Barack Obama threatened to veto a
defense appropriations bill partly because it did not include higher health
care fees for members of the military. That’s right. Obama was out to veto a
bill because they didn’t raise fees for health care on military personnel.
City Council Rules:
Flags and Decorations Banned From Veterans’ Graves
Excerpt: First, this is another symptom of a disrespect
(whether they admit it or not) for the flag, our fallen and living heroes, and
patriotism as a whole. The byproduct of this disrespect is basically being
unwilling to simply apply a few more resources to make sure that these hallowed
places stay looking beautiful in addition to the celebratory decor. The second
is that city councils all over the country think that their position to serve
the citizenry means that they’ve just been crowned as one of the oligarchs. (A
quote attributed to George Washington states that a nation can be judged by how
it treats its veterans. I think in this case it also applies to city councils
and the people who elect them. MasterGuns)
Knox v. SEIU: A
Victory for Worker Freedom
Report: Vietnam
Excerpt: Vietnamese officials in Muong Cha district, Dien Bien
Province Hanoi
constitution guarantees freedom of worship..... right!!! --Del
For Patriot Dreams. By
Nancy Flanagan
On Monday morning, I will join the Northport Community Band
in a concert at the Northport, Michigan
Village Cemetery America is perfect and our society
is above all criticism. We need neither the idea that we are perfect, or the
idea that we are totally flawed, a forever imperialist, racist, manipulative,
despoiler nation, yadda-yadda. There are some who believe and promote the
former idea, and some who promote the latter. (see Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright,
etc.) My own strong belief is that with all our past sins and present
frailties, we are still the best game in town, and a nation worthy of affection
and loyalty. And that we are in some ways truly exceptional, and that we need
to understand how we are exceptional and how we need to work at ways to
continue to repair and improve our systems, for the good of all our citizens,
and to some degree, for the good of all in the world. OK, call me an old
patriot, I can live with it. --Del )
Former ICE agent gets
prison for information leak
Excerpt: A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent
from the Nogales office was sentenced Friday to 3years in prison for using her
work computer to access classified information without authorization and
leaking it to a sister in Mexico who investigators say had ties to violent drug
cartels.
What That Second Vote
Yesterday Against Holder Means – Take Him To Court
Excerpt: Lost in the initial contempt vote attention
yesterday was the vote that quickly followed – a vote that gives the House the
authority to take Obama Attorney General Eric Holder AND the Obama
administration to court in order to obtain documents tied to the failed and
deadly Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that has lead to the deaths of
hundreds of people – an operation Barack Obama is now himself actively covering
up via his use of Executive Privilege.
Jerry Brown's Budget
Holds California
Excerpt: Jerry Brown gets his budget, and voters get a
ransom note — send more money or the schools get it. The public needs to
stiffen its spine and say no, for the health of the state. The term "California state
budget" has become a byword for gimmickry of all kinds: stealth borrowing,
raids on local governments, pie-in-the-sky projections — you name it.
'ISI behind Afghan
Taliban attacks on US bases'
Excerpt: Referring to the recent spate of attacks on US
military bases in Afghanistan, Western analysts have warned that the attacks
serve as growing evidence that Pakistani Intelligence agency (ISI) is stepping
up its support of insurgent groups ahead of the scheduled 2014 departure of US
combat troops from the country. (The "ally" we send billions of your
dollars to. ~Bob.)
Islamic Mediators and
Germany
Excerpt: Demir's typical clients are husbands whose wives
have left them and fathers of couples who are having problems. They often
complain about their wives and daughters, namely Muslim women who rebel against
corporal punishment or want to free themselves from the confines of marriage,
even if they have children.
Obama Contributor,
Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious
Excerpt: Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats
on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the
enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went on to become
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s chief of staff, and a contributor to Barack
Obama’s 2008 presidential primary campaign, and then a member of Obama's
transition team focusing on border-enforcement issues, ended up in the Obama
administration as the U.S. attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing
Operation Fast and Furious.
WH Needs Special
Prosecutor Now. Alana Goodman
Excerpt: This is even more critical in the wake of the Eric
Holder contempt vote, as the same Obama-appointed U.S. attorney is now in charge of
dealing with the charges against Holder and the investigation into the
intelligence leaks. The most obvious problem is the conflict of interest. It’s
doubtful that U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ronald Machen, an Obama appointee, can
fairly investigate his own boss (Eric Holder), or his boss’s boss (President
Obama) in either the leak cases or the Fast and Furious stonewalling. (Simple,
logical, compelling.... so will they do it? --Del. No. ~Bob.)
Health Care, the Euro
Crisis, and Entitlement Slavery. By y Ralph Peters
Excerpt: In an age of the globalization of everything from
bird flu to bad debts, we still try to compartmentalize, pretending that what
happens in Athens , stays in Athens . Thus, too many Americans fail to
connect the massive attempt at wealth transfer (and wealth destruction) behind
Obamacare to the wild irresponsibility of southern Europe 's
socialist government models that have led multiple states to practical, if not
yet formal, bankruptcy.
While We Were
Sleeping. By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Excerpt: While the entire country was riveted to the news
that Obamacare—the most expensive and freedom robbing tax bill in U.S.
history—was upheld by the Supreme Court, the President was busy driving in the
last nail in the coffin of liberty. It is not the first time the media helped
in the deception of Americans and in hiding the truth.
The Future Leaders of Palestinians: Terrorists. By Hisham Jarallah
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3138/palestinian-leaders-terrorists
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3138/palestinian-leaders-terrorists
In Palestinian society, it is much more important if
one graduates from an Israeli prison than from a university
in the U.S. or Europe . Economic prosperity and the peace process with Israel are not
going to convince most Palestinians to vote for people like Fayyad or Abbas.
The most recent public opinion poll in the Palestinian territories shows
that Marwan Barghouti, the dominant Fatah leader who is serving five life terms
in Israeli prison for his role in several terror attacks during the second intifada,
would win the presidential election. (According to Mr. Jarallah,
a Palestinian writer, the most popular candidate for their presidency is
Marwan Barghouti, a man who serving 5 life sentences for murder. If
Abbas cannot even negotiate because to do so has no legitimacy with either the
populace or Fatah or Hamas, is Israel really expected to make an
agreement with someone who cannot deliver. Of course what the Palestinians
really want is the capitulation of the Jewish state. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
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