News of the Week for November 24th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama poses as Lincoln, evokes Gettysburg while Obamacare crashes<\/a> Census \u2018Fake\u2019gate goes back even further<\/a> <\/p>\n “Knockout Game” Player Shot By Concealed Carry Permittee <\/a> <\/p>\n \u2018Free as the Wind\u2019: The True Cost of Wind Energy <\/a> UN climate talks fall apart as 132 countries storm out<\/a> The skillful predictions of climate science<\/a> The 97% consensus myth \u2013 busted by a real survey<\/a> Study: Greenland Ice Sheet was smaller 3000-5000 years ago than today<\/a> <\/p>\n Sea Change: Majority of Public Now Says Guaranteeing “Access” To Health Care (A Euphemism for “Taxpayers Paying for It”) Is Not the Government’s Responsibility<\/a> Federal Government Spent $4.4 Billion On State Insurance Exchanges<\/a> Lesson Is Seen in Failure of Law on Medicare in 1989<\/a> 99% of people who visit Nevada\u2019s ACA website don\u2019t end up applying for a plan<\/a> OFA perpetuates myth that Obamacare prohibits rescission of health insurance<\/a> Judge Rules Pittsburgh Catholic Church Doesn\u2019t Have to Comply With HHS Mandate<\/a> For Obamacare Architects, Problems Are Features, Not Bugs<\/a> Clever: Obama Delays 2015 ObamaCare Enrollment Until After 2014 Midterm Elections<\/a> The “Obamacare Shock” – One California Employer’s Terrifying True Story<\/a><\/p>\n Woman Hailed by President as Obamacare Success Story Now Can’t Afford Obamacare<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees<\/a> Endless Afghanistan? US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely<\/a> North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood<\/a> NHTSA May Mandate That New Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed November <\/a> \u2018Gender Integration\u2019 = FAIL<\/a> <\/p>\n De Blasio Denounces Freedom, Praises \u201cHeavy Hand of Government\u201d<\/a> Obama Surgeon General nominee – Podesta\/Soros<\/a> “Knockout Game” Player Shot By Concealed Carry Permittee <\/a> Toronto District School Board: “Queering Radical Parenting” and “Gender-Fluid Parenting Practices” <\/a> #FDA declared walnuts to be drugs, and may not be legally marketed without FDA approval as a “new drug”<\/a><\/p>\n Police Called, Man arrested, cuffed after using Legal 2.00 Dollar bills at Best Buy<\/a> Regionalism: The left\u2019s big plan for how we should live<\/a> Long-term contraceptive pill use doubles glaucoma risk, research finds<\/a> Watch What Happens When a Tea Party Senator Is Pressed on Whether He Will Endorse Lindsey Graham in 2014<\/a> Democrats Go \u2018Nuclear,\u2019 Eliminate Filibusters on Most Nominees (Update)<\/a> U.N. Disabilities Treaty a Trojan Horse<\/a> Americas’ Natives Have European Roots<\/a> Mom Gives Kids Homemade Lunch, School Forces Them to Eat Ritz Crackers<\/a> Sec. State John Kerry declares Monroe Doctrine to be dead<\/a> Tennessee school safety officer arrests parent for calmly objecting to pick-up policy<\/a> George P. Bush files to run statewide in TX<\/a> Smart TV from LG phones home with user\u2019s viewing habits, USB file names<\/a> Justice Thomas speaks: The video<\/a> Even Arne Duncan’s “Apology” for Insulting Common Core Opponents Is Condescending<\/a> 150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln praised ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ \u2013 but the words were not his <\/a> Virgina State Senator Critically Wounded, Son Dead, Police Say <\/a> Census \u2018faked\u2019 2012 election jobs report<\/a> UCLA Prof accused of racist \u201cmicro-aggression\u201d for correcting student grammar<\/a> Shock Video: Black students decry UCLA as not diverse enough<\/a> Students defend professor after sit-in over racial climate<\/a> It’s okay to make students uncomfortable with racial remarks REMARKS so long as they’re white students. <\/a> California Town Bans Smoking in Condos and Apartments That Share Walls<\/a> Following Common Core money: Where are millions of dollars going?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ghost of Chavez Can’t Stop Hyperinflation<\/a> Inequality in two graphs<\/a> Wall Streeters Are Starting To Pass Around This Chart Showing The Market On The Cusp Of A Big Crash<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Norwegian TV anchorwoman discharged for wearing a Cross After Muslims Complained: “a Necklace with a Cross insults Islam”<\/a> Marxist Sandinista Movement Could Maintain Permanent Control of Nicaragua<\/a> ‘Refusal will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s educational record\u2026’<\/a> Daniel Hannan: Why have we forgotten our Bill of Rights? <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nPresident Barack Obama has given the nation a hand-written and collectivist update of President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Gettysburg Address, just as his political prospects are threatened by the cascading collapse of his Obamacare program.<\/p>\n
\nOver the past couple of days I\u2019ve been writing about the fabrication of the unemployment rate derived from the Current Population Survey \u2014 also known as the Household Survey \u2014 that the Census Bureau conducts on behalf of the Labor Department.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nTownhall reported on the “knockout” game last week, and now one participant is learning that trying to knock random people unconscious with a single punch could have dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nAs it turns out, Bodhi the Magic Unicorn lives in a lake filled with carcinogenic sludge.<\/p>\n
\nPoor countries pulled out of the United Nations climate talks during a fight over transferring wealth from richer countries to fight global warming.<\/p>\n
\nFAIL<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ve all been subjected to the incessant \u201c97% of scientists agree \u2026global warming\u2026blah blah\u201d meme, which is nothing more than another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of \u201canything for the cause\u201d zealots.<\/p>\n
\nClues in the Arctic fossil record suggest that 3-5,000 years ago, the ice sheet was the smallest it has been in the past 10,000 years<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThere has been a lot of chatter about the extent to which the Obamacare debacle changes the nation’s philosophical attitude to the soft, easy blandishments of progressivism. Does it damage them a little, or does it more fully discredit them?<\/p>\n
\n14 websites — $4.4 billion dollars. Only the US Government can spend that much money and produce nothing but a heaping pile of failure.<\/p>\n
\nAngry Americans voice outrage at being asked to pay more for health coverage. Lawmakers and the White House say the public just doesn\u2019t appreciate the benefits of the new health law. Opponents clamor for repeal before the program fully kicks in.<\/p>\n
\nLast time we checked, only 1 in 4 Nevadans who selected a Obamacare plan had actually sent in a check (513 paid enrollees out of 1,997 people who had selected plans).<\/p>\n
\nThe @Obamacare Twitter account, run by Organizing For Action, wants us to believe that Obamacare banned rescission. This is a fairly common Talking Point on the Left<\/p>\n
\nIn yet another pro-life victory against the HHS mandate that forces churches and religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for their employees, a federal judge has ruled that the Catholic Church in Pittsburgh doesn\u2019t have to comply.<\/p>\n
\nThe defects of the Obamacare website have become well known. But the problems with the law go further than the website. These problems are not incidental, but central to its design and the intentions of its architects.<\/p>\n
\nWhy do we even have a two-party government when this maniac can just rewrite the laws himself?<\/p>\n
\nCNN reports that a woman the president hailed as an Obamacare success story just realized she won’t be able to afford Obamacare because it’s too expensive<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nSeveral dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\nWhile many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key U.S.-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n
\nFort Worth police apologize for its role in federal survey<\/p>\n
\nBefore the end of this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will decide whether or not to begin the rulemaking process to mandate that newly manufactured cars include what is being called \u201cvehicle-to-vehicle\u201d (V2V) communications technology that constantly broadcasts via radio wave the car\u2019s location, direction, speed and, possibly, even the number of passengers it is carrying. <\/p>\n
\nThis is both hysterically funny and pathetically sad<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nIt was a short step from leaders who pay only the most obviously insincere lip service to economic freedom to rulers who don\u2019t even pretend not to be authoritarian collectivists in the mold of Stalin and Castro. New York City has already taken it by electing Bill de Blasio<\/p>\n
\nObama has nominated a new Surgeon General<\/p>\n
\nTownhall reported on the “knockout” game last week, and now one participant is learning that trying to knock random people unconscious with a single punch could have dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n
\nThe TDSB recommends a Queer Radical Parenting meeting on November 28. And in the latest email sent out by the TDSB’s Gender Based Violence Protection office, they are also endorsing this book launch on November 22.<\/p>\n
\nA man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency\u2019s legitimacy and called police.<\/p>\n
\nWe have written before about \u201cregionalism,\u201d the left\u2019s stealth plan to impose equality through urban and suburban planning. Stanley Kurtz has been, to my knowledge, the leading critic of this effort.<\/p>\n
\nWomen on pill for more than three years ‘twice as likely’ to develop eye disease that can cause blindness if left untreated<\/p>\n
\nSouth Carolina will have two incumbent U.S. senators up for reelection in 2014: Republicans Lindsey Graham, seeking his third term, and Tim Scott, who was appointed to that seat by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley after former Sen. Jim DeMint\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n
\nSenate Democrats succeeded Thursday in deploying the \u201cnuclear option\u201d to make the most fundamental change to floor operations in almost four decades, ending the minority\u2019s ability to kill most presidential nominations by filibuster.<\/p>\n
\nThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, despite its innocent-sounding name, contains a Trojan horse for the pro-life movement. It is the first treaty that contains a reference to \u201creproductive health.\u201d This term may sound innocuous, but it is not. Ever since the U.N. Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, anti-life forces have used the term to try to promote a binding, international legal right to abortion. They have argued \u2014 and continue to argue \u2014 that the repetition of these words, in various statements in a variety of contexts around the world, has created a \u201ccustomary law\u201d right to abortion that, in turn, binds every nation in the world.<\/p>\n
\nThe oldest known genome of a modern human solves long-standing puzzles about the New World’s genetic heritage<\/p>\n
\nA mom who thought she was properly parenting by sending her two young kids to school with a homemade, whole-food lunch was shocked to find a penalty note from school officials informing her that the lunch of roast beef, potatoes, carrots, oranges and milk she provided was “unbalanced” and therefore had to be supplemented with Ritz crackers.<\/p>\n
\nUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday declared that a nearly 200-year-old policy which had governed Washington’s relations with Latin America was finally dead.<\/p>\n
\nHere’s a video of a Cumberland County, Tennessee school safety officer illegally arresting a parent who disagreed with the school’s policy on picking up kids. The policy had recently changed, creating a long traffic jam, so the soon-to-be-arrested man walked to the school to get his kids.<\/p>\n
\nGeorge Prescott Bush, a political newcomer who is the grandson and nephew of U.S. presidents, filed to run for Texas land commissioner on Tuesday <\/p>\n
\nIt’s not the premise of a sci-fi novel. Internet-connected TVs are watching you now.<\/p>\n
\nOur friends at the Federalist Society have posted a comprehensive set of links to the videos of this year\u2019s National Lawyers Convention programs here. As promised, they have posted the 51-minute video of Justice Thomas\u2019s interview with Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Sykes this past Thursday evening at the Federalist Society\u2019s annual dinner. Those of us in attendance that night knew we had been witness to something special.<\/p>\n
\nArne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, had a moment of brutal honesty the other day. He immediately walked it back, of course, because when politicians occasionally let slip the impatience and contempt they feel for their constituents, it’s usually a good idea to fake a little contrition lest their careers suffer. But he condescendingly lashed out at “white suburban moms” for rebelling against Common Core education standards, saying it’s because their feelings are hurt when their kids don’t score as well as they once did. Thanks for letting the mask slip, Arne, and revealing your disdain for anybody who might insist on leeway in educating their own kids.<\/p>\n
\nOn November 19, 1863, at the Soldiers\u2019 National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln, weak and lightheaded with an oncoming case of smallpox, made a speech that lasted for just over two minutes, and ended with his hope \u201cthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom\u2014and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nVirginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was stabbed this morning at his residence, and is critically wounded. He has been flown to a local hospital. Also at that residence, it\u2019s being reported that his son was found dead, but police have only confirmed that a person other than the Senator was found dead at the scene, apparently from a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
\nIn the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply \u2014 raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.<\/p>\n
\nGrammar is bad and racist, right?<\/p>\n
\nThe University of California \u2013 Los Angeles has a noted diversity program, which provides diversity-related resources for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni.<\/p>\n
\nCurrent and former students in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies expressed their support for professor emeritus Val Rust following a demonstration in one of his graduate classes last Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t think anyone has a right not to be \u201cuncomfortable\u201d in class \u2014 but since universities feel otherwise, I\u2019m glad to see people extending the principle evenhandedly.<\/p>\n
\nThe town of San Rafael, Calif., has passed a ban on smoking that city officials have called the most stringent in the nation. The new ordinance makes it illegal for residents to smoke in their own homes if they share a wall with another dwelling.<\/p>\n
\nIn this post, award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York raises some new questions about the Common Core State Standards and curriculum being developed around them.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nSteve Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University economist who studies hyperinflation, thinks that Venezuela is sliding into a hyperinflation episode<\/p>\n
\nI have written many times that the subsidies to Wall Street and its employees have distorted economic outcomes for a handful of folks relative to the rest of us. So I want to start by pointing out that there is at least one source of inequality that is destructive to democracy and capitalism.<\/p>\n
\nIt shows the current market aligned with the market in the days before the Depression.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nMore of that interfaith dialogue, mutual respect and tolerance that the Muslims are always berating us with.<\/p>\n
\nNew constitutional amendments could put dictator in place<\/p>\n
\nWhat is the single most depressing aspect of this letter. Is it the idea of labelling eight-year-olds racists? Is it the moronic conflation of religion and ethnicity? Is it the ugly grammar (“As such our expectations are that all children in years 4 to 6 attend school on Wednesday\u2026”)? Is it the bullying tone? Is it the unconscionable choice of font? Is it that someone can write that way and yet hold a position of authority in a school?<\/p>\n
\nBritish prime ministers today have powers like monarchs, and EU laws sideline primary legislation \u2014 let’s repatriate our revolution<\/p>\n