News of the Week for September 28th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Marxist Mistake? AFL-CIO Pushes Get Out The Vote For Mid-Terms Under Soviet-Style Symbol<\/a> Campaign Manager Arrested in Cocaine-for-Votes Scheme<\/a> Kansas gubernatorial candidate addresses 1990s strip club incident<\/a> Only in New York: Indicted congressman set to win re-election<\/a> Close Alaska Races for Senate, Governor<\/a> S.D. Dem Governor Candidate Plagiarized a Piece of Her Biography, from Plagiarizing Wis. Dem <\/a> Full 7th Circuit Appeals Court refuses to stop Wisconsin Voter I.D. law<\/a> The Five Senate Races that will NOT decide control of the Senate.<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Targeting the Constitution<\/a> Dosvedanya, Holder: America\u2019s First Soviet Attorney General Steps Down<\/a> <\/p>\n For Gun Shop Owners, It\u2019s No Longer Hip to Be \u2018Square\u2019<\/a> Girl, 11, shoots man attacking mother in southeast Oklahoma City<\/a> <\/p>\n Chicken Little, and Chicken Little Jr., 46 Years Apart<\/a> The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus <\/a> Al Gore Leaves People’s Climate March in Chevy Suburban SUV<\/a> Climate Movement Drops Mask, Admits Communist Agenda<\/a> Capitalism Is Clean(er) <\/a> China\u2019s pollution record sheds light on Obama climate agenda<\/a> The Collection of Evidence for a Lower Climate Sensitivity Continues to Grow \u2013 now up to 14 papers lower than IPCC<\/a> Aussie Government Holds Firm against Climate Bullying<\/a> Russia Discovers Massive Arctic Oil Field Which May Be Larger Than Gulf Of Mexico<\/a> Saudi girl performs song wearing red lipstick and without a hijab, provokes social media backlash<\/a> <\/p>\n Number of ObamaCare enrollees appears to be dropping<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Airstrikes against ISIS in Syria have begun <\/a> Iraqi PM: Plot to attack US, Paris Subways <\/a> Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen fire rocket towards U.S. embassy, say revenge for drone strike<\/a> <\/p>\n ‘I had a third breast implant so I can turn off men’<\/a> And the Senator Who Called Kirsten Gillibrand Chubby Is …<\/a> Mass. D.A. drops charges against protesters engaged in illegal blockade \u2014 because he agrees with their political opinions<\/a> Civil-Rights Leaders Want Django Actress to Apologize for Playing Race Card with LAPD <\/a> Homeschooling Family Ordered to Follow Common Core Curriculum<\/a> #Gamergate Escalates<\/a> Obama critic D’Souza spared prison for violating election law<\/a> ‘They’re On To Us’: Gaming Journalists Respond to Critics in Newly Revealed GameJournoPros Emails<\/a> #GamerGate \u2014 Achievement Unlocked: Epic Shitstorm!<\/a> Meters eyed as possible cause of Nevada fires<\/a> Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core <\/a> Study: One in Ten Adults in U.S. Not Proficient in English <\/a> \u2018Burn Their Houses Down\u2019 \u2013 The Progressive Activists The Media Doesn\u2019t Want You To See<\/a> Conservative lawmakers secretly plot to oust John Boehner<\/a> The Hillary Letters<\/a> How Sloppy, Biased Video Games Reporting Almost Destroyed a CEO<\/a> Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates<\/a> Groundhog Dropped by de Blasio Died of Injuries, Zoo Allegedly Covered it Up<\/a> Holder resigning as AG<\/a> After Eric Holder: Potential attorney general choices<\/a> EEOC Files First Transgender Lawsuits Based on Civil Rights Act <\/a> Woman beheaded at Oklahoma workplace<\/a> Having Sex, Not Having Sex Both Count as Sexual Violence<\/a> Students & teachers walk out in protest of new history curriculum that ISN’T anti-American <\/a> 7-year-old girl replaces deer trophy lost in house fire, shoots 8-point buck<\/a> Woman Irate That Ontario Family Is Flying Mexican Flag In Their Front Yard<\/a> No Apple gadgets allowed: LA Clippers owner and ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bans his players from using iPads <\/a> Colorado Students Strip in Mass Protest Provoked by Teachers’ Union<\/a> Policewoman injured in Ferguson amid protests<\/a> Ferguson police officer shot as troubles continue<\/a> The List: Every Journalist in the GameJournoPros Group Revealed<\/a> <\/p>\n Venezuela lacked good faith in ConocoPhillips seizure – World Bank<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students write suicide notes to \u2018learn English\u2019<\/a> The Lesson of the Scottish Referendum <\/a> Student \u2018entrepreneur\u2019 suspended for selling banned non-diet pop at school<\/a> Hong Kong students take to streets in mass strike over China’s refusal to grant full democracy <\/a> Philippines: The Chinese Threat Grows<\/a> Parliament Recall To Coincide With UKIP Conference<\/a> CDC: Ebola could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone by end of January<\/a> Kim Jong Un hasn\u2019t been seen for weeks and no one is quite sure why<\/a> We Were Thrown Off a Bus for Singing About a Pig to Our Baby: Couple <\/a> Jokowi slams rollback of local elections<\/a> India, China Resolve 2-Week Border Standoff <\/a> Nuclear Bomb Number 2: Mark Reckless MP Defects To UKIP<\/a> Hong Kong Police Use Tear Gas To Clear Protesters<\/a> We Screwed Up On Ebola, And Now The Crisis Is Getting Much Worse<\/a> Catalonia Sets Date for Independence Referendum, Spanish Govt Declares it ‘Unconstitutional’<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How Republicans Can Address The War on Women <\/a> Biden gets another free pass<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nCommunism, once banned, appears to leave its mark on America’s oldest labor federation<\/p>\n
\nThis happened in Donna, TX, which is down in the Rio Grande Valley. Donna is in Hidalgo County, and Tatler readers are very familiar with that county.<\/p>\n
\nIn the late 1990s the Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas was getting a lap dance at a strip club when cops raided it in search of drugs, a situation Paul Davis on Saturday described as being \u201cin the wrong place at the wrong time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOnce left for dead by many on Capitol Hill amid looming federal charges, embattled Rep. Michael Grimm, New York Republican, is running neck-and-neck with his Democratic challenger in a bid for a third term amid a fusillade of attacks by national Democrats looking to flip the seat.<\/p>\n
\nPPP’s newest Alaska poll finds toss up races for both the US Senate and Governor. Dan Sullivan leads Mark Begich 43\/41 for the Senate, with minor candidates combining for 5%. Bill Walker leads incumbent Sean Parnell 42\/41 for Governor, with minor candidates combining for 5% in that race as well. <\/p>\n
\nYet another Democratic gubernatorial candidate, South Dakota\u2019s Susan Wismer, appears to have plagiarized policy prescriptions from fellow Democrats \u2014 among them, ironically, Mary Burke, Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic candidate for governor, who lifted large chunks of her own campaign material from others.<\/p>\n
\nVoter ID law in full effect for November, unless Supreme Court intervenes.<\/p>\n
\nLet me turn off the spin cycle for a second \u2013 or maybe just switch it over to the Republican settings \u2013 and tell you what is what. Right now we have 45 seats. We need 51. All that money the Democrats spent in Tennessee and Georgia? Flushed. That seat in Kansas? The exact same thing is going to happen there, too: the Democrats are not going to be able to pretend that the \u2018independent\u2019 nominee isn\u2019t anything except a Democratic cat\u2019s-paw. So I\u2019m not going to pretend that we\u2019re at anything except 45 right now, and neither should you.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nIt is now well known that the IRS targeted tea party organizations. What is less well known, but perhaps even more scandalous, is that the IRS also targeted those who would educate their fellow citizens about the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n
\nOf all the malfeasances of William Jefferson Clinton the one that would have most justified a removal from office was not the Monica hijinks, even with the attendant lying under oath and absurd parsings of the word \u201cis,\u201d but the pardoning of Marc Rich \u2014 the billionaire international commodities trader and mammoth contributor to, er, Clinton. Luckily for Bill, this action occurred on the last day of his presidency, making anything like impeachment moot, even though it was an example of political corruption that would have made Boss Tweed envious. <\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nIt\u2019s white. It\u2019s square. And at 1-by-1 inch in diameter, it is the perfect accoutrement to any entrepreneur\u2019s smartphone.<\/p>\n
\nA child shot a man early Wednesday after police say he stabbed the child\u2019s mother at a home in southeast Oklahoma City. Police report the incident appears to be domestic-related.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nHere’s Robert Kennedy in a 1968 campaign ad that, as I wrote in 2011, shows how quickly the rot seeped into the post-JFK left. Compare RFK’s rhetoric as he tells a classroom of young kids that they are doomed to spend their adult lives trapped in a Soylent Green-style eco-apocalypse, with the can-do optimism of his brother, and it was clear that the end of the New Frontier was well in sight.<\/p>\n
\nExtremists\u2019 rhetoric heats up as their case falls apart.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Vice President Al Gore made his exit from Sunday’s climate change march in New York City in a Chevrolet Suburban SUV after speaking to reporters about renewable energy. <\/p>\n
\nCommunists along with a few environmental groups staged a \u201cPeople\u2019s Climate Rally\u201d in Oakland, California on Sunday, September 21, in conjunction with the larger \u201cPeople\u2019s Climate March\u201d in New York City on the same day.<\/p>\n
\nRed isn\u2019t green.<\/p>\n
\nThis past week, when the President wasn\u2019t busy talking to the United Nations about ISIS (er\u2026 ISIL?) or bidding a fond farewell to the Attorney General, he managed to sneak in some speeches about the pressing need to deal with climate change. Such a busy period in foreign affairs might be the best time to kick a few green initiatives into action when you think about it. In his speech, Obama stressed the importance for everyone else to get on board, even as he prepares the US for potentially costly moves to curb greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n
\nNic Lewis and Judith Curry just published a blockbuster paper that pegs the earth\u2019s equilibrium climate sensitivity\u2014how much the earth\u2019s average surface temperature is expected to rise in association with a doubling of the atmosphere\u2019s carbon dioxide concentration\u2014at 1.64\u00b0C (1.05\u00b0C to 4.05\u00b0C, 90% range), a value that is nearly half of the number underpinning all of President Obama\u2019s executive actions under his Climate Action Plan.<\/p>\n
\nThe Australian Abbott government has, in the last few days, endured significant pressure from President Obama, and other committed greens, to join their efforts to chase the carbon dragon. I\u2019m happy to report that, so far, Abbott seems to be sticking to his commitment to avoid enacting costly climate policies, such as the carbon tax.<\/p>\n
\nIn a dramatic stroke of luck for the Kremlin, this morning there is hardly a person in the world who is happier than Russian president Vladimir Putin because overnight state-run run OAO Rosneft announced it has discovered what may be a treasure trove of black oil, one which could boost Russia’s coffers by hundreds of billions if not more, when a vast pool of crude was discovered in the Kara Sea region of the Arctic Ocean, showing the region has the potential to become one of the world\u2019s most important crude-producing areas, arguably bigger than the Gulf Of Mexico. The announcement was made by Igor Sechin, Rosneft\u2019s chief executive officer, who spent two days sailing on a Russian research ship to the drilling rig where the find was unveiled today.<\/p>\n
\nSome on social media condemn the young singer as “immodest” others praise performance of “innocent child.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nPresident Obama\u2019s claim last spring that 8 million people had enrolled in ObamaCare recently got a significant downgrade from the head of the agency overseeing the plan.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe U.S. military began airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Monday evening, according to the Pentagon. <\/p>\n
\nIraq’s prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris.<\/p>\n
\nAn al Qaeda splinter group launched a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, injuring several guards, to retaliate for what it said on social media was a U.S. drone strike in a northern province the day before.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nAmerican Jasmine Tridevil, 21, claims she had plastic surgery to create a third breast and now hopes to have her own MTV reality show<\/p>\n
\nOr rather, was \u2014 Hawaii’s late, one-armed senator Daniel Inouye.<\/p>\n
\nYet because \u201cthis was an act of civil disobedience,\u201d Sutter said, \u201cthis should be treated as a civil infraction.\u201d According to PRI\u2019s quote of one of the protesters, the protesters were required only to \u201cpay $2,000 restitution to the Somerset police and the state police for their overtime charges essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSome of Dani\u00e8le Watts\u2019s initial defenders are now calling on the actress to apologize for claiming she was recently detained due to racial profiling. New evidence of the incident, and the events preceding it, has some civil-rights leaders saying Watts was \u201ccrying wolf\u201d on the matter.<\/p>\n
\nNew Jersey parents must provide instruction “equivalent” to public schools.<\/p>\n
\nLately, when thinking about #Gamergate I am reminded of the intro to Total Annihilation<\/p>\n
\nConservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza avoided prison on Tuesday when a U.S. judge sentenced him to serve eight months in a community confinement center after he pled guilty to violating campaign finance law.<\/p>\n
\nA second tranche of leaked emails from the secret GameJournoPros mailing list, dated September 2014 and published today by Breitbart London, reveals video game journalists insulting popular YouTubers and laughing off the prospect of readers challenging them about ethical violations.<\/p>\n
\nSo, I\u2019ve been hanging out on Twitter, and it\u2019s been a lot of fun. It\u2019s the one place I can trot out accurate information and truth in a polite but merciless fashion, and eviscerate some blithering asshole holding forth on a subject he knows jack crap about. Plus, you can carpet-bomb a series of brutal, but funny one-liners into a continuing discussion between 10,000 people, and earn a few small kudos for it.<\/p>\n
\nNevada utility officials said Tuesday they will turn over all data demanded by state regulators investigating whether smart electricity meters pose a fire danger.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s the first school year most parents have heard about Common Core. And they don’t like it one bit.<\/p>\n
\nThe number of working-age adults in the United States with limited proficiency in English has more than doubled since 1980, according to a new Brookings Institution study. Immigrants proficient in English, the study notes, tend to earn substantially higher incomes.<\/p>\n
\nIt was a protest for the planet, or at least it was billed that way. Progressive activists marched under the \u201cgreen\u201d banner this week in New York City to call for \u201caction\u201d on climate change. But what was the \u201caction\u201d they were advocating?<\/p>\n
\nFor months, several clusters of conservative lawmakers have been secretly huddling inside and outside the Capitol, plotting to oust John Boehner from the Speaker\u2019s office when House Republicans regroup after the November elections.<\/p>\n
\nHillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky correspondence revealed<\/p>\n
\nBen Kuchera, opinion editor at games website Polygon, publicised lurid sexual allegations about the chief executive of Stardock, a 20-year video games industry veteran, in an apparent attempt to do professional damage to someone he perceived to have right-wing politics<\/p>\n
\nThe U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country’s wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas.<\/p>\n
\nIn what may be the New York Postiest scoop ever, the New York Post reported Thursday that Chuck, the groundhog dropped by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, died a week after the incident of internal injuries, and that the zoo has been engaged in a \u201ccover up\u201d to conceal the fact from the public.<\/p>\n
\nThe timing on this move is, to say the least, curious. <\/p>\n
\nAttorney General Eric Holder will announce Thursday afternoon that he’ll step down as the nation’s top law enforcement official.<\/p>\n
\nFor the first time in its history, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today has filed lawsuits that claim discrimination on the basis of transgender status violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of \u201csex,\u201d among other things. <\/p>\n
\nA man who had been fired from a food processing plant in an Oklahoma City suburb beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday.<\/p>\n
\nThe feminazis who continue to grind college campuses under the heels of their combat boots regard pretty much everything a male might do as \u201csexual violence.\u201d This pertains not only to all sex but even to the absence of sex<\/p>\n
\nHundreds of Jeffco students walk out in largest school board protest<\/p>\n
\nFive months ago, Ben Skirvin and his family were tucked into their beds when they awoke to a fire in their St. Louis home.<\/p>\n
\nA controversy involving the Mexican flag has one family in Ontario wondering why one woman made it her business, while the people she did business with, in turn, asked her to leave.<\/p>\n
\nAlso said that players would have to start using Microsoft smartphones <\/p>\n
\nThousands of students from high schools in suburban Denver have walked out of school this week to protest, some stripping off their clothes and writing protest slogans on their bodies, to oppose what their teachers have told them is a proposed American History curriculum that will teach patriotism and citizenship and deny them the opportunity for civil disobedience<\/p>\n
\nA police officer has been shot in Ferguson, Missouri, as anti-racial protests continue over the death of unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown.<\/p>\n
\nWhile the situation seems to remain more calm on average than during the height of the protests, tensions are still running high in Ferguson. Last night a police officer on routine patrol interrupted a burglary in process and wound up being shot.<\/p>\n
\nLast week, Breitbart News revealed a secret video game journalist mailing list used by a clique of influential writers, editors, and bloggers, some of whom attempted to bully their colleagues with it in an attempt to shape the news agenda for political purposes. <\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nVenezuela failed to act in good faith or properly compensate ConocoPhillips for three big oil assets the country expropriated in 2007, a World Bank arbitration panel said on Wednesday<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nAfter students read a poem with a shocking ending, they were assigned to write suicide notes.<\/p>\n
\nI breathed a sigh of relief when Scotland voted Thursday to stay in the United Kingdom. It was partly nostalgia, I suppose, for the storied history of Great Britain as a bastion of liberty and mother of parliaments and all that sort of thing. But it was also because it has never been quite clear what the advocates of Scottish independence were seeking independence from. When America declared its independence from Britain, we wrote a little document laying out the causes which impelled us to the separation. The Scottish \u201cYes\u201d campaign just seemed to run Braveheart on an endless loop. Mel Gibson has a lot to answer for.<\/p>\n
\nA Lethbridge, Alta., high school student was suspended last week for selling non-diet soft drinks to his peers, violating school nutritional and marketing policies and drawing the ire of administrators.<\/p>\n
\nProtesting Beijing’s decision to rule out fully democratic elections<\/p>\n
\nThe government released more photos showing how China is building military facilities on the disputed Johnson South (Chigua) Reef and several other reefs. China will not admit that it is expanding these reefs (by dredging up sand) and usually insists that they are merely trying to rebuild a reef that has been damaged by storms. This is not the sort of thing China does. <\/p>\n
\nRumours are now rife in Westminster that Parliament will be recalled on Friday to debate the government’s response to the latest U.S.-led attacks on ISIS. <\/p>\n
\nThe Ebola epidemic in West Africa, already ghastly, could get worse by orders of magnitude, killing hundreds of thousands of people and embedding itself in the human population for years to come, according to two worst-case scenarios from scientists studying the historic outbreak.<\/p>\n
\nIn North Korea, political life revolves around Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Yet Kim appeared to have skipped a high-level governmental meeting Thursday \u2013 and no one seems to know quite why.<\/p>\n
\nDid Yorkshire Muslims declare war on music about non-halal animals?<\/p>\n
\nINDONESIAN president-elect Joko Widodo has accused his opponents of rolling back democracy after parliament voted to scrap direct elections of local officials, a move likely to hinder his ambitious reform agenda. <\/p>\n
\nIndia’s foreign minister said India and China have resolved a tense, two-week military border standoff in the northern Himalayan region.<\/p>\n
\nConservative Member of Parliament Mark Reckless has this afternoon defected to the UK Independence Party in another surprise move by Nigel Farage’s political party. Reckless will “resign” his seat at the House of Commons and force another by-election, he has no duty to do so and admitted it was a risk as his seat “is not even within the top hundred UKIP targets”.<\/p>\n
\nHong Kong police used tear gas Sunday and warned of further measures as they tried to clear thousands of pro-democracy protesters who had gathered outside government headquarters in a challenge to Beijing over its decision to restrict democratic reforms for the semiautonomous city.<\/p>\n
\nBack in April, when the Ebola outbreak in West Africa had killed less than 100 people, Doctors Without Borders urged the world to mobilize a significant response, warning that failure to act could result in an “unprecedented epidemic.”<\/p>\n
\nThose interested in separatist movements around the world will shift their focus from Scotland immediately onto the Spanish region of Catalonia, following the announcement in the past 24 hours that the Catalan government has formally approved independence referendum plans, and set a date for November 9th.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nNorth Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan is beating up challenger Thom Tillis, despite her rotten record. Here\u2019s what the women giving her an edge are thinking.<\/p>\n
\nRemember when the media freaked out for three days over Sarah Palin’s completely innocuous use of the term “blood libel”?<\/p>\n