Boehner Warned of Obamacare's Abortion 'Slush Fund,' 'Secrecy Clause'

09/28/13

Today, 72 congressmen sent a letter to House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) urging him to insert language ending abortion funding and religious discrimination in Obamacare into any funding or debt ceiling legislation.

"[T]he Obama administration has committed unprecedented attacks against the unborn and the religious freedom guaranteed in the Constitution, all under the guise of 'access to health care,'" the letter tells Boehner.

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Obama Declares November Muslim Appreciate Month

09/28/13
By Elizabeth Nelson 
Now I’ve heard it all. I am not “allowed” to celebrate my Bible or say Jesus Christ out loud without some lib-troll calling me a narrow-minded racist, or be reminded of a time when this president once called me a bitter, clinging to my Bible and my guns. Yet now the Muslims, those who had radicalized and attacked us numerous times, now get a MONTH, to be “Celebrated,” and he wants us to celebrate and understand their god, religion as well?

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300 reasons why I’m sooo glad I didn’t vote for Obama

09/28/13

Every President, every politician, and every human being tells lies and engages in acts of hypocrisy. But Barack Obama does these things to a far greater degree than anyone else that I have ever known of. His campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else’s – no lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to make sure money isn’t being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals, ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it’s legal, high levels of transparency. Obama’s promises of these wonderful things sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises.

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It Doesn't Matter If the Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails

09/28/13


The current campaign to deprive President Obama's health care leviathan of the life-sustaining tax dollars it needs for full bureaucratic metastasis is what left-wingers call a consciousness-raising exercise. 


It matters next to nothing if current Republican efforts succeed in immediately defunding Obamacare.  That's because this is just the opening round of what promises to be a protracted struggle to restore sanity to the American health care system.  A temporary defeat at one juncture on the road to repeal isn't really a defeat at all, provided that it serves a larger purpose.  Obamacare, after all, wasn't enacted in a day and it won't be repealed in a day.

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Progress Report for Obama's First Two Presidential Campaigns: The "Promises" Edition

09/28/13

ht: Rich Terrell

A Crazy Thing That Happened Last Time The Government Shut Down

09/28/13

And we all know how that turned out!

Remember this magical moment in American history?

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Kudos!!! - Catholic Bishop Got it Right!

09/28/13

Catholic Bishop Stands His Ground on Obamacare Rule: ‘We Cannot--We Will Not--Comply With This Unjust Law’

As many Americans start to enroll in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges on Oct. 1, the position of  Bishop Paul S. Loverde, head of the Catholic diocese of Arlington, Va., on the law’s mandate that nearly all health insurance plans include contraception, sterilizations, and abortifacient drugs without co-pays has not changed and is clear: “We cannot--we will not--comply with this unjust law.”

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A Small President on the World Stage

09/28/13

The world misses the old America, the one before the crash—the crashes—of the past dozen years.

That is the takeaway from conversations the past week in New York, where world leaders gathered for the annual U.N. General Assembly session. Our friends, and we have many, speak almost poignantly of the dynamism, excellence, exuberance and leadership of the nation they had, for so many years, judged themselves against, been inspired by, attempted to emulate, resented...

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A Global Slaughter of Christians, but America’s Churches Stay Silent

09/28/13

Christians are being singled out and massacred from Pakistan to Syria to the Nairobi shopping mall. Kirsten Powers on the deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits.

Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening.

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War on Terror Update: An Unexpected Twist in Expansion of Profiling

09/28/13

The 'White Widow' : the new face of terror

A rise in female terrorism, highlighted by the alleged role of the 'White Widow’ in Nairobi, is shocking – but its roots go back over a century

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Idiocy: A nation governed by laws?

09/28/13

So Ordered

On Feb. 18, 1986, frustrated that heavy rains had prevented some jurors from reaching his court, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel King said, “I hereby order that it cease raining by Tuesday. Let’s see how that works.”

California immediately entered five years of severe drought, with strict water rationing.

When colleagues reminded King of his order in 1991, he said, “I hereby rescind my order of February 18, 1986, and order that rain shall fall in California beginning February 27, 1991.” Later that day the state received 4 inches of rain, the heaviest storm in a decade, and two further storms added another 3 inches.

In a letter to a local newspaper, King said this was “proof positive that we are a nation governed by laws.”

h/t: gregblog

Change?: Elderly and poor, first to suffer from Obama's refusal to compromise with Republicans. Virtually guaranteeing government shutdown

09/28/13

Obama to Republicans: 'I will not negotiate'

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Anti-American, vague & fact-free Obama/OFA mass email

09/28/13

Right now, the hard work we've put in to get our economy back on track is at risk. And there's only one reason for it: A group of far-right Republicans in Congress is obsessed with making an ideological point.

They refuse to pass a budget unless I let them sabotage Obamacare, something they know is not going to happen. Now, we're left with only four days before a government shutdown.

This is reckless and irresponsible. Republicans are not focused on what's best for you. They're playing political games.

I called House Speaker John Boehner the other night to tell him that Americans like you have worked too long and too hard to dig our nation out of the financial crisis, and the last thing we need is for Washington to manufacture another.

I want to make sure that message gets through. Add your voice -- remind Speaker Boehner that Congress has a job to do.

Passing a budget is the most basic duty the Constitution gives to Congress.

Congress needs to hear from the people who sent them to Washington.

As we get closer to the September 30th deadline, that might mean picking up the phone, getting the facts out to friends on social media, or showing up at your local congressional office. OFA will be asking a lot of you, and I hope you'll get involved.

Start today by telling Speaker Boehner that Congress must come together to pass a budget:

http://my.barackobama.com/Pass-a-Budget

Thank you,

Barack

Global Embarrassment: Americans Say Putin Most Effective Leader on Syria, Obama Least

09/27/13

WASHINGTON, September 26 (RIA Novosti) – Americans think Russian President Vladimir Putin was far and away the most effective world leader in dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, with US President Barack Obama trailing him in a distant second place, a new poll shows.

Nearly half of 1,000 American adults polled – 49 percent – said Putin was the most effective at dealing with the still ongoing crisis in Syria, with 25 percent saying Obama was the most effective, the poll released Wednesday by the Economist magazine and the YouGov polling agency said.

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Benghazi Scapegoat Released; Truth Still Locked Up

09/27/13

Benghazi: The man blamed for the deaths of four Americans, including the first ambassador in 33 years, is now free. But no terrorist has been captured or official punished.

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MAKE DC LISTEN: TELL YOUR SENATORS TO OPPOSE CLOTURE ON H.J. RES 59

09/27/13


We must oppose cloture on H. J. Res. 59, so that Harry Reid and Senate Democrats cannot sneak in funding for Obamacare. We need you to call your Senators right now:

Tell them to oppose cloture on H.J. Res 59 and remind them that a vote for cloture IS a for funding Obamacare.

State Senator Party Phone

AK Mark Begich D (202) 224-3004
AK Lisa Murkowski R (202) 224-6665
AL Jeff Sessions R (202) 224-4124
AL Richard C. Shelby R (202) 224-5744
AR John Boozman R (202) 224-4843
AR Mark L. Pryor D (202) 224-2353
AZ Jeff Flake R (202) 224-4521
AZ John McCain R (202) 224-2235
CA Barbara Boxer D (202) 224-3553
CA Dianne Feinstein D (202) 224-3841
CO Michael F. Bennet D (202) 224-5852
CO Mark Udall D (202) 224-5941
CT Richard Blumenthal D (202) 224-2823
CT Christopher Murphy D (202) 224-4041
DE Thomas R. Carper D (202) 224-2441
DE Christopher A. Coons D (202) 224-5042
FL Bill Nelson D (202) 224-5274
FL Marco Rubio R (202) 224-3041
GA Saxby Chambliss R (202) 224-3521
GA Johnny Isakson R (202) 224-3643
HI Mazie K. Hirono D (202) 224-6361
HI Brian Schatz D (202) 224-3934
IA Chuck Grassley R (202) 224-3744
IA Tom Harkin D (202) 224-3254
ID Mike Crapo R (202) 224-6142
ID James E. Risch R (202) 224-2752
IL Richard J. Durbin D (202) 224-2152
IL Mark Kirk R (202) 224-2854
IN Daniel Coats R (202) 224-5623
IN Joe Donnelly D (202) 224-4814
KS Jerry Moran R (202) 224-6521
KS Pat Roberts R (202) 224-4774
KY Mitch McConnell R (202) 224-2541
KY Rand Paul R (202) 224-4343
LA Mary L. Landrieu D (202) 224-5824
LA David Vitter R (202) 224-4623
MA Edward Markey D (202) 224-2742
MA Elizabeth Warren D (202) 224-4543
MD Benjamin L. Cardin D (202) 224-4524
MD Barbara A. Mikulski D (202) 224-4654
ME Susan M. Collins R (202) 224-2523
ME Angus S. King I (202) 224-5344
MI Carl Levin D (202) 224-6221
MI Debbie Stabenow D (202) 224-4822
MN Al Franken D (202) 224-5641
MN Amy Klobuchar D (202) 224-3244
MO Roy Blunt R (202) 224-5721
MO Claire McCaskill D (202) 224-6154
MS Thad Cochran R (202) 224-5054
MS Roger F. Wicker R (202) 224-6253
MT Max Baucus D (202) 224-2651
MT Jon Tester D (202) 224-2644
NC Richard Burr R (202) 224-3154
NC Kay R. Hagan D (202) 224-6342
ND Heidi Heitkamp D (202) 224-2043
ND John Hoeven R (202) 224-2551
NE Deb Fischer R (202) 224-6551
NE Mike Johanns R (202) 224-4224
NH Kelly Ayotte R (202) 224-3324
NH Jeanne Shaheen D (202) 224-2841
NJ Jeff Chiesa R (202) 224-3224
NJ Robert Menendez D (202) 224-4744
NM Martin Heinrich D (202) 224-5521
NM Tom Udall D (202) 224-6621
NV Dean Heller R (202) 224-6244
NV Harry Reid D (202) 224-3542
NY Kirsten E. Gillibrand D (202) 224-4451
NY Charles E. Schumer D (202) 224-6542
OH Sherrod Brown D (202) 224-2315
OH Rob Portman R (202) 224-3353
OK Tom Coburn R (202) 224-5754
OK James M. Inhofe R (202) 224-4721
OR Jeff Merkley D (202) 224-3753
OR Ron Wyden D (202) 224-5244
PA Robert P. Casey D (202) 224-6324
PA Patrick J. Toomey R (202) 224-4254
RI Jack Reed D (202) 224-4642
RI Sheldon Whitehouse D (202) 224-2921
SC Lindsey Graham R (202) 224-5972
SC Tim Scott R (202) 224-6121
SD Tim Johnson D (202) 224-5842
SD John Thune R (202) 224-2321
TN Lamar Alexander R (202) 224-4944
TN Bob Corker R (202) 224-3344
TX John Cornyn R (202) 224-2934
UT Orrin G. Hatch R (202) 224-5251
UT Mike Lee R (202) 224-5444
VA Tim Kaine D (202) 224-4024
VA Mark R. Warner D (202) 224-2023
VT Patrick J. Leahy D (202) 224-4242
VT Bernard Sanders I (202) 224-5141
WA Maria Cantwell D (202) 224-3441
WA Patty Murray D (202) 224-2621
WI Tammy Baldwin D (202) 224-5653
WI Ron Johnson R (202) 224-5323
WV Joe Manchin D (202) 224-3954
WV John D. Rockefeller D (202) 224-6472
WY John Barrasso R (202) 224-6441
WY Michael B. Enzi R (202) 224-3424

Now that we have your attention, you sorry US Senators, keep in mind that we will replace you with those who will gladly correct your errors - - - .

So, scrub and clean by 2014 !
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick —————

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TRAITORS:

Orrin Hatch
John Cornyn
Lamar’s caddy
John Thune
Linda Gayham
Tom Coburn
Roy Blunt
B*tch McConnell
Dan Coats
Juan McLame
PATRIOTS:
Jeff Sessions
Marco Rubio
Pat Roberts
David Vitter
Jim Inhofe
Tim Scott
Ted Cruz
Mike Lee
Mike Enzi

Rand Paul had been on this list, but it looks like he has backed off. CALL HIS OFFICE!


hat tip: Graewoulf 

$5.25m For Senate Hair Care & 21 Other Ways Politicians Are Living The High Life At Your Expense

09/27/13

If you want to live the high life, you don't have to become a rap star, a professional athlete or a Wall Street banker.  All it really takes is winning an election.  Right now, more than half of all the members of Congress are millionaires, and most of them leave "public service" far wealthier than when they entered it.  Since most of them have so much money, you would think that they would be willing to do a little "belt-tightening" for the sake of the American people.  After all, things are supposedly "extremely tight" in Washington D.C. right now.  In fact, just the other day Nancy Pelosi insisted that there were "no more cuts to make" to the federal budget.  But even as they claim that things are so tough right now, our politicians continue to live the high life at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.  The statistics that I am about to share with you are very disturbing.  Please share them with everyone that you know.  The American people deserve the truth.

According to the Weekly Standard, an absolutely insane amount of money is being spent on the "hair care needs" of U.S. Senators...

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Countries With The Most Immigrants

09/27/13

The United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this view. More than 45 million immigrants live in the U.S., according to UN figures, more than four times as many living in any other nation in the world.

Based on figures recently released by the UN’s Population Division, 24/7 Wall St. identified the eight nations with the highest total number of international migrants living inside their borders as of this year. These are the countries with the most immigrants.

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Double Headliner: White House to help bankrupt Detroit demolish buildings, hire firefighters While Extra Billions Squandered on Pensions

09/27/13

The White House will send a group of top officials to Detroit on Friday to offer millions in assistance for knocking down empty buildings, hiring firefighters and adding buses to the city fleet, as the city struggles after filing for bankruptcy.

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Detroit Spent Billions Extra on Pensions

Detroit’s municipal pension fund made payments for decades to retirees, active workers and others above and beyond normal benefits, costing the struggling city billions of dollars and helping push it into bankruptcy, according to people who have reviewed the payments.

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First Time Home Ownership? The Crazy World Of Obamacare And The FHA

09/27/13

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka, Obamacare) may be the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Congress and signed by a President .. and that covers a lot of ground.

Why is it so bad? 

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Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Starting All Over The World

09/27/13

As we warned two years ago, "the muddle through has failed... and there may only be painful ways out of this."

Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again.  In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.  As you will read about below, private pension funds were just raided by the government in Poland, and a "bail-in" is being organized for one of the largest banks in Italy.  Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.

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WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US!

09/27/13


Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the financial disaster we now face would be but one of many problems paper money would visit upon us if we allowed our “leaders” to remove the backing from the currency, to wit:
“When the servants of the people are paid with something other than that which the people themselves have produced (i.e. the real, tangible products of their labors or some fixed and real medium of that exchange), the roles of master and servant will be reversed.”
It was believed by Roger Sherman and a majority of those at the Constitutional Convention that un-backed currency would so damage the fabric of the nation that they ATTEMPTED to prohibit it with these few words at Article 1, Section 10, requiring the states to enforce the prohibition: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”
If the people and their states grew inattentive to this matter (and they have!), Jefferson also saw this problem ahead:
In a letter to John Taylor in 1816, he wrote, “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
We have been “…swindling futurity…” for a long time and this is now where we find ourselves. If the government, through its banker masters at the Federal Reserve, can create “money” from thin air, they certainly don’t need ours every April 15th. That annual sheep shearing is simply an attempt to vacuum enough of the excess paper from the system to keep the rest of us from catching on to the biggest theft ring in the history of man. They have now created so much that their attempt is failing and failing badly to a point where all but the dullest among us (Obama voters and his growing cadres of personal and corporate welfare beneficiaries) are starting to “get it.”
If you understood that last paragraph, you can now make the small leap to an understanding as to why the “progressive” utopian welfare state hacks in Washington don’t give a damn WHAT you think. Their power to create all the “money” they need to fuel their infernal machine and fill the gaping maws of enough of those hoards of welfare constituents to assure their perpetual re-election means that — ready — THEY NO LONGER NEED YOU! They have become, as Mr. Jefferson predicted, our MASTERS.
That they are taking down a nation and a system that has provided more wealth, safety and abundance to more people than any other in history matters not to them. Failing to grasp the lesson of the French Revolution, they believe themselves to be above the impending disaster.
We’re running out of time to get this increasingly rapacious beast back into the cage from which we have carelessly allowed it to escape.

source:  Dick Bachert

EU-US trade deal to include 'corporate bill of rights'

09/27/13

Controversial rights for multinational corporations to sue states, likely to be included in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are causing a political headache for EU and US negotiators, but may also set a precedent for future trade agreements, notably with China.

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Claim: Somers Police Get Death Threats After Pro-Gun Sign Photos Go Viral

09/27/13

SOMERS, N.Y. – The Somers Police Department is receiving national attention after a resident videotaped an officer removing a “Protect The 2nd Amendment” sign from his front yard.

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Tea Party Public Servants Excoriated for Doing their Jobs

9/27/13


GOP tension grows as Tea Party senators push off ObamaCare vote

Republican tensions grew Thursday as Tea Party-aligned senators rejected a bid to speed up the vote on a bill to fund the government while defunding ObamaCare, with one senior lawmaker accusing his colleagues of posturing -- as the chances of a government shutdown increased. 

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'Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers':

09/27/13

Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details

• Kenyan soldiers claim to find scenes of torture by mall terrorists
• They say children found dead in food fridges with knives still in bodies
• Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed

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No compromise: Government's credit card on brink of a not being able to waste as much money!

09/27/13

Moving closer to the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans vowed Thursday they won't simply accept the stopgap legislation that is likely to remain after SenateDemocrats strip away a plan to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law.

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Good News: White House Wants You to Take Healthcare Advice From Rodents

09/27/13

The White House is desperately trying to sell Obamacare and they're doing it by tweeting advice. The problem? They want you to take advice from rodents.

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Free People are Still the Greatest Threat to Tyranny

09/27/13

There is little doubt that we will see more Sen. Ted Cruz like broadsides against Washington’s power structure....

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THE RACIALLY-MOTIVATED MASS-SHOOTING THE MEDIA DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT

09/27/13

When the media can aid Obama's re-election through the fabrication of a divisive and completely phony black vs. white racial narrative, then the media are very interested in hate crimes and American racism. But when the media are handed an actual hate crime that involves a black man accused of gunning down four white people because they are white, the media collectively shrug.

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BBC: Why are Americans giving up their citizenship?

09/27/13

The number of Americans giving up their citizenship has rocketed this year - partly, it's thought, because of a new tax law that is frustrating many expats.

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Why should Congress get special exemption under Obamacare?

09/27/13

"I'm going to get a vote," says Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana. "I can't tell you how, or when, but I'm going to get a vote."

Vitter is determined to force his fellow senators to do something many don't want to do: Vote on whether the law, specifically Obamacare, applies to members of Congress and their staff.

Back in 2009, when Democrats were writing the massive new national health care scheme, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley offered an amendment. Obamacare created exchanges through which millions of Americans would purchase "affordable" health coverage. Grassley's amendment simply required lawmakers, staff, and some in the executive branch to get their insurance through the exchanges, too.

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Montana ex-teacher freed after month in jail for raping student

09/27/13

(Reuters) - A former high school teacher in Montana was released from prison on Thursday after serving just one month for the rape of a 14-year-old student who later killed herself, a corrections department spokeswoman said.

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Trust: Suddenly Out of Somewhere in Left Field

09/27/13

Kerry says Iran sanctions could be eased in months

UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry said Thursday that if Iran takes rapid measures to cooperate with international monitoring of its nuclear program, Washington could begin lifting sanctions within months.

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Ignorance Is Ratification: How Congress unknowingly approved the mass collection of Americans' phone records

09/27/13

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent discovers that the plans for a highway project involving demolition of his house have been "on display" in the basement of a government building at "the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'" The Obama administration has a similar idea of what adequate notice means in the context of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance activities.

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPENT NEARLY $5M ON DRONES

09/27/13

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has been using drones to support its law enforcement operations since 2006 and has spent more than $3 million on the unmanned aircraft, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday.

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WaPo article on Bloomberg Poll: Americans disagree with Obama’s call for ‘clean’ debt limit increase

09/27/13

A new Bloomberg poll shows six in 10 Americans disagree with President Obama's call for Congress to pass a so-called "clean" debt limit increase -- i.e. a bill that increases the government's borrowing authority without any spending cuts or other provisions.

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President Obama’s Brother Attacks Walid Shoebat

09/27/13

Malik Obama granted an interview to the Turkish Anatolian Press Hespress (also published on Al-Jazeera and Almasryalyoum) in an attempt to refute our findings into his terror-supporting efforts in Kenya and the Sudan. While our claims about him are loaded with evidence, which can be readhere, here, here, here, here, here, and here (even more here), none of this research is refuted by Mr. Obama. I will avoid responding to Malik’s personal attacks on my character. Instead, I will do him a favor and translate excerpts from the Anatolian Press piece (Al-Jazeera and other outlets reported on the story but did not include my name as one of Malik’s targets) and link to the full article.

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The Marriage and Religious Freedom Act protects religious liberty

09/27/13

Bipartisan legislation was introduced today in the House of Representatives that would prevent the federal government from discriminating against citizens and organizations who believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.

The Marriage and Religious Freedom Act (H.R. 3133) was introduced by Representative Raul Labrador (R–ID) and over 60 other original co-sponsors from both political parties.

The bill is an important step for conscience protection. Government policy should respect those who stand for marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Even in jurisdictions that have redefined marriage, those who believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman should be free to live in accord with their moral and religious convictions.

But in a growing number of incidents, government has not left these Americans free...

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Raise Your Glasses For Senators Ted Cruz And Mike Lee

09/27/13

In the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Americans received word that the British were planning to take Dorchester Heights and Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill is in Charlestown, overlooking the town of Boston, and strategically located between the Mystic and Charles Rivers. The British were sniped at by the minutemen on their retreat from Concord, and a 2nd humiliation would not be allowed.

Colonel Prescott was given command of the forces at Charlestown by the Committee of Safety in Massachusetts. His orders were to fortify Bunker Hill and defend it until relieved. After marching from Cambridge he gathered his field officers at the top of Bunker Hill. They decided to build the fortification on Breed’s Hill (un-named at that time, but part of it was known as Breed’s pasture). Breed’s Hill is not as high as Bunker Hill, and is closer to Boston. They worked feverishly all night to fortify the position. A redoubt (earthen fort), breastworks (trench), and railed-fence were hastily built.

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Long Overdue Public Exposure of Establishment Republicans on Full Display at U.S. Senate

09/27/13

Congress has four days left to pass a spending bill to keep the government running. But traditional arguments between Republicans and Democrats, and bickering within the Republican Party have delayed action for days.

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Thinking Green $$$: 5 arrested in Northern California recycling fraud

09/27/13

SACRAMENTO — California authorities have arrested five people who allegedly bought bottles and cans from recycling centers in Nevada and then redeemed them for cash in California, the California Department of Justice said Thursday.

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Years after signing it into law, Obama explains Obamacare to public

09/27/13

WASHINGTON — For years, President Obama's healthcare law has been praised, excoriated, legally challenged, upheld as constitutional and debated some more.

Now, with its online insurance marketplaces days from opening for business, the White House is focused on a task that many of the law's supporters complain is overdue: 

explaining it.

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SHOCKING REPORT: $67 MILLION MISSING FROM OBAMACARE SLUSH FUND

09/27/13

A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrationreport released on Wednesday found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cannot account for $67 million spent from an Obamacare implementation slush fund.

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FLASHBACK: MCCAIN USED SAME TACTIC AGAINST OBAMACARE CRUZ IS USING NOW

09/27/13

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) supported the tactics that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is using to attempt to defund Obamacare before he was against them, Breitbart News has learned.

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Would You Join a Third Party Founded by Ted Cruz?

09/27/13

Is the time ripe for a third party?

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CRUZADE: DEFUNDING EFFORT NEARING 30 VOTES IN SENATE

09/27/13

According to sources on the Hill, there is growing support among Senate Republicans to support Sens. Cruz and Lee's efforts to scuttle Sen. Harry Reid's attempt to reinstate ObamaCare funding in the House Continuing Resolution.

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Obama's Supreme Court selections of a lesbian and Hispanic woman lacked intelligence not only on his part, but theirs as well

09/27/13

John Lott: Sotomayor, Kagan ‘dumbing down’ Supreme Court 

Courts are being dumbed down because politicians are trying to keep the smartest and most persuasive judges off the bench, argues conservative economist John Lott in his recently released book, ”Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Justices Off the Bench.”

“While confirmations have been getting tougher for all the nominees, smarter, more influential nominees have had the hardest time getting confirmed,” Lott  told The Daily Caller in an interview about his book. “There is a simple reason for this. Judges who understand the law and are articulate may be able to convince other judges hearing cases to change how they vote. They may also write opinions that influence other judges around the country.”

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Chicagoland: Nine Alleged Members of Hobos Street Gang Indicted in RICO Conspiracy for Murders and Other Violent, Drug-Related Crimes

09/27/13

CHICAGO—Nine defendants who allegedly directed or participated in a violent, drug trafficking street gang known as the Hobos were charged today in a federal racketeering conspiracy (RICO) indictment with engaging in murders, attempted murders, robberies, and narcotics distribution. The five-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges five murders, solicitation of a sixth murder, four attempted murders, three robberies, and the operation of “drug spots” and “drug lines” on the city’s south side among a pattern of criminal activity between 2004 and 2009.

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NYC Mayoral Race Update: De Blasio’s favorite countries have dismal human-rights records

09/27/13

Three leftist countries that drew Bill de Blasio’s interest over the past 25 years rank high for repression on the annual list compiled by Freedom House, a human-rights watchdog group.

The organization uses a point scale of 1 to 7 for political rights and civil liberties, with the higher number representing the most oppressive.

Cuba gets a 7 for political rights and a 6 for civil liberties.

Zimbabwe lands a grade of 6 on both issues.

And de Blasio’s beloved Nicaragua earns 5 points for political rights and 4 for civil liberties.

Freedom House rates that country as “partly free.”

“Employees have reportedly been dismissed for union activities, and citizens have no effective recourse when labor laws are violated by those in power,” the oversight group reported.

“Child labor and other abuses in export-processing zones remain problems, though child labor occurs most often in the agricultural sector.”

De Blasio, the city public advocate who is the Democratic nominee for mayor, is facing mounting criticism for his full-throated support of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which cracked down on dissenters and had close ties to communists.

De Blasio has also drawn fire for honeymooning in Cuba after his 1994 marriage to Chirlane McCray — a trip that violated a US travel ban.

The mayor-poll front-runner has also been criticized for joining legislators who welcome reviled Zimbabwe despot Robert Mugabe to City Hall in 2002 when de Blasio served on the City Council.

De Blasio has since said the Mugabe appearance was a “mistake.”

“I feel ashamed of it,” he said.

source: New York Post