{"id":3839,"date":"2013-10-27T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2013-10-27T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:52:40","slug":"news131027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/27\/news131027\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week (October 27th, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>News of the Week for October 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-77\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/news-of-the-week\/image\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"News of the Week\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg 229w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 200px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#ObamaScandal\">Obama Scandals<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#2ndAmendment\">Gun Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Hide_the_Decline\">Hide the Decline<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Obamacare\">Obamacare<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#War__Terror\">War &amp; Terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#National\">National News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Economy__Taxes\">Economy &amp; Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#International\">International News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Opinion\">Opinion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"ObamaScandal\"><\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2013\/10\/13\/millionvetmarch-lincoln-memorial-barrycades\/\" target=\"_blank\">#MillionVetMarch assembles peacefully, pulls down Lincoln Memorial #barrycades.<\/a><br \/>\nThe Lincoln Memorial is not the federal government\u2019s prop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/25\/exclusive-feds-confiscate-investigative-reporters-confidential-files-during-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feds confiscate investigative reporter\u2019s confidential files during raid<\/a><br \/>\nA veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August \u2014 leading her to fear that a number of her sources inside the federal government have now been exposed.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"2ndAmendment\"><\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bulletsfirst.net\/2013\/10\/22\/ca-court-appeals-lays-foundation-near-total-gun-ban\/#0rcmEdf4KcpwDEXK.16\" target=\"_blank\">CA Court of Appeals lays foundation for near total gun ban <\/a><br \/>\nOn Monday October 21st 2013, California\u2019s 4th District Court of Appeal held that the Second Amendment does not apply to semi-automatic firearms like \u201cAK\u201d platform rifles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgunsfoundation.org\/2013\/10\/ca-court-appeal-holds-second-amendment-doesnt-protect-semi-autos\/\" target=\"_blank\">CA Court of Appeal Holds Second Amendment Doesn\u2019t Protect Semi-Autos<\/a><br \/>\nThe decision is below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/exclusive-westgate-interpol-chief-ponders-armed-citizenry\/story?id=20637341&#038;singlePage=true\" target=\"_blank\">After Westgate, Interpol Chief Ponders &#8216;Armed Citizenry&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nInterpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month&#8217;s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya \u2013 and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/10\/californians-aim-for-colorado-style-gun-control-recalls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians aim for Colorado-Style gun control Recalls<\/a><br \/>\nIn response to the legislation that did garner Brown\u2019s signature, a California Assemblyman is using Colorado\u2019s recent recall elections as a model for sending a message to elected advocates of excessive gun restrictions.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Hide_the_Decline\"><\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Environment &amp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Green Energy&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/25\/aussie-pm-carbon-tax-is-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Prime Minister: Carbon tax is \u2018socialism\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s newly elected prime minister pulled no punches when giving his thoughts on the country\u2019s carbon tax, which he says must be abolished as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/10\/23\/new-film-puts-al-gores-climate-reality-nonsense-about-climate-and-carbon-tax-into-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">New film puts Al Gore\u2019s \u2018climate reality\u2019 nonsense about climate and carbon tax into perspective<\/a><br \/>\nI received a copy of this film by mail, An Inconsistent Truth and despite my misgivings about the name of the production company \u201cExtry Good\u201d and it\u2019s talk-radio pedigree, I\u2019ll have to say its better than many other efforts I\u2019ve seen. It has a number of themes familiar to WUWT readers, such as the Climategate issue, the hypocrisy of Gore, and Mann\u2019s hockey stick nonsense, but misses the mark on the \u201chide the decline\u201d issue when it talks about scientists hiding declining global temperatures, versus the real issue of hiding the declining tree ring proxy record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/10\/24\/a-new-record-the-most-sea-ice-in-antarctica-in-30-years-by-extent-and-by-volume\/\" target=\"_blank\">A new record: the most sea ice in Antarctica in 30 years by extent and by volume<\/a><br \/>\nIn light of global warming, it seems paradoxical that the sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean has covered a larger area in the past month than in the last decades. Only in the mid-70s was observed a similar expansion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/10\/24\/epic-failure-of-the-canadian-climate-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">Epic Failure of the Canadian Climate Model<\/a><br \/>\nThe Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia submitted five runs of its climate model CanESM2 for use in the fifth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The climate model produces one of the most extreme warming projections of all the 30 models evaluated by the IPCC. (See Note 1.) The model badly fails to match the surface and atmosphere temperature observations, both globally, regionally, as presented in six graphs.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Obamacare\"><\/a>Obamacare<br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/361768\/insurance-death-spiral-looks-increasingly-inevitable-jim-geraghty\" target=\"_blank\">The Insurance \u2018Death Spiral\u2019 Looks Increasingly Inevitable <\/a><br \/>\nThis coming year, the penalty for not having health insurance is $95 or $1 percent of your income, whichever is greater. Thus, unless you\u2019re making less than $9,500, it\u2019s going to be one percent of your income \u2014 $300 if you\u2019re making $30,000, $400 if you\u2019re making $40,000, and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Articles\/2013\/10\/21\/Obamacare-Tech-Fail-May-Do-What-GOP-Couldn-t\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare Tech Fail May Do What the GOP Couldn\u2019t <\/a><br \/>\nRepublicans failed spectacularly in their plan to use the budget and debt ceiling crisis to derail the implementation of Obamacare. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2013\/10\/canada_has_death_panels_and_that_s_a_good_thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canada has Death Panels; Slate considers bureaucrats condemning innocent people to death to be praiseworthy!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304402104579149643667592428?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion\" target=\"_blank\">Vaporcare<\/a><br \/>\nObama delivers an infomercial when an accounting is due.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/an-nhs-free-at-the-point-of-use-could-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past-officials-warn-8876505.html\" target=\"_blank\">An NHS free at the point of use could soon be a thing of the past, officials warn<\/a><br \/>\nA National Health Service free at the point of use will soon be &#8220;unsustainable&#8221;, if the political parties do not come forward with radical plans for change before the 2015 election, top health officials have warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2468112\/Revealed-How-GPs-paid-50-bonus-elderly-death-lists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Revealed: How GPs are paid \u00a350 bonus to put elderly on &#8216;death lists&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nGPs paid to draw up &#8216;end-of-life advanced care plans&#8217;<br \/>\nDocuments seen by Mail on Sunday say &#8216;key objective&#8217; is &#8216;reducing healthcare costs&#8217;<br \/>\nEvery death outside of hospital saves the NHS almost \u00a31,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/millions-americans-are-losing-their-health-plans-because-obamacare_764602.html\" target=\"_blank\">Millions of Americans Are Losing Their Health Plans Because of Obamacare<\/a><br \/>\nWhile the Affordable Care Act was making its way through Congress in 2009 and 2010, President Obama famously promised the American people over and over again that if you like your health plan, you can keep it. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jammiewf.com\/2013\/obamas-war-on-women-obamcare-takes-away-womans-health-care-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s War on Women: ObamaCare Takes Away Woman\u2019s Health Care Choices<\/a><br \/>\nDemocrat mascot Sandra Fluke was unavailable for comment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2013\/10\/27\/obamacare-insurance-pregnant-woman-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare watch: How the Democrats threw a pregnant woman off her insurance.<\/a><br \/>\nAll in the name of \u201chelping\u201d her, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackmailersdontshoot.com\/2013\/10\/27\/californians-are-finding-out-whats-in-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians Are Finding Out What\u2019s in #ObamaCare<\/a><br \/>\nA lot of people in California are finding out that it kind of sucks to be the egg that gets broken in order to make the omelette. I have no sympathy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-health-sticker-shock-20131027,0,2756077.story#axzz2ix5yR200\" target=\"_blank\">Some health insurance gets pricier as Obamacare rolls out <\/a><br \/>\nMany middle-class Californians with individual health plans are surprised they need policies that cover more \u2014 and cost more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jammiewf.com\/2013\/want-to-access-all-the-pricing-and-navigator-info-from-data-healthcare-gov-signing-up-with-a-bogus-email-is-quick-and-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Want to Access All the Pricing and Navigator Info From Data.HealthCare.gov? Signing Up With a Bogus Email Is Quick and Easy<\/a><br \/>\nThe easy accessibility was exposed here last night. So if you go to this site, you can sign up using a made up email address and create an account in seconds. You can\u2019t get your healthcare plan, but accessing records is incredibly easy. And once you have an account, you can embed all the helpful pricing plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/344415.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Sargasso Sea of Federal IT projects<\/a><br \/>\nSo the ObamaCare IT wildfire is still out of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/24\/californias-obamacare-program-touts-fluency-in-asian\/\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s Obamacare program touts fluency in \u2018Asian\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia\u2019s Obamacare administrators don\u2019t speak English particularly well, but they do have fluency in a language they call \u201cAsian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/24\/health-insurance-cancellation-notices-soar-above-obamacare-enrollment-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health insurance cancellation notices soar above Obamacare enrollment rates<\/a><br \/>\nHundreds of thousands of Americans who purchase their own health insurance have received cancellation notices since August because the plans do not meet Obamacare\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teresainfortworth.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/24\/howard-dean-d-admits-that-single-payer-is-never-going-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Dean (D) Admits That \u201cSingle-Payer\u201d Is Never Going to Work<\/a><br \/>\nNow, mind you, that isn\u2019t what he MEANT to say, but in this interview on today\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201c, that is EXACTLY what he said \u2013 without realizing it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackmailersdontshoot.com\/2013\/10\/21\/time-for-gloating-demagoguery-on-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Time for Gloating Demagoguery on ObamaCare<\/a><br \/>\nPlease, GOP. Give us something. Just a bone. First Health and Human Services creates a website that might as well have been designed by the Bulgarian Communist Party. Then the President gives a clunker of a speech using the three people the White House managed to find who made it all the way through Healthcare.gov. Fellas, this is what we call a goldmine, and you\u2019re wasting it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fQvfwW5zflY\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare Halloween Horror<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQvfwW5zflY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/10\/24\/health\/credit-report-lock-may-hinder-ability-to-sign-up-for-mnsure\" target=\"_blank\">Credit report lock may hinder ability to sign up for MNsure<\/a><br \/>\nPeople who have locked their credit reports may have trouble creating an account on the state&#8217;s new insurance marketplace, MNsure officials said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=dac03716-ba8c-4997-b1ea-58c3ffca84ef\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson to Introduce Act to Allow Americans to Keep Their Health Care<\/a><br \/>\nSenator Ron Johnson will file legislation next week titled the \u201cIf You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"War__Terror\"><\/a>War &amp; Terror<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/10\/23\/obama-wants-marines-to-wear-girly-hats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama wants Marines to wear \u2018girly\u2019 hats<\/a><br \/>\nA change to the Marine Corps\u2019 uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street.  Thanks to a plan by President Obama to create a \u201cunisex\u201d look for the Corps, officials are on the verge of swapping out the Marines\u2019 iconic caps \u2013 known as \u201ccovers\u201d \u2014 with a new version that some have derided as so \u201cgirly\u201d that they would make the French blush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Diplomacy-and-Politics\/Adelson-US-should-drop-atomic-bomb-on-Iran-329641\" target=\"_blank\">Adelson: US should drop atomic bomb on Iran <\/a><br \/>\nAmerican-Jewish billionaire blasts Obama over negotiations with Tehran; says US should show Iran nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2013\/10\/23\/does-army-consider-christians-tea-party-terror-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Does Army consider Christians, Tea Party, a terror threat?<\/a><br \/>\nSoldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/internet-privacy-company-ends-service-to\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Privacy Company Ends Service To Avoid Government Surveillance<\/a><br \/>\nRemember Lavabit and Silent Circle, the encrypted email providers that  closed their doors because they faced government pressure to enable government snooping on their customers (Silent Circle still offers other privacy services)? Well, you can add CryptoSeal to the mix. The company has ended its CryptoSeal Privacy virtual private network (VPN) service (it still offers enterprise-lever services), which was advertised as &#8220;keeps prying eyes off of your internet usage while you&#8217;re at home, in a coffee shop or even another country,&#8221; also over concerns about the legal environment and government snooping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131024\/13173225006\/nsa-defender-argues-that-too-much-transparency-defeats-purpose-democracy.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">NSA Defender Argues That Too Much Transparency Defeats The Purpose Of Democracy<\/a><br \/>\nPaul Rosenzweig, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at Homeland Security, was supposed to testify for the House Intelligence Committee about NSA surveillance. The hearing was postponed and Rosenzweig can&#8217;t make the new date, but he&#8217;s posted the testimony he intended to give, in which he makes this incredible claim<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmore.org\/army-unreadiness-catastrophic-or-treasonous\" target=\"_blank\">Army Unreadiness: Catastrophic or Treasonous?<\/a><br \/>\nThe most important responsibility of the federal government is, as the Constitution states, to \u201cprovide for the common defense.\u201d However, based on a recent assessment from the Chief of Staff of the US Army, General Raymond Odierno, we have an Army that is woefully unprepared and unready to meet the nation\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"National\"><\/a>National<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/10\/21\/chamber-of-commerce-business-groups-looking-to-dislodge-tea-party-candidates-in-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chamber of Commerce, business groups looking to dislodge tea party candidates in 2014?<\/a><br \/>\nThere have been several reports out over the past few days about an evidently riled business-lobby community in the wake of the government shutdown and Congress\u2019s flirtation with default, and that \u2014 especially in the event of another fiscal showdown this January\/February \u2014 several major business groups are apparently thinking about pulling on their extra-establishmenty boots and doin\u2019 work on behalf of what they see as more moderate and \u201cbusiness-friendly\u201d candidates in next year\u2019s pre-midterm primaries. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/361779\/case-racist-pbj-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">The Case of the Racist PB&#038;J <\/a><\nThe latest in crazy courtesy of the Portland, Ore., government schools: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are sort of racist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/21\/feds-try-to-eliminate-housing-for-deaf-at-complex-built-for-hearing-impaired\/?intcmp=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf &#8212; at complex built for hearing-impaired<\/a><br \/>\nArizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically &#8212; for the deaf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/361874\/dem-rep-uses-burning-kkk-cross-depict-tea-party-charles-c-w-cooke\" target=\"_blank\">Dem Rep. Uses Burning KKK Cross to Depict Tea Party <\/a><br \/>\nRepresentative Alan Grayson (D-Fl.) sent the following e-mail to his supporters yesterday. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&#038;id=1011\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Paul Introduces Constitutional Amendment<\/a><br \/>\nSen. Rand Paul last week introduced S.J. Res. 25, a Constitutional amendment that would hold government officials to the same standard as the American people. The amendment states that &#8220;Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to Congress.&#8221; The amendment also contains two provisions that apply that same principle to the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch of the federal government.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/10\/darrell-issa-immigration-reform-bill-98764.html\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Issa to introduce immigration bill<\/a><br \/>\nRep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/112284\/common-core-concern\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin mom shares her Common Core horror story<\/a><br \/>\nMarcia Alder of West Bend beams when she talks about her three school-aged children, calling them \u201cbrilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/post\/teacher-one-maddening-day-working-with-the-common-core\/2012\/03\/15\/gIQA8J4WUS_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Teacher: One (maddening) day working with the Common Core<\/a><br \/>\nThe high school English department in which I work recently spent a day looking at what is called an \u201cexemplar\u201d from the new Common Core State Standards, and then working together to create our own lessons linked to that curriculum. An exemplar is a prepackaged lesson which is supposed to align with the standards of the Common Core. The one we looked at was a lesson on \u201cThe Gettysburg Address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/24\/race-hustlers-heckle-libertarian-event-lie-to-kids-about-affirmative-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race hustlers heckle libertarian event, lie to kids about affirmative action<\/a><br \/>\nA libertarian student event at the University of Michigan was interrupted by radical activists\u2013including at least a dozen Detroit-area high schoolers who had been deliberately misled by leftist organizers about the facts of affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/doj-tries-to-stop-parents-from-defending-louisiana-school-voucher-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOJ Tries to Stop Parents from Defending Louisiana School Voucher Program<\/a><br \/>\nInjunction will prevent vouchers from being awarded in 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/10\/24\/famous-actor-calls-for-socialist-style-revolution-and-massive-redistribution-of-wealth-in-brutally-honest-sit-down-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Famous Actor Calls for Socialist \u2018Revolution\u2019 and \u2018Massive Redistribution of Wealth\u2019 in Brutally Honest Sit-Down Interview<\/a><br \/>\nActor and comedian Russell Brand is not shy about making his extreme far-left political views known. He doesn\u2019t care if people disagree with them and he certainly doesn\u2019t believe that he should keep his ideas to himself because he\u2019s just an \u201cactor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/creating-a-framework-for-ethical-decision-making-among-journalists-and-those-who-care-about-democracy\/227095\/bullying-is-not-on-the-rise-and-it-does-not-lead-to-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide<\/a><br \/>\nEvery other month or so a story about a child bullied until he or she commits suicide rises into our national consciousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/alanjohnson\/100243058\/what-does-angela-davis-know-about-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">What does Angela Davis know about freedom? <\/a><br \/>\nTonight, a woman who supported the imprisonment of Soviet political dissidents (calling them common criminals), cheered on the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize (formerly the International Stalin Peace Prize) by communist East Germany, will give the Birkbeck-University of London Annual Law Lecture. Her title? \u2018Freedom is a Constant Struggle.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/10\/27\/subways-overrun-with-homeless-as-panhandling-busts-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Subways overrun with homeless<\/a><br \/>\nIt\u2019s an express train \u2014 to the bad old days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20131022\/articles\/131029886?title=Deputies-shoot,-kill-13-year-old-boy-in-Santa-Rosa?title=Mom:-'Why-did-they-kill-him?-Why'-\" target=\"_blank\">Deputies shoot, kill 13-year-old boy in Santa Rosa<\/a><br \/>\nSonoma County sheriff&#8217;s deputies shot and killed a 13-year-old boy Tuesday afternoon during an encounter in a southwest Santa Rosa neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moonbattery.com\/?p=38350\" target=\"_blank\">Coach Formally Accused of Bullying for Decisively Winning Football Game<\/a><br \/>\nThe concept of bullying, like all things liberal, will extend ever further into absurdity for as long as moonbats dominate our society. Already it encompasses winning decisively<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/344432.php\" target=\"_blank\">Why Hillary Clinton Isn&#8217;t The Inevitable 2016 Democratic Nominee, Let Alone Winner Of The General Election<\/a><br \/>\nThere lots of talk out there about how Hillary Clinton is going to walk away with the Democrat nomination for President in 2016 and then sweep into over the charred remains of whatever sacrificial lamb the GOP offers up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/24\/creepy-douchebag-md-ag-busted-for-hanging-out-at-party-with-underage-drinkers-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Creepy douchebag\u2019: Md. AG busted for hanging out at party with underage drinkers <\/a><br \/>\nMaryland Attorney General Doug Gansler may not know what BuzzFeed is, but he\u2019s evidently very familiar with buzzed teens. And now he\u2019s finding himself in some hot water after footage surfaced of him at a summer party in Delaware, surrounded by underage drinkers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/24\/thanks-for-the-perfect-description-of-liberalism-jerry-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks for the \u2018PERFECT description of liberalism,\u2019 Jerry Brown<\/a><br \/>\nHey, Dems. Need a slogan? California Gov. Jerry Brown is here for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/10\/23\/second-graders-taught-labor-politics-in-core-curriculum-aligned-lesson-plan\/?intcmp=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">Second-graders taught labor politics in Core Curriculum-aligned lesson plan<\/a><br \/>\nA textbook company contracted to produce materials under the Common Core State Standards is trying to teach students as young as second grade about economic fairness by praising unions, protests and labor leader Cesar Chavez, according to an education watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/10\/24\/sexy-belly-dance-costumes-for-children-among-top-online-halloween-costume-searches\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Sexy Belly Dance Costumes for Children\u2019 Among Top Online Halloween Costume Searches<\/a><br \/>\nTada! We\u2019re a screwed up country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/362156\/universities-offer-sex-and-text-class-and-others-fulfill-gen-ed-requirements-alec\" target=\"_blank\">Universities Offer \u2018Sex and Text\u2019 Class and Others to Fulfill Gen-Ed Requirements <\/a><br \/>\nEver since the abandonment of core curricula in higher education, academic standards have slipped or ceased to exist completely in many institutions. The embrace of a more \u201cfree\u201d and unstructured approach to education has led schools to offer the most absurd and inane courses for basic requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/10401584\/Offensive-Halloween-costumes-banned-by-US-university.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Offensive&#8217; Halloween costumes banned by US university<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Colorado Boulder tells students to avoid costumes including cowboys, indians, white trash or anything potentially deemed offensive<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Economy__Taxes\"><\/a>Economy<br \/>\n&amp; Taxes<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">September Employment Situation Summary<\/a><br \/>\nTotal nonfarm payroll employment rose by 148,000 in September, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/terence-p-jeffrey\/census-bureau-means-tested-govt-benefit-recipients-outnumber-full\" target=\"_blank\">Welfare Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers <\/a><br \/>\nAmericans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau. They also out-numbered the total population of the Philippines. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/344414.php\" target=\"_blank\">A soup\u00e7on of DOOM<\/a><br \/>\nThis is just a little DOOM appetizer, my groovy babies, a few DOOM-y links to apologize for the lack of a bigger DOOM meal on Monday. Savor the flavor!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"International\"><\/a>International<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/20\/khmer-rouge-s-bloodiest-murderers-on-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\">Khmer Rouge\u2019s Bloodiest Murderers on Trial<\/a><br \/>\nTwo of the masterminds behind the Cambodian genocide, one of last century\u2019s most severe mass killings, are finally on trial. Michael Moynihan on why it\u2019s time to convict the murderers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2013\/10\/15\/South-African-Radio-Station-Receives-Fine-for-Unflattering-Mention-of-Islam\" target=\"_blank\">South African Radio Station Fined for Unflattering Mention of Islam<\/a><br \/>\nThe Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) fined in an August 29, 2013 judgment a South African radio broadcaster for making an \u201cunjustifiable connection with Islam\u201d during news reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/latest-news\/act-prepares-to-debate-gay-marriage-bill\/story-fn3dxiwe-1226744206090\" target=\"_blank\">Australia: Feds poised to challenge gay marriage laws <\/a><br \/>\nTHE next battle over same-sex marriage will be in the High Court after a decision by the ACT parliament to enact its own laws. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/article\/361804\/russias-demographic-revolution-daniel-pipes\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s Demographic Revolution <\/a><br \/>\nThe growth of an increasingly confident Muslim population is the source of major tension.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/10\/26\/world\/venezuela-government-creates-happiness-agency\/#.Umuu1BCHb5I\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela government creates \u2018happiness agency\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nAmericans may have the constitutional right to pursue happiness, but Venezuela now has a formal government agency in charge of enforcing it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Opinion\"><\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/article\/361644\/potemkin-parliament-mark-steyn\" target=\"_blank\">Potemkin Parliament <\/a><br \/>\nWashington\u2019s governing systems are in a bad way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2013\/10\/17\/when-is-a-baby-not-a-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">When Is A Baby Not A Baby?  <\/a><br \/>\nWhen the media doesn&#8217;t want to discuss our treatment of the youngest humans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackmailersdontshoot.com\/2013\/10\/19\/study-anti-bullying-programs-backfire-in-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study: Anti-Bullying Programs Backfire in Schools<\/a><br \/>\nWhen school administrators aren\u2019t busy covering for teachers having sex with their students, sometimes they get bored and spend gobs of public money on social engineering programs. In the last few years anti-bullying has become the new DARE, SANE, BECOOL or whatever you had in school, and the results have been just as successful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/article\/362181\/obama-avatar-charles-c-w-cooke\" target=\"_blank\">Obama the Avatar <\/a><br \/>\nHe is all things to all people, and concerned about all of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2013\/dgreenfield\/its-not-fecundophobia-its-familyphobia\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Not Fecundophobia, It\u2019s Familyphobia<\/a><br \/>\nMollie Hemingway\u2019s interesting article at The Federalist gets it almost right. There is a fear of fertility, but it\u2019s contextual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coinaxis.com\/index.php\/entry\/open-letter-to-russell-brand-coinaxis\" target=\"_blank\">Open letter to Russell Brand<\/a><br \/>\nI just finished watching your interview with Jeremy Paxman, aside from Mr. Paxman being a trite individual, it was fantastic exchange of new ideas vs. old.  I&#8217;m sure you were expecting Sinead O&#8217;Conner, or Miley Cyrus to write you this open-air missive.  Alas, I&#8217;m going to underwhelm you, because my fame and fortune are nonexistent.  So, here it is, you get me, Michael, writing you in hopes to get your attention to some important issues, in which are pertinent to your revolutionary interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/10\/26\/u-s-eh-united-states-should-merge-with-canada-to-compete-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">US, Canada should merge into one country<\/a><br \/>\nU-S-Eh! No two nations in the world are as integrated, economically and socially, as the United States and Canada. We share geography, values and a gigantic border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2013\/10\/22\/fecundophobia-growing-fear-children-fertile-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fecundophobia: The Growing Fear Of Children And Fertile Women  <\/a><br \/>\nAmerica&#8217;s embrace of low fertility rates is becoming a problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2013\/10\/23\/enda-another-assault-on-liberty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Non-Discrimination Act: Another Assault On Liberty<\/a><br \/>\nIf the road to hell is paved with good intentions there is a superhighway under construction in the Congress. Periodically, Congress, acting as the national scold, steps into the breach and attempts to make all the kids on the playground like each other. Rarely do these attempts work out as well in practice as they do on paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/article\/362141\/lesson-marriage-polyamorist-mona-charen\" target=\"_blank\">A Lesson on Marriage from a Polyamorist <\/a><br \/>\nThe \u201cborn that way\u201d argument is irrelevant if fulfillment is all that matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/362225\/polyamory-and-same-sex-marriage-mona-charen\" target=\"_blank\">Polyamory and Same-Sex Marriage<\/a><br \/>\nTwenty years ago, you\u2019d have been hard-pressed to find a mother endorsing same-sex marriage for her child. Twenty years from now, it\u2019s possible that some number of mothers will come to believe that if multiple partners are what is required for their child, that\u2019s what they should have. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of the Week for October 27th, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}