Your piece, “The Progressive Legacy” is one of the, if not
the, clearest, concise synopsis of how America US since, in my opinion, it’s vital reading if
any thinking person hopes to understand what has happened to our Constitutional Republic ,
especially since Lyndon Johnson began construction of the “ transformation” of America Americas US
Must Read: Looking after – the planet? By Ken
Ring
Excerpt: Since 1993 the US Europe had one of the
coldest springs on record. In the USA
Great Column: The Bay Area’s 1
Percenters: If you’re hip and liberal, your kids don’t have to
go to school with the gardener’s kids. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: In the South
Bay Northern
California liberal politics are abstractions that apparently
provide some sort of psychological compensation for otherwise living lives that
are illiberal to the core. Take K–12 schools. Currently, there is a stampede to
enroll students in upscale private academies — often at $30,000 a year.
Good Column: Race-Hustling
Results. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: There have been many ponderous academic writings
and dour editorials in the mainstream media, lamenting that most people born
poor cannot rise in American society any more. Meanwhile, many poor immigrants
arrive here from various parts of Asia , and
rise on up the ladder anyway. ... Some people try to explain why Asians, and
Asian-Americans, succeed so well in education and in the economy by some
special characteristics that they have. That may be true, but their success may
also be due to what they do not have -- namely "leaders" who tell
them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise, or at
least not without depending on "leaders."
Army Chief Of Staff Reveals His Greatest Fear. By Jason Howerton
Excerpt: If Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno were to
receive an order to deploy thousands of troops into a combat situation, he
would be hard-pressed to comply. That’s because the U.S. Army reportedly only
has two combat-ready brigades right now. “Even the ones headed to Afghanistan
Loving and Hating America
Excerpt: An interesting facet of foreigners liking or hating
America can be seen in a
poll Gallup
Excerpt: Businesses began to slow hiring in September, even
before the fiscal crisis in Washington
154,000 Fewer Women
Held Jobs in September; Female Participation in Labor Force Matches 24-Year Low
Excerpt: American women participated in the nation’s labor
force in September at a rate that matched the lowest level in 24 years,
according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same
time, the number of women actually holding jobs declined by 154,000 from August
to September.
90,609,000: Americans
Not in Labor Force Climbs to Another Record
Excerpt: The BLS counts a person as participating in the
labor force if they are 16 years or older and either have a job or have
actively sought a job in the last four weeks. A person is not participating in
the labor force if they are 16 or older and have not sought a job in the last
four weeks.
Drone strikes killing
more civilians than U.S.
Excerpt: Two influential human rights groups say they have freshly documented dozens
of civilian deaths in U.S.
drone strikes in Pakistan
and Yemen US
Excerpt: Florida
exemplifies the states' Medicaid spending problem: From 1990 through 2010, Florida Florida
A Tax Reform Plan
that Both Parties Can Like
Excerpt: America
How Will You Fare in
the ObamaCare Exchanges?
Excerpt: Enrollment in ObamaCare's health insurance
exchanges has proven to be a somewhat difficult process amidst technical
glitches and delays. Aside from the issues associated with actually purchasing
health care, once an individual gets a quote for health insurance on an
exchange, is the premium higher or lower than before, asks Drew Gonshorowski, a
policy analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation. Gonshorowski
research finds that for many states, the insurance on health exchanges will
cost more than existing insurance. His study illustrates that the general
experience for individuals shopping on the exchange is that of increasing
premiums from what was available to them prior to implementation of the
exchanges. Many families and individuals will face this reality as they apply
for coverage, and the implications of experiencing sticker shock are important
to consider if enough people choose not to sign up for coverage for various
reasons.
MSNBC Wonders - Is
the Obama Administration Lying?
http://eaglerising.com/2426/msnbc-wonders-obama-administration-lying/
http://eaglerising.com/2426/msnbc-wonders-obama-administration-lying/
Excerpt: Imagine the scene: President Obama sitting down for
his breakfast enjoying a cup of coffee with MSNBC on the TV in the background.
Just as he’s taking that first sip, he hears his loyal minions at MSNBC begin
tearing apart his administration for their Obamacare failures. What a fun
morning it must have been to be in the White House! The offending show was, of
course, the only one with a semi-consistent token Republican – Morning Joe
with Joe Scarborough.
Obama Said This with
a Straight Face
http://conservativebyte.com/2013/10/obama-said-straight-face/
http://conservativebyte.com/2013/10/obama-said-straight-face/
Excerpt: Obama can lie with the best of them. Check it out:
“Thousands of people are signing up and saving money as we speak.” Yes,
President Obama actually said that yesterday about Obamacare. As we all know,
for the vast majority of people, the opposite is true
O-Care
Not content comparing himself to God, Obama has moved
to likening himself to Steve Jobs, noting that even Apple has occasionally has
problems with product roll outs. Of course, Apple never spent half a billion
confiscated from unwilling investors on something that didn't work. Apple has
never been able to fine people for not buying its duds. After a particularly
bad run in the mid 1980s, Apple fired Steve Jobs. --TH
Bankrupting America
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/10/bankrupting-america-municipal-bankruptcy-mess-heading-local-government-near/#tzmF4WJuSSuyLMoS.99
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/10/bankrupting-america-municipal-bankruptcy-mess-heading-local-government-near/#tzmF4WJuSSuyLMoS.99
Excerpt: With its abandoned libraries, boarded-up
neighborhoods, and broken-down factories overrun by weeds, Detroit Motor
City
President Obama Fails
To Articulate Solutions For Insurance Exchange Glitches In ACA Speech
Excerpt: Unfortunately for those American’s who are really
interested in signing up on the exchange sites, he glossed over the depth and
breadth of the current troubles, giving a speech that sounded more like a State
of the Union address with small-business examples and reading letters written
to the White House. President Obama also alleged that no one wants to see the
exchange sites improve more than the federal government, noting that, “the
website has been to slow, and people have been getting stuck during the
process.” He also said that it is the mission of the administration to make
them “more better,” with visible cringing from the audience, but claimed
failures were due to response rates.
HealthCare.gov feeds
doubts about rollout: Our view. The Editorial Board, USATODAY
Excerpt: But you can't help but wonder: Where was all this
frantic effort in the three-and-a-half years from the time Obama signed the
health law to the day the exchanges opened on Oct. 1? Because that might have
helped avoid the unforced error that is raising doubts about the
administration's ability to manage other pieces of the complex law. (Of course they're going to clam up. This
is an administration that got the entire national-security team to go along
with blaming a terror attack on September 11, 2012, on a YouTube video for a
couple of days. They've more or less managed to wait out the IRS scandal, the
NSA scandal, Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice targeting AP reporters
and James Rosen, Attorney General Eric Holder's potential perjury, James
Clapper's potential perjury, and every other scandal that's come down the pike.
-- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
Excerpt: The main reason insurers offer is that the policies
fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting Jan. 1. Most are
ending policies sold after the law passed in March 2010. At least a few are
cancelling plans sold to people with pre-existing medical conditions. (The twin
promises, "If you like your plan you can keep your plan; if you like your
doctor, you can keep your doctor" were key to passing this monstrosity. If
Obama had said, "some of you will be forced to give up your current plan
and your current doctor," this thing never would have gotten 200 votes in
the House. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Excerpt: In Congress, the foreign policy debate has moved on
to Iran United States
Excerpt: "Which forces are taking part? What relation
do these forces have with the Syrian people? Do these forces represent the
Syrian people, or do they represent the states that invented them?" Assad
asked in typically defiant fashion. In the lengthy interview, Assad also said
he was willing to run for re-election in 2014, in remarks that came soon after
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that if he were to win, it would extend Syria Syria like JFK and the Cuban Missile
Crisis--where russia got a
strategic advantage forcing us to pull our Missiles out of Turkey
Bomber Tied to Al
Qaeda Kills Dozens in Syrian
City
Excerpt: A suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with
propane tanks at a crowded military checkpoint in central Syria
The Obama-Rouhani
Playbook for Aspiring Tyrants. By Sheryl Saperia
Excerpt: Upon completion of his term in office, President
Obama will bequeath to his successor a world indelibly scarred by the current
crisis in Iran Iran 's
nuclear treasures are successfully wrested from the hands of the mullahs, the
current presidents of Iran
and the U.S.
Passenger train
bombed in Pakistan
Excerpt: A bomb struck a passenger train in southwestern Pakistan
Oil kingdom Brunei
Excerpt: Oil-rich Brunei
Excerpt: A suspected female suicide bomber has set off
explosives on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd North Caucasus
and was the partner of an Islamist militant.
Whose
Islam? By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
To be charitable to [British Prime Minister David] Cameron, he is trying to
point out that very few Muslims want to stare a five-year-old in the eye and
pull the trigger. But, likewise, very few of them want to do anything
serious—in their mosques and madrassahs—about the culture that incubates such
men. The prime minister is betting that all the clever chaps like him can keep
the lid on and hold things to what, at the height of the Northern Irish
"Troubles," cynical British officials privately called "an
acceptable level of violence."
Healthcare.debacle
harbinger of doom. By William A. Jacobson
Excerpt:
That makes it difficult to operate with the kind of agility that startup people
are used to, this idea of putting out a simple product and then iterating
rapidly, learning from your customers and scaling up gradually. That’s the
usual model that startups follow. That’s difficult to do in government, and
it’s not what happened with HealthCare.gov, which was meant to start operating
immediately at full scale and with full features.
Rubio:
I'm introducing a bill to delay the individual mandate until the Obamacare
website is fixed: “It’s not fair to punish people for [not?] buying something
that’s not available."
Excerpt: Smart politics. It won’t pass, but then it’s not
really designed to. "He said all he is calling for is a delay on the
requirement until the U.S. General Accounting Office certifies the Web site is
working and has been functioning for six consecutive months.
Muslim
Soldiers Attempt to Lure 12-Year-Old Girl for Sexual Purposes in Missouri
Excerpt:
One of these nice lovers of children is named Mohammed twice so we can only be thankful it was a 12-year-old and not a 6-year-old. "Two men
training at Fort Leonard Wood are in custody after deputies say they tried to
abduct a 12-year-old girl in Pulaski County Friday afternoon.
Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, 34, and Antoine Clela, 31, were charged with enticement
of a child and harassment."
Human Sex Trafficking of US Minors (Part 1).By Chuck Norris
Excerpt: Reuters reported last week, "Some 30 million
people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual
labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude." ... ABC News
reported in July on a National Geographic undercover investigation of sexual slavery
in the U.S. : "When some
people hear about sex trafficking in America
they usually think of Asian and Eastern European women being brought into the
States, but it's actually 10 times more likely for an American girl to be
trafficked inside the U.S.
Heretic: NBC Reporter Asks Jay Carney Why Obama was So
Wrong on Obamacare. By Michael Schaus
Excerpt: : Five days before the launch, the president said
it’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health care plans,
the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak. Who misled him? Who misled
the president on this? Are you telling me five days before that somebody let
the president go out to the American public to give this speech and say this
and make this promise? In fact, the next line is: I promise you, this is a lot
easier, it’s like booking a hotel or plane ticket. Who let him down?"
The French Death Spiral. By Daniel J. Mitchell
Excerpt: Now that I’ve warned about the risks of
overstatement, I’m going out on a limb to say that we may
be at the point where France
Math, the Real Kink in Obamacare. Debra J. Saunders
Excerpt: At an event Monday to boost the Affordable Care Act
after its glitch-rich rollout, President Barack Obama asserted that his
signature health care plan is a hit because "prices have come down."
That's the administration's big lie: that Washington
Dar al-Hijrah Imam
Affirms MB Sympathies on Facebook. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: For a guy who claims to
have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood, ImamShaker Elsayed dedicates a surprising volume of hisFacebook page to the Egyptian Islamist group. Elsayed,
head of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church , Va.
Glenn
Beck Takes on Grover Norquist. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
Beck made headlines when he took on George Soros. Now he’s taking on a puppetmaster closer to home. I joined
Beck and Frank Gaffney yesterday in the first of a number of shows that Glenn
Beck plans to do on Grover Norquist and his
agenda.
Excerpt: Okay, a couple of years ago you sat on your
collective asses, didn't voice your disapproval for Obamacare, and had the
massive government intervention into your health care decisions taken over by
government bureaucrats. You now have one last chance to snatch back control of
your lives from a corrupted government that issues green checks to buy
political power and caters to the most extreme morally corrupt special interest
groups. Just as we did in 2007 you can overwhelm your Congress with letters,
emails and phone calls voicing your strong opposition to rewarding illegal
invaders with citizenship. Don't think for a minute Congress will not listen to
you. Shout loud enough, write often enough, let them feel the depth of your
anger and you can be damn sure they'll listen.
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: ObamaCare website glitches prevented anyone from
enrolling Friday. ObamaCare is underwritten by a Treasury seventeen trillion in
debt, overseen by a Surgeon General that's obese and signed into law by a
president who smokes. How could anything go wrong. (Shouldn't it be "who's
obese"? ~Bob)
From the Left: If Obamacare fails, so will his party.
By Dana Milbank
Excerpt: Not since the Ginsu knife cut through an aluminum
can and still sliced a tomato has America
Et tu, Politio? President
Obama’s passive voice. By Edward-Isaac
Dovere
Excerpt: Once again, Barack Obama risks looking like a
bystander to his own presidency. Here’s what he did to kick off the week: assemble a crowd in
the Rose Garden to hear him repeat how “frustrated” he was about the many
problems that plagued the launch of the Affordable Care Act’s website, promise
that a “tech surge” was already on its way to set those problems right and
implore people to bear with him until they see what the program can do. Here’s
what he didn’t do: explain why those problems weren’t addressed before the Oct.
1 launch, why he didn’t seem to be aware of them before they went very public,
or who would be suffering the consequences for any of it.
Obama: Your call is important to us. by Carrie Budoff
Brown
Excerpt: President Barack Obama delivered an Obamacare
speech Monday that sounded a lot like hold music.
Murdered Christian
Pastor in Kenya
Excerpt: Two Christian pastors were murdered in separate
attacks in Kenya
Excerpt: A nine year old girl, W*, was married to 35-year
old Zahid Zardari on Thursday, after the groom reportedly paid Rs1.5 million to
her family.
PA-associated youth
magazine published list of sayings it claims are Hitler's
Excerpt: The PA-associated educational youth
magazine Zayzafuna, whose Advisory Board include PA Deputy Minister of
Education Jihad Zakarneh and the Head of the Media Department of the PA
Ministry of Education, Abd Al-Hakim Abu Jamous, published
a list of ten short wisdom sayings that it claimed were said by Hitler. ... Palestinian Media Watch has not found the
quotes attributed to Hitler. Several of them appear with slight variations on
"words of wisdom" websites, and are either anonymous sayings or
attributed to other people.
Excerpt: From 2007 till now the courts have released 1,964
alleged terrorists, says an official government document. More serious still is
the fact that of those released, 722 have rejoined terrorist groups while 1,197
are still actively involved in anti-state activities, according to the official
document available with Dawn.
How Jon Stewart became President Obama’s biggest problem.
By Chris Cillizza
Excerpt: President Obama’s biggest problem when it comes to
selling the American public on the so-far rocky rollout of his health-care law
isn’t John Boehner or Mitch McConnell or even Ted Cruz. It’s Jon Stewart.
Excerpt: The judge will not issue an injunction to stop the
IRS from issuing subsidies, meaning Obamacare can move forward as planned.
However, the lawsuit will also move forward and depending on the outcome, could
limit IRS power to issue Obamacare subsidies.
Girl Who Threw
Puppies in River Found by Bosnian Police, Say Reports
Excerpt: Police in Bosnia
Obamacare Tech Firm
Tried, Failed To Build Gun Registry In Canada
Excerpt: CGI, the Canadian company whose U.S.
IRS paid more than
$110 billion in improper tax credits
But they'll do a great job running your health care. ~Bob. Excerpt:
The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits
over the past decade to people who didn't qualify for them, according to a
Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended
for poor working families. In his report, IRS inspector general J. Russell
George said more than one-fifth of all credits paid under the program went to
people who didn't qualify.
Oh, by the way: The
“tech surge” isn’t going to rescue the ObamaCare website
Excerpt: My layman’s sense after reading several articles
about it and chatting with a friend who works in IT is that it’s like bringing
in a bunch of professional writers to rework a 2,000-page first draft of a novel written by a sixth-grader. If you don’t like that
analogy, a health-industry consultant told Politico,
“It’s like you’ve built a single-story house with no basement, and then the
family comes in and says, ‘Oh, we made a mistake, we wanted a multi-story house
with a basement.’ Then you have to strip everything down and start over.” It
can be done, but it ain’t going to be soon. And it ain’t going to be cheap.
Tweet from PF Foundation @PFFORG
Our patient handbook is available in 7 languages!
Obama Administration
Knew Healthcare Website Would Crash
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Excerpt: According to The Washington Post, the site crashed after a
government simulation that had just a few hundred people trying to log on
simultaneously. That experience was a precursor to what happened in the first
few hours of the Oct. 1 launch: The site locked up after some 2,000 users
attempted to register. ….In addition, people familiar with the roll-out of
the project said, a month before the health insurance exchanges opened, the
government was warned by a testing group made up of insurers that the system
was riddled with problems, including the way the exchange handled enrollment, federal
subsidies, and the security of consumers' personal information.
Obama creates jobs! ~Bob
The Horrible Tactic
The Taliban Is Once Again Using With Children To Fulfill Death Missions
Excerpt: Taliban extremists have kidnapped more than 100
children from Afghanistan
and Pakistan in the last
year to use for suicide missions against government officials and U.S. troops still fighting in the region, U.S.
Tweet from Gun Shots @Gun_Shots
The US Department of Justice found that, in 1989, there were
168,881 crimes of violence for which police had not responded within 1 hour.
More missteps: Air
Force officials in charge of nukes left open blast door, sources say
Excerpt: Twice this year alone, Air Force officers entrusted
with the launch keys to nuclear-tipped missiles have been caught leaving open a
blast door that is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from
entering their underground command post, Air Force officials have told The
Associated Press….But officials with direct knowledge of Air Force intercontinental
ballistic missile operations told the AP that such violations have happened,
undetected, many more times than in the cases of the two launch crew commanders
and two deputy commanders who were given administrative punishments this year. (From
AP, Regime mouthpiece, so much be an agenda behind revelations. --Barb)
New poll finds that a
majority of Americans see Obamacare website problems as a sign of problems to
come with law
Excerpt: The American people aren’t buying into the
president’s message that the problems with the healthcare exchange websites
aren’t indicative of larger issues with the law, according to an ABC News - Washington Post study released
Monday. The study found that 56 percent of Americans believe the website
problems are related to bigger ones with the law, while 40 percent view the
website problems as an isolated incident.
1-800-ObamaCare-Denial:
Website problems don't matter when your intentions are good.
Progressives take no responsibility for the millions who
have suffered and died from their policies, because their intentions were good.
~Bob
People In
Healthcare.gov Stock Photos Now Visibly Panicking
Satire from the Onion.
Sen. David Vitter
calls on DOJ to investigate armed EPA raid in Alaska
Excerpt: Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) called on the Justice
Department (DOJ) Tuesday to investigate an armed raid by
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agents on an Alaskan gold mine that
occurred earlier this year. Vitter, in a letter sent Tuesday to
Attorney General Eric Holder, requested the Justice Department investigate the
EPA raid, which occurred at a gold mine in Chicken, Alaska earlier this year as
part of an investigation into violations of the Clean Water Act.
Feds Paid Prisoners
$1 Million in Disability Payments: Average received $2,322 each
Excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) gave more
than $1 million in improper disability benefits to 440 prisoners, according to
the inspector general. The Inspector General for the SSA (IG) based its report on a sample of 100 beneficiaries, and found that
one-fourth had improperly received disability while they were incarcerated.
“SSA issued improper DI benefit payments to beneficiaries for periods they were
in correctional institutions,” the report said.
Are they sure this isn't satire? Not even liberals are so
dumb. ~Bob
Saudi Arabia set for diplomatic shift away from US: Intelligence chief tells diplomats he plans to limit interaction with US in protest at its policies on Syria, Israel and Iran
one word: Frackin! ~Bob. Excerpt: Saudi Arabia's
intelligence chief has said the kingdom will make a "major shift" in
dealings with the US in
protest at perceived American inaction over the Syria war and its
overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday. The
source said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan had told European diplomats that Washington had failed to act effectively on the Syria crisis and the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, was growing closer to Tehranand
had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed a 2011 anti-government
revolt.
Excerpt: Iran has
presented Russia with
agift of an exact copy of an advanced US UK 's Guardian newspaper has reported
the copy of the US ScanEagle drone was given to Russia at
a meeting between the two countries' air forcecommanders earlier this
week in Tehran
Steny Hoyer wants
more money to fix Obamacare exchanges
Someone get China
Obamacare’s Vermont
Excerpt: The reality is that Vermont Vermont Vermont
Answers demanded of
Kerry, Holder in murder of Agent Camarena
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General
Eric Holder are being questioned about the Mexican government’s recent decision
to prematurely release Rafael Caro Quintero, who was convicted in the 1985
kidnapping, torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent
Camarena.
Tweet from Paul Hampton @HotelHamptonInn
Dear Obama, My mother lost her job yesterday due to your
Obama care. Thank you so much. I really don't understand how people support
you.
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