News of the Week for March 12th<\/sup>, 2017<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abolition of concealed weapon permits clears first hurdle <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Fit U.S. Shale Industry Challenges OPEC Once Again<\/a> Some caution is required in trimming the NOAA budget<\/a> Environmentalists Use Photoshop and Fraud to Deceive<\/a> Pruitt: Should the EPA regulate carbon emissions at all?<\/a> A North Slope oil discovery already called huge just got bigger, company says <\/a> About those “devastating” EPA budget reductions<\/a> New UCLA End of Snow Prediction<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n GOP releases bills to repeal and replace ObamaCare<\/a> House Republicans Release Text of Obamacare Repeal, Conservatives Call for Action “Now”<\/a> What’s In The GOP Health Care Bill? Some Good. Some Bad; One MAJOR Problem<\/a> Right revolts on ObamaCare bill<\/a> ARE REPUBLICANS BLOWING IT ON HEALTH CARE?<\/a> Replacement Wish List – Part 1<\/a> Conservatives to reveal their own healthcare plan in face of GOP’s “Obamacare Lite”<\/a> Dear Congress: Scrap The Current Healthcare Bill And Try Again<\/a> This Is How You Got TrumpCare: Republicans Don’t Know What They Believe Any More<\/a> Pence warns Republicans to back House bill: “If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep it”<\/a> Conservatives Find Willing Negotiating Partner in Trump, Not in Speaker Paul Ryan, on Obamacare Repeal<\/a> Why Nobody Has A Right To Health Care<\/a> Congressman: GOP Should Make Healthcare as “Simple” as an iPhone<\/a> Obamacare’s Defenders Have No Idea What Insurance Is<\/a> The Stupidity of The GOP Congressman<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photos of Naked Female Marines on Facebook Spawns Investigation<\/a> New ISIS Command to EAT Infidels Has Islamic Roots<\/a> Wikileaks Releases Alleged CIA Hacking Documents<\/a> EU Sets Up Unified Military Headquarters<\/a> Days of Rage<\/a> These Kurdish, Assyrian, Arab Women are Taking Down ISIS in Their Capital<\/a> Russia to Arm Nuclear Subs With New Supersonic Cruise Missile<\/a> I Had Dinner With the Afghan Ambassador. What He Said About the Differences Between Trump, Obama Is Stunning<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Berkeley condemns “disturbing” attacks on College Republicans<\/a> Professor: Leftist-driven refugee, immigration policies “existential threat to the US”<\/a> UN official: Tribe not properly heard in pipeline dispute <\/a> Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake<\/a> Teacher threatened student with Mafia retaliation for exposing sexual misconduct<\/a> A Bunch Of Questions (And Some Answers) About Trump’s Wiretap Claims<\/a> TRUMP PICKS STRONG CRITIC OF PUTIN FOR KEY POST<\/a> March 8 International Women’s Strike platform calls for destruction of Israel<\/a> Text: President Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration<\/a> Anti-Trump “March for Science” Forced to Apologize for Calling Women “Females”<\/a> To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case<\/a> Did Obama spy on Trump? Glenn Reynolds<\/a> Anti-Trump group riven by debate over mandating non-violence<\/a> CSULB journalism assignments disparage conservatives<\/a> Report: Women’s and gender studies degrees have increased 300% since 1990 <\/a> Liberal groups: A vote for Gorsuch is a vote to get yourself primaried<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nA bill that would add Alabama to the list of states that allow people to carry a concealed handgun without a permit advanced through the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nLower oil price forced industry to cut costs, boost efficiency. Now drillers plan to increase their spending in 2017 by 25%<\/p>\n
\nOne of the bits of significant good news for fiscal conservatives (and already a source of endless insanity for liberals) is the serious nature with which President Trump has approached budget-cutting measures and cost reductions. Many departments, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (among others), will have redundant services eliminated and be forced to tighten their belts along with the rest of the country. <\/p>\n
\nWatts Up With That has a funny instance of warmist deception. You may have seen the headline, I did: Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5\u00b0F. Where? Base Esperanza. <\/p>\n
\nFor the last six years, the EPA has assumed the jurisdiction to regulate carbon emissions by citing the Clean Air Act (CAA), an assumption that state Attorneys General have repeatedly challenged in court. Now that Scott Pruitt, recently confirmed by the Senate after his tenure as Oklahoma’s AG, told a Houston conference that he plans to get an answer to the question.<\/p>\n
\nA Spanish oil company working with a small explorer in Alaska announced Thursday what it’s calling the largest onshore U.S. oil discovery in three decades.<\/p>\n
\nBudget and personnel cuts reflect environmental progress and essential regulatory reforms<\/p>\n
\nUCLA thinks that by the end of the century, Climate will reduce the Sierra Nevada snowpack by 85%.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nHouse Republicans on Monday unveiled their long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare. <\/p>\n
\nA key conservative lawmaker is urging Republicans to make good on their promises to repeal Obamacare before they get distracted by other legislative issues.<\/p>\n
\nThe worst place to get information right now about the GOP\u2019s Obamacare replacement bill is Twitter. It’s a haven for lousy information, and people are merely repeating what they see in other tweets without having read the GOP bill. Several news organizations went through the bill and provided some useful information on what is contained within the GOP plan.<\/p>\n
\nConservatives in the House openly rebelled Tuesday against legislation backed by their leadership to repeal and replace \u00adObamaCare, sowing doubts about whether the legislation can pass.<\/p>\n
\nHealth care policy, like K-12 education and college sports handicapping, is an abyss I try my best to avoid, because energy and environment are so much more fun! Almost 25 years ago I wrote a cover story for Reason magazine about \u201cThe Medicare Monster,\u201d and resolved never again to go through the torture of investigating health care policy, despite the fact that the great Richard Epstein still talks today about how great he thinks the article is.<\/p>\n
\nAs I mentioned yesterday, I’m pretty underwhelmed by the newest iteration of PubbieCare\u00a9. For one thing, it’s much longer than it needs to be, which means it’s more complicated and top-heavy than it should be. And I noticed that they simply swap insurance carriers for The Tax Man for mandate compliance <\/p>\n
\nThe introduction of the GOP\u2019s new healthcare bill has raised some definite ire among Republicans and Libertarians alike. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is one such politician who has now seen the bill and expressed his extreme dislike of it, calling the GOP plan “Obamacare Lite.”<\/p>\n
\nDear Congress, It’s been two days since you released the bill to the public. It’s been an incredibly painful 24 hours for that plan, which has been torn apart and trashed every which way. Spare yourselves any more embarrassment and declare the bill dead. Then, go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n
\nRoss Douthat has a column today titled \u201cWhy Republicans Can\u2019t Do Health Care.\u201d with a sentence that is jarring because of its obvious truth: “[T]here was no [health care] bill that could have united all of the right\u2019s disparate factions, because on health care policy, as on a range of issues, the Republican Party as an organism does not know what it believes in anymore.”<\/p>\n
\nThose are the two options, huh? ObamaCare or ObamaCare Lite? Megan McArdle summarized the logic of the House bill this way last night: “Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, this must be done.”<\/p>\n
\nConservatives in the House and Senate may have come out swinging against the House GOP’s plan to replace Obamacare, but the skeptical lawmakers have stressed that on the future of Obamacare, they’re willing to negotiate.<\/p>\n
\nJust because our rights are secured by government, it does not follow that they must be provided by government.<\/p>\n
\nRep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) told PJM that the Republican-led Congress has to eliminate most of Obamacare and create new legislation that makes health insurance as “simple” as a smartphone.<\/p>\n
\nObamacare defenders think insurance is just “sharing,” as if all they need to know they learned in kindergarten and the field of economics didn’t exist.<\/p>\n
\nACHA. Another acronym that falls short on facing the real problem with our health care system.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nNaked pictures of female Marines have reportedly been circulating on Social Media. Now the Marines are investigating. It was all over the chatboards this weekend and now USA Today has a really good round up.<\/p>\n
\nIn light of recent revelations that the Islamic State is teaching its followers to eat non-Muslims, surely we can now all agree that — at least with this — ISIS is truly not Islamic?<\/p>\n
\nThe documents allege the CIA took malware from other countries to hide its own fingerprints.<\/p>\n
\nBrussels-based central military command to be operational within months<\/p>\n
\n“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” \u2014 Max Noel, FBI (ret.)<\/p>\n
\nOn International Women’s Day, the Islamic State is under threat from a force bearing down on their declared capital, Raqqa, that includes Arab, Assyrian and Kurdish women commanders and fighters.<\/p>\n
\nThe Russian Navy will arm its cruise missile subs with new weapons systems.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Trump is already turning the world upside down in international diplomatic circles by taking a markedly different approach to global politics than his predecessor.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nJust one day after a Berkeley student was caught on video destroying a College Republicans sign on campus, hundreds of flyers appeared calling CR members “baby fascists” and yet another sign was vandalized.<\/p>\n
\n“What an insult to our kids, our educators, to suggest for a moment that a 20 yr old, raised in rubble and taught to hate you, gays, Christians, Jews, women’s rights, and western liberalism would be as good an American as your kid”<\/p>\n
\nA United Nations official who visited North Dakota in the wake of months of protests over the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline believes the concerns and rights of Native Americans haven’t been adequately addressed.<\/p>\n
\nMystery one: what is dark matter. Mystery two: how to unify physics. Are they the same mystery?<\/p>\n
\nA Connecticut high school teacher was sentenced to three years in prison for sexual misconduct with two teenage boys, one of whom she threatened with retaliation from the Mafia if he didn’t keep quiet.<\/p>\n
\nDonald Trump’s claim over the weekend that President Obama ordered wiretaps on his phones has raised many more questions than answers about the ongoing probe of Trump advisers’ possible ties to the Russian government.<\/p>\n
\nLost in all the fake news about President Trump’s alleged affinity for Russia is the real news that he has tapped a harsh critic of Vladimir Putin to be the White House senior director for Russia and Europe. The Putin-critic he reportedly has selected is Fiona Hill, a former intelligence officer now with the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n
\n“The decolonization of Palestine” is “the beating heart of this new feminist movement”<\/p>\n
\nThe following is the text of President Trump\u2019s executive order on immigration, as released by the White House on Mar. 6, 2017.<\/p>\n
\nThe so-called March for Science is a social justice movement planning a major demonstration next month to oppose President Trump’s policies on science and the environment. Its promoters have courted the progressive crowd, and now they’re reaping the consequences. Namely, they recently came under fire for using the word “female.”<\/p>\n
\nDOJ: “Disclosure is not currently an option.”<\/p>\n
\nIt isn’t out of the question. The former president’s administration wiretapped journalists and spied on Congress.<\/p>\n
\nAn anti-Trump student group at The George Washington University was disbanded after a disagreement on whether to include a non-violence clause in its mission statement.<\/p>\n
\nTwo fall journalism classes at California State University, Long Beach used class assignments to disparage conservatives, including one involving a homophobic and sexist GOP primary candidate named “Ronald Plump.”<\/p>\n
\nIt seems increasing your job prospects in this tight employment market after college isn’t that high a priority – in the last quarter century college undergrads are more concerned with, as one student says, “understand[ing] and relat[ing] to peers and colleagues better.”<\/p>\n
\nProgressive groups are certainly finding ways to keep themselves busy ever since their disastrous performance in the last election. One method of killing time is to take a break from their relentless attacks on the new president and form up the old circular firing squad to go after members of their own party. <\/p>\n