News of the Week for May 11th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dem. Congressman Posts Article Calling Gay Republican Opponent a \u2018Mary\u2019 <\/a> GOP Poised to Control More State Legislatures<\/a> Boehner Below 50 Percent Republican Support In Own District Ahead Of Tuesday\u2019s Primary<\/a> An Affiliated Nightmare<\/a> Check Out Clay Aiken\u2019s \u2018Tolerant\u2019 Tweet Towards Black Republicans and Mormons From 2012 <\/a> Do the Benghazi hearings pose a political risk for Republicans?<\/a> California Stars \u2018n\u2019 Bars Update <\/a> Dem Candidate\u2019s Plan to Mock Republicans\u2019 \u2018Racist Record\u2019 Unravels When He\u2019s Confronted by Black GOP Delegate<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Discrepancies between Benghazi emails released to Congress, watchdog group<\/a> Gowdy to Lead Benghazi Select Committee <\/a> Obama Regime Science Czar John Holdren Wants To Sterilize Whole Populations <\/a> House votes to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress<\/a> Operation Chokepoint: Creeping into Unconstitutionality? <\/a> What Happens Next For Lois Lerner?<\/a> <\/p>\n Supreme Court won’t rule on carrying guns in public<\/a> <\/p>\n Manufacturing Scientific Consensus\u2014In Four Easy Steps! <\/a> Climate Change Is Real. Too Bad Accurate Climate Models Aren\u2019t. <\/a> New paper tells climate scientists how to fudge the numbers supporting overheated climate models <\/a> Mann Misrepresents the EPA \u2013 Part 1<\/a> <\/p>\n Hospital CEO: Obamacare Has Not Reduced ER Visits<\/a> CA Obamacare Patients Driving to Tijuana, Mexico for Cheaper, Faster Care<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Would you be willing to spend $500 million to save 90 percent of the American population from death? May10 by Thomas Mitchell <\/a> <\/p>\n Who Among Us Will Cast the First Bid for Donald Sterling\u2019s Clippers?<\/a> It\u2019s Completely Out of Control Now<\/a> Rialto Assignment Asking to Students to Question Holocaust to Be Revised<\/a> Fairfax aims to downsize home assemblies<\/a> California School Blocks Pro-American Flag Demonstration<\/a> Supreme Court upholds legislative prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway<\/a> \u2018Today was the first day I was ever ashamed to be a teacher\u2019<\/a> Redick: Donald Sterling \u2018Didn\u2019t Want To Pay Me Because I Was White\u2019<\/a> Liberal donors eye new long-term investments in states and new voters to boost Democrats<\/a> FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation — like PACs<\/a> Not of History, I Hope<\/a> It's now 69 years since the Nazi regime collapsed. Let's recall the blood lust of unfettered capitalism & the courage of those who fought it<\/p>\n — Fran Barlow (@fran_b__) May 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nThe Log Cabin Republicans are calling on Representative Scott Peters (D., Calif.) to apologize for a post on his campaign website that used a pejorative term for his Republican challenger, Carl DeMaio, who is gay.<\/p>\n
\nParty Gains Put More Policy Changes Into Play<\/p>\n
\nRepublican House Speaker John Boehner would win only 49 percent of the Republican vote if his re-election race were held today, according to an internal survey conducted by Gravis Marketing, results of which were obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n
\nCould language in the margin tax send innocent Nevadans to federal prison?<\/p>\n
\nDemocrat Congressional candidate Clay Aiken likes to tweet about drinking games, or at least he did in 2012.<\/p>\n
\nCharles Krauthammer argues that the upcoming Benghazi hearings \u201care a big political risk to Republicans,\u201d but should go forward anyway because \u201cthe country deserves the truth.\u201d Krauthammer worries that the hearings could distract voters from major issues like Obamacare, the economy, and chronic unemployment.<\/p>\n
\nThe California Assembly sponsor of a bill to outlaw sales of the Confederate flag by state agencies got back to National Review Online Friday, days after the bill began to blow up in the face of the Golden State\u2019s leading Republican candidate for governor.<\/p>\n
\nRather than pass out Ku Klux Klan hoods as originally promised, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Brett Hulsey instead dressed in a homemade Confederate uniform and outlined Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s \u201cracist record\u201d outside the state\u2019s Republican convention last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nDocuments reviewed by Fox News show there are differences between Benghazi emails released through the federal courts to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and emails released to the House oversight committee as part of its investigation into the attacks.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaker John Boehner announced that Representative Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) has been chosen to head the select committee to investigate the September 2012 Benghazi attacks. Heralding Gowdy\u2019s background as a federal prosecutor, Boehner called him the \u201cideal person\u201d to serve as its chairman.<\/p>\n
\nJohn Holdren is a dangerous left-wing extremist, an ideologue who has expressed open support for forced abortions and mass sterilization programs.<\/p>\n
\nThe House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the agency\u2019s targeting of conservative groups.<\/p>\n
\nOperation Chokepoint is part of the administration\u2019s Obamaloans strategy to wipe out the small dollar lending industry that I wrote about in January. Briefly, this initiative aims at putting pressure on banks (what in other circumstances would be called \u201cleaning on\u201d them) to stop doing business with third-party payment processors who enable the industry to process payments. It does this by increasing oversight requirements to such levels that it becomes unprofitable for the banks to work with them. However, it has always been intended to have a wider reach.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday, the House, in a bipartisan vote, found former IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the IRS targeting of conservative groups.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe Supreme Court appears hesitant to wade back into the national debate on guns.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nAmong the many virtues of aggressive litigation \u2014 in addition, of course, to the fundamental goal of obtaining justice for your clients \u2014 is the ability to gain knowledge. Through sworn testimony, compelled document disclosures, and other features of the discovery process, one can learn about institutions and attitudes at a level far deeper than can the typical pundit or journalist. <\/p>\n
\nThe Obama Administration released a new report on climate change this week, and its findings and recommendations are about what you\u2019d expect: conservatives are stupidheads who hate Science\u2122, so give us eleventy trillion dollars.<\/p>\n
\nA paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters demonstrates how climate scientists can fudge the numbers of the so-called “basic physics” and “settled science” of climate change. According to the authors, “Estimates of the Earth’s equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) [to CO2] from 20th-century observations predict a lower ECS than estimates from climate models, paleoclimate data, and interannual variability.” Indeed, 20th century observations show the climate is less sensitive to CO2 changes than the models indicate, therefore the physics incorporated into the models is incorrect.<\/p>\n
\nIn one of the major graphics in the IPCC 2001 report, declining values of the Briffa reconstruction were deleted (\u201camputated\u201d is Christy\u2019s apt term), resulting in the figure giving a much greater rhetorical impression of consistency than really existed. This truncation of data had been known (and severely criticized) at Climate AUdit long before Climategate. However, the incident came into an entirely new light with the release of the Climategate emails, which showed that senior IPCC officials had been concerned that the Briffa reconstruction (with its late 20th century decline) would \u201cdilute the message\u201d and that Mann was equally worried that showing the Briffa reconstruction would give \u201cfodder to the skeptics\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nCEO of Tenet Healthcare Trevor Fetter told CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box Obamacare has not reduced emergency room visits Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia Obamacare patients are finding it more affordable to drive to Tijuana, Mexico for health care treatment than to use their high-deductible Obamacare plans. <\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nWhat if someone turned off all the electronics? All it would take is for some lunatic rogue nation or even a terrorist to detonate a relatively small nuclear device in the atmosphere over the heartland of America. It would release an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would virtually shut down all technology.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nAmericans are outraged by old, sick and pathetic Donald Sterling\u2019s racist rantings\u2014and the manipulative con-artist mistress who recorded their conversation.<\/p>\n
\nHaving previously noted a guy who got fired \u2014 fired! \u2014 for a Tweet \u2014 a Tweet! \u2014 now we can report that a black Christian minister may lose his day job in California because of his sermons<\/p>\n
\nThe Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust \u2014 the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others \u2014 was not an \u201cactual event\u201d but instead a \u201cpropaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe proposed zoning ordinance limits \u201cgroup assembly\u201d at residences to 49 people a day. Such gatherings \u201cshall not occur more frequently than three times in any 40-day period.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA California school constructed a temporary fence to obstruct the view of protestors demonstrating against the school\u2019s ban on American flag shirts for Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n
\nThis morning the Supreme Court held in Town of Greece v. Galloway, that the town\u2019s practice of beginning legislative sessions with prayers does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. It was a 5-4 decision, split along traditional right-left lines, though there is not a clear majority opinion.<\/p>\n
\nStudents around the country are taking high-stakes Common Core-aligned standardized tests now and some teachers are expressing unhappiness about having to administer them. <\/p>\n
\nLos Angeles Clippers guard J.J. Redick says that owner Donald Sterling was hesitant to sign him last summer because he\u2019s white.<\/p>\n
\nA group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level Democratic candidates and mobilize core party voters.<\/p>\n
\nGovernment officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media’s exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling intervention that the chairman of the Federal Election Commission is vowing to fight.<\/p>\n
\nMs Barlow describes herself as \u201ca green and leftwing schoolteacher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n