{"id":2134,"date":"2013-04-28T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2013-04-28T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:15:25","slug":"news130428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/28\/news130428\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week for Apr. 28th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">News of the Week for Apr. 28<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 200px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#2ndAmendment\">Gun Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Hide_the_Decline\">Hide the Decline<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Obamacare\">Obamacare<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#War__Terror\">War &amp; Terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#National\">National News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Economy__Taxes\">Economy &amp; Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#International\">International News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Opinion\">Opinion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"2ndAmendment\"><\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jammiewf.com\/2013\/anarchy-ny-state-troopers-distance-themselves-from-cuomo-hesitant-to-enforce-draconian-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY State Troopers Distance Themselves From Cuomo, Hesitant to Enforce Draconian Gun Laws<\/a><br \/>\nLet this be a lesson to the gun-grabbing, anti-Second Amendment politicians out there. Ramming through gun laws in the dead of night with no debate and that are pretty much unenforceable leads to situations like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2528129?slideout=1\" target=\"_blank\">Five sad pictures from today\u2019s anti-NRA March<\/a><br \/>\nI swung by the Stop the NRA March this afternoon to watch the protest and march against gun violence. I was late, but caught two of the speeches before the crowd started marching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2013\/04\/21\/us\/21reuters-usa-explosions-boston-guns.html?hp&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bombing Suspects Did Not Have Valid Handgun Licenses<\/a><br \/>\nThe two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle with officers early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Hide_the_Decline\"><\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Environment &amp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Green Energy&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/04\/22\/climate_sensitivity_down_down\/\" target=\"_blank\">More and more likely that double CO2 means less than 2\u00b0C: New study<\/a><br \/>\nYes, it warms the planet &#8211; just not as much as thought<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bobtisdale.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/24\/el-nino-southern-oscillation-then-and-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation Then and Now<\/a><br \/>\nI\u2019m presenting this for those who look for patterns. I see it only as a curiosity\u2014nothing more.  I am not suggesting that future ENSO events will mimic those of the past, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/blog\/joncgabriel\/the-13-worst-predictions-made-on-earth-day-1970\" target=\"_blank\">13 Worst Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970<\/a><br \/>\nThe 1970s were a lousy decade. Embarrassing movies, dreadful music and downright terrifying clothes reflected the national mood following an unpopular war, endless political scandals and a faltering economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Obamacare\"><\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/04\/21\/ophthalmologists-walk-out-of-obamacare-talk-at-national-medical-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ophthalmologists walk out of Obamacare talk at national medical meeting<\/a><br \/>\nThe topic of the Government Relations session is complying with and implementing Obamacare.  Dr. Held doesn\u2019t like what\u2019s she\u2019s hearing, and she\u2019s not the only one. Indeed, almost all the doctors have walked out of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/10016485\/Thousands-of-hospital-patients-may-have-died-needlessly-says-inquiry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of hospital patients may have died needlessly, says inquiry <\/a><br \/>\nAlmost 3,000 people may have died unnecessarily in just one year at the 14 NHS trusts whose excessive mortality rates were reviewed in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire scandal, it emerged today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20130424\/DA5RP7302.html\" target=\"_blank\">Governments may push workers to health exchange<\/a><br \/>\nIn a move that would capitalize on provisions under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law but could cost the federal government millions of dollars, Washington state lawmakers have found a creative way to pass a large chunk of their health care expenses along to Washington, D.C. &#8211; and analysts say others are likely to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/bedbugs-invade-hospitals-231344108.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bedbugs Invade Hospitals<\/a><br \/>\nAs if adapting to health-care reform and curbing the \u201cnightmare bacteria\u201d weren\u2019t challenge enough, hospitals are increasingly plagued by another problem: bedbugs.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"War__Terror\"><\/a>War &amp; Terror<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/346122\/boston-bombers-and-collapse-assimilation\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Bombers and the Collapse of Assimilation<\/a><br \/>\nWe don\u2019t know all the details of the lives of the Boston bombers, but a portrait is starting to take shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbir.com\/rss\/article\/265845\/2\/Shots-fired-overnight-at-TVA-Watts-Bar-Nuclear-Plant\" target=\"_blank\">Shots fired at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant<\/a><br \/>\nA TVA spokesperson confirmed that a security officer patrolling TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City was involved in a shootout with a suspect Sunday at about 2:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/25\/us-female-sailor-beats-dubai-rapist-bus-driver-sub\/#ixzz2RaWapMRv\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission<\/a><br \/>\nAn off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-22297569#TWEET734784\" target=\"_blank\">US has &#8216;some confidence&#8217; Syria used chemical weapons<\/a><br \/>\nUS Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said American intelligence believes &#8220;to some degree of varying confidence&#8221; that Syria has used chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/animal-rights-activists-wreak-havoc-in-milan-laboratory-1.12847\" target=\"_blank\">Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity says loss of animals and lab records may ruin years of work on psychiatric diseases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2013\/04\/24\/a-chechen-in-the-rye\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chechen in the Rye<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/fbi-video-domestic-terrorist-says-he-targeted-conservative-group-for-being-anti-gay\/article\/2528072\" target=\"_blank\">Domestic terrorist says he targeted conservative group for being \u2018anti-gay\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nFamily Research Council (FRC) officials released video of federal investigators questioning convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II, who explained that he attacked the group\u2019s headquarters because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified them as a \u201chate group\u201d due to their traditional marriage views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/04\/23\/un-human-rights-official-justifies-boston-bombing-as-retribution\/\" target=\"_blank\">UN Human Rights Official Justifies Boston Bombing as \u2018Retribution\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nYou had this coming, America.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"National\"><\/a>National<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moonbattery.com\/?p=29079\" target=\"_blank\">School Counselor Gloats Over Dead of West, Texas<\/a><br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t easy for a black female to get fired from any job in this country, much less a job in education. For Karon Wright, a school counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie, Texas, it took putting this on her Facebook page following the tragic explosion in nearby West<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2013\/04\/19\/mj-rosenberg-calls-for-public-execution-of-republicans-and-matt-drudge\/\" target=\"_blank\">MJ Rosenberg Calls for Public Execution of Republicans and Matt Drudge<\/a><br \/>\nHow the ex-Media Matters fellow celebrates the capture of a Jihadist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/04\/25\/fuel-barges-explode-catch-fire-on-mobile-river-in-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\">3 hurt as fuel barges explode, catch fire on Mobile River in Alabama<\/a><br \/>\nFirefighters in Mobile, Ala. and the Coast Guard responded Wednesday night to four explosions on two fuel barges in the Mobile River in Alabama that left three people injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Journalism\/2013\/04\/24\/NPR-Host-Constitution-Like-Tinkerbell-Only-Alive\" target=\"_blank\">NPR Host: Constitution &#8216;Like Tinkerbell&#8230;Only Alive As We Collectively Decide&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nPeter Sagal, host of NPR&#8217;s highly entertaining &#8220;Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me,&#8221; is planning a new PBS special on the US Constitution. In an interview with Politico, Sagal explains that he will be using the show to &#8220;educate&#8221; Americans about our government&#8217;s framing document .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/04\/21\/EXCLUSIVE-Secret-emails-Cato-Norquist-Rubio-collude-to-counter-Boston-terror-attacks-effects-on-immigration-bill-Boston-thing-could-derail-this-big-time\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Emails: Cato, Norquist, Rubio Use Boston Terror Attacks to Push Immigration Reform<\/a><br \/>\nSecret emails obtained exclusively by Breitbart News show the libertarian Cato Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are colluding on immigration reform messaging in the wake of the Boston Marathon terror attack in order to push the \u201cGang of Eight\u201d bill that was released this past week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/04\/21\/More-secret-emails-Groups-work-together-to-craft-Grover-Norquist-s-congressional-testimony-attack-Sen-DeMint-and-Heritage\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Emails: Pro-Immigration Reform Consultants, Think Tanks Testify Through Grover Norquist<\/a><br \/>\nIn addition to the emails showing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) working with the libertarian Cato Institute and pro-Grover Norquist&#8217;s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) to shape pro-immigraiton reform messages in the wake of the Boston terror attack, additional emails obtained exclusively by Breitbart News suggest the two think tank groups are working closely together to push the bipartisan \u201cGang of Eight\u201d immigration bill through Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.the-american-interest.com\/wrm\/2013\/04\/23\/the-secret-war-on-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret War on Men?<\/a><br \/>\nDr. Helen Smith highlights an explosive topic that few want to talk about openly: discrimination against male students on college campuses. As Dr. Helen notes, university policies on sexual misconduct, as well as societal bias, are putting many college men in the hot seat, but few seem to care<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/04\/24\/efficient_galaxy_new_stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brutally efficient galaxy SPITS OUT STARS at &#8216;maximum rate&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nBurns through its gas supply, making Milky Way look slooow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/04\/27\/top-tier-gop-senate-candidates-a-hard-sell-for-some-open-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Tier GOP Senate Candidates a Hard Sell for Some Open Seats<\/a><br \/>\nRepublican recruiters are finding it slow going in convincing top-tier candidates to run for open Senate seats in some states that the GOP needs to fashion a majority in 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2013\/04\/26\/marijuana-repeal-considered-in-colorado-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana Repeal Considered In Colorado<\/a><br \/>\nThe proposal for a marijuana ballot measure came as the House started debate Friday evening on bills to regulate and tax pot. One bill would state how pot should be grown and sold, and the other would tax recreational marijuana more than 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rebelpundit.com\/2013\/04\/media-echoes-harvard-revolutionary-socialists-post-bombing-talking-points\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media Echoes Harvard \u201cRevolutionary\u201d Socialists\u2019 Post-Bombing Talking Points<\/a><br \/>\nThe Harvard \u201cRevolutionary\u201d Socialists gathered last week, just three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, for a forum entitled \u201cDon\u2019t Let Them Turn Tragedy into Racism\u201d on the Harvard University campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/collegeinsurrection.com\/2013\/04\/dartmouth-alum-slams-social-justice-experts-dishonest-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth Alum Slams \u201cSocial Justice\u201d Expert\u2019s \u201cDishonest Facts\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nYesterday we reported that in response to student activists\u2019 antics, Dartmouth College cancelled classes and made everyone attend a speech given by a \u201csocial justice and diversity\u201d consultant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2315483\/How-anti-racism-lesson-INCREASE-pupil-intolerance-They-cause-animosity-cultures.html#ixzz2Rd7dIfDL\" target=\"_blank\">How anti-racism lessons INCREASE pupil intolerance by &#8216;causing animosity to other cultures&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nDutch study finds discussing sensitive ethnic concerns can be counter-productive<br \/>\nEducation Secretary Michael Gove under fire over plans to stop teaching teenagers about multicultural topics<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/04\/26\/hot-young-naked-woman-breaks-into-texas-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot*, Young Naked Woman Allegedly Breaks Into Texas Home<\/a><br \/>\nKids, don\u2019t try this stunt at home. Texas has the Castle Doctrine. If young Sara Soto had been holding anything in her hands that could have been construed as a deadly weapon, despite the fact that she wasn\u2019t wearing a thing and no matter how good you think you look not wearing a thing, and had the homeowners been armed and jumpy, this past Tuesday could have been her last. Hiding out naked in a stranger\u2019s bathtub is just no way to go out, friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/touch.sun-sentinel.com\/#section\/1112\/article\/p2p-75624136\/\" target=\"_blank\">Could 50 be the new zero for Broward schools?<\/a><br \/>\nThe Broward school district is proposing eliminating the grade of zero and making 50 the lowest score a student could earn as a way to motivate failing students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/female-high-school-teacher-resigns-after-charged-with-raping-female-student\/\" target=\"_blank\">Female High School Teacher Resigns After Charged With Raping Female Student<\/a><br \/>\nA female math teacher and girls\u2019 basketball team coach in a Riverton, Utah high school has been arrested and charged with raping a 17-year-old female student. Courtney Louise Jarrell, age 22, faces charges of object rape (a first-degree felony) and forcible sexual abuse (a second-degree felony).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323789704578445232153839720.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">The Presidential Wheel Turns<\/a><br \/>\nDisaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/california-high-speed-rail-estimates-astounding\/article\/2528101?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2004\/25\/2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest\" target=\"_blank\">California high-speed rail estimates \u201castounding\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nThe idiocy of California\u2019s proposed high-speed rail line continues to astonish. For reasons why, consult \u201cCalifornia High-Speed Rail: An Updated Due Diligence Report\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/346718\/hank-johnson-imagine-world-without-balloons\" target=\"_blank\">Dem Congressman: \u2018Imagine a World Without Balloons\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nSpeaking on the House floor yesterday, Representative Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) stood up for some of the most important victims of congressional gridlock: children\u2019s birthday parties and comedians trying to make their voices high-pitched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/04\/26\/colleges-husky-dog-logo-promotes-rape-says-student\/\" target=\"_blank\">College\u2019s husky dog logo promotes rape, says student<\/a><br \/>\nThe new logo for the University of Connecticut\u2019s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soopermexican.com\/2013\/04\/26\/planned-parenthood-awards-margaret-sanger-award-to-short-german-offering-final-solution-for-unwanted-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planned Parenthood Awards \u2018Margaret Sanger\u2019 Award to Short German Offering Final Solution for Undesirable Children<\/a><br \/>\nLast night, the purveyors of infanticide enjoyed a dinner and toasted to the millions of children they had successfully advocated for extinction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/news\/article\/376921\/3\/KSDK-Exclusive-Former-Rep-Akin-talks-comeback-takes-on-Karl-Rove\" target=\"_blank\">Former Congressman Todd Akin breaks silence: talks comeback, takes on Republican establishment<\/a><br \/>\nThe 65-year-old former congressman says don&#8217;t rule him out. Nearly six months after losing the Senate race he continues to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum. But the greatest barbs are thrown by fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripps.edu\/news\/press\/2013\/20130422lerner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists Find Antibody that Transforms Bone Marrow Stem Cells Directly into Brain Cells<\/a><br \/>\nIn a serendipitous discovery, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to turn bone marrow stem cells directly into brain cells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripps.edu\/news\/press\/2013\/20130403lasmezas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists Identify First Potentially Effective Therapy for Human Prion Disease<\/a><br \/>\nHuman diseases caused by misfolded proteins known as prions are some of most rare yet terrifying on the planet\u2014incurable with disturbing symptoms that include dementia, personality shifts, hallucinations and coordination problems. The most well-known of these is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which can be described as the naturally occurring human equivalent of mad cow disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/2013\/04\/25\/harvard-researchers-discover-hormone-that-causes-cells-lost-diabetes-multiply\/v6VeP2nkOAuxrKMOlHP7sJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone said to raise insulin lost to diabetes<\/a><br \/>\nHarvard University researchers have discovered a naturally occurring hormone in mice that sharply increases the number of precious, insulin-producing cells found in the pancreas \u2014 the beta cells that are lost during diabetes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_XGR_IMMIGRANT_JURORS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-04-25-19-13-05\" target=\"_blank\">Calif. bill would let non-citizens serve on juries<\/a><br \/>\nThe California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/californias-latest-suicide-attempt.php\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s Latest Suicide Attempt<\/a><br \/>\nModern liberalism is all about \u201crights\u201d\u2014rights to health care, right to a job, right to food, the right to more rights, and so forth.  You know the drill.  Of course, these kind of liberal \u201crights\u201d aren\u2019t rights at all property understood; they are benefits that require the state to tax or expropriate someone\u2019s property to provide the \u201cright\u201d to someone else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/blog\/bs-md-ci-bgf-jail-indictment-20130423,0,3097270,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">Federal authorities indict alleged gang members, jail guards<\/a><br \/>\nIndictment alleges criminal conspiracy inside Baltimore City Detention Center<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/04\/immigration-reform-could-upend-electoral-college-90478.html\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats<\/a><br \/>\nThe immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation\u2019s political landscape for a generation or more \u2014 pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/346395\/our-broken-system-assimilation\" target=\"_blank\">Our Broken System of Assimilation<\/a><br \/>\nAlthough an Op-Ed in today\u2019s New York Times by liberal immigration researchers Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco, \u201cImmigrant Kids, Adrift,\u201d comes from a very different perspective than the important new study by John Fonte and Althea Nagai, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Patriotic Assimilation System is Broken,\u201d their conclusions are remarkably similar. Like Fonte and Nagai, the Suarez-Orozcos argue that America is not successfully assimilating new immigrants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/04\/23\/after-authoring-the-obamacare-train-wreck-dem-sen-max-baucus-will-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\">After Authoring the ObamaCare \u2018Train Wreck,\u2019 Dem. Sen. Max Baucus will Retire<\/a><br \/>\nAs the champion of President Obama\u2019s healthcare law in the Senate, Sen. Max Baucus\u2019 (MT) legacy includes strangling the US economy and ruining our healthcare system, while fundamentally altering the citizen\u2019s relationship to the state, in favor of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/04\/19\/teamsters-head-hoffa-tries-to-squash-his-own-employees-union\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teamsters head Hoffa tries to squash his own employees\u2019 union<\/a><br \/>\nInternational Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) general president Jimmy Hoffa Jr. is suspected by his members of trying to squash a union comprised of some of his own Teamsters organizers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2013\/04\/22\/obama-scheduled-visit-west-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Still Not Scheduled to Visit West, Texas<\/a><br \/>\nPresident Obama is still not scheduled to visit the devastated community of West, Texas, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant five days ago killed 14 \u2013 including 11 emergency responders \u2013 and wounded approximately 200 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2013\/04\/americans-snapping-by-the-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Americans &#8216;snapping&#8217; by the millions<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/346254\/harris-perry-why-dont-we-ask-if-ben-affleck-movies-motivated-boston-bombers\" target=\"_blank\">Harris-Perry: Islam As Relevant to Bombers&#8217; Motivations as Ben Affleck Movies<\/a><br \/>\nOn her MSNBC show yesterday, Melissa Harris-Perry argued that the Tsarnaev brothers\u2019 Muslim faith is inconsequential \u2014 or at least, only as significant to their motivations as, say, the violent movies produced by Ben Affleck set in the city of Boston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/346293\/melissa-harris-perry-leans-forward-private-school-tuition-bills\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Perry Leans Forward into . . . Private-School Tuition Bills<\/a><br \/>\nBefore Islamofascist bombs lethally disrupted last week\u2019s Boston Marathon, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry was under fire for an on-air \u201cLean Forward\u201d promotion that seemed to call for the collective ownership of the means of parenting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130427\/METRO01\/304270391\/Fire-Marathon-refinery-southwest-Detroit?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\" target=\"_blank\">Fire at Marathon refinery in southwest Detroit<\/a><br \/>\nA fire broke out Saturday evening at the Marathon Detroit refinery in southwest Detroit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightscoop.com\/institution-of-marriage-should-not-exist-gay-activist-admits-we-lie-that-marriage-wont-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cInstitution of marriage should not exist\u201d \u2013 Gay activist admits \u2018we lie\u2019 that marriage won\u2019t change<\/a><br \/>\nIt\u2019s not often you hear the truth from people who lie about their agendas, but here\u2019s an instance in which gay activist, Masha Gessen, admits \u201cwe lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change\u201d and further says she doesn\u2019t believe it should exist at all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.the-american-interest.com\/wrm\/2013\/04\/27\/college-whats-the-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">College: What\u2019s the Point?<\/a><br \/>\nAs nearly half of young American college grads work in jobs that don\u2019t require a bachelor\u2019s degree while struggling to pay off crushing student debt, lawmakers and educators are beginning to ask a critical question: What is college for?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/f\/mobile\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/the_truth_about_late_term_abortion_TDW9MnQT0XIQDRyfInpm2L\" target=\"_blank\">Abortion clinic employee caught on tape recommending killing infant<\/a><br \/>\nIn an undercover sting operation, a woman who was 23-plus weeks pregnant (abortion is illegal in New York and other states after 24 weeks) secretly recorded the conversations she had in this abortionist\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Economy__Taxes\"><\/a>Economy<br \/>\n&amp; Taxes<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-04-24\/working-poor-spark-170-increase-britons-needing-food-handouts-past-year\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Working Poor&#8221; Spark 170% Increase In Britons Needing Food Handouts In Past Year<\/a><br \/>\nWhile the dismal news of endlessly rising food stamp recipients in the US seems to be glossed over by most of the media because, well, stock markets are at all-time highs, in Britain, things are becoming increasingly awful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-04-25\/central-banks-join-herd-openly-buying-stocks-record-amounts\" target=\"_blank\">Central Banks Join The Herd, Openly Buying Stocks In Record Amounts<\/a><br \/>\nWhen tin-foil-hat wearing digital dickweed blogs first suggested that Central Banks were actively buying stocks, the mainstream media scoffed at the idiocy and un-independence of such an idea. However, it is clear the central banks themselves are now not only actively buying stocks but are activley encouraging it and propagandizing their efforts to lever this last policy tool left in the toolbox.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.the-american-interest.com\/wrm\/2013\/04\/24\/the-euro-is-ripping-europe-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Euro Is Ripping Europe Apart<\/a><br \/>\nGreece is dredging up some ugly memories in Europe with a new push for German war reparations from World War II. Two weeks ago, a \u201ctop-secret\u201d report from the Greek Finance Ministry was leaked that claimed that Germany still owes Greece \u20ac162 billion in reparations. The report made waves, but it wasn\u2019t clear whether the Greek government was serious about pressing ahead with the claims or was planning on burying them in the interest of smoothing over its relations with Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BfK3_kJ4z7k\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage: EU = Common Criminals<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"International\"><\/a>International<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2314595\/Member-hacking-group-Anonymous-UK-raped-woman-Occupy-London-campsite-steps-St-Pauls.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Raped&#8217; by anarchist in St Paul&#8217;s protest camp tent: Leader of anti-capitalists attacked me twice in shadow of cathedral, woman tells court<\/a><br \/>\nMalcolm Blackman, 45, allegedly raped woman twice in her tent in London<br \/>\nActivist frequently spoke to media during anti-capitalist protest at St Paul&#8217;s<br \/>\nHe tied woman&#8217;s hands behind her back with cable ties, Old Bailey hears<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2315185\/Five-year-olds-Germany-given-sex-education-book-achieve-orgasms-condom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Outrage as five-year-olds get sex-education book on how to achieve orgasms and put on a condom in Germany<\/a><br \/>\nThe book, called &#8216;Where Do You Come From?&#8217;, sparked outrage<br \/>\nIt features graphic images of a couple called Lisa and Lars having sex<br \/>\nOne of the cartoon images shows Lisa putting a condom on Lars<br \/>\nParents complained to the Berlin Senate, the city&#8217;s governing body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lightbox\/chernobyl-today-slideshow\/view-shows-nsc-structure-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-photo-161821129.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chernobyl today<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/crime\/8577037\/Man-sent-to-jail-for-watching-pixie-sex\" target=\"_blank\">Man sent to jail for watching &#8216;pixie sex&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nA man has been jailed for watching cartoon videos of elves, pixies and other fantasy creatures having sex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/22\/eurozone-merkel-idUSL5N0D92AS20130422\" target=\"_blank\">Merkel says euro members must be prepared to cede sovereignty<\/a><br \/>\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that euro zone members must be prepared to cede control over certain policy domains to European institutions if the bloc is truly to overcome its debt crisis and win back foreign investors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Opinion\"><\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/04\/19\/fault_lines_loom_for_dominant_dem_majority_118029.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fault Lines Loom for &#8220;Dominant&#8221; Dem Majority<\/a><br \/>\nSo what do a governor\u2019s race in Rhode Island, President Obama\u2019s proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts, a bankruptcy in Stockton, Calif., the fiscal cliff, and the funding mechanism for the Affordable Care Act have in common? This isn\u2019t some quirky setup for a joke only a wonk could love. The common thread here is that they all involve cross-currents in the Democratic Party that pose existential threats to their coalition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.theatlantic.com\/2009\/06\/interview_with_james_poulos_part_iii.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Police State<\/a><br \/>\nThe Pink Police State is a more extreme version of a regime I use to taunt my libertarian friends in my essay on &#8216;The Sex Vote&#8217; that&#8217;s just been published in Doublethink. I worry, and I think we should all worry, about the way cultural libertarianism is snowballing while the snowball of political libertarianism rolls deeper into hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/346517\/more-dependency\" target=\"_blank\">More Than Dependency<\/a><br \/>\nIn a post last night about Mike Lee\u2019s superb Heritage speech from Monday, I mentioned in passing that I was at least as struck by the fact that Lee did not emphasize the problem of \u201cdependency\u201d as by the crucially important themes he did lay out. A fair number of friendly readers, all of whom were just as impressed by Lee\u2019s remarks, have asked me to say a little more about why dependency might not be the best way to describe conservative objections to the detrimental moral effects of the welfare state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2013\/04\/the_sheep_of_watertown.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sheep of Watertown<\/a><br \/>\nThe events following the Boston bombing were instructive as to how far we have fallen as a free society.  After having failed at their most basic fiduciary responsibility of keeping the country safe (surely more to come on this in the future), the government aggressively flexed its authority over its subjects, the residents of Watertown, Massachusetts.  Juxtaposed with the recent national debate on more stringent gun laws, the future of Americanism is in question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/04\/what-would-you-add-to-the-bill-of-rights\/275250\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Would You Add to the Bill of Rights?<\/a><br \/>\nAn informal survey suggests a desire for greater privacy protections is present among some liberals, conservatives and libertarians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/346625\/get-my-lawn-party-vs-future\" target=\"_blank\">The Get Off My Lawn Party vs. the Future<\/a><br \/>\nI keep an eye on Apple news, in part because I\u2019m an investor and in part because my new book is organized around the question: Why does your smart phone get better and cheaper every year while your public schools get more expensive and less effective, and why isn\u2019t health care, a basic necessity, as cheap and accessible as mobile-phone service, which until the day before yesterday was a millionaire\u2019s luxury?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of the Week for Apr. 28th, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[41,15,36,22,24,44,11,58,48,57],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-democrats","tag-energy","tag-fail","tag-leviathan","tag-news","tag-obamacare","tag-obamanomics","tag-social-justice","tag-war-on-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}