News of the Week for August 25th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished<\/a> <\/p>\n California Rushing Headlong Toward Draconian Gun Control<\/a> Efforts to Repeal Stand-Your-Ground Falter, Fail . . . Backfire?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 Cities Buy More Than Half of All Electric Vehicles in U.S.<\/a> <\/p>\n Over 100K New Jersey Residents to Lose Their Affordable Health Plans under Obamacare <\/a> Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare’s Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines<\/a> Lawmaker, Regulate Thyself<\/a> The ObamaCare Prisoner’s Dilemma <\/a> Health plans drop working spouses<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We’re building a domestic army”<\/a><\/p>\n Nidal Hasan GUILTY on all counts in Fort Hood shooting<\/a> U.S. Hints at Cruise Missile Strikes Against Syria<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dem Senator Up for Reelection: Obama Has ‘Hard-Left Agenda’<\/a> UGA moves to fire tenured professor<\/a> Deep Thoughts From Susan Sarandon: \u201cIt became clear to me that, you know as a woman, you can\u2019t just vote your vagina\u201d<\/a> Townhall Tactic 2013: Why do you want to deport my daddy?<\/a> Mich. Family Violently Targeted After Standing Against Teacher Who Molested Their 8th Grade Son<\/a> Republicans look to change structure of campaign debates<\/a> Things Looking Up for GOP Down-Ballot<\/a> President Reagan’s Commitment to Racial Equality Began Early in Life<\/a><\/p>\n The new film Lee Daniels’ The Butler depicts President Ronald Reagan as indifferent to the suffering of blacks as well as the country’s civil rights progress.<\/p>\n State Rep Joe Carr Will Challenge Lamar Alexander in TN GOP Senate Primary<\/a> Oregon To \u201cRehabilitate\u201d Businesses Opposed To Gay Marriage<\/a> SPLC: If You Can\u2019t Help Every Child, You Can\u2019t Help Any Child<\/a> Atheists incensed after IRS grants them tax exemption as religious group<\/a> Suspected killer of Chris Lane bragged about attacking white people to get revenge for Trayvon Martin.<\/a> Alleged sexual assault, coverup, of minority Democratic staffers in Kentucky.<\/a> ‘Law & Order: SVU’ to Tackle Trayvon Martin, Paula Deen<\/a> The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013<\/a> Has Scott Walker been \u201cstealthy\u201d enough?<\/a> Julian Castro\u2019s Star Continues to Rise, Sans Accomplishments <\/a> MSNBC\u2019s Reid: Why Are Conservatives Racializing Christopher Lane Shooting? <\/a> ABC, Which Didn’t Identify Sleazy Mayor as a Dem, Hits Scandal of ‘Rising Republican Star’<\/a> Black teen who allegedly murdered Australian jogger posted racist Tweets<\/a> San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign<\/a> Reserving the right to refuse service<\/a> NYC Mayoral Candidate Quinn Wants Contraceptives for 11-Year Olds<\/a> Religious Liberty, Artistic Freedom Rollback In New Mexico<\/a> Lawyer for New Mexico photographer: Forcing her to work at a gay wedding violates her right of free expression<\/a> The Subtlest Racism <\/a> I Shouted Out Who Killed the Kennedys, When After All It Was Paula Deen<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So you think Europe’s debt crisis is finally over? Time to think again<\/a> Dodgy data may add $1 trillion to Chinese economy: Report <\/a> DOOM: Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee<\/a> When welfare pays better than work<\/a> California Wants Small-Business Owners To Pay Back $120 Million In Tax Breaks<\/a> Mad Men economics? No, we can\u2019t return to the sky-high tax rates of postwar America<\/a> The Blip <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The rise of ‘co-parenting’: How broody, single women are advertising online for men to help them have and raise babies… but they don’t want a relationship<\/a> Why the Failure of Egypt\u2019s \u2018Secular\u2019 Army to Protect Coptic Churches Matters<\/a> Syrian activists claim deadly ‘toxic gas’ attack<\/a> Step aside, Wonderwoman: Pakistan (almost) unveils its first ever woman superhero… the Burka Avenger <\/a> Dreams of Empire <\/a> Does he know what she’s up to? Daughter of New Zealand Prime Minister in bizarre erotic photoshoot posing with an octopus and Big Macs <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Conservative\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a> Another Epic Fail for Socialism<\/a> Is Anything Private? <\/a> The Left Wishes to Destroy Society, Period<\/a> “I’m Not Paranoid,” Insists Noted Paranoid<\/a> “I’m Not Paranoid,” Insists Noted Paranoid<\/a> Ted Cruz, traitor to his class<\/a> The Left’s League Of All Right Thinking People<\/a> Obama\u2019s Dependency Agenda<\/a> Winnowing Down Religious Liberty <\/a> \u2018Compelled by Law\u2019 <\/a> Will Religious Liberty Survive Same-Sex Marriage? <\/a> Losing the Battle. Winning\u2026<\/a> The \u2018Race Conversation\u2019 Network <\/a> Oberlin hoax lesson: Smelling a rat is good, smelling like a rat is bad<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nSecretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action and has asked them to come back to work at the State Department starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nOn August 12 Breitbart News reported that California was set to become the strictest gun control state in the country with an ammunition registry. It has since become apparent that such a registry is only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n
\nThe much ballyhooed efforts to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in Florida have suffered an ignominious and well-deserved death.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIt\u2019s a stat that should surprise absolutely no one. More than half of all electric vehicles in the U.S. are silently running around five major cities.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThe latest casualty of Obamacare may be a low-cost New Jersey health-care policy. Though President Obama promised \u201cif you like your health care plan, you\u2019ll be able to keep your health care plan, period,\u201d that will not be the case for approximately 106,000 New Jersey residents whose plans will disappear under the law.<\/p>\n
\nIn recent months, President Obama and his subordinates have waived or delayed a number of Obamacare\u2019s notable features, such as the law\u2019s employer mandate, and its procedures for protecting taxpayers from fraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n
\n“Washington is an island surrounded by reality,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, likes to say. In an effort to inject some reality into the Beltway, Grassley introduced an amendment to the Affordable Care Act to require that members of Congress and their staff get their health care from the new Obamacare exchanges. “Congress should live under the laws it creates. That includes Obamacare,” Grassley explained.<\/p>\n
\nWhy it’s foolish to buy overpriced insurance.<\/p>\n
\nA growing number of companies are looking to clamp down on rising health care costs by dumping coverage for their employees’ working spouses.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nIn a unanimous verdict, Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts in the November, 2009 Fort Hood massacre.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nSo says a supporter of Obamacare.<\/p>\n
\nUniversity of Georgia administrators have moved to revoke the tenure of an art professor for allegedly having a public sexual encounter with a student.<\/p>\n
\nNow that she\u2019s collecting Social Security it\u2019s finally time to mature as a voter. Sure took long enough.<\/p>\n
\nExploiting children to achieve full amnesty \u2014 Actual question asked of Rep. Tom Reed: \u201cWould you consider adopting one of those kids?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Janczewski family is fighting the local school district in Rose, Michigan after it emerged that a male teacher molested their 8th grade son and then \u2014 unbelievably \u2014 six other teachers spoke out against the 15-30 year sentence the man received.<\/p>\n
\n“They’re really thinking outside the box,” says one well-connected source of the Republican National Committee’s effort to reform its system of presidential primary debates. “They’re looking at everything.”<\/p>\n
\nNestled in the valley between Chestnut and Laurel ridges, this tiny village once included a state-funded relief camp for jobless men during the Great Depression; it housed, fed and employed them for 40 cents an hour (before the government deducted a daily 85-cent maintenance fee).<\/p>\n
\nState Representative Joe Carr announced on Ralph Bristol’s Nashville talk radio program on Tuesday that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate. Carr will compete against incumbent Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the party’s August 2014 primary. Bristol had promised his listeners on Monday that someone would make a “major announcement” that will “alter the Tennessee political landscape,” and at 7:10 in the morning Joe Carr delivered on that promise.<\/p>\n
\nYou Will Be Made To Care<\/p>\n
\nMost people know the story of the boy who was rescuing sea stars that had washed up on a beach by throwing them back into the ocean. When a man scoffed to the boy that his efforts didn\u2019t make a difference since he couldn\u2019t save all of them, the boy tossed another sea star back into the ocean and replied, \u201cIt made a difference to that one.\u201d The little-known ending to the story is that the boy was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center for violating the Constitution\u2019s Equal Protection clause.<\/p>\n
\nThe leader of an atheist group reportedly is incensed that the U.S. government has granted it a tax exemption, citing allowances for religious organizations \u2014 and she\u2019s even angrier at learning that she\u2019s considered a minister under the Internal Revenue Service code.<\/p>\n
\nThe US media, including \u201cconservative\u201d Bill O\u2019Reilly, are declaring that the murder of Chris Lane was not racial. Two black teenagers have been charged with his murder. This includes Chancey Luna and James Edwards. Luna has a white mother. Both Luna and Edwards left evidence online that they hated white people.<\/p>\n
\nOh, look. A Democratic-controlled legislature stonewalling sexual harassment charges by Democratic female staffers* against a white Democratic state legislator. I\u2019d say shocking, except that it\u2019s not. It\u2019s highly offensive, but it\u2019s not shocking.<\/p>\n
\nLaw & Order: SVU, the NBC drama which rips stories from the national headlines with a liberal bent, is tackling the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin in an upcoming episode.<\/p>\n
\nA massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages. At least one of the two was an Obama supporter with strong progressive, anti-racist politics.<\/p>\n
\nPolitico claims to have identified Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s \u201cstealth\u201d game plan for a presidential run during the next three years. It consists of winning reelection in 2014 without moderating a record that has won over many conservatives; letting the other GOP hopefuls get sullied in Congress or otherwise; and then \u201cpouncing\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n
\nPolitico notes that by the end of October, Joaquin and Julian Castro \u2014 one twin brother a first-term congressman, and the other the mayor of San Antonio \u2014 will have appeared at major functions in at least 11 states outside their native Texas, and also on the sets of prominent national TV programs like NBC\u2019s Meet the Press and ABC\u2019s This Week.<\/p>\n
\nMSNBC guest host Joy-Ann Reid wonders why conservatives were focusing on the racial elements of the shooting of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane.<\/p>\n
\nThe journalists on Good Morning America, Wednesday, again ignored the fact that San Diego’s mayor, accused of sexually harassing 18 women, is a Democrat. Yet, on the very same program, reporter John Muller made sure to highlight Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst’s scandal, chiding the “rising national Republican star.” Dewhurst is under fire for intervening after his step-niece was arrested for shoplifting.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the teens charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane in Duncan, Okla., previously posted anti-white statements on his Twitter feed.<\/p>\n
\nFilner’s attorney has a letter of resignation drafted for his signature once deal is approved by City Council<\/p>\n
\nIn yet another topic sure to enrage, Sterling Beard \u2013 writing at The Corner \u2013 catches up with the latest news on a strange case coming to us from New Mexico. It\u2019s now gone all the way to the state Supreme Court, and the story may be at an end. In case you hadn\u2019t heard, wedding photographers can\u2019t refuse to take pictures at a gay wedding or they have violated the New Mexico Human Rights Act.<\/p>\n
\nNew York City mayoral candidate and current city council member Christine Quinn said she is fine with allowing girls as young as 11 to have access to contraceptives.<\/p>\n
\nA unanimous ruling by the New Mexico Supreme Court held that a Christian photographer violated the state\u2019s human rights law by declining to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony.<\/p>\n
\nThe comments to Jazz\u2019s post this morning have been raging all day so I figured there\u2019d be interest in hearing directly from her spokesman. Most people, me included, approach this issue from the standpoint of free exercise of religion. If she disapproves of gay marriage because of her faith and the state tells her to ignore her faith and work the wedding anyway, well, then, free exercise ain\u2019t as free as one would think. But that\u2019s probably a nonstarter; read Dale Carpenter\u2019s post at the Volokh Conspiracy to see why. He, Eugene Volokh, and the Cato Institute filed an amicus brief in this case siding with the photographer \u2014 but free exercise was one of their minor arguments. Under Supreme Court precedent, as long as a law isn\u2019t deliberately targeted at religion, you can\u2019t plead free exercise if it happens to interfere with your religion. The New Mexico Supreme Court found that the state\u2019s antidiscrimination law isn\u2019t targeted, so that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
\nAn activist at Oberlin College invents evidence of a racial crime that never happened.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Paula Deen SHOOTS Trayvon Martin\u2019 in new SVU that wraps both scandals into one controversial episode\u2026 and Cybill Shepard plays gun-wielding TV chef.\u201d the headline at the London Daily Mail breathlessly reports, in a story that\u2019s largely cribbed from this Entertainment Weekly article<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nOne of the factors underpinning renewed confidence in the UK economy is the belief that the crisis in Europe is now essentially over.<\/p>\n
\nChina may be exaggerating the size of its economy to the tune of $1 trillion by releasing “willfully fraudulent” inflation and GDP [gross domestic product] data, according to a study out this week.<\/p>\n
\nThe basic atom of society is not the individual human being; it is the family. If the family is destroyed, so is society. It\u2019s really just that simple.<\/p>\n
\nHere\u2019s an offer for you: $38,004 per year, tax free.No work required.Apply at your local welfare office.<\/p>\n
\nSmall-business investors in California were promised big breaks five years ago, but now they\u2019re being told to pay up, instead after a court ruling.<\/p>\n
\nAs President Obama continues his Back to the Future, 1950s nostalgia economics tour, I thought it would be a good time to glance again at the idea that there would be no economic harm from returning to something like the sky-high marginal tax rates of the early postwar era. Some progressives point to the work of influential left-liberal economists Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez as making this case.<\/p>\n
\nWhat if everything we\u2019ve come to think of as American is predicated on a freak coincidence of economic history? And what if that coincidence has run its course?<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nWith their biological clocks ticking, time poor and cash rich 40-something singletons are turning to the internet to find their man.<\/p>\n
\nExpatriate Egyptian Coptic Christian writer Samuel Tadros has just observed how Egypt\u2019s Copts\u2014the country\u2019s indigenous, pre-Arab Islamic jihad inhabitants\u2014have been under siege by a recent spate of Muslim Brotherhood inspired and led church burnings, which punctuates the worst outbreak of anti-Coptic Muslim violence since the era of Muslim Mamluk rule (i.e., the 13th to 16th centuries).<\/p>\n
\nSyrian anti-government activists accused the regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children as they slept, during intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of Damascus that are part of a fierce government offensive in the area.<\/p>\n
\nBurka Avenger is a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills
\nUses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs
\nStops yobs seeking to shut down the girls’ school where she works
\nCreation of Pakistan pop star, who wants to emphasise importance of school<\/p>\n
\nJose Maria Barroso, President of the EU Commission: \u201cSometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of empire. We have the dimension of empire..\u201d<\/p>\n
\nStephanie Key, 20, took the raunchy self-portraits for Paris Design Week
\nShe poses topless with a cherry in her mouth in one picture
\nHer father is New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nOur worst enemy isn\u2019t the government; it\u2019s the left-wing media that first rots people\u2019s brains to the point the current government is even possible, then stampedes the herd into voting for it.<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s the old joke I heard way back in college that was more or less rendered obsolete in the 1980s, but which has made a comeback of sorts in the era of Obama\u2019s crypto-socialist crony-capitalism: \u201cThe trouble with capitalism is that it\u2019s people exploiting other people; the trouble with socialism is just the opposite.\u201d Of course this is false: it is capitalism, not government control of the economy, that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty\u2013especially in China\u2013over the last 25 years. It seems silly to have to repeat this over and over again, but the socialist impulse is irrepressible, along with the sentimental ignorance that fuels the socialist impulse.<\/p>\n
\nLiberal assumptions about “income inequality” have some surprising implications.<\/p>\n
\nLet All Men Be Brought Low, so that we might all be equal upon our backs or bellies.
\nWe shall all find equality in the dirt.<\/p>\n
\nThe mentality here. It’s incredible. The left is now expressly Anti-Enlightenment. Nothing is about actual government policy now; everything is expressly about Safeguarding the Privileges and Dignity of the Princeps.<\/p>\n
\nThe left is now expressly Anti-Enlightenment. Nothing is about actual government policy now; everything is expressly about Safeguarding the Privileges and Dignity of the Princeps.<\/p>\n
\nHenry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. For the left, over the past year it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred of Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n
\nWhile liberals often talk about needing “a conversation” on x, y, or z, what they really mean is, “Conservatives must confess their errors, engage in ritual self-condemnation and approved reeducation”. How they set up this conversation is by declaring certain thoughts and positions approved and others deviant and beyond anything a respectable person would say or think.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s the little things that get you. Yesterday, our former paper of record published a story about the decision by UPS, the big package-delivery company, to restrict or eliminate health care coverage for spouses of its white collar workers. It is thus, the Times reports, \u201cjoining an increasing number of companies that are restricting or eliminating spousal health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn its wisdom, the New Mexico supreme court ruled Thursday that wedding photographers can\u2019t refuse to shoot gay ceremonies.<\/p>\n
\nTwo quick observations on that New Mexico court case, neither of which has anything to do with the specifics of the case itself.<\/p>\n
\nThe answer seems no, at least in the case of Thursday\u2019s New Mexico Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n
\nMy friends, the case of Elane Photography v. Willock has been decided. As I tell you regularly, you will be made to care.<\/p>\n
\nMSNBC has mastered the art of making unracial things racial.<\/p>\n
\nI smelled a rat in the Oberlin racism narrative, and so did some other people in the conservative blogosphere, including but not limited to Michelle Malkin and Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller (who obtained the police report that confirmed our suspicions that this was a hoax).<\/p>\n