January 28th
1878: The first commercial telephone exchange was installed in New Haven, Connecticut, serving 21 subscribers with eight lines.
1915: Congress created the U.S. Coast Guard.
1916: Louis D. Brandeis was appointed to the Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson, becoming the high court’s first Jewish member.
1934: America’s first ski lift opened in Woodstock, Vermont—a tow rope pulled by a Model T engine.
1986: The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. (Bennett & Cribb, 2010)
Monday, January 28, 2013
Senators reach deal on immigration changes - Washington Times
Senators reach deal on immigration changes - Washington Times
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/28/senators-reach-deal-immigration-changes/#ixzz2JHIBiaBC
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws.
The deal, which was to be announced at a news conference Monday afternoon, covers border security, guest workers and employer verification, as well as a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.
Although thorny details remain to be negotiated and success is far from certain, the development heralds the start of what could be the most significant effort in years toward overhauling the nation’s inefficient patchwork of immigration laws.
President Barack Obama also is committed to enacting comprehensive immigration legislation and will travel to Nevada on Tuesday to lay out his vision, which is expected to overlap in important ways with the Senate effort.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/28/senators-reach-deal-immigration-changes/#ixzz2JHIBiaBC
Washington and business brace for an Obama wave of regulations - The Hill's RegWatch
Washington and business brace for an Obama wave of regulations - The Hill's RegWatch
Lawmakers, lobbyists and policy groups say they are expecting a deluge of new rules from agencies across the federal government.
Advocacy groups and liberal lawmakers are drawing up wish lists of new regulations that would cover everything from air pollution to vehicle safety to labor protections. And that doesn’t include a torrent of forthcoming rules required by the healthcare law and the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/administration/279467-washington-and-business-brace-for-an-obama-wave-of-regulation#ixzz2JH9Yww9t
President Obama has begun to wield the power of the executive to press forward with a second-term agenda that delights the left and terrifies the right.
When he said "we must act" in his inaugural address last week, liberals cheered him on, and conservatives saw that the electoral earthquake of November is likely to be followed by a tsunami of executive orders and regulations.
“They’re going to try to do with regulation what they cannot do with legislation,” said Mike House of Hogan & Lovells, a law and lobbying firm whose clients include businesses and trade groups.
Advocacy groups and liberal lawmakers are drawing up wish lists of new regulations that would cover everything from air pollution to vehicle safety to labor protections. And that doesn’t include a torrent of forthcoming rules required by the healthcare law and the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/administration/279467-washington-and-business-brace-for-an-obama-wave-of-regulation#ixzz2JH9Yww9t
Mothers In Naperville, Illinois Arrested For Refusing To Let Utility Workers Install Smart Meters
Mothers In Naperville, Illinois Arrested For Refusing To Let Utility Workers Install Smart Meters
In Naperville, IL, two mothers were arrested last week for refusing to allow utility workers to install controversial smart meters on their homes.
The city’s new Naperville Smart Grid Initiative requires new controversial smart meters to be installed in every home. Residents opposed to the smart meters have been fighting the initiative for over two years.
Jennifer Stahl, an advocate against the smart meters initiative, told The Blaze she “was protecting” her property when she refused to allow the smart meter installer install the device. She felt “like a momma bear protecting her babies,” she recalled.
Many opponents to the meters worry about the type of data the smart grid will collect, opening up a potential for hackers and criminals to know when residents are home or not. Also, because the meters work on a wireless RF system, some are concerned about health safety in their home. Reports of health risks due to the meter’s wireless transmitter’s omission of electromagnetic frequencies surfaced in 2011. People with the meters installed on their homes reported symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, tinnitus, and DNA breakdown
Do gun bans actually curb violent crime?
Do gun bans actually curb violent crime?
Exclusive: Chuck Norris warns of government's 'overreaching, bureaucratic tentacles'
(Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of Chuck Norris’ three-part series on reducing violent crime in the U.S. Part 1 is available here.)
Who isn’t sickened by the moral decay and heinous acts of violence across our country? My heart and prayers continue to go out to victims everywhere.
Not according to a recent Fox News investigation, “Assault-weapons ban no guarantee mass shootings would decrease, data shows.” The report concludes, “Data published earlier this year showed that while the [Clinton assault] ban was in place, from 1994 to 2004, the number of mass shootings actually rose slightly during that period. Add to that the fact that most gun crimes in America are committed with handguns… [and] as the NRA points out, only a ‘tiny fraction’ of crimes involve assault weapons no matter how it’s measured.”
Examiner.com elaborated, “Crime statistics compiled by a Northeastern University professor, the Census Bureau, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show that in the 10 years before the Clinton gun ban, there were 173 mass shootings with 766 victims. But during the 10 years of the ban, from 1995-2004, there were 182 mass shootings with 820 victims.”
Even in the U.K. when the Firearms Amendment of 1997 completely banned handguns from private citizens – which was prompted by a school massacre – handgun crime doubled over the next decade, according to British government crime reports. That is why U.K. citizens warn Americans in this video, “Don’t let them take your guns!”
CONTINUED: http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/do-gun-bans-actually-curb-violent-crime/
Exclusive: Chuck Norris warns of government's 'overreaching, bureaucratic tentacles'
(Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of Chuck Norris’ three-part series on reducing violent crime in the U.S. Part 1 is available here.)
Who isn’t sickened by the moral decay and heinous acts of violence across our country? My heart and prayers continue to go out to victims everywhere.
Not according to a recent Fox News investigation, “Assault-weapons ban no guarantee mass shootings would decrease, data shows.” The report concludes, “Data published earlier this year showed that while the [Clinton assault] ban was in place, from 1994 to 2004, the number of mass shootings actually rose slightly during that period. Add to that the fact that most gun crimes in America are committed with handguns… [and] as the NRA points out, only a ‘tiny fraction’ of crimes involve assault weapons no matter how it’s measured.”
Examiner.com elaborated, “Crime statistics compiled by a Northeastern University professor, the Census Bureau, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show that in the 10 years before the Clinton gun ban, there were 173 mass shootings with 766 victims. But during the 10 years of the ban, from 1995-2004, there were 182 mass shootings with 820 victims.”
Even in the U.K. when the Firearms Amendment of 1997 completely banned handguns from private citizens – which was prompted by a school massacre – handgun crime doubled over the next decade, according to British government crime reports. That is why U.K. citizens warn Americans in this video, “Don’t let them take your guns!”
CONTINUED: http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/do-gun-bans-actually-curb-violent-crime/
NULLIFICATION: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS MANY FORMS
January 27, 2013 By
In the nullification movement, there are varying degrees and methods of nullifying certain federal acts. One who has been with the movement a while could forget and hyper focus on one, leaving someone new to the movement to think of nullification as a very narrow spectrum.
To eliminate that thinking, it is good to go back to the Tenth Amendment Center’s definition of nullification, which is: “any act, or set of actions, that results in a particular law being declared unconstitutional and rendered null, void or even just unenforceable…”
There are so many opinions on nullification, if I listed every article and opinion piece written on it in the past week, I’d probably be finished with this entry sometime around next Christmas. This is not a bad thing. If others are talking about it, it means the message is being heard and cannot be ignored.
This is intended to be a general review, so while there is a time for everything under the sun, there is no time to include links and sources today, just a quick refresher. There is, however, a time when a certain forms of nullification may be more applicable than others.
Republican leaders ready to tackle budget, voter ID, Medicaid, business rules - Winston-Salem Journal: State / Region
By one measure, the to-do list for Republican legislative leaders this year at the General Assembly is very similar to what they wrote down in 2011, when they took new majorities in the House and Senate.
“We are focused on continuing a number of the things we initiated last time — making sure that North Carolina’s budget is balanced and in order, making sure that our tax situation is stable (and) trying to address the problems we have in education,” said Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. And bills requiring voter identification, reducing business regulations, and controlling Medicaid costs are again on the list.
But by another accounting, everything has changed as legislators begin filing and debating bills Wednesday, when they reconvene the two-year session after ceremonial meetings Jan. 9 to elect leaders.
CONTINUED:
Republican leaders ready to tackle budget, voter ID, Medicaid, business rules - Winston-Salem Journal: State / Region
“We are focused on continuing a number of the things we initiated last time — making sure that North Carolina’s budget is balanced and in order, making sure that our tax situation is stable (and) trying to address the problems we have in education,” said Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. And bills requiring voter identification, reducing business regulations, and controlling Medicaid costs are again on the list.
But by another accounting, everything has changed as legislators begin filing and debating bills Wednesday, when they reconvene the two-year session after ceremonial meetings Jan. 9 to elect leaders.
CONTINUED:
Republican leaders ready to tackle budget, voter ID, Medicaid, business rules - Winston-Salem Journal: State / Region
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