News of the Week for October 20th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #MillionVetMarch assembles peacefully, pulls down Lincoln Memorial #barrycades.<\/a> <\/p>\n Live With a Foreigner Who Doesn\u2019t Have a Green Card? You Must Keep Your Guns Locked Up<\/a> British Crime Rates Manipulated to Seem Lower Since Gun Ban<\/a> <\/p>\n Carbon-negative energy, a reality at last — and cheap, too<\/a> <\/p>\n Suit in Oklahoma could knock out ObamaCare<\/a> Obamacare Website Source Code: ‘No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy’<\/a> Mandatory Health Insurance: Obamacare\u2019s Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Remedy <\/a> Obamacare Might Well Be Imploding<\/a> Five Daily Kos Commenters Who Know Your Insurance Needs Better Than You<\/a> Obama Administration Didn’t Know When Obamacare’s Mandate Penalty Deadline Was Until a Tax Prep Firm Told Them<\/a> Obamacare: Wrecking the Health Insurance Plans of Millions to Improve the Lives of Dozens<\/a><\/p>\n Docs worried sick over ObamaCare<\/a> Has the Obamacare Insurance \u2018Death Spiral\u2019 Already Begun? <\/a> Obamacare Needs a Drop-Dead Date<\/a> #Obamacare Watch: This Is What Technocracy Looks Like edition.<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n U.S. military investing heavily in Africa <\/a> <\/p>\n Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch<\/a> Neighbors: Cory Booker never lived in Newark<\/a> Bill Ayers: Didn\u2019t think Obama connection \u2018would blow up like this\u2019<\/a> Nightmare: Teen Boy Harasses Girls in Their Bathroom, Colo. School Tells Girls They Have No Rights <\/a> Ex-Israeli Soldier Denounced on US Campus for Not Raping Palestinian Women<\/a> School janitor in Michigan fired for paying 4th-graders to ‘rough up’ classmate <\/a> Ex-San Diego Mayor Filner pleads guilty to felony false imprisonment, battery<\/a> Government School Documents Seventh Graders\u2019 Political Views<\/a> Getting Rid of Discrimination by Any Means Necessary <\/a> Democrat Booker wins US Senate election in NJ <\/a> The Pro-Discrimination Left<\/a> \u2018You Cannot Serve Two Masters!\u2019 House Stenographer Goes Crazy During House Vote, Escorted Out<\/a> EBT cards and free stuff<\/a> Brian Schweitzer Mulling 2016 Presidential Bid<\/a> McConnell challenger nabs big endorsement<\/a> More #FreeKate Freaks: Now Arguing for \u2018Consensual\u2019 Sex With 9-Year-Olds?<\/a> Autistic Child Suspended from School for Cartoonish Drawing of a Bomb<\/a> Liberal Professors Call on Obama to Seize \u2018Unilateral\u2019 Control of Government<\/a> Work Begins on Calif. Bullet Train, Locals Angry<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bail Ins and Taking Private Wealth<\/a> Bail Ins & Taking Private Wealth (Part 2)<\/a> I saw DOOM drinking a pi\u00f1a colada at Trader Vic’s and his hair was perfect<\/a> Boehner to take vote on Senate compromise 1st, pass it with Dem votes<\/a> Legislative Summary, Full Text of Senate Debt Deal Revealed<\/a> Seven other things the Senate compromise bill funds<\/a> Budget, Debt Limit Deal Clears Senate \u2013 Here Are the 18 Republicans Who Voted Against It<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n French far right sweeps to victory in local election<\/a> Sudan and South Sudan Inch Toward War<\/a> Argentina accused of media assault to silence critics<\/a> Europe Is Burning, Slowly<\/a> Study Finds Nearly 30 Million People Living in Slavery Worldwide<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The homosexual Left\u2019s new crusade: Normalizing adult-child sex<\/a> This Week in History: The Battle of Tours<\/a> Stop Lying To Us, America! <\/a> The Louisiana Heist <\/a> POLITICAL CORRECTNESS \/ CULTURAL MARXIS<\/a> The Entire House Leadership Team Should Resign<\/a><\/p>\n Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?<\/a> Remembering America<\/a> On Intra-Conservative Incivility <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nThe Lincoln Memorial is not the federal government\u2019s prop.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThat\u2019s what the newly enacted Cal. Penal Code \u00a7 25135, just signed by Gov. Brown, would do (on pain of criminal punishment)<\/p>\n
\nA report examining crime in Britain since “restrictive firearm laws virtually banned handguns” in 1997 shows that crime stats have been “massaged” to convince British subjects the gun ban worked, when in fact it may have backfired.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIn Berkeley, Calif., All Power Labs is turning out machines that convert cheap and abundant biomass into clean energy and rich, efficient charcoal fertilizer.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare
\n<\/h1>\nGovernment in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nScott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, acting on the research of Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon published in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, has brought a new lawsuit, on behalf of the state, against ObamaCare.<\/p>\n
\nThe launch of federal government’s Obamacare insurance exchange, Healthcare.gov, has been plagued with delays, errors, and poor website design, even prompting USA Today to call it an “inexcusable mess” and a “nightmare”. Now comes another example of why the website’s reputation is in tatters. Buried in the source code of Healthcare.gov is this sentence that could prove embarrassing: “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system.” Though not visible to users and obviously not intended as part of the terms and conditions, the language is nevertheless a part of the underlying code for the “Terms & Conditions” page on the site.<\/p>\n
\nThe false promise of universal health insurance.<\/p>\n
\nThe disastrous rollout of the federal insurance exchange could spell doom<\/p>\n
\nThis is the greatest story in the history of Daily Kos stories: Turns out that Obamacare is making one of the site\u2019s user\u2019s health care premiums go up! And that he isn\u2019t able to keep the coverage he had before because it\u2019s illegal! Weird. I wonder who could have told him that would happen\u2026<\/p>\n
\nThere’s a terrifying detail in yesterday’s Politico story about the ongoing problems with the exchanges.<\/p>\n
\nNew York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare \u2014 and many won\u2019t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they\u2019ll go broke, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
\nIs Obamacare Already Doomed?<\/p>\n
\nExactly how bad are things on the federal health-care exchanges? The working assumption among most journalists, including me, is that they would be fixed in a few weeks — that is, by the end of this week. But yesterday\u2019s New York Times brought a deeply reported piece from Robert Pear, Sharon LaFraniere and Ian Austen. <\/p>\n
\nAnd this is why we left that particular political philosophy in the Thirties, where it belongs.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nIncreased U.S. spending, especially at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, reflects Africa’s growing importance to counter-terrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nShelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. <\/p>\n
\nAs Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn\u2019t live in the Gateway City.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking from the well-heeled confines of the University of Chicago\u2019s International House on Wednesday, Bill Ayers said he was \u201camazed\u201d to see himself on TV \u201ccast as some kind of public enemy\u201d with close ties to Barack Obama during one of the 2008 election\u2019s biggest controversies.<\/p>\n
\nAttorneys with Pacific Justice Institute sent a strongly-worded letter this afternoon to school officials at Florence High School, warning them against squelching student privacy and speech rights in order to cater to the wishes of a teenage boy who has been entering girls\u2019 bathrooms on campus. <\/p>\n
\nHen Mazzig had been a member of Israel\u2019s most left-wing party. But that didn\u2019t prepare him for the sheer level of Israelaphobic craziness that he would encounter on campuses in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n
\nThe cafeteria cleaner offered her miniature muscle $1 in the Grand Rapids bully-for-hire plot and was quickly fired. The 9-year-old victim’s mom says she worries the ‘twisted’ custodian will come after her family.<\/p>\n
\nFormer San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery involving three women, just weeks after he left office amid a storm of sexual harassment allegations. <\/p>\n
\nCheck out what government schools in Aurora, Colorado are making 12-year-olds fill out<\/p>\n
\nThe U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that features a party with one of the longest and most pretentious names ever to appear on the court\u2019s docket: Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). Hopefully, the justices viewed the arguments made by BAMN and another party, Chase Cantrell, with the skepticism they deserved.<\/p>\n
\nNewark Mayor Cory Booker won a special election Wednesday to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, giving the rising Democratic star a bigger political stage after a race against conservative Steve Lonegan, a former small-town mayor.<\/p>\n
\nNot everyone thinks white people have constitutional rights.<\/p>\n
\nTowards the tail end of the House vote on ending the government shutdown, a stenographer snapped and started ranting mindlessly on the House floor and had to be escorted out of the room. Very little is known about her thus far, but there is audio of her rant, and needless to say it is quite something.<\/p>\n
\nBy now you\u2019ve probably heard about the EBT card breakdown during a power outage in which shoppers at a couple of Louisiana Walmarts purposely took advantage of the situation by \u201cbuying\u201d a huge number of groceries for amounts that greatly exceeded their EBT limits in normal times.<\/p>\n
\nAdd another name to the short list of Democrats seriously considering a run for president in 2016.<\/p>\n
\nSen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) primary challenger got a boost Friday with the endorsement of a prominent national conservative group, the Senate Conservatives Fund.<\/p>\n
\nWhat is frightening is that these creeps have no sense of shame<\/p>\n
\nThis unbelievably dumb school administration moment of the week is sponsored by Hillcrest Middle School of South Carolina.<\/p>\n
\nThree Wisconsin professors have come up with what they think is a brilliant fix for the budget crisis in Washington. They want Obama to violate the constitution and seize dictatorial powers to extend the debt limit, and then call for his own impeachment hearings afterward.<\/p>\n
\nTrucks loaded with tomatoes, milk and almonds clog the two main highways that bisect California’s farm heartland, carrying goods to millions along the Pacific Coast and beyond. This dusty stretch of land is the starting point for one of the nation’s most expensive public infrastructure projects: a $68 billion high-speed rail system that would span the state, linking the people of America’s salad bowl to more jobs, opportunity and buyers.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nA new method of taking private sector wealth has been spreading around the world this year. This mechanism is called a “bail in”, and it is based on the premise that there are certain entities which are too important for the well-being of the general public to allow them to go into bankruptcy or to be liquidated.<\/p>\n
\nThe Polish bail in of September 4th, 2013, was quite different from the Cypriot bail in or the new Canadian rules allowing for bail ins. This was not a bail in of a troubled banking system, but rather the entities in trouble were the Polish public retirement system and the Polish government itself.<\/p>\n
\nThe SNAP computer system went down for a few hours on Saturday…and many beneficiaries just about lost their damned minds.<\/p>\n
\nThe endgame will arrive a little sooner than expected, thanks to a deal cut with John Boehner to take the first plunge on a bipartisan plan to end the budget standoff before the theoretical debt-ceiling limit gets breached. Instead of the Senate taking up the proposal from Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell first, Boehner will allow a vote \u2014 without amendments \u2014 and have it pass with Democrats making up the difference from expected opposition from conservatives<\/p>\n
\nBreitbart News has obtained a legislative summary of the provisions in the Senate deal to reopen government and extend the debt ceiling. Breitbart News has also obtained a copy of the legislative text. Currently, Senate staff are able to review the summary and legislative text in the Senate cloakroom, but aren’t allowed to retain a copy or make it public. In the interest of transparency, we have included the document below. <\/p>\n
\nThe Senate prepared to vote Wednesday night on a compromise measure that would reopen the federal government and raise the debt limit through Feb. 7. But the 35 pages of legislative text manages to provide for a few other programs as well. Here are seven other things the compromise bill does <\/p>\n
\nRacing to make a deadline, the Senate passed legislation Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown along the strict terms set by President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nFrance\u2019s Front National swept to victory over the country\u2019s mainstream centre-right opposition in a closely watched local election on Sunday in a vote widely seen as presaging big advances by the far-right party in next year\u2019s European and municipal elections.<\/p>\n
\nFrom dawn until dusk, they walked the red-earth path between territory controlled by the government of Sudan to that held by the rebels — small groups of men in jalabiyas, women in colorful clothes, and children on donkeys or their fathers\u2019 shoulders or in baskets on their mothers\u2019 backs. They carried jerricans that were filled with water at the start but were now dry, goats too young to walk, utensils, and weapons — from nineteenth-century swords to rocket-propelled grenade launchers, sometimes both on one shoulder. Among the civilians walked rebel soldiers who were there to protect against depredation by government militias. <\/p>\n
\nControversial media law in Argentina aims to dismantle Cristina Kirchner’s most vocal opponents, critics claim<\/p>\n
\nI just spent two weeks traveling across Europe, visiting France, Italy, Germany, and Romania. Everywhere I went, people wanted to talk about Washington\u2019s dispiriting budget shenanigans, the European implications of the \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d and the mess in the Middle East. But while the Europeans are more or less united on the subject of America\u2019s shortcomings (they like Obama but don\u2019t think his foreign policy is working well, they hate and fear the Tea Party, and they just don\u2019t understand why we do what we do about guns and health care), it was on the subject of Europe that I found them the most divided.<\/p>\n
\nAn eye-opening study from the Walk Free Foundation has found that there are 29.8 million people living in slavery today. The non-profit organization, which released its first annual global slavery index earlier today, defined slavery as including human trafficking, forced labor or indebted servitude, forced marriage, and the sale or exploitation of children<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nSo much for the left\u2019s \u201cconsenting adults\u201d rhetoric on sex. Forever the consummate conservationists, our self-described \u201cprogressive\u201d friends at the ACLU, MSNBC and elsewhere have been ramping-up efforts to downsize from \u201cconsenting adults\u201d to merely \u201cconsenting\u201d \u2013 a far less cumbersome qualifier in the noble struggle for unrestrained sexual license. Tolerating \u201cintergenerational romance\u201d for \u201cminor-attracted\u201d adults is all the rage these days.<\/p>\n
\nPrecisely 100 years after the death of Islam\u2019s prophet Muhammad in 632, his Arab followers, after having conquered thousands of miles of lands from Arabia to Spain, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, facing a hitherto little known people, the Christian Franks.<\/p>\n
\nFour libertarian things we tell pollsters that we don’t really believe.<\/p>\n
\nFood-stamp fraudsters should be punished to the full extent of the law.<\/p>\n
\nAmerica today is dominated by a system of beliefs, attitudes and values that we have come to know as \u201cPolitical Correctness.\u201d For many it is an annoyance and a self parodying joke. But Political Correctness is deadly serious in its aims, seeking to impose a uniformity of thought and behavior on all Americans. It is therefore totalitarian in nature. Its roots lie in a version of Marxism which sees culture, rather than the economy, as the site of class struggle.<\/p>\n
\nThis week, the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the question of the legality of affirmative action policies on the part of universities that favor specific classes of applicants such as racial minorities.<\/p>\n
\nI was having lunch yesterday with a politically mature Democrat, one of those \u201cScoop Jackson\u201d fellows you read about in books but \u2014 unless you are older than I am \u2014 have probably never met outside a book\u2019s pages. These are the chaps who see a fairly large role for government but who are also unabashedly pro-American, favor a robust foreign policy, are allergic to political correctness in all its squalid manifestations, and accordingly are the friends, not the enemies, of meritocracy.<\/p>\n
\nIn his September 27 G-file e-mail newsletter (subscribe!) and then a bit more yesterday, Jonah has written eloquently about the online fury directed at him and at other conservatives who questioned the recent shutdown strategy and about the weariness and frustration that follows when commenters and others impugn your commitment to principles you\u2019ve fought for much of your adult life. A difference over tactics does not necessarily indicate a difference in commitment or goals, and to presume so (vehemently!) is almost always wrong.<\/p>\n