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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Poll: Obamacare Support Slumps to 35 Percent
The most destructive Obamacare tax increases are just around
the bend
Sen. Reid: “More funding needed to prevent ObamaCare from
becoming 'train wreck'”
Anxious Democrats fear a botched
implementation of ObamaCare could dash their hopes of controlling the House and
Senate for President Obama’s last two years in office.
9.5 Million People Have Left the Workforce Under Obama, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Go figure….:Wealthy, not middle class, support Obama. According to a new Economist/YouGov
poll, it's the rich -- not the poor or middle class -- who back Obama more
despite his 2012 campaign attacking the rich.
According to a new report President
Obama has spent twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has
in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).
“Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian
Faith”
After the story broke, the Pentagon scrambled to clarify its
position: “It's OK to evangelize. But
it's not OK to proselytize.” Retired Lt Gen Jerry Boykin: “It’s a matter of
what do they mean by "proselytizing."
President Obama is scheduled to visit Mexico and Costa Rica later this week. The
last time he visited Mexico,
taxpayers paid nearly $2.5 million for hotel and “vehicle rental.”
Miami’s
Catholic archbishop said establishing “gay marriage” would corrupt the natural
setting for rearing children by a mother and a father, and further spread
“moral relativism,” one of the signs that democracy is “on its way to
totalitarianism.”
Terrorists on the dole:
The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents,
benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza
ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was apparently too dangerous to be allowed
to go to Mecca, but not Boston. Saudi
Arabia unofficially says that if Janet Napolitano read
her mail, the Boston
bombing might have been prevented.
On May 23, 1,400
delegates to the annual BSA meeting will be asked to vote on a resolution that
will allow openly homosexual and transgender teenage boys to join the ranks of
scouting. The resolution doesn't allow a gay adult to go camping with boys, but
may put an "experienced" gay 17-year-old inside a tent with a
12-year-old boy on his first campout. An open letter to the BSA delegates: “Ten
Reasons to Vote "NO"”
A new threat to the organization is being raised by the
proposed rule change: It could go broke. Critics say the rule change could
financially starve the 103-year-old group in two ways: Church-based troops,
which comprise the majority of Boy Scout units, are threatening to leave, and
the potential for sexual harassment and bullying could lead to massive legal
fees.
More political correctness in scouting: In the future all Eagle Scout candidates will
be required to earn a merit badge in climate change junk science. The
Sustainability merit badge debuted at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree.
For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given
illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker
who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered
to keep a lid on it
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/04/case-worker-illegal-aliens-got-food-stamps-by-the-vanload/
USDA flyer assures applicants: “We Don't Check Immigration
Status for Food Stamps”
Victoria Toensing, Republican Counsel to the Senate
Intelligence Committee, says her client, a State Department official now
considered a whistle-blower in the investigation of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, has been
"threatened" by Obama administration officials. Toensing claimed the
threats relate to ending the careers of those with information about the
attacks who cooperate with investigators and testify.
“Immigration Bill Gives Amnestied Residents 'Immediate'
Access to Welfare” (Gives new meaning to Leno’s joke about
“undocumented democrats”.)
The immigration bill would instantly gut the popular
E-Verify system that is widely used to exclude illegal immigrants from jobs,
and then create an enforcement gap for several years before the arrival of a
replacement system.
The Senate’s “Gang of Eight” has released a new version of
the immigration bill that contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions and
political discretion.
Abortion doctor’s lawyer plays race card, accusing
prosecutors of “manipulating” the case to engage in an essentially “racist”
prosecution of the man charged with four counts of first-degree murder, killing
babies born alive during abortions by snipping their spinal cords with surgical
scissors.
DC abortion doctor: “Pro-lifers with
video cameras are ‘terrorists’”
Duke Univ. Raises Student Fees to Pay for Sex Change Surgery
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Rich Lowry
The new climate deniers
There are few things sadder than the
“climate denier.” He ignores the data and neglects the latest science. His
rhetoric and policy proposals are dangerously disconnected from reality. He
can’t recalibrate to take account of the latest evidence because, well, he’s a
denier.
The new climate deniers are the liberals who, despite their
obsession with climate change, have managed to miss the biggest story in
climate science, which is that there hasn’t been any global warming for about a
decade and a half.
“Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s
surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar,” The
Economist writes. “The world added roughly 100 billion tons of carbon
to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2
put there by humanity since 1750.” Yet, no more warming.
The Economist has been decidedly alarmist on global
warming through the years, so it deserves credit for pausing to consider why
the warming trend it expected to continue has mysteriously stalled out.
The deniers feel no such compunction. They speak as if it is
still the late 1990s, when measurements of global temperature had been rising
for two decades. In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said
that “we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act
before it’s too late.” In a passage devoted to global warming, though, he
didn’t mention the latest trend in global warming.
A denier feels the same righteous sense of certitude now,
when warming has stopped, as he did a decade ago. Washington Post
columnist Eugene Robinson recently opined that “sensible people accept the fact
of warming” — but apparently not the fact of no-warming. He scorned those “who
manipulate the data in transparently bogus ways to claim that warming has
halted or even reversed course.” Does he include James Hansen, the famous NASA
scientist, among these dastardly manipulators? No one this side of Al Gore has
warned as persistently about global warming as Hansen. He nonetheless admits
that “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”
None of this means that the Earth didn’t get hotter in the
20th century, or that carbon emissions don’t tend to create a warmer planet, or
that warming won’t necessarily begin again. It does mean that we know less
about the fantastically complex global climate system than global-warming
alarmists have been willing to admit. The Economist notes the work of Ed
Hawkins of the University of Reading in Britain. He has found that if
global temperatures stay the same for a few more years, they will fall below
the range of 20 climate models. In other words, the scientific “consensus” will
have been proven wrong.
Why the stall in warming? According to The Economist,
maybe we’ve overestimated the warming impact of clouds. Or maybe some clouds
cool instead of warm the planet. Or maybe the oceans are absorbing heat from
the atmosphere. Although the surface temperature of the oceans hasn’t been
rising, perhaps the warming is happening deep down. James Hansen thinks new
coal-fired plants in China
and India,
releasing so-called aerosols into the atmosphere that act to suppress warming,
may be partly responsible for the stasis in temperatures.
Hansen writes that knowing more about the effect of aerosols
on the climate “requires accurate knowledge of changes in aerosol amount, size
distribution, absorption and vertical distribution on a global basis — as well
as simultaneous data on changes in cloud properties to allow inference of the
indirect aerosol forcing via induced cloud changes.” Is that all? He ruefully
notes that the launch of a satellite with a sensor to measure all of this
failed, with no follow-up mission planned.
Hey, but don’t worry. The science is all “settled.”
What is beginning to seem more likely is that the
“sensitivity” of the global climate to carbon emissions has been overestimated.
If so, the deniers will be the last to admit it.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The immigration debate gives Congress a chance to
re-evaluate the wisdom of sacrificing Americans for political correctness by
sending invitations to prospective citizens in parts of the world where nearly
everybody hates America
and all it stands for. This phenomenon illustrates the need for vigilance, to
make sure immigrants will become productive, prosperous Americans. Sadly, it
seems the primary motivation of the president and his party on immigration
reform is to create 11 million new Democratic voters with an amnesty, and hang
the cost."
-The Washington Times
"Perhaps you noticed that President Obama became the
first president to speak at a Planned Parenthood gala, without ever mentioning
the word abortion. This new poll suggests why: 55 percent of Americans, including
38 percent of pro-lifers, do not know that Planned Parenthood provides any
abortions. Just 6 percent of all Americans know Planned Parenthood clinics
perform more than 300,000 abortions each year. Alongside the refusal of
television and other media to cover the sensationally disturbing Gosnell trial,
this fact alone exposes the extent of the Left's cultural domination of the
media-infotainment landscape."
-Maggie
Gallagher
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BOOKS
Walter Williams: Professor
Craig Frisby’s most recent book is "Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of
Minority Students." “There's no
way full justice can be given to this excellent work in the space of this
column, so I'll highlight a few valuable insights he makes that would help
educators do a better job with minority students…..Quack multiculturalism is
the name Frisby gives to the vision of multiculturalism that promotes the
falsehoods and distortions that dominate today's college agenda, sold under
various names such as "valuing diversity," "being sensitive to
cultural differences" and "cultural competence." He identifies
different brands of multiculturalism such as boutique, Kumbayah, light-and-fluffy,
and bean-counting multiculturalism. Insider language used to promote
multiculturalism includes terms such as "practice tolerance,"
"celebrate diversity," "equity with excellence" and
"differences are not deficits."
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GLOBALONEY
April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the
northern USA, bringing
misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies
to the Midwest.
Second Coldest Start To Spring In US History
Amazing, Historic Snowstorm From Texas
to Michigan
‘We Could Be In For A Cooling Period That Lasts 200-250
Years’ Russian Scientists Claim
Another electric-Car maker files for bankruptcy.
Democrats warn global warming could push women into
prostitution.
“When apocalyptic religious cults like Warmism fail the
reality test, their devotees get desperate and unintentionally start producing
self-parodies. The mass slow-mo mental implosion can be hilarious. We have just
such an instance involving a group of House Democrats. The victim mentality is
leaping to the rescue for global warming….. Global warming can make you a
whore!”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/04/the_most_bizarre_prediction_of_global_warming_doom_ever.html
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LEFTIST WATCH
The Five Loopiest Guardian (UK newspaper of the left) Articles
of All Time (paraphrasing) #1 Take time out of your day to hug a
pedophile. #2 Conservatives are morons. #3 Communism wasn’t all bad #4 North Korea is the victim of press
bias
“Disgraced former EPA Chief Used Fake Name to Coordinate with
Liberal Groups”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a gathering in Cleveland that childcare
for all should be the next “pillar” of American government, ie, the next
entitlement.
“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of
fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by
forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their
helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.” Those words were recently
written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom
Foundation (MRFF), in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will
be a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious tolerance,
including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains who share the
Christian Gospel during spiritual counseling of American troops.
Your cable box is about to tilt a little further to the left
this summer, thanks to the media company that brought you Al Gore´s "An
Inconvenient Truth" and Matt Damon´s anti-fracking movie "Promised
Land." Participant Media is set to launch Pivot beginning August 1. The
new cable network is expected to have a 40+ million audience designed to lure
young millennials, 18 - 34-year-olds, via a new tactic: social change.
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ISLAM
In Egypt,
more than 70 percent of the public supports shariah law, and almost 90 percent
also support executing those who leave Islam.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas again insisted at a two-day
“Freedom and Dignity” conference in Ramallah last week that Palestinians who
murder Israeli Jews cannot be punished.
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SECOND AMENDMENT
America’s
most feared economist: You can tell the
conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred
to as "discredited."….no one is called "discredited" by
liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the
groundbreaking book More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control
Laws . Lott´s economic analysis of the effect of concealed-carry laws on
violent crime is the most thoroughly vetted study in the history of economics,
perhaps in the history of the world.
46,455 Background Checks per day For Gun Purchases Under
Obama
Recall petition drives are well under way for four pro-gun
control Democrats in the Colorado
state legislature.
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CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY
When Republicans woke up to defeat on Election Day 2012, it
was clear that they had been outfoxed and outmaneuvered by President Obama and
his campaign. Now it´s clear why. Under the political radar, Team Obama made an
unprecedented effort to understand the voters and speak their language, slicing
and dicing the electorate with a sophistication and savvy that the Republicans
couldn´t match and are still scrambling to replicate. The result was the
rebuilding and in some cases expansion of Obama´s original coalition from 2008,
and a remarkable comprehension of what really motivated voters in 2012.
“James O’Keefe’s New Gonzo Army”
How to respond to being called ´judgmental´
Tea Party Group Drafting Sarah Palin
to Run for Alaska
Senate
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ARTICLES
Among various
unwanted truths that grown-ups of the Western world have to contend with these
days, here’s one that doesn’t get nearly the traction it deserves: The days of
the modern welfare state look to be numbered.
National Review unloads on Marco Rubio. “Rubio’s
Folly”
The murderer is the new celebrity. He emerges out of nowhere
with a rags to mass murder story, and is swiftly accorded all the trappings of
fame. Reporters track down anyone who knew him to learn about his childhood and
his main influences. Relatives and friends both contribute fuzzy anecdotes, mostly
indistinguishable from the ones they would present if he were competing on
American Idol or running for president.
Krauthammer on border security: “Ask
Obama why he’s got a fence around the
White House”
Pruden: Political
correctness is always petty, often infuriating, and sometimes does no permanent
harm. But occasionally it’s a threat to the nation’s security. When a paperclip
general at the Pentagon surrenders to the enemy at the first sound of the
popguns, the harm can be permanent.
Star Parker: “How
abortion has changed America” “Let’s be clear that pro-aborts and
pro-lifers differ on far more than technicalities about when life begins. They
differ about what life is….. As our reverence for life has diminished, so has
our reverence for the institutions that surround and support it…. Scholars at
the Brookings Institution observed in 1996 that Roe v Wade contributed to the
collapse of marriage and the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births. The
idea that children were part of a sacred institution called marriage started
disappearing…. Soon, as our
resources diminish to care for our growing aging population, we will start
dealing with our elderly as we do our unborn. But if everything is meaningless,
who cares?”
“How did we get to the point where so many people in the
media accept the murder of full term babies born alive as a woman's right which
must be protected?”
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Keep sex and politics out of scouting.
30 Reasons To Dislike Barack Obama “As a conservative,
picking out things you don´t like about Barack Obama is kind of like pointing
to the wettest part of the ocean. It also goes beyond politics. Not only is
Barack Obama wrong politically, he´s not a good guy, "cool," or even moderately
likable. To the contrary, he´s one of the nastiest, least admirable people in
politics and he gets by based on a phony persona he created when he ran for
President in 2008…”
Amazing dog story.
Warning: disturbing photos;
kleenex alert!!
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WISE WORDS
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose
as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible
amount of hissing."
-Jean Baptiste Colbert
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good
citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher
duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our
highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
-George Washington
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LATE NITE
Leno: President Obama is in Mexico. He'll
be on hand to celebrate Mexico's
economic successes over the last few years. See, that’s how it works now. If
President Obama wants to celebrate an economic success, he actually has to
leave the country....The U.S. government apparently spent millions of dollars
in cash to fund various dubious government projects in Afghanistan — including
solar panels and wind farms that never work. No, I'm sorry. That's what we did
here. I had it backwards…..President Obama held a press conference today. He
said he still wants to close the Guantanamo
Bay prison facility, but
he doesn't know how to do it. He should do what he always does. Declare it a
small business and tax it out of existence.
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