Obamacare creates new
ways to prosecute American business. By Ed Rogers
Excerpt: It’s been a bad week for Obamacare. Incredibly, the
White House has had to grant yet another delay in the employer mandate. This time,
employers with between 50 to 99 employees who don’t already offer health
insurance to their employees have until 2016 to comply with the shifting
Obamacare requirements. This latest delay represents another political
calculation by the White House. They are counting on the fact that the
criticism they will face now for bungling incompetence and disregarding their
own law is less than the criticism they would receive for damaging American
business closer to the elections.
You Lost Your Job, Now Party. B y Tad Cronn
Excerpt: Leave it to Democratic politicians to suggest that
not only is the record number of people leaving the labor force not a bad
thing, but that the continuing loss of jobs and reduction of hours because of
their policies is "a great opportunity" to finally kick back and
relax.
Not only has the vernacular being thrown around Washington
circles changed from talking about people being fired to people being
"freed" from a job, but we're being told that the policies created by
the Obama Administration and the Democrat-led Congress are important to
American society because they allow parents to come home and "actually be
able to cook dinner." (If 2.5M folks leaving the workforce is good, then
if everyone quit their jobs, it would be utopia. Obama first. ~Bob)
Another day,
another Obamacare employer mandate delay. By Doug Powers
Excerpt: “It’s.
The. Law.” Don’t forget that! Unless more unilateral changes to “the
law” are necessary to avoid disastrous consequences at the polls. Via the Washington Post,
the White House continues sound worse than little kids making up the rules to a
game on the fly … an incompetent, economy crushing, insurance canceling, future
generation bankrupting, nation-crippling game:
The Obama Precedent:
Congress, Who Needs It?
Excerpt: The Obama administration has one again unilaterally and unlawfully extended
the delay in enforcement of the Obamacare employer mandate. ... It
will be such sweet turnabout to use the Obama Precedent against Democratic
programs in 2017. The Obamacare employer mandate is actually a tax enforcement
statute. Having established that Presidents can simply decide not to enforce
taxes they do not like, I can't wait for President Perry to start nixing taxes
by executive fiat.
Obama Rewrites
ObamaCare: Another day, another lawless exemption, once again for business.
Excerpt: 'ObamaCare" is useful shorthand for the Affordable
Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever
President Obama says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite
arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law's employer
mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever.
Obamacare’s $70 billion pay cut. By Marc A. Thiessen
Excerpt: In his State of the Union
address, President Obama urged Congress to “give America a
raise.” Well, it turns out that Obama is giving America a $70
billion annual pay cut, courtesy of Obamacare. That is the overlooked nugget
in the new Congressional
Budget Office report detailing the economic costs of Obamacare.
Megyn Kelly: Is it
legal for Obama to keep changing health care laws?
http://www.
http://www.
Excerpt: During a Monday visit to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, President Barack Obama
declared that, as president, he “can do whatever” he wants. (Of course, he was
joking? --JB).
Why Democrats Hate Work. By Ben Shapiro
Excerpt: Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released
a report discussing the ramifications of Obamacare. The report revealed that
the work-hour equivalent of approximately 2.5 million jobs would disappear from
the workforce, thanks to Obamacare, in a voluntary process in which employees
would simply dump out of their jobs, knowing they could get health care through
expanded Medicaid and federal subsidies they would lose by working. Sen.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., an ideological leftist thought leader, spun the report
as a massive positive for Obamacare:
What Republicans
and Democrats Don’t Understand About the Insurance Company “Bailout.”
By John Goodman
Excerpt: Last week I testified before
the House Oversight committee on the “risk corridors” in the (ObamaCare)
exchanges. Republicans claim that this is a device to bailout the insurance
companies. Democrats, in the unusual position of defending the insurance
companies, actually claimed that the government was going to make a “profit”
because of it. I was in the uncomfortable position of not agreeing completely
with either side. The Affordable Care Act creates a new health insurance
marketplace (the exchange). But because of the great uncertainty about what
buyers will enter the market and who will buy what product, the law creates
three vehicles to reduce insurance company risk.
The Real Reason
Health Spending Has Slowed
Excerpt: President Obama tells us that "health care
costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years." He and members of his
administration attribute that trend to the Affordable Care Act. But ObamaCare
is just taking effect this year, while the slowdown has been underway over a
decade, say John C. Goodman, president and CEO, and the Kellye Wright Fellow in
Health Care, and Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow, with the National Center
for Policy Analysis. Three developments track the slowdown in health care
spending very closely: the growth of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), the growth
of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and the general trend toward higher
deductibles.
Important: Companies Can't Fire People Because of
ObamaCare Costs
http://godfatherpolitics.com/
http://godfatherpolitics.com/
Excerpt: “Obama officials made clear in a press briefing
that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred
class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. . . . Firms will be required
to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a
motivating factor in their staffing decisions. To avoid ObamaCare costs you
must swear that you are not trying to avoid ObamaCare costs.” (Under a free
market, companies are free to make business decisions they believe will make
them most successful and competitive. Under communism, the government owns the
companies. Under fascism, companies are privately owned, but must do as the government
directs for the benefit of programs the government wants. which system would
you say we now have? ~Bob)
Report: Obamacare Enrollment 'Slowing to a Crawl' in 2014?
By Guy Benson
Excerpt: The White House and its Congressional allies have
been pumping greatly exaggerated Obamacare enrollment statistics in the media,
which we helped
debunk earlier in the week. How are they going to dress up an apparent
sharp downward trend in sign-ups (or "plan
selections") in late January and early February, with the March 31
enrollment deadline fast approaching?
Democrats Running Ads Criticizing Obamacare. By Heather Ginsberg
Excerpt: A new ad campaign for
the Democrat running in Florida’s
26th district hits Obamacare at its core and has no problem taking a shot
at the law’s most important parts. What’s even better is the ad is produced by
a Nancy Pelosi backed PAC. Although the
candidate does not call for repeal, he is “working to fix” Obamacare and wants
to hold “insurance companies accountable.” (By October, they will be calling it
"Bushcare"--and the media will go along. ~Bob)
Excerpt: As he was headed to the Democratic caucus lunch
yesterday, Senator JoeManchin had strong words about the president’s
extension of the employer mandate deadline. “You’re just picking and choosing,”
the West Virginia Democrat said of the administration’s decision. “First it’s
basically the large employers, then it’s medium groups, then it’s 50 to 100 —
medium-sized. If there’s a problem, there’s a problem.” (It's settled law--no
delays! we should sue him to enforce his law as passed, not let them postpone
it until after the November midterms. ~Bob)
Typical: Colorado
health-care exchange director indicted in Montana housing case
Excerpt: A director with Colorado’s
health-care exchange was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after it was
discovered she has been accused of stealing from a nonprofit housing
organization she oversaw in Montana.
Christa McClure, 51 is the director of partner engagement for Connect for
Health Colorado,
the state program that implements the Affordable Care Act in the state.
Why No One Knows Who Has Actually Paid for ObamaCare
Insurance. By Kate Rogers
Excerpt: But the administration’s figures rely heavily on
the word “selected.” The 3.3 million number includes individuals who both have
and have not yet paid their first month’s premium. This is a diversion from the
insurance industry standard of only considering someone enrolled after paying
the first month’s bill. Despite there only being six weeks left in the open enrollment
period, the administration has yet to reveal who has paid their first premium.
Obamacare’s War on
Jobs: In the new opportunity society, you are given the
opportunity for idleness while living off others. By Charles
Krauthammer
Excerpt: In the ongoing saga of the Affordable Care Act,
oddly referred to by Democrats as the law of the land even as it is amended at
will by presidential fiat, we are beginning to understand the extent of its war
on jobs.
Always worth reading: Random
Thoughts. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: It is amazing how many people still fall for the
argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and power
over to politicians. Since life has always been unfair, for thousands of years
and in countries around the world, where does that lead us? .... Despite the
rhetoric, the goals or the intentions of the political left, the world they
seek to create is a world where decisions are taken out of the hands of
ordinary citizens and transferred to third parties. ObamaCare is the latest example
of this trend, and can now join the long list of the “compassionate”
catastrophes of the left.
Worth Reading:
The Inequality of Government Access. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: A day after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Tale of
Two Cities address in which the wealthy Park Slope resident once again made
inequality his focus, the radical pol intervened to spring one of his biggest
supporters from prison. The New York Post responded by putting, “A Jail of
Two Cities” on its front page. Aside from being the commonplace corruption that
one ought to expect from a politician trying to ban horses in Central
Park because a wealthy real estate magnate wants to seize their
stables, the Jail of Two Cities also reveals why government wars against
inequality are a dead end.
Important: Diplomacy is failing in Syria, Obama
acknowledges
Excerpt: The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that
diplomacy, the main pillar of its Syria
policy, is failing even as civil war is destroying the country, leaving open
the question of what the United
States will or can do to stop the slaughter.
(One of my Progressive friends said that with the Syria, Russia, US chemical
weapons agreement, Obama was on the verge of the biggest diplomatic triumph
since the Cuba Missile Crisis, and my concerns were based on my dislike of
Obama. But I was sure he was being played, just as Iran
is now playing him on nukes, and the Jihadist played him into his
lead-from-behind, his unauthorized war on Libya which has created a new al
Qaeda stronghold. Some triumph. ~Bob)
Here’s What Income
Equality Would Look Like by Scott Hodge
Excerpt: Many people believe the "rich" can
afford to pay higher taxes since they command a disproportionate share of the
nation's income. However, the current amount of redistribution already takes
21% of the top quintile's income. That would have to soar to 74% to make every
family in America
"average." These are the missing pieces of the current inequality
debate. To recap: Current federal tax-and-spending policies combine to
redistribute $1.5 trillion each year from the top 40% of Americans to the
bottom 60%. To close the income gap to zero would require $4 trillion.
5 years later: How’s
that Wreckovery working out for ya? By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/
Excerpt: On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun
and the moon and the stars. That was the day, five years ago, when he signed
the $800 billion “American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” President Modesty called it “the
most sweeping economic recovery package in our history.” He promised
“unprecedented transparency and accountability.” He claimed the spending would
lift “two million Americans from poverty.” Ready for the reality smackdown?
The actual cost of the $800 billion pork-laden stimulus has
ballooned to nearly
$2 trillion.
Another
Public Letter to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Why another letter when paper and canvas, awaiting a loaded brush, litter
my studio and itchy hands are ever tempted by nearby leaning fly rods
eager to land trout? Because things are not getting better. To the
contrary. And because that old general noted in my first letter will not
leave me alone. Nor will scads of Marines - alive and dead - leave me in
peace as this forum is their voice. (well, as a SSgt, criticizing the CMC is
above my pay grade, as I don't have the knowledge or contacts the Colonel has.
~Bob)
Great
Lakes ice cover
spreading rapidly; see which lake set a new record
Excerpt: The lake is 92 percent frozen, toppling a
20-year-old record of 91 percent set on Feb. 5, 1994. That statistic helped
total Great Lakes ice cover soar, and we can
expect to see more form in coming days.
Bombshell: Smoking
Gun in Obama’s IRS Scheme
http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/
Excerpt: Though President Obama insists the Internal Revenue
Service is not guilty of the political targeting of nonprofits, WND has learned
the agency contracts with an avowedly “progressive” organization supported by
George Soros to process data filed by smaller tax-exempt groups. (Also watch
the videos. --JB. Take for what it's worth WND always put the worst spin on
things. ~Bob).
The Value of Putin: Putin
ends up existing to warn us in the West of what we are not. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Vladimir Putin has the
world’s attention this week. The circumstances will remind everyone that reset
with Russia
is dead. Its working hypothesis — that it was the George W. Bush
administration, not the Putin regime, that had either inadvertently or
provocatively offended the other’s sensibilities — was invented before the 2008
election on Obama’s partisan and political considerations, not empirical
observation. (Hanson does a great job of explaining the contrasts between Putin
and Obama, between classic tough guy attitude and Western PC concerns. And
guess who comes off looking weak and foolish? --Del)
The Tyranny of
Winter: The Left is at war with economic reality. By Kevin D.
Williamson
Excerpt: The Left is at war with economic reality. The
intellectual poverty of the Left — which is also a moral poverty — is evident
in the fact that its leaders are much more intensely interested in incomes at
the top than those at the bottom. Examples are not difficult to come by:
Important: The Costs of the
Environmentalism Cult. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: California
is in the third year of a drought, but the problem isn’t a lack of water. The
snowfall in the Sierra provides enough to help us ride out the years of
drought. All we need to do is store it. But California hasn’t built a new dam in 35
years. Worse than that, every year we dump 1.6 million acre-feet of
water––about enough to serve 3.2 million families for a year––into the Pacific
Ocean in order to protect an allegedly “endangered” 3-inch bait-fish called the
Delta smelt.
Impeach Obama
T-Shirts Ruled Safety Hazard by Town Council
Excerpt: After a group of people donned on t-shirts and then
stood on a pedestrian overpass, the city board members passed an ordinance making it illegal for anyone to erect or
display signs or other things on the pedestrian overpass citing that it poses a
hazard to traffic. The t-shirts in question each had a different letter on the
front that when lined up in order spelled ‘impeached’ and on the backs the
shirts spelled out ‘Obama.’
Excerpt: Have you ever wondered what Amnesty Advocates mean
when they say we have a broken immigration system? Have you ever wondered why
they will never respond when you ask "why don't you just enforce the
immigration laws we have now?" It's very simple. When they say our
immigration system is broken they're really saying they want the laws changed
to allow some 20 million illegal Mexicans to be rewarded with citizenship and a
front row seat to America's
generous social welfare programs.
Eric Holder makes
case for felons to get voting rights back
Excerpt: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday
called on states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting after their
release from prison, urging changes that could allow millions more across the
country to cast ballots. (Because 95% of them will vote Democrat. If they voted
Republican, he'd fight this like the devil. ~Bob)
Freedom House
Condemns Iran's
Hanging Of Renowned Poet
Excerpt: Freedom House has condemned the execution in Iran
of acclaimed poet and activist Hashem Shaabani. The watchdog said Shaabani, 32,
was put to death on January 27. An Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal reportedly
had sentenced the poet to death, along with 14 others, last July on charges
that included "waging war on God."
America:
Running Toward Sodom
Excerpt: In 1996, Robert Bork wrote Slouching Toward
Gomorrah, a critical expose of the culture war. Bork pointed to the acceptance
of baby sacrifice as a sure sign that our culture was in decline and headed
toward divine judgment. His prophetic warning was ignored by Americans. Teddy
Kennedy and the Democrats had succeeded in characterizing judge Bork, nominated
by Ronald Reagan for the Supreme Court, as a racist. Of course, none of the
accusations had any merit. The Democrat’s real problem with Bork, just as with
Scalia and Thomas, was that he could not find a right to kill one’s child in
the constitution.
The New Feminism And
How It’s Destroying Women!
Excerpt: We hear it all the time: “America is patriarchal!”, “American
women are oppressed!”. Well, a lifelong feminist and former National
Organization for Women member, Tammy Bruce, is tired of hearing it–and she has
a solution laid out in our newest video: Feminism 2.0. One that tells women
that they should be proud to act feminine. One that tells them that simply
copying men and masculine traits is actually demeaning
to women. One that honors all responsible choices, including becoming a wife
and mother.
The Privileged People. By John Stossel
Excerpt: Politicians say, “We're all equal,” and pretend
that they represent everyone. But, in fact, they constantly pick winners and
losers. America
is now like the place described in George Orwell's book “Animal Farm”: “All
animals are equal,” but some are “more equal than others.” “Animal Farm” was
about Communism, but today the allegory applies to our bloated democracy, too.
During the “fiscal cliff” negotiations that Congress and the media made sound
so tough – as if every last penny were pinched – Congress still managed to slip
in plenty of special deals for cronies.
Culture of corruption
postscript: The Hilda Solis files. By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/
Excerpt: Put on your super-shocked faces, everyone: Former
Obama administration official Hilda Solis, who is now running for yet another
government position in Los Angeles, is embroiled in yet another union
corruptocracy scandal. The Hope and Change hits just keep on coming. Solis served
as President No More Business As Usual’s first secretary of labor. Remember
waaaay back then, when “most transparent administration in history” had not yet
become an automatic punchline?
Admit It: Decent
Folks No Longer Have a Place in the Democratic Party
http://clashdaily.com/2014/02/
http://clashdaily.com/2014/02/
Excerpt: The war on poverty has been conducted partly in
earnest and partly self-servingly … Head Start today is a money-laundering
program under which federal expenditures are transmitted to Democratic
candidates … The main beneficiaries of the war on poverty have not been and
will not be the poor – the beneficiaries are the alleged poverty warriors themselves.
The result: a large and expensive welfare state that provides relatively little
welfare, a destructive and ruinous war on poverty that has not done much to
reduce poverty.
UK: Knee surgery patient's death on busy
weekend ward 'could have been avoided'
Excerpt: A SENIOR doctor has said the death of a knee
replacement patient could have been avoided if weekend hospital staff had
sufficient time to recognise she was seriously ill. Consultant Nicholas London
staff on the Wensleydale ward of Harrogate District Hospital was exceptionally busy on the weekend of
November 20 and 21, 2012, and with the
limited number of doctors available a detailed ward round would have been too
time-consuming. (The joys of the single-payer system Obama and the
left really want you to have here. ~Bob)
Islamic Extremists
Slaughter 15 Soldiers in Northern Iraqi
City
Excerpt: Fighters from a Sunni extremist group attacked an
army unit in a northern Iraqi city on Tuesday, killing 15 soldiers in a rampage
of beheadings, shootings and a hanging, security officials said. (Muslims
killing Muslims for Allah to prove Islam is a "Religion of Peace."
~Bob)
30 Dead in Clash With
Al-Qaida-Linked Rebels
Excerpt: A Malian intelligence official confirmed that 30
people were killed near the Mali-Niger border after a clash pitting armed
villagers against members of an al-Qaida-linked rebel group.
Attack on Movie
Theater in Pakistan
Kills 11
Excerpt: A grenade attack on a movie theater killed 11 people
and injured 25 in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, police and hospital
officials said. It was the second such attack in Peshawar,
the capital of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Province, this month.
("Restive" is media code for "Don't Go there--they will try to
kill you." ~Bob
Ex-New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin found guilty of corruption
Excerpt: A federal jury has convicted former New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other
gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of
dollars in city work while he was in office. The jury on Wednesday convicted
Nagin of 20 of 21 counts against him. (Show me your shocked face. This was the
guy who said New Orleans
was a "chocolate city," and should stay that way. Imagine what the
media an left would say if a white mayor said his burg was a "vanilla
city," and should stay that way. ~Bob)
The Money in
Politics Dems Don’t Mind: Corporations can throw untold
millions at immigration reform without complaint. By Andrew Stiles
Excerpt: How do special-interest donors get away with
spending upward of $100 million on a cause most Americans oppose? When that
happens, don’t pundits rail against Big Business and the influence of “money in
politics”? Liberals redouble their efforts to overturn Citizens United,
right? Not if it’s the immigration debate. (Both Democrats ad Republicans are
able to flip political positions and abandon ideology when it benefits their
side, with no apparent cognitive dissonance. ~Bob)
Obama, legislator-in-chief, suffers setback on illegal IRS
rules. By Timothy P. Carney |
Excerpt: “The IRS may
not unilaterally expand its authority through such an expansive, atextual, and
a historical reading of” the law. The Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit used these words in a Feb. 11 ruling that struck down an Obama
administration regulation on tax preparers. Federal judges
should copy this phrase and be ready to paste it into rulings -- sometimes
replacing "IRS" with "Health and Human
Services" -- as President Obamacontinues
to act as legislator in chief, making and amending laws as
he sees fit, separation of powers be damned.
Surprise! Obama’s ‘transparency’
claim takes a hit in press-freedom rankings. By Erik Wemple
Excerpt: President Obama’s claim to have put together the
“most transparent administration in history” just got a touch more risible. A
ranking by Reporters
Without Borders dropped the United
States 13
rungs for freedom of information, to No. 46 in the world, just behind Romania and just ahead of Haiti. The RWB report calls the U.S.
drop “one of the most significant declines” on the chart.
Mike Rowe Defends
Wal-Mart from the Unions
Excerpt: A couple of nights ago, during the Olympics,
Wal-Mart unveiled a new ad campaign featuring Mike Rowe. He very quickly was
inundated with hate mail from people who couldn’t believe that he would work
for the devil (the devil being Wal-Mart). In true Mike Rowe style, he graciously and eloquently
explained to his detractors why he was right and they… were wrong.
VIDEO: Obama Slammed
Bush Over Executive Power in 2008, Promised to "Reverse When I'm President"
Excerpt: A newly surfaced video of Barack Obama as a
presidential candidate is spreading like wildfire today, revealing a stark
contrast between his promise in 2008 about executive power with his recent
actions in the White House. (Oh, like we didn't already know he said whatever
sounded good to get elected, but meant none of it. ~Bob. "All statements from Barack Obama
come with an expiration date. All of them." -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
'I Didn't Join To Be
Sacrificed': U.S. Troops Fed
Up With Risky Afghanistan
Strategy
Excerpt: U.S.
soldiers in Afghanistan
are now forced to fight a two-fronted war. Before each deployment, these
soldiers understand fully that day after day they will do battle against
relentless terrorists with shifting loyalties and unspeakable hatred. But what
none of them could have foreseen was the killing field that would open from
their rear: the Continental United States. (A sad, sad story, but one we've
been hearing about for years as it evolved and went steadily downhill. Lawyers
in every battalion HQ to watch over whatever happens out in the field, some of
them eager to find something to jump on. How can any soldier or warrior
function well, if at all, under two pages of ROE plus all the incredible crap
that comes out of the political officers back at regiment or division? We're
bleeding away some of our best people for no good reason at all. --Del)
Worth Hearing: Jonathan Turley on 'dangerous'
expansion of Obama's powers
Constitutional law professor and reportedly an Obama
supporter.
Excerpt: On February 5th Dan Hannan MEP tweeted “It’s
not true that governments waste money idly. They put a great deal of effort
into it.” If you have a passing knowledge of neo-Keynesian economics or the
profligate spending of Gordon Brown and Ed Balls of the last Labour government,
or even the present Obama presidency, government spending remains, many argue,
at unsustainable levels.
Surprised?: All 501(C)(4)'s Audited By IRS Were
Conservative. By Carol Platt Liebau
Excerpt: Less than two weeks after President Obama insisted that there wasn't even a "smidgen of
corruption" involved in the IRS targeting scandal, it
appears that the scope of that scandal is widening.
American Humanist Association demands students stop feeding
starving kids. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: The American Humanist Association sent that message
to a school in Robbinsdale, Minn.,
accusing them of violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing students to
participate in a community service project at a church that involved preparing
meals for impoverished children in Haiti. The humanists got their
britches in a bunch after the family of a student at the School
of Engineering and Arts objected to
the project being held at Calvary
Lutheran Church.
Nigeria's Boko Haram kill 51 in northeast attack:
witnesses
Excerpt: Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram killed 51
people in an attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said on
Wednesday, in a region where President Goodluck Jonathan's troops are
struggling to contain its insurgency.
Karzai rejects U.S. warnings over freed Afghan
detainees. By Humeyra Pamuk And Hamid Shalizi
Excerpt: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday rejected
criticism of his government's release of 65 detainees viewed by Washington as dangerous militants, further fanning
tensions with the United States
as the international mission in Afghanistan
winds down.
Obama’s War on Israel. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: If the left’s foreign policy these days had a
slogan, it would be, “Boycott Israel,
not Iran.”
The double standard, dishonest as it is ugly, is also the motto of Obama’s
foreign policy, which benevolently blesses Iran’s
nuclear program with one outstretched hand in the name of peace and chokes
concessions out of Israel
to the terrorists with the other also in the name of peace.
Income Inequality at the White House. By Arnold Ahlert
Excerpt: In the midst of joblessness and deprivation for
millions of Americans, another opulent White House party took
place Tuesday night feting fellow socialist crusader François
Hollande, the president of France.
While the Obamas frequently decry the excesses of private-sector wealth,
characterizing it as the product of ill-gotten gains, they have demonstrated
time and time again that they have little difficulty emulating the same
behavior when Americans are footing the bill.
'Northern liberal
elites treated me worse than the segregated South': America is too sensitive about race
says Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas
Excerpt: The conservative justice who, among other things,
has written opinions supporting limits on Affirmative Action, added that 'the
worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said
about me, by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.'
Alabama Dem: I Don't
Like Clarence Thomas Because “He’s Married To A White Woman." By Leah Barkoukis
The U.S. Corporate Effective Tax Rate: Myth
and the Fact
Excerpt: The statutory corporate income tax rate of the United States
is infamously one of the highest in the world, while effective tax rates on
capital investments appear to be high and dispersed. For businesses, it is not
unusual to see their effective tax rates, regardless of how these are defined,
being lower than their statutory tax rates. This results from tax preferences
(“loopholes,” if using a pejorative term) that are more generous than the
economic costs of generating taxable income. (Corporations do not pay taxes.
When you put a tax on a company it is paid by the owners--including elderly
folks living on their retirement investments [like us]--by customers, or by
employees who must accept lower wages or be laid off because the company paid
that money to the government. ~Bob)
One in Six American
Men Not Working
Excerpt: More than 10 million men ages 25 to 54 do not have
jobs today, a function of the slow economy as well as technology and
globalization, say economists. In the early 1970s, 6 percent of American men 25
to 54 were unemployed. ... In December 2013, that figure was at 17 percent. Two
thirds of these men reported that they were not looking for work, which means
that they are not labeled as "unemployed" in official unemployment
statistics.
Nobody
Trusts the Government. By Daniel Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.
Excerpt: Large numbers of Asian and Latino immigrants poll in favor of big government despite coming from countries whose governments are brutal and oppressive. But it's often the people who come from tyrannies who are also most likely to support them. The neutral spaces of the Bill of Rights are not real ideas to them the way that they are to many Americans. The idea that government can simply be forced out of a space without that space being filled with either a more repressive government or gangs collecting protection money is often not a part of their experience and so not a realistic calculation for them.
Excerpt: Large numbers of Asian and Latino immigrants poll in favor of big government despite coming from countries whose governments are brutal and oppressive. But it's often the people who come from tyrannies who are also most likely to support them. The neutral spaces of the Bill of Rights are not real ideas to them the way that they are to many Americans. The idea that government can simply be forced out of a space without that space being filled with either a more repressive government or gangs collecting protection money is often not a part of their experience and so not a realistic calculation for them.
An Orwellian nation
of Obamathink. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: America,
of all places, is becoming Orwellian. The president repeatedly reminds the
American people that under his leadership, the U.S. has produced a record level of
new oil and natural gas. But didn't Obama radically curtail leases for just
such new energy production on federal lands? Have the edicts on the barn wall
of "Animal Farm" been changed again, with the production of new oil
and gas going from bad to suddenly good?
Excerpt: This morning we learned that sixteen kids at a high
school in Henderson, Nevada have been diagnosed with
Tuberculosis. Health officials expect that number to climb higher. This high
school in southern Nevada
is peopled heavily with illegal Mexican kids whom the Supreme Court has
mandated that we educate. However, the Supremes didn't tell us how to deal with
a host of diseases that illegals have brought back to American after years of
being under control or wiped out altogether.
Excerpt: They’re not bothering to keep up any pretense. They
are openly mocking the nuclear “negotiations” and rattling sabers left and
right, knowing that there is absolutely nothing that they can do or say that
will give the Obama Administration or the international media the slightest
doubt that making massive concessions to the Iranian regime and green-lighting
their nuclear program is the path to peace.
Silly Dem Claims GOP
Wants to Impeach Obama Because He’s a Black Man in the White
Excerpt: They never quit, do they? They never grow tired of
using the race card. Yeah, the GOP want to impeach Obama simply because he’s
half white, half black. Just like the reason the GOP wanted to impeach Clinton,
right? After all, he was America’s
first true black president.
But contrary to popular opinion, Clinton was not born a poor, black slave.
Dependency, Not Poverty. By Walter E. Williams
Excerpt: There is no material poverty in the U.S. Here are a
few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector
and Rachel Sheffield, in their study "Understanding Poverty in the United States:
Surprising Facts About America's Poor" (http://tinyurl.com/448flj8),
report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly
three-quarters have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds
have cable or satellite TV.
Indoctrinating
the Youth of Georgetown
University. By Robert
Spencer
Excerpt:
But note also the total one-sidedness of the event: neither the Saudi-funded Alwaleed Bin
Talal Center
for Muslim-Christian Understanding nor Daniel Varisco would ever dream of
actually engaging me in discussion or debate (although I would be happy to do
so) or give their hapless students any genuine understanding of what Jihad
Watch and my books are all about. The students get no opportunity to evaluate
my work for themselves and come to their own conclusions about whether I am
defending human rights or spreading “hate” — the deck is stacked in advance.
VIDEO:
Jihad Mass Murder Plotter Was 'Canadian Idol' Contestant: "We'll break
their backs in their own country" By Robert Spencer
Excerpt:
Khurram Sher is the living embodiment of the truth of what I am often vilified
for saying, that there is no distinction in Muslim communities between those
who hope to wage violent jihad and those who abhor it.
Green
Socialists on Mars. By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/
Excerpt:
Carl Sagan, who had done much to popularize unscientific paranoia about nuclear
winter and global warming, assumed that planets were more fragile than they are
and could be undone by a nuclear exchange or even by a few coal plants. Sagan
had even warned that the Gulf War’s oil fires would lead to a miniature nuclear
winter. They did not.
Not Mincing Words:
German Woman Publicly Rebukes Islam — Goes Viral
Excerpt: Islam continues to grow in power and influence
across Europe. But at a recent concert in Germany, one
Christian woman decided to stand up to it.
Mark Steyn Needs
Help: The Martyrdom of Mark Steyn. By James Delingpole
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
Excerpt: It now looks — go to Steynonline.com for the full
story — as if Steyn is going to be up there on his own, fighting and financing
his case without the support of his magazine, National Review; that the
outcome is not as certain as it seemed at the beginning; and that this hero
deserves all the help we can give him. Why? Well, the fact that I even have to
explain this shows what a cowardly, snivelling, career-safe, intellectually
feeble, morally compromised age we inhabit.
Support
a Fellow New Hampshire-ite Fighting for Free Speech--Support Mark Steyn. By
Scott Morales
Excerpt:
He need not go it alone. Help put Mann back in his mannzeer and scurry on his
way. I urge you, as well as all of the other Groksters do, (hope I’m not
speaking out of turn here guys) to go to www.steynonline.com and buy a book, mug, or, do what I
finally got off my ass and did today, buy a Gift Certificate. They’re good for
forever.
D'Souza's Theory
Obama Holds Grudge Against U.S.
Gains Traction Inside Beltway
Excerpt: A new theory about President Obama and his motives
for appeasing enemies like Iran
is crystallizing among pundits. But it's not really new — scholar Dinesh
D'Souza first posited it during 2012's election. As we learn more about this
president and his policies, it looks more and more like D'Souza nailed it with
his film, "2016: Obama's America." (Yep, this "far out"
theory about Mr. Obama actually seems to fit what he has done and is doing
pretty well. And if he isn't deliberately undercutting the nation in both
domestic and foreign arenas, then he has to be the most incredibly bumbling man
to ever inhabit the Oval Office, and by a wide margin. --Del)
Thousands Of Muslims
Try To Flee Car Capital
Excerpt: Thousands of Muslims tried to flee the capital of Central African Republic
in a convoy of trucks and cars stretched as far as the eye can see before it
turned back amid taunts from Christian onlookers. An Associated Press
journalist says some cars had as many as 10 people crammed aboard Friday. Muslims
have come under attack from Christian militiamen who opposed a now-dissolved
Muslim rebel government that was blamed for scores of human rights abuses.
Belgium's parliament votes through child
euthanasia
Excerpt: Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing
euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to
44, with 12 abstentions. When, as expected, the bill is signed by the king, Belgium will
become the first country in the world to remove any age limit on the practice.
Missing Mexican
journalist Gregorio Jimenez found dead
Excerpt: The body of Mexican journalist Gregorio
Jimenez,
who was kidnapped a week ago, has been found buried in the town of Las
Choapas, in eastern Veracruz state. Mr Jimenez was abducted by
masked gunmen from his home in Coatzacoalcos.
The journalist, who worked for news agency Notisur and newspaper El
Liberal del
Sur, had been writing about a wave of kidnappings in the area. (The left
wing
journalists who support unlimited illegal immigration will wonder why
someone
didn't do something when this comes here--and it will. ~Bob)
Armed woman defends
home from psycho wielding a machete, shotgun
http://dailycaller.com/2014/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/
Excerpt: A Michigan
woman was able to defend her home and two young children from an armed, masked
intruder — by aiming her firearm at the man.
Appellate court
strikes down California
concealed-weapons rules
Excerpt: A divided federal appeals court on Thursday struck
down California’s
concealed-weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear
arms.
Michigan Union
Publishes ‘Freeloaders’ List of Workers Who Opted Out. By Leah Barkoukis
Excerpt: You didn’t think Michigan’s labor unions would let
right-to-work laws take effect without enacting some sort of retribution, did
you?
Excerpt: For Islamic supremacists, there is no greater
insult, since the Qur’an designates the Jews as “the most intense of the people
in animosity toward the believers” (5:82) and describes them as accursed,
scheming against Allah and the Muslims, and never to be trusted or befriended
(cf. Qur’an 5:51). Thus the hatred that these Muslim Brotherhood rallygoers
express so offhandedly is no surprise at all. What is surprising is the bland
acceptance of this hatred on the part of the American Left, even as it styles
itself the moral superior of its foes, and claims to represent true compassion
and charity.
Hamas blocks UN
textbooks in Gaza, saying they focus too much on peaceful conflict resolution.
By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: “There is a tremendous focus on the peaceful
resistance as the only tool to achieve freedom and independence.” Hamas would
rather kill Jews, you see. It is useful to recall why Hamas is considered a
terror group in the first place: take, for example, the “Glory Record” that
used to be on its website. It has since been removed from the web, but here are
some excerpts in which Hamas considers attacks on Israeli civilians something
that gave it “glory”:
Islamist raid in
southern Thailand:
five dead and six wounded
http://www.asianews.it/news-
http://www.asianews.it/news-
Excerpt: A Buddhist monk, the target of the attack, and a
nine year old boy among victims. Last night a 29 year old woman was killed and
her body burned. Assault sparked by murder of three little brothers, all
Muslim, last week. Rebels announce new attacks. The political crisis in Bangkok has blocked peace
talks between the government and Islamists.
Excerpt: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) claimed responsibility Thursday for an explosion targeting a police bus
near Razzaqabad police training college in Karachi's
Shah Latif Town
in which 13 policemen were killed and 47 others, including civilians, were
wounded, DawnNews reported. (As always, the vast majority of the victims of
Allah-Murder are other Muslims, not us. ~Bob)
Communists to Obama:
We’ve got your back
Excerpt: With Democrats facing a real possibility of losing
the Senate this November, the Communist Party USA has announced the cavalry is
planning to ride to their rescue by helping unite the left and stave off
“right-wing extremism. The plans were announced during a web streaming event
held by party Chairman Sam Webb Wednesday titled “Taking care of the
future: from here to socialism.” The event was part of the party’s national
convention process which will culminate later this year in Chicago, where the party was formed in 1919.
Excerpt: I imagine the only thing worse than being forced to
watch CNN inside an airport terminal is being forced to watch it in a doctor’s
office. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered a Michigan health care
facility, funded by federal tax dollars, blocked Fox News Channel from its
waiting room television sets.
Heating Up a
Controversy
Excerpt: Since coming online last year, and even in the
preliminary testing, dozens of dead birds have been found surrounding the
Ivanpah solar power plant, which uses a five-square-mile array of mirrors to
reflect sunlight to boilers mounted on three 40-story high towers. The
temperatures around the towers reportedly can reach 1,000 degrees, which is
enough to cook any size bird unfortunate enough to fly through the area. All
this to create just enough electricity to light 140,000 homes a year at a cost
of $2.2 billion. Most of that came from a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee,
which means taxpayers are on the hook for three Solyndras here. A sure sign of
exorbitant expense: utilities that are purchasing the power from Ivanpah aren't
releasing the cost of their 25-year deals.
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