News of the Week for September 15th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama\u2019s Craven Embrace of \u2018Accidental Diplomacy\u2019 to Save His Presidency<\/a> Emails show IRS\u2019 Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party<\/a> <\/p>\n A Famous Victory in Colorado <\/a> The Colorado Recalls Explained<\/a> Wendy Davis Wants Double-Barreled Assault on Texans\u2019 Gun Rights<\/a> <\/p>\n US Gas Ready for World Domination<\/a> Global warming cleverly hides itself with 1 million sq miles more arctic ice<\/a> Earth Gains A Record Amount Of Sea Ice In 2013<\/a> IPCC AR5 report to dial back climate sensitivity<\/a> California\u2019s Middle Class Faces Slow Death by Green Laws<\/a> <\/p>\n Government Seeking Inclusion of \u2018Social and Behavioral\u2019 Data in Health Records<\/a> Applying for health insurance? Homework involved <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Syria chemical weapons attack not ordered by Assad, says German press<\/a> Civilians flee rebels re-taking Christian town of Maaloula in Syria civil war <\/a> Student destroys 9\/11 memorial flag display, citing US imperialism<\/a> Syria says it accepted Russian weapons proposal <\/a> <\/p>\n A Lesson from Australia <\/a> Rachel Carson-Zerbe Publishes Her #FreeKate \u2018Jailbait Manifesto\u2019<\/a> Are you ready for Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren?<\/a> Communist Karl Marx Endorsed by Obama as the Next President?<\/a> PPP totally nailed the recall of Angela Giron. Trust them.<\/a> Senate Panel OKs Measure Defining a Journalist<\/a> Drudge Defends Bloggers by Attacking ‘Fascist’ Feinstein’s ‘Disgusting’ Comments<\/a> Tina Brown\u2019s charity gave out just $10K<\/a> Kenosha Teachers Vote Down Union, Empowered by Wisconsin Labor Reforms<\/a> Georgia Runs Out of Food Stamps<\/a> No H8? — Bombshell Book: Matthew Shepard Tortured, Murdered by Gay Lover<\/a> \u2018Teachers for Social Justice\u2019 Chicago pamphlet riddled with spelling, punctuation errors<\/a> Little Girl Brainwashed Into Reciting Absurd Liberal Dogma Regarding Toys<\/a> Cal Worthington – Legendary Car Salesman – DEAD AT 92 <\/a> Truthiness: Stephen Colbert, Much Praised by Media as Truth Telling Conscience of the Nation, Now Just Straight Up Lying About Competitors<\/a><\/p>\n Out of other problems, L.A. city government goes after\u2026tree houses<\/a> Reid: ‘Anarchists have taken over’ in Congress (Video) <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 96% of net jobs added this year have been part-time jobs <\/a> Poland Confiscates Half Of Private Pension Funds To “Cut” Sovereign Debt Load<\/a> Forget tapering, here’s the really big Fed deal<\/a> Poll: Americans Oppose Raising the Debt Ceiling Even If U.S. Defaults and Say Government Wastes 60 Cents of Every Tax Dollar<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Complete German Election Preview: The Worst Case Scenario<\/a> Kurdish rebels halt withdrawal from Turkey<\/a> Norway\u2019s centre-right claims victory<\/a> Imam of “Light of God” mosque was running prostitution ring using sex slaves<\/a> They want Jesus back in the Swedish Church<\/a> Dump Paint On Yourself And Run Around Naked With TDSB Teacher Lee Hicks <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Collapse of American Influence Recalls Disintegration of Soviet Union, Fall of France<\/a> Social Liberalism is Not Libertarian Part 3,086,012 <\/a> The Myth of a California Renaissance <\/a> Why the Media Will Never Treat Conservatives Fairly<\/a> Cis Female White Phallocratic Oppressor is Also a Douche<\/a> Rise of the Thought Police: Bullying Your Children Into Forsaking Their Values<\/a> James Kent on the American Founding<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nLet me get this straight. When asked at a news conference if there is any way to avert hostilities with Syria over their use of chemical weapons, Secretary of State John Kerry invents a wildly hypothetical scenario: Bashar al-Assad could surrender all his chemical weapons to the international community within a week. Kerry probably thought he might as well have suggested Assad take a leap off the Empire State Building. No one could possibly have taken his statement seriously.<\/p>\n
\nNewly released emails show that Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups\u2019 applications for tax-exempt status, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nA grassroots effort delivered an unprecedented blow to gun-control advocates.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday voters in Colorado recalled two State Senators. One result was not a surprise, and the other is a shock. Of course the votes are Second Amendment victories for the right to arms, but more fundamentally, they are Fourteenth Amendment victories for Due Process of Law.<\/p>\n
\nThe results of Tuesday\u2019s recall elections in Colorado are unambiguous. Two Democratic state senators, one of them the sitting president of the Colorado Senate, faced recall elections. State Sen. John Morse and State Sen. Angela Giron, both Democrats, had the full support of Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Mayors Against Illegal Guns as well as their state party and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThanks to fracking, the US has plenty of cheap natural gas. In fact, it has so much that it\u2019s now planning the construction of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities (just last decade the US was looking to build more LNG import infrastructure)<\/p>\n
\nThe science is unsettling. Comedian Lewis Black said it best on his White Album when he asked, \u201cDo you know what Meteorologist means in English? It means liar.\u201d It seems that we now have more science to settle atop the mountains of previous science which all purports to prove one thing or another. You can decide on the reasons for yourself, but the arctic ice sheet is back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n
\nEarth has gained 19,000 Manhattans of sea ice since this date last year, the largest increase on record. There is more sea ice now than there was on this date in 2002.<\/p>\n
\nA forthcoming report points lowers estimates on global warming<\/p>\n
\nAn environmental law in California, designed with the best of intentions of course, has helped wreck middle class prospects\u2014and state lawmakers are finally taking note. The California Environmental Quality Act, signed into law by Ronald Reagan in 1970 and beloved by environmental groups, mandates strenuous reviews of the environmental effects of all proposed construction projects.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nExperts worry about security, use of such information<\/p>\n
\nGetting covered through President Barack Obama’s health care law might feel like a combination of doing your taxes and making a big purchase that requires research.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nBild am Sonntag cites high-level German surveillance source suggesting Syrian president was not personally behind attacks<\/p>\n
\nRebels led by al-Qa\u2019ida-linked fighters gained control of a Christian town north-east of the capital, Damascus, Syrian activists said on Sunday, while government media continued to claim that regime forces were winning.<\/p>\n
\nProtesters at Middlebury College in Vermont uprooted 2,977 flags that were part of a 9\/11 memorial display on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\nSyria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia’s proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nRepublican presidential hopefuls could learn from Prime Minister Tony Abbott\u2019s campaign<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s what Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout calls it, anyway, and it\u2019s pretty scary stuff. Rachel Carson-Zerbe has been one of the most obsessed supporters of accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt, and keeps harping on the \u201cbut they\u2019re in love\u201d argument and pretending to know what\u2019s best for the underage girl in the case, as opposed to the girl\u2019s \u201cparents whose religiosity and bigoted views\u201d she blames for breaking up this \u201chigh school romance . . . first love\u201d \u2013 i.e., a 14-year-old having sex with a dildo-wielding tattoo-covered 18-year-old lesbian.<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s a buzz being fed. Warren gave a speech to the AFL-CIO today, and the \u201cdraft Warren\u201d talk is starting.<\/p>\n
\nObama Supporters Sign Fake Petition Supporting Karl Marx For President in 2016 as the Candidate for the Democrat Party After Being Told “Obama Has Endorsed Him.”<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Public Policy Polling, their polling predicted the recall of Angela Giron in Colorado Senate District 3. They then chose not to release the results.<\/p>\n
\nA Senate panel on Thursday approved a measure defining a journalist, which had been an obstacle to broader media shield legislation designed to protect reporters and the news media from having to reveal their sources.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday the US Senate attempted to define who is and is not a journalist. In the process of passing a “Shield Law” to protect journalists and their sources, a fiery debate ensued over just who is a journalist and who deserves the shield law protection.<\/p>\n
\nShe drew the big names \u2014 but didn\u2019t dole out the big bucks. The celebrity-backed charity launched by departing Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown failed to meet the company\u2019s goals in its first year out of the gate \u2014 handing out just $10,000 in grant money in 2011 despite raising nearly $1.2 million, IRS records show.<\/p>\n
\nA Victory for Wisconsin Taxpayers and Worker Freedom of Choice<\/p>\n
\nThis is what the last news reports will look like before the USSA dissolves into chaos after the Cloward-Piven strategy succeeds and the welfare state\u2019s coffers are depleted<\/p>\n
\nAlmost everything you think you know about the Matthew Shepard narrative is false.<\/p>\n
\nGarbage in, garbage out.
\nIf the latest pamphlet published by the \u201cTeachers for Social Justice\u201d group in Chicago was written by a Chicago Public Schools teacher, it might help explain why student performance has been so dismal.<\/p>\n
\nThe moonbats at Ms. Magazine are bent out of shape because toymakers have been marketing girls\u2019 toys to girls and boys\u2019 toys to boys, in accordance with customer taste but in direct violation of liberal dogma, which dictates that there is no difference between girls and boys other than genitalia \u2014 and those can be surgically reconfigured to taste. A whole generation of brainwashing has not compelled society (much less biological reality) to comply with their demented ideology.<\/p>\n
\nCal Worthington — the legendary car dealer who became famous for his “Go see Cal” TV commercials has gone on to that great used car lot in the sky, TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n
\nStrange, is it not? The city can\u2019t seem to use the ridiculous amount of tax money they scoop up in Los Angeles to, say, fix potholes and provide basic services competently. But they can come after a 10-year-old tree house.<\/p>\n
\nSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday said \u201canarchists\u201d have taken over Congress.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nUpdating the job numbers with the new numbers that are out today continues to show that virtually all the jobs created this year have been part time jobs.<\/p>\n
\nWhile the world was glued to the developments in the Mediterranean in the past week, Poland took a page straight out of Rahm Emanuel’s playbook and in order to not let a crisis go to waste, announced quietly that it would transfer to the state – i.e., confiscate – the bulk of assets owned by the country’s private pension funds (many of them owned by such foreign firms as PIMCO parent Allianz, AXA, Generali, ING and Aviva), without offering any compensation. In effect, the state just nationalized roughly half of the private sector pension fund assets, although it had a more politically correct name for it: pension overhaul.<\/p>\n
\nAll of the focus at the Federal Reserve these days is on who the next chairman will be, and when the central bank starts pulling back on its monthly money printing operation.<\/p>\n
\nPublic says Obama disappoints on transparency, Congress passes too many laws, split on Snowden, Facebook trusted less than the IRS on privacy, and no bailout for Detroit<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe 2013 German federal elections may bring about pretty complicated results.<\/p>\n
\nKurdish rebels announced Monday they are suspending their withdrawal from Turkey into bases in northern Iraq over what they say is the Turkish government’s failure to advance peace talks aimed at ending a nearly 30-year-old conflict.<\/p>\n
\nNorway\u2019s centre-right opposition has claimed victory in parliamentary elections, ending eight years of centre-left rule and making Erna Solberg all but certain to be the oil-rich country\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n
\nAbdeslam Bahiad, director of the mosque “Light of God” in Orange, is still suspected of having been in charge of a network of prostitution in the Vauclusian city. With his three sons, this man, today aged 58, is said to have prostitued several young Moroccan girls in the 400m\u00b2 villa and dozen or so apartments that his family owned. The girls, aged between 14 and 25, according to information from our sources, are said to have been reduced to a state of slavery, being beaten, raped and not paid or paid very little. “The girls were recruited in Morocco, and made to believe they’d get a real job in France for \u20ac7000 to \u20ac9000,” it was explained.<\/p>\n
\nTwo parties stand out and are mobilizing hard before the Swedish church election on September 15: The Sweden Democrats and Frimodig kyrka (The Forthright Church). Both enter the election with an agenda demanding a \u201creturn to the roots\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nTwo days ago I told you about Lee Hicks, the TDSB teacher who encourages kindergarten students to cross-dress, has grade one students draw pictures of cross-dressers, and has cross-dressing posters in his classroom.
\nApparently, he (or she) is hosting an “Elfshop art retreat” with LJ Wooden next month.
\nAccording to Wooden’s website, his retreats apparently involve soaking yourself in paint and running around naked. If this is true, then this excellent opportunity to soak yourself in paint and run around naked with Lee Hicks is available to you for only the small price of $550!<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nNot since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States.<\/p>\n
\nLongtime Corner readers know this is one of my great peeves: the idea that liberals are \u201csocially libertarian.\u201d It\u2019s an idea that liberals \u2014 and even quite a few libertarians \u2014 love to perpetuate. It\u2019s also not true. Take, for instance, the recent decision out of New Mexico holding that a wedding photographer had no right to refuse to work at a gay wedding. The libertarian view of the case, broadly speaking, is that the photographer may have been in error morally or economically but he was within his rights. The socially liberal view, broadly speaking, is \u201cHooray! Victory for gay people, defeat for bad people!\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSacramento\u2019s strategy for recovery is more taxes, more regulation, and more government.<\/p>\n
\nI have written a number of pieces in the past year about conservatives having a \u201cpoor little ole me\u201d attitude when it comes to the media. Conservatives are convinced the media is out to get them. They are convinced the media is covering up stories and covering for the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday Blackmailers Don\u2019t Shoot reported on the exploits of Anna Shireman-Grabowski and her friend, \u201cIndigenous Organizer\u201d Amanda Lickers after they trashed almost 3000 American flags at a Middlebury. September 11 memorial. Anna and Amanda both claimed to be protesting the planting of American flags at an Indian burial ground, but we now learn that this was merely a pretense in their quest to empower the white male heteropatriarchy by making white liberals and \u201cIndigenous Organizers\u201d look stupid<\/p>\n
\nProposed \u201canti-bullying\u201d legislation creates a powerful new bureaucracy to police students’ values and remediate politically incorrect beliefs.<\/p>\n
\nChancellor Kent was one of the most important lawyers and legal thinkers in the history of the Anglosphere. America is an enormous free trade area where business can be transacted efficiently over 3.7 million square miles among 310 million, or more, Americans. We have a common legal culture which makes this possible in significant part due to the work of Chancellor Kent.<\/p>\n