GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 05/28/2014

NM lawmaker: Cartel benefits from Obama's move A New Mexico congressman says Barack Obama clearly ignored Congress and usurped the democratic process when he unilaterally set aside a half-million acres of land for a national monument. "The president said in his State of the Union [in January] that he's going to bypass Congress if they didn't do exactly what they wanted," notes Pearce, "and this action to declare the monument showed his contempt for the legislative process."

Joe the Plumber Bluntly Refutes Gun Control Call The weekend mass shooting in California and the Memorial Day holiday prompted local GOP activist Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher to write an open letter to the parents of the murder victims that expresses his sympathy, but also declares: "Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."

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Conservatives Won't Win Elections by Refusing To Compromise More discussion on the topic of pragmatism and politics is critical. If conservatives decide to take their marbles and go home rather than fight to the bitter end because they feel their principles have been compromised, they will needlessly subject future generations to untold misery.

Rove: Hillary Old and Stale Karl Rove may have backed down from his assertion that Hillary Clinton is hiding an insidious brain injury, but he's not through talking about what he says makes her unsuitable to win a presidential election in 2016.

Donald Sterling vows to fight NBA to 'the bloody end' over sale of Clippers Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has changed his mind about selling his team and is now vowing to "fight to the bloody end" to keep the franchise. Sterling's lawyer, Max Blecher, told ESPN his client has "disavowed" an agreement he reached with his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, that would have let her negotiate a sale of the team.

Working? Really? The Obama administration says 8 million people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act. Victory has been declared. Obamacare, the president says, "is doing what it's supposed to do -- it's working." Convinced? You shouldn't be.

Atheist Group Sues to Force Removal of Veterans' Peace Cross Fred Edwords remembers the first time he saw the giant cross rising over this small town in Prince George's County. But to Edwords, who lives in nearby Greenbelt, it looked unmistakably like the Christian crosses of his Protestant youth, standing on a government-owned median strip at the intersection of Maryland Route 450 and Alternate U.S. 1.