GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 06/11/2014

GOP Establishment Somber and Mostly Silent in Wake of Cantor Defeat Republican tea party forces are rejoicing and the party establishment is somber or altogether silent in the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary defeat at the hands of political neophyte David Brat, an unflinching foe of loosening immigration laws.

Military Bases: Obama's New Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds A source tipped me off last week to a curious occurrence: It seems that two planeloads of illegal aliens were recently shipped to Massachusetts. The first reportedly landed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. According to my tipster, approximately 160 illegal immigrants arrived on that flight and stayed nearly a week before being transferred to a Department of Homeland Security site and then released.

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Bullies and bigots of Big Gay lie again: Cop didn't refuse to work parade The Victorian, prudish, legalistic, starchy blue noses of the homosexual lobby have been in high dudgeon over the last several days. The object of their censorious wrath: a cop they claim refused to work a gay pride parade in Utah.

Cop-killer was a Pothead John Avlon’s dishonest column on the cop-killers in Las Vegas should be studied by journalism students as an example of how to exploit a tragedy for political purposes. It is a shame he gets on CNN as an “analyst,” which gives him undeserved authority and prestige, when he deliberately confuses and misleads people.

California teacher tenure ruling may fuel debate A judge struck down tenure and other job protections for California's public school teachers Tuesday, saying such laws harm students — especially poor and minority ones — by saddling them with bad teachers who are almost impossible to fire.

VA bill giving veterans flexibility on healthcare passes House The House unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to allow veterans to seek healthcare outside the VA if they're forced to wait excessive periods of time for an appointment.

McCain: GOP can't compete in 2016 without immigration John McCain has joined the pile-on who say the Republican Party must help pass immigration reform if it hopes to compete for the White House in 2016.

Tea Party challenger unseats Eric Cantor Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the second-most powerful man in the House of Representatives, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger who rolled to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws, in one of the most stunning upsets in modern American politics.