News of the Week for September 8th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IRS scandal: America needs the truth<\/a> <\/p>\n Gun control rally turns into gun rights rally<\/a> NRA Signs On to ACLU Lawsuit, Claims NSA Starting ‘National Gun Registry’ <\/a> D.C. cops under orders to arrest tourists with empty bullet casings<\/a> <\/p>\n Oops! Climate ‘Deniers’ Right All Along, Owed Huge Apology<\/a> Global warming? No, actually we’re cooling, claim scientists<\/a> <\/p>\n Creative Destruction <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senate Breaks Own Rules in Rush to Vote on Syria War<\/a> Kerry: “Arab Countries” Have Offered To “Bear Costs And Assist” Attack On Syria<\/a> Russia says it’s compiled 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for a chemical weapons attack<\/a> Senate-crafted Syria resolution riddled with loopholes for Obama<\/a> Victor Davis Hanson: Syria in Historical Context <\/a> Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says <\/a> A \u2018Damascus Plan\u2019 for Syria\u2019s Christians and Other Minorities <\/a> The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor\u2019s development. Can users trust it?<\/a> If It Wasn\u2019t Syria, It Would Have Been Something Else <\/a> House decides to let Senate be on the hook for Syria.<\/a> <\/p>\n UCLA Student Government Passes Resolution Blasting ‘Racially Derogatory’ Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’<\/a> Father who beat to death man he caught raping his five-year-old daughter will NOT face charges because of Texas state laws on deadly force<\/a> California’s Union-Sponsored War on Farmers <\/a> Of Course: Gay Extremists and Bullies Now Intentionally Driving Christian Businesses out of Business <\/a> Better Storytellers, Better GOP <\/a> 2012 College Enrollment Dropped by Half Million Students<\/a> McAuliffe, Bloomberg Meet in New York to Discuss Virginia Governor’s Race<\/a> GOP operatives, former Boehner aides expect him to retire after midterms next year<\/a> Booker faces Newark, NJ, crime wave amid campaign <\/a> Sebelius Describes Federal Government As ‘Our Federal Family’ <\/a> Michigan State prof. says Republicans raped America<\/a> Bill Whittle at AFP Foundation\u2019s Defending the American Dream Summit<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who Will Audit the Auditors?<\/a> The Indian economy is shaking like a Bollywood dancer<\/a> Payrolls in U.S. Rise Less Than Forecast; Jobless 7.3%<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n White Chocolate Declared Racist <\/a> “Canada’s hate laws apply to everyone” …. Oh no they don’t <\/a> Time to slam the brakes on EU meddling<\/a> Venezuelan government: Uhm, these rolling blackouts are totally the result of the opposition\u2019s sabotage<\/a> Conservative leader Abbott sweeps into power in Australian elections<\/a> Teacher Has Cross-Dressing Posters in Classroom <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The STEM Crisis Is a Myth<\/a> Red Monday <\/a> Unintended Consequences<\/a> Building Housing That Some People Can\u2019t Afford Isn\u2019t Racist<\/a> The ‘Dismal Science’ certainly is dismal, but is in no way a science<\/a> Obama Rushes to War \u2014 On Language <\/a> Pat Condell: The curse of “progressive” feminism<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nAmerica can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThere was what could prove to be an instructive moment for the Deplorable Nanny State Mayor this week, provided courtesy of the citizens of Ohio. The group Mayors Against Illegal Guns hosted a \u201crally\u201d in Columbus, Ohio to build support for additional gun control legislation, but as the intro to the local news report asked (video below), \u201cwhat happens when you throw a political rally, but nobody shows up except your opposition?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe National Rifle Association (NRA) joined the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) Wednesday, claiming the federal agency’s “database of phone numbers amounts to ‘a national gun registry.'”<\/p>\n
\nWashington police are operating under orders to arrest tourists and other non-residents traveling with spent bullet or shotgun casings, a crime that carries a $1,000 fine, a year in jail and a criminal record, according to a new book about the city’s confusing gun laws.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nFor well over a decade, people who have looked at the “science” behind global warming with a critical eye have observed that the models used to forecast Carbon Dioxide Driven DOOM! have been force-fit to match history (and an altered history at that) but begin breaking down at first contact with reality. These observations are met with shouts of DENIER! while the “scientists” fiddle with the dials on the models and pull the levers on the observed temperature history like so many Wizards of Oz.<\/p>\n
\nA cold Arctic summer has led to a record increase in the ice cap, leading experts to predict a period of global cooling.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nObamacare versus artists, writers, musicians, actors, et al.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nSenate Democratic leadership tossed aside the rules for moving legislation with regard to the resolution authorizing the use of military force against Syria, angering some Republicans and creating confusion on Capitol Hill in the runup to the war vote.<\/p>\n
\nAnswering a question about regional support for American intervention in Syria from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Secretary of State John Kerry said that \u201cArab countries” have offered to pay for an American invasion of Syria, “the way we have done it previously in other places.”<\/p>\n
\nRussia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence that Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\nSenators on Wednesday tried to write a tight resolution authorizing President Obama to strike Syria under very specific circumstances, but analysts and lawmakers said the language still has plenty of holes the White House could use to expand military action well beyond what Congress appears to intend.<\/p>\n
\nWhat lessons does the past have for President Obama\u2019s policy?<\/p>\n
\nOfficials Say Intercepted Message to Militants Orders Reprisals in Iraq if Syria Hit<\/p>\n
\nOur allies among the Syrian rebels have issued a memorandum to the State Department on strategies for the day after Assad falls. David Ignatius reports in his column today that the Free Syrian Army (SFA) has outlined a \u201cDamascus plan\u201d for \u201chandling the power vacuum in case of a sudden Assad collapse.\u201d This plan is grossly flawed.<\/p>\n
\nThis week, we learned that the NSA had managed to circumvent much of the encryption that secures online financial transactions and other activities we take for granted on the Internet. How? By inserting backdoors into the very commercial software designed to keep sensitive medical records, bank files and other information private.<\/p>\n
\nIt is very possible that the president will not obtain a joint authorization to bomb Syria; if he chooses to go ahead and attack anyway, Obama will incite a constitutional crisis\u2014the first time in history that a president has decided to go to war against the declared wishes of Congress. The public and the courts will adjudicate the legality of that act, and it would be contentious.<\/p>\n
\nWhich is the smart call, by the way.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nUCLA\u2019s undergraduate student government passed a resolution unanimously last week to criticize any use of the term \u201cillegal immigrant\u201d to describe illegal immigrants. Many students are upset with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whom they feel is too harsh on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
\nA young father who beat his daughter’s rapist to death after walking in on the assault will not face charges according to the states grand jury
\nThe 23-year-old beat 47-year-old Jesus Flores to death for molesting his five-year-old girl in a secluded barn
\nThe authorities accepted that he attempted to phone 911 to help the man after the attack
\nUnder the law in the state of Texas deadly force is authorized and justified in order to stop an aggravated sexual assault or sexual assault<\/p>\n
\nUnited Farm Workers and its government allies are working hard to destroy jobs.<\/p>\n
\nInfuriating. A bakery has decided it has no choice but to sell cakes from home — hopefully turning a business into a “private endeavor” beyond the power of the state to coerce.<\/p>\n
\nEffective politicians communicate ideas through tales of heroism and sacrifice.<\/p>\n
\nCollege enrollment in the United States dropped by a half million students in 2012 compared to 2011, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n
\nVirginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe met recently with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg “to get support from the billionaire politician.”<\/p>\n
\nNothing concrete, just speculation, but speculation from people who know Boehner well.<\/p>\n
\nMayor Cory Booker, with six weeks left in his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat, is grappling with a surge in violence that has left nine people dead in his city in as many days.<\/p>\n
\nSeptember is National Preparedness Month, and in a news release urging everyone to be mindful of potential terror attacks, natural disasters, and pandemics, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the federal government is ready to help<\/p>\n
\nDear radical leftist college professors, the days when you could get away with this are over. Every kid in your class has a phone that doubles as a video camera and you won\u2019t know which ones you\u2019re offending until it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n
\nLike all countermoonbats, Bill Whittle is tired of losing to traitorous narcissist weenies. Fortunately he has a plan to stop doing it, which he shared at the AFP Foundation\u2019s Defending the American Dream Summit last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nState and local bureaucracies often abuse their taxing authority.<\/p>\n
\nThose who follow my exploits know I dance Bollywood, so it is not surprising that this news clip would catch my interest<\/p>\n
\nThe participation rate, decreased to 63.2 percent, the lowest since August 1978, from 63.4 percent.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nOnly in Germany you say? Good.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a letter sent to the Sudbury Star. It does a great job exposing the hypocrisy of the Human Rights Cultists.<\/p>\n
\nIn the latest in a long line of deeply draconian legislation, the EU has called for all cars to be fitted with a device that will apply the brakes if the driver drifts over their nation\u2019s respective speed limit.<\/p>\n
\nHmmm. Venezuela sits on top of some of the world\u2019s largest proven oil reserves, and yet they somehow can\u2019t even manage to find the money nor the resources to keep the lights on consistently. You might be tempted to think that this stems from their fundamentally, horribly, tragically flawed political and economic institutions \u2014 but you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n
\nAustralia’s conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections on Saturday as voters punished the outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule and for failing to maximize the benefits of a now fading mining boom.<\/p>\n
\nLee Hicks, a TDSB teacher who advises kindergarten kids to cross-dress and drags children to anti-oil protests with him\/her is selling cross-dressing posters for teachers to put up in their classrooms. The posters declare that “gender is irrelevant”.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nForget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians<\/p>\n
\nWe don\u2019t need this quasi-Canadian, crypto-Communist holiday.<\/p>\n
\nBy Thomas Sowell
\nOne of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough qualified buyers.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cDisparate impact\u201d theory holds someone liable for discrimination for a race-neutral policy that statistically disadvantages a specific racial group \u2014 say, blacks score lower on a firefighter-promotion test than whites \u2014 even if that negative \u201cimpact\u201d was neither foreseen nor intended. The application of this theory has been fraught with controversy, to say the least, but it comes up again and again, in contexts ranging from employment to education to voting.<\/p>\n
\nPhilosophy professors Alex Rosenburg and Tyler Curtain ask, \u201cWhat is economics good for?\u201d. And the answer, as far as they can tell, is \u201cNot much.\u201d Richard Epstein, a noted libertarian law professor, dissents somewhat from this view.<\/p>\n
\nThe president\u2019s manipulation has reached new levels of absurdity.<\/p>\n