News of the Week for December 1st<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why Did Obama Lie About Health Care?<\/a> <\/p>\n Why opposition to gun control has increased over the last half-century<\/a> Hudak will resign seat to end recall threat, hold Democrats\u2019 Senate majority<\/a> The Gun Confiscation Notice an NYC Resident Reportedly Received Will Likely Send Chills Down Your Spine<\/a> <\/p>\n Michael “Piltdown” Mann melts down at HuffPo<\/a> <\/p>\n Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled<\/a> Supreme Court Weighs New Health Law Dispute<\/a> Mark Halperin: Obamacare Contains “Death Panels”<\/a> Kevin D. Williamson’s smackdown of Leftist healthcare talking points<\/a><\/p>\n #ObamaCare As Community Organizing Tool<\/a> Boy with cancer loses coverage after Obamacare launch<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Concern Mounts in China’s Air-Defense Zone<\/a> <\/p>\n Stark’s Revenge: Bad Blood Lingers With Former Foe<\/a> NJ couple shows receipt & credit card bill refuting gay server\u2019s \u2018stiffed on tip\u2019 story<\/a> Tupelo school officials investigate assignment<\/a> Rand Paul\u2019s Urban Agenda <\/a> Men and women have different regrets after sex, study suggests<\/a> SF Protesters to Obama: Please Be a Dictator!<\/a> Bowie State Student Harassed by Administrators for Speaking Out About ObamaCare Disaster<\/a> Family Forced to Dig Up Vegetable Garden or Face Fines<\/a> Common Core third grade book goes full Dear Leader on Obama<\/a> An Academic Cartel?<\/a> Colleges Substitute Western Greats With Gender Studies <\/a> Berkeley on the Hudson?<\/a> \u2018Genderqueer\u2019 rising: Colleges welcome kids who identify as neither male nor female<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n About Half of Kids With Single Moms Live in Poverty<\/a> Debtor\u2019s Prisons Make a Comeback<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two Opposing Parties Claim Win in Honduras Presidential Election<\/a> Why two best friends, 40, with non-life threatening diseases want to take their own lives after being inspired by euthanasia talk<\/a> Is Christianity Dying in Britain?<\/a> The single most objectionable thing about the EU (in a crowded field) <\/a> “Liberal” Sweden allows paedophile to adopt a child<\/a> Montreal School Board Caves To Homosexual Group, Replaces “Mother” And “Father” With “Parent 1” And “Parent 2” <\/a> Venezuela\u2019s Maduro accuses 99 percent of businesses of \u201cprice gouging,\u201d vows to punish more \u201ccapitalist parasites\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ace of Spades’ Talking Points for Talking With Your Obnoxious Progressive Family Members About Obamacare This Thanksgiving<\/a> Do Single-Family Homes Threaten the Planet?<\/a> Obamacare’s Threat to Liberalism<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nAt this point, everyone understands that President Obama and his fellow Democrats (including most if not all of the Democratic Senators who are up for re-election next year) lied when they told us that if we like our health care plan, we can keep it. That was only one of a number of lies that were used to sell Obamacare: the average family will save $2,500 annually; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, Obamacare will mitigate the budget deficit, and so on. But why? What was the end toward which this epic deception was the means?<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nEconomist Bryan Caplan notes that support for gun control \u2014 specifically, banning handguns or pistols \u2014 has decreased dramatically since the 1950s and 1960s. Back in 1959 Gallup reported that 60% of Americans favored banning possession of “pistols and revolvers,” while now 74% oppose banning “the possession of handguns,” except by police.<\/p>\n
\nState Sen. Evie Hudak has decided to resign rather than risk facing a recall election that, should she lose, would flip control of the senate to Republicans, FOX31 Denver was first to report Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\nNew York City has reportedly started sending out confiscation notices ordering gun owners to \u201cimmediately surrender\u201d rifles and\/or shotguns capable of holding more than five rounds of ammunition. It is illegal to possess a rifle or shotgun with the capacity to hold more than five rounds in the city, according to NYC Administrative Code 10-306 (b).<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThere’s really no way to describe this screed other than a meltdown.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAlmost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Barack Obama’s health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies’ religious objections to the law’s birth-control mandate.<\/p>\n
\nThe Affordable Care Act contains provisions for “death panels,” which decide which critically-ill patients receive care and which won’t, according to Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time magazine.<\/p>\n
\nA community organizer\u2019s gotta community organize, you know. If ObamaCare can\u2019t reliably hook people up with health insurance, at least it can create an engine for agitating Democratic constituencies.<\/p>\n
\nBureaucrats won’t help unless he is ‘pregnant or an illegal alien’<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nBeijing Sends Fighter Jets, Even as It Dials Back Warnings<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nTo avenge his defeat, former Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., has promised to put his financial means and political mettle toward ousting his successor.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the story went viral recently that a gay waitress at a NJ restaurant was left a hateful note about her lifestyle in lieu of a tip, a family has come forward to say that they did in fact tip that waitress and never left any such note. And they\u2019ve provided a copy of their receipt as well as what they claim is a credit card bill that disputes the waitress\u2019 story.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s one piece of paper that has certain social media sites buzzing and is now the subject of an investigation within the Tupelo Public School District.<\/p>\n
\nDespite his good intentions, Paul shows us that Republicans still don\u2019t understand cities\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n
\nMen most often regret not having sex with more people while women frequently regret having sex with the wrong partner, according to a recently released study.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Obama\u2019s motorcade rocketed around San Francisco on Monday, very few locals even noticed his presence, and fewer still cared. The crowds awaiting him at each presidential fundraiser were by far the smallest I\u2019d seen in over five years of covering his visits here. Ticket sales to at least one of the events were so sluggish that prices had to be lowered to fill the empty seats. Out in the street, rubberneckers and protesters had dwindled to the bare minimum. This is what happens when a hero disappoints: you don\u2019t turn on him in anger, but rather just tune him out and move on to other interests.<\/p>\n
\nSo much for freedom of speech on a college campus. The bigots at Bowie State in Maryland have been giving this young man grief since he dared to criticize King Obama and have called him a wannabe grandson of Clarence Thomas. How nice. Here\u2019s Eugene Craig with Megyn Kelly Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\nThe one thing I really wanted when I lived in my post-college two-bedroom apartment was a place to grow vegetables. The thought of being able to walk outside and grab something for dinner was all too appealing for a newly minted dietitian. Much to my husband’s chagrin, the first thing I made him do when we moved into our house (after painting) was build two raised-bed vegetable gardens. I immediately packed them with seeds: spinach, romaine, red peppers, green peppers, onions, carrots, broccoli. You name it, I planted it.<\/p>\n
\nThe ground is being laid for future racial strife over Barack Obama once he is out of office. His fanatical supporters, especially in the African-American community which has remained solidly in his camp despite all his demonstrated incompetence and lies, are being set up to see him as a martyr.<\/p>\n
\nHow is a tenured professor like a drug lord? How is a new Ph.D. researcher like a street-level drug dealer?<\/p>\n
\nEducation: Parents pay a fortune to send their kids to big-name colleges, and they expect strong scholarship in return. More and more, what they’re getting ranges from drivel to leftist indoctrination.<\/p>\n
\nMy conservative cousin from New York writes occasionally for Power Line about the City in which he has lived his entire life. In this post, he reflects on the election of a new mayor<\/p>\n
\nThe weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, always start the same way. Members take turns going around the room saying their names and the personal pronouns they want others to use when referring to them \u2014 she, he or something else.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nChildren raised in single-parent households in the U.S. are far more likely to live in poverty than children with both parents present, according to Census figures released Monday. As a result, far more black and Hispanic children are raised in poverty than white kids.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s like a Dickens novel come to life. The Economist has an eye-opening write up on the rise of \u201cdebtor\u2019s prisons\u201d in the American criminal justice system. Here\u2019s how it works in a nutshell: people who can\u2019t afford to pay fines for things like expired license tags and speeding tickets are put on probation under the supervision of private firms whose income comes from adding additional monthly fees to the balance the accused already owes. Those who continue to be delinquent are then sometimes thrown into prison, until a family member or friend can pay them out.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe conservative ruling party and a leftist coalition both claimed victory in the Honduras presidential election.<\/p>\n
\nNancy Vermeulen, 43, suffered serious complication from anti-obesity surgery and can now only consume liquids
\nPegie Liekens was diagnosed with MS in 2011<\/p>\n
\nLike an Old Testament prophet telling the Israelites that they were doomed, Lord Carey has been warning Anglicans for years of their possible annihilation. The Church is \u201cone generation away from extinction,\u201d he declares. The reality is less dramatic, but the story is not altogether wrong.<\/p>\n
\nShall I tell you the worst thing about the EU? It\u2019s not the waste or the corruption or the Michelin-starred lifestyles of its leaders. It\u2019s not the contempt for voters or the readiness to swat referendum results aside. It\u2019s not the way that multi-nationals and NGOs and all manner of corporate interests are privileged over consumers. It\u2019s not the pettifogging rules that plague small employers. It\u2019s not the Common Agricultural Policy or the Common Fisheries Policy. It\u2019s not the anti-Britishness or the anti-Americanism. It\u2019s not even the way in which the euro is inflicting preventable poverty on tens of millions of southern Europeans.<\/p>\n
\nSweden has a reputation for being very “liberal”. But whose liberty are they protecting in allowing a child rapist to adopt? Political correctness goes madder than usual. And it’s all a bit sick, no?<\/p>\n
\nThe good news is that unlike the Toronto District School Board, the Montreal School Board hasn’t (yet) added Parent 3, Parent 4, and Parent 5.<\/p>\n
\nVenezuela\u2019s nationwide municipal elections are just over a week away, and Nicolas Maduro \u2014 Hugo Chavez\u2019s personally selected successor, as Maduro is excessively fond of vehemently reminding people \u2014 is putting his new \u2018emergency\u2019 decree powers to work to continue to fight against the \u201ceconomic war\u201d that his political opponents and imperial foreign powers are waging in concert against him. Or, at least, the economic war Maduro is pretending that these shady forces are waging against him, the better to contrive an outside enemy responsible for Venezuela\u2019s deep-seated economic troubles rather than naming the country\u2019s socialist system of price controls and top-down intervention as the true culprit. <\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\n1. Hey remember when you said that Obamacare was going to work great, and then, when people asked you how it actually worked, you sort of implied they were stupid for not knowing, and yet you never provided any evidence that you had any idea of how it was supposed to work yourself? Yeah, you were wrong to do that.<\/p>\n
\nA plan to squeeze most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area into multifamily housing offers a test case of whether land-use bureaucracies nationwide, encouraged by the Obama administration, should be allowed to transform American lifestyles under the pretext of combating climate change.<\/p>\n
\nhere\u2019s a term of art that the Obama White House uses to describe its neurotic supporters who instantly race to the worst-case scenario: They are known as \u201cbed-wetters.\u201d Two months into the dysfunctional life of healthcare.gov, however, that seems a perfectly appropriate physiological reaction.<\/p>\n