News of the Week for December 21st<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n District court declares Obama immigration action unconstitutional<\/a> Obama Provides Economic Lifeline to Cuba<\/a> Sixth Circuit: Mental Health Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional<\/a> Obama Apologizes to Castro<\/a> Castro Thanks U.S. but Affirms Cuba\u2019s Communist Rule<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas Pushes for Open Carry<\/a> SELF-DEFENSE IN OAKLAND: Undercover Cop Pulls Gun On Protesters After Attack<\/a> Why Gun-Control Advocates Lie about Guns <\/a> Fed Govt. Hid Report On Lead Ammo In Condors, Opting Instead For Gun Control Law <\/a> Obama overturns ban preventing criminal Ecuadorean Democratic donor from entering U.S.<\/a> Shocka! Sydney Terrorist Not A Registered Gun Owner!<\/a> 14-Year-Old Stops Home Invasion \u2013 Protecting Grandma Shoots One Thug Dead, The Other Apprehended… <\/a> Second Amendment and people who had been committed to a mental institution 28 years ago<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your All-Electric Vehicle May Not Be So Green, Study Says<\/a> Duneboggle: Chris Christie Literally Creating Malarial Swamps In New Jersey <\/a> The EPA is Turning Water on Farms Into a Weapon Against Farmers<\/a> $10 billion UN-linked climate change fund wants immunity from prosecution<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vermont bails on single-payer health care<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sydney Hostage Siege<\/a> Sydney siege<\/a> Hostage drama: Siege at Sydney cafe<\/a> Sydney Hostage Siege<\/a> Sydney siege<\/a> Hostage drama: Siege at Sydney cafe<\/a> Sydney gunman named as Man Haron Monis<\/a> Islamist gunman and 2 hostages dead in Sydney siege<\/a> THREE DEAD IN BLOODY END TO SIEGE: Two hostages dead and Muslim gunman killed as police storm Sydney cafe with assault rifles and stun grenades moments after hostages fled<\/a> Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis<\/a> “Known Wolf” Syndrome: Sydney Hostage-Taker Is Yet Another Case<\/a> Sydney Gunman’s Website Promised Vengeance Against US, Allies on December 14th <\/a> #SydneySiege: Jim Geraghty, Iowahawk crush reaction to terrorist\u2019s ISIS flag with shattering idea<\/a> #Sydneysiege Muslim Hostage Takers Demand an IS Flag & Live Chat With Aussie PM<\/a> Australian PM: ISIS ‘Has Nothing to Do With Any Religion’<\/a> Victims of Sydney Terrorist Attack Died as Heroes \u2013 One Rushed Gunman, Other Protected Pregnant Friend<\/a> Torture Is Unacceptable; But What Is Torture? <\/a> About Half See CIA Interrogation Methods as Justified<\/a> Iraq battalion was sole group to stand up to Islamic State’s summer surge<\/a> Taliban-led attack on Pakistan school leaves 141 dead<\/a> Pakistan School Attack: Taliban Militants Kill More Than 140 in Peshawar<\/a> Today: Taliban Butchers 130 Schoolchildren; Sets Teacher on Fire In Front of Class<\/a> Peshawar school attack: Taliban’s “revenge” for Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> Peshawar school attack: Taliban ‘burn teacher alive in front of pupils and behead children’<\/a> Leftists Fret Over Imaginary Anti-Muslim Backlash That Never Happens<\/a> China Tests ICBM With Multiple Warheads<\/a> Iraq: 150 women executed after refusing to marry ISIL militants<\/a> How ISIS is selling human organs harvested from living hostages and its own dead soldiers to fund terror across the Middle East <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nEarlier Tuesday, a federal court in Pennsylvania declared aspects of President Obama\u2019s executive actions on immigration policy unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\nOther Cuban allies, including Venezuela and Russia, in economic crisis<\/p>\n
\nOn December 18, a three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a ban on gun purchases for anyone who has been \u201cadjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to a mental institution\u201d violated the Second Amendment rights of a Michigan man who was denied a gun purchase because of a mental institution commitment in 1986.<\/p>\n
\nCuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Ra\u00fal Castro declared victory for the Cuban Revolution on Saturday in a wide-ranging speech, thanking President Obama for \u201ca new chapter,\u201d while also reaffirming that restored relations with the United States did not mean the end of Communist rule in Cuba.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nDon’t tread on the Second Amendment<\/p>\n
\nI suspect that many of you saw some of the same disturbing images I did earlier this week of an undercover California Highway Patrol Officer pulling a handgun on a group of Oakland, CA protesters affiliated with the “Ferguson” movement.<\/p>\n
\nThe facts aren\u2019t on their side.<\/p>\n
\nThe US Fish and Wildlife Service recently double-crossed the National Shooting Sports Foundation, as well as voters. Following a Freedom of Information Act public records request to the Fish and Wildlife agency, the shooting sports foundation obtained emails that prove the federal agency withheld pertinent, official data in its annual report on the California Condor\u2019s lead blood levels, until well after the California state legislature passed a law in 2013 to ban all lead ammunition.<\/p>\n
\nThis is more than just another of those moments that warily conservatives point to when President Barack Obama or his defenders insist that no administration has operated stricter border controls or pursued more deportations of illegal immigrants. This is criminal.<\/p>\n
\nAFP admits gun advice to PM was wrong: “The AFP has since confirmed that Mr Monis was not a registered firearms licence holder.”<\/p>\n
\nGrandpa had previously taken his grandson to shooting and gun safety class.<\/p>\n
\nUnder federal law, people who have been involuntarily \u201ccommitted to a mental institution\u201d \u2014 however long ago \u2014 are barred from possessing guns. Congress agreed that people with long-past mental problems might now be sane, and thus not especially dangerous, and provided for a means to apply for restoration of gun rights. But then in 1992 Congress ordered ATF not to spend any money applying the restoration program. And while it provided, in 2007, that people could get their rights restored by applying to a state that has a qualifying program for evaluating applicants\u2019 mental fitness, many states have no such program.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nPeople who own all-electric cars in places where coal generates the power are actually making the air dirtier, according to a new study. The key is the electricity’s source. If it comes from coal, the electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, according to the study published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They also are significantly worse at heat-trapping carbon dioxide that worsens global warming, it found.<\/p>\n
\nIn a new development in the war at the shore, one of the more widely ridiculed objections to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s dune-building plan \u2014 that dunes cause swamping and prevent drainage \u2014 turns out to be less wild than dune supporters claim. This is what the area behind Absecon Island\u2019s dunes looked like after last week\u2019s nor\u2019easter flooded a town that already has Christie-style dunes in place<\/p>\n
\nWe have noted time and again how government \u2013 in the name of helping the Little Guy \u2013 eviscerates the Little Guy.<\/p>\n
\nThe Green Climate Fund, (GCF) a United Nations-affiliated piggy-bank intended to finance climate change projects around the world, is determined to win sweeping U.N.-style immunities from prosecutions for its global operations–even though the U.S., its biggest contributor, opposes the idea, and the U.N. itself says its own diplomatic immunities can\u2019t cover the outfit.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nVermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday dropped his plan to enact a single-payer health care system in his state \u2014 a plan that had won praise from liberals but never really got much past the framework stage.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nA gunman has taken dozens of people hostage in a cafe in Sydney’s financial district.<\/p>\n
\nHostages have been seen with their hands pressed against the windows of the cafe, in some photos with a black flag with Arabic writing pressed up against one of its windows. <\/p>\n
\nCustomers and workers were seen with their arms in the air inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe.<\/p>\n
\nA gunman has taken dozens of people hostage in a cafe in Sydney’s financial district.<\/p>\n
\nHostages have been seen with their hands pressed against the windows of the cafe, in some photos with a black flag with Arabic writing pressed up against one of its windows. <\/p>\n
\nCustomers and workers were seen with their arms in the air inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe.<\/p>\n
\nThe armed man at the centre of a siege in Sydney’s Lindt Chocolat Cafe has been named as Man Haron Monis, a self-proclaimed sheikh who is currently on bail for more than 40 sexual and indecent assault charges.<\/p>\n
\nSydney police say three people have died, including the gunman, during a hostage crisis that ended when officers stormed a downtown cafe.<\/p>\n
\nPolice stormed the cafe in central Sydney where a gunman held hostages for more than 16 hours<\/p>\n
\nThe man who held more than a dozen people hostage, placing Sydney’s CBD into lockdown is no stranger to the NSW police or the judiciary.<\/p>\n
\nYet again, it appears political correctness kept the West from preventing the preventable.<\/p>\n
\nRadical Muslim Man Haron Monis, the man who took hostages in a Lindt shop in Sydney for over a dozen hours, promised vengeance on his website yesterday.<\/p>\n
\nAs Twitchy…reported, there was at first some confusion over the flag that the terrorist had at the scene. That was cleared up when the savage terrorist asked for an ISIS flag.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s all over<\/p>\n
\nAustralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott declared that ISIS “has nothing to do with any religion” during a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nIslamist terrorism attacked Australia, but as with many episodes of evil, there also moments of human bravery and honor. The two victims of the maggot who caused the siege seemed to have died heroes, as one was killed struggling with the gunman, and the other died protecting her pregnant friend.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s extremely difficult to draw the line between interrogation and torture, but also extremely important.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats Divided over CIA’s Post-9\/11 Interrogation Techniques<\/p>\n
\nTwo entire divisions \u2014 more than 30,000 soldiers \u2014 along with Mosul’s entire police force disintegrated and fled from Iraq\u2019s second-largest city and the surrounding area in June when faced with the Islamic State’s lightning advance across much of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n
\nAn assault led by the Taliban on a Pakistan military-run school Tuesday left 141 people dead, 132 of which were children, officials say, in the worst attack to hit the country in years.<\/p>\n
\nTaliban militants laid siege to a Pakistan school in a brazen hours-long attack on Tuesday, killing more than 130 children in an atrocity condemned by the White House as “heinous” and “horrific.” <\/p>\n
\nLast Week: Hillary Clinton Claims We Need to “Empathize With” Our Enemies<\/p>\n
\nThe Taliban has killed dozens of children at a Peshawar school in a revenge mission for Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai being awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n
\nTaliban terrorists allegedly burned a teacher alive and made the students watch during their attack on a Pakistan school which left over 130 people dead.<\/p>\n
\nWe’ll bombard the Islamophobes with hashtags until the succumb.<\/p>\n
\nClinton-era tech transfer aided multi-warhead program<\/p>\n
\nAt least 150 women who refused to marry militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, were executed in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights said.<\/p>\n
\nIS is hiring foreign doctors to harvest organs in hospitals in Iraq and Syria<\/p>\n