News of the Week for June 7th<\/sup>, 2015<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IRS Created “Special Project Team” of “Hundreds of Lawyers” to Hide Information from Congress<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vince Vaughn: “Banning Guns Is Like Banning Forks To Stop Making People Fat”<\/a> “UK Police Tell Subjects Not to Harm Their Attackers, Get a Rape Alarm<\/a> Gun blogs, videos, web forums threatened by new Obama regulation<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wants to wage a RICO lawsuit against climate skeptics. This means YOU.<\/a> The Liberal Gulag <\/a> 5 More Things Environmentalists Got Wrong <\/a> New Paper on the “Pause” Is Another Exercise In Data Fudging<\/a> NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming “Hiatus”<\/a> What green vision? US forests burned to make costly UK electricity and produce more CO2<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NHS “defies the law” to deny pensioners vital operations, warns Royal College of Surgeons<\/a> The Obamacare Death Spiral Is Still Coming <\/a> Health insurers seek big premium hikes for ObamaCare plans in 2016<\/a> In Vermont, the Reality of Obamacare Dawns Ugly<\/a> “Cui Bono?” from keeping the Pill a prescription drug? …Why, Planned Parenthood, of course.<\/a> Why Liberals Oppose Over-the-Counter Birth Control<\/a> In Vermont, ObamaCare flopped so bad it killed single payer<\/a> Britain’s NHS tells Mental Health Patients: Stop Smoking Or We Won’t Treat You<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officials: Another 470 Bodies Found in Mass Grave – ISIS Slaughtered 1,700 Iraqi Men in Tikrit Massacre<\/a> Israelis and Saudis Reveal Secret Talks to Thwart Iran<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “White privilege” training compares teachers to KKK: “When do you wear the hood?”<\/a> CONNECTICUT SENATE PASSES \u201cSAY YES\u201d SEXUAL CONSENT BILL<\/a> California Porn Professionals React to Proposed Rules Requiring Goggles, Condoms on Set<\/a> Justice Department Studying “Far-Right” Social Media Use<\/a> Reverse swing: Blatter and Beijing<\/a> THE WORLD SMELLS WEAKNESS<\/a> 7 Way To Roll Back The Welfare State <\/a> Whatever Happened to the “Population Bomb”?<\/a> OSHA issues guidance on transgender bathroom access<\/a> Teachers complain, chaos reigns as St. Paul schools spend millions on “white privilege” training<\/a> Scholars protest college board’s leftist spin on American history<\/a> Is Denny Hastert being railroaded?<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nNew testimony reveals that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) used “hundreds of attorneys” to hide critical information from Congress’s investigation of the IRS targeting of conservatives.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nIn a new interview with GQ magazine that was published earlier today, actor Vince Vaughn went out of his way to offer unconditional support of the Second Amendment. The True Detective star said the Second Amendment isn\u2019t about \u201cduck hunting,\u201d it’s about the right of individuals to “resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.”<\/p>\n
\nWhether it\u2019s this detestable advice, police warning a woman not to display a knife in order to ward off intruders, warrantless firearm storage inspections, or desperate subjects being forced to defend their lives and property with cricket and baseball bats during riots, the UK government appears intent on wiping out any remaining vestiges of the traditional right to self-defense. We\u2019d like to say that we won\u2019t allow ourselves to be shocked by the next ludicrous episode from across the pond, but history shows they’ll somehow manage to astound.”<\/p>\n
\nCommonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a “gag order on firearm-related speech,” the National Rifle Association is warning.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\n16In case you need a reason to vote next year: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wants to feature you in a RICO lawsuit. Yes, you.<\/p>\n
\nSenator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, has a big idea: launching organized-crime investigations under RICO against people and institutions that disagree with him about global warming.<\/p>\n
\nI wrote recently about seven big failed environmentalist predictions, from global cooling to the population bomb (which the New York Times, always on the cutting edge, has just noticed was a complete bust). But it’s not only the big scientific theories they’ve gotten wrong. When science gets harnessed for a political cause, it tends to produce a running series of oversold theories that don’t bear up under further examination.<\/p>\n
\nA new paper is being published in Science magazine that purports to refute the 18-year “pause” in global warming. A press release on the paper came off embargo about an hour ago, so you will be seeing news stories about it soon.<\/p>\n
\nNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record.<\/p>\n
\nThe Green movement have come full circle, from protecting forests and attacking coal, to preserving coal and destroying forests. The most interesting question for me (apart from how long it can continue) is what the UK environmental movement is going to do with this. Do they care about forests; do they care about the electricity bills inflicted on the poor? Do CO2 emissions matter?<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nElderly people are being denied life-saving operations because of age discrimination within the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons and charity Age UK warns<\/p>\n
\nIt is much too soon for Obamacare proponents to say that the death spiral prediction is wrong. In fact, some states are signaling it’s started already.<\/p>\n
\nDozens of health insurers selling plans under ObamaCare have requested hefty premium increases for 2016, according to preliminary information published Monday by the White House. <\/p>\n
\nLuckily, being a liberal means never, ever having to say you’re sorry.<\/p>\n
\nIf you\u2019re wondering why the Left is going ballistic over current proposed legislation by Senators Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) that would effectively make oral contraceptives an over-the-counter medicine, why, here you go: “Planned Parenthood alone makes around $1.2 billion each year from contraceptive services.” It really does just come down to this: money. There’s a lot of money on the table. You tell an industry that it\u2019s about to lose that huge a chunk of its revenue stream, and it’s going to react. You almost can’t even blame them for it: effective monopolies always look different from the inside. In fact, they may not even consider themselves to have an effective monopoly*, insane as that sounds.<\/p>\n
\nThe supposedly pro-woman Left has erupted into fury this past week, denouncing new legislation proposed by Senator Cory Gardner (R., Colo.) that seeks to encourage over-the-counter status for birth control.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Barack Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill first rolled out ObamaCare, conservatives warned that the program was so badly designed that it couldn\u2019t possibly be on the level. Instead, people assumed that Democrats intended ObamaCare to fail \u2014 so that the only possible choice would be a single-payer system of socialized medicine. Even after Democrats reluctantly eliminated the \u201cpublic option,\u201d opponents insisted that the intended end game was failure so bad that it would destroy private insurance and leave nothing but the federal government to pick up the pieces.<\/p>\n
\nBritish government officials are urging all low and medium security mental health units to go “smoke free”, effectively forcing patients off cigarettes. Clinical experts warn that making patients quit against their will is illegal, contravening the Mental Health Act and setting a precedent that could see all sorts of health procedures inflicted upon mental health patients against their wishes.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nIraqi Health Minister Adila Hammoud told reporters that the remains of another 470 victims were exhumed from a mass grave near Tikrit recently.<\/p>\n
\nSince the beginning of 2014, representatives from Israel and Saudi Arabia have had five secret meetings to discuss a common foe, Iran. On Thursday, the two countries came out of the closet by revealing this covert diplomacy at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nWhile teachers blow the whistle on the breakdown of discipline for black students in St. Paul Public Schools, a photo has emerged from an “equity” training that might leave some to wonder what’s actually being taught to teachers.<\/p>\n
\nThe Connecticut legislature this week approved a bill that would require all colleges and universities in the State to a \u201cyes means yes\u201d policy for sexual consent by students. Shockingly, the bill passed with only one vote against it, by Senator Joe Markley (R-Southington). What happened to the other 14 Republican Senators? The bill now must obtain House approval. <\/p>\n
\nLast week, California\u2019s Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA) proposed a new raft of safety standards for porn production sets in the state, raising ire and eyebrows in the process. The standards, which have yet to be finalized, fill 21 pages and detail a wide range of new safety protocols actors and their employers would have to abide by on set. Nestled among them is a provision about “eye protection.” That’s right, goggles. Goggles, to be worn by porn actors, in porn films.<\/p>\n
\n$585,719 study to combat violent extremism<\/p>\n
\nLet us give thanks to the United States, and take comfort from the fact that it is the world\u2019s judicial superpower.<\/p>\n
\nA confluence of events this week emphasizes that the world\u2013especially its worst characters\u2013smells the pungent aroma of American weakness thanks to President Obama’s purposeful, “leading from behind” philosophy of non-leadership<\/p>\n
\nIn my recent critique of “reform conservatives,” I challenged their assumption that it is politically impossible to take on the welfare state, which leads them to conclude that they should instead harness the welfare state for conservative ends. <\/p>\n
\nThat’s the question the New York Times asks in its latest “Retro Report,” a series that looks back and updates prominent stories from the past. “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion” is fairly devastating to the leading figure of that famous apocalypse, Paul Ehrlich, author of the monster best-selling book The Population Bomb<\/p>\n
\nTransgender employees should have access to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity, the Department of Labor\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said guidance it issued for employers on Monday.<\/p>\n
\nHave the taxpayers of St. Paul spent nearly $3 million over the past five years to bring chaos and danger to their schools and students?<\/p>\n
\nNow 55 leading American history scholars have condemned the College Board’s framework in a remarkable letter. Peter Berkowitz provides an outstanding analysis.<\/p>\n
\nI haven’t really gotten into the current Denny Hastert flap here because AP has been on top of it, but the narrative of the story seems to be shifting pretty rapidly on the social media front. I think one of the biggest areas of confusion \u2013 leading to some difficulty in discussing what is probably a very disturbing story \u2013 is the need to separate two very different alleged crimes on the part of Hastert and potentially at least one by Person of Interest A. (The former student in the alleged incident.)<\/p>\n