News of the Week for January 5th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013<\/a> <\/p>\n \u2018Looks Like Weimar Germany\u2019: The Viral Photo Out of Connecticut That\u2019s Giving Some Gun Owners Chills<\/a> Study shows concealed-carry laws result in fewer murders<\/a> <\/p>\n Climate Clowns Trapped in Antarctic Ice: \u2018Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013<\/a> The Contraception Mandate and the Constitution <\/a> Adding a new baby to plan not easy<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second suicide bomber in Russia’s Volgograd kills 14 on bus<\/a> So Much for Moonbats Supporting the Troops<\/a> Female Marines Not Required To Do 1 Pull-Up <\/a> Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq<\/a> <\/p>\n Church Ordered To Remove \u201cSupport Our Troops\u201d Sign<\/a> The incredible, shrinking New York<\/a> Report: New York Investigators Obtain Fraudulent Ballots 97 Percent of Time <\/a> Another NY Democrat Is Banned From Having Interns While Being Investigated For Sexual Harassment<\/a> Legalizing Cannibalism? <\/a> Common Core: The Latest Flaw in One-Size-Fits-All Public Schools<\/a> Drug Warriors Kidnap and Sexually Assault a Woman After Getting Permission From a Dog<\/a> Minnesota Town Bans Homeowners From Renting Their Homes <\/a> Couple who are just friends allowed to adopt, judge says in landmark ruling <\/a> North Carolina town councilman resigns in Klingon <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10 Tax Breaks We\u2019ll Miss in 2014<\/a> Red vs. Blue Battle Continues, as Money Flows From California to Texas<\/a> Mexican sales tax hike seen as boon on US border <\/a> A China debt crisis in 2014?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Cross-Dressing & Homosexual Book List From Ontario’s Elementary School Teachers <\/a> The Homosexual & Cross-Dressing Book List From Thames Valley School Board <\/a> Chinese scientists cultivate high-yield salt-resistant rice<\/a> Cambodian demonstrators seeking new elections joined by factory workers for more protests<\/a> Jang’s execution bodes ill for China<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n America’s Internal Checkpoints<\/a> \u2018Duck Dynasty\u2019 Reversal Shows GLAAD Has an Expiration Date<\/a> The real gender war is against boys<\/a> Pajama Boy Unchained<\/a> 11 Girly Things Huffpo Wishes Men Would Do To Emasculate Themselves<\/a> Would an appeals court really benefit Nevadans? Dec27 by Thomas Mitchell <\/a> The \u2018Racism\u2019 Wrecking Ball <\/a> Why Obama frets about income inequality, not family breakdown<\/a> Idiot leaves Ron Paul coalition; finds natural home in Democrat Party<\/a> Sinners in the Hands of an Indifferent God <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nOne of Barack Obama\u2019s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nA now-viral photo showing a long line of Connecticut residents waiting to register their guns and ammo is circulating across the Internet \u2014 and it\u2019s sending chills down the backs of some gun owners.<\/p>\n
\nYet another bit of data to mull over in the gun-control wars, courtesy of Quinnipiac University\u2019s Mark Gius<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThis is too funny for words.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nOne of Barack Obama\u2019s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse.<\/p>\n
\nThe administration and its allies have profoundly twisted the meaning of the Constitution<\/p>\n
\nThere’s another quirk in the Obama administration’s new health insurance system: It lacks a way for consumers to quickly and easily update their coverage for the birth of a baby and other common life changes.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nA bomb ripped a bus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours and raising fears of Islamist attacks on the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
\nIt used to be that liberals said they opposed our country but supported our troops. Now that they are running the country, there is less need to maintain a pretense.
\nA patriotic soldier personifies everything leftists oppose. Union leader Janet Vrotsos was quite upfront about it in a Facebook message to triple amputee Senior Airman Brian Kolfage <\/p>\n
\nFemales in the Marine Corps currently are not required to do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014, they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their training has been delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media. – See more at: http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/female-marines-not-required-do-1-pull#sthash.R4rdfmF2.dpuf<\/p>\n
\nA rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nA church is in a clash with Nevada County after being told to take down a sign with an American flag and a message to support the troops.<\/p>\n
\nChanges are coming to the Empire State, and not the kind that Governor Cuomo would like to see. The shift in question is the state\u2019s population relative to the rest of the nation. From the early days of the Union, New York was the most populous state in the US, making it a political powerhouse as well as an economic one. That all began to change in the second half of the 20th century. New York was overtaken in population by California in the 1970 census. In 2000 we were shoved into third place by Texas. And now, if current projections hold, New York will be out of the top three entirely, pushed out by Florida.<\/p>\n
\nNew York City\u2019s Department of Investigation (DOI) has just shown how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. Its undercover agents were able to obtain ballots for city elections a total of 61 times \u2014 39 times using the names of dead people, 14 times using the names of incarcerated felons, and eight times using the names of non-residents. On only two occasions, or about 3 percent of the time, were the agents stopped by polling-place officials. In one of the two cases, an investigator was stopped only because the felon he was trying to vote in the name of was the son of the election official he was dealing with.<\/p>\n
\nLet’s just call it the Bubba Rule<\/p>\n
\nThe placenta is a human fetal organ that is expelled from the mother\u2019s uterus after birth. Now, Oregon has legalized taking the placenta home for burial or consumption.<\/p>\n
\nWhen the federal government imposes a single teaching plan on 15,000 school districts across the country, that’s central planning, which brings stagnation.<\/p>\n
\nIn a case eerily similar to David Eckert’s humiliating ordeal at the hands of cops in Deming, New Mexico, a federal lawsuit charges U.S. Border Patrol agents with subjecting a U.S. citizen to six hours of degrading and fruitless body cavity searches based on an alleged alert by a drug-sniffing dog. The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the ACLU chapters in Texas and New Mexico, says the plaintiff, a 54-year-old New Mexico resident identified in the complaint as Jane Doe, was crossing the bridge between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso after visiting a family friend last December when she was chosen at random for “additional screening.” This “secondary inspection” involved a pat-down during which an agent “inserted her finger in the crevice of Ms. Doe’s buttocks”\u2014a rather startling incursion inasmuch as the agents at this point had no basis to suspect that the woman was carrying contraband. But they were just getting started.<\/p>\n
\nMinnesota residents are challenging a new ordinance which prohibits homeowners from renting their own homes. The first-of-its-kind law was enacted in the city of Winona to reportedly thwart \u201canti-social behavior,\u201d crumbling housing conditions, and curb excessive parking, according to a report by Watchdog Minnesota.<\/p>\n
\nIn a first of its kind ruling in New York, a Manhattan judge has given a couple who’re just friends the green light to become legal co-parents to an adopted girl.<\/p>\n
\nA North Carolina town councilman’s resignation letter boldly went where no resignation letter has gone before. According to media reports, David Waddell tendered his resignation letter in the fictional language of Kingon from the popular TV and movie franchise “Star Trek”.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nMore than 50 tax credits will expire on New Year\u2019s Eve, depriving businesses and individuals the relief they once enjoyed for common expenditures such as buying racehorses and building NASCAR tracks.<\/p>\n
\nThe Washington Post continues the recently popular sport of contrasting Texas and California political styles and attitudes toward the size of the state, and then posing the federalism-defying question: Which is the better model for America’s future? (Cue ominous music in the background.) Strictly speaking, there should be room in the United States for a variety of policy experiments, so long as basic liberties are respected. People can then vote with their money and their feet. And, in fact, as the article and data from elsewhere indicate, Americans have favored Texas with their votes for many years.<\/p>\n
\nMexican license plates are common in parking lots of shopping malls in U.S. border cities. They will be even more familiar after Mexico raises its federal sales tax in border regions to match the rest of the country, say merchants and shoppers.<\/p>\n
\nHere\u2019s something to watch in 2014: China\u2019s debt. Although the odds of a full-blown financial crisis are slim, they\u2019re not non-existent. The flash point is the burgeoning debt of Chinese localities to finance major infrastructure \u2014 roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, subways, telecommunications networks \u2014 as well as housing and commercial real estate developments. The fear is that revenues from these projects won\u2019t be adequate to repay the loans, resulting in defaults that undermine confidence and trigger bank runs. This would surely rattle the broader global economy.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nTaken from the ETFO’s list of books on gender and human rights and LGBT. Some books can be found in multiple categories – for example the cross-dressing book My Princess Boy is found on all three lists.<\/p>\n
\nHere’s the list. For elementary school students.<\/p>\n
\nChinese scientists have cultivated a high-yield salt-resistant rice variety that boasts an output of six tonnes per hectare.<\/p>\n
\nDemonstrators in Cambodia have begun a third week of protests demanding new elections, their numbers buoyed by thousands of factory workers seeking higher wages.<\/p>\n
\nThe purge of North Korea’s second in command sent shock waves around the world. One writer looks at the impact on bilateral ties while the other details how the noose had tightened on Jang Song Thaek.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nRefuseniks fight back against feds demanding papers<\/p>\n
\nA few years ago, I couldn\u2019t imagine a network disregarding GLAAD\u2019s recommendations<\/p>\n
\nLost in all the noise about helping girls achieve their potential is a growing body of evidence that boys are in trouble. It’s the real “gender gap.” Consider this: A recent study by two MIT economists found that men, not women, are less likely to graduate from high school and finish college. As a result, the study said, “over the last three decades, the labor market trajectory of males in the U.S. has turned downward along four dimensions: skills acquisition, employment rates, occupational stature and real wage levels.”<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s official. It is now racist to criticize anything even tangentially related to Barack Obama. Some tool named Adam Serwer at MSNBC writes, For [conservatives], Pajama Boy is yet another emblem of an increasingly non-white electorate, a young population that believes in a stronger welfare state,gender equality andLGBT rights. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n
\nThe emasculation of American men is a real problem, but as much as the liberal left would like to subvert the less fair, and more cave-mannish angels of our nature, nature finds a way.<\/p>\n
\nOnce again members of the Nevada Supreme Court are pressing for the creation of an appeals court to reduce their workload.<\/p>\n
\nIndiscriminate charges of racism do more harm than good, as Martin Luther King well knew.<\/p>\n
\nThe Obama White House argues hard that rising US income inequality makes it tougher for Americans to climb the economic ladder. When President Obama gave a big speech on \u201csocial mobility\u201d earlier this month \u2013 liberal pundits called it the \u201cmost important\u201d of his presidency \u2013 he mentioned inequality more than two dozen times to pound the point home. And Team Obama has much publicized its chart illustrating the \u201cGreat Gatsby Curve\u201d which suggests strong correlation globally between high income inequality and low earnings mobility.<\/p>\n
\nA liberal friend who despairs of my decision to turn my back on the Democrat Party and declare myself a conservative, sent me an article from Salon. In it, the author smugly explains that he was a life-long libertarian, went to a Ron Paul convention, saw that a lot of the people there were conspiracy theorists, and then joined the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
\nNew Year\u2019s and the tyranny of time.<\/p>\n