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critically and with skepticism. ~Bob
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The danger is quite severe. The problem
with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger
to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution
was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single
branch. (The website that sent me the info on Turley claimed he was an Obama
supporter. ~Bob. Dr. Turley is a well known constitutional law expert, who has
written favorably about various social issues and is considered to be favoring
the Progressive slant on things. Thus for him to criticize Mr. Obama this way
is really telling. Building a constantly worse imbalance of power between the
three Branches of government should concern every American, whether Liberal or
Conservative. --Del )
Older, but his stuff is interesting: Close Enough For Government Work? By Jonathon Turley
His columns in scroll down format. ~Bob. Excerpt: For many,
the greatest surprise was not that the government spent wildly on a defective
system, but that the failure did not result in a single termination. While the
agency’s top technology officer, Tony Trenkle, wisely is retiring,
the appearance of the still employed Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius at a congressional hearing this week led many to ask a
reasonable question: What does it take to lose a government job?
Obamacare's Perilous Protection Plan for Debtors. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: As written, the law puts insurers on the hook for
the grace period. But the bureaucrats at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services decided to issue a rule in March making insurers responsible only for
paying claims during the first 30 days of the debtors' grace period. Who's on
the hook for the other two months? Well, customers are entrusted to foot the
bills for additional services. But if they blow off the payments, it's up to
physicians and hospitals to collect.
Single Payer System: NHS struggle to meet £20bn
savings target hits elderly hardest
Excerpt: Patients are being denied knee replacements and
cataract removals as the NHS struggles to meet its £20bn
savings target, official data has revealed. The number of those operations, as
well as hip replacements, has fallen to its lowest level for five years,
despite England 's
elderly population – which has most need for those procedures – having risen
over the same period. (When government runs healthcare--this is the system
liberals and Obama want for you. ~bob)
Obamacare Rules Could
Add Big Costs for Volunteer FDs
Excerpt: The International Association of Fire Chiefs has
asked the Internal Revenue Service, which has partial oversight of the law, to
clarify if current IRS treatment of volunteer firefighters as employees means
their hose companies or towns must offer health insurance coverage or pay a
penalty if they don't.
More Obamacare woes:
Federal website gives unusable Medicaid data
Excerpt: People shopping for insurance on the federal
marketplace may be informed they're eligible for Medicaid and that their
information is being sent to state officials to sign them up. However, states
aren't able enroll them because they're not receiving usable data from the
Obama administration.
I like my insurance plan but I can’t keep it under
Obamacare. By Andrew Reding
Excerpt: Checking the Washington
state health-insurance exchange, I found I am among millions who are getting a
much worse deal — much higher premiums with higher deductibles and less choice
of doctors, and ineligible for the Affordable Care Act tax credit. My current
premium is $278 per month with a $3,500 deductible. My Blue Shield insurer is
canceling this policy and not offering any policies on the state
health-insurance exchange. The least expensive off-exchange policy it now
offers is $545 per month, roughly double what I pay now, with a $5,000
in-network and $10,000 out-of-network deductible.
Obamacare 'Strike
Team' Member: People Losing Their Plans Is a 'Good Thing'
Excerpt: "Because a lot of those people, they did have
policies that didn't meet the minimum standards. That's just not a theoretical discussion.
There's a reason you have minimum standards. There are people out there who
have insurance that's really an illusion of coverage.
Team Obama Takes "Affordable" Out of Latest
Obamacare Campaign. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: As the public relations campaign for a law that is
unaffordable rolls on, Byron
York has noticed something: the administration is no longer talking
about Obamacare in terms of affordability.
Next up: Obamacare
worst-case scenario?
Excerpt: At the rate the signups are going — even with the
speedier, newly functioning Obamacare website — the administration has a vast
distance to travel before the estimated 4 to 5 million people with canceled
policies get new health coverage.
*****
Great graphic. ~Bob
Tweet from Razor @hale_razor
Today's unemployment rate if workforce participation was at
1/2009 levels: 10.8%. Hope!
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
In November, 41% of the new jobs were government jobs, not
private sector jobs. Obama’s America .
Good
Column: America
Excerpt:
Whether with intent or through incompetence the Obama administration cannot get
anything right. Nor straight. Devious? Inept? Both? Cause matters hardly,
the consequences are the same.
Big Hike In Minimum Wage Will Be Self-Defeating For
Workers. By Pamela Villarreal
Excerpt: But as the old adage goes, the road to hell is
paved with good intentions.
The arguments made by advocates of a living wage are flawed
on so many levels, and will end up hurting the people they purport to help. One
need look no further than the evolution of large retailers. Thirty years ago,
there was no such thing as a self-checkout lane.
U.S. citizen shot and killed in Benghazi, Libya
Excerpt: An American teacher was shot and killed Thursday
while jogging in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi ,
where the U.S.
ambassador and three other Americans were killed last year. Ronnie Smith, 33, a
Texan, taught chemistry at the International School Benghazi, school officials
said. (He must have believed that Religion of Peace BS. An American jogging in
a country like that is asking for it. Id only jog there if I had the Third
Marine Division with me. ~Bob)
“Saint” Mandela? Not So Fast! By William F. Jasper
Excerpt: Countless thousands of genuine prisoners of
conscience, who have never done anything more “criminal” than praying, or
speaking out against tyranny, are languishing in prisons all across the planet
without so much as a peep of protest from the legions of Mandela worshipers and
his chorus of media promoters. How many of those praising Mandela as the
world’s moral compass have ever heard of Ignatius
Cardinal Kung, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, who was
imprisoned in Communist China for 33 years, most of it overlapping the same
period in which Mandela was in prison?
Mandela, patron saint
of Israel
Excerpt: That is why it is vital those who do not share his
devotion to liberty or to human rights should not be allowed to hijack
Mandela's story or that of the anti-apartheid struggle. And by that I refer to
those who would wish to invoke the struggle against racism in South Africa to
justify support for those who seek to destroy the State of Israel.
The Politics of
Subversion. By Caroline B. Glick
Excerpt: By controlling the Jordan
Valley , (and the Samarian and Hebron mountain ranges), Israel is capable of defending the
country from invasion from the east. It can also prevent penetration of
irregular enemy forces, and on the other hand, maintain the stability of the
Hashemite regime in Jordan .
Without control over the areas, Israel
can do none of these things.
Excerpt: Well, America
better step up their robotics technology darn quick, because Obama's outright
assault on the military all but assures us that we'll not be able to recruit
enough men and women to fight a minor drug cartel uprising in Mexico very
soon, much less be prepared for a "two and a half war" scenario. Just
this week we learned that Obama has directed the Department of Defense to draw
up plans to close the military commissaries located at 271 military bases in
the country. He also plans to shut down the century old Stars and Stripes
Newspaper and the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
British soldier's
alleged killer 'told police he went for jugular as he was hacked to death in
London street because that is how animals are killed in Islam'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518738/Lee-Rigbys-killer-told-police-went-Fusiliers-jugular-animals-killed-Islam.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518738/Lee-Rigbys-killer-told-police-went-Fusiliers-jugular-animals-killed-Islam.html
Did SFSU Student Post
Selfie with Knife: ‘I Want to Stab an Israeli Soldier’
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/did-sfsu-student-post-selfie-with-knife-i-want-to-stab-an-israeli-soldier/2013/12/03/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/did-sfsu-student-post-selfie-with-knife-i-want-to-stab-an-israeli-soldier/2013/12/03/
Didn't get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: The basis for the
warning was the posting on the social media forum Tumblr which appears to be by
the president of San Francisco
State
Nigeria’s Boko Haram
strikes again in Cameroon
Excerpt: A missionary has been killed and several churches
set ablaze in attacks by Nigeria ’s
Islamist group Boko Haram in neighbouring Cameroon .
Ram-raid Muslim
radicals - police fear crimes are funding Syrian war fighters
Excerpt: COUNTER-terrorism officers have charged a
figurehead of last year's Muslim riots and infamous Sharia "whipping"
case over an attempted ATM ram-raid in Sydney 's
north. Wassim Fayad, 46, one of two head spokesmen during the riots, was
arrested at 7.30am last Friday at Auburn and charged over the failed ram-raid
involving at least two other men at North Ryde on May 15.
Excerpt: Churches burned, attacks foiled and increased
pressure on Christians to convert to Islam. In Tatarstan - autonomous republic
of the Russian Federation ,
with a Muslim majority - the extremism alarm is increasing. So much so that the
President Rustam Minnikhanov has expressed concern and promised to personally
follow the investigations.
Majority Rules on Climate Science? By Jeff Jacoby
Excerpt: "Ninety-seven percent of scientists
agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous," President Obama
tweeted in May. Really? That's not what the American
Meteorological Society learned from a recent survey of
its professional members. Only a bare majority, 52 percent, said that climate
change is mostly being driven by human activity. Scientists with a
"liberal political orientation" were much more likely to
regard global warming as human-caused and harmful, the survey's authors found —
in fact, as a predictor of respondents' views on global warming, ideology
outweighed greater expertise. "This would be strong evidence against the
idea that expert scientists' views on politically controversial topics can be
completely objective," the authors observe.
Important: Scientists Predict a Century of Global
Cooling
Excerpt: Better start investing in some warm clothes because
German scientists are predicting that the Earth will cool over the next
century. German scientists found that two naturally occurring cycles will
combine to lower global temperatures during the 21st century, eventually
dropping to levels corresponding with the “little ice age” of 1870. “Due to the
de Vries cycle, the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value
corresponding to the ‘little ice age’ of 1870,” write German scientists
Horst-Joachim Luedecke and Carl-Otto Weiss of the European Institute for
Climate and Energy. (I love it, we keep getting inputs that don't exactly
support the "consensus" that we are all supposed to accept as settled
science. (Science does not work by consensus, and is not often settled when it
comes to complex and very long processes like global climate.) --Del. Warming
has some winners in terms of increased food production. Cooling has piles of
dead. ~Bob)
Tweet from Rowdy Peppercorn. @RowdyPrimate
It's been snowing so long all the Republicans in the office have
exhausted their supply of Global Warming? jokes.
Excerpt: Three crises, one president, many bewildered
friends. The first crisis, barely noticed here, is Ukraine ’s
sudden turn away from Europe and back to the
Russian embrace.
It's the Jews' fault:
Councilwoman Blames 'Knockout' Attacks on Tension Between Blacks and Jews.
By Sonja Sharp
Excerpt: " Many African
American/Caribbean residents expressed a genuine concern that as the Jewish
community continues to grow, they would be pushed out by their Jewish landlords
or by Jewish families looking to purchase homes," Cumbo wrote in the
1,200-word letter, which was emailed to supporters and posted on her Facebook page.
"I respect and appreciate the Jewish community’s family values and unity
that has led to strong political, economic and cultural gains. While I
personally regard this level of tenacity, I also recognize that for others, the
accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a
sense that Jewish success is not also their success." (Wow!!! 1.
Yeah...blame lack of black family values on strong Jewish family values. 2.
Blame lack of black motivation and success on strong Jewish motivation and
success. 3. Yeah...everyone complains about declining property values when
neighborhoods decline, but try to reverse that trend and see what happens Send
this to a dozen Jews and watch them join the blacks in harassing the
Lubavitcher. Send this to Obama and take bets on what side he takes. --GS. [A
Jewish friend & blog reader. ~Bob.])
7 Reported Cases Of 'Knockout' Assaults By Black Hoodlums
At Yale, Yale PD Downplays Attacks (my non-p.c. version of title by Erica
Pandey at Yale Daily News). Posted by The Dave Levine
Show
Excerpt: Reporter Pandey refuses to mention that ALL
knockout assaults are committed by black hoodlums against white citizens
and in New York (Brooklyn ,
mostly), against Jews.
Excerpt: It is easy to see how this came about. Barack Obama
was heralded all his life for showing up and being articulate. He was not
required to publish much of anything as head of the law review or as a law
school instructor or champion of important legislation as a state or U.S. senator.
His great talent is in speaking and writing about himself (often inaccurately).
And yet few politicians were ever glorified by elites to the degree this
president was when he ran in 2008.
Report:
Environmentalists Opposing Shale Gas Are Making a ‘Tragic Mistake.’ By Katie
Brown
Excerpt: A report released
today puts the folly of anti-fracking activism squarely in the spotlight. The
report, authored primarily by University of California-Berkeley physics
professor Richard Muller, comes to a sobering conclusion: “Environmentalists
who oppose the development of shale gas and fracking are making a tragic
mistake.” The reason is because natural gas provides a solution for two major
worldwide environmental concerns: air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
(Unfortunately, they don't care about the environment or the costs for poor
people. They only care about feeling good for being for the right things.
Opposing fracking is part of the progressive catechism. ~Bob.)
New Billboard In NYC
Says ‘Nobody’ Needs ‘Christ During Christmas’
Excerpt: Just as millions of Americans are preparing to
commemorate Jesus’ birth, a secular activist group is once again taking aim at
the traditional purpose for the holiday season, asking in a new digital
billboard: ”Who needs Christ during Christmas?”
Important: White House gives wind farms pass on
killing endangered eagles
Excerpt: The Obama administration said Friday it will allow
some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years
without penalty, an effort to spur development and investment in green energy
while balancing its environmental consequences. (Remember the good old days,
when liberals let millions of third world kids die of Malaria by banning DDT to
save these birds? They are so over the birds. ~Bob)
Excerpt: My new col at Time.com is about the huge amounts of
public dollars that are shoveled at college and pro football. (Bread and
circuses for the headcount. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Let no one say that Russia ’s foreign service lacks for
enterprising diplomats. On Friday, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York announced charges against 49 current or former
Russian diplomats and their spouses for taking part in a scheme to defraud
Medicaid.
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