News of the Week for February 2<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hagan Trails GOP Challenger by 7 Points <\/a> The incredible, shrinking blue-state advantage<\/a> GOP Candidates Trail Leading Dem. in Georgia Senate Race <\/a> La., N.H. Senate Races Swinging Republicans\u2019 Way <\/a> #KYSen: New poll shows McConnell in the same precarious position as ever <\/a> <\/p>\n California’s Diabolical Plans to Shred the Bill of Rights \t<\/a> Stanford law prof: Second Amendment is about restricting gun rights<\/a> NY SAFE Act becomes issue in NY-23 swing race<\/a> <\/p>\n No New Continent \u2018Hottest\u2019 Temperature Records Since 1978<\/a> Idaho Firm that Beat EPA in Court Now Targeted by the Army Corps of Engineers?<\/a> Better living through carbon conversion chemistry<\/a> Popular anti-fracking study discredited by Colorado health department<\/a> <\/p>\n Many Children Unable To Be Included In Parents\u2019 Obamacare Family Plans<\/a> Secret Abortion Fees Hidden In Obamacare Premiums<\/a> California\u2019s Obamacare Scandal <\/a> Drug companies warn innovation could suffer under Obamacare<\/a> Covered California Spends $1.37 Million on PR Campaign Featuring Video of Richard Simmons Dancing <\/a> Sick Kids Denied Specialty Care Due to Obamacare in Washington<\/a> Labor unions utterly betrayed by #obamacare.<\/a> 92 Air Force nuclear officers implicated in cheating scandal<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying<\/a> \u201cDo you realize that this is how wars start?\u201d<\/a> Pentagon Concerned by China’s New High-Speed Missile<\/a> Boston bombing suspect will face death penalty<\/a> India\u2019s Struggling Military Gets Major Boost From Japan<\/a> Howard Dean Opposes Iran Nuclear Deal <\/a> Iranian commander: We have targets within America<\/a> <\/p>\n Blame baby boomers for the financial crisis, says PJ O\u2019Rourke: \u2018We invented playing with money\u2019 <\/a> Politico Pressures Sean Hannity to Alter Comments About Michael Savage <\/a> Forget 5:2, it’s time for the WEREWOLF diet: Eating to lunar calendar like Madonna and Demi Moore claims to shed 6lb in ONE DAY<\/a> New York Teachers Come Out Against Common Core<\/a> A Carlos Henriquez Alternative Reality Timeline<\/a> Colorado student injured after setting himself on fire, authorities say<\/a> International Zoophile Rights\/Bestiality Rights Day<\/a> You Won\u2019t Believe the Reasons that This Colorado Man Continues to Buy Marijuana Illegally<\/a> As Drought Continues, Farmers Fear Feds Could Seize Water<\/a> Rep. Ryan: GOP Looking at Legal Status, Chance for Citizenship<\/a> ‘Wearable’ book allows reader to feel emotions of characters<\/a> Man who tricked girlfriend into taking abortion pill sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison<\/a> Some San Fransisco Bay Area Communities Could Run Out Of Water Within 4 Months<\/a> Chicago anti-political machine activists disgusted with SOTU<\/a> Outraged parents oust gay sex books from New Jersey school reading list<\/a> Academic Poison: Professor Says Bin Laden Was A \u2018Freedom Fighter\u2019 In Required Textbook<\/a> Christian film stripped of \u2018Best Song\u2019 Oscar nomination<\/a> GOP insiders back Rubio in 2016<\/a> US cattle herd at lowest number since 1951 <\/a> No, Women Don\u2019t Make Less Money Than Men<\/a> More States Are Quietly Becoming Republican<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n California’s New Corporate Tax Falls 30% Short<\/a> Fed eases up on QE by another $10 billion<\/a> India raises interest rates rise to stem inflation<\/a> The Three-Accounts Plan for a Real American Recovery<\/a> New evidence on the political views of mixed-race adopted and step-families<\/a> Abortion Activist: \u201cI Want to Rip the Uterus Out of Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Eat It\u201d<\/a> Washington Man Survives Going Through Wood Chipper<\/a> Rutgers University offers class on Beyonce<\/a> Gibson Guitar Company Gives the Feds the Finger<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n School ditches rules and loses bullies<\/a> Nicaragua scraps term limits in boost for socialist Ortega<\/a> Ukraine government resigns, protest bans repealed<\/a> ‘UK Tea Party’ Surges to Become Country’s ‘Most Favoured’ Political Movement<\/a> Auschwitz survivors mark liberation anniversary<\/a> Pope John Paul II’s blood stolen from church in Italy<\/a> Turkish Prime Minister Delivers Speech As a Hologram <\/a> Swedish Divorce Rates and Female Income<\/a> South African opposition groups merge ahead of vote <\/a> Indian court refuses to review gay sex ban<\/a> \u2018The number of jobs in the economy still is about 1.2 million lower than December 2007.\u2019 <\/a> Boy-shaming \u201csex education\u201d campaign planned for UK schools<\/a> Montenegro church depicts Tito, Marx and Engels in hell<\/a> Thailand\u2019s Looming Crisis<\/a> UKIP’s Rise Haunts Left-Wingers as Well as Conservatives<\/a> New Poll Causes Concern for Scottish Independence Vote<\/a> Fury as Muslim girl adopted by lesbians<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How Americans can kill Obamacare, legalize pot: Column<\/a> White House panics as millennials wise up, bail on President Obama<\/a> The Condescension of Paul Krugman<\/a> Are House Republicans planning to pull a fast one on immigration?<\/a> JOSH MARSHALL WONDERS WHY RICH PEOPLE FEEL PERSECUTED. <\/a> Is “Diversity” In Science Necessary? Legal? <\/a> How Scott Walker and the conservatives saved Wisconsin. America, take note<\/a> What if Dinesh D\u2019Souza had waved around a 30-round magazine?<\/a> The Least Free Place in America<\/a> Leave Us Alone<\/a> How many of us are Dorian Gray?<\/a> The State of Our Union Is Entirely Dependent Upon the State of Our Families and Communities<\/a> Obama Is a Symptom, Not the Cause <\/a> Everything that\u2019s wrong with America in two sentences<\/a> The Case Against Early Voting<\/a> Small Businesses Don\u2019t Add Jobs Because Government Makes Doing So Stupid.<\/a> Governing by Pen and Phone <\/a> Space Monkeys <\/a> Political Correctness Exposed! Marxism Communism Frankfurt School: End of Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nNorth Carolina’s Kay Hagan is becoming the country\u2019s most vulnerable Democrat even after distancing herself from President Obama during his recent visit to the state. A new Rasmussen poll reveals that Hagan is trailing her likely Republican opponent by the largest margin yet.<\/p>\n
\nThe Democratic Party\u2019s advantage in the states was halved last year, continuing a dramatic multi-year decline.<\/p>\n
\nA race previously thought to be safe for Republicans is now looking like a toss-up in Georgia, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. The poll shows likely Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn leading four of her potential Republican opponents.<\/p>\n
\nTwo competitive Senate races are looking more promising for Republicans, according to recent polls in Louisiana and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
\nPPP conducted a poll of Kentucky this past weekend for the union front group Americans United for Change, and it shows McConnell in the same precarious, borderline position he\u2019s found himself in for months \u2014 narrowly leading and right around 45 percent <\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nIn 1976, the Brady Campaign, then known as the National Council to Control Handguns, said that the first part of its three-part plan to get handguns and handgun ammunition made “totally illegal” was to “slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country.” This month, anti-gunners finally got that wish in California.<\/p>\n
\nA Stanford University law professor took the view that the Second Amendment permits strong gun control, telling the crowd that \u201crestriction has to be at the core\u201d of the right to carry a gun.<\/p>\n
\nWas Dem challenger in NY-23 against the SAFE Act before she was for it?<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIf indeed we are seeing hottest ever type scenarios, or if you prefer, greater extremes, where are the continental representations of this? If on the other hand, what we are experiencing is within bounds of natural variations, you would expect to see new continental records set. <\/p>\n
\nNearly two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court smacked down the Environmental Protection Agency in a landmark property rights case. The court ruled that the EPA was overstepping its bounds in going after the Sackett family of Idaho. In 2007 the Sacketts wanted to build their dream home on their own land, but the EPA swept in and tried to stop them, arguing that their land was a \u201cwetland.\u201d It wasn\u2019t a wetland, the Sacketts tried to go to court to win their property rights back, but the EPA ruled that they had no right even to defend themselves in court. The EPA staked out the position that the Sacketts could only deal with the EPA, which had already ruled against them.<\/p>\n
\nUD catalyst can convert CO2 to CO with 92 percent efficiency<\/p>\n
\nResearch claiming that hydraulic fracturing — fracking — causes increased cancer risks and birth defects have been discredited by Colorado state public health officials.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nFamilies shopping for health insurance through the new federal marketplace are running into trouble getting everyone covered when children are eligible for Medicaid but their parents are not.<\/p>\n
\nInsurance companies working under the Obamacare umbrella have secretly added a surcharge to cover the cost of abortions, an apparent violation of federal law that forbids the practice, congressional leaders charge.<\/p>\n
\nOfficials say a criminal record should not keep someone from getting a job. But why this job?<\/p>\n
\nCutbacks harsh medicine<\/p>\n
\nCovered California, the Golden State\u2019s Obamacare exchange, spent $1.37 million on a recent marketing campaign that included a six-hour long live web stream featuring a dancing, gyrating Richard Simmons, Cal Watchdog reports. In the video, the famously flamboyant fitness guru takes part in a dance-off \u2014 at times rolling on the floor and hugging another dancer \u2014 while the host of the show chants phrases like \u201cget covered\u201d and \u201cbe flexible about your health-insurance options.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn Washington state, some sick kids have been denied specialty care due to Obamacare, a local news outlet reports<\/p>\n
\nLabor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House\u2019s continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democratic candidates in this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n
\nAir Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Thursday the number of nuclear force officers implicated in a proficiency test cheating scandal has grown to 92 out of a force of 500.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans’ phone records.<\/p>\n
\nThe Chinese professional suggested that this limited strike could be effected without provoking a broader conflict. The strike would have great symbolic value, demonstrating to China, Japan, and the rest of the world who was boss. But it would not be so egregious a move that it would force America and Japan to respond militarily and thus lead to a major war.<\/p>\n
\nHypersonic strike vehicle test is high-tech arms breakthrough that will be difficult for missile defenses to counter<\/p>\n
\nDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, will face a possible death penalty if he is convicted in the first deadly terrorist assault in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nThe details are still being worked out, but it looks like India is about to become the first country since World War II to buy military aircraft from Japan. This is big news not just for Japan, which is experiencing a revival under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but also for India as it tries to keep pace with a rapidly developing Chinese military.<\/p>\n
\nSays U.S. has not placed enough emphasis on human rights issues in talks <\/p>\n
\nA top commander of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards boasted Saturday that his forces have plans in place to attack the United States from within, should the U.S. attack the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nWhat prompted the legendary libertarian satirist P.J. O\u2019Rourke to write a book, titled The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn\u2019t My Fault) (And I\u2019ll Never Do It Again),summarizing his early life and the impact the Baby Boomer had on American history? O\u2019Rourke\u2019s generation, by all accounts runs the world \u2014 what does he have to show for it?<\/p>\n
\nWhen a news outlet asks someone for a comment about a piece being written involving him or her, you would think said outlet would have the decency of accurately quoting said individual.<\/p>\n
\nWerewolf diet advocates juice cleanses at specific times of month
\nBased on idea that moon affects water in our bodies in same way as tides
\nSome claim fasting at New or Full moon can help you lose 6lb in one DAY
\nDemi Moore and Madonna have both used diet, according to Grazia
\nThere is little evidence from science to back up diet claims<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s official, New York teachers really don\u2019t like Common Core. My own kids\u2019 teachers let it be known that they weren\u2019t fans, but now the union has come out against it.<\/p>\n
\nThis morning on Morning Joe Mika & company continue to go all in on the war on women hitting Mike Huckabee & now Rand Paul for daring to suggest that a party who celebrate a person who used his authority to get sex from a young subordinate has no business talking about a \u201cwar on women\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nA student was injured after deliberately setting himself on fire Monday in the cafeteria of suburban Denver high school, causing officials to cancel classes at the school for the day.<\/p>\n
\nThe Gay Agenda blitzkrieg has been a smashing success for the forces of moonbattery. Behavior that had been nearly universally regarded with revulsion until very recently is now shielded from criticism under the umbrella of \u201ccivil rights.\u201d Each victory by the radical left provides momentum for its next campaign. Those wondering where we go from here will find out this Saturday<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s now legal to buy pot in two different ways in Colorado. You can get clearance to use it for medicinal purposes, or you can just go to a dispensary and buy your pot and pay sales and other taxes along the way.<\/p>\n
\nWith no end in sight to California\u2019s drought, farmers in the San Joaquin Valley fear federal officials could seize water in the San Luis Reservoir intended for their crops.<\/p>\n
\nRep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), a leading GOP advocate for tackling immigration, confirmed Wednesday that Republicans are looking to give illegal immigrants legal status right away, with the chance for a green card\u2014and citizenship\u2014down the line.<\/p>\n
\nStudents have created a “wearable” book that enables you to feel the characters’ feelings as you read the story<\/p>\n
\nThe Florida man accused of tricking his (now ex) girlfriend into taking an abortion inducing drug to cause her to miscarry their unborn child has been sentenced to nearly 14 years behind bars.<\/p>\n
\nAs the drought in California continues, 17 communities throughout the state could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, state officials said.<\/p>\n
\nThey know Obama<\/p>\n
\nTwo books, one containing an explicit depiction of statutory lesbian rape, and the other a homosexual orgy, have been ousted from a local high school by outraged New Jersey parents.<\/p>\n
\nUsama bin Laden was a freedom fighter and the U.S. is a \u201cneocolonial power,\u201d according to a California state university teacher whose writings are required reading for his political science students.<\/p>\n
\nAcademy says that writer broke its rules against lobbying<\/p>\n
\nSen. Marco Rubio\u2019s (R-Fla.) political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington, who are bullish on Rubio\u2019s future as a 2016 presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
\nThe lingering effects of drought across the Great Plains in recent years have led to another decrease in the U.S. cattle herd.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s the bogus statistic that won\u2019t die\u2014and president deployed it during the State of the Union\u2014but women do not make 77 cents to every dollar a man earns.<\/p>\n
\nA Gallup Poll in late January showed that more and more states are becoming Republican. Gallup tells us that 14 of the 50 states have a clear majority of respondents calling themselves “Republicans,” and 17 of the 50 states have a clear majority of respondents calling themselves “Democrats.” This, however, dramatically understates the growing Republican advantage in many states. <\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nWhen billionaire Obama donor Tom Steyer, the leading opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, bankrolled California’s Proposition 39 in 2012, voters were told that the new corporate tax reform would bring $1 billion into state coffers by charging out-of-state companies more. Instead, it has only generated about $700 million of the promised windfall–and without creating many of the “green jobs” for which the revenues were earmarked. <\/p>\n
\nAs it said goodbye to the man who led it through eight history-making years, the Federal Reserve did as it was expected Wednesday, voting to reduce the monthly stimulus program by another $10 billion.<\/p>\n
\nIndia’s central bank has unexpectedly raised interest rates in an attempt to rein in stubbornly high consumer prices in a crucial election year.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019re stuck with this guy until January 2017. We don\u2019t know exactly what the future holds, but the outlook on the horizon isn\u2019t good. The economy sputtering along, unemployment still high by historical standards, low workforce-participation rate, a complicated mess in health care, annual deficits that are merely ludicrously high instead of incredibly ludicrously high, chaos overseas, hoping our numbskull big campaign-donor ambassadors manage to avoid exacerbating a crisis . . . <\/p>\n
\nThere was a small furor yesterday over an MSNBC staffer\u2019s intolerant views of conservatives and the political right. Erik Wemple at the Post published MSNBC\u2019s apology, which announces that a staffer was fired. You can also follow the dispute at New York Magazine, Reason, Michele Malkin, Instapundit, and Gateway Pundit (which captured the fullest screenshot of the now-scrubbed tweet).<\/p>\n
\nA pro-abortion \u201ccomedian\u201d on Twitter is getting negative national attention today for tweeting a graphic and disgusting tweet saying she wanted to \u201crip out of the uterus\u201d of pro-life Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers and eat it.<\/p>\n
\nA Longview man is recovering from serious injuries after he was trapped and sent through a shredding wood chipper machine at work.<\/p>\n
\nRutgers is so crazy in love with Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, it\u2019s offering a course on the famed diva.<\/p>\n
\nThe award for P.R. champion of the week goes to the Gibson guitar company, makers of the famous Les Paul guitar, and headquartered, I’m proud to say, here in my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nRipping up the playground rulebook is having incredible effects on children at an Auckland school.<\/p>\n
\nNicaragua’s national assembly on Tuesday voted to scrap presidential term limits, which could allow socialist President Daniel Ortega to remain in power indefinitely and has stoked concerns about democracy in the Central American country.<\/p>\n
\nThe government of Ukraine took a big step backward today \u2014 and then fled the field \u2014 in the face of growing unrest in Kiev and across the country. The parliament controlled by President Viktor Yanukovich repealed the law that banned political demonstrations on public land, which Yanukovich had hoped to use to bully his opposition into silence. His Prime Minister and entire Cabinet then tendered their resignations<\/p>\n
\nNigel Farage’s right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP) has once again rocked the British political establishment by coming first in a recent poll which quizzed Brits on their feelings towards the four main political parties.<\/p>\n
\nAuschwitz survivors and Israeli officials on Monday marked 69 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp, in a ceremony that included a large group of Israeli lawmakers.<\/p>\n
\nCustodian describes night-time theft, from San Pietro della Ienca church in Abruzzo mountains, as more like a kidnapping<\/p>\n
\nOn January 26, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan addressed the ruling Justice and Development Party at a meeting in Izmir…as a hologram. <\/p>\n
\nIn 2004, researchers looked at Swedish marriage data from the \u201880s and \u201890s. And they found some interesting relationships between a wife\u2019s income and the likelihood of divorce<\/p>\n
\nAhead of elections this year, South Africa\u2019s main opposition party merged with a smaller group on Tuesday to jointly challenge a ruling party whose immense popularity, buoyed by its anti-apartheid credentials and close ties to Nelson Mandela, has frayed amid corruption scandals and other problems.<\/p>\n
\nIndia’s top court has rejected a plea filed by the government and activist groups to review its shock ruling that reinstated a colonial-era ban on gay sex.<\/p>\n
\nThis point, from the Washington Post\u2019s Fact-Checker column, seems rather important<\/p>\n
\nWe need to be careful when we start singling out only one group of people based on their genetic code and demanding that they \u201crespect\u201d another entire group of people. The reasoning is quite simple: it\u2019s mindlessly discriminatory. It also has the potential to turn into a condescending shamefest.<\/p>\n
\nA church in Montenegro has sparked controversy by displaying a fresco depicting Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito in the fires of hell with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.<\/p>\n
\nThailand\u2019s struggles touch on issues that Thais for various reasons don\u2019t like to speak openly and frankly about: the role of the monarchy, the health of the king and ethnic and regional divisions inside the country. But these issues are of the utmost importance.<\/p>\n
\nThe rise of the Tea Party-esque UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the United Kingdom has often been attributed to a disillusionment within conservative circles. But recent evidence has highlighted that the political left, and the Labour Party in particular, may have just as much to fear as the Conservative Party does by way of disillusionment and defections.<\/p>\n
\nThe question over Scottish Independence looms large in the consciousness of every political operative from Westminster to Holyrood. Many are cognizant of the fact that the caprice of the Scottish Nationalist Party and its leader could well break up a union that has endured for over 300 years.<\/p>\n
\nA MUSLIM family of Somali origin have protested after social services chose a white lesbian couple to adopt their three-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nNobody is signing up, and everybody — in Colorado,at least — is smoking.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Obama is making a sudden push to win back millennial voters, who have grown disillusioned over his failed \u201cHope and Change\u201d campaign that left them without jobs, living in their parents\u2019 basement.<\/p>\n
\nJust to get citizens into a suitably docile condition to receive the President\u2019s State of the Union address, Paul Krugman reminds them in a recent New York Times column that they aren\u2019t bright enough to criticize government policy.<\/p>\n
\nIn the House of Representatives, immigration reform is not only not dead, it’s actually the subject of a lot of working and talking as Republicans prepare for their annual retreat this weekend. That much has been clear at least since Speaker John Boehner announced the GOP will come up with a statement of “principles” on immigration reform that might — or might not — lead to legislation.<\/p>\n
\nJosh has a lot of psychological interpretations, but perhaps we should revisit something that Ed Driscoll guestblogged here a while back<\/p>\n
\nThe National Institutes of Health is worried that it, or somebody, is discriminating against blacks. According to a long article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, NIH “shocked itself in 2011 with a study that found a wide race-based variance in its grant awards,” and it is still struggling to explain that variance. <\/p>\n
\nThere was a time when Wisconsin was headline news. You must remember the story? Wisconsinites elected some caveman called Scott Walker as their governor on a platform of drowning government in the bath. He wanted to reform the unions and bring spending under control \u2013 and the public sector came out onto the streets to stop him. It was a kind of velvet revolution led by teachers and social workers and the folks who shoot bears when they start eating out of trash cans. They tried to remove Walker from office, but that didn’t work because he somehow won the recall vote, making him the only governor in US history to do so. And then it all went oddly quiet from the Badger state\u2026<\/p>\n
\nSome criminals are more equal than others.<\/p>\n
\nQuestion: Which American institution\u2014one that prides itself on being open, democratic, and diverse\u2014punishes its members severely for offering unpopular opinions, while it offers them a very narrow, limited worldview? Answer: Universities.<\/p>\n
\nTonight, Barack Obama will stand before the Parliament of Whores in Washington, D.C. with Chuckles and the Orange Man behind him and, in more ways than one, say, \u201cAsk now what you can do for your government, but rather ask what your government can do for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThat quote is really all there is to say about this day and age. Many people have chosen to live by this creed and, with it, have spiraled further and further into hedonism and, in many cases, outright moral madness.<\/p>\n
\nSo the big theme of tonight\u2019s State of the Union address is going to be income inequality.<\/p>\n
\nI agree that every American should read Senator Cruz\u2019s Wall Street Journal op-ed. But I think Cruz misses a point, one that Kevin captured in his awesome rant yesterday, and which I wrote about in articles in Politico and at The Week. Namely, Obama is setting the stage for \u201cpresidential dictatorship\u201d as you rightly call it, because the presidency, and he in particular, is already imperial in nature. Enormous, non-constitutional influence and power has accrued to the office of chief executive since Woodrow Wilson and especially FDR long ago changed the sensitive balance of power the Founding Fathers intended.<\/p>\n
\n1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works.
\n2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about welfare running out of money? What\u2019s interesting is the first group \u201cworked for\u201d their money, but the second didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\nTo the delight of anyone who\u2019s ever waited in line to cast a vote, a bipartisan election commission convened by President Barack Obama concluded last week that states across the country should increase their use of early voting.<\/p>\n
\nMonday, I paid a couple of hundred dollars to the Internal Revenue Service for a penalty on a penalty that in turn by law I should never have been assessed.<\/p>\n
\nObama used to sigh that he was not a dictator who could act unilaterally. No more.<\/p>\n
\nPoliticians steer the economy like chimps fly rockets.<\/p>\n