If you missed it, are bored, need something to read,
and finished reading the cereal box. ~Bob
Good
Column: Marine Straight-Shooting at Sundry
Targets. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
For today, some Marine straight-shooting - ever civil but pointed at times
- at sundry targets. Nothing personal but the truth - as vowed in
this forum. Not in any particular order...
Important: Fewer than 2
million signed up for Medicaid under the health law, report says. By Sandhya Somashekhar and Lena H. Sun
Excerpt: Between 1 million and 2 million Americans signed up
for Medicaid last year because of the health-care law, according
to a new report suggesting that many of the people who have joined the
program since the initiative’s rollout in October would have done so absent the
law. The Obama administration has said that 6.3 million people were determined
to be eligible for Medicaid between October and December. But the study, from
health-care industry consulting firm Avalere Health, suggests that only a fraction
of the enrollments are strictly the result of the health-care law.
Important: Administration
will allow people to switch health-care plans to a limited degree. By Amy Goldstein
Excerpt: The Obama administration has quietly reworked rules
and computer code for HealthCare.gov to try to stem an outpouring of discontent
by some Americans who have discovered that the health plans they bought do not
include their old doctors or allow them to add new babies or spouses. Under
changes that have not been disclosed to the public, the government will
temporarily allow consumers who have gotten coverage through the new online
insurance marketplace to switch health plans to a limited degree. (Well, as the
President often lectures Republicans, the AA is "settled law"--until
I want to make a change to protect Democrats from this disaster! ~Bob)
Surprise: WH Weighs Extending Obamacare 'Fix' Through 2016
Election. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: Unexpected delays, changes, "fixes," postponements and exemptions have become staples of Obamacare, so additional tumult
shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this point. Let the frantic -- and
quite possibly illegal -- seat-of-their-pantsrevisions continue: The Obama
administration is considering an extension of the president's decision to let
people keep their individual insurance policies even if they are not compliant
with the health care overhaul, industry and government officials said Thursday.
Excerpt: 2) Almost all of the people signing up for Obamacare lost their
coverage because of Obamacare: Then there are the roughly three
million people said to have signed up for private insurance. In mid-January,
the Wall Street Journal reported that a relatively small percentage of the new
sign-ups were previously uninsured Americans gaining coverage through
Obamacare. The rest were people who were covered and lost that coverage in the
market disruptions largely caused by Obamacare.
Free the Job-Locked Poets! By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt: The Congressional Budget Office issued a
politically explosive report this week, finding that Obamacare will reduce the
number of hours Americans work by the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time jobs.
This is different than killing 2.5 million jobs, Obamacare defenders are quick
to insist. This will be a shortfall on the demand, not supply, side. In other
words, people with health insurance will opt not to work in certain
circumstances if they know they won't lose their coverage.
Taxpayers hit for MILLIONS
as six states put inmates on Obamacare plans (which also boosts enrollment
numbers)
Excerpt: Cash-strapped counties in six states are enrolling
inmates in Obamacare health insurance plans as a way to shift costs to the
federal government – a tactic that's legal but frustrating for some Republicans
who don't want to see the success levels of President Obama's signature law
inflated artificially.
Problems for
Obamacare continue to mount
Excerpt: Even as the White House continues to hope that the
struggles of Obamacare are in the past, the almost daily headlines of problems
promise to keep the massive new health care program in the spotlight. (Just a
short summary of the situation as it continues to unfold. The part about
"so many people will choose not to work or to work fewer hours" is
particularly interesting, and I've seen the same thing about people choosing
not to work because of these benefits in 2 or 3 other articles. That sure isn't
going to sit well with the regular hardworking middle class people who are in
the cubicles processing stuff or driving the long distance truck or running
their own small business. And what's notable is that in other societies this
whole thing has come up in years past of some fraction of lower class people
being well enough off on the dole that they decide that working doesn't make
sense for them. For those of us working and paying the serious tax burden, the
idea that our tax money goes to keep other people taking it easy at home
instead of finding a job just doesn't feel right. In fact, it sounds like
something that will be a burr under the saddle and over time really rub people
raw. Yet there really are some intellectuals who believe that it's OK to build
benefits to where people can choose not to work. I figure that's fine for them,
they can divert more of their money to those people, but thank you very much, I
don't want my hard-earned bucks going to keep someone in comfort when they
could go and generate their own income. --Del )
White House Defense
of Obamacare Is 'Such La-La-Land Stuff,' Economist Says
Excerpt: The Obama White House on Tuesday said
it's a good thing that Obamacare subsidies will encourage more Americans to
work less -- or work not at all. But economist Art Laffer disagrees. "It's
such la-la land stuff. I've never heard such nonsense in my life," Laffer,
a former Reagan adviser, told Fox News on Wednesday. "It's amazing
how these people don't understand budgets or economics." (A nice
commentary on very recent inputs form the CBO, that I bet the White House is
white hot about. Too bad, they are independent and get to say what they see. --Del )
Why All
Americans Should Support Hobby Lobby's Case Against Obamacare
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/12/23/hobby-lobbys-secular-case/
Excerpt: The Hobby Lobby chain of more than 500 stores is owned by the Green family of Oklahoma City, who run their business in accord with their Evangelical Christian beliefs. Founder David Green says the family cannot in conscience subsidize certain mandated drugs and devices that can cause an abortion early in pregnancy. (Seems to me that Obama should pay attention to his own words in his National Prayer Breakfast speech http://www.c-span.org/video/?317641-1/BreakfastC 1:16:03 Obama - Hypocrite Extraordinaire. --MM )
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/12/23/hobby-lobbys-secular-case/
Excerpt: The Hobby Lobby chain of more than 500 stores is owned by the Green family of Oklahoma City, who run their business in accord with their Evangelical Christian beliefs. Founder David Green says the family cannot in conscience subsidize certain mandated drugs and devices that can cause an abortion early in pregnancy. (Seems to me that Obama should pay attention to his own words in his National Prayer Breakfast speech http://www.c-span.org/video/?317641-1/BreakfastC 1:16:03 Obama - Hypocrite Extraordinaire. --MM )
Four bombs hit
central Baghdad
Excerpt: The blasts came a day after two rockets were fired
into the Green Zone, home to the prime minister's office and Western embassies,
and are likely to heighten concerns about Iraq's ability to protect strategic
sites as security deteriorates.
Surprise: Syria
Excerpt: Syria on Wednesday missed a deadline to hand
over all the toxic materials it declared to the world's chemical weapons
watchdog, putting the program several weeks behind schedule and jeopardizing a
final June 30 deadline. At the same time, opposition activists say the Syrian
air force is attacking the country's biggest city, Aleppo , with barrel bombs, forcing many to
flee
MSM silent after Dem
lawmaker’s gun accidentally discharges
Excerpt: If a Ruger LCP semi-automatic is accidentally fired
inside the office of a Kentucky
state representative, will it make a sound? Not in the mainstream media — and
especially not if the gun’s owner is a Democrat.
Exposed: The Muslim
Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda Connection
Excerpt: "That Libya is mentioned is interesting. According to a Libyan Arabic report I
translated back in June 2013, those who attacked the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi , killing Americans, including
Ambassador Chris Stevens, were from jihadi cells that had been formed in Libya through
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood support. Those interrogated named Morsi and other
top Brotherhood leadership as accomplices. More evidence—including
some that implicates the U.S. administration—has
mounted since then.”
Obama admin
unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants with ‘limited’ terror contact into
US
Excerpt: The Obama administration has issued new exemptions
to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited
material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S. The
Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the
Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act
excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material
support, no matter how minor, to terrorists. (Doesn't this qualify as "Aid
and Comfort to the enemy" and isn't that a treasonous act? --JB).
Excerpt: Drugstore chain CVS got a shout out from President
Obama after announcing this morning that it would stop selling tobacco products
at its more than 7,600 stores across the country. “Ending the sale of
cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do
for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better
health,” said Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO, CVS Caremark. “Put simply, the
sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose.” (Beg to differ with
these progressive do-gooders. Tobacco is, in fact, a drug. And a darn good
thing to have in a first aid kit for insect stings. A poultice made of tobacco
and Listerine—though water or saliva works in a pinch—draws venom from the
wound and might even save life in someone with anaphylactic shock to bee
stings—did with my brother. I keep at least one pack on hand; not to smoke, but
as a drug. There is a good purpose for this plant. --Barb. Well, it's a
free country--so far--and they have a right to sell what the want. Given that
tobacco kills about 480,00 Americans every year--far more than guns and far,
far more than are saved from bee stings, I would chose not to sell it. Lost my
dad & uncle to it. Must be a smokeless way to make available what is needed
for first aid. ~Bob)
NORM PATTIS: A town
at risk: An invasion of the very worst sort
Excerpt: Bethany ’s
rural character is at risk just now. A group calling itself Green Haven has set
its sights on undeveloped farmland. The group wants to develop what it calls
the first “cohousing development” in Connecticut ,
packing dozens of homes onto the 31-acre Halter farm property on Meyers Road . (This
from a criminal defense lawyer always railing about the tragic lives of his
poor clients, who has now developed a terminal case of NIMBY. The only value
here is that the irony is so dense but libs still can’t see it. As always
from the Register, the comments are invaluable. --GS)
Bogus Jefferson Quotes
I often see many of these. But we do our cause no good by
spreading untruths. ~Bob
Top Adviser To The
Chinese Government Calls For A Global Currency To Replace The U.S. Dollar
Excerpt: The former chief economist at the World Bank,
Justin Yifu Lin, is advising the Chinese government that the time has come for
a single global currency. Lin, who is also a professor at Peking University
Pentagon to appoint
officer to promote ethical behavior, Hagel says
Excerpt: Stung by a string of embarrassing revelations about
misconduct in the ranks, the Pentagon will soon appoint a senior officer to
promote and enforce a culture of ethical behavior and good moral character,
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday. (A recent AP article covered
Secretary of Defense Hagel's worry about a string of ethics lapses and his
direction to leadership for urgency injecting "moral character and
moral courage" into the force. Are you kidding, Mr. Secretary? It's
too late! Perhaps the wrong people have been and are being promoted.
Furthermore, you are addressing the problem from the wrong direction. The
example starts in The White House! 'About face, sir!' --Andy Weddington , Col.
Navy rebukes three
admirals for taking questionable trip to Britain
Excerpt: Unlike other cases of personal misconduct that have
been dogging U.S.
military leaders in recent years, this episode hardly amounted to a high crime.
The admirals went on an official, seven-day trip to Britain in April 2012 that, to some
eyes, seemed more about pleasure and less about business.
Excerpt: "I will not lie, or cheat, or steal, or
tolerate those around me who do." Sadly, we learned this week that a group
of Navy Missile Launch Officers are being accused of cheating on their tests. They
join the seventy or so Air Force Missile Launch Officers busted a few weeks ago
for the same thing.
Excerpt: The U.S.
economy added just 113,000 jobs in January, a small improvement over December’s
disappointing report but not nearly enough to signal a much-needed rebound in
the increasingly unpredictable U.S.
labor market. The number of jobs created fell well below forecasters’
predictions of 185,000 new jobs.
Everything You Need to Know About Friday's Payroll Numbers.
By Mike Shedlock
Excerpt: Big Miss: Nonfarm Payrolls rose by 113,000. The Median
Bloomberg estimate was +180,000. December was revised up a tiny bit from 74,000
to 75,000. Beneath the surface, things actually look better for a change. The
household survey shows a gain of employment of 638,000. That said, revisions
were in play.
Excerpt: Take a look at the graph below. From the end of
World War II until 1964 the poverty rate in this country was cut in half.
Further, 94% of the change in the poverty rate over this period can be
explained by changes in per capita income alone. Economic growth is clearly the
most effective antipoverty weapon ever devised by man. The dotted line shows
what would have happened had this trend continued. Economic growth would have
reduced the number in poverty to a mere 1.4% of the population today ? a number
so low that private charity could probably have taken care of any unmet needs.
2 Wis.
Excerpt: Never mind that Salah Salahadyn, 41, had already
tried and failed at art theft. The Milwaukee man pleaded guilty in 2000 to
trying to resell a $25,000 statue to the art gallery owner from whom it had
been stolen in 1995, and his ex-girlfriend told investigators that while he
hadn't stolen it himself he did plot the theft. ... Salahadyn and a second man,
Universal Knowledge Allah, 36, appeared in Milwaukee County
Excerpt: I don’t think it’s hard to understand Obama’s
foreign policy. Although there’s a lot we don’t know about him, his basic
impulses are clear enough. He’s told us what they are (although, to be sure, he
often misleads and obfuscates), and his actions are in keeping
with his announced impulses. Furthermore, there’s nothing unique or surprising
about them — you can hear them in our classrooms and our college dorms, and
read them in the establishment press every day. He’s an establishment member in
high standing. (Wow, what a great analysis of Obama's personal ideology. It
certainly makes a great deal of sense. Of course, assuming it's a valid
description, it still leaves us facing 3 more years of a President trying to
remake us into less than we have been, and less than I believe we need to be.
--Del )
Republicans Go On an
Immigration Reform Bender. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: Rather than twisting the political knife in the gaping
wound that is Obamacare, House Republicans are off on a “comprehensive
immigration reform” toot. The latest news has the Speaker putting off any
action for now, and waiting until after the midterm elections in order not to
anger the anti-amnesty base, and “to goose Latino turnout or to swing purple
districts” in 2016, as political blogger Allahpundit put it. In other words, electoral timing
rather than principle is determining what happens. (Wow, this guy minces no
words, he lays it out straight. I wish more people would speak plainly and
logically and factually about our problems, as he has done here. And he is
absolutely right, there is no way to dodge the totally predictable accusations
of racism, misogyny, and all the standard slanders leftists love to use against
any conservative. The answer is not to shrink from the fight, but to go ahead
with facts, logic, and transparency. We need politicians who can rise to such
action. --Del )
Excerpt: GOPs press for sanctions vote, Menendez vows to
"not yield" on his bill, and Paul presses Obama on his constitutional
authority to repeal sanctions law. (This whole mess with playing nice with the
ayatollahs is so stupid, considering what we know of what they really say and
really do back home, that it defies the imagination that anyone is ready to
take them at their word. Wanting so badly to believe that they have really
decided to be nice people that you ignore the reality of their past and present
actions is on a par with believing that giving Hitler the Sudetendland would
end all the trouble with Germany .
--Del )
Florida mom brings
daughter, 15, to New York
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/moms-pimp-daughter-15-super-bowl-article-1.1597569
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/moms-pimp-daughter-15-super-bowl-article-1.1597569
Excerpt: The mom’s sick admission, spelled out in court
papers, shows Yolanda Ostoloza, 39, of Hollywood, Fla., knew exactly what she
was doing. “We came up here to work and make money with a pimp,” she told cops,
according to a criminal complaint. “I knew it was for escorting and
prostitution.”
Excerpt: If you want to 'end the war' against al Qaeda, one
good way would be to declare that all of the global terror group's leaders are
dead, and declare victory. And this seems to be exactly what the Obama
administration is doing. And pretty much doing it at the behest of our
'friends' in Pakistan .
The same Pakistani friends who insisted for 10 years that Osama bin Laden
wasn't in Pakistan , until he
was killed by US SEALs in a raid just outside Pakistan 's
version of West Point .
Widow of Murdered Police Officer Vows to Stop Confirmation
of Cop Killer Advocate to DOJ. By Katie
Pavlich
Excerpt: Yesterday Democrats on the Senate Judiciary
Committee approved Obama nominee Debo Adegbile to head up the Civil Rights
Division inside the Department of Justice. His nomination now goes to the
Senate floor for a vote. In 2011, Adegbile voluntarily took on the case and
racial cause of convicted cop killed Mumia Abu-Jamal during his time as the
president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
West Denounces
Repression of Bloggers, Religions in Vietnam
Excerpt: Western countries on Wednesday denounced Vietnam ’s
jailing of bloggers and curbs on the Internet and called on its Communist
government to respect basic freedoms of worship and expression. Britain ’s diplomat Ruth Tumer told the
Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council that her country regretted “recent trends
to control the Internet” and, with diplomats from France
and Australia ,
called for reducing the number of crimes punishable by death and for a
moratorium on executions. (Hanoi
is getting their share of recognition for being the miserable bastards that
they are. --Del )
The Lesson of Chris Christie and Bridgegate: Don’t Fall In
Love Too Fast. By Dan McLaughlin
Excerpt: The political fallout of “Bridgegate” may not be
entirely clear just yet – but the lesson it holds for Republicans looking for a
2016 presidential candidate should be. Don’t fall in love too early. Nobody
should be rushing to pick a 2016 presidential nominee two years before the
first primaries. One of the iron laws of politics is that sooner or later,
everybody gets a turn inside the piñata.
Trader Joe's pulls
plug on Northeast Portland development after
'negative reactions' from community
The store would have brought in a lot of jobs for locals,
and increased property values, things we normally think of as really good for
the neighborhood. But some local activists could only see it as possibly
bringing in new residents who might not be Black, and that was sufficient cause
to nix the whole thing. Wow.... speaking of being mired in backward attitudes
and what is really racism! How sad for everyone. And note, the development company
was owned by Blacks. --Del. Black "leaders" often complain that black
neighborhoods have higher food prices and fewer jobs due to racism. Imagine if
white folks opposed a store because it would bring in too many blacks! Not to
mention that this type of racist statement from blacks encourages white racism
in response. ~Bob.)
Christie’s stunning budget-cut hypocrisy: Pensions gutted
before Super Bowl splurge: Christie is just the latest politician to call for
"necessary" budget cuts before spending big on special interests. By David
Sirota
Excerpt: In the name of fiscal responsibility, Gov. Chris
Christie, R-N.J., has cut the pensions of New Jersey ’s public employees and reduced
education funding. Yet, he had his state cough up almost $18 million to
subsidize the big game. That was in addition to the $400 million the New York
Times noted New Jersey
taxpayers spent to improve the Meadowlands. It was also on top of the special
property tax breaks New Jersey
gave the NFL. (I am opposed to the taxpayers funding any form of entertainment--sports, arts, public radio and TV, etc.
But it's a popular way to buy votes from folks who then wonder why their taxes
are so high. ~Bob.)
Salazar says support of Keystone comes from new
information. By Allison Sherry
Excerpt: Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an
interview Thursday that his endorsement of construction of the Keystone oil
sands pipeline comes after learning new information, including that the
pipeline would not greatly increase carbon emissions. (Get a load of who's endorsing the project now that he's no
longer in a position to help it come to fruition. Look, Obama
administration, if you don't want to build the Keystone Pipeline, just come out
and say so. Take the political lumps and get it over with. Enough of this
perpetual "well, we just need to review it a few more months" limbo.
To put the length of time of this review in perspective, when they first sought
approval to build the pipeline, the fossils that make up the fossil fuel of the
oil were still walking around. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
The Most Corrupt Village in America.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Alorton, an African-American village run by
Democrats, may actually be the most corrupt village in Illinois
and the United States .
Alorton’s violent crime rate has been as high as ten times the national
average. Its biggest employers are health care, fast food, welfare and
education. The unemployment rate for black men is at 31%. Half the people in
Alorton live below the poverty line. 70% of poor households consist of single
mothers.
Fracking Keeps
Heating Bills Down
The cold winter has created a near-record demand for natural
gas in the United States ,
says the Wall Street Journal. While the increased demand has raised natural gas
prices, the jump in price has not been as extreme as in past cold snaps. ...
The more stable prices are a function of the energy boom in the United States ,
which, through fracking, has created massive natural gas supplies. With the
vast supply, the market has not panicked with concern that stores will be
depleted. (this helps the poor and working classes, but since when do
Progressives--who oppose fracking--care about them. Never see them at parties.
~Bob)
Ayatollah Tortured,
Near Death, in Iran
Excerpt: Ayatollah Hossein-Kazamani Boroujerdi, a senior
member of the Shiite Muslim clergy, is presently serving the eighth year of an
11-year sentence handed down to him by the Islamic Republic's courts for
advocating the separation of state and religion inside Iran.
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTc4NDg3Njk
Excerpt: Hold on to your wallets, folks. Without a powerful
intervention, California may soon become the
first big domino to fall in America 's
public pension debacle. To help prevent catastrophe, the California Public
Policy Center (CPPC) has just made public a new database detailing the size and
scope of the state's outsized expenditures on public employees — the largest
ever compiled in California .
Legislators and voters should take note, because California can't afford another round of
fact-free partisan warfare. (Another demonstration of how irresponsible
government from politicians eager to keep public employees happy has become a
bomb whose fuse is growing shorter by the year. It's more than time for
correction of these super generous policies, but getting it done is a major
challenge. --Del.
My money's still on the Illinois
pension disaster hitting first. Both were created by Democrats buying votes
from public for the next election, and, unlike pay raises, postponing the bill
to the future--which is almost here. I was glad to leave that state. ~Bob)
Maryland disrespects
us and gun owners, so we expand in Tennessee U.S.A.
Excerpt: My family has operated our business from the same
small town in northern Italy for 500 years.
This means that when we make a commitment to a local community, our hope is to
do so for decades, if not centuries, to come. We apply this same philosophy to
all of our factories and locations throughout the world. Such a commitment is
not a one-way street, though. In return for our investment in jobs, facilities
and assistance to the local economy, we ask for respect and a supportive
business climate.
Excerpt: President Obama used his address at the National
Prayer Breakfast in Washington this
morning to highlight that it’s “clear that around the world freedom of religion
is under threat,” claiming that his administration is helping save the day. “We
see governments engaging in discrimination and violence against the faithful.
We sometimes see religion twisted in an attempt to justify hatred and
persecution against other people just because of who they are, or how they pray
or who they love. (Gee, Dr. Carson did not get an invite this year….Barb.)
Excerpt: President Obama enacted part of his promised
Climate Action Plan today with the creation of regional “Climate Hubs” to
coordinate a global warming response with farmers, ranchers and owners of
forest land….The USDA, which is overseeing the hubs, said the program is part
of Obama’s State of the Union promise “to responsibly cut carbon pollution,
slow the effects of climate change and put America on track to a cleaner environment.”
Cop arrests
firefighter giving aid to crash victims
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/cop-arrests-firefighter-giving-aid-to-crash-victims/#ixzz2sZ5umv3l
Excerpt: A California firefighter was attempting to give aid
to the victims of a car crash when he was handcuffed and detained by a highway
patrol officer, according to local news.Now the agencies involved say it was a
misunderstanding that prompted the officer to interrupt firefighter Jacob
Gregoire’s efforts to help an injured man….Gregoire was assisting an injured
man when an officer with the California Highway Patrol instructed him to move
his firetruck out of the dividing lane.
Police charge man on
crutches with misdemeanor for shooting an intruder to protect his daughter
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/police-charge-man-on-crutches-with-misdemeanor-for-shooting-an-intruder-to-protect-his-daughter/#ixzz2sZ4aYuaH
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/police-charge-man-on-crutches-with-misdemeanor-for-shooting-an-intruder-to-protect-his-daughter/#ixzz2sZ4aYuaH
Excerpt: A 44-year-old man on crutches shot and killed one
of two intruders in his Chicago home
last week, according to the Chicago Tribune. Police have since
charged him with a misdemeanor for possession of a firearm with an expired
Firearm Owner Identification card. According to the police report, his
18-year-old daughter woke him and said she thought someone might be trying to
break in next-door, so the man opened the door connecting the residences to
investigate. When he returned to the open door he saw two men charging him and
fired.
Police destroy
cameras before conducting scary, military-style raid on house [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/police-destroy-cameras-before-conducting-scary-military-style-raid-on-house-video/#ixzz2sZ3Xu6MW
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/police-destroy-cameras-before-conducting-scary-military-style-raid-on-house-video/#ixzz2sZ3Xu6MW
Excerpt: Police are being scrutinized for a raid they
conducted in Ankeny , Iowa
Email: IRS’s Lerner,
Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/05/email-irss-lerner-treasury-department-secretly-drafted-new-rules-to-restrict-nonprofits/#ixzz2sZ2zUme2
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/05/email-irss-lerner-treasury-department-secretly-drafted-new-rules-to-restrict-nonprofits/#ixzz2sZ2zUme2
Excerpt: The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and
former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to
restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be
disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The
Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,”
meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They
planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups
was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify
regulations as the administration has suggested.
An Exercise in
Indoctrination
Excerpt: A University
of California , Berkeley professor is requiring 100 students
to create Twitter accounts and post comments about "Islamophobia,"
anti-Islamist Muslim activist Tarek Fatah reports.
New York Times Profit
Falls 12%; Print, Digital Revenues Still Falling. By Joel Pollak
Excerpt: The New York Times announced Thursday that
operating profits had fallen 12% in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the
same period a year before. (So serving up Progressive Pabulum isn't profitable?
Who knew? Since the NYT is the propaganda arm of the permanent Obama campaign,
I suppose he will declare them "too big to fail" and bail them out
with our money. ~Bob)
Key Democratic Group
Will Sit Out Midterm Elections
Excerpt: Priorities USA Action, the super PAC now backing
Hillary Clinton, won’t spend to help Democrats in the House and Senate this
year, a spokesperson confirms. (Bugler, sound retreat! Every Man for himself!
~Bob)
It should be game
over for the Olympics. By Charles
Lane
Excerpt: But any benefits have to be weighed against the
Olympics’ costs, which are political, financial, moral and — for athletes
ravaged by steroid abuse — human. Supporters speak of the Olympics as a
“movement,” as if the Games were some sort of insurgent force for good, not the
leviathan they are. What we really need is a movement to get rid of them. (Yup.
~Bob)
Excerpt: This is remarkable, the latest in a string of
rightward moves that must have the more honest among Davis ’s backers wondering why they’re
bothering. Thus far, their candidate has: dropped from her website all mention
of abortion, the very thing that made her famous; started to describe herself
as “pro-life” in the vain hope that voters might not notice; and, worried at
how she might be portrayed, taken to walking around campaign events
carrying a shotgun and talking like Yosemite
Sam. The policy shifts, too, have been remarkable.
Hillary Clinton
‘certainly aware’ of security problems before Benghazi
Excerpt: House Republicans on Friday issued a new
report that says former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton “was
certainly aware” of security problems in Libya ahead of the 2012 terrorist attack on
the U.S. diplomatic outpost
in Benghazi .
The new report also questions the validity of the State Department’s own
internal review, known as the Accountability Review Board,
saying it had serious deficiencies. (The flow of information and repeated
questions just rolls on. On January 15th the Senate issued an 85 page report on
the situation, which is pretty interesting, but large sections of it are
redacted. It's attached for those who are really interested in the details of
what happened. --Del. Vary hard for the public to get at the truth of these
thing. Republicans are eager to spin to put Obama and Clinton in the worst
light. Democrats and their media water carriers strive to white wash every scandal--IRS,
Fast and Furious, NSA and this--to cover for them. ~Bob)
Excerpt: So why is the left so angry? Watch MSNBC or browse
any left-wing site and you see a level of anger that would make you think that
Al Gore had just conceded or Nixon had just won reelection. There’s more anger
in the privileged circles of the left than in the political rearguard of the
Tea Party.
A tale of two
droughts. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Despite recent sporadic rain, California is still
in the worst extended drought in its brief recorded history. If more storms do
not arrive, the old canard thatCalifornia could withstand two droughts --
but never three -- will be tested for the first time in memory. There is little
snow in the state's towering Sierra Nevada mountains,
the source of much of the surface water that supplies the state's populated
center and south.
Audit finds asylum
system rife with fraud; approval laws broken with surge of immigrants
Who would have guessed? ~Bob. Excerpt: At least 70 percent
of asylum applications showed signs of fraud, according to a secret 2009
internal government audit that found many of those cases had been approved
anyway.
California: Snipers open fire on electrical substation,
“most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has
ever occurred.” By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: It happened last April, but we are only hearing
about it now. Why is that? There have been no arrests and there are apparently no suspects, but it does appear to have been
a carefully planned and coordinated attack. Said Mark Johnson, a former PG&E
executive: “This wasn’t an incident where Billy-Bob and Joe decided,
after a few brewskis, to come in and shoot up a substation. This was an event
that was well thought out, well planned and they targeted certain components.”
Muslim who says she
was fired for refusing flu shot sues Children's Hospital Boston
Excerpt: A former Children's Hospital Boston employee who
said she was fired because her Islamic beliefs
prohibited her from getting a mandatory flu shot sued the hospital today. Leontine Robinson says in her complaint
filed in U.S. District Court in Boston
that her civil rights were violated because the hospital "intentionally
discriminated against (her) due to her religious beliefs."
Obama Has Nullified
the Legislative Branch
Excerpt: The president does behave outside the
Constitution. I mean, Sheila Jackson Lee, in the House of Representatives, is
saying that their job now is to write executive orders for Obama to sign. Not
laws, but write executive orders! During his State of the Coup speech, when
Obama announced that if they didn’t do what he wanted, he’s gonna go do it
anyway, the Democrats stood up and cheered.
Sheila Jackson Lee:
Writing executive orders for Obama to sign ‘our number one agenda’
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/04/sheila-jackson-lee-writing-executive-orders-for-obama-to-sign-our-number-one-agenda/#ixzz2sWfamgDS
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/04/sheila-jackson-lee-writing-executive-orders-for-obama-to-sign-our-number-one-agenda/#ixzz2sWfamgDS
Excerpt: Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said that the
new Congressional Full Employment Caucus will “give President Obama a number of
executive orders that he can sign.” Jackson Lee added that writing up executive
orders “should be our number one agenda.” (Note the red/black uniform of “the
community/regime.” --Barb)
Muslim Brotherhood
Leader Meets Obama in White House. Controversial British MB leader participates
in Iraq
Excerpt: A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood was
recently hosted at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, prompting an outcry from critics of the
global Islamist organization. Anas Altikriti, a top
British lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood whose father heads Iraq’s Muslim
Brotherhood party, recently met with the
president and Vice President Joe Biden as part of a delegation discussing
problems in Iraq.
U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase:
Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of
ammo
Excerpt:…“The United States Postal Service intends to
solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which
also mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10. The Post Office published the notice
just two days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a
federal gun ban that prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying
handguns inside post offices across the country.
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