2015 April

2015-04-22

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Dick Morris _Jewish World Review_
Trans-Pacific Partnership = even more excessive mass immigration
"...The TPP, generally supported by pro-free-trade Republicans but opposed by labor-union Democrats, reportedly contains a barely noticed provision that allows for the free migration of labor among the signatory nations. Patterned after similar provisions in the treaties establishing the European Union, it would override national immigration restrictions in the name of facilitating the free flow of labor..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Michelle V. Rafter _WorkForce_
H-1B guest-work program needs reform, but good luck reaching consensus on what is broken or how to correct it
"Those in favor of expanding the current annual cap of [over 160K] new visas for foreigners allowed to work in the United States argue that an increase is due because of economic growth, a booming job market and widening skills gap.   Critics want more restrictions in place to stop abuses, which they say include so-called bodyshops that [abuse] foreign information technology workers, largely from India, brought here by deep-pocketed out-sourcers [and off-shorerss] that can afford to flood the system with visa applications.   They also point to recent cases of companies laying off highly compensated veteran employees and replacing them with cheaper foreign guest workers, which stricter controls and better oversight could right...   In the past few years, 'IT' [cross-border bodyshoppers and off-shorers], including Infosys and Tata, have been among the biggest H-1B lottery winners, filing tens of thousands of applications and scoring thousands of visas, according to data from the USCIS and other outlets.   In the federal government's fiscal 2013, the latest data available, Infosys received 6,298 H-1B visas, more than any other employer.   Tata was #2, with 6,258, followed by Cognizant Technology Solutions (5,186), [Bahamas-based Andersen Consulting spin-off] Accenture (3,346) and Wipro Technologies (2,644).   In the federal government's fiscal [year] 2015, 9 out of 10 companies filing the most H-1B visa applications were 'IT' [bodyshops].   The list includes U.S. firm Deloitte Consulting, which is #1 with 17,261 applications, and U.S. divisions of India-based [cross-border bodyshoppers and off-shorers] Cognizant (9,325), Wipro (8,120) and Infosys (4,874)...   In a January memorandum on immigration reform circulated to Republican law-makers, Sessions called Silicon Valley's STEM crisis a hoax perpetrated in the tech industry's 'desire for cheap, young and immobile labor [with flexible ethics]'."
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
sleazeBob Menendez's 36DD visa program
Town Hall
"America has an alphabet soup of visa programs for foreigners to choose from: B-1 for business visitors, B-2 for tourists, EB-5 for investors, F-1 for students, and so on.   All are overwhelmed, loosely monitored and riddled with fraud and corruption.   According to the recently unsealed federal indictment against him, sleazy senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), took it upon himself to add his own very special, crooked path to the U.S.A.   The New York Post recounted this weekend how Menendez and his staff pressured the State Department to expedite the foreign tourist and student visa approval processes for a bevy of buxom foreign beauties.   One of them, Brazilian actress and nudie model Juliana Lopes Leite (a.k.a. 'Girlfriend 1'), had her F-1 student visa application moved to the top of the Mount Everest-high heap in 2008 as a favor to Menendez's now-indicted donor pal and accused Medicare fraudster Salomon Melgen...   'The State Department responded within hours, and the woman got her visa the following day.', the Post reported...   Nearly 500K F-1 foreign students come to the U.S.A. every year.   Despite repeated warning flags involving foreign students on F-1 visas who slipped through the cracks -- the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 2001/09/11 plot, the Times Square bombing plot [Shahzad went from F-1 to OPT to H-1B to green card to naturalization], the Boston Marathon bombing -- Washington refuses to hit the pause button and get the program under control.   By the federal government's own admission in multiple independent audits and inspector general reports, officials at the Departments of Homeland Security [DHS] and State [DoS] cannot efficiently police and monitor the flood.   Those assessments show that we have failed to carefully vet the student applicants overseas; failed to screen out the fly-by-night 'schools' certified to enroll them in the U.S.; failed to keep tabs on the 'designated school officials' entrusted to track their compliance; failed to verify that the employers who are approved to sponsor F-1s for education-related 'job training' are not exploiting the program as a pipe-line for cheap foreign labor undercutting American workers; failed to ensure that F-1s go home when their visas expire; and failed to track and eject over-stayers and violators who break the rules...   But what about the rest of the country?   Each and every temporary visa program is supposed to enhance the national interest -- not just the naked demands and desires of universities, corporations and dirty old men.   Instead of stemming the tide and making enforcement a priority, politicians in both parties are pushing forward with various schemes to radically expand and extend the foreign student visa racket.   It's proof positive that Brazil's got nothing on the biggest boobs in Washington."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Ann Coulter: Scott Walker is smoking out the cheap labor hacks
"'YES! Fantastic, amazing, just what I've been waiting for!   Romney, of course, said exactly this and also endorsed E-Verify and a fence on the border.', Coulter said when asked to react to Walker's statements—and all the political establishment from both sides of the aisle and the media attacking him—on Tuesday.   'I'm bitter and cynical, but I don't know how a candidate can weasel out of having endorsed E-Verify.', Coulter said.   'Talking about a secure border -- as most of them do -- is easy to weasel out of.   That's code for amnesty [for illegal aliens].   (How will we know when it's secure?   A: When a board of amnesty-supporters tells us it's secure!   Thanks, Rand.)'   Coulter added that Walker is exposing the cheap labor hacks for what they are..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
unless there is some reform, 1 in 7 people in the USA will be immigrants by 2023
"CIS' analysis reveals that by 2023 there will be 51M immigrants in the U.S.A. and they will account for more than 1 in 7 U.S. residents, or about 14.8% of the population...   By 2030, the immigrant population will reach 57M or 15.8% and by 2040 it will have grown to 65M or 17.1%.   Come 2060, the immigrant population will have grown to 78M, with nearly 1 in 5 U.S. residents being immigrants.   That's about 18.8% of the population. The total U.S. population will also have grown to nearly 417M.   Compare those numbers to the immigrant population in 1990, when 7.9% of the U.S. population (20M) were immigrants, CIS reports...   In 2015 immigrants accounted for 13% of the population 65 and older, roughly equal to their share of overall population.   But by 2060 there will be 25.3M immigrants in this age group accounting for 26% of all persons over 65."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
employers are outraged at DoL demand that they pay H-2A guest-shep-herds & goat-herds $2/hour plus board and room (or tent)
"...All of this involves the preservation of a long-out-dated bit of agriculture, the use of shepherds to work 24/7 in upland mountain pastures during the grass-growing season.   Such shepherds are currently paid $750 a month plus room and board in the H-2A program.   DoL says that in addition to a full-time job caring for the sheep during day-light hours, they are 'on call' 24 hours a day to take care of emergencies -- such as attacks by coyotes, storms, and serious illnesses within the flock...   The Department of Labor, commendably, is trying to double the existing wages, which have been virtually flat for 22 years, and the ranchers are howling.   The $2.00/hour figure mentioned earlier is based on a 24/7 job situation.   (There are 720 hours in a 30-day month; the wage rates proposed by DoL, which vary from state to state, are mostly in the $1,400-$1,500 a month range.)   The proposed $2.00 an hour average, admittedly, includes some sleep time and cooking time.   With wages (using the 24-hour day) currently at about $1.00 an hour plus room and board, the industry hires either no citizens, or virtually no citizens.   Because of the current DoL rules, this is an industry that is completely dependent on near-indentured, ill-paid, and isolated foreign workers.   As I have suggested in the past this is a totally out-of-date type of agriculture -- like harvesting wheat with a scythe -- and it should not be kept alive artificially by the use of under-paid foreign workers..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Howie Carr
interview of Dave Brat on illegal immigration (with audio)

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Mila Koumpilova _Sacramento CA Bee_/_Minneapolis MN Start Tribune_
company executives labor to get visas for cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign STEM H-1B guest-workers with questionable ethics
"White Bear Lake, MN-based LasX...   LasX, which under government H-1B requirements did pay Zhang more than the bachelor-level salary it had posted, got nearly 40 applications for that job.   Still, Dinauer says his 70-employee company competes with larger manufacturers in the Twin Cities and beyond for 'that one top engineer'.   Five years ago, LasX sponsored a Malaysian engineer who's since helped design laser equipment to make a new medical diagnostic device...   At Duluth's North Point Geographic Solutions, a digital mapping company, owner Carolyn Adams hired Chinese native Xue Gao in February after a 6-month search that involved tweaking and reposting an opening that [many important intermediate details apparently intentionally unmentioned] went unfilled...   'I am yet to be convinced we should have an H-1B program at all.', [Mark Krikorian] said.   'If we do, it should be restricted to truly exceptional talent.'...   'If you're going to increase the cap', Williams said, 'you really need to look at whether you are indeed hiring the best and the brightest.'..."
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Laura Ingraham
the GOP losership vs. Scott Walker

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Laura Ingraham
Scott Walker's stance in favor of US citizen workers sparks media frenzy

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Claudia Himmelreich & Matthew Schofield _Jewish World Review_
"accountant of Auschwitz" on trial in Germany an accessory in the deaths of more than 300K Hungarian Jews
"a man who has admitted he was on the platform during the infamous 'selections' at the Nazi death camp in Poland...   'The punishment is secondary.'...   'This is one of my most important moments since I left Auschwitz.   It is not about Groening's verdict.   It is about his crime.   It remains a crime forever and needs to be brought to justice.'...   'He needs to realize what it meant to have been there.   I could list 49 members of my extended family that marched past Groening.   What can he say? Can he return them to me?'...   There are perhaps two other Nazi war-crimes trials in preparation and others might be pursued...   6M Jews were murdered.   5M others -- Gypsies, gays and communists among them — were also killed.   Other upcoming trials deal with murders that number in the dozens.   Groeing's might be the last to deal with hundreds of thousands...   Overwhelming interest in the case forced court officials to move the proceedings from the district courthouse to a large nearby hall.   That hall, the Lueneburg Knight's Academy -- a former monastery that in 1656 was converted to a training ground for knights -- serves as a reminder that Germany existed before the Nazis forever darkened its history.   Even so, the medieval cobbles and gables that distinguish this city were not untouched by the Nazi era.   A meeting house established in 1491 for charitable works was a branch of the Neuengamme concentration camp, and housed 150 inmates..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Lucy Westcott _Jewish World Review_
Westerners joig Iraqi Christian militia to fight ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
2015-02-15: Isabel Coles: Reuters
2015-03-02: Christian Fighter Pilot
2015-02-16: John Hayward: Breitbart
2015-02-16: Theodore Shoebat (with video)
2015-02-15: Free Republic
New Advent: St. Michael (Who is like God? No one, and every one.)

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Chris Weller _Jewish World Review_
chemicals in your perspiration can make your good mood contagious
Medical Daily
Time
"'Fear sweat induces a state of alertness', Semin told Medical Daily, and it 'enhances the visual field that is attended to'.   These forms of communication are collectively known as chemosignals, and they formed the basis of Semin's latest study into emotional contagions...   They found striking parallels between how the women reacted and which emotional group the men had belonged to.   Women produced the early signs of a genuine smile, such as squinted eyes and raised cheeks, when they smelled the happiness group, while the women who smelled the fear sweat produced more activity in their frontalis muscle, the one that blankets your forehead and permits eyebrow-raising..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
doctor Ben S. Carson _Jewish World Review_
USA needs clarity, conviction of purpose, persistence, adaptability in the Middle East

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Nat Hentoff _Jewish World Review_
a second state bans abortion method which tears fetus apart

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
a new Obummer MidEast strategy emerges... sort of

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Red China responded to growth in Christianity with harsh persecution in 2014
"It said it documented 572 cases of persecution last year, involving 17,884 individuals -- a 300% increase [in cases, and a 140% increase in victims] from 2013, when it recorded 143 cases involving 7,424 people.   Of those 17,884 victims of persecution in 2014, at least 1,592 were church leaders, it said."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
a San Francisco priest who defied tyrants

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
_Conservative HQ_
Ted Cruz is the first signer of Phyllis Schlafly's STOP Communist Corpse pledge

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
where do/should non-leftists stand on "fast track authority"/"trade promotion authority" WRT the Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Where once wages rose inexorably in America and the middle class seemed ever to expand, we read today about income inequality, the growing gap between rich and poor, and wage stagnation says Buchanan.   Did $11T in trade deficits since Bush I have anything to do with this?   Or do we think that the 55K factories and 5M-6M manufacturing jobs that went missing in the first decade of this new century had no connection to those huge trade deficits?   Is there a link perhaps between all those factories closing in the USA and all those factories opening in [Red China], or between a U.S.A. average annual [GDP] growth rate of 1.8% since the turn of the century, and a Chinese average annual growth rate of around 10%, Buchanan asked?...   it isn't free enterprise the [Red Chinese government is] pushing.   Instead, it is their own form of [crony socialism].   They're writing rules that favor government-owned firms and hamper American job creators.   So it all comes down to this question: Is [Red China] going to write the rules of the global economy, or is the [United States of America]?"

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Ed Morrissey _Hot Air_
Mitch McConnell is pushing renewal of congressioal blessing for NSA to continue unconstitutional warrantless capture of US citizens' communications within the USA

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Gerald Warner _Breitbart_
in the UK there are currently 2 general elections under-way: the virtual poll of the political class, and the real contest
"There are currently 2 general elections taking place.   The first and more advertised is the fantasy election being conducted within the imagination of the political class, the BBC, the dead-tree press and the vast array of public bodies, quangos and similar running dogs of the consensual establishment.   Their views are uniform: Europhile, PC, metropolitan, elitist and wholly divorced from real-life Britain.   This virtual election is the one being reported in the main-stream media.   The second election is the one whose result will be reported in the early hours of May 8 -- the first occasion on which all the elements cited above will finally come face to face with concrete reality.   That reality may, at first sight, be deceptive.   It is very unlikely, for example, to be a UKIP land-slide; that party's growth and influence will be more protracted and subtle than to produce such an out-come in 2015 (2020 may be a different story)..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
US Marshal stole, smashed by-stander's telephone on which she was video-recording them, but was recorded doing so by another by-stander

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
_News Max_
John Boehner: Obummer regime is blocking information about the terrorist attack on the US consulate at Benghazi

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Melanie Batley _News Max_
NY judge allows ads on buses and subways
"An ad that says, 'Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah' should be permitted to appear on New York City buses and subways, a federal judge has ruled.   The advert was created by a pro-Israel organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI).   It features an image of a young man in a checkered headscarf and was designed to highlight what the AFDI argues are Muslim attitudes toward Jews...   AFDI co-founder Pamela Geller tweeted her delight at the ruling, saying that it was 'a triumph for liberty and free speech'.   The ad is intended to be a parody of an ad put out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a [Muslim terrorist front-group] that promotes the rights of Muslims and better relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.   In 2012 and 2013, CAIR ran posters in several American cities promoting peaceful versions of Islam...   'The defendants admit that the actual intention of the advertisement is not to advocate the use of force, but to parody the CAIR My Jihad campaign and to criticize Hamas and radical Islam..."
Discover the Networks: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Todd Beamon _News Max_
Rick Perry: secure the borders with fencing and boots on the ground

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Elliot Jager _News Max_
Koch brothers will tie support for candidates to their opposition to crony socialist Export-Import Bank

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Patrick Watson _News Max_
Trans-Pacific fast track authroity would be a blank check for Obummer

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Nick Sanchez _News Max_
another study of 96K US children concludes measles-mumps-rubella vaccine not linked with autism
Ben Mathis-Lilly: Slate

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Michael Morris _Cybercast News Service_
violent anti-semitic actios increased 38% in 2014 worldwide

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Barbara Hollingsworth _Cybercast News Service_
Every Child Achieves Act reduces, but does not eliminate unconstitutional federal intrusion into and control over K-12 education

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
DoS inspector-general: security deficiencies persist at diplomatic posts

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
doctor Ben S. Carson: as more Americans abandon God, you can see that we're spiraling downward

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Sean Piccoli _News Max_
Ted Cruz: if GOP nominates RINO/losership candidate, the election will be lost (with video)
"...a candidate in the mold of a Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Bob Dole will nearly guarantee that [Dem/Red/leftist] wins the White House.   'It will, in effect, be a third term for [Barack Hussein Obummer].', the Texas Republican said...   if he [Cruz] were elected president, he would put an end to the domestic and foreign policies of [president Obummer], which he termed a disaster...   'There's a lot of people I like and respect who are running and are friends of mine, but I don't see a whole lot of candidates who are likely to mobilize or energize the millions of conservatives who've been staying home.   And if we don't bring those voters back, we lose.', he said..."

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
John Gizzi _News Max_
SC attorney-general Wilson is proud of state's voter ID law

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
Obummer's arms race fuels Mexican drug war

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
_Breitbart_
Border Patrol raided stash house and found 72 illegal aliens
Valley Central
"Border Patrol agents raided a stash house near West Mile 7 Road and North Bentsen Palm Drive [Mission, Texas, near Mexican Border] on Tuesday afternoon, when they apprehended 72 immigrants.   Agents apprehended the immigrants -- Honduran citizens, Guatemalan citizens and Mexican citizens -- at about 15:40..."
more related coverage from Valley Central

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Andrew C. McCarthy _National Review_
Loretta Lynch vs the US constitution: senators must vote against her being made attorney-general

2015-04-22 (5775 Air 03)
Charles C.W. Cooke _National Review_
what critics of Ted Cruz's excellent arguments don't get

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2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
since 1970, foreign-born US population increased by 324.5%
"As the foreign-born population increased in the U.S.A. from 1970 to 2013, the lower 90% of income earners saw their wages decline, a new memo from the Congressional Research Service reveals.   On the flip side, from 1945-1970, as the foreign-born population declined, salaries for the bottom 90% increased, the document reveals...   The foreign-born population in the United States diminished from 10,971,146 in 1945 to 9,740,000 in 1970, a decline of 1,231,146 persons, representing a percentage decline of 11.2% over this 25 year period...   The reported income of the bottom 90% of tax filers in the United States increased from an average of $18,418 in 1945 to $33,621 in 1970 for an aggregate change of $15,202 or a percent increase of 82.5% over this 25 year period...   The share of income held by the bottom 90% of the U.S. income distribution increased from 67.4% in 1945 to 68.5% in 1970, an absolute increase of 1.1 percentage points over this 25 year period...   Between 1970 and 2013, the estimated foreign-born population in the United States increased from 9,740,000 to 41,348,066, respectively, an increase of 31,608,066 persons, representing a percentage increase of 324.5% over this 43 year period...   The reported income of the bottom 90% of tax filers in the United States decreased from an average of $33,621 in 1970 to $30,980 in 2013 for an aggregate decline of $2,641 or a percent decline of 7.9% over this 43 year period...   The share of income held by the bottom 90% of the U.S. income distribution declined from 68.5% in 1970 to 53.0% in 2013, an absolute decline of 15.5 percentage points over this 43 year period...   'Keep in mind, the last time immigration as a share of population hit its peak -- in 1910 -- immigration reductions were enacted and the share fell for 6 straight decades.   This time around, law-makers, led by the Gang of Eight, and spurred on by various international CEOs and immigration lobbies, are trying to increase immigration above our never-before-seen levels.', the [senate Judiciary sub-committee on Immigration and the National Interest] staff wrote...   each year, the U.S.A. already admits 1M immigrants, 500K immigrant students, 700K guest worker foreign workers, and 70K refugees and aslyees (persons seeking or granted political asylum)."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
Ted Cruz & Scott Walker vs. Yebbie Booosh & Marco Rubio on immigration
"So with Bush having endorsed and re-endorsed Rubio's amnesty and immigration plan they are the leading pro-amnesty advocates in the GOP -- like we said -- no surprise.   What is surprising is that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has joined Texas senator Ted Cruz in opposition to not just amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already here, but in also opposing expanding the legal immigration that poses not only a national security threat, but a threat to the quality of life for millions of middle-income Americans whose jobs are threatened and whose wages have already stagnated due to the ever-expanding wave of 'techno-coolies' flooding the engineering, computer science and other white collar professions.   Ted Cruz and Alabama's senator Jeff Sessions have been the principle opponents in the senate of the Gang of Eight approach to amnesty for illegal aliens and expanding legal immigration.   Indeed, during the committee mark-up Cruz offered as an amendment one of the best alternatives to the Gang of Eight bill [S744] -- a border security only bill with no pork and unrelated provisions in it.   Walker's position has been less consistent than Cruz's; Walker first made unclear, but generally pro-amnesty statements and has then slowly walked that position back to the point where this week he came out in full Jeff Sessions mode to oppose both amnesty and expansion of legal immigration.   What makes Scott Walker's newly clarified position so surprising is that the Walker is almost entirely the political creation of the business and Chamber of [Crony Socialists] wing of the Republican Party that supports amnesty and most especially the expansion of legal immigration that would allow them to continue to lower their costs by importing 'techno-coolies' to displace American engineers, computer programmers and other middle-income professional employees.   The Chamber [of Crony Socialists] and various business [executive] interests pumped millions of dollars into Scott Walker's campaigns in Wisconsin, particularly his successful effort to fight a union-inspired recall, and according to the 'dance with the one what brung ya' calculus of politics you'd think Walker would adopt their position on amnesty and expanding legal immigration, but this week he joined Ted Cruz and came out strongly against the Bush -- Rubio positions on those issues.   Jeffrey Anderson in a piece for The Weekly Standard titled 'Walker's Smart Play On Immigration' lays out that Walker isn't just right for policy purposes—it’s a political winner too.   'Scott Walker's recent comments suggesting that the United States' policy on legal immigration should be focused on what's good for American workers -- a seemingly obvious point that nevertheless has ruffled feathers -- offers further evidence of the Wisconsin governor's political savvy.', Anderson wrote.   'When two of one's strongest competitors (namely, [Yebbie Booosh] and Marco Rubio) share a weakness on an issue, it's smart to draw attention to that issue by making clear there is daylight between you and them.   Walker's move toward Cruz on immigration and amnesty is indeed good policy and disavowing his corporatist roots in favor of a more populist position on amnesty and immigration is also smart politics, but it leaves Walker open to attacks from both the right and the left for flip-flopping or 'evolving' in a way that is more political calculus than policy commitment.   But anything that [makes clear Yebbie Booosh] and Marco Rubio as the pro-amnesty, anti-job candidates they are is helpful, so we're with our long-time friend Phyllis Schlafly, founder and CEO of Eagle Forum, who welcomed Walker to the fight for American jobs by saying, 'I'm thrilled to see that Scott Walker wants to defend American jobs and understands that American voters are directly impacted by immigration -- both illegal and legal.'"

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Brittany M. Hughes _Cybercast News Service_
US Customs & Border Protection wants an additional $134.5M to process and release illegal aliens under 19 into the USA, does not request more funds to repel invaders
Caroline May: Breitbart

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
mass trans-Mediterranean illegal immigration from Africa to Europe: a clear case of cause and effect
"...The shock waves were immediate: Italy and Greece, the two southern European countries most affected by such maritime smuggling, have been vocal in leveling the finger of blame at their northerly neighbors for not providing enough money and assistance this year to interdict all of the boats taking to sea, unlike in previous years.   European Union officials said they had deliberately allowed interdiction efforts to dwindle because, in their assessment, picking up boatloads of intended migrants and then offloading them to the Italian island of Lampedusa or to Sicily or to ports in Greece had actually encouraged more migrants to attempt the venture since the EU was, in effect, ensuring completion and success of the smuggling.   That is undoubtedly true..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Jim Puzzanghera _Los Angeles CA Times_
corrupt Obummer DoL refuses to investigate H-1B visa abuses by Southern California Edison and bodyshoppers
Patrick Thibodeau: CIO/IDG
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
a paper/article on H-1B of great importance... but likely to be ignored

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Rachel Stoltzfoos _Daily Caller_
Congressional Research Service: wages declined as guest-work visas and immigration increased
"The CRS charted the correlation between wages and the number of foreign-born workers in the U.S.A. between 1945 and 2010.   Before 1970, wages rose sharply as the number of foreign-born persons declined.   But after 1970, that population increased dramatically as wages stagnated, increased slightly and then dropped...   From 1945 to 1970 wages for the bottom 90% of earners increased by 82.5%, and their share of income rose slightly, while the foreign-born population in the U.S.A. fell by 11.2% to 9.7M.   But between 1970 and 2013, the foreign-born population increased by 324.5% to 31.6M people.   At the same time wages fell by 7.9% and share of income by 15.5% to 53% of total income.   The foreign-born population will reach 51M by 2023, which is the largest share of total population ever recorded in American history, the U.S. Census Bureau recently projected..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
_Reuters_
displaced US workers sue government for illegal issuance of work permits to spouses of guest-workers
"After attaining standing for clients last November...the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), along with attorney John Miano, today has filed a new complaint against the federal government, asking the DC District Court to find that another employment visa program violates federal law.   IRLI is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its new H-4 visa Rule which purports to grant work permits to spouses of so-called 'high-tech' H-1B guest workers.   IRLI's client, Save Jobs USA, is made up of former employees of Southern California Edison, a publicly-traded corporate utility recently made the subject of a bipartisan congressional investigation for firing hundreds of American workers after forcing them to train their cheaper foreign replacements.   The case, Save Jobs USA v. USDHS (Civil Action No. 1:15-cv-00615), could have major implications for users of H-1B visas, such as the trillion-dollar tech industry, and their corporate lobbyists who are currently spearheading legislative efforts to dramatically expand the number of 'high-tech' workers that can be imported into the country.   On top of their complaint alleging, in part, that DHS exceeded its statutory authority and ignored statutory labor protections when it issued the rule, IRLI is requesting a preliminary injunction from the court against the program until a full trial on the merits of the case can be heard.   DHS was set to start taking applications for work authorization on 2015 May 26. Dale L. Wilcox, IRLI's Executive Director, commented, 'DHS admits its H-4 Rule will add as many as 179,600 new foreign workers in its first year and 55K annually in subsequent years. This is a slap in the face to the tens of millions of Americans suffering from unemployment and under-employment, especially those who are most vulnerable, such as students, seniors, single mothers and minorities.'   Wilcox continued, 'The law states that foreign work permits cannot adversely affect American wages, but all we've seen during this administration [and the previous 2] is standards of living fall and out-sized corporate profits continue to rise.   We will continue the fight on behalf of the American worker and hold this administration accountable to the rule of law.'..."
complaint (pdf)
motion and brief for preliminary injunction (pdf)
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Sean Higgins _Washington DC Examiner_
excessive immigration roils debate on Trans-Pacific Partnership scam
"Groups opposed to [excessive] immigration are the latest organizations to join in the heated debate on Capitol Hill over 'Trade Promotion Authority', also known as 'fast track', arguing the legislation could be a 'Trojan horse' for expanding guest-worker programs...   Federation for American Immigration Reform...   NumbersUSA, another group opposed to [excessive] immigration, is formally opposing Fast Track and the Pacific trade pact and is warning law-makers that it will score a vote for it as 'a vote against American workers'...   The main spark for the concern linking TPP to guest-worker programs was an April 13 op-ed published in the Hill by Curtis Ellis, a former producer for Lou Dobbs who now runs a non-profit group called American Jobs Alliance.   Both NumbersUSA and FAIR cite his column in their criticisms of [Obummer's] trade agenda.   'The U.S. Trade Representative says temporary entry guest-worker visas are a key feature of the Trans-Pacific Partnership...   The op-ed included a link to a 2011 outline of the Pacific deal's provisions posted on the U.S. Trade Representative's web-site.   Under the heading 'temporary entry', the document states, 'TPP countries have substantially concluded the general provisions of the chapter, which are designed to promote transparency and efficiency in the processing of applications for temporary entry, and ongoing technical cooperation between TPP authorities.   Specific obligations related to individual categories of business person are under discussion.'...   The U.S. version is the L-1 visa program, which requires a multinational company to vouch for the recipient.   Ellis argues that the L-1 program is vulnerable to abuse [and has almost always been abused], citing a 2013 Department of Homeland Security [DHS] Inspector General report on it.   The report notes that there is no statutory limit to the number of visas awarded in program and it allows them for workers with 'specialized knowledge', the definition of which is 'vague and unclear'...   The number of visas issued under the L-1 program was 66,700 in 2013, according to a State Department report.   Another 74,100 were issued under the L-2 visa program, which is for spouses of L-1 recipients..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Garth Kant _WND_
Marco Rubio engaged in double-talk, still pushing excessive student, guest-work, green cards, and amnesty for illegal aliens

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Maggie Ybarra _Washington DC Times_
facility to hold illegal aliens who committed additional crimes is being mismanaged, wasting tax-victim money
"A private prison company, Florida-based GEO Group, is under contract with the Bureau of Prisons (BoP) to oversee the detention center.   It, in turn, has contracted out that responsibility as well.   The 85-page investigation shows GEO and its subcontractor struggled to meet or exceed baseline contractual standards, received an unacceptable number of deficiencies and notices of concern; was unresponsive to BoP inquiries; struggled with staffing issues in health services and correctional services; and frequently submitted inaccurate routine paperwork, including erroneous disciplinary hearing records and monthly invoices.   The inspector general also found Reeves improperly requested, and the Bureau of Prisons improperly paid, $1.95M in fringe benefits it was not entitled to receive, including $175,436 in pay-roll taxes and workers' compensation insurance..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Joel Himelfarb _News Max_
Patrick J. Buchanan: if GOP helps pass Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, forget prospects for electing Republican president in 2016

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
John O'Sullivan _Natioal Review_
immigrants' tragedy

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Aalia Shahee _Fox_
deranged ACLU sues to force Catholics to provide abortions to illegal aliens
Kellan Howell: Washington DC Times
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily
Laura Ingraham
American Action News

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Laura Ingraham
Peter Schweizer turning microscope on Yebbie Booosh funding sources next
Joshua Green: Bloomberg
Ed Morrissey: Hot Air
News Max

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Laura Ingraham
poll: Latinos increasingly favor unconstitutional national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare, likely to influence elections
Michael Oleaga: Latin Post

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Laura Ingraham
cash flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians pressed for control of uranium company
"AllahPundit": Hot Air
Breitbart
"The article, in 2013 January, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West.   The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.   But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one..."
Mark Levin: 7 cabinet members approved the corrupt scam to give Russia control of 20% of USA uranium mines.
Colin Campbell & Pamela Engel: Business Insider: Clinton Foundation received $ millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of USA uranium deposits
Jim Geraghty: Business Insider: Hitlery Rotten Clinton let Russia buy 20% of USA uranium production capacity
Sean Davis: Federalist: Clinton collected $ millions in Russian cash before approving uranium deal

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Rand Paul (R-KY): Obummer & congress should investigate Clintons

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Laura Ingraham
Jennifer Rubin, Scott Walker and immigration rhetoric (mp3)

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Laura Ingraham
former "IT" manager expresses ugly truth on guest-work visas and the alleged "shortage" of American STEM talent (mp3)

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Frank J. Gaffney ii _Washington DC Times_
will senators vote to shred the US constitution?

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Robert Emmett Tyrrell ii _Jewish World Review_
where to find the USA's "aristocracy"
American Spectator
Chicago IL Times Post
Quincy IL Journal
Town Hall
"Notwithstanding what the Marxist whim-wham artists have been telling the youths of our country for over a generation, there has been little sign of a true aristocracy in America.   For a very short period of time, something like an aristocracy appeared during the era when the 'robber barons' plied their arts, but it did not last.   They built their palaces and raised their empires among the steel mills, the trans-continental rail-roads, the oil fields, and so forth, but then they declined, submerged in the hustle and bustle of the market place.   Their monuments remain as various museums and libraries and even universities, for instance, Vanderbilt University, but for the most part American aristocracy is gone.   Allons-y, Messrs. Vanderbilt, Morgan, Carnegie and the rest, but thanks for the museums, the libraries and the increasingly irrelevant universities.   So despite what the professors at women's studies programs, ethnic studies programs and other Marxist fronts tell us, American aristocracy was short lived.   It was soon overwhelmed by the sheer exuberance of free markets.   One day there were robber barons, the next day they were surpassed by another wave of commerce.   Today it is the digital wave.   Tomorrow it will be something else.   There endures no aristocracy anywhere in the Great Republic, except perhaps in television land, and there this past week we witnessed a glimmer of its excess..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Celia Rivenbark _Jewish World Review_
road etiquette in the passe lane

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
Clinton vs. Clinton
Town Hall
Washington DC Times

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Robert J. Samuelson _Jewish World Review_
a welcome debate on "generational justice"

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Fred Barnes _Jewish World Review_
the party of ideas: Applied Conservatism 101

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
William Kristol _Jewish World Review_
the Iran deal: oppose, obstruct, delay, defeat

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
not your grand-father's FBI
Town Hall
Washington DC Times
"...These lawless agents should have been indicted by a state grand jury for breaking and entering by false pretense, but Caesars declined to seek their prosecution.   No surprise.   It was surprising, however, when the FBI was forced to admit last week that in the 1980s and 1990s, its agents and lab technicians who examined hair samples testified falsely in 257 of 268 cases that resulted in convictions.   Of the convictions, 18 persons were sentenced to death, and of those, 12 have been executed.   Some of these cases were federal, but most were state prosecutions in which state and county prosecutors hired the FBI to perform lab tests and compare hair samples from a crime scene with a defendant's known hair sample.   The faulty lab work and erroneous testimony destroyed the freedom of hundreds and the lives of 12, squandered millions in tax dollars, and impaired the constitutional values we all embrace.   You probably did not hear about the FBI cable guys or the admitted 96% rate of false testimony in cases of conviction..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
was sacrifice of Ramadi dead in vain?
Town Hall
"While the U.S. military in recent years has had a difficult time winning wars, it has had an easier time surrendering to political correctness and social experimentation..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Larry Elder _Jewish World Review_
actors and economics
Town Hall
Unemployment rates for actors often run in the range of 17% to 40%, according to BLS data.

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
George Will _Jewish World Review_
when boot-leggers and Baptists converge

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matt Towery _Town Hall_
major opinion index might be warning of big changes in markets and the economy
News Max
"The so-called economic recovery we have 'enjoyed' has been less than even-handed.   Corporate CEOs and the Wall Street crowd managed to make a post-Great Recession come-back with even bigger salaries and more money feeding into their investment world.   For the average American, however, wages have hardly budged..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Rebecca Hagelin & Kristin Carey _Town Hall_
the challenge: hungry for fellowship

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Steve Chapman _Town Hall_
raisin h377: another market perverted by government
"During the Great Depression, the government decided that prices paid to farmers were too low and undertook to correct the problem by limiting their output.   Though that was an understandable response to the worst economic crisis in our history -- not sound, but understandable -- it has long outlasted the calamity that gave rise to it.   Today, the United States Department of Agriculture [USDA] still assumes the task of deciding how many raisins should be sold -- a job that in most markets is handled by consumers and producers continually responding to supply and demand.   When demand for product X goes up, for instance, prices rise, which induces consumers to buy less and producers to produce more, which in turn lowers prices.   When demand falls, the reverse occurs.   This system works so well that we rely on it for the vast majority of the things we need.   But not for raisins..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
_Town Hall_
2015Q2 dividends to date signal continuing contraction

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Ken Connor _Town Hall_
the fruit of abortion's poisonous tree

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Jerry Newcombe _Town Hall_
why did Robert Edward Lee serve the wrong side?
"...Lee is an interesting man because he was seemingly a man of contradictions.   Because of legal obligations, he freed the slaves he and his wife inherited from her father before the Emancipation Proclamation.   As a Christian, he hated slavery, yet he ended up fighting essentially for its continuance.   He favored the Union, yet he chose to apply his incredible military skill to the side that was dissolving the Union..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Daniel J. Mitchell _Town Hall_
the left's inequality fixation is economically foolish and politically impotent

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
the rude, uncivil suppression of free speech at colleges and universities
Valerie Richardson: Washington DC Times

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
contemptible Hitlery Rotten Clinton thumbs her nose at congressional committee on Benghazi summons

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
on issue after issue, the Obummer regime has backed down to Iran

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
GOP legislators have not kept campaign promises

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Kristan Hawkins _Cybercast News Service_
school administrators have violated rights of pro-life students

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Lynn Wardle _Cybercast News Service_
same-sex "marriage" is not inevitable but is unsustainable: 31st state in the U.S.A. to constitutionally forbid same-sex "marriage"

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Betsy McCaughey _News Max_
sharp GOP hopefuls pack into NH
"New Hampshire makes presidents.   The way it's done was in full view last weekend, when 16 Republican hopefuls pressed into the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, for 2 days of Q&A and coffee huddles with local voters.   It was democracy at its best..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Jennifer G. Hickey _News Max_
1 year after Veterans Administration scandal was big news, few officials have been held to account

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Amy Lutz _Breitbart_
U of MD cancelled screening of "American Sniper" after furor from Muslims; conservative student groups object to censorship
"'If the University prevents a movie like this from being shown, it promotes intolerance and stifles dialogue and debate on the subject and goes directly against the atmosphere of diversity the University of Maryland purports to provide.'..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Adelle Nazarian _Breitbart_
pro-life banners removed from USC
"Yet the [administration's] reasoning did not explain why rainbow banners for Gay Pride were reportedly hung up last semester without advertising an event or organization and that Black History Month saw banners for that very cause, Ellenhorn said."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Ian Hanchett _Breitbart_
Ted Cruz: voters are wondering what the difference is between GOP losership and Dems/Reds/leftists

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
smuggling of illegal aliens into Europe reveals inhuman violence

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Edwin Mora _Breitbart_
London girls reportedly joined ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate that tortures women

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
_Breitbart_
weakly radio-active UAV foun on roof of Japanese prime-minister Shinzo Abe's office

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Simon Kent _Breitbart_
judge removed mayor of London borough of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, for corruption, vote rigging, falsely branding his Labour rival as a "racist", bribery, and undue influence
more

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Pete Kasperowicz _Blaze_
RINO turn-coats and leftists/Reds/Dems vote in oath-breaker to wreak destruction on USA and citizens' rights: Kelly Ayotte (NH), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Jeff Flake (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), Orrin Hatch (UT), Ron Johnson (WI), Mark Kirk (IL), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Jason W. Stevens: Federalist
Daniel Doherty: Pappy's Rants/My Philthy-delphia

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Douglas Ernst _Washington DC Times_
A-10 Thunderbolt iis deployed against ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
"...Roughly 350 airmen in support of 12 air-craft will head to Southwest Asia for the U.S.A.-led coalition's mission..."
2015-03-24: Chuck Norris defends A-10 to AF brass: the Chuck Norris of aircraft

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Jennifer Harper _Washington DC Times_
56 free-market organizations oppose crony socialist Export-Import Bank

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Michael W. Chapman _Cybercast News Service_
judge Roy Moore: same-sex "marriage" will be the ultimate destruction of the USA

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Barbara Hollingsworth _Cybercast News Service_
wind farm off MA was failure: tax-victims stuck with $113M marine terminal at New Bedford
"Touted as 'America's first off-shore wind farm', 'Cape Wind' planned to erect 130 Siemens wind turbines 5 miles off the coast of Cape Cod and harness the strong winds blowing through Nantucket Sound to produce electricity.   But the $2.6G project's contracts with the state's 2 largest utilities were terminated in January after Cape Wind missed its December 31 financing deadline.   Last July, Energy secretary Ernest Moniz heralded Cape Wind, which was awarded a $150M loan guarantee by his department, as the beginning of 'a strong U.S. off-shore wind industry'..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
Iowa has highest corporate income extortion rate, followed by PA, MN, AK, DC, CT, NJ, ME, CA, DE

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Dan Weil _News Max_
Obummer's language/honesty problems: refuses to call Muslim terrorists Muslim terrorists, refuses to call Turkish genocide of Armenians Turkish genocide of Armenians, refuses to call leftists leftists

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Greg Richter _News Max_
Ted Cruz was AWOL from vote to reject scofflaw Loretta Lynch's nomination

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
_Conservative HQ_
RINO senators who voted for Loretta Lynch share Obummer's corrupt, anti-constitution agenda
"First, Democrats when they are in the majority in the senate routinely refuse to vote on the nominees of Republican presidents.   In the waning days of the George W. Bush presidency Democrat senate majority-leader Harry Reid even [blocked] the vote on the nomination of senator Dan Coats to be ambassador to Germany -- a gross breach of senate comity that would have brought howls of protest had the same thing been done to a former Democrat senator nominated for an ambassadorial appointment.   Second, and more importantly, the confirmation vote is taking place after Lynch stated publicly and unequivocally that she would act contrary to the Constitution..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
M.A. Smith _News Max_
corrupt, power-mad, race-obsessed, privacy-hating, anti-constitution oath-breaker Obummer's scheme to violate the right to own and carry arms has impacted laws

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
M.A. Smith _News Max_
DNA sequence for woolly mammoths may be a step toward bringing them back
"Researchers deciphered the complete DNA code, or genomes, of two mammoths.   The new genomes are far more refined than a previous one announced in 2008.   One new genome comes from a mammoth that lived about 45K years ago in northeastern Siberia.   The other comes from a creature that lived about 4,300 years ago on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Circle...   The DNA was extracted from a tooth and a sample of soft tissue..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
David French _National Review_
non-leftists have barely begun to fight

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
empirical data show that the Reds/Dems/leftists still control the US senate
"In fact, with 2 minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at least -- usually more than -- 93% of support from Democrats..."

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
CDCP: epidemic of syphilis among homosexual men

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Leada Gore _Alabama_
why Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby voted against oath-breaker Loretta Lynch's nomination
"'The senate must never confirm an individual to such an office as this who will support and advance a scheme that violates our Constitution and eviscerates established law and congressional authority.   No person who would do that should be confirmed.   And we don't need to be apologetic about it.', Sessions said during the vote.   We have a duty to this institution, to the Constitution, and to the American people not to confirm someone who is not committed to those principles but rather who will continue in violation of them.', he said...   'I have personally expressed to Ms. Lynch that I feared she would interpret her position as the attorney for [president Obummer], not the United States of America.   One of my greatest concerns with Ms. Lynch is her stance on the president's action to unilaterally grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.', Shelby said.   'The American people deserve better than an attorney-general who would allow the president to both ignore and unilaterally change our nation's immigration laws.'"

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Matthew Daly _abc_/_AP_
House Benghazi committee calls Hitlery Rotten Clinton to testify

2015-04-23 (5775 Air 04)
Guy Birchall _Breitbart_
Green Party not loony enough claim climate loons

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2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
displaced Southern California Edison workers sue Obummer regime over grant of "work permits" to spouses of H-1B recipients
Kellan Howell: Washington DC Times
Rachel Stoltzfoos: Daily Caller
"'The law states that foreign work permits cannot adversely affect American wages, but all we've seen during this administration is standards of living fall and out-sized corporate profits continue to rise.', IRLI executive-director Dale Wilcox said in a statement."
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
remarkable congressional briefing on H-1B

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen et al. _Harvard_
the effects of cheap, yount, pliant low-skilled STEM immigration (pdf)
2016 February: U of Crazy California at Craziest Berkeley (pdf)
2016 February: U of Notre Dame (pdf)
2014 November/2015 June: NBER

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
Jeh Johnson claims illegal immigration has decreased along SW border
"The border patrol caught just 151,705 illegal immigrants trying to cross the southwest border in the first 6 months of the fiscal year, which is a drop of 28% from the previous year, and is the lowest monthly average in recent records dating back to the end of the Clinton administration.   Just as striking is the drop in unaccompanied minors and families from 3 Central American countries -- Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- that sparked last Summer's troubling surge and left the administration playing catch-up.   Apprehensions of children from those countries are down some 45% this year, while families from those countries have dropped 30%...   Overall, deportations are down 25% this year compared to through the same point in fiscal year 2014, and are down 40% versus their peak in 2012.   The steady decrease exactly tracks the beginning of [Obummer's] initial [unconstitutional and illegal] deportation amnesty, which began in 2012 August, which carved hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants out of any danger of being removed.."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
deportations declined in wake of Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesties hamper deportation and removal efforts
Stephen Dinan: Washington DC Times
"For the first 6 months of fiscal year 2015, the U.S. deported just 117,181 people, compared to the 157,365 people deported in that same time frame last year, the Washington Times reports... Through 2015 April 4, the government had kicked out about 68K criminals, down 30% from the approximately 96,500 criminals deported during the same period a year earlier... Homeland Security [DHS] and US ICE officials have said they are budgeted to deport about 400K people a year, but they are on pace to deport less than 250K in fiscal year 2015."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Laura Ingraham
business executive conspiracy pushes bill to worsen flood of foreign workers into USA
Leo Hohmann: World Net Daily

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
3 more sets of candidates for the naturalization hall of shame

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Numbers USA_
bipartisan coalition of senators question H-1B visa use/abuse at Southern California Edison

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_News Max_/_Agence France Presse_
Italian police arrested suspeced body-guards of Osama bin Laden and Peshawar bombers
"In a move that followed a 6-year investigation into an illegal immigration racket run from Sardinia, police on the Mediterranean island ordered the arrest of 18 people in coordinated raids across Italy..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
R' Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb _Jewish World Review_
a time for silence, a time for speech

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
Netanyahu better have the fortitude to contend with the Obummer regime abandoning Israel

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Matthew Schofield _Jewish World Review_
the "accountant of Auschwitz" is the rare Nazi who admits what he did
"The casual acceptance of brutality that the former Waffen SS officer displayed even 70 years after the Third Reich was destroyed provided a rare insight into the twisted nature of the Nazi death camp mindset.   Even from a man who admitted in court that he carried 'moral guilt' if not legal guilt for the Holocaust, there was no notion that, perhaps, the baby did not need to have been killed.   He made the same point in his testimony Thursday.   'I did not expect any Jews to survive Auschwitz.', he said..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Suzanne Fields _Jewish World Review_
the FBI, the holocaust, and us

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Kim Giles _Jewish World Review_
healthy boundaries to being nice

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Monica Crowley _Political Mavens_
Shrub, peanut butter sandwiches, and the American Dream

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Bernard Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
Christian lives matter
"Outrage is one of the ways the American Left shows how compassionate it is.   So where is the outrage now that Christians in the Middle East are being slaughtered simply because they are Christians?   Is ethnic cleansing not worthy of outrage?   Where are the demonstrations?..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Mona Charen _Jewish World Review_
reform the Secret Service

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
a sucker by design: the Iran deal
News Max

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Charles Krauthammer _Jewish World Review_
Obummer's Nixon doctrine: bowing to Iran
News Max

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
can Turkey repent its brutal past and affirm a desire to sin no more?

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
John Blosser _News Max_
Mike Huckabee: some are pushing USA toward criminalization of Christianity, and Judaism

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Jennifer G. Hickey _News Max_
Obummer regime fails to end old wars, creates new adversaries, makes old allies more likely to be attacked

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Drew MacKenzie _News Max_
George Pataki calls for GOP candidates to lead efforts to quash Obummer's deal to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons systems

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Scott Rasmussen _News Max_
big journalism is struggling in internet era
"National leadership flows from everyday Americans who work hard to support their families and build their communities.   New technology is empowering them in amazing ways. Smartphone owners today have more information, entertainment, and communications capability in the palm of their hands than the richest 1% enjoyed just a generation or 2 ago..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Dan Weil _News Max_
as a result of the GHWBush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression, federal government over-spending and Federal Reserve-driven price inflation nearly one-third don't have $1K saved for emergencies, retirement, investment in starting a new business, etc.
"The report shows that only 67% of American workers or their spouse have saved money for retirement.   That's far below the 75% figure of 2009, though it's consistent with levels reported since then.   Even among workers employed full time, 22% haven't saved for retirement.   A total of 61% of workers say they or their spouse is currently saving for retirement, up from 57% in 2013 and 2014, but down from 65% in 2009.   A total of 57% of the workers say the value of their household savings and investments, excluding their primary home and defined benefit plans, is less than $25K.   And 28% report that it's less than $1K..."
many retirees have major debt burdens
"As of 2010, U.S. households enduring the highest levels of debt were those whose heads were aged 55 to 64, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.   They had average debt of $107,060..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Melanie Batley _News Max_
Yebbie Booosh is sounding more closely aligned with Barack Hussein Obummer than even Hitlery Rotten Clinton

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Laura Ingraham
fears arise as Red Chinese modify human embryo genes
David Cyranoski & Sara Reardon: Nature
"researchers led by Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, tried to head off such concerns by using 'non-viable' embryos, which cannot result in a live birth, that were obtained from local fertility clinics.   The team attempted to modify the gene responsible for β-thalassaemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder, using a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9.   The researchers say that their results reveal serious obstacles to using the method in medical applications."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Laura Ingraham
college students harass veterans attending "Warrior Beach Retreat" at Panama City Beach
Kelly Baumgarten: WJHG

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Laura Ingraham
maternity tourism witness held after trying to board flight to Red China
Matt Hamilton: Los Angeles CA Times
"Last month, scores of federal agents raided properties connected to 3 alleged maternity tourism schemes, which typically bring Chinese women into the United States on tourist visas so their children will be born U.S. citizens.   Investigators searched apartment complexes in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties, hauling out boxes of documents, trash and diaper containers.   Agents were looking specifically for indications of visa fraud and other evidence that could show women were coached to falsify documents and claim that they were visiting the U.S. as tourists..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Conservative HQ_
Vince Haley and his non-leftist ideas are taking Virginia state senate district 12 election contest by storm
"Dynamic young conservative Vince Haley is taking the June 9 Virginia state senate district 12 election by storm with a positive conservative message of stopping federal overreach and phasing out the Virginia state income tax.   Virginia state senate district 12 is an open seat vacant after senator Walter Stosch's retirement.   Stopping federal over-reach means Haley wants Virginia to take a much more aggressive stance in opposing federal intrusion into areas the Constitution reserves to the States, for example the illegal EPA power plan that will hike electricity rates in Virginia by 20-30%.   Haley's plan to phase out the income tax, a boon to capital formation, would add Virginia to the 9 states that do not have a state income tax and which are doing better economically than states that do..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
hateful RINO Mitch McConnell to non-leftists: drop dead

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
militant homosexuals launch boycott of Manhattan gay hoteliers, because they do not hate Ted Cruz

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Ben Shapiro _Breitbart_
the world tries to ignore the genocide of Armenians by violence-initiating Muslims

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Sarah Rumpf _Breitbart_
Ted Cruz admitted he loves his children; NYTimes freaked out

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): the crony socialist Clintons funneled tax-victim funds to friends and relatives in Haiti

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
senator Chris McDaniel (R-MS-42) _Breitbart_
Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Mark Kirk (IL), Kelly Ayotte (NH), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Jeff Flake (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), Orrin Hatch (UT), Ron Johnson (WI), Rob Portman (R-OH) betrayed US constitution and GOP principles by consenting to appointment of Loretta Lynch

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
French president Francois Hollande asked UN to authorize destruction of Libyan smuggler boats

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
irresponsibility: no one got fired over Veterans Administration abuses

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
smugglers: nothing will stop illegal aliens desperate for a better life

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
major Italian blitz against terrorist cell revealed plot to bomb Vatican

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
A.B. Sanderson _Breitbart_
Nigel Farage has 9-point lea in Thanet South
"The numbers put Farage on 39%, 9 points clear of his nearest rival, Conservative Craig Mackinlay [30%] and way ahead of Labour's Will Scobie who is on 26%..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Fox_/_AP_
NY state officials and law school admins launched effort to help tech start-ups navigate byzantine regulations
"But he says such companies can't simply think that government should scrap any regulations that impose limitations on their business."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Fox_/_AP_
500 pound WW2 bomb found on NJ community college campus, safely detonated
alternate link
"The unexploded ordnance was taken to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.   It had been discovered Thursday during excavation for a new building at Middlesex county college, which is on the site of the former Raritan Arsenal..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Fox_/_AP_
U of Utah scientists say a deeper magma reservoir under Yellowstone could fill the Grand Canyon 11.2 times over
Doyle Rice: USA Today/Gannett (with diagram)
Ben Brumfield: CNN
Fan Chi-Lin, Hsin-Hua Huang, Robert B. Smith & Jamie Farrell: U of Utah
AAAS Science
"...Contrary to popular perception, the magma chamber and magma reservoir are not full of molten rock.   Instead, the rock is hot, mostly solid and sponge-like, with pockets of molten rock within it.   Huang says the new study indicates the upper magma chamber averages about 9% molten rock -- consistent with earlier estimates of 5% to 15% melt -- and the lower magma reservoir is about 2% melt..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Jen Kuznicki _Cybercast News Service_
White House Correspondents' dinner celebrated the death of journalism

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Michael Morris _Cybercast News Service_
Mark Levin: Obummer regime and the Clintons sold out the USA

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Cybercast News Service_
Mark Levin: Clintons exposed; 20% of USA uranium sold to Russia

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Eric Scheiner _Cybercast News Service_
Merrimack NH, with 3,895 children enrolled spent $70,308,919 for education; $18,076.74/student

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Rudy Takala _Cybercast News Service_
7 law-suits pendig against FCC power-grab

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
_Cybercast News Service_/_AP_
"student government" at Youngstown State U removed posters for straight pride week
"promoted the event as a time to not highlight sexual orientation or differences among students.   They encouraged students to 'go about your day without telling everyone about how different you are'...   The posters counter the school's mission to create a diverse campus, university spokesman Ron Cole told WFMJ-TV.   Officials are investigating possible student code violations, and disciplinary action may follow.   A statement from the student government said while it respects free speech of all students, the posters weren't authorized..."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Seth McLaughlin _Washington DC Times_
Ted Cruz signed pledge not to raise taxes if elected president

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) filed amendment to retain congressinoal power to consent to or reject Obummer's deal with Iran

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Mark J. FitzGibbons _American Thinker_
USA's soft police state

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Jeannie de Angelis _American Thinker_
is Obummer arming Iran for a secret reason?

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Charlotte Iserbyt _News with Views_
Carnegie Corporation, Communist Corpse and communist world government

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Matt Salmon
letter to DHS secretary Jeh Johnson regarding border tunnel in Naco, AZ & Sonora
pdf
"Recently [in February], Arizona's largest cross-border smuggling tunnel was discovered in Naco, AZ.   According to news reports, this tunnel is one of the more highly sophisticated smuggling tunnels, replete with hydraulics, ventilation, and lighting systems.   Unfortunately, the existence of this tunnel does not seem to have been brought to light by federal law enforcement agencies.   Rather, it appears that the discovery of this sophisticated tunnel was merely a byproduct of a traffic-stop-turned-drug-bust by a local law enforcement officer.   With this in mind, I was quite alarmed to hear the testimony given by Border Patrol agent, Chris Cabrera, on 2015 March 17, in a senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing.   In this testimony, he said: 'our intel knew for some time that that tunnel was being used and that we should patrol that area more aggressively'.   To my amazement, he went on to say that Border Patrol agents were not allowed by management to work in or patrol that area.   I am very concerned that such extensive and sophisticated infrastructure was—and presumably continues to be—built and operated right beneath our feet without action being taken by federal law enforcement.   Furthermore, I am deeply concerned by the allegations that management within Customs and Border Patrol had intelligence indicating the existence of this tunnel and did not allow our agents to work or patrol the area.   With these concerns, it is imperative that we learn more about the investigation that ostensibly would have taken place on such an expansive and sophisticated tunnel.   Unfortunately, my office has yet to receive a satisfactory answer as to what kind of investigations have been done to determine to the extent possible what dangerous items, materials and/or individuals were transported through that tunnel and into our communities.   During the course of my own investigation, I learned that at least one local land-owner is being pressured to sign forms that would allow access to a portion of his/her land that the tunnel runs under in order to fill it with concrete.   Without information as to the extent of your agency's investigation, this is very alarming as destroying the tunnel would make it seemingly impossible to conduct additional tests and complete a thorough investigation.   With this in mind, I ask:   Has this tunnel been thoroughly tested for evidence of the transport of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons?   Has DHS conducted a forensic study to learn where the materials for the tunnel were procured and, if possible, by whom?   Have investigations been conducted to determine whether or not foreign agents of terrorism have used the tunnel to enter the United States of America?   Have investigations been conducted to determine what intelligence federal law enforcement had and when they had it?   Have investigations been conducted to determine whether Border Patrol management did in fact restrict the access of Border Patrol agents around the area of this tunnel?   Will you act immediately to ensure that this tunnel is not destroyed or otherwise altered until we can ensure that proper investigations of this tunnel have been completed?   I firmly believe that the American people deserve answers, especially those families and communities whose safety is directly impacted.   I sincerely hope that you will join me in calling for the delay of any measure that would destroy the tunnel or cause evidence to be altered until the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] and the American people receive answers.   I thank you for your assistance in this matter and look forward to your timely response."

2015-04-24 (5775 Air 05)
Andrea Billups _News Max_
Duke U: global warming has slowed, but it could get warmer or colder again

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2015-04-25

2015-04-25 (5775 Air 06)
_WND_
USA may be at the breaking poit already, due to excessive immigration
"Only 8 short years from now, immigrants will make up a record-high 14.8% of the total U.S. population, and long-time conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly views the rising tide of newcomers as a purposeful attack on the country...   'It's deliberate.', Schlafly told WND in an interview.   'It's not any accident.   It's because [Obummer and the Bushes and Marco Rubio and their] friends are letting all these people in who don't want to be Americans, who don't want to speak English.'   The Census Bureau projected last month that the U.S. immigrant population, legal and illegal, will total a record 51M in 2023.   At that point, 1 in 7 U.S. residents will be an immigrant.   By 2060, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. residents will be an immigrant, and the total U.S.A. population will be 417M -- 108M more than in 2010 [138M more than in 2000]...   'I think one of the reasons [Obummer] and his friends are so eager to open the gates to more and more immigrants is they think it's going to defeat the conservative movement and the Republican Party.', Schlafly said.   'Of course, they all come from countries that are not used to the idea of limited government.   They're used to countries where the government makes all the decisions, and they don't know anything different.'...   The Census Bureau projects that the U.S. immigrant population will grow nearly 4 times [as fast as] the native population.   It will reach 15.8% by 2030 and 18.8% by 2060, at which time there will be 78M immigrants in the country.   By contrast, there were only 20M immigrants in the U.S.A. in 1990, accounting for 7.9% of the population...   Indeed, a Gallup poll taken last June found a plurality of Americans, 41%, thought current immigration levels should be decreased. Only 22% thought they should be increased..."

USA resident population

year	population	increase since 1900
1900	76M	-0-
1950	151M	75M
2000	281M	205M
2010	309M	233M
2060	417M	341M

2015-04-25 (5775 Air 06)
_Slash Dot_/_Dice_
how foreign powers influence think tanks and how a Bill Gates agenda becomes law
"'In 2012, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a forum on STEM education and immigration reforms, where fabricating a crisis was discussed as a strategy to succeed with MSFT's agenda after earlier lobbying attempts by Bill Gates and MSFT had failed.   So, Brad [MST general-counsel Brad Smith] asked the Brookings Institution's Darrell West at the event, you're the only [one] who mentioned this topic of making the problem bigger.   So, we galvanize action by really producing a crisis, I take it?   Yeah, Smith replied (video).'"

2015-04-25 (5775 Air 06)
Andrew C. McCarthy _National Review_
the 10 disgraced Republicans who caved on nomination of oath-breaker Loretta Lynch
"Voting to confirm an attorney general who won't uphold the Constitution isn't a way to inspire confidence among conservatives..."

2015-04-25 (5775 Air 06)
Janet Levy _American Thinker_
Judicial Watch has been pinch-hitting for the FBI
"The agency that let us down with 2001/09/11 and, afterward, reacted mainly in a flurry of political correctness and appeasement toward Muslims is now trying to reassure the American public that we have nothing to fear from ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate on the North American continent.   This despite warnings from the nonprofit Judicial Watch of ISIS activism in Mexico, and recent ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate-related arrests in Minnesota.   More is needed from the nation's top domestic intelligence and security agency than this whistling in the dark if we are to be safe in our own country...   Last week, Judicial Watch revealed in anonymous accounts from a Mexican army officer and police inspector that two ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate camps exist perilously close to the U.S. border west of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- one only 8 miles from El Paso, Texas, and the other very close to Columbus and Deming, New Mexico.   According to Judicial Watch, Mexican army and law-enforcement personnel discovered Arabic and Urdu documents, layouts of a nearby U.S. military installation, and prayer rugs in an area controlled by a powerful Mexican cartel engaged in drug trafficking and human smuggling across the understaffed and poorly controlled U.S. border.   Mexican intelligence sources reported to Judicial Watch that ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate maintains a network of spotters in New Mexico's East Potrillo Mountains for terrorist border crossings and to monitor activities at nearby universities, government facilities, and power plants...   Immediately following the recent Judicial Watch disclosure, FBI supervisors called a meeting with the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez.   Based on information supplied to Judicial Watch by an anonymous 'high level intelligence source', the goal of the meeting was [not to arrest or wipe out the terrorists, but] to 'devise a press strategy on the JW report as well as to uncover the identity of the informants'..."

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2015-04-26

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
on Obummer DoL's refusal to investigate Southern California Edison's displacement of US citizen STEM professionals with H-1B guest-workers via bodyshops

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Kellan Howell _Washington DC Times_
Obummer's unconstitutional and illegal amnesty of illegal aliens is a greater threat to blacks than police brutality and racial profiling
"The number of unemployed black workers in the U.S.A. is soaring, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS].   Over 12.2M black people of working age were not in the labor force in March, meaning they had neither been employed nor actively sought a job for at least 4 weeks...   'The long-term, large-scale flow of immigration into the United States has worked to erode both the wages and employment prospects of African-American workers.', said senator Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican and chairman of the senate Judiciary committee sub-committee on Immigration and the National Interests, in a statement to The Times."

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Robert Knight _Washington DC Times_
restricting voting in the USA to US citizens
"On a host of electoral integrity issues, the liberal position can be summarized in two words: enable cheating...   How else to explain the race-baiting rhetoric from [president Barack Hussein Obummer] on down against something as common-sense as voter photo ID laws, which the public supports by wide margins?   Or the intense drive for Election Day registration, mail-in voting and earlier and earlier balloting, all of which make it harder to detect and prevent vote fraud?   Or the opposition to any law ensuring that only citizens can vote?...   the American Civil Rights Union provided key evidence -- federal voter registration forms -- exposing the shocking ease with which non-citizens can register to vote without any proof of citizenship."

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Jeffrey Lord _Media Research Center News Busters_
media lobbyists tried to mislead the public about Loretta Lynch nomination, ignore leftist opposition to Edwin Meese and other Republican nominations

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Pamela Geller _WND_
my latest encourter with Nazi-like Muslim thugs: Brooklyn College is not a safe environment for human beings

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Jesse Lee Peterson _WND_
white supremacy is a myth, black privilege is real; today's culture is a lot like Jim Crow

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Chuck Norris _WND_
has the US government been enabling Middle East apocalypse? (part 2)

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Jason Benham & David Benham _WND_
repentance: the prescription for fallen individuals and nations

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Armstrong Williams _Washington DC Times_
turn vision and thought into action for great achievement

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
J. Robert Smith _American Thinker_
where the left and Islam intersect
"...Spoken of here are leftist intellectuals, chattering classes, politicians, and career activists who either seek or welcome Islam's role in 'transforming' America and the West.   What's in it for Muslims if they know they're being used?   Infiltration, for one.   Western Europeans long ago opened their borders to Muslims.   The need originally was labor.   Western Europe's elites -- left-dominated -- have, post-World War 2, imported millions of Muslims.   By 2020, Muslims will account for 6% of Europe's 744M inhabitants.   That's 44.6M largely unassimilated Mohammedans.   But welfare and jobs haven't quieted Europe's Muslims.   The attack on Charlie Hebdo may have dented, but hasn't stopped, Europe's elite from clinging to political correctness...   It may be a harbinger of things to come in the U.S.A., though the Muslim population here is estimated at only 2.6M nationally.   That's up from about 1M souls in 2000..."

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Lloyd Marcus _American Thinker_
take back our children

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
LGBT activists tried to disrupt Coalition of African-American Pastors "March for Marriage" rally in Arkansas
"'The group of mostly young people continued harassing our group, and were trying to talk over me and bully me.', she said. 'I have never seen anything like it.'   Owens said after she got through her speech, she tried to engage the LGBT activists, and told them they were disrespectful.   She said she pointed out that her group respected their right to protest as well and that the March for Marriage activists had no intention of interrupting the counter protest..."

2015-04-26 (5775 Air 07)
Steve Blow _Dallas TX Morning News_
DNA analysis revealed s ome surprising cousins on my mother's side
"I'm 2.3% Neanderthal and 3.3% Denisovan... As expected, my DNA aligns most closely with the people of Great Britain and Ireland. But surprisingly, there was also a good chunk of Mediterranean in my ancient past and a dollop of the Middle East, too... The biggest surprise was on my mother's side. I'm Lapp! Or Laplander. Or whatever..."

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2015-04-27

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jeffrey H. Anderson _Weekly Standard_
Scott Walker vs. WSJ on immigration
"According to Gallup, only 7% of Americans want immigration levels to increase, while 86% either want them to remain at current levels (47%) or decrease (39%).   With most current and prospective Republican presidential candidates tripping over each other to vie for that 7%, it would seem to be good politics for a candidate to break from the pack and speak for the other 86% essentially unopposed.  That's more or less what Scott Walker has done over the past week.   Actually, Walker hasn't even said that immigration levels should not be increased.   He has merely said that, as he put it on Friday, 'In terms of how wide or how narrow the door's open, our #1 priority is American workers and American wages...   I don't know how anyone can argue against that.'...   For starters, the Journal lamented that Walker has been 'listening to Alabama senator Jeff Sessions' (which is something that a lot more Republicans should do)...   no one disputes that big business, led by Mark Zuckerberg and others, wants access to foreign labor.   The question is why...   [Executives of corporations] don't want to pay for American workers if they can pay less for foreign workers?...   The Journal concludes by invoking an economic straw man worthy of the White House's current occupant...   The question is whether it increases the economic well-being of the typical American...   while it's easy to assert that immigration 'boosts the economy' [and compensation to executives], it's a lot harder to say that it boosts incomes on Main Street."
Other questions include: Exactly what are they doing to recruit able and willing US citizens from other cities and states?   How much are they willing to invest in relocation assistance for new-hires and retained employees?   How intensively are they doing such recruiting?   How willing are they to invest in new-hire and retained employee training for US citizen employees, as compared to the STEM industries of earlier decades?   How willing have they been to invest in security clearances for US citizen employees?

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
WSJ like congress seems to have a short memory

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Richard Butrick _American Thinker_
xenophobic paralysis or cupidity among the GOP losership?

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
more Obummer regime oath-breaking and abuse expected

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
squabbling among the open borders gangs, "work permits" for H-4 visa grantees, US worker displacement by H-1B grantees, "trade in services"
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jonathan Tobin _Jewish World Review_
another "charm offensive" will not repair what Barack Hussein Obummer, the haughty John Kerry, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Cheryl Mills, Wendy Sherman, Huma Mahmood Abedin, and the Clintons have broken
"the White House is making a conscious effort to play down its anger at the Israeli government... "
Discover the Networks: Huma Abedin
Discover the Networks: Muslim World League (MWL)
Discover the Networks: Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA)
Discover the Networks: Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
Discover the Networks: Valerie Jarrett
Discover the Networks: violence-advocating Muslims connected with the Obummer regime

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Mark Steyn _Jewish World Review_
oligarchs for Hitlery Rotten Clinton

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Janine di Giovanni _Jewish World Review_
first he fought the USA, now he's crushing ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate
NewsWeek

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
George Jonas _Jewish World Review_
choose well, USA
National Post
"U.S. voters will choose a new leader for the free world, or what's left of it after the Taliban, al Qaida, al-Shabab, ISIL, the Houthis, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Kim Jong-un and their like-minded friends have used it as a playpen for another 18 months.   Fortunately the world is a large place.   Nobody managed to destroy it completely so far, though Timur the Lame gave it a good try with an estimated 17M killed.   He did that in the low-tech days of the late Middle Ages, 600 years before Adolf Hitler, without Zyklon-B-equipped gas chambers.   Neither had nuclear weapons.   North Korea's Kim Jong-un does, and the Supreme Leader of Iran is working hard to acquire the technology...   The most visible, in fact, is one whose relationship with facts, whether pertaining to her e-mail account, or her experience as a traveller in the former Yugoslavia, or the murder of an ambassador in Benghazi on her watch as Secretary of State, augurs that she may bring to the office the flaws of Richard Nixon combined with the merits of Jimmy Carter."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Linda Chavez _Jewish World Review_
Clinton avarice

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Herb London _Jewish World Review_
Hitlery's foreign policy "achievements"
Washington DC Times
Toronto Ontario Canada Telegraph

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
politicians, profiteers, and public health

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
S.E. Cupp _Jewish World Review_
should the presidency hang on an hypothetical gay "wedding" invitation?

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Bruce Bialosky _Jewish World Review_
crony socialists strike again
"...Hastings, Schmidt, and Karp are already regretting their foolhardiness.   The rest of us will end up suffering."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Stephen Moore _Jewish World Review_
planet is better than ever
Washington DC Times

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Israel warned Iran to stop arming Hezballah

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Peter Brookes _Political Mavens_
what might be in those Iranian cargo ships off Yemen

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Laura Ingraham
FBI investigating possible ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate-inspired threat
Evan Perez & Shimon Prokupecz: CNN

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Tom Howell ii _Washington DC Times_
supremes tell 6th circuit to re-consider ObummerDoesn'tCare mandate to Catholic groups to fund contraceptives

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Steven Rosen _Washington DC Times_
oath-breaker Obummer is picking another fight with Israel
"Hamas covets the West Bank because it knows that the West Bank's [location in] the Israeli heartland would make it a much more effective platform for attacks on Israel, than firing from Gaza=Palestine.   In 2014 September, Hamas founder Mahmoud Al-Zahar said that if his movement were to 'transfer what it has or just a small part of it to the West Bank, we would be able to settle the battle of the final promise with a speed that no one can imagine'.   In another speech he said, 'If only the West Bank had one quarter of what Gaza=Palestine has of resistance tools, the Israeli entity would end in one day...   Can you imagine what would happen if the enemy is targeted from the West Bank...?'"
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Tammy Bruce _Washington DC Times_
the "magical thinking" of leftists
Jewish World Review

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Steve Deace _Washington DC Times_
a phrase-book for translating leftist newspeak into American English

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
Hitlery Rotten Clinton and the absence of truth from American leftists for over a century

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Doug Bandow _Conservative HQ_
did Saudi Arabia lie, rent the US military to help kill Houthis?

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Doug Bandow _NYPost_
Clinton Foundation CEO admitted to disclosure errors

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Steve Apfel _American Thinker_
a dybbuk in the White House

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Michael Curtis _American Thinker_
is Amnesty International anti-semitic?

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Rob Natelson _American Thinker_
ObummerDoesn'tCare's unconstitutionality and the origination clause: new evidence

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
James Longstreet _American Thinker_
Janet Yellen, meet Isaac Newton
"Hayek stated that central planners (Central Bankers) cannot know, cannot possess the aggregate knowledge that market participants possess collectively.   Those central planners who disregard the powers of free markets and all the efficiencies that derive from free market price discovery labor under a great misconception: that they know better, that their knowledge is greater than the market's knowledge.   Those at the Fed have mentioned that they will not raise rates if it will harm the economy.   We now know, from their recent admissions, that what they really mean is that they will not raise rates if it hurts their stock market..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
in 19.9% of USA families, no one is employed outside the home

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
only 6% of Clinton Foundation expenditures go to charity

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Obummer State Dept. sending $6M to UNRWA
"this funding comes in addition to the more than $57M in humanitarian assistance the United States Government has provided UNRWA's Syria crisis response in 2015, bringing total U.S. contributions to over $63M.   Videos have shown that some UNRWA schools in the Palestinian territories preach radical jihadist doctrines to grade-school children, indoctrinating them with genocidal ideals against Israel and its Jewish community.   During the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, reports found that on at least three occasions, the UNRWA schools were used by Hamas militants to stockpile missiles.   The sites frequently provided cover for offensive attacks against Israel's civilian population centers.   Other reports have suggested that UNRWA is controlled entirely by the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.   A report found that the vast majority of UNRWA's union board is affiliated with Hamas."
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Jimmy Carter to meet with Hamas & Fatah terrorists in Gaza=Palestine this week
"He will attempt to seek reconciliation between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, the latter which rules the Palestinian [occupied] areas of [Israel's] West Bank...   Carter plans to arrive in the region on Thursday for a 3-day tour of Israel, [including] the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip=Palestine.   His request to meet with Israel's president and prime-minister was denied.   In refusing to meet with the 39th U.S. president, both offices cited his anti-Israel, pro-Hamas sentiments."
Discover the Networks: Fatah
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
Turkey captured nearly 350 illegal aliens hoping to invade Italy

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Kurt Schlichter _Town Hall_
non-leftists should unleash the awesome power of "no"
"We decent Americans are bombarded with lies, libeled, and subjected to petty (and, increasingly, not so petty) tyrannies by government flunkies.   At every turn, liberals and their suck-ups in the media and academia seek to delegitimize our interests, concerns, and opinions.   They want us to submit, to take the easy way out, to just go along.   Our fate, they decree, is cultural and political dhimmitude..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Mike Adams _Town Hall_
it's not harassment if you like it
"Some conservatives fail to grasp the importance of the campus culture wars.   They write to me asking why I don't cover issues of national importance instead of battling endlessly with college administrators.   Their criticisms fall on deaf ears because I understand something they don't: That the insanity [we have seen on campus these last 100 years and more and the insanity] we see on the campus today will threaten our fundamental freedoms when it becomes normalized and bleeds into the broader culture..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Mona Charen _Town Hall_
about those smoking guns...
Jewish World Review
"In January, Robert F. McDonnell, 71st governor of Virginia, was sentenced to two years in prison followed by two years of supervised release after his conviction on 11 counts of public corruption.   He, and especially his wife, behaved badly.   But it's worth taking a closer look at what was considered criminal in McDonnell's case, because, at least so far, some in the press are suggesting that Hillary Clinton's conduct must meet a much higher threshold to be considered problematic..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Cal Thomas _Town Hall_
another sign-post on the road to destruction
Jewish World Review
"...In his forthcoming book _1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar_, Eric Burns writes that the mass media, birthed in that year by the spread of radio, is largely responsible for diverting our attention from things that matter to things that don't..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Paul Dykewicz _Town Hall_
economic slow-down confirmed by gross output and B2B data
"Real Gross Output (GO) advanced at an annualized rate of only 2.6% to $31.4T by the end of 2014, half the rate of the 5.2% jump in the third quarter of 2014.   GO is a measure of sales or receipts of all industries throughout the production process, including business-to-business transactions (B2B).   As a result, GO provides a fuller perspective of the performance of the broad U.S. economy, in contrast to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which omits most B2B growth..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Rich Galen _Town Hall_
privilege

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Raymond Tanter _Town Hall_
opponent of Iran theocracy to testify to House Foreign Affairs sub-committee on terrorism, non-proliferation, and Trade

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Bill Murchison _Town Hall_
the supremes and marriage

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Michael Hammond _Town Hall_
10 things you need to know about "fast track authority"/"trade promotion authority"

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Phil Kerpen _Town Hall_
congress' bipartisan ObummerDoesn'tCare fraud

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Shawn Mitchell _Town Hall_
random blasts at the well-deserving

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Mark Nuckols _Town Hall_
the incredible intolerance of ultra-leftists and gays

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Lauren Cooley _Town Hall_
suspending students for no good reason
"Earlier this month, a conservative student named Laura was suspended from Barry University for exposing her administration's [sympathies for ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate].   She's a 4.0 honors student and was even awarded 'Most Outstanding Senior' by the Communications Department the same day her expose was published..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Guy Benson _Town Hall_
Sunshine Foundation: the Clinton Foundation is basically as slush fund

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Katie Pavlich _Town Hall_
Obummer regime still refusing to demand Iran release Americans as part of deal

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Noah Rothman _Hot Air_
the 6-figure link between the Clintons and Goldman Sachs

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Guy Benson _Hot Air_
Hitlery has answered only 7 of the media's questions since announcing her candidacy 16 days ago

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Lauretta Brown _Cybercast News Service_
Catholic arch-bishop William Lori: supremes have no business re-defining marriage

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Penny Starr _Cybercast News Service_
Gene Schaerr: ruling in favor of same-sex "marriage" would be a monumental act of judicial hypocrisy

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
John-Henry Westen _Cybercast News Service_
opposition to same-sex "marriage" is a deeper love

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Melanie Hunter _Cybercast News Service_
Tony Perkins: supremes can't settle same-sex "marriage" issue

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
Ted Cruz: leftist fascism is dedicated to attacking Christians
Hill

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Awr Hawkins _Breitbart_
Kroger customer drew firearm, intervening to defend elderly man from 7 harassers

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Chriss W. Street _Breitbart_
Corinthian colleges is being shut down
"Corinthian Colleges is officially shutting down all of its remaining 28 ground campuses, displacing about 16K students.   The action comes less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Education announced it had fined the for-profit institution $30M for misrepresentation.   According to the Colleges' latest SEC filings, their schools generated $1.2G in government loans last year.   Breitbart News reported two weeks ago that with the value of outstanding student loans soon to exceed this year's entire $1.477T in federal income tax payments, the student loan repayment default rate has leapt to 27.3% in 2014 from 15.8% in 2010.   The Santa Ana, CA-based for-profit college company has been selling off or closing its 100-plus campuses since June...   In one instance, the company's Honolulu campus declared a student had found work in her chosen field of accounting, even though administrators knew she was working at Taco Bell, the Education Department said.   Corinthian, which has been operating colleges and training programs under the names Everest College, Heald, WyoTech, and QuickStart Intelligence..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Anthony Zurcher _BBC_
states oppose NSA's unconstitutional warrantless surveillance
"...The particular target of his ire is the Texas Cryptologic Center, an NSA facility located near San Antonio.   He has proposed a state law cutting off the building's access to public utilities -- water and electricity -- until the agency ceases what he says is unconstitutional warrantless data collection...   'I believe that it is my responsibility as a representative at the state level to fight against that kind of tyranny.', he continues.   'Whether it's from the federal government or a foreign entity, it doesn't matter.'..."

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Stephen Moore & Joel Griffith _Cybercast News Service_
Gulf of Mexico has roared back after oil spill

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Paul Driessen _Town Hall_
a message for pope Francis: the ways climate-related restrictions on energy harm poor families far more than climate change will

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Alan Fram _Business Insider_/_AP_
TEA Party legislators object to attacks by RINO losership

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Michael Patrick Leahy _Breitbart_
Ben Affleck has 12 slave-holder ancestors who lived in the southern USA

2015-04-27 (5775 Air 08)
Jim Hoft _GateWay Pundit_
one of the first (the first?) legal slave owners in Virginia was a black man
Today I Found Out
Pearl Duncan: History News Network: John Punch [was] the First Slave in the English Colonies [Owned by Hugh Gwyn]
National Socialist Television
Library of Congress
Henry Burke
Jeffrey B. Perry
"There is no basis for the claims that John Punch was 'indentured' and that the other 2 servants were 'white'...   While the document specifically indicates that the other 2 'servants' James Gregory and Victor did have 'Indentures' it does not say this about Punch.   There is no documentation that Punch signed an indenture (particularly not for transportation to Virginia) and it is extremely unlikely that he did.   What is likely is that he was previously subjected to limited-term chattel bond-servitude (the passage makes reference to John Punch serving 'his said master and his assigns')..."
Wikipedia on John Punch
Ancestry.com on John Punch
Ryan Charles Cox: DelMarVa Settlers and Sites: The Johnson Family: The Migratory Study of an African-American Family on the Eastern Shore: The Johnsons and the Colonial Courts
WikiPedia: Anthony Johnson: gained freedom between 1635 and 1647; c. 1640 bought indenture of John Casor; 1651-07-24 bought contracts on 5 indentured servants
WikiPedia: John Casor: signed indenture with Anthony Johnson some time c. 1640; 1654 March claimed he had served out his indenture with Johnson, was released by the court, and signed a new indenture with Robert Parker; but court reversed 1655-03-08 and declared him a slave of Anthony Johnson for life
There's a gap here.   If John Punch was the first slave, beginning 1640 July 09, then Hugh Gwyn was the first slave-owner.   Anthony Johnson's servant, John Casor, didn't ask for release from his indenture until 1654 March.   Some time later, Anthony Johnson sued for his return as is slave for life [Northampton County, 1651-1654, folio 226].   OTOH, if John Punch were never declared to be a "slave" but only an "indentured servant for life", then Anthony Johnson might be the first slave-owner, based on John Casor's lost court case in 1655-03-08, in which he had sought to be declared the identured servant of Robert Parker, as the court had found in 1654, but later reversed.

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2015-04-28

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Ian Smith _National Review_
you're fired! now, train your cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign replacement with questioable ethics
"The two senators have teamed up in their support for an investigative enquiry into the billion-dollar utility Southern California Edison, which has been firing American tech workers and replacing them with lower-paid foreign workers brought here through the controversial H-1B visa program.   And now the first lawsuit has been filed in response to the H-1B visa fallout at SCE.   The plaintiff, Save Jobs USA, is a group of former veteran employees at SCE who after their firing were forced to train the foreign workers due to replace them.   Such treatment of American workers shouldn't come as a surprise considering that the corporation is also a major contributor to MALDEF, one of the biggest illegal-alien-advocacy groups in the country...   The law-suit, co-led by the Immigration Reform Law Institute, centers not on the H-1B 'high-tech' employment visa, but on the related H-4 visa that applies to the spouses of H-1B holders.   A Department of Homeland Security [DHS] rule published in the Federal Register in February purports to allow H-4 holders the right to work in the country.   According to DHS estimates, 179,600 of these work permits will be doled out in the first year alone, with 55K more going out in subsequent years.   Also according to the rule, DHS has given itself the option of expanding the program to other groups in future.   The law-suit asserts basically what H-1B expert Norm Matloff said recently, that the new H-4 visa rule is yet another example of U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services [USCIS] 'taking the law into their own hands'...   advertisements for H-4 visa holders are already popping up on engineering job boards on-line..."
waste of US STEM talent: Beryl Lieff Benderly: AAAS Science other employees notified they were being dumped were coerced to sign gag orders
many supporters of guest-work visas claim that tech companies must interview Americans first (and honestly consider whether to hire them on the merits) before tapping the pool of H-1B workers; however, there is no such requirement in the law
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Victor Davis Hanson _National Review_
the strange case of modern immigration

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
_Pittsburgh PA Post-Gazette_
conspiracy: unconstitutional and illegal work permits for H-4 (spouse of H-1b) visa grantees

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Phyllis Schlafly _Town Hall_
the real immigration issue is jobs
graphs of visa statistics

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Laura Ingraham
Republicans are uniting behind Scott Walker on need for immigration reform, moderation; interview with Weekly Standard's Jeffrey Anderson (partial transcript with audio)

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
David Weldon _Fierce CIO_
"IT" employees replaced by H-1B guest-workers draw some sympathy, but no reform
"Several complained that being forced to train their replacements was the ultimate insult added to injury.

One worker in particular took the occasion to blast the H-1B program in general, and constant chest-beating by lawmakers about improving STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) opportunities in this country.   'It's a farce teaching our kids STEM when the government is permitting U.S. companies to abuse the H-1B visa program, which allows foreigners to take these future jobs from them.', Computerworld quoted the anonymous worker as saying."
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Jay Partin _American Thinker_
* US government immigration policy: what we have wrought is unsustainable *

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Frosty Wooldridge _News with Views_
shut down immigration now: grid-locked traffic (part 10)
"...remember that our U.S. congress continues adding 1.2M legal immigrants annually which equates to 100K every 30 days.   The U.S. Census Bureau projects a total of 100M added legal immigrants, their off-spring and chain-migrated relatives within the next 35 years.   From my own experiences in traffic in Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Paulo, Sydney, Houston, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Beijing, Shanghai, Atlanta, San Francisco and dozens of other overpopulated cities, 'Grid-locked traffic causes more deaths, more tension, more suffering and more emotional misery than yet understood.   It defeats the human spirit with endless failure of the ability to move forward.   You can be killed or maimed at any moment by another automobile.   Drivers fume in their seats while their cars fume-up the biosphere.   Grid-locked traffic worsens by the year as humanity grows its collective population by 80M annually.   Grid-locked traffic can never be solved as long as humans refuse to address the root cause of the problem.' FHW..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Rachel Stoltzfoos _Daily Caller_
Scott Walker's new immigration stand at odds with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio
"Since 1970, the foreign-born population of the U.S.A. has more than tripled to 41M, according to data compiled by the Congressional Research Service for the senate Judiciary committee...   Cruz was highly critical of the 2013 comprehensive immigration package, sponsored by Republican senator Marco Rubio -- another presidential contender -- and 7 other senators together dubbed the 'Gang of Eight' [the 8 gangsters] in terms of how it addressed illegal immigration.   But he said the bill didn't go 'nearly far enough' to increase [already vastly excessive] legal immigration, and offered amendments to build significantly on those increases.   'I think high-tech immigrants are an unambiguous good for our economy, and for our country.', he said, referring to an amendment that would raise the limit on high-skilled workers by 500K, from 65K [actually 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department] to 325K.   'And I think bringing more high-skilled high-tech immigrants to this country generates economic growth and produces jobs.'   [H-1B visas are not restricted to those with high levels of skill and are primarily abused to bring in cheap, young, pliant foreign labor with questionable ethics.]   Another amendment Cruz offered was designed to increase the overall limit on immigration, with a priority for high-skilled workers and their nuclear families.   It would also have created a new type of visa for workers in any occupation the Department of Labor designates with a labor shortage...   The foreign-born population under the [8 gangsters] bill [S744] would have grown at the fastest rate in American history, hitting a record high of 15% of the population by 2020, or 1 in 7 Americans, according to an analysis of congressional Budget Office numbers by Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that favors lower immigration numbers.   By 2033 the population would have hit 65.2M under the law...   He noted it is against the law for an employer to replace a U.S. worker with an H-1B worker [but that is not true, and both DoL and USCIS have admitted it, again in just the last couple weeks] or to pay less than the 'prevailing wage' [where 'prevailing wage' is a legal term of art which allows a number of scams permitting legally paying 10% to 35% below local market compensation for the specific job]...   'If unemployment is high, and labor participation is low, why would we want to open the door and flood the market with more workers at a time when our own people here are looking for work?', Walker said on Fox News Saturday (video)."
Yes, if the H-1B and L-1B together were limited to the 1K most brilliant, knowledgeable, creative, industrious of applicants per year, they would help both the US economy and the STEM job markets, but that has never been the case.   Yes, if student visas (F-1) were limited to the very best 50K from around the world, they would be a valuable addition to university campuses, but currently they tend to cluster in the weaker programs.

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
_Conservative HQ_
GOP losership ready to let Export-Iimport Bank expire? Don't cheer just yet.

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
anti-trust law and lawlessness
Town Hall

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Frank J. Gaffney ii _Washington DC Times_
the US senate's institutional suicide

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
_Fox_/_AP_
Conference Board: consumer confidence fell from 101.4 in March to 95.2 in April
Doug Short: Advisor Perspectives
Jeffry Bartash: MarketWatch
"Those stating jobs are 'plentiful' declined from 21.0% to 19.1%, while those claiming jobs are 'hard to get' rose from 25.5% to 26.4%."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Dennis Prager _Jewish World Review_
why do some people think Pakistan or Russia or France is more legitimate than Israel?
Town Hall
"...almost no one outside of India and Pakistan knows anything about the founding of Pakistan.   Only months before the U.N. adopted a proposal to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state in 1947, India was partitioned into a Muslim and a Hindu state.   The Hindu state was, of course, India.   And the Muslim state became known as Pakistan.   It comprises 310K square miles, about 40K0 square miles larger than Texas.   In both cases, the declaration of an independent state resulted in violence...   Given the spectacularly larger number of refugees and deaths caused by the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan, why does no one ever question the legitimacy of Pakistan's existence?..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
puffed-up leftist tyranny punishes free thinkers; G0D help us.
Town Hall

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Paul B. Linton & Peter S. Sprigg _Jewish World Review_
the wrong argument against traditional marriage
Washington DC Times
Toronto Ontariou Canada Telegraph

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Lenore Skenazy _Jewish World Review_
misguided utopian attempts to make recess (and everything else) perfetly safe
"'You learn all kinds of things in play, but the primary thing is to solve your own problems.'"

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Byron York _Jewish World Review_
yes, it's early, but citizens need to pay attention to the candidates, campaigns, and the election until the results are in

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Wesley Pruden _Jewish World Review_
no election day for dummies

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Leah McGrath Goodman _Jewish World Review_
big biz executives and big oil executives, i.e. crony socialism, may be behind Iran deal
NewsWeek
"In downtown Tehran, the German electronics powerhouse Siemens AG opens an closes for business each day. But since 2010, no new business has been done there. You walk in the door and the staff will tell you, 'We are keeping the office open until the Iranian sanctions are lifted.', says Michael Tockuss, managing board member..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Rich Lowry _Jewish World Review_
the anti-free-speech 5th column

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Steven A. Camarota _Center for Immigration Studies_
36K or more birth/anchor-baby tourists per year
Caroline May: Breitbart
"...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) reports that 896,363 women who gave birth in 2012 indicated that they were born outside of the United States.   If only 2% or 3% of these births were to women who are engaging in birth tourism, that would be 18K to 27K births annually.   While this number would be less than 1% of the roughly 4M annual births in the United States, the aggregate number of birth tourists babies would still be large, especially the cumulative effect over a number of years..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer nuclear negotiator foresees US senate making "awful amendments" to their corrupt deal

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Bill Gertz _Fox_
House bill calls for developing new weapons systems in response to Russia's treaty violations
Washington DC Free Beacon
"The House Armed Services committee approved legislation last week that would require the Pentagon to deploy new weapons in two years to counter Russia's violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Bill Gertz _Breitbart_
House Republicans are worried the losership will continue to surrender rather than eradicate ObummerDoesn'tCare

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Milo Yiannopoulos _Breitbart_
science is still popular, but politicians and media seem to care more about feeeeelings than facts

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Laura Ingraham
for RINOs and leftists, it's one billionaire, one ballot

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Allen West _Town Hall_
Washington DC: the city of no responsibility

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Ron Paul _Town Hall_
the war against the middle class
"Eliminating the welfare-warfare state would benefit middle-class Americans by freeing them from exorbitant federal taxes, including the Federal Reserve's inflation tax.   Politicians serious about helping middle-class Americans should allow individuals to opt out of [Socialist Insecurity] and Medicare by not having to pay pay-roll taxes if they agree to never accept federal retirement or health care benefits...   Middle-class families with college-age children would benefit if government got out of the student loan business.   Government involvement in higher education is the main reason tuition is sky-rocketing..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Ron Paul _Town Hall_
many Christian and Jewish leaders won't go along with gay "marriage"

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Travis Weber _Town Hall_
law firms betray principles when they refuse to counsel/represent unpopular or popular non-PC causes or individuals

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Michael Barone _Town Hall_
disgusting corrupt bipartisanship is busting out all over to do bad things

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Rachel Alexander _Town Hall_
sleazy power-mad hoplophobic bureaubums shut down legendary firearms range

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Jessica Chasmar _Town Hall_
Georgetown U administrators demand that College Republicans edit out abusive hecklers at Christina Hoff Sommers speech
video
Eric Owens: Daily Caller: Georgetown U admins threaten off-campus conservative women's group

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Barbara Hollingsworth _Town Hall_
presecuted Christians in Middle East are defying ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate by their faith

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
doctor Ben S. Carson _WND_
personal arms are the baton of freedom

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Jerry Newcombe _WND_
the land of the free? not when attacked by gay activists

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
_Conservative HQ_
Americans strongly support religious liberty
"A new Heritage Foundation study of American attitudes toward religious liberty finds Americans strongly support religious liberty and, by a margin of 4 to 1, strongly oppose government compulsion in matters of faith regarding same-sex marriage.   'Regardless of whether someone supports same-sex marriage or opposes it, everyone can agree that government shouldn't compel Americans to violate their beliefs about marriage' is the majority statement of American attitudes found by Heritage, with a ratio of 62% agree, 24% neither and 15% disagree it garnered the greatest support and faced the least opposition.   The Heritage study also found Americans have a pervasive feeling that 'government is infringing on my personal freedoms' (71% agree).   Moreover, trust in government is low, with over half (58%) saying that they don't 'trust government to protect the interest of everyday Americans'.   Similarly, many Americans think that 'family values have gone down-hill over the last several decades' (80% agree)..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
_WLOX abc_
about 49K illegal aliens cost Mississippi tax-victims over $25M net

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Portia Crowe _Business Insider_
birth rate of millennials dropped 15%; relief from over-breeding if not vastly excessive immigration
"Birth rates for 20-something American women dropped more than 15% from 2007-2012, The Wall Street Journal's Neil Shah reported, citing data from the CDCP... Recent immigrants tend to have higher birth rates..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Bill Donohue _News Max_
Stephen Moore: leftists/Reds/Dems harm residents of inner cities

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Chuck Ross _Daily Caller_
intolerant Obummer's solicitor-general admits that they will try to revoke tax-exempt status of religious schools for failure to comply with the regime's unconstitutional decrees regarding same-sex "marriage"

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Jonathan Oosting _Michigan Live_
TEA Party being attacked by GOP losership in Michigan House

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Jacob Sullum _Reason_
Ted Cruz is smarter than the left on criminal justice reform
"Yesterday the Brennan Center for Justice published an essay collection that highlights both the emerging bipartisan consensus in favor of criminal justice reform and the vacuousness of some politicians who claim to support that cause.   The book, titled Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, features worthy and substantive contributions from, among others, senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ted Cruz (R-TX), not to mention nonpoliticians such as UCLA criminologist Mark Kleiman and Marc Levin, founder of Right on Crime.   Even New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who is not exactly thoughtful on the subject of, say, marijuana legalization, has some interesting things to say about bail reform.   And then there are former president Bill Clinton, vice-president Joe Biden, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who either support policies that contribute to overincarceration and excessive punishment, fail to acknowledge their past support for such policies, or have nothing specific to say about how to correct those policies..."

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Kathleen McGrory _Miami Herald_
Florida government law-suit takes aim at unconstitutional federal meddling in health care

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Norman Rogers _American Thinker_
renewable and sustainable crony socialism

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Bill Federer _WND_
admiral David Glasgow Farragut: "Damn the torpedoes, Mr. J! Full speed ahead!"

2015-04-28 (5775 Air 09)
Walter E. Williams _Cybercast News Service_
California's water problem
Town Hall
Jewish World Review
"...Let's examine a few drought facts.   California experienced eight major droughts in the 20th century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.   They ranged from 2 years to as long as 9 years, such as that which occurred from 1928 to 1937.   In the previous century, there was the bitter drought of 1862-1865, which was a catastrophe for the state of California -- made worse by a smallpox epidemic.   Scott Stine -- professor of geography and environmental studies at California State University, East Bay -- said that all of these modern droughts were minor compared with California's ancient droughts of 850 to 1090 and 1140 to 1320.   One wonders whether California governor Jerry Brown and his cadre of environmental extremists would attribute those ancient droughts to man-made global warming.   A large part of California's water problem has economic roots.   Whenever there's a shortage of anything -- whether it's water or seats at a baseball stadium -- our first suspicion should be that the price is too low.   California agriculture consumes about 80% of the state's delivered water, and it has been exempted from many of California's new restrictions.   On top of that, agricultural water users pay a much lower price than residential users.   IOW, California's farmers are being heavily subsidized [and, at the same time, suffer from government rationing, while reservoir water is diverted to support rare non-commercial fish species]..."

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2015-04-29

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
John Stossel _Jewish World Review_
what creates jobs
"...Humans have needs and desires.   Entrepreneurs see those needs as opportunity.   They hire people not out of generosity or because government told them to -- but because it's profitable to employ people if they produce valuable goods.   If it's not profitable, that means those people would be better employed doing something else.   The prices customers are willing to pay and the wages workers accept are the best indication of which jobs can be done profitably and therefore ought to be done...   People want to be genuinely useful.   They don't just want to go through the motions.   More and more, Americans want jobs that have meaning and 'purpose', says John Havens, author of _Hacking Happiness_.   'Purpose' usually means creating actual wealth..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Sharon Florentine _CIO_/_IDG_
salaries for STEM jobs are in decline
"The PayScale Index shows national wages for 2015Q1 across industries barely increased (0.1%) and the average 12-month change in U.S.A. wages across all industries was a small 1.8%.   While STEM fields experienced a decline in wages, construction jobs and the real estate industry are now showing signs of recovery, according to the Index.   Finally, the Index shows that overall wage growth across all industries continues to lag, with real wages down almost 7% since 2006, a measure calculated by analyzing nominal wage growth and the average change in price of a fixed basket of goods and services, according to analysis released by the company...   Since 2006, jobs in STEM fields have experienced growth of around 10%, according to the PayScale Index.   Metro areas with a high concentration of STEM workers and employers also experienced wage slowdowns this quarter: San Diego and Seattle, for example, had negative growth over the last quarter (-0.6% and -0.1%, respectively), while Boston's growth remained flat and San Francisco had only a slight uptick of 0.5%..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
crony socialism strikes again: 12K extra green cards for Red Chinese millionaires?!?
"No congressman would have the gall to introduce straightforward legislation opening a large hole in the immigration system for a single favored group from a favored country, say Swedish teachers or Turkish farmers.   Such legislation would leave all other immigration programs and allocations virtually in place, favoring only the right kinds of Swedes or Turks.   Such biased legislation, if correctly labeled, would never emerge from the sub-committee.   But 6 congressmen are -- with straight faces -- seeking similarly loaded, but heavily disguised, legislation in favor of rich Chinese migrants in the immigrant investor (EB-5) program..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
Ted Cruz sets out principles of international engagement: USA should be a clarion for freedom
Jamie Weinstein: Daily Caller
TEA Party.org

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_WND_
California district judge Dolly Gee wants illegal aliens released from detention, as invasion of USA continues un-contested & encouraged by corrupt Obummer regime
Franco Ordonez: Centre PA Daily
TEA Party.org2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
is there an immigration ceiling when it has loop-holes as large as the alleged ceiling?
"The H-2B program is the smallest of the three in which the U.S. Department of Labor has a role; it is for nonimmigrant, non-agricultural, non-skilled workers.   It has a nominal cap of 66K new admissions a year, half in the first part of the fiscal year, half in the second.   The Department of Homeland Security, not DoL, handles the ceilings.   Most of the H-2Bs are in landscaping or forestry work..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
law-suit asks whether president can give work authorization to anyone he wants
"It is well known that the utility Southern California Edison recently H-1B'd about 500 American employees.   A number of these Americans who were replaced by H-1B workers have fought back by filing a lawsuit challenging the recent regulations to authorize spouses of H-1B workers on H-4 visas to work as well.   (I am an attorney representing Save Jobs USA, the organization that filed the law-suit.)   The law firm Berry, Appleman, and Leiden has put out a good summary of the case.   BNA has an article that describes how the H-4 case is related to other actions brought against the administration.   The central issue in DACA, DAPA, OPT, and H-4 (and others in the pipeline) is the same.   The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) made it unlawful for employers to hire unauthorized aliens.   The question for the courts is whether this provision -- '8 U.S.C. § 1324a(h) (3) Definition of unauthorized alien As used in this section, the term unauthorized alien means, with respect to the employment of an alien at a particular time, that the alien is not at that time either   (A) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or   (B) authorized to be so employed by this chapter or by the Attorney General.' -- grants the executive unfettered authority to authorize aliens to work in the United States.   That is exactly what DHS claims.   It is the basis for the authority that DHS claims for DACA, DAPA, OPT, work on H-4 visas, and planned future authorizations for aliens to work.   Should the courts decide in the favor of DHS, it would upturn the entire immigration system.   There would be no point in Congress restricting work to certain visas if the president can authorize work for anyone -- with a visa or no visa at all.   It would undermine past precedent and render congress meaningless in the immigration process..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Laura Ingraham
fury rises at Disney at over-use of cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign "IT" labor with flexible ethics
World Net Daily
Patrick Thibodeau: "IT" News/IDG
Patrick Thibodeau: ComputerWorld/IDG
"At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their lay-offs.   Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be 2015 Jan. 30.   Some workers left the rooms crying; others appeared shocked.   This went on all day.   As each employee received a call to go to a conference room, others in the office looked up sometimes with pained expressions.   One 'IT' worker recalls a co-worker mouthing 'no' as he walked by on the way to a conference room.   What follows is a story of competing narratives about the restructuring of Disney's global 'IT' operations of its parks and resorts division.   But the focus is on the role of H-1B workers.   Use of visa workers in a lay-off is a public policy issue, particularly for Disney.   Disney CEO Bob Iger is one of 8 co-chairs of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a leading group advocating for an increase in the H-1B visa cap.   Last Friday, this partnership was a sponsor of an H-1B briefing at the U.S. Capitol for congressional staffers.   The briefing was closed to the press...   Prior to the 're-organization', 28% of Disney's 'IT' staff were in roles focused on new capabilities; after this 're-organization', that figure was 65%, a source at Disney said...   Disney cut well-paid and longtime staff members, some who had been previously singled out for excellence, as it shifted work to contractors.   These contractors used foreign labor, mostly from India.   The laid-off workers believe the primary motivation behind Disney's action was cost-cutting...   'Some of these folks were literally flown in the day before to take over the exact same job I was doing.', said one of the 'IT' workers who lost his job.   He trained his replacement and is angry over the fact he had to train someone from India 'on site, in our country'...   the workers interviewed said they knew of few co-workers who had landed one of the new jobs.   Employees said the original number of workers laid off back in October was more than several hundred.   But the Disney source put that number lower, saying approximately 135 'IT' workers lost their jobs...   Lake Buena Vista, FL...   in the period after the October lay-off notifications, 'IT' workers said they observed a marked increase in people they believe were new to the U.S.A.   It's difficult to determine how many H-1B workers, L-1 visa workers or contractor workers generally, were at this Disney site.   Only a couple of workers asked the contractors where they lived or if they were on a visa.   It was an awkward conversation and generally avoided.   But one observation all of the workers recounted was the widespread use of Hindi.   Several of these workers, in interviews, said they didn't want to appear as xenophobic, but couldn't help but to observe, as one did, that 'there were times when I didn't hear English spoken' in the hallways.   As the lay-off date neared, 'I really felt like a foreigner in that building.', the worker said.   In the Team Disney office, 2 of the contractors, HCL and Cognizant, had, in total, about 65 Labor Conditional Applications on file in the past year...   Disney Parks and Resort CIO Tilak Mandadi...   '...5 new managed services agreements to support testing services and application maintenance...'...   'There is no need to have any type of foreigners, boots on the ground, augmenting any type of perceived technological gap.', said one worker.   'We don't have one, first off.'   Workers can be trained, because 'once you are in the system and you are a learner, you are a learner for life in IT.   You are going to constantly learn.'..."
Norm Matloff
Slash Dot

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Sarah Rumpf _Breitbart_
Richard A. Viguerie: immigration disputes could spark civil war within GOP
"The 'root cause of the problem', he says, is the desperate situations immigrants face in the countries they are leaving.   'Has anyone looked beyond our border?', he asked.   'At some point you have to do that, but no one seems to be talking about it...   no one is looking at the root causes.'   As long as people continue to be oppressed and unable to support their families in these 'corrupt, socialist countries', noted Viguerie, America will continue to face an illegal immigration problem.   For people to leave their home country, leave behind family members and friends, and face the incredibly dangerous journey, or send off their children alone as happened leading to the border surge last summer, is something no one would do except 'out of desperation', said Viguerie.   'It doesn't matter how high you build the fence...we're going to have this problem.'   Viguerie also said that the current immigration debates focused too much on 'amnesty', at least within the conservative movement.   'To me, the most important A word is not amnesty; the most important A word is assimilation', he said, because immigrants have not been assimilating into American culture the way previous generations did...   'The grass-roots are saying, stop this madness, and wanting someone who will articulate this.'..."
But he failed to mention 4 more important problems: over-population, over-crowding, lack of proper background investigations of those wishing to enter the USA, and lack of standards.

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Brian Hayes _Top Right News_
illegal who was rescued from drowning, is suing the people who rescued him, because "I need money"
CBS Denver CO
Russell Haythorn: abc Denver CO
Alyssa Newcomb: ab

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Matthew Boyle _Breitbart_
Chamber of Crony Socialists like the corrupt, anti-constitution, oath-breaker Harry Reid better than respectable Jeff Sessions
"'There was one group of people not referenced when majority-leader Reid and senator Schumer talked earlier this morning.', Sessions said on the senate floor last year, while arguing against Reid and senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) support for open-borders immigration policies.   'You know who it was?   Completely omitted was the American worker.   That's who's not being discussed in this debate...   You bring in 30M people in the next 10 years -- as this bill [the Gang of Eight bill, S744] would do -- tripling the number that would normally be given legal status in America and it will bring down down the per-person wealth and it will bring down wages.', Sessions added.   'Surely the Chamber of [Crony Socialists] understands the free market, do they not?   Surely senator Reid understands that, does he not?   We were on a conference call yesterday worrying about the American steel industry.   A large amount of steel was being dumped into America.   What is the impact of that?   What is the concern?   More steel, lower price for steel.   Bring in more cotton, lower price for cotton.   Bring in more labor, you have lower wages for American workers.   That's what CBO [Congressional Budget Office] told us.   There's no dispute about that.   Yet we have senators repeatedly go onto this floor and say this is going to increase wages.   Give me a break.   You can't just say something and think it's going to make it reality.   It's just the opposite of reality.'   In another famous speech that led the Drudge Report last year (video), Sessions hammered..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
48% of GOP's top 250 donors backing Scott Walker... for now
"Cruz's meteoric rise with donors, noting that his strong showing suggests donors are enthusiastic about the conservative firebrand..."
At this point, I could maybe favor a Walker for president, Cruz or Paul... possibly even Perry for VP, but I'm wary how long after inauguration Walker would stick to working for positive immigration reform.

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
reviving Japan: Shinzo Abe's goals for his visit to the USA

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
doctor Ben S. Carson _Jewish World Review_
my voting history

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Paul Greenberg _Jewish World Review_
Let freedom ring! Why invent conflicts between religion and state in a country where anybody is free to invent his own faith? Just live and let live.

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
William Kristol _Jewish World Review_
a dark gulf: Obummer abandoned the bipartisan and international policy of pressuring Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program
The Corker-Cardin bill is stupid.   Let Obummer make his dirty deal, then shoot it down by not ratifying it by the constitutionally required two-thirds majority of the senate.

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
callous leftist evil and idiocy in and about Baltimore
Cybercast News Service
Town Hall

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Sharon Randall _Jewish World Review_
returning home puts far-flung choices in relief

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Kimberly Hefling _Cybercast News Service_
NAEP: most 8th graders get low scores on USA history, civics, a nd geography
But is that because they're ignorant, or because the tests are leftist PC non-sense with perverted priorities?
NAEP results

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
L. Brent Bozell iii & Tim Graham _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer's bucket of contempt

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
reverend Jesse Lee Peterson _Cybercast News Service_
black privilege

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
ACLU: warrantless UAV surveillance is not consistent with the US constitution, nor our traditions

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
corrupt UNESCO criticizes Israel's claim to Jewish religious sites
"The Hebron [Chebrun] site is the Cave of the Patriarchs, the traditional burial place of the Jewish patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.   The site in Bethlehem in the traditional burial site of Rachel, Jacob's wife.   Hebron [Chebrun] was also the capital of the kingdom of Israel for 7 years before King David moved his seat to Jerusalem some 3K years ago, as recorded in 2 Samuel 5.   Hebron [Chebrun] and Bethlehem both fall within the area [occupied] by the Palestinians...   The Cave of the Patriarchs is divided into Jewish and Muslim sections, with a mosque at the site named for Abraham (Ibrahim).   Muslims also revere biblical figures, in line with the Islamic precept that major figures, from Adam to Jesus, were Muslim prophets...   in and around Jerusalem [Israel's] Old City -- location of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site [where Jaqob slept, David's capital...], and the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most revered location in Islam...   The Temple Mount has been under overall Israeli control since 1967, although an Islamic trust administers the site...   Since last June, ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate jihadists have destroyed the Tomb of Jonah in Mosul and ancient sculptures at Nimrud in the Nineveh Plain, and torched thousands of manuscripts and books at a library in Mosul..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Joseph Farah _WND_
does electing dissembling RINOs do any good?
"What is the point of electing Republicans to the House and senate if they are going to capitulate to [the hateful, race-obsessed, power-mad, oath-breaker Barack Hussein Obummer] and the Dem/Red/leftist minority anyway?...   Lynch is cut out of the same political cloth as her predecessor, Holder.   Neither has any respect for the Constitution or the rule of law.   They are both extremist political radicals all the way.   They both represent existential threats to self-government, liberty and any limitations on federal power..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Star Parker _WND_
judge Robert Bork predicted conflict over same-sex "marriage"

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_WND_
in the corrupt Obummer regime, two-thirds of federal agencies refuse to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Sarah Westwoo; Washington DC Examiner
TEA Party.org

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_WND_
Dublin GA teacher dumped for noting that corrupt, race-obsessed, oath-breaker Barack Hussein Obummer seems to be anti-Christian
Ernie Suggs: Atlanta GA Journal-Constitution
TEA Party.org

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Molotov Mitchell _WND_
the Reds'/left's militant hypocrisy

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
Pew: world population of Christians and Muslims to be about equal by 2050

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
Treasury inspector-general un-earths another 6,400 of the contemptible Lois Lerner's e-mail messages
Bernie Becker: Hill
Thomas Lifson: American Thinker
Fox
Melanie Batley: News Max
"Of the e-mails the inspector general found, about 650 were from 2010 and 2011, and most were from 2012.   The inspector general found about 35K e-mails in all as it sought to recover data from recycled back-up tapes...   the committee hoped the new emails would bring the panel closer to releasing the findings of its IRS investigation..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Laura Ingraham
2 more tunnels discovered under California-Mexico border
Matt Hamilton: Los Angeles CA Times
Sandra Dibble: San Diego CA Union-Tribune

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Laura Ingraham
you're fired... now train your replacement!
Ian Smith: National Review

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
treasonous: Obummer's deal to let Iran develop nuclear weapons systems & Corker-Cardin bill

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_Conservative HQ_
Quin Hillyer: hope in arguments to supremes on same-sex "marriage"

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Rick Moran _American Thinker_
global media freedom at lowest point in a decade

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
M. Catharine Evans _American Thinker_
power-mad, armed, and dangerous: education secretary Arne Duncan issues threat if Communist Corpse test-resisters don't comply
"...In 2010 the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss asked DoE officials about their recent purchase of 27 Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns.   She specifically wanted them to give examples of when the shotguns might be used...   At the time of Strauss's article, Dave Workman of the Washington Examiner pointed out that in the Department of Education's solicitation notice to purchase the weapons, the 27 shotguns bought in 2010 were 'compatible with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts'.   The Department's most recent purchase was from 2013 July with the acquisition of 30 Glock 27 pistols.   Shotguns, Glocks, and combat training for Education Department personnel.   Will Duncan send in SWAT teams with Glocks to force opt-out parents and their kids, including his favorite target, 'white suburban moms', to take the test or else?..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_TEA Party.org_
NSF: U of CA at Berkeley misused $1.9M in tax-victim funds

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_TEA Party.org_
proposed state law (AB1461) to register all California drivers to vote, regardless of citizenship, approved by Assembly Transportation committee
Jon Flieshman: Breitbart

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_TEA Party.org_
inversion/ abuse of power: Park Ranger tasered fleeing man flying UAV over Kilauea volcano
"Another visitor to the park, Randy Horne, was setting up his camera and tripod at the over-look when he heard a commotion...   'I really didn't see there was any severe threat going on.', Horne, of Honokaa, Hawaii, told the AP.   'IMO, I thought it was a severe over-reaction.'...   arrested and cited with interfering with agency functions..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
_TEA Party.org_
ISIL going under-cover to catch homosexuals for executions
Christian Post

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
senator Ted Cruz _Washington DC Times_
congress must approve or reject any deal with Iran
"Today, there is no greater threat to U.S. national security than the prospect of a nuclear Iran.   Led by theocratic zealots who have pledged to 'annihilate Israel' and who regularly lead chants of 'Death to America', an Iran with nuclear weapons poses an unacceptably high risk of murdering millions of Americans or millions of our allies.   For that reason, the top priority for the senate should be to stop a bad Iran deal..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Frank J. Gaffney ii _Washington DC Times_
the disgusting senate RINO 11

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Meghan Barr _Washington DC Times_/_AP_
in an insult to the 1st amendment, NY transit system bans all political ads

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Joel Himelfarb _News Max_
Jeh Johnson: amnesty for illegal alien suspect in NC murders was a tragic error

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Bill Donohue _News Max_
left/Reds show an appalling lack of concern for persecuted Christians

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Grant Gross _CIO_/_IDG_
coalition gears up to oppose Trans-Pacific Partnership
"[On the positive side,] Based on the leaks, the U.S.A. and other nations are pushing strong new intellectual property protections that would require some signatory countries to rewrite their existing laws, criminalize non-commercial sharing of works protected by copyright, and, [on the negative side] critics say, could create new criminal penalties for whistle-blowers and journalists who access computer systems without permission..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Loek Essers _CIO_/_IDG_
Zuckerberg's FB hates the least respect for privacy
"...Belgian authorities are meeting with FB on Wednesday to talk about a report that they commissioned, which found that FB violates EU law by tracking visitors..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Deb Riechmann _Hamilton OH Journal-News_/_AP_
Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi: Tehran is a force behind Muslim violence
"provisions of an emerging nuclear deal are not tough enough and says giving concessions to Iran will embolden it to become more aggressive.   Rajavi is president-elect of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran.   She testified Wednesday before a House Foreign Affairs committee sub-committee, via video-conference from France..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Jake Sherman, John Bresnaham & Doug Palmer _Politico_
"fast track"/"trade promotion authority" bill is in trouble

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Rachael Bae & Jake Sherman _Politico_
House yanks first spending bill over disputed priorities

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Deb Riechmann _Hamilton OH Journal-News_/_AP_
Los Angeles man built micro-house for homeless woman

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Chuck Ross _Daily Caller_
firm co-founded by Hitlery's campaign chair lobbies for Russia's Uranium One

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Jim Treacher _Daily Caller_
looted and torched stores in Baltimore institute new minimum wage: $0

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
reverend Jesse Lee Peterson _Cybercast News Service_
what's holding back black teens today
"exists as a result of the melt-down of the black family...   The 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report, a compilation of annual crime statistics, shows that black offenders killed 90% of black victims; 14% of white victims were killed by black offenders; yet only 7.6% of black victims were killed by white offenders.   Blacks also made up 42% of all cop killers whose race was known.   Blacks are less than 13% of the national population, but according to the U.S. Department of Justice [DoJ], they accounted for 52.5% of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
David Rives _WND_
do you worship G0d or His creations?

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Bob Unruh _WND_
state government is threatening to jail parents opposed to Communist Corpse

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Greg Corombos _WND_
Ed Whelan: justice Anthony Kennedy "is very very likely vote to invent a constitutional right to same-sex 'marriage'"

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Erik Rush _WND_
Obummer's masterful manipulation of riots in Baltimore: Marxists and militant Muslims working together to impose martial law

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Ted Nugent _WND_
don't be a thug: my rules for success
"Life ain't fair -- get over it.   Sometimes we give the world the best we got and get kicked in the teeth.   Give the world the best that you got anyway!   Don't fall for the soulless nonsense of the [leftist] Democrat excuse makers that you're too stupid and feeble to make it on your own.   That's just pure anti-human rot.   Seize the damn day like you mean it!   Every day!   Dig deep into your independent soul and be the absolute very best that you can be in everything you do, and nobody can stop you!   Be good.   Obey the law, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule [the Libertarian Principle] and all the simple rules of decency by respecting your elders and all people of authority -- parents, pastors, rabbis, teachers and cops.   Be an asset to yourself, your family, neighborhood and fellow man.   It's ridiculously easy and supremely gratifying.   Stay in school and, in spite of our embarrassing over-paid anti-education system, discipline yourself to learn how to talk properly, read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide.   There are simply no opportunities for anyone who fails basic human skills and intelligence.   Everyone who has these basic skills combined with a good work ethic have unlimited opportunities.   Case closed.   Stay clean and sober.   Drugs, alcohol, tobacco and garbage food will turn you into a stumbling, stinky zombie.   Only stumbling, stinky zombie stoners don't know this.   Avoid stoners and zombies, for they are losers every time.   Get an alarm clock and learn to set it.   Prove yourself to be a force to reckon with in the job market.   Have good hygiene and posture, carry yourself with dignity, be positive, dress decently, forget the tattoos, bling and Watusi piercings, speak clearly and properly.   Start small but think big. Kick a** on the competition; show up earlier, stay later, work harder, do more than just your job, show valiant dedication to make the business better and earn self-esteem and the upward mobility that comes with it.   You won't need any big-government baby-sitters to negotiate your minimum wage, because with serious effort, you will earn your own increased pay.   That's how it works..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Phil Elmore _WND_
death threats by leftists who want to kill conservatives

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Larry Elder _WND_
tell people they are victims and they will act like victims
Town Hall

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Michael Brown _WND_
it is past time for Christians to wake up
"At what point will you say, 'Enough is enough. I need to stand up for what is right, no matter the cost or consequence.'..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
Saudi Arabian government jails Kenyan man for chatting with a woman on the phone

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
about 12 refugees from Cuba recorded video of their journey aboard a small motor-boat to Florida
"The vide's renewed popularity comes as the number of Cubans attempting to flee the island has risen exponentially in 2015, largely due to [president Obummer's] concessions to the Castro regime in December.   U.S. Customs and Border Protection [US CBP] reported in January a 60% increase in the number of Cuban refugees attempting to flee to the United States via the seas, as well.   There has been a 170% increase in the number of cases of Cuban refugees being intercepted in the waters off Florida between 2015 January and April, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has recorded 2,086 cases occurring this year..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Guy Benson _Town Hall_
Dems/Reds/leftists oppose legislation to block Iran from developing nuclear weapons systems

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Matt Vespa _Town Hall_
poll: 52% of dems view socialism favorably (with graph)
"'Last year, a Reason-Rupe poll asked people about their attitudes toward various economic systems.   More than half of respondents viewed capitalism favorably, while 36% viewed socialism positively.   Among Democrats, capitalism and socialism were viewed similarly, with 52% of those responding giving a thumbs up.   (Slightly more Democrats viewed socialism very favorably, but not to a point of statistical significance.)   That's assuming people knew what socialism was.   Asked to define the term, one-fifth said it referred to government control of the economy.   A quarter said they didn't know.   Other research suggests that younger people are both less hostile to the concept and less likely to know what it is, having lived through less of the Cold War.'..."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Sean MacCormac _Washington DC Times_
Iran stays connected with Hamas
Discover the Networks: Hamas

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Elizabeth Ruiz _David Horowitz Freedom Center_
the pro-terrrorst front groups on USA's college and university campuses

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Nick Tate _News Max_
consumption of organic milk by breast-feeding mothers can lower children's IQ due to iodine deficiency
"The study, published online in the journal Food Chemistry, noted that organic and UHT milk is not bad for you, and many studies have suggested proteins, fats, and vitamins in the beverage confer health benefits.   'But to get the same amount of iodine as in a pint of conventional pasteurized milk, you would need to drink around an extra half-pint of organic or UHT milk.', Givens said."

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
James Delingpole _Breitbart_
I'm proud to annouce that I have won a major art competition: warmist hysteric wall of infamy

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
UK, hold onto your wallets: Ed Miliband's warmist hysteria law will cost each home 50K pounds per year

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
Venezuelan government rations electricity, blames "climate change"

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Michael Bastasch _Daily Caller_
U of AL at Huntsville: updated satellite data show even less global warming

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Michael Bastasch _Daily Caller_
"irreversible" artic ice loss seems to be reversing itself

2015-04-29 (5775 Air 10)
Michael Bastasch _Daily Caller_
senate Environment and Public Works committee targets EPA's abuse of non-disclosed "science" to rationalize regulations
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2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
more on Southern California Edison and related topics

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Mark Krikorian _Center for Immigration Studies_
** Scott Walker vs. Ted Cruz on immigration: the debate we need **

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Jay Palmer _Alabama_
I care about H-1B visa abuses
"The H-1B program was bombarded with applications on April 1, 2015 and that's not a joke.   On April 7, the USCIS announced the application cap had been reached, with approximately 233K applications for [over 85K] slots.   To determine which employers get H1B's they will hold a lottery.   Realistically who cares?   Foreign companies will just continue to fill their needs with B1 visas and exploit this program and American jobs will continue to be lost.   Here's who cares, displaced American workers, senator Grassley, senator Sessions, and I care.   Let me tell you who doesn't care if they cap H-1B's or not -- paradoxically it's the [cross-border bodyshopping and off-shoring] such as Tata, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, HCL, that are the biggest [abusers] of the H-1B program.   Why don't they care?   Very simple: B1 Visas!   What is a B1?   It's a visitor visa which is being exploited by companies to bring over cheap labor.   There is no visa cap for a B1's and the employee owns the visa not the company.   It's a 10 year multi entry visa with the average cost of $500 and not $5K.   The wait time is [counted in weeks] and not months.   Lastly, B1 visas are untraceable and employers are not required to pay a prevailing wage therefore the workers are paid in their country of residence which means no taxes paid in the United States.   According to USCIS, 'The B-1 visa is intended only for business activities that are a necessary incident to your business abroad...' [e.g. attending an industry conference]...   The illegal scheme is simple and clever: I will illustrate -- you are working on a project, let's say Aetna or better yet the state of California's Medicaid/Medicare program.   Yes, we have H-1B's and B1's working on state and federal contracts.   So you [want] more people and you will not hire Americans, especially the ones you have displaced.   The process to bring over a legitimate H-1B takes too long.   Therefore the alternative is the B1 visa.   Immediately you send a worker over who has a 10 year multi-entry B1 or you have someone apply for the B1.   All this for a low price of a few hundred dollars.   Result is that in about 2 weeks they are on site working.   However, the real price is an American job.   Also the welcome letter that must accompany the B1 application states they are coming over for a 'meeting' (wink wink).   Who knows differently because the coder has been instructed to say that if asked.   The company grosses about $4K a week and the worker makes about $120 a week.   Most staff at this level make $5K-$7K per year or $3 an hour.   No taxes, no high salaries and 'boom' your profits sky-rocket.   Multiply this times thousands of workers and the result is billions in the bank and no debt.   Yet no one knows, maybe not even your customer...   The living conditions of the workers are horrific.   Many times 6-8 people are living in a hotel room or 1 bed apartment.   I know this because I managed them while at Infosys and was asked to change contracts in order to cover up the violations.   Boston lawyers will argue over the definition of work; after all that's what they told Infosys and other clients.   There is no argument that workers are coming over and the company is being paid.   There is no argument this fraud is being used by many companies and is virtually undetectable...   According to federal agents, one way to combat this is for agents to go on-site to the customers and check visas; which they are trying to do.   In accordance with the Dodd Frank Act the customer is also guilty...   Federal agents now believe the best way to deter the illegal activities of out-sourcing companies is to go after customers.."
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Victor Davis Hanson _Jewish World Review_
an ironic drought in California
Town Hall
"According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA], California droughts are both age-old and common.   Predictable California dry spells -- like those of 1929-34, 1976-77 and 1987-92 -- more likely result from poorly understood but temporary changes in atmospheric pressures and ocean temperatures.   What is new is that the state has never had 40M residents during a drought -- well over 10M more than during the last dry spell in the early 1990s.   Much of the growth is due to massive and recent immigration...   Agriculture is blamed for supposedly using 80% of California's storage water and providing less than 5% of the state's GDP in return.   But farming actually uses only about 40% of the state's currently available water..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
visa mill owner and H-2B Truck drivers in Minnesota

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Jerry Kammer _Center for Immigration Studies_
documenting the national socialist radio slant on immigration: the collection grows

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Sharon Florentine _"IT" News_/_IDG_
salaries for STEM jobs are in decline

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
John Fonte _National Review_
conservative populist break-out: Republicans acting in the spirit of Barbara Jordan
"Among those who on various populist grounds are challenging mainstream support for [reprehensible immigration law perversion] are reporters, commentators, and analysts including Jeffrey Anderson, Fred Bauer, David Frum, Irwin Stelzer, Tucker Carlson, Matthew Continetti, Mark Krikorian, Henry Olsen, Ramesh Ponnuru, Reihan Salam, Byron York, Neal Monroe, James Antle, Andrew Stiles, Jay Cost, Matthew Boyle, and Rachel Stoltzfoos, and media stars Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter...   the populist bloc has assembled a veritable counter-intelligentsia of considerable depth and sophistication...   Grass-roots activists: the un-sung heroes of the populist right...   Grass-roots conservatives are joined together in groups like Schlafly's Eagle Forum, Numbers USA, Heritage Action, and the Tea Party Patriots...   The problem with [the 'talent shortage'] argument is that these same companies have been firing tens of thousands of American workers (both low- and high-skilled) -- sometimes in the very same week that they have petitioned the White House and congress for more foreign workers...   This January, Jeff Sessions released the 23-page Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority, in which he noted the negative effect of mass immigration on American workers in both low-skilled and high-tech sectors.   In a Washington Post op-ed, Sessions quotes our nation's foremost labor economist, Harvard professor George Borjas, as reporting that the mass immigration of overwhelmingly low-skilled workers from 1980 to 2000 resulted in a 7.4% wage loss for lower-skilled Americans.   In the construction industry today there are approximately seven workers for every job opening, according to the Economic Policy Institute.   Census Bureau data revealed that between 2000 and 2014 the U.S.A. admitted about 14M new immigrants, while the population of U.S.-born workers increased by 16.4M.   Nevertheless, 'all net employment gains went to immigrant workers' rather than to American-born workers.   In 2014 July, 5 leading academic experts published in USA Today an article ('Bill Gates' Tech Worker Fantasy') demolishing Silicon Valley's 'worker shortage' argument.   The scholars (Ron Hira, Howard; Paula Stephan, Georgia State; Hal Salzman, Rutgers; Michael Teitelbaum, Harvard; and Norman Matloff, U of CA Davis) declared: 'None of us [independently] has been able to find any credible evidence to support the IT industry's assertions of labor shortages...   If a shortage did exist, wages would be rising...   Instead, legislation that expanded visas for IT personnel during the 1990s has kept average wages flat...[since 1998].   Indeed, guest workers have become the predominant source of new hires in these fields.'   Using U.S. Census data, the scholars note that 3 out of 4 Americans (74%) with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees do not have a STEM job.   This means that 11M Americans with STEM degrees are not working in STEM employment.   Further, American colleges annually graduate twice as many young people with STEM degrees as are currently working in STEM jobs.   Specifically, among recent college graduates with STEM degrees, 55% in technology, 35% in science, 30% in math, and 20% in engineering cannot find jobs in those fields...."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Laura Ingraham
freeing ourselves from the "free trade" fraud
Politico: the big business/Obama/Ryan push for "Trade Promotion Authority"/"fast track" could be in big trouble
Politico: it's good to see conservatives pushing back on increasing defense spending

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Sylvia Longmire _Breitbart_
US ICE: 2 tunnels under California USA-Mexico border in 2 days

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Robert S. Whitman _WorkForce_
tech executives criticized for bodyshopping (and its a abuse to cut total compensation, training, relocation...)
153,794 new/initial H-1B visas were actually issued through consular offices in Fiscal Year 2013, and 162,239 new/initial H-1B visas were issued in FY2014 according to the State Department

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
"Don't come to Europe, it isn't worth it."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Stephan Dinan _Washington DC Times_
Obummer DHS's Alejandro Mayorkas memory lapse: can't remember Reds/Dems/leftists seeking visa favors, only Republicans
"...Among the accusations contained in a 99-page report from inspector-general John Roth are that Mr. Mayorkas intervened in three cases where he was lobbied by the high-profile Democrats.   In each instance Mr. Mayorkas overruled his own career employees and gave favorable treatment to the Democrats' clients -- treatment they would not have gotten had he stayed on the side-lines...   He said he usually got involved because the investor program in question, the EB-5 visa, was so broken, and his employees were having trouble squaring their duties with what was required by law..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Andrew Desiderio _MediaIte_
Rand Paul grilled DHS secretary Jeh Johnson about surveillance and the 4th amendment
"Paul called himself 'one of the biggest civil libertarians there is', telling Johnson he is completely fine with the government taking records if they first get a warrant.   He said there needs to be a system where 'judges are on call 24 hours a day', just as police departments around the country do.   'That's why we're mad, and that's why people are attempting to encrypt information is to prevent the government from doing illegal searches of our records.', Paul added.   In his response, Johnson claimed 'the market-place [the citizenry] is demanding deeper and deeper encryption into places where the warrant authority of the government does not extend'.   Paul questioned him on that specific point, saying the reason why that is happening is due to the over-zealous government that has no 'sense of decency toward privacy'..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Robert J. Samuelson _Jewish World Review_
Red China's new, better "leap forward"
"During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) -- Mao Zedong's grisly effort to purify the Communist Party by banishing millions of Chinese to the countryside -- [Red China] repudiated modern science.   It effectively shut many universities.   Admission exams were suspended.   No new under-graduates entered from 1966 to 1969.   The ban on graduate students lasted until 1977...   From being a 'bit player' in research and development, [Red China] now spends more on R&D than any other country except the United States.   In 2011, [Red China's] R&D totaled $208G compared with $429G for the United States and $147G for Japan, says the National Science Foundation.   However, the entire European Union (about $300G) topped [Red China].   The pool of scientists and engineers has exploded.   From 1990 to 2012, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to science and engineering graduates rose from 148,886 to 1,258,643.   (These figures exclude students who receive technical degrees and typically graduate in 2 or 3 years.)   Large gains have also occurred for higher degrees.   From 1990 to 2012, the number of scientific and engineering PhDs jumped from 1,626 to 27,652.   [Red China's] share of worldwide scientific papers has increased dramatically, from 6,285 in 1990 (1.2% of the global total) to 116,633 (13.7%) in 2012.   The United States remains the leader, however.   It accounted for 30.8% of worldwide papers in 2012, down slightly from 32.5% in 1990...   In one global ranking of universities, no Chinese institution made the top 100 (52 U.S. universities [out of over 4K] did).   Among the top 1% of scientific papers cited in other studies, American papers led at 46.4% in 2012; [Red China's] share was 5.8%.   The United States has played an important role in [Red China's] advance.   It is the destination of choice for Chinese students.   In 2012, almost 60% of the roughly 400K Chinese students studying abroad did so at American schools.   They constituted one-quarter of foreign students in the United States.   Freeman and Huang don't say how many ultimately remain, though they do cite one estimate that three-quarters of Chinese PhD s were still in the United States a decade after receiving their degrees...   Americans represent about half of [Red China's] over-seas collaborations.   Chinese researchers can learn the best practices of U.S. laboratories -- and Americans can glean Chinese insights."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Jeff Jacoby _Jewish World Review_
strawberry field-hands forever?
Town Hall

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
until the court do us part?

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
until the court do us part?
Town Hall

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Bill Gertz _Jewish World Review_
House added funds to coutner Russian info war; robot helo conducted test rescue...?
Washington DC Times

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Charles Hurt _Jewish World Review_
from the "star-spangled banner" to toilet-paper looters
Washington DC Times

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Larry Elder _Jewish World Review_
in the "hood", slavery to the leftists is not over

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
the tyranny of one man's opinion
World Net Daily
Town Hall

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Michael Reagan _Jewish World Review_
another cover-up for that "religion of peace": the genocide of Armenians

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Patrick Goodenough _Cybercast News Service_
Mohammad Javad Zarif's dishonest, cowardly character

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
James Phillips _Cybercast News Service_
Obummer, desperate for a deal which will allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons systems, ignores inconvenient truths

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_Media Research Center News Busters_
Hitlery's family tree tall tale (video)

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
George Rasley _Conservative HQ_
the depth of RINO perfidy on Obummer's allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons systems

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Richard A. Viguerie _Conservative HQ_
it is not only Hitlery's scandals and corruption, it's her bad ideas and proposed bad policies

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_CBS_/_AP_
Ted Cruz: race-obsessed Obummer has inflamed racial tensions
Cheryl K. Chumley: World Net Daily
Dan Riehl: Breitbart

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
K. Kiefer _WLNS_
Rand Paul to be hosted by Justin Amash in Grand Rapids on Monday

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Grant Gross _"IT" News_/_IDG_
Rand Paul proposes legislation to over-turn FCC's power-mad crony socialist net neutrality rules

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Laura Ingraham
Victor Davis Hanson: Yebbie Booosh is an example of a unique Republican sub-culture that is part of the old boys club (mp3)

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
city governments get tens of millions by robbing law-abiding people of property and money: "We use federal forfeiture. It's just more beneficial to us."
Melissa Quinn: Daily Signal

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
U of N GA student says he was fired for complaint over catalog cover

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Cheryl K. Chumley _WND_
corrupt NJ cop detains many for video-recording traffic stop

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
2 supremes targeted by US government spies
"U.S. intelligence agencies have 'harvested' the personal and private data of 'hundreds of federal officials and judges, including chief-justice John Roberts and justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg', charges a legal brief filed by Larry Klayman, the attorney who has come to be known as 'the NSA slayer' for his successful legal battles against the National Security Agency...."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
claim: taliban gang-raped suicide bomber before attack on the police head-quarters of Bagrami District of Kabul
Nation Pakistan

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
USMC veteran: ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate special forces training videos made me laugh
Vocativ

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
cash from India swayed Hitlery's nuclear weapons stance
Gabriel Debenedetti: Politico

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
New Black Panthers, like the old Black Panthers, are willing to kill

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Pam Key _Breitbart_/_AP_
House Judiciary committee reached deal on bill to end unconstitutional warrantless NSA phone snooping
"...The NSA's collection and storage of U.S. 'to and from' land-line calling records -- times, dates and numbers, but [allegedly] not content of the calls -- was the most controversial program among many disclosed by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden.   Some NSA officials opposed the program, and independent evaluations have found it of limited value as a counter-terrorism tool.   Goodlatte said the House bill would create a 'narrower, targeted program', that will still allow the NSA to hunt for connections between foreign terrorists and U.S. residents..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Mike Shedlock _Town Hall_
Fed cites weather, transitory factors in FOMC; what about consumer confidence/sentiment?

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Laura Hollis _Town Hall_
dangerous certainty
Jewish World Review

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Veronique de Rugy _Town Hall_
the secretive, corrupt, crony socialist Export-Import Bank

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Jackie Gingrich Cushman _Town Hall_
Do our beliefs on where we fit in among the economic classes create a self-fulfilling prophecy, and, if so, can down-grading (or up-grading) our beliefs change our economic outcomes?
"In 2000, almost two-thirds of Americans identified themselves as upper- or middle-class, while one-third identified themselves as working- or lower-class according to Gallup.   This week, Gallup released a survey in which '51% of Americans say they are middle class or upper-middle class, while 48% say they are lower class or working class'.   (2015 April 9-12, 95% confidence level, plus/minus 5 points.)   While the increase in those self-identified as working- and lower-class has gradually increased from 2008 until now, the downward shift in upper- and middle-class self-identification occurred primarily between 2008 and 2012 (from 63% to 50%).   From what demographics are these shifts coming? The shift out of upper-class/ middle-class identification is less prevalent for those with college degrees and more prevalent for those between the ages of 30 and 64 -- those who are in the years when earnings power is supposed to be greatest.   Since 2001, there has been a 2% decline in 'upper-class' identification, a 2% decline in 'upper-middle-class' identification, a 10% decline in 'middle-class identification', a 3% increase in 'working-class' identification, and a huge jump in lower-class self-identification from 3% to 15%.   This is a quintupling of the percentage of those who self-identify in the lower-class economically."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Ali Meyer _Cybercast News Service_
porn-watching EPA employees being paid $120K/year have been put on administrative leave
"'The EPA OIG hot-line received a complaint on 2013 September 11, alleging that an EPA geologist in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) had down-loaded more than 7K files (1.3GB) of potentially pornographic files onto an EPA server.', explained Patrick Sullivan, assistant inspector general for investigations.   'The employee admitted that -- for approximately 2 to 6 hours during his assigned work hours daily, over a period of several years -- he had viewed and downloaded pornographic images on EPA computer equipment.', explained Sullivan.   'The employee stated that much of his work-day was devoted to organizing the downloaded pornography into saved folders.   During the course of the OIG's investigation, the employee also stated that he had received several performance awards, which included monetary awards ranging from $600 to $2K and a time-off award of 16 hours.', he added..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Frances Martel _Breitbart_
Chibok parents are outraged that Nigerial officials are claiming that the girls rescued from Boko Haram are not their children

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Mary Chastain _Breitbart_
Yazidi's freed from ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/IS/caliphate sex slavery seek abortions and "virginity repair"

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Nate Madden _Washington DC Times_
Iraqi Dominican nun hoping to testify in USA about persecutions in the Middle East, has visitor visa application denied by Obummer regime
Leo Hohmann: World Net Daily
"An Iraqi Dominican nun known for her advocacy of religious minorities in the Middle East won't be telling her story in Washington about terror and persecution under the Islamic State after the State Department denied her visa application to join a delegation to describe the situation in her home country.   Sister Diana Momeka was the only Christian in the delegation and the only member blocked from the trip, leading some of her American supporters to question why she was singled out.   The sister was told Tuesday by the U.S. consulate in Erbil that her application for a nonimmigrant visa had been rejected on the grounds that she was 'not able to demonstrate that [her] activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa', according to her denial letter.   Sister Diana planned to speak with other representatives of persecuted minority groups in the region, including Yazidis and Turkmen Shia Muslims, at various venues in Washington for a period of about a week in mid-May..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Stephen Dinan _Washington DC Times_
9 TEA Party groups still blocked by corrupt Obummer IRS

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Robert W. Merry _Washington DC Times_
destroying the spirit of Cincinnatus

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Kenneth Blackwell _Washington DC Times_
leftists win elections by lying

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Peter J. Ferrara _Washington DC Times_
ObummerDoesn'tCare after King v. Burwell

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Joseph Farah _WND_
liberty's dividing lines
"How and why do nations inevitably lose their freedom?   I've been thinking about this as I see America, no longer drifting away from liberty and self-government toward authoritarianism, but speeding down the tracks like a runaway freight train.   There are 2 pillars that have kept the U.S. in balance for hundreds of years: the constitutional commitment to limited government; the Judeo-Christian values of its people..."

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Laura Hollis _WND_
are we Cambodia yet?

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Alan Keyes _WND_
have supremes become tool of tyrannical elitist prejudice?

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
_WND_
professors dispute interpretation of 14th amendment
Connor D. Wolf: Daily Caller

2015-04-30 (5775 Air 11)
Ben Wolfgang _Washington DC Times_
Obummer climate agenda rejected by blacks & Hispanics over concerns about poverty

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