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A Pointless Amnesty

National Review Online, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: jubal- 1/31/2013 12:14:25 AM Post Reply

Illegal immigration is a curious subject: It is one of the few domains in which the authorities entrusted with enforcing the law feel obliged to negotiate the most concessionary terms and conditions with those who are breaking it, as though law enforcement were an embarrassing inconvenience. But the rule of law, national security, and economic dynamism are not mere pro forma matters — they are in fact fundamental, a reality lost on our would-be “comprehensive” immigration reformers.

Claim: Obama ´Uncomfortable´
at Touted Skeet Shoot

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 11:05:55 PM Post Reply

In a recent interview, President Barack Obama tried to blow off criticism for his gun control push with a revelation of regular firearm use. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he claimed. As soon as Obama´s quote went public, critics expressed incredulity. Fox News´ Jana Winter went looking for any eyewitnesses that could corroborate Obama´s claim. Winter did find a source who admitted that Obama had once been skeet shooting at Camp David—with the caveat that the President couldn´t get away from it fast enough.

LSU instructor sues university

The Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA], by Koran Addo Original Article

Posted By: ruready?- 1/30/2013 11:02:12 PM Post Reply

An LSU faculty member is suing the university, alleging that she was fired after reporting what she called the School of Art’s theft of more than $75,000 from students. [Snip] The lawsuit, filed in the 19th Judicial District Court, also says School of Art administrators routinely misused other funds, spending the money on iPads, Apple computers, scanners and other accessories for faculty members rather than for classroom materials. LSU System President and Baton Rouge Chancellor William Jenkins said Tuesday that he couldn’t comment because of the pending litigation. “I’m in a difficult spot,”

Democratic convention
helped by energy firm

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:56:19 PM Post Reply

Five months after President Obama’s made-for-media convention in Charlotte, N.C., the host committee for the three-day Democratic bash still has not paid off an unprecedented $10 million loan secured by Duke Energy, and there is no way of knowing whether it will ever be paid back. Government watchdog groups, which once lauded Mr. Obama’s pledge to run the most transparent government in history, say the loan raises serious conflict-of-interest issues and shows that the president has abandoned his commitment to disclosure. “This is just a blank check for the party

Let the sequesters begin,
some Republicans say

Washington Times, by Sean Lengell Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:54:38 PM Post Reply

Congressional Republicans are preparing to let $85 billion in automatic spending cuts begin to bite March 1, saying they have become convinced that letting the “sequesters” take effect is the only way they will be able to wrangle real spending cuts from President Obama. House Speaker John A. Boehner, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and other Republicans are talking increasingly tough about the sequesters, saying they are willing to accept the deep cuts to military and domestic spending in order to force Mr. Obama to come up with his own counteroffer. “What happens

Economy shrinks as
federal spending cuts
trump private sector’s growth

Washington Post, by Ylan Q. Mui Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:52:43 PM Post Reply

The American economy shrank at the end of last year for the first time since the recession ended, according to new government data, as deep cuts in federal spending torpedoed what otherwise looked to be a modest recovery. Consumers did their part, spending more and opening their wallets for bigger-ticket items such as automobiles. Companies invested in new equipment and software. Housing continued to climb. But those gains were overshadowed by the massive decline in government spending, especially in defense. The result was a 0.1 percent annualized dip in the nation’s gross

As sequestration looms,
contractors don’t fret

Washington Post, by Marjorie Censer and Jim Tankersley Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:50:39 PM Post Reply

The next few months could look even scarier than the last few for defense contractors already battered by federal budget cuts, thanks to the threat of automatic reductions looming in March. But industry executives had a surprising message for shareholders this week: Don’t worry about it. In call after call with investors, officials at some of the area’s largest contracting firms refused to guess how much it would cost them if Congress allows the “sequester” to kick in on March 1. Even as their lobbyists keep warning how much the cuts would hurt the industry, the executives are projecting

Key question in immigration
debate: Is U.S. border secure?

Washington Post, by David Nakamura Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:49:07 PM Post Reply

The debate over a national immigration overhaul has quickly begun to focus on a key question: Are the U.S. borders secure enough? Leading Republicans say much more needs to be done to control the illegal flow of migrants from Mexico, and they have vowed not to authorize a path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented residents until stricter enforcement provisions are in place. But the Obama administration contends that it has invested more heavily in enforcement efforts than ever before. Several high-profile studies have found

Eye-popping Costs for Employer-
Provided Health Insurance

National Review Online, by Grace-Marie Turner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:44:23 PM Post Reply

Employees at larger companies are getting some eye-opening news in the W-2 statements they are receiving this month listing their 2012 income. The health overhaul law required employers to add a line reporting the total cost of employer-sponsored health-insurance coverage. “To some, it will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock,” Robert Pear reports in a New York Times piece, “To Open Eyes, W-2s List Cost of Providing a Health Plan.” Prof. Nicole Huberfeld, an expert on health law at the University of Kentucky, who received her W-2 form on Monday, said, “Most people

Marco Rubio, Rush Limbaugh,
and the Crux of the Matter

National Review Online, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:41:38 PM Post Reply

Marco Rubio is one of the elected officials I admire most in American life, and I’ve been impressed by how he has set out to persuade conservative doubters on immigration. I think this key exchange with Rush the other day, though, could easily have been misunderstood by listeners. Here it is (emphasis added): RUSH: You know, the president’s gonna be out in Las Vegas today, I know for you border security is the first and last, if that doesn’t happen, none of the rest does, right? RUBIO: Well, not just that.

Why Rush Loves Rubio

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/30/2013 10:38:43 PM Post Reply

The political world is still buzzing over the way Rush Limbaugh seemed to swoon over Marco Rubio yesterday in spite of the fact that he entered the conversation with the Florida senator disagreeing strongly with his position on immigration reform. Rubio has been on a tour of conservative talk radio shows in the last week as he attempts to sell the conservative base, with the stop at Limbaugh’s show the most important. While it’s clear that Rubio didn’t exactly persuade Limbaugh to change sides on the issue, his arguments in favor of the principles put forward by

New al Qaeda threat

Washington Times [DC], by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/30/2013 10:32:48 PM Post Reply

A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West. The posting appeared on the Ansar al Mujahidin network Sunday and carried the headline, “Map of al Qaeda and its future strikes.” The message, in Arabic, asks: “Where will the next strike by al Qaeda be?” A translation was obtained by Inside the Ring. “The answer for it, in short: The coming strikes by al Qaeda, with God’s Might, will be in the heart of the land of nonbelief, America, and in France, Denmark,

Menendez: Reimbursed donor
$58.5K for 2 trips

Associated Press, by Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/30/2013 10:16:36 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Sen. Robert Menendez´s office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two out of three trips on the donor´s plane to the Dominican Republic. There was no public disclosure. Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright says the New Jersey senator paid for the two trips out of his personal account, so there were no reporting requirements. Details of Menendez´s trips emerged as his office said unsubstantiated allegations that the senator engaged in sex with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are false.

Rahm Emanuel Goes After
1st And 2nd Amendments

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/30/2013 10:14:15 PM Post Reply

Guns: A 15-year-old girl who performed at the president´s inauguration is gunned down by gangs less than a mile from Barack Obama´s home. What does Chicago´s mayor do? He blames banks who lend gun makers money. Hadiya Pendleton, who just days before had performed with her high school band at President Obama´s inauguration, was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in Chicago´s Kenwood neighborhood, just blocks from the high school she attended. The park where she was killed is a little less than a mile from President Obama´s Kenwood home. In addition to Hadiya, two men were killed

Some families to be priced
out of health overhaul

Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/30/2013 10:04:34 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— Some families could get priced out of health insurance due to what´s being called a glitch in President Barack Obama´s overhaul law. IRS regulations issued Wednesday failed to fix the problem as liberal backers of the president´s plan had hoped. As a result, some families that can´t afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own. How many people will be affected is unclear. The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress

Non-Profit Organizing for Action
Displays Obama Campaign Logo
in Immigration Email

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:43:53 PM Post Reply

Organizing for Action, the non-profit iteration of Barack Obama´s campaign organization, decorated its first big email blast with the well-known campaign logo of Obama for America. Jim Messina, the chairman of Organizing for Action, purportedly authored the email sent Tuesday, featuring the subject line "I need to know: Are you ready to get this done?" Messina was referring to the President´s new immigration legislation proposals, which he promoted at a campaign-style event in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday. The language of the email is similar to emails sent by Obama for

The Cost of Obama’s
Regulatory Explosion

Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:36:57 PM Post Reply

As Adam White discusses in detail, there’s nothing moderate or incremental about the increase in federal regulations — and hence in centralized executive power — under President Obama. To the contrary (as White notes), according to figures published by the Obama White House (see table 2-1), the costs of regulations issued by this administration have dwarfed the costs of regulations issued by prior administrations. In fact, as the chart below shows, the costs of “major” regulations — those estimated to cost at least $100 million in any one year (in 2001 dollars) — issued by the Obama

Marco Rubio Better Answer
Some Questions First

PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:32:03 PM Post Reply

Republicans who support granting amnesty to foreign nationals residing in the United States illegally better answer some questions first. I have previously argued that warm and fuzzy feelings toward the GOP will not grow in minority communities simply because some Republicans accept as lawful what was once lawless. The racial interest groups such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and LULAC have such a stranglehold in these communities that no GOP compromise will break it. Racially polarized voting patterns among blacks and Hispanics are the

Complaint: Sebelius’ illegal
campaign trip for Obama
worse than we thought

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:23:07 PM Post Reply

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by campaigning for President Obama on the taxpayers’ dime, but now that initial violation has the Democratic National Committee and an HHS aide in the spotlight for related alleged infractions. A nonprofit government watchdog filed a complaint alleging that the DNC violated campaign finance law by misreporting the money it spent to reimburse HHS for Sebelius’ trip in a way that masked the fact that the Hatch Act, a ban on political campaigning by government employees working in their official capacity,

Obama: I’m not a king, I can’t
just ignore immigration laws

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:16:24 PM Post Reply

Although President Obama was willing to order the federal government to stop deporting young ‘DREAMer’ illegal immigrants last summer, he signaled in an interview with Latino network Telemundo that he couldn’t allow all illegal immigrants to stay. Host Jose Diaz-Balart fairly asked him why he couldn’t extend the same benefits to illegal immigrants already in America. “Yesterday in your Las Vegas rally I met Leticia. She is an undocumented mother of three. And she and so many other people– ask me to ask you, ‘Why can’t you do for them what you did for the DREAMers?’” he asked

Obama Operatives Training
Media How to Sell Obamacare

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:10:27 PM Post Reply

The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the "correct" way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama´s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between government and "journalism" and seems to be a blatant attempt by team Obama to write the media´s Obamacare stories for them. Rusty Weiss recently discussed a series of large donations made to the Society of American Business

Obama’s path toward energy poverty

Washington Times, by Tom Harris Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 9:04:10 PM Post Reply

In his inaugural address last week, President Obama demonstrated that he is putting people at risk with misguided climate and energy policies. If there really were an increased threat from “raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms,” as the president indicated in his speech, then America would need more, not fewer sources of reliable and affordable energy to prepare for and cope with these hazards. More electricity would be needed to handle greater demands for air conditioning and heating. More power would be required to irrigate drought-ridden lands, build dikes,

Did Alabama Supreme Court
deliver a blow to Roe v. Wade?

Washington Times, by Paul E. Rondeau Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 8:57:37 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON, DC - Some pro-lifers think that the Alabama Supreme Court dealt a massive blow to Roe v. Wade by specifically stating that the preborn child is a person (and therefore protected by the 14th Amendment). The Court´s ruling exposes 40 years of hypocrisy and delusions in American law resulting from the most diabolic decree ever issued by an institution of man. The case involved two women tried for placing their preborn children at risk through the use of illegal drugs during pregnancy. One newborn tested positive for cocaine, the other

U.S. corporations fear big
tax hikes in White House budget

Reuters, by Kim Dixon Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/30/2013 8:56:39 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - U.S. corporations fear they will be the main course on a menu calling for hundreds of billions of dollars in new tax revenue that President Barack Obama is expected to seek in his annual budget proposal, expected within weeks. Fresh off a political win that raised tax rates on the affluent and averted the so-called "fiscal cliff," Obama is not likely to back away from past proposals he has sought to close tax loopholes and raise taxes on many big companies, said former advisers to the president. Indeed, some lobbyists who represent Corporate America said they fear Obama

U.S. Spent $424K on Research With
Muslim Scholars to Stop HIV Among
Prostitutes, Drug Users in Syria

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 8:48:24 PM Post Reply

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave $424,062 in tax dollars to researchers who worked with Muslim scholars to develop strategies to prevent HIV infection among prostitutes, homosexuals, and IV-drug users in Aleppo, Syria. The project was not completed because of the outbreak of the rebellion in Syria. “I’m very disappointed we weren’t able to carry out this project as far as we had hoped, but sometimes things happen and that’s the way it is,” Professor David Seal of Tulane University, the principal researcher, told CNSNews.com. “It’s unfortunate, but human safety comes first.”

Wind turbine collapses
in high wind

Telegraph [UK], by Louise Gray Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/30/2013 8:45:45 PM Post Reply

The £250,000 tower, which stood as tall as a six storey building, was hit by gale force gusts of 50mph. The structure then collapsed at a farm in Bradworth, Devon, leaving a "mangled wreck". Margaret Coles, Chairwoman of Bradworthy District Council, said hail storms and strong winds have hit the area and the turbine, installed just three years ago, simply could not withstand the wind. "The bolts on the base could not withstand the wind and as we are a very windy part of the country they [the energy company] have egg on their face," she said. "There are concerns

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