Update
General News and Comment
Most Voters Want
Congress to Ignore Obama Veto Threats
Excerpt: President Obama on Tuesday used one
of the very rare vetoes of his presidency to reject a bipartisan bill from
Congress calling for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Voters
aren’t happy with that veto and want Congress to keep doing what it wants even
if the president doesn’t like it.
Important: Donation to Clinton
Excerpt: The Clinton Foundation was on the defensive
Wednesday after disclosing that it had accepted millions of dollars from
several foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, including
one donation that violated the foundation's ethics agreement with the Obama
administration. (Should be called "The Clinton Travel and Perks
Foundation." ~Bob. Sorry. This is disqualifying. The Secretary of State
cannot take money from foreign governments while allegedly representing our
interests in negotiations with that government. It’s bribery: ... The claim is that all of the money went
to good charitable causes. But Algeria Clintons
W.H. Unable
To Explain Why Clinton
Hillary keeps up
Dems' middle-class deception
Excerpt: But when elite Democratic politicians discuss the
“middle class,” they're not usually talking about a group of people they intend
to help with new policies. Rather, they're affixing a proven and popular label
on the same old policies, which mostly do nothing for the tens of millions of
Americans who are too rich to take government benefits but not so wealthy that
money isn't a constant concern. Take as an example Obama's new enthusiasm for
what he calls “middle class economics.” As proposed in his State of the Union , it would have actually raised the average
middle-class earner's taxes by seven dollars a year, according to an analysis
by the Tax Foundation. As the Washington Post's Max Ehrenfreund put it bluntly,
“There's no point in calling this tax plan 'middle-class economics,' since its
main effect is to help the poor.”
Interesting: Hillary Clinton is no feminist champion.
By Ashe Schow
Excerpt: If we take a ride back 20 years to the 1990s,
Hillary was involved in the most orchestrated
and vicious victim-blaming campaigns against women in recent history.
She spent years defending husband Bill from accusations that he raped, sexually
assaulted or groped women. And even after he admitted publicly that he cheated
on her, she stood by him. ... The most that can be said about her
“accomplishments” was that she “achieved” them by being married to Bill. That’s
not exactly the feminist way of being your own, empowered woman.
Joe Biden Wants to
‘Emancipate Wealth' by Stealing More of It and Making More Poor People
http://godfatherpolitics.com/20658/joe-biden-wants-emancipate-wealth-stealing-making-poor-people/
http://godfatherpolitics.com/20658/joe-biden-wants-emancipate-wealth-stealing-making-poor-people/
Excerpt: Joe Biden is creepy and dangerous. He was picked by
Obama to be the vice-president for two reasons: First, because he knew that
Biden could not compete with him in the realm of public popularity. He needed a
vice-president who would not upstage him. Biden was the perfect pick. The
stooge that made the other guy look better.
Interesting: Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is out to
emancipate the Land
of Lincoln
Excerpt: The most portentous election of 2014, which gave
the worst-governed state its first Republican governor in 12 years, has
initiated this century’s most intriguing political experiment. Illinois has favored
Democratic presidential candidates by an average of 16 points in the past six
elections. But by electing businessman Bruce Rauner it
initiated a process that might dismantle a form of governance that afflicts
many states and municipalities.
FCC approves sweeping
Internet regulation plan
Excerpt: The Federal Communications Commission, in a
party-line vote, approves sweeping 'net neutrality' plan allowing broad
regulation of how Americans use the Internet. Makes it easier for the
government to find racist, Islamophobic right-wing terrorists--and silence
them. ~Bob)
Soros, Ford
Foundation Donated Nearly $200M to Pro-Net Neutrality Groups
http://www.newsmax.com/US/George-Soros-Ford-Foundation-net-neutrality-FCC/2015/02/25/id/626898/?ns_mail_uid=9210582&ns_mail_job=1610304_02262015&s=al&dkt_nbr=e1dftioz
http://www.newsmax.com/US/George-Soros-Ford-Foundation-net-neutrality-FCC/2015/02/25/id/626898/?ns_mail_uid=9210582&ns_mail_job=1610304_02262015&s=al&dkt_nbr=e1dftioz
Excerpt: As the Federal Communications Commission is set to
approve new Internet rules, a new report shows that George Soros and the Ford
Foundation have donated $196 million to groups that support the cause.
Worth Reading : Grievance School
Excerpt: Of all the college towns fixed in the American mind
as bastions of elite leftism, a Big Four stand out: Cambridge ,
Madison , Berkeley ,
and Boulder . It
was no wonder, then, that the University of Colorado at Boulder received
national attention, and raised many eyebrows, when it announced a couple of
years back that it wanted to hire an identified conservative as a visiting
faculty member — the beginning of a privately funded pilot program to bring conservative
perspectives to its storied campus. I ended up being the guinea pig for this
unorthodox experiment.
CNN, DHS & SPLC’s
Blame Righty hit job. By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/02/25/cnn-dhs-splcs-blame-righty-hit-job/
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/02/25/cnn-dhs-splcs-blame-righty-hit-job/
Your tax dollars are once again hard at work — defaming
conservatives, deflecting from worldwide murderous jihad and denying the public
access to information they funded.
CNN splashed the big scoop on its website: “DHS
intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat.” The
fear-mongering piece featured a huge map of 24 alleged acts of “violence by
sovereign citizen extremists since 2010.” CNN’s Evan Perez and Wes Bruer
prominently quoted Mark Potok of the widely disgraced propaganda outfit
the Southern Poverty Law Center. Potok claimed that “there are as many as
300,000 people involved in some way with sovereign citizen extremism.” (Well,
the SPLC called Dr. Ben Carson, who grew up poor and black in the Detroit ghetto to become
probably the world's most eminent pediatric neurosurgeon, an extremist. case
closed. ~Bob)
The Vietnam War Through Red Lenses. By Phillip Jennings
Excerpt: The Last Days in Vietnam is
an Oscar-nominated documentary covering the very end of South Vietnam ,
in April, 1975. Rory Kennedy’s dramatically sad and horrific documentary is
both difficult (for a Vietnam Veteran at least) to watch and a chronicle of
American compassion and angst. The fall of a democratic society to Communist
tyranny should be lamented by Americans, who sacrificed greatly in their
defense. It is a film of pathos, frustrating and yet strongly uplifting at
times as American soldiers, diplomats and newsmen risk their careers and their
lives to save Vietnamese friends from the invading North Vietnamese Army.
Uplifting, unless you’re Associate Professor Christoph Giebel of the University of Washington ,
Seattle . In a
review of the film posted to the website of Vietnam Scholars Group (sic) by
Professor Giebel, the film is “dangerously simplistic,” and “much more of a
commentary on current US culture—steeped in nationalistic discourses of
exceptionalism, thoroughly militarized, and narcissistic—than a reflection of
its actual quality.” (An article to read and pass around. --Del )
Public Pensions'
Scary First Cousin -- Retiree Health Benefits. By Nancy Smith
Excerpt: The subject of public employee retirement systems
is one of the toughest nuts for legislatures especially to crack. But for
many local governments in Florida ,
there's another, seldom-mentioned "ticking time bomb" -- something
separate but oh-so-related to public pensions: commitments to subsidize retiree
health care premiums. A report released earlier this week by the LeRoy Collins
Institute, "Beyond Pensions: Florida Local Governments and Retiree Health
Benefits," reveals public employees' health care premiums in the Sunshine State
Race Card News
Unbelievable: Citing Stigma, The University Of Minnesota
Excerpt: Facing backlash for allegedly stigmatizing
minorities — particularly black men — the University of Minnesota , Twin Cities announced on Tuesday
that it will no longer include racial descriptors in crime alerts issued to
students and faculty. “This change supports our public safety goals while
recognizing the harm that the use of race in crime alerts causes for some
members of our community,” the university, which has nearly 50,000 students and
is located in Minneapolis and St. Paul , said in a statement. (Are
they saying that blacks commit a disproportionate share of the crimes? Not a
stigma other wish. But they should leave out gender and age--those are
protected classes we don't want to stigmatize either. An alert would read,
"Be on the lookout for someone on campus who is an armed, homicidal
maniac, but we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by describing the person.
Good luck. Stay safe." ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Doctors Not Cashing
In on Meaningful Use Incentives
Excerpt: Despite ONC's authority and intentions, their
efforts are not seeing results. "Meaningful use" of ONC-certified
EHRs triggers incentive payments for medical professionals but they are not
cashing in. In 2014, only 3,154 eligible medical professionals had attested to
the second stage of meaningful use to receive their payments for installing
EHRs. A 2015 SERMO survey found 55 percent of the nearly 2000 physicians
surveyed would not attest to the next stage of meaningful use this year. In
response to this, federal penalties have been levied against 257,000
physicians, 280 providers and 200 hospitals for not using EHRs
"meaningfully." Why are doctors not using EHRs meaningfully? Doctors
are learning the actual cost of installing EHRs includes loss of productivity,
a cost the incentive payments do not compensate for.
State's ObamaCare
overcharges 13K
Excerpt: The Washington
state ObamaCare exchange says that it withdrew the incorrect amount of money
from the bank accounts of 13,000 people.
Treasury won't
explain decision to make $3 billion in Obamacare payments. By Philip Kline
Excerpt: The U.S. Treasury Department has rebuffed a request
by House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis., to explain $3 billion
in payments that were made to health insurers even though Congress never
authorized the spending through annual appropriations.
At issue are payments to insurers known as cost-sharing
subsidies. These payments come about because President Obama’s healthcare law
forces insurers to limit out-of-pocket costs for certain low income individuals
by capping consumer expenses, such as deductibles and co-payments, in insurance
policies. In exchange for capping these charges, insurers are supposed to
receive compensation.
Undocumented Democrat News
Worth Hearing: Testimony of Mr. Jamiel Shaw at
Oversight Hearing
Grieving black father: "Do black lives really matter?
Or only if they are killed by a white person?" Mother was in Iraq at the
time. ~Bob
Worth Reading
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414428/our-illiberal-immigration-policy-leads-chaos-victor-davis-hanson
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414428/our-illiberal-immigration-policy-leads-chaos-victor-davis-hanson
Excerpt: There also exist liberal and illiberal approaches
to immigration. Take liberal immigration. It is governed by laws passed by
Congress and signed and executed by the president. Nearly all Americans accept
that no individual can pick and choose which federal statute he chooses to
obey, depending on his own perceived self-interest. Liberal immigration would
be entirely legal, meritocratic, and ethnically blind. Skills and education
would matter more than proximity to the border or political clout.
Well, the "Ex-President-in-Waiting" could describe
any of us as "Corpses-in-Waiting." ~Bob
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Religion of Peace News
‘Jihadi John’: Islamic State killer is identified as
Londoner Mohammed Emwazi. By Souad Mekhennet and Adam Goldman
Excerpt: But his real name, according to friends and others
familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family
who grew up in West London and graduated from
college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled
to Syria
around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose
barbarity he has come to symbolize. (Just an immigrant wanting a better life.
~Bob)
Excerpt: The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling
Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding
for mosques and imams.
Jews Who Embrace Their Enemies. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Last February, a divestment resolution went before
the UCLA student government. Despite intense pressure, harassment and hate,
Jewish against it. And the resolution failed 7-5. In November, a
divestment vote came up again and UCLA Jewish student groups chose to sit it out. Instead of opposing the resolution,
they would work on an approach “markedly from that of last year’s pro-Israel
community, which passionately and publicly opposed divestment actions in a
climate of toxic relations between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students.”
Statement on the
Murder of Dr. Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi Ally and Friend
Excerpt: We at the Center for Inquiry are shocked and
heartbroken by the brutal murder of our friend Dr. Avijit Roy in Bangladesh ,
it is speculated at the hands of Islamic militants. Dr. Roy was a true ally, a
courageous and eloquent defender of reason, science, and free expression, in a
country where those values have been under heavy attack.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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