<\/p>\n
News of the Week for June 30th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Putin says no to US request to extradite Snowden <\/a> No, ‘Progressive’ Groups Weren’t Targeted by the IRS Like Conservative Organizations Were<\/a> Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party Groups, Just 6 Left-wing Groups<\/a> Obama Administration\u2019s Warrantless Collection of Citizens\u2019 Personal Financial Data <\/a> <\/p>\n Recall Of Second Colorado Democrat Legislator Validated<\/a> New York City’s Special Counsel Registered as a Paid Lobbyist on Behalf of Bloomberg’s 501c4 MAIG in Nevada<\/a> Charges Dropped Against Kid Who Wore NRA Shirt to School<\/a> Climate Expert von Storch: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?<\/a> Obama to lay out three-part plan for addressing climate change<\/a> The Sierra Club\u2019s Violent, Totalitarian Tendencies<\/a> Twitchers flocking to see rare bird saw it killed by wind turbine<\/a> \u2018plug-and-play\u2019 CO2 Scrubbers<\/a> Failure Deniers: Climate Change and Public-Sector Science<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pediatricians have a new mission: Fight \u2018homophobia\u2019<\/a> Obamacare Hits Hollywood: Studios Brace for the Affordable Care Act<\/a> So Much For \u201cPatient Privacy\u201d\u2026\u2026.<\/a> Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals because ‘nurses are too busy to feed patients’<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n KGB operation seeded Muslim countries with anti-American, anti-Jewish propaganda during the 1970s, laying the groundwork for Islamist terrorism against U.S. and Israel<\/a> <\/p>\n Supreme Court DOMA decision \u2013 Unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n Supreme Court Gay Marriage Decision \u2013 No Standing<\/a><\/p>\n Professor: White men out to \u2018cannibalize\u2019 the bodies, minds of Detroit students <\/a> Transgender first-grader wins civil rights suit after girls\u2019 bathroom ban<\/a> Gang of Eight Giveaways <\/a> Man accused of bias intimidation at concert<\/a> Supreme Court Punts on Texas Affirmative-Action Case <\/a> The Rootless Netroots<\/a> Bolton Plans a Tour of Early-Primary States<\/a> Democratic lawmaker hits justice as \u2018Uncle Thomas\u2019<\/a> Feds to Students: You Can’t Say That<\/a> Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug<\/a> Sen. Coburn: “Dysfunctional” Senate now has a “rules committee of Harry Reid alone” <\/a><\/p>\n Clarence Thomas Continues His Long War on Affirmative Action<\/a> The Immigration Bill (Or Is It the Corker-Hoeven Amendment?): Everything That Is Wrong with Washington <\/a> Supreme Court Gay Marriage Decision \u2013 No Standing<\/a> Bringing Mitch McConnell Out of the Shadows<\/a> Did the Supreme Court\u2019s Gay Marriage Ruling Just Destroy Colorado\u2019s TABOR Law?<\/a> Scalia’s DOMA Dissent<\/a> Boehner tells House GOP that he won\u2019t bring Gang of Eight bill up for a vote<\/a> Forbes: Glenn Beck earned more than Oprah over last year<\/a> 26% of Obama Supporters View Tea Party as Nation\u2019s Top Terror Threat<\/a> Holder: Universal Voter Registration Through Federal Benefits<\/a> Sen. Ron Johnson\u2019s Grown-Up Reasoning Behind His Immigration Bill Vote<\/a> Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student <\/a> Anti-Bullying Bill Could Jail People Who Criticize Politicians<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US First-Quarter GDP Gets a Haircut, Rises Only 1.8%<\/a> Corzine Officially Charged By CFTC For Filing False Reports, Commingling Funds And Other VIolations<\/a> Ten States Now Buried by Pensions<\/a> Gold Crashes Through Production Cost Levels <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Egypt’s army delivers an ominous warning<\/a> Obama to Egyptian Christians: Don\u2019t Protest the Brotherhood<\/a> Aussie PM Gillard loses leadership ballot to Rudd<\/a> 36 killed after knife gang attacks China police station<\/a> Free Speech Dies in UK: Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller Banned From Entering<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A really good Gabriel Gomez question concerning the Gang of Eight Bill<\/a> Today Republican Senators will vote to implode the party<\/a> Why Are Illegal Immigrants More Important Than American Citizens? <\/a> Regressive Progressive\u2019s strike again, spending hundreds of thousands of education dollars on recycled liberal claptrap<\/a> The Bill Of Rights: An Updating<\/a><\/p>\n The Long Twilight Struggle of the 21st Century: We Can Give in, We Can Hide, We Can Fight, or We Can Leave<\/a> Restraining the ambitions of the State<\/a> Uncles, Fruits, and Nuts <\/a> Why indeed? And a revelation about Guardia<\/a> Defenders of Rachel Jeantel Channel John C. Calhoun<\/a> Cultural Decline And The United States Supreme Court<\/a> This Is What Fundamental Transformation Looks Like<\/a>\n
<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nRussian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying Snowden is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that Russian security agencies haven’t contacted him.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday’s IRS news bulletin was a bit perplexing. It was no real surprise that the agency had used inappropriate ‘BOLO’ lists more widely and for longer than we’d previously known. Sweeping malfeasance and subsequent dishonesty is par for the course with them at this point.<\/p>\n
\nThe media is entirely too enamored with a local crime story in Florida to report on this, or a second IRS official taking the fifth, or the IRS abusing taxpayer money and taxpayers.<\/p>\n
\nJudicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revealing that the agency has spent millions of dollars for the warrantless collection and analysis of Americans\u2019 financial transactions. The documents also reveal that CFPB contractors may be required to share the information with \u201cadditional government entities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThis afternoon, Scott Gessler and the Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s Office deemed the petition to recall the Democrat state Senator from Pueblo, Angela Giron, sufficient.<\/p>\n
\nWhat’s going on here?<\/p>\n
\nWell, it looks like we\u2019re not going to criminalize T-shirts after all<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nClimate experts have long predicted that temperatures would rise in parallel with greenhouse gas emissions. But, for 15 years, they haven’t. In a SPIEGEL interview, meteorologist Hans von Storch discusses how this “puzzle” might force scientists to alter what could be “fundamentally wrong” models.<\/p>\n
\nWith little to no hope on Capitol Hill for action on climate change, President Obama on Tuesday plans to bypass Congress and move forward with executive actions designed to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
\nRichard \u2018Rick\u2019 Nunno is a member of the Executive Committee of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Sierra Club. He\u2019s also the editor of the Capital Sierran newsletter.<\/p>\n
\nScores of twitchers flocked to the Outer Hebrides to see a bird that has been recorded just eight times previously in the UK in nearly 170 years – only to see it slain by a wind turbine.<\/p>\n
\nProposed method could be more efficient than previous systems and easier to retrofit in existing power plants.<\/p>\n
\nIf not taxpayer-funded, the massive failure of warmism advocates would have been addressed long ago.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nIn its first sexual-orientation policy update in nearly a decade, the nation\u2019s largest pediatricians group said its members should do more to fight \u201cheterosexism\u201d and \u201chomophobia,\u201d as well as step up their care of teens with same-sex attractions.<\/p>\n
\nAs payroll companies struggle to predict the impact of new laws on movie and TV shoots, one insider says the act “wasn’t written with this industry in mind.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Obama Administration has been getting hammered recently for their lack of preparation in the lead-up to the \u201cofficial\u201d roll-out of The Great and Powerful Obamacare on January 1, 2014.<\/p>\n
\nFor every patient who dies from malnutrition, four more have dehydration mentioned on their death certificate
\nIn 2011, 43 patients starved to death and 291 died in a state of severe malnutrition
\nDepartment of Health branded the figures ‘unacceptable’ and said the number of unannounced inspections will increase<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims in a new book that anti-American Islamic terrorism had its roots in a secret 1970s-era KGB plot to harm but the United States and Israel by seeding Muslim countries with carefully targeted propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nPublic school apologists gathered at the state capitol last week to once again complain about education reform and Republican legislators.<\/p>\n
\nThe Colorado Civil Rights Division has decided in favor of the transgender first-grader who had been prohibited from using the girls\u2019 bathroom at a public elementary school.<\/p>\n
\nThe Senate will vote this afternoon to end debate on the latest version of the Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration-reform bill, which now runs more than 1,200 pages. That includes the Corker-Hoeven border-security amendment, along with a laundry list of other amendments that have been tacked on to the original bill in the last few days. Senators will have had a little over 72 hours to read the amended text before casting their votes.<\/p>\n
\nAuthorities say a man attending a Toby Keith concert in New Jersey’s most impoverished city climbed a fence into a housing complex, waved a Confederate flag and shouted racial slurs at residents.<\/p>\n
\nCapping a year of suspense with a surprise anticlimax, the Supreme Court Monday sidestepped a sweeping ruling on affirmative action and instead directed lower courts to re-examine whether a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin should survive constitutional scrutiny.<\/p>\n
\nFree Beacon crashes premiere progressive confab<\/p>\n
\nWatch out, Rand Paul. As Paul, a Kentucky senator, plans for a 2016 presidential run, he is talking up his views on foreign policy, which, broadly speaking, include less intervention in foreign conflicts and a smaller military budget.<\/p>\n
\nA Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota criticized Tuesday\u2019s Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act by calling Justice Clarence Thomas \u201cUncle Thomas,\u201d then saying he didn\u2019t know \u201cUncle Tom\u201d was a racist epithet.<\/p>\n
\nThe Justice and Education departments issue a dangerous new speech code for colleges.<\/p>\n
\nFacebook said Friday it fixed a bug that exposed contact info for over six million accounts. The admission revealed its ‘shadow profile’ data collection activities, and users are furious.<\/p>\n
\nIn his memoir My Grandfather\u2019s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pointed to his years at Yale Law School as the genesis of his hostility to affirmative action. \u201cBefore long I realized that those blacks who benefitted from it were being judged by a double standard,\u201d Thomas wrote. \u201cAs much as it stung to be told that I\u2019d done well in the seminary despite my race, it was far worse to feel that I was now at Yale because of it.\u201d In response, he took extra course credits and pursued a tough field of study. But in the end, Thomas recalled, he found \u201cthe stigmatizing effects of racial preference\u201d impossible to escape and \u201cbegan to fear that it would be used forever after to discount my achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nI was just watching Senator Ted Cruz\u2019s floor speech in opposition to the atrocious immigration bill and took note of a remarkable exchange between Senators Cruz and Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and mastermind of the legislation.<\/p>\n
\nThe death of the ballot initiative movement as Court gives de facto veto power to government officials who want to lose a case.<\/p>\n
\nMitch McConnell got another lucky break today when Obama announced his latest climate fascism that will cripple the coal industry. He was provided with another low-hanging talking point to distract from the most immediate threat of amnesty \u2013 something he actually has the power to stop.<\/p>\n
\nIn its decision regarding the 2008 California ballot initiative that prohibited gay marriage, the Supreme Court ruled this morning that citizens who supported the initiative have no standing to defend it in federal court. Only government officials have that right, the Supreme Court ruled.<\/p>\n
\nMy simple rule of the thumb….if you find yoursefl on the opposing side of Scalia, rethink your position.<\/p>\n
\nDoesn\u2019t mean the House won\u2019t pass something of its own, and it doesn\u2019t mean something resembling the Gang of Eight bill won\u2019t emerge from the conference committee later. But let\u2019s appreciate good news while we have it.<\/p>\n
\nConservative personalities Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity all made Forbes magazine\u2019s 2013 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities \u2014 the only political celebrities, left or right, to do so.<\/p>\n
\nHalf of all voters consider radical Muslims the bigger terrorist threat facing the nation, but supporters of President Obama consider the Tea Party to be as big a danger.<\/p>\n
\nElection integrity advocates must always remember that even progressive contingency plans have contingency plans. President Obama\u2019s reported statement in Senegal regarding the Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act as outdated and unconstitutional was a dog whistle to election law agitators that deserves interpretation.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s insane enough to bloat the nanny state for citizens, psychotic to do it for non-citizens.
\nNASA’s Voyager 1 Probe Enters New Realm Near Interstellar Space<\/a>
\nNASA’s venerable Voyager 1 probe has encountered a strange new region at the outer reaches of the solar system, suggesting the spacecraft is poised to pop free into interstellar space, scientists say.<\/p>\n
\nWhen a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.<\/p>\n
\nSchool\u2019s out for summer and Nanny of the Month is taking the opportunity to salute the zealots within the otherwise laudable anti-bullying movement. They take a real problem–few things are more loathsome than picking on the vulnerable–and bungle the response, as has been done with most every \u201cget tough!\u201d effort from D.A.R.E., the failed anti-drug program, to all the idiotic iterations of the \u201czero tolerance\u201d fad.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nU.S. economic growth was more tepid than previously estimated in the first quarter, held back by a moderate pace of consumer spending, weak business investment and declining exports.<\/p>\n
\nCFTC Charges MF Global Inc., MF Global Holdings Ltd., Former CEO Jon S. Corzine, and Former Employee Edith O\u2019Brien for MF Global\u2019s Unlawful Misuse of Nearly One Billion Dollars of Customer Funds and Related Violations<\/p>\n
\nThere are currently ten states whose pension liabilities are higher than total yearly revenues, according to a new Moody\u2019s report on public pensions. The states in question included Colorado, Kentucky, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Connecticut. Worst of all was Illinois, where pension liabilities are more than twice as high as revenues.<\/p>\n
\nGold fell to its lowest level since 2010 on Friday to under $1,200, which is what it costs many miners to produce an ounce of gold, and analysts tell CNBC that miners will be “severely” impacted if prices stay here.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nEgypt’s army chief warned on Sunday that the military is ready to intervene to stop the nation from entering a “dark tunnel” of internal conflict.<\/p>\n
\nAs Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi\u2019s rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted Mubarak. Among other influential Egyptians, Morsi recently called on Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to urge his flock, Egypt\u2019s millions of Christians, not to join the June 30 protests.<\/p>\n
\nAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was ousted as Labor Party leader Wednesday by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, in a vote of party lawmakers hoping to avoid a huge defeat in upcoming elections.<\/p>\n
\nKnife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians in a bloody attack that only ended after 10 attackers were shot dead in western China early Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cU.S. Bloggers banned from Entering the UK.\u201d That\u2019s how a BBC headline broke the news that authors Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were denied entry to the country that gave the world the Magna Carta.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nOne of the regular arguments that we\u2019re constantly told is that if the GOP would only support the amnesty Immigration Bill it will solve our problems with Latinos or at least be the first step in solving said problems.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s what today\u2019s vote on the Corker amended immigration bill is about.<\/p>\n
\nNotwithstanding copious evidence that the Gang of Eight bill will be devastating for low-skilled American workers, senate leadership insists on conducting a vote on the 1,200\u2013page monstrosity before anyone has a chance to read it. Americans have a right to ask just who the senators think they represent.<\/p>\n
\nThe thing about Progressives, as I\u2019ve mentioned often enough, is that their arguments have remained unchanged over decades. They frame abortion as if we still live in a world where pregnancy out-of-wedlock is a social crime that leads women to back alleys and death; they view race relations as if the Civil Rights fight in the South happened yesterday, but took place all over the country; and they believe in Keynesian economics despite decades of evidence that it fails.<\/p>\n
\nIn the larger sense, what should we do in the face of these threats to our liberty and well-being, foreign and domestic? How should we react? As a people, we have four basic choices over the next century: We can give in, we can hide, we can fight, or we can leave.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNobody is talking about preventing the legalization,\u201d Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) assured his audience during an interview with the Spanish-language network Univision a couple of weeks ago. \u201dThe legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA look at some American slurs<\/p>\n
\nThis is really priceless. A Guardian hack bemoans and decries the young of Britain what seek real work, instead of opting for the readily available state welfare.<\/p>\n
\nThe Left’s latest generation of segregationists.<\/p>\n
\nAnother Rigged Game We Play In America.<\/p>\n
\nThis week he pressed forward on three fronts, even as preparations to implement Obamacare \u2014 putting one-sixth of the economy on the path to government domination \u2014 slowly grind away. The country will be worse off if he succeeds.<\/p>\n