News of the Week for September 29th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IRS Offers True The Vote Tax Exempt Status, Files to Dismiss Lawsuit<\/a> Lois Lerner is Retiring<\/a> Lois Lerner\u2019s lawyers negotiating with Oversight Committee on immunity<\/a> IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund<\/a> <\/p>\n McAuliffe: Virginia Should Have Colorado\u2019s Gun-Control Laws \u2014 and More <\/a> 7th Graders Who Played with Toy Gun \u2014 In Their Own Yards \u2014 Expelled from School<\/a> <\/p>\n Russia to File Piracy Charges Against Greenpeace<\/a> EPA Admits New Power-Plant Regs Won\u2019t Affect Climate Change <\/a> Climate Countdown: T-Minus 2<\/a> Climate Countdown: T-Minus 1<\/a> California wind farm seeks permit to kill eagles<\/a> David Suzuki’s Down Under Blunder<\/a> <\/p>\n The Explosion in Healthcare Premiums in One Convenient Chart<\/a> Not only can\u2019t you keep your doctor, you may not even have a doctor<\/a> The ObamaCare Wars Are Just Starting <\/a> Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women<\/a> We are all lab mice now: White House didn\u2019t think this Obamacare promo through<\/a><\/p>\n Bam! Rep. Issa hits back at WH\u2019s pathetic @AdorableCareAct propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n Mobile death squads to kill sick and elderly in their own homes leads to surge in suicide rates in the Netherlands<\/a> Labor Unions: Obamacare Will ‘Shatter’ Our Health Benefits, Cause ‘Nightmare Scenarios’<\/a> 7 Adorable Animals Sad About Obamacare<\/a> Daniel Henninger: Let ObamaCare Collapse <\/a> ObamaCare and the \u201clet it burn\u201d theory of socialist collapse<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers’: Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details<\/a> Revealed: How hero father died in Kenyan mall massacre after offering himself as a hostage to save lives of group of children<\/a> Letter from Kenya: Surviving Westgate<\/a> Nigeria attack: Students shot dead as they slept <\/a> <\/p>\n Amodei gets minerals bills passed, will Reid drop the ball? Sep19 by Thomas Mitchell <\/a> Flip-Flops Banned At 2 San Juan Capistrano Parks<\/a> Hillary to Huma: Dump Weiner or you\u2019re out<\/a> Hamilton College cancels racially-segregated diversity program<\/a> The Radicalism of Bill de Blasio <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has offered election integrity group True The Vote its tax-exempt status in what appears to be a bid to keep the group from proceeding with discovery on its lawsuit against the agency, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n
\nLerner is the former head of the Exempt Organizations unit which held up 501(c)(4) applications by Tea Party and similar groups for as long as two years.<\/p>\n
\nIRS scandal figure Lois Lerner is negotiating through her lawyers with Rep. Darrell Issa\u2019s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about possibly gaining immunity to testify again in the committee\u2019s investigative hearings.<\/p>\n
\nThe IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a TIGTA report released today.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nApparently deterred neither by the recent and successful liberalization of state gun laws in Virginia nor by the clear message that Colorado voters sent to lawmakers earlier in the month, Virginian gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has added a gun-control plank to his campaign website.<\/p>\n
\nDuring a hearing Tuesday morning, Aidan Clark and Khalid Caraballo were expelled in a unanimous vote. Clark was offered the option of attending an alternative school, but his father, Tim, told WAVY News\u2019 Andy Fox he will be homeschooled.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nRussia intends to file piracy charges against Greenpeace after campaigners tried to climb onto an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic.<\/p>\n
\nThe EPA recently announced new regulations limiting the carbon produced by power companies as part of a greater effort to curb climate change. However, on the 346th page of the 463-page report, under a section entitled \u201cImpacts of the Proposed Action,\u201d the EPA admits that it doesn\u2019t think the new rules will reduce emissions of CO2, a major greenhouse gas, in any major way.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the leading talking points of the climateers, repeated more often than the rosary in the Vatican, is the factoid that \u201c97 percent of scientists agree\u201d that human-caused climate change is real. As I\u2019ve noted before, the only surprise is that the number isn\u2019t 99.5 percent, as the question of whether greenhouse gases have a warming effect\u2014all other factors being equal\u2014is uncontroversial.<\/p>\n
\nThought experiment: Imagine you are a reporter for the mainstream media\u2014yeah, I know, that involves not only slumming it but a considerable sacrifice of intellect, but bear with me\u2014and you were covering the release of a massive report on intelligence gathering activities from the NSA. The NSA had produced, say, a comprehensive 2,000-page report on terror networks and their data gathering and analysis operations of them along with future threat assessment, but instead of issuing the full report, they issued a 30-page \u201cSummary for Policy Makers\u201d written by the political appointees at the Justice Department, promising that the full 2,000-page report would be released a few days later.<\/p>\n
\nA Solano County, Calif., wind farm would be the first renewable energy project in the nation allowed to kill eagles under a federal plan, a U.S. agency said.<\/p>\n
\nLast week in Australia, David Suzuki did something he hasn\u2019t done before: He allowed himself to be interviewed in a situation he did not control.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThose nerds at the Society of Actuaries have crunched the numbers and gave us a tidy little forecast of insurance premium rate hikes under Obamacare. Oh, by the way, taxpayer subsidies don\u2019t eliminate costs. A \u201cfree\u201d elementary economics lesson out there for anyone confused about TANSTAAFL (There ain\u2019t no such thing as a free lunch).<\/p>\n
\nObamacare-exchange insurance is essentially Medicaid lite \u2013 insurance but few doctors who will see you.<\/p>\n
\nThe health law has set in motion long-run forces that could erode the political foundation of Medicare.<\/p>\n
\nFor months now, we\u2019ve been waiting to hear how much Obamacare will drive up the cost of health insurance for people who purchase coverage on their own. Last night, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finally began to provide some data on how Americans will fare on Obamacare\u2019s federally-sponsored insurance exchanges. HHS\u2019 press release is full of happy talk about how premiums will be \u201clower than originally expected.\u201d But the reality is starkly different.<\/p>\n
\nAround 3 per cent of all deaths in the Netherlands are now by euthanasia
\nThe country last year introduced mobile euthanasia units
\nIn 2002 it became the first country since Nazi Germany to legalise it<\/p>\n
\nLabor unions are among the key institutions responsible for the passage of Obamacare. They spent tons of money electing Democrats to Congress in 2006 and 2008, and fought hard to push the health law through the legislature in 2009 and 2010. But now, unions are waking up to the fact that Obamacare is heavily disruptive to the health benefits of their members.<\/p>\n
\nObama\u2019s using cute animals to sell the \u201cAdorable Care Act\u201d to a skeptical public. But we found 7 pics that didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n
\nCongress can’t kill the entitlement state. Only the American people can.<\/p>\n
\nWriting at the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger has some advice for ObamaCare opponents: just let it burn until it collapses, taking the entire rotted edifice of socialism with it.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nKenyan soldiers claim to find scenes of torture by mall terrorists
\nThey say children found dead in food fridges with knives still in bodies
\nMen were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed<\/p>\n
\nLondon-born Mitul Shah was killed in the Kenyan mall massacre
\nThe 38-year-old died after he offered to become a hostage to save children
\nTributes have poured in honouring ‘a selfless man and a born leader’<\/p>\n
\nFor years, Khadija Adam had gone to Nairobi\u2019s Westgate shopping mall on Saturdays. She had her hair styled at the Ashley Salon, attended to her mobile-phone at Safaricom, shopped at the Nakumatt supermarket. Sometimes she stopped into the Millionaires Casino. Adam, a former model and a warm, boisterous talker, knew many shop owners by their first names, and always bumped into friends. Often, she would get caught up for hours in conversation\u2014she speaks Swahili, Somali, English, and some Arabic\u2014at ArtCaffe. Like many in Kenya, Adam is part Kenyan and part Somali, and a Muslim. \u201cYou know how Somalis are,\u201d she told me, \u201cwe always have to get the story on everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSuspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nOn Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei\u2019s H.R. 761, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act, 246-178. Now, let\u2019s see what Nevada\u2019s Harry Reid does with it in the Senate. He\u2019s thrown a few monkey wrenches before.<\/p>\n
\nAt least two parks in San Juan Capistrano have prohibited people from wearing flip-flops.<\/p>\n
\nTop Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has been given an ultimatum: dump serial-sexting hubby Anthony Weiner, or get out of Clintontown.<\/p>\n
\nHamilton cancels the program but still denies it has a problem: \u201cMy intent was to be inclusive but my phrasing suggested otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDe Blasio is a longtime admirer and supporter of Nicaragua\u2019s Marxist Sandinistas. He helped raise funds for the Sandinistas in the 1980s, subscribed to the party\u2019s newspaper, Barricadda (Barricade), and unlike many others, remained supportive even after the Sandinistas lost power. To this day de Blasio speaks admiringly of the Sandinistas (while offering some token criticism of their handling of dissent), and remains interested in the Latin American left. De Blasio honeymooned in Cuba, in violation of the U.S. travel ban.<\/p>\n