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December 31, 2013--Happy New Year's Eve!
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VIDEOS
Be sure and watch Part 8: In the final segment, members of the committee pose
questions to the presenters regarding
key issues of student/parent privacy, program cost, and state autonomy in
deciding how and what our students are taught in public schools. Here questions from Reps. Larry Pittman,
Michael Speciale and others.
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TPN—Judson Phillips: New
Year’s Resolutions, 2014--The New Year is almost upon us. Everyone makes New Year’s
resolutions. Resolutions for the New Year are goals. Goal’s are an
excellent beginning but goals without a plan are pretty meaningless.
Benjamin Franklin warned us, “he who fails to plan, plans to fail.” What should the Tea Party’s New Year’s
resolution for 2014 and the plan be?
Read more.
Walter
Williams: Parting Company (Excellent, must read!)--Here's a question that I've asked in the past that
needs to be revisited. Unless one wishes to obfuscate, it has a simple yes or
no answer. If one group of people prefers strong government control and
management of people's lives while another group prefers liberty and desires to
be left alone, should they be required to enter into conflict with one another
and risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences on the
other group? Yes or no. My answer is no; they should be able to peaceably part
company and go their separate ways. Read more.
Obama's Federal Government
Funded Hardcore Porn Project--The National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) has provided nearly $1 million in taxpayer funding since 2010
to “The Popular Romance Project,” an academic program to study the genre of
popular romance fiction. The Project
aims to “explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of
popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs, and
internet fan fiction, taking a global perspective,” and will culminate with a
2015 documentary called “Love Between the Covers,” a “content-rich website,” an
academic symposium, and a “nationwide series of library programs dealing with
the past, present, and future. Read more!
Top 10
Conservatives of 2013--Honorable Mentions: Justin Amash, Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint,Trey Gowdy, Bobby Jindal,Heritage Action, Louie Gohmert,Darrell Issa, Hobby Lobby, Sarah Palin, Jeff Sessions, Steve Stockman, Scott Walker. 10) Mike Lee: Lee is
Robin to Ted Cruz's Batman and whenever there are conservatives fighting the
Democrats or the Republican Establishment, he's right in the mix.
Replacing Bob Bennett with Mike Lee turned out to be the biggest upgrade since
Ronald Reagan took over for Jimmy Carter.
See who is number 9 by clicking here!
Government Spying, Militerized Police, Erosion of Property
Rights, Common Core, Drones, Criminalizing childish behavior--Life in the
Emerging American Police State: What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014? “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1. In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy
Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to
live the same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into
his life but changes his priorities. Continue reading.
WND’S Top 10 major media
cover-ups of 2013--In an administration known for its
dissembling, deciding which lies are its biggest is a challenge. But as health care takes center stage in the
run-up to the 2014 mid-term elections, the many lies that were used, with the
aid of a compliant media, to convince the nation that the passage of Obamacare
presented nothing to worry about top WND’s annual list of the 10 most “spiked”
or underreported stories of the last year.
Read more!
“How Are We Supposed To
Live?” Michigan Workers Discover Obamacare
Means Impoverishment--The 41 employees of Extreme
Dodge in Jackson , Mich.
Report confirms government effort to alter coal job loss
estimates--The Obama
administration tried to edit a report on new coal regulations
to lower analysts’ estimates of serious job
losses,
an official investigation has found, backing up reports that the Interior
Department pressured a private contractor to change information
in order to make the data more acceptable.
The Associated Press and Fox News reported in 2011 that a company claimed
the Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement asked it to change
variables in a calculation that showed new environmental regulations would lead
to large job losses. Read more!
losses,
an official investigation has found, backing up reports that the Interior
Department pressured a private contractor to change information
in order to make the data more acceptable.
The Associated Press and Fox News reported in 2011 that a company claimed
the Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement asked it to change
variables in a calculation that showed new environmental regulations would lead
to large job losses. Read more!
Heritage Foundation Foundry:
These 13 Tax Increases Hit in 2013--It’s about time for us to uncover
our eyes and take a hard look at what 2013 did to our finances. Did you feel the pinch of the 13 tax hikes
that hit Americans this year? Before you review the list below, put these two on your
watch list for 2014: Click here.
Minimum wage increase: Good policy, better politics for
Democrats in 2014--Raising the minimum wage might be good policy for President
Obama and congressional Democrats, but it's even better politics. President Obama began advocating a raise in
the minimum wage from its current $7.25 level with his February State
The health care debate is already changing for Republicans
in 2014--Repealing Obamacare is so 2013.
In the coming year, the tone and substance of the political discourse
around the troubled Obamacare will shift slightly -- but notably -- as
candidates face the first election cycle since the new health care law took
effect and millions of people enrolled in plans through the insurance exchanges
it created. With President Obama's
health care reforms now entrenched as law, repealing it will be highly
impractical, undermining one of the Republican Party's major talking points.
The debate will morph into a question of which party can better refine and rework
the law, operatives in both parties predicts. Continue reading.
GOP retaliation over filibuster rule change could jam Senate
in 2014--Senate Republicans still smarting from a Democratic rules change that
diminished their power to block President Obama's appointees are vowing
retribution against the majority when lawmakers return to work in January. The GOP in the final weeks of the 2013
session provided a glimpse into what that might mean in 2014. Unable to block
most presidential nominees because of the Democratic rule change, Republicans
are using their remaining authority to slow the Senate to a crawl, delaying
action on routine matters that typically pass uncontested. Read more.
Energy Department rejects 'social cost of carbon' challenge--The
Obama administration will not revisit a new rule based on its revised
"social cost of carbon" estimate, setting the table for a potential
legal challenge from industry groups who say the White House has assessed too
high a monetary value for benefits from reducing carbon pollution. At its core, the issue at hand is the Obama
administration's update to the social cost of carbon -- a monetization of
savings from reducing carbon pollution -- that's used in cost-benefit analyses
when crafting new rules. Industry groups contend the higher estimate the
administration is using will make it easier for federal agencies to justify
more aggressive regulations. It's drawn lobbying attention in recent months
from electric utility and oil firms, underscoring the perceived reach of the
change. Read more.
WRAL: NC state House speaker Thom Tillis owns a business.
Located in SC. (Incorporated in FLA.)--State House speaker and Senate candidate
Thom Tillis likes to talk about what the General Assembly — under his
leadership — has done to improve the business climate in the Tar Heel
State. Yet – according to some research
by WRAL — Tillis is an “owner” in PDQ Ft. Mill, LLC. The LLC — established in 2010 — does not
appear on Tillis’ 2011 financial disclosure form. Continued.
WILL 2014 BE THE YEAR AMERICANS FINALLY SAY ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH? On The Glenn Beck Program
Monday, TheBlaze’s national security editor Buck Sexton took “a look back” at
2013, and considered what 2014 will hold for the American people. “Will 2014 be the year the pendulum finally
swings back away from progressives?” the guest host asked. “Can conservatives
finally re-take the high ground?” More here.
ALLEN WEST: 6 ‘DISTURBING UNANSWERED QUESTIONS’ ABOUT
BENGHAZI--Though the White House still considers the deadly Benghazi terror
attack a “phony” scandal, former Florida Congressman Allen West still has
several “disturbing unanswered questions” about what happened in Libya on Sept.
11, 2012. The terrorist attack on the U.S.
compound in Benghazi claimed the lives of four
Americans — including a U.S.
ambassador. Read it here.
NBC figures out that employees aren't going to like what
ObamaCare does in 2014--"You're going to be sorry you called it ObamaCare
when people find out how great it is." - Every Democrat. Gotta love that quote. I could run around and search for specific
high-level Democrats who uttered some variation of it but, in the end, there's
no need. Pretty much every left-winger
in Congress has made the claim at one time or another. Now, 2014 is just about here, and they get to
find out if they were right. If they
were, the mid-terms should be a cakewalk.
Everyone will think Dems are wonderful, and they'll breeze through
November. If they're wrong? Well,
they're not. Their media allies have told us they're not, and there's no chance
of that changing. Read more.
December 30, 2013
Carolina Journal Looking Ahead to 2014 Election Coverage— Even
though Election Day 2014 is nearly 11 months away, the editors and staff of
Carolina Journal already have begun reporting and offering analysis of key
races across North Carolina . Managing Editor Rick Henderson will resume
“Daily Dispatches From the Campaign Trail” on the John Locke Foundation’s
statewide “Locker Room” blog Jan. 2. The blog entries, posted every weekday
morning, provide links to news reports and information on candidates and
campaigns across all areas of the state. This year will mark the third election
cycle CJ has offered these daily updates, which began in 2010 with posts by
former Associate Editor David Bass and were continued by Henderson in 2012. Continue reading.
The Hill: Top 5
O-Care stories to watch--The healthcare law faced a very tough year in 2013,
but that could pale in comparison to what happens in 2014. Between new exchange
plans taking effect in January, the first enrollment period concluding in March
and the midterm elections in November, the administration will have its hands
full managing the rollout and mitigating negative stories for vulnerable
Democrats. Here are the top five stories to watch!
The Morning Bell : Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels:
Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013--The latest budget deal, passed by
a bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate, suggests that Washington agrees with
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) when she said that “the cupboard is
bare. There are no more cuts to make.” The
cupboard, however, is overflowing with liquor, crystal glassware, and more. Here is our list of the top 10 examples of
wasteful government spending this year, serving as a reminder that there is no
shortage of excessive spending in Washington . Read more here!
The Hill: Regulatory
fights loom large in 2014--Battles lines are being drawn for a series of
upcoming clashes over new regulations on the horizon in 2014. The year promises to be chock full of
contentious fights over scores of new rules stemming from ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank
and a host of other laws. Read more.
Diane Rufino: How a
Republic Dies--One of my all-time favorite HBO series is ROME , starring Kevin McKidd and Ray
Stevenson. Borrowing on a theme similar
to Forrest Gump, the series follows the journey of two men in Julius Caesar’s
Roman legion who seem to find themselves making history wherever they go. The
soldiers are Lucius Vorenus (McKidd) and Titus Pullo (Stevenson). Although Vorenus and Pullo are real
centurions who displayed outstanding bravery and valor in battle and were
included in Caesar’s war journals, their journeys and experiences in the series
are the creation of the writers. ROME
chronicles the period in Roman history when the people lost their republic. (FYI—Our Founding Fathers studied Ancient
Rome and other civilizations as well as the Bible as they prepared to write our
Constitution.) Read it all here!
American Thinker: Obama
parties hearty in Hawaii — Saturday was a
financial ordeal for Skydive Hawaii
owner Frank Hinshaw. President Obama and his family attended a barbecue at the
oceanfront house of his Punahou
School Farrington
Highway from the shoreline villa, had to close
down for the entire day. Read more!
Sen. Ted Cruz hires lawyers to renounce his Canadian
citizenship--Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t leaving any room for doubt. He’s reached out
to his lawyers — and met with billionaire businessman Donald Trump — and is
taking steps to renounce his citizenship with Canada . The tea-party favorite said he only
discovered he held dual American-Canadian citizenship after the Dallas Morning
News reported it a few months ago. But he doesn’t want the issue to become an
albatross — as it did for President Obama over his birth certificate when a
host of sources, from politicos to Mr. Trump, questioned his true place of
birth. So Mr. Cruz is taking a dramatic action. Continue reading.
GOP REP. DARRELL ISSA CHALLENGES NY TIMES BENGHAZI CLAIMS: ‘NO EVIDENCE’ OF ‘REACTION
TO A VIDEO,’ ‘THIS WAS A PLANNED ATTACK’-- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.),
chairman of the House Oversight Committee, challenged some of the claims
stemming from a controversial New York Times investigative piece on the
Benghazi attacks, primarily those that insisted an anti-Islamic video provoked
hostilities there in September 2012. GOP
Rep. Darrell Issa Challenges NY Times Benghazi
Claims: No Evidence of Reaction to a Video, This Was a Planned Attack. Acknowledging that the Times did some good
work on the article, Issa nevertheless insisted that “interviewing people in
Benghazi after the fact, after the world has been told about this video, is
really not real time,” Issa said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. More here.
TED CRUZ’S RESPONSE ABOUT GOV’T SHUTDOWN ‘MISTAKE’ ANNOYS
INTERVIEWER — BUT SENATOR SEEMS TO RELISH THE FRICTION (This proves Ted Cruz is
able to take on the liberal press in a run for President)--Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) gave an interview to ABC’s Jonathan
Karl for “This Week” on Sunday. One of the more memorable exchanges came after
Karl offered that now that he’s had some time to think about it, was Cruz
prepared to finally admit that perhaps October’s government shutdown was a
“mistake.” Cruz’s response likely will
cause liberals to scream in anger and conservatives to smile in delight: Continue reading.
Race to the Top spending hasn’t translated to most
classrooms--The state has used most of the $400 million federal Race to the
Top education grant it won three years ago to upgrade technology, revamp
teacher training, and change teacher and principal evaluations.
As the Race to the Top grant period ends – it’s set to
conclude next summer, though the state is asking for an extension – some goals
for broad improvements in student performance have fallen short. Incentives
such as vouchers for systems to lure better teachers got little use. Read more here.
HARVARD PROF: TEA PARTY NOT GOING ANYWHERE, MORE LIKELY TO
WIN--A government and sociology professor at Harvard writes that the Tea Party
is more likely than not to "win in the end" in an age when Americans
are becoming more removed from Washington and distrusting the federal
government and their elected officials. "Tea
Party forces will still win in the end," Theda Skocpol writes, unless
moderate Republicans can defeat them. Skocpol concedes that the Tea Party
"will triumph just by hanging on long enough" as Americans are
getting fed up by "our blatantly manipulated democracy and our permanently
hobbled government." Read more!
VIDEOS
Who are YOU under PPACA?—This video is 55 minutes long. It is dry and filled with overwhelming information. The video will go into laws, statutes, and codes explaining how all of this pertains to YOU. Roberts isolated and exposed the secret of Limited Tax Liability, and for that reason none of the other justices supported him. Maybe he's not the ogre we've thought him to be. Maybe....
The First Amendment in Five Minutes! Watch as this legendary First Amendment lawyer gives a
primer on what everyone needs to know about freedoms of religion, speech and
press in under 5 minutes.
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The Daily Haymaker: *Surprise
! * New taxes make stuff cost more. The
mainstream media and their lefty politico allies are perpetually hollering
about “fairness” in the tax code. *Those
people who have accumulated all that cash need to have MORE of it taken from
them — and given to US. * Every time
taxes are part of the debate, we small-government advocates make the point that
monkeying with the tax code causes a chain-reaction, ripple-effect felt by
every demographic group represented in our economy. Typically, we get ignored and the changes get
steam-rolled through. And typically, we
get to point to the economic havoc the changes create and say ‘We told you so.” Read more here.
The Daily Haymaker: The
more things “change,” the more they stay THE SAME! We’re riding out 2013′s last gasps from The
Haymaker’s Watauga
County
White House presses Congress to extend unemployment benefits
for three months--The White House on the eve of unemployment benefits expiring
for 1.3 million Americans called on lawmakers to extend the federal aid for
three months once they return to Washington . “As the president has repeatedly made clear,
it defies economic sense, precedent and our values to allow 1.3 million
Americans fighting to find jobs to see their unemployment insurance abruptly
cut off — especially in the middle of the holiday season,” said Gene Sperling,
President Obama’s top economic adviser. Continued.
DNC sends email defending Obama from impeachment possibility—The
Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening
urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can’t impeach
President Obama. The email, subject line
“Impeachment,” was sent to Obama for America supporters, imploring them
to contribute to the DNC’s 2014 efforts. “What do these people all have in
common?,” the email asked, featuring quotes from Republican Sen. James Inhofe
of Oklahoma, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of
Michigan, and Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas discussing the possibility of
impeaching Obama for one of his numerous instances of presidential misconduct. Read more!
Obamacare--CMS claims December enrollment surge, leaves key questions
unanswered--About 1.1 million Americans picked a plan through the federally run
health insurance exchange as of Dec. 24 as part of President Obama's health
care program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Sunday. But the announcement, which came in the form
of a blog post from CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner, left many key questions
unanswered. Continue reading!
ESPN gets millions from taxpayers--Over the past 25 years
ESPN has gotten millions in tax credits (tax dollars straight from the tax
payer to the company) and tax breaks (which can still constitute a form of
crony capitalism even if the taxpayer doesn’t directly pay for them) from
Connecticut. The highly profitable business (even without the credits and
breaks) has worked its way into the state legislature over the years and has,
according to the New York Times, been able to effectively siphon off a steady
stream of state revenue. More.
Anita MonCrief: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations--On a crisp fall Tuesday afternoon in Houston, Election Day 2013 commenced with a quiet dignity reminiscent of the past. In black communities, the right to vote and the opportunity to participate in elections is still viewed to be especially precious, with many voters coming to the polls dressed in their Sunday best. Even still, the undercurrent of tension was undeniable, as the Department of Justice, civil rights groups, and local and mainstream media combed through communities, just hoping to find an angry voice willing to confirm the story they'd been spinning for months; that Texas' new voter ID law was bound to disenfranchise tens of thousands - maybe more. Read it here.
Canada Free Press: DHS insider gives final warning (U.S. is a captured operation. The lie is bigger than most people realize or are willing to confront)--Under the cover and amid the distraction of the Christmas bustle, I had my last “official” contact with a source inside the Department of Homeland Security known as “Rosebud” in my writings. My source is leaving his position, retiring along with numerous others choosing to leave this bureaucratic monstrosity. Read more!
The Hill: Jobless aid ends for 1.3M people--Roughly 1.3 million people lost their extended unemployment benefits on Saturday as Congress allowed the program to expire. Democrats — angry that an extension wasn't included in the recently-enacted (BIPARTISAN) budget agreement — have vowed to make the benefits the first item on their 2014 agenda. Republicans contend that lawmakers would better serve their constituents by directing their efforts to other job-boosting areas, especially given that a year-long unemployment extension comes with a $26 billion price tag. They also are waiting on Democrats to put forward a specific plan. Continue reading.
Five Senate races to watch--Democrats and Republicans are amassing enormous war chests for a midterm battle that will decide who controls the Senate for the remainder of President Obama’s term. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to reclaim the Senate majority, and are gunning for Democratic incumbents in conservative-leaning states like Arkansas, Alaska, North Carolina, West Virginia and Louisiana. Democrats are mostly playing defense, but see a few opportunities to peel away seats from the GOP column. Here are the five Senate races to watch in 2014. Read it here.
Our Children are Under Attack--America's Leadership would have us all believe that Illegal Immigration is all about providing workers for jobs Americans refuse to do. They also want to snow us into believing that the vast majority of the criminals invading our country through the southern border are just decent, God fearing, family type people just like Americans. They seek to have us believe that it is the only humane way to handle the issue. Even if it were, which it is NOT, about the jobs, MORE AMERICANS than ever in the history of this once GREAT COUNTRY are unemployed and, or have given up looking for work altogether. Many say unemployment is worse than in the Great Depression. So, common sense demands to know why would anyone seek to remove more jobs from the marketplace by filling them with ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS aka ILLEGAL ALIENS? Continued here.
VIDEOS
School House Rock – The Constitution--Watch this AWESOME
blast from the past. Let your kids watch it and they might learn something!!
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Lady Liberty 1885: Voucher
Pushback And Protectionism--The pushback on vouchers has been simmering
for a while now, but garnered a bit more attention when North Carolina’s top
school official, Dr. June Atkinson, decided to make a rather poor analogy: “With the voucher legislation that we have we
could be in dangerous territory as far as taxpayers’ dollars going to private
schools,” she said prior to speaking to the N.C. School Boards Association’s
Public Policy Conference. “There is nothing in the legislation that would
prevent someone from establishing a school of terror.“ – WECT This sentiment, albeit toned down, was
recently echoed by Mt. Airy Board Chair Wendy Carriker. Emphasis added: Read it here.
ATF AGENT SENDS SHOCKWAVES ACROSS INTERNET WITH EXPLOSIVE
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ AND BRIAN TERRY’S DEATH--John Dodson, the
federal agent who blew the lid off the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious”
gun-walking scandal, claims the FBI had ties to the men who killed U.S. Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 near Nogales, Ariz. In fact, Dodson says the
Mexican bandits who gunned down Terry were working for FBI operatives and had
been sent to the border to do a “drug rip-off” using intelligence gathered by
the DEA. Read more.
The Left’s Historically Ignorant Attack on Greg Brannon--Thanks
to North Carolina Senate Candidate Dr. Greg Brannon recently acquiring
frontrunner status among the Republican candidates gunning for Senator Kay
Hagen’s seat in 2014, left wing media outlets have predictably started with
their attacks. Among the attacks levied against Brannon, one that is likely to
reoccur throughout his candidacy is his stance on nullification. That is, his
belief that states can declare unconstitutional federal laws null and void. The
left is up in arms over the fact that a leading senatorial candidate could
believe this. Of course, in order to convince the rest of the country of the
horror of nullification, they must invent historical accounts that never
actually happened. Read the article.
U.S. hopes to bring in thousands of Middle Eastern refugees
in 2014--The State
Department said Thursday that its goal is to welcome 35,000
permanent refugees from the Middle East and South Asia in fiscal 2014. 30,000 Syrians are slated to be moved into permanent or
long-term homes abroad by October if the U.N. refugee
agency meets its goals, The
Washington Post reported. Read more!
EPA, the Enforcer of Federal Pollution Control Laws--EPA’s unchecked power has been blamed for destroying economic prosperity, supply of food, Americans’ means of support, preventing the exploration of much needed resources. Read more here!
American Legion outraged over Veteran hospital’s Christmas
censorship! The national commander of
the American Legion is demanding answers from the Veterans Administration after
hospitals in three states placed restrictions on Christian volunteers,
including a group of schoolchildren who were told they could only perform Christmas
carols from a government-approved list. More here.
December 27, 2013
VIDEOS
Dennis Michael Lynch--
Eight Ways to Opt Out of Obamacare--Obamacare
is looming over all of us and the question remains: Do you sign up or opt out?
If you choose to opt out, what are your alternatives? Here are a few From Breitbart:
Why Liberals Shouldn't Talk About the Bible--When liberals talk
about the bible, they usually end up embarrassing themselves. This one comes
from the case files of Kathleen Park who is a dime- store Maureen
Dowd. Ranting about Robertson, Parker
dives into amateur biblical criticism. Read the article!
The Morning Bell
Deadline looms to
submit new N.C. tax forms--FAYETTEVILLE
— Not on Christmas shopping - though, come to think of it, the holiday is
tomorrow. But for many others, there’s another pressing deadline packing a
zillion times less joy - deciding what to do about your withholding status for
state tax purposes. Did you put ibuprofen on your Christmas list? Read more.
New NC law increases
donation limits, curtails some disclosure in 2014--A new North Carolina law will allow candidates in
the 2014 elections to solicit more money from wealthy donors and limit some
disclosure of outside spending. Starting
Jan. 1, state candidates and political action committees can take maximum
contributions of $5,000 per election, up from the current $4,000 benchmark. The
top donation to judicial candidates will leap to the same level from the
current $1,000 plateau. Read more!
Official
business behind him, Obama looks to 2014-- HONOLULU (AP) — The last vestiges of 2013's political wrangling
officially behind him, President Obama is setting his sights on the
coming year, when a number of unfinished tasks will increasingly compete for
attention with the 2014 midterm elections.
Vacationing in Hawaii ,
Obama on Thursday signed into law a bipartisan budget deal softening the blow
from scheduled spending cuts and a military bill cracking down on sexual
assault. The two bills, passed by Congress with broad bipartisan support, constituted
a modest step away from gridlock, and both parties cautiously hoped that spirit
of cooperation might linger after New Year's Day. Read more.
Obama’s contracting chief uses revolving door for job at reverse-auction company--The White House’s contracting policy chief is leaving to take a job at a company that conducts billions of dollars in reverse auctions for federal agencies, raising more concerns about the “revolving door” that President Obama pledged to end between government and special interests. Joseph Jordan, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, is leaving to take a job at FedBid, a private Virginia-based company that has come under congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over whether its reverse auction model saves the government much money. Read more.
Reed will introduce bill to extend unemployment insurance--Sen. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat, announced Thursday that he will introduce a 3-month extension to long-term federal unemployment insurance with a Republican co-sponsor and hopes for a procedural vote as soon as Jan. 6. Read more.
Obama
signs defense authorization act--President Obama on Thursday signed the National Defense
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, the White House announced. The annual measure authorizes appropriations
and lays out policies for the Defense
Department and other national
security programs. The defense bill provides
$552 billion in baseline funding and an additional $80 billion for the Afghanistan war
and other overseas military operations. Read more.
Rove predicts GOP unity and Senate win in 2014--Karl Rove, the voice of the Republican donor class, is predicting that tea party-backed primary candidates will lose nearly all their primary fights against business-backed GOP politicians during 2014. Read more!
December 26, 2013
VIDEOS
Obama’s Tyranny Brings Call for Revolution--Obama has gutted our economy and amassed a staggering national debt—projected to be $20 trillion by 2016. But this is child’s play compared to what is to come. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement—the “treaty” that Obama has been negotiating for months behind closed doors—will essentially sign away our sovereignty, nullify the Constitution, and annihilate our economy
National Embarrassment 900,000 Veterans on Food Stamps--Obama and the Republicans in Congress locked arms to strip our veterans of earned pension benefits while 900,000 of these heroes, many wounded subsist on handouts and food stamps. This is a national embarrassment.
How Hitler used Universal Healthcare in Holocaust--The next time someone tells you Obamacare isn’t Fascist, then ask them to watch this video. Government should never control healthcare. Healthcare should never be used to “control people.”
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN: “IF AMERICA DOESN’T ABOLISH THE FED, THE FED WILL ABOLISH AMERICA!”
Wayne Allyn Root: Duck Commander Ignites A Revolution
Why I won’t watch Bill O’Reilly anymore
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National ‘Chick-PHIL-A Day’ to support free speech explodes; wear camos!
“Join the movement to
support Chick-fil-a and Phil Robertson by wearing cam/Duck Commander gear to
eat at a Chick-fil-a on January 21, 2014,” the event reads, and since Monday,
over 46,000 people are planning to do just that. More info here.
GOP
Establishment's war on its base--A political party blessed with a large, enthusiastic, and
active base is planning a war against that very base. They don't call it
"The Stupid Party" for nothing. Neil King, Jr. and Patrick O'Connell
report for the Wall Street
Journal: Republican leaders and their corporate
allies have launched an array of efforts aimed at diminishing the clout of the
party's most conservative activists and promoting legislation instead of
confrontation next year. Read more.
Benghazi--Within the Obama administration, a record of
failure is a sure indicator of future advancement. Aside from his own countless
scandals and missteps, Obama continually surrounds himself with proven losers. One such disappointment is Jake Sullivan, who once served as Hillary Clinton’s deputy
chief of staff. He is most notorious for his leading role in perpetuating the
myth that a YouTube video acted as the catalyst behind last year’s deadly
attack on the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi , Libya
Free Market Options to
ObamaCare Already Exist--More
than a year ago, Dr. Barbara Bellar, a medical doctor with a JD degree, was
running for office as an Illinois state senator, and provided a
sound byte that continues to reverberate across the Internet,
having been viewed as of this writing some 3,675,000 times. The clip lasts less
than two minutes, including laughter and applause from her audience, to whom
she said: So let me get this straight.
This is a long sentence: Read it here!
Georgia Lawmakers Announce Bill Nullifying ObamaCare--Four Georgia state legislators are
listening to the crescendo of constituent opposition to ObamaCare. On December 16, State Representatives Jason
Spencer, David Stover, Michael Caldwell, and Scot Turner announced
their sponsoring of a bill that would halt the implementation
of ObamaCare at the sovereign borders of the Peach State
The next too-big-to-fail train wreck on the horizon--A
Taxpayer Bailout for ObamaCare. An American public already reeling from the
catastrophic rollout of ObamaCare will more than likely be hearing an
unfamiliar term being bandied about in the new year. “Risk corridor” refers to
a provision in the law that allows the government to “stabilize” premium costs for
insurance companies during the first three years of the healthcare rollout. If insurance companies’ “target” costs for providing healthcare have been
miscalculated, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will intercede
on their behalf. Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer illuminates the
nature of that intercession. “The insurers understand that they’re going to be
completely ruined,” Krauthammer explains. “And what’s going to happen as a
result of this? There’s only one way out, a huge government bailout of the
insurers is waiting at the end of next year.” More accurately, it will be a taxpayer-funded bailout,
similar to the ones given to the banks and the car companies. Read more.
OBAMA´S VIOLATIONS OF
OUR CONSTITUTION AND ELECTION FRAUD--Barack Obama is a rogue
president who has used tyrannical executive orders and government regulations
to bypass Congress. He has no respect of our Constitution. In 2001 Obama said
that “the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties full of constrains
imposed upon us by our Founding Fathers.” Obama hates those “constraints” since
he wants to govern in a dictatorial manner.
Obama has made our Constitution
and Congress irrelevant. READ IT ALL, it is long but worth it!
Duck Dynasty Producer Was A Former Gay Porn Actor, The Duck Dynasty Controversy Is Beginning To Really Make Sense--Scott Gurney was the executive director of the Duck Dynasty 2012/13 season (10 episodes), and listed as current executive producer. Given his background and gay lifestyle the recent controversy begins to make sense. It does not take a deep thinker to see how Mr. Gurney would be ideologically torn between being gay himself and yet producing a show where the family beliefs are in diametric opposition to his own. One of the common denominators with gay militancy is their willingness to advance their demands of acceptance at any cost. Read more.
Activist
group targeting Bob Newhart, Catholics is funded by George Soros--The gay advocacy group that
launched a pressure campaign to block comedian Bob Newhart from speaking at a
Catholic summit is funded by progressive billionaire George Soros and has close
links to President Obama’s new White House counselor, records reveal. Newhart, 84, pulled out of speaking at a
Christmas Week conference in Orlando
organized by the Catholic networking group Legatus, which was founded by
Republican Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan in 1987 to provide networking
opportunities for Catholic business leaders.
Read more.
Government Isn’t
Obligated To Inform Healthcare.gov Users When Site Compromises Their Private
Info--If you enroll in Obamacare at Healthcare.gov and later
find out that your financial information or identity has been stolen by
hackers, it likely won’t be because the government called to warn you of the
security breach. That’s because the government isn’t obligated to let you know
if Healthcare.gov fails to protect your information from criminals. Read more.
Main Street 2014: Small-Business Owners Fret Taxes, Regulatory Burdens,
Obamacare--Despite ongoing assurances from economic officials that the U.S.
economy is improving leading into 2014, small-business owners who have endured
a financially tumultuous 2013 are pessimistic about their economic situations
in the year ahead. Increasing regulatory
burdens, snowballing taxes and dysfunctional leadership in Washington were all cited by American
small-business owners as areas of economic concern in the coming year,
according to data compiled by the National Federation of Independent Business. Read it here.
Liberals Hate Educational Competition and Use Taxpayer Money
to Prove It--Economic
competition lowers prices, offers increased selections, and results in more
features. Think of desk-top, lap-top, and tablet computers, automobiles, smart
phones, televisions, and delivery of entertainment (cable, satellite, Netflix,
Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc.). But when it
comes to education, the State wants its monopoly and you and me to pay for it.
Today’s government educators running the show can’t allow for competition.
That’s why at every turn teacher unions fight hard against charter schools and
school vouchers.
TPN—Judson Phillips: No Compromise, no surrender--Christmas is
gone. We are now in that final week of the year. Christmas makes a
good break to kill media stories they don’t like. There
is a media story that the left does not like. It is the Duck Dynasty
story. The problem with the Duck Dynasty story is not what Phil Robertson
said. It is not about how incompetently A&E handled the mess, though
incompetence may be just an excuse for them to back away. What is the story they have revealed and what
does that have to do with a call for us to never surrender and never compromise? Read more.
New Proposed IRS Rules Would Authorize Targeting
Conservatives Critical of WH--Barack
Obama’s Internal Revenue Service was caught this year targeting conservative
groups with harassment that included invasive probes into the content of
prayers and unwarranted delays. That
issue is being worked out in court. But the IRS, nevertheless, remains on the
attack, proposing new regulations that would silence the president’s critics. Read more!
Carolina Journal: Liberal Lawsuit
Challenges Life-Enhancing Scholarship-- RALEIGH — He is unable to
walk like kids his age, but my niece’s son gave his family the best gift ever
when he pulled himself up and balanced against a fence while playing in the Arizona North
Carolina ’s Republican-led General Assembly. Earlier
this year, legislators approved a scholarship for families of school-aged kids
with special needs — families who face formidable education challenges not
being met by the traditional public school system. By transitioning the
existing special-needs tax credit to a scholarship, more North Carolina families — including kids
whose parents were too poor to pay taxes — can now qualify for help.
Read it all!
Calls to expand firearm background checks--RALEIGH
— States should make background checks for firearm buyers a stronger tool to
prevent gun violence by focusing not only on applicants with mental illness but
also on whether they have been violent or abused alcohol or drugs, a group of
experts says. At the same time, it should be easier to temporarily confiscate
the weapons of people who do have mental health issues. Continue reading.
The Hill: Top five ObamaCare
controversies of 2013--The Obama administration faced an extraordinarily tough year
when it came to Affordable Care Act's rollout and the surrounding debate.
Between missed deadlines, botched projects and massive PR stumbles, the White
House spent months trying to recover momentum for its signature domestic
achievement. Read more here.
Fracking Saves Water--Contrary to the conventional teachings of environmentalists, hydraulic fracturing (i.e., fracking) has at least one major environmental benefit: saving water. Although most Americans are disturbingly ignorant about fracking, it is an issue of critical importance not only with respect to the environment but also in foreign policy and the economy. Typically, the debate is framed around priorities. If you care more about the environment, you are against fracking; but if you care more about energy independence and domestic economic opportunities, you are for fracking. Continue reading.
Lean Floor-ward: MSNBC’s not-so-greatest
hits of 2013--Well, we
finally got internet connection back yesterday morning after a few days of
off-and-on-but-mostly-off service due to an ice storm. There are still a lot of
people without power in the area (and in this part of the country for that
matter). But when you’re without power, nothing helps ease the blow like
knowing the kinds of things you might be missing on TV are claims that God
approves of Obamacare. By way of Ace of
Spades, here’s video of MSNBC “ugly stuff” compiled by the Washington
Free Beacon. Laugh we much: Check it out!
The
doctor won’t see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid--Those signing up for private health care
coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges may be in for an unpleasant surprise --
they'll have insurance, but they might have trouble getting the doctor to see
them. As hundreds of thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1,
analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer
doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to
resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans. "Indeed,
I think this will eventually be like Medicaid," said Merrill Matthews,
director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance. Continue reading.
Time to Stock Up on
Incandescent Bulbs Before They Go Out Permanently-- If your New Year’s resolution is to change
your light bulbs, don’t worry—the federal government’s here to help. Beginning January 1, 2014, the federal government will ban the use of 60-watt and
40-watt incandescent light bulbs. The light bulb has become a symbol
in the fight for consumer freedom and against unnecessary governmental
interference into the lives of the American people. Continue reading.
Lack aid? Many counties
have only pricey plans--More than
half of the counties in 34 states using the federal health insurance exchange
lack even a bronze plan that's affordable — by the government's own definition
— for 40-year-old couples who make just a little too much for financial
assistance, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
Read more.
New ObamaCare fees coming in 2014--Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.
The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans
in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their
income-tax bills. Most insurers aren’t
advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead
to discretely pass them on to customers while quietly lobbying lawmakers for a
break. Continue reading.
Kidnapped
American asks U.S. to
negotiate with al-Qaeda for his release--A U.S. government contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan
in 2011 has recorded a video message calling on the Obama administration to
negotiate with his captors, saying he feels “totally abandoned and forgotten.” Warren Weinstein looked ashen and sounded
lethargic as he pleaded for renewed interest in his case and asked the U.S. government
to consider releasing al-Qaeda militants in its custody. The 72-year-old
development expert from Rockville ,
Md.
A Local Solution to Common Core? Written
by Nicole Revels-- Recently, we saw a drastic
drop in the test scores of North
Carolina public school students. It has been stated
by NC education officials that the drop is due to more rigorous standards, and
that we should expect an increase in test scores over the next couple of years;
however, states that have had the Common Core standards and attached curriculum
in place for several years now tell a different story. Some districts have even
been caught manipulating
their test results when
the promised improvements and benefits from Common Core were not delivered. Read the article.
Barber: Moral Mondays will continue and
will spread (Here we go again!)--RALEIGH — The Moral
Monday movement to protest changes in North Carolina public policy that
organizers believe are extreme and hurt the state won’t abate in 2014 and will
spread to other states, its leader said.
Activists from a dozen states attended a meeting in Raleigh earlier this month to learn how to
hold similar protests in their states. Continued.
VIDEOS
VIDEOS
Susan Rice On Benghazi:“I Don’t Have Time To Think About A False Controversy”
Part 5/5: Are We All Communist Now? Examining A Common Core Survey
TPN—Judson Phillips:
Liberalism is sin--Liberalism does not make sense. That
is, unless you understand one fundamental underpinning of liberalism. Liberalism
is sin. Most people have an immediate
reaction to that statement. Either they support it or totally reject it
based on the assumption it is a religious dissertation on liberalism. Read more!
Part 5/5: Are We All Communist Now? Examining A Common Core Survey
TPN—Judson Phillips: Liberalism is sin--Liberalism does not make sense. That is, unless you understand one fundamental underpinning of liberalism. Liberalism is sin. Most people have an immediate reaction to that statement. Either they support it or totally reject it based on the assumption it is a religious dissertation on liberalism. Read more!
TPN—Judson Phillips: Liberalism is sin--Liberalism does not make sense. That is, unless you understand one fundamental underpinning of liberalism. Liberalism is sin. Most people have an immediate reaction to that statement. Either they support it or totally reject it based on the assumption it is a religious dissertation on liberalism. Read more!
Passive
Smoking – Another Of The Nanny State’s Big Lies--Passive smoking doesn’t give you lung cancer. So says
a new report publicized by the American Cancer
Institute which will come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone with
a shred of integrity who has looked into the origins of the great
“environmental tobacco smoke” meme. It
was, after all, a decade ago that the British Medical Journal, published the
results of a massive, long-term survey into the effects of second-hand tobacco
smoke. Between 1959 and 1989 two American researchers named James Enstrom and
Geoffrey Kabat surveyed no few than 118,094 Californians. Fierce
anti-smoking campaigners themselves, they began the research because they
wanted to prove once and for all what a pernicious, socially damaging habit
smoking was. Their research was initiated by the American Cancer Society and
supported by the anti-smoking Tobacco Related Disease Research Program. Read more.
Americans For Prosperity Launches New App To Expose
Government Waste--Concerned citizens who are ambitions to expose
government waste now have access to a new online app compliments of Americans
for Prosperity (AFP). With just one mouse click, average citizens can become
government watchdogs. Spending
Spotlight is incredibly easy to use. Just enter a zip code,
state or recipient name to find federal grants, contracts, farm subsidies and
other government appropriations. Spending
Spotlight has already yielded some very revealing results. In Bridgeport,
Conn., the app shows how a Head Start program has spent millions
without accountability, and in New Jersey that app found that tuition
at cosmetology schools, which cost more than an education at Rutgers
University, are fueled by federal student loan dollars. Read more!
Obamacare Initiates Self-Destruction Sequence--Anyone who has had their policies cancelled will be exempt from the individual mandate next year. The administration is also allowing those people to buy catastrophic plans, even if they’re over 30. Read more.
TPN—Judson Phillips: Even at Christmas, Washington
REBELS WITH A CAUSE: Christians Wear Camo to Church In Support
of Duck Dynasty-- Last Friday, in support of the Duck
Dynasty star, Phil Robertson, and his stance for biblical values, we here at
ClashDaily.com decided to announce this past Sunday, December 22nd , as “Church Camo for
Phil Sunday”. Here’s a few
pictures that were gleaned off Facebook and Instagram in support of Phil and
traditional marriage by wearing camo at church on Sunday, December 22. Read more!
IS COMMON CORE
“RIGOROUS,” OR MORE NEARLY THE OPPOSITE? So often do avid boosters such as U.S.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the
national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to
conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core
State Standards. Google searches of
“rigorous” and “Common Core” produce millions of hits. Hundreds of newspaper
stories on the impending full-scale rollout of these standards and linked tests
in local schools routinely describe the CCSS as rigorous. Read the article.
“Green” Bullets
Will Take “Green” Out of Americans’ Pockets--On the heels of the Senate almost certainly approving a
budget that will fleece veterans of benefits and the announcement that 19,000
Captains’ and Majors’ careers will shortly face the chopping block of early
retirement, The Lyin’ King’s war against America’s military continues to gather
steam. As does his war against individual gun ownership. The lead bullet is
being forced into extinction by the EPA.
Read more!
The Hill: Dem predicts smooth debt-ceiling increase— A high-ranking Senate Democrat
predicts a smooth debt-ceiling increase in early 2014. Sen. Charles
Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Republicans "learned their lesson" with
the government shutdown in October and will not play politics with raising the
nation's debt ceiling. Schumer
told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory that Republicans "will
back off any hostage taking ... (or) extremist" demands when the nation
bumps up against the legal borrowing limit in early spring. Read more.
Politics in 2014: What to look
for--The battle for control of the Senate, ObamaCare implementation and a
desperate push for immigration reform will likely dominate the political world
in 2014. Other
issues that will grab headlines include the intensifying debate on the National
Security Agency’s powers and heated Republican primaries — which will test the
Tea Party. A rundown of what to
look for in 2014 follows. Read it all here!
Heritage
Foundation: This Is Exactly What Health Care Reform Is Supposed to Do--Imagine
waking up from a coma to find that both of your legs and your left hand are
gone. After a motorcycle accident that
nearly killed him, this was Moise Brutus’s devastating reality. And he had to
navigate the broken Medicaid system to try to recover. Now, he calls those days
“the dark times.” Read the article.
Decline in jobless rate not necessarily helpful to jobless--A 21 percent
drop in North Carolina’s jobless rate in the past year – from 9.4 percent to
7.4 percent – would usually be a cause for celebration for employers and the
unemployed, economists and politicians. Indeed,
the state’s top legislators likened the drop – to a five-year low in November –
as a holiday gift for North Carolinians . Read more!
Herman Cain: A serious leader would have abandoned
ObamaCare long ago--It’s rather frightening when you think about it like this:
ObamaCare really amounts to the federal government trying to run, not just a
business, but an entire industry. We’re talking about the administration that
appears to have the fewest members in history with private-sector business
experience of any kind, and it thinks it can run the health insurance industry. How’s that working out? Exactly. Read more here.
BARRY OBAMA: PROGRESSIVE
DESPOT IN CHIEF--“One hundred and
seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.” - Federalist 48. Read the article.
SOCIALISM:DESTRUCTION OF FOUNDING FATHER VALUES-- SOCIALISM: DESTRUCTION OF FOUNDING
FATHER VALUES…more
importantly: destruction of the Constitution.
GOVERNMENT WASTE &
SPENDING: INHERENT TO GOVERNMENT-- Can you name a government program or agency that is
effective? Efficient? Not over-budget? Post Office, no:
Amtrak, no; Education (laugh out loud), no. EPA, no. Not one is
identifiable. Why do government employees earn, on average, more than the
average family income per household? So the majority of American
taxpayers earn less than the people who pay their salary. Another irony,
of what is known as Federal Government.
Read the article!
Federal Judge: Right to Same-Sex
Marriage Is ‘Deeply Rooted in Nation’s History and Implicit in The Concept of
Ordered Liberty’-- Someone needs to tell “judge”
Shelby
Krauthammer: Just watch, insurance companies ruined by
ObamaCare will come knocking for a bailout--We’ve known about that ignominious
little “risk corridor” provision tucked safely away in ObamaCare
somewhere for awhile now, and last week, the Obama administration pulled the individual-mandate-compromising move that makes it all
the more likely that such a bailout eventuality will come to pass. A few lawmakers have already started sounding the alarm
on the possibility, but as all of these last-minute, last-ditch, desperately
unilateral changes to crucial policy elements of the law start to add up, they
might want to consider really shaking a leg on the issue when they come back
from Christmas break. I can practically
hear the speeches already: “Thanks to the work of my administration, the
insurance industry has come roaring back!”
Video and more.
A second wind for health law? Or just hot air? Whether you love it or hate it or are just plain confused by it, you've got to give the health care law this much: There's plenty of drama. The nail biting goes on. As the clock ticks toward the Jan. 1 start of insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's big, bold and bedraggled creation, there are inklings it might get a second wind. But that could turn out to be just hot air. Read more.
Poll:
Support for Obamacare at new low as Jan. coverage deadline hits-- A new poll finds support for Obamacare slumping
to an all-time low as the administration hits its deadline to register
consumers for coverage on Jan. 1. According
to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, 35 percent
say they support President
Obama's signature domestic achievement, a drop of 5 points in under
a month. Nearly two-thirds, at 62 percent, say they oppose the health law, a
rise of 4 points since November. Read more.
Pastor, doctor take on NC
speaker in US Senate bid—With Democrat Kay Hagan already targeted in hostile ads for supporting
the federal health care overhaul, North Carolina Republicans face a choice: Do
they opt for a powerful state legislator, a tea party champion or a staunch
social conservative to challenge her next year?
May's GOP primary is shaping up as a race between state House Speaker
Thom Tillis and at least four candidates with little or no experience in
government. Tillis has led the money chase so far with help from Republican
kingmaker Karl Rove. Tillis himself already has been the target of a TV ad by
national Democrats - a sign they view him as Hagan's most worrisome threat. But North
Carolina 's recent political history suggests the
nomination is not a sure thing for Tillis.
Read more.
Gay GOP Group Blasts New
Obamacare Ad for Exploiting Gay Stereotypes, Says ‘Liberals Would Be
Apoplectic’ If Right Tried Anything Similar (And our taxpayer dollars paid for
this ad!)-- Log Cabin
Republicans, an advocacy group for gay conservatives and allies, is ripping a
new Obamacare video ad that it says employs homosexual stereotypes to persuade
gay men to enroll in Obamacare. The ad
from Out2Enroll — an Obamacare LGBT outreach group — depicts well-toned
shirtless men in tight bathing trunks dancing, hugging, opening presents, and
enrolling on the Obamacare website. There is one woman with the men in a few
shots and a female singer, but they’re far from the focus. Continued.
Poll:
Support for Obamacare at new low as Jan. coverage deadline hits-- A new poll finds support for Obamacare slumping
to an all-time low as the administration hits its deadline to register
consumers for coverage on Jan. 1. According
to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, 35 percent
say they support President
Obama's signature domestic achievement, a drop of 5 points in under
a month. Nearly two-thirds, at 62 percent, say they oppose the health law, a
rise of 4 points since November. Read more.
Pastor, doctor take on NC
speaker in US Senate bid—With Democrat Kay Hagan already targeted in hostile ads for supporting
the federal health care overhaul, North Carolina Republicans face a choice: Do
they opt for a powerful state legislator, a tea party champion or a staunch
social conservative to challenge her next year?
May's GOP primary is shaping up as a race between state House Speaker
Thom Tillis and at least four candidates with little or no experience in
government. Tillis has led the money chase so far with help from Republican
kingmaker Karl Rove. Tillis himself already has been the target of a TV ad by
national Democrats - a sign they view him as Hagan's most worrisome threat. But North
Carolina 's recent political history suggests the
nomination is not a sure thing for Tillis.
Read more.
Gay GOP Group Blasts New
Obamacare Ad for Exploiting Gay Stereotypes, Says ‘Liberals Would Be
Apoplectic’ If Right Tried Anything Similar (And our taxpayer dollars paid for
this ad!)-- Log Cabin
Republicans, an advocacy group for gay conservatives and allies, is ripping a
new Obamacare video ad that it says employs homosexual stereotypes to persuade
gay men to enroll in Obamacare. The ad
from Out2Enroll — an Obamacare LGBT outreach group — depicts well-toned
shirtless men in tight bathing trunks dancing, hugging, opening presents, and
enrolling on the Obamacare website. There is one woman with the men in a few
shots and a female singer, but they’re far from the focus. Continued.
The Establishment Strikes Back: Beaufort County
edition-- Beaufort County
The Establishment Strikes Back: Beaufort County
edition-- Beaufort County
December 22, 2013
VIDEOS
December 22, 2013
ZoNation finishes up his evisceration on Common Core survey
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Diane Rufino: COMMON CORE: The
NC General Assembly Holds Its First Public Meeting on Common Core (Dec. 17,
2013)--On
Tuesday, December 17th, the NC General Assembly Common Core Study Committee
held its first public hearing to address Common Core. I attended, as well as
other activists and Tea Party leaders all across the state. Opponents of
Common Core who attended were advised to dress in red to make a visual
statement to the NC General Assembly of the growing movement against North Carolina
Why The Left Had To Silence
Duck Dynasty--The left had to silence Duck Dynasty because the show
threatened their strangle-hold on pop culture.
This piece by Adrienne Royer of The Federalist is something you should read… Read the article here.
Obama,
top Dems now appear to be pushing for comprehensive immigration reform--President Obama and his top
Democrats on Capitol Hill appear to have reset their sights on the
Republican-controlled House passing comprehensive immigration reform, instead
of a step-by-step process, as lawmakers leave Washington for the Christmas holiday break. The president on Friday appeared to urge the
House to back the comprehensive, bipartisan immigration bill the Senate passed
this summer -- a departure from recent comments that suggested Obama was OK
with the lower chamber’s apparent piecemeal plan. Read on!
Cracker
Barrel On Removing Duck Dynasty Products: Never mind--Cracker Barrel has quickly reversed course,
after having announced on
Friday that
they had “removed selected products which we were concerned might offend some
of our guests while we evaluate the situation.” Read it here.
ObamaCare may make finding treatment harder for mentally ill--To the outside world, it
came across as mood swings and anger. But Regina Cullison would later be told
by psychiatrists she struggled with depression and anxiety—and that she needed
help. And that is where her trouble began and ended. According to her mother, there were few
psychiatrists in the county who took private insurance. When Ms. Cullison lost
her job as a dentist’s assistant, and with it her insurance, she switched to a
nonprofit facility. Doctors came and went, and none stayed long enough to
establish a regular pattern of treatment. Read more!
Sharpton Loses Control of Gun Control Town Hall--On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by
Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded
into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the
aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out
their elected officials. One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style
meetings in some of Chicago ’s south side
communities such as Altgeld Gardens and Trumbull Park
State Board of Elections sends a message to the TEA Party: “Shut up and
fall in line as we tell you to.” The North Carolina State
Republican Board of Elections met this morning (12-20-13) at 9:00 a.m. and
kicked off the meeting with a real “Boss Hog” attitude. The State Board of Elections is the state
agency charged with overall responsibility for overseeing the administration of
the elections process and campaign finance reporting in North Carolina . The State Board itself is
composed of five members, who are political appointees of the Governor. Read on!
Baucus exit jolts race for Senate--President Obama’s nomination of Sen. Max
Baucus (D-Mont.) as U.S.
ambassador to China Montana and potentially in Louisiana , where vulnerable Sen. Mary
Landrieu (D) is in line to pick up the Energy Committee gavel thanks to
Baucus’s exit. But
Republicans say their chances of recapturing the majority are rising due to
President Obama’s sagging poll numbers.
Read more.
I’m
Offended and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore! I’m not easily offended but in recent months I have
become very offended. After all, if homosexuals, Indians, Blacks, Hispanics,
sports nuts, radical leftists, atheists, media moguls, and others can be
offended, then I have that right also.
It has become axiomatic that the right not to be offended is in the U.S.
Constitution; however, I have read our Constitution, memorized some of it,
studied it, but cannot find in it the right not to be offended. Maybe
it’s in the same place the Court found the right to an abortion and the right
to homosexuality. Continue reading!
TPN—James Herbert Harrison: Tea Parties need to promote – themselves--
It occurs to me that a major call in the game plan of Democrats and
establishment rhino Republicans is to marginalize us in the Tea Party as a few
radical bible thumping, gun toting, and government hating zealots. It's time to pool some resources and run some
commercials promoting the Tea Partiers themselves in addition to the causes
they value. These advertisements should feature some typical Tea Party members
who are the local insurance agent, the local mechanic, the barber, the farmer,
the contractor, and/or the doctor. Are these the wacko radicals these
socialists keep talking about? Continue reading!
Obama and Clinton Egypt ,
General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. But this is
just the tip of the iceberg. Read the article.
DHS delivering smuggled
children to illegal immigrant parents--A federal judge in Texas is
accusing the Department of Homeland Security of hand-delivering children
smuggled into the United
States
NC State Capitol Police
trained in military-issue semi-automatic weapons--Eight State Capitol
Police officers were recently trained in using military-issue semi-automatic
rifles that the force acquired. The
agency obtained 10 M-16 long guns through a federal surplus program in 2010 in
a deal that only cost the state $20 for shipping on each weapon. The civilian
AR-15 rifle is more prevalent in private use.
Read more here!
Rangel:
Tea Party Ready To Destroy Republicans, Economy, Nation Because They Hate Old,
Sick, And Poor So Much--Appearing on MSNBC this week, Charlie Rangel expressed his opinion
regarding the future of the Tea Party and Republicans. People are coming to the office saying thank
you so much. Nobody knows the amount of complaints people have that they have
been cut off from insurance; they went bankrupt because of the bill, that they
reached their limitations, they had a precondition, and so for those who are
against it, without any plan at all, I am amazed that they can get by with it.
You would think that the tea party has no old folks, no sick folks, no poor
folks, no one on social security, no one on Medicare, no one that needs a
living wage. You know, when you’re on the right side, whether it’s politics or
business, you have to be patient. And we do have some people that don’t mind
killing the Republican Party in 2016, embarrassing the Congress and having the
economy to fail and they have proven that.
Video and more.
Obama refusal to negotiate ‘accrued bills’ makes all spending
permanent--When President George W. Bush began his second term with a proposal to
reform Social Security by creating the first real “lock box” that would allow
taxpayers to bequeath any accumulated contributions remaining in their FICA
accounts at their death, to their heirs, even his own Republican Party allies
in Congress refused to negotiate. Read more!
The
President’s Authority to Wage War-- In Article II of the Constitution it states that the
President is the Commander in Chief when he is called into service by Congress. The authors of
the Constitution wanted the people through their representatives in Congress to
be responsible to determine in war was necessary. They wanted the Presidents
power to wage war to be limited. They knew that granted the President the
unlimited power to wage war would be potentially dangerous and that is why the
Presidential power to wage war was can only be lawfully authorized with the
consent of Congress or when he is responding to an act of aggression by a
foreign power. Continue reading!
Special ops vets slam military benefit cuts-- Former members of U.S. special operations
forces on Thursday demanded President Obama veto the budget bill Congress just passed, saying that the cuts to
military retirement benefits — which even the bill’s authors now admit were a
partial mistake — are an insult to veterans. “As commander in chief, President Obama is
the leader of the nation’s armed forces and he has a duty to protect the
interests of all military members, both active and retired. He needs to veto
the bill,” said Gary Stubblefield, a retired Navy SEAL Commander and chairman
of Special Operations for America . Read the article.
JUSTIN
AMASH AFRAID OBAMA IS ‘SETTING THE STAGE FOR SOMETHING VERY DANGEROUS IN THE
FUTURE’--President Barack Obama’s
strengthening of the executive branch may jeopardize America
Does O-Care cover getting SCREWED OVER? I hear a lot
about ObamaCare / KayCare from political activists, politicians, hacks extraordinaire.
We’ve got one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation. North Carolina
Beaufort elections board member removed
from office--The State Board of Elections on Friday removed a member of the
Beaufort County Board of Elections for participating in partisan political
activities. Delma Blinson, who was
appointed to the Beaufort board this summer, participated in a local tea party
meeting in October. During that meeting, he made a motion that passed to
endorse Greg Brannon, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Continue reading!
Website of the Day: Uncle
Sam is Crying
VIDEOS
Congress Stealing From Veterans — YOU’RE NEXT!
#standwithphil:
Best response = cutting the cord--The drama over the hit reality show
“Ducky Dynasty” seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. (Somebody’s
PR flack has certainly earned their Christmas bonus this year.) I’ve heard from a lot of right-leaning,
right-thinking folks seriously promoting a boycott of A&E. They’re simply
not going to watch the network anymore. Well, John Nolte, a
NC-based columnist for Breitbart, has an interesting point about that strategy: Read the article.
Emily Miller, Washington Times: Supreme Court to decide if buying a gun for a lawful
person is a ‘straw purchase’-- The Supreme Court decided
Tuesday to hear the case of a Virginia man who bought a gun for his uncle and
was then convicted of committing a “straw purchase.” The high court will
determine whether it is a crime to buy a gun with the intent to resell to
another lawful person. Arguments
for Abramski v.
United States
will take place in January. Bruce
Abramski, a retired police officer, bought a handgun for his elderly
uncle because he could get it at discount as former law enforcement. Mr. Abramski checked
the box on the federal background check form that said he was the “actual
buyer.” Read more.
NC Attorney General Refuses to Stand Against Malicious
Federal Prosecution of Private Gun Sellers-- North
Carolina --(Ammoland.com)-Last week, a bipartisan coalition of 27 states
and territories filed an amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief,
with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Obama administration’s attempt to
prosecute gun owners who wish to legally sell firearms to others. Read more!
Boeing shortens list of sites to build 777x by cutting N. Carolina-- North Carolina said on Friday it was no longer in the
running to build Boeing Co's new commercial jetliner, as the Chicago-based
company shortened its list of potential sites for the factory. Boeing said it had begun notifying 22
states that offered to host the factory for the 777X jet, but it did not say
which ones made the short list. Read more.
NC Attorney General Refuses to Stand Against Malicious Federal Prosecution of Private Gun Sellers-- North Carolina --(Ammoland.com)-Last week, a bipartisan coalition of 27 states and territories filed an amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief, with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Obama administration’s attempt to prosecute gun owners who wish to legally sell firearms to others. Read more!
Boeing shortens list of sites to build 777x by cutting N. Carolina-- North Carolina said on Friday it was no longer in the running to build Boeing Co's new commercial jetliner, as the Chicago-based company shortened its list of potential sites for the factory. Boeing said it had begun notifying 22 states that offered to host the factory for the 777X jet, but it did not say which ones made the short list. Read more.
TPN--Mason Weaver: The war on Christianity-- Is there a war when only one side is fighting? We have pulpits all
over America
PROGRESSIVE INFLUENCER’S…AND NOT SHY ABOUT IT! Woodrow Wilson:
In 1913, the United States
government was controlled by politicians, not people. This is the year
politicians announced the 16th Amendment (income tax) ratification. Wilson said, “Government
is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of
the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin , not Newton .
It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, and shaped by its
functions. Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure
and in practice. Progressive’s ask us to interpret the Constitution
according to the Darwinian principle.” Judge
Andrew Napolitano quips, “Progressives believe that somehow, from somewhere,
from some source other than the Constitution…so they use the power of
government to steal from those that have, to give to those who have not.”
This belief is absurd, yet vital to understanding the Progressive
mentality. The prime goal is to expand Federal Government beyond
Constitutional authority; expand government to the point of collapse; and
ultimately redesign the system. This approach could not accomplish
immediate results; as the consequence would be parallel to the prohibition
experiment, with more cataclysmic results: Socialism. Read the article.
INTERNATIONAL
SOCIALIST ORGANIZATIONS – Be-(A)ware! Worldwide
socialists work together to ruin capitalism and influence American
politicians. They work in conjunction with American groups,
organizations, and liberals to amplify their agenda. Don’t believe it? Do you recall the “Rally to Save the American
Dream” sponsored by MoveOn.org on February 26, 2011? Violence occurred at
these liberal events, unlike those of the Tea Party. For example,
MoveOn.Org did not pull or request the permit for the rally in Washington DC
The Alleged “Great Society”
of the 1960’s--The hippie, free-loving, alleged peace
generation also renowned as the “Baby-Boomers” has forever marred our great
nation. Ultimately, they caused today’s political upheavals;
unconscionable debt; and entitlement mentality of the impoverished. The origins
of the cultural shift are highlighted by mayhem and streaking; protests and
mobs; conflict and racial riots; the war on poverty; Welfare dependence; Sex,
drugs, and rock & roll. The “Great Society” generation label rose
from a Lyndon Johnson speech at the University
of Michigan America
What
can you do? Begin taking action! What can you do? Begin taking action!
“As there is a certain degree of depravity in mankind which requires a
certain degree of circumspection and distrust; so there are qualities in human
nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.
Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher
degree than any other form.” –Federalist 55. This is a must read article, click here.
GOP
Rep: Young people ripped off by O-Care--One of the youngest House Republicans cried foul on behalf of young
people he says are being ripped off by Obamacare. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) took to the
airwaves on Saturday, hammering the White House for efforts to sell a “bad
product” to young Americans. Continue reading.
2014: Make-or-break for
O-Care--President Obama is taking a
bruised and bandaged ObamaCare into 2014 after a year of unprecedented problems
for his administration and its signature law.
While the White House insists its efforts are on-track, the blundering
on display in key portions of the reform's rollout surprised even Obama's most
ardent critics in 2013. Read more.
(IBD)
Obama's DHS Complicit In Mexican Drug Cartel Human Trafficking-- Border: A federal judge finds that the
Department of Homeland Security, instead of arresting cartel members and the
clients who pay them to smuggle children into the U.S., helps the drug lords
complete the transactions. Former DHS
Secretary Janet Napolitano once proclaimed the U.S. border to be as secure as it
has ever been. Yet her department has been found by Judge Andrew S. Hanen of
the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas to have actively
undermined that security by enabling drug cartels engaged in the lucrative
smuggling of children. Continue reading.
TPN—Jack Kemp: Bobby Kennedy - "Willing Accomplice" of KGB Influence? Some of the facts in this story and some details from the book
mentioned may have appeared elsewhere online in recent years, but it is well
worth repeating, as the Democrat propaganda machine now try to sell the
"Camelot" myth on the public with a new generation of Kennedy
children running for office – perhaps complete with the title song from the
1960 Broadway play (and 1967 movie) about King Arthur’s Court playing in the
background at their rallies. Kent
Clizbe was a long time CIA agent who came up from the streets and got his life
together first in the Air Force as a language specialist and later worked in
counterintelligence. He won the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, earned a
M.A. in Linguistics and Business. He quit a private career as owner of an
executive recruiting business after 9/11 to go to Iraq . In researching the
information that became his book "Willing Accomplices," he came to
the conclusion that Political Correctness was actually started by the KGB (or
their predecessors such as the NKVD and Soviet Military Intelligence). He sees
it as a way to make talk of America
as a good country. Read the article.
TPN—Judson Phillips: Obamacare
continues to self-destruct--Obamacare
continues to self-destruct. It’s no great shock. The program will
not work. The program will never work.
Many Democrats view Obamacare as
the albatross around their neck as they go into the 2014 elections. Here is the question people are asking
now. Does Obamacare matter to anyone now? MUST READ!
White House Signals Trans-Pacific Partnership Remains a Top
Priority--President
Obama has confirmed his commitment to speedy approval of the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.
Liberty--The TPP is aimed at integrating the economic, legal,
and political systems of Pacific Rim nations including the United States
Non-citizens caught voting in 2012 presidential election in
key swing state--But I
thought there was no need to show an ID. That fraud wasn’t happening. When we
make it easy for liberals to cheat, this is what you get. Check it out:
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that his
office found 17 non-citizens illegally cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election — and has
referred the case for possible prosecution.
Please read more here.
Obama’s
Forged Birth Certificate Brings Call For Revolution-- More and more Americans are calling for
Revolution—a demand that Obama “put down the Quran and leave the White
House”—with a renewed scrutiny of Obama’s birth certificate after it was
revealed in the lawsuit Klayman v. Obama that there
existed multiple versions of Obama’s
birth certificate—proving it’s a forgery. Continue reading.
Another ObamaCare Surprise: Estate Recovery--Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn were about to sign applications for free coverage under Washington State’s Medicaid program — recently expanded under ObamaCare — when Sofia began reading the fine print: If you’re over age 55, the state of Washington will bill your estate for your health expenses when you die. So much for “free.” Prior to ObamaCare, state Medicaid programs (enacted in 1965 and expanded in 1993) offered help to poor people who couldn't afford health coverage but required states to recover their health costs from their estates when they died. However, state exemptions for personal goods and residences meant that such “estate recovery” efforts were modest as most people either had no other assets or had “spent down” those that they had to a minimal level. Read the article.
PROGRESSIVE’S:
THE ENEMY on BOTH SIDES of the AISLE---Before diving into the core problem it is imperative, you fully
comprehend what Progressivism is at its fundamental principle. It is
bathed, dressed, hair and make-up complete as though it were a bride on her
wedding day, for everyone to “ooo” and “Ahhhh” while walking down the aisle.
However, when we look beneath the surface of the stark white dress, we can be
frightened by its true evil and “butt ugly” nature. Progressivism as defined by Halpin and Conor
in “The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America, “moving beyond the
status quo to more equal and just social conditions consistent with original
American democratic principles such as freedom, equality, and the common
good.” They continue noting, “The original Progressive Era is known for
two major developments: One, Political Reform …and Two, Economic
Reforms….Progressives’ overall goal was to replace a rigid economic
philosophy…with a more democratic political order.” Read more!
December 20, 2013
American
Thinker: Can We Talk About Impeachment? The United States of
America
Ben Bernanke Reduced American Wealth By 14%--In maintaining the value of the dollar, the Bernanke Fed has had about as much success as it did in lowering unemployment to pre-recession levels. Continue reading.
Why the nature of Obamacare makes it impossible for it to work--The problem with ObamaCare
is not that it is poorly designed or sloppily implemented. The problem is in
the nature of things: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as it has been
envisaged, is inherently impossible. To see this, forget ObamaCare for the
moment. Think health
care in general. Health
care can
be many things for many people: Please read on!
Morning Bell
GOP congressman: Immigration reform can happen in 2014--A key House Republican said that if Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) secures several legislative wins early next year, an immigration bill could clear the lower chamber by next summer. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was careful to say that the battles ahead for Congress and the White House — such as raising the debt ceiling — could shape whether the House acts on immigration reform in early 2014. Cole serves as a deputy whip on Boehner's leadership team. Continue reading.
Dimwit
Governments Dimming the Home Lights--The first known words spoken by the Creator were: “Let there be
light”. The first cross-board edict
forced on modern society by Big Brother government was turning down eye-saving
light by banning the incandescent light bulb and replacing it with an inferior
and more dangerous product. (Why—Because
of GE contributions to Politicians! GE could not compete with cheap light bulbs from China, so they padded the campaigns of Bush and Obama!) Continue reading.
Phil
Robertson can’t cite Scripture, but these prancing dudes are brought to you by
ObamaCare! In the interest of getting the story right, it does not appear this is
put out by the administration per se, although it’s likely one of those liberal
advocacy groups that gets its funding from people who are joined at the hip
with Obama and company. You can’t unsee this, so you’ve been warned: Continued.
14th change to law without Congressional approval...Who Says Obama Hasn't United the Country? Yesterday the Obama
administration suddenly moved to allow hundreds of thousands of people who've lost their insurance due to Obamacare to sign up for bare-bone “catastrophic”
plans. It’s at least the 14th unilateral change to Obamacare that’s been made without
consulting Congress. “It shows that the Obamacare insurance products aren't’ selling so, at
the last minute, the administration is holding a fire sale on a failed launch,”
says Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, a health-care advocacy group. “Just
think how you must feel if you were one of the people who spent the last two
months fighting their way through HealthCare.gov to buy a policy that
will be thousands of dollars more expensive than this catastrophic insurance!” Continue reading!
WHAT THIS SCHOOL DID TO ‘SILENT NIGHT’ ISN'T GOING OVER WELL WITH SOME PARENTS-- A Long Island, N.Y., school
district has apologized after it came under fire following a fifth grade
choir’s removal of some key lyrics from the traditional Christmas song “Silent
Night.” Many of the religious lines that
point to the very heart of the Christmas season were simply axed from the
students’ Dec. 12 performance at Ralph
J. Osgood
Intermediate School
WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES ANOTHER MAJOR OBAMACARE
EXEMPTION-- People whose existing health care insurance has been
canceled because of the Affordable Care Act will not be hit with tax penalties
for failing to line up new coverage as required under the law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius says she will use authorities in the law to issue a “temporary
hardship exemption” from those penalties.
Read more!
GLENN BECK MAKES A
VERY EXCITING OFFER TO THE CAST OF ‘DUCK DYNASTY’-- “Duck Dynasty on TheBlaze” has a nice ring to it, according to
Glenn Beck. One day after Phil
Robertson’s comments about homosexuality earned him an indefinite
suspension from the hit series “Duck Dynasty” on A&E, Beck offered the entire Robertson
family a place on his own network. Read more.
OBAMA’S HALF-BROTHER TO SET THE RECORD
‘STRAIGHT’ ABOUT PRESIDENT’S MEMOIR: ‘A LOT OF THAT STUFF BARACK WROTE IS
WRONG’--HONG KONG (AP) — President Barack Obama’s half brother is
publishing an autobiography that details the domestic abuse that served as the
theme for his earlier semi-autobiographical novel, which featured an abusive
parent patterned on their late father. In fact, Mark Obama Ndesandjo says he
wants to “set the record straight” about some of the lies President Obama
included in his bestselling 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” Much more!
IS SEN. MIKE LEE’S
PROPOSED BILL A GAME-CHANGER FOR CHURCHES? Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) discussed the Marriage and Religious Freedom
Act on The Glenn Beck Program Thursday, describing how the proposed legislation
could be a game-changer for churches across the country. Lee, who introduced the bill with eleven original cosponsors last
week, said the most “fundamental purpose” of the legislation is to protect
religious institutions, particularly when it comes to their views on
marriage. Continue reading.
PRESIDENT OBAMA
COMMUTES 8 CRACK COCAINE SENTENCES (WHY?)--President Barack Obama on Thursday
commuted the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh drug
sentences in the most expansive use yet of his power to free inmates. All eight were sentenced under old federal
guidelines that treated convictions for crack cocaine offenses harsher than
those involving the powder form of the drug. Obama also pardoned 13 others for
various crimes. Read more.
Business Group Pushing Common Core
Hires Activist with Partisan History--RALEIGH – A purportedly nonpartisan
group formed to push business executives’ education agenda has hired a partisan
activist once embroiled in groups that boycotted a North Carolina employer. BEST NC (Business for Educational Success and
Transformation in North Carolina )
includes at least 54 executives as members. The group supports Common Core,
the controversial plan to impose uniform educational standards on schools in North Carolina and other
states. Continue reading.
Heritage Foundation: Top 10 Broken Obamacare Promises--Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010, many of the President’s famous promises have been routinely broken. As he so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.” To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already been broken. 1. “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” Reality: Millions of Americans have lost and will lose their current coverage due to Obamacare. 2. 4.7 million reported health insurance cancellations or changes of existing policies in 32 states. Continue reading.
December 18, 2013
VIDEOS
Ted Cruz launches dramatic new Tea Party video for 2014
People Sign Fake Petition To Keep U.S.Concentration Camps Open
Dangers of the Trans-PacificPartnership (TPP) Secret "Trade"--President Obama's Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) is an an all-out assault on our national sovereignty.
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Parents
Threatened for Opting Out of Common Core--Parents hate to see their kids treated like
robots while forced to fit into the government’s definition of equal and
successful. Surprise! Surprise! Parents want their kids to develop as
individuals each prepared to follow his own dreams. In a video (see
link) on Common Core, New York State PTA Education Coordinator Bob Aloise
supported calling Child Protective Services and charging parents with
“educational neglect” for opting-out their kids from the curricula or
testing. Read more!
TPN—Judson Phillips: Friends of Barry--The White House is facing questions after a
photograph surfaced of President Barack Obama smiling next to the leader of an
authoritarian separatist group known for its past terrorism and what experts
dubbed egregious human rights violations.
Read the article.
The Hill: Reid: ObamaCare will
help Dems in 2014--Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) thinks the healthcare law will ultimately
help Senate Democrats in 2014 even though some incumbents fear a backlash at
the polls. “I think for sure it will be
a net positive,” said Reid, who expects the law to become more of a political
benefit as problems are smoothed out by Election Day. “I think so by then for
sure.” Read more.
EPA v. USA
President Obama's 'Save the Planet Slush
Fund' Exposed--“By the beginning of 2012, revelations revealed
the real intent behind
Obama's trillion-dollar spending spree ("walking around money") (American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act): it was “a key tool for advancing the Obama
administration’s clean-energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign
commitments.” In fact, the 2009-Stimulus package was jammed-packed full of clean-energy
provisions, of which about 10 percent of the monies were earmarked for
renewable energy.” Read the article.
Medicaid Is Where the ObamaCare Action Is--HHS reported Wednesday that 1.2 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare since the exchanges opened on October 1st. The media is trumpeting this as a sign the website is improving and ObamaCare is making steady progress towards its goals. A deeper look at the numbers, however, reveals a more troubling trend. Of the total enrollees, […] READ MORE!
How the EPA Plans to Kill
Jobs and Reduce Your Income--How’s
your heating bill? If you feel like you’re not paying enough, you’re in luck. President Obama’s Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is pushing new regulations on power plants—regulations that will
kill jobs, jack up your energy costs, and even end up reducing families’ income
because of the impact on the prices of everything you buy. Read more.
THERE’S A LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO
CLAIM TAX CREDITS, AND A GOP SEN. JUST MADE A BIG MOVE TO CLOSE IT TO SAVE VET
BENEFITS (UPDATED)--The Senate on Tuesday voted down the amendment filed
by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that intended to restore proposed cuts to
veterans’ benefits by closing a benefit loophole for illegal immigrants. On the near party line vote, the amendment
failed by 46-54. Sen. Key Hagan (D-N.C.) joined Republicans on the vote. (Thank
Sen. Sessions for his efforts, and remember KAY HAGANs vote on election
day!) Read more.
Disabled Military Retirees
Not Exempt from Pension Cuts in Budget Deal--Sen. Sessions: ‘Unthinkable’-- A provision cutting the pensions of
military retirees in the bipartisan budget deal that the Senate will vote on
this week does not exempt disabled veterans, the Washington Free Beacon has
learned. Disabled retirees were
previously thought to be exempt from the changes to military retiree pay, which
could cost service members up to $124,000 over a 20-year period. Read more.
John Boehner demands Senate action on House jobs bills (Nope, nope, nope--Dingy Harry says we can't have the pipeline and the jobs that would go with it!)--With the budget fight nearly behind them,
both Republicans and Democrats are jockeying for the next fight — and House Speaker John A.
Boehner wants it to be
on the GOP’s
turf of cutting regulations to spur job growth.
In a video released Wednesday morning, Mr. Boehner challenges President
Obama and Senate Democrats
to take up some of the more than two dozen bills awaiting action in the upper
chamber. Among those
bills are major hot button issues such as building the Keystone pipeline, which has cleared the House and appears to have
majority support in the Senate, but which Majority Leader Harry Reid has
refused to bring to the floor for a vote. Read more.
Coburn’s 2013 ‘Wastebook’ Features
Brothels, NASA and Senate ‘Lifestyle Training’--Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,
wants Congress to stop spending money on things he deems unnecessary — such as
“looking for signs of intelligent life in Congress” by giving NASA $3 million
to set up a workshop in Washington, D.C., explaining the legislative branch. Much more.
Canada
Free Press: Paul Ryan’s Deal Throws away
2014 Advantage--Republicans in the United States just damaged their
chances of winning elections in 2014, while trying to increase their
chances. That is what is wrong with the Republican Party: A total
failure to properly diagnose or understand the Party’s circumstances cripples
it. What Ronald Reagan saw so clearly, Republican insiders cannot grasp. More here.
TPN—Alan Caruba: Asian Trade Treaty Will Destroy America--In
the same way Obamacare was foisted on America by creating a 2,000-page law that
Democrats in Congress never even bothered to read, a new treaty about trade
with Asia is going through the same process and poses as great, if not greater,
threat to our economy, our judiciary, and our sovereignty. Secrecy and outright deception is the
hallmark of the Obama administration and a proposed Asian treaty must be
stopped. Continue reading.
Byron York, Washington
IRS pays tax cheats hundreds of millions of dollars--The IRS itself is paying tax-cheat companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year for services, according to a new internal audit released Wednesday. Federal law generally prohibits companies with unpaid tax liabilities to get government contracts, but the IRS doesn’t have sufficient controls to weed out tax cheats, according to the agency’s inspector general. Read more!
Tim
Carney, Washington K Street
animates Democrats' fight for campaign finance restrictions. But it
also lies at the heart of the Republican
leadership's war with Tea Party groups. Read more.
Under the Radar (and under the rug?): The senator and
the mystery of the disappearing audit--Back in January, we got a whole
lot of ethics-related
news regarding state Sen. Fletcher Hartsell (R-Cabarrus). Apparently, he
spent $100,000 in campaign funds — in an election year where he was unopposed —
to pay off TEN CREDIT CARDS. Lots of political types publicly expressed
their shock and dismay, and the state board of elections promised to get to the bottom of this: It is a story heard many time before in North Carolina
BARBARA WALTERS TO PIERS MORGAN: ‘WE THOUGHT
THAT [OBAMA] WAS GOING TO BE…THE NEXT MESSIAH’-- “I shouldn't say
this at Christmastime,” Barbara Walters told Piers Morgan on his show Tuesday
night. But despite her best judgment, she went on to say it –
and it was quite a controversial statement. What exactly was it? “We
thought that he was going to be – I shouldn't say this at Christmastime, but –
the next messiah,” she told Morgan. Read more.
Raleigh News and
Observer: Common Core education
standards get legislative scrutiny (and CCTA was there to show opposition to Common Core!) --A joint legislative committee charged with
scrutinizing the new Common Core standards used in North Carolina schools for
math and English held its first meeting Tuesday and the talk quickly turned to
overhauling or dumping them. Read more here.
John Hood, Daily
Journal: We’re Not Buying The Lemon--N.C. leaders said no to
Medicaid expansion. That’s because they can see beyond the ends of their noses
— and beyond the flimsy promises of the used-car salesmen in Washington RALEIGH — As the costly implementation of the perversely
named Affordable Care Act continues to baffle, disappoint, and enrage the
public, a collection of government vendors and left-wing groups has settled on
a brilliant political strategy: castigate North Carolina
TPN—Judson Phillips: It is war. If anyone still believes that Conservatives
have a home in the Republican Party, the latest news from the GOP should
convince you otherwise. Liberal Republican
Peter King is launching an anti-Tea Party Pac.
Continue reading.
HERE ARE THE TOP
SIX MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS THE GOV’T SPENDS TAX DOLLARS ON--The office of Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
on Tuesday released a 177-page overview of questionable projects that have been
allotted nearly $30 billion in federal funds.
From $15,000 spent on a project involving the collection of thousands of
gallons of human urine (page 76 of the report) to $5 million spent on crystal stemware
for the U.S. State Department (page 75 of the report) to the $3 million NASA plans to spend
on studying Congress, Coburn’s fourth annual “Wastebook” report is one example
of out-of-control government spending after another. Read on there is much more!
(IBD) ObamaCare Navigators Tell Applicants
To Lie Like Administration That Hired Them--No Veritas: A
congressional field hearing has confirmed that not only is ObamaCare a lie
agreed upon, but that "navigators" hired to guide the unwilling are
telling applicants to lie and ignore the legal requirements to enroll. James O'Keefe, the videographer who helped
topple the community activist group Acorn, recently released a video showing
ObamaCare navigators in Dallas advising applicants to lie about their income
and otherwise evade legal procedures and requirements when signing up for
health insurance in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. Read more.
SSA: Disability Recipients Soar, Funding Nearly Depleted
Under Obama--The
number of Americans receiving Social Security disability payments has increased
20 percent since President Barack Obama took office and the influx of new
recipients has pushed the program close to insolvency. The annual deficit in the Social Security
Disability Trust Fund hit $31.49 billion in fiscal 2013 and the remaining
balance of $100.49 billion in the fund will be depleted by 2016, the Social
Security Administration predicts. Continue reading.
The Hill: Group touted Clinton access for $250,000--The liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) this year promised corporate donors a chance to meet Hillary Rodham Clinton in return for a $250,000 donation, documents obtained by The Hill show. Read more.
The Hill: Group touted Clinton access for $250,000--The liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) this year promised corporate donors a chance to meet Hillary Rodham Clinton in return for a $250,000 donation, documents obtained by The Hill show. Read more.
‘TROUBLING’:
FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS OBAMA ADMIN. TO DISCLOSE DOCUMENT IT’S BEEN TRYING TO KEEP
HIDDEN-- A federal judge
Tuesday ordered the disclosure of a government-wide foreign aid directive
President Barack Obama signed in 2010 but wanted to keep hidden from the
public, Politico reports. The judge called the scope of the
government’s argument for “presidential communications privilege” rather
“troubling.” The Department of Justice
has argued that the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development was
covered by executive privilege, even though the information is “non-classified”
and sends directives to agencies not to the president of the United States . Read more.
The Hill: Ryan won’t run for White
House in 2016, his GOP colleagues say--Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
has a choice to make. The Republican
Budget Committee chairman is the most popular conservative in the House, and
over the coming year, he will have to decide whether to seek a more powerful
committee gavel, launch a bid for House leadership or take a risky leap into
the crowded waters of the 2016 presidential campaign. Read more.
psst, KAY: Your bill might be A JOB-KILLER--US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) —
affectionately known in many parts as Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet™ —has filed a bill seeking an extension of federal unemployment benefits.
Imagine that. Right in front of a tough reelection
fight. CNBC’s John Carney makes the
case that such a move is a great way to hinder job growth and economic
expansion: Continue reading.
The Hill: Top 10 lobbying victories
of 2013--The influence industry had a tough slog in 2013 as Congress recorded one
of the most unproductive years in history.
With major initiatives on immigration and taxes stalled, lobbyists
scored many of their biggest wins while playing defense on legislation and
regulations. Continue reading.
83 Numbers From 2013 That
Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe--During 2013, America United States
Meet the new NC
state agency. (Same as the old scandal-plagued state agency?)-- McClatchy and other mainstream media
outlets blew the
doors off of The NC Rural Center earlier this year — exposing
all kinds of cronyism and corruption to public view. Politicos in Raleigh Rural Center
Southern
Discomfort: U.S. Army seeks
removal of Lee, ‘Stonewall’ Jackson Pennsylvania
and related--Fla.
Tom Latham is 3rd House member to declare
retirement Tuesday--"Tom Latham joins Republicans like Jon
Runyan, Tim Griffin and Frank Wolf in jumping ship [and retiring] because
Americans are categorically rejecting their flawed priorities: nearly 50 votes
to repeal the Affordable Care Act, reckless shutdown, constant brinkmanship and no agenda to work together to create jobs," said Israel. Continued.
Army to cut up to 4,000 captains and
majors! 19,000 to appear before
screening board for early separation (This administration is quietly tearing
down our military.)--The U.S. Army is sending roughly 19,000 active-duty
captains and majors to a screening board for early separation this spring, the Army Times reported. Up to 20 percent of those screened — approximately
3,800 officers — could be scheduled to leave the service by the
Read more!
Read more!
December 16, 2013--Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
December 16 1773 - The
Boston Tea Party: The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of
Liberty in the British colony of Massachusetts against the tax policy of the
British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea
imported into the colonies.On this date, members of the Sons of Liberty
disguised as Mohawk warriors dumped crates of tea into the Boston harbor. Their
phrase was “No taxation without representation,” i.e. their demand that they be
taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament
in which they were not represented. Read more!
Judge deals NSA defeat on bulk phone collection--
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency's bulk
collection of phone records violates the Constitution's ban on unreasonable
searches, but put his decision on hold pending a near-certain government
appeal. U.S. District Court Judge
Richard Leon granted a preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs Larry
Klayman and Charles Strange, concluding they were likely to prevail in their
constitutional challenge. Leon, an appointee of former President George W.
Bush, ruled Monday that the two men are likely to be able to show that their
privacy interests outweigh the government's interest in collecting the data. Leon says that
means that massive collection program is an unreasonable search under the
Constitution's Fourth Amendment. Read more!
Obamacare: A
death panel for the rule of law--Barack Obama is in a box: He repeatedly
promised “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your
health care plan,” but his socialized medicine monstrosity has cost millions of
people their coverage. It’s also become painfully clear Obama knew this was going to happen as early as March 2010 — yet kept
regurgitating his false promise. Obamacare
also has a bigger problem: As written, the law’s key mechanism for
issuing subsidies to state exchanges is legally enforceable in only one third
of the country — meaning the only way to pay for its nationwide dependency
expansion is new deficit spending. This would clearly violate another oft-repeated Obama
promise: That his law would not “add one dime” to the federal deficit (well,
beyond the $6.2 trillion identified in this 2013 GAO report). What’s an administration to do, right? That’s easy: Change the law.
Read more.
Constitution Club—Keith Broaders: The President’s Power to Wage War--If the President believes there is sufficient justification to invade another country, his action could appropriate or it could be a costly mistake. The decision to wage war should not be left for one man to decide. The Constitution says that the President is the Commander in Chief when he is called into service by Congress. This means that he is not the Commander in Chief when he has not been called into service by a Congressional declaration of war. Those that assume that the President has the authority to invade other nations without being authorized by Congress to do so are sadly mistaken. Continue reading.
Senator:
Taxpayer dollars may be funding ‘war on coal’--Even if you’re a supporter of coal power, your tax dollars may
be funding groups seeking to end coal-fired power in the U.S., a letter claims. Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby is
asking the Energy Department to investigate whether or not taxpayer funding to
environmental groups may be going toward political activity aimed at lobbying Alabama state utility
regulators to stop using coal power. Continue reading.
BREAKING: New Report Says
Obamacare Navigator Program Marred by Mismanagement, Confusion--A new report
produced by Rep. Darrell Issa's House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform reveals that Obamacare's controversial "Navigator
and Assister" program has suffered from chronic poor management, resulting
in widespread disarray, since the law's October 1 launch date. An advanced copy
of the document obtained by Townhall raises
a number of competency and security concerns. Below is a brief summary of its
revelations and conclusions: Read more.
Will Senate
Republicans filibuster the Ryan-Murray budget agreement? Senate Republicans have a decision to make. Last Thursday, the House of Representatives
passed the budget agreement negotiated by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty
Murray (D-WA). At this point, however, not enough republican senators have come
out in support of the deal to ensure cloture and there are several reasons why
there may end up not being enough. Read more!
How the Federal Government will Respond to the Liberty Amendments--I know I’m not supposed to think this, and revenge is neither sweet nor charitable, but would it not be a wonderful spectacle to witness and be part of a movement that helps restore America and watch as all branches of the federal government sit helplessly as their power erodes with the passage of the liberty amendments? Recently, thanks in no small part to Mark Levin’s latest bestseller, The Liberty Amendments, there has been a resurgence of interest in the Constitution and states’ rights. Read more!
The Reason GOP is Not Going after the IRS for Harassing Tea Party Groups--Two seemingly unrelated articles caught my attention. Here’s the first one: “Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel noted on Friday [Dec. 13] that Barack Obama and the IRS have a new plan to target Tea Party groups in advance of the 2014 elections. During Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department announced a proposal to limit the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups.” One would think that Republicans in Congress would be outraged. The silence is deafening. We know that the IRS was going after conservative groups, many of which were associated with the newly formed Tea Party movement. It was a big story for a time, and then it seemed to die. Read more!
Obama: Raise minimum wage and extend unemployment-- Meeting with newly elected mayors at the White House Friday, President Obama called on Congress to spend more money "right away" for extended unemployment benefits and to raise the federal minimum wage to help struggling cities. "You've got potentially 1.3 million people during Christmas time that are going to lose their unemployment benefits at a time when it's still very difficult for a lot of folks to find a job," Mr. Obama said. "That's not just bad for those individuals and those families, that's bad for our economy and that's bad for our cities." Read more.
How Death
Panels Work Without Being Legal--Guaranteed:
Unless Obamacare is killed… the elderly and infirm will be. Once
government makes all the decisions on who gets care and when, you’ll have
nowhere to turn—even if you have the money to pay. Big hearts and no brain activity leads to
terrible outcomes. Think, people! If a consummate,
pathological liar is the one promoting something, do you really think it’s
going to be good for you? Read more!
Ron Paul on the FED’s 100th Birthday--Next week, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at
Armed Guard Saved Students’ Lives in Arapahoe School Shooting-- As the investigation
into the shooting at Arapahoe High School continues, law enforcement officials
stress that the presence of an armed guard in the school “was the key factor in
preventing more deaths and injuries.” On December 13th, 18-year-old Karl
Halverson Pierson brought a legally purchased shotgun into Arapahoe High
with the intention of confronting librarian and debate coach Tracy Murphy. Read more.
GOP rips ObamaCare
'navigators'--Republicans on the House
Oversight Committee released documents on Monday saying that the ObamaCare
“navigators” responsible for helping consumers enroll in the new law have made
a series of errors and put sensitive consumer information at risk. Documents released with the report said they
have been giving enrollees misinformation, and have not done enough to keep
secure consumers’ health information, Social Security numbers, yearly income
and other tax information. Read more.
Lloyd Marcus: The War on Rich White Men--I heard a
knock on the door of my hotel room. It was Donald. “Turn on Megyn Kelly.
She is reporting about an MSNBC commentator’s claim that using the term
“Obamacare” is the same as calling him the N word.” MSNBC's
Melissa Harris Perry's accusation is absurd. It is an obvious weak attempt to
distance the president from Obamacare which is wreaking havoc in the lives of
millions of Americans who are losing their health care. Continue reading.
The
Hill: Packed Senate schedule to test
bipartisanship--Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants to pass the budget deal and the
Defense authorization bill and confirm a new secretary of Homeland Security ...
all by Friday. A Senate Democratic
leadership aide said last week that Reid also wants to move another batch of
nominees, including Janet Yellen, who would become the first women to head the
Federal Reserve. Continue reading.
Heritage Foundation: How to Help Uninsured Americans--Two of the problems Obamacare promised
to solve were getting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and
helping the uninsured get coverage. Last week, we talked about how Heritage’s
alternative to Obamacare would help people with
pre-existing conditions. Today, let’s talk about the uninsured. Obamacare’s promise of insuring all
Americans isn’t working out. According to the
Congressional Budget Office, more than 30 million people will still be uninsured in 10 years. Read more.
Carolina Journal:
Another Fake Tax Refund Scheme Emerges in N.C.--IRS
audit says stolen identity refund fraud 'serious and growing problem'--In late November, Phillip Brooks
from the Union County
Progressives: Reactionist’s & Lunatics (This is
a must read for all conservatives!)--To minimize explanations and delve into examples of Legislative reaction
to alleged societal problems; the inherent lunacy of such action; and ignorance
of governmental endeavors to “solve” the alleged problems. Yes, problems
exist and encompass all spheres of life. However, these problems existed
before us and will after we are gone; they are an omnipresent reality in life. Problems fail to justify government and
certainly fail to grant government the right to intervene with laws. Most
problems exist from a lack of personal responsibility. For example, you
are overweight due to over eating; you are overweight due to a lack of
exercise; you are overweight because you choose McDonalds and not Subway.
If trans-fat is your problem…solve it yourself, do not expect government to
replace personal responsibility. Read on!
Light Bulb Ban Set to Take Effect Early 2014--(Want to know the real reason for the ban--follow the money to GE!) Light bulb manufacturers will cease making traditional 40 and 60-watt light bulbs -- the most popular in the country -- at the start of 2014. This comes after the controversial phasing out of incandescent 75 and 100-watt light bulbs at the beginning of 2013. In their place will be halogen bulbs, compact fluorescent bulbs, LED bulbs and high efficiency incandescents -- which are just regular incandescents that have the filament wrapped in gas. All are significantly more expensive than traditional light bulbs, but offer significant energy and costs savings over the long run. (Some specialty incandescents -- such as three-way bulbs -- will still be available.) Continue reading!
Congressmen Move to Declassify Key Part of 9/11 Report That They Say Could Indicate Hijackers Had Outside Help--Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) introduced a House resolution earlier this month urging President Barack Obama to declassify a portion of a government report that they say could provide evidence the 9/11 hijackers had outside help. “[T]he information contained in the redacted pages is critical to our foreign policy moving forward and should thus be available to the American public,” Jones said in a press release. “If the 9/11 hijackers had outside help – particularly from one or more foreign governments – the press and the public have a right to know what our government has or has not done to bring justice to all of the perpetrators.” “[T]he information contained in the redacted pages is critical to our foreign policy…” Read more.
The Most Expensive Senate
Race of the Cycle — So Far-- Hagan's re-election battle 1 of 4
Senate contests where outside spending has eclipsed $2M...About halfway through the midterm election cycle, North Carolina is on pace to host the most
expensive Senate race of 2014. But the
Tar Heel State shouldn’t necessarily get too comfortable in the top spot. Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan’s re-election
battle there is one of at least four Senate contests where outside spending has
already eclipsed the $2 million mark. The others include the re-election races
of Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky. Continue reading.
Confidential Obamacare Navigator training manual uploaded online-- “INFORMATION NOT RELEASABLE TO THE PUBLIC
UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW: This information has not been publicly disclosed and may be privileged
and confidential. It is for internal government use only and must not be
disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive the
information. Unauthorized disclosure may result in prosecution to the full
extent of the law.” That is the warning
at the bottom of every page of the 217-page confidential Obamacare Navigator training manual
sitting online for anyone to come across –and as Watchdog.org reports, that’s exactly what someone did. Read more.
GOP bill would highlight Obamacare security breaches--Rep. Diane Black on Monday introduced a bill that would require federal officials to let Americans know if their personal data has been breached on a federal Web system tied to the new health care law. Mrs. Black, a Tennessee Republican who is a fierce critic of President Obama’s health reforms, pitched the legislation as a “common-sense reform” to address the steady trickle of security concerns that surround the online portals tied to Obamacare. Read more!
Sen. Sessions Reveals Budget Deal
Includes Secret Language Making It Easier To Increase Spending--On the Friday broadcast of Mark Levin's radio program,
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) revealed language was slipped into the budget deal
eliminating a provision that required 60 votes in the Senate to increase
spending and taxes beyond what was specified in the Budget Control Act of 2011
(the sequester). Under the rule change only a simple majority would be
required. The House passed the budget deal late last week. Continue reading.
Kerry Awards Vietnam With $17 Million to Fight Global Warming--On Memorial Day, May 31, 2004, Vietnam Vets for the Truth broke an
extraordinary story about a photograph hanging in the Vietnamese Communist
War Remnants
Museum (formerly known as the “War Crimes Museum ”) in Ho Chi Minh City
(Saigon ). The photograph, displayed in a
room dedicated to foreign activists who contributed to the Communist victory
over America in the Vietnam War, shows Senator John Kerry being greeted by
Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Jeffrey
M. Epstein of Vietnam Vets for the Truth acquired the photograph during the
Memorial Day weekend in response to a general request for photographs and
records detailing Kerry’s activities on behalf of the enemy. Today Secretary
of State John Kerry promised Vietnam
VIDEOS
Mohammad Said Jesus Was a White Man… Will the Left Condemn Mohammad,Too?
Tsunami of food regs will
hit in 2014--The
coming year figures to be pivotal for food safety issues, as the Obama
administration works to complete a host of regulations to shore up a system
seen as exposing the American public to too many health risks. In 2014, the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) will push against a court-imposed deadline to finish a slate of rules
reflecting the largest food safety overhaul in 70 years while also furthering
plans to rid the food supply of trans fats, phase out the use of antibiotics in
meat and launch new initiatives targeting sodium and caffeine. Continue reading.
Obamacare
Exchange Debits Checking Accounts (by accident?) For
the second week in a row, the Washington Health plan finder website is down,
and it's causing problems for people who are dealing with billing issues. Some
of them say the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts. Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her
checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the
negative. “The first thing I thought
was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said. Read more.
All
Out Political Revolution and war is upon America in 2014—The American
public is more angry than ever before at Washington DC going into the 2014
elections where the core issues are debt, taxes, jobs, healthcare, and illegal
immigration. Truth is that the RNC and
DNC have both failed America
OBAMA TRIES TO LEGALIZE THE IRS SCANDAL--The Obama administration is attempting to
create a new rule that would legalize the abuses of power that it committed
during the IRS scandal, when Tea Party and conservative non-profit groups were
targeted. The Treasury has proposed a new rule for 501(c)4 groups that would,
Kimberly Strassel of the Wall
Street Journal notes, "isolate and shut down the same tea
party groups victimized in the first targeting round." President Barack Obama, having pretended to have been outraged by the IRS abuse when the
scandal broke, is now endorsing it. The rules would not apply to unions
(organized under Section 501(c)5 of the federal tax code) or to pure
non-profits (organized under 501(c)3). Rather, they would target 501(c)4
"social welfare" groups, which the Democrats fear because they have
been effective vehicles for conservative advocacy. Continue reading.
SUDDEN THREAT ENDANGERS HILLARY'S 2016
RUN--Mrs. Clinton named in criminal charges. NEW YORK
– A threat to Hillary Clinton’s much anticipated 2016 presidential campaign
appears to be developing in Egypt
where the government is taking steps to criminalize the Muslim
Brotherhood. Specifically, a new
criminal complaint has been filed with Egypt’s attorney general, Hisham
Barakat, alleging U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton collaborated with
Naglaa Mahmoud, the wife of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in seeking
to excite domestic insurrections to topple Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian
general who has been commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces, as well
as minister of defense, since Aug. 12, 2012.
Read more!
Center for American Progress releases list of corporate
donors after founder moves to White House--In a late Friday afternoon news
dump, The Center for American Progress published a list of their 2013 corporate
donors, who each contributed $10,000 or more to CAP’s $42 million budget. Chicago native and founder John D. Podesta —
former President Bill Clinton’s final chief of
staff — will join the Obama administration early next year
as a special senior advisor, prompting calls for CAP to release the full list
of its corporate donors. Read more!
Cowardice
is Ruling & Ruining American Politics, Institutions & Life Itself--
American history is defined by greatness borne of courage. Yet, at a time of
unprecedented power and authority, both military and moral, America
The Hill: Green
groups believe timing will make Podesta a WH climate force--Environmental
groups believe John Podesta will be a force for change on climate issues at the
White House. The groups argue that for
most of Obama’s years in office, an administration that took power at the
height of the recession has prioritized helping the economy over other
goals. That’s
created an uphill climb for advocates pushing the White House to take a tougher
line in reducing carbon emissions and cleaning up polluters. Read more.
The Hill: Inhofe
joins with Democrats on quick Defense authorization bill passage--Doing so places Inhofe at odds with some
of his GOP colleagues, including Mitch McConnell. Sen. James
Inhofe (R-Okla.) is in the awkward position of joining forces with Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to try to jam the Defense authorization
bill through the Senate next week without considering amendments. The role places Inhofe at odds with some of
his Senate Republican colleagues, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.), who are furious at Reid’s handling of the Senate amid the backlash of
a change in rules that makes it easier to get nominees through the upper
chamber. Read more.
TPN—Alan Caruba: The Financial Collapse of America-- United States
Mason Weaver: Why republican leadership wants Christie! Folks understand the game. These people are first survivors. Do not think they will work to replace themselves from power. Do not think they will work to support people who will change their income system. The Republican Party is controlled by the team who won the last republican presidential race, Bush and his father. I have nothing against the Bushes, this is only a political response to all of you. When Reagan made a deal to win the WhiteHouse by choosing the moderate Bush as his running mate he gave the moderate wing a chance to get power. This is why the moderates panicked and attacked Sarah Palin when McCain nominated her, they were afraid the tables were going to turn. Read more.
BATFE Implicated in More
Rogue Operations--Over the last several years,
the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) has
been plagued by mismanagement, scandal and rogue operations, the most infamous
of which has been the ill-fated and deadly "Fast and Furious"
debacle. Despite these ongoing problems and the criticism and calls for reform
they have generated, BATFE has continued its practice of questionable tactics
and judgment. In fact, over the course of the last
week, numerous media outlets have reported on yet another dubious BATFE
operation--this one lowering the bar to a new, disturbing level. Continue reading.
Ryan Defends Reduction to Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Early Military Retirees--The two-year budget deal crafted by Republican congressman Paul Ryan and Democratic senator Patty Murray sailed through the House of Representatives on a 332-94 vote last Thursday, just two days after it was introduced. If cutting a bipartisan deal is so easy, why couldn't Republicans and Democrats have reached an agreement before October 1 and skipped the government shutdown altogether? Read more.
#NCSEN Speaker Thom speaks on taxes, immigration--So far, during this primary campaign, you’ve had to (a) friend Speaker Thom on Facebook or (b) attend a high-dollar fundraiser to attend a high-dollar fundraiser to hear state House speaker Thom Tillis comment on the issues. We’re changing things up, thanks to the wonders of email: Read more.
#NCSEN Another NCGOP establishment icon joins Theam Tillis--A North Carolinian who has held countless jobs over the decades with Democrat and Republican officials has thrown his support behind state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the 2014 GOP primary for US Senate:
Read more.
Obamacare ‘Assisters’ Recruit Young Enrollees Where They ‘Party by
Night and Shop by Day’-- Obamacare needs young people to sign up to offset health-care
costs of older, less-healthy Americans. Which may explain why Obamacare “assisters”
took to the streets of Washington ,
D.C. Jordan
12 “Taxi” sneakers were on sale; after that, it’ll be two Denny’s restaurants
from 2 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Fox News noted.
More!
State Goes After BB Guns: "Young Kids Can Get a Felony
Charge— In New Jersey , an unregistered
BB gun could mean jail time. That’s
right…a BB gun. That iconic, much-desired gift from the movie, A Christmas
Story. Apparently the government is just as deeply concerned about the
potential of someone putting an eye out with a BB gun as Ralphie’s mother was.
They are so concerned that if you don’t register your air gun, pellet gun, or
BB gun, you could go directly to jail. Read more!
IRS RETREATS FROM
ATTACK ON VETERANS. Change requires agents to have evidence of
wrongdoing before demanding personal details-- The Internal Revenue Service, the one
single federal agency that probably engenders more fear than any other, is
backing down. And it took the
veterans of the American military to make it happen. The American Legion is reporting on its website that a regulation which was costing
that organization thousands of dollars, dozens of man-hours for compliance, and
plenty of headaches, is being changed. Read more.
Obama, Pied Piper of Entitlement, Equal Outcome
and Redistribution--Semper
fidelis – Always Faithful- is forever connected to the US Marine Corps. Semper
Paratus – Always Prepared- is forever connected to the US Coast Guard. In no
time Semper inscribitur – Always Entitled – will be forever connected to the Obama administration and the progressive Democrats. As part
of the fundamental change the president promised, he has gone out of his way to
ensure that everyone gets a trophy and that outcomes are the same. It
appears that Democrats feel we still need to work on getting closer to equal
outcomes in the US
Report: Insurers fear they’ll have a net loss in enrollments for the year on
December 31--
A week ago, Politico called this the worst-case scenario for ObamaCare. The odds were slim, they assured us, but not quite
zero that the magical combo of millions of cancellations, endless exchange
“glitches,” and panicky half-assed logistical
complications designed
to “fix” the problem would mean fewer insured Americans at the end of 2013
than existed at the start of the year. It was unlikely, claimed Politico,
because the four or five million whose plans have been canceled had alternate
routes to enrollment that didn’t involve Healthcare.gov. They could enroll
directly with their current insurer in a new plan (although not if they wanted
a subsidy, which are available exclusively on the exchanges) or they might even
be automatically enrolled in a plan by their insurer in the interest of
preventing a lapse of coverage. But it was, in fact, possible that the first
week of January would bring news that ObamaCare had actually made the problem
it purported to solve worse. That’s the worst-case scenario. It’d be a PR
catastrophe. Continue reading.
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Romney Was Right About What Would Happen If Obama Was Re-Elected
ZoNation: Examining the Communist Core…Oops, Common Core Survey
Progressive Democrats Demand Obama Rule As A Dictator--More than two dozen House Democrats wrote a letter to President Obama
urging him to use executive authority to provide amnesty for the country’s 11
million illegal immigrants.
Fox’s Gutfeld: Impeach Kenyan-Born Interloper Obama
Under Obama, Troops Forced to Rely on Welfare--Around the holidays, the challenges — especially the financial ones — can tax families already struggling to make ends meet…
Sebelius Doesn't Know Where Obamacare Cancelations Come From--An embarrassing moment for Kathleen Sebelius this week if you ask me!
Hot List: The Top Lies of the Past Few Years
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Who Funds The Far Left? You’ll Be Surprised--The Center for American Progress is a left-wing organization that is closely associated with the Obama administration. Its principal product is a web site called Think Progress. Think Progress is part of the internet cesspool that modern liberalism has become. Written by hack left-wing bloggers, it is bitterly hostile to free enterprise. It is a low-rent site that traffics in the most absurd smears and conspiracy theories. Many have wondered for some years who finances far-left web sites like Think Progress. As of today, we know at least part of the answer, as CAP released its corporate donor list for the first time. Continue reading.
Obamacare Patients To Cost Doctors And Hospitals Millions--Yet another calculated ObamaCare assault on healthcare providers has been ferreted out of the 2700 impenetrable pages (plus revisions) of Barack Obama’s signature achievement. Doctors and hospitals nationwide can already expect to be paid a pittance for their services to ObamaCare patients. And now, yet another financial blow to providers has been discovered. CONTINUED.
Pelosi: GOP Failure to Extend
Unemployment Benefits Practically ‘Immoral’--House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the Republican
refusal to include unemployment benefits in the Ryan-Murray budget deal is
immoral. “It’s interesting to note that
they rejected unemployment insurance — this is so unconscionable, it’s
practically at the level of immoral to do. The people who work hard, play by
the rules, lose their job through no fault of their own, are not able to get —
continue to get an unemployment insurance check.” Read more.
TEACHERS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, Teachers Complain Common Core Makes Them ‘Robots,’ ‘Machines’-- Though the bulk of criticism about the content of the Common Core academic standards has come from parents, many teachers are growing increasingly vocal about how the new standards are affecting their daily jobs in the classroom. These teachers complain that Common Core is not allowing them to use their own individual skills in teaching their students. As FoxNews.com reported, some teachers say the new standards are forcing lessons to revolve around data and testing with methods and strategies that are counter-intuitive. Read more.
TEACHERS
FACE RETALIATION FOR CRITICIZING COMMON CORE--Teachers are supposed to leave professional judgment at
home. A teacher who tries to adjust the lessons labeled Common Core is not
supporting the mandate and is, therefore, insubordinate. Her kids typically
won’t pass the federally-aligned tests, either. Common Core has taken “teaching
to the test” to new heights. Ethics and
professional standards prevent educators from publicly criticizing any
district-approved policy, which includes Common Core, since educators are
evaluated based on their implementation of district policies. But a teacher’s
true feelings can be found on NEA and AFT internet sites. Read more.
Anti-gun Investors Harassing Amazon For Selling Gun Accessories--If the gun prohibitionists cannot get the draconian restrictions they want from the government, they will try to get them from private companies. A group of investors called Domini Social Investments of New York sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a letter on November 25 asking for details about how his company sells gun accessories. Continue reading.
The push to ‘do something,
anything,’ has nothing to do with preventing deaths--Earlier in the year, as the gun-control
movement tried clumsily to transform an abomination into a cudgel, the
Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker distilled its problem into a single sentence. “Nothing
proposed in the gun-control debates would have prevented the mass killing of
children at Sandy Hook
Elementary School
How to Remove Obama From
Office—The best way to prevent a person from becoming a
dictator is to not put him into a position in which he could become one.
Our Founding Fathers put this requirement in the Constitution: Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5 states: “No
Person except a natural-born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the
time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of
the President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall
not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a
Resident within the United States.” Continued.
Sebelius Explains the Free Market to Socialists (Sebelius 'Urging' Insurers
to Cover People Who Haven't Paid)--Fearing that many people will think they have health insurance
coverage when they do not, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius is “urging” insurance companies to “give consumers additional time to
pay their first month’s premium and still have coverage beginning Jan. 1,
2014.” Insurance companies should cover
people who haven’t yet paid, in other words.
More here.
Business to Boehner: Hit
’em hard--Business lobbyists are pumping
their fists over Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) slap-down of conservative
groups. Executives at trade groups told
The Hill they were pleasantly surprised by the strident remarks this week from
the typically laid-back Speaker. “You didn't
hear all the applause across downtown?” said Dirk Van Dongen, president and CEO
of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW). “Folks were
absolutely pleased that he said it. … It needed to be said.” Continued.
GOP
senator calls for ObamaCare alternative--Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) offered the outlines of a Republican
alternative to ObamaCare in the party’s weekly address. “There are common-sense, bipartisan solutions
to our health care problems that don’t require ObamaCare’s wholesale government
take-over of the system,” Toomey said. “Now, in a nutshell, we can make
insurance more accessible, more affordable, and more responsive to individuals
and families. And put patients and their doctors in charge of health care
decisions, instead of politicians and government bureaucrats.” Continue reading.
White
House move seen as sign of growing power for Senate Dems--The decision to name a protege of Sen.
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) as head of the White House legislative affairs office
is being taken as a sign that Senate Democrats will have growing power over the
political agenda for 2014. The
replacement of Miguel Rodriguez with Katie Beirne Fallon came as a shock to
some former administration officials, who noted that Fallon was chosen over
internal candidates with more experience.
Read more.
DC Republicans have ceded control Democrats -
indefinitely--The latest Congressional budget deal has upset some, ridiculed some, no
doubt made some happy, and apparently, if it is passed by the Senate and signed
into law by Obama, will avoid any more government shutdowns for the next two or
three years. But this deal may have done
something more, something much more serious. This act may have just ceded
control of the federal government to the Democrats - almost indefinitely. Continue reading.
Government Contractors Comply With Congressional Investigators; Ignore HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius--Vanguard of Freedom News reported yesterday on Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman, Darrel Issa's admonition of Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Director for her telling government contractors not to comply to the Congressional Committees requests for information about the roll-out of the HealtCare.gov website. Issa promptly warnedSebelius that telling them not to comply was against the law. Read more.
What is a
“Living Wage?”-- The recent fast food workers strike sponsored by the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) demanded a “living wage” of $15 an
hour. In progressive public policy, the “living wage is considered the minimum
necessary for a worker to meet needs considered basic.” Who decides what the
“basic needs” are? Are everybody’s needs the same? Why stop at $15, why not $50
an hour? Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier, while
director of the Poverty in America project at Penn
State University
We Arm The Saudis So They Can Arm Islamists In Syria-- Syria
Exposing America
FIGURES. Arapahoe High School Gunman Karl Pierson Was a Committed
Socialist (Video) -- Arapahoe High School
Denver Post Edits “Socialist”
Out of Description of Arapahoe School Shooter-- More media tricks…After thinking things over, the Denver
Post decided to delete the fact that
Arapahoe School
Obama to
Make IRS Tea Party Targeting Legit--Democracy is such a quaint notion. Why let it get in the way of
doing so much good in the world? I mean, what if it turns out people don’t want
their money redistributed? That they want it for themselves and will vote to
keep it. Greedy bastards. Writing today in the Wall Street Journal, columnist
Kimberly Strassel outlines how the White House is seeking to legitimize the IRS
targeting of Tea Party groups by issuing a regulation that would reclassify
them as political outfits that don’t qualify for tax-exempt status. Continue reading.
Habeas Corpus Suspended by the
Exclusive: Thousands of
HealthCare.gov sign-ups didn’t make it to insurers--Enrollment records for
close to 15,000 HealthCare.gov shoppers were not initially transmitted to the
insurance plans they selected, according to a preliminary federal estimate to
be released Saturday. While these cases
pose a challenge for the Obama administration, officials say they believe the
situation is improving. Since early December, fewer than 1 percent of
HealthCare.gov enrollments did not make their way to health insurance plans. Continued.
Star Parker:
End the tyranny of Social Security for low-income workers-- A
new study just published by the National Institute on Retirement Security, “Race and Retirement Insecurity in the United States,” presents
a dismal snapshot of the state of retirement savings of minority American
families. It reports that 54.3 percent
of blacks work for employers that offer retirement plans compared to 62.3
percent of whites. And 43.9 percent of blacks participate in those plans
compared to 53.9 percent of whites. Continued.
Widow Faces Eviction in Fla.
City For ‘Living Off the Grid’-- A Fla. city is set to evict a widow for her unique lifestyle of
“living off the grid.” Robin
Speronis told WFTX-TV that
she was given an eviction notice after the station aired a story about how she
chooses to live in a home without modern amenities, such as running water and
electricity. “A code enforcement officer
came, knocked on the door then posts a placard that says uninhabitable property,
do not enter,” Robin said. Continue reading.
‘He Doesn’t Care’: Wife of Detained American Pastor Blasts Obama’s
Silence on Her Husband’s Plight in Iran-- Naghmeh Abedini, wife of
imprisoned American Pastor Saeed Abedini, told TheBlaze on Friday that she
believes President Barack Obama has “shown in his heart that he doesn't care”
about her husband’s continued detainment in Iran — and that, to date, no high-ranking U.S. officials have contacted her to speak about Saeed’s
plight. Abedini specifically expressed
disappointment over Obama’s silence on her husband’s detention and his failure
to use the opportunity to defend religious freedom more broadly. Continue reading.
Student Suspended For One Year After Hugging Teacher--A Georgia high
school student slated to receive a full athletic scholarship to college will
not graduate on time after being suspended for one year last week as punishment
for hugging a teacher in Nov.
17-year-old Sam McNair of Duluth
High School
‘We Have to Do More’: Obama
Marks One Year Anniversary of Newtown Massacre to Suggest More Gun Control (Who didn't see that one coming!)-- President Barack Obama marked the one
year anniversary of the Newtown massacre that claimed the lives of 20 young
children and six school workers to suggest the implementation of more gun
control Saturday. The president, who
said “our hearts were broken for the families that lost a piece of their
heart,” used his weekly Saturday address to call for change. “[B]eneath the sadness, we also felt a sense
of resolve – that these tragedies must end, and that to end them, we must
change,” Obama said. “We have to do more
to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily.” Continued.
Have You Heard About the $36 Million Money Pit in
Chris Matthews Embarks on Angry Tirade Against Glenn Beck & Mark
Levin — and You’ll Never Guess Who He Compared Them to-- MSNBC host Chris
Matthews on Friday unleashed on Mark Levin and Glenn Beck in a passionate
tirade, comparing the two conservative talk show hosts’ behavior to that of North
Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. “You’ve
heard the news from North
Korea — how the young head of that country
just executed his guardian uncle,” Matthews said. “Well, back here in America , the
right wing is acting if not as brutally, certainly as crazily.” Read more, if you can stand it!
FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe Fires
Back at John Boehner: ‘Civil War’-- President and CEO of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe fired back at House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday over accusations that unnamed
conservative groups are “misleading their followers” in
opposing the Ryan-Murray budget deal.
“They’re pushing our members in places where they don’t want to be, and
frankly I think they've lost all credibility,” Boehner told reporters
Thursday. Speaking on the Glenn Beck
Program with guest host Dana Loesch, Kibbe seemed relieved that Boehner
“finally went public with something that’s been going on for well over a
year.” In the past, Kibbe said, the
“attacks” have always been “behind the scenes.”
“I think this is a civil war, and I think it’s a fight we have to fight
right now,” Kibbe said frankly. Read more.
Issa: Obama Admin. Wants to Stop Healthcare.gov Contractors from Cooperating With Congress--Two healthcare.gov contractors are defying requests from the Obama administration asking them not to cooperate with congressional investigators. “Americans should be disturbed that this administration is trying to stop government contractors from providing Congress with documents related to the decision to launch healthcare.gov while known and serious security vulnerabilities were and still may be present,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in a statement Friday. Continued.
The Daily
Haymaker: US House approves tax increase, spending increases in Murray-Ryan deal
(Some NC, SC GOPers help) --
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership
have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP’s claim to being the
party of smaller government. A bi-partisan group, 332-94 approved the spending
“compromise” hammered out and announced the other day by the
Budget Committee chairmen of each chamber — Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash)
and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). National
Review published a pretty scathing analysis of Murray-Ryan by some Capitol
Hill-based conservatives: Click here for more.
NC Blue Cross and Blue Shield offers small
businesses option to keep 2013 plans-- Blue Cross and Blue Shield
of North Carolina said Thursday it is offering current small-group customers a
new option to keep their existing plan into 2014. “Small
businesses are the backbone of North
Carolina
UNC awarded $1.5M grant for
biofuel feedstock research (MORE TAXPAYER $$
DOWN THE TOILET )--The University of North Carolina is among the seven
universities sharing in $8 million in federal research grants to develop
non-food feed stocks that can be used to make bioenergy. More.
Beach
bum: Obama to holiday in Hawaii--
President Obama and his family will
leave Washington Dec. 20 for a 17-day holiday
vacation in Hawaii . The White House announced Friday that
the Obamas will depart next week after what is expected to be a light work
schedule for the president in Washington . The president and his family traditionally
spend their Christmas break
in a rented home on Oahu with spectacular
ocean views. Read more!
Obamacare Pushing Puerto Rico Further Into Social Welfare State, Doctors Warn-- People in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico may not be grappling with the botched Obamacare website rollout, but the program could spell disaster for the island, which is facing a financial crisis and where half the population already is dependent on free health insurance, members of the island's medical community warned. Puerto Ricans, who are born
CBO stuns!
'Rich' pay 106% of income taxes--A
new Congressional Budget Office study has torn a hole in yet another one of
President Obama’s insistent claims about the way things are. The
Congressional Budget Office study, “The Distribution of Household Income and
Federal Taxes, 2010, ” shows that the top 40 percent of
households, based on pre-tax income, paid a remarkable 106.2 percent of the
nation’s income tax in 2010. Meanwhile, households in the bottom 40 percent
paid “negative income tax,” receiving an average of $18,950 in government
transfer payments while paying no federal income tax. Read more!
VIDEOS
Johnny Bailey - Not on my watch (OFFICIAL HD) w/ LYRICS—This is two years and I don’t know how I missed it, but it is awesome!
Renee Ellmers – Dec. 11, 2013 Healthcare Hearings
Obamacare Song Parody - You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Blue Shield
Figures. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Calls for “Unemployment Insurance for Working Men and Women”
Watch this awesome commercial that will make the gun control crowd go crazy
Exclusive: Mike Huckabee Tells Brody File: "There's An Openness Now" To Run For White House
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Tea Party Nation—Judson Phillips: And the GOP next man in line for 2016 is…
By now, everyone should know how the Republican Presidential nominating process works. The GOP establishment gathers and decides who the next man in line to be President is. There are certain prerequisites. For example, no conservatives need apply. You must be a liberal and they prefer that you be from the Northeast. After all, that is such a winning combination. Just ask President Romney. Read it here.
White House Illegally Changes ObamaCare Deadlines. Again. -- The Washington Post reported that
“Obamacare’s deadlines are changing. Again.” Not accurate. The White House ischanging the ObamaCare deadlines arbitrarily and
illegally – again. Here’s what WaPo
“reported“: Read more.
Since 2009, 11 Million Americans Out of Job Market-- The Bureau of Labor
Statistics' November employment report was its usual misleading statistical
good news mish-mash that, when slapped together, came out as what the
mainstream media called the most "encouraging" in months. Officially,
the economy added 203,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent,
its lowest level in five years. Official
unemployment is referred to as the U-3 rate. The more accurate U-6 rate,
because it includes "discouraged workers" who have given up the job
search, work part time or are otherwise only marginally attached to the labor
market, stands at 14.6 percent, higher than at any time since before the Great
Recession. Read more.
White House Illegally Changes ObamaCare Deadlines. Again. -- The Washington Post reported that
“Obamacare’s deadlines are changing. Again.” Not accurate. The White House ischanging the ObamaCare deadlines arbitrarily and
illegally – again. Here’s what WaPo
“reported“: Read more.
Since 2009, 11 Million Americans Out of Job Market-- The Bureau of Labor
Statistics' November employment report was its usual misleading statistical
good news mish-mash that, when slapped together, came out as what the
mainstream media called the most "encouraging" in months. Officially,
the economy added 203,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent,
its lowest level in five years. Official
unemployment is referred to as the U-3 rate. The more accurate U-6 rate,
because it includes "discouraged workers" who have given up the job
search, work part time or are otherwise only marginally attached to the labor
market, stands at 14.6 percent, higher than at any time since before the Great
Recession. Read more.
Planned Parenthood
Looks to Exploit Women, Make Millions With Abortifacient IUDs-- Why should anyone trust people who murder
babies? Check it out: In
2005, after the FDA under President George W. Bush resisted liberal pressure to make the hormonal emergency contraceptive Plan B available over-the-counter, Planned
Parenthood was furious, claiming unfettered access to hormonal ECs would cut
the number of abortions in America by a whopping 67%, from 1.2 million annually
to 400,000: Experts estimate that wider access to EC could prevent up to 1.7
million unintended pregnancies a year – and 800,000 abortions. Read more.
TPN—Judson Phillips: John Boehner is at war with the Tea Party.
Republicans had better wake up and smell the “Tea.” Boehner is planning
on selling conservatives out on the issue that is probably the most important
issue to conservatives right now. What is it?
Planned Parenthood
Looks to Exploit Women, Make Millions With Abortifacient IUDs-- Why should anyone trust people who murder
babies? Check it out: In
2005, after the FDA under President George W. Bush resisted liberal pressure to make the hormonal emergency contraceptive Plan B available over-the-counter, Planned
Parenthood was furious, claiming unfettered access to hormonal ECs would cut
the number of abortions in America by a whopping 67%, from 1.2 million annually
to 400,000: Experts estimate that wider access to EC could prevent up to 1.7
million unintended pregnancies a year – and 800,000 abortions. Read more.
TPN—Judson Phillips: John Boehner is at war with the Tea Party.
Republicans had better wake up and smell the “Tea.” Boehner is planning
on selling conservatives out on the issue that is probably the most important
issue to conservatives right now. What is it?
Heritage
Action: Boehner picks fight to clear way for immigration--Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is picking a
fight with outside conservative groups to clear the way for immigration reform,
Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham charged on Friday. “The Speaker is trying to turn this into a
boring fight between outside groups and himself so we are not having a policy
debate about whether or not this is a good deal,” Needham said of the budget
deal approve by the House on Thursday. Click here for the article.
Heritage
Action: Boehner picks fight to clear way for immigration--Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is picking a
fight with outside conservative groups to clear the way for immigration reform,
Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham charged on Friday. “The Speaker is trying to turn this into a
boring fight between outside groups and himself so we are not having a policy
debate about whether or not this is a good deal,” Needham said of the budget
deal approve by the House on Thursday. Click here for the article.
American Thinker: A Government
Separated from the People Cannot Stand--In
his 1952 book The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy,
Israeli historian J. L. Talmon described a political system in which lawfully
elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote,
have little or no participation in the decision-making process of
government. The federal government has
become such a system, an entity unto itself operating outside of Constitutional
constraints and unaccountable to the American people. Read more.
American Thinker: A Government
Separated from the People Cannot Stand--In
his 1952 book The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy,
Israeli historian J. L. Talmon described a political system in which lawfully
elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote,
have little or no participation in the decision-making process of
government. The federal government has
become such a system, an entity unto itself operating outside of Constitutional
constraints and unaccountable to the American people. Read more.
Feds Thwart
Planned Suicide Bombing at Wichita Airport --Federal
officials have arrested a man they said planned to blow himself up Wichita ’s Mid-Continent
Airport in Kansas
How left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer bought the Oval Office--The White House’s newest staffer is John Podesta, the 64-year-old founder of the Center for American Progress (CAP), the head of President Obama’s 2008 transition team, a former chief of staff to President Clinton, and a former lobbyist and cofounder, with his brother Tony, of the Podesta Group. You know: an outsider. MORE.
Canada
Free Press: Article V was presciently
inserted into the Constitution precisely for the same type of unhinged,
run-away government we see today--Dangerous Feckless Ignorance— Ladies and Gentlemen, have you had an
opportunity to read The Liberty Amendments; Restoring the American Republic
Military retirees: You betrayed us, Congress--Military retirees are outraged that
Congress will start voting Thursday on a budget deal that trims military
pensions, calling the move “an egregious breach of faith.” The Military Coalition, some 27 military
groups, wrote to leaders in Congress and President Obama late Wednesday about
their “strong objection” and “grave concern” over the budget deal. Continued.
Military retirees: You betrayed us, Congress--Military retirees are outraged that
Congress will start voting Thursday on a budget deal that trims military
pensions, calling the move “an egregious breach of faith.” The Military Coalition, some 27 military
groups, wrote to leaders in Congress and President Obama late Wednesday about
their “strong objection” and “grave concern” over the budget deal. Continued.
The
Budget Deal’s Sneaky Tax Increases--The congressional budget deal includes
some “user fees.” For the Washington
establishment, that’s apparently the politically correct way of telling
Americans they’ll be paying more to the federal government. For the rest of us,
it’s a tax increase. The Ryan-Murray
budget deal, which passed the House on a 332-94 vote, includes a number of
“fee” increases. One would make flying more expensive. Travelers are currently
charged $2.50 per flight under the Transportation Security Administration’s
airline security “fee.” Under the budget deal, that would increase to $5.60 per
flight or $11.20 for a round-trip ticket.
Continued.
The
Budget Deal’s Sneaky Tax Increases--The congressional budget deal includes
some “user fees.” For the Washington
establishment, that’s apparently the politically correct way of telling
Americans they’ll be paying more to the federal government. For the rest of us,
it’s a tax increase. The Ryan-Murray
budget deal, which passed the House on a 332-94 vote, includes a number of
“fee” increases. One would make flying more expensive. Travelers are currently
charged $2.50 per flight under the Transportation Security Administration’s
airline security “fee.” Under the budget deal, that would increase to $5.60 per
flight or $11.20 for a round-trip ticket.
Continued.
President Barack Obama’s Fast and Furious program,
Death of Border Patrol tactical agent Brian A. Terry--Three years later,
Terry’s death and the press: Three years ago, a four-reporter team from
The Washington Post, James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz on the team with
research editor Alice Crites and staff writer William Booth, embedded inside President
Barack Obama’s Fast and Furious program.
The team was given access to restricted documents and operations for
months and Dec. 13, 2010 they published their “Secret Life of Guns” series
subtitled, “As Mexico drug violence runs rampant, U.S.
House GOP Has Nothing to Offer Conservatives--Here’s the situation: You’re in a high–stakes negotiation with an untrustworthy opponent. The opposition has violated every agreement the two of you have made in the past. Enforcement mechanisms are weak or non–existent. In other areas of mutual interest your opponent regularly violates the law and dares you to do something about the violation. Your weak and vacillating leadership can’t be counted on in a pinch. And, finally, the opposition lies shamelessly to the state media, doing its best to paint you as a fanatic and pathological liar. So what do you do? Click here to find out!
Iran
Suddenly Halts Nuke Talks--Iranian negotiators halted nuclear talks with
Western powers Friday, further complicating an already controversial interim
deal struck last month in Geneva. The
development comes one day after the United States
announced it would impose new sanctions on Iran Iran
had said new sanctions would nullify the Geneva
Now That
Obama Is Allowing Chicken From China United
States United
States United States
will be shipped all the way over to China ,
processed in plants over there, and then shipped back across the Pacific Ocean for us to eat. More here.
Hanoi
Reid Ends Marathon
Session, Announces Schedule for Budget, Defense Bills--One all-nighter was not enough, but two will suffice. The Senate’s leaders have reached an
agreement that will bring to an end days of round-the-clock sessions following
a series of noon votes. “This schedule’s
been extremely difficult for everyone,” Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
said in announcing the deal, which essentially allows votes that would have
taken place late Friday and Saturday to instead occur at the usual hour of 5:30
p.m. on Monday. Reid said he spoke with
his counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky , to come up with the path forward. Much more here.
Michelle
Malkin: Culture of corruption: The
Dems’ dangerous DHS pick--The “S” in President Obama’s DHS
doesn’t stand for “security.” It stands for “sleaze.” In the wake of Dirty
Harry Reid’s sabotage of
the filibuster, Democrats have rammed
through the Senate nomination of a shady Chicago
crony associated with dangerous Clinton
corruption and at least two visas-for-sale schemes. The White House wants Alejandro Mayorkas to
helm the No. 2 position at the Department of Homeland Security. It speaks
volumes about this ethics-challenged administration that the most qualified
person it could find for this important post is a government DHS hack currently
under investigation by other DHS hacks. More on that in a moment. Read more!
Here Come the Obamacare Taxes--First came the compliance burdens. Then came the expensive website woes, millions of policy cancellations and skyrocketing premiums. But if you thought Obamacare couldn’t be less popular, guess again. Here come the taxes. As reported Sunday by the Review-Journal’s Jennifer Robison, there are a slew of new taxes to help pay for the boondoggle that is the Affordable Care Act, and the Internal Revenue Service will be reaching deep into wallets to collect that money starting next year. Those with high incomes face the biggest increases, but people at all income levels ultimately will feel the costs of the health care law — beyond higher deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. Continue reading.
The Patriot Post-- IRS: The Left's Weapon of Choice--Here's a question: When did it become acceptable for the IRS to be used as a tool to target enemies of the president? Moreover, what article or amendment of the U.S. Constitution authorizes a component of the Executive Branch to be used as a powerful political weapon? The answers to these questions should be obvious to most: “never” and “none,” respectively. But apparently that's not so for Barack Obama. Continued.
Obama is about to get even
more liberal--
As if Washington weren't already bad enough, President Obama is set to get even
more liberal as his second term progresses.
He’s already talking about more wealth redistribution and a higher
minimum wage but that’s not all. Apparently 2014 is going to be the year Obama
takes a hard left turn. Read it here.
Epic Beck monologue: “Man
up!” (This is really, really good!)--Oh, how far we’ve come since the
days of America America
Stop the ObamaCare Bailout--After many insurance companies lobbied FOR ObamaCare, Obama and his administration are planning to bail them out with YOUR tax dollars! We can't afford it, and it's unconstitutional! Tell Congress right now to stop the new ObamaCare bailout: Click here!
Gun
statistics are irrelevant to the 2nd Amendment--The Washington
Post is at it again. Days before the one year anniversary of the murders at Sandy Hook , the Post is running another piece asking
readers “What’s your gun number? Share your gun story.” Citing statistics is a central plank in the
liberal war on private gun ownership. CNN host Piers Morgan began several
televised “debates” with gun ownership proponents by asking them if they knew
several statistics on gun violence or gun-related deaths. It was partly just a
ploy to try to catch his opponent without an answer and make him seem
uninformed. Sometimes he was successful, sometimes not, but nobody gave him the
right answer. Statistics are irrelevant
to the 2nd Amendment. Read more!
Liberals
discuss the need to end 'Christian privilege' in the name of religious freedom--It's settled, then: Christian conservatives
use religion as a justification for their discriminatory behavior, and
Americans will only enjoy true religious freedom when their so-called
"religious...Read More!
White House rips AP for revealing Iran hostage's CIA connections--The Obama
administration slammed the Associated Press for reporting
Thursday that a former FBI agent missing in Iran was actually carrying out an
unauthorized mission for the Central
Intelligence Agency. Robert
Levinson, who had been described as abducted during a 2007 business trip to Iran , was
working for the CIA on a mission never authorized by those in charge at the spy
agency, according to the AP report. Read more.
GOP
rank-and-file quietly builds an Obamacare alternative--"The only alternative that Obamacare's
critics have is, well, 'let's just go back to the status quo,'" said President
Obama last week, "because they sure haven't presented an
alternative." It's an
argument Democrats make all the time -- often, these days, to
divert attention from the ongoing problems of their troubled national health care
scheme. But still -- why haven't Republicans
presented an alternative to Obamacare?
GOP leaders would protest immediately: They have come up with dozens of
health care bills, only to see them rejected by Democrats. But the fact is,
Republicans have not united behind a single health care proposal, even as
millions of Americans would like to see what they've got. Why? Read more.
Liberals discuss the need to end 'Christian privilege' in the name of religious freedom--It's settled, then: Christian conservatives use religion as a justification for their discriminatory behavior, and Americans will only enjoy true religious freedom when their so-called "religious...Read More!
David Keene, Washington
Times: James Clapper should resign for
lying to Congress--It was last March when the country’s director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper, appeared before a Senate committee, and with the cameras rolling, took an oath to tell the truth, then
hunched over, scratched his brow and proceeded to lie. It came in response to a
direct question from Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon
Democrat. In the days that followed, Mr. Clapper offered an explanation to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, arguing that he had, in essence, been blindsided by a confusing
question and had answered it as best he could under the circumstances. He gave,
he said, “the least untruthful” answer that he could.
Read more.
Medicare pays full price for
half-empty vials of medicine--After
the Obamacare fiasco, the Health and
Human Services Department must
be a glass-half-empty kind of place. Just ask the folks at Medicare, who wasted $24.2
million paying for partly used vials of a type of breast cancer medicine.
Herceptin, which is used to treat breast cancer that has spread
to other parts of the body, normally is supplied in multiuse 440-milligram
vials that can be stored for up to 28 days. Read more!
House passes NDAA, action moves to Senate--The
House passed the Pentagon's annual policy legislation this evening with a
resounding bipartisan vote, leaving it up to the Senate to finish the job next
week. With the Senate having run out of
time to debate and amend their version of the National Defense Authorization
Act, lawmakers and staffers in the House and Senate Armed Services committees
hashed out a compromise over the Thanksgiving recess. Read more.
Medicare pays full price for half-empty vials of medicine--After the Obamacare fiasco, the Health and Human Services Department must be a glass-half-empty kind of place. Just ask the folks at Medicare, who wasted $24.2 million paying for partly used vials of a type of breast cancer medicine. Herceptin, which is used to treat breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, normally is supplied in multiuse 440-milligram vials that can be stored for up to 28 days. Read more!
House
passes one-month farm bill extension, though measure uncertain in Senate--The House on Thursday passed a one-month
funding extension for expiring agriculture subsidy programs as lawmakers
scramble to draft a five-year farm bill.
The House and Senate each passed five-year farm bills this year, though
the versions varied significantly. Negotiators have been meeting behind closed
doors for weeks to work out a compromise. But with no deal in place and the
House scheduled to wrap up business for the year Friday, the House opted to
extend the current farm bill, which is set to expire at the end of the
month. The measure passed by voice vote. Read more.
BOOM! Dan Bongino serves the GOP establishment with divorce papers--Dan Bongino just wrote this open letter and I second it: An open letter to the establishment GOP. I am serving you with divorce papers. For those who are unaware of what happened, the establishment wing of the Party has openly declared war on the grassroots. For those who say this fight is hurting the Republican “brand” I reply; it is those on both sides of the aisle who have betrayed their principles in the name of Party that have destroyed their “brands”. Read it all!
#NCSEN Former NCGOP legislator: Brannon “doesn’t like Mexicans,” we “need” Speaker Thom’s experience--I’m on several politically-flavored email lists, where political junkies bat around the issues and the inside scoop on elections. Participants include former and current elected officials, business leaders, current and former paid (and unpaid) political operatives, as well as current and former members of the news media. OH YOU MUST READ THE REST!
Senators introduce bill to crack down on 'lavish'
portrait expenses--A bipartisan Senate duo says they want to crack down on what they call
the government’s “lavish” spending on oil paintings of congressmen, the costs
of which can top $50,000 each. Read more.
Lawmakers who oversee government surveillance programs receive millions from intelligence companies-- Every member who sits on the committees that oversee government intelligence operations has received campaign contributions from the top twenty largest intelligence companies in the United States, according to a new report. Amid the NSA scandal, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — the committees in charge of oversight — denied stricter reform attempts to the NSA programs and instead propelled legislation aimed at restoring their trust. The committees are intended to keep waste, fraud, and abuse in check given most of these programs are hidden from the general public. Continued.
Dem
Congresswoman: Miniscule Pension Increase Will Make it Hard to Recruit Good
Federal Workers--Because a 1.3% increase will be the difference
between Goldman Sachs and the Department of Revenue. On MSNBC Thursday, panelist Aisha
Moodie-Mills lamented the way the federal budget was being balanced on the
backs of “regular folks.” Specifically, while interviewing Congresswoman Gwen
Moore (D-WI), she asked when “the workers” might get more benefits from the
federal budget: Continued.
Budget Passed by House Eases
Cuts Both Parties Dislike--The
House passed the first bipartisan U.S. budget in four years yesterday, clearing
the way for final Senate passage next week to ease $63 billion in spending cuts
and avert another government shutdown. That doesn’t mean lawmakers are excited
about it. Read more.
The White House Has Been Lying About That Ex-FBI Agent Missing in Iran for Seven Years, Bombshell AP Report Says--“Robert Levinson went missing during a business trip to Kish Island, Iran,” that’s what the White House said as recently as last month about Robert Levinson, the retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran seven years ago. Continued.
Federal
Judge: Calif. Cross on Federal Property
Violates Constitution, Must Be Removed--A controversial cross on
federal land in California Mt.
Soledad — part of a veterans memorial
— violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution (THIS IS THE REAL LIE OF THE YEAR, EVERY YEAR!), a federal judge
in San Diego
Unions Have Given Ed Schultz Nearly $250K Since 2012--MSNBC and
radio host Ed Schultz was paid approximately $177,000 by labor unions in
2012, Truth Revolt reported,
citing data available on the Department of Labor’s website. Schultz, a longtime supporter of organized
labor, has so far received roughly $75,000 from the AFL-CIO for 2013. All union payments are listed on the
Department of Labor’s website as either “political,” “union” or
“representational.” More.
#NCSEN CFO Report: ObamaCare is a job
killer! (um, SURPRISE ?????) The elites in government, media
and academia are finally coming around to what we’ve known about
ObamaCare for years now: Corporate financial chiefs say they expect to
reduce hiring and also move more jobs to part-time status as a result of the
Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey from Duke University
ObamaCare
Whistleblower: I was Told IRS Harassment ‘Came From The Top’ (Audio)--Wednesday, radio talk show host Sara Marie
Brenner interviewed Bill Elliott, the cancer
patient who gained notoriety when he appeared on Fox News with
Megyn Kelly after his insurance was cancelled. Elliott,
you may remember, later received notification of his audit from the IRS on the
same day C. Steven Tucker, the man who helped him get his insurance back,
received his. After reaching out to SC Governor Nikki Haley, two congressmen
and a Democratic US Senator from North
Carolina
Politico Profiles NC Senate Race--LENOIR,
N.C. — It would be tough to find another state where the political terrain
has shifted as dramatically as it has here — from kindling hopes of a
Democratic revival in the South just a few years ago, to becoming a
conservative hotbed that banned gay marriage, tightened restrictions on
abortion clinics and enacted a sweeping voter ID law. In 2014, voters will have a chance to decide
which of those two governing visions they prefer — Barack Obama’s Washington or one-party GOP rule in Raleigh — in one of the most competitive,
consequential Senate races in the country. It will be a choice
between Kay Hagan, a rookie Democratic senator who voted for Obamacare and
says, however haltingly, that she would do so again, and a conservative
challenger — perhaps the figure who shepherded that wish list through the
Legislature, Thom Tillis, or other rivals like Mark Harris or Greg Brannon who
would go even further. Read it all!
Rove: Obamacare Yoke Weighs
Heavily on 2014 Democratic Candidates--
Democratic lawmakers seeking re-election in 2014 will pay a heavy political
price for having supported President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act in
2010, writes Karl Rove in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Rove, a veteran Republican strategist and
former deputy chief of staff to president George W. Bush, writes that the
intensity of emotions against Obamacare is striking. Read more!
Mike Huckabee quits radio show, sets sights on 2016 election--Mike Huckabee today ended his daily radio show heard on 200 stations across the nation, the
first obvious sign that he is considering another presidential bid in what is
shaping up to be a jammed 2016 GOP
primary. He has hosted the “Mike
Huckabee Show” on Cumulus Media since April 2012, but said that it takes up to
nine hours a day to prepare. “As for the new endeavors, at this time, it would
best for me to say, “Stay tuned!'" he wrote on his Facebook page. More!
Nearly 9,000 in NC have now signed up for
subsidized insurance--Nearly 9,000 people in North Carolina have signed up for individual
insurance through the glitch-plagued healthcare.gov website, federal officials said
Wednesday. The enrollment numbers are an
improvement over October’s total of about 1,600. But they represent a mere
fraction of the roughly 1 million North Carolinians
who were expected to shop for individual insurance under the new federal
mandate. Continue reading.
HHS extends more Obamacare deadlines--The Obama
administration on Thursday announced it would take steps to push back an
already-delayed deadline to help those struggling to obtain health coverage on
Jan. 1 -- and extend a federal insurance program for those with preexisting
conditions. Amid lingering questions
about the health law's insurance exchanges, the tweaks were yet another
attempt by the administration to quell concerns that the botched rollout of
healthcare.gov would keep consumers from receiving coverage.
Illegal charged with raping
child in NC--On Friday, police in Raleigh North
Carolina
December 12, 2013
VIDEOS
Everything You Need To Know About Bi-Partisan Budget Compromise in 2 min!
ZoNation--Part Two: Examining a Common Core Survey
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The Most Dangerous Woman In America
Allen West: Sign up to my newsletter and get a free copy
of "Rules for Conservative Radicals." Click here.
TPN—Judson Phillips: Beware the deal--The
Paul Ryan-Patty Murray Deal is the talk of Washington Washington
Obama Will
Extend Amnesty for Young Illegals, Says Top White House Aide--President Obama will extend his mini-amnesty for young
illegals, said Cecilia Muñoz, White House director of domestic policy. “As long as this president is president…
you’re going to be able to renew your deferred action,” Muñoz told one
illegal immigrant 23 minutes into an online question-and-answer session on
immigration conducted via Skype.
Read more!
The
Effects of Obamacare. Real Lives. Real Stories. Real Consequences. Self-employed family struggling
under costly Obamacare: “Along with the reduced
income, our health insurance has almost tripled. My son has Type I diabetes and
needs health insurance. I don’t know what we are going to do in November. In
the last year, we have exhausted all our savings.” Ann Marie’s complete story.
For more stories on how
Obamacare is destroying Americans’ lives, families and businesses, visit www.teapartypatriots.org.
American Thinker: Who the Democrats Really Are--Obama is running from Obamacare to his zone
of strength and core value: class warfare. Democrats are geniuses at
playing on group identity. When I ask friends what principles lead them
to vote Democrat, it is a hard question for them. After a baffled pause,
I often hear this: "Republicans are the party of the
rich." It is said as if that is all that needs to be said: not like
me, exploiting people, bad for the country. Not my party. As the liberal Howard Dean says, many Republicans "have
never made an honest living in their lives." Continue reading.
American
Thinker: Why Obamacare Is Off the Rails--The introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
as revealed by the roll-out of HealthCare.gov, is an epic public embarrassment, living up to predictions of a train wreck. We're watching government at its most harmful
and ineffectual. This is not rocket science -- no risky new technology is
required; no laws of physics have to be invented or repealed. While the
technology itself may present some challenges, problems like this more often
than not stem from poor leadership, discipline, and accountability. Read more!
TOP OFFICIAL IN OBAMA BIRTH MYSTERY KILLED, Woman lone fatality in Hawaii plane crash--A key Hawaii official in the dispute over Barack Obama’s birth certificate – who lifted state restrictions to allow the White House to present the document to the public – has died in a plane crash. Loretta Fuddy, the state health department director, was the only fatality among nine people aboard a Cessna Grand Caravan that went down at about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday while heading to
The DNC's Deceptive Message on Louisiana
Obama
And Mandela: A Lot More Than Little White Lies--“If there is a country
that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America South Africa ,
hated America
Judicial Watch: 'Lunacy at the highest levels' in Obama administration--A public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption says it has obtained documents proving the Obama administration is
more interested in "patting themselves on the back" than in
protecting top-secret information. More!
Sebelius on Obamacare Regulations: 'I Don't Know How Many Pages' --The Democrats' health insurance law gives the Health and Human Services Department "immense powers and decision-making authority," Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) told Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday. "And we know that many regulations have been written. Could you tell me how many pages of regulations have been written to implement this act?" Whitfield asked Sebelius. Continue reading.
Judge Andrew
P. Napolitano: A Conspiracy so vast-- Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations
during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty
to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a
right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
The conspiracy he revealed is vast. It involves former President George
W. Bush, President Obama and their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress,
federal judges, executives and technicians at American computer servers and
telecoms, and the thousands of NSA employees and vendors who have manipulated
their fellow conspirators. The conspirators all agreed that it would be a crime
for any of them to reveal the conspiracy. Snowden violated that agreement in
order to uphold his higher oath to defend the Constitution. Continue reading.
GOP may
tighten primary rules for 2016 presidential nominations-- Members of the Republican National Committee are
reportedly eyeing changes that would tighten rules for party primaries ahead of
the 2016 presidential election. The
rules changes are aimed at streamlining a process that some party officials
believe hurt Mitt Romney's campaign in 2012, CNN reported Wednesday. Read more!
Paul Ryan Sells Out the Tea Party, Again. Media Cheer. Paul Ryan was a flake from day one. Now he has proven it. He has joined with Patty Murray (Democrat) to propose the scrapping of the sequester. Obama says he will sign the deal. I guess so! Here is what USA Today announced. For Paul Ryan, budget deal may be a career turning point. I […]
READ MORE.
Krauthammer: January Is Going To Be A Train Wreck For Obama,
Democrats-- Look, at every level, every number that you
get on this is either inflated or deceptive. As we just heard from Steve
[Hayes], the number of enrollees are not enrollees. It’s people who put stuff
in their shopping cart. Amazon would never call it a sale until you get a sale.
And they don’t know how many have made the sale. And that’s because what they
call euphemistically, the back-end, which is the cash register of the whole
system, is not working. The idea that
you have to hand-match people who paid a premium with the insurers isn’t 20th
century technology, it is 19th century technology. An insurer has to find the
person, call them up, go overall of the details on the form and then adjust
them, which of course is impossible to do in any substantial number.
Video and more.
James Dobson sues Sebelius over abortion mandate--Dr. James Dobson, the longtime family values
advocate who now reaches millions through his Family Talk ministry, has filed a
lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over the
Obamacare abortion mandate. “We believe
that every human life, from the moment of conception, is sacred and a gift from
God, and we cannot cooperate with this immoral mandate without violating our
most deeply held religious beliefs,” Dobson said.
Read more.
It’s The Law: The American View Of Government Is The Biblical
View--At the foundation of every social order is a
concept of law and government. For most of the history of our country
this foundation was the Bible — the Word of God — including both the Old and
New Testaments. Thus, the American view of law and government is founded
on the Biblical view of law and government. This is explicitly made clear
in the Declaration of Independence, which makes reference to the Laws of Nature
and of Nature’s God and The Supreme Judge of the World. Read more.
Senate holds talkathon over Obama nominees--
The Senate began an around-the-clock talkathon Wednesday over some of President
Barack Obama's nominees as embittered and outnumbered Republicans refused to
let the Senate take a break given new, Democratic-driven curbs on the GOP's
power. Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., threatened to hold the Senate in session through the night to
deal with 11 nominations, most of them non-controversial. If Republicans refuse
to give up their allotted debate time, the Senate could be in session
continuously into Saturday — or longer. Read more.
The Budget Deal: Republican Style-- I
am old enough to remember when the GOP said not to worry about it caving on
Obamacare funding because, by God, it would hold the line on
sequestration. Hell, that was a month ago.
Amazing how much can change in a month. Congressman Paul Ryan and
Senator Patty Murray have decided to give up the last thing the GOP was
fighting for — spending restraint. “Don’t worry,” Paul Ryan says with his
boyish charm designed to induce sweats and heart palpitations among
conservatives, “it’s only a little less restrained.” The
budget deal puts discretionary spending over $1 trillion, which is higher than
the sequestration deal of 2011, which was at $967. This is, in fact, a spending
increase. It funds Obamacare. It does not impact the national debt. It does
not reform entitlements. Continue reading.
Obama hails confirmation of Nina Pillard to DC
Circuit Court-- President
Obama on Thursday welcomed the late-night Senate confirmation
of Nina Pillard to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the latest successful
appointment for the White House in the wake of new rules for approving
executive nominations. “I thank the
Senate for confirming Nina Pillard to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit, which for the first time, will have five
active female judges on the bench,” Obama said. Continued.
Obamacare forcing 14 percent cut in
Medicare's home health care program--
An estimated 3.5 million poor and ill homebound senior citizens will wake up on
New Year's Day to discover Obamacare has
slashed funding for their home health care program. It will happen because the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services quietly issued a regulation Nov. 22 announcing a 14-percent
cut over the next four years in funding for the Home Health Care Prospective
Payment program. The rule cuts Medicare payments to home health care providers by 3.5
percent each year beginning in 2014, for a total cut of 14 percent.
Michelle Malkin: Obama's Cash for Universal
Preschool Clunkers--It's
elementary: When Democrats find themselves in political trouble, they reach for
your wallets. After squandering billions on an ineffectual stimulus, failed
green energy boondoggles and the disastrous Unaffordable Care Act, the Obama
White House wants to dump $75 billion more into "free" preschool for
all. That'll solve everything.
Government-funded universal pre-K is a moldy oldie of the progressive
left, recycled perennially by Democratic presidential speechwriters in need of
State of the Union address padding. But this time, the Fed Ed crowd is
redoubling its efforts with support from big-business statists and academic
shills.
Washington--Someone has finally decided to put out
Barack Obama’s forged documents in a mainstream paper. On Monday, CDR Charles
Kerchner (Retired) took out a full page ad in the Washington Times to make
people aware of the fraudulent documents of Barack Hussein Obama, specifically his back dated
and forged selective service form.
Kerchner’s ad appeared on page 5 of the Washington Times National Weekly
and included a large copy of Barack Obama’s Selective Service form, along with
various URLs to other pertinent information on the various forgeries of Obama’s
documents.
Read more.
South Carolina State
Senate to Consider Bill Blocking ObamaCare--A bill blocking enforcement of many key provisions of ObamaCare will
soon be considered by the South
Carolina
New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama's Preschool for
All--New evidence indicates that universal preschool is ineffective, says
Russ Whitehurst, director of the Brown
Center
Yes,
America, We Have A Dictator--In 1987 a little 8-year-old girl named Virginia
O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the Editor of the New York Sun asking “Is there a
Santa Claus?”. It seems some of her friends had told her there was no
Santa Claus. A Sun newsman named Francis
Pharcellus Church
penned a response that was printed in the form of an editorial on September 21,
1897, assuring Virginia VIRGINIA Virginia
WaPo: ObamaCare is pretty
much a compliance nightmare for small businesses--It certainly is not news, per
se, that ObamaCare is imposing a whole raft of complex, costly new
rules and regulations upon smaller businesses that are going to have to
seriously struggle to summon the resources to cope with them, but the Washington Post‘s latest piece on the subject highlights an as yet little noticed set
of specific rules that are really going to bring the pain on the business
models employed by small owners and entrepreneurs across the country. There’s
been plenty of discussion about the disincentives surrounding the 50-employee
threshold above which employers must either provide health insurance to their
workers or else pay a hefty penalty, but for the purposes of ObamaCare, even
several completely separate small businesses can be lumped into the
larger-businesses category if they share a single owner and the number of
workers tally over 50. It’s going to get complicated: Read on.
United States
Convention of States: A Gift from our
Founders, A Line in the Sand--Americans supporting an Article 5 convention or
Convention of States seem to be taking blows from both the left and the right
these days. Some well-known and respected Constitutionalists who prefer to remain anonymous, and some who do
not, have blasted this movement as stupid, dangerous and short sighted. I would
respectfully disagree. Read more.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR REPUBLICAN SENATORS IN SEPARATION OF
POWERS CASE--The Supreme Court will allow
Senate Republicans to participate in oral arguments in the National Labor
Relations Board recess appointment case, a maneuver that several legal experts
suggested could tilt the scales against the Obama administration.
Budget Deal Hits Military Retirees with Pension Cuts, Federal Retirees
Untouched--Military retirees will see a decrease in their
pension plans if the bipartisan budget agreement is adopted, while civilian
federal employees will be exempt. Under the budget
agreement crafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.)
and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D., Wash.), military
retirees younger than 62 will receive 1 percentage point less in their annual
cost-of-living adjustment. Read it here.
MARK LEVIN: Do Republicans not understand that
the WHOLE DAMN THING IS GOING TO COLLAPSE? Mark Levin reminds Republicans that while
they are worried about preventing another government shutdown, the whole thing
is going to shutdown and collapse because there isn’t enough money in the world
to pay for the kind of spending that is going on right now: We have over a 90 trillion dollar unfunded
liability… And ladies and gentlemen, soon it’s 100 trillion dollars. You know
what that means? That means our kids and their kids and every future generation
is going to be destroyed. Because there’s not enough currency on the face of
the earth to address that. Continued.
Mike Lee authors bill to prevent Obama from
pushing churches to support gay marriage-- Sen. Mike Lee has
authored a bill to prevent President Obama from using his executive power to
push churches and other nonprofit groups to recognize gay marriage. "It is concerning that we have people in
this administration who think that religious liberties are just not that big of
a deal," the Utah Republican told the Washington Examiner on
Tuesday. President Obama promised to respect religious liberty in his statement
on the Supreme Court's June decision to overturn parts of the Defense of
Marriage Act in Windsor v. United States
Professor Henry Graff : “I taught at Columbia for 46
years” Obama Could Not Have Gone There-- There is no shortage of
evidence that Barrack H. Obama is quite possibly the most inept, deceptive and
disgraceful president that America
With John Podesta, new
judges, Obama poised for aggressive use of executive power-- President Obama will find it easier
to "work [his] way around Congress" now that some
Washington denizens have gotten new jobs.
The president opened the week by hiring the Center for American
Progress' John Podesta, an old Bill Clinton hand. Podesta has an expansive view
of presidential power — he wrote a report after the 2010 elections on how Obama
could implement his policies without the support of Congress. "Concentrating on executive powers
presents a real opportunity for the Obama administration to turn its focus away
from a divided Congress and the unappetizing process of making legislative
sausage," the report said (h/t the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza). Continue reading.
Report: Obama Regime Officials Now Admit Iran Israel
that the value of the economic sanctions relief to Iran
could be much higher than originally thought in Washington ,
security sources in Israel
New Obama
adviser wants to cede U.S.
oceans to U.N.--President Obama’s new staff
adviser, senior progressive strategist John Podesta, is a key player in an
initiative seeking more government regulation of the oceans and the ceding of U.S.
You’ll Stop Being a Serf When You Do This--I hear the same complaints about
politicians that you do. And while I understand them (I’ve complained plenty
myself), the fact is that complaining accomplishes very little. And there is a
very simple reason why complainers have no effect: Because the complainers keep right on
obeying. As long as you obey, the things you complain about will
keep on happening, and there is no way around that fact. Continue
reading.
Mel Watt Confirmed under Nuclear Option--Senators confirmed Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.)
57 to 41 to serve as the next head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which
regulates mortgage giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and federal home loan
banks. Watt’s confirmation came Tuesday
evening as he also was flying back from South Africa as a member of the
congressional delegation that attended the memorial service for Mandela. Two Republicans — Sens. Richard Burr
(R-N.C.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) — voted with members of the Senate
Democratic caucus to confirm him.
Read more.
The Heritage Foundation: The More You Buy, the More You Save--‘Tis the season for sales. But beware of this enticing line: “The more you buy, the more you save!” Because, when the bill comes, the truth is: The more you buy, the more you spend. Some Members of Congress are using this logic in their latest budget proposal. They’re promising savings—but they’re actually just spending more (of your money). Read more.
Obama will extend amnesty for young illegals, says top White
House aide-- President Obama will extend his
mini-amnesty for young illegals, said Cecilia Muñoz, White House director of
domestic policy. “As long as this
president” is in power, “you will be able to renew your deferred action,” Muñoz
told one questioner during an online question-and-answer session on immigration
conducted via Skype. Read more.
Taxpayers
Shell Out $14,000 per Obamacare “Enrollee”--$5.2 billion for just 364,682 “enrollees”-- In her testimony before
Congress today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided
an updated dollar amount for the cost of HealthCare.gov: $677 million. In addition to the $677 million spent
on the federal Obamacare website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare
on the state level. HHS also released updated “enrollment” figures for Obamacare. According to the agency 364,682 people have
“selected a plan” – the equivalent of putting an item in your online shopping
cart and leaving it there. Read more.
Source: McConnell will vote against budget deal brokered by Paul Ryan-- Add the Senate’s top Republican to the list of those who will oppose the new budget deal, which conservatives are blasting for blowing through the mandated spending caps on government spending next year. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will vote against the deal brokered by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, a knowledgeable source close to the Kentucky Republican told The Daily Caller on Wednesday. Read more.
New Bern Sun Journal editor apologizes for editorial cartoon of Nelson Mandela...
NC's Unfunded Pension Liabilities Increase Worst in
Nation--From 2009 to 2012, North Carolina's unfunded state
pension liabilities skyrocketed by nearly 700%. That's the findings of new data released by the Institute
for Truth in Accounting's State Data Lab project. Continue reading.
#NCSEN: El Sr. Tillis
quiere amnistía ahora--It looks as
if some big donors are calling in some chits with the Tillis for Senate
campaign. Speaker Thom appeared before the NC Farm Bureau Monday to urge DC and Raleigh to get moving on “comprehensive immigration
reform” and ”a pathway to citizenship.”:
YOU MUST READ THIS!
Murray-Ryan budget deal:
selling us a bill of goods--We’ve got 535
voting members of Congress. Yet. this “bi-partisan”, “disaster-averting” budget
deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate
Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House Budget Committee chairman Paul
Ryan.Two people out of a potential population of 535. We’re being told it balances the budget over
ten years. We’re being told it doesn’t raise taxes. We’re told this will
be accomplished by doing away with a good chunk of the sequester cuts — which
were initiated because these yo-yos failed to do the most important job
assigned to them by The Constitution. Continued.
NC DEM. REP. CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT, McManus arrested on felony tax charges--RALEIGH — According to a news release
from the North Carolina Department of Revenue, state Rep. Deb McManus, D-Lee, Chatham
‘Roses’ picketers to shoppers: ‘Go elsewhere’—NAACP
continues to go after Variety Wholesalers owned by Art Pope. CHARLOTTE , NC
SELC
files bridge appeal while lawmakers continue to attack--Lawyers for the
environmental groups challenging the proposed replacement of the Bonner Bridge Richmond
McCrory reviews first year in office'--The (teacher) protests didn't start until I got into
office. Maybe that was just coincidental...'--RALEIGH --Pat
McCrory was sworn in as North
Carolina North Carolinians
no new taxes to pay for programs. “Government cannot solve all these problems alone,
because frankly, there is no new money falling from the sky,” said McCrory. Read more.
December 11, 2013
VIDEOS
Canadian News Anchor Gives Warning To American Gun Owners
Obama Has Been A “Disappointment,” “Just Another Politician”
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Please
read an important message from our Chairman, Rick Hopkins on the Hobby Lobby
and religious freedom!
AIR
FORCE BASE REMOVES NATIVITY DISPLAY AFTER GROUP CLAIMS IT’S A ‘DIRECT VIOLATION
OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION’--Controversy has abounded after an Air Force base in South Carolina Sumter , S.C.
KID CHRISTMAS CAROLERS REPORTEDLY BOOTED OFF
GROCERY STORE’S PROPERTY OVER FEARS THEY’D OFFEND CUSTOMERS--‘Tis the season to be jolly, but for two
young Christmas carolers, their holiday cheer reportedly wasn’t welcomed at
their local grocery store. Two kids
apparently showed up to a WinCo grocery store recently in Vancouver , Wash.
‘THIS IS MICKEY MOUSE’: THERE WERE NO SOFTBALL
QUESTIONS IN MARK LEVIN’S INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RYAN ON BUDGET DEAL--
Conservative radio host Mark Levin hosted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday to
discuss the new budget deal announced by lawmakers. Levin wasn’t exactly
impressed with the deal and he let Ryan know it, even calling the agreement
“Mickey Mouse” more than once. Ryan
first explained that the deal, titled “The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013,”
replaces sequester cuts with savings from future cuts. He said he was happy
with the plan because it prevents deep budget cuts to the Defense Department
and the U.S.
military. More!
‘IT’S CLEAR TO ME
HE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT’: CONSERVATIVES WILL BE ELATED TO HEAR WHO THIS IS
ABOUT--
Among the members of the official U.S. delegation to South Africa for Nelson
Mandela’s memorial service were Democratic Reps. John Lewis of Georgia and
Elijah Cummings of Maryland, as well as Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Cummings — the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee opposite GOP Chair Darrell Issa — had quite the prediction concerning
Cruz after speaking with him during the trip.
“It’s clear to me he’s running for president — I don’t have any doubt
about it,” Cummings told The Baltimore Sun. Continue reading.
The best you can say about it:
It's mostly meaningless. The rationale
behind Paul Ryan’s crap sandwich budget deal-- Let’s not pretend here. The budget deal Paul Ryan
has negotiated with Patty Murray is terrible. Here are the lowlights: It gets rid of the sequester cuts negotiated during the 2011 debt
ceiling showdown. It adds $8 trillion to
the national debt over the next decade.
The total on-paper “deficit reduction” it achieves over a decade is $23
billion. That’s about one-fifth of 1 percent of the projected deficit. It actually increases spending over previous
projections by $63 billion, and relies on increased “fees” to pay for it. Ryan did get a
few mildly positive things in the deal, particularly a reform of the pension
benefits for federal employees. The status quo gives them both a generous
pension and a generous 401(k) benefit, and this deal changes that. Read more.
Three Things You Need to Know
About the Congressional Budget Deal. The
budget conferees failed to make substantive reforms to the real drivers of
spending and debt: the entitlement programs-- Many had high hopes that the first
budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment toward
fixing the U.S.
The Government’s War on
Poverty Reduction. What the crusaders against American
“income inequality” won’t tell you. --While President Obama is pushing his redistributionist
war on “income inequality,” the American left is excited about a new study, “Trends in Poverty with an Anchored Supplemental
Poverty Measure” that purports to show that government welfare programs have
significantly eased the burden faced by poor Americans in the nearly 50 years
since Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was launched. Click here to read the entire article.
Michelle
the jealous wife media-designed? Like the rest of him, Barack Obama’s mass circulated photos from
photo-ops like yesterday’s Mandela Memorial, are phony. The photo of Obama tweeted by the White House
on Dec. 5 in response to Nelson Mandela’s death was taken six months earlier at
the Robben Island prison where Mandela spent 27 years of his life. You can call ‘Obama Behind Bars in Robben
Island Prison’ Obama’s prepper picture. More to read!
YOU PROBABLY WON’T
BE SURPRISED TO LEARN WHO WALKED OUT DURING RAUL CASTRO’S SPEECH AT MANDELA’S
MEMORIAL SERVICE-- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reportedly briefly walked
out of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service on Tuesday when Cuban dictator Raul Castro started
speaking. Cruz’s communications
director, Sean Rushton, told National Review that the GOP senator “very much
hopes Castro learns the lessons of Nelson Mandela.” “For decades, Castro has wrongly imprisoned
and tortured countless innocents. Just as Mandela was released after 27 years
in prison, Castro should finally release his political prisoners; he should
hold free elections, and once and for all set the Cuban people free,” he added. Click here for more!
Democrats use new power to tilt appeals court--Senate Democrats have approved a key
judicial nominee from President Barack Obama, the first nomination cleared
since they weakened Senate filibuster rules. The Senate voted 56-38 to approve Washington lawyer Patricia Millett’s nomination to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia . Both
sides saw Millett’s appointment as pivotal. It will give Democrats a 5-4
majority on the powerful court, which handles rules on White House actions and
appeals on the legality of federal agency rules. Read more.
Government “Legitimizes” Hatred
For Conservative Groups--Earlier
this year, it came to light that the IRS had unlawfully targeted conservative
and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny during their applications to become
tax-exempt organizations. After the landslide conservative victory in the 2010
midterm elections, critics argue that the IRS deliberately made it more
difficult for Tea Party groups to have the same sort of success in 2012. The Obama administration argues that these
‘extra precautions’ were to ensure that organizations did not take advantage of
the tax law to engage in politics. In reality, we know that the IRS was only targeting
conservative organizations, completely ignoring liberal groups like MoveOn.org
and Organizing for America
Ben Carson:
Doctors Risk Being Government Employees Under ACA (OBAMACARE)-- One of the reasons the private medical practice is
disappearing is that the costs of the new Obamacare rules are so onerous, Dr.
Ben Carson said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "On
the Record with Greta Van Susteren." "We are in the process of making doctors
government employees," he said. "You need to be under the umbrella of
a hospital or a big medical system."
Dr. Stephen Kiteck, of Somerset, Ky., also appeared on the program to discuss the newspaper ad he took out announcing he is quitting his practice because of the
policies of Obamacare. Continued.
Rubio Opposes Budget Deal,
More 'Irresponsible Decisions'--Although
Sen. Marco Rubio hasn't seen the House-Senate budget package agreed upon
Tuesday, the Florida Republican slammed it nonetheless. Rubio
issued a statement via
his official Web site, which reads, "We need a government with less debt
and an economy with more good paying jobs, and this budget fails to accomplish
both goals, making it harder for more Americans to achieve the American Dream.
Instead, this budget continues Washington
Read more.
Read more.
The Preconditions Needed for a Brutal Martial Law Takeover--Dictators invariably emerge on a scene at a time of great conflict. State-sponsored genocides frequently follow coups, civil wars or can become part of a national landscape in a declared martial law. Economic crises often provide a backdrop from which roundups of dissidents are conducted, families are separated, undesirables are executed and genocide can take place. Often, a particular segment of a society is ostracized and used as scapegoat in order to provide a point of unification for a people in crisis in a classic divide and conquer strategy. Further, leaders of a brutal martial law movement grant themselves legal immunity from prosecution by making their heinous actions legal before they occur. Click here for more.
We Weren't Affected! But now, along comes ObamaCare. Does that
affect me? You bet your sweet life it does.
The response of a large plurality of Americans, if not an absolute
majority to almost everything Barack Obama has done in the past five years can
be summed up in a single phrase: It doesn't directly affect me, so I don’t
care. Want to bomb Syria , Barry?
Well, it doesn't affect me. Those four guys slaughtered in Benghazi ? Well,
they weren't in my immediate family, so it doesn't affect me. Or
arresting the film maker that Obama blamed for the Benghazi massacre? I don’t even know
how to run a video camera, so it doesn't affect me. The thousands of men maimed or killed in Afghanistan ?
Again, they’re not in my immediate family and I don’t know them personally, so
it doesn't’ affect me. Read more.
Alan
Caruba: Obama’s Moment of Truth—-About
His Lies--I think the bulk
of the U.S. population, particularly likely voters in 2014, have reached the
point where they no longer believe anything President Obama says. It coincides with what may be the lowest
level of confidence in the U.S. Congress. Its Democratic members all voted for
ObamaCare without reading it and the harm it is doing to millions of Americans,
along with its total lack of constitutional legitimacy, will likely see those
running for election and reelection in the 2014 midterms defeated. As the first year of Obama’s second term is
completed in January, the nation is at a point that I don’t think has existed
since the days leading up to the Civil War in 1861. It took until 1865 to
conclude that split and a hundred more years to make right the many wrongs that
led up to it. Continue.
GLENN BECK SAYS HE NEARLY LOST HIS MIND WHEN
HE HEARD CNN’S CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR SAY THIS--Glenn Beck said on his
radio program Tuesday he “about lost (his) mind” when he heard CNN’s Christiane
Amanpour compare Israel to South Africa during the coverage of former South
African leader Nelson Mandela’s memorial.
“I honestly can’t help but think right now about Israel and the
Palestinians…” Amanpour said. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under so
much … pressure these days, and probably feels to a great extent that his
country is isolated in the same way that apartheid South Africa was isolated. This is
how you get over those (conflicts), by understanding the story of the other, by
having a political process of resolution that is not just about domination or a
zero-sum game…” Read more.
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U.S. regulators Tuesday revealed
the details of the so-called Volcker rule, which was established in the wake of
the financial crisis. The rule limits proprietary trading by banks and cuts
other activities that are seen as risky. Watch FOX Business and visit
FOXBusiness.com for complete analysis of the new rule.
Islamists have forced the Feds to purge law enforcement training materials of anything offensive to Muslims. It's all part of a wholehearted covert action by domestic Islamists to desensitize Americans to the threats of Islamic totalitarianism Read more.
GOP Rep. Backs Kerry Into a Corner Over Obama Shaking the ‘Bloody Hand of a Ruthless Dictator Like Raul Castro’--While attending the late Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa on Tuesday, President Barack Obama engaged in a reportedly spontaneous handshake with Cuban dictator Raul Castro. The White House downplayed the exchange, but Republicans were quick to criticize the move. Secretary of State John Kerry was backed into a corner during a congressional hearing on Tuesday by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who blasted the president for shaking the “bloody hand” of someone like Castro. Read more.
John Kerry Pleads With Lawmakers Not to Put New Sanctions on Iran--Secretary
of State John Kerry on Tuesday pleaded with members of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee to not push forward with any new sanctions against Iran until the
nuclear agreement deal in which “nothing has been agreed upon” is given a
chance. Iranian leadership this week
told the world that they do have a right to enrich uranium, prompting committee
Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) to question Kerry that, “while the administration
says Iran does not have the right to enrich, they still may be able to enrich
under some mutual agreement that hasn’t been decided yet.” Read more.
‘We
Can’t Afford It’: Obamacare Could Pose a Serious Problem for Volunteer Fire
Departments All Across the Country--The Affordable Care Act (OBAMACARE) could
lead to major financial problems at volunteer fire departments all across the
country, possibly causing some to shut down unless Congress comes up with a way
to exempt firefighters from the law. The
problem begins with how the U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue
Service view volunteer firefighters. The Labor Department considers them to be
actual volunteers while the IRS believes they are technically employees if they
work more than 30 hours per week, the International Association of
Fire Chiefs (IAFC)
said on its website. Continued.
Rep.
Steve King Zings Obama on Amnesty: ‘You Can’t Trust This President’ on
Enforcement--House
Republicans can’t piecemeal immigration reform because President Barack Obama
cannot be trusted, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) charged Tuesday. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and some
Republicans resistant to the Senate immigration bill that passed this summer
that would grant legal status to about 11 million illegal immigrants, are nevertheless
open to a series of smaller bills. Last month, Obama said he
would be open to smaller pieces of legislation instead of one large
comprehensive bill. Continue reading.
The height of arrogance? President Obama caught snapping selfies at Nelson Mandela service--After delivering a very egotistical speech at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa earlier today, President Obama was caught taking ‘selfies’ in the stands with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. First Lady Michelle Obama, who was stoically sitting next to the group, did not participate. See thepicture and more!
NAACP leader hopeful internal investigation
finds officer wrong-- WILMINGTON , NC (WECT)--The president of the Wilmington
chapter of the NAACP says a Wilmington
police officer's decision to force a K-9 officer on a suspect appeared
extreme. Deborah Maxwell watched the
video for the first time in the WECT Newsroom Monday night. In the video, you see officer Stafford
Brister thrusting his police dog through the driver's side window, forcing
the dog to attack Johnnie Williams. CONTINUED.
AL JAZEERA SLAMS NC GUN LAWS (Propaganda
from Al Jazeera America
Concealed weapons now allowed at schools, playgrounds and bars, prompting safety concerns for many. More here if you can stand it!
America--They’re here for your gun rights! The recently launched
television network, Al Jazeera America, is owned and operated
by the royal family of Qatar Persian Gulf
dictators are funders of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the terrorist group
Hamas, and now they’re here to throw a burqa over your God-given right to keep
and bear arms. Will you let them? As evidenced by the anti-gun hit piece we’ve linked to
below, Al Jazeera America is wasting no time going after the
western way of life, and they’ve even focused on a gun seller right here in
North Carolina. Don’t allow ignorant and dangerous statements like those that
follow go unchallenged. Please go to this page, and leave a comment. Remind Al
Jazeera, and the anti-gun types who support them, that this is the United States of America
Beaufort Observer:
NAACP trying to bully Variety Wholesalers/Art Pope because they don't
agree with his politics!
This left-wing bullying is wrong and all people of good will should go
out of their way to support Variety Wholesalers. State Budget Director Art Pope responded Monday
(12-9-13) to the announced boycott of his family's businesses the NC NAACP,
Democracy NC and the Institute
of Southern Studies
Pope responds to criticism from NAACP, other liberal
groups--RALEIGH , N.C.
White House calls for North Carolina
Ellmers
draws primary challenger-- It's official: Republican Congresswoman
Renee Ellmers will face a challenge from the right for her second district seat
next May. Frank Roche, a conservative
internet talk show host from Cary ,
has been weighing a bid against Ellmers since October. He announced Monday that
he will challenge her for the seat.
Continued.
Audit shows problems with NCTracks--RALEIGH
(WTVD) -- A new audit of the state's new Medicaid payment program released
Monday takes the Department of Health and Human Services to task. It says the
agency could have done more to get Medicaid providers paid more quickly. The program, rolled out this summer, has been plagued
with troubles including software glitches and hardware problems. More than
3,000 issues have had to be addressed and some Medicaid providers still aren't
getting paid. More.
Records: NC DHHS
downplayed food stamp issues--
RALEIGH , N.C. — In
early July, the director of Nash
County
Muted on
Wilm. school's policy, former NEA hack Lindsay Wagner launches attack on rest
of Christian schools in state...—From the Progressive Pulse.
Anti-gay Christian school won’t accept school vouchers. Continued.
PHOTOS: OBAMA SHOOK HANDS WITH A COMMUNIST
DICTATOR AT THE MANDELA MEMORIAL SERVICE (IN A HALF EMPTY STADIUM), AND IT’S
MAKING HEADLINES--President Barack Obama shook hands with communist
leader and Cuban President Raul Castro at the memorial service for former South
African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The heads of the two Cold War enemies were
among numerous world leaders gathered in South Africa
OBAMA: NELSON
MANDELA (THE cOMMUNIST) STANDS AMONG THE FOUNDING FATHERS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
& MLK--Nelson Mandela
stands among the great world leaders and revolutionaries of history, including
America’s founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama said in
his remarks at the memorial service for the late South African leader in
Johannesburg Tuesday. “Like Gandhi, he
would lead a resistance movement, a movement that at its start had little
prospect for success,” Obama said. “Like
Dr. King, he would give potent voice to the claims
of the oppressed and the moral necessity of racial justice.” Continue reading.
LESS THAN A DAY AFTER FEDS POST $10B GM BAILOUT
LOSS, CEO ANNOUNCES MAJOR SHAKEUP-- General Motors’ Dan Akerson will step down as chairman and CEO on Jan.
15, 2014, and turn over control to product development chief Mary Barra, the
company announced in a statement Tuesday. “I
will leave with great satisfaction in what we have accomplished, great optimism
over what is ahead and great pride that we are restoring General Motors as
America’s standard bearer in the global auto industry,” the outgoing CEO
said in a message to employees. The
announcement comes less than 24 hours after the U.S. government sold its remaining
stock in General Motors, posting a $10 billion loss on its $49.5 billion bailout of the
automaker. Read on.
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR HOW MANY FARM SUBSIDIES ARE GOING TO GROUPS IN…THE CITY OF CHICAGO — INCLUDING ONE ASSOCIATED WITH LOUIS FARRAKHAN--Between 2008 and 2011, the U.S. government awarded roughly $6.12 million in federal farm subsidies to several groups in the Chicago area, including a charity owned by Louis Farrakhan’s The Nation of Islam, according to a report released by government watchdog group Open the Books. The report, titled “Farm Subsidies and the Big Dogs,” is based on data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture & information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The report examines total farm subsidies that have been paid into selected cities and urban areas. Read more.
‘INEXPERIENCED,’
‘POWERLESS’ AND ‘TIMID’: THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT MSNBC EXPECTED TO HEAR FROM A
FOCUS GROUP GRADING OBAMA--
A focus group conducted by Democratic pollster Peter Hart found that
disappointment in President Barack Obama is running high among some of his
previous supporters, MSNBC reported Monday.
The focus group’s sharp criticism of President Obama would seem to keep
in line with his recent record. The
focus group was comprised of 11 “independent” or “independent-minded” voters in
Ohio . Of
those 11, eight voted for President Obama in the 2012 election. Read more.
TEA PARTY FAVORITE
WILL CHALLENGE TEXAS SEN. JOHN CORNYN: ‘IT LOOKS LIKE CRUZ WAS RIGHT AND CORNYN
WAS WRONG’-- Rep. Steve
Stockman (R-Texas) will reportedly launch a primary challenge against Sen. John
Cornyn (R-Texas), who is seeking reelection in 2014. Cornyn is the U.S.
Senate’s second-ranking Republican.
Stockman, who is favored by the tea party, told WND that part of the reason he is running against Cornyn
is because of his handling of Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) fight to defund
Obamacare earlier this year. Continued.
FORMER CIA OFFICER BUCK SEXTON GOES OFF ON
OBAMA’S ‘LACK OF CLARITY, CHARACTER, AND PRINCIPLE IN FOREIGN POLICY’--
TheBlaze’s national security adviser Buck Sexton asserted Monday that “after a
brief romance with the idea” of President Barack Obama, “nobody on the world
stage even takes him seriously anymore.”
“Nobody who matters is listening to his droning, platitudinous,
prompter-reading sessions. His lack of clarity, character, and principle in
foreign policy is blindingly obvious,” Sexton said while guest hosting the
Glenn Beck Program. Sexton said there always has and always will
be international conflict, but in recent years, “something is missing.” Video and more click here!
GAINING STEAM? NEARLY 100 LAWMAKERS DESCEND ON
MOUNT VERNON
TO TALK CONVENTION OF STATES-- Close to 100 legislators from 32
states met in Mount Vernon ,
Va.
#NCSEN Brannon: Stop hijacking the term
‘conservative’-- Cary physician Greg Brannon,
Tea Party favorite and one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination for
US Senate, told a Moore County audience last night about one of his pet peeves: ”Boy, this word ‘conservative’ is quite
popular. Every election year, you see and hear it all over the place.
A lot of people on the campaign trail talk about how conservative they
are. But after they get elected, they forget about all of that stuff. Thom
Tillis has the word ‘conservative’ all over his campaign literature and web
site. But he’s voted for and supported toll roads, government-funded
light rail, mandates and common core. If that’s what passes for
conservative these days, count me out. My view on conservatism is one of
strict adherence to The Constitution as well as stripping power from the
government and giving it back to the people.”
Please read more!
#SCSEN Lindsey
Graham: O-Care? “That’s FINE.” I had
a chance last night to talk with one of the more polished, impressive Tea Party
leaders I’ve encountered yet — Larry Nordvig, executive director of The Richmond
(VA) Tea Party. He passed on to me — and some others — an
interesting anecdote involving The Palmetto State’s senior US
senator. Nordvig says he was in the
“green room” at Fox News’ DC studios — waiting to go on the air — while Senator
Ted Cruz was in the midst of his big anti-ObamaCare filibuster: More!
#NCSEN: Speaker
Thom & Lobbyist LOVE-- Some time back, we wrote about the high levels of
affection Thom Tillis’ legislative staff was showing some Jones Street
lobbyists. Now, it appears some lobbyists are showing Speaker Thom a
little bit different kind of love. Word
broke yesterday that a gaggle of Raleigh lobbyists was hosting a
fundraiser for the Speaker’s US Senate run. Now, word comes from our
nation’s capital of another feeding from the special-interest. Continued.
McClatchy:
Three greatest political figures mostly lefties, ALL FOREIGNERS-- Rob
Christensen — a/k/a “Mr Politics” or simply “McClatchy Rob” — offered his
readers this weekend a history lesson that would move ANY common
core-loving educrat to tears of joy:
[...] To be a great political figure of the age, in my view, you
have to help turn the tide of history and inspire generations of people around
the world. In Mandela, Churchill and Gandhi you have three fighters for
freedom: against Nazism and communism, against colonialism and against
institutionalized racism. And, of course, they fought for their countries.
[...] Read more!
A unifying — and winning — theme for the GOP?
Self-regulation. The left does a great job of spinning their
agenda as one of freedom. The freedom to love whoever you want
to love. Freedom of choice about your own body. (Abortions and birth control,
that is. NOT cheeseburgers.)
But when the talk turns to
freedom to preach and live by the tenets of The Bible, the freedom to keep more
of your own money to spend as you see fit, the freedom to criticize a black
person without being dubbed a racist, or the freedom to refuse to have
your tax dollars pay for abortions, everything comes to a screeching halt.
You’re free to practice the Democrat Party platform and anything else that
appeases the party’s various and sundry special interest groups. Continue reading.
The folly of accepting the lefty narrative--On a daily basis, I try to wrap my head around the “logic” being employed by the GOP establishment in Raleigh and DC. The media and its leftist allies tell us that the GOP has a problem with X. Instead of challenging that assertion, the GOP establishment falls all over itself to accept that premise and implement a solution to “fix” its “problem” with X. The media and its leftist allies tell us that the GOP has a problem with Hispanics. So, the GOP kicks off all of this “outreach.” The party could take this opportunity to lecture its opponents about how wrong it is to pigeonhole people and market to them as segments. After all, there are plenty of black, white, red, yellow, green, male AND female Americans deathly worried about the economy and the ObamaCare mess. Instead, the GOP’s congressional leadership is bound and determined to ram amnesty through on Capitol Hill. More!
Websites of the Day
Article V Caucus--The goal of the Article V Caucus is to re-establish
federalism as our Founders intended,
and limit the runaway growth of the Federal Government.
NC Values Coalition--Founded in 2011, the N.C. Values Coalition is a non-partisan, statewide
grassroots network of North Carolinians who
support and advocate for pro-family positions.
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Breaking--Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel orders U.S. military to transport Burundian troops to Central African Republic
Nearly 100 lawmakers descend on Mt. Vernon
to discuss Convention of States-- Last week, Glenn shared the news that South Carolina and Virginia
have formally called for an Article V
Convention of State (COS). On Saturday, close to 100 legislators from 32
states met in Mount Vernon ,
Virginia
The ATF
used ‘rogue tactics’ in storefront stings across the nation--Aaron Key wasn't sure he wanted a tattoo on
his neck. Especially one of a giant squid smoking a joint. But the guys running
Squid’s Smoke Shop in Portland ,
Ore.
Continue reading.
What liberals expect from filibuster end--On Monday,
the U.S. Senate is scheduled to cast a historic vote to confirm Patricia
Millett, an experienced Supreme Court advocate and taekwondo black belt, as a
judge on the second-most powerful court in the land, tipping that court's
balance of power to Democrats for the first time in nearly three decades. Read more.
Why is the Obama admin buying Russian
helicopters for Afghanistan U.S. military officials insisted a top-secret Pentagon
study proved the need to buy Russian helicopters for Afghanistan
Is 99 weeks too long to be on unemployment? Sen.
Rand Paul said on "Fox News Sunday" a proposal in Congress to extend payments past
26 weeks would backfire because it would label recipients as risky long-term
unemployed. "I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that
they're paid for," Paul said. "If you extend it beyond that, you do a
disservice to these workers."
Will ObamaCare enrollment
exceed expectations? Will 36 million uninsured Americans sign up
for Obamacare? That’s what a recent
survey from Gallup would have you believe. It says 63 percent of
those without health insurance — out of a total of 58 million — plan on getting
it rather than paying a fine under the health care law’s individual
mandate. That might have something to do
with the fact that 77 percent of
uninsured are now aware they are required to purchase health insurance under
that mandate.
Unemployment rate is
meaningless--The headlines read that the unemployment
rate has dropped to its lowest point since Obama took office. This is a case
where a headline can be 100 percent true and completely wrong in its
implications. If the unemployment rate
drop from 7.3 percent down to 7 percent is actually meaningful, the Federal
Reserve should immediately end its bond-buying program, called “quantitative
easing.” One can assume that the economy is rapidly heating up, and we should
all be concerned about inflationary risks created by more monetary pumping.
When coupled with the net 750,000 new hires reported by the Labor Department
over the past three months, the economy must be on fire. More!
OH, JOHN: Boehner says GOP
should embrace gay candidates: ‘I do’--Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party ought to
openly support gay candidates — a blunt statement that’s sure to ratchet up
tensions among traditional conservatives who see the GOP as straying from core
principles ... READ MORE!
Why America is Exceptional--The
Western
leaders wearing Winnie’s Necklace to Mandela Memorial--Barack
and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Laura Bush will all
figuratively wear a necklace at Nelson Mandela’s memorial tomorrow—the Winnie
Mandela necklace that is the most grotesque one of all time. The prime ministers of Canada and Britain
Democrat
thwarts Nevada activist’s try to name peak after Reagan--A Nevada conservative activist is
incensed after his attempt to name a peak after former President Ronald Reagan was thwarted by a
Democratic lawmaker who instead filed a bill to name the property after a
former state politico — another Democrat.
Rep. Dina Titus quietly
brought forth a bill to name the peak
of Frenchman Nevada resident
who had been trying to raise political support since September to name the peak
“Mount Reagan.” Mr. Muth said
even the state’s Board on Geographic Names had
given the thumbs-up for the name, Fox News said.
The week ahead in economics: Budget deadline, phones on flights, and Bitcoin-- Friday is the deadline for the budget conference committee mandated by the debt ceiling deal to reach an agreement. The top negotiators, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, are considering a deal that would lift some of the automatic sequestration spending cuts for the next few years in return for raising certain government fees. If the conferees are unable to reach an agreement, the House will adjourn for the holidays without a budget in place. But the real-world impact of a missed deadline would be "absolutely inconsequential and insignificant," writes Qorvis Communications' budget expert Stan Collender, who notes that both houses would have to vote on any deal regardless, meaning the real deadline is in January, when government funding will lapse unless Congress moves to extend it. Continue reading.
Week ahead in Congress: House in final push to
seal budget agreement this week--The House on Monday kicked off its last work week of the year
with lawmakers still needing to approve a budget bill to keep the
government running after Jan. 15 while softening budget cuts that are squeezing
domestic and military spending. The Senate also
returns Monday after a two-week Thanksgiving break to decide on a defense
authorization bill and to vote, under newly eased filibuster rules, on one of
President Obama's nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit. Read more.
PR firms
cash in on health rollout woes--It
may be have been a debacle, but there is one upside to the glitch-plagued
rollout of the health care website: It’s become a powerful case study for
crisis management consultants and their clients of what not to do. In Chicago ,
H + A International, a communications firm, delivered its customers a 15-point
diagnosis of the administration’s handling of the crisis. That led one of its
clients to temporarily halt the introduction of a new software product for
engineers at a recent trade show of 30,000 people. Read more.
Obama bombs Facebook with pro-Obamacare missives--Pro-Obamacare messages are being plastered on Americans’ Facebook pages by President Barack Obama’s most faithful supporters, many of whom need a morale boost, according to a new email blast from the president’s front-group. “Next time you hear from the Obamacare naysayers in your life, here’s something you can send them… 29,000 Americans successfully signed up in just the first two days of the week,” says the Dec. 7 announcement from Obama’s “Truth Team”
Read more.
Where’s
Vice President Joe? Ditched by B.O.--President
Barack Obama is flying to South
Africa Johannesburg ,
the capital of South Africa 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Big raise coming to all NC workers--CHARLOTTE -- A notice to everyone who makes money
in North Carolina
Educrats say the darndest things ….
When you've spent 40 years inside the state bureaucracy, it’s understandable
that your world-view might be a little disjointed. DPI secretary June
Atkinson never ceases to amaze — EVERY time she opens her mouth: Myrtle Grove Christian School, which recently adopted a controversial “Biblical morality” admissions policy,
will not accept state-funded vouchers, according to Head of School Stacey
Miller. “With the
voucher legislation that we have we could be in dangerous territory as far as
taxpayers’ dollars going to private schools,” she said prior to speaking to the
N.C. School Boards Association’s Public Policy Conference. “There is nothing in
the legislation that would prevent someone from establishing a school of
terror.”[...] Continued.
Famed Journalist: Obama Admin ‘Cherry-Picked’ and ‘Omitted’
Intelligence ‘to Justify a Strike’ on Syria-- Investigative journalist
Seymour M. Hersh is claiming that President Barack Obama mislead the public and
omitted important information in making a case for a potential strike on the
Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Writing
in the London Review of Books,
Hersh said that Obama “did not tell the whole story” surrounding who was
responsible for a chemical weapons attack that killed an estimated 1,400
people on Aug. 21 near Damascus . Read more.
Obamacare Architect Admits: If
You Like Your Doctor, ‘You Can Pay for It’-- It sounded like a new twist on an old promise as Obamacare architect
Zeke Emanuel was pushed to answer what Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace
insisted was a simple question:
“President Obama famously promised, if you like your doctor, you can
keep your doctor. Doesn’t that turn out to be just as false, just as
misleading, as his promise about if you like your plan, you can keep your
plan?” Emanuel tried heading toward
after-the-fact nuances, but Wallace wouldn’t let go: “It’s a simple yes or no
question. Did he say if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?” Continued.
Obama
Admin. Reportedly Wants ‘Radical New Political Powers’ for Corporations in
Secret Trade Deal: Huffington Post--The Obama administration
reportedly wants new trade standards that would grant radical new political
powers to corporations, up the cost of prescription medications, and restrict
bank regulation — and apparently with hardly any international support — The Huffington Post reported, noting two internal memos it
said it obtained. Keep reading!
Election law changes narrow use of provisional
ballots--In 2014,
votes outside correct precinct won’t count.
Sometimes, you’re in the “right pew –
wrong church,” said Doug Lewis, the executive director of the nonpartisan
National Association of State Election Directors, as he talked about one of the
ways people use provisional ballots. For
years, voters in North Carolina
Farm
bill has big implications for NC---North Carolina has a lot riding on the
outcome of a closed-door drama now playing out in Washington as Congress works
against a deadline this month to hammer out divisions in a new five-year farm
bill. The bill is full of programs that
affect agriculture, North Carolina ’s
top industry. Included are: Economic development programs for
many of the 85 of the state’s 100 counties that are considered rural; Crop
insurance to provide a safety net for farmers; Funding for research at North
Carolina State University and A&T State University on finding better ways
to grow everything from Christmas trees to tomatoes, melons and pecans. But about 80 percent of the bill is spending
for nutrition programs, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. In North Carolina , 1.6 million people receive
SNAP benefits. Continued.
GOP
Senate primary a tea party test-- Last year, tea party activists from around
the country helped a Texas Republican named Ted Cruz overcome long odds to beat
a better-known, better-funded primary opponent backed by the GOP
establishment. Could North Carolina be the next tea party
triumph? Five months before the May 6 primary, at least four GOP Senate hopefuls
hope to replicate Cruz’s upset victory.
They’re appealing for tea party support in their battle to take on Democratic
incumbent Kay Hagan. Greg Brannon, a Cary
physician, even launched a fundraising blitz Friday to mark the 240th
anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
Lady Liberty: DPI’s Atkinson Unleashes Fear Mongering Rhetoric On Vouchers-- I’m technically in a blog break, but some things are just too incredible not to write about. Case in point, NC Superintendent June Atkinson’s recent remarks about vouchers. The partisan rhetoric and over the top, fear mongering language are just stunning. Emphasis below is mine.
Continued.
Lady Liberty: #DM7 Article: It Begins: Common
Core Syndrome--Anxiety attacks.
Bursting into tears. Vomiting. Headaches. Self-mutilation. Sounds like someone suffering from any of a
few mental disorders, but this list of symptoms is coming from a clinical
social worker and psychologist in New
York state. These symptoms are being displayed by
children and the cause is Common Core. Here is the testimony
from Mary Calamia at
a Suffolk , NY
Cruz SLAMS the ‘lawless implementation of
Obamacare’--Ted Cruz may no longer
be the solicitor general of Texas ,
but the Republican senator has penned a legal memo about the White House’s
“lawless acts on Obamacare.” The Daily
Caller was provided an early look at the memo, set for release Monday. This is
the second time Cruz has released a report for his “The Legal Limit: The Obama
Administration’s Attempts to Expand Federal Power series". Read more!
Codevilla: Republican leaders care more about loss of power
than loss of liberty--The
Republican Party’s leadership is
more concerned with threats to its power than threats to liberty, according to
Angelo Codevilla, author of “The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About
It.” “The Republican establishment
most certainly does not see any threats to liberty, because it doesn't care
about threats to liberty,” Codevilla said in a phone interview from his California home last
week. “Being part of the ruling class, it is more concerned with threats to power.” Read more!
Budget negotiators looking at military pensions--Can savings from military pensions be part of the solution to avoid deeper cuts from defense next month? That’s an important question facing House-Senate negotiators as they try to close out a deal this week to avoid another round of sequestration in January and restore some certainty to the appropriations process for the remainder of this Congress. Read more!
Lawmakers
see ‘false narrative’ of Obama as a terrorist fighter--A growing clutch of lawmakers from both sides of the
aisle is publicly countering the Obama
administration’s portrayal of al Qaeda as an organization on the run, saying
that an evolving network of the terrorist group’s affiliates now may pose as
grave a threat to the U.S. as its predecessor did a decade ago. While some have outright accused President
Obama of pushing a “false narrative” to protect his reputation as the man who
got Osama bin
Laden, others focus on fears that a new breed of decentralized al Qaeda-style groups may
control more safe haven territories in the Middle East and North Africa than
the original did in Afghanistan prior to 9/11.
Read more!
As the unemployed wait, lawmakers debate about extended benefits-- Congressional Democrats and Republicans are
fighting over whether to extend unemployment benefits set to expire at the end
of the month — a top priority for President Obama — and appear at odds over how
exactly to pay for the approximately $26 billion that a one-year extension
would cost. A top Democrat said Sunday
that extending the long-term benefits for those out of work for more than six
months doesn't necessarily have to be tied to a budget agreement that is under negotiation
by the two parties. Read more!
Obama tells a whopper on IRS scandal--Cellphone
data spying: It's not just the NSA--LAW
ENFORCEMENT USING METHODS FROM NSA PLAYBOOK
Local police are increasingly able to scoop up large amounts of
cellphone data using new technologies, including cell tower dumps and secret
mobile devices known as Stingrays. Here's a closer look at how police do it. Continued.
VIDEOS
ObamaCare Architect Zeke Emanuel: If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Pay More
This week's video features the "Freedom Report" with an in-depth look at
what FreedomWorks has been doing for the grassroots community across America
Wild Bill for America: Idiot Jihad
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
For President In 2016? About half a
dozen names are being bantered around as possible Republican candidates for
president in 2016. Names on the list include (not in any
particular order): New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie (definitely not my vote); Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker;
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal; Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; Texas
Senator Ted Cruz; Kentucky Senator Rand Paul; and Florida Senator Marco
Rubio. I would like to offer another
name to that list that I believe could be one of the best chances of beating
Hillary Clinton, but no one seems to be giving this person any
consideration. Arizona Governor Jan
Brewer! Read more.
Colin Powell:
Texas defies feds; we shut the border down
ourselves, said Lt. gov.-- Growing impatient with the federal
government’s reluctance to do anything to stem the tide of illegal
immigration, human trafficking and drug smuggling, Texas officials
took matters into their own hands, bringing all of it to a screeching halt
along the Rio Grande
section of the U.S./Mexican border. “In
the Rio Grande Valley Texas
law enforcement in the brush, high-altitude aircraft, gun boats and more. Our
intel revealed that the Gulf cartel was growing frustrated with our three-week
effort.”
The real healthcare problems--Charles
Krauthammer gave us all good advice when he suggested that we should ignore
what President Obama says and concentrate on what he does. The reality is that
very little that the president peddled to America
Obama Administration Announces Nationwide Muslim Outreach Program For Children Grades K-12--At a press conference today, President Obama announced plans for the first ever federally funded Muslim outreach program. The program will be available nationwide for all elementary school students grade K-12 beginning February 1st, 2014. The program is designed to educate children about the fundamentals of the Muslim religion and Islamic belief. Click to read the article.
Surviving Civil Unrest--A crisis will bring out the best and the worst in people. Leaders and followers will emerge, along with those that simply want to survive and to be left alone, the ones that are willing to work hard and ask nothing of others. Your friends, neighbors and even strangers will act differently. Some that are not prepared may believe that after a few days they are starving and will commit crimes in the name of providing for their families. Then there are those looking to take advantage of the situation. Looters and other criminal elements will be active almost immediately once disaster strikes. However, it does not always take a disaster to cause civil unrest. Governmental policies, police actions and general frustrations among the citizenry can bring about demonstrations and riots. Agitators and so-called anarchists will co-op demonstrations, which may then lead to property destruction and violence against people. Read more.
New American Asks Why
Homeland Security is Nationalizing Local Police--I mentioned this issue before Thanksgiving (at least as it
was related to Iraq
occupation equipment getting transferred to occupy us), but the New American
provides some more context and asks the right question: “Why Is Homeland Security Taking Over Local Police.” The article is filled with examples of Homeland
Security giving high tech or powerful surveillance and weapon systems to local
and college police. It also gives some opinion about what it all means: Read more.
Elected Representatives
Turning Deaf Ear to their Constituents--When you, as a citizen of this country,
see that your government is eroding freedoms, trampling liberty and moving ever
closer to enslaving the citizenry, what do you do? Well, if you are like me,
you write letters to your Senators and Representatives, get involved with
organizations that monitor what is going on nationally and locally, sign
petitions opposing actions to send to Congress, talk with everyone you know
about the issues, stand up against local laws that trample your God-given
rights and call your Senators and Representatives to inform them of your
support or opposition to certain legislation. Sometimes they listen; sometimes
they don’t. So what do you do when your elected officials turn a deaf ear to
your concerns? Continued.
‘He was not an
AMERICAN!’: Sheriff defies Obama’s order to lower flag for Mandela--For one
South Carolina sheriff, defying President
Obama’s order to lower the American
flag to half-staff in honor of former South African President Nelson Mandela is simple: Mandela
“was not an American.” Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark took
to Facebook Friday
to explain to seemingly supportive residents why he will not lower the flag at
the Sheriff’s Office for Mandela, despite Obama’s Dec. 5 Presidential
Proclamation: Continue reading.
Ole’ John Kerry Gives Away
the Farm, E-I-E-I-O— Once upon a time there lived a haughty politician with a
great head of hair and beautifully tailored suits. Despite a lack-luster
academic record, he became fluent in several languages, including
long-winded-and-lofty English. Ole John Kerry’s incomprehensible campaign
speeches (and progressive drivel), attracted sufficient admiration in his
uber-liberal state to ensure election to the United States United States . Unfortunately, he
was hampered by his un-spectacular voting record in the Senate that revealed a
flip-flopping mind when it came to issues like war, peace, Israel , Iraq ,
Kuwait ,
military funding, gun control, affirmative action, yacht taxes, free trade,
education, and red or white wine with veal. E-I-E-I-O. Read more.
SURPRISE! PLENTY OF OBAMA MONEY
FOR THESE PEOPLE. Newest plan for stabilizing economy not intended to
help U.S.-- The Obama administration is
launching a program with the ambitious goals of sparking business investment,
reducing investment risks, and creating and sustaining new jobs. However, the beneficiaries are Middle
Eastern and North African nations, not workers in the United States
Obamacare – removing voters from government decision-making--Once the federal government has all of us purchasing government-sanctioned health insurance, we’re only a short step away from government controlling every aspect of health care, where there is not even a semblance of free market capitalism, with it all being managed by the federal government. But the only way the federal government can manage something so large is to get government out of the hands of the legislative branch and therefore out of the hands of we the people - those who elect our legislators. MORE!
“Robbing” and the “War on
Christmas”--Psychological projection was
described by Sigmund Freud as an immature “defense mechanism in which a person
unconsciously rejects his or her own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them
to objects or persons in the outside world.” (Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II,
p. 132). So it is that Democracy for
America, the progressive organizational arm of the Democrat Party, agitating
their voting constituents against the rest of the country, has sent out a memo,
accusing Republicans of waging a War on Christmas – “Well, this year there is a
real ‘War on Christmas;’ and it’s not being waged by the ACLU or the Democratic
(sic) Party.” Read more.
Teachers Unions
Face Moment of Truth-- It’s designed to be an impressive show of force:
Thousands of unionized teachers plan to rally Monday in cities from New York to San
Francisco to “reclaim the promise of public
education.” Behind the scenes, however,
teachers unions are facing tumultuous times. Long among the wealthiest and most
powerful interest groups in American politics, the unions are grappling with
financial, legal and public-relations challenges as they fight to retain their
clout and build alliances with a public increasingly skeptical of big labor. Continued.
TPN—Judson Phillips:
Congress
is working on taxes again. What could go wrong?
As we come to the end of the year, there
is frantic scrambling going on in Washington
Senators Portman,
Durbin expect budget agreement within the week-- Two prominent senators predicted Sunday
that bipartisan congressional negotiators will reach an agreement this week to
reauthorize government spending and avert another government shutdown. "I'm hopeful that even by the end of
this week we'll be able to come together and achieve that," said Sen. Rob
Portman, R-Ohio, in an interview on ABC's "This Week." Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the second-ranking
Senate Democrat, added that lawmakers "haven't closed a deal," but
that "negotiations are making progress, moving in the right
direction." Continue reading.
Rand Paul hits back at White
House on unemployment benefits--Sen. Rand Paul,
R-Ky,. on Sunday ripped President Obama for creating a “perpetual unemployed
group in our economy,” as the White House presses lawmakers to extend jobless
benefits set to expire for 1.3 million workers on Dec. 28. Paul slammed Obama's latest push on jobless
benefits, saying the White House wasn't doing enough to lift
Americans, particularly minorities, out of poverty. Much more!
Daniel J. Mitchell: The “Stupid Party” Strikes Again: Republicans
Poised to Give Up Sequester Victory--There’s a saying in the sports world about
how last-minute comebacks are examples of “snatching victory from the jaws of
defeat.” I don’t like that phrase
because it reminds me of the painful way my beloved Georgia Bulldogs
were defeated a couple of weeks ago by Auburn . But I also don’t like the saying because it
describes what Obama and other advocates of big government must be thinking now
that Republicans apparently are about to do the opposite and “snatch defeat
from the jaws of victory.” More
specifically, the GOP appears willing to give away the sequester’s real and meaningful spending restraint and
replace that fiscal discipline with a package of gimmicks and new revenues. Continue reading here.
Derek Hunter: In
Government We Trust: The Progressive Religion--With a storied history of
attacking people of faith as extremists, radicals and the greatest threat this
nation faces, it seems odd to see progressives embrace religion in their
“advance the agenda at any and all costs” march. But they are, with vigor. The wheels are coming off the progressives’
dream of cradle-to-grave entitlements, amnesty-ridden nanny state. Their wish
list for complete government control – and their predictions the government
shutdown would be the end of the GOP have been sacrificed to an Obamacare
rollout that has enjoyed all the success of the Hindenburg (except on MSNBC, of
course, where the Earth remains flat). Read more.
Lawmakers line up
behind tax breaks--Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are starting to ramp
up their efforts to renew targeted tax breaks set to expire at the end of the
year. Outside analysts and some
lawmakers have derided those expiring preferences – collectively known as
extenders – as little more than a grab bag of corporate giveaways. But
even the most prominent of officials on Capitol Hill, including Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), are lining up
to make the case for their favored incentive. Continued.
GOP touts
campaign to blunt Obama's executive powers--House
Republicans say they’re proud of their 2013 campaign to stymie President Obama’s
regulatory agenda, even as Congress comes under fire for one of its least
productive years. The bitterly divided
Congress will pass fewer laws in 2013 than any year in modern history. As a
result of the gridlock, President Obama has turned to his administration’s
regulatory authority in pursuit of key policy goals, including efforts to
tackle gun violence and climate change. Read more here.
Immigration
advocates bank on budget deal to rescue overhaul--Few in Washington
Congress
to Obama: Cancel Iran
deal--Congressional opposition to the recently announced nuclear accord with Iran reached a critical tipping point this week
as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle publicly lambasted the deal while
pushing for tighter economic sanctions on Tehran Geneva
Feds against paper
health applications--Federal health officials
have been advising ObamaCare counselors this week to stop using paper
applications to enroll people — out of fear that the applications wouldn't be
processed in time. Based on interviews the
Associated Press conducted, enrollment counselors and brokers facilitating the insurance
sign-up process have been advised by the Obama administration to stop using
paper. Uninsured consumers in the United States
must sign up for health insurance by Dec. 23 in order to receive coverage
starting Jan. 1. Read more.
Federal
agencies prepare for Volcker vote--Regulators
are poised to issue a major financial regulation to limit banks’ risky trading,
finalizing one of the largest outstanding rules from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall
Street reform bill. Financial regulators from five different
agencies are scheduled to review the Volcker rule this week and approve what
many believe will be tough standards limiting banks’ ability to make profits
off of their trading and fund investments. Continue reading.
Sugar protections prove easy to
swallow for lawmakers across political spectrum--Washington
Inside the Administration’s Fall 2013
Regulatory Agenda: Billions spent with no Quantified Benefits--Shortly
before Thanksgiving, the administration released its fall 2013 regulatory
agenda, or “Unified Agenda.” Every federal agency, including independent
agencies, submits an upcoming schedule of pending or recently completed
regulatory actions. As the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) noted, “[T]he Agenda is a more
inclusive list, including numerous ministerial actions and routine rule-makings,
as well as long-term initiatives that agencies do not plan to complete in the
coming year.” OIRA also stated that agencies will soon submit updated
retrospective review plans this winter to improve “the actual results of
regulatory requirements.” Read it here.
SENATE DEMS PUSH OBAMA
NOMINEES, GOP BIDES TIME--WASHINGTON (AP)
— Fresh from shackling the traditional blocking ability of the Senate's
minority party, Democrats are ready to muscle through President Barack Obama's
nominees for pivotal judgeships and other top jobs. Despite last month's Democratic power play,
Senate Republicans retain the power to slow, though not derail, Obama's
appointments. READ MORE!
GRNC Alert
12-6-13: Bloomberg-Funded “Moms Demand” Group Spreads Lies in NC, Misinformation campaign helped by complicit anti-gun media…
YOU--See the News & Observer’s “Under the Dome” recent ‘gift to
gun control’, and MAKE SURE to comment! We need to oppose gun
control squibs such as this: “In the year since the horrific shooting in Newtown,
CT, our state legislature, by mandating guns on playgrounds, parks, and
restaurants and bars families frequent, has increased the chances a child will
be shot, not decreased it, as other, more responsible states have done. . . “ CONTINUED.
IS RECENT $1 MILLION PURCHASE BY STATE
DEPARTMENT A ‘GOOD USE OF OUR LIMITED RESOURCES’? The U.S. State Department has commissioned a $1 million granite sculpture for its London embassy and is battling criticism for
saying it’s “a good use of our limited resources,” noted Yahoo News. While the
form of the piece by Irish-born American artist Sean Scully isn’t
identified in the award notification, the Weekly Standard said he’s produced granite sculptures
before, including “Wall of Light Cubed 2” in 2008: READ IT HERE!
‘President Latch-on’ knows how to find the
limelight--President Barack Obama never even
once visited the iconic Nelson Mandela while he was still alive, but count on
him hogging all the limelight he can at the freedom hero’s funeral. It
is a matter of public record that Obama ignored Mr. Mandela during all four
years of his first term as president.
Michelle Obama briefly visited Mandela during her 2011 South African
trip before going on safari with her two daughters. Continue reading.
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare's Perilous Protection Plan for Debtors--
"Uh-oh." That's the sound being uttered in doctors' offices and
hospitals across the country as medical providers realize they're getting stuck
with another bottomless Obamacare bill. While the White House desperately tries
to pivot from the havoc wrought by the "Affordable Care Act," its
hidden regulatory bombs keep exploding.
I heard about the latest problem this week from an eye doctor friend who
received a letter from a Colorado-based insurer informing her that she's
essentially on the hook for Obamacare's payment grace period for debtors. The
optometrist is bracing for a flood of similar letters from other insurers. Like
countless other independent providers, she's extremely concerned about the
potential liability, uncertainty and fraud the rule imposes on her business. Read more.
Websites of the Day
VIDEOS
Shooting for accuracy. Some tips for pistol shooters
Published on Dec 4, 2013. In part two of this three part series, Trifecta examines the state of the Fourth Amendment, which protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures. Is the NSA trampling on the Fourth Amendment by rifling through everyone's telephone information and emails? Find out.
Common Core: Learn how FPE has joined the fight
to defeat Common Core and will remain an alternative for parents. See why we
should all be concerned about these standards.
Duck Dynasty Told To Stop PrayingIn Jesus Name Because It Offended Muslims
Exclusive: J. Christian Adams’ Explosive New Claims—Back door amnesty?
I hope you have a drink in your hand to ease the pain.
Because if you fear amnesty, watch this interview and fear it some more. All I
have to say is the next president has to be one tough son of a gun.
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CEREMONY TO MARK 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
Michelle
Malkin: Remembering Pearl Harbor :
72 years
On Saturday, the two oldest
veterans in America — a pair of 107-year-olds who fought in the Pacific theater
70 years ago — will meet up to mark the anniversary of the attack on Pearl
Harbor and to trade stories. It’s a
heartwarming photo op, but also a sign of the nation’s fading ties to the
Greatest Generation and a warning to the Sept. 11 generation that the mantra of
“never forget” grows more difficult as the years pass.
Is this Common Core math
question the worst math question in human history? U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has promised to improve
education quality vastly by pushing for the implementation of the Common Core
State Standards Initiative. This year,
45 states and the District of
Columbia have implemented the Common Core standards
and curricula based on those standards. Duncan doesn’t much care
for the people who criticize Common Core, either. He has insisted that it’s all
a bunch of “white suburban moms who
— all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were
and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s
pretty scary.” Read more.
who
— all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were
and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s
pretty scary.” Read more. Ben Carson: 'Will obviously listen' to those pressing him to run for president
Dr. Ben Carson, Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon turned conservative hero, said Thursday that he would “listen” to those urging him to run for president, while insisting that was never his plan. “As far as my running for public office, it was never my intention. I thought when I retired I was going to play golf and learn how to play the organ,”
IRS using Google Maps to spy on taxpayers-- Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The Daily Caller has learned. A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the 501(c)(4) status of a homeowner’s association. “The road consists of a two-mile loop around the inside of the property. It does not have any sidewalks or bicycle lanes. The examining agent printed and copied a map from Google Maps (www.google.com) into this report,” states the letter. Read more.
Allen West: Obama the Absolutist--
Only Color
Footage of the Pear Harbor Attack, 12-07-1941 - thefederalistpapers.org
This COLOR
footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was shot by CWO4 Clyde Daughtry. CLICK HERE.
Star Parker:
Obama promotes despair to those who need economic freedom--When
presidents give speeches; the affair is choreographed like a Broadway
production. The message is not just the words of the speech, but where it is
given and who happens to be the chosen audience. So it was not by accident that President
Obama chose a theater in a poor black neighborhood in Washington
The
ObamaCare Buck Finally Stops, President Obama says blame the government, not
President Obama. President Obama has
found someone to blame for the Affordable Care Act's rolling failures besides
Republicans. ObamaCare is the government's fault,
not his. On Thursday, Mr. Obama dropped
by American University Washington
Lawsuit against NC AG Cooper gets trial date--RALEIGH , N.C. Raleigh
attorneys. The ad accused Boyce and others of charging exorbitant fees in
litigation against the state. Read more.
Heritage: Raise
the minimum wage? O-Care has ALREADY done it. The mainstream media has been releases
demanding that the minimum wage be doubled immediately. We even got PR events showing the paltry
Thanksgiving meal that can be purchased on a minimum wage salary. The
really smart folks at the DC-based Heritage Foundation have injected that
the media has not been sharing with us: continued!
NC-02: Frank Roche hits the ground running in primary bid against Ellmers--Wake County Republican Frank Roche has launched a web site promoting his 2014 primary challenge to incumbent congresswoman Renee Ellmers. You may remember Roche from his 2010 primary bid for the 4th congressional district GOP nomination and his 2012 bid for the GOP nomination for state treasurer. Roche told us via email that the economy, ObamaCare and immigration will be the top three issues on his campaign platform. Read it here!
#NCSEN: Are Dems
giving Thom Tillis the “Todd Akin Treatment”? Until now, it’s been easy to draw
comparisons between the 2014 US Senate GOP primary in North Carolina and the 2010 Kentucky GOP
Senate primary, featuring a doctor — and political novice — and a seasoned,
well-funded state government official. The latest developments are
starting to make me think more about the 2012 Missouri US Senate race. A PAC tied to US Senate Majority Leader
“Dingy Harry” Reid has come out with an interesting ad: Read more!
GREAT NEWS: VETERAN
DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA WILL
BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS--North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of
Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean
guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang . North Korea made the decision
because the 85-year-old Newman, who was detained since late October, apologized
for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical
condition, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. Continued.
GLENN BECK EXPLODES
OVER LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN CASE OF BOSTON HOSPITAL HOLDING TEEN AGAINST
PARENTS’ WILL-- Glenn Beck
called the continuing case of Justina Pelletier, a 15-year-old girl whose parents lost custody after bringing her to Boston Children’s
Hospital, absolutely “criminal.”
After more than nine months of being kept in the hospital, a judge on
Thursday decided to keep the girl where she is, scheduling another court date for Dec. 10 in Boston. It all began
after Lou and Linda Pelletier took their daughter to Boston Children’s Hospital
after she began exhibiting flu-like symptoms back in February. Several years
prior, their daughter had been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease by doctors
at Tufts University
‘ONE SICK S.O.B.’: MARK LEVIN GOES NUCLEAR ON
‘DERANGED MORON’ CHRIS MATTHEWS-- Following MSNBC host Chris
Matthews’ very friendly interview with President Barack Obama, conservative
radio host Mark Levin took to the airwaves to bash the “deranged” TV host for
attacking the president’s opponents for him the next day. “I believe Chris Matthews is deranged. I
really believe he’s deranged. I believe he’s hyped up. I believe he’s off his
rocker,” Levin said, before playing audio of the host’s comments on MSNBC
Friday. Listen here!
AMERICANS LOSING HEALTH PLANS UNDER OBAMACARE
A ‘GOOD THING,’ DEM REP. SAYS-- U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) is
a member of President Obama’s so-called “strike team” that’s pumping the
benefits of the Obamacare program and encouraging sign-ups as the Dec. 23
deadline looms for individuals to get coverage by Jan. 1. Appearing
on MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts program Friday, Cartwright hammered away at some
existing health care plans he said were inadequate and noted at one point that
Americans losing those plans is “a good thing.”
RUSH LIMBAUGH
PREDICTS A CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT-- Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh
predicted on Friday that Obamacare will cause the divorce rate in the U.S.
to increase. The claim came after a
caller brought up the topic and speculated that some Americans would opt for
divorce in order to receive lower premiums and other special subsidies under
Obamacare. In fact, CBS New York reported last month that a couple was
actually considering getting divorced to “save thousands of dollars.” Watchthat report!
Merry Christmas--Why has society changed to
wishing people Happy Holidays and not Merry Christmas? Don't want to
offend anyone of any religion or culture? Ever catch yourself hesitate
saying Merry Christmas? Avoidance or hesitation to willingly celebrate
Christmas or acknowledge it, seems to be growing and it shouldn’t. Don’t
tell me because it includes the New […]
Read more!
OBAMA ADMIN. GIVES
CERTAIN COMPANIES PERMISSION TO MAIM OR KILL ENDANGERED EAGLES--An investigation by The
Associated Press earlier this year documented the illegal killing of eagles around
wind farms, the Obama administration’s reluctance to prosecute such cases and
its willingness to help keep the scope of the eagle deaths secret. President
Barack Obama has enthusiastically backed the “green” energy, nearly doubling America
Continued!
Rep.
George Holding (R-N.C.) has proposed legislation that would require federal
officials and others who use ObamaCare data to commit identify theft to serve a
five-year prison term. His No Identify Theft in Health Care Act, H.R. 3652,
is yet another response to the troubled ObamaCare rollout. Over the last week,
reports have surfaced quoting computer security experts who said HealthCare.gov
has virtually no data security measures in place. Read it!
Scam reported to DC health exchange--A
few consumers enrolling in the Washington ,
D.C.
Details of the Obama forgery exposed—Every American is the victim of one of the most insidious crimes ever perpetrated on the collective - the capturing of our nation from within. The set-up process occurred over decades, but culminated with the selection and installation of Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, as the front man in this silent coup. One important piece of evidence to support this crime exists in the controversial Certificate of Live Birth, but not in the way you have heard, and not in the manner that you might suspect. The revelation of the manner and methods now exist in a document that the criminal elements of our government and the complicit media do not want you to see. And the evidence is as compelling as it is damning. MORE!
Libyan Leaders Give McCain
Award, Vote in Sharia Law--Senator John McCain is in Libya US attack on Libya
Katie Pavlich: Gun Confiscation Underway in New York --Nobody is
coming for your guns, they said. Nobody is taking away your rights, they said.
This is all about public safety, they said.
Nearly a year ago, the New
York legislature passed the toughest gun control law
in the country known as the S.A.F.E. Act. It was rushed through in the middle
of the night and as soon as it landed on Governor Cuomo's desk, he signed it
without asking questions. Now, local and state government are taking the
opportunity to crack down on
regulations already on the books which means for many, turn in your guns or
leave. Editor's note: as the left pushes again for gun control, you will hear them using the term 'gun safety' to replace 'gun control'. Read more.
NC
Renegade: How I Learned My History--I’ve
recently received requests for history book recommendations. I know I’m leaving
out a lot, but I think I’ve compiled a good starter list. So, without further ado: General Histories (covering large sections of history):
Congress Wants to Tax Your Christmas Tree--Christmas trees are
pretty unpopular, right? The House must
think so, since its farm bill would pave the way to set up a Christmas Tree
Promotion Board. Its purpose would be “to enhance the image
of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States .” And it would be funded by a 15-cent tax on
fresh Christmas trees—which sellers are free to pass on to you, the Bob
Cratchits of America . A couple of years ago, after significant
backlash—in large part due to the efforts of The Heritage Foundation—the
Administration backed off and issued a stay of this tax. But now
Congress could make the tax a reality as the House and Senate work out differences between their farm bills. Get the scoop here!
Mr. Moral! SHOCKER: Volunteer Arrestee
Found Guilty (The goal of the staged protesters was TO GET ARRESTED! Many of the protesters were academic elites) Moral
Monday Leader Reverend Barber was found guilty of trespassing and violating
building rules. The judge threw out some of the cases, it’s unclear if
she was acting as defense council or judge. Continue reading.
NC Jobless claims
to soon require photo ID--North
Carolina voters aren't the only ones who will soon
have to present photo identification.
State officials said Wednesday that, as of Feb. 1, anyone seeking
unemployment benefits will have to present a photo ID in a face-to-face meeting
within four weeks of filing a claim. The current system lets
people file for jobless benefits either online or by telephone, but Assistant
Commerce Secretary Dale Folwell, who heads the Division of Employment Security,
said there's been a growing number of fraudulent claims by people using someone
else's name or Social Security number.
Panel:
Could take until 2020 to stabilize NC Medicaid--RALEIGH — A consultant examining options for
overhauling Medicaid in North Carolina said Thursday it could be 2020 before
any plan to stabilize costs and shift risk toward the private sector is
implemented fully. Bob Atlas spoke at
the first meeting of an advisory panel charged by the legislature with advising
the Department of Health and Human Services on what path to take on changing
Medicaid, which covers more than 1.7 million North Carolina
Read more.
H.R. 3361: Uniting and
Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping,
Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act--First,
legislation to preserve our Liberty from the Federal government should never
have to be written. Second, they should never have been relegated to several
committees to bury it. Third, every “Representative” should be a co-sponsor of
this legislation. It is ironic that this
bill was written by James Sensenbrenner: the original architect of the “Patriot
Act”. Currently, this legislation has a 45 % chance of approval. Only Howard
Coble and Walter Jones have signed on as co-sponsors from North Carolina . So we have to ask ourselves
who these US
Representatives really “represent”. Read more.
D.C. Budget Deal Takes Shape as Deadline Looms--While the politics of
the healthcare law and immigration play out this week, Rep. Paul
Ryan (R-Wisc.) and
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) are quietly working out the details of a possible
two-year long budget agreement. This
would be significant because it would avert the threat of another government
shutdown and allow both sides an opportunity to “regain some
trust,” according to a Democratic aide.
What could a deal look like? Continued.
Teacher turnover totals TRICKERY--It appears something sneaky may be going on at NC DPI and the state board of education with this teacher turnover report. The sycophant mainstream media in our state has lapped this up and regurgitated it to us — without doing ANY kind of digging / verification. Those mean ol’ Republicans are chasing teachers off the job. The folks at The John Locke Foundation have looked into the situation and found out something interesting that is being “overlooked” by the media: The top reason NC teachers leave their jobs involves taking positions at other North Carolina schools. That information doesn’t fit the statist spin about kids being hurt by teachers leaving their profession in disgust. So, it gets “overlooked.” Read more.
December 5, 2013 VIDEOS
Will Bill for America: Taking Christmas From Poor Kids--The war on Christmas continues,with the humanists interfering with Samaritan’s Purse giving gifts to the poorest children in the world…
Alfonzo Rachel: The Greedy Grinches That Give Wal-Mart Grief
Watch Deneen Debate Nuclear Option Abuse Of Power By Harry Reid
WatchThe Sparks Fly As DNC & RNC Chairs Clash On Live TV
Constitutional Limitations of the pResidency?
Big Brother Jumps Air Gap Using Inaudible Sound To Access Computers That Have No Network Connection
NYPD detective on CNN: “knockout game” is a black phenomenon, suggests people avoid black youths.
Hannity Explodes on Islam Taught in Public Schools, When No Others Are
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Obama and Sebelius Reportedly Had Just One Official Meeting in Nearly
Four Years Leading Up to Obamacare Website Rollout-- President Barack Obama
apparently met officially with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius just once in the nearly four years leading up to the Oct. 1 launch of
the Obamacare website healthcare.gov, according to an analysis by the
conservative Government Accountability Institute. The organization examined the official White
House calendar as well Politico’s presidential calendar.
Phone and email communication were not included in the report. Read more!
‘Bizarre and Offensive’: Dem. Senator’s Overtly Christian ‘I Believe in
God’ Ad Sparks Republican War of Words--Sen. Mark Pryor is turning to his
faith to appeal to voters in his home state. The vulnerable Arkansas Democrat
released a new ad on Wednesday publicly proclaiming his Christian faith and
calling the Bible his “north star.”
While the ad itself was quick to gain attention, so has a Republican war
of words sparked by reaction from the National Republican Senatorial
Campaign, which quickly came out lambasting Pryor’s use of the Bible and
accusing him of hypocrisy. “I’m not
ashamed to say that I believe in God, and I believe in his word,” Pryor says in
the 30-second spot. “The Bible teaches us no one has all the answers. Only God
does. And neither political party is always right.” Continued.
BARRY Has
"Become The Very Danger The Constitution Was Designed To
Avoid"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REP. BOB
GOODLATTE (R-VA): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated
powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping
another. It's about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of
concentrated government power. How does the president's unilateral modification
of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political
branches and the liberty interests of the American people? JONATHAN TURLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 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. MORE AND VIDEO!
Subsidizing green energy is
like supporting operator-assisted telephones with party lines--The whole idea of Green energy — renewable
resources — grew out of an energy reality that was much different from
todays. It was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that
solar panels began popping up on rooftops and "gasohol"
subsidies were enacted. It was believed that Green energy would move the U.S. off of
foreign oil and prevent oil from being used as an economic weapon against
us. Today, that entire paradigm has been
upended and OPEC's power has been virtually neutered by increasing
domestic oil production and decreasing gasoline consumption. CONTINUED.
Is Obama Too Big To Jail? How lawless is the Barack Obama
Administration? Many of the dirty deeds and scandals of Obama & Co. are
public knowledge. Let’s start with the most astonishing. Most citizens are aware that because of
Obamacare, millions of Americans are losing their healthcare coverage. Is this
incompetence or criminal fraud? One thing is certain: It would be fraud
if a private-sector CEO knew that millions of customers would lose their
insurance, yet repeated the same lie over and over: “If you like your health
insurance, you can keep it. Period.” Why would we not hold a politician to
the same standard? That brings up the question: Is this
President too big to jail? Read more!
Plundering Sold As Populism--International Monetary Fund wants a WORLD tax! In a testament to the literal bankruptcy of socialism, a report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advocates for both a massive tax increase and a “one-off” worldwide tax of approximately 10 percent on anyone with more assets than debt. The former idea is a proven economic non-starter. The latter idea amounts to outright plundering. MORE!
Hours After Disgusting Bashir Is Fired, Ed
Schultz Rails Against 'Crudeness' from Conservatives--On the same day that MSNBC's Martin Bashir
resigned after suggesting someone defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth, colleague Ed
Schultz lamented the "crudeness over on the right." This is the same
Schultz who, on his radio program in 2011, slimed radio host Laura Ingraham as
a "slut." The Ed Show anchor's rant first started over comments by
Bill O'Reilly about whether users of food stamps spend the money on drugs.
Schultz sneered, "Meanwhile, there is Rush Limbaugh. He knows a thing or
two about drug addiction." He mocked, "I'd like to see Limbaugh, see
how he fares on $133 worth of food a month. Or maybe a day." Schultz then
played a clip of Obama discussing the Pope: "The Pope is ripping America . The
Pope is ripping capitalism...And Obama is having an orgasm." In a haughty
tone, the host complained, "The President is doing what? Certainly no
crudeness over on the right, is there?" Read more.
American Thinker: Common Core Standards: Throwing Gasoline on a Fire-- Common Core was sold to the public as a way
to improve public schools. Arguably, it's the opposite. First of all, the people in charge have been
in charge for 85 years. They have proved themselves to be architects
of mediocrity and decline, nothing else. Second, Common Core locks in
place bad ideas that have plagued us for decades. Sight-words in
reading, Reform Math curricula in arithmetic, Constructivism in the teaching of
knowledge, and many other failed theories and methods beloved
by left-wing professors. Third, Common
Core Standards give federal bureaucrats more power. Communities
will have less flexibility. It's everything a totalitarian
government wants. Read more.
TPN—Judson Phillips: “It looks like something a first grader would
have done.” The old saying goes, if you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention.
The Obama Regime is hoping no one is paying attention because when
people pay attention to what the Regime is doing, they are outraged. While the
Regime claims it cannot afford certain things like paying to defend this
nation, there are certain things that can only be described as a mind blowing
waste of money. What is the most recent and outrageous waste by the Obama Regime? The Obama Regime spent $1 million dollars for
a sculpture for the American Embassy in London . Read more.
McCrory raises NC’s profile in offshore
drilling push--Gov. Pat McCrory
has begun working with a coalition of governors from coastal states to press
the Obama administration to allow exploration of offshore... More!
McCrory and Outer Banks leaders blast
environmental group over bridge delay--After safety concerns forced NCDOT, without warning, to close the Bonner Bridge
that links Hatteras Island to the mainland,
political leaders blamed... CONTINUED!
How Obama wants to sweeten the bailout for insurers under Obamacare--In a little-noticed regulation issued the week of Thanksgiving, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed tweaking a program within President Obama's health care law to funnel additional money to insurers. Read more.
Gowdy: If Obama Chooses Not to Enforce
Immigration Laws, Can He Suspend Election Laws Too?
At a House Judiciary Committee
hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Tuesday asked if President Barack Obama has the “prosecutorial discretion” not to enforce
immigration and marijuana laws, what’s to stop him from deciding not to enforce
election laws. “If the president can fail to enforce
immigration laws, can the president likewise fail to enforce election laws?”
Gowdy asked Simon Lazarus, senior counsel to the Constitutional Accountability
Center
Mark Levin:
Obamacare ‘Is Whatever Obama Says It Is’--
Yep, and the Supreme Court will back him up.
Check this out: Discussing President Obama three-week public
relations campaign to promote the Affordable Care Act, Mark Levin said on
Tuesday that Obamacare is “Jell-O… it is whatever Obama says it is.” “So
people are losing their healthcare, they’re losing their coverage, people who
have advanced stages of cancer, people who suffer from diabetes, people who
have heart disease, and many, many other ailments and maladies and diseases and
illnesses. People are losing their doctors, as well as their coverage. This is
very, very serious. That’s why Obama’s ratings are going down, not because of
the Republicans, or the media or anything. It’s because people are being
adversely, miserably affected by this pathetic law, this pathetic law which is
really Jell-O. It’s Jell-O. It is whatever Obama says it is. ‘Well the Supreme
Court upheld the law.’ The Supreme Court upheld which law? What law? The way
the law operates today isn’t even the law that the Supreme Court saw in many
respects. Continued.
Obama: Unequal economy a threat--President Obama declared rising income inequality a “fundamental threat” to the United States Washington , D.C.
Another Taxpayer Funded Vacation to Hawaii--Sixth straight year. Check it out: The White House hasn’t officially
announced their plans yet, but Hawaii News Now has learned the Obama’s will
vacation here over the holidays. This will be the First Family’s sixth
Christmas in Hawaii since he was elected president, and keeping with
tradition they are expected to spend it in Kailua Kailuana Place
Ann Coulter: Liberals talk race and crime – and hilarity
ensues--On a break from pretending to believe
they live in a country bristling with violent white racists, the Non-Fox Media
have been trying to debunk stories about the “Knockout Game,” in which young
black males approach random strangers and try to knock them out with one
punch. The left’s leading line of defense against the Knockout Game is to argue
that young black males have always been violent, so, hey, this is nothing
new. You’re welcome, black America
Another Taxpayer Funded Vacation to Hawaii--Sixth straight year. Check it out: The White House hasn’t officially announced their plans yet, but Hawaii News Now has learned the Obama’s will vacation here over the holidays. This will be the First Family’s sixth Christmas in
Law, Lawmaking, and Morality--All law and
lawmaking is "religious" in the sense that it derives its authority
to act from something outside of -- above -- itself. In this country,
that "something" that our law is based on is the Bible. This is
clearly apparent not only in the text of the Declaration of Independence, but
it is also demonstrated in the texts of our earliest covenants, constitutions,
law-codes, compacts and charters. And
this fact is known and recognized by Christians and non-Christians alike.
For example, a 1982 "Newsweek Magazine" cover
story headlined “How the Bible made America
Anyone Who Promotes ObamaCare is a Racist and Here's
Why--Remember back a year or
two? All we heard were complaints by the left that racism was driving the
Republican effort for new “more restrictive” voter ID laws. How the poor and
minority communities would be effectively locked out of the 2012 elections. In April 2012, a guy wrote a piece on the
website “Sojourners.” Their motto: Faith in Action for Social Justice. That’s
not scary! Continued.
WebMD Quietly Hired to Promote Obamacare--WebMD, the world’s second-most-popular website for health advice, has very
quietly secured a government contract in which it agrees to promote Obamacare
and educate doctors about it. Representatives
of the website have argued that this does not constitute a conflict of
interest, since WebMD would be allowed autonomy to present its own take on
medical news and advice, and this particular government contract affects only
its private portal for doctors. That is, for now. A contract for educating the
public about Obamacare is also under way.
Read more.
Four Obamacare “Success” Stories Cited By Obama All Had
One Thing In Common: None Purchased Health Insurance Through Obamacare--Nineteen people stood behind President Obama on stage in the Executive
Office Building
Was the destruction of America
NC seeks payback
of jobless checks for furloughed workers--Federal workers who received
unemployment benefits from North
Carolina during the partial government shutdown in
October will have to settle up soon or risk an extra tax bill. That was the word Wednesday from Assistant
Commerce Secretary Dale Folwell, head of the Division of Employment
Security. "We're looking at somewhere between 550 and 700
people" who filed for benefits while they were furloughed, Folwell said. MORE!
Conservatives turn heat on red-state
Democrats over judges--Conservative groups are looking to make
the Capitol Hill battle over President Obama’s judicial nominees an issue in
Senate elections in 2014 by arguing that red-state Editorializing-under-the-influence:
Homeschooling begats child abuse ??? You
can always count on the editorial page of our local Arab
Journalism Award-winning, um, twice-weekly local paper here in Moore County
Democrats are “rubber-stamping” liberal judges. The Judicial
Crisis Network has already announced a round of ads attacking Sen. Mary L.
Landrieu in Louisiana
Boehner prepares to push amnesty
bill through the House--House Speaker John A. Boehner announced Tuesday
that he has hired a longtime advocate of legalizing illegal immigrants to be an
adviser, signaling that the Republican is still intent on trying to pass an
immigration bill during this congressional session. immigrant
rights advocates cheered the move as a sign of Mr. Boehner’s dedication to
action. Those who want a crackdown on illegal immigration said the top
Republican in the House has moved closer to embracing amnesty by hiring
Rebecca Tallent, a former staffer for Sen. John McCain and fellow Arizona
Republican Jim Kolbe. MORE!
What does Obama mean by fundamentally transform America Louisiana
A Textbook That Should Live in Infamy: The Common Core
Assaults World War II--Saturday the 7th of December will mark the seventy-second
anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor . The
commemoration of that “date which will live in infamy” brings up memories of
more than Pearl Harbor but of the entire American effort in World War II: of
the phenomenal production of planes and tanks and munitions by American
industry; of millions of young men enlisting (with thousands lying about their
age to get into the service); of the men who led the war, then and now seeming
larger than life—Churchill and F.D.R., Eisenhower and MacArthur, Monty and
Patton; and of the battles themselves in which uncommon valor was a common
virtue: Midway, D-Day, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima, to name only a few. Most of
us today do not know those events directly but have encountered them in history
books. And when we think of World War II, the people who come to mind first are
our grandparents: the men and women of the Greatest Generation who are our
surest link to the past. Continued.
Illinois OKs pension cuts in
landmark reform-- Illinois
lawmakers approved a landmark pension reform package Tuesday that would cut
retirement benefits for teachers, nurses and other retired and current state
workers. The legislation comes after
years of debate on how to fix the state’s ailing retirement system — considered
the most troubled in the country. The
plan will reduce annual cost-of-living increases for retirees, raise the
retirement age for workers 45 and under, and impose a limit on pensions for the
highest-paid workers.
Employees will contribute 1% less out of
their paychecks under the reform, while some will be given the option to
contribute to a 401(k)-style plan. MORE!
December 4, 2013
Websites of the Day
You Can Keep Your
Plan—Who Promised that?
VIDEOS
A Sickening ObamaCare ‘Success Story’-- What is the “catastrophe effect”? And how does it set the stage for ObamaCare’s scandalous “success”? Norvell Rose explains…
Why Are Veterans Having Their Guns Taken Away? Dom Raso
highlights a bureaucratic flaw that’s unfairly stripping veterans of their
Second Amendment rights — and tells you how to help get it fixed.
Socialist Sanders: ‘I’m Prepared’ to Run in 2016
"What gives the President this type ofauthority?" Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) raised important questions regarding
decisions Obama has made regarding government funding, actions in Libya
Missouri
Gauntlet Laid! - Expert Witness If Obama isn't
constrained to laws, why should American people
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The Whole Story about Voter Reforms in NC--Much has been said and written about the election law reform legislation known as VIVA (Voter Identification Verification Act – HB 589) – but too many of the reports are misleading or just plain wrong. The legislation was passed in the 2013 legislative session and signed by Gov. Pat McCrory in August. Mostly, the old guard media have focused on just three provisions of the new law — the voter ID requirement, the elimination of same day registration and the shortened early voting window. These three parts of the law are the most controversial, so focusing on them gives liberal advocacy groups a platform on which to continue their assault on the people who support election reform. These three items are also the main targets of several lawsuits brought against the law filed by liberal advocacy groups, including the NAACP. Attorney General Eric Holder also announced that lawyers for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division had filed suit against the law in October. Read more!
IL Common Core School
Assignment Requires Parents to Self-Identify as Conservative or Liberal--A recent Common Core assignment
sent home from an Oak Forest ,
Illinois Oak
Forest , IL
Democrat
Senator concedes Obama Lied about al-Qaeda--Even Democrats are not contesting
that Barack Obama lied repeatedly about ObamaCare in order to get
re-elected (they spin away from that issue as quickly and as abruptly as
possible). Now, an extremely prominent Democratic Senator – Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA) – seems to be conceding to another Obama lie, told in order to help him
get… re-elected.
CONTINUED!
This Is Probably the Last Place
You’d Expect to See Glenn Beck and S.E. Cupp for an Hour--In what might come as
a shock to regular CNN viewers, Blaze TV personalities Glenn Beck and S.E. Cupp
will be dominating the cable network’s programming for a full hour on
Friday. You read that correctly: Blaze
contributor and co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire” S.E. Cupp will be guest-hosting
“Piers Morgan Live,” and will have Beck as her guest for the full hour. MORE!
White House Admits There May Be a
Huge Problem With Thousands of Obamacare ‘Enrollments’--Senior White House
officials said this week that approximately 126,000 Americans who thought they
successfully navigated healthcare.gov and signed up for health insurance plans
may not actually be enrolled in Obamacare, ABC News reported. CONTINUED!
Sparks Fly as Wasserman-Schultz
Clashes With RNC Chair Reince Priebus in Heated TV Segment--Sparks flew on
Tuesday night when the heads of the Democratic and Republican parties met face-to-face on
CNN’s “Crossfire” for their first jointappearance in over a year. During the heated exchange, RNC chair Reince
Priebus defended the GOP and claimed that Obamacare has led to
millions of people losing their insurance, while DNC head Rep.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) lashed out at Republicans and claimed that
her opponent doesn’t understand how the health care system works. Read more!
Amash-Backed
Bill Aimed To End NSA Spying Programs Garners Even Bipartisan Support--
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An even split of Democratic and Republican legislators back
a bill supported by Rep. Justin Amash, aiming to end the country’s domestic
surveillance programs. The
legislation, titled The USA Freedom Act, would, if
signed into law, curb the National Security Agency’s ability to conduct
communications sweeps and close a “back door” to information by requiring a
court order when performing searches of Americans in data already collected
without warrants. Continue reading.
Gun Control
Group Wants To Create A ‘Special Warrant’ To Make It Easier To Confiscate
Firearms-- One of the take aways from yesterday’s gun control forum
hosted by the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy at the UVA Law School is
that the gun ban lobby wants to use a little slight of hand to get the same
tired proposals passed that they have been pushing for years. Josh Horwitz said as much when he said during
his comments that all of their proposals that would be outlined must start with
background checks. But this time, they hope to gain support by making it sound
like they only want to keep firearms out of the hands of people they think are
a threat to others – like people who may have been convicted of driving under
the influence (DUI), and even people that neighbors or family members think
pose a threat to others. Read more!
Short-term
fix on ObamaCare subsidies: Pay now, check later-- If this sounds
familiar, it’s probably because HHS
is going to use the same strategy for insurer subsidy payments that the IRS plans
to use for paying tax credits. Both
strategies are born out of necessity driven by incompetent systems development,
too: MORE!
Dumbing Down America ,
Creating An Entire Generation Of Good Comrades.
All links point to Twitchy, a wonderful Twitter aggregation site
implemented by Michelle Malkin. During
that Administration that ran things in our country from 1977 until January 20,
1981, we got as gifts from the store of bad Marxist applications, the
Department of Energy and the Department of Education. Two behemoth top down
government bureaucracies designed to alleviate some perceived pain, which in
fact were either caused by previous government intrusions or fabricated whole
sale from nothing. The Department of Energy was created supposedly to insure
that we would never again be held hostage as a nation to the whims of Mid
Eastern Despots, using their oil to inflict their will upon our national
politics. The idea was that only through the aid of a government agency, would
sufficient domestic energy production become possible. The result of course has
been the opposite. The Department of Energy has acted as a block to domestic
sources of energy, and the recent energy surge gleaned from hydraulic
fracturing has been in spite of government interference, and not a result of
any aid from the Department of Energy. In fact, the boom has been almost
entirely fueled by privately owned land, leased over government objection to
private companies who have bypassed the federal behemoth at every turn. MUCH MORE!
Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring
Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government— The
"R" word potential by "we the people" has been spoken in
public congressional testimony as a real possibility based on Obama's
lawlessness...the witness is saying, "if congress can't rein Obama, the
American public may well take the action".
I think this is the first public pronouncement in open testimony before
Congress of potential over-throw of the US government by public
revolution............at least that I have heard. Continued.
Sick of Obamacare? We've Got Something
Different--The salesman in
chief is back on the road. President
Obama will be spending the month of December once again explaining Obamacare to
the American people. Because if he explains it one more time, maybe people will like it? We expect these holiday greetings will go
over about as well as a three-year-old fruitcake. Obama’s been selling the law
for about that long, yet public opinion has turned against it. The President said yesterday that he’s
“learned not to make wild promises” anymore about the rollout of the health
care law. But it’s clear he’s not going to stop making wild claims about
Obamacare—and Obamacare’s critics.... That’s right—there is broad support for
repealing Obamacare and starting over with health care reform. So what happens
then? Click here to find out!
Judge threatened after ruling Detroit ’s bankrupt:
‘Expect to either be beaten or run over’ (Oh I just love those good old Union
folks, they are sweet and all American as apple pie!)--A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday that Detroit is eligible to
seek relief under Chapter IX of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. He also ruled that
pensions payable to retired city workers will receive no special protections
are subject to revision like any other creditor. This represents the largest municipal bankruptcy
in U.S.
history. The city has debts totaling $18 billion, including a $3.5 billion
shortage in pension funds, according to Fox News. Read more!
TPN—Judson
Phillips: Harry Reid and the ruling
class. If you doubt that the Democrats
believe they are the ruling class and should be entitled to all of the perks
that go with being RULERS over a nation, then you should think again. While millions of real Americans are losing their
insurance coverage and are having to endure the agony of Obamacare, what is
happening to Harry Reid and his friends? Find out here!
Changes ahead for N.C. tax filers--GREENSBORO — Once you’ve done it a few
times, filling out your annual state income tax form isn’t so hard. You take
your federal form, tweak a few numbers, sign it and mail it. Easy, right? When
you do your North Carolina
GOP
3-D gun ban gives early Christmas to Obama, Democrats-- The House Republican
leadership with its Dec. 3 vote to extend the ban on “undetectable” guns proved
again it excels at political cowardice and betrayal of conservatives. Do not bother looking for the roll call of
the yeas and nays on the vote, the GOP leaders, working with Democrats,
suspended the rules and passed the measure with a voice vote—with maybe 15
actual congressmen on the House floor.
Read about it!
A
look at the Bevin vs. McConnell battle— It is time to check in on Matt Bevin. Remember him?
He is the multi-millionaire tea party-type Connecticut
The Hill: Shutdown part 2? Dems vow
to block stopgap spending bill--House
Democrats of all stripes are lining up against a stopgap spending bill that
further entrenches the blunt sequester cuts.
GOP leaders could bring a vote as early as next week on a
short-term continuing resolution (CR) likely to adopt the $967 billion
sequester-level spending cap urged by many Republicans. But the pushback from
Democrats this week has been near universal, with liberals and centrists alike
vowing to join party leaders in opposition to any such measure. MORE!
Michelle
Malkin: Anti-Gun NFL: National Frauds'
League-- The National Football League's
hypocrisy and selective decency standards reek like a post-game locker room. On
the one hand, the organization refuses to run a firearms manufacturer's
self-defense Super Bowl ad under the guise of neutrality and taste. Yet, the professional
football conglomerate routinely revels in raunchiness, gratuitous physical
violence and anti-gun screeds. Welcome
to the National Frauds' League.
CONTINUED!
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/12/04/antigun-nfl-national-frauds-league-n1757027?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Yes
Obama, Republicans have offered Obamacare alternatives--Republicans
have introduced at least four comprehensive alternatives to Obamacare, despite
President Obama’s claims they haven’t. Obama once again said in a speech Tuesday that
Republicans in Congress have offered no alternatives to his signature
health reform legislation. “If, despite
all of the millions of people benefitting from [Obamacare], you still think
this law is a bad idea, then you’ve got to tell us specifically what you would
do differently to cut costs and cover more people and make insurance more
secure,” Obama said. “You can’t just say
that the system was working with 41 million people without health
insurance." (Editor’s note:
Government says at least 30 million will still be uninsured under
Obamacare. MORE!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/yes-obama-republicans-have-offered-obamacare-alternatives/article/2540113
ObamaCare’s Latest Numbers Don’t Add Up. You Will Pay the Difference.
For ObamaCare to
work, 40% of those buying healthcare insurance must be in the “rarely get sick”
age group of 18-34. Their money must fund the health care of the older buyers.
It turns out that only 28% are buying. Forget www.healthcare.gov.
The entire program is sinking statistically. How many times does an unmarried
male age 21-34 go to a physician? Six times. That
means six times in the entire 13-year period.
READ MORE
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/03/administration-struggles-to-sign-up-young-invincibles-for-obamacare/
Obama on Obamacare: This Law is Working-- Speaking from the White House Tuesday afternoon while
flanked by people who have "benefited" from Obamacare, President
Obama said his signature piece of legislation is working. The speech was part
of a new public relations campaign to try and salvage what's left of the
disastrous Obamacare rollout. Read more!
Cop Searches Driver’s Car, Because He Was Acting “Too Polite”-- You just
can’t win. If you invoke your 4th and 5th Amendment rights with a cop who’s stopped you
for whatever reason, that’s “suspicious.” The cop will claim that you must be
hiding something. Why else would you not agree to answer his random
interrogations? If you’ve done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide,
right? Read
more at http://lastresistance.com/3898/cop-searches-drivers-car-acting-polite/#pc3itvd55MmbSkGJ.99
Healthcare Bailout on the Way--The White House
is laying out plans to bail out insurance companies to help offset the loss of
revenue and profit that the industry is experiencing under ObamaCare.
Of 112 Obamacare Plans for Congress and Staff, 103 Fund Abortions
With a December 9th deadline for Members of Congress and congressional staff to sign up for Obamacare health insurance, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) released new evidence of President Obama violating pro-life laws and providing taxpayer funding for insurance plans that include abortion on demand. In the run-up to passage of Obamacare, Americans were repeatedly told and reassured by President Obama himself, including in a speech to a joint session of Congress in October 2009, that ‘under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.’ Obama even issued the infamous Executive Order that claimed, “the Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges,” said Smith. MORE! http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/03/of-112-obamacare-plans-for-congress-and-staff-103-fund-abortions/
With a December 9th deadline for Members of Congress and congressional staff to sign up for Obamacare health insurance, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) released new evidence of President Obama violating pro-life laws and providing taxpayer funding for insurance plans that include abortion on demand. In the run-up to passage of Obamacare, Americans were repeatedly told and reassured by President Obama himself, including in a speech to a joint session of Congress in October 2009, that ‘under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.’ Obama even issued the infamous Executive Order that claimed, “the Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges,” said Smith. MORE! http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/03/of-112-obamacare-plans-for-congress-and-staff-103-fund-abortions/
Court: Obama Admin Can’t
Make Family Run Car Dealership Follow HHS Mandate--Randy Reed Automotive is a
family-run automotive group in Missouri
Obama DHS Adviser Mohamed
Elibiary: Islam Best Antidote to Terrorism-- Well Barack Obama's Homeland
Security adviser Mohamed Elibiary is at it again. On Monday, the Islamic Muslim
Brotherhood supporter responded to the following tweet "Good, Islam should
be condemned everywhere. The war on terrorism starts with Muslims." He
wrote, "Wrong! Islam best antidote 2 terrorism."
Read more at
Read more at
Common Core creates
educational ‘iron cage’--
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – Many parents are feeling powerless in resisting the
implementation of Common Core in Catholic schools, according to a recent article
in Crisis Magazine by Anne Hendershott, a professor of sociology at Franciscan
University of Steubenville.
Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/12/common-core-creates-educational-iron-cage/#TkAaoeFA3LtUziLv.99
Tim Carney—Washington
Examiner: Obamacare merry-go-round:
Regulations, subsidies, taxes, more subsidies
It may seem like he’s swinging back and
forth — pro-business, then anti-business — but President Obama marching in a
straight line: more state control of industry. It's the ratchet of state
corporatism, and Obama is pretty handy with it.
The Hill: Republicans eye Obama
lawsuit, but party leaders are not on board--GOP lawmakers bashed the Obama administration at a
House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday for opting not to enforce core parts of the
Affordable Care Act, such as minimum requirements for individual healthcare
plans. Rep. Trent Franks (Ariz. ), the chairman of
the Judiciary panel’s Constitution and Civil Justice subcommittee, said
Congress should sue the administration to spur Obama to enforce the healthcare
law as written.
New York
Gun-Owners Getting Letters Instructing Them To Turn In Their Weapons-- Thanks to New
York New York
Cold Hard Truth--Judson Phillips:
Obama and Iran
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/judson-phillips-cold-hard-truth/2013/dec/3/it-beyond-time-question-barack-obamas-patriotism/#ixzz2mWUg377D
Lawmakers want secret pages from 9/11 probe declassified -- WASHINGTON — Representative Stephen F. Lynch introduced a resolution Monday urging President Obama to make public 28 pages from a congressional investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that remain secret. Lynch said he believes it will shed new light on the worst terrorist assault inUS history. The South Boston
Democrat, along with Representative Walter B. Jones, a Republican from North Carolina , recently
reviewed the findings, which were almost entirely blacked out when the panel
issued its final report in December 2002.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/judson-phillips-cold-hard-truth/2013/dec/3/it-beyond-time-question-barack-obamas-patriotism/#ixzz2mWUg377D
Lawmakers want secret pages from 9/11 probe declassified -- WASHINGTON — Representative Stephen F. Lynch introduced a resolution Monday urging President Obama to make public 28 pages from a congressional investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that remain secret. Lynch said he believes it will shed new light on the worst terrorist assault in
Biden Pushes Gun-Control as Sandy
Hook Anniversary nears
Next Saturday marks the first anniversary of the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary inNewtown , Conn.
Next Saturday marks the first anniversary of the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary in
Lloyd Marcus: Selling Conservatism to Minorities--I wonder if my
hypersensitivity about attacks on the tea party may have caused me to embarrass
myself during an interview on a Detroit
Common Core - California
- and other peoples money-- One year
ago, Jerry Brown’s Prop 30 was passed by California California California
Art
Pope and his family have done more actual good for the poor in NC than all but
a very few others... ‘How we use our money is a moral issue.’ Ah, yes. About that …So it
was said yesterday, to impugn the “morality” of someone who uses his money in this way: To mitigate the effects of the federal
government shutdown that spanned the first half of October, the John William
Pope Foundation has announced $185,000 in grants to
humanitarian charities in central, eastern, and western North Carolina. MORE:
Boehner tells Texas Business interests that Immigration
Reform Votes will be held after filing deadlines have passed. Fear of the Tea Party challenges has the
speaker holding off for now, sources say. READ IT HERE!
DIRTY HARRY EXEMPTS STAFF
FROM OBAMACARE--Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one
of Obamacare's architects and staunchest supporters, is also the only top
congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance
through the law's new exchanges. Reid is
the exception among the other top congressional leaders. GOP House Speaker John
Boehner, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican Leader
Mitch McConnell have all directed their staffs to join the exchange, their
aides said. Read more!
Which Senator promised 'you can
keep your plan' the most? Kay did!
Daily Journal--Americans:
Failures of Obamacare Are All Your Fault—RALEIGH — Wake up, people: An insidious corporate
conspiracy is afoot, and it has a nefarious goal — forcing you to buy health
insurance policies that you were choosing to purchase anyway. At least that’s
what Sen. Kay Hagan and other Democrats scrambling to defend Obamacare after
its clunky rollout are arguing. MORE!
The Horrific Story That Prompted
David Horowitz’s Conservative Transformation--David Horowitz, author of The Black Book of the American
Left and the founder and president of the David Horowitz
Freedom Center, has spoken at length about how he was raised by “card-carrying
communists” who always “described themselves as progressives.” He followed in
their footsteps, becoming one of the founders of the New Left in 1960′s, which
he described as an organization “formed by children of communists who wanted to
get away from the taint that Stalin had put on (communism), and revive the
vision.” So what made the
born-and-raised communist become the staunch conservative and defender of
American liberties that he is today? Among other things, he explained on the
Glenn Beck Program Tuesday, it was a deadly encounter with the Black Panthers. CONTINUED!
A Lie About Obama’s Past
Relationship With Family Member Revealed?
President Barack Obama’s uncle testified at a deportation hearing on
Tuesday that Obama stayed with him while
he was attending Harvard
Law School
Search ‘Destroy Capitalism’ on
Walmart.com, and This Is What You Get--Until today, Walmart was apparently
selling Banksy knockoffs on its website, including one print ironically titled:
“Destroy Capitalism.”
Another print derived from the work street artist Eddie Colla, which Slate claims Walmart
mistook for a Banksy, reads, “If you want to achieve greatness, stop
asking for permission.” Banksy is a
pseudonym of a famous UK-based anti-capitalist graffiti “artist.” It wasn’t
immediately clear why Walmart agreed to purchase the Banksy knockoffs from a
third-party vendor. Walmart is, as you know, one of the biggest corporations in
the U.S. Continued.
Protesters argue Legislative Building
rules too vague--RALEIGH , N.C. — Twelve
protesters, including the state president of the NAACP, were back in court
Tuesday on charges they disrupted state lawmakers during an April demonstration
at the Legislative
Building
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VIDEOS
Glenn Beck on Dec. 7, 2009: Convicted Felon& ObamaCare ‘Blueprint’ Author – Robert Creamer – Invited to State Dinner
Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity Talk‘Progressive Republicans’ and the Big Ideas That Could Save the Country
'The Raw Deal: FDR's Vision Is Still Destroying America'--The ghost of FDR is haunting us. the policies of Obama, and FDR and the results are identical. American Patriots what do you say?
Wild Bill for America
Wild Bill for America
WATCH Mother Give Powerful Speech Against Obama’s Tyranny! After making her wait 8 hours, the Clark County, Nevada Commission decided to hear Daphne Lee speak against the NDAA. What followed was one of the most powerful public comments in history.
ObamaCare website finally up and running? Congresswoman Ellmers vs Charlie Rangel
What is Common Core? (3:34 mins)
HILLARY CLINTON PARTIED WHILE BENGHAZI MISSION BEGGED FOR HELP
It’s Time to Decide: Where Is Your Line? A Message to Police, very moving, please watch!
The Most Important Video You Will Watch Today
One Muslim Defending the Integrity of another Muslim--Rep. Keith Ellison spins Obama's debunked promises about the Affordable Care Act on This Week.
Must Watch Viral Video of the Day -Capitalist Destroys Socialist—Milton Friedman gives it straight to Phil
Donohue!
This Powerful Video Explains Individualism in a Way That Most Liberals Can Understand--Very enjoyable!
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We did it to ourselves, by
squandering one another’s trust. After
two centuries of blessedness, America has entered the hour of the power of
darkness: Our military is being
emasculated as we speak, with funding cuts to deprive it of men and machines,
and legal entanglements to ensure that no soldier in the field can ever be
certain that he won’t be tried for murder by civilians, or worse, by foreigners;
Our alliances are faltering as no one ever expected, as our chief executive
kowtows to the worst men in the world and fails to uphold America’s actions in
its own interest; Our politicians are interested solely in getting elected and
staying in office, and will do anything, sacrifice anyone, and betray any
principle of right, to achieve those goals; Our economy is being bled to death
by layer after layer of taxation, regulation, legal mandates, and outright nationalizations,
nearly all intended to benefit some provincial interest some gaggle of
politicians counts on for support. MORE
Issa: FBI Impeding IRS Investigation--Rep. Darrell Issa claims the FBI has delayed handing
over information he requested about the Internal Revenue Service targeting of
the conservative group True the Vote. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, said he may issue a subpoena. According to Issa and Republican Rep. Jim
Jordan of Ohio , the committee is still waiting
for documents related to the FBI's investigation into the IRS targeting of
conservative groups that it began six months ago, The Washington Times reported.
Boehner hires ex-McCain aide to lead House immigration efforts--Speaker John Boehner
(R-Ohio) has hired a new expert on immigration policy, a move that could signal
a renewed House effort to act on the issue in 2014. Rebecca
Tallent, director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy
Center
TPN—Judson Phillips: Oh that’s right. Obama saved Detroit--Anyone remember
just a little over a year ago. Barack Obama was bragging that he had kept
Detroit
The Morning Bell : What Will Happen When (and If) HealthCare.gov Actually Works--HealthCare.gov
may or may not be working—for some people. That seems to be the clearest assessment
after the Obama Administration has flubbed two deadlines to get the Obamacare
website working. The disaster has
spawned countless news stories and updates about the website’s progress. But
here’s the most important story: HealthCare.gov can’t fix anything that’s wrong
with Obamacare. Even if it worked perfectly
from Day 1, that would do Americans little good. A slick, smoothly functioning
website couldn’t undo all the damage Obamacare has done and is doing. Here are just six of the things
HealthCare.gov couldn’t begin to fix. Read more.
TPN--Alan
Caruba: From
Prohibition to Obamacare--It is one of the great mysteries
that, for progressives, also called liberals, the past provides no lessons, no
warnings that would prevent them from repeating their errors. Progressives are
always focused on a magical future in which there will be no wars, no hunger,
no poverty. Their belief in the redistribution of wealth—communism—is, in
Winston Churchill’s words, “the equal sharing of misery.” Read on!
Justice Not Served: Family of
Victim Slain by Illegal Immigrant Blasts U.S. ‘Negligence’ for Not Enforcing
Own Laws-- It’s been more than two years since Jesse Benavides was gunned down
at a family birthday party in Dallas by a man
who never should have been on U.S.
Report: Nearly One-Third of Obamacare Applications Contain Errors, ‘Tens of Thousands’ May Not Have Coverage Come Jan. 1--Health insurance plans for thousands of Americans who have signed up for Obamacare through the online federal exchanges contain errors, meaning those consumers may not get the coverage they signed up for come January 2014. The computer-generated errors affect roughly one-third of consumers who have signed up for the Affordable Care Act since the exchanges launched Oct. 1, The Washington Post reported. Errors included in the health insurance plans include “failure to notify insurers about new customers, duplicate enrollments or cancellation notices for the same person, incorrect information about family members, and mistakes involving federal subsidies,” the Post reported. MORE!
FreedomWorks
On Tap "A Teacher's Take On Common Core"--features an exclusive interview
with former teacher Meg Norris where she discusses her experience with Common
Core in the classroom and what the top-down standards mean for education in America
The great bait-and-switch of ObamaCare--Obamacare “Essential Benefits” Rendered Most Current Health Plans Obsolete. The great bait-and-switch of ObamaCare (“you can keep your plan and your doctor”) was intentionally orchestrated by the architects of the legislation. There were thousands of policies offered nationwide that were good and even very good but now they can’t be sustained under the new Obamacare policy requirements. READ MORE!
We gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug
cartels. Americans died. Where is the outrage?
On Sunday, the New York Post ran an excerpt from “The Unarmed Truth” by John Dodson. Dodson is the
Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who blew the whistle on the
gun-walking operation known as Fast and Furious. According to the Mexican government,
211 of their citizens, including police officers and children,
have been murdered with weapons from that scandalous operation. So was American
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose family, along with every other concerned
American, has been stonewalled in their efforts to find out who is accountable
for this atrocity. After recounting some truly unbelievable instances of
bureaucratic arrogance and ineptitude, Dodson inadvertently poses a question
with far larger implications. “We gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug
cartels. Americans died. Where is the outrage?” he asks. MORE!
Obama's illegal
alien uncle to appear at new immigration hearing--President
Barack Obama's Kenyan-born uncle was expected to appear at a deportation
hearing to argue that he should be allowed to stay in the United States
Don't
Look Now But Obama's Trying To Buy Off Insurance Companies To Accept His
ObamaCare 'Fix'-- On the heels
of a threatened mutiny by Congressional Democrats who vowed to side with
Republicans and pass legislation that would allow millions of Americans to keep
their healthcare plans, Barack Obama offered an 11th hour “fix” last
month. Insurance companies balked. Let me
restate that: the insurance industry was livid, as illustrated by
this statement from America ’s
Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) – issued during Obama’s
November 14 press conference announcing his proposed “fix.” MORE!
Biden Hails the 23 Gun Control Steps Obama Took on His Own--On Monday, invoking the Dec. 14 “tragedy in Newtown,”
Vice President Joe Biden told
Americans, “You have my word that the President and I are doing everything we
can to make sure no parent loses their child to gun violence.” And he admitted that they’re doing it
“on our own,” without Congress. “And so
even after a minority of senators blocked commonsense legislation to reduce gun
violence this spring, we’re pushing forward,” he said.
Read more!
Sebelius
Calls It 'Good News' That Medicaid Coverage Is Expanding--Under the Affordable
Care Act, Americans who are too poor to pay for health insurance on the new
Obamacare exchanges will be eligible to enroll in their state's Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) -- but
only if their state has agreed to expand those programs. On Tuesday, Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called it "good news"
that more than 1.46 million people were found eligible to enroll in Medicaid or
CHIP in the month of October. Read more!
CRS:
'Likely Take Several Years or More Before Poverty Rates Recede’ (Did we ever
win that ‘War on Poverty’ thing from the 60’s?) – A report from the Congressional Research
Service says that it will “likely take several or more years” for the poverty
rates in the United States
to fall back to the levels they were before the last recession. The number of people living in poverty in the
United States
hit a record last year, according to Census Bureau data cited by CRS, and the
poverty rate remained stuck at its highest level in two decades. CONTINUED!
Blue States Turning on Controversial ‘Common Core’
School Standards--It’s hilarious when liberals turn on their own. Check it out:
As controversy intensifies over
new the Common Core educational standards, two Democrat-led states are showing
signs of distancing themselves from the curriculum that the Obama administration has
supported. North
Country Public Radio reported last week that Gov. Andrew Cuomo
(D-NY) has appeared to remove himself from the controversial......MORE!
Georgia School
Confiscates Christmas Cards--I bet they didn’t confiscate any Ramadan, Hanukah,
or Kwanza cards. Check it out.
Common Core Dollars Destroy
Opportunities For ADHD Kids--Corporations buying into the federal healthcare data system using huge profits
made from creating federal tests aligned with Common Core are destroying opportunities for ADHD
kids. The fears of many parents of ADHD
kids will likely come true. Their child’s opportunities will be limited by an
inanimate object created by a corporation that the parent cannot hold
accountable.
This Thursday Workers Will
Protest To Demand Price Inflation And/Or More Unemployment--Clear proof that we don't teach
economics in school. From the New York
Times: Seeking to increase pressure on
McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants, organizers of a movement
demanding a $15-an-hour wage for fast-food workers say they will sponsor
one-day strikes in 100 cities on Thursday and protest activities in 100
additional cities. Read more!
Expectations
drop for congressional budget deal--Just a week away from its Dec. 13 deadline,
lawmakers will have little time in their post-Thanksgiving legislative session
to negotiate the kind of major budget deal they'd need to end the federal
government's crisis-driven management
style. So rather than struggling
to find a "grand bargain" that would offer compromises on spending,
taxes and entitlements, lawmakers are now aiming for a narrow deal that would
restore some of the cuts imposed under the budget-squeezing "sequester." "It's looking like a much smaller deal
that would hopefully give us a number we could appropriate for fiscal year 2014
… and hopefully a target number for 2015," Rep. Tom Cole, R-Texas, a
member of the bipartisan House-Senate budget conference committee, told
the Washington Examiner.
How Max Baucus's
'tax reform' can hurt competition and kill business creation--If you're a business, the best way to get
fat profit margins is by erecting (or finding yourself surrounded by) barriers
to entry. Regulations are often efforts by incumbent businesses to erect
barriers to entry, thus allowing for higher profit margins. CONTINUED!
GOP links Obamacare to
pocketbook woes already troubling Americans--House Republican leaders
moved Tuesday to link Obamacare to
voters' lingering anxieties over the economy, charging that the implementation
of the law is hampering job creation and forcing already-struggling Americans
to choose between food and Christmas gifts.
Republicans have signaled for weeks their intent to move beyond
criticism of healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act's federal online insurance
marketplace, and focus on additional myriad looming problems with Obama’s
signature health care reforms. GOP leaders said the website remains dangerously
flawed and error-prone, but emphasized at their weekly news conference that the
problems with Obamacare run far deeper than the technical glitches plaguing the
website. MORE!
Washington
Examiner Editorial: Americans don't buy Obama's talk of economic 'recovery'--President Obama recently told ABC’s “This
Week” host George Stephanopoulos, for example, that during the Great Recession
of 2008, “we came in, stabilized the situation. The banking system works. It is
giving loans to companies who can get credit. And so we have seen, I think
undoubtedly,...CONTINUED!
Darrell Issa questions insurers
on whether Obama knew of plans to drop plans, doctors--House investigators want to know when President Obama realized he could
not uphold his repeated promise that "if you like your doctor, you will be
able to keep your doctor" under the new health care law. MORE!
Locals
listen as Rev. Barber takes Art Pope critique to Maxway, Roses (Oooh nothing
worse than those capitalists who create jobs!
Rev. Round would prefer to run these companies out of business, loose
the jobs for the community, just to keep Pope for supporting Republicans. ) RALEIGH, N.C. — Two symbols of North Carolina politics — the chief opponent of
Republican-approved laws and the state budget director who's helped promote
conservatism for decades — met Monday in a rare back-and-forth over GOP
policies and the director's family business.
The Rev. William Barber of the state NAACP and budget director Art Pope
debated briefly outside the government office building in Raleigh where Pope works and as Barber
wrapped up a news conference singling out Pope for his activities.
Supreme Court to admit
Obama broke law? President Obama’s three appointments to the
National Labor Relations Board last year were ruled unconstitutional by an
appeals court, but the appointees are still in place as the dispute moves to
the U.S. Supreme Court. “Obama’s recess
appointments are unprecedented power grabs, which if left to stand will turn
the constitutional separation of powers on its head,” said Tom Fitton,
president of Judicial Watch, which has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the
case. READ MORE!
Bombshell Study Finds 44% Increased Breast
Cancer Risk for Women Having Abortions (These are the types of facts that need to be given with love to young women in trouble, if we are to win the argument)--A new systematic review and meta-analysis of abortion and breast cancer
(ABC link) in China
was just published four days ago in the prestigious, peer-reviewed
international cancer journal, Cancer Causes and Control. In this meta-analysis (a study of studies, in
which results from many studies are pooled), Dr. Yubei Huang et al. reported
that, combining all 36 studies on the ABC link in China that have been
published through 2012, the overall risk of developing breast cancer among women
who had at least one induced abortion was significantly increased by 44%. MORE!
Common Core Blotting Out the Civil War—“If
you haven’t heard of it, Common Core is essentially the federal government
taking over our public education system, or to put it technically – “uniform
national curriculum standards.” And hey, hey, hey, before you start throwing
Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” thing in my face and saying I’m some Obama-hating
contrarian, I’ll tell you right now, I think “No Child Left Behind” stunk as
well.” CONTINUED!
High Court ends Liberty U Lawsuit over health law--MORE!
Minimum wage mind games--President Obama's sudden support of the Senate's $10.10 minimum- wage bill is partisan politicking of the worst kind. It's a desperate attempt to distract the public from the Affordable Care Act's dismal polling numbers -- and it ignores the simple fact that such a wage hike would be similarly disastrous to the small businesses that employ much of the minimum-wage workforce. Read more!
Will Obama’s 3rd term be granted
by the ‘Me First Generation’? In a world where
the New York Times can posit that the ‘Knockout Game’ Trend has no import—and gets away
with it—no one can know the future, but with the way things are going it is only
commonsense to worry your way into trying to do something
about it. People old enough to remember
70 years of Communism in the Soviet Union and its satellites before communism made its hurried move
for a safe North America landing, stand their ground against
the misery of Marxism planned for America
Lies and Hypocrisy Are Essential Components
of Liberalism--Recent events once again demonstrate that there is no
point arguing with liberals. Reason, facts, truth – these bourgeois concepts
mean nothing to the adherents of progressivism. You are never going to change
the mind of someone who believes in nothing except the imperative of his own
absolute power. You simply have to defeat him.
Progressivism is not a coherent ideology so much as a purpose – to
control every aspect of our lives. It is about consolidating progressive power.
Nothing else matters. That includes the truth. Get it here!
15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absolutely
Massive Stock Market --Bubble--One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that
“bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the U.S.
Another Administration Lie Exposed-- Another lie by the Obama administration’s “recovery” has been exposed. The upturn in our GDP based on auto sales has been revealed to be nothing more than forcing dealerships to increase their inventory through channel stuffing. Just like the government’s false labor statistics, cars and trucks sitting on a dealer’s lot will not get us out of this depression. Nor will an artificial stock market. CONTINUED.
Common
Core Creator Friends w/ Terrorist William Ayres? These “Commies” all stick together.
And, they want to control the minds of our children. Here’s an article that ties together the Communist friends of
Common Core creator David Coleman. “The
Gates Foundation provided a $489,453 grant to the George Soros/Obama
mouthpiece, the Center for American Progress, “to help communicate the
importance of education reforms and support progressive states
seeking to implement them.” Gates and Soros are tied up in this
Obama/Ayres/Annenberg/Coleman goal of brainwashing this generation into a
global communist government. MORE HERE!
Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups--The House’s chief investigator says the FBI is stonewalling his inquiry into whether the agency and the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative group True the Vote for special scrutiny, and Rep. Darrell E. Issa is now threatening subpoenas to pry loose the information from FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. Mr. Issa, California Republican, and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, are leading the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s IRS inquiry. They also said the FBI is refusing to turn over any documents related to its own investigation into the IRS, which began in the days after an auditor’s report revealed the tax agency had improperly targeted tea party groups for special scrutiny. READ MORE!
Obama launches effort aimed at HIV cure--The
Obama administration is shifting $100 million into research efforts aimed at
curing HIV, President Obama announced Monday.
A new initiative at the National Institutes of Health will be aimed at
"advanc[ing] research toward an HIV cure," Obama said at a White
House event marking World AIDS Day, which was Sunday. READ MORE!
#NCSEN: Baptist Church Charlotte
McCrory, local govts give
$97K per job for already subsidized ethanol plant in Sampson
Co....Ethanol-maker offered $6.3M for 65 fuel plant jobs--RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A long-anticipated
$200 million ethanol plant that will turn grasses grown on North Carolina hog
farms into motor fuel will go ahead, Gov. Pat McCrory's office said
Monday. The plant operated by
Biochemtex, a partnership headed by Italy-based Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi,
plans to employ 65 people in three years near Clinton
in Sampson County
Pope, Barber exchange words over money, politics--RALEIGH,
N.C. — State budget chief Art Pope came face to face with
one of his most vocal critics Monday morning while responding to a planned
picketing campaign targeting his family's chain of discount stores. The state chapter of the NAACP and several
left-leaning groups held a news conference outside the state budget office to
announce the campaign targeting Variety Wholesalers, which includes Roses,
Maxway and other stores. READ MORE!
OBAMA-LINKED
NONPROFIT TO COORDINATE SANDY HOOK ‘ANNIVERSARY EVENTS’ TO RAISE GUN CONTROL
AWARENESS--Organizing for
Action (OFA) announced Monday that it is coordinating “anniversary events” to
commemorate the 2012 Newtown, Conn., shooting that killed 27 people,
including 20 children. “When tragedy struck Sandy Hook
elementary School last year, we mourned together as a nation,” the nonprofit
group, which is an “overhaul of Obama’s reelection campaign,” as The Hill puts is, said in an
email to potential supporters. READ MORE!
#NCSEN : Put A Cork US CORK North Carolina
State lawmakers have tax credits on the chopping block
December 1, 2013
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NCFIRE has published
3 new reports for the month of November 2013.
The first one
is our monthly crime report by confirmed and probable illegal aliens (57 pages) which can be viewed here:
The second
one is a monthly list of confirmed and probable illegal alien absconders from
N.C. justice (3,454 total) which can be
viewed here:
The third is
a list of the confirmed and probable illegal aliens that were charged with or
have a court date for child rape, in the month of November (87 total) and can be viewed here:
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NEW WORLD ORDER: Hacker Releases Names/Emails of 1000+ CFR Members…See Them Here--A hacker by the name of Guccifer has been exposing members of those referenced as the “ruling class.” He’s even pulled off linking Colin Powell and Tony Blair to the Bohemian Grove. In his latest hack he has released the emails of over 1000 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) members. READ MORE!
The Finger of Doom--It
was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of
Iran
and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was
overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take
over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look back now at his actions,
Carter believed that he was undertaking a human rights agenda. READ MORE!
IT BEGINS! Presidential Term Limits Going To Be Trashed? Redflagnews The push is on to get Obama a third term… the narrative is being constructed now for a referendum question on the next ballot… if they can get enough steam behind it. ”The time has come to end presidential term limits, because continuing the restrictions on how long one can serve in the country’s highest office is bad for the United States,”claims Jonathan Zimmerman a history and education professor at New York University. READ MORE!
#NCGA:
Tale of the Tesla--Between turkey-induced food comas this long weekend, I did a
little reading. THIS Bloomberg piece — about the PR successes of the
automaker Tesla — caught my eye. It touched on a battle earlier this year
in the North Carolina General Assembly: Tesla Motors Inc. was in trouble in North Carolina
JLF-- Philly Fed: N.C. a ‘boom’ state: Business Insider notes the most recent
monthly “state of the states” report from the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve.
It shows that, over the past quarter, 45 states experienced economic growth,
and 10 of them recorded growth of 1.0 percent or higher. The Philly Fed calls
those 10 the “boom states,” and, wait for it … North Carolina is one of them. READ MORE!
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