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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Obama golfs in Hawaii; sends Joe Biden to speak at slain cop´s memorial.
It’s not a slowdown — it’s a virtual work stoppage. NYPD
traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a
staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel
betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety,
The man who cold-bloodedly shot Officers Ramos and Liu gets
a shocking amount of sympathy and understanding from the New York Times.
Three shots were fired at two Florida deputies conducting
traffic enforcement.
Soldiers have to relocate wedding to accommodate Obama´s golf game
"Queen of Mean” Michelle Obama has forced out another
White House staffer – the First Family’s personal chef! Kitchen magician Sam
Kass got fed up with Michelle’s snippy comments and told the Obamas to take his
apron and shove it, insiders told The National ENQUIRER. “He just couldn’t take
it – the relentless nitpicking, over petty little details that drove him
insane. She thinks she’s Marie Antoinette!”
60% of republicans prefer a new House Speaker
Michigan now has more food stamp recipients than it does
public school students.
Before Christmas, Arizona finished its 2nd Congressional
District recount, showing Republican Martha McSally beating incumbent Democrat
Ron Barber by 167 votes. This means there will be 247 Republicans in the House
in the 114th Congress — one more than was elected to the House in the 80th
Congress in 1946. It’s the most Republican House since the one elected in 1928.
Long Lines Expected At California DMV Friday As Undocumented
Immigrants Apply For Licenses
How shocking! More
than 90 Percent of a Group of Illegal Immigrants from the Surge This Summer
Never Showed Up to Their Immigration Hearings.
Bad news for trial lawyers?
Plain old bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and
who does not, according to researchers who found that two-thirds of cancer
incidence of various types can be blamed on random mutations and not heredity
or risky habits like smoking.
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Monday declared the
"defeat" of the U.S. and its allies in the 13-year-old war, a day
after the coalition officially marked the end of its combat mission.
America’s top Special Forces general in charge of fighting
ISIS confesses that the US is clueless.
Obamacare hits small business hard in 2015
President Obama’s health care adviser Jonathan Gruber warned
while he was writing Obamacare in 2009 that it “would definitely not be
affordable.”
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his allies are reportedly
leading a purge of conservatives in Arizona to pave the way for an easier
reelection bid should McCain decide to run for reelection in 2016.
Planned Parenthood clinics boast that they did 327,653
abortions in fiscal year 2014.
“A crack-smoking daughter and a Mexican-American wife
detained at customs for lying about $19k in clothes and jewelry: Why Jeb Bush
might not run for president. But House
Speaker John Boehner is eager for a centrist GOP candidate; a Capitol Hill aide
close to him told MailOnline he 'will go to the mat for Jeb'”
The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit in
federal district court in Tacoma, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement
of portions of Initiative 594, the 18-page gun control measure that took effect
Dec. 4 2014, alleging that “portions of I-594…are so vague that a person of ordinary intelligence
cannot understand their scope,” and that other parts violate the
Second Amendment outright.
http://www.ammoland.com/2014/12/second-amendment-foundation-spearheads-federal-lawsuit-against-washington-state-i-594/#ixzz3NmbSEc97
Washington Post White House reporter talks about how he regrets
not snapping a photograph of President Obama during his vacation in Hawaii
under a rainbow.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/02/wapo-reporter-sorry-he-couldnt-get-photo-of-obama-under-a-rainbow/
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Victor Davis Hansen 12/31
Gasoline prices
are on the verge of crashing down to below $2 a gallon. The price of oil may
dip below $50 a barrel. Even with
renewed demand from a global economic resurgence, energy prices continue to
fall. The U.S. has suddenly become the world's largest combined producer of oil
and natural gas……
The world in
general, and the United States in particular, supposedly had already burned
more oil than was left under the Earth. Under President Barack Obama, gasoline
prices had soared. When he entered office in January 2009, gas prices averaged
around $1.60 per gallon. Four years later, by spring of 2013, gas prices had
climbed beyond $3.50 a gallon.
The Obama
administration never much worried about high energy costs. During the 2008
campaign, Obama promised that, "Under my plan ... electricity rates would
necessarily skyrocket." Shutting down coal plants and using higher-priced
but cleaner natural gas would pave the way for an even pricier mandated wind
and solar generation. In the vice presidential debates of 2008, Joe Biden
mocked Sarah Palin for the supposedly mindless campaign mantra of "Drill,
baby, drill." Biden intoned that, "It will take 10 years for one drop
of oil to come out of any of the wells that are going to be drilled."
The energy
secretary-designate, the professorial Steven Chu, in 2008 had unwisely voiced a
widely held but wisely unspoken progressive belief that, "Somehow we have
to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe"
-- or about $9 a gallon. Just two years
ago, when up for re-election, Obama reminded Americans, "We can't just
drill our way to lower gas prices."
Obama ridiculed
the Republican idea of lowering gas to $2 a gallon through new oil-recovery
techniques. "They're already dusting off their three-point plans for $2
gas," Obama mocked. "I'll save you the suspense: Step one is drill,
step two is drill, and step three is keep drilling."
Such easy
rhetoric was backed by action -- or lack of it. The Keystone XL pipeline was
put on permanent hold. New fracking leases on federal lands were postponed.
Huge areas of oil- and gas-rich federal lands were put off-limits. Some blue
states stopped fracking. Money poured into solar schemes like Solyndra.
Decreased use of
expensive energy was deemed desirable. Cash-strapped commuters would be forced
to drive less, thereby advancing the noble cause of curbing supposed manmade
global warming. Federal subsidies flowed for high-speed rail. Wind, solar and
other alternate energies could at last become competitive. Cap-and-trade
legislation looked as if it might sail through Congress.
Unfortunately for
the Obama administration, the new age of sky-high oil prices proved an economic
disaster. The natural cycle of recovery never quite followed the end of the
recession in mid-2009, as U.S. budget and trade deficits soared. Abroad, all
the wrong countries were empowered as never before. The late Hugo Chavez used
his oil windfall in Venezuela to subsidize subversion throughout Latin America.
Petrodollar-rich Russian President Vladimir Putin charted a confident
anti-American foreign policy. Iran used its growing riches to step up progress
toward producing a nuclear bomb while upping subsidies to terrorist organizations
such as Hezbollah.
Then, finally,
oil and gas prices plunged due to the "drill, baby, drill," can-do
attitude of the private sector. Americans should thank the U.S. oilman -- from
the drillers in the field to the engineers behind the scenes -- who did the
impossible. They vastly increased the supply of what was supposedly a
permanently declining resource, and thereby helped to crash prices.
Oilmen, not the
government, returned hundreds of billions of dollars to American consumers.
They, not Ivy League experts and Wall Street grandees, kick-started the economy
where federal subsidies had failed to. They, not the policies of the Obama
administration or the rhetoric of Secretary of State John Kerry, weakened our
enemies.
Almost everything
Obama tried for six years in an effort to rev the economy -- from near-zero
interest rates and $1 trillion annual budget deficits to Obamacare and vast
increases in entitlements -- has failed. His foreign-policy stances of resets
and leading from behind led to chaos and emboldened enemies. Yet the United
States economy is slowly recovering with cheap energy. Consumers have more
money. Industries are returning to U.S. soil.
Abroad,
spendthrift oil producers such as hostile Iran, Russia and Venezuela are nearly
broke. Friendly rivals such as Japan and the European Union can't compete with
the U.S. energy edge. What Obama once
ridiculed is now saving him from himself -- after he had championed policies
that nearly destroyed him.
The Greeks had a
word for it: irony.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Recall that the 2005
best-seller ‘Freakonomics’ made a huge splash with the claim that Roe v. Wade
was responsible for the drop in crime America experienced starting in the
1990s. The theory, simplified for space, was that fewer unwanted babies began
to be born after 1973. These aborted babies did not turn 18 in 1991 and,
accordingly, did not commit crimes, leading to the dramatic drop in crime. It
turns out that the study on which the ‘Freakonomics’ authors based their chapter
on abortion and crime was authored by none other than Jonathan Gruber (and
others). … Considering that 30 percent of abortions are obtained by
African-American women, though they constitute just 13 percent of the female
population, Gruber was in effect arguing that reducing the number of poor black
children was, not to put too fine a point on it, a positive good. One cannot
begin to imagine the outcry if a conservative academic (that rare specimen) had
published similar conclusions… [W]hat’s more revealing is the casual readiness
to calculate lost lives as so many numbers on a balance sheet. If it makes you
uncomfortable that such a person helped design Obamacare, you’re not alone.”
-Mona Charen
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LEFTIST WATCH
Bernie Sanders´s 12-Point Socialist Plan for America Every
committed revolutionary needs a plan.
Many of the glossy new signs being carried by the protesters
of the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” and “I Can’t Breathe” thugs are printed by
RevCom (seen printed at the bottom of many of their signs). A quick
investigation reveals that “RevCom” is shorthand for “Revolution Communists”
with connections to Weather Underground. How odd… almost like the connection
between Obama and Bill Ayers… huh?
The former national chairman of the New Black Panther Party
and current national president of Black Lawyers for Justice, Malik Zulu Shabazz
said 2015 is the time to “build up that army” and go “to the gun range.
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ISLAM
Arab terrorists have released a "How to stab a
Jew" video, and its going viral in Palestine. “The guide to killing Jews teaches that after
stabbing the victim, the knife should be twisted to maximize wounds and cause
death.”
Al-Qaeda urges ´lone wolves of Jihad´ to explode passenger planes
Al Qaeda issued the latest edition of its online magazine on
Christmas Eve with a step-by-step manual on how to breach airport security and
bomb passenger planes.
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ARTICLES
The Overrated Candidate: The Case
Against Jeb Bush
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
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