News of the Week for July 12th<\/sup>, 2015<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Documents Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Plan to Seek Criminal Charges of Obama Opponents<\/a> Judge Says Federal Officials Must Personally Appear In Court For Violating Amnesty Injunction<\/a> US: More than 21 million affected by government data breach<\/a> Lois Lerner Is Longtime Friends With Regulator Who Targeted Scott Walker<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fed’s gun used in San Francisco pier slaying<\/a> U.S. High Schools Embrace Shooting as Hot New Sport<\/a> Fed’s gun used in San Francisco pier slaying<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Time to Start Closing Down Law Schools?\tProgressive Official: Student Loan Debt isn’t so Bad<\/a> http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2015\/7\/361450-turns-epa-didnt-come-talking-points-controversial-power-plant-program\/Turns Out the EPA Didn\u2019t Come Up with the Talking Points for Its Controversial Power Plant Program<\/a> Aussie PM Tony Abbott Cancels All Government Wind Farm Subsidies<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Massive health insurance hikes hit Oregon<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will Russia Revoke Recognition of Baltic Independence?<\/a> Russia rehearsed “takeover” of Denmark<\/a> Rapid Reaction?<\/a> Boko Haram extremists ‘agree to release 216 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls in exchange for 16 brutal terror leaders who are imprisoned by the Nigerian government’<\/a> Background to Asia’s Expensive Naval Arms Race<\/a> 3,000-strong Ethiopian force crosses into Somalia<\/a> Syrian War Takes Rising Toll on Hezbollah<\/a> Dispatch from Iraq: The Ghosts of Old Baghdad<\/a> Second Tunisia terror attack foiled: Five ISIS extremists are shot dead in Islamic stronghold as thousands of British tourists are evacuated<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Judge To Bakers: No Free Speech For You<\/a> Democrat Senator Proclaims That First Amendment Does Not Apply to Individuals<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nJudicial Watch today released new Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents that include an official “DOJ Recap” report detailing an October 2010 meeting between Lois Lerner, DOJ officials and the FBI to plan for the possible criminal prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations for alleged illegal political activity.<\/p>\n
\nA federal judge in the district court of South Texas has ordered top officials with the Department of Homeland Security \u2014 including Secretary Jeh Johnson \u2014 to appear in person in his court in Brownsville next month to show why they should not be held in contempt for violating an injunction issued against President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty order.<\/p>\n
\nHackers stole Social Security numbers, health histories and other highly sensitive data from more than 21 million people, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that the breach of U.S. government computer systems was far more severe than previously disclosed.<\/p>\n
\nLois Lerner, the former IRS official accused of targeting conservative non-profit groups, is longtime friends with a Wisconsin state regulator who helped local prosecutors investigate aides and conservative allies of Gov. Scott Walker.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nThe giddy 13-year-old boys oohed and aahed as they stared down the black shotgun barrels and aimed at clay targets they imagined whizzing through the air.<\/p>\n
\nThe gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIt\u2019s not paranoia if they\u2019re actually plotting against you.<\/p>\n
\nNewly-surfaced emails revealed that a prominent left-wing group played a large role in the creation of the talking points for the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s controversial new power plant regulations.<\/p>\n
\nAustralia has slammed the door shut on any new government-funded investment in renewable energy schemes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott extends his “war on wind power”.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nSome Oregon residents could pay up to 38 percent more for health insurance next year, the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between Obamacare’s supporters and opponents over premiums.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nOn July 3, Max Boot wrote here asking whether Russian aggression could trigger the next great war; he is right, of course. <\/p>\n
\nA new US report reveals that thousands of Russian soldiers took part in a huge military exercise which simulated a takeover of Bornholm, the second such Russian exercise aimed at the Danish island. <\/p>\n
\nIn recent weeks, NATO has been trumpeting the creation of its new “Very High Readiness Joint Task Force,” aimed (in part) at deterring future aggression from Russian President Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n
\nHuman rights activist says Nigerian terror group have agreed to free girls<\/p>\n
\nThe great East Asian naval arms race has definitely begun. It is and will be quite costly.<\/p>\n
\nA large contingent of Ethiopian troops has crossed into Somalia, reports from Gedo region in southern Somalia indicated Wednesday. <\/p>\n
\nAs the Lebanese militia takes over the fight to save Assad\u2019s regime, casualties are rising and so are the risks of overreach. <\/p>\n
\nA few hours in the Shorja open market in Baghdad can teach you a lot \u2013 about the Middle East’s past, its present and its apparent future. What’s to be found there is informative. What is absent \u2013 equally so.<\/p>\n
\nFive Islamic extremists were killed by Tunisian special forces in El Ktar <\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\n A judge has forbidden a pair of bakers who wouldn\u2019t participate in a gay wedding from talking about their moral beliefs. Ever.<\/p>\n
\nDisingenuous authoritarians will sometimes pretend that the Second Amendment does not honor an individual right to bear arms, but only a group right \u2014 that is, only well-regulated militias have a right to bear arms. Why stop at the Second Amendment? Publicly homosexual Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) wants to use the same fallacy to destroy what\u2019s left of the First.<\/p>\n